Peter Roselle: Burning Hearts for God (Luke 24:32)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 22/12/2020

Peter Roselle: Burning Hearts for God (Luke 24:32)
Luke 24:32 “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” Bill Johnson once said we should be called the Church of the Burning Hearts. When a church is full of people with burning hearts for the Lord, it will be a church that is attracting people with the light of God. Bill’s father was a fourth-generation Pastor and like to say, “Wash a person’s feet until you know why they walk the way they do.” We may get annoyed by things that happen at church sometimes, but when you've been saved from the darkness of sin you know how great it feels for people to accept you, love you for who you are, and welcome you into the Body of Christ. That is part of what it means to have a burning heart for God.

Be blessed.
Remember: you have been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2)
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Luke 24:32 says, “And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” Bill Johnson was at a conference with Heidi Baker where he was scheduled to speak. During praise and worship there was a lady next to him singing loudly and very off-key. He is a musician, and led worship himself for many years, so he is not a novice. He was getting annoyed and distracted by this woman and Heidi Baker came over with a big smile on her face, put her arm around Bill, looked at the woman and said, “Isn’t she amazing!” That is not what he was thinking. Heidi said, “35 years as a prostitute and then she got saved. When she comes to the service, she can't help it, she just has to worship.” Bill felt very convicted for being annoyed, but understood God was sending the message that we have to guard our hearts from judging others. That type of miraculous transformation is the thing we live for. 

This is what one historian said about the rise of Christianity after the first century. “One of the most striking things about the early Christians was exemplified in ancient Turkey during a plague. The rich and the well-to-do - and particularly the doctors - would gather up their family and possessions and leave town. They would flee to the hills to the fresher, less-polluted air or to friends and family in towns far away. But the Christians - often among the poorest and many of them slaves - would stay and nurse the people, including those who were neither Christians or family members or in any other way related to them. Sometimes the people that were sick got well again, not all the diseases were necessarily fatal. And sometimes the Christians would themselves catch the disease and die from it.”

Here is the part what I want you to remember. 
“But the point was made graphically and unmistakably. This was a different way to be human.” 

How about me? Am I living in a way that someone would look at me and say I don't know what it is about him, but he is different - not in a crazy way – but it seems like he is operating from of a different GPS - he is tuned into a different satellite. The decisions he makes are different than other people on the job. These early Christians were in a way that unbelievers looked at them and said, “That's is a different way to be human.”

Back to the quote:
“The Christians, when they were called upon to explain the habits of heart which made it second nature, would talk about Jesus and about the God that they had discovered through Jesus whose very own nature was self-giving love.” 

That is what Heidi Baker was saying to Bill Johnson that day, right? Look at her, 35 years prostitute, saved, sanctified, set apart, her innocence was restored. What the world would say is impossible is not impossible with God.

Let's stand up and we'll make a declaration to end the service. Romans 5:20 says, "Where sin abounded the grace of God did super abound." That's a good word, right? You might not like what's going on in the culture today, I sure don't! But I need to look in the mirror first and say, “Judgment begins in the house of the Lord” (1 Peter 4:17). What am I doing to change the culture? How am I living my life in a way that causes people to say, “That is a different way to be human.”

Matthew 16 
18 On this rock I will build My church, and the 
gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 
19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of 
heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, 
and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”