0908 Secret Place - I Must

We are called to have productivity not just activity.

Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw 1 Corinthians 3:12

Don’t just build your life on Christ, build it with Christ.

Wood-hay-straw or gold-silver-precious stones:

Found on the ground; discovered under ground

Comes in big quantities; found in small quantities

Cheap; expensive

Common; rare

Destroyed by fire; purified by fire

For our work to have significance it must come out of our secret place.

Christians should not focus on losing their salvation; they should focus on not losing their reward.

Oskar Schindler (1200 saved; more than 6k descendands living today…greedy, black marketer, playbody, member of Nazi Party, alcoholic, womanizer)

We are called to fulfill our assignment not everyone's agenda.

Now when it was day, He departed and went into a deserted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them; but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. Luke 4:42-43

Our identity is in relationship, not revival.

If the only time we pray is when we have issues - we don’t have intimacy.

Secret place gives you power not to live in reaction toward earth but in response toward heaven.

Our assignment is finishable.

I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. John 17:4

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

Secret place is the place where we discover and rediscover our “I MUST”

If the church does not save the lost, it has lost it self.

I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended Church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?

"A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from the distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!

"Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns.

By the time the train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. G-d forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene."