SHIFT IN THE SPIRIT: TIME TO CHECK WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART

Deuteronomy chapter 6
















Today we are walking in: Shift in the Spirit: Time to Check What Is In Your Heart!!















Deuteronomy 6:5




And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, H3824 and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

















Today we look to the word- HEART- H3824 lebab--inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding










The Torah Testifies.............................








Exodus 14:5




And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart H3824 of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?




Leviticus 19:17




Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: H3824 thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.







Deuteronomy 11:16




Take heed to yourselves, that your heart H3824 be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;







The prophets proclaim..................








1Samuel 6:6




Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, H3824 as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?




1Samuel 7:3




And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, H3824 then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts H3824 unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.



Isaiah 10:7




Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart H3824 think so; but it is in his heart H3824 to destroy and cut off nations not a few.







The writings bear witness.............








Joshua 2:11




And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts H3824 did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.







Job 22:22




Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart . H3824







Job 34:10




Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: H3824 far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.























"Love the Lord your Yah with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength." Deuteronomy 6:5 In Hebrew, the heart (lev or levav) is the center of human thought and spiritual life. We tend to think that the heart refers mainly to our emotions, but in Hebrew it also refers to one's mind and thoughts as well is the heart is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the only moving organ in the body, and strong emotions cause the heartbeat to race. When the heart stops beating, a person is dead. Because the Hebrews were a concrete people who used physical things to express abstract concepts, the heart was the metaphor of the mind and all mental and emotional activity. Other interesting physical terms are also used - when we read "inmost being" the Hebrew often is literally "kidneys" (Prov. 23:16), and the life was understood to be in the blood (Genesis 9:4). Understanding that the word "heart" often meant mind and thoughts often helps clarify the meaning of passages. For instance:







"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts." (Deut. 6:6) means These commandments are to be in your minds, a part of all your thoughts. "The heart of the wise instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips." (Prov. 16:23) means The wise person's mind considers his words so that he can speak persuasively. One more lesson we can learn from the meaning of heart is from the greatest commandment, to "love the Lord with all your heart." It means we are to use all of our thoughts as well as our emotions to love the Lord. In the Gospels the phrase "and all your mind" is there to emphasize that fact, but from Moses' time it would have been understood that way. As Paul says, we must "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:5). Just as a healthy human heart is at the center of the body and absolutely essential for physical life and health, so too a healthy spiritual heart (intellect, emotion, will) is at the center of one's inner being (soul) and is vital for a healthy soul, serving as the "fountain" of all moral attitudes and actions. Our spiritual heart thus controls out actions and our actions determine our habits, which in turn determine our character. When Yah measures the ''worth'' of a man's life He puts the measuring tape around his heart, not around his head. Be a man after Yah’s Own heart (Acts 13:22) We must continually "post a guard" at the doorway of our heart, so that every avenue for sin's entry is blocked. Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4 The “heart” commonly refers to the mind as the center of thinking and reason (Pr 3:3; 6:21;7:3), but also includes the emotions (Pr 15:15, 30), the will (Pr 11:20; 14:14), and thus, the whole inner being (Pr 3:5). The heart is the depository of all wisdom and the source of whatever affects speech (Pr 4:24), sight (Pr 4:25), and conduct (Pr 4:26, 27). Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound. (Psalm 4:7 I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; will tell of all Thy wonders. (Psalm 9:1 The Hebrews regarded the heart as the source of wit, understanding, love, courage, grief, and pleasure…The heart is said to be dilated by joy, contracted by sadness, broken by sorrow, to grow fat, and be hardened by prosperity. The heart melts under discouragement, forsakes one under terror, is desolate in affliction, and fluctuating in doubt. To speak to any one's heart is to comfort him, to say pleasing and affecting things to him. The heart expresses also the middle part of any thing: "Tyre is in the heart of the seas," Ezekiel 27:4; in the midst of the seas. "We will not fear though the mountains be carried into the heart (middle) of the sea," Psalms 46:2 .The heart of man is naturally depraved and inclined to evil, Jeremiah 17:9 . A divine power is requisite for its renovation, John 3:1-11 . When thus renewed, the effects will be seen in the temper, conversation, and conduct at large. Hardness of heart is that state in which a sinner is inclined to, and actually goes on in, rebellion against Yah. I have trusted in Thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation. (Psalm 13:5 Ezekiel 18:31 “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O House of Israel?” The word in Hebrew for cast is shalak which is found in a Hiphal (causative) imperative (command) form. Thus there is something causing us to want to cast off our transgressions and we are being commanded to do so. The word itself, shalak, suggests the idea of banishing or abandonment. It would seem that from this particular form that Yah is filling us with such disgust over our transgressions that we are going to want to abandon them or banish them from our lives. Yet, I have met many who are disgusted with their transgressions and are trying to throw them off or abandon them, but they just keep coming back, particularly addictions. How are we to abandon our transgressions? The word itself may provide a clue. The word shalak is spelled Shin, Lamed and Final Kap. This suggests that it is the power of Yah (Shin) through prayer (Lamed) that our transgressions are emptied from our hearts (Final Kap). Note how the phrase, all your transgressions is preceded with an Aleph Tav or an eth which is simply a sign of the direct object and is in a construct to kol (all) pishe’ikem (transgressions). This is telling you that you cannot cast off some of your transgressions and keep the ones you want; it is an all or nothing process. This is important as you will find out in the following paragraphs. The word transgression pishe’ekim comes from a Semitic root word pasa.’ It is a word used to express the idea of rebellion, sin or offending someone.










It has its origins in a willful, conscious act, or what we call premeditation. It involves outward manifestations of anger, lust and jealousy. These transgressions are not just those of the addict and the obvious sinners. This applies to all of us who feel a surge of jealous, lust or anger and we allow these feelings to be manifested in some action. Note the passage continues by saying, which we have transgressed in them. That sounds pretty redundant doesn’t it, to say the transgressions we transgressed in them?










That word for in them is bam and is not to be overlooked. In other words they were not a part of us to begin with, we walked right into them. These are manifestations of behavior that are not a part of our sin nature. Now as to why we must cast off all our transgression note that the verse says, make you a new heart. Now how can we make ourselves a new heart? Did not David have to ask Yah to create in him a new heart? Well the syntax seems to suggest that it is this casting away of all your transgressions that will make you a new heart. The word make is ’ashah. The word is spelled Ayin which is deep spiritual insight, Shin representing the power of Yah and Hei the presence of God. It is still Yah creating us a new heart, but He cannot do it until we allow our spiritual insight to recognize our transgressions, then the power of Yah can change our heart so that it may be emptied of all its transgressions and filled with the presence of Yah. This is not casting off our sin nature. We cannot control that, which is why YAHUSHA had to die on the stake. But these are sins that we allow or willful allow that are resulting from our sin nature. Apparently, we have some control over that. Yah will deal with our sin nature, but that doesn’t mean we cannot sin. There is another level of sin that we can still enter into because of our free will and we must also make a conscious decision not to commit sins that results from our sin nature or what the Apostle calls the old man that is within us. It also says we will have a new spirit. This is a play on words chadash rauch. This is very close to chadosh rauch or Holy Spirit. The word rauch means spirit but is also used to express the idea of a pleasant scent. Where our hearts were once a stench in the nostrils of Yah, it will become a sweet scent to the nostrils of Yah through the cleansing work of Yahushua through whose divine power, our transgressions are emptied from our heart and then filled with the Holy Spirit – presence of Yah. Finally, we get a new heart. The word for heart is lev. It is spelled Lamed and Beth. I have read that our English word love derives from this word lev or heart. When God cleanses our heart, it becomes love. As a rabbi once told me, the very last letter of Torah (Old Testament) is a Lamed and the first letter is a Beit. Together they make the word levor heart, from the Torah we find the Love of Yah as well as the love of fellow man. But why does this combination appear only reversed? Because this love can only be fully created after we have obeyed the entire Word of Yah and we allow the word of Yah to complete love in us. ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH!!