July 15, 2007

• Sermon: Seeing the Invisible  (7 mb, 23 min, 48 sec)

  2 Corinthians 4:16-18

  One evening a few weeks ago I was arriving home late at night and as I stepped up into the alcove to our front door I noticed a blue flashing light…….I turned around looking for a police car…I couldn’t see any at all. I looked around dumbfounded. No problem. This happened three nights in a row. I could not figure out for the life of me where this blue flashing light was coming from…..it wasn’t constant, it flashed every ten seconds or so…….. was it the flash off my neighbors TV shining through their front window across the street? Was it someone taking pictures of me, spying on me? It obviously wasn’t a police officer because there was none in sight.

  Finally, I asked my wife, Kelly, to come outside. Every time we would get ready to go in we would see the blue flashing light…… and we would turn quickly to try to find the source….but none could be found. We stepped out in the yard and looked everywhere, we crouched down and hid…….but we couldn’t find where this light was coming from. Then we would start to go in the house….and there it was again! Kelly went out in the yard and I turned around in the alcove by the door…..”THERE IT WAS! DID YOU SEE IT!”…….Kelly started laughing so hard she almost fell over. Here we were, two adults, sleuthing around the front yard trying to figure out where this blue light was coming from……..and Kelly saw it as I stood there in the alcove puzzled….it was the blue flash of my Bluetooth earpiece letting me know it was still there…. doing it’s job as it had promised!

  Is God ever like that to you? Do you wonder where he is? Are you like me…….is it sometimes hard to find Him because you have a hard time seeing Him? Well, I am here to tell you that He is there……. working in your life….if you let Him.

  I want to share with you three things to help develop your “Spiritual Eyes”, three things to help lead you to a better understanding of the beauty of that which we cannot see and the treasure in that which is often hidden from our sight.

   The first thing we can do is focus on the invisible renewal of our hearts as we follow Jesus……and the treasure that lies inside us through Christ, not the visible decay of all that is around us.
  2 Corinthians 4:7-12
  2 Corinthians 4:16

  The second thing that we can do to help develop our “Spiritual eyes” is to focus on God’s invisible glory by following Christ, not on the visible troubles and hard times in our life.
  2 Corinthians 4:17
  Isaiah 40:31
  Colossians 3:7-10

  The third thing we can do to help us see life through “spiritual eyes” is to focus on the eternal things in our lives rather than the temporary.
  2 Corinthians 4:18
  Matthew 6:19-20
  Colossians 1:15-17

  My hope is that you will seek God, that you will focus on following Christ by living in His will, that you will experience a renewal in your life and that you will see the eternal things that do not pass away. God bless you!

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