Who Can Give Us a New Heart?
Who Can Give Us a New Heart?Chapter 2 — People, Sin and the Promise
Lesson 16: Who Can Give Us a New Heart?Only God can change our heart and make us alive to Him.
Explanation
No one can change their own heart in the deepest sense. We can try to correct our habits, but only God can renew a person from the inside. He takes away the heart of stone and gives a living heart.
This change is the work of God’s grace through the Holy Spirit. True new life begins when God works inside us and makes us alive to Him.
Bible story
Through the prophet Ezekiel, God promises the people: “A new heart also will I give you…” He does not promise just a repair on the surface, but a change on the inside. What people cannot do by their own strength, God can do by His Spirit.
Remember
- The truth: Only God can change our heart and make us alive to Him.
- Real change begins with God’s work in the heart.
- A new heart loves the truth, hates sin, and wants to follow the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:26
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
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- Pray that God would change your desires, not just your outward behavior.
- Do not be satisfied with looking good; ask the Lord for a sincere heart.
- Encourage others, too, to ask God for this inner renewal.
1. Who changes a person’s heart?
2. What kind of heart does God promise?
3. Can a person change their own heart?
4. What does a new heart bring?