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OUR HEARTS

D. Robertson

Romans 5: 3–5; 2 Corinthians 4: 5–7; Hebrews 10: 19–25

I read these scriptures, beloved brethren, because they all

speak of our hearts. The heart of the believer is a wonderful

area. The psalm that we quoted earlier today speaks of those

“in whose heart are the highways” (Psalm 84: 5), and there is

not much progress made in Christianity unless we are in it with

our hearts. We may make mental resolves, but the secret of

progress is to be fully committed to Christianity with our hearts.

It is a wonderful thing how God has operated to take

possession of them. Romans 5 speaks of that; He has taken

possession of our hearts by filling them with His love, a

wonderful matter. It would be the fruit of the glad tidings, this

epistle deals with that, the glad tidings of God concerning His

Son. Think of that—think of God appealing to men, appealing

to us in the glad tidings concerning His Son, the One who is

most precious to Him, His beloved One. He appeals to men in

the glad tidings with a view to gaining their hearts and their

confidence. Think of God drawing near to man and

announcing the glad tidings of His Son to him! That is what He

does. His operations of grace with each one of us, if we have

been secured for God at all, have been as a result of the

preaching and the acceptance of the preaching of the glad

tidings concerning His Son. How precious He is to God, that

beloved One! Then He is not only God’s Son, He is “Jesus

Christ our Lord”. The glad tidings as received involve the

confession of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord.

I would like to speak to the young men and women, and to

those who are older too, and I would like to raise the question

as to whether Jesus Christ is your Lord. Does it come out in

the habits of my life? There have been times, as the Scripture

says, when other lords have had dominion over us (Isaiah 26:

13). What powers, what strong powers! The glad tidings