Yesterday (Saturday) was a very difficult day for me, and, in some ways I think, for the Lord. He has allowed a number of things to be pulled out from under me, and yesterday I allowed this to drag me far away from His perspective. This morning I woke up early, and after encountering a mix-up on another sermon site I was trying to access, I ended up at the Keswick site, where I found an uplifting talk by a pastor from Buckinghamshire, England. After listening to this talk, I visited the church site and bookmarked it for future reference.
God wasn't finished with what He had to say to me this morning, though. Looking through the list of this church's sermons, my eye landed on one by a guest speaker named Graham Wakeman, who is pastor at King's Church in a town called Iver. Trust the Lord to press it on my heart to listen to a sermon called "The Pain of the Cross." I am so glad I did; I've listened to it twice now. It's deeply important, and straight from God's heart.
I've given this post the title "Living from heaven to earth" because of something astonishingly insightful and beautiful that's stated near the end of the sermon.
May the Lord be greatly blessed and may He greatly bless and challenge you as you listen to this.
"The Pain of the Cross: What Christ endured for us because He loved us"
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Graham Wakeman (pastor at King's Church, Iver, UK)
speaking March 16, 2014, at Gold Hill Baptist Church, Buckinghamshire, UK