“Because Your Heart Was Tender” - PowerPoint Presentation

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“Because Your Heart Was Tender”

2 Kings 22:18-20Slide2

A Tender Heart will Forgive

“Let

all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And

be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave

you” (Eph. 4:31-32).

“Therefore

, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

bearing

with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must

do” (Col. 3:12-13).Slide3

A Tender Heart will Help

"If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the

Lord

your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,

but

you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he

needs” (Deut. 15:7-8).

Helping others shows the love of God (1 John 3:16-18).Slide4

A Tender Heart is Humble

“‘Because

your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you

,’

says the

Lord

” (2 Chron. 34:27).

“For

thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:

‘I

dwell in the high and holy place,

with

him who has a contrite and humble spirit,

to

revive the spirit of the humble,

and

to revive the heart of the contrite

ones’” (Isa. 57:15).

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,

a

broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.

(Psa. 51:17).

God gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5-7).Slide5

A Tender Heart will Listen

“Then

the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, just as the

Lord

had

said” (Exod. 8:19)

“Princes

persecute me without a cause, But my heart stands in awe of Your

word” (Psa. 119:161).

“Consider

and hear me, O

Lord

my God; Enlighten my eyes,

lest

I sleep the sleep of

death” (Psa. 13:3).

Christians must be swift to hear (James 1:19)..Slide6

A Tender Heart Obeys

God’s people obey Him voice (Exod. 19:5-6).

“And

give my son Solomon a loyal heart to keep Your commandments and Your testimonies and Your statutes, to do all these things, and to build the temple for which I have made

provision" (1 Chron. 29:19).

“Give

me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart

.” (Psa. 119:34).

Obedience must come from the heart (Rom. 6:17-18).Slide7

A Tender Heart Repents

“…Do

you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But

in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God

, 

who "will render to each one according to his

deeds“ (Rom. 2:4-6).

God is merciful to the repentant (Joel 2:12-13).Slide8

“Because Your Heart

Was

Tender”

Tender hearts are strong enough to bear the burdens of others.

Tender hearts have courage to do what needs to be done.

Do you have a tender heart?

How do you respond to the word of God?

Will you learn from your sins, weep over your rebellion, repent of your transgressions, and obey the Lord?