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Hey, churchhome family. It's an honor and a privilege to spend a little time with you and open up the Word of God to see what Jesus has and store for us.

Before we get into the Scripture, I just want to say that me and my wife, Jen, absolutely love your pastors and think the world of them and how God is using them in this season.

And just allowing their lives to transform and change the lives of millions around the world.

And so again, honored and privileged to be able to take this time to unpack this idea, this thought that God has placed on my heart.

We're going to be in Philippians chapter 3, really beginning at verse 12 and I'll be reading from the NIV version.

The Scripture says, not that I have already obtained all of this or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers and sisters do not consider myself to have taken hold of it yet, but one thing I do is for getting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead.

I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus, all of us who are mature should take such a view of these things.

What Paul is saying here is that no matter what we've been through in our past, we have to leave the past behind us and stretch towards the hope, the heavenly hope in our future.

When we read this, we're not looking at this from the lens or from the perspective of what we would consider worldly hope, which is that there's an odd chance that it may or may not happen.

At the end of hope, the way we use it here is, I hope so, which is the indicator of doubt somewhere in the equation, but this hope that Paul is talking about is an expectation in God to deliver on his promises.

He's also telling us the only way that we can press forward is to leave the past behind us.

One of the things that I want you to realize and uplift from this scripture is his focus is heavenward.

He's not more concentrated on time than he is eternity.

If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down, just kind of as a reminder as you're studying this, as you're chewing on this throughout the week, and it is this, if you make time more important than eternity, you lose out on both.

Oftentimes, we consider, and we really hold God to this standard of our time, and we ask God to deliver things based upon our timeline, and the reality is, as God does not operate off time, but here's what God does, God honors it.

So he gives us 365 days full of promises for us to unpack and understand the uniqueness and the necessity of eternity.

But if we make time more important than eternity, then we lose out on both.

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