A Cross-Eyed View of Power / Pastor Randy Goldenberg / FCF Church

It it's in those that care enough about me that they lean in to hear my whisper. My most powerful work occurs when human beings trust me to the point that they want so much to know my will, to know my ways, they will lean in, do whatever they can to hear even my smallest whisper because they want to live the way I live, they wanna love the way I love, they want to obey my word, they want to do my will and that is where the most powerful working of God occurs. [00:58:11] (35 seconds)  #LeanInForHisWhisper

And if a human being then has their heart conquered by God's revelation of his love in Christ, This trust builds in us and it is powerful and it's motivation that doesn't end, it only grows and it transforms us progressively. We start to learn the will of God. We start to obey the will of God. We start to learn the word of God. We start to put it into practice and gradually we start to change and God promises to finish that process. [01:10:44] (32 seconds)  #TrustTransformsUs

But when we come to actually trust in him, when he wins back our trust, we are now connected to him and the power of God is operative in us just like those hundreds of cars that are connected to the locomotive. They all are experiencing energy that they did not have before. They are moving in a direction they could not move before. They are doing things they could never do until they were connected to the source of power. [01:09:02] (27 seconds)  #ConnectedToTheLocomotive

And that's the way God's power works. He's the almighty creator and sustainer of the universe but his power is always used to bless those that he created in his own image. He is the greatest servant in the universe. That's why it is impossible, impossible to be a real follower of Christ and not be serving, intentionally looking to serve in some way, shape or form. [01:14:33] (24 seconds)  #PowerAsServingLove

Jesus is more concerned about getting heaven into us than getting us into heaven. If we'll allow him to get heaven into us, we'll of course be citizens of heaven, he promises that. He promises eternal life to those that are his followers but for this life it's more important that heaven, the life of heaven starts to get into us and that happens when I'm attracted to Jesus' goodness and his glory and his sacrificial love. [01:19:59] (28 seconds)  #HeavenInUsFirst

Notice it doesn't say he called us by offering us a free ticket to heaven. It doesn't say that that this promise is heaven at all. It says that when human beings look at Christ and they see his glory, which is his power governed by his sacrificial love, and his goodness. I mean, Jesus was just constantly going about doing good for those who deserved it and for those who don't deserve it, for those who cared and for those who didn't care. And it says that when we see this, it calls us. It it draws us. It literally kinda drags us if we can be dragged. [01:18:22] (36 seconds)  #DrawnByHisGlory

exterior powers shock and awe of miracles, they absolutely can jolt us, they can shock us, they can gain our attention but they're not the most most powerful demonstration of God's power because they don't last. And you have to keep adding more and more and more of these things to motivate people, to get people where they're moving in a direction that are that is going to be sustained for the rest of their life. [01:00:36] (28 seconds)  #ShockAweDoesntSustain

But here's the deal. It doesn't matter how strong that locomotive is unless those cars are connected to that locomotive. They sit still. They have no energy within themselves. They they they are motionless. They they are let's go further. They are helpless until they are connected to the locomotive. When human beings are in a state of distrust, disregard, disinterest with our creator Christ, we are powerless. We'll never be able to be who we were meant to be, do what we were meant to do. [01:08:28] (34 seconds)  #CarsMustBeConnected