Preach the Kingdom: Don't Just Fix Circumstances

``don't just look for Jesus to fix your circumstances. See, Jesus isn't that and concerned about our comfort. Have you ever noticed that? He's way more concerned about our our character. And sometimes he uses some uncomfortable things to form our character. In fact, the scriptures tell us that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. So guess what? If you wanna get to hope, you have to go through suffering, endurance, and character. Okay? So maybe this circumstance you're going through right now is God's way of getting you to where you're supposed to be. Maybe it's an answer to a prayer that's just not exactly what you thought. [00:49:38] (37 seconds)

``There are times that god allows things. Okay? He allows difficult things in our lives and he doesn't fix every problem that we have Because we're not supposed to go to Jesus for our circumstances to be fixed. We are to go to Jesus and trust and love that he is the author of our circumstances, that he cares and he loves us, and if he allows something, so be it. If you see fit, so be it. That's one of the kind of mantras I've tried to institute when I'm going through things, when I'm struggling, when I wish things would be different. God, if you see fit that this is what I go through, so be it. [00:39:27] (40 seconds)

``He wasn't just here to show compassion on things. Those were not his main goals. Those were avenues to accomplish the goal that he came to do. Here, he tells us that he came to teach the good news of the kingdom of God, and the good news of the kingdom of God is that he came to give his life as a ransom for many that for the purchase of our sins because we have a great debt to god in our sins and he is the only one can pay it and he paid it through his life, death, and resurrection. In fact, in Luke nineteen ten, it says, for the son of man came to seek and save the lost. [00:40:40] (35 seconds)

``There are some good things that you may have to say no to because they cause you to drift off of what god has called you to do And Jesus was not about that. Jesus was not gonna do that. He refocused because all ultimately, the necessity of sharing the gospel was more important. See, Jesus was there to spread the good news through preaching. Not just supernatural miracles and and supernatural proclamations of unclean spirits. We talked about that last week. There were literally demons saying, you are the son of god, you are the Christ, essentially, and proclaiming what we were supposed to be proclaiming, and Jesus silenced them. [00:43:23] (37 seconds)