When we talk about someone's having a heart condition, we usually presume he had a heart attack or some similar malady. Man has had a heart condition since the fall of Adam. This heart condition isn't the muscle that pumps blood through the body, but the very heart of man itself; the spirit of man.
We seldom think of ourselves as spirit beings. Mostly, we think in terms of body and soul. The truth of the matter is that man is a spirit. We live in a body ad we have a soul. The spirit, which is the real you, lives in the flesh and blood body. The soul of a man, which is your will, your mind, your intellect, your emotions and is the command center that directs your body.
When Adam committed high treason in the Garden of Eden, his spirit was cut off from God and we became spiritually dead to the life of God. We still were a spirit, but now it was silent and shut off from the voice of what it was created to be. We were to be led by the spirit by receiving our direction from the Spirit of God Himself and were to live in perfect harmony with our Father God.
Once we were cut off because of the fall of Adam, he, as the one who was to propagate the human race, bred sin and death into every human being who came from his loins. Because the blood type comes from the father, every child has been born with this heart (spirit) condition because of Adam's lineage. Sin was transmitted from one generation to the next by the very blood of Adam who was a fallen man.
Because sin was a spiritual condition effecting the spirit (or the heart) of man, the effects of sin were propagated from one generation to the next, much like a child born with AIDS (or some other disease) because the mother was infected. The child didn't do anything to incur AIDS on its own, yet was born with the disease because it was in the blood. When this sin nature was transmitted through Adam down through the centuries, there needed to be an antidote that would cure this disease. The only way was for man to be born again from a different blood source that was free from the spiritual disease called sin and death.
Jesus, because He was born not of man, but by the Holy Spirit, was free and could therefore bring life (God's Life) back to all who would receive Him as our antidote for this heart condition. It was never a matter of our being good, doing good or going to church. Even though these are good things, they couldn't fix the heart and cure the disease. Man needed a new heart. Ezekiel 11:19-20 (Amplified) says, "And I will give them one heart (a new heart) and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stoney (unnaturally hardened) heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh (sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God)." Verse 20 goes on, "That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God." Ezekiel 36:26-27 (Amplified) says that, "A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away the stoney heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." Verse 27 says, "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes; And you shall heed My ordinances and do them."
We also read in 2Corinthians 3:3 (Amplified) concerning the Church in Corinth and their receiving of the gospel where Paul says, "You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written in ink, but with (the) Spirit of (the) living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts."
This heart condition isn't one a doctor can cure of fix. Nor was it one that medicine can be administered to fix. It was a spiritual condition of the heart that only God could heal. Mostly, we didn't know we had a heart condition, although, even doctors could diagnose conditions in our body because of it. We were (and still are) pulled down by stress, nerves and mental diseases not brought on by natural things, but spiritual things that manifest themselves in our natural body. Dis-ease in the spirit bring disease in the body.
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