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The garden of our heart - the Father's dwelling place

Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 3:16; John 14:21, 23; John 15:4

The garden of our heart - what is the condition of our heart? Is it a pleasant radiant wonderful garden for the Lord Jesus to rest in OR is it a defiled, grave-yard like cemetery full of graves and spiritual death - bitter cold and creepy place?

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I encourage you to read through the Scripture reading below while listening to the message. I have highlighted some key Scriptures that are important to this word that is given. When going to Google Drive to listen to the audio, please come back to this page and read through the Scriptures with me. Jesus Christ is Lord - to the glory of God the Father. His name be sanctified forever and ever, Amen.

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Scripture reading:

Ephesians 3:17

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That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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John 14:21

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He who has My commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.

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John 14:23

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Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.

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Hebrews 4:12

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For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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Matthew 15:8

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These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

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Isaiah 29:13

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Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men:

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1 Corinthians 10:21

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You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the demons' cup; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the demons' table.

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John 15:4

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Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

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John 15:5

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I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

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John 15:7 (cross reference - John 14:21, 23)

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If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

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2 Timothy 3:16-17

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All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

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Matthew 4:4

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But He answered and said, It is written, ``Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.''

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John 15:10

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If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

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Galatians 5-19-21

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19 And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are such things as fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, divisions, sects,

21 Envyings, bouts of drunkenness, carousings, and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, even as I have said before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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1 Corinthians 6:9-10

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9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals 10 Nor thieves nor the covetous, not drunkards, not revilers, not the rapacious will inherit the kingdom of God.

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2 Peter 1:4

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Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

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Romans 8:28-29

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28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;

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1 John 5:21

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Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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Matthew 6:6

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But you, when you pray, enter into your private room, and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

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Matthew 5:20​

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For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

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Isaiah 66:2

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For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the LORD. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.

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Galatians 2:20

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I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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2 Corinthians 4:11 (cross-reference - John 12:24 = unless the grain of wheat...)

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For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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Revelation 4:5

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And out of the throne come forth lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

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Ephesians 6:17-18 (How do we receive the sword of the Spirit? By means of all prayer... v.18)

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17 And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,

18 By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints,

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Galatians 1:15-16 (Please note - to reveal His Son in me)

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15 But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

16 To reveal His Son in me that I might announce Him as the gospel among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,

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