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Immanuel | Ps Jon Eaton · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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Hey, welcome to the city Point Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us Every day is an opportunity to take hold
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of. So we hope this message inspires
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you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God
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perspective for your day. Enjoy.
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Do you want to start with an? Interesting story.
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Not just a story, it was actually an event that occurred
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in 2016. Whole stack of newspaper
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articles about it caught my eye because it's so intriguing.
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There was this Filipino. Filipinos.
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Yeah. But it was this Filipino
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fisherman. And he's doing his, you know,
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his thing. He's swimming around and he
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finds this big, dirty old rock that was weird looking.
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And he thought this is a weird looking ugly rock, Must be
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lucky. So he gets this big ugly rock
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and he puts it under his bed for good luck.
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He had it under his bed for 10 years, 10 years, lucky rock,
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ugly rock. At the end of 10 years, he
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thought to himself, I should check to see if this rock is
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actually worth anything. It's ugly.
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We're looking, maybe someone will like it.
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So he took it into the the local, like, you know, where
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they get evaluated on what it is because it wasn't gold.
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It was a 34 kilogram Pearl. It's currently in a museum.
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It was valued at the time, so 2016 at $100 million.
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Ugly rock, 10 years. I know that kind of rock is a
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you can look it up. They've got it in a museum now
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in a glass case. I should have had a picture, but
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you can look it up because that was a life changing, super
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valuable, one-of-a-kind discovery, which is why it was
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valued so highly. And in life, the more rare
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something is, the more valuable it is.
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Say for example, dirt, not so valuable.
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It does have some value, but it's not as valuable because it
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is everywhere. It is common, but dirt is part
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of life. To even leave the house, you
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walk on the dirt, you travel on the dirt, your car gets dirty,
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your house gets dirty. There's this constant
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interaction between dirt and your own life.
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So that's OK because interaction and management of dirt, even
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though dirt's common, it is, still has value, you know,
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because you want to walk places, you want to do things, you know?
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So dirt, yeah, annoying, but it's there.
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Gold, more valuable because it's more rare and more useful than
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just dirt. Diamonds are worth more.
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And these days we have what's called rare earth materials.
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Have you heard of them? Rare earth materials.
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Super valuable gets like massive amount of uses, very hard to
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find. If you were to dig up rare earth
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materials in your backyard it would be a life changing super
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valuable discovery for you and your family.
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That's just true. So too, in scripture we have
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what's called imperative themes. It's combinements that are kind
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of the same. You know, it's like, you know,
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don't sleep with a bunch of people you shouldn't, don't have
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sexual immorality. It's a theme, all right?
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Imperative theme commands. And there are some imperative
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themes that are repeated over and over and over again, not to
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make them of little value, but because they're meant to be so
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common that you interact with them daily and have a lifestyle
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of it. OK, so there's some imperative
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themes that happen over and over and over again.
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If, however, there is an imperative theme of command or
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something that's only mentioned, you know, you know, a few times
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or even only once, it's because that word, that imperative theme
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has even more value. It doesn't actually diminish.
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It doesn't. Oh, God.
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And he mentions it once or twice.
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It mustn't be that important. It's well, actually it's more
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rare. It's more like a gold or it's
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more like a diamond. And there is this one word in
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the Bible, one word. It's OK, it's technically twice,
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once in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament.
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But the New Testament is just referring back to the only one
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time it's mentioned in Scripture.
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So if technically once there is this one word in the Bible, the
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whole Bible that is meant to be super valuable, super life
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changing, incredibly dynamic for your life, we're talking an
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amazing experience. When you get this one word in
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your life, it should change your whole experience.
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And it's the title of today's message Emmanuel God with us in
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menu means with us L God mention once it must be important.
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No, it's super rare earth material.
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Get this into your heart. It will change your entire life.
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God with us. It's found in Isaiah 7 verse 14
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and then in Isaiah 9 verse 6 we have the Christmas theme which
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incorporates Emmanuel. In Isaiah 9, verse 6, it says
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for unto us a child is born, unto us, with us a son is given,
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and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will
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be called wonderful counselor. The word counselor then means to
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guide. OK, so he's going to be
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wonderful, but he's going to also guide mighty God,
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everlasting father. And one of the most remarkable
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parts of this verse, Prince of Peace, one of the most
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incredible qualities of this God, this wonderful counselor
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God who wants to be with us. Oh man, you know, not on my
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nose. Sorry, but the song that bugs me
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the most is that song that goes God is watching from a distance.
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I'm like what a load of tripe. Sorry just popped into my head.
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I'm like gosh, I hate that song as I'm as I'm reading this with
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us. God is with us anyway, this
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mighty or eternal being. Not only is he mighty, eternal
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Father, he brings peace. And if you look at the majority
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of the other religions, their lowercase G gods demand
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obedience without fatherhood, without atonement, no
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redemption. The other gods will bring law
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and subjection with love, what they call love, but they enforce
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their so-called love through fear.
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And it is our God, the God of the Bible who comes with peace.
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First point of today is No Fear because with the one true God
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there is No Fear. Yeah, praise Jesus, You know,
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Speaking of Jesus when Jesus was born, OK, just the day that the
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moment that Jesus was born, basically there's a whole stack
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of shepherds down the fields and this Angel appears to them.
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The very first word spoken to humanity at the birth of Christ
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was fear not. The first words spoken to
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humanity. Fear not, fear not.
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That's Luke 2, verse 10. He says, fear not for behold, I
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bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
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people. Verse 14 glory to God in the
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highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men.
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And I think this is my personal opinion, but I, I have some
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anecdotal evidence about our case.
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Things that I've, I've noticed that the majority of the world,
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not just Christians, but the majority of the world would
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think that if Jesus showed up right now on this platform, he
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would look you all straight in the eye and say you should do
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better. That's, that's what we think our
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first experience with the revelation of Jesus is going to
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be like. It's like, man, if Jesus showed
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up, I mean, he's the first thing he's going to do is point out
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everything I've done wrong this week.
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It's like, you better do better. I'm going to beat you.
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But first words fear not fear not because I bring peace now I
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sure do better, but out of a loving relationship, not out of
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fear, but out of peace out of peace.
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Now, I don't understand that Scripture does say to fear God,
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but you have to remember in Second Timothy one verse 7, it
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says for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and
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of love and a sound mind. This verse has kept me since I
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was about 17. Honestly, I'm like, wow, OK,
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sound mind. That's a tough one being a crazy
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teenager. It's just like not so sure if
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this one's accurate. God.
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And God was like, just trust me, because he's not giving us a
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spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind.
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And Scripture does say to actually fear God.
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That's in Ecclesiastes 12/13. It says let us hear the
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conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his
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commandments, for this is the whole duty of men.
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It's like, wait, which one is it?
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Is it fear not or fear me? Contradictions.
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No, not contradictions. Do not fear, but fear God
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because the fear of God in the context of the whole Bible, not
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just, you know, a little verse, a little chapter, the context of
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fear in God, the whole Bible is a healthy, respectful fear.
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Let me explain a little bit further.
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It's like fire. Now, I've mentioned before that
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I'm, you know, somewhat in the fire industry.
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I know to your surprise, I am not in the calendar, right?
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Yeah. Why are you laughing for isn't
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the, isn't the calendar a personality calendar
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personality. Anyway, they never asked me to
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be on them. All right, we're moving on.
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Where's my notes here? OK, so fire.
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I, I have done fire training and without even setting fire to
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anything as the demonstration, before I even got to set fire to
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something, I've had people have mental breakdowns on me.
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Like, legitimately, that's actually true.
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It's happened twice because people have had terrible
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traumatic experiences with fire and they are super fearful of
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fire. Get this.
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Please understand this. If you are terrified of
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something, you do not approach it.
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You do not get near it. So God does not want you to fear
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because if you fear you are never going to draw close to
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him. And then he says, but fear me.
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It's like, well, which one is a God?
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So this with fire, if you approach fire correctly, if you
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have a healthy, right relationship with fire, then it
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can bring life. You cook food on it, gets rid of
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the bacteria, warms a house. We use it for sterilization of
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wounds. Fire has amazing health
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benefits. So you choose what fear you
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have. Have you got the fear that's
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responsive and rejectful or have you got a fear of I approach it
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with respect? Because if I approach fire with
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respect, then I'm going to reap all the benefits.
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And it's the same with God. We approach God with that
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respectful fear. We get all of the benefits, but
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stop fearing. God is constantly wanting us to
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draw close to him, but we have do not fear the imperative
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theme. The command to not fear actually
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occurs 113 times in the Bible. It's the number one thing in the
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whole Bible. Do not fear or do not be afraid
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or fear not imperative theme 113 times.
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Stop being afraid. It's actually very well
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connected to be at peace. So peace, it occurs 22 times in
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the Bible between those that the the whole emphasis of the Bible,
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if you want to look at imperative themes is just stop
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being afraid and find peace. Interestingly, the second
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highest imperative theme in the Bible is to listen.
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That occurs 78 times. Why?
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Because guys like, will you just listen to me and stop fearing
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and peace? OK, So yeah, the third highest
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one is to look, look and see what God's doing.
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That occurs 62 times. See God.
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See God the next one's go and come that's 58 times because God
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wants to move with you, God with us and 51 times go command, go
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into the world, go and do this, but it's always with you.
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I'll always be with you, never leave you.
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So none of these are the imperatives, you know, like
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listen, look, go and tell will happen in your life if you're
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afraid of drawing close to God, if there is fear in your life,
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which is why you've got to get rid of fear.
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If you suffer from fear and anxiety, here's the good news.
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Here's the absolutely honestly best news.
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I'm not just going to say this to encourage you.
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I'm going to tell you very clearly how you how this
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transforms, OK, so that you can see some light at the end of the
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tunnel, because I think there's people that really suffer from
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fear and anxiety. I've been there in my life and
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my childhood. I was so crippled by it that I
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would stop breathing. So, and I think Pastor Graham's
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already mentioned the fact that he would hate to be up speaking
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in front of people. It's like, how do you transform
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from fearful and anxiety to the power of God?
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How does this work? Well, that's because fear and
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anxiety is actually a dis formed gift.
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All right, so let me explain people who have a persuasion for
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ungodly experiences. So for example, people like, you
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know, I'm a psychic. I'm like, all right, it's, I
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find it remarkable that when they become born again
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Christians, the gift doesn't leave them because the gifts of
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God are without repentance. But now they operate fully in
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the correct spiritual realm. So they're not hearing from
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demons anymore. They're hearing from the power
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of God. They've become prophets or
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discerners. Amazing.
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Same gift, just in godliness, you know, and with actual true
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health and power. People that have a deformed gift
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of healing, you know, they've heard Reiki.
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They're like, oh, I run my hands over you, it's going to heal
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you. It's like, don't touch me, mate.
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You might. That doesn't already matter.
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But after a transformational change through the power of the
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Holy Spirit, all of a sudden the gift arises of healing in their
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life. Gifts of God without repentance.
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That's Romans 11/29. Get this.
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If you feel like you suffer depression, guess what?
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You're the kind of person who will know the weight that God
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feels about sin. If you have an addictive
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personality, then you're the person who's going to wake up
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every day when the God hit. We have to stop thinking that
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the problem's a problem. The problem is an opportunity
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for the Kingdom. And so if you're prone to fear,
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prone from suffering fear and anxiety, and honestly, there's
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some research about the addiction to fear, but instead
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of being prone to anxiety, get this, this is where your
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transformation is going to occur.
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If you are the one who is prone to anxiety, then you are
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actually also prone to faith. Yeah, you can.
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You can actually build a moment of lifestyle of faith because to
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be honest, as someone, and Pastor Gray will testify this to
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step down and faith can be quite terrifying sometimes.
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Yeah, But because fear can be addictive, then so can faith
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because you like the same buzz, the same hormones, like, Oh my
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gosh, this is so terrifying. And then you go, yes, I'm going
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to step out of faith and tell this lady to step out of a
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wheelchair. It's just like, because I'm
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addicted to the buzz. The difference between a
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distorted gift and a wholly powerful godly gift is to simply
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know God, that he is with us. Let go of the fear.
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Move into your God-given gifts. Alright .2 No God no peace.
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No God, no peace. It's a classic, yeah.
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God deeply wants us to know him. You know, to know God is the
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beginning of wisdom. That's in Proverbs 910.
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But to really know God and to move into a relationship with
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him, you will always find peace as well, not just wisdom.
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It's the beginning of wisdom, but there's a whole world of
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peace. And God does want us to deeply
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know him. Even if you have personally
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rejected God your entire life, He wants you to know Him.
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Now. We recently know of somebody who
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passed away. They were 90 years old, and they
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rejected God their whole life. We're talking their last, like
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their last moments in bed. You know what's it called?
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A palliative care for the last six months, right?
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Reject God. Reject God 90 years palliative
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care rah rah. Gave their life to the Lord,
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right? And then it was just like, huh,
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he he'll probably die now. He did three days later because
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God was like, you know, I'm going to have to keep you alive
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just long enough for you to accept me as your king.
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Oh, and you think you think, wait, God, he rejected you for
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his entire life. And I think back and I go, are
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you OK, God? Because that's a little bit
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obsessive compulsive. I genuinely think a bit worried
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about him sometimes because I wouldn't have to be honest.
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I love you guys. 90 years, a whole life of rejection.
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God's like, Oh no, no, I'm holding him because I want him
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home. Bam.
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Because God is so forgiving, so merciful.
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And to know that God is so forgiving and so merciful, you
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know, that brings peace. No more condemnation in Christ.
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None of this rubbish way you think.
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It's just like, you know, God loves me, God, God would wait to
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my dying breath to save me. Why would that not bring you
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peace? You know, Paul says, it's not
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even my eyes. Paul says I am convinced that
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absolutely nothing can stop us from the love of God.
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But principalities, not powers. He's so forgiving.
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Praise God. So how do we get there as well?
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Actually, Pastor Rachel did it today.
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No, she hasn't seen my notes, but Psalms 4610 Be still and
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know that I am God. There is a time just to sit and
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go. I'm going to try and control my
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thoughts. If you're a little bit like me,
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like a little bit of ADHD actually, I went to the doctor,
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he said I have HD and apparently I have 80 of them.
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That's AI said that's a terrible joke.
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But if you get ADHD, you will definitely understand that.
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So controlling my mind can sometimes be really hard.
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So I'll be sitting there and next thing I realize, I've spent
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some, you know, like the last 10 minutes thinking about something
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completely different than God. So that's OK.
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You know, sometimes that's actually OK because there's no
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condemnation. God's just like, I just love the
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fact that you're trying to spend time with me.
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Yeah. Remember.
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And your gift will become your purpose.
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So just chill out. Oh my gosh.
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Anyway, so be still and know that I'm God.
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Psalms 4611, the Lord of Hostess with us, God, with us.
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Emmanuel, I'm telling you, if you can get that word into your
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brain, then into your heart and into every DNA of your body, it
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will change your life. Because every time you encounter
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situations, every time you encounter temptations or trials,
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you just think, oh, God, what's with me?
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So why would I fear it? I'm not saying it's going to
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stop bad things from happening, but it removes the fear.
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This wonderful, wonderful counsellor.
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Yes. It be still and know that I'm
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God, I love this word. So that word still is hapu in
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Hebrew, right? Hapu.
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Think of shampoo. Yeah.
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And just like shampoo won't happen overnight, but it will
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happen if you know what that is. You're as old as I am.
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Some of you was like, what is that off as an ad?
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Sorry, kids. All right back way before you're
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all born anyway. But hapu, Hapu means let it go.
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Yeah. It's like, oh, how do I be
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still? How do I be still?
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How do I still OK, Hapu let it go.
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And it's. And it's where you let it go so
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much that you just go. You actually perhaps you fall
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because you've let everything go.
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Let it go. What's that song?
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Oh, that's your generation is a frozen.
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That's it. Yeah.
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Let it go. I'm not going to sing it.
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Oh, yeah. Because they can't.
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Guys, let it go. It really does actually mean let
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it go. And and you know why we can let
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it go? Because Emmanuel, God with us,
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let it go. We can know God.
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We can know peace. Let me tell you right now, God
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does not in his infinite eternity toss night and day
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worrying about tomorrow. Yeah, think of that.
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It's like, well, we're like, oh, no, God's like, I'm, I'm, I'm
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good. You should be good too, because
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I'm with you because God is peace.
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And some people like, oh, I thought God was a wrath for God.
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Well, sure, God will pour out wrath on weakness, but get this,
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He is definitely at peace with that because he sees as justice.
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God is at peace with how much he loves you.
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God is at peace. This part's brutal, but he's at
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peace placing all of your sin and all of your judgments on his
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own Son. He's at peace brutalizing his
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own son so that he could save us.
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He's at peace with that all your wrongdoings on his own son.
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Now, the absence of fear does not mean peace.
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It's it's about knowing God so you can remove fear from your
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life. Well done.
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Congratulations. That's like removing a drug.
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Good getting off drugs, very healthy thing to do.
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Removing fear really healthy to do that still does not bring
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peace. True peace actually comes from
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knowing God. You've got Judges sixth story
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about a guy named Gideon right now, Gideon.
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Gideon was basically hiding from the Midianite army.
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Like there's a Midianite army, they're all around and they want
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to kill the Israelites pretty bad.
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And Gideon is hiding. All right, So he's hiding, He's
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doing work, but he's still hiding technically.
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And it says that an Angel appears to him and the first
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thing he says to Gideon is peace be unto you.
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Fear not. Good theme, right?
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And then, you know, so Gideon's like, whoa, I've just seen God,
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rah, rah. I'm hearing from God.
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And he builds this altar and then judges 624, he says, so
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Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and he called it the
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Lord is peace. If you like King James Version,
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it's Jehovah Shalom. Yeah, that's for the king.
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That's for the KGB is here. All right, Jehovah Shalom.
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So how do we know God? How do we find peace?
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It's by getting to know who he is in his word, get to know his
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likes, his dislikes, get to know his ways.
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I, as somebody who studies scholarly, you know, I'm doing
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the studies and I've done a bunch of other stuff.
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My #1 difficulty in Christianity is how much we argue over what
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the Bible does and doesn't say when I just think maybe it's
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just we should do all of it, you know, And the context of grace,
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I've had people say, well, John, if you think we should do all of
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it and that's stone these people and stone them.
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I'm like, you are the context of the Bible is grace and love and
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redemption. So do that first.
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OK? Also, do not fear.
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Yeah, that's why out there. So how do we get to know, get to
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know God, get to know his ways and people then say, oh John,
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you do. I do tend to say it to people.
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Get to know God's ways, get read the Bible, get into it, get
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stuck into it, love it. So why, why John, you're trying
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to tell people you know, control them.
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No, it's because in Psalms 119 it says this Psalms one 19165
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great peace. Great peace have those who love
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your law and nothing causes them to stumble.
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Great peace, that word, their law.
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At the Hebrew where there's Torah, it doesn't.
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It gets that's pretty dodgy translation in general.
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It's not just laws, not rules, not God in love with the rules.
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Now the word Torah then means instruction and direction.
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Yeah. And because laws are part of
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instruction and direction, it gets translated as law.
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But if you read this correctly, it says great peace are those
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who love God's ways, want his direction, they want his
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instruction. It is those things that will
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bring great peace into your life because you get to know God.
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I'm spinning here. No God, no peace.
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If I can get this through your heads, no God, no peace, no his
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ways, no God. It's this wonderful circle of
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life. Just get to know God.
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It's really not rocket science. Actually, true peace does not
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come from following or adoring some spiritual leader.
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It's not in the dedication of study.
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Peace is not found with escapism in drugs, alcohol, or sexual
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pleasures. Peace is not found in religion.
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In fact, I'm not saying that any of these are really bad.
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I'm just saying peace doesn't come from this and it's not
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found by rebuking the devil constantly.
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You know, people like it's the devil.
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Rachel, I were talking about this this morning.
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I love what Rachel said. She said this.
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Whatever you blame, you empower. It's so weird and it's true.
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I've seen this people who are absolutely obsessed with others,
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demons everywhere, invited into their life.
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You know why? Because Satan loves the
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attention. I don't give him credit for
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anything. I have dealt with more spiritual
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matters than some of you will ever see in your life.
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I've seen some crazy stuff. I don't even care about it.
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You know why? Because I don't want to give any
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kind of glory to Satan. Because who you blame, you
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empower. And when you take
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responsibility, you are blaming yourself.
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Then you are empowering yourself.
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Oh, my marriage is terrible because of demons.
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No, you need to work on yourself.
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Satan loves it. He loves getting credit for
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things he's never done in his life.
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Oh my gosh, you know what it's like?
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Sorry, I'm going to finish up. It's like germaphobes.
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We know that in your body you've got germs and you've got
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bacteria. If you spend your whole life
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getting freaked out about that and you focus on the germs and
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the bacteria in your body, you will end up like a germaphobe.
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And then what you would do is you'll wash your hands 100 times
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a day. That's like trying to cast out
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100 demons a day. But if you have a real view of
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germs and you think, you know, it's part of life, I can
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overcome them. How do you overcome them, John?
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I wash my hands once before meals, that's handy as well.
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I do not get obsessed about germs, but they're real.
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But I do not obsess them because peace, fear gone.
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Don't fear these things. Don't give them power guys.
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Just find peace. And true peace is found in the
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Prince of Peace. His name is Jesus by loving his
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guidance and just loving his ways.
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Sorry if I come across too much in love with Jesus.
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Actually, I'm not sorry about that at all.
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I feel sorry for you because the love of God I just one word,
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Emmanuel. I'm thinking, I think often I
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think, God, why? Why do you want to be with us?
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Like what's the benefit for you? I don't think we'll actually
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really know. But the benefit to him is so, so
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high. He sees you as so important.
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He sees you as so, so high value to him that he was willing to
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crucify his own Son just to make redemption.
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I'm like God with us, Emmanuel. Let's pray.
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Let's pray guys, if you would like to bow your heads, oh
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musicians. Sorry guys.
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I got really carried away with what I was doing because I just
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love telling people how God much God loves you guys.
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Wonderful revelation.