Seeing God's Supremacy: A Journey of Faith

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I study to see and savor the supreme value of Jesus every day by study I don't mean in formal study I just mean I make an effort study War no more in that sense of study I make an effort by reading my Bible every day on a quest for a vision of God that will reassert his supremacy in my heart. [00:07:18]

The goal in reading the Bible is to see God as so supremely valuable that other things assume they're way lower place and you your idolatries fall away and your obedience becomes driven by what is beautiful than by this lash on your back just a glorious thing if God would open our eyes. [00:56:31]

I pray that he would help me see what I'm after, I don't assume I can get it it's a spiritual thing it's not a an intellectual thing merely you can stare at the Bible all day long and see nothing wonderful and nothing glorious and be moved in your heart not the least to be free from best buy. [01:20:90]

Cry to God that he would his supreme value to your soul so you feel it he walk into the day and he is so precious and so valuable and communing with him is so satisfying pornography loses its power and covetousness loses its power that's the way I fight every day and it's a fight to the finish. [02:14:96]

I daily put my trust in his promises that the needs of this church and the needs of my family will be met my God will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus not all the things you think you need but all that you really need to give Him glory. [03:16:01]

God is able to make all grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times you may abound in every good work is that amazing there's not a single good work God has ever or ever will call you to do for which there will not be sufficient resources to do it. [04:33:20]

I set aside electronically on the Bethlehem website a gift to the church out of every paycheck automatically and I spontaneously give gifts in worship services now we didn't used to have this whole electronic stuff and I had questions about it as it came I still do but it seems to me that in the New Testament there are two streams. [05:30:83]

Giving is an act of worship that's what Romans 12:1 and 2 I think says therefore historically we've always built our services with a piece of worship called offering and the whole point of that is just to say with that moment letting our goods go shows how much we value you that's just part of worship right here. [07:17:92]

The reason we give allowances to our children as soon as they can count is to teach them to give a portion of it to the church that's the main main not only main reason for giving allowances to two year olds or three year olds as soon as they can say one two three give them a dime every week or a fifty cents or a dollar or something. [09:00:70]

I surrender all the copyrights and all the royalties to my books and have from the beginning I surrender them to the desiring god foundation knowing I'd be a millionaire if I didn't I am scared out of my wits at being a millionaire that's a weakness some people can handle it I don't have that gift. [11:24:17]

The issue is like we sang not what you make but what you keep that's the issue man glorious possibilities if you are given much and what will happen if you don't build in some artificial governors like a graduated tithe is that more and more wants start to become needs I need a new suit new suit you don't need a new suit. [16:12:46]

God may you grant us all the joy all the unadulterated joy of finding our life in you not in possessions and fulfilling our covenant commitments and showing the world what it means to be rich toward God. [17:45:23]

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