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Developing a Heart Like
God’s Heart
Josh Hunt,
Presenter
What do you think about when you don’t have
anything to think about?
For as he thinketh in his
heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
(KJV)
What do you think God
thinks about?
Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and
loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country
and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
Luke 15:4
Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins
and loses one. Does she not light a lamp,
sweep the house and search carefully until
she finds it? Luke 15:8
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled
with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
Luke 15:20
The son started his speech: “Father, I’ve sinned against God,
I’ve sinned before you; I don't deserve to be called your son ever
again.”Luke 15:21 (MSG)
But the father wasn't listening. He was calling to
the servants, “Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family
ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.” Luke 15:22 (MSG)
It is impossible to love the
Father without sharing His heart
for those who are far from Him.
Who is the most spiritually mature person who ever lived?
For the Son of Man came to
seek and to save what was lost.
Luke 19:10
The Son of Man came eating and drinking,
and you say, “Here is a glutton and a
drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and
‘sinners.’”Luke 7:34
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the
sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:31-32
Sin:the desire to exclude.
God:the desire
to embrace
“A church has to choose between being a place
that can attract seekers or
being a place that can help people become spiritually mature.”
The more spiritually mature you are, the more you will want to
reach out to people who are far
from God.
“We cannot have one posture
toward God, and a different one toward other
people.”
If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his
brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not
love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he
has not seen.1 John 4:20
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14
It is psychologically impossible for you to desire to live in grace and forgiveness and not want it for others.
- John Ortberg
“Some have created models of Christian growth that suggest
that we can have one attitude toward God and another toward those who are far
from him.”
“When we do that we make Christianity
repulsive to people on the outside and
sometimes to people who go to church.”
-John Ortberg
Some actually prefer not to be around sinners.
People here in Oklahoma,
they are kind of hard to love.
Some think this tendency to not
be around sinners is a sign of their maturity.
Lifesaving Museum, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Jesus is still looking for people
who will go into the life-saving business.
How is your heart for
people who are far from Him?
