Sunday, September 28, 2025

Aligned With Heaven Not Earth

Matthew 7:21 ESV

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the

kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father

who is in heaven.

Is Jesus Lord of your life? __________. If you say, “yes”. What

does that mean? How do you know?

John 12:49 Ampl

For I have never spoken on My own initiative or authority,

but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment

regarding what to say and what to speak.

II Timothy 2:24-26 BSB

The servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind

to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. 25He must gently

reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant

them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. 26Then they

will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who

has taken them captive to his will.

Love does not mean we endorse or support anything or anyone

who opposes the truth of the Word of God.

Matthew 16:23 ESV

But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!

You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind

on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

Peter's problem wasn’t his loyalty or his emotion. It was his

reasoning.

Ephesians 4:22-23 ESV

to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life

and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23and to be renewed in

the spirit of your minds,

Your thoughts are not just neurons firing. They are spiritual

currents. And those currents are being influenced by fear, by pride,

by survival instincts, by others, or by the Holy Spirit.

Unsound reasoning is the most dangerous kind.

Unsound reasoning always has the same flaw: it starts from me

instead of from God.

Matthew 16:6 ESV

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven

of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Proverbs 3:5 ESV

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

and do not lean on your own understanding.

Heb 11:19 NIV

Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead,

and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac

back from death.

Abraham's reasoning was bulletproof because it began with what

was unchanging, God's faithfulness, God's promises, and God's

nature.

The line between aligning with God and aligning with the enemy is

very thin and runs right through our human sinful selfish reasoning.

The moment you start with God, His word His nature, His

faithfulness, and His unchanging love, everything else comes into

focus.

I Corinthians 16:13 NIV

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith;

be courageous; be strong.