1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,760 I know last week we didn't go through a bunch of scriptures, 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:07,360 but just looking at apathy, Romans 12 says we need to be 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,000 fervent in spirit. We need to be. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,480 Fervent in spirit, when in other words, we need to have zeal for 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,560 the Lord and then he gives the reason. 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,760 The reasons are are different practicals of being passionate, 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,920 you know, passionate and our love for one another, passionate 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,680 in our work and our service. And then secondly, regarding 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,320 loneliness, this is a go to passage for myself. 10 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,280 It's Psalm 68 that God is a father to the fatherless and he 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,200 puts the lonely and families. Amen. 12 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,000 So if you're coming in here and you're like, man, I deal with 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,440 apathy. God is going to give you he's 14 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,240 going to put passion in your hearts. 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,640 The zeal for my house consumes me. 16 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,040 Jesus is passionate, right? He's going to, as we seek him, 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,760 He's going to give you his passion for his purposes. 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,720 And then secondly, that if you're feeling lonely here and 19 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,160 you're feeling like I don't necessarily belong or I've been 20 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,000 here for a while and I still feel like I'm on the outside 21 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,480 looking in, right, then the promise of to you is that God 22 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,400 plays no favorites. He doesn't play any favourites. 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,519 Humans do and people in church do. 24 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:08,400 But you belong here. And we want to pray for you. 25 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,760 We want to invite you in and we want to invite you in not just 26 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,000 admissions, but into a family room called life group. 27 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,440 So you are you belong in this place. 28 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,480 Don't believe those lies from the enemy. 29 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,400 And then third, about immorality. 30 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,040 If you just find yourself in habitual sin, you keep, you 31 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,320 know, tripping up. There's there's two scriptures 32 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,400 that I felt the Lord put on my heart this week. 33 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,360 Actually the last couple weeks that I've been giving out and 34 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,800 different places where I'm speaking. 35 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,560 Within the church. But one, do not make provisions 36 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,720 for the flesh. Two, there's always a way out. 37 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,520 You don't have to. You don't have to, but if you 38 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,400 do, there's grace. Amen. 39 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,360 All right well here's what we're going to do is we're going to 40 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,720 you guys list. I know this you love them, don't 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,880 you? Just 1234 here we go OK, we're 42 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,360 going to do a lot of those we're going to do 4 and then eight and 43 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,520 then we'll close. All right they're going to be 44 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,960 pretty quick. Trust me on that. 45 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,200 They will be and then we'll, we'll land in worship. 46 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,800 All right, so, So what is a healthy church? 47 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:17,840 We we've talked about that. Please go. 48 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,120 I'm not going to I'm going to keep myself from going there. 49 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,880 But go back last week and and listen to the message and just 50 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,240 even that vision statement and then how I unpack that. 51 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,960 But we're in a series because we are called to strengthen a 52 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,960 multiply, strengthen families to multiply. 53 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,440 And there's a way in which we do that. 54 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:38,600 And it says in Acts 931 that we, that the people of God in that 55 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,080 city experienced peace and protection. 56 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,880 And so we felt that, you know, it is peace and protection or 57 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,200 spiritual warfare is not automatic. 58 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,120 You can't just be passive in the Christian life. 59 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,400 You can't just be like, oh, I'm just going to be protected. 60 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,120 Just because it is something that you actively do, you have 61 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,160 to wear the armor of God. All right, and we take land. 62 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,920 It's not just it's not just a defensive thing, but actually 63 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,040 it's offense. All right, it's taking land and 64 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,440 we'll unpack. What I mean by that in a moment, 65 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,200 but. God has called us to unpack the 66 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,840 Spiritual Warfare series because it is not something that we 67 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,920 should just automatically thinks going to happen. 68 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:17,840 So I want to. Equip you we don't want to just. 69 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,960 Inspire people, but equip them and then mobilize. 70 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,280 Them to the four corners of the earth. 71 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,760 With the gospel. Amen. 72 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,680 All right, so don't be ignorant of the enemy schemes. 73 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,640 How many guys this week, just curious, were ignorant of the 74 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:32,080 enemy schemes? You found yourself saying, OK, 75 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,880 maybe this is because the enemy is attacking us in this 76 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,840 particular area. Could just be as simple as like 77 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,040 husband and wife fighting over something silly, ridiculous. 78 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,680 It's like, wait, hold on, we're on the same. 79 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,280 Team. What's going on here? 80 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,640 What's happening? Let's resist the enemy. 81 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,600 Let's humble ourselves. Let's go back to God, let's 82 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,960 repent. Let's be humble, right and, and 83 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,280 work things out and be unified. And we realize and there's tools 84 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,920 that I'm going to show you in a moment how to how to fight the 85 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,720 enemy. But let's not be ignorant of the 86 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,240 enemy schemes. That's one of the reasons why 87 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,040 we're doing this serious. It's because we we can go 88 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,920 throughout our day knowing, yeah, there's a devil, yeah, 89 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,760 there's the flash, there's the world. 90 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,560 But we don't do anything about that. 91 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,760 We find ourselves ignorant in the enemy's schemes and we feel 92 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,959 defeated. And so there are three things. 93 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,240 So are a couple things I want to share. 94 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,120 John 1010 says that that the enemy comes to steal, kill and 95 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,680 destroy. But Jesus, again, the focus is 96 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,760 back on him. This is Jesus actually speaking 97 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,720 this in John 10. But Jesus has come to give the 98 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,400 abundant life. And then in. 99 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,800 First, John, 215 to 17, same author. 100 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,880 But John is saying this. He's saying, hey, be careful of 101 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,680 that. There's there's three enemies, 102 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,320 right? There's your own flesh. 103 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,200 There's the world and there's the devil. 104 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,040 The flesh is the inner desire to sin. 105 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,680 That could get how many, how many? 106 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,120 That is the inner desire to sin. The flesh got you in trouble 107 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,600 this week, right? Yeah, maybe a few of you guys, 108 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,080 maybe a few of you guys send the other side of the the room did 109 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,160 not send. Amen. 110 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,320 That's awesome. Real good theology there. 111 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,600 OK, the world. OK, so it's the ungodly 112 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,560 environment. It's unbiblical, like a 113 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,960 unbiblical worldview. You could say it like that. 114 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,400 So now you got not only you got the flesh to deal with the 115 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,360 temptation and right. And just giving into the flesh 116 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,520 because you have your own desires. 117 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,800 We can't just blame it on the devil. 118 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,560 But the second thing is we also live in a system, a world system 119 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,480 that is bent towards evil, right? 120 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,040 So we we don't like. I mean, that's all sounds very 121 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,520 like a like fatalism. I mean, like, what are we going 122 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,440 to do about that? But #3 is the devil. 123 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,200 He tempts us. So he is he is not he. 124 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,360 He is the originator, right of, of evil. 125 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,440 He fell from heaven. We don't have time to 126 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,600 necessarily go through the whole history of the devil, but you 127 00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:00,640 could read in in Isaiah and, and Ezekiel, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 128 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,040 28, which talks about the fall. And it's just I will, I will, I 129 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,120 will. So Satan is a prideful person 130 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,920 who hates God, who wants to tempt you to go to, to be, to 131 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,600 live a life far from God. So you got all three of those 132 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,320 things working together. And I just want you to have that 133 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,040 in mind as we go through this and even have that as a 134 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,440 framework in mind to not give into those three things as we go 135 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,960 throughout our day. So here's how the enemy attacks 136 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,480 us. There's four different ways. 137 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,640 One, it's habitual and hidden sin, habitual and hidden sin. 138 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,760 This is a, a way that constantly throughout the week, this will 139 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,800 destroy the church. So the enemy wants to destroy 140 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,560 not just your marriage, not just your family life, not just 141 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,680 yourself, which we'll talk about more individually next week, how 142 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,000 he destroys us through temptation, but just in general, 143 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,240 He wants to destroy the church through habitual and hidden sin. 144 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,320 Now, do you guys remember in Joshua 7 Aiken, he was taking 145 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,600 the spoils and it didn't really seem like all that big of a 146 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,520 deal, but. It was that. 147 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,360 Hidden sin that caused Israel to slow down, he said hey, we're 148 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,480 going to pause this thing you taking land into the prom, you 149 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,920 taking land into the promised land, right we're going to pause 150 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,920 this it's the same with like Miriam's Miriam's sin as. 151 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,840 Well, if you remember. In in in the book of Exodus that 152 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,760 Miriam's sin against Moses, he she was complaining against 153 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,800 God's given authority, God's leadership, and so that slowed 154 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,200 the camp down. She got leprosy. 155 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,600 So hidden sin actually it it, it it ruins our witnesses it, it it 156 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,680 saps our strength right. You guys know this like you'll 157 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,760 come back. The enemy will either get you 158 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,280 either in a when you're low or when you're high, right. 159 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,280 So when you're low, maybe you're feeling discouraged. 160 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,320 You're feeling, you know, someone said something to you 161 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,160 and he hurts you or you're you're you're you're you're 162 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,960 having a what do we call it the other day and engage in class? 163 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,480 A kerfuffle. Is that right? 164 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,760 Kerfuffle. Yeah. 165 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,200 Just sounds nicer than a fight, you know, like. 166 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,000 But but anyways. If you're, if you're, if you're 167 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,880 fighting with your spouse, you know, you, you, you feel 168 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,440 discouraged. And so therefore you're open to 169 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,240 temptation even more. Or when you're at a high when it 170 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,600 says that David was right. He was, he was on the rooftop 171 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,440 and he should have been out at war. 172 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,800 He felt successful, he felt good. 173 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,679 And he obviously the enemy knew that would trip him up in his 174 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,159 success. And so David, the Bathsheba, and 175 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,159 then also in the New Testament, you see Ananias and Sapphira as 176 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:41,799 well, that that ruined the church's witness. 177 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,680 Did God allow the witness to be ruined? 178 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:48,720 No, because it said that right after that, after God took care 179 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,480 of business, it says that the church grew. 180 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,120 And so God will take something that is evil and turn it into 181 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,880 good. But sin ultimately brings God's 182 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,080 discipline in our life and not. Only that, but you've you know 183 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,840 the. Lack of power that you have. 184 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,720 When you give in to sin, you know that like that feeling of 185 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,840 like man, the. Power. 186 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,160 Of God just sapped like you, you know, those times of victory, 187 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:15,720 man, it feels so good. And victory does taste better 188 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,200 than defeat. And it, it, it's, it's amazing 189 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,480 still how weak we are, how we continually given to sin, even 190 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,040 though we know that there's consequences. 191 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,360 We know that our, our strength is sapped. 192 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,560 It weakens our witness. And then also this, you know 193 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:33,080 that the sin has a rippling effect in relationships. 194 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,280 It hurts people. You just take a rock, you throw 195 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,480 it in the water, right? The rippling effect, it doesn't 196 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,480 just affect you, it affects everyone else around you. 197 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,560 And as a people, you know, this is our response. 198 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,720 As a people, we cannot just have sin remain hidden. 199 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,480 We've got to talk about it, talk to someone that you trust. 200 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,040 You don't have to air your dirty laundry out for everyone. 201 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,960 There's nothing. You know some people. 202 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,400 I just want to speak to some people with a very sensitive 203 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,280 conscience. Some of you guys like have a 204 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,480 very sensitive, you feel like I have to, I have to confess to 5 205 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,800 to 10 people and then I'll feel good about myself. 206 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,080 But that's on you. God's never asking you to do 207 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,160 that. You just need to confess. 208 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,840 That never says how many just to confess it to somebody that you 209 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,800 trust, and you confess that sin to one another. 210 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,360 And you might be healed now. How many times you know? 211 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,880 You've read the passage first, John 19. 212 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,360 When you go to vertically, you're always forgiven. 213 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,840 Just confess your sin to him and he cleanses you from all 214 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,320 unrighteousness. We know that. 215 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,080 So as a people, we cannot let sin remain hidden in our lives 216 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,080 because of all the the string of consequences, and then we'll 217 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,040 lose our power, right? Why are we going to go on 218 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,600 mission? Why are we going to do all that 219 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,200 we do? Why are we going to go on campus 220 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,360 and share the gospel and be a witness and only to ruin it, 221 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,440 right? It doesn't make any sense. 222 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,240 And then so as a church, we cannot know about the SIM and 223 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,080 then be flippant about it, right? 224 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,640 We have to sometimes there are there are times where like in 225 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,320 Matthew. 18 We have to practice church discipline because you 226 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,640 know, as it says, like if you see your brother sin right, you 227 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,120 go to your brother and you work things out with them in private. 228 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,720 You're not, you're not gossiping about your brother's sin. 229 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,600 You go to them in private. Now, however, when you see them 230 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,560 and they struggle and they're, you got to discern, is it a 231 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:26,200 struggle or is it, is it, is it blatant sin? 232 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,240 Are they are they trying to are they, you know, is it says in 233 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,880 First Thessalonians 5, you know, we the the people who are 234 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,280 stubborn in their sin, they need a rebuke, right? 235 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,640 And and that's what it. Says right. 236 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,480 And for those who are weak, what do they need? 237 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,360 They need help. And for those who are broken 238 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,720 hearted, they need comfort. So there's something for 239 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,360 everyone that says be patient with all. 240 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,560 So when you're when you're going to your brother, come in with 241 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,840 patience. We want a culture that there are 242 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,920 times where we have to call that out because they're destroying 243 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:02,240 their life and they're hurting other people. 244 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,200 But we, we got to come in with grace and mercy. 245 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,160 Otherwise, we were our witness. As well as they were in their 246 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,280 witness, they were in their witness with sin rerun our 247 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,720 witness without dealing with it or the right way, right. 248 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,040 So we want to make sure that we're coming in not hot, right, 249 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,920 but we're coming in and we're going low and we're we're 250 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,720 submitting. We're saying, hey, this this is 251 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,440 this is something that I see. And if they respond well, what 252 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,920 does it say? You won your brother Amen. 253 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:28,520 That's good. That's what we want every single 254 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:29,840 time. It should never go past the 255 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,560 first step. But in our pride and in our. 256 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:36,840 Rebellion. It goes to the next step, right, 257 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,680 because you know, you they don't want to change. 258 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:42,720 And so now it's just bring somebody else in to increase the 259 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,080 pressure so that you can and increase the pressure. 260 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,160 We don't mean that in a bad way. We're saying increase the 261 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,840 pressure so that they feel, wow, this is serious. 262 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,160 Like God, I'm not hearing with one person. 263 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,880 I now I need another person to come in. 264 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,800 Have you ever been on that side of things? 265 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,600 Have you ever been on that side? That's that's. 266 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,840 Jesus is saying that don't ever, don't ever just go to that 267 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,040 stage, that that would be a good thing, right? 268 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,000 That's it. That's it. 269 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,880 It's meant to inflict a little bit of pain so that you don't 270 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,800 destroy your life, right? Isn't that what discipline is? 271 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,640 It's not to destroy you. It's just a inflict, just 272 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,040 enough. That so that you turn back to 273 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:21,200 him. Amen. 274 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:27,840 All right #2 The enemy attacks our church by dividing. 275 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,960 By dividing us, the enemy will turn the church inward. 276 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,720 Right. And so, you know, maybe this is 277 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,320 sitting against each other, but through anger and bitterness, 278 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:43,200 we're letting a fence to fester, you know, whatever, you know, 279 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,880 the giving the the enemy a foothold. 280 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,800 And so we so in Ephesians it says that. 281 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,000 You give the enemy a place, a beach head, to, to, to in your 282 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,120 life, and you don't want to do that. 283 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,960 In a lot, some ways that happens is through anger. 284 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,000 So now someone offends you and now you're angry with them. 285 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,280 And the worst thing you could do is quickly just say something 286 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,960 that you'll regret. And now you've given the enemy a 287 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,720 beachhead in that relationship. You've given him a place. 288 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,280 And so we as Christians, we don't want him anywhere near our 289 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,320 lives, right? We don't want him anywhere near 290 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,200 us, the enemy. But we could give the enemy a 291 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,040 foothold, a place in our lives, by giving into sin, specifically 292 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,440 into offense and. Anger and bitterness says that 293 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,960 the bitter root in Hebrews 12. Right. 294 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,360 It destroys it defiles many. How many of you got to 295 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,760 experience that on the back like like you've received bitterness 296 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,360 from somebody else or you've seen bitterness destroy somebody 297 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,480 else or maybe even yourself? How many of you seen that? 298 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,680 I mean a lot of us. This is how the enemy will 299 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,720 destroy us. If you noticed I. 300 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,840 Haven't said in these first two. Like a like a head is spinning 301 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,680 or somebody vomiting, you know, like the The Conjuring up like a 302 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,240 like an exorcist. You know what I mean? 303 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:05,520 If you notice I didn't say any of that. 304 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,120 Some of you like spiritual warfare. 305 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,720 That's at least for me. That's what like comes up right. 306 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,160 It comes out like. No no no, it's just you hiding 307 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,400 your sin and thinking you could get away with it, ruining your 308 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,360 witness. The enemy just wants to. 309 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,840 Destroy the church. So he's got tactics, he's got 310 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,360 ways, he's got skills. The second is he's like, hey, 311 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,760 I'm just going to sow seeds of discord. 312 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,640 We'll see what happens with that. 313 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,840 So the enemy throws that out there. 314 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,800 You bite the bait right in your flesh. 315 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,880 That seems attractive to you in the moment. 316 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,800 I'm going to figure things out my way. 317 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,680 I'm going to, I'm going to, you know, hold. 318 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,160 I'm going to hold bitterness on a fence so I can control 319 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,200 somebody else, right? And by you playing those games, 320 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,520 the enemy's games, we don't have to have a head spin or somebody 321 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,640 throw up. And this, that, that gets 322 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,320 accomplished. And it's, do you understand what 323 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,080 I'm saying? I, I'm, I'm doing this 324 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,840 painfully. I'm doing this on purpose 325 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,320 because spiritual warfare is a part of your life every day. 326 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,360 Every day it's a part of your life. 327 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,520 You wake up, boom, spiritual warfare begins. 328 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,720 Do you understand the war that you're in? 329 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,920 It's a war over your soul. It's a war for worship. 330 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,240 It's a war of who will you worship when you're not getting 331 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,880 what you want, when you're hurt, when you're downcast? 332 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,440 What are you going to find as comfort when you turn your gaze? 333 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,160 I just read Exodus. 20 today in my quiet time like it it's just 334 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,160 Exodus 20 is just the 10 commandments of just. 335 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:43,880 Reread them. It's. 336 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,360 Like, oh, and sometimes you just read that. 337 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,280 I've read that before and I read it again. 338 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:48,760 I'm like, Lord, show me something new. 339 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,360 Show me something new. It was just it was as simple as 340 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:58,680 like an idol, right? The emptiness like taking the 341 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:03,040 Lord's name in vain, meaning that you treat his name as if 342 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,680 it's nothing if it's empty. And when we like when we find 343 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,480 ourselves in a needy place because we are needy people and 344 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,000 we are needy everyday. When we when you literally like 345 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,599 you don't understand what an idol like they turned to. 346 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,960 An idol not as I know they're like. 347 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,119 They're little objects, like I'm looking around for an object, 348 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:25,960 I'm not going to find one. I don't know why I did that but. 349 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:31,080 Like, you know, it's like Daggon, you know, but those 350 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,720 little, you know, like the those little things like Daggon, you 351 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,720 know, like his head cut, you know, his arm fell off. 352 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,440 They look ridiculous. You know, he just fell over. 353 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,720 You know, we, we, we look at idols like that. 354 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,480 Like the idols are just like these these like little the 355 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,560 statues. And look, if you've been to 356 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,080 Southeast Asia, I've been there. If we've gone to, you know, 357 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,240 different places around the world, you see these ginormous 358 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,040 statues of like a Buddhism. It's just it, it, it's kind of 359 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,240 eerie, you know, and these people who are like, I remember 360 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:01,800 running every day in Thailand and. 361 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,080 And, and I just saw like this woman, she would come and she 362 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,240 would just do like there was like this little like it looks 363 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,720 like a bird cage with the idols in there and there's got all 364 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,120 these flowers and stuff. And she would come every day and 365 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,240 she. Would just like bow all four 366 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,040 corners and do her little ritual and then go back inside. 367 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,000 And I'm running with God that morning. 368 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,160 I'm turning to God because I know he can help me. 369 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,840 She's turning to God, believing that God will help her. 370 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,880 Idolatry is not a statue. It's whatever you find comfort 371 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,280 in. That's a good one right there, 372 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,000 right? It's, it's not a, an immaterial 373 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,560 object. It's your phone. 374 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,080 That's why when we were in the Buddhist world, when we were in 375 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,320 Japan, I mean, it was, I mean, we had a meeting in Japan in at 376 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,320 a Buddhist temple, which we were crazy thinking about doing this. 377 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,080 It was Benji and I and we're sitting there. 378 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:06,480 You know, this guy's a business guy, right? 379 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:07,760 You know, Benji is a business guy. 380 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,760 So he's sitting there. He looks good. 381 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,160 You know, he's ready for the the thing. 382 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,080 They're bring out a tray of waters. 383 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,600 And we're having a meeting with the with like, with the 384 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,240 Buddhist, you know, like who who run The Who run the temple. 385 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:21,840 It's one of the largest temples in Kyoto. 386 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,480 And because we're trying to find a place to worship and I'm like, 387 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,440 what are we doing? So I so I'm like, OK, I'm a man 388 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,440 under authority. I need to go talk to leaders and 389 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,560 I'm like, is this OK that. You know, like. 390 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,760 Is this OK? That we bring our church and we 391 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,920 do worship and we do a teen times at A at a Buddhist temple 392 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,400 where there's a huge. As tall as this, this stage. 393 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:45,920 Huge. Huge. 394 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,360 Buddha, that's just like, you know, staying there and I could 395 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,960 just see us all like in my mind's eye, like all there we're 396 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,080 worshipping and, you know, and the people come in, they said 397 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:55,360 it's going to be open to the public. 398 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,640 And I'm thinking, why, where, where in the world you know 399 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,920 we're? All like, yeah. 400 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,600 And they're like, wow, look at all those Americans. 401 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,000 They become Buddhists. It's so cool. 402 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,520 You know, like I, I was just literally thinking that I was 403 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,480 like, and then we're going to have to like, no, no, no, no, 404 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,920 like we're not worshiping that. We're worshiping this God. 405 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,680 And like, I don't know. I just thought like, how are we 406 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,200 going to do this? But we're sitting there and it's 407 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,360 like, you know, I'm, I'm OK. Like people, you know, there's 408 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,880 another guy with us and, you know, they're like, oh, I don't 409 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,920 know, like, you know, is this kind of weird? 410 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,760 Is this guy? I'm like, dude, it's, it's not 411 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,160 weird. Actually, what my concern is 412 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,920 more is how people turn to their phones, not some dumb object 413 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,920 that's like twice this three, you know, four times the size of 414 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,680 us. That means nothing nothing to 415 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,040 anyone here, but every time you get a little anxious. 416 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,720 What do you do? Like where's my phone? 417 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,600 Do you bring? Your anxiety to God like he says 418 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,200 in Philippians? Or do you bring your anxiety to 419 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,120 your phone? I'm just asking the question. 420 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,440 I'm not condemning because I've been there too. 421 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,000 But I'm trying to teach you what is idolatry. 422 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,560 The enemy doesn't care what it is. 423 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,880 In the Buddhist world is something else. 424 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,160 In the Muslim world is something else. 425 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,640 There We in America, it's comfort. 426 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,960 It's it it. I mean, it almost be like we 427 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,840 have a statue of comfort. I don't know what he would look 428 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,840 like. Some plush dolls, some like 429 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,000 little cuddly looking thing. You know, it's like an image of 430 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,400 like how you run to comfort. But the reality is we don't need 431 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,920 that because it's in our pockets. 432 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,600 Our gods are in our pockets, our gods are in our head. 433 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,280 Whatever fantasy, whatever thing you think about whatever dream 434 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,720 dreaming and lot of getting lost in your own mind, just escaping 435 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:44,360 escapism is idolatry and the enemy is moving you and nudging 436 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,640 you towards those things and you know that they don't satisfy I. 437 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:54,160 Don't know what that has to do with division, but I I'm saying 438 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,000 like probably nothing, you know, I don't know where I was going. 439 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,200 Sorry, just got caught up into that, but OK, so back to that. 440 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,720 OK, like all right, so dividing the church so we. 441 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,400 Lack Another way of dividing church is lacking love for one 442 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,320 another. We lack love and so therefore 443 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,200 it's a there's a difference between righteousness and being 444 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,760 right. Some of you guys like you, this 445 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,400 is where legalism come in. You just want to be right. 446 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,760 How many times this week you just want to be right And so you 447 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,760 said things just out of being right rather than being 448 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:32,240 righteous. Being right is is not of God, 449 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,880 that's of the enemy that's going to destroy relationship. 450 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,720 They'll put a dividing wall between you and your and your 451 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,240 spouse or you and your roommate or whoever. 452 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,200 But being righteous, that has to do with heart motives. 453 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,200 I want to help this person because I want them to fall in 454 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,200 love with Jesus and be sanctified and look more like 455 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,280 him. Being right is about you. 456 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,120 It's a it's pride at its core. And you when you're, when 457 00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,160 you're, when you're operating on being right. 458 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,560 There's no love when you're operating out of righteousness, 459 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,240 there's love. Amen. 460 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,520 So what are we doing this week as you evaluate last week, as 461 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,880 you evaluate the weeks before prior, is it? 462 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,160 About being right. God is righteous, He is right, 463 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,720 He's right all the time. Just go to him and say. 464 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:18,960 Laura what? What do we? 465 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,400 Need to do in this situation, give me wisdom, help me rather 466 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,040 than pride, tells you, hey, I need to be right in this. 467 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,360 I need to prove to everybody else and how right, right I am 468 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,800 because I'm afraid of looking stupid in front of somebody or 469 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,040 I'm afraid of, you know. Making a mistake I'm afraid of 470 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,000 maybe not looking as as as powerful as I as I possibly can 471 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,400 in front of the person that is just pride rather than humbling 472 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,080 yourself saying hey we're all weak we all need Jesus all right 473 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,920 OK pridefully looking at our own interests and preference 474 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,120 preferences like is is in Ephesians I'm sorry Philippians 475 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:02,800 2 it says that when we. Or Romans 12, when we look 476 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,600 higher, higher towards ourselves than we ought, right, We look at 477 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,360 ourselves as as being better than other people. 478 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,760 And so therefore we can't give preference. 479 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,360 And you know why ultimately you can't give preference to 480 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,880 somebody else? It's because you're not 481 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:20,880 satisfied in God if you woke up so. 482 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,880 Full of God. You could give anything. 483 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,600 If you knew that he would always replenish your banking account, 484 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:32,520 you'd give generously. If you, if you like, knew that 485 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,280 he would encourage you everyday, if you listen to his voice, then 486 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:37,640 you could go encourage somebody else. 487 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,880 But because you're lacking, you can't give. 488 00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:48,390 Selflessness is destroying the church. 489 00:24:50,590 --> 00:24:54,350 Can you imagine if somebody like the Lord nudges you and says, 490 00:24:54,350 --> 00:24:56,390 hey, encourage that person, you're like, Lord, I don't feel 491 00:24:56,390 --> 00:24:58,710 like it. Why? 492 00:24:58,750 --> 00:25:01,830 Because I'm discouraged. So now that person doesn't get 493 00:25:01,830 --> 00:25:05,960 encouraged because of your selfishness, rather just look at 494 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,280 him and say, God fill me like it's unbelief. 495 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,680 I rather you just say like, Lord, I have unbelief right now. 496 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,040 I just told that this week. I said, Lord, I have unbelief 497 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,640 right now in this particular area. 498 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,800 He's not surprised at that. My neighbor might be. 499 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,760 You're a pastor. You should have no. 500 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:28,080 Unbelief. I don't buy into that theology. 501 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,400 I'm imperfect as anybody else. I have unbelief in certain 502 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,720 areas, but I know one person who can fill the tank. 503 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,080 That is not my phone, that's not my wife, that's not my kids, 504 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,560 that's not circumstances. It's God. 505 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,240 And that's the only where I go. I need to go vertical. 506 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,200 Where is everyone else is trying to go horizontal to get their 507 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,960 needs met. That is destroying the church. 508 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,680 All right, so here's the deal. Do we need to protect the Church 509 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,160 from these things? Yes, of course. 510 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,320 But. So much of of a dividing like. 511 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,560 Dividing the church a lot of times, at least the way that 512 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,080 it's been taught here, I, I, I'm evaluating myself, by the way, 513 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,600 I'm not like saying somebody else. 514 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,480 I'm saying like there is a time and a place to evaluate the 515 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,680 dividing of the church as it relates to like as we would. 516 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,240 Call them wolves, people in sheep's clothing, right that 517 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,040 want to defy the church. I'm not talking about a divisive 518 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,760 person. That although we. 519 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,960 Although we are right, I mean, that is an issue, but right now 520 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,440 I'm talking about what's in the church. 521 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,480 I'm talking like I'm talking to the 99%, not the one potential 522 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,600 wolf. And those those are those are 523 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,200 there is a time for that and and we needed to address those times 524 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,480 and they're very difficult times, right? 525 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,520 No one likes those times. And the Bible is so clear that 526 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,200 Titus 310, right, rejected divisive person after the first 527 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,920 and second warning, right? Or Romans 16, seven things or 528 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,000 20. You can write these down for 529 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,680 later, but if you cause division, this is what he says. 530 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,440 Don't associate with them anymore. 531 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,200 Just disassociate with them and give it to God, you know, but 532 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,680 what we're talking about here is the 99% of us that divide every 533 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,320 day because of our unbelief and not getting satisfied in God. 534 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:16,560 That's what I'm talking about you. 535 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,320 See what I'm saying? That's where the enemy probably 536 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,720 does his the most. Work. 537 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,200 Because we're always like, where's the wolf at? 538 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,280 And you just look at yourself in the mirror, say maybe I'm 539 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,160 causing division in my relationships. 540 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,400 You ever think about that? Not in a way that wants to 541 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,120 destroy the church because you hate the church, but just 542 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:39,680 because of your sin and the enemy is eating you alive and 543 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,400 that because ultimately you're not getting satisfied in God. 544 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,400 Can I just say it this way? Idolatry always leads to 545 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,080 division. You can say it that way, OK. 546 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,640 All right #3 harmful teaching. This does destroy the church, 547 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,560 right? I spent a whole lot of time on 548 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,400 this being very obvious. But here's the deal. 549 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,600 I want to stay on this a little caveat and that will help us the 550 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,200 99 again, I'm not always speaking to the one. 551 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,480 OK, so the night at. Intentional or unintentional, 552 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,680 that's why it's so important for you to know the Word. 553 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,840 That's why it's so far. Is that like, oh, I want, I hope 554 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,280 the pastor knows the word. OK, All right, that's nice. 555 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,560 But it's good for that. It's nice, I I acknowledge that 556 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,880 that'd be good if he knows the word, but you need to know the 557 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,120 word because you can unintentionally lead people 558 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,920 astray because you're not in the word. 559 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:37,160 Now, does that put pressure on? Yes, a good amount, a necessary 560 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,240 amount so that you go back and say I want to be a student of 561 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,640 God's word every day. It's not just to make you feel 562 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,560 good. It's to a firm like it's your 563 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,680 firm foundation, right? It's, it's, it's to strengthen 564 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,600 you for the long haul because stuff is going to bombard you. 565 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,560 Remember the the third problem, not just your flesh, not just 566 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,520 the devil, but it's the world system. 567 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,920 And you, some of you guys are at our university called UCF. 568 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,920 That is it like literally its foundations are, is the world 569 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,720 system. So you need to know the word 570 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:13,960 right? Amen. 571 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:22,040 So that you not so that you unintentionally, right, So that 572 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,200 you, you won't unintentionally hurt people in your life group 573 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:30,320 or yourself, right. I mean, I, it's the same like 574 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,840 my, my kids are growing up like they, they had like the dual 575 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,600 enrollment thing. So they were taking classes at 576 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,600 different places before they got into UCF. 577 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,720 Well, I just, we wanted to make sure as they were younger that 578 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,520 they couldn't, when they couldn't really defend 579 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,880 themselves. You know, the first speaker 315 580 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,200 says, make sure that you know the words so that you can have a 581 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,640 response. Will when they're younger, they 582 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,200 they, they can't, they can't fight against the the the the 583 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:01,800 guy with a PhD. Yeah, now you're thinking some 584 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,280 of you guys are little ones. It's important that you teach 585 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,520 them the word of God and yes, going through the maybe boring 586 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,040 like it's nothing exciting. It's just. 587 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,040 You're right. Every day we're doing the word. 588 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,720 Every day we're doing the word. Every day we're doing the word. 589 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,120 So that when? The world system and Satan is 590 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,320 behind that and their flesh is working. 591 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,440 You know they won't get bombarded and taken out because 592 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,040 that can happen. Don't be a fool. 593 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,200 That can happen. And I'm trying to help you 594 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,480 understand that the world system hates your kid. 595 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,640 It hates you as a college student and it'll do whatever it 596 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,760 takes. And it's not just a philosophy. 597 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,320 It's not just like a biology or like, you know, all the class or 598 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,240 philosophy, all those things. But you know what else? 599 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,120 It's politically as well. There's a lot of political 600 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,440 voices on campus right now that are pulling you away, both right 601 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,560 side and left side. I don't really all that stuff. 602 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,680 It's not Jesus and so don't be. You know how many people like. 603 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,080 I I'll just say this right now, I'll be bold turning point USA 604 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,880 will cause people to go to hell without Jesus. 605 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,680 I said it. So if that's your God, you're 606 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:11,680 screwed. You're done. 607 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,840 You're going to hell if that's your God. 608 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,080 Likewise people on the left, man, I can go all I I have a 609 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,080 whole list for you guys, but on the right side, you know, I mean 610 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,880 seriously, that's easy. That's that's easy. 611 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,560 That's true. I mean that's the easiest one 612 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,520 that's super easy. We're not going to go there, but 613 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,480 I'm just saying like. It's not OK because I've heard 614 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,880 students even this week that are more, that are more loyal to 615 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,400 Turning Point than they are to Jesus. 616 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,880 That is damning. And the enemies behind that, the 617 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,840 enemies behind that, He's laughing at you. 618 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,440 That is foolishness. That's what I mean by false 619 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,560 teaching. I don't know. 620 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,200 I probably didn't think I was going to go there. 621 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480 OK. So OK. 622 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,000 They are subtle. Do you understand? 623 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,320 You're subtle. You're subtle. 624 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,440 Disguising themselves as angels of light. 625 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,440 That means you can't detect it when you're biting into it. 626 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,320 That's a good one. That's a good one. 627 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,640 Means sitting there like, you know, because it's called 628 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,520 deception. Meaning deception means you 629 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:29,320 don't know what's happening. The only way that you'll know 630 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,760 that's happening is actually reading the Bible and walking in 631 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,160 the power of the Spirit. Amen. 632 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,480 It's the only what will happen. And listen, your friends who 633 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,520 even love you can deceive you unintentionally by telling you 634 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,000 something that is not true. And you're like, well, I believe 635 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,840 them because why do you believe them? 636 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,040 Because of what did they actually speak The word? 637 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:55,720 Is the word coming out of their mouth? 638 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080 Is that they have, are they backed up by the the integrity 639 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,480 and character of their life? You have to be discerning in 640 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,520 these days. And what Aiden said up here is 641 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,440 so true. In the end times, there's a lot 642 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,160 of rumors of wars and all these other things. 643 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,400 And those are the big headlines. But I'll tell you about the 644 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,720 small headlines are just as destructive in your life. 645 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,760 They're the small headlines. Are those subtle lies in your 646 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,640 relationships, those subtle lies in your everyday life? 647 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,400 Yes, Israel, what's going on in Israel and all that stuff that 648 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,680 all matters, Yes, but you know, what's going on in your room 649 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,520 with within your own house matters. 650 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,240 That'll take you out. And I've seen it happen over and 651 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,640 over and over again. So you don't want to go there. 652 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,040 By the way, somebody, some prophetic person just came up to 653 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,600 me early when we were praying, they said boldness and I was 654 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,960 like, I got you. So that matters to pray before 655 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:52,720 service number four, external attacks, persecution is is so 656 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,520 important. Persecution. 657 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,840 Like you know what the enemies play with? 658 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,480 That is, is is to provoke such fear in you that you're 659 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:05,080 paralyzed. This happens all the time with 660 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,199 me. I'll be honest, this happens 661 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,440 more like more times than I actually wanted to. 662 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,239 I'm like Elijah. I'm the biggest baby in the 663 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,400 room. I'll have these like great, like 664 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,360 great exploits for the Lord. We're doing it and I'll be like 665 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,360 running. Away at the smallest little 666 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,639 thing into a cave. And be like, oh Lord, like, I 667 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,239 don't even know I want to do this anymore. 668 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,080 Maybe I'll just work for Southwest Airlines. 669 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,639 I love them. You know, whatever. 670 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,000 I'm like, I was thinking I was like, I'll just be a flight 671 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,800 attendant, but I'm like, that's terrifying. 672 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,000 I'm like every time I look at those guys and like the planes 673 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,440 going crazy and I'm like, I'm glad I'm not working and I'm 674 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080 sitting. But you know what I mean? 675 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,440 Like the the enemy will try to paralyze you from the mission of 676 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,960 God. What you're made to do what 677 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,280 God's called you to do, right? How many times does that happen? 678 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,600 How many times does that happen? You're like, you feel the sense 679 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,480 of like world mandate the Jesus flag. 680 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,120 Yes, Amen. I'm like all for that. 681 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:15,240 You know, that's great. Where are you when you're 682 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,680 cowering in fear? Are you waving the Jesus flag 683 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,720 still? Because that's what it matters 684 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,880 the most. Just know that that's what 685 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,320 actually matters the most. When you're waving that flag and 686 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,840 you're like, let's go and deep down you're fearful. 687 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,600 That's what matters the most. That is true faith. 688 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,920 I'm not saying you need to get there tomorrow. 689 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,880 I'm just saying you need to get there eventually because that's 690 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,480 what God's called everyone of us to do. 691 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,000 And the enemy will take you out first. 692 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,640 Peter 58. The enemy prowls around like a 693 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,560 roaring lion. He is waiting to pounce on you 694 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:58,400 at any moment. First Timothy 312 the godly will 695 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,560 be persecuted. You can't avoid this. 696 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,400 You know, sometimes I really do believe the lie of like, you 697 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,360 know, if I could just get to a certain point of holiness, then 698 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,120 I won't be persecuted. Which is so ridiculous because 699 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,800 the more godly you live, the more persecuted you will be. 700 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,760 But if you even think about going the other way and say, you 701 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,240 know what, maybe a little, live a little. 702 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,040 Less godly, the enemy will be off my back. 703 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:29,800 That's not good either. Hey, maybe that's, you know, 704 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,760 going to incur the Lord's discipline in your life, and 705 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,200 that's not fun either. But then also there is a joy in 706 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:43,040 pleasing God that the guys who don't get to enjoy that are 707 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,600 rebelling against God and playing games. 708 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,640 To play games with God never brings about joy. 709 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:57,440 So Matthew 5. Says pretty clearly in John 15, 710 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,400 they'll persecute Jesus, persecute us. 711 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,480 So therefore we don't love our neighbors, right? 712 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,240 Our love our enemies. I'm sorry, love our enemies and 713 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,280 we are truly blessed when we're persecuted. 714 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,840 We're to pray for those who attack us. 715 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,280 Romans 12/14 bless those who persecute us. 716 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,760 Those are the hardest things in the Bible that you read. 717 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,920 But it's only for this. Those passages are only for. 718 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,160 Listen very carefully. They're only for people that are 719 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,080 actually doing it. So if you're living in apathy 720 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,520 and you're kind of playing the games with God, like you're on, 721 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,280 you're on the fence. You're like, I'm kind of having 722 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,360 a little bit of the world a little. 723 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,400 Bit of Jesus, you'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever get 724 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,600 to experience the joy of persecution because the enemy is 725 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:45,400 not interested in your life. Those are hard words, but 726 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,120 they're true. So those are the four things the 727 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,960 enemy's aim is to persecute. You in Romans or Revelation 12, 728 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,000 right? He's the accuser of the 729 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,520 brethren. And it says they overcame the 730 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,520 enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. 731 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,680 They did not shrink unto death. They did not shrink. 732 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:06,120 They did not shrink back even in the face of death. 733 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,400 Those are the true heroes, and there are plenty of them around 734 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,040 the world. Maybe, perhaps we'll produce a 735 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,360 few of them here. OK, how do we fight back? 736 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:22,080 This is we got 11 minutes, so we'll just go quick and I'm. 737 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,360 Giving I'm going to be the game show guy again because I'm 738 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,880 giving away books. So game show John again. 739 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,160 Here we go. All right, you're ready. 740 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,760 OK, so the first one is how do we fight back? 741 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,360 This is this is Ephesians. This is where Ephesians come in. 742 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,320 You remember I've got so I'm going to get rebuked again from 743 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,720 my wife. My wife's like you didn't do 744 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,360 Ephesians. You're a liar. 745 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,400 You didn't do Ephesians, OK. All right, so you could read 746 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,800 Ephesians for homework. That'd be great, but Ephesians 747 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,400 teaches us, the book of Ephesians teaches us how to war 748 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,080 against the enemy. And it's not just Chapter 6, OK? 749 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,000 It's not just chapter 6. So our main focus so #1. 750 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,480 This is the. Number one way we could fight 751 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,040 against the enemy. Our main focus in this church is 752 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,680 on Jesus. That's how we do it. 753 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,800 Just talk about Jesus, just talk about Jesus, sing about Jesus, 754 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,440 pray to Jesus, like just share Jesus, whatever it is just it's 755 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,040 all about him. It's all about him. 756 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,760 And I just you know what? I, you know what I was thinking? 757 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,720 I I I love this. I love this illustrate when we 758 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:29,400 were in. Miami it just came to me now 759 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,360 the. Lord is so good because I'm 760 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,280 like, why did I I? Was running and I was thinking 761 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,800 about something about Miami and I forgot it, you know? 762 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,240 But now I remember. OK, so here's the deal. 763 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:37,960 So when we're in Miami, we did this. 764 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,800 Tim remembers this. Tim, you were Jesus at one time. 765 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,000 You're still like Jesus. OK, but but do you? 766 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,680 Remember that play that like the where you're standing there and 767 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,240 you're like, you're kind of what's that thing called the 768 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:54,040 Lifehouse one where they're like you're, you're, you're, you're, 769 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,320 you're, you're creating Eve and you're dancing with her and 770 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,560 you're speaking to her and all these things. 771 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,400 And then the enemy comes in and it's like the enemy of 772 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,360 alcoholism, or it's the enemy of money and greed is the enemy of 773 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,280 lust and all these things. And they come in and they're 774 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,160 trying to, you know. They're they, they have full 775 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,040 rule and reign because the enemy is playing off as something 776 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,160 that's in their heart. They give in to sexual morality 777 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,560 because lust is in their heart. They give in to blowing their 778 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,280 whole life because greed is in their in their heart. 779 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,000 They misuse finances. It's already there and the enemy 780 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,680 plays on it. But I love this part. 781 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,800 This is what I'm talking about when I say like Jesus has to be 782 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,600 at the center of everything. There's there's if you've ever 783 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,480 seen the play, it is a powerful play. 784 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,600 And we're going to do it again as we go overseas. 785 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,880 We're going to do it again in Baton Rouge this this week in, 786 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,760 in March. But there's this part where 787 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,160 Jesus just blows away his enemies because he resurrects 788 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,080 from the dead, right? I mean that the enemies are 789 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,040 like, we won, you know, and they have like the little sheet up 790 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,720 and, and Jesus is on the ground and then all of a sudden it's 791 00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:01,080 like it is finished, you know, And then like the, the sheep 792 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,800 gets thrown down and the enemies just fall apart. 793 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,320 And then the enemy they get up from and they start, they start 794 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,640 coming with their little claws and they're trying to get close 795 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,080 to Eve, who's saved now Jesus has saved her and they're trying 796 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,160 to get close to Jesus, but they're like going like this. 797 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,520 They they, they are cowering because the light is so bright. 798 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,720 If you stay like in that image, when, when, when Eve is right 799 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:28,720 next to Jesus, there's No Fear in her as the enemies are 800 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,400 crawling towards her to try to bring her back to a life of sin. 801 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,880 Can't do it. The closer you stay to Jesus, 802 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:42,360 the farther away you'll be from the enemy. 803 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,880 Got to stay close, stay close. Just even saying Jesus, Jesus, 804 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:57,000 Jesus staying close. The enemy doesn't want to get 805 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,920 near Jesus. He knows it's going to happen. 806 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,440 You've seen that. Throughout the Gospels, what are 807 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:01,440 you going to do to me, Son of God? 808 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,480 You know, like they're freaking out. 809 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,120 They're not freaking out with you. 810 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:08,680 They're freaking out of who you're close to. 811 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,160 All right. The bowl, the there's another 812 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,120 illustration I I got. I had an image. 813 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:18,720 That kind of goes along with this too. 814 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:20,120 It's like a bowl of fruits, right? 815 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,760 Like a like a one of those kind of bowls. 816 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,760 And if you. Fill it with all good stuff like 817 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,840 it in this image I just saw like literally like fruit, but it's 818 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,520 it's filling your your life up with good things in the Lord, 819 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,440 like good things like even going to life group. 820 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,880 Leaning in, leaning into the Word of God, leaning into 821 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,400 prayer, filling your life up with good things. 822 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:43,960 There's just no room for anything else. 823 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,640 And in my mind's eye, it was just like you're trying to get 824 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,680 one other thing in there, like all these good things, the fruit 825 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,240 of the spirit that like God is filling your life. 826 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,680 And and then maybe there's an attack or an external attack, or 827 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,920 maybe there's something you know, that the enemy wants to 828 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,360 bring into your life. Or maybe it's as simple as like 829 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,800 he's. Tempting you back to your old 830 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,280 life, your old way of sin, and you're like, I just don't have 831 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,400 room for that because I'm so full in God. 832 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,520 Focus on it. Being filled with Jesus. 833 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:16,240 The second thing, a way to fight back is you need to take 834 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:20,640 ownership over your sin. The Holy Spirit is going to 835 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,920 convict you and that is a gift. It's a gift. 836 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:27,560 We cannot just blame the devil for everything. 837 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,120 And I know you've heard me say that multiple times, but it's so 838 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,080 the devil through temptation of mixture with the world system 839 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,560 that we live in, full of lies. It does give opportunity to the 840 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,000 flesh. And So what we need to do is 841 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,880 say, OK, Laura, I'm going to take responsibility for my part. 842 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,520 I'm living in this world. I did not 'cause this world 843 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,160 system to, to behave the way it does. 844 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,360 And I can't control the devil. But what I can do is say I have 845 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,400 sinned and I go back to God. I and then I, the enemy is 846 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,240 resisted. Resist the enemy by what? 847 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,800 Submitting to God and he flees. The enemy flees every single 848 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,720 time, right? So Romans 7 says there's still a 849 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:11,760 battle and we're just going to have that battle. 850 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,720 But Colossians 215, Jesus disarmed the powers of evil on 851 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:20,000 the cross, and it put the focus now on on Jesus. 852 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,360 He's disarms the enemy. He broke the power of it. 853 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,600 And that is good news, right? Because you want to speak that 854 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,640 over yourself, that if temptation feels so strong, you 855 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,160 feel like you can't. No, just think about this way. 856 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:40,120 He disarmed the enemy on the cross, cut his arms off right. 857 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,640 He disarmed him the. Power. 858 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:43,880 Of it. And I was, I was telling 859 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,320 somebody earlier, it's like the, the, you know, he when you get 860 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:48,760 saved. He breaks the power. 861 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:56,160 Of sin, right and then when you finally are free, free, free in 862 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,960 heaven, he removes the presence of sin or somebody 11 time said 863 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:07,600 that sin sin is sin is still resident but it's not raining. 864 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:09,760 It's, it's still, it's still there. 865 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,320 It's still like it's still a. Part. 866 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,400 Of you but it's not raining it's not raining in your life 867 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,720 anymore. That is so good that's that's 868 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:19,600 true because otherwise when you believe it that you have no 869 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,080 other choice but the thing you're going to do it. 870 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,440 OK, all right, Some are like where's the books? 871 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,120 OK, here's it here it is so understand your identity and 872 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,120 Christ. All right, so you could just 873 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,000 print this off online if you want to. 874 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,920 I did originally compiled by Neil Anderson. 875 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,400 Who am I in Christ. This is good. 876 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,320 I would speak this over for years. 877 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,200 I'd speak this over my life and I need this constant reminder. 878 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,840 What is it saying so I'm accepted. 879 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,120 So it's just say I'm a child of God. 880 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,600 I'm a disciple, I'm a friend of Jesus. 881 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,200 I've been justified. I mean united with the Lord, I'm 882 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,960 one with him in spirit. I've been bought with a price. 883 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,880 I belong to God. I'm a member of Christ's body. 884 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,520 These are truths to speak over yourself on a daily basis. 885 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,720 It is so helpful. If you want the. 886 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:03,800 Book version here it is we do this in ADS so who wants this 887 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,800 one Victory over darkness here you go wait you're you're not in 888 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,240 ADS OK there you go awesome if you're in ADS you're going to 889 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:14,760 get that OK so do that every day that that we so Ephesians 26 as 890 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,680 we are seated with him in the heavenly places we have we can't 891 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,040 have this Valley View of. Looking up, Oh my gosh, this big 892 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,320 mountain, I don't know, I'm going to be buried in sin for 893 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,280 the rest of my life. You know, get on top of the 894 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,200 mountain with Jesus and say that thing is small and tiny and I 895 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,960 can be a victory over in him. Amen. 896 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,320 All right #4 we fight for unity. We fight for unity here. 897 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,640 Ephesians 4/4 through sixes, where one spirit, 1 hope, 1 898 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,200 Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one Father of all right. 899 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,800 He has broken the walls of hostility. 900 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,040 We know that has to do with like. 901 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,120 Jew and Greek or black and white, Hispanic, whatever, Yes, 902 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,880 like racially, but just unity in the spirit. 903 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,880 Like it's not just a racial thing. 904 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,280 It's more than that. It's like just, you know, some 905 00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,600 people just naturally gravity take to certain people. 906 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,400 Are they like certain people because they're like them. 907 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,800 That's not the church, by the way, You can have friends, 908 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:04,440 that's fine. Have. 909 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,520 I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but be unified if 910 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,240 they're not like you. That's the way it's supposed to 911 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:14,400 be. It's a body with many members, 912 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,080 many parts. Reread First Corinthians 12, 913 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,600 it's a great passage just to and then this summer we're going to 914 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,280 go to Israel, but on Mount Hermon. 915 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,360 I don't know if we could get up that high, but like it's about 916 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,040 910 thousand feet up high and it's, it's a great passage. 917 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,680 Psalm 133 speaks about this, that in the in the winter time, 918 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,720 there's lots of rains. Right now there's rains. 919 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,080 But when we're there in this, we're taking a small group. 920 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,160 But when we're there in the summer, when there's, it's like 921 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,560 there's no rain, not a drop of rain insight. 922 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:47,520 And it says that the dew on Mount Hermon in Psalm 133 is 923 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,720 how, how beautiful when brothers dwell in unity. 924 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:54,800 It is like the dew on Mount Hermon. 925 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,400 It's like you're, you know what dew is, right? 926 00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,760 It's just this, it's, it's it's it's not rain. 927 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,320 It's not the rounds, not saturated. 928 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,360 It's just on the surface and you can feel it, it's wet, right? 929 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,520 Just even a little bit of unity goes a long way. 930 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,920 That's what he's saying. Just a little bit. 931 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,040 Come on, work with me. Just a little bit of unity in 932 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,800 your marriage. Goes a long way, doesn't it? 933 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,000 Just a little bit of humility, just a little bit of love goes a 934 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,280 long way. He'll move the needle in your 935 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,960 life, right? Amen. 936 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,880 So oh, what I was going to do, OK. 937 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,680 So here we go. So here's another. 938 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,720 One bait of Satan. All right, so. 939 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,040 Some of you guys be honest, right? 940 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,920 You might have some bitterness and offense towards people. 941 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,640 It might be with whoever, I don't know. 942 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,440 Maybe they really did hurt you and you have to work through 943 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,120 forgiveness. But this book helped me so much 944 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,800 before we planted the church. I don't know when it was 945 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,160 published. I don't remember now. 946 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,560 When was it published? I don't have to look at it. 947 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,200 The Spirit and therefore we can be fruitful in our 948 00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,840 relationships. Amen. 949 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,200 OK, so we. As a church. 950 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,760 We need to do our job and teaching you how to. 951 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,440 Have a high standard for how to treat one another in 952 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,200 relationships. Amen, Santi. 953 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,600 OK, so, so all right. Right here. 954 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:52,840 Here you go, buddy. There you go. 955 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,000 That's awesome. When your friends, when your 956 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,960 friends actually like. What's that? 957 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,480 Michael OK, here you go. Here you go. 958 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,560 Dick, I don't want to kill you. Like, like, Dick. 959 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,160 OK, Dick. Dick. 960 00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:12,520 What? I I mean, we honor you. 961 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:14,320 We honor. OK. 962 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,960 So do you feel honored? OK. 963 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:18,400 Yeah. OK. 964 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,280 Good. All right. 965 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,760 There you go. OK, so the enemy takes a lot of 966 00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,680 pleasure, guys. And betrayal, abuse and 967 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,600 bullying, apathy, jealousy, idolizing and even idolizing 968 00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,760 friendships. I don't have time to unpack 969 00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:30,880 that, but that was probably the best. 970 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,080 Part of the book. Is he? 971 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,760 He keeps that towards the end because you look, your friend, 972 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,760 ultimate friend is Jesus and he will feel you so that you learn 973 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,920 how to have a normal horizontal relationships. 974 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,480 Amen. That is so good. 975 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,280 We need more of that, OK. Number six, fear the Lord. 976 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:46,360 Holiness. All right? 977 00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:47,880 I mean, these are big, heavy topics. 978 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,240 They're just kind of flying through here. 979 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:51,240 OK? So just be holy, all right? 980 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,680 All right? Just be holy. 981 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:55,840 Yeah. OK. 982 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,200 All right. So OK, here we go. 983 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,000 You all right? Here's the deal on this. 984 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,960 Do you want to know the ultimate weapon against the enemy is your 985 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,280 holy life? He can't touch you. 986 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,320 Can't. Legally, he can't mess with you 987 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:21,160 when you have, when you're under the shelter of the Almighty. 988 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,640 Psalm 91 is something that people pray over themselves all 989 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:28,040 the time because they're fearful of something bad happening. 990 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,560 And the only way that you are ultimately protected from the 991 00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:36,760 enemy schemes is to hide in him. And by hiding in him, you become 992 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,080 like him, you walk with him. And by becoming more like him, 993 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,200 you actually have authentic relationship with him. 994 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,200 You know, it's interesting. It's the one of the funniest 995 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,120 stories in the Bible is the seven sons of Skiva, right? 996 00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,760 It's pretty funny. Because when they do it, they're 997 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:51,800 like. They're like, OK. 998 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,800 You know, they're these, these seven sons, they're about to 999 00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,240 like, pray for this exorcism to happen. 1000 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:03,320 And and there and this demons like I know Jesus and I know 1001 00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:04,760 Paul. Who are you? 1002 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,040 Let me just say something. If you ever have an exorcism 1003 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,480 where the devil speaks to you that way, you might want to run, 1004 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,840 like run as fast as you possibly can. 1005 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:18,960 I don't know. I don't know if they're faster. 1006 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,240 Than human beings. That my guess is they probably 1007 00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:24,600 are, but I'm just saying we don't know for a fact. 1008 00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,440 We could measure that somehow. I don't know. 1009 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,440 But the reality is you want to run. 1010 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,480 What is the point of that passage? 1011 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,680 What is the ultimate point of that passage? 1012 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,920 That an authentic, real relationship with Jesus 1013 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,800 intimidates the enemy. It is not a formula. 1014 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:48,480 It is not in the name of Jesus, whatever you could say in the 1015 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,080 name of. Jesus all you want, but if your 1016 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:54,400 life is not in line with Him, the enemy is going to slime you. 1017 00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,640 It's like, I don't really just think about the Ghostbusters 1018 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:00,320 right now. I don't know why. 1019 00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,800 But OK, all right, so all right, what do we got? 1020 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,000 All right #7 develop a rich prayer life. 1021 00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:10,400 Amen. We need more of that. 1022 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,160 We don't have. Time to go through that. 1023 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:16,720 But ultimately Paul is saying that in Ephesians 314 to 21, 1024 00:56:16,720 --> 00:56:18,440 right, that we just be strengthened. 1025 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,400 He's like getting on his knees. He's saying, oh Lord, I want you 1026 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,200 guys to experience. The love of God. 1027 00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,240 Because he knows that that before he even gets to the armor 1028 00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:30,440 of God, he's like, man, you need to know the love of God. 1029 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:33,960 Because the armor of God is not some magical formula that you 1030 00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,840 just put on every day. It's it's your identity. 1031 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,960 It's who you are in Christ that you believe. 1032 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:44,160 These things meant are meant to be be believed and lived out, 1033 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,160 right? OK #8 and lastly is the wear of 1034 00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,680 the armor. And can I just say this? 1035 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,400 We're not. You're thinking, how in the 1036 00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,680 world are you going to do this? I'm not going to do this, don't 1037 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:55,960 worry. I'm not going to go through 1038 00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,320 every single armor and just unpack it all. 1039 00:56:58,320 --> 00:56:59,600 We could do that some other time. 1040 00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:05,080 So no, no, no worries. We you will go home quickly, OK, 1041 00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,800 very quickly. But I do want to just say this, 1042 00:57:09,720 --> 00:57:15,360 that the armor of God, as I've been studying more about the 1043 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:20,360 armor, it is not just a mantra. It is not the the enemy. 1044 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,080 I mean, see how silly this is? The enemy is not scared of you 1045 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,360 because you have a mantra. You're like, I put on the 1046 00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:27,960 helmet, I put on the helmet, I put on the helmet. 1047 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,440 But do you believe that your life is secure in him? 1048 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,040 That's the helmet of salvation. He's not interested. 1049 00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:40,720 Like I got the belt on. I got the belt on. 1050 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,200 I got the belt on. I got it on. 1051 00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:43,720 Come on, I got it on. No, no, no. 1052 00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,680 The belt holds you up. It's truth. 1053 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:51,800 Are you a person of truth? Are you full of lies? 1054 00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,800 Are you a person of truth? Or have you given into the 1055 00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,640 enemy's lives? Not about necessarily about your 1056 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,520 identity per SE, but are you a person of truth? 1057 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:06,000 Are you in the light? Are you hiding in darkness? 1058 00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,560 Because if you do, you could say, oh, I got the, I got the 1059 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:10,640 belt on. I got the belt on. 1060 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:14,520 But you know what? You don't, You don't because it 1061 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,160 is about living it out. I think it's just like a light 1062 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,040 bulb came out. I'm like, man, I've. 1063 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:19,800 Been studying this for like the last 25 years you know. 1064 00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:23,360 Like just those moments of like, no, no, no, we need to live this 1065 00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:24,920 out. Like as you're looking at the 1066 00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,440 belt of truth is Jesus is truth. So therefore, when we walk in 1067 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,520 obedience and integrity, in our speech and in our conduct, if we 1068 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,160 are people of truth, the enemy will leave us. 1069 00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,760 The second one is the the breastplate of righteousness. 1070 00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,920 Jesus gives us his righteousness. 1071 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,240 Why is that important? That's like super important. 1072 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,840 That means there's nothing you could do about that. 1073 00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,480 Like he. Gave you his righteousness by 1074 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,600 faith so. What are we going to do? 1075 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:53,960 We're going to live out in that truth. 1076 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,040 We're going to live out in that purity, the purity. 1077 00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,720 And devotion to Jesus. We're going to hate sin. 1078 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,840 The shoes of the gospel, Peace. There's a couple ways you could 1079 00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,920 look at that one. Just keep sharing the gospel. 1080 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,360 Because there's something about you just sharing that reminds 1081 00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,120 you of the grace of God in your own life and that keeps the 1082 00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,920 enemy away. But not only that, but you have 1083 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:17,320 peace with God. You know, like I was just 1084 00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,360 talking to somebody. They're like, I don't know if I 1085 00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,080 have peace with God because I still see sin in my life. 1086 00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,040 You were going to be eaten alive by the enemy. 1087 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,600 You have to know that there you have peace with God by faith. 1088 00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,800 And you still have sin. The issue is not that you still 1089 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,880 have sinned. God knows that He's not trying 1090 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,920 to get you to be perfect. What He's trying to get you to 1091 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,720 understand is that you have peace with God. 1092 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,280 Therefore, you don't have to have that those anxious thoughts 1093 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,200 and believe this lie that you're not saved because you still have 1094 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,360 remaining sin. You have. 1095 00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,080 Peace with God and nothing could ever change that. 1096 00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:58,200 Nothing, nothing #4 is the shield of faith. 1097 00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:59,960 Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith. 1098 01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,120 This is not just trusting in his promises because we already have 1099 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,760 the sword of the Spirit is the word of God. 1100 01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,520 Yes, we haven't gotten there, but it's trusting in his 1101 01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:08,360 promises. It's the. 1102 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,680 Biblical, it's prophecy. It's First Timothy 118. 1103 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,120 It's that word that Etson gave me. 1104 01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,760 He's like, man, you know what? That treasure, trust that you 1105 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,400 have that's like 80 pages long. That's First Timothy 118. 1106 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,480 That's you feeding off the promises of God so that you will 1107 01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:25,960 not shipwreck your faith. Do you have that treasure chest? 1108 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,520 Not just the Bible, but the words spoken over, He said. 1109 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,760 Don't you remember the prophetic utterances that have been spoken 1110 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,440 over you? Helmet of salvation just told 1111 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,440 you that you have secure and all areas of your life. 1112 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,520 You're secure in Him, nothing to take you out of His hand. 1113 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:43,960 Sword of the Spirit, this is what I told you earlier. 1114 01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:49,400 You must study the Word every day so you're not fooled by the 1115 01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,160 enemy's lies. Amen. 1116 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:57,720 We take land, all right. I don't have any other books 1117 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,720 left. OK, so I think we're good there, 1118 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:03,320 but I just I want to close with this. 1119 01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,000 There is I just I don't know if it was. 1120 01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:10,880 I don't know if there's like people in the room, you know, as 1121 01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,840 we close this. But I I've been thinking about 1122 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,360 this whole week in the topic of shame. 1123 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,880 And I don't. Know who deals with that here? 1124 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,840 But I don't know if it was just something, maybe it was just for 1125 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:22,840 myself. I don't know. 1126 01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,000 But I just kind of gone back and we're not talking about like 1127 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:31,240 you've sinned royally and you know, like you continue to like 1128 01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,080 your sin and you're believing this lie that God doesn't want 1129 01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,360 you to have any shame. There's a good kind of shame in 1130 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,680 the Bible that if you are really in sin. 1131 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:44,000 You should feel. Ashamed about that sin, you 1132 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,720 shouldn't love it. You should hate it and God will 1133 01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,080 allow you to go through the period of time maybe where 1134 01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,960 you're just like, I'd want to repent, I'm going to season a 1135 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,720 repentance. I'm looking at the sin and I'm 1136 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,560 grieving it the appropriate way. 2nd Corinthians 7. 1137 01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,120 Shows you the. Steps of repentance and what 1138 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:04,680 that looks like, What we're talking about is something 1139 01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,680 different. We're talking about the enemy 1140 01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,120 reminding you of something that's already been dealt with. 1141 01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:19,640 We're talking about the hiding, we're talking about you running, 1142 01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:24,960 we're talking about just the the many different. 1143 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:29,840 Ways that like people feel worthless, hiding, paralyzing, 1144 01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,480 whatever. And I just want to share with 1145 01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,000 you a a story. We don't have to read it. 1146 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,600 You guys know it already, but from Matthew 524 to 34, you 1147 01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:43,040 remember the woman who is bleeding for 12 years. 1148 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,920 And I think this is really going to minister some people in the 1149 01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:50,560 room this morning. And I think that Leviticus 15, 1150 01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,600 just a little history when someone is bleeding like that, 1151 01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:59,240 there what is known as the ceremony ceremonially unclean, 1152 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,560 that everything she touched became unclean as well. 1153 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,160 It's. Fairly harsh, right when you 1154 01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,440 think about, but God was again teaching something wasn't that 1155 01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,440 woman, It wasn't like God was rejecting her. 1156 01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:17,720 He was just teaching Israel something about that, about the 1157 01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:23,640 the it's hard to understand. I mean, but the reality is that 1158 01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:28,040 he was showing us the dangers of sin, that when you, when 1159 01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,800 somebody gives in to sin for long periods of time, it affects 1160 01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,960 them so much, eventually effects other people. 1161 01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:38,400 She couldn't go to the temple and worship like others could. 1162 01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:42,000 So this woman like had some serious shame. 1163 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,760 And probably it says here that she spent a lot of her money, 1164 01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:49,320 like the majority of her money. And here's where the 1165 01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:51,120 disappointment, hopelessness comes. 1166 01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:56,200 It didn't work. How many times we find ourselves 1167 01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,960 there, which just doesn't work. No matter what we do, we're 1168 01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:02,960 trying different things. It just doesn't work. 1169 01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:07,160 In our own strength, there's an actual problem in our lives. 1170 01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:09,680 There's an actual issue. There's an issue. 1171 01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,040 I don't know what that issue is. What's the issue for you? 1172 01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:18,000 Everybody here has an issue and you're trying to find and it 1173 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,600 brings a level of shame, right? Brings a level of like I maybe I 1174 01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,360 could, you know, and until I fix this thing, I'm just not going 1175 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,360 to live life. And you're trying and you're 1176 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:30,600 spending your efforts and your money and you're trying so hard 1177 01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:32,760 to try to. Fix that issue. 1178 01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:38,920 She's not working. It's not working and there's 1179 01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,440 just a lack of peace in her. She's running away. 1180 01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,600 And you? Know I don't know people are. 1181 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,320 Ridiculing her and she's got all this anxiety and it's just 1182 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,560 crazy. But what what Jesus did, he he 1183 01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:58,080 did three things. The first thing that Jesus did 1184 01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,720 is he healed her. That's good. 1185 01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,480 It was more than physical healing, but he did heal her. 1186 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:10,680 Of all her, all her turmoil. The blood stopped immediately. 1187 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,360 Second thing he did is she gave her peace. 1188 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,600 Gave her. Peace, he says that, he says. 1189 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:19,200 Now go in. Peace. 1190 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:23,080 You know what else he says? He said Be healed. 1191 01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:27,080 Go in peace. What My, my, what? 1192 01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:36,240 My daughter. Not woman, not lady, my 1193 01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:37,920 daughter. Why is that important? 1194 01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,960 Because Jesus not only just gives her physical healing. 1195 01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,520 He. Rid her of her shame. 1196 01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,880 He placed his hand on her and says, not only do I want you to 1197 01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:54,280 be physically healed because. That's not going to change 1198 01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:58,320 anybody. But I want you to understand 1199 01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:04,200 that I I'm giving you peace with me with God and I'm riding you 1200 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,240 of your shame. I'm giving you identity. 1201 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:09,600 You're now my daughter. Isn't that amazing? 1202 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,760 Isn't that incredible? Jesus didn't live just a live 1203 01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:18,080 alleviate physical suffering, but her shame, her paralyzing 1204 01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,640 anxiety and worthlessness, and. Hiding. 1205 01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:24,840 Some of you guys are hiding. Some of you are hiding. 1206 01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:26,160 You're like, you don't want to be here. 1207 01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,920 You actually just had this thought of like, sometimes this 1208 01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:31,080 happens to me. So like, it doesn't happen to me 1209 01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:32,920 physically, but it has to be emotionally sometimes. 1210 01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,680 Like like I'll feel like I just had a bug on me. 1211 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:41,960 And I squashed it. The enemy is trying to do 1212 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,320 something with this. Maybe I don't know, but this 1213 01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,800 this. OK, so that's never happened to 1214 01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:52,360 me before, but, but I, I, I just, I, I want to say this that 1215 01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,440 sometimes like people get prophetically, they get like, 1216 01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,000 they get like a, you know, like a pain in their shoulder and 1217 01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:58,520 they're like, I never had a pain in my shoulder. 1218 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,440 So maybe somebody else has a, has a pain in their shoulder. 1219 01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,800 And so they just prophetically say, OK, somebody have a pain in 1220 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,520 their shoulder. We give, you know, God wants to 1221 01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,400 heal you, whatever. And that that's great physical 1222 01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:07,960 healing. Awesome. 1223 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,840 But I just, I had this feeling of like, I don't know what it 1224 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:15,960 was, this intense feeling of like, I want to hide and I don't 1225 01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:17,280 want to come to the household of the Lord. 1226 01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:20,320 And I just wonder how many people felt that way this 1227 01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,080 morning. Like they, they're, they're, 1228 01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,480 they're in shame, they're wanting to hide, they don't want 1229 01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,680 to be here. But it took every bit of energy 1230 01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:28,280 to make it to the household of the Lord. 1231 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:31,120 And God's saying, I want to heal you of that. 1232 01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,720 I want to heal you of that. It might be 3 people, but praise 1233 01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,040 God. I mean, that's awesome. 1234 01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,520 It's worth it for three people. I just, I want, I want to just, 1235 01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:41,880 I want the Lord. And you know, maybe, you know, 1236 01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,360 there's maybe it's your, your situation is not that intense. 1237 01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,360 Like the woman? But there is another interesting 1238 01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:52,480 story in Psalm 3 where David was embarrassed and he was 1239 01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:56,160 humiliated. His the competency as a king was 1240 01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:57,800 doubted. He was forced. 1241 01:07:57,800 --> 01:07:59,920 And where he was forced in the wilderness, Why was he there? 1242 01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:04,320 Because Absalom was standing at the gate and he was calling. 1243 01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,760 People to himself rather than his his dad. 1244 01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,840 So he was taking the Kingdom from his dad. 1245 01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:13,880 And what did David? David felt shame. 1246 01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,000 David ran and he. Hid in the wilderness and isn't 1247 01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:18,240 this awesome? Look at what he does. 1248 01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:19,960 Look at what how beautiful this is. 1249 01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,760 Look at like it says in Second Samuel 15, he stole the hearts 1250 01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:23,920 of Israel. Against David. 1251 01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,240 And David felt like, just like a chum. 1252 01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:27,680 He felt like, what is wrong with me? 1253 01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:29,880 Well, I can't. I, I mean, I, I, I, I can't fix 1254 01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:31,560 this. I cannot fix this. 1255 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,920 You ever feel like that? I can't fix this. 1256 01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,960 And your head is down downcast and listen to what this is what 1257 01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,560 God saying to every person that might feel like this today in 1258 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:45,960 Psalm. 33 says this he. Says But you got her a shield 1259 01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,319 about me and my glory and a lifter. 1260 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,760 Of my head just. Remember when Joe you in this 1261 01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:54,840 week, when we were there in in in Waco, he was just like, hey, 1262 01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:56,640 buddy, lift up your head, lift up your head. 1263 01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,160 Don't let don't keep your head down and you know is is. 1264 01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:02,200 You know, as Judah's playing basketball, the little guy, you 1265 01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,080 know, he's like a he's like an engine. 1266 01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:05,399 You know, he's like, he's a point guard. 1267 01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:08,160 He's flying up the. Court and the times where he 1268 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,560 gets tripped up is when his head is down, his coach is like, keep 1269 01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:13,920 that head up, keep that head up, keep that head up because when 1270 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:15,960 his head is down, somebody else can't. 1271 01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,439 He just can't swipe that ball away, right. 1272 01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:23,720 And so God is a lifter of our heads. 1273 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:26,920 Why? Because he loves us. 1274 01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,160 There's grace. He's saying, lift up your head, 1275 01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:32,279 I will come through. I will breakthrough for you in 1276 01:09:32,279 --> 01:09:34,399 your life. And we just say right now every 1277 01:09:34,399 --> 01:09:35,920 person, just why don't we stand to our feet? 1278 01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,880 Why don't we just receive mercy from him, receive grace right 1279 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:40,720 now all around the room. Lord, we just thank you. 1280 01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:42,800 Lord, we thank you for what you're doing. 1281 01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:45,840 Maybe the band could play that patient song again. 1282 01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:48,720 Just there's just something about that song, just how He's 1283 01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,200 patient with us, how he's patient with us. 1284 01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,640 And Lord, we just thank you for your ministry this morning. 1285 01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,240 Lord, we, we thank you, Father, for what you're doing. 1286 01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:58,680 Psalm 3 says you're a lifter of our head. 1287 01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:00,920 You're a lifter of our head. We just thank you. 1288 01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,000 You're a lifter of our head. Lord, you're a lifter of our 1289 01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,160 head. We just look to you right now. 1290 01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:09,360 We might be hiding in The Cave. We might be hiding in The Cave 1291 01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,360 right now. We're like, wait, God doesn't 1292 01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,400 want us. People don't want us for running 1293 01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:14,960 away. But that is not the truth. 1294 01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:18,160 The truth is the truth is he will find you in The Cave like 1295 01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:20,720 he did with Elijah. He he will find you in The Cave 1296 01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,240 like he did with David. He will find you in The Cave. 1297 01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,160 And he says, I am a lifter of your head. 1298 01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:27,400 I'm a lifter of your head this morning. 1299 01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,120 Lord, we thank you for that. We thank you for your grace and 1300 01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:31,920 your mercy. Would you minister to us right 1301 01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:33,560 now? If you need prayer, why don't 1302 01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,880 you find your way up here? We'd love to pray for you. 1303 01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:39,200 We just maybe you can't. You just still you, you find you 1304 01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,360 find yourself in unbelief. You just can't get there. 1305 01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,360 And we'd love to help you out this morning in Jesus name.