Eternity Right Now - Sep 16
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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we finish this week on living an abundant life, today we’ll explore where we’re placing our priorities, hopes, fears, and affections. God doesn’t want us to spend our days waiting for heaven, but instead wants to shift our perspective to see that eternity has already begun. Though we spend our days on earth, they matter immensely. And nothing is wasted or pointless in the eyes of God. So how would he have us spend our days?
Our Scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 3:11, and today's worship is Build My Life by Passion featuring Brett Younker.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish this week on living an abundant life, today we'll explore where we're placing our priorities, hopes, fears, and affections. God doesn't want us to spend our days waiting for heaven, |
| 0:17.0 | but instead wants to shift our perspective to see that eternity has already begun. |
| 0:22.0 | Though we spend our days on earth, to see that eternity has already begun. |
| 0:26.8 | Though we spend our days on Earth, they matter immensely, and nothing is wasted or pointless in the eyes of God. |
| 0:30.3 | So how would you have us spend our days? |
| 0:34.3 | Let's find out together today. Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Ecclesiasties 311. |
| 0:57.0 | Scripture says, he has made everything beautiful in its time. |
| 1:01.0 | Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what |
| 1:06.7 | God has done from the beginning to the end. You and I are living in eternity right now. |
| 1:17.0 | Eternal life doesn't start when we take our last breath here. |
| 1:22.0 | You and I are currently experiencing eternal life in relationship |
| 1:26.2 | with our father. Sius Lewis said in the weight of glory, there are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, |
| 1:38.0 | cultures, arts, civilizations. These are mortal and their life is to ours as the life of a Nat. |
| 1:47.0 | Ecclesiasties 311 says it this way. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, |
| 1:57.0 | yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. |
| 2:05.4 | What does it mean for you and me to live in eternity right now? |
| 2:10.6 | What would it look like for us to have a perspective that looks past the fleeting and temporal |
| 2:15.6 | nature of this world to the never-ending line of eternity to which we truly belong. |
| 2:29.0 | Having an eternal perspective causes me to live drastically different. My heart burns to live out of obedience to passages like Matthew 6, 19 through 21, where Jesus teaches. |
| 2:37.9 | Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rest destroy, and where thieves breaking in steel. |
| 2:46.0 | But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rest destroys, and where |
| 2:52.1 | thieves do not break in and steal for your |
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