THE MESSAGE MIX by DJ SEAQUEST: September 2012

I was really inspired to arrange these tracks during Pastor Troy's message a few weeks ago at Connect. He challenged me to think how I can be in this world but not of it. Our culture is saturated with so much immoral junk and we can't avoid it even when we try to. How do I keep myself from becoming part of it or drifting away from the shore? How can I be a light in the darkness? God is the answer. I need a miracle and God's strength to overcome this world. The words of John 17:13-18 help to keep my heart in the right place. Don't be fooled...the grass is not greener on the other side.

The songs below echo the same message and are God's way of inspiring me to keep my mind right. I call it the In It Not Of It Mix. I will find my strength in Christ to avoid getting sucked in to the things of this world. They promise a lot but deliver little. Nothing in this world can satisfy me like Jesus.

^{John 17:13-18}
¹³“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. ¹⁴I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. ¹⁵My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. ¹⁷Sanctify them by^[d] the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

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