LWLC Wiki

Search this site

Summary: auto-extracted from transcripts

Summary

And we know that Christ is wisdom Christ is wisdom from above and do those do those modifiers work is Christ pure yes is he peaceable gentle open to reason which means easily obeying and compliant think of how he prayed in the garden before going to the cross he prayed sweating blood if if it is your will take this cup let it pass and if it's your will bring it on he was complying he was obedient to the father full of mercy of course is Christ full of good fruits is he impartial is he sincere. If we go to collusion, so right now we're in the book of John, we're going to go over to the right, pass the book of Acts, pass the Romans and 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, and then we're going to find ourselves at Philippians, go one more to collusions, chapter 1, verses 16 through 17, where we read in him, that is Jesus, in him, all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things have been created through him and for him. So if we look beginning at verse 25, we're going to look 25, so chapter 11 of Matthew 25 through 30, where it begins at that time, Jesus said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Let's go keep your hand here let's go to the very last book in scripture revelation revelation the last chapter of the last book revelation 21 verses one through five this is just amazing revelation 21 1 through 5 then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more and I saw coming and I saw the holy city the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying see the whole of God is among mortals he will dwell with them as their God they will be his peoples and God himself will be with them he will wipe every tear from their eyes death will be no more morning and crying and pain will be no more for the first things have passed away and the one who was seated on the throne said see I am making all things new the Lord God our shepherd will dwell with us amongst us absolutely no barriers for all eternity we can't even imagine how amazing and glorious that will be but we're promised that that is our eternal future and we are promised that what is to come is already now we don't have a future shepherd we are not future sheep we are sheep now and today and the Lord richly bless now and today even when we go through a valley we're walked through with the shepherd when we have our highest height highest height the Lord is there when we have our lowest lows the Lord is there because the Lord is with us always go to Psalm 23 again we're going to take a breath and we're going to read this together one more time thinking of who our shepherd is and who he is to us for us for his lives say let's read the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me beside still waters he restores my soul he leads me in right paths for his name's sake even though I walk through the darkest valley I fear no evil for you are with me you're raw and your staff they comfort me you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies you annoying my head with oil my cup overflows surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long Amen you Good morning. I'll tell you one piece that for myself that has sat with me for years now, years, is Psalm 51, verse 10, creating me a clean spirit, oh God, and renew a right, or creating me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me, and it sits with me, and it works on me, and sometimes it really convicts me, and sometimes it gives me great hope and great joy, because I know that my spirit is not always right, and my heart is not always clean, and I know that I'm also not the one that creates that clean heart within myself, and I'm not the one that gives myself that right spirit, and so that gives me great hope, and when I'm feeling or thinking, not super-Christianly, I go to that verse constantly, and it continues to work on me and in me, and it's so amazing that we have that from the Lord, and it seems just from the nods that everyone, or most of you, have experienced that, where you have a verse or a story from scripture that comes to mind, or it works on you, have you ever had a piece of scripture that works on you that you wish it wasn't? But I like to think that if somehow they could come to us today, if somehow they could come to us today with a word of encouragement, a word of encouragement for the parent or for the grandparent, if they could somehow come today with a word of encouragement, I like to think that they would say, you know that slogan that Nike has?

Video citations