A Man after God's Heart

Seen

Vision -

Emotional fragility - life isn’t going to go the way you expect

Postmodern - multiple perspectives - your perspective can give you meaning and joy

God's Sight for Himself

Grief Ended

The Lord has provided for Himself

Matt 6:22 The eye is the lamp of the body. — You see and search for what you love.

1 Samuel 13:14 - God loves those who obey Him.

Someone who will live by faith not fear. Someone who will care for God’s people not himself.

Mark 10:45 ESV

45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 15:10 ESV

10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

The needed contrast to our perspective

Looking on the Heart

Hidden vs Character

Jeremiah 17:9–10 ESV

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Contrast between growing up - Success is finding the perfect job/wife/etc.... and now … success is finding the perfect you

Things from black Friday … Perfect holidays coming up… The world looks at everything from gender to sexual orientation to the causes you fight for to find the perfect you. Christians do it too. Saul did it too.

Our emotional fragility makes us look for outward things to find our emotional stability.

Looking for success, peace, love and the things that will give us this - EXAMPLES

Shepherds

Core Groups....

Romans 8:31-39

John 16:13-14

A "Spirit"ed Beginning

2 Kings

The Lord is with Him vs Departed

Refreshing Spirit

Eph 5:15...

Do you have a heart for obedience? Trust and Obey by meditating on God’s love

Do you want God with you? Do whatever you do in the name of Jesus

Speaking, Singing, Giving Thanks, Submitting

Postmodern perspectives - Be humble, Affirm God is truth and His presence is key

Communion - The Spirit focuses you on what Christ has done for you… Thank Jesus for giving us Himself and His Spirit to be with you this month.