Speaker: Bill Simpson

Someday, alongside all the heirs of Abraham, from every tribe, tongue, & nation, we will experience the fulfillment of God’s promise. The presence that has been elusive will show itself as both infinite and definite.

God’s jealousy is about what God most wants: to give us Himself. God is jealous for our joy & His glory. When God is not the center of our lives, we rob ourselves of our ultimate joy.

The presence offered through a relationship with Jesus is what we most require while on this earth & what we need when we leave it.

God’s general presence provides us with a faint memory of what no longer exists. Sin has caused our worst wound in separating us from God’s actual presence.
This is the great pain that all mankind lives with: the absence of God.

How do you make it personal? You have to make your spiritual growth a priority. Realize that your relationship with God will become more passionate as you become more passionate about how you connect with Him.

You should stop thinking of God only as someone you fear, but as someone you can love. This should settle what you believe about the character of God forever. God keeps His promises. God can be trusted with your heart, you soul, & your strength. He is not giving you Canaan because you deserve it, or because of who you are, but because He is God.

It really doesn’t matter what our kids know if they don’t know what really matters.

If Jesus really rose from the dead, than He is who He said He was—we must tell because everyone needs to know! We need to go to the ends of the earth to tell them JESUS LIVES, JESUS LOVES, & JESUS SAVES, even if it means that we risk some-thing to do it.

You carry the cross when you take the step of reaching out to someone, braving the awkwardness, of telling them about Jesus. … Are we willing to pick up the cross so that others can experience it?