Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

What many choose over God (even Christians)

2 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes that God has assigned believers the purpose of expanding His kingdom through global evangelism and living lives that glorify Him. He warns that many Christians neglect these spiritual responsibilities, allowing worldly distractions—such as scrolling social media and binge‑watching streaming series—to crowd out essential spiritual disciplines like reading Scripture, prayer, worship, and service. While acknowledging that recreation is not inherently wrong, he stresses that when these activities dominate a believer’s life, they become a spiritual danger. The speaker frames his message as a compassionate wake‑up call, asking the Holy Spirit to bring correction and hope, and urging listeners to deliberately say “no” to worldly cares in order to say “yes” to the Spirit’s voice.

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God has given us an assignment to expand the kingdom of heaven here upon the earth. God has given us the task of global evangelism. God has given us the purpose of glorifying him with the way we live our lives. Yet many of us squander that, and instead of devoting ourselves spiritually, grounding ourselves in the word, grounding ourselves in prayer, acknowledging the presence of the Lord through worship, serving others, many of us squander that, and we trade the mighty heavenly things for the things of this world. Instead of reading Instead of reading the Word, some of us scroll through social media. Instead of being up to date on our prayer life, we're up to date on the latest series that we're watching on a streaming platform. There's nothing wrong with relaxation, recreation, and so forth. But when those things become such a big part of our lives that they crowd out the things of the Spirit, we're in big trouble. And this is a wake-up call. I don't say this to condemn you. I say this that the Holy Spirit might bring correction and hope and guide you into a better future in him. We need to be people of God Who said, I'm going to say no to the cares and the distractions of this world that I might say yes to the voice of the Holy Spirit?