Living in the Light of Eternity: An Appetite for Eternity | Pastor Will Harper

Message Date: April 7, 2024
Bible

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to throw away; A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace. What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me. They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. “They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me;
‭‭Hosea‬ ‭7‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
‭‭I Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭3‬-‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
‭‭Romans‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭5‬-‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭55‬-‭57‬ ‭NKJV‬‬