1 John 2:24-27 | Abiding in Christ

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2. We're going to look at just four

quick versus this morning. So I'm going to go ahead and

read those and then we'll we'll dive in to the text.

So, starting in verse 24. This is a continuation from last

week. This is what the word of the

Lord has to say. It says, as for you see that

what you have heard from the beginning remains in you?

If it does you will also remain in the son and in the father,

and this is what he promised us eternal life, I am writing these

things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray as

for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you

and you do not need. Anyone to teach you.

But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that

anointing is real, not counterfeit.

Just as it has taught you remain in Him.

Father we thank you so much for this time of worship that we

had. Thank you for this worship team.

Father, truly a blessing to this church and Lord we thank you for

your word and God, I pray that you help me to stay focused.

Father, collect my thoughts and any of these ideas.

Has are not from me, but from you.

So Lord, we praise you for today, you know, probably seems,

amen. So it being spring break, we

decided to take Elena and livie to this magical place called

epic Waters. Anybody who I'm talking about.

Epic water, is not in Fort Worth, but it is an indoor water

park in Grand Prairie and pretty much they opened at 8:30.

And you can spend all day there if you want to, and it is just

Madness. So, Me living in Atlanta and

rage. We decided to get there early

set up shop because if not, you won't get a table and then we

release the hounds. So we put the floaties on and as

they were going to the kitty area.

I think like a kid, like took a dump in the pool so it was like

whoa and then they're like stop everybody stop and then you see

somebody come with a net so you know it went down so it's like

Man. So as we're waiting for this

pool area to open up, living in a layer is so excited just like

running everywhere. They want to go swim and the

whole time, I'm there, I am Rach.

Kind of took Elena because the latest more laid-back, she's

wants to go on the slides. So I had living with me and Livy

was so pumped and she just kept going everywhere.

She just wanted to see what this place was and the whole time.

I'm chasing ladylike living way for Better Living.

A close to that. Uh, let me wait for dinner, stay

close the data, even like in the water.

You know, we're likes playing and swimming and then she'll

like go and Wade somewhere else only livie stay close to that.

I please like please stay close and the thing is, you know,

she's not a professional swimmer, so I don't know.

Even though she has floaties, you don't know, but then there's

so many people. You don't know about that, are

there? I mean it was packed like the

water got like smoggy, you know towards the end of the day or

last time to go, you know, look like old-school Forest.

Park Pool. So we're in high school, like,

it's like oily at the top, like, wait a second, what's going on.

But, but the whole time I'm there, and I'm like, Levi, stay

close to Dad at least a close. It Dad livie stay close to the

data. And and, you know, when John

talks about the anointing, well, we're going to see today is that

he's like, Ricky stay close to data.

Ricky, stay. Close to data abide in me.

Stay close to Dad, I don't run off.

Don't know what's out there. I'm trying to pull you in and

John is going to reiterate this over and over again is like if

you have the anointing then you understand what the word of God

is telling you. So therefore remain in me, abide

in me and last week we talked about what the anointing is.

I know that word was hijacked by Western Christianity.

I'm sorry where people say, well I got the anointing so I'm going

to tell you something that you don't know for yourself and it's

like know, if your Believer in Christ.

You have the Holy Spirit, you're able to know what his word says.

And if you don't know what his word says, that means that you

do not have the Holy Spirit. Therefore you're not a follower

of Christ is black and white y'all.

So we talked about that how the Holy Spirit kind of acts as a

guardian. So when truth tries to come in

your life it serves like that's not going to come in.

That's not truth like a little bouncer but also shout out Zach

you know something that it also protects us.

Is, is that people that claim to know Christ and they claim it

with their mouths? But their lives don't show it.

So in some ways like yeah, like I'm a Believer but yet they live

totally off the charts and you're like, wait a second, the

Holy Spirit helps you to guide that.

But also, it serves as what we like to call a BS alarm, you

know, the biblically sound alarm, right?

So as things are not biblically sound, your BS alarm goes off.

Like, wait a second, that's not God's word and it just gets

louder and louder. Louder, as people throw the BS

at you, and that's not biblically sound.

All right. So, So let's go ahead and, and

jump into the text. And this is kind of where we're

taking we're continuing here in verse 24.

This is what John is telling us. He's like as for you see that

what you have heard from the beginning remains in you?

If it does, you also remain in the son and in the father.

So, look at verse 24. Look at the first couple of

words. What does it say?

It says, as for you, Important. That's a direct correlation to a

Believer. So, it's pretty much saying you

like that's hard for you to remember.

Just think a soldier boy you, I mean, you know what I mean?

Like just you like, he's pointing at you, he's talking to

the children, he's talking to the Believers in Christ.

He's like as for you. So, this is way different than

what we just read the last couple weeks where he's

addressing the false teachers. And The false prophets.

He's like I was talking to them but I'm talking to you right

here to you claim to follow Christ.

See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in

you? What have you heard from the

beginning? He's talking about the gospel

message. He's talking about the message

of Salvation like like it is like God is a holy and

righteous. God, we have sinned, we deserve

his wrath, we deserve separation.

But Jesus, Even in our failure to I did the come and say I will

take God's Wrath for you. So that way you don't have to

work for it anymore. You just got to believe

surrender your life to me. And you will be forgiven, that's

the good news of the Gospel. That's incredible.

And that's the message that is from the beginning.

And what John is saying, is like that, message that you heard

that word remains actually means abides if you look at other

commentaries or other translations, but then abide

actually means remains, so it's kind of the same way.

Word here. But if that remains in, you AKA

like, it doesn't go in one ear and out the other like it stays

in your life, like there is an A Heart Change like God has given

you. The anointing is giving you the

Holy Spirit. You have accepted his word.

So that means that you are changed.

So if that remains in you, If it does, you also will remain in

the son and in the father Christian truth.

He's saying that Christian truth.

It's fixed. It doesn't shift.

It's not cultural. Like there's no conditions to

the gospel. Like yeah, Ricky.

But like I had a bad month, so I might not know if it remains in

you. It's going to stick but look

what it says if it does you also will remain.

In the Sun. So we got to look at how John

writes here because this is really interesting here.

John the right translation and says if it does it is not you

also well it's you must you must remain in the sun, you must

remain in the Sun and I love this because the word must what

we call in scripture. When you studied, this is an

active voice. Voice what John is writing here

is like this is an active statement AKA You must actively

remain in the Sun. How do I do that through his

word? So it doesn't mean like I'm I

come to know the gospel. I give my life to Christ and

then I don't have to do anything else.

Now, I'm not saying you work for your salvation, you don't lose

your salvation. But what John is saying is like,

you must remain in the sun. If you're going to remain in the

Sun, that means that you need his word.

And if you have his word, that means that you must put some

effort and work into having a relationship with Christ.

It makes sense, nobody gets into a relationship and be like we're

married. All right cool, see you later,

whenever you don't talk, you don't hang out, you know like

that makes no sense. So I made a commitment to rage

and then I don't talk to her, I don't hang out with her.

I don't we just do it. Own thing.

You don't give me trouble, man. I'm like so like yeah you can't

do that, it's not relationship. That's like high school dating,

right? So so John he's pushing forward,

an active voice. So Row, three quick things about

God's word that I just want to throw out there about remaining

in the son and in the father based on the anointing and

having God's word in your life, it's not going to be on the

screen by I wanted to mention these three quick things about

God's word. Number one, you meditate on it,

you know, a lot of us we kind of come on Sunday, we hear the

sermon. We go back and we don't read our

open our Bibles ever again until next Sunday.

And that's not how this works. So when you read something, you

hear something you you learn something you want to meditate

on it, you know, I picture like a cow eating grass just just

chewing on it. Then you regurgitates it, chews

on it, some more swallows, it regurgitates.

It keeps getting the nutrients out of that grass.

We should do the same thing with God's word.

So whenever you hear something, whenever you read something you

meditate on it, you know, if you work in an office man, just type

in Bible, Gateway and read some. You know, whenever you have time

look, On your phones. I mean there's so many options

for us. We're so spoiled, but yet, we

don't take advantage. You want to meditate on God's

word. Number two, you want to memorize

God's word worked to memorize it, try to learn it.

I mean, we learned song lyrics, we learn everything else.

We couldn't memorize God's word, just keep hearing it.

Put it on a cute card. Just start small, Jesus.

Web, there. You got a verse.

Congratulations, you know, John 10:35.

John 10:35

I mean, start small, just work to memorize God's word, meditate

on it, memorize it and in number three, mention it mention it you

know the more that you talk about something the more it

sticks with you. So when you go home you take

what you learn and you just start talking about it, you

mention it, you pass it on, you pass it forward and it always

comes back to you. And on Sundays we have like our

family devotional time. And we always ask Olivia and

Elena, what they learned and killed.

Children's church and of course you know laying on might tell us

live. You would be like I like shoes,

I don't know like but we talked about it and there's a reason

for it because we want it to stick.

So those are just three quick easy things that we can do as

Believers to help remain in the sun through his word meditate

memorize and mention it. So let's keep moving.

So we look at verse 25 and from verse 24, John gives us a

promise like the reason why you want to buy, the reason why we

remain in the son and in the Father, which sorry I have to go

back. One second here, in verse 24, in

the son and in the father, you can't have one without the

other. You can't get Jesus wrong in

God, right? If you get Jesus wrong, then you

can't get God. They're linked together.

We learned that in John, chapter 1, So, you got to get the sun

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correct? Then look at verse 25, and this

is what he promised us eternal life.

So we know that those who are found in Christ.

We get, thank you. We get eternal life.

We get life with him. But what John is pointing out to

his, like, you just don't get life.

When you pass away and go to heaven, you get heaven in this

life because God comes down in his spirit and he lives in us.

It's heaven and on Earth. So your life is lived with

Jesus. Day in and day out.

It's an amazing thing, but we do get eternal life as Believers.

But growth happens in his word and we talked about this a

couple weeks ago. So you grow spiritually, the

sanctification happens through the word of the Lord and your

relationship with God is only going to be as strong as your

relationship with his word. So if you want to grow in your

faith, if you want to grow in Christ, man, you got to be in

this thing. You got to dig in his word.

You got to read the Bible. This is how he speaks to us.

Now. A lot of people are like well

Rica. If I go somewhere if I yell loud

enough, if I just cry on the Lord, if that's emotionalism,

I'm talking about real spiritual growth that goes with you

through the years that indoors. And the music is great.

But what happens when they don't play your jam that Sunday,

You're not going to be able to feel it that makes no sense if

the power where the shutdown in this place and Eric just sings

acapella was that still means something.

But if we have God's word, this is what sustains us.

This is the meat, this is how you grow spiritually.

As a Believer, this is where sanctification happens and you

only go as further as your time in the word.

So, verse 25, John gives us a promise of eternal life, but

he's also throwing this out because even though eternity

set, you still need to grow in the faith.

And that is something that you need to do.

Actively look at verse 26 and I'm just kind of running through

this, but I just want to make sure we get through it all in

time. Verse 26 says, I am writing

these things to you about those who are trying to lead you

astray? Why is John mentioning all this?

It kind of sounds repetitive so that word Lead, You astray

actually means deceiving Means that there is somebody who's

trying to deceive you, he's trying to pull you away.

He's trying to trick you. And remember, John is writing to

the church because there are these gnostics who are spreading

this false gospel and because they're spreading this false

gospel. John is saying, hey, these guys

out here are trying to pull you away from the real truth of God,

they're throwing these ideas out there, they're doing everything

they can to yank you. Away to lead you astray, but

it's not only false teachers that lead us astray.

I mean, we know that there's an enemy.

So anything that pulls us away from God's calling on our life,

which is to know him, and make him known.

I know a lot of us kind of see like, mess.

He's trying to destroy. He don't need to destroy you.

All you have to do is plan a barbecue on a Sunday morning for

some of us. That will pull us away.

It's something as simple as making.

You stay up just a little bit later on a Saturday night with

friends. So that way you don't wake up.

It's to lead you astray and we've got to guard against that

you know. And I say one of my greatest

joys of Sadie post. I love seeing when Joseph walks

in with a monster in his hand. I tell them this all the times,

like when I see guys with red bulls in there and I'm like,

praise God. That means they could have

stayed sleeping. But regardless of how many hours

of sleep, somebody got, they decided to be here and that's a

choice that they made because I ain't going to call him.

I'm not your parent but they're here.

And I'm like yes man, that's awesome.

Praise God. Like man that is a discipline.

That is incredible. So what you do is that you are

fighting the deceiver with Red Bull, I mean there's so many

things that are trying to keep you in bed and Lead You astray

and you're like, no man. I'm and it's Not about church,

like don't hear me wrong. But there's some of us like, man

we need. This is the only time we get

God's word, but it's about the small things in life.

It's about the things that lead us away from, from our Brothers

and Sisters in Christ and things that lead us away from our faith

ideologies and philosophies that kind of like pull us away from

what God is calling us to. And we decide, you know what,

we're going to follow this. Instead of God's word, you just

got LED astray. And what to say in use, we

talked about this, a couple weeks ago, the lust of the eyes,

the lust of the Flesh and the pride of man.

It's too easy. So what he's saying he's like

listen you gotta remain in me, you got to remain in Christ and

if the gospel remains in you then you will remain in the son

and in the father he's given us eternal life but you still got

to grow, remember? There's like that active voice,

so that means you got to put in some work in this.

And the reason I'm telling you this, because there's going to

be so much out there, that's going to try to pull you away

from this, it's happening. It happens to me all the time

where I have to stop and have to pray.

There's been situations where I was like in a place, I just

left. I like, I don't know if I'm

going to do this because I'm worried about my own self about

being led astray. And then look at verse 27.

So we know that there's an enemy, he's trying to pull us

astray. We got to fight it.

We lead you off then verse 27 as for you.

There's that term. Again, remember that you write

as for you The anointing, you receive from him, remains in you

and you do not need anyone to teach you.

All right, so there's a lot going on here.

The anointing that you received that word received as in a past

tense. So what he's talking about is

what we see in First Peter were where when God presented the

gospel to you, Open the Eyes of your heart to his, the beauty of

the Gospel you received it, he gave you his spirit and that's

how you live out the Christian life.

Now you're able to understand things and he's like I'm praying

that it remains in you. And you do not need anyone to

teach you. Now, what is John saying here?

I don't need like pastors and I don't need gifted people to

teach me God's word. That's not what he's saying,

what he's saying, he's remember the context here, he's talking

about the gnostics, they were the guys going around saying I'm

enlightened. You should listen to us.

I even see that we're like there's other pastors.

Like, you know what? I have to tell you this because

you're not going to understand what this says, you're not

trained like me. You have to do what I say and

what he says, like if you're a follower of Christ, you have the

anointing of Christ. You could read this for

yourself. So you don't need these guys out

here, claiming stuff to teach you, you could teach it

yourself, you could read the Bible for yourself.

But as his anointing teaches you about all things and that

anointing is real. Not counterfeit.

Just says it has taught you remain in him, you see?

So he's talking about the he brings up the anointing twice

here. One is in past tense where it

says you receive and now he's like the anointing teaches you

which is present tense, he's talking to so you got it in the

past it's going to be with you in the present is going to teach

you now and it's Going to continue to teach you, the

anointing is also in the future as well.

To listen to Holy Spirit, doesn't leave you.

This is not like a Genie in a lamp.

This stays with you, it stays with you, it walks with you, it

helps you. But you got to be active in it,

you got to be into his word. And then I love how John throws

this a little jab in there. He's like no, this thing is

real, it's not counterfeit. Y'all ever seen like some

counterfeit Nikes? I have some of y'all like I got

a it look like You know, the counterfeit stuff it looks like

it, but when you check the label, it says, like Fruit of

the Loom, but it is like Gucci and it's like a little bit

crooked, right? I mean like, I mean, we go,

that's what we'd look for on mission trips, right?

It's like, got to get the good stuff.

See it counterfeit means. It looks like it, but the maker

is not the authentic creator of it.

And what John is saying is like, listen guys are going around

claiming that their anointed by the Holy Spirit saying things.

But because of what they are saying and and showing their

counterfeit, that means that whatever spirit is in them is

not from the maker. So if it's not from God, it's

got to be from somebody else. And I'll let you take a guess.

So that spirit is not from Christ.

And we talked about this, in the last passage, is that Spirit of

the Antichrist, the one who opposes Christ.

So the counterfeit Spirits, the ones that don't claim God's

word. Those are not from the Lord,

that's from Satan himself. That's the Antichrist, the the

poser. And then I love how this passage

ends, just as it has taught you remain in him.

I love that. Remain in him.

You see John ends this with a new imperative.

He starts it with an imperative saying, hey, this is you must

get the, you know, you must know.

God, you must know his word and he's ending it with a new

imperative, which is like a new command and that you command is

Pain in him, remain in Christ abide in Christ, Walk With

Jesus, talked with Jesus follow Jesus.

Don't let the riches and the deceitfulness of this Whirlpool

you away. You must remain in Christ.

I love that word abide in the Old Testament means that's where

you, like, pitch your tent and you're going to make that place

your dwelling. So when it says that Christ

abide in me, it's like God, make your dwelling in my life and

John used that same word is used in this passage.

He's like remain in him abide in him.

That means you plant your life with Jesus.

You pitch your tent. There you make your dwelling in

Christ. Everything about your life is in

Jesus, and that's what he's talking about.

Now with the last just couple 10 minutes that we have, I started

thinking about this statement, how John ends it, how do you

abide in Christ? How do you abide in Christ?

And what I would like to do is just kind of give just a couple

of suggestions based on the text or some truths from the text and

I started thinking about our culture, like our culture, Our

Generation, how we live our lives.

How do we Abide in Christ based on the passage that was giving

to us. And I know some of you are like,

Well, Ricky get this, you just read it, like, read your Bible.

Pray as too easy. Let's peel the onion back a

little bit like let's let's let's be able to implement this

in our lives. And before I dive into it, there

used to be a book that came out called Eat This.

Not That you guys remember, that was in Barnes and Nobles.

These huge books so it'd be like, you know, I want to eat a

Burger, King Whopper but instead eat like in and out because it's

healthier, you know, or you know, don't eat Pizza Hut but

eat, you know, Little Caesars because it's less calories, I

don't know, just make stuff up. Even in the Christian World,

they would have these CCM magazines that would do that.

Like if you like listening to Corn, listen to Jeff Moore in

the distance, you know? Like it would be these like

compare and contrast things. And that's kind of what I want

to do today. Day is instead of options.

We need obedience. So how do we invite in Christ

instead of our instead of living in options?

We need obedience. What are you talking about?

Re-listen, we live in a culture, where options are key.

We Love Options. Like the more schools that want

me the the more food options that I have, the more friend

options that I have some y'all like relationships, like the

more like options. I got instead of me committing

to one, I need options and we're living in this life where we

love our options. Why?

Because we tie options to Opportunities and then we tie

opportunities to success And that carries on to our spiritual

lives as well. So if I go through life,

thinking I need options. Like it could be true.

Like it's good to have options for education is good to have

options for like eating out. It's good to have options.

Like if you have like three or four jobs that want you to come

work for them, that's not a bad thing.

But what we see in verse 24 is that the only option is to

remain in Christ. There is no other option except

Jesus here. And a lot of us like we do that

though. We're like, man in a church that

gives me like all these things to do and it's like no like just

find one that preaches. The gospel and going serve be

faithful like our option is Jesus period. so in a world

where we equate options to Opportunities actually when

you're obedient the opportunities come to you, Like

what we say that don't chase clout you, chase Kingdom because

if you chase Kingdom clouds going to chase you.

So whenever I surrendered my life to the Lord is a god, like,

I, I want the gospel to remain in Me based on verse 24, and if

I remain in the sun, I am actively creating my options to

only be one option, which is Christ.

So that means all my priorities are off the table.

If Jesus is not a part of it, Even my work options.

Like I remember like looking for jobs after my previous job at

Blue zones. I'm like man, who's gonna want

to hire a faith-based manager like iron were talking to Rachel

about this? Like how am I gonna get my

resume out there? Like, what am I going to do

after this? But as long as I was able to

serve the Lord, as long as I was able to help plan a church, I'll

go work anywhere. and God provided You see?

So whenever we are obedient to him.

God is not just like man-made opportunities.

It's like, God made opportunities, which make no

sense. And all of a sudden you're gonna

see start seeing Kingdom happen. And all I'm doing is being

obedient to what God's called me too.

And you're gonna watch the Lord work.

And you know what? Success in God's kingdom faith?

That's all they know about numbers.

It's like, hey, you decided to take a step of Faith, you're

successful, but God, only like eight people showed up.

Congratulations, you do what I ask you to do your successful,

doesn't matter what it looks like success comes when you take

a step of faith, when you walk in faith, God deems, that

successful, and because it's successful opportunities are

going to follow your way because God's in it.

Because he could only do the supernatural.

So number one, obedience over options, we got it, we got to

fix our perspective on that when it comes to the things of God.

Number two, Jomo over fomo. Like what?

Something I'll texting - Jomo mean, right?

So we use that term a lot fomo fear of missing out.

We have fomo We all we want to be a part of everything.

We our culture has a fear of missing out on everything.

We want to be a part of that party.

Want to be part of the, we want to be a part of everything, but

the problem is that sometimes our fomo comes at the expense of

our obedience because we're so worried about missing out on the

culture. And we need to shift our

perspective because if I'm obedient to God, I don't get

fomo, I get Jomo, which is joy of missing out, man.

It like it's exciting because I said know, When couple of months

ago, I would have said yes. And then that would have been a

disaster and I would have like jacked up relationships and he

see, I was like, the fear of missing out.

I was like, oh, but I got to be there, but in your spirit, you

know, it's not a good idea. So instead of saying I'm scared

of missing out, I say no. And I'm like, thank you.

Jesus, that I have the power to say, no, because I am no longer

a slave to my sin. I'm able to walk free.

And then people are going to be like, well we got to come, you

got to come to this and then you're like, man.

It's all good man. You guys have a great time, but

I have so much joy in my life because of the obedience that I

have that. I don't have a fear of missing

out with the world stuff. I have a fear of missing out

with the spiritual. It's like, man.

Like man, I want to see what God is going to be a part of.

I want to see what he's going to do.

So listen, I'm going to what I'm going to say, like, don't get

offended. But this goes to my kids, too.

I'm going to train my kids to have Jomo and not fomo.

So, leave your later like, how dad I gotta go?

Because they're gonna do it. And I got else.

Like listen, we're busy that weekend.

It's okay. We're gonna have a better time

over here. I promise.

Because you want to build that joy in their lives.

So don't worry about phone, while you get Jomo in your life

you're going to see God move. Where does that come from in

verse 26? He's telling you.

He's like the reason I'm writing these things is because there's

some stuff out there that's going to try to lead you astray.

And if your fomo kicks in, you're going to get LED astray.

But if your jumbo kicks in, you're not going to get LED

astray because you're going to be, you're gonna have so much

joy abiding in Christ, right? Where you are at That there's no

worldly happiness, that could take your joy.

And then the last thing, and we'll end with this, Is we have

to? So go ahead.

Number 3. We have to start thinking

presents over productivity presence over productivity.

Memory key. Where does that come from?

Verse 27? What does verse 27 say?

Remain in him. What John is pushing here.

When you abide in Christ, you are in his presence.

It's more important to be in his presence than anything else.

You got going on in life. That is the number one priority

for you is wherever I go God better.

Be there in like like most says, in Exodus, if God's not there, I

don't want to go. Because his presence is key and

his presence comes through his word and his word is activated

because we have the anointing the Holy Spirit when you connect

anointing and God's word, you better watch out.

His presence is key. But we are a culture that loves

productivity because we think if we're productive, then we're

able to show our value. The more I do, the more society

looks at me, and says, hey this guy, we need to get him on

board, that ain't it though. Because when we focus on God's

presence and Kingdom opportunities coming in his

presence, what it's going to do is going to activate your

passion, it's going to activate our passions in life.

So when I go to work and I focus on his presence in my office,

I'm walking around a lot different than everybody else.

I have this passion in my life to do this job that God has

placed me in and it's gonna blow everybody away.

And it's not because I have an incredible skill set is because

God is blessing. My hands.

He's blessing me because I have his presence in my life and

there's nothing greater than the presence of God, but when you

focus on productivity, you're going to focus on your

accomplishments and your accomplishments are only going

to take you so far in life. Because there's only things that

God can do in the Supernatural that you can't do in the

natural. So when you focus on his

presence, it unlocks the Supernatural, and you become

greater because your passion in life and even your

accomplishments. So whenever like, you do this,

some Great accomplishments, either at work or school or

wherever you're at, it's going to be have a greater impact

because God's presence is tied to it and not just your own

abilities. Nice thinking about this like

man, you know, I want my kids. To know that I was faithful.

So if I were to pass away, if I were to like die tomorrow, I

want my kids to know me. Like, man, my dad.

He had Jomo. There was a Joy about him.

Man, he was like a faithful man of God.

That's what I want my kids to. They're not going to like man.

Dad got us a bunch of cool stuff.

That's for the uncles in that Willows.

No. Say let them do it but as a

father, I want my kids to know me as a faithful man of God.

Somebody that that had Joy. Somebody that prioritize, the

Lord Smite that led prayer. Dinner time somebody that

protected us and provided for us and he was a pretty like, like

he played with Us. That's what I want my kids to

know me by So I want to just kind of ask you, where's your

focus? Where's your focus and your

focus? Only shifts when you decide to

abide in Christ, plant your tent in his presence, say no to the

things that pull you away from it.

And focus on obedience. And when you start doing that,

you're going to start seeing some crazy stuff in your life.

You start seeing some shifting in our lives and in your life as

well. That's my prayer for you today.

So let's pray together. Father, we love you and we are

so grateful for what you are doing here.

Lord. So Lord I pray father for every

single person in this room. Lord, I pray that you help us to

to lean on your presence. Father, help us to see the world

through Kingdom lens. Not just through this worldly

lens. Father God help us to be

obedient to you Lord. Help us to say no to the things

that are going to pull us away and lead us astray and help us

to focus on your presence, father, because we know that

your presence is going to push our passions And our

productivity is going to look a lot different because you're

involved. So Jesus, we pray all these

things in your name. Amen, this worship together.