Peter Roselle: Resurrection Life Revives Hearts of Stone (Ezekiel 36:26)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2020-02-25

Ezekiel 36:26 says, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” This clip is taken from a class on the topic of Hearts of Stone and Inner Vows, based on the writings of John and Paula Sandford in their book “Growing Pains,” (chapters 6 & 7). Many of us have erected walls around our wounded hearts to protect ourselves from further pain. This is a subtle ploy of the enemy because walls of protection can also keep out the people who want to love us. We’re encouraged to embrace God’s design for us risk sustained heart-to-heart involvement with imperfect people.

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Psalm 139 TPT
1 Lord, you know everything there is to know about me.
2 You perceive every movement of 
my heart and soul, and you understand my every thought before 
it even enters my mind.
3–4  You read my heart like an open book.
You think you're hiding something from God,
the way you might hide it from a co-worker,
but or something He knows already.
He's just waiting for you to come to Him 
and say, “Can you help me deal with this?”
The answer is always, “Yes.”
Psalm 139 (TPT)
13  You formed my innermost being, 
shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside,
and wove them all together in my mother’s womb.
14 I thank you, God, for making me so 
mysteriously complex!
Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. 
It simply amazes me to think about it!
Psalm 8
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have [b]ordained strength,
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
David was realizing is that an infant  is just as
much of a miracle as the galaxies!
The Chris Tomlin song, “Indescribable,” has a lyric that says,
“You see the depths of my heart and you still love me the same.”
C.S. Lewis say, “There are no ordinary people… it is immortals whom
we joke with, marry, snub and exploit.”
Every person you meet is a miracle of creation, made in God’s image.
Back to Psalm 139, David says, “I thank
you God for making me so mysteriously complex.”
In this class we're talking about trying to help people grow
and heal from wounds that they have suffered.
I've coined that phrase here: “Lord give
me the combination to the lock of their heart.”
We want the Lord to show us what the complexity,
where the axe needs to be laid to the root.
We don’t want them suffering any longer than necessary.
If we're effective ministers, of the gospel and we're filled with 
His Spirit, He will give us what we need to help others.
Lord, when they talk to me, let me look past the camouflage,
to see the underlying issue causing the problem.
Help them leave the addiction behind, leave that hatred
that bitterness behind.
We repent of the root sin and we move on.
Psalm 103:12
“As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Ezekiel 36:26 
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. 
I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
In order for us to have true
fellowship with others and with God He
has to pierce or melt our hearts of stone.”
It's easy to live behind the walls
of the fortress that you build you feel
very safe but you're not growing.
The only way for us to really grow in God is
that we've got to come out from behind
those fortress walls and we got to start taking
In our fallen condition we're like medieval knights in
armor, peering out through the slits in our helmets.
The best way to understand how
hearts of stone relate to inner vows is to 
think of the heart of stone as a walled
fortress; life goes on inside but access
is very limited and well-guarded. 
Many try to scale the walls, but most are picked
off by the skilled defenders.
We've learned  tactics to keep people away.
We let people get just so close,
but then the drawbridge goes up, 
or that that soldier on the on the wall picks you off
with an arrow.