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How Big Is Your Heart (Prelude to The Be.Attitudes of Following Jesus Series) | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Hey, you welcome to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray you will be
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  blessed by this message today made a word of God both encouraged and challenge you
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  to be all God purpose you to be. Now let's dive right in.
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  Hey, church, I'm really excited about the discipleship series we're about to embark
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  on. I'm calling the b Attitudes of Following Jesus. I will explain what
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  the title means, but model come in the weeks to come, all right,
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  But I'm really excited about it because I think that a Church of Jesus
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  Christ, we cannot run away from our call to make disciples. That's literally
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  the mission of the church. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.
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  So we really got to understand what this all means. So we're about to
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  embark on a very exciting journey of learning from Jesus and the Word of God
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  what discipleship means. But today, this this message is a part two of
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  a prelude to that message, because I'm trying to set some foundation here and
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  you will all start to make more and more sense as we go along the
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  series. But today there's something I need to address before we move further,
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  and the title of the message is a form of a question, and it
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  is this, how big is your heart? We all have a heart,
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  but how big is it? Right? How big is it? The Bible
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  says in Matthew twenty two, verse thirty six to forty some people came with
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  Jesus, and they asked him, teacher, which is the great commandment in
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  the Law. And Jesus said to him, you shall love the Law your
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  God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your
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  mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like
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  it, You shall love your neighbor. Ask yourself on these two commandments depend
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  all the law and the prophets, so Jesus is saying. And I know
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  you guys, where you guys are coming from. You've been brought up to
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  kind of like follow and live by a whole bunch of rules. You know,
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  my father gave ten to the people, and the Pharises made it six
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  hundred plus. And then you know, you guys are confused, and you're
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  asking me which is the greatest And I'm telling you, you know what,
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  everything can be summarizing into these too. In fact, these two is kind
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  of like one. The second and the first one is one and the same
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  because you can't really do one without the other. Basically, it's you know,
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  if if I were to periphrase and make it really simple, it's love
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  God and love people. So he's saying, love the Lord your God,
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  all your hearts, all mine and strength. And the second one is love
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  a neighbor is yourself. Now it starts with love the Lord your God,
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  with all your heart. There's something about the heart that God wants. This
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  verses tells us that what God wants from us is first and foremost our heart.
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  God knows that when he has our heart, he has us. If
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  you give God your money, he may not have you. If you got
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  your car, your possession, you know, he may not have you.
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  But when God has your heart, that's when he knows he has you.
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  And there's something about the heart that got ones and that's why you know.
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  You probably have heard worship songs, love songs sometimes somehow it's just it's the
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  heart. Like you don't hear people sing Lord, I give you my lungs.
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  It just doesn't work. Even if you have two pieces. A lung
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  comes in a pair, right, you got a left one right one the
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  heart. It's just one. I mean, you can't justify and say,
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  oh God, I'm giving you my lungs. It's much bigger. It's got
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  two pieces. I'm giving you more of me than if I give you my
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  heart. Right, this just doesn't work, or you can't just you can
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  sing if you want on my nose, you got it, you got it.
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  It just doesn't work. It's got to be the heart. I know
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  that's this is a funny way of looking at it. But you know,
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  you know what God means when he says, heard, it's not just that
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  organ that pumps blood, but the very center of you. And God is
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  saying we've got to love him with our heart first? Why does God want
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  our heart? Our heart is not even the biggest organ in our body.
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  But why the heart? And it brings it begs the question actually talking about,
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  you know, not being the biggest organ in the body. How big
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  is our heart? It's so big that you can keep on trying with things
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  that fill your heart. You know, you can put in Bible, study
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  cams, whatever else of fitness, nutrition, and it was still not feeling
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  up. Our heart is that big? Where do I get this idea?
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  From where do I get this illustration? From very simple the word of God.
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  It cissp to three verse eleven. It says God, he has made
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  everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity into man's heart yet
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  so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the
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  end. God can put something called eternity in your heart. How big is
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  eternity? Huge? Humongous? Massive? Right? And therefore, if our
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  heart can contain something like eternity, no matter what finite things you put in
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  there, food, finances, uh, fitness, whatever, the fish,
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  whatever else, all these things are finite, it will never feel a heart
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  that is filled with eternity. Only an eternal thing, only something eternal.
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  Someone who is internal can feel the heart. So you can feel the heart
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  with girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, kids, cousins, nephew, auntie,
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  uncle, neighbors, and still it will not be full, or he will
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  not be complete. Only God can feel a heart like that. And I
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  tell you why that is so, Because God is intentionally designed our heart to
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  only be filled be full with Him. Amen. Our hearts can only be
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  complete with Him. Amen. So the first point is this, only God
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  ultimately satisfies. Only God satisfies. Nothing else, not a great career,
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  not a fast car, not a big fat bank account, not popularity,
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  not three point five million forwards on the Instagram, not in all a billion
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  robocks on your roadblocks account. None of these things. All those things are
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  great. It makes you happy while you're here. It will last for a
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  while, the happiness. But after a while you realize, you know what,
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  my heart is still not feeled, because our heart is just that that
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  bait. God has put eternity in our hearts, and only God can feel
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  the heart. Therefore, only God can satisfy, And satisfy means made complete.
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  Have you ever been to a buffet? Great? Your relationis you probably
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  have been to one, I'm sure. But have you ever been to a
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  bad buffet? That's right? Quite a few of us, right you,
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  And you know, bad buffet or not, you're still gotta pay money.
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  And usually because you paid money, even though you realize you know what,
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  Wow, this is, this is a scam. I paid one hundred fifty
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  er and gay but the food is not good. But you know I paid
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  one hundred fifty gears. I got to eat. So you eat anyway,
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  and you try to find you know, probably the best of the worst food
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  that is there, okay, and you kind of just target that and eat
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  that and fill your stomachs with that. Uh, and then and then you're
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  likely will leave the buffet, the bad buffet full, right right, because
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  you know, to make your money's worth. But you know there's a big
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  difference. You can be full and still not fulfilled. That's what going to
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  a bad buffets like. You'll leave the buffet full because you gotta make sure
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  you don't waste money. So you eat anyway, and you leave the place
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  so full, but not fulfilled. You're not satisfied, You're not happy.
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  The same is with our lives. You know, our lives can be so
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  full, full of things, full of things to do for the projects,
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  events, programs, think, you know, just task full with people,
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  full of friends, even maybe followers, full of so many different things that
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  are finite. But a virtually fulfilled that is the real question. I vitually
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  fulfilled. And the thing is this that the truth is we will never be
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  fulfilled unless God feels it. So. Actually, our heart, what a
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  heart is longing for is a relationship with God. What a heart is really
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  longing for is the presence of God. We want God present in our heart,
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  but many of us don't know it, so we think that something else
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  can feel it, and when we realize it doesn't, we find something else
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  to feel up the emptiness and we keep trying to feel and that's how we
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  end up being full and still not fulfilled. Our hearts actually longs for God.
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  The Bible says in Psalms to the self of us, for delight yourself
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  in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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  When you get your desires of your heart, you will be satisfied and fulfill
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  and you feel like you're complete. But something comes before that. Delight yourself
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  in the Lord. Delight yourself in the Lord. It's not just like,
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  Ah, just smile when you come to church, or just look happy,
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  dress bride and cheerful. No. Delight yourself in the Lord is to enjoy
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  God. To genuinely, authentically, honestly enjoy God. And that includes enjoy
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  the things of God like coming to church, actually wanting to be here,
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  like worshipping and singing those songs and actually wanting to and meaning them. Ay
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  Man, God wants us to delight ourselves in Him. Because He delights in
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  us. He wants to spend time, spend time with us. He wants
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  to love us, he wants to give to us, he wants to bless
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  us wife. Because God is honestly, genuinely, authentically, really delighting himself
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  in us, and he wants to respond, He wants us to respond to
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  him the same. He wants us to delight ourself in Him. And when
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  we delight ourselves in Hi, where we genuinely enjoy being with God, when
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  we genuinely enjoy doing the things that God wants us to do, when we
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  genuinely enjoy following him, he will have no issue, no problem granting us
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  the desires of how in fact, you know, what will happened, what
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  might happen? Actually, when we delight ourselves in God, when we genuinely
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  align our hearts to God, we like what he likes, we hate what
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  he hates. We go after what he goes after. We stay ay from
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  what he says, stay away from. When we genuinely delay ourselves in Him,
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  we might even change the desires of heart. What we what we used
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  to like, or what we used to want, we may not want anymore.
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  We may not like anymore once we have spent so much time and be
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  so intimate with God. So God knows that the key to our lives is
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  that we learn to delight ourselves in Him. When we delight ourselves in Him,
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  he feel our hearts. Our hearts are complete, we are satisfied.
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  Amen, Then the true desires of heart. You know you said before.
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  God doesn't just give us what we want. He gives us what we need
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  need. He knows what a heart needs. Amen. You know. Matthew
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  six twenty one says, for where your treasure is, that your heart will
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  be. Also imagine God being your treasure. Imagine God being the thing that
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  is worth the most to you. In fact, that's what worship is.
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  Worship is worth ship. It's giving worth to the one you value. That's
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  what worship is. Not just singing songs. I'm not saying don't sing songs,
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  because he was not about songs. I'm saying worship songs is an expression
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  of worship. When we do sing those songs, can we sing them with
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  out all? Because God? This is out all, Because that's how much
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  He is worth. That's where our heart will be when we treasure God.
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  For where your treasure is that your heart will be also Amen. And when
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  all that happens, some stony verse all reminds us with God, he will
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  grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans. But it is God
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  who will do it. Only God can grant you the desires of your heart,
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  and only God can fulfill your plans and our plans. Like I said
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  earlier, when we center our lives around God, our plans becomes more God
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  centered too. And some of our plans may actually drop off because they are
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  not God centered. You see how it works. And God is designers in
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  such a way that our hearts need to long after him. Our hearts need
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  to go after him. That's why he described David as a man of all
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  the things that God can describe. David as a warrior, a worshiper,
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  a wise, so many different things. God choses chooses the phrase a man
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  after my own heart some of the chases after God's heart. I pray the
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  church as we embark on this journey of learning what discipleship is, and not
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  just learning what it is, but actually practicing being disciples of Jesus. I
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  pray and hope that we understand is starts with our desire for God, our
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  delight for Him, understanding that you know, you know what, any other
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  day we are doing disciplesh it because I the other day that's what our heart
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  really wants following after Jesus and only he fulfiels. I don't have time to
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  elaborate on all the other points, but I would just give them to you.
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  And I believe that just the first point is good enough for the context
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  of UH the series on discipleship that will be coming. But besides only God
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  satisfies, there are three other things we have to understand that only God justifies.
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  Only God and justifies means made right. Justified means made right. Whatever
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  your heart condition is in right now, maybe you've been hurt before. Maybe
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  you've done Disapo discipleship before some other place and it didn't go well for you.
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  Maybe it was too controlling, maybe it was too too liberal, and
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  you didn't really get what the world of God means. Whatever your heart is,
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  and maybe your heart has been hurt, maybe your heart has been broken,
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  maybe your heart has been betrayed. God can give you a new heart.
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  Only He can make right your heart that has been wronged. And and
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  you know so besides God being the only one that can satisfy our heart.
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  God is the only one that can justify our heart. He can make right
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  our heart. He can give us a new heart. Amen. Thirdly is
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  only God qualifies. Only God qualifies once he justifies our heart, make right
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  our heart. Only he can make good our heart. Qualified means made good
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  problems. One was to say, it's every way of a man is right
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  in his own eyes. But the Lord weighs the hearts. The lord who
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  can value the heart. It's the Lord who can make good our heart is
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  the Lord who who can qualify your heart. So if we want a good
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  heart, it's not just doing good things. That's part of it. But
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  good things can only flow out of a good heart. Because a tree who's
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  got bad roots will produce bad fruits, but good roots will produce good fruits.
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  So a good heart will produce good things. So God can make a
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  heart good. And we need God to kind of like turn our hearts around
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  so that we will have a good heart and that good have produces good things.
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  Fourthly, and the last point is this, only God beautifies. Only
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  God can make a heart beautiful. You know, we can dress it up
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  with whatever you can name it. You can think of whatever it is you
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  want to dress your heart up with ministries, you know, curated Instagram polls,
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  whatever. But in the other day, it's only God who can make
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  a heart beautiful. You know, even even those who have been broken before
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  can be beautiful. God can do that. Even if you're poor, God
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  can make you beautiful, even if you have been betrayed. Only God can
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  make you beautiful. Because the Bible says it sounds one for seven US three.
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  He heals the broken heart and binds up their wounds. And only He
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  can do that. Only He can do that. Amen. So only God
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  satisfies, Only God justifies. Only God qualifies, and only Got beautifies.
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  And why is all these things important? Because we're about to go into just
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  learning and journeying on what discipleship really means. When we get deeper and deeper
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  into it, you realize that, like I said, like how we started,
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  what God wants is your heart, not just your behavior. A lot
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  of times discipleship is kind of like focused on behaviors. Do this, does
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  do these? Do this? Yes? Behavior is I mean if you're not
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  doers of the word. Faith without action is dead. Our Christian life is
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  dead without the right actions. But sometimes we focus so much on the actions
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  we become just performance and not really follow us. And God wants us to
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  be follow us. So yeah, a lot of times dec we focus so
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  much on the behavior. But end of the day, what God wants is
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  the attitude. And that's why I call it the bee attitudes of following Jesus.
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  What is what are the kind of attitudes that we must have before we
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  even go to the behavior, because if you get your attitude right, your
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  heart right, your behavior will follow. So that's what we can look forward
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  to in the weeks and maybe even months to come as we learn what Jesus
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  means when he said come and follow me, and when he said take up
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  your cross daily and follow me, when he said die to yourself? What
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  is strong words? What does he mean? But it's a beautiful thing to
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