Channel Of Blessing To Your Church Series

My Second Point

Some people keep their eyes on what others are doing or not doing rather than keeping their eyes on Jesus. And the church misses the blessing.Hebrews 12:2

2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The word “fix” comes from a Greek word that has the idea of concentrating your gaze. It means to look away from other things so that you can focus all your attention on one thing, in this case, the person Jesus Christ.

I know that if you have been coming to Bala Chitto any length of time, you know that God has been doing a great work in this church. My concern as pastor is that it doesn't take much to take our eyes off Jesus and put them on one another, and everything collapses.

And if you start to hear grumbling then it is a sure sign that we are moving away from Jesus. Why does he or she get to do all that stuff at the church? Why don't they let someone else do something? Or so and so has been coming to the church for a while now and I don't see them doing anything at the church house. Why cannot they do anything?

Nothing good ever happens when you or a church takes your eyes off Jesus. Adam and Eve took their eyes off God and placed them on the Tree of Good and Evil and mankind fell. The Israelites took their eyes off the cloud by day and the fire by night that led them and put them on the giants in the land and they wandered in the wilderness 40 years. Peter was walking on the surface of the water toward Jesus when he took his eyes off Jesus, and he began to sink.

If I am in the operating room on the table, I sure want the doctor to be focused entirely on me, no distractions. I don't know if you saw on the national news story a couple of weeks ago where a doctor was in an operating room attempting to give a deposition by Zoom at the same time doing surgery. I can tell you; he will never be my doctor. If I am in an airplane, I want to think that the pilot has his focus on those instruments and the sky in front of him and nothing else.

So, is it too much to ask that when we gather together as an assembly of priest because that is what you are according to 1 Peter 2:9 that we keep our focus on Jesus? And if we can keep that focus on Jesus you will be blessed and so will this church.

The doctor who takes his eyes off the patient spells disaster; the pilot who takes his eyes off his instruments and the sky in front of him spells disaster, and a priest coming to church and who takes his or eyes off Jesus spells disaster. Th church is losing blessings.

My Third Point

Some people keep their prayer life me and my family focused and neglect praying for fellow church members and their needs. And the church misses the blessing.

Romans 15:30

30 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.Praying for your fellow church members increases your love for the one you are praying you and your local Church body. If you are just praying for you and your family, I would say that you are very committed to your wellbeing and that of your family. But I would also say that your lack of prayers for your fellow church members reveals your lack of commitment to the local church. And as we talked about earlier a lack of commitment to the church is a lose, lose for you. You lose out on a blessing and the church loses out on a blessing.