Jesus is the Best Thing
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. This week we’re going to take time every day to look at what it means to live for heaven. May your heart be set aflame by the joy and purpose of living out God’s command to live for heaven.
Our Scripture for today comes from Hebrews 12:1-2, and today's worship is Dancing by Elevation Worship.
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Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, Jesus is the Best Thing, the first podcast in our week long focus on living for heaven.
For our US listeners, I want to take a moment to thank everyone in the working class for their hard work. Colossians 3:23 says “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.” We were created for good works, and the effort you put in every day makes such a difference in the quality of life we all have. May we take time today on this labor day to re-center the focus of our work around loving God and his people, that our work would bear even more fruit.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. |
| 0:09.3 | On this week of the First 15 podcast, we're going to take time every day to look at what it means to live for heaven. |
| 0:15.7 | May your heart be set aflame by the joy and purpose of living out God's command to live for heaven this week. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | Of all the wonders, our Creator provides us, boundless and unadulterated relationship with Jesus |
| 0:31.7 | vastly exceeds them all. Jesus is the best thing we will ever know. His love restores, |
| 0:37.4 | satisfies, transforms, and heals. |
| 0:40.0 | His grace empowers and brings transcendent peace. His nearness resolves the great fears of our hearts. |
| 0:47.0 | And his kingship calls us to a right lifestyle of living for heaven rather than a pursuit of that which is worldly and fleeting. |
| 0:55.1 | Cautinus 3 1 through 4 says, If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things |
| 1:00.3 | that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. |
| 1:04.4 | Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. |
| 1:08.4 | For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ and God. |
| 1:12.4 | When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you will also appear with Him and glory. |
| 1:17.5 | You and I have limited space in our hearts. When we choose to fill our lives with the things |
| 1:22.1 | of the world, we crowd out that which will fill us with pure and abounding relationship |
| 1:27.2 | with Jesus. |
| 1:28.5 | It's for this reason Jesus said in Matthew 624, for no one can serve two masters, for either |
| 1:34.8 | he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. |
| 1:40.4 | You cannot serve God and money. |
| 1:43.2 | As disciples of Jesus, we must learn to lead different lives |
| 1:46.5 | than others around us. Instead of looking to others as our standard for what is good or right, |
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