Oct. 12, 2015
MY FRIENDS, CAN YOU FIX YOUR MIND ON ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE?
As children of God “heirs to His kingdom and joint heirs with Christ” we must “Set our [focus and] affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Col. 3:2 (KJV) Which then allows us to fix our mind “on another time and place.”
We must dissociate ourselves from the things of this world that do not center our attention on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, starting with how we spend God’s precious time, and what we spend the resources that God gives us on.
Friends if we are serious about our Salvation there must be a deep passion from within to move beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary. So as Christians our minds must stay focus for whom our soul yearns for as we “fixed our mind on another time and another place.”
Consistent with this, it allows us to completely leave all the cares of this world, in the hands of the one who has taken on that responsibility. The Psalmist
tells us to “Cast our cares on the Lord and he will sustain us; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” Psalm 55:22 (KJV)
When Christ left this earth the first time, His promise was “that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:3 (KJV) “there you may be also” is such an awesome promise that allows us to “fixed our mind on another time and place.”
Because God’s promises tells us, this world is not our home, so “another time and place” to a child of God is a time and place when “There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Rev 21:4 (NIV)
And “there we may be also” So my friends, if you are tired of death and this old wicked world like I am, we must “Hang out the banners and shout the news! Blow the trumpets and horns ‘til there is no one who hasn’t heard.
That one day soon “We shall not die anymore!” I’m here to tell you that Jesus lives; as He lives, so shall we. Dying and fear [will one day] pass away, swallowed in victory! Morning has broken the cords away, there’s no reason to fear, why seek the living among the dead?
Jesus, our Lord, is not here. He is alive, He’s not here! Then where, O death, is your victory? Where, O grave, is your sting? (Resurrection Gaither Vocal Band) “Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous.
It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God…There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living waters. God’s people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
[“God’s elect] will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.” “Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within 
your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
“They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; . . . My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.” Isaiah 32:18; 60:18; 65:21, 22. (E.G. White Heaven, Great Controversy)
My friends, hold on to your faith and endure. And as we look at the world today and what it has to offer then, just focus with all the passion that is within us as we “fixed our mind on another time and another place”
My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
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