John 3:30 Pastor Joy Park

He must be more and I must be less. John the Baptist knew that Christ must be victorious and that he himself must fade away. John confessed that he was not even worthy to tie the sandals of Christ, but what type of attitude do we have? Rather than have Christ shine in our lives we prefer to shine. Instead of giving Christ the glory we want to take it. We want to succeed in life and desire to attain the things of this world. With wisdom and knowledge you can succeed in this world. You do not need Jesus. If you say that you are a believer and use your own wisdom and knowledge then you did not live like a believer. Do you live your life trusting Jesus or do you trust in yourself? When in business the world tells us to be cuthroat. W do not share our secrets with others and try to hide all the good products for ourselves. When I did business I bought products for other vendors to sell so that they could make a profit. The things I gave them sold well. People said I was crazy for doing business this way. Later those people would come and find me and ask me why I did this. I asked them if the products sold well, they said the products sold really well. I told them then to do one thing only and that was to go to church. I used business as a means to share the gospel, to get people to find Jesus. Whenever we needed money for the church we were attending. We prayed that God would give to us what we needed to provide for the church. GOd always gave us what we needed. It w because we did not pray for what we needed but for what the church needed and the church was given all it needed. When we took over the business at that time it was failing and we did not have much money. We had to sell things in the morning with the little money we had to go buy more things to sell with the mornings profit to ell things in the afternoon. I had no idea how to do business but the one thing I did was always ask God to show me what to buy to sell. Everything He showed me always sold well. We were making profit and the things I bought I shared with others to sell for themselves also. God may give us things that seem like they are falling apart but He is leading the way. We all want to be famous and have nice things but is it about you or do you really want Christ to shine? Are you willing to let Christ do what He desires with your life or are you going to to do what you want to do? How long are you going rebel? When will you turn to Him? Do you think that you have eternity to turn back? It does not matter that Christ comes tomorrow, you must live right before today, now. Even though the world goes on for a thousand years you will die soon. Today you are to be living according to the word. We desire to be acknowledged and praised, but when we are not we get upset. What does that do for us? We are to live in humility and not look for praise. Rather than lift us up we are to lift up the name of Jesus. We do this by sharing Jesus with others. When we a concerned about Jesus He will take care of you. He will provide you all that you need in abundance but you must first say yes to Him and live according to His word. It is through sacrifice, tears and perseverance that you will be able to live this life. One time someone came to see me, and afterwards the lady left an envelope. Before I even opened it God told me to give it to someon else. We had nothing at that time to eat, but went and gave the envelope to the person. That evening someone came to our house with a pot of beef stew. She said God led her to give us this food. God provided of us. Sometime later, God sent us someone with an envelope and we were given money in order to pay the rent that month. He kept us from being evicted from our place. God will provide everything you need but it is only when you trust Him and perservere through faith. Are you going to life Christ up or are you going to lift yourself up? Everyone sees how our children are doing all they need to do even though it is not the way the world sees it. They go to school and are provided everything. God will lift you up when you live to lift Him up. May you also trust the Lord to provide you as you live the life to lift Him up.