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One Gospel Minute

Dec 3, 2024

Your Spiritual Heart

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Have you checked your spiritual heart? The parable in Matthew 13 shows that responses to the gospel depend on the heart’s condition—worldliness, shallowness, or lack of understanding prevent spiritual growth, while an open, understanding heart leads to spiritual prosperity. Like Pharaoh’s hardened heart in Exodus, the Word of God, like the sun, either softens or hardens hearts. How is your spiritual heart?

 

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  • Scriptures: Matthew 13; Exodus 7

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David Hill: Have you checked your spiritual heart lately? David Hill with a Gospel Minute. The Savior’s parable in Matthew 13 illustrates the varied responses to the gospel based on conditions of the heart. Those who lack understanding, whose interests are shallow, or who are encumbered with worldliness, will fail to bear spiritual fruit, while those who hear, understand the Word of God, and follow will be spiritually prosperous. The same seed—the Gospel—was sown in all cases. God told Moses long ago that Pharaoh’s heart would be hardened to divine demands to release the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, though eventually, he did release them after ten devastating plagues. The same sun that melts ice hardens clay. So it is with the Word of God. It will either soften or harden the hearts of hearers. How’s your heart, friend? Your spiritual heart? Thank you for listening to One Gospel Minute. Stay in touch with our podcast on our website and on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever fine podcasts are distributed. Tennessee Bible College, providing Christian education since 1975 in Cookeville, Tennessee, offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Study at your level. Aim higher. Get in touch with us today. Don’t you want to go to heaven when you die?