Perception … It’s Everything | Honor
Kevin Weaver   -   November 13, 2022

HONOR
Perception…It’s Everything

 

Perspective /pəˈspɛktɪv/ Noun:

  • the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other. The Scope of any given thing or circumstance. 
  • a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view. Synonyms: outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view, standpoint, position, stand stance, angle, slant, attitude, frame of mind, frame of reference, approach, way of looking/thinking, vantage point, interpretation, world view, mindset.

I can rely on: 

  1. What I think and feel about the things I experience.
  2. What others think and feel about the things I experience. 
  3. What God knows to be best about the things I experience. 

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” –A.W. Tozer The Knowledge of the Holy

Paul’s Perspective:
12“I want you to know, brothers,] that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 14And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.” (Philippians 1:12-14)

 

 

  • PERSPECTIVE DRIVES OUR PASSION.
    • Paul’s Passion: 
      • 21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)
  • PASSION DICTATES OUR DEVOTION.
    • Paul’s Devotion: 
      • 22“If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. (Philippians 1:22-24)
      • 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. 15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained. (Philippians 3:12-16)
  • OUR DEVOTION DICTATES OUR ACTIONS.
    • 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:3-8)

 

I can rely on: 

  1. What I think and feel about the things I experience.
  2. What others think and feel about the things I experience. 
  3. What God knows to be best about the things I experience.