Mixing in some complete poop with mud? Intentions are the
only thing God is concerned with.
Psalm 44:21
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Isaiah 11:3-4
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear
John 7:24
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Between True and false Shepherds
Psalms 44:17 All these things are come upon us, but we have not forgotten Thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in Thy Covenant. 18 And our heart has not gone back, but Thou hast turned aside our paths from Thy way. 19 For Thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to
a strange god, shall not God search these things out? 21 for He knows the secrets of the heart. 22 For, for Thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for slaughter.LXX
Jeremiah 17:1 Cursed is
the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord. 6 And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited. 7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be. 8 And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit. 9
The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him? 10
I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.LXX
Revelation 2:20-23 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman
Jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am
He which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.KJV
ereunao = apparently from ereo (through the idea of inquiry); to seek, i.e. (figuratively) to investigate:--search.
nephros = of uncertain affinity; a kidney (plural), i.e. (figuratively) the inmost mind:--reins.
kardia = prolonged from a primary kar (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:--(+ broken-)heart(-ed).
Passing the Test
Isaiah 11:1-5 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from His root; and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him: the Spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to
appearance, nor reprove according to report; but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one. And He shall have His loins girt with righteousness, and His sides clothed with truth.LXX (Revelation 3:19)
John 7:19-25 If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision that the Law of Moses should not be broken, are ye angry at Me because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day? Judge not according to the
appearance, but judge righteous judgment. Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this He, whom they seek to kill? (John 15:25)
Matthew 12:5-14 Or have ye not read in the Law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. ... Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.