The Heart Series // Week 3 // Tim Lovell // October 19, 2025

October 19th, 2025 // Pastor Tim Lovell

The Heart Series Week 3

Last couple of weeks…

God Who Knows the Human Heart

God Who Contends with the Human Heart

God Who Restores the Human Heart

Ezekiel 36:22-23 (MSG)

“Therefore, tell Israel, ‘Here is the Message of God, the Master: I’m not doing this for you, Israel. I’m

doing it for me, to save my character, my holy name, which you’ve blackened in every country where

you’ve gone. I’m going to put my great and holy name on display, the name that has been ruined in

so many countries, the name that you blackened wherever you went. Then the nations will realize

who I really am, that I am God, when I show my holiness through you so that they can see it with

their own eyes.”

Romans 7:14-25 (MSG)

“What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I

absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it

becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary: But I need something more! For if I know the

law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I

obviously need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to

do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway: My decisions, such as

they are; don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of

me every time. It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is

there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins

in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. I’ve tried

everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for

me? Isn’t that the real question?” The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted

to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind,

but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.”

Ezekiel 36:24-28 (MSG)

“‘For here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to take you out of these countries, gather you from all

over, and bring you back to your own land. I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give

you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it

with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to

do what I tell you and live by my commands. You’ll once again live in the land I gave your ancestors.

You’ll be my people! I’ll be your God!”Mark 7:21-23 (NIV)

“For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these

vile things come from within; they are what defile you.”

Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV)

“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

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Philippians 4:8 (NIV)

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is

pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about

such things.”

Colossians 3:1-4 (NLT)

“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where

Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things

of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who

is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.”

Luke 6:45 (NKJV)

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the evil

treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”

Hebrews 3:12-15 (NIV)

“See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from

the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may

be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the

confidence we had at first. As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your

hearts as you did in the rebellion."

Ephesians 1:17-19 (NKJV)

“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fathe