Staying Focused on Jesus: A Spiritual Journey
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"Dear Lord, thank you for this time to gather together and to seek your wisdom and your guidance and your truth as we enter into this time of Easter and Jesus being the forefront of the season just to allow us to share that love of hope with our friends and family. Amen." [00:00:17] (20 seconds)
"And that's, to me, something sin is, and Satan's trying to do, is push us off target so we're losing focus on Jesus. Because the Bible tells us that the path to salvation is narrow, but the path is wide to destruction." [00:02:34] (16 seconds)
"But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come, in the resurrection with the dead, will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection." [00:04:41] (15 seconds)
"And to me, there's another part, too. I'm sure if any of us had an opportunity to sit down and ask Jesus questions, we would ask him more than just one. We'd keep asking him questions, which is, to me, kind of surprising that they just stopped asking the questions about the resurrection because Jesus basically refruited their whole belief system that there was none, and they just stopped asking questions." [00:05:42] (24 seconds)
"When he created this world and all of us in it, I mean, he knew from the very beginning that we were going to need Jesus. He knew sin was going to creep in, and to me, there's things in the Bible that get covered and talked about, but they aren't explicitly explained very well. But I think that that's intentional on God, so we can learn to focus back on what he wants us to do for our own lives and for the glory of his kingdom." [00:06:21] (27 seconds)
"And then last is God wants us to focus on life and not death. You know, life is being reconciled back to God and not living in sin, which even now when sin is in our lives, that's going to bring death in there." [00:06:57] (16 seconds)
"Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." [00:09:59] (22 seconds)
"And he said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Whoever will save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?" [00:11:00] (18 seconds)
"So, I'll read that. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not be gratified by the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law." [00:13:14] (22 seconds)
"Now, the works of the flesh are evident. Sexual immorality, impurity, sexuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." [00:13:56] (21 seconds)
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." [00:17:40] (12 seconds)
"You know, to me, this is the real contrast between what we as Christians have and what everybody else in the world has. We have hope, you know, and when we have hope that there's a life that's better than this after death versus, to me, non-Christians who reject God and even, you know, sometimes other faiths, what's their hope? I mean, ultimately, their hope is that this is the best it gets and there's no consequences for their actions, and that really contrasts the way you live your life, and you can see that." [00:19:28] (40 seconds)
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"And that's, to me, something sin is, and Satan's trying to do, is push us off target so we're losing focus on Jesus. Because the Bible tells us that the path to salvation is narrow, but the path is wide to destruction." [00:02:34] (16 seconds)
"But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come, in the resurrection with the dead, will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection." [00:04:41] (15 seconds)
"And to me, there's another part, too. I'm sure if any of us had an opportunity to sit down and ask Jesus questions, we would ask him more than just one. We'd keep asking him questions, which is, to me, kind of surprising that they just stopped asking the questions about the resurrection because Jesus basically refruited their whole belief system that there was none, and they just stopped asking questions." [00:05:42] (24 seconds)
"When he created this world and all of us in it, I mean, he knew from the very beginning that we were going to need Jesus. He knew sin was going to creep in, and to me, there's things in the Bible that get covered and talked about, but they aren't explicitly explained very well. But I think that that's intentional on God, so we can learn to focus back on what he wants us to do for our own lives and for the glory of his kingdom." [00:06:21] (27 seconds)
"And then last is God wants us to focus on life and not death. You know, life is being reconciled back to God and not living in sin, which even now when sin is in our lives, that's going to bring death in there." [00:06:57] (16 seconds)
"Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." [00:09:59] (22 seconds)
"And he said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Whoever will save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?" [00:11:00] (18 seconds)
"So, I'll read that. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not be gratified by the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law." [00:13:14] (22 seconds)
"Now, the works of the flesh are evident. Sexual immorality, impurity, sexuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." [00:13:56] (21 seconds)
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." [00:17:40] (12 seconds)
"You know, to me, this is the real contrast between what we as Christians have and what everybody else in the world has. We have hope, you know, and when we have hope that there's a life that's better than this after death versus, to me, non-Christians who reject God and even, you know, sometimes other faiths, what's their hope? I mean, ultimately, their hope is that this is the best it gets and there's no consequences for their actions, and that really contrasts the way you live your life, and you can see that." [00:19:28] (40 seconds)
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