Christ's Heart Transforms Us to Love and Serve

``But Jesus comes to us. Jesus loves God for us. It's his heart who knows how to love God. Jesus gave his heart for your divided one. Now catch that. He gave us his heart, and we get to trade. We can end all the battles. I can honestly have one driving force in my life. I can have one love in my life. I can settle all discussion by simply knowing that I love God more than anything. [00:43:28] (61 seconds)  #TradeForHisHeart

We're supposed to, but we can't because our human heart is divided. Our human heart is being tugged on. The world is pushing against our relationship with Christ. So what am I supposed to do? Number four may be the biggest point of the message. Christ Christ. I'm gonna say that one more time just so you don't run down to Walmart. Christ gives us a new heart. A new heart. Christ gives it to us. [00:40:42] (50 seconds)  #NewHeartInChrist

We have a message to deliver. We've been called to put it out there. I don't have to prove God is real. I don't have to even prove my love for him, but I am sent to carry and deliver his love. It's what we're here for, but I won't care to do it without his heart instead of mine. Have you had your transplant yet? Is it time to put off the old man and put on the new? There's a great heart full of love available to you today. [01:00:06] (60 seconds)  #CarryHisLove

In other words, we can get it right. We can have it right, but it comes with a new heart in Christ. You see, Jesus loved the father perfectly for you. We, in our natural state, don't even know how to love God. We weren't even smart enough to know we needed God until God started drawing us to him, till he's came looking for us. And the Bible tells us that he's called us by name. [00:42:26] (51 seconds)  #CalledByName

You see, we sometimes look down on people because their life is not in a good place, but a new heart sends us with a ministry of reconciliation. Where to go? Pick them up. Help them get steady on their feet. Hold them up. Because we've got a new heart. We became a new person in Christ. And because we're new, we can help others discover the new. But we need a new heart. [00:54:18] (43 seconds)  #MinistryOfReconciliation

When I'm holding on to Jesus, I even if my hands hurt, my arms are burning, the pressure of the world is trying to knock me off Jesus, I do not weaken. I don't slip my grip. I hold on to the rock who is my salvation. Has life got you there today? Is there a chance that you're in a storm and the world is beating you, attitudes are against you, the wind is howling, and you're holding on to the rock of your salvation while all the forces are against you. [00:33:20] (62 seconds)  #HoldOnToTheRock

You see, number five, Jesus didn't come to improve our heart, but to give us a heart transplant. He changes us. I don't wake up every day and go through a series of disciplines to be sure that I look like Jesus. I don't have a bunch of practices that I rely on. I simply rely upon the heart Jesus gave me. Is that awesome? [00:46:26] (47 seconds)  #HeartTransplantTruth

I have a heart that already knows how to love God. I don't have to train my old heart how to do it. Jesus has given me a new one, And that heart already knows how to love God. That heart already knows how to not be divided between earthly things and heavenly things. Listen to what the scripture tells us. Wait first. Number six, the new heart lives differently. In Christ, some things begin to change. The love we could not produce is now being formed in us. [00:47:13] (54 seconds)  #NewHeartChangesUs

I simply follow the new heart God gave me because God's love's already in it. The victory over sin already in it. Just follow God's heart that he died to give you. Have you have you recognized God's heart in your life? Are you receiving all God has for you? God's put it there. Our our mission is to open hearts. Has your heart opened? Has God placed in you this new heart? [00:48:53] (68 seconds)  #FollowGodsHeart

We have things pulling at it and pulling us away from Christ. We love God and ourselves. We're divided, but we love God and we love our selves. So there's a battle as to whose will will win. My will? His will? What is it that Christ would have me do? We we fight our heart all the time. We love God when it benefits us. [00:36:59] (53 seconds)  #BattleForTheHeart

We don't have. Maybe you don't believe it, but it's the truth. We don't have to account for our sin. Jesus did that on the cross. We have our sin punished through the death on the cross, and it gets better. Our cross our sin is defeated when he came out of the grave. We just celebrated that a couple of weeks ago. So in a new heart that Christ gives me, a new heart, I know how to love God, and I am no longer divided between Jesus and the world because he brings me the victory. [00:45:30] (56 seconds)  #VictoryThroughTheCross

You see, this is an important principle. Because when we think of discipleship, I think many of us think of something we need to become. And so we think there are certain certain habits, behaviors that we need to create in our life. But I want you to see what we just the point we just read, the love's being formed in us. I don't have to create it. I don't have to discipline myself to it. I don't have to pledge myself. [00:48:07] (47 seconds)  #LoveFormedNotForced

We have been given a ministry that requires a new heart. We see people broken. And my I think it was my grandmother was the first person I ever heard use this spray. Well, you know, they made their bed. They can sleep in it. Okay. But that's not what Jesus said. That's not what a new heart would do. [00:53:26] (52 seconds)  #MinistryNeedsNewHeart

Fact, the scripture says the night before, he was in prayer saying, is there another cup I could drink? Can we do this some other way? But what did he say? He's asking the Lord for another choice, but says, nevertheless, I want what you want. His commitment won over. His feeling. How do we get there? [00:27:32] (39 seconds)  #CommitmentOverComfort

But you see if we love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our might. Nothing nothing can pull us away from Christ Jesus. Nothing can win in our struggle to hang on to Christ. That's how much we are to love him. You see the problem is number two, that our heart is divided. Our hearts divide. [00:34:27] (35 seconds)  #WholeheartedDevotion

See, some of us think of serving the Lord. We think of discipleship. We think of doing things for the Lord, and it almost exhausts us just thinking about it. I heard a speaker one time say, and I don't know how he knew this. He may have just been making it up. I don't know. And I'd have thought he was except that I had done the very thing he was talking about. [00:50:09] (36 seconds)  #DiscipleshipIsLifestyle

He says that a congregation can hear a challenge and feel a commitment to follow that challenge. I'm gonna do that. And in the length of that sermon finishing, and maybe it's because we preached too long, but in the length of that sermon, I can go from, I'm gonna do that to now, wait a minute. I got bowling on Tuesday night. I got Bunco on Wednesday. Wait a minute. When am I gonna do that? [00:50:45] (46 seconds)  #FromSermonToSchedule

But I'm about to tell you beloved, paradise is way more than the geographic location of your life. Paradise is a quality of living, and love is way more than where you live. Love's way more than when you get to spend a week somewhere. You're not gonna find love in six days. Not the love Jesus has designed. [00:35:55] (32 seconds)  #LoveIsQualityOfLife

Listen. We're to love with all our heart even when we don't feel like it, even when it doesn't seem like a good idea. Now let's break this verse down. When he says love the Lord your God with all your heart, he means complete devotion. That means I'm not devoted to anything else as strongly as I am Christ. Complete devotion. [00:31:20] (36 seconds)  #CompleteDevotion

And when it comes to serving Christ, when it comes to being an example for him, we are often governed more than more by our feelings than by our commitment. So let's look at this today and figure out how we can change that. Because I don't think Jesus went to the cross, sacrificed his life for us because he felt like it. [00:26:55] (36 seconds)  #ChooseCommitmentNotFeelings