1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,400 This is City Post Church, we're about three things, build 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus Christ, a 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 small Church Plant in Fort Worth Texas, who decided to do things 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,000 a little differently. I would almost I had to Crystal, 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,100 It's where I belong, we truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,100 I love City Post because of the community. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,800 We've been able to build to do ministry. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Like Jesus perlite to push back Darkness. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:41,200 This is City, Post podcast. First John chapter 2, we're 11 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:43,500 going to go ahead and just jump right into it. 12 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,000 Man, I love catching people outside of the routine. 13 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,600 They're like, what do we? What do you do? 14 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:54,700 It's a video. Am I supposed to move? 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:55,700 What? Oh, no. 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,100 Hey first John chapter 2 man. Reason I saw that and I was 17 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:06,500 like, man, I pray that it's a reminder of how powerful the 18 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:10,700 God, we serve is these next couple of weeks were going to be 19 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:15,700 looking at some difficult texts in God's word. 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,600 And my prayer for us is that we do not run away from hard things 21 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:23,900 we actually run, right? Toward them. 22 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,100 So, if there's going to be some things that that jostle our 23 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:30,800 hearts, there's going to be Some, some some things that like 24 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,800 push against the culture, there's going to be some things 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,600 that pushes against American Christianity, but I just want to 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,700 encourage you guys to really just lean into it to ask 27 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,600 questions to say. Yes, Lord we trust you. 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,400 This is your word it's infallible. 29 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:54,300 So I'm not the one, I'm the one that's wrong, not you right? 30 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:58,700 So so and that's a difficult thing but I I also want us to 31 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:02,400 understand that we serve a God that's all powerful Mighty and 32 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,000 has the power to change. Man, I love listening to 33 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,199 Stephens testimony. I was just floored because I'm 34 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,100 like, man, I was like, dude, let's just go home after that. 35 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,600 Like what are we even doing here? 36 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,300 Like, we're good man. I was like good night, but which 37 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:22,000 writes like man were able to forgive because he forgave us 38 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,900 and that's so strong. So we're only going to be 39 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,500 looking at three verses today. We're just going to Jump right 40 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:31,800 into it because we have a lot of ground to cover your labor. 41 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,200 Ricky. It's only three verses. 42 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,200 I'm like, I know, just wait. All right. 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,000 So look at verses, 15 through 17. 44 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,300 In first John, chapter 2 This is what the word of the Lord has to 45 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:49,300 say, says, do not love the world or anything in the world. 46 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:53,700 If anyone loves the world, Yeah, there you go. 47 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,400 If anyone loves the world love for the father is not in them 48 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,300 for everything. In the world, the lust of the 49 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:05,200 flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life comes not from 50 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,300 the father. But from the world, the world 51 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:13,000 and it's desires, pass away. But whoever does the will of God 52 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 lives forever. Father, we ask you this morning 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,700 to be with us. Lord help us to understand your 54 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:22,800 your word father. Thank you. 55 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,700 So much for it. Lord, I pray for myself that you 56 00:03:25,708 --> 00:03:27,400 helped me to organize my thoughts. 57 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,300 God, that you just help me to remember everything that was 58 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:33,900 studied, Lord. And I pray that you open our 59 00:03:33,908 --> 00:03:39,600 hearts and minds and God, We Praise You For Hearing our kids 60 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,500 class right now. Because God, that means that 61 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:48,300 there's a future in here. There's a life that our kids are 62 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,200 learning your word at a level that they understand it. 63 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,400 And Lord, we pray that they fall in love with you and that they 64 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,400 get to know Jesus more. So, Jesus, thank you so much for 65 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,200 what's happening in your name. We pray all these things. 66 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,000 Amen. All right, so last week we 67 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,200 talked about the Christian Life and how we're not supposed to 68 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,800 just stay as baby Christians, that there's levels to this 69 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,100 thing. And, you know, John went ahead 70 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,600 and he gave us a verse of reassurance in verse 12 and he 71 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,900 said, hey understand this, you guys have been forgiven however 72 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,200 You have the children, which are like the baby Christians. 73 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,300 You have the young men, which are those who are learning God's 74 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:38,300 word and they're ready to go fight, somebody spiritually and 75 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:42,200 then you have the father's in the faith and the fathers, and 76 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,800 the faith are those who have lived a little bit. 77 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,900 They've seen God work. They know God in an intimate 78 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:51,900 level and that's kind of what we're trying to reach. 79 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:57,500 Now, John is going to transition and he is going to kind Go after 80 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,600 the gnostics and their belief systems here, because what the 81 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,900 gnostics believed. Remember if you guys, you know, 82 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:08,700 weeks ago, they looked at how the spiritual and the material 83 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:11,900 or separated. They were like, Jesus can't be 84 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:16,200 100% man, and 100% God. And John is fighting that. 85 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,500 So, he gives these taste like, no, like, if you're a follower 86 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:21,900 of Christ, you're going to be repentant, you're going to hate 87 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:25,500 sin morality, you're going to look at morality differently 88 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:28,500 than the way you guys see it. And You guys go around and you 89 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:31,300 claim to be enlightened and you're starting to throw this 90 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:36,600 bad theology out there and John comes at them with these tests. 91 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,900 And this next test is going to kind of be a part of one of the 92 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:45,900 tests that John gives and it's about love, but I want to kind 93 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:50,600 of talk from the subject. The love that God hates Because 94 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,900 even though God is love, the love that God hates is when we 95 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:57,700 have love for the world. And that's something that they 96 00:05:57,700 --> 00:05:59,600 were like Well Ricky that's kind of a stretch. 97 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,800 And I'm like no it's not bro. It's like in the word, it's 98 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,400 right here. So we have got to walk through 99 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,800 this and we got to try to understand with John is trying 100 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,000 to tell us when it comes to following Christ because there's 101 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,600 a dichotomy here, there's a positive, there's going to be, 102 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,400 you're going to see a lot of positive positive terms and 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,000 words that can also be negative as well. 104 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:27,200 So what John is saying is like as Fellow Christians. 105 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,500 We are to be filled with the love of God. 106 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:37,600 So if we're filled with the love of God, therefore we cannot be 107 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,600 filled with the love of the world. 108 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,200 The Bible is very clear. Like, there's your one of two 109 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,200 sets here. God the Father we belong to him 110 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,000 or you belong to the light. The prince of light, who is 111 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,800 Satan? Jesus talks about this. 112 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,400 So there's no ands ifs or buts about it. 113 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,200 You're like, no Rick. I don't belong to anybody, I 114 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,800 don't believe in anything. You just claimed your dad. 115 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,900 You're either with God, our you're not with God, there's no 116 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,900 gray area here. And if you're not filled with 117 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,800 the love of God then you're filled with the love of the 118 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,400 world and what he's going to call out here is that Believers 119 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:20,700 in Christ cannot be filled with both it's impossible and we have 120 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:25,800 got to fight this. Look at James 4:4. 121 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:28,100 I'm just going to go and read it for time sake. 122 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:31,700 It says you adulterous people don't you know, that friendship. 123 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,200 The ship with the world means, enmity against God. 124 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,600 Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world 125 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,900 becomes? An enemy of God, John is warning 126 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:44,900 us and you're like, will recount. 127 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:48,000 We supposed to be in the world. Yes, you're supposed to be in 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,200 the world but not of it. You supposed to be in the 129 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,500 darkness. We're supposed to be light, but 130 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,600 you're not supposed to be like the darkness. 131 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,100 It makes no sense. So let's go ahead and dive into 132 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:03,700 it. So God John is in verse 15, he's 133 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,500 going to give us a command in this text the derivative the 134 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:13,400 command is do not love the world period and then he's going to 135 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,300 tell us the reasons why you should not love the world and 136 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:20,600 that's where we're going today. So, look at verse 15. 137 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Do not love the world or anything in the world. 138 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,300 So, first thing off, immediately, what we see here is 139 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:31,600 that John is giving what we call a derivative. 140 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:35,900 This is a command statement, this isn't anything that's 141 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,799 subjective. This is not an opinion. 142 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,299 There's no conditions tied to the statement. 143 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:44,900 This is straight up truth. He's like, listen, if he's 144 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,000 addressing the children, so let's connect all the dots. 145 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,100 If you are a follower of Christ, he's telling you, do not love 146 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,700 the world or anything in the world. 147 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:00,200 So, the world, there's a Greek word. 148 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,700 Now, the New Testament was written in Greek, that's why we 149 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:04,700 always reference the Greek, a lot. 150 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:10,400 So the Greek word for the world here is what we call Cosmos or 151 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,300 Cosmos is kind of what you get that out of. 152 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:16,700 A lot of you guys have heard that word before Cosmos. 153 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 So what this word means is the world of existence a way of 154 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,700 life. So what John is not saying he's 155 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:31,800 not saying, do not love the physical world, the created 156 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,800 world, you guys get that, right? He's not saying not, don't love 157 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,200 God's creation, You can't say that because in Genesis and the 158 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,300 beginning, God said, let there be light and he created all 159 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,800 these things at at the end of his creative piece to it. 160 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:54,300 He said and he looked at everything and said it is good. 161 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,400 So you can't hate anything that God already claims. 162 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,500 It's good. So he's not talking about that 163 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:02,800 world. He's also not talking the 164 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,600 cosmos. He's not talking about the world 165 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,000 of humanity. God loves people and we are to 166 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,400 love people to. We are to love everyone. 167 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,800 Love your neighbor as yourself. We are to love those. 168 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,900 Why? Because even while we were still 169 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:21,400 Sinners, when we were still enemies of God, he still chose 170 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,900 to die for us. That's the greatest act of love 171 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,000 that anyone can give. So we are to love people. 172 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:34,800 We are to care for people where to have compassion for people, 173 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:39,400 but we're not to love their sin. See, love does not mean that you 174 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,700 conform to the things of the world. 175 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:45,400 You're not accepting of its ideologies and you're not 176 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,000 accepting of its philosophies and you're not saying that's how 177 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,100 you think. Wonderful know, I love you as a 178 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:55,300 person. And but I don't agree and I 179 00:10:55,308 --> 00:11:00,100 don't love your sin. And that's what he's claiming 180 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:05,200 here. So what world what Cosmos is 181 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,800 John talking about? So what John's referring to here 182 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:15,400 is like he say do not love the world's spiritual systems, do 183 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,900 not love the world spiritual systems. 184 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:21,200 Why? Because the world spiritual 185 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,600 systems are governed by the prince of the world who is 186 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:29,200 Satan? Now, I know this seems kind of 187 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,700 trippy for a lot of us, but this is the reality of the world we 188 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,000 live in because of Genesis chapter 3, we live in a sinful 189 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,900 world. This is the same exact system 190 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:46,100 that John that Jesus talks about in John chapter 15 verses 18, 191 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,300 where he says if the world hates, you know, that it hated 192 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:54,300 me first that it hated me before it hated you. 193 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,700 But then he talks about this in chapter 16 of John where he 194 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:03,200 said, As but take heart for I have overcome this Cosmos, he 195 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,800 said I have overcome the world. What he's really saying is I 196 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:12,400 have overcomed this worlds, spiritual system that is driven 197 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,900 by Satan. I'm over sin. 198 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:19,700 I'm over all of this. I have overcome all of this mess 199 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:23,900 because I am God. So these are the so what he's 200 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:27,400 saying is like, listen, you're not supposed to love the 201 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,300 ideologies and the Enterprises that stimulate the Fallen 202 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:36,400 Humanity. So anything that goes against 203 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,300 the word of God, the name of God, the will of God, the plan 204 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:45,000 of God or God's creation. You're not supposed to love it. 205 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:48,500 You're not supposed to tie your name to that stuff. 206 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:52,300 You're not supposed to point at it and be like, yes, this is 207 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,500 wonderful. You can't love that. 208 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,400 It should actually break your heart. 209 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,100 When you see something like that, the Holy Spirit should 210 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:04,400 stir in you. And you should feel heartbroken 211 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:07,900 that somebody's outside of the will of God, because you know 212 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:11,800 where that's going to lead. And we're going to see why he's 213 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,700 telling us this. So if anyone loves the world, 214 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:18,000 the love of the father is not in them. 215 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:23,400 The love of the father is not in them, so we see this. 216 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,000 So a genuine Christian is marked. 217 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,700 Bye. Love, we love people. 218 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:30,900 That's, that's what we were marked with. 219 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:36,100 Not just love, but we're also marked with an obedience to our 220 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:39,900 King, whose Jesus and obedience to God. 221 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:47,300 A non-believer is marked by Rebellion against a holy and 222 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:51,700 righteous God. Non-believers don't care for 223 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:55,500 God, they don't care for anything spiritual because 224 00:13:55,500 --> 00:14:00,300 everything is about self. So if you're a Believer, you 225 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,000 should be marked by love and obedience to holy and righteous 226 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 God. But if your non-believer your 227 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,300 life is going to be marked with a rebellion against the holy and 228 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:13,400 righteous God, So, if you're in love with the world, you're just 229 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,400 not in love with the world. You're also enslaved to the 230 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,000 world. You're you're enslaved to this 231 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:22,400 control of the world and you're okay with it. 232 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,800 And here's the problem. The false teachers of this time 233 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:30,500 they were all about the world's philosophies and ideologies they 234 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:33,500 actually like put that in their own lives and they were actually 235 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,700 bleeding it out. They were like man this is 236 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:38,100 great, everything leads to God, I'm in line. 237 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:40,800 You should listen to me and they were just spitting all this 238 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,600 stuff out. Out and John is like know if, if 239 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,700 you love God you do not love the world. 240 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:49,500 You're not okay with this. Look at verse 16 now. 241 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:53,100 We're going to get into it. For everything in the world. 242 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,300 So now he gave us the derivative the command don't love the 243 00:14:56,300 --> 00:15:00,200 world, you should love God. Now he's going to give us the 244 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,800 why for everything in the world. And there's three things he's 245 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,300 going to mention the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and 246 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:13,400 the pride of life, The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes 247 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,800 and the pride of life comes not from the father, but the world. 248 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,800 So all these worlds, philosophies and ideologies and 249 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:28,000 everything that it appears very attractive, it's wrapped in a 250 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,500 nice. Big bow for you. 251 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,400 It's always looks great. It always is fun. 252 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,100 It's like yeah, this is the way we should do things, but what 253 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,300 we're going to see in verse 17 is that it leads to destruction. 254 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,600 I mean you you're just throwing your money in a black hole it 255 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,200 makes no sense. So he's saying, all these things 256 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,900 are going to actually end up ruining you, and he's about to 257 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:56,000 expose Satan and his plan and how he does these things. 258 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,100 There's a deceptiveness in loving the world, but we love 259 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:03,600 the world because there's an attractiveness that comes with 260 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,100 our sinful nature. So there's things in our lives 261 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,900 that we point to That we're like, that's not that bad. 262 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:19,000 And a little bit at a time Satan uses this Not to destroy you 263 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,100 quickly but to pull you away slowly because he knows that. 264 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:26,200 If he could just keep pulling you away, pulling you away 265 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,400 pulling you away. You're not just going to destroy 266 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:29,900 your body. You're not going to destroy your 267 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,300 family, you're not going to just destroy your relationships, but 268 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:37,300 at the end of it all, you're going to destroy your faith. and 269 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:44,100 if he does that, Then. It's exactly what he wanted to 270 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:46,500 do. So, let's walk through this 271 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:49,500 thing, because this is so fascinating to me, in the more, 272 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:51,800 I studied this. I'm like, wow, this is, this is 273 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,200 wild stuff. This makes sense. 274 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,700 So, look at the first one was, what comes from the world is? 275 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:58,300 Number one is the lust of the flesh. 276 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:00,200 You're like, Well, Ricky, what does that even mean? 277 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,000 What's the lust of the flesh? So the word lust here is 278 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,900 actually the Greek is translated as epithelium. 279 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,500 Apathy me us are. There you go. 280 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:18,099 EP ithu, Mia epithelial. Um yeah I don't I can you say 281 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:20,000 that right now but I know what it means. 282 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:23,099 All right. So so there's a specific word 283 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:26,900 that he uses as the word lust. Now here's what's Wild. 284 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:31,200 This word can be used positively or negatively. 285 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:38,000 Like I'm married, right? So I lust after my wife. 286 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,500 Amen. Married people. 287 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,900 Right? So, I have this epidemia toward 288 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:50,000 my wife like, I am attracted to her. 289 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,000 I want to hit that. All right, thank you. 290 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:53,900 All right. Y'all are here. 291 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:58,800 All right, so Rachel's, like what does that even mean so 292 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,200 violent? I want to I want I want that 293 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:09,700 lust is going to move me into action and that's a positive 294 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:11,500 thing. Why is that positive? 295 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:16,500 Because Dad is a sexuality that God has intended for listen. 296 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:20,700 Anything sexual outside of the marriage bed, is a sin toward 297 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:25,100 God. So, if anything inside of that 298 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:28,900 marriage bed, man, that glorifies God, that glorifies 299 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:33,100 his creation of sex. It actually, it's a Real thing. 300 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:37,600 And husbands, you should lust after your wives. 301 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:39,900 There it is. I come on. 302 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:41,700 I gave you a second chance here, man. 303 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,800 Come on fellas and wives. You should lust after your 304 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:51,000 husband to, that's a good thing that pleases the Lord. 305 00:18:51,300 --> 00:19:00,700 But if you lust outside of that marriage bed it leads to - it 306 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,800 leads to sin. That leads to destruction. 307 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,600 You see a fire is good when it's in a fireplace when it's used 308 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:13,300 for its methods. But If it's outside, it causes 309 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:17,000 destruction, it burns things, it hurts things. 310 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:23,500 So, this word lust can either be negative or positive, but in 311 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:26,300 this context of lust of the flesh. 312 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:32,500 It's - why is it - because this impulse in US, is leading to 313 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:38,200 transgressions Anything that leads to a transgression is 314 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,600 negative because we are sinning against a holy and righteous 315 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,400 God. So what he's saying is that the 316 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,900 lust of the flesh, there's something that is so sensual, 317 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,500 there's something that's so appealing to our flesh, that is 318 00:19:54,500 --> 00:20:00,300 causing us to act on it. So what is the flesh that John 319 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:04,900 is talking about? The flesh is our Humanity, our 320 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:09,200 sinful Essence, our sinful nature. 321 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,200 You might hear stuff like the heart wants what the heart 322 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,500 wants. But here's the issue with that. 323 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:20,700 Jeremiah 17:9 says that the heart is deceitful above all 324 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:25,400 things and Beyond cure who can understand my God. 325 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:32,600 So there's what Satan does. He uses the lust that we have in 326 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,500 a negative light? The thing that draws us to 327 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:40,900 transgressions. He uses that he pulls that away, 328 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,500 And he turns it to the flesh instead of himself. 329 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,300 He turns it to transgressions, instead of pleasing acts of 330 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:57,700 holiness. So we need to be paid and we 331 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:00,800 need to pay close attention to this. 332 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,200 So number one, he says the lust of the flesh. 333 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,300 Number two, he says the lust of the eyes so he uses the same 334 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:12,800 word, empathy Mia, but he now he's throwing in the eyes. 335 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,300 So it's not this thing that's drawing to our sinful nature in 336 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,500 her heart and the things that we want individually, which is 337 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,400 going against God, but now he's putting in the eyes. 338 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,700 So first, It's the sinful disposition of man that's going 339 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:32,600 to bring us to this evil World system, and now he's going to 340 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,600 use our eyes. Satan uses our eyes, very, very 341 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,100 strategically to incite wrongful desires. 342 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:45,500 You know, eyes are a gift of God. 343 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,500 A lot of people say, eyes are the windows to the soul. 344 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,800 But sometimes Satan uses our eyes to see the things that 345 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,900 tempt us and when we see the things that tempt us and attract 346 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:02,600 us, it actually incites an action in us where a lot of 347 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,900 times we don't want to do nothing until we see it. 348 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:10,800 You know, I notice about this, like yesterday we had a father 349 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,800 and daughter dance, and I told the girls I was like, Hey, after 350 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,100 this, we're going to go get ice cream. 351 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:19,900 And of course, the Lena was like, whoa, and then Livia was 352 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:23,900 like just running laps anyway. So I was like, don't tell live 353 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,600 yet, she gonna throw scene. But you see how say we're going 354 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:33,400 to get ice cream and it was fine but it wasn't until they saw all 355 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,000 the flavors of ice cream that they were like banging on the 356 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,400 glass and like just going like, I don't know which one like the 357 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,900 excitement arose because they were able to see what I entice 358 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:50,000 them with you see? So that's kind of how Satan 359 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,800 Works. He knows what we want. 360 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,000 He knows what we're what we're grounded to, he knows what our 361 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,100 heart. Wants. 362 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,900 And yes, we think about it. We like, oh man, that sounds 363 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,400 good. But then you're able to see it 364 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,900 and he put stuff in front of you that you're just like, bam. 365 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,300 And you're like, oh I I want to do it now. 366 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,200 I want to see it now, I want this now. 367 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,600 And there's so many examples in scripture, I'll give you guys 368 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,200 two examples in the Bible where we see this Lot's wife, she 369 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,200 missed used her eyes. In the Old Testament, she missed 370 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,600 used her eyes and God killed her as a result. 371 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,900 He told law and his family's. Like I want you to run from the 372 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:37,100 city do not look at the city. Don't turn. 373 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:38,900 Don't look at it and what does w like? 374 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,400 Lot's wife do. And she becomes a pillar of 375 00:23:42,408 --> 00:23:47,800 salt. We also see this with David in 376 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:53,200 second, Samuel chapter 11, David's on the rooftop, minding 377 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,100 his own business and he sees somebody taking a shower, her 378 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:02,000 name is Bathsheba And subsequently, he commits 379 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,600 adultery with her. And he pays severely for his sin 380 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,300 with the remainder of his life. It goes bad for him, it's hard 381 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:15,800 for him. All it took was for him to view 382 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,600 that. And he acted on it. 383 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,300 And not just on top of that. But in order for him to cover 384 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:28,700 his tracks, what does he do? He has Uriah killed you, see how 385 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,700 it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and listen. 386 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,500 That's no different with David did. 387 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:37,200 All he did was he just cleared his browser history? 388 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,800 We do the same thing. We see things, we should not be 389 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,000 seeing we see things. That entice us to do things that 390 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,300 don't honor God. And what we end up doing is we 391 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,900 try to clear that path and think everything is going to be made, 392 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:58,000 okay? But our flesh is still flesh. 393 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:01,000 It's still there. So, yeah, you might feel better 394 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,900 for a little bit, but just give it time. 395 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,500 Because if it's not taken care of the lust of the flesh, the 396 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:11,400 lust of the eyes. And then the last thing that 397 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,900 Satan uses is the pride of life, man. 398 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:18,300 This one's hard like we could I don't sound too bad. 399 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:21,900 How many of you guys like to admit? 400 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:25,900 You're wrong. How many fights have we've 401 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:30,800 gotten over? About being wrong or right pride 402 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,100 is serious pride is hard, pride is a real issue. 403 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:38,300 She was going to raise my hand to we beat me to it. 404 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:43,500 Alright, so I like yeah man I don't pry too serious. 405 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:45,500 So what does the pride of life mean? 406 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,500 Pride of life means that you think that you can do it 407 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,900 yourself. So the reality is that the 408 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:59,900 appropriate response is a humility and a gratitude to God, 409 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:02,300 he's the one that's all Sovereign. 410 00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,000 He's the one that's all powerful. 411 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:09,800 He's the one that is making all of this work in the cosmos, but 412 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,800 with the pride of life does is that it points all back to you. 413 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:17,000 I'm the one that did this, I'm the one that's making this 414 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,300 happen. Like you forget like God you 415 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,400 like you talk like. God is small or something. 416 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,000 And no. But that's the biggest lie that 417 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,700 Satan uses. He puts it on you so that way 418 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:33,600 you could go parade around and like you want to impress people. 419 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 And you forget to give glory and honor to God. 420 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:42,900 Romans chapter 1, verses 22 through 25 says this best we end 421 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:47,300 up praising and worshipping the creation instead of the creator. 422 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,700 That's what the pride of life is, that's what the pride of 423 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,800 life does. We give too much credit to the 424 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,700 creation and we forgo the Creator. 425 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:03,300 So I want us to look at this because this is, this is so 426 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:07,600 fascinating and what he's saying in verse 16 is like, all these 427 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,900 things are not of the father. They don't belong to God because 428 00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:16,400 they lead to transgressions and they lead to destruction and 429 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,100 everything about God is love and everything about God is 430 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:22,800 following him and everything about God is good. 431 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:27,500 So that's my question to us. How do I know I'm stuck in a 432 00:27:27,508 --> 00:27:30,900 world system? What fruit are you bearing? 433 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,400 Think about the fruit that's coming out of your life, is it 434 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,600 good? Is it pleasing? 435 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,800 Is it honorable? Or is it struggle? 436 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:46,900 Real is nothing working. Are you stuck in a cycle of sin? 437 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:51,200 That's destroying you. That's not of God. 438 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:54,700 This is right? We've got to, we have got to 439 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:58,800 acknowledge it. So the world is the enemy of a 440 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,800 Christian because it is rebellion in up. 441 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:05,500 Opposition against God and it's controlled by Satan. 442 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:10,200 How does Satan do this? And I'll find a couple examples. 443 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,300 There's three things flesh, eyes and pride, I'm going to keep 444 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:15,800 repeating the store so that way it could sink into our. 445 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,200 Our heads here flesh is the humanity. 446 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:24,100 The functions of humanity that's based off of the desires of our 447 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,300 heart. It's what we want. 448 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:29,600 It's what the self wants, what the heart wants, which is evil. 449 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,100 The eyes individual seek to have more than others. 450 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:38,700 You start seeing things and you want it to happen, right? 451 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:41,400 It entices us. But then the pride hits. 452 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,800 And that's what the files, God. We become arrogant. 453 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,800 We act like God has been dethroned. 454 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,700 We're the ones that run the universe. 455 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:54,000 This is Satan's game plan. This is how he plays us. 456 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:57,000 This is how he draws us into sin. 457 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,700 This is how he makes his fall in love with the world. 458 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,300 So two quick start like, so you like will recover, how does 459 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,000 this? Genesis chapter 3 and I'm going 460 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,900 to run through this for time sake, but we see this with the 461 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:15,000 fall of Man, Genesis 3:6, the devil appeal appealed to Eve's 462 00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:18,900 desire for food. That's the lust of the flesh. 463 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,700 God told him, you can do anything you want to, but just 464 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:27,000 don't eat out of this tree. So what does he do, man, I want 465 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,700 something good appeals to her desire to want something and 466 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:36,600 then he shows her something attractive says that that fruit 467 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,000 was like really, like it looked real good. 468 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,800 I always think of like the fruit and Avatar. 469 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:46,100 You know, they like Malachi like, man. 470 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,000 That is good stuff. So it appeals to its 471 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,600 attractiveness. That's the lust of the eyes and 472 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,900 then her desire to have wisdom and knowledge to be like God 473 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,900 that's the pride of the flesh. See how this works and I'll even 474 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:06,200 take you one more. Luke Chapter 4 verses verses 12 475 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,000 to 13. Jesus is about to start his 476 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,100 ministry after he gets. Baptized he gets set to the 477 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:15,800 wilderness. For 40 days and 40 nights. 478 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:20,400 And at that time Satan is they're tempting him. 479 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,000 What does Satan appeal to checked? 480 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,600 His house is so well, number one, he appeals to God's Jesus 481 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,200 Humanity by saying, hey aren't you hungry? 482 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:34,300 If your God, take this rock and make a bread? 483 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,800 His Humanity right there. That's the lust of the flesh. 484 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,700 Number two, his eyes. The lust of the eyes. 485 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:44,900 Satan tells Jesus. Look at all this stuff. 486 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:46,600 Look how beautiful this place is. 487 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 If you bow to me, I will give you everything. 488 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:56,400 The lust of the eyes and then he goes to the pride where he tells 489 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,300 Jesus. You know what? 490 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:01,600 If you jump off this cliff and if you're God you jump off this 491 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,500 cliff and all these angels come and save you. 492 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,600 Man, people really know who you are. 493 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,800 If Jesus were to do that, he would have presumed protection 494 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,400 from God. And he would have gained a 495 00:31:15,408 --> 00:31:20,000 little bit more Prestige. Knowing people see, people think 496 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,600 that he landed safely that's the pride of the flesh. 497 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:30,700 So when all of this hits us, how do we fight it the same way? 498 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:36,100 Jesus did, what does Jesus do? He quotes scripture, you 499 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:39,900 Testament every time Satan threw something at him, he knew God's 500 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,800 word and he uses that. Hey, make this bread up man 501 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,000 shall not live off, brother, bread alone. 502 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:51,600 Everything so understanding God, knowing God's word, helps us 503 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,100 fight. That that whole thing about 504 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,000 loving the world. When we We love the world and 505 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,400 listen, we're off. We've got to love God. 506 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,300 And then the last verse, look at verse 17. 507 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,800 The world and his desires pass away. 508 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,600 But whoever does the will of God lives forever. 509 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000 See the John is giving two extreme examples. 510 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,000 He was like, listen. So Satan is using this scheme to 511 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,700 pull you away from the love of God. 512 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,900 He wants you to love the world, so he's going to give you the 513 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:31,200 desires of your flesh, the desires of your eyes and the 514 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,400 pride of, man, And what John is saying is like, be careful 515 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,100 because that world that you're loving so much. 516 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,000 It's going to die. It's going to go away. 517 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,800 It's going to pass. That word passing away. 518 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,100 That Greek word is periya go, which means to disappear. 519 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000 When sin entered this world, this world the world that we 520 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,100 live in. Now the cosmos has begun a path 521 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:05,300 to disappear this world that we live in right now is not going 522 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:10,100 to be around forever. You could put electric cars in 523 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,800 every single person. It's still going to disappear. 524 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,300 You could do whatever you want to. 525 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:19,900 It is on a way out. It's on its way to 526 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:22,600 self-destruction and what God is saying to us. 527 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,100 What John is saying is like listen don't feed into something 528 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,600 that is going to go away. Don't pour into the temporary, 529 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,000 but if you love God, the kingdom of God is forever. 530 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,500 This is what you sow into this is what you put your life into. 531 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:42,100 This is not temporary. God's will is permanent and it's 532 00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:45,200 unchangeable. This is what you want to feed 533 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,400 right here. This is what you want to tell 534 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,500 your life to. This is why we do what we do. 535 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,300 The Bible says that we are our life on this world. 536 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:56,200 It's nothing but a vapor here. One moment gone. 537 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:02,000 The next It's going to disappear in Jesus is going to come back 538 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,000 one day and he is going to replace this sinful world with 539 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,199 Glory. So there's a contrast, the world 540 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,600 will disappear. So why are we feeding into a? 541 00:34:14,607 --> 00:34:17,600 Why we love in that? Except you should love the 542 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,600 kingdom because that is permanent that will not change. 543 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,300 I know, three heavy versus and I started to think as we kind of 544 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:32,699 wrap things up here is Satan uses this whole system. 545 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:39,800 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of man, 546 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,900 the luster. And I started thinking, man. 547 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,400 That's the question that we need to ask ourselves is what is the 548 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:55,600 fruit that our lives are giving. How do I know that I am stuck in 549 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:01,600 this world system that is run by Satan and not by God, how do I 550 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:07,200 know? This because I'm looking around. 551 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,500 And the more that I do stuff out in the more, I meet people and 552 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:17,300 stuff in the community, we've become so numb to our sin that 553 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:23,900 we think Brokenness is normal. And yes, sin has entered the but 554 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,300 but think about it, like we're cool with broken relationships. 555 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,000 Like we're okay with marriages being crippled and and we're 556 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,600 like abuse and hey man, addictions is there just fine. 557 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,600 I mean they just that's just who we are, its built-in us, there's 558 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,100 a genetic disposition, that's why I'm addicted. 559 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,400 Which is a bunch of crap anyway. Families are broken. 560 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,100 There's heard, there's abused, there's illness their sickness. 561 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,500 There's all these things. There's people that are 562 00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:57,700 struggling with their identity. I don't know if I'm a guy or a 563 00:35:57,707 --> 00:36:00,700 girl. Really, where is all this coming 564 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,500 from how we struggling with our sexuality? 565 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,100 How, what's wrong with us? And the problem is, what's wrong 566 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:12,100 with us? Is us We are sinful and the 567 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:16,400 answer is Christ. And we've got to start talking 568 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:22,100 about the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride 569 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:26,400 of life. So, yeah, you know, I want to go 570 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,000 ahead and say that. Like, yeah, Ricky. 571 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,800 I'm depressed. I have anxiety. 572 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:32,900 I have self-esteem issues. But yeah, but all you do is 573 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:36,000 watch porn hub, Netflix and World of Warcraft. 574 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,900 So, what's wrong? You can't just blame things on 575 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,900 this world, why? Because this world system is 576 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:48,900 corrupt. So if you're trying to find an 577 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:55,000 answer to humanity in this world, it's not going to work. 578 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,600 It's actually going to keep you going in circles. 579 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:07,800 Satan offers to keep you there. How Because we have to look at 580 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,600 some deeper wounds in our lives. So yeah, you know what? 581 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,000 Like my I was I was an abusive relationship. 582 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,800 I didn't have a father growing up. 583 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,300 I was hurt. I was backstabbed. 584 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:22,600 And what Satan does is, instead of offering you freedom from 585 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,200 that sin, he gives you what the flesh wants. 586 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:28,800 How do I feel better about myself? 587 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:33,500 Here comes the lust of the flesh, you know, man. 588 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,600 Like you should take this, this will actually help numb you a 589 00:37:36,607 --> 00:37:40,300 little bit and I'm good. Here comes the lust of the eyes. 590 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:42,400 Boom, this is what it looks like. 591 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:45,700 Awesome. I'm going to numb myself now and 592 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:47,400 then I'm going to give you the pride of man. 593 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,300 Dude, you need some help. No, I don't I'm fine. 594 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,500 I controlled anytime I want to. Really. 595 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:56,200 And then next time you have a bad day at work. 596 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:57,900 Next time you have a fight at home. 597 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,300 Next time, something goes wrong. It's the same exact cycle. 598 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:06,100 Next thing, you know, you look up and your life is destroyed. 599 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:09,000 Your family is destroyed. Your health is destroyed. 600 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:12,200 And then your faith is destroyed. 601 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,900 Why? Because you've given in to the 602 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:19,800 flesh, The Eyes Of Love, the lust of the eyes and the pride 603 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,800 of Flesh. We've got to start looking at 604 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,000 the deeper issue because there's a lot of us were walking around 605 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000 with some deep wounds that have not been addressed and you're 606 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,200 not going to heal the wound. What you're doing is you're 607 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,800 buying into the LIE of Satan saying, Hey, listen, here's a 608 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,600 way for you to make yourself feel better, lust of the flesh, 609 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,200 lust of the eyes pride of man and you feel better for a little 610 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,700 bit until you fall off. Again, it's a Annual cycle 611 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,900 saying is offering to keep you there, but Jesus is offering 612 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:55,900 real freedom. How to say and keep you there 613 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:59,600 because he's like, men do what you want, fix it yourself. 614 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:01,900 And what Jesus says is, no give it to me. 615 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,000 I'm going to do it for you saying is like, no, but look at 616 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,500 the beauty of the world and Jesus like, no, look at the 617 00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:13,900 beauty of the cross. Saying is like invest in 618 00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:16,400 yourself. It's important and she's like no 619 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,900 don't invest in yourself. Don't even invest in this world. 620 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:21,700 It's going to disappear. You invest in the Kingdom. 621 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:25,400 You invest in me and watch me, invest in you. 622 00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:29,800 Saying says stuff. Like it's okay, man, you got 623 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,000 this. You got this. 624 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,800 You can do this. You're not weak and Jesus says, 625 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:40,400 no, I got this. You can't do it, but I can Last 626 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,600 thing the saying says, we'll get to work, hurry up you're not 627 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,600 grinding hard enough and what Jesus says is like stop working 628 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,300 so hard, repent and let me do it. 629 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,400 You see the dichotomy here, the differences here. 630 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,700 And what John is pointing at? Is he saying, listen, if you 631 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,500 love the world, if you support the world, if you love it's 632 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,300 ideologies, if you love everything, the world says, if 633 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:06,300 you're like cheering on sin, that he's like, not the love of 634 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:08,800 the father, is not in you because that's not stuff, that 635 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,300 God who loves and it leads to destruction. 636 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:14,800 That's the bottom line. So we have these deep wounds, we 637 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:20,500 have these, we're marked with some hard stuff in our lives and 638 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:23,200 on, with this This little show that I know some of y'all watch 639 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:27,800 called it's called Yellowstone where you know talking about 640 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,200 Yellowstone man. I saw this. 641 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,900 It was just kind of playing in the background and there was a 642 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:38,700 scene that caught my attention. And since season 1 episode 4, 643 00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:44,200 just in case you wanted nothing. But there's this cowboy on 644 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,000 yellow stars. Name is Jimmy and he's kind of a 645 00:40:47,008 --> 00:40:50,300 puny little guy but he's part of the family now. 646 00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:54,800 So Jimmy's on this Ranch and he's like, yes, in the way that 647 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,700 Jim, they know that Jim he's part of the crew is that he has 648 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:01,100 that brand on him. He has that Yellowstone brand 649 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,900 and there's an episode where there's like some guys working 650 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:06,100 and they're kind of picking on Jimmy because he's kind of like 651 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:08,400 a little like he's grinding and too small. 652 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:13,600 And he tried to fight. But then, rip wheeler shows up. 653 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,800 Now, rip is like, the metal metal guy. 654 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:22,000 Like, he's the one in charge and rip shows up and he drops the 655 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,200 dude and he starts fighting for Jimmy. 656 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,400 And he looks at the guys, like you want to fight somebody? 657 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,600 I'll fight you all do, right? And you're like, yeah, rib, get 658 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,800 them. What's interesting is as Jimmy 659 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,700 stands up and he's all beat up and bloody and stuff. 660 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:43,200 And after Rim Fire's the guy he looks at Jimmy and he says Jimmy 661 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,600 there's a thousand of them just like them. 662 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,800 That work here. They're going to come and go. 663 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:51,900 He goes, but you're a branded man that means that you're going 664 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:55,000 to die here. Because you're branded. 665 00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:00,000 Man, I saw that and I was like, man, isn't that the pride of 666 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000 man? There's some of us in this room 667 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:10,400 that we've been wounded so badly that we have a brand on us, we 668 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,600 have a scar on us and what Satan does. 669 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,800 He tells you? He's like no no no you see this 670 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,100 world? You're going to die here because 671 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:22,400 you've been branded You're an addict, that's who you are. 672 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,400 You're damaged goods. You're a drug addict. 673 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,400 You're you've been abused. Nobody's going to want you. 674 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,600 That's The Branding that I've put on your life and all these 675 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,200 people are going to come and go, but you're going to die here. 676 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:46,300 And I wonder if we start shifting our wounds a little bit 677 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:50,200 and start letting if we Let Jesus, take our scars and wounds 678 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,000 because for some of us, we look at it. 679 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,500 We're like, man, that's a reminder, Satan reminds us of 680 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:00,700 who we are, and listen to me. Wounds are not a reminder of 681 00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:05,600 your hurt, their reminder of your healing and a lot of us, 682 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,200 see our scars and we're like, nah man. 683 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,100 I've been hurt before. Like this is what happened. 684 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:10,400 I got shot here and I got shot here. 685 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,600 No, and we got a shot. Shift our focus and say no. 686 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,700 Like this is where God was faithful. 687 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:20,800 This is where he saved me man. This is where like he pulled me 688 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,800 out. Like I should have been divorced 689 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,800 by now, but he saved this. So when sayings like, no, you're 690 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,200 a branded. You're going to die in this 691 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,100 world. You're like, no, I'm not. 692 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,900 Jesus comes in and you're like, no, this doesn't mean that I 693 00:43:33,908 --> 00:43:36,400 belong here. This means that I got rescue 694 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,400 from here. I'm not going to die in this 695 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,200 world. I'm asking to live in this world 696 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,800 and I'm going to live a life that's pleasing to the Lord 697 00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:45,200 fulfilling to God. And I'm going to honor him with 698 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,400 my life. Scars are not a reminder of her 699 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,400 through. There are a reminder of those 700 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,600 who were healed. And I wonder this morning if 701 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,100 there's some of us in this room that are like, you know what? 702 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:04,800 Ricky I I'm tired of the cycle. I am ready to be free. 703 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,500 I'm tired of this cycle. I'm tired of saying, oh, he's 704 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,100 pointing to like, man, this is who I am. 705 00:44:10,100 --> 00:44:13,100 I'm branded as ABC, fill in the blank. 706 00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:16,200 And I think some of us need to get free today. 707 00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:18,900 Some of us need to be free today. 708 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:23,400 This is what I'm going to do is we're going to pray and as we 709 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,900 worship, if you need somebody to pray with. 710 00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:30,000 If you need somebody to talk to listen, we're a small Church, 711 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,300 man. Nobody's going to be, we're 712 00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:34,000 family here. We talked about this last week. 713 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,500 We don't struggle alone. If you need somebody to pray 714 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:40,800 with you, man, I'll pray with. You got my dad back there. 715 00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:43,800 We have Rachel. We have some people that want to 716 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,800 just pray for you. Stephen will pray for you guys. 717 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,200 Some of us we just need some time to reflect. 718 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,700 That's how good that's we're going to worship together here 719 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:57,700 but I just want to let you know today that there is freedom in 720 00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:01,700 Christ. Don't love the world, love God, 721 00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:04,700 the world leads to nothing. God leads to everything. 722 00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:07,300 We pray for us. Father, we love you Jesus. 723 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:09,000 Thank you because you are a faithful God. 724 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,500 And and Lord, even when Satan reminds us of our wounds scene 725 00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:18,300 reminds us that we've been branded because of our sin Lord. 726 00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:21,100 I pray that you Remind us that we have been forgiven. 727 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:23,100 We've been healed, we've been restored. 728 00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:28,800 Father, that we have a story to tell that we've witnessed your 729 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,500 goodness on our lives. so Lord, I pray that as we as we spend 730 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,800 time with worship that the Holy Spirit began to move in our 731 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,500 lives, father, and that were able to put aside the pride of 732 00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:47,400 man and come to the throne humbly and broken. 733 00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:51,400 So Jesus, we love you and we praise you for all these things. 734 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:46,900 Amen, it's worship together. and come to the throne humbly and 735 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:50,000 broken. So Jesus, we love you and we 736 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,000 praise you for all these things. Amen, it's worship together.