Spiritual Transition Game from Mason Jars to the Gospel

All right, so, welcome.

This is a time of our spiritual transition game.

This is a game where what we do is those who watch the Striving for Eternity Academy live, those

that are in the chat get to give me something that they think that I just cannot possibly in

any way, shape, or form transition to the gospel.

So I take whatever is given in the chat, they hit the record button up there, and I have to do a quick transition

from whatever I'm given to the gospel.

This game is played so we can practice transitioning from the natural to the spiritual.

The advantage of doing it is that we can get into any type of gospel conversation

any time we want.

The more we play this game, the better equipped we are to quickly transition from the natural to

the spiritual.

Today's topic is a mason jar.

I'm not sure I know what that is either, but a canning jar, okay, well I know what canning is.

So as we think about canning, people that are familiar with canning,

I'm sure they're more familiar with what a mason jar is than I am.

I just consider going to the grocery store like an effort, but actually canning foods, but I

do like gardening, I will admit that.

But the thing is that when you actually do a lot of gardening as I did this summer, the dilemma

I had is I had more tomatoes than I could possibly eat.

Everything I had was basically, I had tomato soup, I had made tomato paste, I would

just sit there and snack on the cherry tomatoes, tomato in the salad, tomato in basically everything.

Why?

Because well, basically they don't last that long.

And the thing that would be helpful if I had a clue how to do any canning would be if I

had some canning jars, mason jars I guess is what they're called, but I know that they do

have jars where you can pickle things and store things for long term

use to basically hold things.

And it's a very interesting thing when you think about that, what you're doing is you're taking the fruits of your labor,

if you're doing gardening that is, and you're taking the fruits of that labor and you're trying to hold it over for a longer period of time

so it'll last for the whole year.

It reminds me of something that I remember reading.

It speaks about ants and how ants will use the entire summer to plan

for the winter and they store things up.

And they do that because they were created to do that, unlike the slugs that were lazy is

the example that I read about, is where they don't plan ahead.

Where I read this was in the Bible.

It talks about the fact that we should not be lazy like a slugger, but we should go to the ants

and plan ahead.

You know the most important thing for us to plan ahead, because most of us plan, we plan for going to school, we

plan for careers, we plan for marriage, we plan for having kids, we plan for retirement, but we don't plan what's going to

happen a second after we die.

And all that planning we had all through life, without planning where we're going to be a second after we die,

becomes meaningless.

We should plan for where we'll spend eternity.

The reality is that though many people think they can't know, there is a way to know.

Every one of us knows that God exists.

And every one of us, because God's given us a conscience, so we know right from wrong.

We know that when we lie and we steal and we break God's commandments that we're guilty.

And in that, we end up realizing that we need to get

right with God before we die.

And so the way to get right with God is to trust what He did on the cross 2 ,000 years ago when He came to earth as a man,

died in our place, so that we might be forgiven.

You may plan for what you're going to do with your vegetables to make them last the year,

but my challenge to you is to make sure you plan for where you'd spend eternity and get

right with God today.

Repent.

That means to turn from trusting yourself and your good works.

Turn and trust Jesus Christ today.

That's how I would attempt to transition from a mason jar, which I wasn't sure what that was, but a canning jar I do

know, to the gospel.

How would you go about doing that?

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