How Eternity brings focus to what really matters

Notes: How Eternity bringsfocus to what really matters. 

Pastor Greg Laurie

Rev 4/ Col 3

Dec 5, 2013

Heaven is a real place of activity, building, eating, worshipping and much more.

John 6:38 (NKJV)

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Our belief in heaven should truly affect the way we live on earth.

Colossians 3:1-2 (NKJV)

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. [2] Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

THINK HEAVEN! Feet on earth, mind on heaven.

Many speak of killing time, yet time slowly kills us all.

What matters is not what you bought; it is what you built.

Everybody lives for something.

Revelation 4:1-11 (NKJV)

] 8The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: [ ] “ Holy, holy, holy, [ ] Lord God Almighty,[ ] Who was and is and is to come!” [ ] 9[Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,] [ ] 10the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:[ ] [ ] [ ] 11“ You are worthy, O Lord, [ ] To receive glory and honor and power;[ ] For You created all things,[ ] And by Your will they exist and were created.”

I'm here on this earth to bring glory to God.

God created us for his own glory.

Isaiah 43:7 (NKJV)

Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him."

Ephesians 1:11-12 (NKJV)

In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, [12] that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

Worship is prayer set to song

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? [20] For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV)

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

If you can't "how would be thy name" on what I am doing then don't do it!

Colossians 3:5-10 (NKJV)

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. [6] Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, [7] in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. [8] But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. [9] Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, [10] and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

1. Sexual sin keeps us earthbound. v5

2. Idolatry keeps us earthbound.

(Covet, means to want more)

3. Anger, meanness, and slander keep us earthbound.

(Gossip fits in this)

T.H.I.N.K. Before you speak:

Truthful

Helpful

Inspiring

Necessary

Kind

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in.