DCLM Higher Everyday 7 June 2025 — Spiritual Heart Surgery 

Topic: Spiritual Heart Surgery 

Text: Ezekiel 36:24-28

24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Memory Verse: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26).

Message

“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart – poisoned as it is with pride and pain – and replacing it with His own,” says Max Lucado. Spiritual heart surgery is a metaphorical concept that emphasizes deep repentance and transformation. In this context, the heart symbolizes our inner being, the source of our emotions, intentions and desires. True repentance goes beyond superficial change; it involves a profound shift in desires and understanding. Repentance is not something we naturally desire or fully comprehend; it is the work of God within us. Just as a surgeon performs physical heart surgery, God performs spiritual heart surgery by renewing our hearts, while cutting away harmful affections and priorities.

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To benefit from the abundant life in the new covenant with Jesus Christ, you must surrender to God for this transformative work, allowing Him to replace the filthiness and idols of your stony heart with a new heart of flesh as he promises in our text. The Holy Spirit, like a heart surgeon, creates faith, convicts of sin, and brings healing through forgiveness.

QUOTE: You must surrender to God.

PRAYER: Father, perform your surgery upon my heart, in Jesus’ name.

CHALLENGE: A filthy heart is a barrier to making heaven.

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)