Mathew 6:19-24
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
This teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ on storing up treasures, your heart, and who we serve are light we need to take in.
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, IS EXALTED IN AMERICA. ANYONE IN ALL HONESTY CAN SEE THE PRIORITY IT TAKES IN OUR LIVES.
* We are a capitalist nation that is fueled by consumerism *
* A picture has been painted that success in America depends on what material wealth you can attain *
* The billionaire class is the show case of achievement as they buy and sell politicians and news organizations *
* Billions are spent on advertising letting us know what we need and who to vote for to boost profits for the fortune 500 *
* We have been indoctrinated to view money as a way to power, happiness, with social status *
* In our churches divine favor is linked to material wealth. There are those who will not lay hands on you for God’s blessing unless you first give $5000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000 *
* The divided loyalty of heart is deadly to your Spiritul walk with Jesus Christ *
“IN CHRIST” we have only one master and that is God.
* Paul taught that those in the church were not to trust in uncertain riches but in God who richly gives us all things to enjoy *
JESUS COMANDS US NOT TO STORE UP TREASURES ON EARTH BUT IN HEAVEN.
THE MAIN REASON IS THAT YOUR HEART WILL BE WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS.
YOUR EYES WILL BE FULL OF LIGHT IF YOUR HEART IS IN HEAVEN.
YOUR EYES WILL BE FULL OF DARKNESS IF YOUR HEART IS ON YOUR MONEY.
HOW GREAT IS THAT DARKNESS IF MONEY IS YOUR MASTER.
IT WILL CAUSE YOU DISPISE YOUR FATHER GOD.
* God will care for you and richly give you all things to enjoy *
Remember the words of Jesus…..
NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS.
200 years before Jesus Christ was born and by his life, death, and reserection redeemed those who believe. The prophet Isaiah speaks about Jesus as recorded in the bible.
Isaiah 42:1
“Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him,
AND HE WILL BRING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS.
*** Jesus was chosen to help all peoples over the face of the earth ***
*** To bring justice for us all…..NOT JUST SOME ***
* FAIRNESS * * EQUITY **PEACE *
VERSE 3
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.
*** We who have been bruised by life will be healed and renewed, restored ***
*** life has tried to put out your flame but
JESUS FANS YOUR FLAME TO A FULL
BLAZE ***
* You are the one he came for….bruised and you don’t shine as bright as you know you can *
GOD WANTS TO RESTORE YOU COMPLETELY….NOTHING MISSING NOTHING BROKEN.
He restores lives everyday to those who trust
in him all the way.
THIS IS YOUR TIME FOR THE RESTORING AND RENEWING AND FANNING THAT FLAME OF YOURS.
* YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT *
* PLEASE JUST TRUST IN HIS LOVE *
* THIS IS WHAT HE CAME FOR *
* THIS IS HIS HEART AND HIS PLAN *
* ISAIAH SAW HIM DOING THIS *
VERSE 6
I will keep you and make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the non-Jewish people.
VERSE 7
To open the eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
* THE COVENANT….IF YOU BELIEVE AND TRUST HIM WITH YOUR LIFE….
* HIS LIGHT SHINES IN YOU….FOR YOU AND THROUGH YOU *
* YOUR EYES ARE OPEN SO YOU CAN SEE CLEARLY *
* NO MORE STUMBLING AND FALLING AND GROPING YOUR WAY *
* BUSTING OUT OF THE PRISON OF LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY FEAR *
* HIS PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR IN YOUR LIFE *
* RELEASE IN YOUR LIFE FROM EVERYTHING HOLDING YOU BACK AND ALL DARKNESS LIMITING YOU IN ANY AREA OF YOUR LIFE *
JESUS IS SAYING IT IS TIME FOR FULL RESTORATION AND RENEWAL TO BRING YOU INTO THE LIFE GOD HAS ALWAYS INTENDED.
VERSE 9
See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare;
BEFORE THEY SPRING INTO BEING, I ANNOUNCE THEM TO YOU.”
* GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH AND NOW HE ANNOUNCES THAT
YOUR TIME HAS COME *
VERSE 16
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do;
I WILL NOT FORSAKE THEM.
* This time of great blessing and deliverance Jesus will lead the way. You do not know the way because you have been blind to it.
The path is unfamiliar but Jesus is the guide.
The darkness will turn to light for you.
The rough places are made smooth for your sake.
*THIS IS THE TIME FOR THINGS TO WORK OUT FOR YOU *
* DARKNESS IS MADE LIGHT FOR YOU *
* ROUGH PLACES MADE SMOOTH *
this all happens because Jesus is bring you out into a wide place of safty and personal fulfillment.
* TRUST HIM AS HE LEADS YOU *
* LET YOUR EYES BE OPENED TO HIS WORKING.*
JESUS CHRIST…..* THESE ARE THE THINGS I WILL DO…..
I WILL NOT FORSAKE THEM.
Why all to many “Christians” are condemned by sin and guilt? Their mouths are full of gossip and slander. Wars and feuds erupt around them and many are defiled and enticed by their own sin nature.
THE PROBLEM IS ALWAYS THE SAME……
Trying to please God in the fleshly nature by an outward show of obedience. Outward rules and ritualistic practices done, for the most part, to please people.
It is not that anyone would want their life to come out like that. I think an over emphasis on man’s rules and a lack of following the teaching and life of JESUS CHRIST leads people astray.
Going with the flow of the religious crowd is not right unless they are walking like JESUS WALKED.
Romans 8:1-4
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are “IN CHRIST” Jesus, because through Christ Jesus THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT WHO GIVES LIFE HAS SET YOU FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, GOD DID by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND WILL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH.
SET YOUR MIND ON WHAT THE SPIRIT SPIRIT OF GOD DESIRES.
SURRENDER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT EVERY MORNING IN YOUR PRAYER TIME.
“IN CHRIST” IS BEING LED BY HOLY SPIRIT.
YOU WILL SEE NEW AND GREAT VICTORIES
IN YOUR LIFE WHEN FOLLOWING HOLY SPIRIT.
YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
Ephesians 4:18-24
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality, so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him according with the truth that is in Jesus.
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
To be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
*** IF YOU SAY THAT YOU FOLLOW GOD
AND BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST ***
*** THEN YOU ARE NOT TO LIVE AS THE
REST OF AMERICA LIVES ***
*** THEY HAVE THEIR VALUES AND
PRIORITIES BASED ON FUTILITY ***
*** THEIR UNDERSTANDING IS DARKENED
AND THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM THE
LIFE OF GOD ***
*** IGNORANCE OF GOD’S GREAT
SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
HAS SEPARATED THEM FROM THE LIFE
OF GOD ***
*** THEY HAVE HARDENED THEIR HEARTS
AGAINST GOD ***
*** THEY HAVE LOST ALL SENSITIVITY TO
GOD ***
*** AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES
OVER TO SENSUALITY AND INDULGE IN
EVERY KIND OF IMPURITY ***
*** THEY ARE FULL OF GREED ***
*** THAT IS NOT THE WAY OF LIFE “IN
CHRIST” ***
*** WE WHO BELIEVE “IN CHRIST” ARE TO
LIVE THE TRUE LIFE FOUND ONLY IN
JESUS ***
*** WE DO NOT LIVE AS WE DID BEFORE
JESUS CAME IN OUR LIVES ***
*** YOUR OLD WAY OF LIFE IS CORRUPTED
BY DECEITFUL DESIRES ***
*** “IN CHRIST YOU ARE A NEW CREATION
WITH THE ATTITUDE TO PLEASE
GOD ***
*** WE ARE CREATED TO BE LIKE GOD IN
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
HOLINESS ***
*** I KNOW AMERICA IS CALLED A
CHRISTIAN NATION…BUT IT IS NOT *
*** FRIENDSHIP WITH THE AMERICAN WAY
OF LIFE APART FROM CHRIST MAKES
ENMITY BETEEN YOU AND GOD ***
*** AMERICA REALLY IS FULL OF GREED,
SENSUALITY, AND IMPURITY ***
*** THAT CAN NOT BE YOU ***
Romans 10:17
Consecuently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
HOW DOES FAITH COME?
*** HEARING THE WORDS OF JESUS ***
*** HEARING THE TEACHING OF THE
APOSTLES ABOUT JESUS CHRIST ***
*** MEMORIZING THE WORDS OF JESUS
CHRIST ***
*** MEMORIZING SCRIPTURES IN THE BIBLE
CONCERNING JESUS ***
*** SPEAKING FROM YOUR HEART TO
FATHER GOD SCRIPTURES IN PRAYER
BELIEVING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ***
*** UNDERSTANDING WHAT JESUS HAS
ACCOMPLISHED FOR YOU THROUGH
HIS LIFE, DEATH, AND RESERECTION
*** UNDERSTANDING THAT JESUS HAS
FULFILLED THE LAW OF MOSES……
HE IS THE FULFILLMENT ***
*** FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN
CHRIST JESUS HAS SET US FREE FROM
THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH ***
*** FOR ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM
ARE YES, AND IN HIM AMEN TO THE
GLORY OF GOD THROUGH US ***
*** KNOWING THAT THE “IN HIM” IS “IN
CHRIST” ***
*** FOR WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD
COME, AND HAS GIVEN US AN
UNDERSTANDING AND WE KNOW HIM
WHO IS TRUE, AND WE ARE IN HIM WHO
IS TRUE…..IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST,
THIS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL
LIFE ***
*** IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT AS HE IS IN
THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE
WITH ANOTHER AND THE BLOOD OF
JESUS HIS SON CLEANSES US OF ALL
SIN ***
*** ALWAYS START YOUR PRAYER TIME
WITH THE LORDS PRAYER ***
*** OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
HOLLOWED IS YOUR NAME
YOUR KINGDOM COME
YOUR WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS
AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO SIN
AGAINST US
LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPATION
AND DELIVER US FROM EVIL
FOR YOURS IS THE KINGDOM
AND THE POWER
AND THE GLORY
FOREVER ***
*** EVERYTHING YOU SPEAK TO GOD IN
PRAYER HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING
OF WHAT YOU SAY ***
*** YOUR FAITH WILL GROW AS YOU DO
THIS TEACHING ***
*** EVERYTHING YOU ASK GOD IN PRAYER
BELIEVE THAT YOU RECIEVE WHAT YOU
ASK ***
*** JESUS CHRIST….”IF YOU ABIDE IN ME
AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, YOU
WILL ASK WHAT YOU WILL AND IT
WILL BE DONE FOR YOU ***
*** PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS
BLESSED US WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL
BLESSING IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES
“IN CHRIST” ***
*** UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING
OPENS UP FOR YOU IN PRAYER TO
FATHER GOD “IN CHRIST” ***
