Peter Roselle: Forbid Your Hardened Heart to Grieve the Heart of God (Mark 3:5)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-07-05

Peter Roselle: Forbid Your Hardened Heart to Grieve the Heart of God (Mark 3:5)
King of Kings Sunday Service on July 4, 2021. Quote from Christian author John Sandford, Founder of Elijah House Ministries: “What has been missing from the Church during this present great outpouring of God's Spirit is a proper theology and understanding of how believers' hearts are to be sanctified after being born anew. Throughout Church history, disciplines and practices for sanctification and transformation have been developed. Believers knew their conversion did not end the process of change; it began it.”

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1 Samuel 25 (Voice)
David’s men speak to Nabal
8 Please return our kindness and look on my young men with favor since we come on this feast day. Please give whatever you can spare to them and to your son David.”
11 Should I take bread and water and meat from my own servants and give it to men who come from who knows where?
12-13 So David’s young men returned to him by the same road and told him what had happened.
David (ordering his men): Strap on your swords!

21 Earlier David had made an oath.
David: It looks as though we protected everything this guy owns—so that he lost none of the things belonging to him—for nothing. We did him a good turn, and now he rewards us with evil. 
22 May the True God do so to my enemies — and more — if tomorrow morning I’ve left alive a single male of Nabal’s household.

Mark 3 (Voice)
1 On the Sabbath, Jesus had come into a synagogue where He saw a man with a withered hand.
2-3 The Pharisees held their breath: would Jesus cure this man on the Sabbath, right there in front of everyone? If so, they could charge Him with breaking the Sabbath law. Jesus knew their hearts. He called to the man with the withered hand.
Jesus: Come to Me.
4 Then He turned to the Pharisees with a question.
Jesus: Do our laws tell us to do good or evil on the Sabbath? To save life, or to snuff it out?
They remained silent.
5 Jesus was furious as He looked out over the crowd, and He was grieved by their hard hearts.
Jesus (to the man with the withered hand): So be it. Stretch out your hand.
The man stretched forth his hand; and as he did, it was completely healed. 
6 The Pharisees went directly from the synagogue to consult with the supporters of Herod, the Romans’ puppet ruler, about how they could get rid of this dangerous dreamer.

Matthew 19:8
“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Psalm 95
7-9 Today, if you will hear His voice: “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they saw My work.
10-11 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’

Hebrews 3
12-13 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 
14-15 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Voice Commentary Ephesians 4
Now that Paul has described the new world as God would have it, he urges believers to live out their callings with humility, patience, and love: to walk as Jesus walked. These are the ways of Jesus. Paul encourages them to do whatever it takes to hold onto the unity that binds people together in peace. He does not ask them to create that unity; this has already been accomplished through the work of the Rescuer and His Spirit. Rather, he calls believers to guard that unity—a more modest but no less significant task—because that unity is founded on God’s oneness and work in the world.

Quote from author John Sandford, Founder of Elijah House Ministries
Transformation means that Satan has won no victories whatsoever in our lives! This book and the three to follow are designed to make Romans 8:28 a reality in our lives, that all things do work together for good to those who are called according to His purpose.