Celebrate: Enjoy the Journey [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright you like Jesus himself other beloved in whom he is well pleased. I can tell you if you ever were to see God face to face what you see is a radiant countenance smile ever seen anything more glorious in all of your life goals. The father celebrates his children Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will see your life in a whole new light. Except for you to hear the teaching today.

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That would be if the earth were a golf ball could be filling up a school bus, not so much. The sun is then there, but as large as our son seems to be it's only a medium size star scientists have discovered much bigger stars. The biggest one they've discovered is the canis majoris the great gold star. The big dogs are in the big dog star is so massive. Remember our son million earths fit into it with the big dog star so big that it would take 7 million 9 billion, trillion, but seven quadrillion earths to Philip getting Rama my seven quadrillion earths or Southern off all you have to Philip Mount Everest to get an idea how big that one star is one star. Astronomers estimate it probably 400 billion stars in our Milky Way alone and they estimate there probably more than 100 and 7000 and 70 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

You multiply that you gets inconceivable. It's 10 to the 24th cancel one with 24 zeros behind it.

Whatever the number is that's how we absorb observable stars.

There are family stars are likely to be God is pretty good day when he made stars good for the heading come to the talk of his creation using to create humanity in his own image. The word celebration comes to us from Latin in the 15th century it was primarily used to speak of celebrating the mass celebrated a word that came into common usage in association with worship celebrating the mass celebrating the worship service. That's where the work on some celebrate RA means to assemble to honor is quite different. By the way, from amusement, amusement comes from the prefix which means not an use which means to think amusement is to not think is okay. Sometimes you would be amused. Could you just quit thinking about anything but a celebration is entirely different. Amusement is a some kind of frivolous thing to get you did not think but celebration makes you think and be filled with one opening chapter of Genesis tells us that God is good and that everything that he makes is good and therefore because he's good. She celebrates all that is good and therefore God celebrates and anyone who walks closely with God starts picking this up is not realizing that you just have to celebrate. I think of David when he was bring in the ark of the covenant into Jerusalem, David was anointed by Samuel told he was going be king of Israel, but little David didn't know how much adversity he was going to face before that ever actually came to pass.

A run for his life for years from the insanely jealous King Saul. But when the time finally came to labels and go take the throne in Jerusalem and they wanted to bring up the ark of the covenant, which was the visible symbol of the manifest presence of God. So David was going to take the throne that it been promised to him, knowing he had been sustained by the grace of God and that he had with him the very presence of God is what happens I can say no. Six and I was talking David. The Lord blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that belongs to him because the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of a medium to the city of David with rejoicing and when those who bore the ark of the covenant ark of the Lord had gone six steps to sacrifice an oxidant fat and animal. David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen refund, the garment of a priest.

So David all house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord was shouting and with the sound of the horn through the they were going with them over the Edom into Jerusalem as the make a way up there with six steps is our stop right there, have a festival right now.

I imagine this would take six more steps.we will have little prestress now take six more steps will celebrate the way their picture of life is similar what happened with Joshua when he led the people and conquest of Canaan. The previous generation. It died out because of their cowardice and their unwillingness to take hold of the promises of God but God opened up the Jordan River for Joshua and he was leading the people through and this is what happened to Joshua for the cultural member. The people of Israel me to point a man from each tribe and Joshua said to them pass over the ark of your God into the midst of the Jordan and take each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number the tribes, the people of Israel. This may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come. One of these stones mean to you and you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord's love this because Joshua has not conquered a single city have to walk around the walls of Jericho have to face the Philistines have to face all kinds of adversity and fight many battles to conquer the land that God is given to them. But the first thing that happened was God opened up the Jordan River for them and they walked through the surreal stop right here and celebrate this right now that's Helen right will have more teaching moment today important series so much worry about yesterday's four years cemetery getting Betty for tomorrow is hard to focus on the matters most. Wearing seasoned coaches calling nine psychological program. Eastern religion mindfulness living in the present life messages with your digital partnership making gift textures and levers of God's grace. Each moment to moment every day of your life. The gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries.

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These teaching you once again is when you're far from God. The enemy does is tempt you to cease celebrating the goodness of God in the moment and focus on what you don't have was in that the primal temptation the way the serpent slithered into the garden and began to Lord even subsequently Adam into eating of the tree in the middle of the garden was essentially to say are you sure that you are blessed because something is being withheld from you.

Let's focus for a while. What you don't have. Think about it.

If you were to have that you'd be like God. We were already like God, but the primal temptation that still comes to us is to not celebrate each step of the way but think I can't celebrate yet not eaten of the tree that's in the middle of I can't celebrate yet because I haven't measured up. I haven't done this.

I haven't become this. I need to do something else be someone else. Before I could truly celebrate the goodness of God in my life so you can get tricked into believing that what is good is bad what is bad is good and you can miss all God has an answer for this. He loves you. You can take away from Genesis chapter 1 is so beautiful really means that God doesn't have to wait until something is finished before he celebrates it. It means that God doesn't have to wait to hear finished to celebrate you such an awareness is marvelous in every facet. It means that God's basic orientation towards you, his attitude towards you and Christ is one of celebration. He's like the father in Jesus's famous prodigal son parable, the son, who has wasted his inheritance and humiliated the family and brought scandal upon their name comes to his senses and returns home after his long wayward time and the father sees him from a distance and runs to meet him and does what no Hebrew patriarch would ever do his row and started sprinting down the dusty road to embrace his side.

The son who had humiliated him, wasted his fortune and he came back and said kill a fattened calf, because the assignment was lost to me has been found. Luke 1523 and bring the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate for this my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found. And they began to celebrate the celebrates what the sun is back. People thought he was dead. Here is alive. He was lost and he's been found. He's not celebrating that the sun is become a straight a student, we don't know that yet not celebrating that the sun is proven that it can be a savvy businessman and take over the family estate is not proven is not done anything to earn a place back in the family or prove his worth art is measure up to the standards of his older brother is not done any of that always done is just come back home and the father so exciting just can't just can't stand it. The text says they had to celebrate this as this is this is the story maybe the greatest storage is ever told to describe you who God is a God who just celebrates every turn in your life towards that which is holy and good and wonderful is a God who you think a mother celebrate her babies first couple of steps, how much more sore your father in heaven who loves you perfectly in this is powerful for the Christian because this is what is happened though. The first Adam was the leeward away from the truth fell into deception and forfeited his inheritance. God in his infinite wisdom and mercy and might sent the second Adam. That's how Jesus is described as God, but he is human born as a human and a human being lost dominion in the earth by his sentence.

So God sent a human being another story.

And anyone who trusts in him. The Scripture says is now in Jesus in the second Adam. Before Christ you're in the first Adam and in that sin. But when you accept Christ you're in the second Adam, what it means.

Beloved, as you are in a whole new race dominion has been restored in your rightful fellowship with God has been restored and to become the Bible calls a new creature and what I'm saying is that if you can envision that God celebrated his creation, step-by-step. In the beginning, how much more can you imagine that God celebrate you as his new creature in Christ. Luke 15 seven. In that same chapter about parables of lost things Jesus said, just so I tell you they'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. That means to change your mind and change of direction and see the truth. One sinner repents and 99 righteous persons who need no repentance that the nature of heaven is that it is filled with ongoing appeals of thunderous celebration over every single center ever sees Jesus Christ and turns towards him and towards the truth. Every single good thing that would ever happen in your life. Every single moment of grace that you discover God's goodness towards you. Everything wonderful in the smallest degree on the largest heaven is rejoicing and celebrating. That is mindbending to conceive this, but it surely is the picture of heaven and it is the picture of your life in Jesus Christ. If you ever wondered how God feels about you there you have it.

If you ever have been one who struggled to think that if you turned and looked at the face of God, that he might be shaking his head in disappointment at you. I'm here to tell you today beloved is a God of perfect love and all of heaven is celebrating every single good moment in your life and God looks for you through the lens of the blood of the finished work of Jesus Christ and you haven't been found in Christ as his child. You like Jesus himself on the beloved in whom he is well pleased, and I can tell you if you ever were to see God face to face what you see is 80 and countenanced a smile ever seen anything more glorious in all of your life because the father celebrates his children and all this means something wonderful.

It means that you don't have to require yourself to be perfect before you can celebrate the goodness of God in your life, and means that sometimes the lowest moments of your life what you need to remember is Genesis chapter 1, when you're in the middle of something that's not finished when you're in the midst of a journey and you so want to get to the end of that journey you can remember.

Genesis 1, God's inviting you to live in the moment and celebrate what is to be celebrated today that God didn't have to wait for prodigal son to prove himself, but just celebrated the fact that he was, how much more can we celebrate every evidence of God's grace in our lives when you're at your lowest, you need it the most. You may verbally tell of author Leo was godly of story when he was young his father came home one day, despondent and informed the large family that he might have to go bankrupt.

He learned that his business partner had absconded most of their businesses fun and was godly.

His father didn't see any way out and there was great sadness and anxiety and was godly said that his mother did the oddest thing she went and gathered up some of her jewelry and sold it and went by the market and bought all the ingredients for feast and came home and prepare an enormous face and some of the family members scolded her and said five you done such a thing at a time like this. We can least afford and she said because we need joy and celebration. Now in the midst of this darkness, not later when we pass through it. I want to know God is infinitely joyous because he is infinitely good in everything he does is good and causes him in his own perfection joy all over again on some of Genesis 1 recollecting funny story of Pastor sent me a picture that an elementary student and Sunday school had drawn the teacher had been teaching about Genesis 1 and the creation story and invited the class to each draw a picture of what they learned about God creating everything in Genesis chapter 1 and this particular child drew a picture and a little pencil drawing had tree and bluegrass in the sunshine and there's God they look to me for the stick drawing that God has a lot heroes Kate the little bubble you know dialogue coming out of God's mouth. This describing everything you just said nailed it is about as good as you never Genesis 1, God created everything in existence to the back and said God can celebrate every step of the way. So 10 that the gospel Allen right and you can find something to celebrate today the progress is a 100% complete. Allen is back with us in the studio sharing a parting good news thought for the day as we wrap up this teaching on celebrate and enjoy the journey but are series continues safer sick with us here in just a moment so much worry about yesterday's failures cemetery getting ready for tomorrow is hard to focus on the matters most. Now during season coaches, and mindfulness psychological program. Eastern religion mindfulness living in the present life each day to get messages with your digital sign ask for your partnership. Make your gift to the textures and levers of God's grace. Each moment moment every day of your life gospel is shared when you get to Allen right ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today.

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Pastor, our.work back in the studio Allen to share parting good news thought for the day.

On this celebrate and enjoy the journey and that you really you really have no excuse right we can find something to so let me just say as a parting thought that all of our lives as you do not have to be calm perfect before you two can celebrate. You don't have to finish the job.

You don't have to have proven yourself. You don't have to have all the final reports in before you celebrate something in each and every day, celebrate, and God showed is that right from the design of creation to look for something to celebrate today. Part of what it means to savor goodness of God. Today's good production Allen right ministries