From Spiritual Decay to Complete Heart Renewal
Psalm 119:70 declares, "Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law." Spurgeon observed that the psalmist contrasts two conditions of...
This is historical examples on spiritual transformation and heart condition, drawing on Psalms 119:70.
Psalm 119:70 declares, "Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law." Spurgeon observed that the psalmist contrasts two conditions of the human heart with surgical precision. First, there is fatty degeneration of the heart—a spiritual ailment where the soul grows thick and sluggish, insensitive to divine truth. Just as physical fat accumulates and hardens the arteries, spiritual indifference clogs the heart's capacity to receive God's Word.…
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