In Luke 2:41-52, Mary and Joseph lost Jesus! When they came back to Jerusalem and found Him 3 days later, He was in the Temple "sitting with the teachers, listening and asking them questions." When His parents expressed their anxiety and concern, Jesus said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I 'MUST' be about My Father’s business?” (emphasis added). In this message, Pastor Jeremie extracts three applications that we can all add into our lives, by which we may also catch "the must spirit" like Jesus did. What "must" you do with your life? What does "being about the Father's business" look like in your life? We pray the Lord blesses you and speaks to you through this message.
The Lord laid two words on Pastor Jeremie's heart the week prior to him sharing this message: Self-awareness & Prodigal. Self-awareness means having a deep understanding of one's emotions, strengths, limitations, values & motives, as discussed further in a great Harvard Business Review book entitled "Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence" by Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee (2013). Prodigal simply means reckless & wasteful. In Luke 15, Jesus is surrounded by an audience of tax-collectors & sinners, Pharisees & scribes. He seizes this opportunity to tell 3 parables: 1 lost sheep out of 100, 1 lost coin out of 10, and 1 lost son out of 2. In the end of each parable, what was lost was found. The last parable, the one about the prodigal son, is a favorite of many, and reveals how a deep lack of self-awareness can damage our perspective of the Kingdom of God, and can hinder our relationship with our Heavenly Father. Homing in on the father's reception of the prodigal son, Pastor Jeremie teaches four steppingstones towards self-awareness in Christ: ROBES, RINGS, REEBOKS & ROAST.
In this message Pastor Jeremie lets us know about our inheritance that our heavenly Father has blessed us with in Jesus Christ, and also reveals some key ways and applications to help us Know, Receive, and Enjoy our full inheritance in Christ.
In John 14:6 Jesus explains how He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Ozzy Smith joins us and helps shed some light on this saying of Jesus Christ.