1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,720 This morning we're actually going to be reading from Genesis 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,200 25. If you do not have a Bible, 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,600 there's a Bible under your chair, so I invite you to grab 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,920 that now. And our reading will actually be 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:26,740 on page 18 and on page 20, page 18 and page 20 in Genesis 6 00:00:26,980 --> 00:00:36,880 chapter 25 verse 27, it reads, When the boys grew up, Esau was 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,800 a skilled hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet 8 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,080 man dwelling in tents. Isaac loved Esau because he ate 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,680 of his game, but Rebecca loved Jacob. 10 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,280 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not 11 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,160 see, he called Esau his older son, and said to him, My son, 12 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,520 and he answered, Here I am. He said, Behold, I am old, I do 13 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,120 not know the day of my death. Now then, take your weapons, 14 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,600 your quiver in your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game 15 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,440 for me, and prepare for me delicious food such as I love, 16 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,480 and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you 17 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,520 before I die. This is the word of the Lord. 18 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,240 What's going on Port City family and friends. 19 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,640 How are we doing good. Well, my name is Tanner and 20 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,560 y'all Port City is the type church where we just want 21 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,960 everybody to say I got your back to somebody else, you know like 22 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:43,520 you were not made to do life alone. 23 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:44,680 And we're the we're the type church. 24 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,040 We just want to have each other's back. 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:52,400 You know life is hard, sends the enemy God is good and we just 26 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,160 want to have each other's back. Nobody's perfect here. 27 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,240 We're just stumbling for it. But if you're looking for a 28 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,920 place where somebody is going to look not just for their own 29 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,040 back, but watch your back, we got a place for you here. 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,720 So what I want to do is I want to pray one more time for a time 31 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,680 and God's word. And then we're going to see some 32 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,800 of why we need to have each other's back here today. 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,400 OK, so let's, let's pray our our Father, we are so grateful that 34 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,080 you are so good and that you, God, chase us down when we don't 35 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,600 want you. We chase you chase us down when 36 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,320 we think we don't need you. And then you bring us in the 37 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,520 community together and you teach us how to care for one another. 38 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,520 Before all we cared about was ourselves and getting what we 39 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,560 wanted. And now you've opened our eyes 40 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,000 to care for others. So God help us have each other's 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,920 back. And if there are people here who 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:41,960 who need that type of community, God, would you lead them to see 43 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,120 your goodness and and take that step. 44 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,720 We love you. Pray in Jesus name, Amen. 45 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,480 Y'all have y'all seen these these videos of the dads that 46 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,240 show up to their adult kids house like inspecting 47 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,040 everything. Y'all seen this like looking at 48 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,600 the just just looking around. They get out the car and they're 49 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,200 like gutters look full, you know, like and it's I love these 50 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,440 videos a because they're so true. 51 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,040 Like everybody's got that that parental figure, older person. 52 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,200 There's something in the dad mode that activates where you 53 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:16,120 just see what things could be if you don't deal with them, you 54 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,840 know, they're just, they're just pointing out everything. 55 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,920 I turned the faucet off after I went to the bathroom in there. 56 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:21,400 It took 2 seconds to stop dripping. 57 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,240 And like behind that look and that usually it's the oldest kid 58 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,880 is just like dad, please stop. Like please just just sit down. 59 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:37,640 Just just enjoy your time here. But y'all, there is a vigilance 60 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,280 that experience brings, is there not? 61 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,760 That dad knows if you don't handle that drip, that's going 62 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,920 to be $400.00 more a year in water. 63 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,720 You know, I have been under the crawl space because I didn't 64 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,360 clean my gutters and I've had to redo everything down there. 65 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,240 So there's something about that dad mode vigilance that knows in 66 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,120 the home ownership game is not just a drip on a dress that's 67 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,040 going to ruin your house. That's what homeowners know, 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,040 right? And y'all in a, in a, in a more 69 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,560 serious way, what we're going to see in today's text is like 70 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,280 there is no sin. That is just a small in 71 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,240 isolation. Don't impact nothing Sin. 72 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,000 Y'all sin is the leaking, dripping thing hitting your 73 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,440 floor that you're ignoring that is going to burn your house down 74 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,160 like it's all connected and it's all going to fall apart. 75 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,080 OK? That's the reality of what the 76 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,640 Bible teaches. That's what we're going to see 77 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,520 in Isaac's story, who is every bit a scoundrel as his dad was, 78 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,680 but in a different way. So we're going to look at sin, 79 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,800 then we're going to look at Grace, and then we're going to 80 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,280 have two resolutions of fighting sin. 81 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:42,320 That is our plan. If you are ready, let me hear 82 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,120 you say I'm ready, OK? I want to make sure we 83 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,280 understand the story first of where we're, we're jumping in on 84 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:52,920 Isaac's story first. OK, So Isaac marries Rebecca at 85 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,040 the age of 40. OK, Genesis chapter 24, the 86 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,400 Bible says that she is barren, OK? 87 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,560 And then he prays for her to get pregnant. 88 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,080 And at the age of 60, they they have kids. 89 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,880 OK, Now it's a pretty rough pregnancy. 90 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,800 And, and basically Rebecca cries out to the Lord and says, what 91 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,520 is going on here? And God says 2 nations are in 92 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,080 you like you're having twins, OK. 93 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,840 And it's a it's a wrestling match. 94 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,360 And this statement gets made that the older will serve the 95 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,600 younger. And in a couple of weeks we'll 96 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,840 we'll dive into what that means. And that's not today's sermon, 97 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,760 OK? But this statement gets made 98 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,640 that unconventionally it for that time period, the older who 99 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,200 is the first born going to get everything. 100 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,680 That will not be the case. The older will serve the 101 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,280 younger. So God is doing something 102 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,200 different here. OK, Now the twins get born, all 103 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,640 right, The the next thing that we read about them after the 104 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,040 birth is one of the things we read today, so I'm going to read 105 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,120 it again. OK, so it's in chapter 25, 106 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,600 verses 27 and 28. That's what the Bible said. 107 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,120 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter. 108 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,360 And Esau's the older, OK? So remember, the older will 109 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,080 serve the younger. God himself told his family 110 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,560 that. OK, a man of the field. 111 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,240 While Jacob was a quiet man dwelling in tents, Isaac loved 112 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,800 Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebecca loved Jacob. 113 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,240 Let's just be clear, this is preferential treatment baked 114 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,160 into the marriage over their two kids from the junk. 115 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,360 Are y'all with me? OK, that's just a passing 116 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,800 statement describing reality. All right now, the next scene in 117 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,920 their life, which we're not going to talk about right now, 118 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,960 will return to in our future series. 119 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,920 Here with Saints and Scoundrels is the the selling of the 120 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,880 Birthright story where basically Esau is hungry, comes in from 121 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,920 work and says I need some food. And Jacob, what you'll notice is 122 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,760 he's a bit of a trickster and Esau's an idiot. 123 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,040 And so those two seem to go together that Esau was like 124 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,760 being the oldest, the covenant promises of Yahweh mean nothing 125 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,240 to me. And then Jacob is ready to take 126 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,480 advantage of his weakness. So there's this trickster 127 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,560 dynamic at play. But we also have to that Esau 128 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,760 was a fool, right? So both are true. 129 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,200 So Esau says, what good is the birthright to me? 130 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,600 I'm about to die of starvation, let me get some food. 131 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,000 And he goes, here's my birthright and gives it to him. 132 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:24,080 OK, now the next scene that you need to know about in this Esau, 133 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,040 Jacob, mom, dad dynamic comes at the end of chapter 26. 134 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,240 Again, I'm not going to read it, but this is just what the Bible 135 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,040 or I'm not. I'm not going to have you go 136 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,440 there, but this is what the Bible says. 137 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,440 When Esau was 40 years old, he took Judith, the daughter of 138 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,320 Birai the Hittite to be his wife and base Math the daughter of 139 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,360 Eli the Hittite and they made life bitter for Isaac and 140 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,120 Rebecca. What that means is Isaac, who is 141 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,120 the son of Abraham, who Abraham took his son, having the right 142 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,040 wife from his familial background so seriously that 143 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,600 it's like a whole chapter of the Long Bite. 144 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,120 We just did a whole sermon on that. 145 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:04,160 The oldest of Isaac so views God's covenant is not that 146 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,720 serious and I don't care about it and I'm not going to take it 147 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,760 that serious. I'm gonna I'm a marry not one 148 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,400 foreign wife, but two. OK, so now you're Jacob. 149 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,360 You prefer this son. You've allowed that to fester in 150 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,880 your marriage. That son has sold his birthright 151 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,480 and now marry 2 foreign women. OK, now go to chapter 27 verses 152 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:27,760 one through 4. When Isaac was old and his eyes 153 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,640 were dimmed so that he could not see, he called Esau his older 154 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,440 son, And he said to him, My son. And he answered, Here I am. 155 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,080 He said, Behold, I am old, I do not know the day of my death. 156 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,200 Now then take your weapons, your quiver and your bow and go out 157 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,880 to the field and hunt game for me and prepare for me delicious 158 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,560 foods such as I love and bring it to me so that I may eat, so 159 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,120 that my soul may bless you before I die. 160 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:55,280 Y'all. We will return to this story. 161 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,000 It's a massive story in the Bible. 162 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,240 We'll return to it from Jacob's perspective in the future. 163 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,280 And, and there's a lot of dynamics here, but I think what 164 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,560 gets missed a lot when we talk about Esau being a fool and 165 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:09,560 Jacob being a trickster is that Isaac was a passive terrible 166 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,800 leader, yo. He festered an environment in 167 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,920 his family after being told by God himself how it should go. 168 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,440 He didn't connect any dots when his son saw the birthright. 169 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,440 He doesn't connect any dots when he takes 2 foreign wives he 170 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,840 doesn't like have a family meeting of hey we should stop 171 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,640 preferring one son over the other wife. 172 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,480 Like this is not what Yahweh would want. 173 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,080 And then on his deathbed he's ready to make a blessing, not 174 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,400 based upon what God had said, but based on his stomach. 175 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,760 And not only that, scholars tell us that in this time period, the 176 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,440 way that a blessing was supposed to go is get the whole crew 177 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,680 together, all the kids think Genesis 49 when Jacob does it, 178 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:53,080 he brings everybody together and puts hands on all of them. 179 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:59,080 So what Isaac does is he calls a secret meeting and he says, let 180 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,520 me get Esau and let me get the blessing that I want to give you 181 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,160 based on the food I want to eat from you and doesn't let Rebecca 182 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,280 and Jacob be present. Now, simultaneously, Jacob and 183 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,080 Rebecca know what they doing, OK? 184 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,360 And we can talk about the trickster dynamic and God is 185 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,920 using everybody's weakness to weave his own story, and we can 186 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,400 get to how redemptive God is. But before we do that, we just 187 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,440 have to recognize that Isaac blew it. 188 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,280 He just blew it. He was passive. 189 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,440 He was not a leader. He was afraid. 190 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,200 He was driven by preference. And you know, what this shows us 191 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,000 is that sin comes in many forms, but it always leads to 192 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,840 destruction. The Bible says that Esau's 193 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,600 marrying of those two women made life bitter for Isaac and 194 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,480 Rebecca. Isn't it ironic? 195 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,960 He preferred him, and then he made his life bitter through who 196 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,680 he married, right? Eventually, after the Jacob and 197 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,920 Esau story in chapter 27, Rebecca never gets to see Jacob 198 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,600 again because of this. He has this. 199 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,920 They have to send him away because Esau is going to kill 200 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,840 him. There's such strife and tension, 201 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,360 right? So y'all, sin comes in many 202 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,640 forms, but it always leads to destruction. 203 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,040 Passivity can lead to just as much destruction as outright 204 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,680 control and anger. And some of the sins that get a 205 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:19,000 little more Showtime, if you will, of the the rage and 206 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,640 alcoholism and some of these things which are awful sins. 207 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,960 But so is passivity. So is a lack of leadership, 208 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,720 fear, not trusting God and letting your preferences drive 209 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,560 thing, not God's promises. OK, so now that we understand 210 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,600 what's at play, I want to talk about sin and then let's talk 211 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,320 about grace. Y'all ready? 212 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,560 Hey, number one, sin has deep roots. 213 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,080 Yeah. What exactly is sin? 214 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:51,200 Sin is anything we say, think or do that is it not in alignment 215 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,040 with who God is and what he says? 216 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,120 It's anything that is not in alignment with who God is and 217 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,880 what he says. And before you ever sin, we have 218 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:03,960 been born into having a sin nature. 219 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,200 We are falling into sin. We have a sinful nature. 220 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,640 So a lot of times we think an action is sinful, which it is. 221 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,080 But before you sin, you are a Sinner sinners sin. 222 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,520 Does that make sense? Like you sin because you are 223 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,080 sinful. And that's, that's kind of what 224 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,600 it means to have a sin nature at its core in the, the, the 225 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,600 original sin of Adam and Eve, what they did is Eve heard from 226 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,800 the deceptive serpent. So there's a deceptive nature 227 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,840 baked into what sin is, which we'll talk about a lot. 228 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,680 But she thought, if I eat this, I will be made like God. 229 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:43,080 The Bible says when she saw that it was good to the eyes that it 230 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,040 would taste good, it would make her like God, She took of it and 231 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,960 she ate it and she gave some to Adam and he ate it. 232 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,200 So at its core, sin is saying, I can run my life. 233 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,760 I got it do not need God is to turn our back on God and to say 234 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,720 I got this it's to say I'm in charge and we'll even let this 235 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,880 is what's so ironic is the sinners in the Bible from the 236 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,680 first page. If you go read if you've never 237 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:09,880 read the story of Cain and Abel. We talk about it a lot here 238 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,400 because it's kind of like, if you're wondering what this whole 239 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,520 Sin Project is going to look like after Adam and Eve, the 240 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,000 first story should give you a good clue. 241 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,160 It's got murder. OK, lying and murder. 242 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,240 But the great irony is that the the first person to talk to God 243 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,400 after the garden isn't able. It's Cain. 244 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,800 So it shows that we can keep God in the car, but we're driving 245 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,880 it. Does that make sense? 246 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,160 Do y'all remember your driver's Ed days? 247 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,360 Anybody. Oh my goodness. 248 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,680 You remember they had the brake pedal but they have no control. 249 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,680 Like every time I see those drivers Ed cars now, I feel for 250 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,560 those people. I'm like they got in a car with 251 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:50,160 me, they weren't getting paid. It took money to get somebody to 252 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,880 get in the car with me when I was 1516 years old. 253 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,320 Like in the reality is they know how vulnerable they are. 254 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,840 That's why we're paying them. OK y'all sin is driving the car 255 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,640 you are born where sins driving it. 256 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,440 So even if you think I want to be a good person and I want to 257 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,960 follow rules, you're born into sin. 258 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,560 Means you're driving the car, you're in charge. 259 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,800 So is liking food a sin? Isaac liked his son's food. 260 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,880 Is that a sin? No, but a sinful web was born in 261 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,160 his life where his preference drove his life. 262 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,960 So at what moment did it become the sin? 263 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,960 I don't know when it led him to make decisions based on what his 264 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,640 stomach wanted and not what God said. 265 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,560 That's the reality. His stomach and preferences 266 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,400 drove his life, not what God said. 267 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,600 Which shows that sin is deceptive. 268 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,600 It wants you to think whatever you need to think to keep you 269 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,080 driving. Does that make sense? 270 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,520 Like God, God told Cain, be careful, Sin's desire is to 271 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,080 destroy you, to rule over you. Genesis chapter 4. 272 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,960 So sin isn't going to like sin wants you to play stupid. 273 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:06,360 Y'all know what playing stupid is right? 274 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,400 It's where you act like something isn't rooted in a real 275 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:10,480 motive. You're like, oh, just like the 276 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,560 food more, right? Isaac could have just said 277 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,800 what's the big deal? I just like it's food more. 278 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,880 That's not a sin. You can even leverage by Belize 279 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,120 to justify what you doing. You playing stupid. 280 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,840 And you know who's really good at calling adults I'm playing 281 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,600 stupid kids y'all? I was a teacher. 282 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,520 They know when you got favorites. 283 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,760 I called that dude my guy day 2 and I've never called anybody 284 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:36,960 else my guy. Guess what? 285 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,600 They going to tell you that's your favorite student? 286 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,960 What you mean you called him my guy? 287 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,920 And I'm like in my head, I'm like his show is his show is I 288 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:46,760 love that dude. You're right, my girl. 289 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,200 And also my kids like they know I love coffee and they know the 290 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,760 routes that are fastest to get home and they know when I go a 291 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,320 different way and one of them will say, why are you going that 292 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,920 way, daddy? And another one will go because 293 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:01,680 he want coffee. And they're right. 294 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,560 They're right. Our stomachs Dr. our lives a lot 295 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,040 more than we want to admit. Y'all just the bank account 296 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,920 shows it. It ain't a trick, it ain't a 297 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,640 secret. But the point is, we can play 298 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,520 stupid. But we know I drove that way 299 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,400 because I want some coffee. They know don't play stupid. 300 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,960 But what Sin wants to do is make you think. 301 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,200 That's an isolated decision, not rooted in depths of preference 302 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,400 and desire, y'all? Sin is never just a trivial 303 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:35,280 thing, it's always deeply rooted decision based. 304 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,960 You're driving the car. So poor city church. 305 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:44,280 Where are we justifying, minimizing and downplaying the 306 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,080 effect that the role that sin is playing in our life? 307 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:54,280 Where are we playing stupid #2 Sin has wide effects. 308 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,120 So Isaac prefers Esau and it has devastating consequences in 309 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,720 their family functionality, right? 310 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,119 You would think that it just ends there, but it doesn't. 311 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,720 In Genesis chapter 37. You could turn there if you 312 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,800 want. Somebody else in this family 313 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,560 does some preferring. OK, we're going to start in 314 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,680 verse 2. These are the generations of 315 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,960 Jacob. Who is the one that was not 316 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,839 preferred? Joseph, being 17 years old, was 317 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:29,360 pastoring the flock with his brothers. 318 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:32,240 He was a boy with the sons of Bilhal and Zilpha, his father's 319 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,720 wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 320 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,880 Now Israel, that is, Jacob, loved Joseph more than any of 321 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,840 his other sons because he was the son of his old age and he 322 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,200 made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that 323 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,840 their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him 324 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,520 and could not speak peacefully to him. 325 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,200 Wouldn't you think the sun, not preferred, would never do some 326 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,000 preferring? Wouldn't you think he would know 327 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,360 the devastating consequences preferring can have in 328 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:04,600 somebody's heart? But y'all, as is so often the 329 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,360 case, patterns repeat themselves, right? 330 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,600 How many of us have devastating legacies? 331 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,760 And many times we think we are stopping generations of things, 332 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,160 and even our vows of how it won't play out plays a role in 333 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,560 some other things that are going to play out. 334 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:24,880 That's what sin does. So yes, God is Redeemer. 335 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,440 By the way, God uses the brothers hatred of Joseph to 336 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,160 bring about the salvation of Egypt. 337 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,880 He he uses Esau and Jacob's dynamic to do some amazing 338 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:35,520 things. That's a great sermon. 339 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,400 We're going to talk about it, but just think about the 340 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:43,320 consequences of our sin. Y'all y'all Joseph's brothers 341 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,520 wanted to kill him, lie about it to their dad and hit it for 342 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,520 years and God had to do a radical intervention to get them 343 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:56,120 to confess it to anybody. The Hittite wives make it life 344 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,840 miserable on Rebecca and Isaac Esau hating his brother Jacob 345 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,280 running for years. Rebecca never gets to see her 346 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,240 son again, y'all? Sin is never in isolation and it 347 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,840 always has more of an impact than we want to admit it does. 348 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,880 And when you think you're driving the car, you think you 349 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,400 impact what it does, but you don't. 350 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,800 It's a lie that you're in charge. 351 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,360 That's part of the deal with sin. 352 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,320 It wants us to think we control its impact, but we don't. 353 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:31,160 There is no low cost sin. There is no thought that doesn't 354 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,920 impact other things. That lustful thought has 355 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:39,760 implications. It does that gossip is corroding 356 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,600 trust in your workplace. It is. 357 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,760 You think it's just between you and that person. 358 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,000 It's it's it's having layers of consequences. 359 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,880 Y'all sin wants us to think it comes at no cost with no long 360 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:52,760 term effect. It wants us to think we get 361 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,640 immediate pleasure with no long term consequences. 362 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,080 It's kind of like when I was in college, I went to NC State and 363 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,120 they did this Krispy Kreme challenge. 364 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,840 This is the craziest thing I've ever heard some of y'all gonna 365 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,280 do it one day. It's. 366 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,920 You go run a mile, eat 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and then run 367 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,000 back. So they had a high Krispy Kreme 368 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 culture. They make these at the State 369 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,080 Fair in North Carolina. They make these Krispy Kreme 370 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,880 burgers. So it's a glazed doughnut, 371 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,120 cheeseburger, glazed doughnut. And I ate Amen. 372 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,480 And I ate one in college and it was incredible for about 90 373 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,880 seconds. And then your body is like, what 374 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,520 did you just do? Like, are you an idiot? 375 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,880 Y'all? That's kind of how sin works. 376 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,960 It's like the Krispy Kreme burger. 377 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,280 It's promising you nothing but bliss. 378 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,720 But y'all, the the payoff is coming. 379 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,680 And it's it's worth saying sometimes this white port city, 380 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,280 we say we're wicked and weak. Our responses to being sinned 381 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,120 against are understandable, right? 382 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,080 So we need, we need to decipher this a little bit. 383 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,320 Like it's understandable that he had a special love for Joseph 384 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,440 because it was the son of the wife who died, right? 385 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,520 So Rachel dies, this is her son, this is my son. 386 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,080 This is the son of my old age. And he makes in the robe of many 387 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,880 colors, right? It's understandable that he 388 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,720 preferred him, right? And then it's understandable 389 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,600 that the other brothers struggled with the preference. 390 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,080 But others sin against us does not justify our sinful 391 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,360 responses. But it's also true that sinners 392 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,960 tend to respond sinfully to being sinned against. 393 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,960 That's what we do. You sin against being sin. 394 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,840 I'm sinning in response. OK. 395 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,120 It doesn't excuse sin. Our stories never excuse sin. 396 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:47,120 What your daddy did does not make you a like, not responsible 397 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,240 for your sin. But it does inform what the path 398 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,200 in your fight against sin is going to look like. 399 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,600 Does that make sense? So our stories inform worship 400 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760 and they inform the fight against sin. 401 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,840 We don't do story work to excuse sinful choices. 402 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:07,480 We do story work to understand how weakness is leveraging that 403 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,400 to create wickedness. Are you with me? 404 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,160 And the more you are aware where that weakness creeps in, you can 405 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,760 have people come around you and help you. 406 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,920 So y'all, do we see the damage our sin has? 407 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,600 Do we see that sin is powerful and deceptive and relentless? 408 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,160 It does not stop. It's kind of like the leaky 409 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,960 again. The leak in the house does some 410 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,880 serious damage. You let it keep hitting that 411 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,840 wood, it's going to rot it. That's how it works. 412 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,720 Imagine if you had a neighbor who knocked on your door every 413 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,680 day at 8:00 AM and said, hey neighbor, I'm going to try to 414 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,360 kill you today and all of your kids and your family. 415 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:47,520 I'm coming for you. You wouldn't be like, hey 416 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,040 sweetie, just keep an eye on Fred. 417 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,920 Fred's a little weird. Like I think it would create a 418 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,160 little vigilance in you. Y'all, Let me tell you 419 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,360 something. Sin is trying to kill you. 420 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:02,480 Do you know that? Trying to layers of impact in 421 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,880 your life for generations. It's playing a high stakes game. 422 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,560 Sin never sleeps and it always plays for keeps. 423 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:14,840 Facts. OK, OK, let's talk about Grace 424 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,240 yo. Once we understand what sin 425 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,680 really is, we could talk about grace. 426 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:24,440 Yo. Grace is so costly. 427 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,920 It's such a high cost. When we look at how Jesus was 428 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,000 killed on the cross, it should communicate to us what the 429 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,920 situation was he stepped into that make sense? 430 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,360 Sin is a big deal. It took the death of Jesus to 431 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,200 undo it. Y'all? 432 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,920 Jesus was never driven by his stomach for one second. 433 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,800 You ever heard that expression? Give him an inch, they'll take a 434 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,800 mile. Jesus never gave sin an inch. 435 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,120 There was no mile to take. There was no layers of impact of 436 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:58,120 negative decisions he made. He was perfect. 437 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,640 And at the end of his life he was rewarded with a violent, 438 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,120 naked, publicly shaming, brutal death. 439 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,680 It was brutal and the brutality of his death should show us the 440 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,720 seriousness of what sin is and its consequences and the layers 441 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,760 of it. Y'all lest we think I just like 442 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:25,720 his food more, Lest lest we be like Isaac and play stupid, we 443 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,120 should look at the cross to see the seriousness of sin. 444 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:32,960 It is so costly. Sin cost the Son of God his 445 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,800 life. The eternal Son of God had to 446 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,800 die for sin, y'all, before the cross was ever done for you. 447 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,920 You have to understand it was done by you. 448 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:50,800 Your sin put him there and then the effect of God's grace. 449 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,760 Y'all. What sin is and what it's doing 450 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,480 in our lives is part of what Jesus came to undo. 451 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,040 He didn't just come to to wipe away the record of sin, but to 452 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,040 actually redeem the damage it was doing right. 453 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,440 So if we just think sin is that I made a mistake, we think that 454 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,320 Jesus's blood gives us like a a pass out of a mistake. 455 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,400 But if our sin is doing damage, what Jesus does redeems damage. 456 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,480 Does that make sense? So like where there is curse, 457 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,320 he's going to undo it. The old Christmas song says far 458 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:28,040 as the curse is found, he comes to make his blessings known far 459 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:34,160 as the curse is found far as the curse is found far as far as the 460 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:39,000 curse is found. The point is he's undoing like 461 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,640 everything sin touches. Jesus wants to redeem every 462 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,880 layer of generational sin in your family. 463 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,160 He wants to undo it. Everything that think about it 464 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,640 like this, when the water drips and rots the wood, forgiveness. 465 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,400 If you think of forgiveness like the wood that didn't happen, you 466 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,440 still can't walk there, right? Like if, like even if you 467 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,400 removed all the rotted wood, it's still like unwalkable, 468 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,520 unusable space. What redemption is, is it's it's 469 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,080 redoing, it's rebuilding, it's remaking and usually using what 470 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,320 was rotted to build something new. 471 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,240 And now we can use that space. It's actually better, more 472 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,280 usable than you could ever imagine space. 473 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,480 But if we just view the cross is like some sort of I love you. 474 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,000 And let's act like that didn't happen. 475 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,480 We're not getting it. It's like we need to look in the 476 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,680 face what it is so we can understand the depths of God's 477 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,160 redemption for us. We're sin increase grace 478 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,360 abounded all the more. Some of y'all are new to the 479 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,160 Bible and you're like this sounds like a Jerry Springer 480 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,680 episode preference and lies and twisted things. 481 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,040 And those of us who've been around the Bible for a while 482 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,040 want to say we tried to tell you that you know, we tried to tell 483 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,720 you that the Bible is not for a bunch of good people. 484 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,520 God is using Isaac isn't that crazy? 485 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,600 God is using Esau. He's using Jacob, he's using 486 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,560 Joseph, he's using these people even though they're sinners. 487 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,920 That's what the Bible's all about. 488 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,840 That's the gospel. It's not that once you're good, 489 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,600 God can use you. You are dead, you are in 490 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,760 trouble, you need mercy, and God comes and he saves you. 491 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,560 So before we move on, because we're going to talk about 492 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,040 fighting sin, I want to be abundantly clear to the 493 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,080 unbelievers in the room. You can't fight sin when you're 494 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,960 dead in sin. OK, so some of us are still dead 495 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,280 in sin. You are born driving the car. 496 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,280 You're running your life. You are dead in your sin. 497 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,320 You need to get out the car. You need to get in the trunk. 498 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,920 You need to like get out, OK. That is salvation. 499 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,520 That is throwing yourself upon the mercies of God. 500 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,760 That is saying I need a Savior that is crying out to God, that 501 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,160 is begging him for mercy, that is going to God in faith, 502 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,480 turning from your sin, breaking up with it. 503 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,000 Because dead people don't need coaching. 504 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,160 Dead people don't need a little help, Dead people don't need new 505 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,560 clothes. Dead people need resurrection. 506 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,360 That's the story of the Bible. The Bible isn't here to coach 507 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,280 you to sinless. OK, so it is those who are alive 508 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,960 in Christ that can fight sin as those who the Spirit of God in 509 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,480 dwells that have been born again into a new reality. 510 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,280 OK, but some of you that's not you and it's time to throw 511 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,960 yourself upon the mercies of God and say I agree with you that my 512 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,440 sin is that bad because right now if we really pushed you, 513 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,600 part of you doesn't think it is and that's the problem. 514 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,960 Part of you driving the car is like I'll put God in the car. 515 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880 He could sit right here. You know, he can even have the 516 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,280 brake pedal, but that's not it. Like salvation comes when we 517 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,280 totally let go of our our, even our defining what this is. 518 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,360 You have to agree with Him. OK, For those of us who are in 519 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,120 Christ, 2 resolutions for this week and your fight against sin. 520 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,120 Are you ready? OK #1 resolve not to be hardened 521 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,960 by the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 3. 522 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:11,760 You could turn there with me. Hebrews 312 and 13. 523 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,920 It says this. Take care, brothers, lest there 524 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,080 be in any of you an evil unbelieving heart leading you to 525 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,600 fall away from the living God, but exhort one another every 526 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,280 day, as long as it is called today, that none of you may be 527 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,440 hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 528 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:35,360 Y'all sin is so deceitful. Deceitful means it's tricking 529 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720 you. You know, I heard it. 530 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,960 I heard this little one liner on April Fool. 531 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,160 April Fool's it's easier to fool somebody than to convince them 532 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,080 they've been fooled. Thought that was a dope line. 533 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,400 Mark Twain is easier to fool people than to convince them 534 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,840 they've been fooled. That's what send us, right? 535 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,080 So then that's what it's doing at all times. 536 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,440 So it again, it leverages things like what's the big deal? 537 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,680 It's just an isolated desire to isolated decision, an isolated 538 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,680 thing over here. It's not connected to a deeper 539 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,720 heart posture and who's driving the car and all this relax. 540 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,840 That's too serious. That's what sin wants to do. 541 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,800 And I'm concerned so many Christians, y'all don't realize 542 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,800 the war that they're in. Like they just don't. 543 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,640 They don't realize that when you're born again, this ain't 544 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,800 heaven yet. People like the I heard it said 545 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,120 recently like we live in a love story, but we live in a savage 546 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,000 land. Like we live in a place like if 547 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,080 we saw the spiritual reality like manifested physically, it 548 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,680 would be like a war-torn country. 549 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,120 That's what we live in, in terms of what your soul is up against 550 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,000 and the powers that work to deceive you to leverage comfort, 551 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,120 to leverage whatever it needs to suffering. 552 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,440 I will use whatever in my power will squeeze the faith out of 553 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,320 you. That's what sin the world and 554 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,000 the devil want to do to you is absolutely destroy you. 555 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,680 And they know you and they are working hard around the clock. 556 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,520 And I think particularly these are the three words that came to 557 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,800 my mind this week that I think the enemy wants to get us to say 558 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,840 you ready. These are the three words. 559 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,880 I got this. I think he wants to get pastors 560 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,600 to get there. I think he'll wait till you're 561 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,240 50. He'll wait till it don't matter. 562 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,360 Age don't matter. It don't matter how long you've 563 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,480 been walking with God, how many sermons you heard, how many 564 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,360 elevation songs you listen on the way to work. 565 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,200 OK. What matters is getting your 566 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,200 heart posture just creep into I got this. 567 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:45,040 And once you're there, he's got you because that posture, you 568 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,400 can dress it up. You can sit in groups, you can 569 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,880 go to things, but it represents can nobody tell me nothing? 570 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,240 I got this. And once you're there, you are 571 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,360 in a dangerous spot. Listen to me. 572 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,720 You don't got this. You don't. 573 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,080 And apart from the grace of God, the Spirit of God, absolute 574 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,440 miracle holding you, you will never got this. 575 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,120 Y'all. One of the things I love about 576 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,200 the addiction community. I love the 12 steps. 577 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,240 I'm getting more and more familiar with them all the steps 578 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,960 work if you work them, even if you've been going for 30 years, 579 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,680 you never miss a meeting. Talk to these people. 580 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,160 They don't trust themselves at all. 581 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,320 They open every meeting with my name is Dwight and I'm an 582 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,000 alcoholic. After 30 years, there is no I've 583 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,960 been doing this long enough. I used to be an alcoholic. 584 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,840 No, the steps work if you work them because they no longer give 585 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,360 themselves the benefit of the doubt. 586 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,120 And y'all think the Christian community which the addiction 587 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,520 community was born out of the church, Hello. 588 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,840 I think we need back from them this way of thinking about 589 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,240 identity. Saying that is not to me that 590 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,200 that Trump's how much grace I've received. 591 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,520 We so quickly be like what about grace? 592 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:00,080 What about grace? Yes, but it's because we are 593 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,760 still actively in that much danger that we need to remind 594 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,480 ourselves of that. My name is Tanner and I am a 595 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,680 great Sinner. I have a great savior, but I am 596 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,840 a great Sinner. OK. 597 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,160 And I, I think that even this week y'all, I'll put something 598 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,040 for two brothers in this church. Just a situation in my life 599 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,600 where I said, hey, here's the situation, give me some 600 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,000 thoughts. I already knew what I wanted to 601 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,680 do. I already knew what I thought, 602 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,720 but I did the right Christian pastor thing. 603 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,360 What do you think? And both of them kind of just 604 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:34,400 just rub, just just not even nudge just a got near an angle. 605 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,600 And I was like in my heart, you know what 3 words about there, I 606 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,640 got this. If only you knew my story. 607 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,760 If only you knew. And we leverage that person. 608 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,040 Don't know me that person this that that sermon don't apply to 609 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,600 me this don't apply that word don't apply. 610 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,200 And I had this posture of backup. 611 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,440 And y'all listen, sin is not your friend. 612 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:59,320 It's not it's never your friend. It never stops. 613 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,680 It wants you to drift. It wants you to take a day off. 614 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,600 One guy a few 100 years ago said this. 615 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:10,520 When the waters of sin appear to be calm, when it looks calm, 616 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,800 it's only because they're really deep. 617 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,840 When the waters of sin appear very calm, it's usually only 618 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,679 because they are very deep. You need to resolve deep in you 619 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:23,280 that you don't get the benefit of the doubt. 620 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,639 God's word does. God's people do. 621 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:30,120 The Spirit does. Your flesh does not your 622 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,679 instincts do not trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not 623 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,239 on your own understanding. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel 624 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,360 it. Prone to leave the God I love. 625 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,920 Do you believe that? Where in your life, believer, is 626 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:51,960 there an I got this posture? OK #2 Resolve to help others in 627 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,639 their fight against sin. John Hebrews 3 has said This is 628 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,840 said exhort one another every day as long as it is called 629 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,560 today, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of 630 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,520 sin. By definition, that means you 631 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,600 can't be sober about your own sin. 632 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,360 It requires other people to be sober minded about your own sin. 633 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,680 It's impossible to not be deceived unless you have others 634 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,800 as a part of that conversation. Left to yourself you will be 635 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,480 deceived. It is others exhortation that 636 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,880 helps me not be deceived. Y'all see that we think again. 637 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,640 I got it. So part of the I got this is I 638 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,760 know how bad sin is and I'm managing it. 639 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,360 Wrong answer like part of it is it is unmanageable. 640 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,360 Are you with me? Sin is not manageable on your 641 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,280 own. It's just not. 642 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,120 You need the exhortation of others to help you. 643 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,800 And so I just want to call some of us to consider other people 644 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,000 in your fight against sin. You love the Lord, you listen to 645 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,320 music, you read your word, you do your things, but the category 646 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,720 of others still just it's a little murky in your mind. 647 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,720 I just want to help you flush it out, which is we have to have 648 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:01,960 each other's back. And it's it's it's I got to have 649 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,000 yours. You got to have theirs. 650 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,280 I got, you know, there's this holistic sobriety we have that 651 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,920 we can't have alone. So it takes a village to stay 652 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,760 sober. I mean, that really is kind of 653 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,600 the the mindset because sin will trick all of us. 654 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,000 That's just how it works. So consider others in their 655 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,600 fight against sin. I want this to become a church 656 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,560 where we got each other's back, where this where, where sin is 657 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,000 the enemy, not other people. Or even when I'm sinned against, 658 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,680 I know I'm a Sinner first. And I know like man, it's not 659 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,280 really that person. It's sin, man, like it's sin 660 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,800 like sin leveraging weakness, leveraging wickedness, 661 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,280 leveraging this moment. And let's just be patient here. 662 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,760 Sin is the enemy, not each other. 663 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,760 I want us to become a church where we have each other's back. 664 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,160 Y'all. Where we are praying for our 665 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,480 victory over sin, Where the times we pray for each other 666 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,320 isn't just I got a potential job promotion or grandma's about to 667 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,320 die. But it's actually I need help 668 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,040 against sin. And that's a normal thing to say 669 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,440 where we say I need your help and we're not just like praying 670 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,960 for you. It's like we go to war that 671 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,040 others will win against sin. And if we don't have that 672 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,760 mindset or if people are weird when they sin, you ain't wearing 673 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,800 when you like. Are we reading this like that's 674 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,320 the normal, that's the drift. We need this level of vigilance. 675 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,440 We need dad mode, home ownership level vigilance and then some 676 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,560 against sin. Every motive and a little bit 677 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:28,560 you're like, what does that mean? 678 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,200 Y'all the Saints of old? I mean, every night, every 679 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,240 decision they're making, every motive is getting inspected. 680 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:38,680 Everything, men and women, they were, they were not trusting 681 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,120 themselves that much. They did not give themselves the 682 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,160 benefit of the doubt. Yeah, I'm about to say something 683 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,240 I never thought I would say. I've been watching a lot of 684 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:53,320 golf. Listen, I grew up in a let me 685 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,160 not go there. I I was not a huge golf guy. 686 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,280 I'll put it like that. You could ask me about it 687 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,480 offline. But what I'm starting to, this 688 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,120 is the subtle thing about golf as you get into it, there is no 689 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,160 Realplayer beef. You watch NBA and it's like that 690 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,960 guy hates that guy in like 5 seconds. 691 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,040 And I love NBA. I'm watching some games today, 692 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,480 OK, but it I was like, why is that? 693 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,840 And I didn't really have words for it yet. 694 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,200 Like why in golf? And there's little subtle beef. 695 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,000 But I was like, what is it about golf that makes them not hate 696 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,760 each other? And you know what the answer is? 697 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,720 The game's too hard for me to worry about you. 698 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,560 This game is so impossible. You can go from the best player 699 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,760 in the world to not even making the cut, which means you getting 700 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,480 kicked out the tournament. Top five players in the world 701 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,320 got kicked out yesterday. This game is so hard. 702 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,520 I ain't going to hate you. It takes too much energy to 703 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,640 worry about y'all. This game is too hard. 704 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:50,280 So I want to bring that mindset in, but then be like, use it for 705 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,800 one another as well. You get what I'm saying? 706 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,520 Like sin is so much the enemy that I got no energy to be 707 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,600 hating on other people, OK? I got to leverage all of my 708 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,920 energy for my church family, for my family, for me to win against 709 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,400 sin. I ain't got no time to be 710 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,720 building a brand for myself and a name for myself. 711 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:12,080 The amount of energy we leverage towards self exaltation is part 712 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,400 of why we're losing the war against sin. 713 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,280 Because part of what's happening in this cultural moment is we 714 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,760 leverage all of our energy towards self advancement and we 715 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,760 have none for sin killing. Are you with me? 716 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,280 And so we think we exist to build our name, build our brand, 717 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,480 all these things and we have no energy to fight sin. 718 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,840 Y'all let's flip that where? How much energy does it take to 719 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,920 be sober? Start with that, OK? 720 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,000 And then your extra energy can go towards the good works God 721 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,360 designed for you to live out, right? 722 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,640 We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. 723 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,280 Amen. But you got to be sober minded 724 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,720 to be ready to do those good works, OK? 725 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,240 Make war my friends. If you have tasted of His grace, 726 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,400 make war my friends. We can't earn His love, but 727 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,720 effort has its place. Make war, my friends, because 728 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,640 sin is making war on you. Make war, my friends, because 729 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,560 cruise control simply will not do. 730 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,720 Make war, my friends. Strive together with your sister 731 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:10,080 and brother. Make war, my friends. 732 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,920 In this fight we fight for one another. 733 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,760 Let's pray. Almighty God our Father, we love 734 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,480 you. God, I want my friends to win 735 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,120 against sin in big ways and little ways. 736 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,880 God, protect this church, protect our souls, protect us 737 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,960 that our preferences don't drive our life, but your Word, your 738 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,680 promises. Help us to care for one another 739 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,480 more than just job promotions and and good gifts. 740 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,520 But God, help us to fight for one another's victory over sin. 741 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,960 Got to protect the marriages in this church, protect families. 742 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,920 Would you change generations? Would you change things? 743 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,400 God, because of our fight against sin, would future 744 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,720 blessings flow to our kids and our neighborhoods, to our great 745 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:52,200 city? Lord, because we take this fight 746 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,320 seriously, we love you. We pray this in Christ's name, 747 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:54,680 Amen.