Howard Higashi (A Heart For Man) ｆｒｏｍ http://lastadam.com/ 2008/09/05

"...Monday the 10th 92 the gospel from a Heart for Man. I believe as we fellowship more these seems to be one of the biggest point the Lord would want to break through from us.... The Gentiles can't help what they are.  God in His process is everything to us,  We are the channels to manifest Him and to bring such a Christ to mankind.  I think that this repentance in me this is something that comes up in all the time that when I meet a person I know that I do not have a heart to penetrate this being.  I remember one time a friend of us, I knew in college before I was saved....  She introduced my wife to me, a year or two later I was saved.  She was always a best friend, a good friend of mine.  Then when we were saved, she was cut off from me....  Ten years later, she look up the phone book and visited us. As she was speaking, I realized that I did not have enough of Christ to penetrate into her.  That left a desire, "Lord, what kind of a heart did You have?"  Well I've been praying to the Lord to give me a heart like His to touch people.  

I guess some of you do not realize what it is to be in the world and without God, no hope with a Satanic nature, a godless world, and evil spirit above controlling the world.  Fear, you don't trust anyone; wounded. 

But God cannot reach man directly, He has to come through other man. 

I got saved at 31. I touched a little bit of the other side, so I do have an appreciation of being saved and in the church but not enough.  That's why I said it's a difficult word for me to share.  When the Lord wanted to save Ninevite, He couldn't do it directly.  He had to come through a prophet.  And even the prophet would run away.  His desire to save man was so great, He would change the whole environment to bring repentance from Jonah and go to Ninevite....  Jonah got angry and what did the Lord told Jonah, "You care about the worm in this tree more than the salvation for man." 

How many things do I care for, myself, more than the salvation for another man?  This is what the Lord touched me.  We all don't deserve salvation, right?  How many here deserve salvation?  I think we all deserve mercy. 

...We saw that this compound Spirit, all that God is, is deposited into us, now He need a channel that He can express Himself and manifest Himself. 

In 2 Peter 1:1-11 "Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted faith equally precious as ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue,
Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust. 
And for this very reason also, adding all diligence, supply bountifully in your faith virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;
And in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, endurance; and in endurance, godliness;
And in godliness, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. 
For these things, existing in you and abounding, constitute you neither idle nor unfruitful unto the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
For he in whom these things are not present in blind, being shortsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his past sins.
Therefore, brothers, be the more diligent to make your calling and selection firm, for doing these things you shall by no means ever stumble.
For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly and bountifully supplied to you."

Here we see from verse 5 the development....  We're in an age where man has to be touched.  This is a heavy burden in me for myself and for all of you.  Why did we not use the word gospel here?  Because the word 'gospel' has been damaged so much.  To love man through the Lord is the sweetest experience in the universe.  Everything in the world numbs us to man - rivalry, competition, businesses, money－ this hardens people and people learn to act.  Inside this turmoil.  How to reach the real person is the gospel.  Everyone is acting.  I did.  How many acted before you were saved?  How many acted after you were saved?  When we say love, you just can't quite hang on to it.  The best definition of love I ever heard in a layman is "Supply without demand。"  The holy God, eternal God, is full of supply Himself.  His very Words was supply, the Words He spoke that sounded as demands was actually a supply.  When He told the woman "Sin no more."  It wasn't a demand.  She took the word and sin no more.  Ａｎｄ　Ｉ　ｔｈｏｕｇｈｔ　ｔｈａｔ　Ｇｏｄ　ｉｆ　Ｉ　ｗｏｕｌｄ　ｓａｙ　ｊｕｓｔ　ｌｏｏｋ　ｆｒｏｍ　ｈｅａｖｅｎ　ａｎｄ　ｗａｉｔｉｎｇ　ｆｏｒ　ｍｅ　ｔｏ　ｍａｋｅ　ｍｉｓｔａｋｅｓ，．．．　Ｉ　ｔｈｏｕｇｈｔ　ｗｅ＇ｒｅ　ｇｏｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｈｅｌｌ，　ａｎｄ　ｔｈｅ　ｐｅｏｐｌｅ　ｗｈｏ　ｐｒｅａｃｈｅｄ　ｔｈａｔ，　ｔｈｅｙ＇ｒｅ　ｉｎ　ｔｒｏｕｂｌｅ　ｊｕｓｔ　ａｓ　Ｉ　ａｍ．　Ｉｔ＇ｓ　ａ　ｒｅａｌ　ｃｏｎｆｕｓｉｎｇ　ｔｈｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｂｅ　ａ　Ｇｅｎｔｉｌｅ．　　Ｂｅｃａｕｓｅ　ｙｏｕ　ｗａｎｔｅｄ　ｔｏ　ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ｔｈｅｒｅ＇ｓ　ａ　Ｇｏｄ，　ｂｕｔ　ｙｏｕ　ｌｏｏｋ　ａｔ　Ｃｈｒｉｓｔｉａｎｉｔｙ　ａｎｄ　ｙｏｕ　ｄｏｎ＇ｔ　ｗａｎｔ　ｔｏ　ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ｔｈｅｒｅ＇ｓ　ａ　Ｇｏｄ．　　Ａｎｄ　ｙｏｕ　ｓａｙ，　＂Ｉｆ　ｔｈａｔ＇ｓ　Ｇｏｄ，　Ｉ＇ｄ　ｒａｔｈｅｒ　ｇｏ　ｉｎｔｏ　ｈｅｌｌ．＂　　Ｂｕｔ　ｄｅｅｐ　ｉｎｓｉｄｅ　Ｃｈｒｉｓｔ　ｉｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｄｅｓｉｒｅ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｎａｔｉｏｎｓ．　　Ｄｅｅｐ　ｉｎｓｉｄｅ　ｏｆ　ｍａｎ　ｈｅ　ｉｓ　ｌｏｏｋｉｎｇ　ｆｏｒ　Ｃｈｒｉｓｔ．　　Ｓａｔａｎ　ｓｅｔ　ｕｐ　ｒｅｌｉｇｉｏｎ　ｔｏ　ｂｌｕｒ　ｅｖｅｒｙｔｈｉｎｇ．　　Ｗｈｅｎ　ｙｏｕ　ｌｏｏｋ　ａｔ　ｔｈｅ　Ｌｏｒｄ　Ｈｅ　ｉｓ　ｍａｒｖｅｌｏｕｓ．　　Ｃａｍｅ　ｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　ｗｏｍａｎ　ａｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｗｅｌｌ，　ｗｈａｔ＇ｓ　ｈｅｒ　ｎａｍｅ？　　Ｈｏｗ　ｍａｎｙ　ｈｕｓｂａｎｄｓ　ｄｏｅｓ　ｓｈｅ　ｈａｖｅ？　　Ｓｈｅ　ｓａｙｓ，　Ｉ don't have a husband.  Is that true?  Yes, because the one that she's living with is not her husband.  Is she a good woman?  Would you ask a drink of water from that woman?  Do you need that woman?  He has to go all the way from Jerusalem because He needed her.  He's thirsty.  Find this thirst of the Lord inside of you for others.  。。。Somebody never told me the truth, according to the ... teaching, He should have thrown her directly into the lake of fire right there.  How gently He handled her.  How gently He handled me.  He came and waited.  God Himself, Holy, Righteous, the very God of glory becoming a man waits for this woman.

(Part 1 to 2 only...  To be continued)