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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Eric Nelson: Christian Lifehacks

Eric Nelson

Christian Lifehacks 1: John

Christian Lifehacks 2: Paul

Christian Lifehacks 3: Jesus

This weekend, we're going to spend some time together talking about some Christian life hacks.

It's been about 8 years since I've been able to present any messages here at Advent Hope.

And I'm very excited about some of these messages and some of the specific points I'll be sharing because they've had an impact in my life, and I hope they will in your life.

Much of what I'm going to say this weekend is very, very simple.

It's nothing that probably will be new to most of you.

How many of you are familiar with the term life hacks?

How many of you have never heard the term life hacks?

If you go to Google and you type in life hack or life hacker or something like that, you'll get a lot of simple hints that can make your life easier.

When heating leftovers, space out a circle in the middle, it will heat up much more evenly.

Don't you just hate it when you're heating up spaghetti and part of it is really hot and the rest of it is cold?

And this is an example of a life hack that you can find out there on the internet.

There's thousands of these things that might make your life a little bit easier.

So if you just put a wooden spoon across the top of the pot, when the foam starts to rise, well, it'll hit the wooden spoon and go back and it just won't boil over.

And you'll find more of these things on the internet.

Use a can opener to open blister packs and avoid cutting yourself.

You know, something very simple that somebody thought of that, you know, might make your life easier if you open a lot of blister packs.

So the sermons I'm going to share are Christian life hacks.

How we can live the Christian life more simply, more effectively, and I think probably the key word is simple.

In fact, the sermon this evening has only 2 points.

And the sermon tomorrow morning has only 2 points, 2 life hacks, and the sermon tomorrow afternoon has only 1.

This evening we're going to look at only 1 text, 1 passage from 1 John.

Tomorrow for the Advent Hope Sabbath school time, we're going to look at 1 pass, actually 2 passages, I'm sorry, from the writings of Paul.

And I'm most excited, I think, about tomorrow afternoon.

I'm going to share a message that kind of brings everything together.

It'll be based on John chapter 17, and that I think is a very powerful chapter and I'm extremely excited about that.

I want to share a side note before we pray and read our passage from 1 John.

This is an observation, I can't prove it to you, but I think in my own life it's true and I think it might be true for a lot of other people and that is that I'm just gonna guess based on who comes out on Friday nights from Advent Hope.

I'm gonna guess that this group of people here is very negative.

By that I don't mean that we're critical or we have negative vibes about people or that we you know we See the negative side of things.

I don't mean you're pessimistic, I don't mean you're unhappy, I don't mean I'm this way as well, so I'll include myself in this.

What I do mean is that, again, I'm guessing about who you are because I don't know some of you.

We as a group resonate with the negative commands of Scripture more than the positive commands.

The 10 Commandments would be a good example.

At least 8 and a half of the Commandments are negative commands.

But there are positive commands in Scripture, too.

Love your neighbor as yourself, rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, you know, whatever it is.

There are positive commands of Scripture, too.

I believe that for myself, and I'm betting for this group of people, in general, we resonate with the negative commands of Scripture more than the positive commands.

And so what I'm going to share this evening and tomorrow, there's only 2 points.

But keep in mind this concept as we go forward through this weekend, that we want to understand both the negative and the positive commands of Scripture, and we want to pay attention to both of them, because they're both important.

Dear God, I ask that we will understand the commands of Scripture, that through this very simple message, the words of the Bible will speak to us, and that we will learn something new that we can apply in our own lives to help us walk the Christian walk.

More simply, pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

Open your Bibles to 1 John 2, very familiar passage.

I put it up on the screen here in case some of you don't have your Bibles.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.

If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

What's the negative command in this scripture?

Now, as we'll see in a moment, this is more of a spiritual concept of not loving the world, but Let's start very, very, very simple, very concrete in our thinking.

Don't love this planet as a geographical location.

What should we love as far as geography goes?

In fact, there's at least 3 passages that I came up with right off the top of my head.

We don't look at those things which are seen, we look at those things which are not seen.

The things which are seen are temporal, they're temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal, they're the real things that are going to last.

2 Corinthians 5, 1, we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, just went away, well we have something more permanent.

We have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

And probably the clearest, talking about loving the world versus not loving the world, Colossians 3, 1 and 2, famous passage, if ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.

Your affection, your love, what you like, what you think about.

Set your affection on things above and not on things of this world.

So as a geographical location, don't love this planet.

Now, this should be pretty easy, I would think.

I mean, how many of us are looking forward to going to heaven, right?

But as I thought about this, I think that at least in my own life and maybe in yours too, sometimes we say we want to go to heaven, but sometimes maybe we don't.

And I'll give you 1 good example that I'll bet Applies to almost everybody in this room at least at 1 point in your life I remember thinking this way when I Was young younger than I am now We all want Jesus to come back.

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Eric Nelson: Christian Lifehacks

Christian Lifehacks 1: John

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Practical Christian Living

Part 2 - Understanding Personal Problems

1h 14m

How Should We Live?

1h 5m

Ignite Your Spiritual Experience!

No Limits! Thriving in Relationships

1h 8m

The Way of Love

The Way of Love- Part 7

31m

Having A Experience in the Bible

46m

The Early Rain and the Holy Place Experience

1h 22m

Plenaries with Dwayne Lemon

Purify Our Motives

1h 43m

Preparing for the Latter Rain: The Judgment Hour Message

Prepare To Meet Your God

1h 15m

GYC SE 2011 Plenary Meetings

A Mighty Long Way

1h 15m

Higher than the Highest

43m

Lightbearer

37m

Be Ye Therefore Perfect

43m

Sound Doctrine