Inward truth.
It is so much more important for us to have truth inwardly than to appear to be truth followers and not be from the heart.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
We can't let our own heart deceive us. We have to pray that God creates a clean heart in us, because we cannot do it for ourselves.
Psa_51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Eze 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh
Eze 36:25 Then 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.
Eze 36:26 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.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
God does all this FOR US we have to LET HIM, and we have to LET HIM daily. We can choose at any moment to stop letting God work in us, we mustn't do that. We must learn to surrender always, recognizing all glory belongs to God!
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Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.
Within and Without.
This righteousness of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ, is unto, literally into, and upon all them that believe. Man's own righteousness, which is of the law, is only on the outside. Matt. 23:27, 28.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
But God desires truth in the inward parts. Ps. 51:6.
Psa 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
"These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart." Deut. 6:6.
And so the promise of the new covenant is, "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts." Jer. 31:33.
He does it, because it is impossible for man to do it. The most that men can do is to make a fair show in the flesh, to gain the applause of their fellow men. God puts his glorious righteousness in the heart.
But he does more than that, he covers men with it. "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness." Isa. 51:10.
"He will beautify the meek with salvation." Ps. 149:4.
Clothed with this glorious dress, which is not merely an outward covering, but the manifestation of that which is within, God's people may go forth, "fair as the moon, clear as the sun; and terrible as an army with banners."
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