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TODAY’S MESSAGE:
“BY FAITH: PROFIT”

INTRO:
When you’re in business and you take your gross income and deduct our expenses and get your nett income, what is the other name for it when that nett income is a positive amount? PROFIT!
Today’s message from Hebrews 12 is entitled: PROFIT

PROFIT definition: to derive benefit, a valuable return

What is bad profit according to the Bible?
Mark 8:36 (NKJV) For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
Luke 9:25 (NKJV) For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

So, perceived profit according to worldly standards is not necessarily in line with Biblical profit.

The Bible measures profit by contrasting the temporal with the eternal.
Where is your treasure and what should you treasure?
Matthew 6:19-21 - '“Do not lay up (store up, amass, reserve) for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'

Treasure is profit because you derive benefit from it and it's a valuable return. But, what do you measure it against? (How do you MEASURE what is TREASURE?) What determines value, treasure, profit?
Storing up, amassing something takes intention, focus, diligence, commitment and consistency. You have to PAY attention to it. Paying has a cost. You show what you treasure by what you’re willing to pay for it. And in many ways we PAY with our attention. Our time. Our talents. Our current treasures.

Whatever has most of your attention and is not connected to Kingdom purpose and in perspective to God as King and provider, that thing is your god. That’s what it says where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

So, friend, what and where is your treasure? Because if you can identify that, you can identify where your heart is.

Today from our reading in Hebrews, we see a source of gain, value, treasure - profit - that might surprise you. But it is Biblical, true and much needed for all of us who call ourselves children of God.
Being a child implies I have a parent. And in the cosmically significant dynamic that exists between the Creator of the Universe and His creation, it is the unfathomable intimate relationship between God the Father and each human being that receives and believes in His Son Jesus Christ. We have earned the right to be called His children, knowing we’re born of Him.
And in this supernatural Father - child relationship there is not only the obvious benefits, but a profit to be made for those who know what the source is. But the source is elusive, challenging and to some frowned upon, unpreferred and misunderstood.
Do you want to know what it is that each child of God can profit from?


HEBREWS 12:3-17
The Discipline of God
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the chastening (to correct by punishment or suffering) of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges (punish severely, flog, whip) every son whom He receives.”
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our PROFIT, that we may be PARTAKERS of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS to those who have been trained by it.

JOHN 15:1-8
The True Vine
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Mark 8:34-38
Take Up the Cross and Follow Him
34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”