July 31, 2025 • 11 mins
People and circumstances has a way of coming and messing with your time and energy. Let's not allow that and keep our Focus on Christ and His Promises for our lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The battle is not yours, it is God's.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And we say the battle is the lord's, but we
stress like it's ours. We say the battle is the lords,
but we worry like it's ours. Now we've wasted all
of our strength worrying when we could have been worshiping.
The battle is not yours. Get it back. Quit doing
God's job for him. God wants his battle back. Is
(00:31):
too big for you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It came up from behind you.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You can't do it. Give it back. You can't fight it.
Give it back, You can't figure it out. Give it back.
How do you give it back?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's a focus, that's looking beyond what's coming against you
and looking toward.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
What is within you, to know that greater is he
that is in me than he that is in the world.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And God wants.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
His battle back.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
In quiet time, I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Never know what had the story.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
We're growing Hendrik's now.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Charge.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I shall stack.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Making good choices.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
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(01:42):
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(02:16):
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Speaker 2 (02:22):
Certainly I can learn from that, but if I get
so distracted by how you're doing it, I might miss
the uniqueness of how God made.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Me to do it, and then I become discouraged, just
distracted and discouraged. He wants to distract you so you crash,
or discourage you so you quit.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This message finds many of us distracted and discouraged, And
when we come to this point, it is the revelation
that the Father saw that enables us.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To get our focus back.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You cannot preach a message like this about the unseen
celebration without at least bringing up the parable of the
prodigal son. I don't think the message would be complete
without Luke fifteen. For Jesus, it was difficult to get
the people to perceive what.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He was saying when he preached sermons, so he.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Would preach on the kingdom, of having blessed, are the
porn spirit for their kingdom, of having blessed, and meet
for them inherit the earth blessed theos more of their becomforted.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Blessed those who hundred thirds Rustians.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They'd be filled, blessed peacemakers, they be called children of God.
He would teach about the kingdom. It was a very
different kind of kingdom. It was an invisible kingdom. It
was an unseen kingdom. But he would use these things
called parables. How many of you have heard of parables? Yeah,
you've heard of them. But Jesus is the one who
created that format of teaching, or adopted it and elevated
(03:58):
it to his highest level to show us what something
looks like that we can't see with our eyes. So
he would take something that we can see and use
it to illustrate something that we can't see, in order
to help us to understand that what is unseen is
often more real than what is seen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So a lot of times, the things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That you can't measure are the things that are actually
that actually matter the most.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, joy matters more than money, I promise you, it does.
I promise you it does. I'm not rich enough to.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Know this, but I do know some people who have
everything and nothing simultaneously. Because if you can't enjoy it,
why happen? So what is unseen is more important than
what is seen. You can see the boat, but you
can't see the fact that the people riding on it
don't even like each other. What is unseen is more
(04:54):
important than what is seen. This is the principle of
the kingdom, the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of
the world.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The kingdoms of this world clap for what they can see.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, you got followers, Ah, you got status, Ah, you
got a BMW. All of that is fine, But I
want to know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Not under the hood of your car, but in the
interior of your soul.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Do you have something that can't be taken away?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Now? Jesus' most famous parable was about a son who
went to his father and took his share of the
inheritance before his father died, and Jesus was illustrating two
different things in this parable. The first one was about
the father and the second thing was about us. And
I want to read it to you. I'll read it
(05:47):
not in its entirety, but enough where you get a sense,
because it's very powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
To see what the Father saw.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know, we often preach this passage to talk about
how this young man in the passage is, as you'll see,
making some bad decisions, and we'll talk about how no
matter what you've done, you can.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Always come home to God. And all of that is true.
I hope you know that that in this kingdom you're
always welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
The times where you feel like you deserve God the
least are the times when you need his presence the most.
It's so important you pray when you're struggling, not just
when you feel like you're on top of it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's so important that if you struggle with.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
An addiction, that you pray even while you're drunk, even
while you're high. You need to pray even when you're
in the middle of it, because he's the god of
the mountain and the God of the valley. But the
primary point of this passage is not about what the
son did. It's about what the Father saw. And Jesus
(06:57):
is teaching about his concept of the outcast being welcomed
into his kingdom. And he continued in verse eleven, there
was a man who had two sons. The younger one
said to his father, father, give me my share of
the estate. So he divided his property between them. I
never noticed the word them, but it means that both
brothers got their share. And you know what else, The
(07:21):
older one got more by Jewish law, he got two
thirds of the estate.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Younger brother got a third. Which one's more two thirds
or one third?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Your kid, I know we went to public school, but
come on, now, the older brother got more. But I
want you to notice that the younger brother left says
that he set out, got together all he had Verse thirteen,
set out for a distant country, and they're squandered as wealth.
And while I living, after he spent everything, there was
(07:53):
a severe famine in that whole country, and he began
to be in need. So he went and hired himself
out to a citizen of that country. I need those
of you who really know God to pray for someone
who needs to hear this next part, because it's just
where they are. He hired himself out to a citizen
of that country who sent him to his fields to
(08:14):
feed pigs.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And it got so bad for him when he.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Got disconnected from what his father's resource had made available
to him. He had the scene resources of his father,
but he no longer had the unseen reality of his
relationship to him. And he longed to fill his stomach
with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no
one gave him anything. He's waiting for something to be
(08:41):
given to him by people that only his father has.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So he's eating what the pigs eat. He's feeding off
of what the world feeds off of.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He's scrolling and clicking and liking and deleting and filtering
and cropping and snapping it and clicking and liking and
loving and clicking and checking and subscribing and unsubscribing, and
everything that is in his feed is only making him
more hungry. What people are most likely to celebrate is
(09:23):
often what is least likely to satisfy. And while he
was in this starved state, the Bible says that verse seventeen,
he came to his senses. He's waiting for something to
be given that he had all along, and he came
to the point that I'm praying we come to during
(09:43):
this series where we realize that they can't give it.
It can never come from outside, It has to come
from within.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Do you hear me preaching to you today. It has
to come from within. It has to come from.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Spirit, It has to come from source, It has to
come from Father. It cannot come from your friends. Your
friends can be a conduit, but they cannot be the
sole content of what your soul receives. And if they
give it, they can take it. But when he came
to his senses, he realized something, my father has what
I'm hungry for. My father has what I'm starving for.
(10:25):
Look here we have church what the world needs. But
if we act like the world acts, and chase what
the world chases, we cannot celebrate the fullness of what
we've been given.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Let's face it, we're glued to our screens, so it's
harder than ever to break through the clutter. That's why
screenless moments are so valuable. So when you're biking, driving, cooking,
or just relaxing, you can escape the media madness and
you can listen. Why do you reach as people in
all these streamers moments moments that visual media can but
(11:04):
Spotify can. Millions of people use Spotify to soundtrack their lives,
streaming for over two and a half hours a day,
and the more they stream.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The more we learn.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
With every swipe, skip, and shuffle. We understand our audience.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Our generation turns into music, ideas and meaning. It binds
us together and that's powerful. We inspire one another, We
bring together communities. We challenge the systems around us. We
shape life.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Do Wardy.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Spotify sat side by side with gen Z listeners and
emerging artists from around the world to understand where is
all going
The battle is not yours, it is God's.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And we say the battle is the lord's, but we
stress like it's ours. We say the battle is the lords,
but we worry like it's ours. Now we've wasted all
of our strength worrying when we could have been worshiping.
The battle is not yours. Get it back. Quit doing
God's job for him. God wants his battle back. Is
(00:31):
too big for you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It came up from behind you.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You can't do it. Give it back. You can't fight it.
Give it back, You can't figure it out. Give it back.
How do you give it back?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's a focus, that's looking beyond what's coming against you
and looking toward.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
What is within you, to know that greater is he
that is in me than he that is in the world.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And God wants.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
His battle back.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
In quiet time, I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Never know what had the story.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
We're growing Hendrik's now.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Charge.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I shall stack.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Making good choices.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
iHeartRadio now combines your favorite radio stations plus your on
demand music collection, all in one app. iHeartRadio automatically creates
your my playlist, where you save all your favorite tracks
from the radio. When you hear a song on the radio,
tap add to playlist and choose a playlist. With iHeartRadio
(01:42):
All Access, create an unlimited number of playlists, Search for
an artist or song and save directly to the playlist
you choose. Collect and listen to your favorite music anywhere, anytime.
Create a playlist for every mood or occasion. Radio plus
(02:16):
unlimited music all in one app.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Certainly I can learn from that, but if I get
so distracted by how you're doing it, I might miss
the uniqueness of how God made.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Me to do it, and then I become discouraged, just
distracted and discouraged. He wants to distract you so you crash,
or discourage you so you quit.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This message finds many of us distracted and discouraged, And
when we come to this point, it is the revelation
that the Father saw that enables us.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To get our focus back.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You cannot preach a message like this about the unseen
celebration without at least bringing up the parable of the
prodigal son. I don't think the message would be complete
without Luke fifteen. For Jesus, it was difficult to get
the people to perceive what.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He was saying when he preached sermons, so he.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Would preach on the kingdom, of having blessed, are the
porn spirit for their kingdom, of having blessed, and meet
for them inherit the earth blessed theos more of their becomforted.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Blessed those who hundred thirds Rustians.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They'd be filled, blessed peacemakers, they be called children of God.
He would teach about the kingdom. It was a very
different kind of kingdom. It was an invisible kingdom. It
was an unseen kingdom. But he would use these things
called parables. How many of you have heard of parables? Yeah,
you've heard of them. But Jesus is the one who
created that format of teaching, or adopted it and elevated
(03:58):
it to his highest level to show us what something
looks like that we can't see with our eyes. So
he would take something that we can see and use
it to illustrate something that we can't see, in order
to help us to understand that what is unseen is
often more real than what is seen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So a lot of times, the things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That you can't measure are the things that are actually
that actually matter the most.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, joy matters more than money, I promise you, it does.
I promise you it does. I'm not rich enough to.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Know this, but I do know some people who have
everything and nothing simultaneously. Because if you can't enjoy it,
why happen? So what is unseen is more important than
what is seen. You can see the boat, but you
can't see the fact that the people riding on it
don't even like each other. What is unseen is more
(04:54):
important than what is seen. This is the principle of
the kingdom, the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of
the world.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The kingdoms of this world clap for what they can see.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, you got followers, Ah, you got status, Ah, you
got a BMW. All of that is fine, But I
want to know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Not under the hood of your car, but in the
interior of your soul.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Do you have something that can't be taken away?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Now? Jesus' most famous parable was about a son who
went to his father and took his share of the
inheritance before his father died, and Jesus was illustrating two
different things in this parable. The first one was about
the father and the second thing was about us. And
I want to read it to you. I'll read it
(05:47):
not in its entirety, but enough where you get a sense,
because it's very powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
To see what the Father saw.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know, we often preach this passage to talk about
how this young man in the passage is, as you'll see,
making some bad decisions, and we'll talk about how no
matter what you've done, you can.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Always come home to God. And all of that is true.
I hope you know that that in this kingdom you're
always welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
The times where you feel like you deserve God the
least are the times when you need his presence the most.
It's so important you pray when you're struggling, not just
when you feel like you're on top of it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's so important that if you struggle with.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
An addiction, that you pray even while you're drunk, even
while you're high. You need to pray even when you're
in the middle of it, because he's the god of
the mountain and the God of the valley. But the
primary point of this passage is not about what the
son did. It's about what the Father saw. And Jesus
(06:57):
is teaching about his concept of the outcast being welcomed
into his kingdom. And he continued in verse eleven, there
was a man who had two sons. The younger one
said to his father, father, give me my share of
the estate. So he divided his property between them. I
never noticed the word them, but it means that both
brothers got their share. And you know what else, The
(07:21):
older one got more by Jewish law, he got two
thirds of the estate.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Younger brother got a third. Which one's more two thirds
or one third?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Your kid, I know we went to public school, but
come on, now, the older brother got more. But I
want you to notice that the younger brother left says
that he set out, got together all he had Verse thirteen,
set out for a distant country, and they're squandered as wealth.
And while I living, after he spent everything, there was
(07:53):
a severe famine in that whole country, and he began
to be in need. So he went and hired himself
out to a citizen of that country. I need those
of you who really know God to pray for someone
who needs to hear this next part, because it's just
where they are. He hired himself out to a citizen
of that country who sent him to his fields to
(08:14):
feed pigs.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And it got so bad for him when he.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Got disconnected from what his father's resource had made available
to him. He had the scene resources of his father,
but he no longer had the unseen reality of his
relationship to him. And he longed to fill his stomach
with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no
one gave him anything. He's waiting for something to be
(08:41):
given to him by people that only his father has.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So he's eating what the pigs eat. He's feeding off
of what the world feeds off of.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He's scrolling and clicking and liking and deleting and filtering
and cropping and snapping it and clicking and liking and
loving and clicking and checking and subscribing and unsubscribing, and
everything that is in his feed is only making him
more hungry. What people are most likely to celebrate is
(09:23):
often what is least likely to satisfy. And while he
was in this starved state, the Bible says that verse seventeen,
he came to his senses. He's waiting for something to
be given that he had all along, and he came
to the point that I'm praying we come to during
(09:43):
this series where we realize that they can't give it.
It can never come from outside, It has to come
from within.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Do you hear me preaching to you today. It has
to come from within. It has to come from.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Spirit, It has to come from source, It has to
come from Father. It cannot come from your friends. Your
friends can be a conduit, but they cannot be the
sole content of what your soul receives. And if they
give it, they can take it. But when he came
to his senses, he realized something, my father has what
I'm hungry for. My father has what I'm starving for.
(10:25):
Look here we have church what the world needs. But
if we act like the world acts, and chase what
the world chases, we cannot celebrate the fullness of what
we've been given.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Let's face it, we're glued to our screens, so it's
harder than ever to break through the clutter. That's why
screenless moments are so valuable. So when you're biking, driving, cooking,
or just relaxing, you can escape the media madness and
you can listen. Why do you reach as people in
all these streamers moments moments that visual media can but
(11:04):
Spotify can. Millions of people use Spotify to soundtrack their lives,
streaming for over two and a half hours a day,
and the more they stream.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The more we learn.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
With every swipe, skip, and shuffle. We understand our audience.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Our generation turns into music, ideas and meaning. It binds
us together and that's powerful. We inspire one another, We
bring together communities. We challenge the systems around us. We
shape life.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Do Wardy.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Spotify sat side by side with gen Z listeners and
emerging artists from around the world to understand where is
all going
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