Pressing Toward Our Eternal Inheritance: Stay the Course

I know I was standing here, and I looked over, and I see somebody down on her knees and just worshiping the Lord and just seeing that did something inside of me. It's the power of worship, I suppose. Lord, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for waking us up this morning. We thank you for another day that we get to live in the land of the living. We thank you that we were able to get up out of our beds and and and get ourselves ready. [00:32:59] (36 seconds)  #PowerOfWorship

Lord, as we as we as those in this room have done it every day so far, we can grow to become a little ungrateful and just expect to be able to wake up and to go. But, Lord, it's because of your grace and your mercy on our lives, and so we thank you for that. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for being good to us. We thank you for each other. We thank you for our loved ones. We thank you for our health. [00:33:35] (29 seconds)  #GratefulForGrace

And though our days are numbered and though death does await, you are good, and your grace and mercy and and goodness has been beautiful in our lives. And so we thank you for that. In Jesus' name, amen. Today, I wanna talk about staying the course. And staying the course, keeping our eyes on Jesus. And I know there's a lot of times we could say, keep your eyes on Christ. Keep your eyes on Jesus. [00:34:04] (33 seconds)  #StayTheCourse

And and amen is very true, but sometimes it could be said and become this type of cliche. And that that through the day to day life, it can be a little easier said than done like most things. And so today, we're talking about staying the course, pressing towards our eternal inheritance. I wanna start off by reading Psalm thirty seven one through seven. If you have your bibles, many of you do, you could turn there with me. Psalm thirty seven one through seven. [00:34:37] (34 seconds)  #PressTowardsInheritance

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. Do not fret. He says it again. He started with do not fret. He ends with do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. Do not fret. Do not worry. Be overly concerned or consumed or bothered by things that you can't control or change. [00:36:03] (22 seconds)  #RestAndWait

Some things are simply out of our hands. We will do what we can, but we can't do everything. So don't let what happens around you, what you see others doing or not doing impact you in a negative way where it bothers you and consumes you and get you into this place of what about him or what about her? A few words that I circled in my bible that you don't have to, but a a few key words that I thought was that really stood out to me in this passage was the words trust, [00:36:32] (32 seconds)  #ChooseTrustNotComparison

dwell, feed, delight, commit, rest, wait patiently, and, again, do not fret. He not it was interesting to me. He he tells us what not to do. Then it's like he doesn't leave us there. He gives us some some instructions, some principle, and this is how you do not do those things, by doing these things. You know, typically, God will not just call us not to do things, but he calls us to do things. [00:37:04] (33 seconds)  #CalledToObedience

Now I'm very well aware that there are things in this world that can be enticing and tempting for any and every human being. Even those of us who are followers of Christ, our flesh can still be lured away and drawn to ungodly things, especially when we see ungodly people seeming to be living their best lives. Few months ago, a couple guys at the the the my job, as they got into they were always talking about [00:37:38] (31 seconds)  #ResistWorldlyLures