HERD Sept. 23rd
Josh Newton | Oct 7, 2009
HERD Sept. 23rd
This year in HERD, Bing will be teaching through the life of David, focusing on the high and low points of his life. Many of the stories of David are familiar to those who have grown up in the Church; these include stories of great triumphs along with stories of tragic failures. David was a man who knew how to rejoice and how to lament. David was a man after God’s own heart even though he was blemished. God chose to use David to lead his people in spite of David’s sin.
1 Samuel 15 and 16
Some things we have learned from this passage:
God looks at the heart
- God is not looking for the best speaker, the strongest person, the smartest “mathlete”, the fastest runner, the best looking.
- God looks at the heart. Do you seek after him? Do you want to know him? What are your motives, intentions, innermost feelings?
What do I look at?
- Appearances are not the most important thing in God’s eyes.
- Even Jesus had nothing in his appearance that would draw us to him (Isaiah 53.30).
- When you are looking for friends where do you look? Do you look for someone who is popular, pretty, funny… or do you look for someone who has a good heart?
- The most beautiful people are those who are beautiful on the inside.
Key Verses
1 Samuel 16.7
“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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