Ep. 59 - Eternity and Today

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

4.9 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Send us a textIn C.S. Lewis's famous book, The Screwtape Letters, demons discuss how to win a Christian back to sin. A major point of emphasis is the need to get him dwelling on the unchangeable past and the uncontrollable future! These will keep his attention from the two things that are real, certain, guaranteed: Eternity and Today! God knows you need to consider what happened. God knows you need to plan for next week. But too much time spent on that will...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.
0:09.2	I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.
0:19.9	Thank you for joining. Let's get started.
0:27.3	All right, so as you can tell, the focus of today's episode is on eternity and today.
0:35.1	If you and I can keep regular focus on those two time periods, we will build
0:42.4	productive, encouraging, excelling lives. What you may not know about this title and today's discussion
0:51.4	is that it is derived from the screw tape letters.
0:56.5	In 1942, C.S. Lewis wrote a book, a collection of 31 letters called The Screw Tape Letters.
1:05.5	It is a satirical work of fiction that represents the conversation between two demons, whose goal is simple
1:14.5	to lead a man of God away from the faith. If you've never read the screw tape letters before,
1:21.9	I recommend it. You have to understand it's a work of fiction. C.S. Lewis tries to hold the guideline of the direction
1:31.2	and the efforts of the demons to what we know about the devil's work in the Bible, but sometimes
1:37.8	he misses the mark. However, if you're interested in another way of looking at how the adversary seeks to capture you or to
1:48.2	recapture you, I commend you to the screw tape letters. Easily, the most impressive thing about that
1:56.0	book is that it was written 77 years ago about a man's battle for faith during the Second World War,
2:06.5	and it literally could have been written yesterday. It turns out the way the devil works never really
2:13.7	changes. The efforts that he makes to try to stop us from growing in our relationship
2:19.4	with God, well, it's been the same since the very beginning, and the weaknesses that men face,
2:25.3	no matter which country they live in or in what decade are similar. Now, there are lots of things
2:31.9	we could say about that book, but there is one chapter right about
2:35.8	in the middle that has stuck out to me even more than all the rest. It is a chapter that discusses
2:43.1	two time periods that the devil enjoys. If he can keep your attention on two whins, not whom or what, but when, if he can keep you
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