What it Means to Believe with the Heart !

WHAT IT MEANS TO BELIEVE WITH THE HEART: "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10) . We have established certain facts in the previous lesson which we will summarize here. When God speaks in His Word of the heart, he kept that he is not speaking of the physical organ which pumps blood through our bodies and keeps the body alive. He is speaking of the human spirit, which is the very center of man's being. I've never forgot a man who heard speak as a youngster. He called it preaching, but actually he was just giving and intellectual discourse. In fact, it was motivational speaking. It wasn't preaching because it wasn't New Testament; it wasn't the Word of God. His so-called sermon poke fun at those of us who believe in old-fashioned, heart-felt salvation. He used the term "heart" literally and said that if a man had a "change of heart," he would have heart trouble and die. This is because without that man was only mind and body. But man is more than mind and body; he is spirit, soul, and body. Man was created in the image and likeness of God. Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). We have seen that the spirit of man is not his mind. The mind is part of the soul's quantities. You can readily identify the spirit if you speak with other tongues, because this speaking comes from your heart, or out of your spirit. Now you can see that to believe God with your heart means to believe God with your spirit, the inner man. In the previous lesson I referred to two scriptures which gives us God's definition of the human spirit: (1 Peter 3:4) "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." Next, is (Romans 7:22) "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man." "The hidden man of the heart" is the spirit, the real man or woman. The real man, the hidden man, the inward man, is spirit. He has a soul and he lives in a body. With our spirit, we contact the spiritual realm. When our soul, we contact the intellectual and emotional realm. Without body, we contact the physical realm. You cannot contact God with your mind, because God is not a mind. You cannot contact God with your body, because God is not a body. You can only contact God with your spirit, because God is a Spirit. And God contact you through your spirit. When you hear the Word of God preached, you hear it with your physical ears, however, you have a bone structure in your ears that is your enter ears. It then goes to your natural mind. But if it is to affect you, you must receive it in your spirit. Can you remember how the Word of God affected you on the inside, in your spirit, before you were born again ? The Holy Spirit through the Word spoke to your heart, or spirit. Not your head ! Knowing that God contacts us through our spirits helps us understand (1 Corinthians 2:14), "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they of foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Another translation reads, "the natural man, or the natural mind, understandeth not the things of God. . ." The Word of God is of the Spirit of God, and it is foolish to the natural mind or natural man. You do not understand the Bible with your head; and that is what many people are trying to do. It is spiritually understood. You understand it with your heart ! You may have read certain chapters and verses many times, never understanding the meaning. Then one day you suddenly saw it. You said, "why didn't I see that before ?" It was because you now understood it with your heart. You must receive the revelation of God's Word in your heart. Not with your head in fact that is called mental assessment or agreeing. That Is Why We Have Two Depend on the Spirit of God to open and unveil the Word to us.