Things Unseen
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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As we begin to wrap up our week on living for heaven, today we’re going to explore what it means to have our perspectives shift toward the things of God rather than the things of earth. We are so easily bogged down by the weight of the world, and today God wants to lift our chin and point our eyes upward to things unseen, the things of heaven.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 4:18, and today's worship is Throne Room by Jesus Culture.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week on Living for Heaven, today we're going to explore what it means to have our perspectives shift toward the things of God rather than the things of Earth. |
| 0:16.1 | We are so easily bogged down by the weight of the world. |
| 0:20.0 | And today God wants to lift our chin and point |
| 0:22.4 | our eyes upward to things unseen. The Things of Heaven. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | We have been trained through the prideful perspective of many, that we are only to look to |
| 0:39.9 | and believe that which we can see physically here on earth. |
| 0:43.7 | We're told there couldn't possibly be more to life than what we've seen because the unseen |
| 0:48.9 | can't be experienced in the physical. |
| 0:51.7 | What a self-centered perspective. |
| 0:56.1 | Why do we have to know and be able to presently experience all there is in order for it to be real? Why are we, with our limited |
| 1:01.8 | capabilities, the ultimate judge in the debate of what is real and important? In Ephesians |
| 1:08.0 | 1, 18 through 20, Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus praying, |
| 1:12.7 | Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of his great might, that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. |
| 1:35.3 | What does it mean for our hearts to have eyes, and what does it mean for those eyes to be enlightened? |
| 1:41.3 | The truth is that all of us are given spiritual eyes. All of us know and |
| 1:46.2 | experience things that can't be physically seen. We've all received and given some type of love. |
| 1:51.7 | We've all had an intuition or belief that couldn't be physically proven. And as |
| 1:57.0 | believers, we've all been filled with the Holy Spirit who longs to guide us to a perspective that far exceeds the span of this world. |
| 2:05.1 | 2 Corinthians 418 says, we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. |
| 2:11.4 | For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. |
| 2:16.9 | Our Savior is calling us to a life lived |
| 2:19.2 | for that which is unseen, the eternal. He is calling us out of the cycle of worldly pursuit |
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