Mt Harmony

#HopeInGod

“And the main reason we can have hope in God's faithfulness is because of the mercy he has shown us in the past. God has always, always, always been faithful, and this gives us perspective, clear perspective on what's to come. That our future hope comes not from what we see around us, comes not from just kind and gentle words, but comes because the god who's telling us that he is coming back for us has come back for his people every single time he said so. And that's why god's past mercy leads us to future hope.”

#GodHasAPlan

“My friend, you may be at your lowest point today, but the beauty in us not being the orchestrators of our story and the orchestrators of our lives is that God is the orchestrator of our lives. Meaning that even in the lowest points, it's just part of the story. And it's part of how God is going to get honor and glory from your life.”

#HealingInGodsTiming

“We've treated God like a microwave, that that we just... We turn in our request, we wait thirty seconds, and we're confused why we haven't been healed yet. And we'll manipulate ourselves by saying things like, I just don't have enough faith, so this hasn't happened. But, my friends, I have two key responses to that that you may need to hear today. Your healing may not come in this lifetime. It may come in glory. There's a day coming when you will be renewed in strength, soaring on wings like eagles, and that day may not come on this side of eternity, but that day is coming. That day is promised, and that is a good, good thing.”

#GodIsAlwaysWithYou

“God's omnipresence and the manifestation of his presence are two different things. See, one is a fact and the other is a feeling. It's a fact that God is omnipresent. He's everywhere, all the time. He's always there. Even when you're unaware of him and and not recognizing him anywhere around you, he's there. Even when you don't feel his presence, you can always trust the fact that God is with you. He never leaves you. He never forsakes you. He's always there. Good times, bad times. Times when you're stubborn. Times when you fall, He's there to pick you up. Times when you're discouraged, He's there to encourage you. Yes, God wants you to sense His presence, but He's more concerned that you trust Him than you feel Him. We live by faith, not by sight, nor by feelings.”

#GodsGrace

“As our sin has been revealed to us, may we not hide and groan away in shame, but may we run into the arms of God who willingly and lovingly and kindly and bountifully accepts us because all the wrath that we deserved was placed on another instead. God's wrath didn't go away. God's anger didn't go away. The punishment didn't go away. Those placed on another for us so that we may receive the righteousness of God.”

#SpiritualWilderness

“My friends, we have not likely... I don't know your life. True. We have not experienced a worldly exile. You and I likely don't know what that's like. But we are wildly experienced in the spiritual wilderness. if we will search for God with all of our heart, we will find him. And we have found him. He has revealed himself in the flesh as Jesus Christ. The God of all, the God of Israel, the Lord of armies, the same God you and I speak of and pray to today, he came and he bore our sin. He he bore our iniquity so that we may have everlasting life, that we may have everlasting fellowship with God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit.”

#ProclaimWithClarity

“See, Paul knew that God can open doors of opportunity even behind locked prison doors. And Paul desired to proclaim the mystery of Christ. Now, proclaim means to make clear, to to make plain. And Paul desired not only opportunity, he desired clarity. He desired clarity. Now I'll tell you, anyone who shares the gospel desires clarity. You you wanna be able to speak clear. You know that God's gonna work in spite of you, but you still hope that what you're communicating is clear.”

#JesusConqueredDeath

“Jesus is God. Jesus is fully man. Jesus is how God intends to save you. And by save you, I mean to spend eternity with him to fully forgive your sins. Jesus came. He took on flesh. He was tempted in every way just as we are yet he was without sin. And he was crucified. And while he was on the cross, he gave up his life for you and I. And on the third day, just when death, just when Satan thought they had conquered all, Jesus rose from the grave and conquered death and sin.”

#ChristIsLife

“And when Christ appears, we will also appear with him in glory. And what has been hidden will be revealed. The secret will be out. And Paul also takes the identification with Jesus Christ a step further. Not only is Jesus associated with life, Jesus is life. Now can I tell you, I think this is something that we inadvertently misstep on? That that we are so focused on Jesus being the giver of gifts and and blessing us with things that we forget that he himself is the gift, and he himself is the blessing in our lives. He our life. He didn't just give us life though he did. He is our life.”

#SubstitutionaryAtonement

“I mean, doesn't that cheapen the law when guilty people are set free without having to pay for their crimes? And and I think we miss this sometimes because we're we're so focused on not receiving the full wrath of God that we forget that the full wrath of God was placed on another in our place. That God's wrath did not just disappear, but by his grace, he placed that wrath on Christ instead. So so God upheld his holiness, and he upheld his law. There still needed to be consequences. There still needed to be the wrath of God displayed. And he did. It just didn't come to us.”

#ChristIsAllWeNeed

“``As opposed to false teachers who may make some claim that wisdom and knowledge were hidden away in some mystical experience or some higher knowledge that maybe some of us can get to, but certainly not all of us can get to. Paul says that all wisdom and knowledge are in are hidden in Christ. He is all we need. And, friends, can I just the Lord the Lord is preaching to me this week? And as I wrote this next part, I couldn't help but break down. I couldn't wait to share it with you. Jesus is all we need, and he is inexhaustible.”

#RedeemedAndForgiven

“``To to redeem someone means to buy them back and set them free. And Jesus' death was the price paid to buy us back and set us free from sin. And because of Christ's death on our behalf, we are set free from both the penalty and the power of sin. And forgiveness parallels redemption in this way. Forgiveness means to send away or to cancel. And through the death of Jesus, God has canceled the debt of sin. It's been paid.”

#GraceNotDestruction

“Jonah's anger expressed not only a lack of understanding, but a lack of trust in what God was doing. Jonah's concern had been expressed on behalf of a relatively insignificant portion of God's creation, the plant. While God's deep concern was on behalf of his highest creation, humanity. See, Jonah had seemed to grow completely indifferent to the fate of God's creation outside of Israel. At every point in this chapter, Jonah's attitude stands in complete and direct contrast to God's relationship to Nineveh. God created them. He nurtured them. He extended his hand of mercy toward them. And God's question in verse 11 captures the very intention of the book of Jonah. Grace. Grace and mercy. Just as Jonah's provision was the shade of the plant he did not deserve, the Ninevites provision was the deliverance they did not deserve based on a repentance that they probably did not fully understand. God's desire for his creation is salvation, not destruction.”

#RepentanceAndMercy

“``Verse 10 does something important for us theologically, by the way. There is an explicit relationship between the Ninevites repentance and God's mercy. Listen to how beautiful this writing is. The Ninevites turned from evil, and that led to God turning away from their evil. They turned, so God turned. God relented. Or another way to understand relent is that he literally turned from what he was doing. So so listen to how important this is. The people of Nineveh fasted. They wore sackcloth. They called on God and they turned from evil, but only their turning from evil is what is mentioned here in verse 10 as relating to God's relenting.”

#GodOfPowerAndMercy

“``Friends, our god is a God of power. He's a God of justice, and he's a God of mercy. And in this story, we see all of this lined up. And by the way, this is all in response. This isn't necessarily for Jonah. Although God is certainly using it for Jonah. This is because God desires to show compassion to a group of people who, let's admit it, they don't deserve it.”

#AdoptedInChrist

“And and it's more than this. Right? Because we aren't just a corpse in the house of God, we are living and breathing sons and daughters of God the father who has adopted us into his family through the blood and work of Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, friends, we have life. We aren't just home living a shell of who we are. We are a new creation in Christ, and we are home.”

#JesusSendsSpirit

“Everything's over. I guess that's the end of the story. The story continues right now because Jesus rose from the grave and he came and revealed himself to many witnesses. And he said, you are going to do even greater works than I did, and I'm going to send you a helper, the holy spirit, who will show you and guide you, and you will go to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit.”

#MorningOath

“He says, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him. But if he doesn't, as the Lord lives, I will. He he essentially makes an oath here. As the Lord lives and the Lord lives, I will do it if he doesn't. There's also an eagerness that we see to settle this matter because he says, in the morning, not after winnowing season, not after I finished the work I need to do, in the morning, we will settle this.”

#DayOfSalvation

“It's only by Jesus Christ that we are saved. So I'm not even gonna say the other things. Right? Because you know I'm gonna say, if you wanna pray, if you wanna join the church, Let today be the day of salvation. Let today be the day where you go, Jesus, I have run from you long enough and I am ready to go in the fields. I'm ready to be in utter amazement.”

#SpeakTruthInLove

“It is far from kindness or loving for us to claim that any god other than Jesus Christ is okay to worship or follow. It may come across as kindness, but it is actually the most unkind thing we can do. Because we are willingly letting someone be led astray. It's it's quite literally like watching someone walking into a death trap all while knowing exactly how they can avoid it and having the opportunity to tell them how to avoid it.”

#PresenceOverPromise

“The the the fulfillment of the promise is not necessarily the son. It's the presence of the lord. And and we we need to be clear on this. Sometimes the answer is no, and praise god for that. So so even if the answer was for Hannah not to have a son, although we know it was, but but listen to this, it didn't happen yet. Hannah when she leaves the temple a different person did not know what was coming. Are are you are you catching what I'm saying? They hadn't conceived yet. Her and her husband hadn't even been intimate yet in this time.”