★ MY SERMON NOTES
@ Family Worship Centre (FWC),
Wuye - Abuja, Nigeria
First Service
3rd January, 2016
SERMON
* Speaker: Pastor Sarah Omaku
* Theme for 2016: Our Jesus, His Command, Our Vision
* Text: Colossians 3:1-14
★ Matthew 6:33 →"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
* It is important to start the year right
* If you get this message and obey it, you are guaranteed a good life on earth and a greater life in heaven
* Aim at seeking the eternal treasures by setting your mind on things above
* If you substitute your desires for having material possessions with the desire for having eternal treasures, your life will change for the better!
* You must ask yourself how these things that consume you now will affect you in the next 1,000 years
* What does it mean to 'set' something?
→ It means to position something immovable in one place
→ To put into a specific state
* If you set your mind on heaven, no matter what goes on around you, your mind is programed by heaven and nothing else matters
* When heaven is your thermostat, your desires, are conditioned by God's standards
* Setting your mind on heaven means that:
(a) you do not seek the accolades of the world
(b) you have positioned your mind on God's promises
★ John 4:34 →"Jesus told them, “My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work."
* NOTE: The worst thing in heaven is better than the classiest thing on earth
★ James 4:13-15 →"Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.” You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that.”
* No matter how long your life is, it cannot be compared with the lenght of eternity
→ Many people exhaust the whole of their lives on earth chasing vapor
* You must only mind and pursue things that are eternal
★ Hebrews 11:8-10 →" By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise, because he was waiting for the city with permanent foundations, whose architect and builder is God."
* Abraham must have seen something that is still eluding many people on earth today
→ He lived life very light, with eternity in might
* If you live right on earth, you will be entitled to rewards in heaven
→ Not everyone in heaven will get the same rewards
* You must get to the point that the things of earth are not your primary motivation
* You cannot set your mind in two places at the same time
* Where you set your mind determines:
→ how you live
→ your priorities
→ how you spend your resources (time, money, intellect, etc)
★ 1 John 2:15 -17→'' Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father’s love is not in him. For everything that is in the world—the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God’s will remains forever."
* When your mind is set on heaven:
→ it is easy to forgive, be humble, to give, to be kind or help, etc.
→ loving everyone comes easily
→ you do not you struggle to acquire things on earth at all cost
→ sin will not be a problem
* Love is the greatest and it is the lifestyle of heaven
* How you respond to the issues of life (good or bad) is determined by where your mind is set
* Your response in love to every situation is what gets you great rewards
* Seek every opportunity to be kind and loving
* You must purpose to do something good for someone everyday
* When any one ask you for help, do not turn them down if you have the capacity to help
* Ensure that your life is not controlled by temporal things
* NOTE: You cannot set your mind on heaven if you are not born again
★ Quotes:
* Fasting does not change God, it changes you
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