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Thank you, Kaden.

Remind me to add a few more versus next week.

The heart bone is connected to the Mount bone and I will be talking about that today.

As we think about the passage that Kayden just read for us before we get there.

We've been talkin about the Life of Christ and this is one of those moments in the ministry of Christ where he's at the last six months of his ministry.

So he's he's getting ready to go to the cross.

In the meantime, he's trying to straighten out and teach his Apostles, what they need to do and what they need to be.

And so he's focusing.

His attention upon them, this last 6 months, but in this particular scenario that Kayden just read, it's about putting it in someone else.

Because they sinned against you and we'll talk more about that in just a second.

But as we think about that, couldn't help.

But think about this, In 1973 big red was the nickname and it's was Secretariat and Secretariat was the winner of the Triple Crown in 1973.

So he won the, the Kentucky Derby won the Preakness Stakes and he won the Belmont Stakes.

Here's the Belmont Stakes in all three of those races.

All those records that he broke still stand.

Today, that no horse.

Fifty years later has ever come close to the time that secretary had.

And so in this one is at the Belmont Stakes and hear Secretariat wins by 31 lengths unprecedented.

No horse has ever come so close to even breaking that record.

That's so just because I love Secretariat.

Here's another picture that beautiful horse and secretary was born in 1970 died, in 1989 and They did an autopsy on Secretariat and it had weighed 22 1/2 pounds.

Now the average thoroughbred horse, the average heart, weight 8.5 lb fish, slow down the faster they go.

Where that makes sense.

If you're running a race, you start out fast but you can't maintain that speed so you slow down.

As you lose your wind and lose your stamina, but Secretariat has a larger heart chambers.

And had larger pipes to breathe through, and all of that took place because of she had to, or he had a larger heart.

So the pump could more blood, which entailed more oxygen, which entailed that this horse would get faster as the race war on, The only horse that they could say that about.

So that was one of the reasons that secretary was great.

In fact, in 1999, secretary was voted the 35th greatest athlete of all time.

the only animal to ever make the list and so it is with secretary that the greatest thing about that horse was his heart.

His heart could keep him going, you love to race.

And so when he got to eat all start behind, you know, we starting the rear and then he would just passed out passed and outrun all the other horses in that two mile run and no other horse, as I said as ever come close to the time that secretary and had in those races.

But one of the things about the heart of a horse is also true about the heart of a Christian.

The heart of a horse was Secretariat was about endurance.

Now, Jesus tells us as Christians that we need a heart of endurance as well.

That we need to keep fighting through.

Sometimes we got to fight through pain.

Sometimes we got to fight through spiritual struggles.

Sometimes we got to fight through emotional struggles.

But whatever it is, we have to keep enduring, we have to keep going forward.

And so it is when you have a little pain, some people like to quit.

But in all sports, including horse, raising the horses are taught.

If you have a little pain, you got to keep going.

It's not going to kill you.

And so it is with all of us as Christians in our spiritual lies.

My question to you this morning.

As we begin, is this, how big is your heart today?

You know, if we had the heart of Christ, we can say, we have a big heart and if we have a heart of Christ, I wonder what our worship service would be.

Like if we had a part, the bit that is was as big as Christ.

What about our relationships with one another?

I wonder what our relationship would be like if we had the heart of Christ.

Had a big heart.

What about our personal evangelism?

Would we be sharing Christ because we had bigger hearts and we would just love to share more of Jesus Christ.

That's what we're talking about in this particular passage and someone will say well we just read it and I don't see that.

Well, the heart concerns, every spiritual matter.

Everything we do in this life, concerns, our heart and stack.

When Jesus began his ministry, he focused upon the heart.

Then he said, you have to have a specific attitude, a mindset.

That's the hard he's talking about, It's not talking about the physical blood pumping Oregon, but he is talking about the mindset, the attitude that we had and he says that attitude has to be all in for Jesus Christ.

It's all I ask you again.

Where is your heart this morning and how big is your heart this morning?

Is it big enough to serve Jesus to serve one another, to put his kingdom?

His church first in your lives.

It wasn't his.

He purchased the church with his own blood to Bible tells us.

That he died for his bride, the bride of Christ his church.

And so that was a love that he had.

Would we die for Jesus?

That's the question that we have to ask ourselves but the bitter Point, all of this about having a big heart.

And about having a christ-like heart is about purity of heart.

Purity of heart.

The Lord says be ye holy for I am.

Holy.

It's so you had this.

Holy God and we can't even fathom the Holiness that he has.

But here we have his Holiness of God.

He's so holy and yet he loves his creation so much you and me and we're full of sin.

imagine that a holy God loving us even though we were still Sinners but amazing things of a whole and what we just did a few moments ago with the Lord's Supper is that we turn back and look back in our minds I'd Calvary How many saw Jesus died on that cross?

Because of his immense love for you.

That tells me the size of his heart.

That spiritual heart of Christ.

Would you and mine?

He willingly died.

And so it is as we think about this passage and although it's one about correction and thought about correcting sit in someone else.

We have to have the Heart of Jesus.

First of all, too correct others, that doesn't mean we're better than them.

The Bible tells us in glaciers chapter 6 beginning and verse 1.

If a brother sins you who are spiritual restore, such a one In gentleness.

We're gonna restore somebody that is going to correct somebody because they're in sin, we do so out of a big heart of love.

That's what this is about.

Jesus came into the world to save.

We talked about this and bible class, he came to save but part of the process, the process of his salvation is that he was pointing out the sins of the people.

Remember he came to die for sin.

And so the whole point was to bring people to repentance

Jesus also said, that the world hated him because he point out their sin.

And a lot of people do that today, they don't like hearing about the sin in their life.

But if we love, Jesus, we understand that, we fall short, no matter what, because of Jesus, he has our back so to speak.

He's got us covered with his blood and so we can't be perfect, will never be perfect, but he desires us to try.

He desires us, not to sin.