WEBVTT - Do The New You 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Hey haul, Yes, let's do it again. Let's do it, 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.160 Let's run it back. I can't wait. Elevation Nights. It's 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.639 gonna be amazing. Been to the East Coast, West Coast, YEP. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.319 Now I think we need to come to Austin, Texas. Yes, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.880 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. About Minneapolis, Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.560 Saint Louis, Missouri, for Wayne, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario. We got 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:28.840 to see you there April eighteenth. April eighteenth through twenty seven. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.320 It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, we coordinated that awesome. But 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.000 make sure you go get your tickets right now. Elevation 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.879 Nights dot Com. These nights are seriously like the best, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.720 the best. Can't explain it. I wouldn't keep doing it 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.400 if it wasn't amazing. You have to experience it. It'll 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.559 be me you Elevation Worship and you we'll see at 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.000 Elevation Nights. Elevation Nights dot Com. Get your tickets today, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.840 let me know if you're gonna be there. You all 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:07.039 ready for the word sit down. I'm teaching today from 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:15.800 Ephesians chapter four, fourteen through twenty four. I really will 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.200 only talk about one verse but you got to hear 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.200 all of them, or else it will sound like some 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:26.440 kind of Pinterest thing or like some little cute little quote. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.960 But I'm not trying to do that today. I want 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:35.280 to teach a little bit. I am excited when you 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.960 come to church. You know you get here. I know 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.360 you leave the house and have to fight and all that. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.400 I'm already here for five hours. So the main thing 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.360 I have to do when I start my sermons is 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:55.160 tell myself, ferdict, slow down, let the people wake up. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.320 So that's why I had Zeke sing a little bit 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.560 so I could slow down and just get ready to 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.800 preach to you what I have been studying for the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:13.080 last several months. Ephesians chapter four. This new series is 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:23.079 called Do the New You. Ephesians chapter four. Do the 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.840 New You. Oh, We're going to talk about that a 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.120 whole lot in the month of January. Ephesians chapter four. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.040 I'm happy to see you. I'm happy you're here. Look 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.360 at you getting in a good church rhythm at the 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.920 beginning of the year. You have perfect church attendance so 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.480 far this year. Tell the devil that put a gold 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.680 star in the devil's face and tell him I showed 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:56.960 up for church. Ephesians, Chapter four, verse fourteen. The apostle 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.920 Paul says, then we will no longer be infants, to 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.679 lost back and forth by the waves and blown here 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 and there by every wind of teaching, and by the 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.560 cunning and craftiness of people. You got to watch out 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.480 for people. Wouldn't life be wonderful if it wasn't for 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.520 the people that get in the way. You could do 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.040 everything God spoke to you. If it wasn't for people. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.000 It's really easy for me to obey God in church, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.600 and then I have to get out there and run 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.639 what He showed me in the playbook. So Paul says 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.200 here that we need to get to a point that 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.240 we are grown past the opinions of people in their 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.520 deceitful scheming, whether it's a marketer or a newscast, or 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.400 a political group or any of that. Whether it's something 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.000 you've been taught in church that's wrong, Paul says, I 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.520 want you to grow past that into this watch verse fifteen, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.400 speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.880 in every respect the mature body of Him who is 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.360 the head that is Christ, from him, the whole body, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.240 joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:12.680 builds itself up in love as each part does its work. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.400 So I tell you this and insist on it in 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.040 the Lord, that you must no longer live as the 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.600 gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.279 darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.120 God because of the ignorance that is in them, due 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.919 to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.719 they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.400 indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.200 of greed. Boy Pastor Stephen, you picked a cheerful scripture 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.919 for the new Year's sermon. Listen to this. It's about 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:55.920 to turn that, however, is not the way of life 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.599 you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.440 in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.279 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.680 to put off your old self, which is being corrupted 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:19.839 by its deceitful desires, and to be made new in 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.479 the attitude of your minds, and to put on last 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.919 verse the new self created to be like God in 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.120 true righteousness and holiness. Clap your hands for the word 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:42.040 of God. When people give you advice that isn't helpful, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.640 what do you do? Smile at him? Yeah, I pray 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.400 about that. A dude was telling me the other day, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.479 I need to preach a series on bitcoin. I said, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.720 I pray about that. Thank you for the input, and 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.479 then I went on about my business. But when somebody 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.719 you respect, then it's different, even if you don't like 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:07.440 what they say. And when my dad was diagnosed with 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.160 ALS about ten years ago. He was diagnosed about twelve 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.240 years ago, and he went to heaven about ten years ago. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.840 We went through a horrible period as a family, and 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.720 some of it I can laugh about now, But man, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.599 we would get on the phone and try to talk 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.560 to each other and we couldn't even speak. It would 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 turn into a shouting match. And then I'd get up 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.520 and preach Sunday and then getting a shouting match on 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.280 the phone with my dad Tuesday, and feel like a 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.160 hypocrite about it. But I couldn't figure out a way 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.000 past it. I try and do all this and that 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.320 and the other. But the point of the story is 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.640 this pastor calls me and somebody that I really loved 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:46.440 and respected and said, I heard about what you're going 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.960 through with your dad, and I've been praying about it now. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.360 He only talked to my dad about it. He didn't 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.240 talked to me about it. So he heard what he 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.720 heard from who he heard it from. He said, I 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.880 heard what happened with your dad, and I just called 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.359 to ask you one question, Stephen, what would Jesus do? 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.120 And you know what, I thought, Jesus would heal him. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.480 And I'm not Jesus. I might lay hands on him 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:20.360 before it's all said and done, so you could take 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:25.480 your little WWJD wisdom. I had the bracelet to when 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.520 I was sixteen. But it's not that I don't know 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.280 what I want in this relationship. I want reconciliation. I 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.920 want to be by my dad's side. I want us 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.640 to be able to take care of him. I mean, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.720 that's the reason why we moved them to Charlotte is 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.560 I wanted to be a part of that in any 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:47.080 way I could. But it wasn't really knowing what to do. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.880 It was doing what I knew in the face of 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.520 something in real time that was complicated. In the passage 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.520 I just read you. I don't know how much the apostle. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.080 Paul sounds like that pastor that called me to you 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.760 because he's telling you things to do. Then on the 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.400 surface sounds so simple, and in the way he starts it, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.800 it's so Paul, is so Paul. Paul's like in verse seventeen, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.200 He's like, so I tell you this, give me verse 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:18.240 seventeen and insist on it in the Lord. Well, now, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.000 what can I say back to you? Right? So I 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.240 tell you this, Okay, tell me and I insist on it. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:32.280 Okay in the Lord, just say it. He says that 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.400 the way that you have been living that has been 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.640 limiting you is not a product of the person that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.360 God has called you to be. It is a product 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.960 of the patterns of the world that you have copied 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:56.520 unconsciously until now. But Paul says, I give you, in 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.400 this moment of your life, to the Ephesian Church, and 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.120 I believe he he says it to Elevation Church as well, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.760 at the beginning of a new year. A command, not 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.120 a suggestion, on the authority of God's word, not the 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.640 advice of somebody that you follow. This is not TikTok truth, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.440 This is not a tip. This is not nineteen ways 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.200 to get it. This is something that God says from 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.920 his own heart to you through the apostle, echoing through 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.920 the eons, and right now this word stands in front 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.480 of you. There comes a point in your life when 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:40.360 doing you isn't working, and there becomes there comes a 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.640 challenge to become what you've really been all along that 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:50.800 has been buried. I believe this year is my year, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.760 in your year to see some things manifest in our 0:09:54.840 --> 0:10:00.360 lives that we don't even have the faith to for 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.520 anymore because it's been one way so long. I believe 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.120 this is your year in your life to see character 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.640 development at a level like you thought was only possible 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 for other people before. You're gonna become the kind of 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.840 person that you've admired. This year, you're gonna become someone 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.920 that you can trust in this year, You're gonna become 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.319 someone who keeps commitments that they make in secret in 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.600 public under pressure. This year. How do I know is possible? 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.920 Because God would not command it, if he would not 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.480 resource it. If God told me to do it, He'll 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:42.679 show me how. All right, Feel good? Now I got 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.760 my preach back. Now I've been a couple of weeks 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.560 just in here by myself and hanging out with the 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.920 family and been thinking about this. This thing that people say, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.880 do you It usually is a phrase that gives us 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.680 permission to be different, even if what we're doing like this, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:07.400 like this, like oh you're gonna wear that? Well? Do 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.600 you you like those? Oh? Yeah? Do you? It means 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:18.839 I wouldn't Hey man, do you you wanna you wanna 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.400 buy it? Buy it? Yeah? Man? Do you? Or or 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.240 or or it could be kind of like, man, don't 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.160 listen to them. Do you you have to do that 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.680 what they're they're doing over there? Do you? And I 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:41.440 wonder like, is that advice helpful? And when this is 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.440 what we're gonna consider for the next four weeks, So 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.680 I'm giving you fair warning should you decide to skip, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.680 we are going to evaluate the point at which check this. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:12:06.880 We use authenticity as an excuse for immay. Nobody in 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.240 here wore a diaper to church unless they were carried 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.800 and unless it's covered. I hope yet, at one time 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.040 that's what you ran around the house in should you 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.720 do you? Nobody in here that I'm aware of over 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.160 the age of eighteen is going to eat their meal 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.200 only with their hands today unless it's a sandwich and 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.920 a bag of chips, But at one time you did 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.600 should you do you? Nobody in here today over the 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.360 age of twenty one is going to go home today 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.400 unless there's a physical ailment. And I understand that. And 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.160 there's exceptions to everything I say. Nobody is going to 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.240 go in their lunch today and expect to be spoon 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.160 fed something that's mashed up. But at one time you 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:58.360 needed that should you do you? Should you? Because that's 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.320 what I hear a lot now it's like, do you 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:09.760 We almost have elevated authenticity to the level of ultimate 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:15.840 authority in our lives to give ourselves permission not to 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.720 make progress in areas of our life. I just went 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.200 through several physical examples that were awkward on purpose that 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.920 at one time you wore a diaper, at one time 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.520 you couldn't chew your food. But yet people still come 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.520 to church and they say, I want to be fed 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.040 when I come to church. And that's fine because Jesus 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.440 did tell Peter feed my sheep. But guess what you 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:50.400 have to chew? I insist on it in the Lord. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.800 It's so funny how many people don't get strong from sermons. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.440 They hear because you get fed. I left that church 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.760 because I wasn't getting fed. Maybe or maybe you didn't 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:07.000 chew it. Maybe you didn't do it. The Bible says 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.640 that he who comes to me and here's my words 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.960 and doesn't put them into practice. It's like a foolish 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.840 man who built his house on the sand. Wait a minute, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.600 he heard the word. Shouldn't he be stronger from the 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.520 word that he heard, not if he didn't do it. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.840 One country preacher said, the word of God is like 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.080 a can of paint. The value is in the application. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.160 So I hear Paul all in Ephesians one through three, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.440 and Holly and Britain. The team did a study that 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.240 you're gonna get January twenty second for the e groups 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.600 where they go into Ephesians. And I didn't even tell 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.680 her that the Lord gave me a sermon from Ephesians 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.080 because I wanted to surprise her. So surprise here, I 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.080 am all the way in Ephesians chapter four, wherein one 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.840 through three Paul is telling them what God did through 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.240 the Gospel, and then he makes a turn in chapter 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.120 four where he starts talking about now that God did that, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.440 you do this because you can one of the things 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.680 that he says in this passage were interesting to me. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.440 Look at verse fourteen. He says that when we grow 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.240 up through the unity in our faith by committing ourselves 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.160 to God's community in his process, that we will no 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.400 longer be there it is infants. We will no longer 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.960 expect to be fed without doing any chewing of our own. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.600 We will no longer be immature. But when I saw 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.240 this connection, it kind of surprised me. He said that 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.640 when you are stuck in spiritual infancy, check this out. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.560 You are tossed back and forth by the waves, and 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.920 blown here and there by every wind of teaching, and 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.320 by the cunniness, cunning, and craftiness of people in their 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.160 deceitful excusing. So isn't that true? Haven't you found that 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:55.200 to be true? That immaturity always manifests as instability. Can 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.560 you notice that, like in your own life, when there 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.600 is an area in your life where God is trying 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.480 to grow you, or life is trying to grow you, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.720 or challenges are trying to move you, and you refuse 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:13.080 to move past what God is trying to teach you 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.440 to do, it will always result in instability. Now, notice 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.280 that he talks about the waves and the wind, which 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.200 are both external metaphors for the things that happen to 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.240 us in our life. But what he says in the 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.880 passage is not that our spiritual maturity guarantees the elimination 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.080 of wind and waves. He says that your spiritual growth 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.960 and maturity will guarantee that, because God is your strength, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:49.560 your source, and your firm foundation, that you will have 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:54.840 a stable place in any storm. When I prophesy over 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.000 your life that God is going to do great things 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.680 this year, I am not prophesying the appsence of any 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.520 external challenge, for that is above and beyond my pay grade. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.359 What I am prophesying in the name of Jesus is 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.119 that there is a seed of the Word of God 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.480 inside of you trying to come up out of the 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.040 soil that will enable you to see life everywhere you 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.719 look this year, and you will not be moved anymore 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.560 by all of the happenings of life like you were 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.639 in the past. So I want to ask a question 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.800 for you to consider. How has your instability in life 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:46.200 been caused by an area of immaturity in your life? 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.399 What waves are you blaming for the way you are 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:57.040 right now? When the real problem is within what wind? 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:03.159 Are you cursing because you avoid dealing with the storms inside? 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.119 And this is how the Lord led me to start 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.880 the year to tell you that you get to choose 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.040 this year whether to grow into what God has called 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:23.440 you or continue to be stuck in the rut of 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:28.120 what was because of what you saw, because of what 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.080 you've been through, and because of what you've known. One 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.320 reason I don't believe in the saying do you as 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.480 a general piece of advice is because it assumes that 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:48.880 you know you and you don't. Why are y'all making 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.080 me break this down so much? Find one of these 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.920 church people that's in here today lifting their hands praising God, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:04.800 follow them to their kids sporting event, and see if 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:10.040 they are the same that they were on Sunday, Because see, 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.080 I met some of y'all in other locations than church, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.840 and I was surprised what I saw. You were lifting 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.399 your hands, your whole hands in here, and then you 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.919 were lifting individual fingers when I saw you at your 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.080 kids basketball game. So I can't figure out. So if 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.840 I tell you do you, I don't know which one 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.880 it's going to show up for the audition for the role. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.440 And maybe clear the room. That's bad advice. One time 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.720 a preacher told me, hey, man, come preach for us. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.960 And I said, okay, and he said, and just be you. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.280 I said, oh no, that's the last thing you want 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.720 to tell me. I need to get with God. If 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.159 I show up me without God, your church will split. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:59.320 Now I'm not saying I got multiple personalities, but I'm 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.040 saying I'm a fan by things I'm affected by. I'm 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:07.840 affected by moos oh for me in the morning. It's 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.320 not to me I want to send into my week. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.240 Let me talk a little bit about this topic, how 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.720 to defy your default setting. I'm just setting you all 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.800 up this week. I hope you're gonna stick with me 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.200 for January because a lot of us accept our default 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:35.080 setting in a situation as our destiny. When I wake 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.760 up in the morning, my first thought isn't great as 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.480 I've hit from this o God. My father. One man said, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.040 I don't wake up in the morning and say good 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.119 what he said, good morning Lord? I wake up and 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:53.679 say good Lord, it's morning. That's me. That's mourning me. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.600 Not only is my breath bad in the morning, my 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.359 beliefs are bad too. Y'all brush your teeth. I have 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.879 to brush my beliefs in the morning. I have to. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.080 I promise you, I have to. If I don't do 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.040 that in the morning, it's going to be a meltdown 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:15.440 by ten am, maybe two in the best case scenario. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.000 But what I'm learning not only from my life, but 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:25.000 from this passage as I study it, is that the 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:30.760 awareness of how I start doesn't have to become indicative 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:35.359 of where I end. And watch this. I cannot use 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:45.360 authenticity as permission to sin. So I can't just wake 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.760 up and think a certain way and act a certain 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.520 way if I belong to God and just call it 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:58.120 being real. He didn't say be real, he said be righteous. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.600 Oh no, Well, I'm just saying what I feel. Who 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.920 told you to do that? I'm just speaking my mind. 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.160 What a horrible book to be speaking from the book 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.320 of your mind, the book of your brain, which has been, 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:23.320 what the Scripture says, corrupted by deceitful desires. That's the problem. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:27.040 Do you which me, the me that wants to be 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.000 happy right now at all costs, or the me that 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.800 will thank me in ten years for the decisions I 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.679 made right now? Which while? Do you which one the 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.320 one that's gonna kick my butt if I keep acting 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.800 like this for the next five years. The me that 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.359 I don't want to see reproduced in my kids. That one. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:54.199 Just do that. Yeah, just do you? Just do me, 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.520 just like my dad did him and he did him. No, 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.480 I believe that there is a power in for you 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.520 to decide that. I don't want to be like what 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.800 I came from. I want to be like I was 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:19.879 creative for saw. I wake up in the morning, I 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.840 gotta get some of God's word. I can't start responding 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:24.960 to the text first thing in the morning. I can't 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.800 touch the screen and start telling people what I think 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.000 and what I feel first thing in the morning. I 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:33.199 gotta get to Douteronomy chapter seven and see what God says. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:37.200 Then maybe I can say something. I got a little 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.719 gratitude journal. I gotta write some things down I'm thankful 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.840 for in the morning, so I'll just start thinking about 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.440 what I need today, because I'll start the whole day 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:47.479 in the deaficit, all day down around, run around, thing 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:48.840 like I don't have enough strength. I don't have enough 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:52.520 energy unless I start somewhere else. Now, just do you. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.719 I'm not doing that anymore. I did mean it almost 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:02.320 killed me. I didn't me, but I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.320 I live. I didn't me. That's too small of an 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.360 apartment for me to live in. That apartment has roaches, 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:13.119 that apartment doesn't have any electricity. That thing is corrupted, corroded, 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:20.560 and deceived by sin. So I came with the New 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:26.359 Year series to tell you, not me, but in the Lord, 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:32.600 that you are being called this year to do the 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:39.520 new you. And you are not supposed to like new 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:46.320 when you first start doing it, and you don't have 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:50.120 to like it at first to do it. I went 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:54.560 up bucking counted two thousand, one hundred and something workouts 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:56.920 I did since we boot the Pound. That's the little 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:02.560 workout room at my house. Two thousand, one hundred something workouts. 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.240 When we met, I was so inconsistent in working out. 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.240 I was like, you know, man, I'm just really not 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.040 one of these guys that comes in and works out consistently. 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:13.639 I do it when I can get around to it. 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:19.360 I told him that I was doing me. I told 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.439 him how I would and wouldn't exercise. But you know what, 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:23.960 they got in there and helped me, and it kept 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.240 me accountable. And then I counted It's been eight years now, 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:32.040 eight years that I've done my workouts like five times 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:38.480 a week, and y'all don't even care. I'm not bragging. No, 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:40.919 You're like, why are you bragging? If you work out, workout, 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:42.800 don't come up here bragging about it. Preach the word. Man, 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:45.560 i't need to hear all this. I'm telling you. I 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.040 saw myself as a certain kind of person for all 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.520 my life, And even the other day I was telling 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.040 somebody I'm not one of these people who just likes 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:59.280 to work out. I thought, yes, you are. I did 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:02.320 the math. If I've been doing that for like eight years, 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.520 and you're not supposed to really start working out until 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:08.560 you're how old, Matt fourteen probably is about the earliest 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:11.080 you want to lift weights. That is a good like 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.840 thirty percent of my life that I've been doing it. 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.960 So I am a person who likes to work out. 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:25.000 Imagine that my default wasn't to do that. But my 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:31.280 default is not my destiny. My decisions are. How about that? 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.640 Paul says, to put off the old way of seeing 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:42.960 yourself and put on what he calls the attitude of Christ. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.159 What does that mean? To put on the new self? 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:48.960 I can't see it like a jacket. I can't see 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:51.919 it like a hat. I can't see it like a raincoat. 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:55.200 I can't see it like new balances. I can't see 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:58.199 it like it's in my wardrobe. It lives within me. 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:02.720 But I have the decision to make every day of 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:11.080