Closer Than You Think | Fully Known, Always Near | Part 1

Believers, we shouldn't we shouldn't be lazy, spiritually naive. K? Concerning conversations that are shaping our culture. K? We should not fear the supernatural just because we don't understand it. We shouldn't fear it. And as believers in Jesus Christ, we are the one group of people on earth who already possesses a biblical framework for the unseen realm, you and I, because we have the word of god. Because the bible has always always taught there are spiritual dimensions, angelic beings, there are demonic powers, unseen warfare, the realities beyond the physical world. [00:23:52] (51 seconds)  #KnowTheUnseen

When God breathed his life into Adam, he didn't make just the body function. He imparted his the life his life into humanity. The life of God. That doesn't mean everybody is saved and going to heaven. No. That's not what it means. But we are created in his image, in his likeness, and Satan knows that and hates it. Father, we just thank you for this morning. Lord, I thank you for your word going forth. You're here this morning, and you're not totally surrendered to the lord. You have not given your life. You have the authority to do that. God has given you the power to do that. [00:26:28] (37 seconds)  #CreatedInHisImage

And here's the thing I find is interesting. Instead of saying, you're far from him, you wicked, filthy, rotten scoundrels. Paul says, he's not far from you. He's not far from you. What? Ain't that a little bit different paradigm thinking? He's not far from you. In other words, instead of beginning his sermon with condemnation, Paul starts with their hunger for something greater and he points to a a sign or a statue that says, to the unknown god and then he launches into a sermon preaching. [00:05:11] (38 seconds)  #NotFarFromYou

Does that mean? Paul is in Athens when he's sharing this, one of the most intellectual and philosophical cities in the world at the time. Here's the thing. It wasn't a church crowd he was speaking to. K? It was a culture that was filled with philosophers, skeptics, idol worshipers, and thinkers who all they did all day in and out was they debated for sport. And that's where he was, where he said that, at Mars Hill. And so Paul stood in this city, full of people who had the wrong idea about god. [00:04:35] (36 seconds)  #MarsHillMessage

You know, Jesus will come in with maybe jeans and a you know, hey. You know? I'm Jesus. And and I'm not being consenting, but I'm gonna take you to this next room, and you're gonna be wowed. But I just wanna prepare you right now for the kingdom, god almighty. And I just think we'll be blown away. We're gonna need to be processed because it is mind blowing heaven. And we'll never ever ever exhaust that in that experience. Are you still with me? I gotta end. I so I got told I can't end on this. I gotta end on something my talking about the nearness of god. Amen? [00:19:29] (39 seconds)  #HeavenBeyondImagination

And I thought, you know, I just wanna share about this and let this be an encouraging word. How many wanna hear an encouraging word? Amen. About the Lord and his love for you and his nearness in your life for the believer and even actually the unbeliever. So, this is the first week in a mini series closer than you think, fully known and always near. And the text is actually Psalms one thirty nine one eighteen. And instead of just cruising over that, I'm just gonna take a moment and read these verses if that's okay. Because I believe it sets the stage, [00:01:34] (36 seconds)  #CloserThanYouThink

And so and so while the world now is enamored by this panicking, some are speculating, some are mocking, or some have just become obsessed with these UAPs and UFO, these alien encounters and interdimensional theories. The church of the lord Jesus Christ should respond with wisdom, discernment, not fear, biblical grounding. Satan operates in deception. The scripture says in Matthew 24 and also in Luke 17 that Jesus said that my return will come, will be like in the days of Noah. And I've always read that it is what? [00:24:42] (41 seconds)  #DiscernNotFear

It talks about the dimension we live, and there's another dimension that is out there. A a a fourth dimension, if you wanna call it, the spirit world where we can't see in it, but it is a real world where angels and demons exist in principalities. Are you still with me this morning? So in other words, yes, there are weird things out there. K? The moment you die and you enter into heaven, you're gonna know that. I was wondering that. I would think, like, because it's so vast. There was this theologian that wrote many, many bur books, and and he was just lying on his deathbed. [00:17:51] (34 seconds)  #SpiritWorldIsReal