======================================================================== SET YOUR HEART ON THINGS ABOVE (CLIP) by Leonard Ravenhill ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of setting our affections on heavenly things rather than earthly distractions, highlighting the need to prioritize Jesus over worldly interests. It challenges believers to examine if they have lost the joy of the Lord and replaced it with entertainment, questioning if Jesus truly has control over every aspect of their lives. The imagery of Jesus on the cross is used to illustrate surrendering our rights and submitting completely to Him. Duration: 0:42 Topics: "Heavenly Focus", "Surrendering to Christ" Scripture References: Colossians 3:2, Matthew 6:24, Galatians 2:20, Philippians 2:5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon emphasizes the importance of setting our affections on heavenly things rather than earthly distractions, highlighting the need to prioritize Jesus over worldly interests. It challenges believers to examine if they have lost the joy of the Lord and replaced it with entertainment, questioning if Jesus truly has control over every aspect of their lives. The imagery of Jesus on the cross is used to illustrate surrendering our rights and submitting completely to Him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Set your affection on things above, not things on the... come on, come on, come on you fellas now. Okay, you're saved. And yet I guess you talk more about baseball than you talk about Jesus. Is that right? Hmm? Do you know how you need entertainment? Or any of us. You only need entertainment when you've lost the joy of the Lord. Listen, are you just a Sunday morning Christian? Do you live and move and have your being in Jesus Christ every waking moment of your life? Has he got your thinking? But look at his figure for a moment. Here is a man stretched on a cross. As soon as that man is nailed to the cross, he has no rights of his own. ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/lRwNAlcUC_w.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/leonard-ravenhill/set-your-heart-on-things-above/ ========================================================================