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Good Morning
Introduction:
Good Morning Everyone.
My name is Joe Vivian.
I am the Children’s and Families Pastor here at Eastern Hills.
I am honored to share with you all the next two Sundays while Pastor Bill and his family are on a much-deserved family vacation.
We will journey the next two Sundays and discuss Heart Surgery as it pertains to our souls.
This Sunday we will discuss the “removal” of guilt from our hearts.
Next week, we will then begin the process of removing anger.
I am excited to share with all of you this process of Heart Transformation that can only be accomplished through the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Before we begin, I have a couple of announcements to share:
Announcements:
-It’s a Boy!! Rhett Timothy Swann
Our grandson was born Friday night at 8:52pm.
7#11oz and 19.5 inches long
His two older sisters are excited and Mom and Dad are doing great.
They will be coming home this morning.
-Today, at 2pm in Miller Hall, will be a baby shower for Izzy Teasdale.
This will be a time of celebration and fun.
The North Miller Hall doors will be open for everyone.
-On Thursday the 5th of September, we will be hosting the BCNM Sunday School Leader/Pastor training.
Meal is at 5:30pm and Trainings will begin at 6pm.
The classes will be age specific:
Adult Leaders/Pastors
Youth/Student Leaders
Pre-School/Children Leaders
-In September, we are hosting two events on back-to-back weekends for women:
Aspire Women’s Conference, an evening full of laughter, learning, stories & music.
This is the third year that we have hosted Shine.
This year, it will be on Friday, September 13, from 7 to 10 pm.
You can get tickets in the church office, or online at aspirewomensevents.com.
Flyers are available in the foyer on the Get Connected Table.
The REAL Women’s Conference will be held the following weekend, and it is a two-day conference to encourage, inspire, and equip women to shift their focus from “Why is this happening?”
to “I wonder what God is working through this?”
It will be Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21, 6-9 on Friday night, and 8:15 am to 3 on Saturday.
You can get more information in at getrealwithgod.com,
and cards are also available on the Get Connected Table.
-Finally, please continue to keep Linda Bauer as well as the entire Bauer family lifted up in prayer due to the passing of Ken Bauer this past week.
Stand for Scripture
Stand for Scripture
2 Timothy 2:
Those of ytou who know me, know that I’m kinda “organized” in my own way.
A focus on “Heart Surgery” and the process to recognize what needs to be removed, reworked, wrought and transformed so we each can be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
Stopping ourselves from attempting superficial modifications to our behaviors, but instead, we will go into the depths of our hearts, our very being.
I’m all about checklists, to-do lists, and color coding.
It’s how I function.
We will look at what the “Triggers” are in our lives that brings on the tendency to monitor our current behavior all the while ignoring the real problem…our heart.
Behavior Modification
Why is it that when we offend, hurt, lie to, even betray another person in our life, we attempt to modify that bad behavior to where we think it should be.
So instead of going into the depth of the problem, to see why it is what it is and how it became part of our behavior, we try to modify it into something that is more acceptable.
Not to God as much but to to us and those around us.
Heart Transformation
Our tendency is to monitor our behavior while pretty much ignoring our hearts.
After all, how do you monitor your heart?
I can’t get too far off base in my behavior without somebody drawing it to my attention.
But my heart?
That seems a bit more complicated.
Jesus said something that still has huge implications today in
matt 15:18,-19
The heart is such a mystery.
In fact, one prophet asked of the heart, “Who can understand it?”
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Good question.
The implication is that nobody can.
With which I readily concur.
And even if we do begin to understand it, we certainly can’t control it—which is all the more reason we need to learn to monitor it.
Like the seismic activity of a dormant volcano, what you don’t know can hurt you.
The heart is such a mystery.
In fact, one prophet asked of the heart, “Who can understand it?”
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Good question.
The implication is that nobody can.
With which I readily concur.
And even if we do begin to understand it, we certainly can’t control it—which is all the more reason we need to learn to monitor it.
Like the seismic activity of a dormant volcano, what you don’t know can hurt you.
Suddenly someone files for divorce.
Suddenly a kid’s grades drop and his attitude changes.
Suddenly a harmless pastime becomes a destructive habit.
Out of nowhere devastating words pierce the soul of an unsuspecting loved one.
We’ve all seen it, felt it, even caused it.
Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secrecy of our hearts won’t always remain a secret.
Eventually it finds its way into our homes, offices, and neighborhoods.
The heart seeps into every conversation.
It dictates every relationship.
Our very lives emanate from the heart.
We live, parent, lead, relate, romance, confront, react, respond, instruct, manage, problem solve, and love from the heart.
Our hearts impact the intensity of our communication.
Our hearts have the potential to exaggerate our sensitivities and insensitivities.
Every arena of life intersects with what’s going on in our hearts.
Everything passes through on its way to wherever it’s going.
Everything.
We need the courage to ask God for help to watch over, understand, and purify our hearts.
He is eager to respond and to show us how to replace old bad habits of the heart with new and better ones that will in time make us more like his Son.
We need to stop Behavior Modifications and begin Heart Transformation
The first disease to have removed from your heart is guilt.
Guilt is the result of having done something we perceive as wrong.
The message from a heart diseased with guilt is, “I owe!”
Consider the man who runs off with another woman and abandons his family.
Without realizing it at the time, he has stolen something from every member of his family.
He has robbed his wife of her future, her financial security, and her reputation as a wife.
From his children’s perspective, this man has stolen their Christmas, traditions, emotional and financial security, dinners with the family, and so on.
Now, the man who did all this doesn’t think in terms of what he has taken.
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