November 22, 2020 · Deuteronomy 11:18–21

Vehicle of Blessing

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

“They became a Christian, and they went and got murdered. They died for them." Well, they're better off there. But what I mean in general is, if your friend picks up the Bible, starts reading it, and starts really understanding it, and meets Jesus in it, their life is going to be better for it. Now, you don't come to Christ so you have a better life, and you don't even come to Christ so you have an afterlife. You come to Christ because he is the truth. You come to Christ because he loves you; he made you; he died for you. But when you do that, your life now is blessed, and your life will be forevermore, into eternity, blessed. This is the truth of the Scriptures. And so we have this — sort of — the — spirit that's active on a level that you don't even know. So this is why we need to take in the Scriptures and hold on to them, because things are swirling out around us. You don't see what's happening. There is a higher plane of spiritual cursing and spiritual blessing, and we are meant to address it through the lessons in his Scriptures. We need to recognize, friends, that there's more to life than what you see on CNN and the news. There's more to life than what you hear on the radio. There's more to life than what you see at your front door. Life is going to be an infinite adventure. God made you and I to live forever, and that's what he's going to give to us. And so this reality, as we dig into the Scriptures now, is actually having infinite implications.”