158 ~ COME ALIVE WITH JESUS - Part 1

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In you as we enter the season of Lent, we begin a new series

called come alive with Jesus. Many of us may feel like we are

sleepwalking through life or not.

Feeling Fully Alive through this series, we hope that you will

discover that in close proximity with the Savior.

You will fully come alive. We have Christine, guest room

opened the series by sharing on the treasure within, and how we

can come alive. When we live with a better

understanding of this. Let's hear what God has in store

for us. Hi Church.

Welcome to our church online. I'm so excited to bring God's

word to you today. As you know, we have begun lent.

We began this Feb 22nd this Wednesday were marked the

beginning of Lent and we had an amazing time teaching on the

previous series, which was catch the wind, and which is the theme

for the whole year. And this year is going to be

exciting because we know that if God gives us a theme like that

that he's got some exciting surprises in store for us.

And as we began lent, we begin a brand new series and I don't

know what length has meant to you in the past, but we are

looking at this Lent 2023. Meant as a time when we actually

get added time with Jesus, we will turn a new Bible plan,

which is come out. It's called face to face with

Jesus. You're welcome to do it with

friends or by yourself. It will require that you give

Jesus another extra five minutes and it just requires a bit of

time for you to meditate on God's word and to ask yourself

some questions. And even as we get into this new

series, we have titled, this new series, come alive, come alive

with Jesus. How many of you can attest to

this? That you just walk through life

sometimes. It was zombie because of the

kind of work pleasure because of the kind of family pressures and

struggles and health issues or or relational problems that you

just feel like you know, like you're The Walking Dead walking

around doing the things you have to do.

You really don't feel like you're filled with Vitality.

I know I have walked through life many times like that many

times last year. It felt like I was just doing

the things I had to do, like, you know, just ticking check

boxes, but not really living and experiencing life, life in

abundance, And as we do this series for the next six weeks or

so, this is our desire for each of us that we would really come

alive in the presence of Jesus. That is a desire.

A desire is that we will get into his word, we will hear his

voice. We will follow his leading and

we'll see, just how abundant Our Lives can be maybe press, don't

get answered, maybe wealth doesn't increase.

Maybe breakthroughs, all don't come, but just the fact that we

are in his presence, just the fact that we get to know.

A little bit more will definitely bring us to life.

So even as we get into today's world, that's what I want you to

enter the series with a sense of expectation.

And as I begin, let me just say a quick word of prayer.

Father, I pray that as we open up the word that you would speak

through me. And I pray that each one of us

wherever we are however, low we're feeling even if we've been

just feeling spiritually dead or emotionally, they don't mentally

dead father. We pray that we will come alive

with you. Jesus. - we love you and we

thank you in your holy name we pray.

Amen. Amen so let's get into the word

of God. Okay so we're going to be

looking at 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 4, verses 7 to 12 today.

So what it says is this, we have this treasure in Jars of Clay to

show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us,

you know, before you get into this, you have to understand

that second Corinthians chapter 3 and 4 are talking about the

2 Corinthians 3 · chapter mention

powerful Gospel of Jesus, the god.

Through where Jesus came to Earth, he walk like one of us

and then he was crucified. He died a horrific that.

But in that death, the blood that was shed was the blood of

the New Covenant, when he established a life, with us, for

us on us, in our state, he died for us.

And now each of us are saved because of that death, and it

didn't just stop there. The gospel doesn't stop with the

death of Jesus. It continued when Jesus was

resurrected on the third. Day.

He came back to life and the word of God is very clear.

It talks about how that resurrection power of Jesus

lives inside each one of us who accept him to be the Lord of our

lives. So it's a powerful gospel.

And therefore, Paul starts this portion of this chapter by

saying, but we have this treasure, this treasure in Jars

of Clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God

and not to us. I always joke that before one of

us on the teaching team, share a mess.

Which we have Force trained in it.

And so, this week began, great, Monday Tuesday had started

preparing and Tuesday night. I came down with the flu and

even now I'm still on medication, still feeling

exhausted and it was God was it was like God was reminding me,

you guys are Jars of Clay, you are frail, you are feeble.

But it is my power that is at work in you.

And what Paul was trying to say in this imagery he saying that

you each of us are so feeble. Well, we're so limited with so

finite, but the power of God that is within us, makes us

indomitable it, makes us Overcomers it, makes us

Victor's. It makes us the ones who last

till the very end. It's not because of us, it's not

because of our mental strength is not because of our ability is

not because we are warriors at heart, is because of the power

that is within us, we come alive, when we realize

progressively, the kind of power that we possess as followers of

Jesus, lot of A living powerless lives.

And today, I want us to remember that if I have Jesus in my life,

he's the greatest treasure and with him comes the resurrection

power. That was exerted at that tomb,

that left it, empty and therefore you.

And I now today live with that kind of power in our bodies, in

our Spirits, in our minds, we are not powerless.

I remember growing up a lot of times, my brother and I did

stupid stuff or behaved foolishly.

Foolishly my mum would use this phrase, she would say column on

Monday, you know, what does that mean?

It means do you, is your brain made of clay because your head

made of clay. And when I was just thinking

about it this past week at it brought, you know, actually made

me laugh because I realized it was the closest thing to the

truth. It was not an insult.

We are made of clay, our bodies are made of clay and yet and yet

God uses us limited beings human beings with off.

Will tease without flaws. He uses us to display his glory,

to a watching World continuing with 2 Corinthians, Chapter 4

2 Corinthians 4:8–9

verses 8 to 9. We just read verse 7, there

verse 8. To 9, we are hedged in pressed

on every side, troubled and oppressed in every way.

But not cramped or crushed, we suffer embarrassments and are

perplexed and are unable to find a way out but not driven to

despair. We are pursued persecuted and

hard. Even but not deserted to stand

alone. We are struck down to the ground

but never struck out and destroyed.

It's interesting because a lot of us find that we have a killer

instinct when it comes to work, maybe when it comes to a

relationship is very pushy. We can actually move and be

aggressive and and get someone back into our lives.

Maybe when it came to a certain Financial obstacles you have

pushed through, you have found a way for your family to make it

maybe when it came to your marriage.

You Somehow fought and made it through.

And that's isn't that the story of our lives that we somehow

pushing and prodding, and we want things to work, we're

holding things together. But what if all of that is

happening? What if we have that innate

capability? Not because of ourselves, but

because of the power within us, that's what policy and he

saying, there is a treasure in these Jars of Clay because of

which we are pressed, but not crushed persecuted.

But not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.

So if you are sitting and watching this sermon right now,

you are an overcomer, you have been may be pressed on, but you

are not destroyed. Maybe you were completely, you

felt like you were obliterated by the enemy but you're not

disappeared yet. You are still there.

If there is life in your body, there is purpose.

If you still made it out, maybe you just like, you know, those

boxes. When they just about to pass out

of, they put one hand up. One leg up.

They're not struck out there, brought back in, maybe you are

like Maybe you feel like you've just been whacked at, and every

direction spiritually, maybe your mental health has suffered

because the kind of trauma, you've endured but still, you

haven't given up. Have you thought that?

Maybe? It's because of the power within

you. Today is a time when we

recalibrate and we look at ourselves and look, in the

mirror. And, you know, we're living in a

time when people are telling you to look in the mirror and

endorse yourself, validate yourself, do these things.

But the beautiful thing is, those of us who are in Christ

are already validated by him instead.

Now we need to be looking past ourselves at the power within us

and that is the power of a risen savior.

This power is not because you and I have extremely great will

power. It's not because we are so

strong harder that we can beat anything that comes at as it is

because of the power of Christ within us 2 Corinthians 4

reading from 10 to 12. Now we always carry around in

our body, the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also

be Sealed in our body. For we who are alive are always

being given over to death for Jesus sake.

So that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.

So then death is at work in us but life is at work in you.

We can never really experienced life if we haven't died a bit.

Okay? What does that mean?

Every one of us who actually have accepted Jesus?

Who love Jesus, who are followers of Jesus, whatever you

call yourself. The minute you come step into

this new life in Christ, you find certain things have to die

or certain things die in his presence.

For example, I have many times have had to give funeral

services to my ego to my selfish ambition, to my people pleasing

to my selfishness to my pride many times subsequent on

subsequent days. Even it's not just been a one.

Once in Duncan of thing, when you come into the presence of

God, you know, the light of the world, he is light will start

shining on the Gary has a few life and eventually those dark

areas begin to die out. And here polishing the we carry

around in our bodies, the death of Jesus, which means we share

in his sufferings the stuff we are going through now on Earth

the stuff that our Brethren are going through around the globe,

hardship, War famine calamities. All of this, we are carrying in

our body, the suffering of Jesus, death of Jesus.

But the beautiful thing is so that the life of Jesus may also

be Sealed in our bodies. It's not for want.

It's not for nothing. All of our suffering.

Has a meaning all of our pain has a meaning.

Lot of people don't like being told that God causes suffering,

God doesn't cause suffering, he allows it because he knows that

in that suffering, he is revealed when we endure it.

When we walk through it, his glory is revealed through our

lives. We don't get to pinpoint and

tell God, you know, what I can do without the suffering that

your glory, be revealed in the good times.

Even in the worst times, his glory is revealed and it says

over here, that the life of Jesus It may also be revealed in

our body. For we who are alive are always

being given over to death for Jesus sake.

Always is like I said, regular dying to self.

You're married. You learn that.

You should write your ego on a daily basis.

You have to diet your selfishness, you have children,

you have to exercise self-control.

All those negative words that were spoken over.

You you need to die to it now. So you speak life over your

children constantly. And when the death is at work

in, as your, that's the dying of certain things that have to die

life being gets revealed in others, you bring life to

others. That's what he's talking about.

But the question today is this, we're talking about coming alive

in Jesus. And I believe that today, as we

look at 1 Corinthians chapter 4, we are coming to a place.

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We're going to come alive to Jesus.

When we look at the treasure within us, Lot of times, we have

been used to being called the treasure.

Maybe when you were a child, your parents call.

You water, treasure, how precious you are a treasure.

But the treasure within you is priceless because if you look at

the analogy of a clay pot, you know, get a clay pot is under,

don't is ordinary and it's liable to break.

It's liable to get chipped. It's liable to get marked.

Its liable to have scars on it because of water or Flame or or

just excessive sunlight, it changes color.

Doesn't look the same as when you bought it.

It's porous. It's fragile.

But the beautiful thing is that policy, there is a treasure

Within These Jars of Clay. And so, you and I today,

however, irrespective of how we look, how we Adorn ourselves the

lifestyles, we lead the other, you know, the backgrounds, we

come from, whatever it is, all of that, all of that is okay.

But what matters more is the treasure within us?

Are we aware of the treasure within us?

That's when we come alive and I want to eat three.

Things with you. From this passage, we're going

to continue, reading to Corinth, we're going to continue reading

this. Passage 2 Corinthians, chapter

2 Corinthians 4 · chapter mention

4. And as we read it, only three

things with you three ways, in which, we can actually come

alive to the treasure within us. Okay, so I'm going to be reading

from 2 Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 13 to 18.

2 Corinthians 4:13–18

And as I read it I want you to just in your mind.

Maybe, highlight, certain things.

I'm going to ask you to highlight.

Okay, 2 Corinthians 4:13 to 18 since we have Same Spirit of

2 Corinthians 4:13–18

Faith, according to what has been written, I believed in.

So, I spoke we also believe. And so, we also speak highlight

that your head we believe. And so, we also speak knowing

that, he who raised the Lord, Jesus will raise us also, with

Jesus and bring us with you into his presence for.

It is all for your sake. So that as Grace extends to more

and more people, it may increase Thanksgiving to the glory of God

so we do not lose heart. Light that we do not lose heart

though. Our outward self is wasting

away. Our inner self is being for us

an eternal weight of Glory beyond all comparison.

As we look not at the things which are seen.

But at the things that are unseen, for the things that are

seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are

Eternal highlight that the things that are unseen are

Eternal, okay? That's very vital thing that

we're going to be looking at three things, three things that

each of us. Need to apply in our lives on a

daily basis. In order that we actually come

alive to the treasure within us. The Treasure of a risen savior,

The Treasure of a resurrected Christ and his power alive in

us. Sometimes we believe a very

half-baked gospel. We focus too much on the fall of

Man and we forget that we are redeemed.

Maybe you focus so much on the Redemption that you forget that

we have the Holy Spirit who is renewing us on a daily basis.

That's an important part of the gospel, maybe.

You forgotten that we have that resurrection power alive in us

today, if it was not for the resurrection you and I would be

the most hopeless of people. Today, we don't have to fear

death because of the Resurrection.

You and I don't have to be afraid of an endless eternity.

Spent in damnation in suffering, we have the hope of Eternity

with Jesus because of the Resurrection.

He won over death. Conquered it once and for all

and therefore you and I can come alive to this power.

If first of all, we speak out and Faith so often when we, when

you have an argument with someone or with your child, or

the spouse or a friend, the stuff we say, reveals the

deepest things of our heart, sometimes, when you correcting a

child and you're telling your child, don't do that in the

child. Asks, why not?

And you see, because I'm afraid you'll break your head or you

say something like that and then you realize you're not speaking

from a place of faith. This chair you are communicating

your fear to the child. Your you're seeing my deepest

darkest fear, is that I would break, I would have broken my

head in the similar fashion so I don't want you to do that but

it's very important not just in parenting, but in life as to

what we declare with our mouths, someone 16 verses 10 to 11 in

the passion translation says this.

Even when it seems I'm surrounded by many liars and my

own fears and though I'm hurting in my suffering and Trauma, I

still stay faithful to God and speak words of faith.

Is that beautiful? It really depicts.

A lot of highlights. You might be struggling right

now in different areas or maybe right now.

It's very calm and cool. Setting, you're not really

having much to suffer with but maybe you carry, baggage and so,

you're tempted to speak from a place of Doubt, of disbelief of

just repeated disappointment of endless waiting, but he says

here, I still stay faithful to God.

The psalmist says he will. Still stay faithful and speak

words of Faith. How many of us can honestly say?

That's the route. We take, Don't ask you, what are

you speaking today? Are you speaking out of here is

very easy. When you are on a sick bed for

all your negativity to come to the surface, oh, I'm going to be

like this forever or every time I just recover I go back into

the slump. What's wrong with me?

Something's wrong with me. I'm not fit to exist deep dark.

Spirals begin when we start to speak out of here, but God is

saying, I want you to speak out of Faith.

Why not? Because this is positive

thinking, not because it's to change the Vibes in your room or

in your office space. No, it is because you believe in

a God, who is risen? He says, because I believe that

he will bring me to him with you.

He saying, you have that position and Christ.

Now, the power of the resurrected Christ is in you,

you have that position and standing, so speak out in faith

because of that, I don't speak out in faith because I need to

feel better. I speak out and Faith because I

know better. I know the god of the universe

is on my side. I know my Creator created me for

a purpose. I know that when he makes me.

Wait, he's waiting with me. I know that when he's taking me

through the valley of the shadow of death, he has not left me for

a minute. If you've been saying to

yourself, I never be healed. If you've been seeing a lever,

have a breakthrough, may be a been saying, I'm not experienced

the miraculous in my life. Maybe you're saying I'll always

be stuck here in this rut. I will not see a change in my

relationship status. I'm not going to see a change in

my child, what we speak shapes our reality.

And the truth is in a risen savior, a reality shifted.

We have hope every single day. We have an assurance that better

things are yet to come. Maybe it's not happening right

now but it's going to happen. And so when I start to speak out

in faith, I'm shifting my reality.

Yes, this is what it looks like, but God, I know you have said

that, you go before me. You Ooh, provided honey from The

Rock. Lord, that's who you are.

Do that for me, you are, you have said that.

You have, you will teach us to profit.

My business is running into the ground, teach me how to profit

because I know you will do it. You see how it shifts the

atmosphere from an atmosphere of fear to an atmosphere of Faith.

So this is not a Prosperity, Gospel pitch.

I'm not saying that you name it and claim it, not at all.

I am saying the power within you had is the new reality.

It's the reality that it is. The Saviour dwells in you, he

spirit is with you, he is empowering you, you know, no

longer need to be afraid. You can live in faith, and the

extension of living in faith is speaking out in faith, what I

declare will shape my reality. So the first way in which you

come alive with Jesus, to the treasure within you is when you

begin to speak out and faith, will you try it this week?

Simple things with your children, you can correct them

and discipline them. Without speaking out in fear,

you can speak to your spouse. Clearly speaking, your heart out

without speaking out in fear, but speaking out in faith

declare in faith, things over your situation believe, Eve that

this God who conquered death and the grave Will Conquer your

hardest situations for you. The second thing is strength in

your heart. He says so we don't lose heart

because outwardly we are wasting away inwardly.

We are being renewed this week. When I was unwell, this

particular flu started off with a backache and you know, the the

middle part of the back starts painting and then it just

radiates to the whole body and I was, I didn't know I was going

in for the flu, but I remember coming down on Tuesday night and

telling my husband I'm feeling every bit my age and feeling as

old as I really am. I've not felt that way in a way.

So I was telling him that I was laughing and saying, you know

what, I'm the definition of this jar of clay outwardly wasting

away inwardly, I hope I'm being renewed, and it felt like a joke

is that time, but the truth is, is very essential for us as

humans to strengthen our hearts. You look at a clay pot, like I

said, so liable to damage liable to injury.

And when you read the Old Testament, Testament.

When you re levity case another, the Commandments given to people

is if something in unclean falls into an earthen pot, you break

it, and throw it, it was that disposable.

If it fell into a bronze jar, they had to scour it with a, you

know, like a vessel cleaner. But if it fell into a clay pot,

use break it and throw it. Imagine you need to strengthen

your heart because our bodies are so fragile.

That happened to us affect us, even the strongest of you out

there certain things happen that can be sold.

Crushing divorce, that happens is soul-crushing, abuse, that

happens is soul-crushing. The things that people put you

through the things, that maybe you have made wrong choices and

put yourself through can be so destructive.

And unless we on a regular basis strengthen our heart, we won't

withstand it. We won't come through it alive.

And so I Us to come to this place of saying, Lord, I want

you to strengthen my heart because the heart that is not

strengthened is a heart. That's liable to be fragmented

and eventually destroyed enough. Broken heart doesn't make for a

full life, you know, if you live with a crushed Spirit, the Bible

says, Your life doesn't really matter.

Then, we want to come to a place where we bring this heart of our

stew. Jesus on a regular basis daily

basis, and see a lot strengthen my heart for today.

I know stuffs happening that could potentially break my

heart, but strengthen my heart. When David was in a hard place

with all his followers, they were talking about killing him

because, you know, bad stuff that happened to their whole

Army and to their families. And it said, David strengthened

himself in the Lord. Some 28 was 7 to 8.

Yaoi is my strength and my wraparound Shield, when I fully

trust in you, help is on the way.

I jumped for joy and burst forth with ecstatic, passionate

praise. I will sing songs of what you

mean to me. You will be the inner strength

of all your people. Yahweh, the mighty protector of

all and the saving strength for all your anointed ones.

How do we strengthen our heart? Is there a Procedure because all

of us want to do. How do I do this right from

this? It's quite easy to understand

what we must do in order to strengthen our heart on a daily

basis. We need to worship, we need to

surrender this very hard for those of us who have control

issues, because we'd much rather, hold back stuff.

Keep it safe, shelter, it. And then still think we're

worshipping God. We still think that, you know,

we can handle the stuff that comes at us, but it is in

complete surrender to God. That I'm actually Ending that my

heart is more strengthened because I'm telling him.

I trust you with this more than I trust myself with this.

So, here you, this is my family. This is my job, this, my

parents, these are my finances, or the lack of it.

And when you surrender in order to not be left in an empty

place, we worship from that place.

So that the simple act, you know, I'm since I teach Dance,

I'm going to tell you this, the simple Act of lifting, your

hands in worship is an act of Surrender because it's saying

I'm not holding anything back and releasing it to you.

So, you surrender any worship? Because when you passionately,

praise him for, who he is for what he has done, you are

unconsciously. Strengthening your heart.

You're telling God, all of this is yours.

All of this is yours. None of it is mine.

I'm giving it all to you. And when you lift up your voice

and praise, when you give your body in unbroken, praise to him

something shifts. I've been understanding.

What it means to bring a sacrifice of praise.

Even when you're unable to, you probably sick in bed, you're

unable to praise to still lift your hands.

Listen to worship music and believe that that's an Anthem.

For your soul is a sacrifice even when you're completely

broke, And you step into church and as it is to the congregation

worships for you to sing out with them is a sacrifice of

praise and it's then that God can strengthen your heart.

He cannot strengthen our heart. When we are holding on to

everything really tight, when we stubborn about not worshiping

him till things, become better, it's where I am at right now,

when I'm able to surrender and worship him, there he

strengthens. My heart says over there, he's

the protector. Our of all he is the Inner

Strength for his people. Unless I strengthen my heart, I

will not come alive with Jesus because let me tell you this

right from the from, you know, just as like a, you know, like a

basic Foundation. We're going to face hard things

in our life. If our hearts are not

strengthened, we will not make it.

We will fall apart at the seams. It's important that we

strengthen our heart on a daily basis.

I don't know what worship looks like to you.

I don't know what surrendering looks like to you for me.

The minute I start worrying about something and holding

something very tight. I know that that's the very

thing I need to surrender to him.

During this flu season, each of our kids were falling sick, I

was getting so stressed, will this tie get better?

Will this one be okay? Will they lose their voice

panicking and then I realized that I somehow thought I was

protecting them. When in reality they were in the

hands of a sovereign God and the minute I started surrendering

them to him. I found that I was at greater

peace. I found that I was at.

I was more calm than had been before, and so I want to ask you

will, you allow God to strengthen your heart every

single day, practice it for the next 40 days.

When you wake up, you see, Lord strengthen my heart for today.

I don't know what obstacles are going to come up.

I don't know what negativity is going to be thrown my way but I

want to live a life so strengthen my heart.

Help me worship you with complete surrender, sir.

I can really, really come alive. That's the second thing.

The third thing is that we would see the Eternal.

Now I know that there's this. I think someone came up with

this court, which says, some of them are so Heavenly minded that

they're of no earthly use. And I think that's, it's not a

completely correct statement. Because Jesus himself said,

where your treasure is there your heart is Lay up Treasures

for yourself in heaven, not on Earth where moth and rust steal

and destroy. So why are we so fixated on what

we see if you have watched these shows where they go and

declutter homes? You know, you see people who

hold up stuff and I think I was watching one, we're in the UK,

they go and declutter people's homes and these people are

called holders, unfortunately, and I don't like using a

descriptive like that. So, these are people who hoard

stuff, let's call them that they houses.

Is with filled with things like, multiple multiple stands

lampstands, multiple sofas, multiple Coke cans.

It was like, we only can drink from one at a time.

We can only sit on once off at a time, but here were people who

are accumulated so much over the years that they didn't have

space to stay at in the end of the day.

And that's when these people would step in intervene and

clean up the house and eat. Some of us are like that.

Some of us are like that, we're in.

We so caught up with the temporal, the stuff that we see

that we are forgetting that we were meant for eternity.

Now, what does that mean? When we say we are meant for

eternity doesn't mean I'm just going to prepare for my funeral

and you know be ready to die and see my makeup.

What does that look like right? It probably sounds.

So dark and dismal but that's not what it actually means.

So our lives are so transient, right?

If it was not for the treasure within us, our life on Earth

would be it. It's because of the treasurer of

the Risen Christ within us that we don't just have purpose here

on Earth. But we have purpose for eternity

because God is renewing. The earth and the heavens.

It says he's renewing it and we have a part to play in the

renewed heavens and the Earth as well as not just for now.

So I life on Earth is just a DOT a suspect but I live for

eternity He is forever and ever, and it's going to be a beautiful

lie. So that's why most Christians

are not very worried about death because here I have eternity.

So the important thing is I think when we were preparing

this whole series, we realize that.

So often we're preparing for eternity.

We forget how to live now, and the important thing is this,

Each of us need to fix our eyes on the Eternal, so that we live.

Well, now, eternity is coming for some of us sooner than we

expect for some may be much later.

But the truth is this, how you? And I Live Now will determine

our Eternity. For example, if you're living

carelessly, we living like as if you know, what my choice is,

don't matter. I can do anything Grace covers

it, all then that might not be the right way to live.

Maybe some of us have openly rejected.

The gospel move said, you know what, I don't want.

Jesus, I don't want any of this. Maybe.

We've turned away from everything that we knew was the

truth in pursuit of things that helped us in the current moment.

But God is calling us to a place, a thing, come back to me,

fix your eyes on the things that are not seen.

You are in a battle that you cannot even see, it's a battle

for your soul. Psalm, 27 verse 13, the psalmist

Psalms 27:13

says this yet. I believe, with all my heart

that I will see again, your goodness Yahweh in the land of

life, eternal. Psalm 27 verse 13.

Psalms 27:13

I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

He's not talking about life on Earth, he's talking about life,

eternal Everlasting that is our where our gaze goals.

So in my life is hard here, we know this is not, it is not the

end, we have life eternal, but how do I come alive to the

treasure within me? When I keep my eyes on the

Eternal? You may ask that doesn't even

make sense. The truth is everything.

You and I do here on Earth has Eternal implications.

The way I bring my children up has Eternal implications the way

I stored my marriage, Eternal implications, the way I do my

job, many of us. I think that our ministry is

more important than our vocation.

Then I then I jobs are, jobs, is a space.

God has placed you and me to excel at to bring the light of

his glory there. So if you're an engineer, if

you're a doctor, if you are a teacher, if you are an admin

head, if you're if you just person who's part of a team that

place that job you do is all important.

It has Eternal implications, it's not for nothing.

So don't treat it like as if you know what that second grade,

it's not important. My primary thing is to go Out

and, you know, preach to the loss, the Lost are right where

you're at. What are you doing with your

job? Are you stewarding it?

Well, are you treating people with the greatest of respect the

way? Jesus would everything we do on

this side of Eternity, has Eternal implications, what?

You're building today, your family, your community has

Eternal implications. It doesn't end.

Now, it doesn't end with you. It goes on and on, it has

repercussions positive or negative.

So how we live? D matters.

How we do things today matters for eternity?

So don't assume that eternity is far away so I can just do

whatever. And then the levantar I just,

you know, say you know what, Jesus, I Need, You know, we need

Jesus right now so that we the lead-up to Eternity is

fulfilling its abundant because we're living out our purpose to

the greatest ability. We are living with, such love

for people for God, and for people that It has everything

that we don't get so focused on what we're going through that.

We forget the Eternal is very important because a lot of

times, those of us who have walked through long-term

diseases, but walk through chronic conditions is very easy

for the focus to shift to the body, which is failing.

But the beautiful thing is that God wants us to shift our eyes.

He says, I know what you're going through, I know you're

suffering but what is the Eternal aspect of this?

How many can you draw into me into my kingdom in spite of what

you're walking through? Because I life has Eternal

ramifications, everything we say, and do now matters in the

light of Eternity. So, as we close for today, okay,

these are the three things I want to leave with you.

And it's I know it's a lot to chew on especially the Eternal

concept, okay? But even how we accumulate

wealth, even how we hold up wealth for ourselves and we

don't give to the ones who need it.

All of that matter is, when we have eternity in our site, I

would encourage you to read the gospels.

If you feel you have two cells, are too heavy to read, be the

gospels. Jesus talks about how to live

within, Eternity mindset. Jesus came two or three years,

he has Ministry 30 years, honor, three more years of ministry,

but his entire time his mind was on an eternity.

When he was sitting with that Samaritan woman at the, well,

when his disciples come back and the he says, you know what, I

had food that you have no idea what and his disciples are

thinking on an Earthly perspective.

Did someone come and give him a packed lunch?

But he's for him. The work of his father here on

Earth, was his spiritual nourishment.

Do we operate like that? Do we look at every opportunity

around us and think, you know what this has Eternal benefits.

I want to cash in on that. I want to reach out to this

person. Even if it's just one person

that seems insignificant to you will you do it will you do your

job in such a way that it glorifies the Father in Heaven

because that's ultimately what our Eternal perspective should

be. So when we want To come alive

with Jesus. Coming alive to the treasure

within us. The first thing is speak out and

faith. What?

We speak matters? It defines.

Our reality must speak out in faith.

The second is, you must strengthen your heart, and you

must see the Eternal as we close.

I just want to leave this with you.

Maybe it'll help clinch the deal for, you know, about coming

alive to the treasure within you.

I want to read two passages and as I close, I want you maybe to

just spend some time. After this, this service just

reading backward and asking God what He wants to speak

specifically to you, right? Jeremiah chapter 18 verses 2 to

Jeremiah 18:2–6

6, go down to The Potter's House and there I will give you my

message. So I went down to The Potter's

House and I saw him working at the wheel but the party was

shaping from the clay was marred in his hands.

So the Potter formed it in another pot shaping it as seemed

best to him. Then the word of the Lord came

to me. He said, can I not do with you

Israel as this Potter does declares the Lord like Clay in

the hands of the Potter. So are you in my hand?

Israel. I want you to put your name in

there, where it says, Israel if you can put your name in there,

so I would read it. Can I not do with you?

Christine as this Potter does like, clay in the hands of the

Potter? So I you in my hand.

Christine, if you can put your name in there, and would you ask

yourself that question as of God was asking you to you?

Because maybe you're feeling, like, you're just a lump of

clay. But when you're in the hands of

the master Potter, Shaping into something so beautiful.

He doesn't make mistakes, he knows what he's doing the clay,

cannot ask the porter. What are you doing?

Instead it stays pliable and yielded to him.

Remember, what I was talking about is surrendered worship.

That's what it looks like. Giving yourself into his hands.

He's shaping you reshaping you as he sees fit.

It's very important in order to come alive to the treasure

within us that we allow him to shape.

Our Earthen vessels. The second passage that I want

to read for, you is Matthew 13 verse 44.

Matthew 13:44

The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his Joy went

and sold all he had and bought that field.

Matthew 13:44, it's part of a whole bunch of things that Jesus

Matthew 13:44

is teaching on, but it's lovely because it says the Kingdom of

Heaven is like a treasure. This man who found it, who

discovered it, he did it again, sold everything he had and

bought the entire field. I want to ask you if Jesus is

the treasure in your life. Would you do anything and

everything? To hold on to him.

What are you willing to give up? In order to pursue this

relationship with Jesus, he is the treasure within us.

We are Treasures. Yes, but he's the greatest

treasure within us. Where is your treasure today?

Where is your heart pointed towards?

What is the angle that your heart is taken?

Maybe it's in having perfect health.

Maybe it's having in having this amazing marriage, maybe it's in

having well-behaved children. Maybe it's in in dating, you

know, someone that, you know, just fits your every

requirement. I don't know where your heart is

tilted and leaning towards. But what if I asked you that

your heart repositions itself to Race.

The greatest Treasure of your life because I can tell you

this, for many years of pursuing, Jesus of holding onto

him, like, you know, like nothing else.

He's the greatest Treasure of your life.

If you are in bed right now, he still your treasure.

If your body has been failing, you repeatedly, he's your

treasure. If the one that you married

walked out and left you hanging, he is your treasure.

If you're a young child who's feeling abandoned and neglected,

Jesus is your treasure and not just any Jesus, this is the

resurrected Jesus or Risen Savior.

He's so powerful, his power is at work in you and so you don't

have to live, like you're powerless, you don't have to

walk through life, like a zombie because you're not, you have the

resurrection power of Christ in you.

So will you speak out in faith? Will you strengthen your heart?

And will you keep looking at the Eternal?

Don't stop. Don't stop by looking at

something. Temporal and losing sight of

what has to be done. Look for the Eternal God.

What is my eternal purpose? Help me fulfill that here on

Earth. Can we pray together?

Father, I just thank you that with you Lord.

Nothing stays the same that your honor in the process of

reworking as a working on us of shaping us.

Into the best version of ourselves.

But grateful that Lord you take us ordinary Earthen pots.

That you deposit, your holy spirit's power in us, that the

power of the Risen Christ within us.

So that we are truly treasure. Filled my pray for anyone right

now, who has been just sleepwalking through life, who's

just been aimlessly. Wandering through their lives

without purpose without Direction, without a perspective

of why they were created. I pray that today that would

change. I pray that their lens a change.

I pray that they will wear the lens of Eternity.

I pray that Lord if they tongue has been tied down in fear.

And depression and discouragement.

It'll be released to speak out in faith.

I pray, a lot of their hearts have been weak and has melted,

because of the kind of things. They've endured I prayed today.

You would strengthen their hearts?

That you would make it Ironclad, love, strengthened for the road

ahead, that it will be softened towards your touch towards your

direction, but will be toughened up Lord, so that it will not

melt, it will not break. I pray that you would help us

Lord, we are the clay. You Are The Potter.

We surrender ourselves to you. We thank you, Jesus, that you

are the greatest treasure in the world.

We thank you that we can just come to you.

As we are knowing that with you, we too are so valuable.

We too are so loved and we too can live with the same power

that was exerted. When you rose from the dead, we

thank you and we love you in Jesus name we pray.

Amen. Amen.

Live this week with power Live this week with an awareness of

the treasure within you. God bless you.

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