1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,240 Today I want to talk to you about a broken Christmas. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:13,940 Acts chapter 3 verse 21 says, heaven must receive him Jesus until the time comes for 3 00:00:13,940 --> 00:00:23,200 God to restore everything as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:28,540 This is the time of the year in California where I live. 5 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:36,240 We put our best foot forward with the parties that we host, the houses that we decorate 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,520 and the gifts that we give. 7 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,120 Sometimes we get this right and other times we fall way short. 8 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,340 It's an optimistic time of the year. 9 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:50,880 It's a time of the year where there's a lot of fun. 10 00:00:50,880 --> 00:01:00,280 It also has underneath it a deeper level of no matter how hard we strive to attain all 11 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:09,880 of the things that we want and work for in life, we rarely hit that goal of perfection. 12 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:18,120 The hope of God, the hope of Jesus, the hope of Christmas, the hope of the gospel revolves 13 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,600 around this one word, restore. 14 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:29,060 There will come a time for those of us who have put our faith in God when he will make 15 00:01:29,060 --> 00:01:31,760 everything perfect. 16 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,980 Sometimes things on earth are perfect. 17 00:01:34,980 --> 00:01:37,680 We have a perfect wave. 18 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,260 We have a perfect date. 19 00:01:40,260 --> 00:01:44,440 We have the perfect thing that we say to someone. 20 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:52,020 We even have maybe the perfect moment in the afternoon or the beach, the golf course or 21 00:01:52,020 --> 00:02:03,440 on the field, but rarely do we live inside of that perfect flow state, that area of perfection. 22 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:11,340 Most of the time we strive for it and we long for it, but we don't live in it. 23 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:19,540 The great news of Christmas is that one day God will restore everything in our life that 24 00:02:19,540 --> 00:02:25,080 is broken and that feels broken. 25 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:32,240 Want to encourage you, there will come a day that God will restore all of our relationships. 26 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:40,840 Now you don't have to live very long before you experience relationships that get fractured. 27 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,920 Sometimes they're our fault. 28 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,340 Sometimes they're the fault of others. 29 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:55,200 Even right now you might be thinking, wow, I wish I had a different type of relationship 30 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:00,660 with and you can fill in the blank of that person in your life. 31 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:08,080 We live with the state of that relationship that we long for and then the reality of what 32 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,900 it is. 33 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:16,640 Even right now I want to invite you, hey God, would you heal the relationships in my life? 34 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,680 Would you say that with me? 35 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,920 God will hear your prayer. 36 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:27,280 You know the second thing that God's going to heal someday is our perspective. 37 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,480 It's amazing to me we live in a time where everyone thinks they know everything. 38 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:40,160 Well, it's impossible for one four pound brain inside of one human being out of eight 39 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:48,240 billion to know everything and for the perspective inside of that four pound brain inside of 40 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:56,420 that one person who maybe in the best instance speaks a few languages to get our perspective 41 00:03:56,420 --> 00:04:00,120 about everything right all the time. 42 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:07,880 You know when heaven will have perfect relationships, we'll also have a perfect perspective because 43 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,200 it won't be skewed by the broken world that we live in. 44 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:19,800 Thirdly, heaven will be wonderful because all of our assumptions will be healed. 45 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,080 You know we make decisions based on assumptions. 46 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,960 Sometimes we do a lot of research and we're humble and all of our assumptions were spot 47 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,320 on and then the outcomes that we strive for they work out. 48 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,720 A lot of times despite our best research, our most you know putting together the wise 49 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,360 counsel trying to make the best decision, the assumptions that we use to make a decision 50 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,920 they turned out to be wrong. 51 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:55,600 You know in heaven all of our assumptions will be restored and they will be healed. 52 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:01,560 The fourth thing is in heaven all of our motives will be restored. 53 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:08,120 We tend to think that our motives are pure and others are impure. 54 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:13,320 This is what Jesus is trying to teach us in Matthew 7 you know do not judge lest you be 55 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,760 judged for the measure you measure will be measured unto you. 56 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:24,560 You know our motives in life, well sometimes they're pure and then sometimes there's a 57 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,880 lot of us mingled inside of those motives. 58 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:34,360 In heaven we will have perfect motives. 59 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,440 On earth we're always to pray, maybe you want to pray this with me now, hey Lord would 60 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,960 you give me a pure heart? 61 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:47,400 Would you allow my motives to be about loving you and loving others? 62 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:53,120 And then the last thing that God will heal someday, he'll fix what's broken is our 63 00:05:53,120 --> 00:06:00,800 habits a lot of time despite our best intentions, our best efforts we pick up habits along the 64 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:09,160 way in earth, on earth that really undermine what we want and this is part of being in 65 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:15,100 a broken planet a lot of us pick up habits that undermine all of the productive things 66 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:22,000 that we're trying to do in our life and instead of admitting the grief and the hurt and the 67 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:31,040 pain that we have experienced in our life we cover up with unhealthy habits in the hope 68 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,880 that the problems will go away. 69 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:42,000 You know my friend the beautiful thing about heaven is that one day God will heal and restore 70 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,480 everything. 71 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:50,280 Today's teaching is an invitation for you to ask God, Lord would you heal my relationships? 72 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:52,980 Would you heal my perspective? 73 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:55,160 Would you heal my assumptions? 74 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,200 Would you heal my motives? 75 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,920 And would you heal my habits? 76 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,320 I pray for your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. 77 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,080 We know that all things are perfect. 78 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,300 Lord would you make my life a reflection of heaven? 79 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:15,280 Would you purify my motives? 80 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:22,640 You know maybe you've listened to these somewhere online or you've watched one of these clips 81 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:23,640 along the way. 82 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:29,560 I'd like to invite you to just say to God, Lord would you give me the healing that I 83 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,040 need in my life? 84 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,600 I do this every day. 85 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:34,600 I pray. 86 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,960 I ask God to help me with the healing that I need. 87 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,840 The beautiful thing my friend is if you have just a little bit of sincerity in your heart 88 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:47,240 when you pray, God will meet you every single time. 89 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:53,320 Well I wish you a broken Christmas, an unbroken Christmas. 90 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,320 Thanks so much for watching. 91 00:07:54,320 --> 00:08:12,720 I hope you have a beautiful day.