1. …the men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.
1 Chronicles 12:32

2. Week 8 (Oct. 8): happiness and comfort
Weeks 1-4: Principles to help us live effectively (regardless of the “times” we live in)
Week 1 (Aug. 20): joy and trust
TODAY (Aug. 27): a heart of compassion
Week 3 (Sept. 3): grace and truth
Week 4 (Sept. 10): fruit of the Spirit
Weeks 5-8: four “understanding the times” issues
Week 5 (Sept. 17): tolerance, moral relativism, etc.
Week 6 (Sept. 24): a culture of incivility
Week 7 (Oct. 1): sexual morality
Week 8 (Oct. 8): happiness and comfort

3. When God looks at people, what does He see?

4. Yellow and purple squares

5. Pink dots

6. When God looks at people, what does He see?
Samuel anoints David as King of Israel
1 Samuel 16:1-13
6 Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Certainly the LORD’S anointed one is here before Him.”
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have rejected him. Man does not see what the LORD sees, for man sees what is visible, but the LORD sees the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:6-7

7. When God looks at people, what does He see?
Jesus chooses Matthew to be one of His twelve disciples
Matthew 9:9-13
9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” So he got up and followed Him.
10 While Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus and His disciples.
Matthew 9:9-13

8. When God looks at people, what does He see?
Jesus chooses Matthew to be one of His twelve disciples
Matthew 9:9-13
11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 But when He heard about this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do. 13 Go and learn what this means: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.” For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 9:9-13

9. When God looks at people, what does He see?
Jesus and the Samaritan woman
John 4:1-42

10. When God looks at people, what does He see?
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8 for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 “How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. “For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.”
27 Just then the disciples arrived, and they were amazed that Jesus was talking with woman. Yet no one said, “Why are you talking to her?”
John 4:7-9, 27

11. When God looks at people, what does He see?
Samuel looked at Jesse’s son, Eliab….
But God saw….
The Pharisees looked at Matthew….
But Jesus saw….
The disciples looked at the Samaritan woman….

12. When Jesus saw the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were weary and worn out, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:36

13. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5

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