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If you have your Bibles, if you 
would turn to Exodus and the 

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34th chapter of Exodus. 
Now I know this is not the norm,

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right? 
When we finish something, we 

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usually go to a book, right? 
But I'm going to take some 

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liberty for just a a little 
while. 

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I, I took a little liberty and 
preached a series entitled There

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is one Gospel and we've covered 
what the true gospel is and what

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it's not. 
Unfortunately, we see more of 

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what it's not than what it 
really is in, in the church 

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today that we live in and the 
culture that we live in now. 

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But I'm going to also just 
extend that liberty just for a 

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little while longer before I go 
verse 1 of chapter 1 of whatever

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it is that God wants us to do 
next. 

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And I want to speak to something
that has been on my heart now 

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for several months, if not 
longer than that, but really 

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intensely for for several 
months. 

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And let me give you a little 
background to Exodus 34 and 

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where we're going to pick up 
today, because we're only going 

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to look at one verse, which one 
verse mentions something that we

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don't talk about a whole lot. 
In fact, in in racking my brain 

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to try to remember, I don't 
think that I've ever set in a 

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sermon about this particular 
subject. 

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But that will all change after 
today for many of us. 

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But to give you a little 
backdrop, when we look at Exodus

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and we know in chapter 20 that 
the Lord gave to Moses the 

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Decalogue, which we know the 
Decalogue has the Ten 

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Commandments where he revealed 
his perfect standard to to his 

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people through giving them the 
1st 10 commandments of the law 

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and then the subsequential 613 
commands that go along with 

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that. 
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just to kind of give you a 
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chapter 34, some interesting 
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And I want to give you the brief
synopsis of this. 

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I just want to encourage you go 
read this when you have an 

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opportunity. 
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chapter 32 is Moses returns from
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We know he went up to Sinai. 
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the Lord. 
He received the entirety of the 

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law. 
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returns from Mount Sinai. 
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mountain only to find that God's
people are worshipping an idol 

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that they talked Aaron into 
crafting and fashioning together

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for them. 
This idol was taken from 

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earrings and jewelry that they 
had, and it was then placed in a

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fire where it was molten and 
then shaped and formed into a 

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golden calf of all things. 
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golden calf. 
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as they begin to give the glory 
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rescuing them out of their 
slavery in Egypt to this 

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inanimate golden calf that they 
had gotten Aaron to craft 

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together for them. 
Moses, as we know the story 

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goes, in his anger he throws the
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on the ground and they break. 
And then we know that Moses. 

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Then takes the calf and he melts
the calf and and then destroys 

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it because he didn't want the 
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give glory to something that was
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It was simply just a man made 
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And we know that that idol that 
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way back to Satan. 
Satan desiring to have worship 

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over the fact that God deserves 
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So Moses breaks the tablets, he 
melts the golden calf, and then 

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he instructs the Levites to take
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people who participated in this 
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Then we know after this that God
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plague. 
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mercy, instructs Moses to get 
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He takes those. 
Tablets and God then inscribes 

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again, etches on those tablets 
to 10 commandments again, so 

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that they could have the table 
of the law before them, he 

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instructs Moses. 
That they're about to go into a 

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land that is inundated with 
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In fact, that's one of the 
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to the people that Moses was 
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And he let them know that they 
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they're not careful. 
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we're going to look at today, 
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And it says this. 
Just simply do not worship any 

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other God. 
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given them this command. 
Have no other gods before me and

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don't make for yourself any 
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But he reiterates this in verse 
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He says do not worship any other
God, for the Lord whose name is 

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jealous is a jealous. 
God, let's pray to God the 

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we
come to you, thanking you for 

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your word. 
Lord, as we have seen already 

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unveiled in one verse today that
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attempt to learn what exactly 
this means, Lord, give us 

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insight through Your Word by 
Your Spirit. 

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Teach us who You really are 
according to Your Word, not 

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according to what we think or 
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And we would understand that You
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rightfully so, that we would 
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provoking or arousing Your 
jealousy. 

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And we would refrain in our 
lives from any activity or any 

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idolatry. 
It would attempt to steal your 

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glory. 
Thank you, Lord, for loving us 

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with such a powerful love, love 
that would do anything to rescue

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your children. 
Because of the love that you 

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have for us, may we be forever 
indebted to that love, or it 

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comes from you. 
We are indebted to you. 

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We pray all these things in 
Christ's name, Amen. 

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And so we see from that one 
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Now I know that's oftentimes in 
our thinking, a rather confusing

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statement, but I want you to 
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forgotten. 
Truth. 

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It's a forgotten truth and that 
has great implication for the 

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believer. 
And I want us to remember that 

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truth. 
In fact, I'm going to take the 

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next several. 
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And what we're going to look at 
is the forgotten jealousy of 

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God. 
Today we will be looking at how 

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God's jealousy is provoked, 
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Because when you hear that God 
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instinct is to say I don't want 
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I want to honor him and I want 
to love him and I want to 

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respect him for who he is. 
When we talk about the jealousy 

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of God, there's some things that
we really need to have clarity 

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on. 
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Begin with some of those things 
before we get into our message 

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today, the things that we need 
to know concerning God's 

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jealousy. 
First, I want you to see this 

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that God's jealousy is 
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Ours because when we're jealous,
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selfishness or envy or 
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But when God is jealous, it is 
completely pure and it is 

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completely holy and it is 
completely right, and it's 

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completely pure and holy and 
right because everything that 

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God is and everything that God 
does is completely holy and pure

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and right. 
And so when we say that God is a

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jealous God, we're not bringing 
some accusation against him that

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has some kind of negative 
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We're saying that God is jealous
because the word of God says 

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that he's jealous, and 
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He's worthy to be jealous. 
In fact, he is that faithful 

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husband who is forever faithful 
to his bride, and he is worthy 

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of being jealous when his bride 
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We know that to be true in our 
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A husband who has been 
completely faithful to his 

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bride, only to have his bride 
stray away and become unfaithful

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to someone else. 
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that husband was stricken with 
jealousy. 

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We would say what He has every 
right to be what jealous. 

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And so I want you to see today 
that God has every right to be 

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jealous. 
God's jealousy is not based, as 

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ours would be, on envy or 
insecurity, right? 

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God is not jealous because he's 
afraid that some other idol is 

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going to take his place. 
No one's going to take his 

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place. 
He is sovereign God over all. 

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He is God Almighty. 
He is supreme, whether you 

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recognize that or whether you 
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He's not afraid of losing his 
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So God's not provoked to 
jealousy just because he's 

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insecure and he's not envious of
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someone else. 
He knows who he is. 

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He's right. 
And his jealousy. 

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Jealousy is not based on envy or
insecurity, but instead I want 

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you to follow this. 
His jealousy is based upon his 

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pure and perfect love that He 
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I want to stop and to think 
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That God would ever be jealous 
of a dirty, filthy, wretched 

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center such as Kirk Hall. 
But yet it is in His jealous 

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love that he did pursue me, that
he could redeem me and wash me 

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and cleanse me. 
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jealousy of God, we have to 
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that pure and that perfect love 
that He has, because his love, 

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because he is pure and perfect, 
can't be anything other than 

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pure and perfect. 
Now I I know nothing of this 

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kind of love because the love 
that I love with is not pure and

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perfect because it's flawed by 
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But God's love is not flawed at 
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flawed at all because it is 
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perfect love. 
God's jealousy, in fact, is 

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toward His covenant people. 
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Due to a covenantal love. 
He has promised to love them and

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will always love them and as a 
result of His people offering 

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themselves to other things or 
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Person instead of the one true 
God, He is then provoked to holy

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jealousy and rightly so. 
Ji Packer. 

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And I'm just going to give a 
little spoiler to you ladies who

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are reading the book entitled 
Knowing God by Ji Packer and 

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going through that Bible study 
together. 

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You're going to get to this in 
the 17th chapter. 

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I know most of you don't 
remember anything that I say by 

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the time you get to your car, 
but hopefully you will remember 

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this when you get to it. 
In the 17th chapter of Knowing 

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God by Ji Packer, he is going to
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He says God's jealousy is not a 
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and spite, as human jealousy so 
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Isn't that true? 
That's why we're jealous. 

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God's is not like that. 
But it appears instead as a 

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literally praiseworthy zeal to 
preserve something supremely 

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precious. 
What Packer is saying this is 

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God's love reveals that that he 
is preserving that which is 

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precious to him. 
In his jealousy, it is showing 

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to us just how much he really 
loves us and how precious we are

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to Him. 
As his covenantal people. 

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So when we think about this. 
Let us understand is that God's 

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jealousy is the reason that he's
rescued us from our sin. 

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God's jealousy is the reason 
that He rescues those who he has

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a foreknown, those who He has 
intimately loved in eternity 

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past. 
You do a little word study on 

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foreknown and you will find out 
that His foreknowledge is His 

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eternal love for His covenant 
people. 

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It is that jealous love He has 
foreknown us with causes Him to 

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elect us from among the 
unbelievers. 

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So if you're here and you're in 
Christ today, know this that He 

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chose you from among the 
unbelievers from even out of 

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your own unbelief. 
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is because he was jealous for 
you with a holy and right 

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jealous love, not allowing you 
to continue to bow down and to 

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worship idols of the past or or 
immorality and sin in your life.

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But rescuing that you from those
things and church is high time 

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that we learn to be. 
Thankful for the jealousy of 

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God, because it's in His 
jealousy that we really do see 

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His full extent of His love, 
that He would no longer tolerate

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us committing spiritual adultery
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But He sent His only begotten 
Son to this earth to demonstrate

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His great love for us, just as 
Romans 58 tells us that He 

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demonstrates His love for us in 
this, that while we were still 

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sinners, chasing after the 
things of this world, whoring 

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after immorality, He 
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that while we were still 
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Oh, you see the extent of God's 
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people. 
And in the weeks to come, I will

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describe for you and hopefully 
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means to be loved with that 
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I just know that it's real and 
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have. 
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about that for just a moment, 
how many times you've been 

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unfaithful to the Lord only to 
have Him continually be faithful

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to you simply because He has 
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do anything to provoke or to 
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of my soul. 
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provokes or arouses the jealousy
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going to return unto Him, and 
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and I'm going to repent of my 
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thank Him once again for His 
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He continually gives me that I 
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deserve. 
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particular verse that discloses 
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but one thing that they all have
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When we see the jealousy of the 
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people are offering themselves 
to things that they should not 

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offer themselves to be that 
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with with looking at how God's 
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Because for me, that's the first
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Because I see how great this 
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me, that I should be called a 
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should ever want to do is to 
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As we see the Israelites 
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jealousy. 
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Again, and suffering the 
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Let it search out the truth 
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potentially and possibly and 
maybe actively are provoking the

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jealousy of God in our lives. 
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today. 
God's jealousy is provoked. 

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When we offer ourselves to 
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again, we see God's people prone
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He said the human heart is a 
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Yeah, that means just that. 
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constantly coming up with ways 
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chase after false little G gods,
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Oftentimes we read the accounts 
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Testament and we think to 
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could they stray away so much 
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them, has been so faithful to 
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upon them over and over and over
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recognizing that we do the same 
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propensity to chase after idols 
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Go back to the 10 commandments, 
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We see them there for the first 
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What does God? 
Say you shall have no other gods

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before me. 
You know what God was doing. 

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He was graciously letting you 
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you're going to put something in
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He goes on and he says this, You
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idol in the form of anything in 
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beneath or in the waters below. 
You shall not bow down to them 

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or worship them. 
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my place, and don't make for 
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that you call God. 
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few chapters after he told the 
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they were. 
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we find ourselves doing 
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You shall not bow down to them 
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your God, am a jealous God. 
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Punishing the children for the 
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and the 4th generation of those 
who hate me, but showing love to

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1000 generations of those who 
love me and who keep my 

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commands. 
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that he's talking about here? 
He's commanding them to refrain 

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from idols. 
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from making anything in their 
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position of God. 
He said, well, we don't do that.

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You think that you don't do 
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John Calvin goes on to say in 
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Exodus chapter 20, he says the 
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This command is that the Lord's 
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His people and to exercise 
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He calls himself jealous because
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God is not going to share you 
with your idols, He is not going

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to share you with anything or 
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And we all know in our sick, 
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in, there are many people who 
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marriage. 
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wife, they have been legally 
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one another. 
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the state. 
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legally married and yes, we're 
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you know, divorces are pretty 
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an open marriage. 
You sleep around with who you 

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want to sleep around with, and 
I'll sleep around with who I 

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want to sleep around with. 
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Well, the problem with that is 
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use that illustration. 
To teach you this, God will not 

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accept an open marriage from any
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He did not send His only 
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To die, to rescue sinners so 
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the things of this world. 
We offer ourselves to idols more

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often than we would probably 
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What does it look like? 
What is it when we offer 

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ourselves to idols? 
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When we offer ourselves to 
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spiritual adultery. 
How many times in Scripture do 

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we see that beautiful picture of
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being his bride? 
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accept an open marriage. 
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He expects faithfulness from us,
and when we are not faithful and

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we are not loyal to Him, chasing
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we commit spiritual adultery and
there's no if ands or buts about

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it. 
Many of you would say, well I 

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would never commit adultery 
against my spouse, yet you were 

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constantly committing adultery 
against the Creator who made 

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you. 
You're committing that adultery 

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by chasing after the things that
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Fact in Hosea the entire book of
Hosea is written so that we can 

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understand God's feelings about 
his people chasing after idols 

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committing spiritual adultery 
against him. 

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In fact, he tells Hosea to do 
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In Hosea chapter one verse 2, he
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speak through Hosea, the Lord 
said to him, go take to yourself

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an adulterous wife and children 
of unfaithfulness because the 

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and is guilty of the vilest 
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Lord. 
He says, I want you to 

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experience what I experienced 
from my people, the whole land 

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committing spiritual adultery 
against me constantly. 

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And so that you'll know what 
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can communicate this 
effectively, you take an 

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adulterous wife unto yourself. 
That's what we do when we chase 

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after other idols, isn't it? 
We commit spiritual adultery 

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against God. 
I know what you ask, Pastor. 

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I don't bow down to a graven 
image and I've never had a 

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golden calf. 
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When we give to something or to 
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God isn't that worship? 
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that's worship, giving what 
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something else? 
And so we could commit adultery 

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spiritually like this, giving 
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else? 
It's interesting that we live in

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a time where nobody has time, 
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time for God. 
What a sad testament when we 

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don't have time for God. 
What a sad testament when we 

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have time to do everything under
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But we can't find time to 
commune with God in his word, to

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commune with God in prayer, to 
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Day with other believers. 
We simply don't have time. 

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The truth be told is you're 
giving your time away to your 

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mistress. 
Whatever that may be, whatever's

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consuming all of your time, How 
about this? 

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Your talents. 
You use your talents for 

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everything under the sun. 
You'll use your talents to make 

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money. 
You'll use your talents to gain 

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friends. 
You'll use your talents to gain 

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acceptance. 
But are you using your talents 

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for the glory of the Lord? 
If you're not, you're giving to 

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someone or something or belongs 
to God, who do you think blessed

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you with those talents and why 
do you think that He blessed you

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with those talents? 
He didn't bless you with those 

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talents so that you can use them
on your lovers outside of Him. 

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He bunched you with those 
talents so that you can bring 

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Him glory by using your talents 
for Him. 

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How about your energy, right? 
We all need more of that. 

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There's energy drinks, man. 
You're going to the store. 

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You can't even find a good old 
Coca-Cola anymore because all 

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the shelves are stacked with 
energy drinks. 

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Everybody's looking for more 
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It's because you're giving your 
energy to things that don't 

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matter, giving your energy to 
things that are fleeting. 

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I can promise you this, if 
you're giving your energy to the

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Lord, He will give you the 
strength to endure. 

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About our resources, resources 
that we give to idols, the idols

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that we've created in our mind. 
It's true. 

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Whatever we offer ourselves to, 
it is an idol in our lives. 

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Whether you want to accept that 
or whether you don't, God's Word

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is very clear about that. 
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Deuteronomy 32 verse 16 it says 
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They made him jealous with their
foreign gods and angered him 

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with their detestable idols. 
You want to know what provokes 

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God's jealousy? 
You want to know what provokes 

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God to righteous anger toward 
His people When you offer 

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yourself to idols, giving him or
it what belongs to God and God 

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alone? 
When we offer our worship to 

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lesser things, right Our 
devotion to temporal or our 

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earthly pursuits. 
But you know what I'm talking 

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about American Dreamers. 
You're all here. 

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You're in a country where it's 
easy to do right, to follow the 

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idol of the American dream. 
We all fall into that trap at 

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some point in time. 
Let me make this known. 

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It's a trap. 
That trap is driven your desire 

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for more. 
And so you devote yourself to 

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temporal or earthly pursuits, 
only giving God what's leftover 

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at the end. 
What a sad day when professing 

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Christians are only giving God 
what's leftover at the end of 

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the day. 
Oh, if you're not completely 

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exhausted, you're not completely
worn out, you're not completely 

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spent on chasing after all the 
endeavors of the world, you 

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might give God some time, but if
not, maybe tomorrow. 

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We're content in His church. 
Unfortunately, today, giving him

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leftovers. 
I want to help all of you out. 

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Guys not interested in your 
leftovers? 

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He's not interested in your 
leftovers at all because he 

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knows exactly what they are. 
In fact, that offering is not 

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acceptable. 
You've already offered your 

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yourself to everything under the
sun, and whatever you have 

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leftover, you're just going to 
toss it to God. 

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Ask Cain how that worked out for
him. 

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And so we provoke God's jealousy
continually by offering 

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ourselves to idolatry. 
And Paul says it like this in 

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Romans chapter 12, verse 11. 
In fact, he's instructing a 

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group of people who are 
inundated with paganism and 

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idolatry, he says in verse 11 of
chapter 12. 

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Therefore, I urge you, brothers,
in view of God's mercy, to offer

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your bodies as living 
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to

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God. 
This is your spiritual act of. 

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Worship. 
What's he saying? 

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Offer your entire selves to God.
This is true worship where we do

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00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,280
just what Jesus said, we deny 
ourselves. 

452
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,560
What percentage should we deny 
pastor 100%? 

453
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,640
We should deny 100% of ourselves
giving ourselves as an offering 

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00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,720
unto the Lord. 
The sad thing is we live in a 

455
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,400
church age and a church culture 
where no one is is instructing 

456
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,200
you and no one is encouraging. 
You to give all of yourself to 

457
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,120
the Lord. 
I long for the day where there's

458
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,200
a group of believers who are 
giving everything to the Lord, 

459
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,120
loving Him with all their heart,
soul, mind and strength, and 

460
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,280
loving their neighbor as 
themselves. 

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00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,800
Fulfilling. 
The law of Christ offering 

462
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:58,080
themselves as living sacrifices.
Or may we stop committing 

463
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,480
spiritual adultery, acting as if
it is an idolatry? 

464
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,960
So we commit these acts of 
idolatry, offering ourselves to 

465
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,360
idols by committing spiritual 
adultery, but also when we're 

466
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:18,240
controlled by senseless 
passions, driven by things of 

467
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:23,440
the flesh, controlled by those 
things that are not God. 

468
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,120
You know what those things are? 
We. 

469
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,200
Have to ask ourselves what do we
love most? 

470
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,080
Because the things that we love 
most can quickly become idols in

471
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:38,720
our lives, can't they? 
How about your family? 

472
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,200
Seen many a family make their 
children idols and worship them.

473
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,200
I've seen moms do their entire 
identity as being a mom. 

474
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,760
Godly moms, listen to me. 
Don't let your identity be being

475
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,120
a mom. 
Let it be Christ and you 

476
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,640
identify yourself with Christ 
and then your children are going

477
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,480
to see that and you are going to
leave a lasting impact upon 

478
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:13,080
their lives. 
Dads, stop worshipping your 

479
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,920
children, living your life 
through them, through all their 

480
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,920
sporting events, through all the
things that they do. 

481
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,320
You're leading them into self 
worship. 

482
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:32,000
Stop it, live for Christ, let 
Christ be pre eminent in your 

483
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,760
life. 
And see your children as a 

484
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,360
blessing that come from the hand
of God. 

485
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,880
And pray that God gives you the 
wisdom to be a good steward, not

486
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,600
making them an idol for you to 
worship, spending all of your 

487
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,680
time and all of your resources, 
all of your money, trying to 

488
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:59,020
make these little sinners happy.
Teach them about where true 

489
00:30:59,020 --> 00:31:01,620
happiness, true joy is found, 
and it's found in Christ alone. 

490
00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:03,340
And you teach them that by your 
example. 

491
00:31:04,180 --> 00:31:09,820
How about finances? 
Offering ourselves to idols 

492
00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:12,220
means that we're controlled. 
By senseless fashions such as 

493
00:31:12,220 --> 00:31:17,200
our finances, Right? 
You're you're more concerned 

494
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,640
with the stock market than you 
are the return of Jesus Christ. 

495
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,040
May we cease to be distracted by
the idol of finances in this 

496
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,400
world that we live in. 
The whole reason that you exist 

497
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,360
is to make money. 
Ma'am, Sir, listen to me. 

498
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,200
At that point, this has become 
an idol to you. 

499
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,520
See it for what it is. 
You're worshipping the almighty 

500
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,880
dollar. 
You're offering yourself to an 

501
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,800
idol. 
In doing so, you are provoking 

502
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,520
the jealousy of the God who 
loves you and who sent His Son 

503
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,440
to rescue you from this world of
chaos and sin. 

504
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,480
Well, how about the idol of 
friendships or relationships, 

505
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:08,040
right? 
Some of you. 

506
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,920
You come to church because this 
is where your friends are. 

507
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,760
Please cease to think like that 
today. 

508
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,560
It's great that we have friends.
It's great that we have 

509
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,880
Christian fellowship. 
God has given us those things. 

510
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,400
But if you'll go back with me 
into time, into the Old 

511
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,280
Testament, God gave the people 
at one time a pole with a 

512
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,880
serpent on it, so that if they 
were bit by a snake, they would 

513
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,760
then be healed from that snake 
bite. 

514
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,680
But where the people erred, 
here's what happened. 

515
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,640
They began to worship the pole 
with the serpent on it, and some

516
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,120
of you worship your friendships.
You come on a Sunday morning not

517
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,040
to exalt God, not to lift Him 
up, not to bow down and to 

518
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,120
humble yourself before Him, but 
to visit with your. 

519
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:58,480
Friends and it's high time we 
take back these institute's. 

520
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,400
They call themselves churches, 
but are nothing more than a 

521
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,400
social gathering, a Country 
Club. 

522
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,760
We return to worshipping and 
honoring the one true and living

523
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,520
God with every fiber of our 
being. 

524
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,320
About your future plans and 
Speaking of your senseless 

525
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,960
passions, right? 
You're planning for the future, 

526
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,120
right? 
What you're going to do when you

527
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,640
retire? 
I wish I could give you the list

528
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:32,320
of all the people who had those 
plans, never got to enjoy. 

529
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:38,960
Not one single one of them. 
They did in opposition to what 

530
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,080
James said. 
They counted on tomorrow, when 

531
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,280
tomorrow is no guarantee and 
tomorrow never came. 

532
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,360
Oh, let us worship the Lord with
all of our intensity and all of 

533
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:58,760
our fervor while we still have 
today, because tomorrow is not 

534
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,000
guaranteed. 
So many people are following the

535
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,520
idol of their future plans, 
storing up treasures on earth 

536
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,639
that you can't take with you and
you're not guaranteed to ever 

537
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:18,080
possess, when you could be 
inundated with worship toward 

538
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,199
the one true God who's worthy of
all that worship, experiencing 

539
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,159
that communion with Him, not 
distracted by these things. 

540
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,159
Instead, we offered ourselves to
idolatry, being controlled by 

541
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:33,120
our senseless passions. 
So it brings us to a question, 

542
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,080
what's your passion? 
What drives you? 

543
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:37,280
Why do you wake up every 
morning? 

544
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,400
Do you wake up every morning for
one of these things that I've 

545
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,639
mentioned? 
How do you see every day as a 

546
00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:47,880
blessing for God, a blessing 
that He has given you for His 

547
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,760
glory straight from His hand? 
Lord, you've blessed me with 

548
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,600
another day. 
Let me obediently serve you and 

549
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,240
worship you with this day 
because I'm not guaranteed the 

550
00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:00,720
next. 
I wish that God's people would 

551
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,360
understand the seriousness of 
this. 

552
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:09,680
And whatever you're passionate 
about, it's really what you 

553
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,760
worship. 
Some of you are passionate about

554
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,520
sports. 
Some of you are passionate about

555
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,760
finances. 
Some of you are passionate about

556
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,600
your families. 
Some of you are passionate about

557
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,680
all your entertainment and all 
the things that this world could

558
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,640
throw at you with little passion
at all concerning the Lord. 

559
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,400
You've been distracted. 
You've been distracted with 

560
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,840
covetousness, lust, greed. 
And can I insert here that greed

561
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,080
in the New Testament is called 
idolatry? 

562
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,840
It's not called that by 
accident. 

563
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,720
In fact, in Ephesians chapter 5,
verse 5, here's what Paul says. 

564
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,960
He says for all of this you can 
be sure no immoral, impure or 

565
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,880
greedy person such a man is an 
idolater, has any inheritance in

566
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,040
the Kingdom of Christ and of 
God. 

567
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,280
He says your greed is a mark of 
your idolatry. 

568
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,080
You're offering yourselves to 
your greed, proving that you 

569
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,080
don't understand the love of God
at all. 

570
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,400
In fact, in Luke chapter 12 
verse 15, it says then he said 

571
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,680
to them, Speaking of Jesus, 
watch out be on your guard 

572
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,440
against all kinds of greed. 
Why? 

573
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,640
Because a man's life does not 
consist in the abundance of his 

574
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,640
possessions. 
But yet we live in a country. 

575
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,280
That is so retail driven trying 
to talk you into something all 

576
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,400
the time that you have to have. 
Know everything you have to 

577
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,960
have. 
God will provide for you. 

578
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,000
Stop chasing after your greedy 
desires. 

579
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,840
Because your greed is an 
indicator that you are offering 

580
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:44,400
yourself to an idol and that 
idol is called greed and it 

581
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,160
arouses and it provokes God's 
jealousy. 

582
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,720
That's why Paul says Corinthians
and 1st Corinthians chapter 10 

583
00:36:53,720 --> 00:37:00,320
verse 14, he says flee from 
idolatry, flee from anything 

584
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,160
that distracts you from giving 
God what belongs to God. 

585
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,360
Flee from anything that causes 
you to offer yourself to 

586
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,600
anything or anyone who is not 
God. 

587
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,320
And as humans, yes, we are prone
to this. 

588
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,080
Stop thinking that idolatry is 
just some Old Testament thing 

589
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:25,240
that doesn't happen any longer. 
You are constantly being drawn 

590
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:30,320
to be distracted by things. 
I won't harp on it, but I will 

591
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,120
mention it again. 
You have an electronic device 

592
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:37,040
that is distracting you 
constantly in your pocket or in 

593
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,560
your hand most of the day. 
You say, well, pastor, are you 

594
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,120
preaching against cell phones? 
Absolutely not. 

595
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,640
But I am preaching against 
idolatry, and the Saints of old 

596
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,560
join with me and they agree 
because the word of God has 

597
00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:01,080
spoken on idolatry. 
It provokes God's jealousy. 

598
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,680
That's why John says in his 
first epistle, chapter 5, verse 

599
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:10,320
21, he says, dear children, keep
yourselves from idol. 

600
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:18,240
What is an idol again? 
Anything that takes your 

601
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:22,080
attention away from God. 
Anything that distracts you, 

602
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,280
it's when you give something to 
someone else that rightfully 

603
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,000
belongs to God. 
And you, ma'am, you Sir, who 

604
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,200
professed to be purchased by the
precious blood of Jesus Christ, 

605
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,760
you are not your own. 
You were bought with the price. 

606
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,000
Therefore he says, honor God 
with your body. 

607
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,400
Everything you have belongs to 
him. 

608
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,440
Give it all. 
To him. 

609
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,280
And when you're not giving it 
all to him, you're giving it to 

610
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,240
something else. 
And at that point in time, you 

611
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,000
were offering yourselves to 
idols. 

612
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,160
Be very aware of this, because 
when we offer ourselves to 

613
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,200
idolatry, we provoke God's 
jealousy. 

614
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,760
Secondly, God's jealousy is 
provoked when we offer ourselves

615
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:07,120
to iniquity, to any and every 
type of sin. 

616
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:10,800
And I want you to go here with 
me in your mind and in your 

617
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:18,280
heart for just a moment. 
Oh, to think and to contemplate 

618
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:25,400
this. 
That God loved me so much that 

619
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,840
he sent his only begotten Son to
die on a cross, a brutal and 

620
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:40,640
horrific death, to ransom me, to
pay my sin debt, to wash me and 

621
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,560
cleanse me of all of my my 
defilements. 

622
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,680
To free me from the wrath of God
that I deserved, and placed it 

623
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:55,600
upon the very back of Jesus the 
Christ, and then for me to only 

624
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,480
then turn and return to the life
of. 

625
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,200
Sin and filth that he saved me 
from. 

626
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,600
Doesn't he have the right to be 
jealous? 

627
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,000
Doesn't he have the right to be 
provoked in that jealousy? 

628
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:17,600
To think that he offered so much
to express his love for us, and 

629
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:23,640
then in return we constantly 
find ourselves offering 

630
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,760
ourselves back to iniquity 
again, falling back into the 

631
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:34,080
same thing that Jesus died. 
For you to be freed from You 

632
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,520
offer yourself to iniquity, 
provoking God's jealousy. 

633
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,760
You offer yourself to iniquity. 
When you watch this, write it. 

634
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,480
Down so that you will know. 
Return to the filth, Jesus. 

635
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,560
Rescued you from. 
And if anyone would be honest in

636
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,600
this room, you would agree with 
me that when Jesus rescued me, 

637
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:55,200
he rescued me from the mud and 
the mire. 

638
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,000
He rescued me from the filthiest
of filth. 

639
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,200
If you're in Christ, He did the 
same for you. 

640
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,120
Oh, you weren't probably as bad 
as you could have been, but you 

641
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,560
were bad. 
And you were completely bad. 

642
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,440
In fact, you were totally 
depraved when he rescued you. 

643
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,040
And he rescued you from your 
filth. 

644
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,720
Not so that you can then use 
Grace as some cheap excuse to go

645
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:24,960
live in the filth again. 
He rescued us and He made us 

646
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,920
clean so that we would not 
return to that filth. 

647
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,760
What does that look like? 
We we return to our filth when 

648
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,680
we revisit our old sinful 
habits. 

649
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,000
Oh, there's no need to hide 
under the chair, because I know 

650
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,680
that there has to be someone 
here who is revisiting their old

651
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:50,080
sinful habits, those things that
Jesus freed you from. 

652
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,520
Through His death, His burial, 
His resurrection, expressing to 

653
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:04,960
you just how much God really 
does love you and in return you 

654
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,560
slap Christ in the face and you 
go back and you pick up those 

655
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,600
things that he freed you from 
and how can it be? 

656
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,200
In fact, Ephesians chapter 4 
verse 22 says you were taught 

657
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,920
with regard to your former way 
of life. 

658
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,520
Why don't you love how the life 
of sin was always talked about 

659
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,040
in past tense in the New 
Testament, your former way of 

660
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,120
life, He says to put off the old
self, which is being corrupted 

661
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,760
by its deceitful desires, to be 
made new in the attitude of your

662
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,600
minds and to put on the new self
created to be like God and 

663
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:37,200
through righteousness and. 
Holiness, He gives no room there

664
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,920
to return back to that which he 
has rescued you from. 

665
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:47,480
Your old, filthy, sinful habits.
Leave them where they belong. 

666
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,120
They belong in the past, in 
fact. 

667
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,600
We know the scripture says to 
lay aside every weight and sin 

668
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:57,360
that so easily entangles us to 
get rid of that thing, let it 

669
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:03,160
go, not revisit our old sinful 
habits, offering ourselves to 

670
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,960
iniquity, provoking the jealousy
of God. 

671
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,600
How about when we recklessly 
offer ourselves to sin, right? 

672
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,480
Well, we just don't care all 
just this one time, I'm just 

673
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,200
going to indulge. 
And many a man who one time 

674
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,320
indulged and it cost him his 
entire life. 

675
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,520
We run into sin recklessly. 
Oh, I'm saved, and I know I'm 

676
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,600
saved, and I know that I'm going
to heaven because I know Christ.

677
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,600
So just this. 
One time what I'm going to do is

678
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,920
I'm going to offer myself 
recklessly to sin. 

679
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,680
What a shame that is because we 
see that it's very prevalent 

680
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,200
isn't in the lives of those who 
profess to know Christ. 

681
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:50,200
Romans chapter 6 Paul says this.
He says in the same way, count 

682
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,800
yourself dead to sin, but alive 
to God in Christ Jesus. 

683
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,800
Therefore, do not let sin reign 
in your mortal bodies so that 

684
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,080
you obey its evil desires. 
What is he telling us here? 

685
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,200
That if we give sin an inch, 
it's going to take a mile? 

686
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,360
Do not offer the parts of your 
body to sin as instruments of 

687
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,840
wickedness, but rather offer 
yourselves to God as those who 

688
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,640
have been brought from death to 
life, and offer the parts of 

689
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,280
your body to Him as instruments 
of righteousness. 

690
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,480
You know what he's saying. 
Don't dabble in sin any longer. 

691
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:25,160
Don't give one inch to your sin.
Because before you know it, as 

692
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:30,800
many of you would testify, that 
sin is back in the driver's seat

693
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,760
in your life, controlling you. 
You're bowing down. 

694
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,120
You're offering yourself to 
that, even against your own 

695
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,560
redeemed will, because you 
recklessly offered yourself to 

696
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,040
sin once again. 
When you offer yourself to 

697
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,680
iniquity, provoking the wrath of
God, when you return to the 

698
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,080
filth that Jesus rescued you 
from, revisiting your old sinful

699
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,080
habits, recklessly offering 
yourself to sin. 

700
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:56,040
And when you resemble the 
ungodly in your behavior and in 

701
00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:01,040
your life. 
I would to God that Christians 

702
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,480
would see how important it is 
that we don't resemble this 

703
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:09,600
world any longer, not in the 
language that we use, not in the

704
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,160
places that we go, not in the 
substances that we partake in. 

705
00:45:18,730 --> 00:45:22,210
That we reflect God in every 
area of our life resembling the 

706
00:45:22,210 --> 00:45:25,130
one who bought us. 
Is that not what His Word 

707
00:45:25,130 --> 00:45:27,050
teaches us? 
That those He foreknew He did 

708
00:45:27,050 --> 00:45:29,810
also predestined to conform to 
the image of His Son? 

709
00:45:31,170 --> 00:45:33,330
I find myself asking this 
question quite often. 

710
00:45:33,330 --> 00:45:36,090
If we were conformed, or we were
destined to be conformed to the 

711
00:45:36,090 --> 00:45:39,730
image of His Son, why do so many
professing Christians look like 

712
00:45:39,730 --> 00:45:40,490
the. 
World. 

713
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,120
Why do they resemble the 
ungodly? 

714
00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,480
Why could you put the two right 
next to each other most of the 

715
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,280
time, with maybe the exception 
on a Sunday because you come to 

716
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,760
church because your Mama told 
you to? 

717
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,560
But why can we set them side by 
side most of the time? 

718
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:10,360
There's so many of you in the 
so-called church offering 

719
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:17,760
yourselves to iniquity 
resembling the ungodly and your 

720
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,160
life. 
First Thessalonians chapter 4, 

721
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,120
verse 3 says it is God's will 
that you should be sanctified, 

722
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:25,920
that you should avoid sexual 
immorality. 

723
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,920
Sexual immorality, the sin that 
he is addressing specifically 

724
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,440
here, but it would encompass all
sin. 

725
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,320
He said that each of you should 
learn to control his own body in

726
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,600
a way that is holy and 
honorable, not in passionate 

727
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,080
lust like the heathen. 
What is he saying? 

728
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,200
The heathen just whatever their,
their flesh lusted after, they 

729
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:51,120
just ran and they didn't, he 
says. 

730
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,480
And that is that in this matter 
no one should wrong his brother 

731
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,880
or take advantage of him. 
The Lord will punish men for all

732
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,200
such sins, as we've already told
you and warned you. 

733
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,040
He says there's going to be 
consequences for you who profess

734
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,800
Christ and who behave like the 
world. 

735
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,280
Please understand that the 
author of Hebrews is very clear 

736
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,960
that whom the Lord loves, he 
disciplines, and he chastens 

737
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,920
with a rod. 
And if you were without 

738
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,120
discipline, you don't belong to 
Him. 

739
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,320
I tell people quite frequently 
when I talk about the discipline

740
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,640
of God, I tell him this. 
I'm so thankful for God's 

741
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,720
discipline. 
It reveals to me His jealous 

742
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:32,360
love for me. 
But it reveals. 

743
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,600
To me, that I am his son. 
I have faced the Lord's 

744
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,720
discipline on so many occasions 
that I know this. 

745
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,320
I know I am His because He won't
let me be anything else. 

746
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,520
And if you, ma'am or Sir, can 
live any way that you want to 

747
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,000
live and still profess Christ, I
want to help you. 

748
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,040
That is a hollow profession 
because the Lord has promised to

749
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,720
discipline those who belong to 
Him. 

750
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,640
And if you are truly in Christ, 
you belong to Him. 

751
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,920
And so if you can do whatever in
the world you want to do, you 

752
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,320
can look like the world, act 
like the world. 

753
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,640
There's no conviction, There's 
no discipline that comes upon 

754
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,440
your life. 
You can do all the things that 

755
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,800
the world does. 
You are the world. 

756
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,440
Without exception, you're not 
truly in Christ. 

757
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,280
Because if you're in Christ, His
jealous love would pursue you. 

758
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:21,840
His jealous love would 
discipline you. 

759
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,480
He would not let you continue to
resemble the ungodly. 

760
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,200
He has freed you from looking 
like this world in your life. 

761
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,600
These people not only returned 
to the filth that Jesus rescued 

762
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,520
them from, offering themselves 
to iniquity, provoking God's 

763
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,680
jealousy, they refuse to die to 
their sinful desires and the 

764
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,240
cravings of the flesh. 
What are they doing? 

765
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:48,000
They're neglecting to mortify 
their sin. 

766
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,080
As Christians, we all know this.
We have the same sinful desires 

767
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,120
that we once have, right? 
She's thankful that in Christ 

768
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,560
there is now another option, and
that option is to die to the sin

769
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:05,040
and the desire of your flesh and
is to live unto Christ empowered

770
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,600
by the Holy Spirit. 
Galatians 516 says that if I 

771
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,560
walk in the Spirit, I will not 
fulfill the lust of my flesh. 

772
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,200
It doesn't say that I won't have
them. 

773
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,280
I won't fulfill them. 
But what I have to do is I have 

774
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,520
to mortify my sin at every 
occasion. 

775
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,320
And I can't speak for you, but I
can speak for me. 

776
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:28,480
That's multiple times daily. 
Then I have to literally kill my

777
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,440
sin that craves the things of 
the flesh. 

778
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:41,080
I have to mortify just as Paul 
says in Colossians chapter 3. 

779
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,240
He says in verse 3, for you died
and your life is now hidden in 

780
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,560
Christ, in God, with Christ, in 
God. 

781
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,320
When Christ who is your life 
appears, then you will also 

782
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,000
appear with him in glory. 
Amen. 

783
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,560
I'm thankful for that. 
But now he tells me my 

784
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,280
responsibility as I wait for 
that. 

785
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,720
Watch us put to death. 
Mortify. 

786
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,560
Put to death, therefore, 
whatever belongs to your earthly

787
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,280
nature. 
He's going to give us a list 

788
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:11,280
sexual immorality, impurity, 
lust, evil desires and greed, 

789
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,200
which is idolatry. 
He says because of these, the 

790
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,520
wrath of God is coming. 
He's saying you have been freed 

791
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,400
from the wrath of God, therefore
you do not need to participate 

792
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,080
in the things that bring God's 
wrath upon this earth. 

793
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,320
You've been bought. 
You've been purchased. 

794
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,840
Stop refusing to die to your 
sinful desires and your cravings

795
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,560
of the flesh simply because, 
well, I'm just a human and 

796
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:37,400
you're true. 
You are just a human. 

797
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,720
You are a human if you are in 
Christ, who is now indwelt by 

798
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:42,840
the power of the Holy Spirit, 
the same power of the Holy 

799
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,240
Spirit. 
It's the same Spirit that Christ

800
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:47,760
walked in while He was here on 
this earth and He lived a 

801
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,160
righteous and perfect life 
before men. 

802
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,280
Mortify your flesh. 
Walk in the perfect life that 

803
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,640
Jesus Christ has made for you to
walk in his very own life. 

804
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,360
Is that not what Paul said? 
Your life is hidden in him. 

805
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,200
Problem with the American 
churches. 

806
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,640
You still think you have your 
life. 

807
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,440
If you think you have your life,
your life is not hidden in 

808
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:11,800
Christ. 
Because if your life is hidden 

809
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,320
in Christ, when Christ appears, 
your life will appear with him. 

810
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,000
That's why we look for that day.
Until then, we mortify our flesh

811
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,080
long for what we one day will be
in our glorified state because 

812
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,920
of Christ. 
Some refused to die to their 

813
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,840
sinful desires and the cravings 
of their flesh offering 

814
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,880
themselves to iniquity, even 
though they professed Christ 

815
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,200
only provoking his wrath, 
subjecting themselves to sins 

816
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,280
potential control. 
Again, as we've already seen in 

817
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:46,360
Romans 6, Paul talks about, but 
also forgetting the sacrifice of

818
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,240
our blessed Savior. 
I think this is where we often 

819
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,720
jump off the track. 
We forget what Christ has done 

820
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,840
for US. 
First Peter chapter 2 verse 24 

821
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,800
says he himself Speaking of 
Christ bore our sins in his own 

822
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:02,120
body on the cross so that we 
might die to sins and live for 

823
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:07,520
righteousness. 
Paul simply telling us this, or 

824
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:12,000
Peter, excuse me, simply telling
us this, that when we think of 

825
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,880
Christ and the fact that He bore
our sins on the cross, that 

826
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:21,440
ought to be motivation for us to
mortify and to die to our sins 

827
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,320
and to live for righteousness 
because of the love that He 

828
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,880
displayed for us in rescuing us 
on the cross. 

829
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,200
But often times we let that just
go to the very back of our mind 

830
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:38,160
instead of every day rising from
our sleep and saying, Lord 

831
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,920
Jesus, thank you for your 
sacrifice that you made. 

832
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,480
Thank you for rescuing me from 
me, bearing my sin and my shame 

833
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:51,080
on the tree, so that I can now 
live a life of righteousness 

834
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,320
unto God for His glory. 
Teach me to do this by the power

835
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,000
of your Spirit as I walk with 
you. 

836
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,640
So God's jealousy is provoked 
and we offer ourselves to 

837
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,600
iniquity. 
When we choose sin over 

838
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:07,560
holiness, we provoke God's 
jealousy, rightly so. 

839
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,920
Shouldn't He be jealous and His 
faithfulness to us? 

840
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,480
We continually run after 
unfaithfulness to Him. 

841
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,720
Thirdly, you'll be happy to 
know. 

842
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:27,320
Lastly, today God's jealousy is 
provoked when we offer ourselves

843
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,840
to pay attention to this not 
often talked about any longer in

844
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,600
the church. 
God's jealousy is provoked when 

845
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,240
we offer ourselves to 
inconsistency. 

846
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,840
You said Kirk, what do you mean 
inconsistency? 

847
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,040
I mean, if we're going to 
understand. 

848
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,040
This that we. 
Have to turn our attention to 

849
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,200
Revelation chapter 3 where we 
see the church at Laodicea. 

850
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:58,560
Mentioned the church at Laodicea
there in Revelation chapter 3. 

851
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:05,480
Heard from Jesus himself. 
And he proclaimed to them just 

852
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,920
how unacceptable inconsistency 
and indifference toward Christ 

853
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:15,400
really is. 
In fact, the term lukewarm was 

854
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,360
used. 
You're very familiar with this 

855
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,920
term. 
What does this mean? 

856
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,280
It means that they were 
inconsistent. 

857
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,800
He said you're neither hot nor 
cold. 

858
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,520
He said I would rather you be 
hot or cold, but you're neither.

859
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:30,520
You're waver back and forth. 
You're inconsistent in every 

860
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:35,800
area of your life. 
And he calls them to repentance 

861
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,080
for their inconsistency. 
No, I know we live in a church 

862
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,120
age, in a church culture where 
no one calls the church to 

863
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:48,920
repent of inconsistency. 
That change is here now because 

864
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,480
inconsistency has become an idol
in the church. 

865
00:54:52,600 --> 00:55:00,120
We're. 
One way on Sunday, then we're 

866
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:01,920
another way the other days of 
the week. 

867
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,880
In fact, we're so inconsistent 
that our. 

868
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:12,000
Unbelieving friends don't see 
any difference between them and 

869
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:18,840
us other than we give up our 
Sunday to come to church because

870
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,240
you're right there partying with
them. 

871
00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:22,080
You're right there, you're 
drinking with them, you're right

872
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,360
there, you're laughing at all 
their filthy jokes. 

873
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,480
Fact probably given giving them 
new ones to tell at their next 

874
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,400
encounter. 
And we're OK with it. 

875
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,360
We're. 
OK with being inconsistent, but 

876
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,400
let me tell you this God is not 
OK with it. 

877
00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:39,800
In fact, it provokes his 
jealousy. 

878
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,360
The God who has loved you to the
extent that He has loved you 

879
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,480
too, and yet you were 
inconsistent toward Him. 

880
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,800
When we go back to the ministry 
of Elijah in First Kings chapter

881
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:58,840
18, he addresses God's people 
for their inconsistency. 

882
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,000
They were wavering. 
Watch how he says this in verse 

883
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,040
21. 
Elijah went out before the 

884
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,600
people and said how long will 
you waver between two opinions? 

885
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,680
He says if the Lord is God, 
Callaway. 

886
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:19,000
If he's God, follow him, but if 
if Baal is God, follow him. 

887
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,120
But the people said nothing. 
They didn't respond because they

888
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,400
knew they had been caught in 
their inconsistency because 

889
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,120
there were times when they were 
worshipping the one true God. 

890
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,160
And then the next time that you 
would see them, they were 

891
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,320
worshipping Baal. 
And Elijah had enough of it and 

892
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,520
God had had enough of it because
God was provoked in his jealousy

893
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,400
that he sent Elijah to deliver 
this message. 

894
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,600
And he's telling them to stop 
wavering between two opinion. 

895
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:50,000
If God is the one true God and 
Jesus Christ is the one true 

896
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:56,600
Savior, live like it, act like 
it, love like it, serve like it.

897
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,520
But if your God is really the 
gods of this world, who are no 

898
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,680
gods at all, then serve the 
world, partake of the world, 

899
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,480
indulge in the world, and 
receive the world's reward in 

900
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,600
hell. 
But pick a lane. 

901
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:18,440
Choose which one you are in. 
Because inconsistency provokes 

902
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,840
God's jealousy, He will not put 
up with it. 

903
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,600
In fact, Joshua and his ministry
in leading the. 

904
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:30,880
Israelites. 
He calls the Israelites to do 

905
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:32,160
just that. 
Pick a lane. 

906
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:37,280
In fact, Joshua 24 verse 14, he 
says this now fear the Lord and 

907
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:42,040
serve him with all faithfulness,
not part faithfulness, not 

908
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,000
Sunday morning faithfulness. 
He said with all faithfulness. 

909
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,040
He said be faithful in every 
area of your life. 

910
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,320
Throw away the gods your 
forefathers worship beyond the 

911
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,560
river and in Egypt, and serve 
the Lord. 

912
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:58,320
Now watch this. 
He gives them another option, he

913
00:57:58,320 --> 00:57:59,680
says. 
But if serving the Lord seems 

914
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:04,360
undesirable to you, then choose 
for yourselves this day whom you

915
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:09,520
will serve, whether the gods of 
your forefathers, whether the 

916
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,800
gods your forefathers served 
beyond the river, or the gods of

917
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,280
the Amorites, and whose land you
are living. 

918
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,880
And he takes a stand, he says, 
But As for me and my household, 

919
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,120
we will serve Yahweh, we will 
serve the Lord. 

920
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,600
What is Joshua? 
Doing there, he's calling the 

921
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:32,000
people of God out and he's 
simply saying this. 

922
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,640
Choose which side you are really
on. 

923
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,200
Stop going back and forth and 
back and forth. 

924
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,040
One day you're worshipping the 
gods of the Amorites, the next. 

925
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:46,880
Day you're worshipping Yahweh. 
This does not work. 

926
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:53,080
It doesn't work for us either, 
because just as they are God's 

927
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:57,960
covenantal people, so are we. 
And our covenant is in the 

928
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:02,320
precious blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and it's time that we 

929
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,640
become consistent in our worship
toward Him and our service 

930
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,800
toward Him. 
God is not pleased with our 

931
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:18,000
inconsistency. 
When we are inconsistent, we 

932
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,000
offer ourselves to that 
inconsistency instead of 

933
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:27,080
offering ourselves to God. 
How do we do this? 

934
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,040
What does this look like in a 
practical sense so that we 

935
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,400
understand it? 
Pay close attention to this. 

936
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,320
We offer ourselves to 
inconsistency by wavering an 

937
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,040
allegiance. 
We waver an allegiance between 

938
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,400
the world and God and His 
church. 

939
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,800
We partly embrace God and His 
Kingdom, and we partly embrace 

940
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,240
the things of this world. 
We can't really make up our mind

941
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:57,120
for sure. 
James addresses this in James 

942
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:03,280
chapter 4. 
He doesn't in a rather bold 

943
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,040
fashion to which I appreciate. 
He says in verse 4 of chapter 4,

944
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:12,000
you adulterous people. 
That's what he calls them, you 

945
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,080
adulterous people. 
Don't you know that friendship 

946
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:15,800
with the world is hatred toward 
God? 

947
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:18,120
Anyone who? 
Chooses to be a friend of the 

948
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,800
world. 
Becomes an enemy of God. 

949
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,280
Church, please listen to that 
warning. 

950
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,120
Please. 
We are only going to be warned 

951
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,480
of that so many times in our 
lifetime. 

952
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:34,760
Heed that warning. 
Some of you are offering 

953
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,840
yourselves an inconsistency. 
One day you're offering yourself

954
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,680
to the world. 
One day you're offering yourself

955
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,560
to God. 
Probably just this day because 

956
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,520
it's Sunday and that's what 
you've been raised in the South 

957
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:48,320
to do. 
But in doing that, your 

958
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:52,080
inconsistency is provoking and 
arousing the very jealousy of 

959
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:59,280
God. 
You waver to and fro, partnering

960
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:03,880
with the world on one day and 
partnering with the church on 

961
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:08,200
another. 
Second Corinthians 6 Paul speaks

962
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:12,160
of this. 
He says in verse 14, Do not be 

963
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:16,760
yoked together with unbelievers.
That's not talking about just 

964
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:21,520
marriage church. 
Sadly, that's the only time some

965
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:25,360
seem to use this. 
He's talking about everything. 

966
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,320
He says do not be yoked together
with unbelievers. 

967
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,480
What do righteousness and 
wickedness have in common? 

968
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,200
He's going to give you 
rhetoricals and they're all no 

969
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:34,760
or nothing. 
Have nothing in common. 

970
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,280
What fellowship can light have 
with darkness? 

971
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,800
None. 
What harmony is there between 

972
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:40,960
Christ and Blount? 
No. 

973
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,080
Harmony at all? 
What does a believer have in 

974
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:48,760
common with an unbeliever? 
Nothing, he said. 

975
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:51,400
Well, I'm a believer and I have 
lots in common with my lost 

976
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:52,840
friends. 
You better check yourself. 

977
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,280
You better check yourself 
because you're claiming to be 

978
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,120
light and saying that you have 
something in common with the 

979
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,000
darkness, and God's Word says 
that is impossible. 

980
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,000
Your inconsistency is seen very 
clearly just by that simple 

981
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,960
statement that you made. 
Wavering an allegiance between 

982
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,440
the world and God, partnering 
with the world, participating 

983
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:19,880
with the world, drinking from 
the cup of the world. 

984
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,320
Paul speaks of this in First 
Corinthians chapter 10. 

985
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,560
Talking to the believers there 
at Corinth, he says you cannot 

986
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:29,160
drink the cup of the Lord. 
What was he talking about? 

987
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,320
You can't observe the Lord's 
Supper on a Sunday. 

988
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,080
Recognizing the very blood of 
Jesus Christ, the blood of the 

989
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:39,440
New Covenant and then turn 
around on Monday and drink from 

990
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,560
the cup of demons. 
You can have a part in both the 

991
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,240
Lord's table and the table of 
demons. 

992
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,200
He said your fellowship can't be
with Christ and Satan at the 

993
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,240
same time. 
This inconsistency is 

994
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,000
impossible. 
He says. 

995
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,200
Are we trying to arouse the 
Lord's jealousy? 

996
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,800
Yes, that question. 
Isn't it interesting that he 

997
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,320
borrows that term from the Old 
Testament? 

998
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,440
Are we trying to arouse his 
jealousy? 

999
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,960
Not only are you trying to 
arouse his jealousy, you are 

1000
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,480
arousing his jealousy as we 
arouse. 

1001
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,120
Him to jealousy when we're 
inconsistent in our lives 

1002
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:15,320
wavering in our allegiance being
double minded as James warns 

1003
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:16,960
about in James chapter 1 to 
verse 8. 

1004
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:17,760
What does he say? 
He says a. 

1005
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,400
Double minded man is unstable in
all he does. 

1006
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,040
When you're inconsistent, it 
reveals your double mindedness. 

1007
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:31,160
Your double mindedness. 
Reveals who you truly are. 

1008
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,480
So we offer ourselves to 
inconsistency when we are 

1009
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,000
wavering in allegiance, but also
when we're wavering in 

1010
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,360
affection, inconsistent in our 
love for God. 

1011
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:44,560
I'll say it in a way that you 
can understand it. 

1012
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,840
We're married to Jesus, but we 
still sometimes date the world. 

1013
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,000
We're married to Jesus and we 
know that, but by His precious 

1014
01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:01,600
blood we are in a covenant. 
Sometimes we still date the 

1015
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,440
world. 
And why would He not be provoked

1016
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:09,800
to jealousy when He faithfully 
rescued you from your sin, the 

1017
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,400
wrath that was to come upon you,
putting you in the right 

1018
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:16,160
position with your Creator, 
putting you in that marriage 

1019
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:21,680
covenant with Himself, only for 
you to then turn and still want 

1020
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:26,840
to date the world? 
First John chapter 2 verse 15, 

1021
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaking of our affections for 
the world, John says this do not

1022
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:32,240
love the world or anything in 
the world. 

1023
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,840
If anyone loves the world, the 
love of the Father is not in him

1024
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,560
for everything in the world. 
The cravings of sinful man, the 

1025
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,200
lust of his eyes, and the 
boasting of what he has and does

1026
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,680
comes not from the Father, but 
from the world. 

1027
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:49,400
The world and its desires passed
away, but the man who does the 

1028
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:53,520
will of God lives forever. 
Church, it's time we stop 

1029
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:58,360
wavering in our affection, 
offering ourselves to 

1030
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,800
inconsistency, saying that we 
love Jesus, but showing that we 

1031
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,720
love the world. 
Because you can say that you 

1032
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:10,760
love Jesus all you want, but if 
you're not showing it, no one is

1033
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:17,320
buying it. 
But haven't we embraced that in 

1034
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,040
our time? 
Oh, as long as you say you love 

1035
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,600
Jesus, it really doesn't matter 
how you live. 

1036
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:26,840
Oh, it matters because how you 
were living in your 

1037
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,520
inconsistency is provoking the 
jealousy of God. 

1038
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,400
And it's high time that you 
recognize that. 

1039
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,840
In fact, it's high time that you
repent of that. 

1040
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,400
It's it's time that you get 
honest about that. 

1041
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,560
You approach the stone of grace 
that you may find mercy and 

1042
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:47,760
grace even this very day, 
because it's Jesus by His love 

1043
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,680
that He chose us out of this 
world. 

1044
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,080
Why do we continue to waver in 
our affection for the world that

1045
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:01,840
He chose us out of? 
Is that what He said in John 15 

1046
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,000
verse 19? 
That He chose us out of the 

1047
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,520
world? 
Well, if He chose you out of the

1048
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,400
world, and how did he do it? 
By demonstrating his love for 

1049
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:12,560
you on the cross. 
If he chose you out of this 

1050
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:21,080
world, why are you still 
inconsistently dabbling in it? 

1051
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:25,160
Do you like the thought of 
provoking the jealousy of God? 

1052
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:29,480
I don't have time today to tell 
you what happens when the 

1053
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,880
Israelites provoke his jealousy 
over and over and over again. 

1054
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:39,720
Please know this, you will not 
provoke his jealousy as one of 

1055
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:42,880
his covenantal people without 
there being a consequence that 

1056
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:49,840
comes from it. 
Many are wavering in their 

1057
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,640
allegiance and in their 
affection, proving their 

1058
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:58,720
inconsistency, pursuing the 
temporal things of this earth 

1059
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,440
instead of the eternal things of
God. 

1060
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:03,440
That's why Paul tells the 
Colossians to set their minds on

1061
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,080
things above, not on earthly 
thing. 

1062
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:08,800
Why? 
Because these earthly things are

1063
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:15,320
fleeting, yet we spend so much 
time investing in them. 

1064
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,280
God's jealousy is provoked when 
we offer ourselves to 

1065
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,520
inconsistency. 
His jealousy is provoked when we

1066
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,320
offer ourselves to iniquity. 
His jealousy is provoked when we

1067
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:33,280
offer ourselves to idolatry. 
God has every right to be 

1068
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:37,000
jealous, doesn't He? 
We offer ourselves to these 

1069
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,080
things. 
We waver in our allegiance when 

1070
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:43,800
we waver in our affections. 
We bow to idle. 

1071
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:51,440
We cave to sin is every right to
be jealous? 

1072
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,800
Oh, I say these things to you 
because we are going to begin a 

1073
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:59,720
study looking at God's jealousy 
in great detail. 

1074
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:05,800
But I told you when I began to 
study the topic, I said, you 

1075
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:08,080
know. 
One thing that I have learned 

1076
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,440
about God's jealousy, though 
I've only just scratched the 

1077
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,320
surface. 
One thing that I have learned is

1078
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,000
I don't want to arouse and 
provoke His jealousy. 

1079
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,319
And I want the people who have 
been placed under my care to 

1080
01:08:20,319 --> 01:08:25,399
know exactly how we can do this.
I don't come to you today to 

1081
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,000
browbeat you a scripture to be 
harsh to you. 

1082
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,600
I come to just tell you the 
truth. 

1083
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:38,800
God is a jealous God. 
I encourage you to serve him as 

1084
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:42,680
the jealous God that he is 
because the fact that God is 

1085
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,040
jealous ought to call some 
things to happen in our lives. 

1086
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,880
Write these things down and I'll
close this up. 

1087
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:53,960
For those of you who thought 
three points meant a shorter 

1088
01:08:53,960 --> 01:09:04,340
sermon, you were sadly wrong. 
The fact that God is a jealous 

1089
01:09:04,340 --> 01:09:07,020
God should cause you to release 
any affections for this world. 

1090
01:09:07,939 --> 01:09:11,540
If you're in Christ, you are 
holding on to love for something

1091
01:09:11,540 --> 01:09:12,740
in this world. 
This day. 

1092
01:09:12,740 --> 01:09:15,500
God will convict you and show 
you to release that thing. 

1093
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:21,720
It does not belong in your life.
God's jealousy oughta calls you 

1094
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,800
to release that thing 
immediately, to confess it, to 

1095
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,240
repent of it knowing that He is 
faithful and just, to forgive 

1096
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,040
you of all of your sin when you 
confess it. 

1097
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:31,800
Secondly, and I'll cause you to 
repent of any and all 

1098
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,240
unfaithfulness that you were 
committing with idols. 

1099
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,200
Oh, I don't have time to tell 
you how many different kinds of 

1100
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:39,040
idols we could have. 
If you have an idol in your 

1101
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:41,080
life, I know this. 
And if you're a believer, the 

1102
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,720
Holy Spirit has convicted you 
specifically that this thing is 

1103
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,800
an idol in your life. 
I don't have to harp on that. 

1104
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,960
By now you know what it is. 
Repent of it. 

1105
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,439
Call it exactly what God says 
that it is. 

1106
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:57,840
Stop wavering. 
Thirdly, realize the depths of 

1107
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:00,960
God's love for His elect. 
And when I think about the 

1108
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,720
jealousy of God, it thrills my 
heart. 

1109
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:07,000
It thrills my heart. 
Many of you will leave and you 

1110
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,120
will say, man, that was hard. 
It's not hard at all. 

1111
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,760
This is true love. 
This is a loving message that 

1112
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,960
God would jealously pursue His 
people. 

1113
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:21,720
Now I'm so thankful for that, 
that He has loved me again and 

1114
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:26,080
again and again and will always 
love me with that jealous love. 

1115
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:32,080
Because I am His, He has made a 
covenant with me. 

1116
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,400
I'm secured by that jealous 
love. 

1117
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:37,840
Realize the depths of that love.
Why? 

1118
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,000
Because in realizing the depths 
of that love, I'm going to 

1119
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,200
encourage you to respond with a 
deeper love for Him. 

1120
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:46,800
Thank you God, that You won't 
let me be what I used to be. 

1121
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,920
Thank you God, You have rescued 
me from myself and from my sin. 

1122
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:55,080
Thank you, God, that Your love 
holds me secure forever. 

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And lastly, refuse to offer 
yourself to anyone or anything 

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other than to the Lord. 
I told you when I started every 

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time that we see God's jealousy 
provoked in Scripture, it is 

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because it's people are offering
themselves to something other 

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than God in some way, shape or 
form. 

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Church, may we stop offering 
ourselves to anyone or anything 

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other than the Lord, giving Him 
what belongs to Him, and that is

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all of US. 
He purchased us by His precious 

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blood. 
He owns us and we need to live 

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like we realize that. 
To the unbeliever, I pray today 

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as God opens your eyes to your 
need for a Savior, oh, that He 

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would by His grace and His 
mercy, open your eyes to see 

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your need, the fact that you're 
a Sinner, you are in need of a 

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Savior. 
And that Savior who loves 

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sinners came to this earth. 
He died on a cross bearing the 

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wrath and the punishment that 
belonged to sinners. 

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He rose again on the third day 
so that you can receive new 

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life, forgiveness of sin, and 
eternal life. 

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In the heaven was God. 
Oh, I pray today you would trust

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in this Jesus who came and who 
died. 

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You would trust in Him as Lord, 
forsaking yourself, repenting of

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your sin, believing in Christ 
and Christ alone. 

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O may He unveil the depths of 
His jealous love for you today. 

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May He rescue you by that love. 
Let's pray together, Father, in 

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the name of Jesus, we come to 
you thinking you and you are a 

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jealous God, and rightfully so. 
And we bow our entire lives to 

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our God who will not tolerate 
His people offering themselves 

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to anyone or anything else. 
Lord, I pray that we hear and 

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that we heed the seriousness of 
this message. 

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That if need be, we repent and 
confess sin in our life that has

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provoked your jealousy. 
God, I pray for the soul who's 

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here does not know Christ. 
I ask Lord, that you would show 

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them mercy today by graciously 
offering your Son as the 

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payment, the atonement for their
sin, that today they would 

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believe on Christ and be saved. 
And we'll give you all the glory

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for it in Jesus name, Amen. 
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