Sower Church

Battle Bitterness


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morning. Thank you for coming Church to church. It’s good to see you all. We have three values as a church. We talk about gospel culture, community culture and generosity, culture and the way we define generosity, cultures, your time, talent and treasure. And this? Last week I was, uh I was talking to a financial planner because I’m 36 I’m I’m getting older and there’s things I should be doing greater capacity so that I’m a cheap to free pastor as I get older. That’s my plan to decrease in expenses as an employee of the church. So I was thinking about treasure and money more than normal, talking to a financial planner, and he asked all these questions and did some diagnosis of how retirement will look for me as I get older. And so I was thinking about treasure, and I was thinking about Jesus’ words on treasure. Matthew 6 21. It says this where your treasure is there. Your heart will be also where your treasure is there your heart will be also. I was thinking of treasure from juices definition. It talks about things. You think about things you meditated about things you go to and the you wake up early in the morning, you go to your treasure on your phone, your browser, your app, your phone’s history shows what you treasure. Your your YouTube searches show you what you treasure and my YouTube searches right now. Show me a lot of things about sewage lines and cleaning them out with power jetting. And that’s what my treasure is showing. And also NFL quarterback swapping. If that’s what my YouTube treasure heart is showing me that I had treasure. And if you think to yourself, if you have time, you have half an hour this afternoon. You get a hop on your phone and go to something to entertain yourself to your free time, your mind, your thoughts, your affections, your your mind gravitates towards that. Would you treasure our passes today from over to looking at three chapters, three characters, three chapters, three men that treasure different things differently. Saul is the first one we’re talking about in the Book of Samuel. It’s hard to give a sermon about talking about Saul Saul’s browser. History would show what to do if God is taking your kingdom away from you. How to keep your kingdom when God is opposing you. You know, that would have been Saul’s treasures all really treasured the Kingdom of God. And so as we look through this, I think there’s a lot of 21st century applications that apply to us from the Middle East. Ancient text we’re looking at today that doesn’t impact our lives today. So let’s pray. Let’s invite God to be a part of this time in our service as we look at things we treasure as we try to grow up in the word of God here today. God, I thank you, Lord, that you’re in charge of our lives. Thank you that you have a plan for our lives. Thank you that there’s themes in the Bible that are there for a reason. There’s stories and narratives and plots and narrative preaching, Lord of historical passages of the Bible and how those do apply to our lives. Today I pray you just really convict us. Instruct us, Lord, if there’s lessons in the text that that are meant for us in this room, I ask that you just take those empresses down deep into the recesses of our souls that we as men and women would just be impacted by your word through your scripture. To your church. Lord, I pray you convict us and encourage us in the spirit today. Instruct us in the spirit today. Help us to be taught by our word to help us. To be exhorted To obey your word we commit this time to you in Jesus’ name. Amen. So your treasure is it Bitcoin? Is it retirement? Is it your Airbnb vacation spot? Is it your local sports teams? What do you treasure? Think about that in your mind as we talk. Salt treasure thinks it’s all treasure If you look at his heart wha…
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