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Thank you for listening to 
Riverbend Church's podcast. 

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This morning we're going to 
start a brand new sermon series 

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called Sermon Series called Gods
Top Ten. 

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And what would a sermon series 
like this be without starting 

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with a top ten list? 
So graduates and graduates, 

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families, this one is for you. 
Top 10 Things Nobody Told You 

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About adulthood #10 You can eat 
cake whenever you want, but your

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body files a formal complaint 
afterwards. 

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So if you're young in here, just
know that the rest of you, We're

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just waiting with smirks on our 
face about your metabolism. 

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Catching up with your habits #9 
half of adulthood is deciding 

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what to make for dinner every 
single day until you die #8 you 

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became You become irrationally 
excited about new kitchen 

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appliances. 
Facts #7 Going somewhere now 

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requires checking the weather, 
the traffic, the calendar, the 

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budget and energy level. 
That's why we rarely go 

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anywhere. 
Number six, The older you get, 

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the faster time moves and the 
slower you stand up again. 

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Facts #5 You'll throw away boxes
from something you bought and 

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immediately need them 14 minutes
later #4 You spend your 

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childhood wanting freedom and 
your adulthood wanting a nap #3 

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a quiet Saturday becomes more 
exciting than a wild Friday 

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night. 
Again, facts #2 you can injure 

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yourself sleeping incorrectly. 
If you don't know what I mean, 

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you will. 
And then number one, top 10 

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reasons or top 10 things Nobody 
Told you about adulthood. 

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You finally get money to buy 
what you want right around the 

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time you become too tired to go 
anywhere. 

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I don't know if you caught on a 
theme. 

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They're young people, but you 
will get tired so and stay 

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tired. 
Naps are from God and we'll get 

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we're going to get to that when 
it talks about Sabbath later on 

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in this series, but this series 
is really going to be all about 

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us diving into from the earliest
chapters of the Bible. 

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God gave his chosen people, the 
Jewish people, the nation of 

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Israel. 
What Jewish rabbis refer to as 

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the Azerat had a Berean. 
Literally the 10 words, what you

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and I now know as the 10 
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And these 10 commandments that 
God gave, that he inscribed on 

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stone tablets gave to Moses were
to be given to the people of 

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Israel. 
That right after they had been 

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called out of slavery, 400 years
of slavery out of Egypt to, to 

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guide them on their way from 
Egypt on through the wilderness 

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into the Promised land. 
These 10 commandments, most of 

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us are familiar with the 10 
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These 10 commandments serve as 
the basis of our moral code and,

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and, and in our code of law. 
And to this day, there's still 

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disputes and legal fights over 
their presence hanging in 

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classrooms or courtrooms or on 
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I think that most of us are very
familiar with the, with the 10 

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commandments. 
However, in 2007, Reuters 

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conducted a survey and Reuters, 
in this survey, they discovered 

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that Americans could more easily
and and and, and, and readily 

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recite the seven ingredient 
ingredients that make up a 

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McDonald's Big Mac then they 
could the 10 commandments. 

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And while that's like not that, 
that that survey is about 20 

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years old, subsequent surveys 
have shown that, that, that that

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gap hasn't closed. 
As a matter of fact, it's 

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widened now. 
But here's the here's the big 

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issue. 
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light issue that, that, that we 
can't, we don't know the 10 

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commandments. 
But here's the bigger issue, I 

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think is there seems to be a 
disconnect between what the 10 

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commandments are now and why 
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Here's here's what I mean is, 
is, is you've almost got like 

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two sides of the of a debate, 
right? 

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You've got like the grace of 
Jesus and you've got the law of 

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the commandments. 
And some would say, hey, because

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Jesus has come and he offers 
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then the law and the 
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pretty much obsolete. 
I, I can, I can, I can believe 

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how I want to believe. 
I can think how I want to think.

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I can, I can behave how I want 
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I don't necessarily have to 
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They're they're, they're 
seemingly at odds and what we're

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going to do, what we're going to
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and throughout the summer is the
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the commandments. 
They're not at odds. 

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They actually complement one 
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They actually complement one 
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If you're taking notes with us, 
here's the truth that's going to

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be running throughout the series
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Jesus did not make my personal 
holiness optional. 

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He made it possible. 
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holiness optional. 
He made it possible. 

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Let's kind of lean into that for
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some terms that we have to 
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If you're new to church, whether
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with us, here's probably the 
best way to describe personal 

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holiness or to define personal 
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Personal holiness is the process
of of becoming more Christ like.

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Is is is is thinking and loving 
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than I did the day before. 
It's the process of allowing the

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Holy Spirit of God to transform 
me from who I was into who he 

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created me to be. 
It's, it's becoming more Christ 

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like and that that is a process.
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in isolation from the world. 
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the midst of transformation 
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So our call as followers of 
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is not to go move out to some 
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have church services 24/7, 7 
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Our, our, our, our mission from 
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within the culture that the Holy
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from the inside out. 
So when we say that Jesus did 

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not come to make my personal 
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make it possible. 
What we're saying is, is the 10 

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laws, the 10 commandments that 
God is going to give us from the

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very beginning, Exodus chapter 
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fulfilled in our own effort. 
They can't be fully fulfilled in

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our own effort alone that we 
need the empowerment of the Holy

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Spirit of God in us. 
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dive into if you have a Bible 
with you, we're going to look at

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Exodus chapter 20 starting in 
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We're going to look at the first
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and God spoke all these words 
saying I am the Lord your God 

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who brought you out of the land 
of Egypt, out of the House of 

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slavery. 
You shall have no other gods 

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before me. 
Now this commandment, this first

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commandment, you shall have no 
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I would argue and many scholars 
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commandment, all other 
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other non commandments that 
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themselves. 
This is the the the the primary,

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the pre eminent of the 10 
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You shall have no other gods 
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Now to help us kind of digest it
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through it and explain it more 
easily, there's going to be a 

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template that we're going to 
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and it's going to follow this 
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We're going to talk about the 
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So what exactly is God saying 
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We'll talk about the struggle or
why is this commandment so hard 

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for me to keep? 
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step or the steps of obedience 
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If you're taking notes with us, 
this is what no other gods 

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before me really means. 
There can be no dual allegiance.

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There can be no dual allegiance.
Now, if you remember, you go all

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the way back to the Old 
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the book of Exodus. 
You have the nation of Israel. 

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They've been enslaved by the 
Egyptian people for over 400 

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years and they've been, they, 
they've been worked to slaves 

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and, and, and God set them free.
And do you, do you remember how 

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God set them free? 
He, he brought about 10 horrific

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plagues on the nation of Israel 
to finally where the Pharaoh of 

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Egypt said, all right, that's 
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You'll get out of town. 
You'll go take, take all of you 

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with you. 
I'm, I'm sick and tired of, of 

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having my people suffer this 
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You remember the 10 plagues? 
Did you know that those 10 

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plagues weren't just 
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Did you know that the 10 plagues
that God brought upon the nation

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of Israel were direct assaults 
on the Egyptian gods? 

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So, for example, you remember 
the first plague to where God 

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turned the round the Nile River 
into blood and how horrific that

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must have been. 
That was a direct assault on the

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Egyptian God Hapi. 
He was considered the the God of

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the Nile River. 
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the, the, the plague to where 
the entire land of Egypt was 

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just flooded with frogs. 
Everywhere you looked, there was

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a frog. 
Everywhere you stepped, there 

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was a frog. 
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Frogs were in the house. 
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Frogs were in the bathroom. 
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where there wasn't a frog. 
God flooded the land of Egypt 

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with frogs. 
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weird plague for God to bring on
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Like God really like went into 
his bag and got creative on that

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one, you know, flood the nation 
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Well here's what you may not 
know is the Egyptians worshipped

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a God headed or a frog headed 
goddess by the name of Hakkat 

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who was known to be to be 
worshipped as the goddess of 

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fertility. 
It was a direct assault on 

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Hakkkat. 
Remember the 9th plague to where

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God just basically just shut out
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covered in darkness. 
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place, but the rest of of Egypt.
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place, but all the rest of 
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That was a direct assault on the
Egyptian God who they consider 

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the supreme God, RA, the sun God
and even the last plague the the

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the death of the first born. 
That was a direct assault on 

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Pharaoh himself. 
That was considered who was 

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considered to be a living God by
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You see, systematically through 
the plagues, God basically set 

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him up and knocked him down. 
He exposed them not only to be 

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weak, but to be fraudulent and 
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So when God is saying to the 
nation of Israel this first 

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commandment, you're to have no 
other God except me, He. 

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It wasn't so much a statement 
about superiority, it was really

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more of a statement about 
exclusivity. 

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It was really a statement about 
exclusivity. 

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No dual allegiance. 
There is no other God but 

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Yahweh. 
So that's the standard. 

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Well, what's the struggle? 
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It's a word that I came up with 
called and ISM and ISM. 

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It has a dash if you want to be 
chromatic, chromatically 

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correct. 
I know because I came up with it

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and ISM. 
Let's talk about what and ISM 

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is. 
I think that we would all hear 

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2026. 
We would go, OK, I'm been I'm on

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board with there being no other 
God except for the God of the 

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Bible, Yahweh. 
No other God. 

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So how in the world if I believe
that there's no other God other 

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than the God of the Bible, 
Yahweh, then how in the world 

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can I struggle to keep this 
commandment even though there's 

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no other God but the God of the 
Bible, Yahweh? 

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I think that we would all agree 
that there's so many things, so 

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many what we would call rivals 
for our hearts desires and what 

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for our attention and for our 
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Let's kind of sit down on that 
one for a second. 

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I've never known anyone, I've 
never known anyone in my entire 

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life that like showed me around 
their house and in their back 

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bedroom they had like a pile of 
cash and they made an altar to 

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this pile of cash and they said,
hey, every night before I go to 

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bed, I just want to let you know
I kneel at this altar and I'll 

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OfferUp a prayer to this pile of
cash. 

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Never met anybody like that. 
But I do know a lot of people 

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who say they love God and they 
go to church, yet they make 

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money. 
They're God encompassing life. 

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I've never met anybody that 
offered an animal sacrifice to a

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family portrait, but I do know a
lot of people that say I love 

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God and I go to church, but they
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families happiness the guiding 
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You ever met anyone you ever met
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down and and and prayed to a 
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Me neither. 
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all agree. 
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they love God and they go to 
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popularity or sex or or or any 
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It is a lie that we can so 
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believe that this, that this lie
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in western, in the Western 
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church, is we have convinced 
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money. 
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I can love God and myself and 
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hammer. 
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Jesus says no one can serve 2 

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masters for either he will hate 
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will be devoted to the one and 
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You cannot serve God and money. 
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Why did Jesus bring up money? 
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The pursuit of more has been one
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concerned about our personal 
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rephrase that. 
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concerned about growing in 
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Jesus loved, thinking how Jesus 
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behave, living our lives the way
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have us to live life, then we've
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of andisms in our lives. 
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whether you're in the room or 
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got them. 
I think that we've all got our 

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preferred andism, don't we? 
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ourselves of the andisms in our 
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We've seen the standard, We've 
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Let's look at the step, or in 
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Here's the first one. 
Remember your deliverance, 

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pledge your allegiance. 
Remember your deliverance, 

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pledge your allegiance. 
I want to show you something. 

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Let's go back to Exodus chapter 
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This is in verse 2 when God said
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brought you out of the land of 
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slavery. 
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before handing down the 10 
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Why did God, why did God have to
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Hey, I am the Lord your God who 
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Egypt, out of the House of 
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I think it was God declaring 
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Hey Israel, remember how you 
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in Egypt for 400 years. 
I'm the one that delivered you. 

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Hey Israel, remember how you 
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your dad before you, they were 
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I'm the one that delivered you. 
Hey, Israel, acknowledge your 

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deliverance and now pledge your 
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Let's put some 2026 shoes on 
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Do me a favor, if you're in the 
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If you're joining us online, as 
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can do this. 
I would encourage you to do this

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just where you're at. 
I just want to invite you to 

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close your eyes. close your 
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Our ushers aren't going to come 
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anything like that. 
We'll get to the thou shall not 

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steal later on. 
You don't have to worry about 

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that, but just close your eyes 
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want to guide you through just 
asking a couple questions where 

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you're at with your eyes closed.
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to remember what your life was 
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to Jesus. 
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specifics. 
Do you remember that feeling of 

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of knowing that something was 
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you still remember when you were
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something missing. 
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Jesus when you were an adult. 
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an older adult and you just know
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there was something missing. 
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hopelessness or even fear of the
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Do you remember laying awake at 
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worried about the unknown? 
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in a church service, maybe 
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a church service and because you
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missing, there was a there, 
there was almost this paralyzing

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hopelessness and fear over the 
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Do you remember the weight of 
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always accusing you in the 
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and convincing you that you were
the worst version that you could

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possibly be? 
That there was no saving you, 

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There was no redeeming you, 
There was no making you better? 

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It was an accusing voice. 
Do you remember that frustration

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of not being able to be freed up
from addictions or not being 

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able to be able to be freed up 
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Being unable to offer 
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that sense of bitterness just 
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Do you remember what it was like
before you surrendered your life

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to Jesus? 
All right, you can open your 

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eyes. 
Let me ask you a question. 

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When it comes to all of those 
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Here's my guess. 
Money. 

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Your job, a promotion. 
They want your deliverer, your 

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wife, your kids, your family, 
your future family. 

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They want your deliverer. 
The the popularity, notoriety, 

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followers, cliques, they weren't
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those things could ever be your 
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Now here's the hope of the 
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Jesus Christ is our only 
deliverer. 

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He was then, he is now, he 
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I think that a healthy, healthy 
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discipline is for us to spend a 
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thinking about all that God has 
delivered us from and allow that

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deliverance to pull us into 
pledging our allegiance to Him 

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on the daily. 
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is I've got to remember my 
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Remember my deliverance and then
allow that remembrance to propel

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me into pledging my allegiance. 
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this morning is this. 
Put to death lesser gods with a 

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lowercase G Put to death lesser 
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Now this seems pretty harsh. 
It seems pretty blunt, but it is

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so, so necessary. 
Put to death lesser gods. 

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Let me show you what how Paul 
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Colossians. 
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therefore, what is earthly in 
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Sexual immorality, impurity, 
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covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Maybe the issue is not like your
place of work, your your 

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ambition for the promotion. 
Maybe the issues not your not 

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your husband or your wife or 
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Maybe your issue is not like how
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Maybe it's not any of those 
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It very well could be what you 
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And what I mean is it is so easy
for us to take good things and 

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to turn them into God things. 
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even in the, even in the book of
Romans, at the very beginning of

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the book of Romans to where to 
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worship the creation rather than
the creator. 

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It's very easy and very possible
for us to take good things and 

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to turn them into God things to 
make idols out of our job, out 

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of a promotion, out of our 
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And what does God tell us to do 
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He calls us to put to death 
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Now, here's what that doesn't 
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That does not mean they were all
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leave our families and to go 
relocate in in a monastery in 

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the desert. 
That's for November in the 

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elections. 
That's when we want to do that. 

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No, in in all seriousness, it it
doesn't mean that we're to all 

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to go quit our jobs, leave our 
families, and then move to a 

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monastery in the desert to to 
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Here's what that means. 
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throughout the New Testament, 
hey, listen, if you set your 

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mind on the things of the 
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Spirit. 
But if you set your mind on the 

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things of the flesh, you will 
walk in the flesh. 

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In other words, what you and I 
set our mind and what we set our

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thoughts to, Guess what? 
That's what guides our feet. 

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Our thoughts will inevitably 
guide our direction. 

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So you and I, we always come to 
a crossroads here. 

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Here's the crossroads is we can 
either act like and pretend that

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we can still grow in Christ 
likeness and impersonal holiness

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while holding on to an and ISM 
and I'll go ahead and tell you 

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you can't Why? 
Because you're violating the 

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first of God's laws and God 
won't honor that. 

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Or you can acknowledge, hey, 
God, there have been some 

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things, some good things in my 
life that I've turned into God. 

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Things. 
I've made these good things that

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you blessed me with. 
I've made them into many gods. 

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I've made them into idols. 
In your notes at the bottom of 

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your note sheet, I want you to 
take a moment. 

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Nobody, you're not going to turn
this in or read it in in into a 

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microphone or ask anybody to, to
look at it or proofread it. 

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But I want you to answer this 
question here it is. 

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What good thing am I most likely
to make into a God thing? 

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What good thing am I most likely
to make into a God thing? 

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You need a you need a kind of a 
prompt. 

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I'll go first. 
I'll go ahead and tell you 

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family. 
That's that's a given, like 

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being a grandparent, man, 
there's nothing like it. 

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Love it. 
We're we're actually expecting 

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another one on the way any day 
now and it is going to be 

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awesome. 
I love it. 

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Just like sugar those kids up 
and send them home. 

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It's incredible. 
It's awesome. 

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But I'll tell you what I'm most 
likely to make into an idol. 

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What good thing I'm most likely 
to make into a God thing? 

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Ministry. 
Me being a pastor, I have to be 

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very, very honest with myself 
about myself and go, God, would 

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you show me have I taken this 
good thing that you have blessed

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me with and have I made it into 
an idol? 

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Have I turned it into a God 
thing and I can at that point in

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time then I I had the same 
choice that you do. 

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I can go on and pretend that I 
can hold on to this and ISM and 

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then expect God to continue 
personally growing me into 

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Christ likeness or I can 
acknowledge not. 

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God's never going to bless my 
disobedience to his first law 

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and commandment. 
So I need to put to death that 

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lesser God. 
Here's what it means to put to 

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death that lesser God. 
It means that I need to spend 

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more time feeding the spirit in 
me and starving the flesh. 

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Feed the spirit, starve the 
flesh. 

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So whatever you wrote in that 
blank, what good thing are you 

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most likely? 
Am I most likely to turn into a 

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God thing? 
Same thing is true for you. 

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Same choice is you feed the 
Spirit. 

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Here's how we feed the Spirit. 
We spend time daily with God in 

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his word. 
We spend time daily with God in 

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prayer. 
We spend time daily with God 

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confessing the things in our 
lives that are not in alignment 

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with him. 
We seek to get plugged into a 

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church, to become deeply rooted 
in a church, being involved in a

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core group of of other Christ 
followers. 

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They're going to sharpen us and 
they're going to urge us on and 

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encourage us in Christ likeness,
the one or two people that we 

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give absolute permission to, to 
call us out on our crap and go, 

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hey, I love you and I know that 
you want to honor Jesus, but the

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way that you just said that 
doesn't do that. 

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The decision that you're making 
doesn't lead to that. 

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That's how we feed the Spirit 
and we starve the flesh. 

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So this is where we lay in the 
plane this morning. 

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This first commandment. 
This first commandment is not 

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simply the application, is not 
simply stop worshipping false 

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gods, stop worshipping man made 
idols. 

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This first commandment is about 
this return to your deliverer. 

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Return to your deliverer. 
And when you and I start to 

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focus more in on the majesty and
the glory and all the grace, the

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mercy and all that Jesus has 
done for us, I will make you 

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this promise. 
Everything else pales in 

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comparison that we sit there and
go. 

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All these other things that I 
were, that that I was leaning 

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on, that I was counting on, that
I was kind of propping myself up

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on there, there these false 
gods, these idols, they can't 

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carry that weight. 
They were never my deliverer. 

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They can't be my deliverer and 
they never can deliver me. 

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But Jesus, you can. 
Jesus, you can. 

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So really, our step of obedience
this morning is really twofold 

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#1 what Andisms exist in your 
life, what Andisms exist in your

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life? 
And then number 2, after 

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acknowledging that Andism, 
confess that Andism as sin 

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before God and ask a holy God. 
God, would you forgive me for 

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putting this on par with you or 
maybe even a little bit above 

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you in my life? 
It's not this message, this 

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first commandment is not simply 
about stop worshipping false 

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gods. 
It's about returning to your 

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deliverer. 
So I'm going to pray. 

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After we pray, we'll stand. 
We'll have an opportunity to 

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sing one last time. 
And this would be an opportunity

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for you to come down and pray. 
If you want to come and pray and

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go, God, here I am. 
Bow before you in humility, 

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confessing this and ISM in my 
life now. 

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Would you help it to compare to 
pale in comparison to your 

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glory, to your lordship? 
I promise you, if you want to be

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freed up this morning, confess 
the andism and turn to the 

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Deliverer. 
God we love you and God we thank

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you for loving us. 
God, so many times we have 

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turned away from you, God, maybe
not intentionally, maybe we have

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drifted far away from you. 
God is so very easy for us to 

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confuse the blessings that you 
have bestowed upon us, the good 

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things that you have given us in
life and turned them into God 

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things. 
God, would you help us this 

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morning to become very, very 
honest, gut level honest with 

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ourselves, about ourselves so 
that we can rightly identify any

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and all and isms that exist 
within us. 

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And thank God to be bold enough 
and obedient enough to bring 

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that and ISM before your feet 
and to confess that and ISM as a

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sin. 
God, maybe this morning is a 

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time to where you're calling us 
to a refocusing of our lives, of

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our hearts, our minds, our 
attention, our devotion, a 

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rededication of sorts to where 
we are asking you, God, not only

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that you be superior to all 
other gods, but you be 

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exclusive. 
Kind of pray that you would move

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through US and in US this 
morning and bring a change that 

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only your Holy Spirit can bring.
And it's your. 

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In your name, I pray. 
Amen. 

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Thank you for listening to the 
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