Heart change through Jesus’s blood
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Faith Fitness
Bro. Sam Kaufman
It has been more than 55 years since the first human heart transplant occurred.
Since that time, physicians have performed numerous heart transplants in humans.
A transplant is needed when the heart doesn’t function as intended and physical condition has vastly deteriorated. In many cases, death would be imminent without a replacement.
Some of the causes – or reasons – for a heart transplant include the following: Coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart defects, valvular heart disease, and arrhythmias, to name some.
The organ transplant donor must be legally declared dead, either through brain death or circulatory death.
The first human heart transplant occurred in 1967. It was considered a miracle!
But the deeper heart condition in man is the tainted nature passed down through the Adamic bloodline.
Once disobedience entered the equation, man experienced a heart change for the worse. It went from being good with God to being separated from God.
Thank God that we can experience a genuine heart change, or transplant, through Jesus’s blood. The old song declares, “There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.”
Jesus died of a broken heart to transplant our spiritual heart condition. His pure blood was shed so it could be applied to our hearts.
We undergo a spiritual heart transformation.
In the sin state, the heart of man is wicked.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it,” Jeremiah 17:9 reads.
Furthermore, Mark 7:21-23 reveals the true condition of the sinful heart inherited from way back when. “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murder, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these things come from within, and defile the man.”
Just as a physical heart donor must physically die for a transplant to occur, Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
The difference with Jesus, however, is that He conquered sin, death and hell through His death, burial and resurrection. What a difference that sacrifice can make in an individual! We can pass from death to life.
We’re a new creature in Christ.
He’s the vine, and we’re the branches.
Even King David in the Old Testament eventually recognized his need for God’s forgiveness after David committed gross sin with Bathsheba. Adultery and murder were involved. Where else could David go, but to the Lord.
His prayer?
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me,” according to Psalm 51:10.
Clean hands and pure hearts through Jesus Christ will make our journey successful.
He gave His life, what more could He do?
In today’s world, people’s hearts seem so hardened through sin. Jesus can make a breakthrough. His blood can jackhammer through the thickest concrete!
Even God’s people, Israel, needed a heart change in the Old Testament. God said He would provide it!
“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.” – Ezekiel 36:26
Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, prophesied that it would be “through the tender mercy of our God” that our hearts could be softened and tenderized through the dayspring from on high visiting us and taking our sin upon Himself.
We can’t display the fruit of the Spirit through ourselves. It requires a heart transformation through Jesus. But when we’ve experienced it, we are to be tender toward one another instead of being so angry, hateful and violent.
That was what issued from our old, sinful heart that brought forth death. Jesus came to give us life through His pure blood.
We can now be tenderhearted.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” – Ephesians 4:32
