{"id":30,"date":"2011-07-06T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"burning-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Burning Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man with cold, lifeless hearts, are not apt to move the world for good or for bad.                        Luke 24:13,    Eph. 2:12<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Emmaeus road:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Their King was dead.<br \/>\n2. Their personal ambitions were shattered.<br \/>\n3. Their faith was shaken to its foundations.<br \/>\n4. In their desperate condition they saw only the dark side of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Jesus walked with them.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He came to them in disguise.<br \/>\n2. He was moved by their sad appearance.<br \/>\n3. He listened to their story of sorrow.<br \/>\n4. He pointed them to the scriptures for the truth.<br \/>\n5. He did not enter the home until invited.<br \/>\n6. He opened their eyes by giving thanks and breaking bread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Hearts of fire.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The fire in their hearts took the doubts from their minds.<br \/>\n2. Warm hearts sent them back to the place of defeat.<br \/>\n3. With burning hearts the early church did the impossible.<br \/>\na. They broke down walls of traditions.<br \/>\nb. Dead were brought to life.<br \/>\nc. Sick and lame were healed.<br \/>\nd. Mighty Rome was faced and conquered.<br \/>\ne. Jails were opened and jailers baptized.<br \/>\nf. Deserts were crossed and seas were sailed.<br \/>\ng. The impossible was made possible because of burning hearts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the church is on fire it goes marching on for Christ&#8217;s sake.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man with cold, lifeless hearts, are not apt to move the world for good or for bad. Luke 24:13, Eph. 2:12 I: The Emmaeus road: 1. Their King was dead. 2. Their personal ambitions were shattered. 3. Their faith was shaken to its foundations. 4. In their desperate condition they saw only the dark side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}