Carrying the Presence of Christ
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we finish our week on drawing near to God this Advent season, today we’ll focus outward on how we can carry the presence of Christ into our spheres of influence. We have learned this week that God is with us always and available to us at all times. There is never a time he isn’t by your side, and you have the profound privilege of carrying his presence with you everywhere you go. As you practice sensitivity, God will be faithful to show up and move in amazing ways. May this Christmas season be blessed beyond measure as you seek to show the world his love.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 4:17, and today's worship is Where You Are by Bridgetown Music.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish our week on drawing near to God this Advent season, today we'll focus outward |
| 0:10.0 | on how we can carry the presence of Christ into our spheres of influence. We've learned this week |
| 0:16.0 | that God is with us always and available to us at all times. There is never a time he isn't by your side, |
| 0:23.6 | and you have the profound privilege of carrying his presence with you everywhere you go. As you practice sensitivity, God will be faithful to show up and move in amazing ways. |
| 0:35.6 | May this Christmas season be blessed beyond measure as you seek |
| 0:39.8 | to show the world his love. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from 1st John 4, 17. |
| 1:01.0 | Scripture says, |
| 1:03.0 | By this is love perfected with us, |
| 1:07.0 | so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, |
| 1:10.0 | because as He is, so also are we in this world. |
| 1:17.5 | We have the privilege as Jesus' disciples of carrying his presence with us into the world. God, in his love, |
| 1:26.8 | has chosen to use us as agents of awakening. He's commissioned us |
| 1:32.0 | to go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father |
| 1:37.6 | and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And in 1 John 4, 15 through 17, we gained an insight into the way in which God would have us |
| 1:47.4 | make disciples. Scripture says, whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, |
| 1:55.9 | and He and God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever |
| 2:04.5 | abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have |
| 2:13.0 | confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world. |
| 2:20.3 | As He is, so also are we in this world. |
| 2:25.3 | What a powerful statement. |
| 2:27.3 | God's plan for the world is to form and fashion us into those who reflect his goodness to others. |
| 2:35.0 | The hope of the world rests in Jesus' mercy and grace, as proclaimed through our lives. |
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