The Heart of the Disciple
Brian Fletcher
Matthew 5:1-5
Introduction:
There is One thing you have to understand about living the Christian life. This one thing is so important and yet we look past it all the time. This One thing is what makes all the difference in how you live. This one thing that you have to understand will determine how you approach your relationship with God, with others and with the world around you. If you misunderstand this one thing then you will completely miss what living a Christian life is all about. If you don't pay attention to this One thing then you will forever be striving to please God but never able to do so.
You have to understand this One thing. So, what is this ONE thing?
This ONE thing is that the Christian life begins in the Heart. The Christian life flows from your heart, to your mind, and to your hands. Not the other way around. Too often, we live in such a way that we believe that God is more interested in our deeds than he is in our motives. We believe that if we just do what God tells us then He will be satisfied. But that is just not the case.
God is way more interested in your heart than he is in your works.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Joel 2:12-13
''Yet even now,'' declares the Lord,
''return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.''
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Psalm 27:8
You have said, ''Seek my face.'' My heart says to you, ''Your face, Lord, do I seek.''
Psalm 51:6
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
As Jesus begins this message to his disciples and to all who were ...
Brian Fletcher
Matthew 5:1-5
Introduction:
There is One thing you have to understand about living the Christian life. This one thing is so important and yet we look past it all the time. This One thing is what makes all the difference in how you live. This one thing that you have to understand will determine how you approach your relationship with God, with others and with the world around you. If you misunderstand this one thing then you will completely miss what living a Christian life is all about. If you don't pay attention to this One thing then you will forever be striving to please God but never able to do so.
You have to understand this One thing. So, what is this ONE thing?
This ONE thing is that the Christian life begins in the Heart. The Christian life flows from your heart, to your mind, and to your hands. Not the other way around. Too often, we live in such a way that we believe that God is more interested in our deeds than he is in our motives. We believe that if we just do what God tells us then He will be satisfied. But that is just not the case.
God is way more interested in your heart than he is in your works.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Joel 2:12-13
''Yet even now,'' declares the Lord,
''return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.''
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Psalm 27:8
You have said, ''Seek my face.'' My heart says to you, ''Your face, Lord, do I seek.''
Psalm 51:6
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
As Jesus begins this message to his disciples and to all who were ...
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