Christ Was, You Can Too! - Santosh Poonen - December 30, 2018
http://rlcfchurch.org/christ-was-you-can-too River of Life Christian Fellowship 1306 N Lincoln Avenue Loveland, Colorado - 80537, USA
Summary
The speaker encourages the congregation to take scripture memorization seriously, emphasizing that it provides a 'sword' against the devil's attacks. He reflects on the promise of being kept from stumbling before God's glory, noting that true Christian living requires focusing on heaven rather than earthly circumstances. Ultimately, the message stresses living each day fully for Christ, recognizing that life is appointed to end, and living with a heart of gratitude for the time remaining.
Outline
The message in plain words, in the order it unfolds. Select a time to jump the video to that moment.
Standing blameless before God nowGod wants believers to stand blameless in His presence right now, not just after death, by taking scripture memory seriously as a weapon against the enemy.
Has Jude 1:24 been true in your life?Reflecting on whether God kept us from stumbling reveals moments where taking our eyes off heaven and looking at circumstances led to grumbling.Jude 1:24
Today is the day of salvationInstead of waiting for New Year's resolutions, today is the day to respond to the Holy Spirit's tug on our hearts.
What if you had one more day?Imagining that God granted us one more day after death puts our daily frustrations, conflicts, and reactions into proper eternal perspective.
A demonstration with letters on stageThe speaker invites several children to hold up letters that initially appear to spell nothing, demonstrating how confusion can look like chaos.
Putting Christ first makes sense of chaosThe moment you put Christ first, God uses even the chaos of your life to fulfill His perfect plan.
God uses mistakes for His perfect planGod uses what the world considers mistakes, turned upside down like a W versus an M, to accomplish His purpose in our lives.
Turning past chaos and boulders into building blocksGod wants to turn our past chaos, failures, and stumbling blocks into building blocks for His temple, fulfilling Romans 8:28.
Christ was so you can tooWhatever Jesus was on earth—love, joy, and peace—He was so that believers could experience those same realities.
Christ made like us in all thingsHebrews explains that Jesus had to be made like His brethren in all things, being tempted in suffering so He can help those who are tempted.Hebrews 2:17
Jesus as our forerunner behind the veilJesus entered within the veil as a forerunner for us, securing our hope as an anchor of the soul.
1. Secure in His Father's loveLike Jesus in John 17, believers can be secure in the Father's love, resulting in true unity that no power can destroy.
2. Pleasing to the Father by being crushedAccording to Isaiah 53, it pleased the Father to crush Jesus so that His divine nature could be perfected and brought forth unhindered.Isaiah 53:10
3. Saved from deathIn the days of His flesh, Jesus cried out with tears to be saved from the death of pleasing oneself, standing apart from a dying world.
