1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,800 Hi, and welcome to the, we assign sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:12,800 We are local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,100 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:19,000 encourage Inspire. And in still, fresh faith. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,600 In you as we enter the season of Lent, we begin a new series 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,800 called come alive with Jesus. Many of us may feel like we are 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,700 sleepwalking through life or not. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,900 Feeling Fully Alive through this series, we hope that you will 9 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,800 discover that in close proximity with the Savior. 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,200 You will fully come alive. We have Christine, guest room 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,100 opened the series by sharing on the treasure within, and how we 12 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:47,100 can come alive. When we live with a better 13 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:50,800 understanding of this. Let's hear what God has in store 14 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,000 for us. Hi Church. 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Welcome to our church online. I'm so excited to bring God's 16 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,200 word to you today. As you know, we have begun lent. 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,900 We began this Feb 22nd this Wednesday were marked the 18 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:07,500 beginning of Lent and we had an amazing time teaching on the 19 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:10,200 previous series, which was catch the wind, and which is the theme 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,800 for the whole year. And this year is going to be 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,300 exciting because we know that if God gives us a theme like that 22 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:18,900 that he's got some exciting surprises in store for us. 23 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:24,900 And as we began lent, we begin a brand new series and I don't 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:27,400 know what length has meant to you in the past, but we are 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,700 looking at this Lent 2023. Meant as a time when we actually 26 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:35,400 get added time with Jesus, we will turn a new Bible plan, 27 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:37,700 which is come out. It's called face to face with 28 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:39,400 Jesus. You're welcome to do it with 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,500 friends or by yourself. It will require that you give 30 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,900 Jesus another extra five minutes and it just requires a bit of 31 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:49,100 time for you to meditate on God's word and to ask yourself 32 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:51,800 some questions. And even as we get into this new 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,500 series, we have titled, this new series, come alive, come alive 34 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:57,900 with Jesus. How many of you can attest to 35 00:01:57,900 --> 00:01:59,600 this? That you just walk through life 36 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,600 sometimes. It was zombie because of the 37 00:02:01,607 --> 00:02:04,600 kind of work pleasure because of the kind of family pressures and 38 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,199 struggles and health issues or or relational problems that you 39 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,200 just feel like you know, like you're The Walking Dead walking 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,100 around doing the things you have to do. 41 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:15,900 You really don't feel like you're filled with Vitality. 42 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,400 I know I have walked through life many times like that many 43 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,900 times last year. It felt like I was just doing 44 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,300 the things I had to do, like, you know, just ticking check 45 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:29,000 boxes, but not really living and experiencing life, life in 46 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,100 abundance, And as we do this series for the next six weeks or 47 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:37,800 so, this is our desire for each of us that we would really come 48 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,700 alive in the presence of Jesus. That is a desire. 49 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,000 A desire is that we will get into his word, we will hear his 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 voice. We will follow his leading and 51 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,500 we'll see, just how abundant Our Lives can be maybe press, don't 52 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:53,700 get answered, maybe wealth doesn't increase. 53 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:57,500 Maybe breakthroughs, all don't come, but just the fact that we 54 00:02:57,500 --> 00:02:59,800 are in his presence, just the fact that we get to know. 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,800 A little bit more will definitely bring us to life. 56 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,300 So even as we get into today's world, that's what I want you to 57 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,600 enter the series with a sense of expectation. 58 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,800 And as I begin, let me just say a quick word of prayer. 59 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,700 Father, I pray that as we open up the word that you would speak 60 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:19,900 through me. And I pray that each one of us 61 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:23,400 wherever we are however, low we're feeling even if we've been 62 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,500 just feeling spiritually dead or emotionally, they don't mentally 63 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:29,000 dead father. We pray that we will come alive 64 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,600 with you. Jesus. - we love you and we 65 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,700 thank you in your holy name we pray. 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,400 Amen. Amen so let's get into the word 67 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,800 of God. Okay so we're going to be 68 00:03:37,808 --> 00:03:42,400 looking at 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 4, verses 7 to 12 today. 69 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:47,600 So what it says is this, we have this treasure in Jars of Clay to 70 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,900 show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us, 71 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:53,900 you know, before you get into this, you have to understand 72 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:57,700 that second Corinthians chapter 3 and 4 are talking about the 73 00:03:57,700 --> 00:03:59,800 powerful Gospel of Jesus, the god. 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,700 Through where Jesus came to Earth, he walk like one of us 75 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:07,400 and then he was crucified. He died a horrific that. 76 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:11,100 But in that death, the blood that was shed was the blood of 77 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:15,700 the New Covenant, when he established a life, with us, for 78 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:18,200 us on us, in our state, he died for us. 79 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,800 And now each of us are saved because of that death, and it 80 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,300 didn't just stop there. The gospel doesn't stop with the 81 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:27,700 death of Jesus. It continued when Jesus was 82 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,100 resurrected on the third. Day. 83 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:33,500 He came back to life and the word of God is very clear. 84 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,500 It talks about how that resurrection power of Jesus 85 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,500 lives inside each one of us who accept him to be the Lord of our 86 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:42,700 lives. So it's a powerful gospel. 87 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:45,800 And therefore, Paul starts this portion of this chapter by 88 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,300 saying, but we have this treasure, this treasure in Jars 89 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:54,000 of Clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God 90 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,600 and not to us. I always joke that before one of 91 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,800 us on the teaching team, share a mess. 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,700 Which we have Force trained in it. 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,100 And so, this week began, great, Monday Tuesday had started 94 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:09,800 preparing and Tuesday night. I came down with the flu and 95 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,400 even now I'm still on medication, still feeling 96 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,000 exhausted and it was God was it was like God was reminding me, 97 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,500 you guys are Jars of Clay, you are frail, you are feeble. 98 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:23,100 But it is my power that is at work in you. 99 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,400 And what Paul was trying to say in this imagery he saying that 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,500 you each of us are so feeble. Well, we're so limited with so 101 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,100 finite, but the power of God that is within us, makes us 102 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:38,200 indomitable it, makes us Overcomers it, makes us 103 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,000 Victor's. It makes us the ones who last 104 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:44,900 till the very end. It's not because of us, it's not 105 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,900 because of our mental strength is not because of our ability is 106 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:50,900 not because we are warriors at heart, is because of the power 107 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:54,900 that is within us, we come alive, when we realize 108 00:05:54,900 --> 00:05:59,000 progressively, the kind of power that we possess as followers of 109 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,800 Jesus, lot of A living powerless lives. 110 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,800 And today, I want us to remember that if I have Jesus in my life, 111 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,800 he's the greatest treasure and with him comes the resurrection 112 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,700 power. That was exerted at that tomb, 113 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,200 that left it, empty and therefore you. 114 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,100 And I now today live with that kind of power in our bodies, in 115 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:23,200 our Spirits, in our minds, we are not powerless. 116 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,600 I remember growing up a lot of times, my brother and I did 117 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,800 stupid stuff or behaved foolishly. 118 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:33,600 Foolishly my mum would use this phrase, she would say column on 119 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,300 Monday, you know, what does that mean? 120 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:38,700 It means do you, is your brain made of clay because your head 121 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:41,500 made of clay. And when I was just thinking 122 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:45,400 about it this past week at it brought, you know, actually made 123 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,200 me laugh because I realized it was the closest thing to the 124 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:49,700 truth. It was not an insult. 125 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,400 We are made of clay, our bodies are made of clay and yet and yet 126 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:59,700 God uses us limited beings human beings with off. 127 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:04,500 Will tease without flaws. He uses us to display his glory, 128 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:09,500 to a watching World continuing with 2 Corinthians, Chapter 4 129 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,000 verses 8 to 9. We just read verse 7, there 130 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,200 verse 8. To 9, we are hedged in pressed 131 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,000 on every side, troubled and oppressed in every way. 132 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:22,200 But not cramped or crushed, we suffer embarrassments and are 133 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,900 perplexed and are unable to find a way out but not driven to 134 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:29,100 despair. We are pursued persecuted and 135 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,900 hard. Even but not deserted to stand 136 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:34,500 alone. We are struck down to the ground 137 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,500 but never struck out and destroyed. 138 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,500 It's interesting because a lot of us find that we have a killer 139 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:45,100 instinct when it comes to work, maybe when it comes to a 140 00:07:45,108 --> 00:07:48,700 relationship is very pushy. We can actually move and be 141 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:51,200 aggressive and and get someone back into our lives. 142 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,900 Maybe when it came to a certain Financial obstacles you have 143 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:58,100 pushed through, you have found a way for your family to make it 144 00:07:58,100 --> 00:07:59,500 maybe when it came to your marriage. 145 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,000 You Somehow fought and made it through. 146 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:05,700 And that's isn't that the story of our lives that we somehow 147 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:08,500 pushing and prodding, and we want things to work, we're 148 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,800 holding things together. But what if all of that is 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,600 happening? What if we have that innate 150 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,500 capability? Not because of ourselves, but 151 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,700 because of the power within us, that's what policy and he 152 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:23,200 saying, there is a treasure in these Jars of Clay because of 153 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,100 which we are pressed, but not crushed persecuted. 154 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:29,500 But not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. 155 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,400 So if you are sitting and watching this sermon right now, 156 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:37,200 you are an overcomer, you have been may be pressed on, but you 157 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,500 are not destroyed. Maybe you were completely, you 158 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:43,600 felt like you were obliterated by the enemy but you're not 159 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,300 disappeared yet. You are still there. 160 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,900 If there is life in your body, there is purpose. 161 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,900 If you still made it out, maybe you just like, you know, those 162 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:53,200 boxes. When they just about to pass out 163 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,000 of, they put one hand up. One leg up. 164 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:59,500 They're not struck out there, brought back in, maybe you are 165 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,800 like Maybe you feel like you've just been whacked at, and every 166 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,200 direction spiritually, maybe your mental health has suffered 167 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,200 because the kind of trauma, you've endured but still, you 168 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,600 haven't given up. Have you thought that? 169 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,000 Maybe? It's because of the power within 170 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,900 you. Today is a time when we 171 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:19,500 recalibrate and we look at ourselves and look, in the 172 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:20,600 mirror. And, you know, we're living in a 173 00:09:20,608 --> 00:09:23,100 time when people are telling you to look in the mirror and 174 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:25,500 endorse yourself, validate yourself, do these things. 175 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,700 But the beautiful thing is, those of us who are in Christ 176 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:31,300 are already validated by him instead. 177 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:34,900 Now we need to be looking past ourselves at the power within us 178 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:37,300 and that is the power of a risen savior. 179 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:40,800 This power is not because you and I have extremely great will 180 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,900 power. It's not because we are so 181 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:46,200 strong harder that we can beat anything that comes at as it is 182 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:51,700 because of the power of Christ within us 2 Corinthians 4 183 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:55,300 reading from 10 to 12. Now we always carry around in 184 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:59,500 our body, the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also 185 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:03,700 be Sealed in our body. For we who are alive are always 186 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:06,100 being given over to death for Jesus sake. 187 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,900 So that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 188 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:15,500 So then death is at work in us but life is at work in you. 189 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,800 We can never really experienced life if we haven't died a bit. 190 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:22,500 Okay? What does that mean? 191 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:25,700 Every one of us who actually have accepted Jesus? 192 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:28,100 Who love Jesus, who are followers of Jesus, whatever you 193 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:31,100 call yourself. The minute you come step into 194 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:34,300 this new life in Christ, you find certain things have to die 195 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,000 or certain things die in his presence. 196 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,300 For example, I have many times have had to give funeral 197 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:44,600 services to my ego to my selfish ambition, to my people pleasing 198 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:49,600 to my selfishness to my pride many times subsequent on 199 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,700 subsequent days. Even it's not just been a one. 200 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:56,200 Once in Duncan of thing, when you come into the presence of 201 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,900 God, you know, the light of the world, he is light will start 202 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:02,600 shining on the Gary has a few life and eventually those dark 203 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,500 areas begin to die out. And here polishing the we carry 204 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:10,200 around in our bodies, the death of Jesus, which means we share 205 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,800 in his sufferings the stuff we are going through now on Earth 206 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,100 the stuff that our Brethren are going through around the globe, 207 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:22,100 hardship, War famine calamities. All of this, we are carrying in 208 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:24,600 our body, the suffering of Jesus, death of Jesus. 209 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,300 But the beautiful thing is so that the life of Jesus may also 210 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:32,900 be Sealed in our bodies. It's not for want. 211 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,900 It's not for nothing. All of our suffering. 212 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:38,200 Has a meaning all of our pain has a meaning. 213 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,900 Lot of people don't like being told that God causes suffering, 214 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:49,000 God doesn't cause suffering, he allows it because he knows that 215 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,100 in that suffering, he is revealed when we endure it. 216 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,100 When we walk through it, his glory is revealed through our 217 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:57,700 lives. We don't get to pinpoint and 218 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,700 tell God, you know, what I can do without the suffering that 219 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:02,400 your glory, be revealed in the good times. 220 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:07,000 Even in the worst times, his glory is revealed and it says 221 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,300 over here, that the life of Jesus It may also be revealed in 222 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:15,000 our body. For we who are alive are always 223 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,600 being given over to death for Jesus sake. 224 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,600 Always is like I said, regular dying to self. 225 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,000 You're married. You learn that. 226 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,800 You should write your ego on a daily basis. 227 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,100 You have to diet your selfishness, you have children, 228 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,500 you have to exercise self-control. 229 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:32,800 All those negative words that were spoken over. 230 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,300 You you need to die to it now. So you speak life over your 231 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:41,000 children constantly. And when the death is at work 232 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,200 in, as your, that's the dying of certain things that have to die 233 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:48,000 life being gets revealed in others, you bring life to 234 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,800 others. That's what he's talking about. 235 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:55,600 But the question today is this, we're talking about coming alive 236 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,600 in Jesus. And I believe that today, as we 237 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,200 look at 1 Corinthians chapter 4, we are coming to a place. 238 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,400 We're going to come alive to Jesus. 239 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:08,900 When we look at the treasure within us, Lot of times, we have 240 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:10,300 been used to being called the treasure. 241 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:11,900 Maybe when you were a child, your parents call. 242 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:14,800 You water, treasure, how precious you are a treasure. 243 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,300 But the treasure within you is priceless because if you look at 244 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:22,600 the analogy of a clay pot, you know, get a clay pot is under, 245 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,700 don't is ordinary and it's liable to break. 246 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,800 It's liable to get chipped. It's liable to get marked. 247 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,100 Its liable to have scars on it because of water or Flame or or 248 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:37,700 just excessive sunlight, it changes color. 249 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:39,900 Doesn't look the same as when you bought it. 250 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:44,700 It's porous. It's fragile. 251 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:49,000 But the beautiful thing is that policy, there is a treasure 252 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Within These Jars of Clay. And so, you and I today, 253 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,400 however, irrespective of how we look, how we Adorn ourselves the 254 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,800 lifestyles, we lead the other, you know, the backgrounds, we 255 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:07,400 come from, whatever it is, all of that, all of that is okay. 256 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,300 But what matters more is the treasure within us? 257 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,100 Are we aware of the treasure within us? 258 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:15,400 That's when we come alive and I want to eat three. 259 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:17,400 Things with you. From this passage, we're going 260 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,900 to continue, reading to Corinth, we're going to continue reading 261 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:21,600 this. Passage 2 Corinthians, chapter 262 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,400 4. And as we read it, only three 263 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,400 things with you three ways, in which, we can actually come 264 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,000 alive to the treasure within us. Okay, so I'm going to be reading 265 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,500 from 2 Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 13 to 18. 266 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:38,300 And as I read it I want you to just in your mind. 267 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:40,000 Maybe, highlight, certain things. 268 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,100 I'm going to ask you to highlight. 269 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:46,500 Okay, 2 Corinthians 4:13 to 18 since we have Same Spirit of 270 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:49,000 Faith, according to what has been written, I believed in. 271 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,600 So, I spoke we also believe. And so, we also speak highlight 272 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,100 that your head we believe. And so, we also speak knowing 273 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:00,500 that, he who raised the Lord, Jesus will raise us also, with 274 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,700 Jesus and bring us with you into his presence for. 275 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:07,400 It is all for your sake. So that as Grace extends to more 276 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,800 and more people, it may increase Thanksgiving to the glory of God 277 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:17,000 so we do not lose heart. Light that we do not lose heart 278 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,600 though. Our outward self is wasting 279 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,400 away. Our inner self is being for us 280 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,600 an eternal weight of Glory beyond all comparison. 281 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,500 As we look not at the things which are seen. 282 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:30,700 But at the things that are unseen, for the things that are 283 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:35,000 seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are 284 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,500 Eternal highlight that the things that are unseen are 285 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:41,400 Eternal, okay? That's very vital thing that 286 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,900 we're going to be looking at three things, three things that 287 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,100 each of us. Need to apply in our lives on a 288 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:50,100 daily basis. In order that we actually come 289 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:53,300 alive to the treasure within us. The Treasure of a risen savior, 290 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:57,500 The Treasure of a resurrected Christ and his power alive in 291 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,000 us. Sometimes we believe a very 292 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,600 half-baked gospel. We focus too much on the fall of 293 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,500 Man and we forget that we are redeemed. 294 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,200 Maybe you focus so much on the Redemption that you forget that 295 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,400 we have the Holy Spirit who is renewing us on a daily basis. 296 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,300 That's an important part of the gospel, maybe. 297 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:18,800 You forgotten that we have that resurrection power alive in us 298 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,400 today, if it was not for the resurrection you and I would be 299 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,600 the most hopeless of people. Today, we don't have to fear 300 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,500 death because of the Resurrection. 301 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,300 You and I don't have to be afraid of an endless eternity. 302 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:37,800 Spent in damnation in suffering, we have the hope of Eternity 303 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,200 with Jesus because of the Resurrection. 304 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:45,000 He won over death. Conquered it once and for all 305 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,900 and therefore you and I can come alive to this power. 306 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,400 If first of all, we speak out and Faith so often when we, when 307 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,900 you have an argument with someone or with your child, or 308 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:59,200 the spouse or a friend, the stuff we say, reveals the 309 00:16:59,208 --> 00:17:03,000 deepest things of our heart, sometimes, when you correcting a 310 00:17:03,008 --> 00:17:05,000 child and you're telling your child, don't do that in the 311 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,200 child. Asks, why not? 312 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,200 And you see, because I'm afraid you'll break your head or you 313 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,200 say something like that and then you realize you're not speaking 314 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,800 from a place of faith. This chair you are communicating 315 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,800 your fear to the child. Your you're seeing my deepest 316 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,099 darkest fear, is that I would break, I would have broken my 317 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:23,200 head in the similar fashion so I don't want you to do that but 318 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,700 it's very important not just in parenting, but in life as to 319 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:33,800 what we declare with our mouths, someone 16 verses 10 to 11 in 320 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,400 the passion translation says this. 321 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,900 Even when it seems I'm surrounded by many liars and my 322 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:43,000 own fears and though I'm hurting in my suffering and Trauma, I 323 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,600 still stay faithful to God and speak words of faith. 324 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:51,400 Is that beautiful? It really depicts. 325 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,700 A lot of highlights. You might be struggling right 326 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:57,800 now in different areas or maybe right now. 327 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,100 It's very calm and cool. Setting, you're not really 328 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:06,000 having much to suffer with but maybe you carry, baggage and so, 329 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,600 you're tempted to speak from a place of Doubt, of disbelief of 330 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,300 just repeated disappointment of endless waiting, but he says 331 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:16,400 here, I still stay faithful to God. 332 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,000 The psalmist says he will. Still stay faithful and speak 333 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,500 words of Faith. How many of us can honestly say? 334 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:26,000 That's the route. We take, Don't ask you, what are 335 00:18:26,008 --> 00:18:29,400 you speaking today? Are you speaking out of here is 336 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,900 very easy. When you are on a sick bed for 337 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:35,600 all your negativity to come to the surface, oh, I'm going to be 338 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,400 like this forever or every time I just recover I go back into 339 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,800 the slump. What's wrong with me? 340 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,700 Something's wrong with me. I'm not fit to exist deep dark. 341 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:49,100 Spirals begin when we start to speak out of here, but God is 342 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:51,100 saying, I want you to speak out of Faith. 343 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,600 Why not? Because this is positive 344 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,600 thinking, not because it's to change the Vibes in your room or 345 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,000 in your office space. No, it is because you believe in 346 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,300 a God, who is risen? He says, because I believe that 347 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:07,100 he will bring me to him with you. 348 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:10,400 He saying, you have that position and Christ. 349 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,000 Now, the power of the resurrected Christ is in you, 350 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:17,000 you have that position and standing, so speak out in faith 351 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,400 because of that, I don't speak out in faith because I need to 352 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,300 feel better. I speak out and Faith because I 353 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,900 know better. I know the god of the universe 354 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:28,700 is on my side. I know my Creator created me for 355 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,200 a purpose. I know that when he makes me. 356 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,400 Wait, he's waiting with me. I know that when he's taking me 357 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,300 through the valley of the shadow of death, he has not left me for 358 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:41,800 a minute. If you've been saying to 359 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,300 yourself, I never be healed. If you've been seeing a lever, 360 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,700 have a breakthrough, may be a been saying, I'm not experienced 361 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:52,100 the miraculous in my life. Maybe you're saying I'll always 362 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:56,100 be stuck here in this rut. I will not see a change in my 363 00:19:56,100 --> 00:20:00,100 relationship status. I'm not going to see a change in 364 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,200 my child, what we speak shapes our reality. 365 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,100 And the truth is in a risen savior, a reality shifted. 366 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:14,500 We have hope every single day. We have an assurance that better 367 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:16,700 things are yet to come. Maybe it's not happening right 368 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,900 now but it's going to happen. And so when I start to speak out 369 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:21,900 in faith, I'm shifting my reality. 370 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:26,500 Yes, this is what it looks like, but God, I know you have said 371 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,000 that, you go before me. You Ooh, provided honey from The 372 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,800 Rock. Lord, that's who you are. 373 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,800 Do that for me, you are, you have said that. 374 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,800 You have, you will teach us to profit. 375 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,900 My business is running into the ground, teach me how to profit 376 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:43,200 because I know you will do it. You see how it shifts the 377 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,500 atmosphere from an atmosphere of fear to an atmosphere of Faith. 378 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,600 So this is not a Prosperity, Gospel pitch. 379 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,300 I'm not saying that you name it and claim it, not at all. 380 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,400 I am saying the power within you had is the new reality. 381 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,600 It's the reality that it is. The Saviour dwells in you, he 382 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,300 spirit is with you, he is empowering you, you know, no 383 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:07,100 longer need to be afraid. You can live in faith, and the 384 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:11,000 extension of living in faith is speaking out in faith, what I 385 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,600 declare will shape my reality. So the first way in which you 386 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,100 come alive with Jesus, to the treasure within you is when you 387 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,000 begin to speak out and faith, will you try it this week? 388 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:27,600 Simple things with your children, you can correct them 389 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,900 and discipline them. Without speaking out in fear, 390 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:37,300 you can speak to your spouse. Clearly speaking, your heart out 391 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:40,200 without speaking out in fear, but speaking out in faith 392 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,900 declare in faith, things over your situation believe, Eve that 393 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:49,700 this God who conquered death and the grave Will Conquer your 394 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:54,500 hardest situations for you. The second thing is strength in 395 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,000 your heart. He says so we don't lose heart 396 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,300 because outwardly we are wasting away inwardly. 397 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:02,400 We are being renewed this week. When I was unwell, this 398 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,600 particular flu started off with a backache and you know, the the 399 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,800 middle part of the back starts painting and then it just 400 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,900 radiates to the whole body and I was, I didn't know I was going 401 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:14,200 in for the flu, but I remember coming down on Tuesday night and 402 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:19,100 telling my husband I'm feeling every bit my age and feeling as 403 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:21,800 old as I really am. I've not felt that way in a way. 404 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,600 So I was telling him that I was laughing and saying, you know 405 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,700 what, I'm the definition of this jar of clay outwardly wasting 406 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:32,000 away inwardly, I hope I'm being renewed, and it felt like a joke 407 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,900 is that time, but the truth is, is very essential for us as 408 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:39,600 humans to strengthen our hearts. You look at a clay pot, like I 409 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,400 said, so liable to damage liable to injury. 410 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:45,700 And when you read the Old Testament, Testament. 411 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:49,800 When you re levity case another, the Commandments given to people 412 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,100 is if something in unclean falls into an earthen pot, you break 413 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:58,700 it, and throw it, it was that disposable. 414 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,100 If it fell into a bronze jar, they had to scour it with a, you 415 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:05,500 know, like a vessel cleaner. But if it fell into a clay pot, 416 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:10,300 use break it and throw it. Imagine you need to strengthen 417 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:14,200 your heart because our bodies are so fragile. 418 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,000 That happened to us affect us, even the strongest of you out 419 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 there certain things happen that can be sold. 420 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,200 Crushing divorce, that happens is soul-crushing, abuse, that 421 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,200 happens is soul-crushing. The things that people put you 422 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,700 through the things, that maybe you have made wrong choices and 423 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:35,700 put yourself through can be so destructive. 424 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:41,100 And unless we on a regular basis strengthen our heart, we won't 425 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:43,800 withstand it. We won't come through it alive. 426 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:48,000 And so I Us to come to this place of saying, Lord, I want 427 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,400 you to strengthen my heart because the heart that is not 428 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,500 strengthened is a heart. That's liable to be fragmented 429 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:59,700 and eventually destroyed enough. Broken heart doesn't make for a 430 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:02,800 full life, you know, if you live with a crushed Spirit, the Bible 431 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,100 says, Your life doesn't really matter. 432 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:09,300 Then, we want to come to a place where we bring this heart of our 433 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:11,500 stew. Jesus on a regular basis daily 434 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:14,000 basis, and see a lot strengthen my heart for today. 435 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:18,000 I know stuffs happening that could potentially break my 436 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 heart, but strengthen my heart. When David was in a hard place 437 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,500 with all his followers, they were talking about killing him 438 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:29,000 because, you know, bad stuff that happened to their whole 439 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,400 Army and to their families. And it said, David strengthened 440 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,700 himself in the Lord. Some 28 was 7 to 8. 441 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:43,100 Yaoi is my strength and my wraparound Shield, when I fully 442 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,500 trust in you, help is on the way. 443 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,800 I jumped for joy and burst forth with ecstatic, passionate 444 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,100 praise. I will sing songs of what you 445 00:24:52,108 --> 00:24:54,500 mean to me. You will be the inner strength 446 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:57,500 of all your people. Yahweh, the mighty protector of 447 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,700 all and the saving strength for all your anointed ones. 448 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,900 How do we strengthen our heart? Is there a Procedure because all 449 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:10,500 of us want to do. How do I do this right from 450 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:12,500 this? It's quite easy to understand 451 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,300 what we must do in order to strengthen our heart on a daily 452 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:17,800 basis. We need to worship, we need to 453 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,300 surrender this very hard for those of us who have control 454 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:25,300 issues, because we'd much rather, hold back stuff. 455 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:28,600 Keep it safe, shelter, it. And then still think we're 456 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,400 worshipping God. We still think that, you know, 457 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,900 we can handle the stuff that comes at us, but it is in 458 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:36,600 complete surrender to God. That I'm actually Ending that my 459 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,900 heart is more strengthened because I'm telling him. 460 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,200 I trust you with this more than I trust myself with this. 461 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,400 So, here you, this is my family. This is my job, this, my 462 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,200 parents, these are my finances, or the lack of it. 463 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,500 And when you surrender in order to not be left in an empty 464 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,500 place, we worship from that place. 465 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,800 So that the simple act, you know, I'm since I teach Dance, 466 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,300 I'm going to tell you this, the simple Act of lifting, your 467 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,100 hands in worship is an act of Surrender because it's saying 468 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:09,600 I'm not holding anything back and releasing it to you. 469 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:14,900 So, you surrender any worship? Because when you passionately, 470 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:20,200 praise him for, who he is for what he has done, you are 471 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,200 unconsciously. Strengthening your heart. 472 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:25,500 You're telling God, all of this is yours. 473 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:28,800 All of this is yours. None of it is mine. 474 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,800 I'm giving it all to you. And when you lift up your voice 475 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,000 and praise, when you give your body in unbroken, praise to him 476 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:39,300 something shifts. I've been understanding. 477 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:42,200 What it means to bring a sacrifice of praise. 478 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:46,600 Even when you're unable to, you probably sick in bed, you're 479 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,500 unable to praise to still lift your hands. 480 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,700 Listen to worship music and believe that that's an Anthem. 481 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:56,000 For your soul is a sacrifice even when you're completely 482 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,100 broke, And you step into church and as it is to the congregation 483 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,700 worships for you to sing out with them is a sacrifice of 484 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:08,400 praise and it's then that God can strengthen your heart. 485 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,700 He cannot strengthen our heart. When we are holding on to 486 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:14,900 everything really tight, when we stubborn about not worshiping 487 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:19,300 him till things, become better, it's where I am at right now, 488 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,600 when I'm able to surrender and worship him, there he 489 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,600 strengthens. My heart says over there, he's 490 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,900 the protector. Our of all he is the Inner 491 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:32,600 Strength for his people. Unless I strengthen my heart, I 492 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:38,400 will not come alive with Jesus because let me tell you this 493 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,600 right from the from, you know, just as like a, you know, like a 494 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:44,800 basic Foundation. We're going to face hard things 495 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,300 in our life. If our hearts are not 496 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,000 strengthened, we will not make it. 497 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:53,700 We will fall apart at the seams. It's important that we 498 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:56,000 strengthen our heart on a daily basis. 499 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,300 I don't know what worship looks like to you. 500 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,100 I don't know what surrendering looks like to you for me. 501 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,600 The minute I start worrying about something and holding 502 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,500 something very tight. I know that that's the very 503 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,800 thing I need to surrender to him. 504 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:13,100 During this flu season, each of our kids were falling sick, I 505 00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:16,300 was getting so stressed, will this tie get better? 506 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:19,700 Will this one be okay? Will they lose their voice 507 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,900 panicking and then I realized that I somehow thought I was 508 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:26,000 protecting them. When in reality they were in the 509 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,300 hands of a sovereign God and the minute I started surrendering 510 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:33,800 them to him. I found that I was at greater 511 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,100 peace. I found that I was at. 512 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,900 I was more calm than had been before, and so I want to ask you 513 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,300 will, you allow God to strengthen your heart every 514 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:47,300 single day, practice it for the next 40 days. 515 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,300 When you wake up, you see, Lord strengthen my heart for today. 516 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,400 I don't know what obstacles are going to come up. 517 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,700 I don't know what negativity is going to be thrown my way but I 518 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,000 want to live a life so strengthen my heart. 519 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:03,500 Help me worship you with complete surrender, sir. 520 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,600 I can really, really come alive. That's the second thing. 521 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,400 The third thing is that we would see the Eternal. 522 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,600 Now I know that there's this. I think someone came up with 523 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,100 this court, which says, some of them are so Heavenly minded that 524 00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:21,100 they're of no earthly use. And I think that's, it's not a 525 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:26,700 completely correct statement. Because Jesus himself said, 526 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,800 where your treasure is there your heart is Lay up Treasures 527 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,200 for yourself in heaven, not on Earth where moth and rust steal 528 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,700 and destroy. So why are we so fixated on what 529 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:42,500 we see if you have watched these shows where they go and 530 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,700 declutter homes? You know, you see people who 531 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,500 hold up stuff and I think I was watching one, we're in the UK, 532 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,500 they go and declutter people's homes and these people are 533 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:53,600 called holders, unfortunately, and I don't like using a 534 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,700 descriptive like that. So, these are people who hoard 535 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,900 stuff, let's call them that they houses. 536 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:05,700 Is with filled with things like, multiple multiple stands 537 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,500 lampstands, multiple sofas, multiple Coke cans. 538 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,400 It was like, we only can drink from one at a time. 539 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,800 We can only sit on once off at a time, but here were people who 540 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,000 are accumulated so much over the years that they didn't have 541 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,800 space to stay at in the end of the day. 542 00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:22,100 And that's when these people would step in intervene and 543 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,300 clean up the house and eat. Some of us are like that. 544 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:28,400 Some of us are like that, we're in. 545 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,200 We so caught up with the temporal, the stuff that we see 546 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,800 that we are forgetting that we were meant for eternity. 547 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,400 Now, what does that mean? When we say we are meant for 548 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,700 eternity doesn't mean I'm just going to prepare for my funeral 549 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:43,000 and you know be ready to die and see my makeup. 550 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,300 What does that look like right? It probably sounds. 551 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,300 So dark and dismal but that's not what it actually means. 552 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:56,200 So our lives are so transient, right? 553 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,400 If it was not for the treasure within us, our life on Earth 554 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,800 would be it. It's because of the treasurer of 555 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,000 the Risen Christ within us that we don't just have purpose here 556 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,200 on Earth. But we have purpose for eternity 557 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,300 because God is renewing. The earth and the heavens. 558 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:19,300 It says he's renewing it and we have a part to play in the 559 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:22,000 renewed heavens and the Earth as well as not just for now. 560 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,800 So I life on Earth is just a DOT a suspect but I live for 561 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,100 eternity He is forever and ever, and it's going to be a beautiful 562 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:31,900 lie. So that's why most Christians 563 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,200 are not very worried about death because here I have eternity. 564 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,300 So the important thing is I think when we were preparing 565 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:40,900 this whole series, we realize that. 566 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:43,300 So often we're preparing for eternity. 567 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:47,800 We forget how to live now, and the important thing is this, 568 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,200 Each of us need to fix our eyes on the Eternal, so that we live. 569 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,600 Well, now, eternity is coming for some of us sooner than we 570 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,200 expect for some may be much later. 571 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:04,100 But the truth is this, how you? And I Live Now will determine 572 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,500 our Eternity. For example, if you're living 573 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:09,900 carelessly, we living like as if you know, what my choice is, 574 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:11,800 don't matter. I can do anything Grace covers 575 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,900 it, all then that might not be the right way to live. 576 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:16,700 Maybe some of us have openly rejected. 577 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,800 The gospel move said, you know what, I don't want. 578 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,100 Jesus, I don't want any of this. Maybe. 579 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,900 We've turned away from everything that we knew was the 580 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:28,700 truth in pursuit of things that helped us in the current moment. 581 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,100 But God is calling us to a place, a thing, come back to me, 582 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,600 fix your eyes on the things that are not seen. 583 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,600 You are in a battle that you cannot even see, it's a battle 584 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,900 for your soul. Psalm, 27 verse 13, the psalmist 585 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,400 says this yet. I believe, with all my heart 586 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,400 that I will see again, your goodness Yahweh in the land of 587 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,200 life, eternal. Psalm 27 verse 13. 588 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,100 I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 589 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,300 He's not talking about life on Earth, he's talking about life, 590 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,700 eternal Everlasting that is our where our gaze goals. 591 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,300 So in my life is hard here, we know this is not, it is not the 592 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:12,400 end, we have life eternal, but how do I come alive to the 593 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,700 treasure within me? When I keep my eyes on the 594 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:16,300 Eternal? You may ask that doesn't even 595 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:18,300 make sense. The truth is everything. 596 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:21,500 You and I do here on Earth has Eternal implications. 597 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,900 The way I bring my children up has Eternal implications the way 598 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:30,000 I stored my marriage, Eternal implications, the way I do my 599 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,400 job, many of us. I think that our ministry is 600 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,900 more important than our vocation. 601 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:38,200 Then I then I jobs are, jobs, is a space. 602 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,200 God has placed you and me to excel at to bring the light of 603 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,100 his glory there. So if you're an engineer, if 604 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:46,900 you're a doctor, if you are a teacher, if you are an admin 605 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:50,300 head, if you're if you just person who's part of a team that 606 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:52,900 place that job you do is all important. 607 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,400 It has Eternal implications, it's not for nothing. 608 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,000 So don't treat it like as if you know what that second grade, 609 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,900 it's not important. My primary thing is to go Out 610 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,300 and, you know, preach to the loss, the Lost are right where 611 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:06,100 you're at. What are you doing with your 612 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:07,900 job? Are you stewarding it? 613 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:11,199 Well, are you treating people with the greatest of respect the 614 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,000 way? Jesus would everything we do on 615 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,400 this side of Eternity, has Eternal implications, what? 616 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,500 You're building today, your family, your community has 617 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:24,199 Eternal implications. It doesn't end. 618 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:27,699 Now, it doesn't end with you. It goes on and on, it has 619 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,100 repercussions positive or negative. 620 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:33,199 So how we live? D matters. 621 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,699 How we do things today matters for eternity? 622 00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:43,600 So don't assume that eternity is far away so I can just do 623 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,100 whatever. And then the levantar I just, 624 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:47,900 you know, say you know what, Jesus, I Need, You know, we need 625 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:51,800 Jesus right now so that we the lead-up to Eternity is 626 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,900 fulfilling its abundant because we're living out our purpose to 627 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,100 the greatest ability. We are living with, such love 628 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:02,500 for people for God, and for people that It has everything 629 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,300 that we don't get so focused on what we're going through that. 630 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,600 We forget the Eternal is very important because a lot of 631 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,100 times, those of us who have walked through long-term 632 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,500 diseases, but walk through chronic conditions is very easy 633 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,100 for the focus to shift to the body, which is failing. 634 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,600 But the beautiful thing is that God wants us to shift our eyes. 635 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,200 He says, I know what you're going through, I know you're 636 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,100 suffering but what is the Eternal aspect of this? 637 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,800 How many can you draw into me into my kingdom in spite of what 638 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,800 you're walking through? Because I life has Eternal 639 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:44,700 ramifications, everything we say, and do now matters in the 640 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:50,300 light of Eternity. So, as we close for today, okay, 641 00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:51,800 these are the three things I want to leave with you. 642 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,900 And it's I know it's a lot to chew on especially the Eternal 643 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:57,900 concept, okay? But even how we accumulate 644 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:01,600 wealth, even how we hold up wealth for ourselves and we 645 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,100 don't give to the ones who need it. 646 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,700 All of that matter is, when we have eternity in our site, I 647 00:36:08,707 --> 00:36:10,600 would encourage you to read the gospels. 648 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,300 If you feel you have two cells, are too heavy to read, be the 649 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,100 gospels. Jesus talks about how to live 650 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:19,000 within, Eternity mindset. Jesus came two or three years, 651 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,600 he has Ministry 30 years, honor, three more years of ministry, 652 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,900 but his entire time his mind was on an eternity. 653 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,400 When he was sitting with that Samaritan woman at the, well, 654 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,800 when his disciples come back and the he says, you know what, I 655 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,900 had food that you have no idea what and his disciples are 656 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:37,000 thinking on an Earthly perspective. 657 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Did someone come and give him a packed lunch? 658 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,200 But he's for him. The work of his father here on 659 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,400 Earth, was his spiritual nourishment. 660 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,500 Do we operate like that? Do we look at every opportunity 661 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:55,100 around us and think, you know what this has Eternal benefits. 662 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,400 I want to cash in on that. I want to reach out to this 663 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,500 person. Even if it's just one person 664 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:05,000 that seems insignificant to you will you do it will you do your 665 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,300 job in such a way that it glorifies the Father in Heaven 666 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,100 because that's ultimately what our Eternal perspective should 667 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:16,600 be. So when we want To come alive 668 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,600 with Jesus. Coming alive to the treasure 669 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,000 within us. The first thing is speak out and 670 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 faith. What? 671 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,800 We speak matters? It defines. 672 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,600 Our reality must speak out in faith. 673 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,800 The second is, you must strengthen your heart, and you 674 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,700 must see the Eternal as we close. 675 00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,000 I just want to leave this with you. 676 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,000 Maybe it'll help clinch the deal for, you know, about coming 677 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,500 alive to the treasure within you. 678 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:47,200 I want to read two passages and as I close, I want you maybe to 679 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,200 just spend some time. After this, this service just 680 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,600 reading backward and asking God what He wants to speak 681 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,700 specifically to you, right? Jeremiah chapter 18 verses 2 to 682 00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:01,300 6, go down to The Potter's House and there I will give you my 683 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,900 message. So I went down to The Potter's 684 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:06,900 House and I saw him working at the wheel but the party was 685 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,600 shaping from the clay was marred in his hands. 686 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,000 So the Potter formed it in another pot shaping it as seemed 687 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,600 best to him. Then the word of the Lord came 688 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,500 to me. He said, can I not do with you 689 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:22,800 Israel as this Potter does declares the Lord like Clay in 690 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,800 the hands of the Potter. So are you in my hand? 691 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,200 Israel. I want you to put your name in 692 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,600 there, where it says, Israel if you can put your name in there, 693 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,400 so I would read it. Can I not do with you? 694 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,100 Christine as this Potter does like, clay in the hands of the 695 00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,500 Potter? So I you in my hand. 696 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,600 Christine, if you can put your name in there, and would you ask 697 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,800 yourself that question as of God was asking you to you? 698 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,400 Because maybe you're feeling, like, you're just a lump of 699 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,400 clay. But when you're in the hands of 700 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,600 the master Potter, Shaping into something so beautiful. 701 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:59,500 He doesn't make mistakes, he knows what he's doing the clay, 702 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:01,400 cannot ask the porter. What are you doing? 703 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,800 Instead it stays pliable and yielded to him. 704 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,400 Remember, what I was talking about is surrendered worship. 705 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,100 That's what it looks like. Giving yourself into his hands. 706 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,200 He's shaping you reshaping you as he sees fit. 707 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,800 It's very important in order to come alive to the treasure 708 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,800 within us that we allow him to shape. 709 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,600 Our Earthen vessels. The second passage that I want 710 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,700 to read for, you is Matthew 13 verse 44. 711 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,500 The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. 712 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,900 When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his Joy went 713 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,300 and sold all he had and bought that field. 714 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:45,400 Matthew 13:44, it's part of a whole bunch of things that Jesus 715 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,700 is teaching on, but it's lovely because it says the Kingdom of 716 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:53,700 Heaven is like a treasure. This man who found it, who 717 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:58,100 discovered it, he did it again, sold everything he had and 718 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:03,300 bought the entire field. I want to ask you if Jesus is 719 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,700 the treasure in your life. Would you do anything and 720 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:09,100 everything? To hold on to him. 721 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,400 What are you willing to give up? In order to pursue this 722 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,000 relationship with Jesus, he is the treasure within us. 723 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,300 We are Treasures. Yes, but he's the greatest 724 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:23,700 treasure within us. Where is your treasure today? 725 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:25,300 Where is your heart pointed towards? 726 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,700 What is the angle that your heart is taken? 727 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,200 Maybe it's in having perfect health. 728 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Maybe it's having in having this amazing marriage, maybe it's in 729 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,700 having well-behaved children. Maybe it's in in dating, you 730 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:43,000 know, someone that, you know, just fits your every 731 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,100 requirement. I don't know where your heart is 732 00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:49,600 tilted and leaning towards. But what if I asked you that 733 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,400 your heart repositions itself to Race. 734 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,400 The greatest Treasure of your life because I can tell you 735 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,800 this, for many years of pursuing, Jesus of holding onto 736 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,500 him, like, you know, like nothing else. 737 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000 He's the greatest Treasure of your life. 738 00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:10,600 If you are in bed right now, he still your treasure. 739 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,100 If your body has been failing, you repeatedly, he's your 740 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:17,600 treasure. If the one that you married 741 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,500 walked out and left you hanging, he is your treasure. 742 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:26,400 If you're a young child who's feeling abandoned and neglected, 743 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:30,700 Jesus is your treasure and not just any Jesus, this is the 744 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,300 resurrected Jesus or Risen Savior. 745 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:37,200 He's so powerful, his power is at work in you and so you don't 746 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,700 have to live, like you're powerless, you don't have to 747 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:45,000 walk through life, like a zombie because you're not, you have the 748 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,200 resurrection power of Christ in you. 749 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,200 So will you speak out in faith? Will you strengthen your heart? 750 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:53,800 And will you keep looking at the Eternal? 751 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,900 Don't stop. Don't stop by looking at 752 00:41:56,900 --> 00:41:58,500 something. Temporal and losing sight of 753 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:01,400 what has to be done. Look for the Eternal God. 754 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,800 What is my eternal purpose? Help me fulfill that here on 755 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,100 Earth. Can we pray together? 756 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,300 Father, I just thank you that with you Lord. 757 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,400 Nothing stays the same that your honor in the process of 758 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,200 reworking as a working on us of shaping us. 759 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:23,800 Into the best version of ourselves. 760 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:29,100 But grateful that Lord you take us ordinary Earthen pots. 761 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,400 That you deposit, your holy spirit's power in us, that the 762 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,500 power of the Risen Christ within us. 763 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,600 So that we are truly treasure. Filled my pray for anyone right 764 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:45,400 now, who has been just sleepwalking through life, who's 765 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,600 just been aimlessly. Wandering through their lives 766 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,700 without purpose without Direction, without a perspective 767 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,500 of why they were created. I pray that today that would 768 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:00,300 change. I pray that their lens a change. 769 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:02,600 I pray that they will wear the lens of Eternity. 770 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,000 I pray that Lord if they tongue has been tied down in fear. 771 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,300 And depression and discouragement. 772 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:12,400 It'll be released to speak out in faith. 773 00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:16,300 I pray, a lot of their hearts have been weak and has melted, 774 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,200 because of the kind of things. They've endured I prayed today. 775 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:23,700 You would strengthen their hearts? 776 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,800 That you would make it Ironclad, love, strengthened for the road 777 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:34,000 ahead, that it will be softened towards your touch towards your 778 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,500 direction, but will be toughened up Lord, so that it will not 779 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:41,800 melt, it will not break. I pray that you would help us 780 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,500 Lord, we are the clay. You Are The Potter. 781 00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:50,200 We surrender ourselves to you. We thank you, Jesus, that you 782 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,700 are the greatest treasure in the world. 783 00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:57,100 We thank you that we can just come to you. 784 00:43:57,100 --> 00:44:02,600 As we are knowing that with you, we too are so valuable. 785 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,500 We too are so loved and we too can live with the same power 786 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:11,000 that was exerted. When you rose from the dead, we 787 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,600 thank you and we love you in Jesus name we pray. 788 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,300 Amen. Amen. 789 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,600 Live this week with power Live this week with an awareness of 790 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,600 the treasure within you. God bless you. 791 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:26,600 Thanks for listening to this message. 792 00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:30,200 We hope you were blessed to hear more messages like this. 793 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:34,500 Make sure to subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 794 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,900 episodes. If you like what you are, 795 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:40,100 hearing consider rating us subscribing. 796 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:43,600 And even sharing it with friends, that would really help 797 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,900 us for more content, from Ria's Ian. 798 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:52,700 And to Necked with us. Go to Via Zion.T i n remember 799 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,700 whoever finds Jesus finds life.