S1: Today on bold steps, we're learning how to let go
S1: of the past as we take bold steps forward.
S2: And so I'm going to try to keep my old
S2: shoe and put my old shoe into my new shoe.
S2: It doesn't quite fit right. You're going to walk funny.
S2: You have to take off the old completely so that
S2: you can put on the new completely. Some of us
S2: are walking funny because you're trying to put on the new,
S2: but still keep the old.
S1: Nearly 80% of people experience back pain of some kind,
S1: and doctors say that most of our aches and pains
S1: are caused by wearing old shoes. But what do old
S1: shoes have to do with our Bible message today? Well,
S1: that's what Mark Jobe, president of Moody Bible Institute and
S1: senior pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago, will
S1: explain in our message titled putting on the new you.
S1: I'm Wayne Shepherd. This message comes from our study in
S1: the book of Ephesians, where in chapter four it's titled
S1: when You Believe Everything Changes. Here's Mark Jobe with today's
S1: bold steps.
S2: Paul says, he says you were taught with regard to
S2: your former way of life, to put off the old self,
S2: which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. Hey, there's
S2: a lot of stuff in your old life that you
S2: need to start taking off. There's a lot of stuff.
S2: There's a lot of old way of living that you
S2: know is wrong. That was the old you, and you
S2: could probably name it off the top of your head.
S2: The stuff that you used to do, the stuff that
S2: maybe sometimes you do now, but the stuff that was
S2: a part of your old life that shouldn't be a
S2: part of your new life, right? We all know that stuff.
S2: That stuff will corrupt you. That stuff is no longer
S2: a part of you. That is who you were, not
S2: who you are. You say, well, I still do it?
S2: It doesn't matter now. If you do it, you do it.
S2: But it's not really you now. It doesn't belong to
S2: you now. It doesn't match you now. It doesn't go
S2: with who you are. Because who you are now is different.
S2: Who you are now doesn't match with the old stuff
S2: that you used to do. It used to match with you.
S2: But now that you are in Christ, that old stuff
S2: doesn't go with the new you. So what? What Paul
S2: is saying is that you have to take off stuff.
S2: I take off lying, cheating, deceit, getting drunk. I take
S2: off a lot of that old junk I used to do.
S2: I take selfishness and anger and bitterness and hatred. I
S2: take off cheating, I take off, I take off all
S2: that old stuff I start taking. Those are dirty clothes.
S2: I take off that dirty clothes no longer belongs to you.
S2: That's not you anymore. Now I begin to renew my mind.
S2: And the second step, he tells us, is being made
S2: new in the attitude of your mind. So now that
S2: I've taken that stuff off, you see, unless you take
S2: that off, it's hard to renew your mind. You have
S2: to start taking that off and getting it out of
S2: your life, or that stuff will keep you trapped in
S2: the old cycle of living. So you start taking it off,
S2: and then you start renewing your mind, thinking a different way,
S2: learning how to live life a different way. Envisioning your
S2: life a different way. God's way. And then he says,
S2: and put on the new self, created to be like
S2: God in true righteousness and holiness. Listen, now you're putting
S2: on your new self. You've gotten rid of your old self.
S2: Now you're putting on your new self and your new self.
S2: Looks like who? It looks like your father. It looks
S2: like God. It has love and righteousness and peace and
S2: joy and the creativity of God, the faith of God.
S2: That's the new you. That's who you really are now.
S2: And you are in the process of taking off the
S2: old and putting on the new. Here's what I see
S2: many of us do. We have the old and we
S2: say that kind of like the old. I've become accustomed
S2: to this old shoe. I've had fun with this old shoe.
S2: And so I'm going to try to keep my old
S2: shoe and put my old shoe into my new shoe.
S2: And you know what? It doesn't quite fit right. You
S2: can't keep your old shoe and put the new shoe on.
S2: You're going to walk funny. You're going to look funny.
S2: You have to take off the old completely so that
S2: you can put on the new completely. Some of us
S2: are walking funny because you're trying to put on the new,
S2: but still keep the old, and it just looks strange.
S2: It's just not the way it should be. And what
S2: Paul tells us then is he says that the new
S2: self is created to be like God, that that's who
S2: you really are. So start putting on who you really are.
S2: And then he gets real specific. If you want to
S2: know exactly what he's talking about, he gives at least.
S2: Let's see five examples of what it means to take
S2: off the old and put on the new. Are you
S2: ready for this? Because this is going to hit practical.
S2: This goes right to where you live, right to where
S2: you work, right to where you study. He's going to
S2: meddle with your life right now. Are you ready for that? Okay,
S2: here we go. He says in verse 25, stop lying
S2: and start telling the truth. Lying was part of your
S2: old life. You take it off. Truth is part of you.
S2: Your new life. You put it on. Now you say, well, pastor,
S2: I don't really lie. I just tell white lies. Hold
S2: on a second. Since when were lies color coded? Since
S2: when did we have a pink lie? A blue lie.
S2: A light blue lie. A maroon, a dark lie. A
S2: brown lie and a black lie. Who color coded lies. Listen,
S2: a lie is a lie. Period. There is no good lies.
S2: There's no white lies. There's no less bad lies. Lies
S2: are lies. Period. You know what the Bible says? That
S2: the devil is the father of lies. And in him
S2: there is no truth. And when we lie, we speak
S2: his language. When we lie, we speak the native language
S2: of the devil because he's a liar. He lives with lies, love, lies.
S2: He loves lies. He dishes out lies. He's an accuser.
S2: And every time we lie, every time we bend the truth, deceive,
S2: tell a lie. What we are doing is we are
S2: speaking the native language of the enemy, of our souls.
S2: We are. It's like we're speaking jive. We're speaking the
S2: old neighborhood talk. And the enemy says, yeah, I understand
S2: this language. Hold on a second. No, no, no, no.
S2: When you speak lies, you are speaking the native tongue
S2: of the enemy. You are talking his language. You are
S2: introducing his culture. You are opening up the doors for
S2: the enemy to get into your life. And what the
S2: Bible says is when we speak lies, we are not
S2: speaking the language of God because the language of God
S2: is truth. Amen. So we don't lie and we speak
S2: the truth. That means you don't lie at your work
S2: about how many hours you've worked or haven't worked. You
S2: don't lie to your kids. You don't say, well, I'm
S2: just going to lie. I'm just going to tell them
S2: this little lie. No, no, you don't lie to your kids.
S2: You don't lie to your spouse. You don't lie to
S2: your brother in law. Sister in law. You don't lie
S2: to authorities. You tell the truth. Even if the truth
S2: has consequences. You tell the truth because the truth is
S2: your new language. It's the language that you live in
S2: and thrive in. It's the language of God. Truth is
S2: the language of God. And when you speak the truth,
S2: you begin to speak the language of God and you
S2: invite the presence of God. Listen, can I tell you this?
S2: When you start down the road of little white lies,
S2: I'm going to tell you. Little white lies turn into
S2: big black lies. Little light, little white lies begin to
S2: you begin to. So this, this, this little entanglement of
S2: lies as you begin to bend the truth and, and
S2: and begin to deceive. And half truths and half lies. Listen,
S2: that is the best way to begin to get your
S2: life down this road of deception and lack of integrity.
S2: I have seen it over and over. So many people
S2: that start with little lies and just their whole life
S2: becomes a lie. And so I am challenging you. Paul says,
S2: I want you to put offline, and I want you
S2: to put on the clothes of truth. That means you're
S2: honest with one another. Why? Because, he says, because we
S2: are all members of one body. In other words, you
S2: are connected to each other. And when you lie, you
S2: hurt other people. You hurt yourself. And God is the
S2: father of truth. All right. I'm just getting started here. Alright?
S2: And this is Paul. Paul is saying that's just that's
S2: just one. Here we go. By the way, students, can
S2: I just tell you this? I know that cheating is
S2: rampant in schools. It's kind of the idea if you
S2: can cheat, you get away with it. If you can
S2: get away with it, cheat. If you can copy off
S2: someone else's paper, if you can get the exam in advance,
S2: if you can stay sick and then have someone loan
S2: you the exam, tell you the the scores. If you
S2: can get an old exam, if you can write it
S2: on your arm, if you can put it on a phone,
S2: if you can wrap it in a little paper. I
S2: think if you spent if you spent as much time studying,
S2: then you do trying to figure out how to cheat,
S2: you'd probably pass the exam with an A anyways. But
S2: regardless of whether it's culturally accepted or whether you can
S2: get away with it, let me tell you. Hear me? Well, listen.
S2: You cheat. Maybe no one else knows about, but God does.
S2: And there's a darkness that happens when you open up
S2: your soul to cheating. That's the old self, not the
S2: new self. So get away with it. It's the old.
S2: Now you're putting on the new. You have a new
S2: self in Jesus Christ. Amen. Secondly. Me. Oh, not only truth,
S2: the old self. He says in verse 26, in your
S2: anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go
S2: down while you're still angry, and do not give the
S2: devil a foothold in your old life. You used to
S2: blow up in anger. You used to stay angry. You
S2: used to manipulate people with anger. You used to get
S2: bitter and resentful, and then you would give the devil
S2: a foothold, and all kinds of other things would come
S2: into your life because you're angry. James says the wrath
S2: of man does not work the righteousness of God. Listen,
S2: when you're angry, you say things you wouldn't normally say.
S2: You do things you wouldn't normally do. Anger and lust
S2: are cousins. They go hand in hand. When people get angry,
S2: they overdrink. When people get angry, they get violent. When
S2: people get angry, they say things that hurt people. When
S2: people get angry, they lose restraint and they do things
S2: that they would only do fully in the flesh because
S2: that is driven by anger. And what Paul says is
S2: you used to be angry a lot and it was accepted,
S2: but now that you're in God, you can become angry
S2: because anger, anger is not a sin. Anger is an emotion.
S2: But it's what you do with your anger that's a sin. Hello.
S2: You say, well, pastor, I can't help you become getting angry.
S2: It just surges up. You may not be able to
S2: help getting angry, but you can help. You can determine
S2: what you do with this emotion or energy of anger.
S2: And it says when you get angry, do not sin.
S2: You say, well, what do you want me to do
S2: when I get angry at my wife? I just have
S2: to sin. Oh, my mouth unleashes and I call names
S2: and I. What do I do? Listen, if you can't
S2: control your mouth, go for a walk. If you can't
S2: go for a walk, go for a run. Get out
S2: of there. If you have to get away, get away
S2: until you calm down and the energy subsides. And then
S2: you can talk and and deal with the issues that
S2: you have to deal with. But in your anger, do
S2: not sin. But listen. If you go for a walk
S2: or go for a run, don't make it an overnight
S2: walk or run. Don't stay somewhere else. Don't stay at
S2: your mother's house and you don't go knocking on your
S2: mother's door. Hi. Well, here I am with my pillow.
S2: No no no no no no. Listen, listen, big boy,
S2: don't go to your mom's house. Don't go to your
S2: mom's house. Listen, mom's. Your son comes to you with
S2: a pillow under his arm saying, my, my, my wife
S2: doesn't understand me. I'm coming to stay overnight at your house.
S2: You have a place in the basement. You put your
S2: foot in the door and say, son, you're a big boy. Listen,
S2: you used to live here, but you don't live here anymore.
S2: You go back to your wife. You love her. You
S2: make things right. You deal with it tonight, son. Hear me? Okay, so, moms,
S2: don't let him in. I know he's your baby and all,
S2: but your baby needs to grow up.
S1: Well, you're listening to the Bible teaching of Mark job,
S1: and we'll continue this bold steps message titled putting on
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S1: is Mark Jobe.
S2: And the Bible says do not let the sun go
S2: down while you're still angry. So deal with it today.
S2: Don't go to sleep on it. Don't say I'll deal
S2: with it next week. Don't say I need it for
S2: days to simmer on it. Deal with it that day.
S2: And do not give the devil a foothold. Because if
S2: you don't deal with it, then it's like, it's like
S2: the devil's going to try to get into your house
S2: someway or another. And when you get angry and don't
S2: deal with it, it's like you put, you know, when
S2: someone's trying to get in your house and a stranger
S2: comes to your door and you open up and you
S2: see them and you say, oh, no, this guy looks
S2: like scared. No, I don't want any of that. You
S2: close the door. But what if that stranger puts their
S2: foot in the door? If that stranger puts the foot
S2: in the door, you try to slam it, but you've
S2: closed the door. But you. But, but, but they still
S2: have access. As long as the door is cracked, they
S2: can push their way in. And what what God says is,
S2: when you don't deal with your anger, what you have
S2: done is you've left the door cracked open, and it's
S2: just a matter of time before the enemy is going
S2: to get more of his body in there and push
S2: the door open wide and get into your life and
S2: start messing with your life and your family and your
S2: spiritual walk. So close the door all the way. Deal
S2: with your anger. Don't give the devil a foothold, it says. Alright,
S2: number three, I'm talking about taking off the old and
S2: putting on the new. And if that wasn't enough, verse
S2: 28 says, stop stealing, start working and start giving. Listen,
S2: he who has been stealing must steal no longer, but
S2: must work. Do something useful with his own hands, that
S2: he may have something to share with those that are
S2: in need. He's basically saying, listen, your old life, maybe
S2: you were a taker. You would see what you could get.
S2: You were a taker when the boss wasn't looking, you
S2: would take things from your job. Uh, I heard when
S2: revival struck in Wales years ago, the great Welsh revival.
S2: It was a mining community, and they talked about people
S2: getting things right. And if they had stolen, making restitution,
S2: so many miners had has stolen tools from the mining
S2: place that they all started returning, the tools they had stolen,
S2: and the bosses finally had to say, stop returning the tools,
S2: because they had piles of tools from the miners who
S2: had been stealing them from their mining jobs. If you steal,
S2: he says, you steal no longer. It's done. Hey, you know,
S2: there's a lot of ways of stealing. Oh, maybe you're
S2: not a shoplifter. But you know what? You can steal
S2: at your job with a time card. There's little ways
S2: we we figure out how to steal. Right? You could
S2: steal cable with a little black box you figure out
S2: that your cousin gave you. I'm not hurting anybody. I mean,
S2: A little black box. Hey, you're really stealing is illegal. Well,
S2: I wouldn't call it stealing, pastor. I mean, I'm just
S2: kind of borrowing. You know, I'm just borrowing, you know,
S2: television stations and. No, no, you call it what it is.
S2: Come on. We allow stuff to get into our house.
S2: We allow the compromises to start getting into our our
S2: system and start taking ceiling is taking that which doesn't
S2: belong to us. And we take it and we use
S2: it and act like it's our own. That that's that's
S2: called stealing. Now, Paul says, listen, you used to be
S2: like that. You used to look for opportunities to take
S2: which was not your own and use it, but now
S2: you belong to God, so therefore you steal no longer.
S2: In fact, you know what you do. You get a
S2: job and you get a job. Why not just so
S2: that you can meet the needs of yourself and your family,
S2: but you get a job in order so that you
S2: can actually give to other people that are in need.
S2: You see, I take off my stealing, I get a job,
S2: and now I become a giver. And now you're looking
S2: just to figure out how you can give things to people. Why?
S2: Because now you've taken off the old and you've put
S2: it on the new. You're starting to walk like God,
S2: talk like God. You're starting to walk like a new person,
S2: a new believer. Uh, people can trust you now. Why?
S2: Because now you've you've you've begun to change.
S1: Learning how to be a new person in Christ. That's
S1: today's topic from Mark Jobe on Bold Steps. If you've
S1: missed any of the messages in this series, you can
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S1: Step gift. And let's talk more about this. Mark is
S1: now here with pastor Mike Fabares.
S2: Well, you know.
S3: There's some sins that are easy to spot in our lives,
S3: but others, they're like hidden snipers taking shots at our
S3: spiritual health, and we don't even notice it. Right?
S1: That's right.
S3: Yeah. And, uh, pastor Mike Fabares, your book, envy, tackles
S3: one of these stealth sins. You call it, actually a
S3: diabolical sin that's at the root of many of our problems.
S3: Tell me, pastor Mike, why this is so dangerous?
S4: Well, it's dangerous because it can do a lot of damage.
S4: If you think about the church, I'm not the first
S4: in church history to call it a diabolical sin. It
S4: has been a foundational sin, a cardinal sin, a, you know,
S4: a root of all kinds of other sins. And yet
S4: in our generation, I just I had never read a
S4: book on it. I had never heard a sermon on it.
S4: And I realized as I went through my ministry, I
S4: see this problem springing up with a ton of different symptoms.
S4: But the core problem is that we are envious of
S4: other people's success.
S3: The subtitle of the book is A Big Problem You
S3: Didn't Know You Had, and I was thinking about that.
S3: Most people that I talked to, I don't know if
S3: I've ever heard of someone say, you know, my problem
S3: is I'm envious. No one ever says that. That I remember, like,
S3: my problem is I have envy. Tell us why it's
S3: hard to self-diagnose.
S4: Well, because I think we often justify the fact that,
S4: you know, I'm just trying to move forward in life.
S4: And I'd sure like to have what he has. Or
S4: some gal saying, I'd like to look like she looks,
S4: or I'd like to have the influence that he has.
S4: And we think, okay, well, that's just part of our
S4: ambitious desire to do well in life. And we don't
S4: realize that it's starting to color the way we make decisions,
S4: how we view other people, how we talk about other
S4: people behind their backs. And it really starts to just
S4: disrupt our relationships. It can ruin a small group and
S4: it can split churches. It is really an explosive sin
S4: and we don't often identify it like we ought to.
S1: Mike, you know, when you read scripture with this in mind,
S1: suddenly it pops up everywhere, doesn't it?
S4: Yeah. It does. Yeah. From the very beginning in Genesis,
S4: we don't get out of the first family until we
S4: see Cain rising up to kill Abel, because he was
S4: envious of him all the way to the New Testament Gospels.
S4: It's interesting that Pilate immediately looks at this scene of
S4: the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees delivering Jesus over to be crucified,
S4: and he diagnoses the problem and he says, you guys
S4: are envious of this man. It really is true that
S4: it's everywhere. And it is the fountainhead of all kinds
S4: of problems in our lives.
S1: Well, let's talk more about that in the days to come.
S1: As we continue to talk with pastor Mike Fabares about
S1: his book, envy a Big problem you didn't know you had.
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