What Is In Front Of You?

  June 29, 2012   What is in front of you? What are you chasing? What are you holding onto in your life? What do each of you going after in your life? What is it that you cannot let go of? Each of you has something different. Is it your spouse? Is it your children? Is it your dreams of what you want to be? What is it that you cannot let go of? What is it that keeps you from following God? Why is it that we hate to submit to God? It is because we become nothing when we submit. Wives are told to submit to your husbands and that is why you dislike the word. Husbands think that because it says it in the bible you can do whatever it is you wish to your wives. You are all wrong. We are to submit to each other as we submit to God. Wives are to submit to your husbands as you submit to God and husbands are to love their wives as Jesus loves the church. You are not to do with each other as you please. If you cannot let go of the thing that you hold onto dearly then you can never submit to God. If you tell God that anything except this one thing, that is the one thing that God wants you to let go of. God only wants you to obey him and do his will, but you want to do whatever it is you want and say that you do it for God. You want to do things that lift you up in front of others, but nobody wants to clean the restroom. If everyone was the pastor then who will be the congregation. Not everyone is to be a missionary. Not everyone is called to be in the choir. What is it that you cannot let go of? Is it status, pride, stubbornness? Of all the people that lived their lives having attained all that they wanted, when they turned to Christ, all of them said that all those things were meaningless. Pride is the biggest thing that people cannot let go of. Whatever it is in your hand, let it go. If not you are not obeying God. Speaking this way is difficult for me. There are plenty of feel good sermons out there. I do this because God desires this. Even though I think I follow God, there are still times that I feel as though I let Him down. I try to be satisfied completely in Christ. I try so hard to live the life that pleases him, but when I look back I feel as though I have not. When things are even slightly difficult I complain to God. When things are not even terrible, I complain because of the things that I hold to. I must let go of the things that I hold dearly so that I can be satisfied in Christ. It does not matter what you did yesterday if tomorrow you do not obey him. Whatever it is in your hands let it go. Your life if it is long will be 80 years, and then there is eternity. When will you understand what eternity means? There is no end to where God is. Do not think that you are going to heaven without obeying God. You do not go to heaven because you think you will. The bible says that only those who do the will of God will go to heaven. The bride of Christ has been chosen. They are the ones who are doing the will of God. The five foolish brides were not ready and did not get into the banquet. You must be ready. You must live as the bride. Jesus will take his bride but you must be prepared. You must live doing his will. If you are one with Christ and you are living as His bride then you will have to go to heaven. Are the things that you hold onto the things of God? Are you holding not to pride, status, wealth? All these things will not get you into heaven. If you are holding onto Christ, do not let Him go. This is what you should hold onto. He is life. If you are holding on to anything other than Christ let it go. Do not live a wasted life. Please live a life that pleases God. What other pleasure is there than being pleasing to God. How great it is to be praised by God. God desires that we are meek. Do not be proud. We must be completely satisfied in Christ. I must not try to lift myself up, but rather lift up Jesus. We must fight the good fight. We must live to be told by God that we have done a good job. Do not have goals and desires that are useless. Do not upset the Lord. Why do you lose when victory has already been won? All you have to do is follow and obey. If you do then victory will be achieved.   Sermon by pastor YoungSook Lee Translated by Miguel Park http://cafe.daum.net/truelightchurch1004