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The Power of Beholding and the Brevity of Life

You will become like what you behold. You cannot break that rule. Your life is a product of the reality of that rule.

Brothers and sisters, we have not a minute to waste. Consider the brevity of this life in comparison with the unfathomable length of eternity. How ought we to spend this small bit of currency with which we have been entrusted?

It is right and fitting that we do much for the Lord in the short space that we have. Let my life be filled, packed, and crammed with holy thoughts and words and deeds to your glory.

The New Birth and Union with Christ

Your problem is not that you need a refresher course in religion. Your problem is not that there are some areas in your life that need readjusting, refined, or corrected. Your problem is deeper and profounder.

You must be born again.

As long as Christ remains outside of us, we are separated from him. And all that he has suffered and done for our salvation remains useless and of no value to us.

Theology, Worship, and the Need for Truth

The more you study the depths of God, the more you know about him, the deep things of God, which we all should study out thoroughly, the more our hearts will worship God. In fact, you cannot worship God without truth, without knowing who you're worshiping.

So worship without theology is simply idolatry.

Breaking Up Fallow Ground and Cherishing the Gospel

When we deal with fallow ground, we have to start with plowing. And when we deal with spiritually fallow ground, hearts that have been, through neglect, been allowed to grow hard toward God and his truth, hearts that have been cluttered again with the old weeds, well, we have to begin with breaking up this soil.

Cherish the gospel as if your life depended on it, because it does.