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I hope everyone listening has had a wonderful week and has meditated upon the blessings you have received from God this week.
As you know we have been studying the “Life of Christ” and today we are going to be looking at Jesus’ words found in Matthew 6:19-24.
Typically we don’t read together the main text but today I think it would be good for us to.
As you can see, Jesus is talking about having “Single-Mindedness.”
In other words, Jesus wants his children to be “focused.”
The reality is Satan will do everything within his power to make us “unfocused” on God and focused on other things.
Too many times Christians are like toddlers who can so easily go from one toy to the next and never focusing on anything in particular.
Satan is good at offering God’s children “new toys” and keeping them “double-minded.”
However, God wants us focused on him and his word.
God has made it perfectly clear that if we are struggling with focus i.e., wisdom in this area we should pray for it.
As Christians God has made it clear we cannot straddle the fence, we must put our whole focus on him if we want to be with him for eternity.
Jesus taught that we are to be “pure in heart to see God” (Matthew 5:8).
The word pure there means “single-hearted, without mixture.”
Paul would declare we must, in our lives, doing “one thing.”
In other words, our mind and heart must be steadfast focused on God.
So we then should ask the question, “How do we do this?”
For Christians this means “being a follower of Christ” i.e., a disciple of our Lord and Savior.
Peter would describe it as being having a sober-mind that is prepared to act for Christ.
A single-minded Christian is one that counts the cost each day and determines the path ahead that is the “strait and narrow path” (Matthew 7:13-14).
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