1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build, equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Worth, TX who decided to do things a little differently. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,920 Adoramos Ajesu Cristo I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,960 It's where I belong. We truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 I love City Post because of the community we've been able to 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,680 build. To do ministry like Jesus. 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,640 For light to push back darkness. This is City Post podcast. 10 00:00:38,860 --> 00:00:44,580 Very good morning, everybody. You guys good, awesome. 11 00:00:45,980 --> 00:00:49,340 All right, So one of the things that I like to do to relax. 12 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:51,220 And like I said, this is my show, my age. 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,960 Because even yesterday I got home, man, went to this amazing 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,720 car show. Shout out Daniel back there, 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,040 man, we had a great time with bombs in the park. 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,600 And I got home and I look outside and I was like, I got to 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,320 fix the yard. Like as a man, you know, like 18 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:08,600 the inside of the house could be destroyed. 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,000 But if the lawn looks terrible, I I got to do that. 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,360 But for me, it's the lawn. Mowing the lawn like weed eating 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,280 all that stuff is actually a way that I relax. 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,520 I know some of y'all looking at me like I'm crazy, right? 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,680 And there's something so satisfying of you fixing up your 24 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,680 lawn when it looks like a jungle outside. 25 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,240 And then you just fix that thing up, man. 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,320 You, you trim like the edges like you weeded and it just 27 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,640 looks like a perfectly green carpet. 28 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,000 Even, like when, when William does this, like the church, like 29 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,960 there's something refreshing, like when you see it all, like 30 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:49,680 manicured, like looking sharp. And you're like, yeah, that 31 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,160 looks like we did that. And there's something about you 32 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,280 working on your lawn outside and it's and you're sweating. 33 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,640 And then you stand out there. You take your shirt off. 34 00:01:58,720 --> 00:01:59,960 I mean, it's just me. It's hot. 35 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,360 And then you're just staring at your work. 36 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,360 And then your kids are like, Daddy, can I get you anything? 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,639 Yes. Water with tons of ice, right? 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,200 Or you pick your beverage, whatever, right. 39 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,880 So like I'm, you're standing there and you're just admiring 40 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,680 your work. You're like, this is awesome. 41 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,440 It feels great. But as good as it looks, I what 42 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,280 I realized is that we live in Texas, so our grass is not like 43 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,320 Saint Augustine grass. We could just run out there 44 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,520 barefooted. You know, I'm going with this. 45 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,920 So even as good as my lawn looks and as green as my lawn looks, 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,600 there's still patches outside because we live in Texas. 47 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:43,200 Don't get me that there are, is what we call Texas weeds, not 48 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,880 Texas weed. Texas weeds don't get me mixed 49 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,360 up. And there's parts where I'm 50 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,280 like, Liv, you still got to wear sandals outside. 51 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And, and I was talking to somebody and they're like, 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,240 listen, the way that you get out of that, the way that you get 53 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,880 Saint Augustine grass or you get like that hard stuff out of your 54 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:05,680 lawn is that you must RIP out all of the weeds and replace it 55 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,680 either with seed or just kind of get grass patches. 56 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,960 And then you got to really like start all over. 57 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,760 But you cannot water that grass expecting all that Texas wheat 58 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,120 to disappear just because you cut it every Sunday. 59 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,440 You trim it down or you water it or you throw wheat. 60 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,680 I mean, you throw seeds in it because all you're going to do 61 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,320 is you're going to get grass with weeds. 62 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,880 It's just going to mix together. So it might look green, it might 63 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,560 look manicured, but at the end of the day, it's not really 64 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,840 grass. It's like half grass, half Texas 65 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,040 weeds. And guys with the Christian 66 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,040 life, it's the same thing with us. 67 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,400 Yes, when you come to life in Christ, you have been saved from 68 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,760 the penalty of sin. But because the flesh is weak, 69 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,760 we still struggle with the power of sin. 70 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,720 And what I want to encourage us today, and what we're going to 71 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,120 look at what Paul says is that because we've been made alive in 72 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,600 Christ, listen, you're going to have to RIP some things out of 73 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,520 your life in order for a new things to grow back. 74 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,800 And what many of us do is like we came our life to Jesus and we 75 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,720 want to keep the weeds around, but we also want the new grass. 76 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:20,399 And Paul's going to look at us and he's going to say, that's 77 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,600 not the way this works because Christ went to the cross, 78 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,800 resurrected from the from the grave. 79 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,000 He has power over death. So that means that you and I are 80 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,960 no longer a slave to our sin. And through the Holy Spirit, you 81 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,760 have power to overcome your sin because of Jesus. 82 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,400 The problem is as believers, we fall into the power of sin 83 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,000 instead of being victorious over our sin. 84 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,080 So what I want to look at today is how do we do that? 85 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,040 You're like, man, Ricky, I've been trying, I've been fighting. 86 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,160 I've been fighting this addiction for too long like, and 87 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,680 for some reason it keeps dragging me back in. 88 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:02,440 Well, today I want to encourage you that Paul is going to give 89 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,280 us a way out. He's going to walk us through a 90 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:09,840 text that shows us kind of what to do in order to overcome our 91 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,960 sin. So the next two Sundays, we're 92 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,520 going to be dividing this thing up. 93 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,920 Today we're going to talk a little bit about, like we're 94 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,280 going to talk a lot of it about putting things to death. 95 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,040 Next Sunday we're going to talk about how do we replace those 96 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,600 dead, those dead things with the things that God wants for our 97 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,800 lives. So let's look at verses 123 and 98 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,840 four and then we'll talk about it. 99 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,840 Man, this is, I find her, this is encouraging to you because as 100 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:37,840 I was studying this, I was like, man, this is awesome. 101 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:40,320 It's a great reminder to myself as well. 102 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,080 So look at verse one. Since then you have been raised 103 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,400 with Christ. Set your hearts on things above, 104 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,720 where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 105 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,400 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 106 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:59,200 For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 107 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,800 When Christ, who is your life appears, then you also will 108 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,440 appear with Him in glory. So the first two chapters of the 109 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,440 book of Colossians is pretty much theology. 110 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,520 Paul talks about the supremacy of Christ. 111 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,080 He talks about the theology behind that. 112 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,480 He goes after the isms, the false teachings. 113 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,920 But now the last two chapters, chapters 3 and 4, Paul's going 114 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,160 to give us practical things to do. 115 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,600 And what we see in the study or what we see a lot in the 116 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,680 writings of Paul is that Paul always matches up theology with 117 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,840 practice. It's never just, it's just, it's 118 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,520 never just learn this, learn this, learn this. 119 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,520 No, it's learn this and do this do and learn it all comes 120 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,640 together. So we're going to look at now is 121 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,320 the do part. We talked about the theological 122 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,080 aspects of the supremacy of Christ. 123 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,680 Now we're going to look at the why, like, what do we how do we 124 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,040 do this? So verse 1, he starts out with 125 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,360 since thought since is kind of like saying therefore he's 126 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,520 connecting with his his last thoughts. 127 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,880 Last week we talked about the reason why we can be victorious 128 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,960 is because Christ went to the cross. 129 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,840 So because Christ defeated sin, you and I now could live a life 130 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,320 over sin. So what he's reminding us now 131 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,720 all of that theology. He talked about the supremacy of 132 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,400 Christ, how the headship of Christ over the church, over all 133 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,880 authority and creation. Since you have been raised with 134 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,880 Christ, right? So we died with Jesus. 135 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,800 This is what he talks about in Galatians 220 For I've been 136 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,280 crucified with Christ, therefore I no longer live in the flesh. 137 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,560 I now live through Christ, His spirit that lives through me. 138 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,680 And Paul is saying, since we've been raised with Christ, so that 139 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,120 means that we must have died with Christ. 140 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,800 We died to our sin. We put our sin to death since 141 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,200 we've died with Christ, He says. Set your heart on things above. 142 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,680 I want you to pay attention to the wording here. 143 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,360 I died with Jesus. That means I resurrected with 144 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,680 Christ. And because I'm a follower of 145 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,720 Jesus, my heart, that means my affections, my hopes, my 146 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,640 feelings, everything. Things I am as a human being 147 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:34,000 must be about the things above. It's all about being united with 148 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,039 Christ, understanding the spiritual truth, the realities, 149 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:41,880 the blessings, the will of God. I have to be aligned with His 150 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,240 will. Why? 151 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,320 Why should I focus my heart on things above? 152 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,800 Because that's exactly where Christ is. 153 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,000 That's why Paul is just walking us through this thing. 154 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,120 He says you focus on things above. 155 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,080 That's where Christ is. He's seated at the right hand of 156 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,200 God. So Paul is saying it's not just 157 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,320 where Christ is, it's because that's where Christ reigns. 158 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,680 He's he's looking at Christ, not just his authority, but his 159 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:18,080 positioning. We focus on Jesus because Jesus 160 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,960 is reigning and ruling all of heaven. 161 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,200 That's where our hearts need to be focused. 162 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:31,360 And then because of his exaltation, we find blessing in 163 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,920 his exaltation. So because Jesus is King and 164 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,880 Lord of all, and he's been exalted for all eternity by the 165 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,440 angels, if I focus my heart on him because I'm exalting him 166 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,040 along the angels, I will find blessing in exalting Christ. 167 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:55,000 I'm going to find satisfaction and joy in my exaltation to King 168 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,120 Jesus. And Paul is saying you've got to 169 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,880 set your heart up there. You can't focus on other things. 170 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,120 But he doesn't just say heart. Look at verse 2. 171 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,920 He says set your what? Your minds, right. 172 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,400 We talked about this, the connection with the mind and the 173 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,360 heart. Set your minds on things above, 174 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:20,240 not on the earthly stuff. So we set our minds. 175 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,080 So think about this like in the Greek word, it means to, it 176 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,360 translates to think, but a better translation is inner 177 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,720 disposition. That means that my natural 178 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,760 tendency, all of my perspective should be on the things above, 179 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,320 not on earthly stuff. It should all be about Kingdom. 180 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,240 That means that if I have a compass, it's always pointing 181 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,440 up. It's always pointing to Jesus. 182 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,400 So no matter where I am in life, even if I feel lost, my compass 183 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,240 says up to heaven. That's where my perspective is, 184 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,640 that's where my natural tendency lies, that's where I'm looking, 185 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,520 my heavenly thoughts, the heavenly realities, all of that. 186 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,200 Now where is my compass, the word of God? 187 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,680 So if I'm walking through life and I'm not sure about 188 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:15,360 something, I set my mind things above, but what do I have to 189 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,040 help direct me God's word? And that's why we're so big on 190 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,240 this. Like you've got to know what God 191 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,400 says you have. You are pouring all into it. 192 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,600 You know, one of the things I love watching is, is I love 193 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,600 UFCI, love watching fights. Except the whole Gina that was 194 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,360 trash, right? I mean, we all knew she was 195 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,200 going to lose. Ronda Rousey is going to roll 196 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,640 her. But if you watch like the UFC, 197 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,200 like the the fight nights, they always give a story of the 198 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,080 fighters and every fighter before they fight in Vegas or 199 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,720 wherever it is, they do like a 13 to 15 week training camp. 200 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,640 So they leave their families and they go train, whether it's in 201 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,960 Florida, Vegas, Phoenix, all these like like big fight 202 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,720 centers. And for those 13 weeks, all 203 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,560 they're doing is that they're training three times a day, they 204 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,760 hire somebody to cook for them, they're getting the proper rest, 205 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,800 nutrition, they're they're focusing on weight cut and 206 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,600 strategy in order for them to win the fight. 207 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:22,640 What did I just described there? I just described their mindset. 208 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,280 I described that they put themselves in a position that 209 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,680 their natural tendency for those next 13 weeks is trained in 210 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,840 everything and to win the fight. It's the same thing with Paul. 211 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,880 Listen, because we said our minds with the things above our 212 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,720 natural tendency, our focus on everything heavenly, 213 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,000 strategically feeding our our minds, our hearts serving the 214 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,680 Lord and everything that is our natural tendency in order to win 215 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:54,640 the fight of sanctification and holiness. 216 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,160 So our natural inclination should be to the things of God 217 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,760 and the things of heaven, not the things of this world. 218 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,560 The things of this world don't last. 219 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,840 It's important for just a small time, but then it goes away like 220 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,000 a vapor, Like it's it, it, it relies on nothing. 221 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:19,560 You know, I start thinking about like men who won the high school 222 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:24,400 football championships in 2003. Who cares? 223 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,160 It's 2026. Life moves on, things move on. 224 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,920 It was important for that moment. 225 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,960 But in the scope of eternity, it doesn't really matter because 226 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,800 what matters is what you're doing now. 227 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,440 And it's the same thing. Earthly wisdom and the things of 228 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,800 this world focus on the now. They don't focus on the 229 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,840 eternity, and if you set your mind and your hearts on the 230 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,840 things above, that means that you are focused on the eternity. 231 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,640 You're focused on the Kingdom to come, but the Kingdom that's 232 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,080 already here as well, which is through Jesus Christ. 233 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:06,240 I've got to keep going. So Paul's going to continue to 234 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,200 say this in God for verse 3. For you died and now your life 235 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,880 is hidden in Christ. In God you died and now your 236 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,280 life is hidden in Christ. Now that term in verse three 237 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,200 could be a little heavy. How in the world is my life 238 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:22,720 hidden in Christ? What does that mean? 239 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,240 So I just want to give you 3 little concepts I'll put on the 240 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,760 screen. This is what it means for your 241 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,960 life to be hidden in Christ. And I think this is going to 242 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,600 help us understand the next couple of passages here. 243 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,200 When I say my life is hidden in Christ, or my life is hidden 244 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,560 with Christ in God, what I'm saying is that now I have 245 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,920 something in common with the Father and the Son through the 246 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:52,160 Holy Spirit. So because my mind is set on 247 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,640 things above, because my mind and my heart are set on the 248 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,000 heavenly things, I'm able to understand and comprehend what 249 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,960 God's telling me. I'm able to walk through with 250 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,640 the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I'm able to worship the Lord. 251 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,200 Listen, without the Holy Spirit, none of this stuff makes sense 252 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,720 to you. Like we're going to look crazy 253 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,760 to the outside world, but because my life is hidden with 254 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:22,080 Christ and God, I now have this common spiritual life that is 255 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,720 tied to the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit #2 the 256 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,120 world's not going to understand. Just just be of a believer's new 257 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,360 life. When you come to Jesus, people 258 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,520 look at you crazy. They're like, what's wrong with 259 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,520 him? Or they might say things like 260 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,240 they told me, oh man, he's, he's church hustling now. 261 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,680 Everybody finds God when life is hard, you'll be back. 262 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,640 People say things because they don't get it. 263 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,240 And that's that's it's OK. People are not going to 264 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,360 understand what it means to be hidden with Christ in God. 265 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,720 So don't feel bad. Actually, you should pray for 266 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,880 people. And then lastly, we are 267 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,840 eternally secure. We have an eternal security 268 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,760 knowing that this is not the end. 269 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,360 This is only the beginning here on this earth, right? 270 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:21,480 So like when I pass away on this earth, my life begins in 271 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,960 eternity where I get to spend all of eternity in the presence 272 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,800 of God. So that means that I'm protected 273 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:33,040 by all spiritual enemies and I have access to God's blessings. 274 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,680 And I'm not talking about, like, Kenneth Copeland, Rich, You know 275 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,720 what I mean? One time, you're going to get a 276 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,760 plane. The blessings. 277 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,680 Yeah. Hopefully, maybe a card. 278 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:50,720 Now the blessings are that I'm able to be forgiven for my sin. 279 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,720 The blessings are that I was angry and now I'm loving. 280 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,040 The blessings are I get to serve Jesus and experience my life 281 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,880 work through the Holy Spirit in life. 282 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,680 The blessings are that the Holy Spirit guides my life. 283 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:09,119 So if I am looking for work, if I am looking for new 284 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,359 relationships, I know that God's got me. 285 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,680 That's the blessings that he's talking about here, that the 286 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:20,720 Lord takes care of his children. So we get to experience that. 287 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,680 So if your life is hidden with God in Christ, you get all of 288 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,760 this stuff, you get this. So the reminder is that if I'm a 289 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,160 believer, then how come I don't live this way? 290 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,800 What is it about life that that I can't do this? 291 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,880 So look at verse four. Look how he finishes it. 292 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,440 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will 293 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,760 appear with him in glory. So Paul is all saying, hey, this 294 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,080 Jesus that you serve, he's going to come back again one day. 295 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,880 And if you belong to him, you go with him. 296 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,720 And it's actually glorious for believers. 297 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,920 Like we look forward to the day that Jesus returns. 298 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,080 That's why we gather together like man, that's why we work so 299 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,680 much to get people, as many people to know how to be in God 300 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,680 through Christ as ever. So that way when he comes back, 301 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,400 it's not going to be awkward for them. 302 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,280 We're going to get to go with him and he's going to be so 303 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,680 awesome. And so is So what we see here 304 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,240 as, as we get into these next verses, Paul is constantly 305 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,120 mixing, he links doctrine to practice and all his epistles. 306 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,360 So he's, he's giving everybody these points like he he's 307 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:46,880 showing everybody like, hey, remember, he's reminding us of 308 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,600 the doctrine that he talked about. 309 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,560 And now we're about to jump in to some practices. 310 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,600 And what Paul is going to show us is that as believers in 311 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:00,240 Christ, listen, you've got to cut ties with simple patterns in 312 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,960 your life. Jesus, a lot of us are like, 313 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,760 Lord, if I just pray, if I just pray, if I just pray, it's going 314 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,840 to just magically disappear like he's some genie. 315 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:14,480 And no, what, Jesus, like I've given you the power through the 316 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,680 Holy Spirit. I have to feed it sin. 317 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,720 But because there's free will, you have got to cut ties. 318 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,440 You have got to stop. You have got to be able to put 319 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,800 sin to death. Which leads to point #1 listen, 320 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,360 the goal for believers is not to be sinless. 321 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:38,160 It's to sinless. The only person that existed in 322 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,440 this world that is sinless is Jesus himself. 323 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,800 So you can't walk around trying to achieve perfection. 324 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,200 Like, like like you're. Going to just walk around being 325 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,240 busy all the time trying to be sinless and. 326 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:59,080 When you fail and when you fail, you're going to fall. 327 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,680 And when you fall, you're going to try to pick yourself up. 328 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,160 And when you try to pick yourself up, it's not going to 329 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,800 work and you're going to be frustrated and you're going to 330 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,640 get get deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper in your mess. 331 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,480 But what Paul is aiming here is that because we're followers of 332 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,320 Christ, we should want to sin less. 333 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,120 Sin should not be appealing to us because our hearts and our 334 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:29,440 eyes are fixed on the things above, not on the world. 335 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,960 So then the question is, how do we do that? 336 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,640 How do we send less? How do I cut my addiction? 337 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,520 How do I stop doing the things that I want to stop doing that I 338 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,600 promised myself that I would stop doing 150 times and for 339 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,800 some reason I continue to do it. How do we? 340 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:54,080 How do we fight this thing? And also the truth is, you know, 341 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,880 we can't, we can't talk about holiness and spiritual maturity 342 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,040 when sin runs rampant in your life. 343 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,440 And if we want to achieve things and if we want to grow in our 344 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,720 faith, and if we want to mature in our faith and we want to rely 345 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,320 on God on things, if sin is just going crazy, if it's rampant in 346 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,640 your life and you're ignoring it or it just becomes a part of 347 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,760 you, don't expect it because that has to be dealt with to 348 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,000 death by the grace of God. So how do we do it? 349 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,480 It's in verse 5. Put it to death. 350 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,960 Cut the head off, kill it. You got to put this thing to 351 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,800 death. Look what Paul says. 352 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,320 Paul says put to death. Therefore, whatever belongs to 353 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,320 your earthly nature, sexual morality, impurity, lust, evil 354 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,040 desires and greed, which is idolatry. 355 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,520 You know, Romans 812 and I'll just go and read this for us. 356 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,520 Paul also talks a lot about this in the book of Romans. 357 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,600 In Romans 6, he talks about how you shouldn't be a slave to your 358 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,640 sin. But Romans 812 says, therefore, 359 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,480 brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to the 360 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:08,360 flesh to live according to it. Verse 13 For if you live 361 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,080 according to the flesh, you will die. 362 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,680 But if you live by the Spirit, you put to death the misdeeds of 363 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:22,520 the body, and you will live. So I want to show you guys 364 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,360 there's two big spiritual words here. 365 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,240 These are big seminary words I'll put on my screen. 366 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,680 There's 2 words. There's a word called 367 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,280 mortification, and then there's a word called vivification. 368 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:41,320 And what Paul is talking about here is putting things to death, 369 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,040 which is mortification. Now God doesn't just save you. 370 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:52,560 From something God saves you to something many of us believe. 371 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,880 Like if I give my life to God that my life's going to be lame 372 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,640 and boring and I'm not going to have any fun and it's just going 373 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,840 to, it's just going to suck. It's not going to be any good. 374 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,320 But On the contrary, what God is saying is that when you put 375 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,400 earthly things to death, you're going to revive, you're going 376 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,280 to, you're going to, things are going to grow in your life in 377 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,360 their places. So you just don't put things to 378 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:19,400 death, but then God adds things to replace those things with, 379 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:21,960 and that's what a blessing shows up. 380 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,920 And many of us thinks it's opposite. 381 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,160 I put to death and it's just going to be lame. 382 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,840 I'm not going to be friends anymore. 383 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,480 I'm not going to be able to do anything. 384 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,560 And God is saying no. Like through Jesus, when you put 385 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,160 things to death that are sinful, what the Lord does is that he 386 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,720 revives other things in its place. 387 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:46,200 And I think many of us have not experienced vivification yet 388 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,160 because you have not put things to death in your life yet. 389 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,360 You're still rocking with the weeds and God's trying to give 390 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:57,120 you new grass. You can't have both. 391 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,280 And Paul is saying, listen, you got to put these things to 392 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,400 death. You need mortification. 393 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,560 We got to kill these things. And then I started reading like 394 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,440 in verse 5, you know, I always get curious, you know, with the 395 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,080 Bible, Paul gives us a lot of lists. 396 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,520 And it's not that he's just spitting things out. 397 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,200 Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit. 398 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:23,400 There's a reason for why Paul listings in the way they they in 399 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,640 the order that they go on. So look what he says in verse 5. 400 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,320 Whatever belongs to the earthly nature, so the earth. 401 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,040 Sees these things. And the earth says it's OK. 402 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,320 The world says this is part of the worldly perspective, this is 403 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,520 acceptable to the world. And Paul says you got to put 404 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,560 these things to death. And he the first thing he starts 405 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,960 starts with is sexual immorality. 406 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,160 Another Greek word would be porneia, which is where we get 407 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,120 pornography from. But really this word is 408 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,240 fornication. It translates into anything 409 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,200 sexual immoral. So what is anything sexually 410 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:04,800 immoral? What is sexual sin? 411 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,320 Well, what the Bible describes as anything outside the confines 412 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,840 of marriage. And many people think like, oh, 413 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,360 no, it's just what you watch. And no, it's like, I get to 414 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,040 have, you know, intercourse with my girlfriend. 415 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,480 Boy. Listen, anything outside of 416 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,480 God's creation of marriage is sexual immorality. 417 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,800 That's what that's what the Bible talks about. 418 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,360 But then it goes deeper. So sexual morality. 419 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:35,560 Paul is focusing on the act, but then he goes into impurity, 420 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,320 lust, and evil desires. Impurity is uncleanliness, which 421 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,800 I like. I encompass beyond the act of 422 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,720 sexual immorality, but this one encompasses evil thought and 423 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,320 intention. So even in the confines of 424 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,440 marriage, if you have uncleanliness in the marriage 425 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,560 bed, which means that you have evil thoughts or intentions, 426 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:10,560 that could be sinful too. So your heart for your spouse, 427 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:16,080 your wife must be pure. So Paul is saying it's not just 428 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,840 the ACT, but it's also the mind and the heart behind it as well. 429 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,840 And then he talks about sexual sin, but then he deviates. 430 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,120 And then he talks about evil desires and greed. 431 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,600 A better word is covetousness, wanting what people want. 432 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:43,440 So he's referring to wanting more to gain more of the things 433 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,200 that are forbidden. So if I'm living according to 434 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,800 the world's perspective and I taste. 435 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,720 Sexual morality. I see it. 436 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,800 It's in my mind, it's in my heart to do these these, these 437 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,240 horrible things that the world sees, that is. 438 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,200 Cool. What's going to happen is that 439 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,160 as you do it, you're going to want more of it. 440 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,320 It's you're going to need it stronger. 441 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,640 You're going to need it more often. 442 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,120 You're going to, you're going to need it. 443 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,400 It's going to get worse and worse and worse in order to 444 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,520 fulfill the flesh. So Paul is not just saying that. 445 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,200 For sexual morality, but we talked about evil desires and 446 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,120 passions as well. It's the things that we want 447 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:33,080 pretty much more than Jesus. So he's talking about the body 448 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,200 here, the physical side, the vice, the evil desires is the 449 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,520 mental side. Passion is what I do. 450 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,080 Evil desires is how I think about doing it. 451 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,160 And it's all going to connect. Now, why does Paul address 452 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,960 these? He talks about sexual impurity, 453 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,880 evil desires, covetousness. Like like how? 454 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,840 How is all this connecting? And it's in the last part of 455 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,000 verse 5, because it becomes idolatry. 456 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,680 It becomes an idol in our lives. When I covet something and I 457 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,360 want more and more of more of something, what I'm doing is I'm 458 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,960 putting myself 1st and above everything else. 459 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,520 I'm going after it myself, my desires and my passions. 460 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,200 I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want. 461 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,480 And what Paul is saying is no, because you died in Christ, it 462 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,000 is Christ in you that lives. So it's not what you want. 463 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,800 It's what Jesus wants through you and that difference. 464 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,480 And Paul is saying because you died with Jesus and you 465 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,080 resurrected in a new life with Christ, it's not as well. 466 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,480 This is strong teaching from Paul. 467 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,320 And anything outside of that becomes idolatry. 468 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,200 And when you have idolatry, Jesus and idols don't go well 469 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,280 together. It doesn't end well for the 470 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,520 idol. And if you are holding on to 471 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,200 that idol, it's not going to be well for you as well. 472 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,480 God is very, very specific about this. 473 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,160 So Paul has catalogued these desires. 474 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,400 That honestly feed the flesh rather than God. 475 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:21,120 He's going after what mankind wants, in essence worshipping 476 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,840 self. It's all about what I want. 477 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,320 It's what I could get it. I want the praise and God is 478 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,080 like, no, I get the praise. So it all leads to idolatry. 479 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,160 Now look, look what he does in verse six and seven. 480 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,080 Paul's going to make a sandwich here. 481 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,200 Verse 5, he's going to say, listen, you put these things to 482 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,520 death. And then in verse 8, he's going 483 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,280 to say you also need to put these things aside. 484 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,640 But in between verse five and eight, he's going to give us 2 485 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,200 reasons why we got to do this. So look at reason number one. 486 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,480 Reason number one is because sin brings God's wrath and judgement 487 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:06,320 on your life. Hold on a second, Rick is but 488 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,720 isn't God love? How you talking about wrath? 489 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,000 And I would make the argument that the stronger the wrath, the 490 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,240 stronger the love. Now listen, I I know I've used 491 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,600 this example before, but I'm I'm a pretty laid back individual. 492 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,160 I'm a peacekeeper. I don't want no problems, but if 493 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:35,040 anybody but but the day that Elena was born and they put that 494 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:41,840 little baby in my arms, the the love in my heart exploded And 495 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,320 parents, I, I think you could relate to me the love that I 496 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,360 felt for the first time in my life when I had that little baby 497 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,880 in my arms that I'd be like, I will kill any fool that does 498 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,440 anything to you. Like I will do enough to spend 499 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,200 about a year in jail and go start a prison ministry right 500 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:03,720 now. I'm so good. 501 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:11,280 So what happened? The love in my heart exploded 502 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,320 when I held my daughter for the first time. 503 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,560 And because the love in my heart exploded, the wrath also grew 504 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,720 because the same thing with God. Listen, God loves so much. 505 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,440 He loves you so much that He gave his own wine. 506 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,360 That whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal 507 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,160 life. Why is God's wrath through sin 508 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,000 so serious? Because his love is serious, 509 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,640 that's why. And when you sin, you are 510 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,120 bringing judgement of God on top of your life. 511 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,040 Yes, you're covered by his grace. 512 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,800 You're covered. Remember, we, we are saved by 513 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,960 the penalty of sin, but there's consequences of sin as well that 514 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,280 you do in verse 6 is because of these, the wrath of God is 515 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,720 coming. Take it serious. 516 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,880 Don't be sons of disobedience. Take sin serious. 517 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,120 And then he gives us reason number two reason #2 is that 518 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,000 this is part of a believer's past. 519 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,360 Guys. When you were forgiven of your 520 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,520 sin, God had forgiven you already. 521 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,320 That means that you're that's in the past. 522 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,840 Verse 7 says you used to walk in these ways. 523 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,280 In the life you want lived, I don't know anybody whose life 524 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,000 was made rich and says, you know what, I want to go back to 525 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,240 slumming it. And they purposely gave 526 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,160 everything up to go back to slumming it. 527 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,520 That is not what Paul is saying here. 528 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:49,040 You are a new creation. You don't go back to being old 529 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,880 creation. Jesus talks about this. 530 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,400 You don't put new wine in old wineskins, Paul is. 531 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,880 You don't put new fabric on old fabric. 532 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,400 It's going to tear it up. And what Paul is saying is 533 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,440 because you have been forgiven, it's done already. 534 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,520 You don't keep going back to the past hoping to relive the past. 535 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,600 Now I know some of us tend to do this where we love to focus like 536 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,840 man bro before Jesus do ABCDE and I want to tell you 537 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,840 everything about it. Something like you're bragging 538 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,400 about it. I don't care. 539 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,920 Like man, God saved you from that. 540 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,560 Use it as a testimony. Praise the Lord man. 541 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,280 Use that story to connect people to Jesus. 542 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,080 But don't just hang in there for it. 543 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,520 You don't put hand, you don't put hubcaps on a Lambo. 544 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,040 I'm not going to put spinner hub caps on my M on an M5. 545 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,520 Nobody looks at a car. Like that and be like, you know 546 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,360 what I need to go do bro, I'm going to go to Walmart. 547 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,000 They got the spinner hub caps. No, you don't do that. 548 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,440 Why? Because that's a new work. 549 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,680 You don't tie those old things with the new things. 550 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,719 It ruins it. So sin is part of the believers 551 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,440 past guys, this part of your past. 552 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,360 I think some of us need to move on from our past and start 553 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,040 looking toward the future that God has for you because he has 554 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,080 some amazing things that he wants to do to death. 555 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,120 Oh, we got to move on. Look at verse 8. 556 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,719 So he Paul's making the sandwich, he says put to death 557 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,560 and then he pretty much explains the things that please and 558 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,239 gratify the flesh that will become idolatry. 559 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,639 And the reason why you do it is because like sin brings God's 560 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:40,239 wrath and judgement, and also sin is in the past. 561 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,800 But then look at verse 8, He goes, but now you must also rid 562 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,679 yourselves. So he says put to death. 563 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,080 So I, I want you to pay attention how he's saying this 564 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,880 put to death the things that gratify the flesh and lead to 565 00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:00,640 idolatry, because that is the Genesis, that is the basics of 566 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,360 opening the door to other sin in your life. 567 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,200 So if you could fight that, if you put that to death, then 568 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,160 you're going to be able to rid yourselves of some other things. 569 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,960 The word Ridge yourself or the word rid means to like take off 570 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,800 or remove dirty clothes after a long day work. 571 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,640 So you just, you want to get rid of that and put some fresh 572 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:26,160 clothes on old garments. You don't want to just keep the 573 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,760 old filthy rags on your body. You want to remove them. 574 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,760 That's what Paul's saying. So what does he say? 575 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:36,120 You Ridge yourself of such things as anger, rage, malice, 576 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,080 slander, filthy language from your lips. 577 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,560 One stacks on top of the other. Anger lingers in the heart. 578 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,560 It is a bitter pill that has been planted inside of a It 579 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:52,360 creates and lashes out. So when you do anger, then it 580 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,480 it, it creates rage. So you're angry and now you act 581 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,960 on it. That's rage. 582 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,800 But then it goes to malice. Malice is intent. 583 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,560 I want to do something bad to you. 584 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,040 But then it goes to slander and in filthy language. 585 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,680 Why does Paul mention this? Because the Bible says that 586 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,840 whatever comes out of your lips, out of your mouth, is inside of 587 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:18,160 your heart, which is point #2 you need to watch if you really 588 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,240 want to know, if you really want to know what somebody's about. 589 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,040 You're going to put point #2 up there if you really want to know 590 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,040 what somebody's about. Just just look at, look what 591 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,600 they say, whatever they say reflects their heart. 592 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,200 If somebody specifically talks about something over and over 593 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,800 and over again, guess what's in their heart. 594 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,280 So if you really want to see people for who they are, listen, 595 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,760 right? Because that's what's deep down 596 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,560 inside of it. And then in verse 9, Paul goes 597 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,760 ahead and he tells us. And I think this is really 598 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,400 interesting. Because he says, put this to 599 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,120 death, get rid of this. But look how he ends it in verse 600 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,720 9. Do not lie to each other. 601 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,520 I'm like, why would you end with lying out of all those things? 602 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,840 Don't rage, don't be angry, don't hey, and and finally stop 603 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,120 lying to one another. Verse 9. 604 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,720 I just thought that was so interesting. 605 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,160 Let's talk about this a little bit because let's just read 606 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,120 verse 9. Do not lie to each other since 607 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,920 you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put 608 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,880 on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the 609 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,920 image of its creator. Why does Paul, why does Paul 610 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,360 hang his hat on that whole thing? 611 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,120 Don't lie. Don't lie to you all. 612 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,120 Start thinking about if you even if if somebody were to do a 613 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:47,040 study on lying and you look at the book of Genesis, think about 614 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,600 like all the times you've seen a lie. 615 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,240 So it's not going to be on the screen. 616 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,440 But I just want to give you like a little like little snippet 617 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,280 because Paul warns against lying. 618 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,360 Satan lied to Adam and Eve. Cain lied to God after murdering 619 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,360 Abel. Abraham lied claiming Sarah was 620 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,640 his sister instead of his wife. Sarah lied to the three angelic 621 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,920 visitors and king girl girl. Isaac lied about denying that 622 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,080 Rebecca was his wife. Rebecca and Jacob, like in their 623 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,480 lied about their conspiracy to defraud Ethan, his birthright. 624 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,080 The the brothers lied about killing Joseph. 625 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,600 Potiphar's wife lied about Joseph. 626 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,280 Guys, that is just barely in Genesis. 627 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:34,520 Lying does not bring anything positive. 628 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,240 Lying. Actually. 629 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,040 This is going to be the deeper here, but when you look at 630 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,040 scripture, lying characterizes Satan. 631 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:49,120 The Bible calls Satan the father of lies, the deceiver, John 844 632 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:55,400 And when believers lie, they're imitating Satan more than 633 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,160 they're imitating their heavenly father. 634 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:03,400 And I think that's why Paul goes in on lying so much. 635 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,920 Christians of all people should be people of truth and telling 636 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:14,200 the truth and love. We should not lie about things, 637 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,080 whether it's taxes or whether it's to save your job or to 638 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,320 break up with somebody. It's me, girl, ain't you? 639 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,960 That's a lie, right? So can't do that. 640 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:32,600 No, it's you. But but lying is not from God. 641 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,840 And I think Paul is really just honing in on that. 642 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,320 And then last verse here. Here there is no Jew or Gentile, 643 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:48,520 circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or 644 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,080 free. But Christ is all and is all. 645 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,800 There is no separation when it comes to knowing Jesus. 646 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:02,280 You see what religion is that? Religion creates barriers and it 647 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,760 separates people. If you look at the acidic Jews, 648 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,040 even today, Jews. Believe that they're chosen and 649 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:14,080 everybody else is not. I would even say the Hebrew 650 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,800 Israelites believe that if you're not black or brown, then 651 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,880 you're not chosen by God. Jehovah Witnesses believe that 652 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,920 they're part of the 144,000. They're chosen. 653 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,480 If you're not part of that group, we can't rock with you. 654 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,520 Religion is constantly dividing people. 655 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,800 Religion is putting a gap between people and God. 656 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,800 It's constantly saying that. And what Paul is saying is 657 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,240 through Christ, because of Jesus, there is no such thing as 658 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,000 division. It's all unified now. 659 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:53,160 It's Jew and Gentile, it's uncircumcised and circumcised, 660 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:58,080 it's barbarian and Cynthia. Like all of these are polarized 661 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,600 sections. These are all polarizing. 662 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,160 It's free and slave. Everybody's in this thing 663 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,360 together, and Jesus is the only reason why. 664 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:14,040 It's not about religion, it's not about traditionalism. 665 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:19,040 It's all about come together in Christ because Christ is the one 666 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,920 who has eliminated the power of sin. 667 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,920 And if you give your life to Jesus, all that matter, all that 668 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,840 matters is Jesus. That's what we should focus on, 669 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,360 and I know that there's fights over music and all that stuff. 670 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,520 That's fine. Deck it out. 671 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,120 Who cares? It's not going to happen here 672 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:46,400 because Jesus is our center. He's the one who we want to. 673 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,240 So last two things and then we'll be done. 674 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,000 I got 5 minutes. Here we go, last two things. 675 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,040 How do I fight sin? How do I fight? 676 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,200 How am I victorious over my struggle with sin? 677 00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,640 So two things and we'll be out of here. 678 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:05,000 Number one, you starve it. You starve it because whatever 679 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,960 you feed grows. If I'm struggling with my sin, 680 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,560 if I'm struggling with lust, if I have a problem fighting 681 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,440 pornography, I'm not going to go to a restaurant where the 682 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,560 waitresses are dressed halfway. I'm not going to watch certain 683 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,400 things. I'm not going to watch any of 684 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,640 this stuff that's going to feed my sin and the things that I'm 685 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,080 struggling with. If I'm struggling with alcohol 686 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,840 addiction, I'm not going to go to a bar to go eat lunch. 687 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,280 You can make fun of me all you want to. 688 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,640 Too bad. The things that I'm struggling 689 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,440 with, if I continually feed it, it's going to continually grow 690 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,480 and listen. And then I'm going to be up 691 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,440 here, fight, like crying and be this thing, Take it away from 692 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,160 me. Yeah, but what are you doing? 693 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:59,280 You've got to fight this thing. And the way that you fight it is 694 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,480 that you starve it. You know, I was reading a story 695 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:10,040 on in the Arctic, the way that they would kill wolves because, 696 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,520 you know, wolves are just dangerous. 697 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,960 And in their new sense, they're super strong. 698 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,840 So it's not like you just shoot it at night like they're hard to 699 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,640 see. So what the? 700 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,160 Survivalist wrote was that what he would do is that he would 701 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,280 take his knife and he would dip it in blood and then he would 702 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,520 put it outside and then it would freeze. 703 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,920 And what wolves would do is that wolves would go and they would 704 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,160 smell the blood and they will start licking the knife. 705 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,800 And as it began to melt, they kept licking the knife, and it 706 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,040 would get more and more intense to the point where they couldn't 707 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,440 tell whether it was their blood or the blood that they were 708 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,960 licking. To the point where their tongues 709 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,240 would be so cut that they would not be able to eat. 710 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,160 To the point where they would starve and die. 711 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,320 And listen for us. When it comes to sin, you've got 712 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,120 to starve it. And the way that you starve it 713 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,600 is that you do not feed it. And the way that you do not feed 714 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,120 it, I think sometimes it's you have to cut it off and you put 715 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,120 it to death and that thing's going to keep coming and keep 716 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,640 cutting. But because you have put some 717 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,480 boundaries and parameters or place for your life is going to 718 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,760 keep hitting it to the point where it can't feed anymore and 719 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,360 it's going to eventually die. You got to starve it. 720 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,440 So you cannot feed anger or resentment. 721 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,240 You can't cater to sexual lust or covetousness. 722 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,720 You you can't keep doing that. And then the last thing is, how 723 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,120 do I kill this? How do I defeat it? 724 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,960 By crowding it out with positive graces. 725 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,440 You crowded out, you push that thing out. 726 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,320 How do I push that thing out, man? 727 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,400 And and with this all in Texas Wesley and two of the 728 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,720 quarterbacks for Texas Wesley and serve on the board for 729 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:06,720 spiritual life. And as we were having a meeting, 730 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:12,240 I was talking to them and I was asking them about the rule where 731 00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:15,960 like the quarterback, you know, when they do like snap and then 732 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,160 people push them through like it's a big thing in the NFL 733 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,760 right now. And one of the quarterbacks, he 734 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,760 goes, man, Ricky, that's like my favorite play. 735 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,200 And I was like, what do you mean? 736 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,760 And he goes, he goes whenever it's like fourth and one or half 737 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,720 a yard, he goes, all I got to do is snap the ball. 738 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,240 I hold on to it, just make sure I don't fumble it. 739 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,400 And everybody behind me just pushes me forward. 740 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,160 And he goes even times like I just want to laugh. 741 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,120 How fun it is. It's like a mosh pit. 742 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,440 So what they do is that they run a wishbone. 743 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,400 So what he says is like they get on the line and he goes. 744 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:56,480 So the guards and the tackles, he's like they're in the 745 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,080 trenches. So their job, the the guards job 746 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,560 is just to eat up the tackles. And usually they cut their legs 747 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,160 from underneath them. They just create a big pile or 748 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,680 they they pretty much do some, some stunts. 749 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,120 So the goal is they have to get by the linebacker. 750 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,920 So the linebacker shoots the gap because it's goal line. 751 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,400 The backers shoot the gap. So it is the backer versus the 752 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:28,160 quarterback versus the full back versus the running back. 753 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:34,240 So he says all they have to do, all he has to do is push hard 754 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:39,640 enough to get the linebacker out of the way and all he has to do 755 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,880 is hold on to that ball. So he says Hut boom, he takes a 756 00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,560 step forward. It's a massive collision. 757 00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,480 Linebacker comes and hits them. But then I got two big old boys 758 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,320 that are going to push me over that goal line. 759 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,040 You guys listen to me when it comes to sin, all you got to do, 760 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:05,280 you hold on to that ball and you fill your life with some some of 761 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:09,760 those, those those graces that God has been telling us about 762 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,000 those those positive granier points. 763 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:17,720 You hold on and those things in your life are going to push you 764 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:20,720 over and through that sin, it's going to get it out of the way 765 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:22,440 for you. What are you talking about, 766 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:28,280 Rick? Colossians 316. 767 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,960 And this will be more next week. Whatever is honorable, whatever 768 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,600 is true, whatever is right, whatever is pure, lovely, 769 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,640 excellent. Anything worth of praise, let 770 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,720 your mind dwell on these things. Listen, when your mind dwells on 771 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:42,800 those things, it's going to push sin out. 772 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,280 Sin is going to come to hit you in the face to stop you from 773 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,600 getting to God. But those things are going to 774 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:55,240 push it through and it's going to push it out of the way, and 775 00:47:55,240 --> 00:48:00,440 you're going to be able to successfully enter into a life 776 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,000 where you walk with God free from. 777 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,400 Sin, starve it, push it out of the way. 778 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,720 Some of us are struggling with this because you're like man 779 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:10,840 Rick, you don't know what it means. 780 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,200 Listen, whenever you give your life to Christ and when you set 781 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,320 your things on the your minds and things above, people are 782 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,120 going to start falling out of your life. 783 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,280 They're going to get pushed out. Problems are going to start 784 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,000 falling out of your life. They're going to get pushed out. 785 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,800 Habits are going to get pushed out. 786 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,800 Things that are behaviors are going to get pushed out. 787 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,080 You're going to have better clarity about things. 788 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:36,520 And there's things that are holding you back that are going 789 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,080 to get pushed out and God's going to push you through. 790 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,600 Hold on. Just hold on to him and let Him 791 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,520 do it. But you got to be able to put 792 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,040 those things to death. Pray for us. 793 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,600 So Jesus, we love you and we thank you for all that you do. 794 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,280 Lord, help us to fight our sins.