Jesus in Your Heart
To have Christ dwell in your heart, desire union with Him, continually seek His spirit, and trust in His new birth to transform your life.
Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of inviting Christ into our hearts by faith, emphasizing that He is the hope of glory and the source of love, peace, and light from heaven. She encourages believers to live each moment with a desire for union with Christ, imitating His character and seeking to have their hearts transformed into His likeness. By keeping Jesus in their hearts throughout the day and desiring to be changed into His spirit and temper, believers will experience a new birth in Christ that will transform their lives and bring forth goodness and understanding.
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That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
EPHESIANS 3:17
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
COLOSSIANS 1:27
ENTER my opening heart;
Fill in with love and peace and light from heaven;
Give me Thyself--for all in Thee is given;
Come--never to depart.
THOMAS WILLIAM WEBB
WHEREVER thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of union with Christ, in imitation of His tempers and inclinations, and look upon all as nothing, but that which exercises, and increases the spirit and life of Christ in thy soul. From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus. This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.
WILLIAM LAW
Sermon Outline
- Desire for Union with Christ
- Continual Desire for Christ's Spirit
- The New Birth in Christ
- The Result of Christ's Spirit
- Dry up springs of vice
- Bring good into you
- Open the gospel within you
Key Quotes
“ENTER my opening heart; Fill in with love and peace and light from heaven; Give me Thyself--for all in Thee is given; Come--never to depart.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“WHEREVER thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of union with Christ, in imitation of His tempers and inclinations, and look upon all as nothing, but that which exercises, and increases the spirit and life of Christ in thy soul.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Desire union with Christ by imitating His tempers and inclinations.
- Continually seek Christ's spirit by longing for nothing but to be changed into His spirit.
- Trust in Christ's new birth to transform your life and bring good into you.