Joy of Reflecting Christ's Light

I don't shine light. This shines the light. I have this capability because of this little flashlight to have light, but it's not my light. It's the flashlight's light. As a Christian, it's not my light. It's Christ's light that shines through me because he's in me, and I I have to allow him to shine. [00:45:55] (18 seconds)  #ChristsLight

With Christ, this represents the holy spirit. God's working in us and through us. As we're being poured out, Christ is pouring into us, and he's gonna make sure we're not emptied out. And so, He continues to fill us so that we could continue to shine the light and pour ourselves out. You know, I don't know about you, but sometimes working for God and doing His work, it can be exhausting. You know, especially if we're trying to do our things too. Right? [00:54:18] (29 seconds)  #FilledToPour

It is so important, and guys, I'm a firm believer that one of the greatest things that Satan does, our adversary, he he doesn't have to get out there and fight against us. He gets in here and fights against us. Actually, he gets in here and gets us fighting against ourselves, don't doesn't he? If he can call dissension cause dissension and division within the church, then he can keep us focused on that and off the mission. And if we're if that's what we're doing and we're not going out there doing the mission, guess what? He's already winning. [00:33:06] (29 seconds)  #UnityOverDivision

We cannot be the Christian that we're supposed to be and not be in unity together. We cannot be a healthy growing Christian without the unity of the church, and that implies, and we can support that with other scripture that we're supposed to be a part of the body of Christ. That's right. You can't be united by yourself. Right? Yes. You can't be united by yourself. You gotta be with the church in order to be united. And so so we've gotta be not only not only a part a member, that's not the important part. The important part is be present and active. [00:47:11] (32 seconds)  #BeTheChurch

Let me pause here and give a clarification because I can see how this would be easy to seed that, oh, it sounds like we need to do something to work in order for my salvation, but that's not what Paul is saying here at all. Matter of fact, Paul is against that, and and so he's not saying that we need to work for our salvation, earn our salvation because there's nothing we can do to earn our salvation. If that was the case, then there was no reason for Jesus to have to die, that we could do the work for ourselves and therefore achieve that, but the Bible tells us that our good works are as filthy rags when it comes to salvation. [00:37:36] (32 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

And here's the here's the thing. If we're being faithful in doing what God calls us to do, if we're being faithful to pour ourselves out for him, for the gospel's sake, he's gonna keep filling us because, hey, we're being faithful. He's gonna increase the ability and and availability and all those things of the opportunities for us to do more because we're being faithful. [00:55:43] (23 seconds)  #FaithfulnessMultiplies

Lord, there was someone who loved us enough, who cared enough for our eternal eternal sake that they share the gospel with us. Maybe that was a friend, maybe that was a family member, maybe we just happened to, go into church one day and hear someone share the gospel. Whatever it was, you led us there and someone shared. So, Lord, I pray that we will do the same, that we will be that beacon of light for others. There are people that we know who are lost in the darkness. They are desperate for the light, and they are dying without Christ. [00:59:58] (32 seconds)  #BeTheBeacon

And so, Lord, I pray that you'll impress upon us not only the responsibility, but the privilege of being used by you to share the light, to help people see in their darkness, that there is hope, that they don't have to live in the darkness, that Christ died for them too. What I pray that if there's anyone here today who needs to make that decision to receive Christ as lord and savior, that they will not put it off, that they will make that important decision even today. [01:00:30] (46 seconds)  #ShareHopeToday