Matthew 28:1-5 (NIV) - After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
1. Where your soul sits
only 2 variables to sitting down:
1) The place where you sit at
2) The reason you sit there
1 Kings 19:3-4 (NIV) - Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, SAT DOWN UNDER IT and prayed that he might die.
broom bushes/Juniper Tree:
A) Grows in the desert
B) Bitter root that the poor were accustomed to eating.
Job 30:3-4 (NLT) - They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands. They pluck wild greens from among the bushes and eat from the roots of broom trees.
C) Their twigs were used for binding
1 Kings 19:4b (NIV) - He came to a broom bush, SAT DOWN UNDER IT and prayed that he might die.
Matthew 28:2 (NIV) - There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and SAT ON IT.
On/Upon
Epanō (eh-pah-no) – above, beyond, more than
YOU CAN EITHER SIT UNDER YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES OR YOU CAN SIT ON THEM, BUT YOU CAN’T DO BOTH.
2 Kings 10:30 (NIV) - The Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
Hebrews 12:1-3 (NIV) - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame…
and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
2. SAVING SEATS
3 main functions of your brain
a) THE SURVIVAL BRAIN
b) THE LOGICAL BRAIN
c) THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN
This part is the of your brain is also referred to as your: “Seat of emotions”
Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV) - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts AND your mindsin Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV) - We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
3. A SEAT HAS BEEN SAVED FOR YOU
Ephesians 2:6-9 (NIV) - And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Revelation 3:21 (NIV) - To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Galatians 3:13a (TPT) - Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he became a curse in our place.
