Well, I love it when I find a sermon clip of Pastor John pastoring his congregation from

the pulpit by illustrating how he does certain things in the Christian life.

And in today's clip, he's going to take us into his own life to show us how he focuses

his attention on the glories of Christ, which is an essential discipline as we just saw

in APJ 1892. This clip today is very tangible. In fact, we just had another clip like it

come up about a month ago in an episode on meditation. You might remember that one. What

does it look like when he meditates over the word to get God's truth from his mind down

into his heart and into his affections? Pastor John illustrated his own process and practice

for us in APJ 1886. Well, I just found another example of him doing this very same thing

or something very similar to it. And that's a clip that I want to share with you today.

We've been talking lately about attention. Why did God create us to rivet our focus?

Last ones that we looked at Hebrews 2.1, a text that is, in my opinion, the most important

verse in the entire Bible for those of us who live inside this digital media age, this

age of the spectacle, this age of mass media, the age of inless social media, the age of

addictive video games, blockbuster movies and viral television shows, all of them trying

to grab our attention. So why did God give us attention? And what are we to do with it?

Hebrews chapter 1 is all about the supremacy of Christ. And then the first verse of chapter

2 says, quote, therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest

we drift away from it. Here's a clip from Pastor John's 1996 sermon on Hebrews 2.1,

Addling from his own life, how he rivets his gaze on the glory of Jesus Christ. Here he is.

This text says it is more exceedingly necessary to get heat, fix your eyes on Jesus. He's

your only hope. There's another beautiful image later on in chapter 10 where it says,

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