Significance comes when we know that we have a purpose, are needed, and will provide value to others.
How do you win in feeling significant iin life.
Genesis 1-3 - We were never created tto didie...it came through the ccurse...Gods grace will not let us live in our brokenness...and took our immortality.
Revelation 2,v7, 22 - Tree of life...for the healing of nations...we will reign forever.
James 4:13 - your life is a mist - it is only a resume for the rest of your eternal life.
Matt 6 - store treasures in heaven.
John 10:10 thief comes to steal - wants you to pursue as much as you can of this world
We make decisions based more on eternity
500 years you will still have people and the word of God
Dont just plan to your death, without investing in eternity.
Make ssure God and his Kingdom get proirity of your time, talents, treasures. Chris Brown 88/26/18
We are not a body with a soul, but aan eternal
soul itemporarily in a body. CS Lewis
Some verses that speak to this include;
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. ...
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.