Is Christ in Your Future

Is Christ In Your Future?
Colossians 3:1-4 If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Colossians 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"

Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
Matthew 6:31-33 "Do not be anxious then, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'With what shall we clothe ourselves?' … 33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
John 6:27 "Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man shall give to you, …”
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
1 Thessalonians 4:11 make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you;
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
1 Timothy 6:6-8 But godliness actually is a means of great gain, when accom-panied by contentment. … 8 And if we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
1 John 2:15-16 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Physical Needs vs Worldly Priorities
2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
It’s a Matter of the Heart
Colossians 3:1-4 If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Is Christ in Your Future?

The Home is a Priority…
Ephesians 5:30-33 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Our Heart is With our Home
Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Our Heart is With our Home
Matthew 19:4-6 And He answered and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said,' For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh'? … What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
The Church is Depends on the Home
1 Timothy 2:13-15 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression. 15 But women shall be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.
The Church is Depends on the Home
1 Timothy 3:4-5 He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?);

The Church is Depends on the Home
1 Timothy 3:11-12 Let deacons be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.

The Church is Depends on the Home
Deuteronomy 7:2-4 Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
The Church is Depends on the Home
Joshua 23:11-13 For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, .. but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
The Church is Depends on the Home
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
The Church is Depends on the Home
1 Corinthians 7:39-40 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 40 But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
The Church is Depends on the Home
1 Corinthians 7:39-40 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 40 But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
Why Are So Many Homes on Shaky Ground
Built on the wrong foundation
Matthew 7:26-27 "And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. 27 "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and it fell, and great was its fall."
Why Are So Many Homes on Shaky Ground
Lack of Spiritual Focus
Luke 11:34-36 "The lamp of your body is your eye; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 "Then watch out that the light in you may not be darkness. 36 "If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it shall be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."
Why Are So Many Homes on Shaky Ground
Redefining of Friendship
John 15:12-15 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 "You are My friends, if you do what I command you. 15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Why Are So Many Homes on Shaky Ground
Lack of Christian Companions
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."
1 Corinthians 5:9-10 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world.
Words of Wisdom
“How strange it is that people professing Christianity can suppose that with a worldly spirit, worldly companions, and their lives governed by worldly maxims, they can be in the favor of God, or ever get to the kingdom of heaven! When the world gets into the Church, the Church becomes a painted sepulcher, its spiritual vitality being extinct.” (Adam Clark Commentary of The Bible)
Is Christ In Your Future?