1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. We are grateful that 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: you are here. My name is Rick Burgess, host of 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: The Rick Burgess Show and director of Themanchurch dot Com, 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: and I welcome you to the Wednesday Bible Study. We're 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: currently studying the Book of Ephesians. Our new series are 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: the Prison Letters from the Apostle Paul and Ephesians is 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: where we are now. 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 2: We're in chapter four. 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: We'll finish that today, verses seventeen through thirty two, if 10 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and turn. 11 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: To that, and I teach out of the ESV. 12 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions about that, but that's 13 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: what I normally teach out of. So that those of 14 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: you that ask that of me also, I want to 15 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: remind you that this Wednesday Bible Study is brought to 16 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: you as part of a strategy designed for men. 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So let's open 37 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: up in a word of prayer and let's jump into 38 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: our study today. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to 39 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: open your Holy Word and today to be reminded of 40 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: the new life in you, to be reminded that there's 41 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: nothing casual about the transformation that is provided by the 42 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: power of You. So help us today, Lord, give us 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit to discern everything You're teaching, 44 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: and your Holy name we pray amen. So so last 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: week in chapter four, if you miss that, you can 46 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: go back and catch that on our archives. Those are 47 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: at the manchurch dot Com just choose the media button. 48 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: Eleven years worth of Bible studies there, by the way. 49 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: But last week we talked about the unity in the 50 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: body of Christ, this this new mystery where the church 51 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: now consists of the jew and the gentile, and the 52 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: equality there and what that unity should look like. But 53 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: then the apostle Paul goes further, talking to the church 54 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: at Ephesus and to all of us by talking about 55 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: the new life in Christ. And he's not subtle about this, 56 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: and it's some thing I think we need to be 57 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: challenged by today to kind of assess ourselves. And he 58 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: starts in verse seventeen, and he's very straightforward when he says, 59 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: Now this I say and testify in the Lord that 60 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: you must no longer walk as the gentiles do in 61 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: the futility of their minds. Now, when gentiles is being 62 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: used here, he means those that have not been redeemed, 63 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: those that are still practicing the pagan life there in Ephesus. 64 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: So here's one of the things he wants us to 65 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: understand in verses seventeen and eighteen, and we'll start with seventeen. 66 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: What Paul wants to remind us, and this is important 67 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: to remember, is that you got to stop being influenced 68 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: by lost people because they're blind. You can't look at 69 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: unredeemed people anymore as an example of anything because they 70 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing. That that is not the example. 71 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: You know, man was created. Just go back to the 72 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: original intent from God. Man was created to be inhabited 73 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: by God. God intended for the human spirit to be 74 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: inhabited by the Holy Spirit that was ruined by the fall. Therefore, 75 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: the understanding of unsaved people is of no. 76 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: Use to us. 77 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: It's darkened because they are cut off from the life 78 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: provided originally by God. This results with an indwelling of ignorance, 79 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: not wisdom, and that's caused by the deep seated inner blindness. 80 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: So we should not walk in the ways of these people. 81 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: These people are of no use to us. Look what 82 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: he says. He goes on further. He says in eighteen 83 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: they are darkened in their understanding standing, alienated from the 84 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: life of God because of the ignorance that is in 85 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: them due to the hardness of their hearts. Now understand 86 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: that I really spent some time on that this week 87 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: because I wanted to sit and kind of let that simmer. 88 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: So I think we've become so accustomed to being around 89 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: lost people in a lost world that somehow and you 90 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: can see it in the things that we do. I 91 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: have seen it, and I've been guilty of it. So 92 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: remember everything I always tell. 93 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 2: You, guys. 94 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Sadly, I wish I could say I'd never been guilty 95 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: of it, but that's just not true. I have been 96 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: guilty of it because I once was lost as well. 97 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: But even after I was redeemed, this sanctification process, I mean, 98 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: it's definitely changing because of the power of the Holy Spirit, 99 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 1: but I can remember being fully justified and fully redeemed, 100 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: still an infant, and just being honest that I found 101 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: myself more interested in lost people than people who were redeemed. 102 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: Celebrities that were lost were more intriguing to me than 103 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: some devout follower of Jesus. And you know which one 104 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: of those had something of value. It was not the celebrity. 105 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 1: Like think about it. Even in men's ministry, sorry, ladies, 106 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: we talk about this a lot. You can't get a 107 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: man to read the Bible for anything, but you hand 108 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: him a book written by some football coach, and man, 109 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: he's all in a are some athlete that you know 110 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: has never had any fruit of the spirit whatsoever. But 111 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,239 Speaker 1: I got to hear that story or some rock band 112 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: that he's into, or you know, I'd rather read that. 113 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: And what Paul is saying was, well, that's. 114 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: A mistake because you have now gone to try to 115 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: learn things from blind, ignorant people, and they got nothing 116 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: to bring to the table. Those of us that are 117 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: redeemed should be searching for things that God would have 118 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: us to, you know, pattern ourselves after. To look to 119 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: the examples of a devout follower of Christ, I think 120 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: you would probably be hard pressed to find many, even 121 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: redeemed men in the church. I would say Christian men 122 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: the redemption may be. They may make that claim, so 123 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: I'll just say they claim to be part of the church, 124 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: and sometimes they may be justified, because I remember this 125 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: was a problem in the early stages. But they're not 126 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: growing and if they were honest, if you ask most men. 127 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: And I don't know how women respond to this, because 128 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: I haven't talked to women about this, but I've definitely 129 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: talked to men about it. If you ask men who 130 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: their heroes are, they rarely ever say anybody of any 131 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: consequence spiritually. It's usually somebody that maybe he led some 132 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: military heroic thing, which certainly can be admired. But do 133 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: you ever hear any of them say the apostle Paul Peter, 134 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: John Stephen. I'm sure you may hear it some s 135 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: cornerho you talk to, I've never heard that much. It's 136 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: usually some philosopher, some important person in history. I've never 137 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: heard Billy Graham much. So what Paul is saying that 138 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: that is the incorrect way to live, because if you're 139 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: looking to the Gentiles, and that just means Pagans lost people, 140 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: you're looking into a mind and trying to glean something 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: from a mind of futility. You're trying to get understanding 142 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: from people who they're under understanding has been darkened. They're 143 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: completely alienated from any discernment that comes from God because 144 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: they don't have his spirit. The original intent was to 145 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: have the spirit, but the spirit was removed at the fall. 146 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: That's why Jesus had to go to the Cross to 147 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: return God seed back to those that are willing to repent. 148 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: And if you have not repented, and you have not 149 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: left faith in yourself and put that faith in Christ, 150 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: if Jesus Christ is not your Lord, and you haven't 151 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: been redeemed by Jesus, then you don't have the spirit 152 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: of God. And you are not of any use to anybody. 153 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: I don't care how important you may be. And that's 154 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: the thing that we have to understand. Who deems this 155 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: person that you want to patter in your life after? 156 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: Who deems them to be important? God are the world? 157 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: And I've been as guilty of it as anybody. I mean, 158 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: one of the hardest things I think we deal with 159 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: is because we're designed to worship, that worship needs to 160 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: go to the Lord. And I have found myself, and 161 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed to say this, much more enamored with some 162 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: professional athlete than I was a powerful man of God. 163 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: And I'm ashamed of that because it's silly, but it's 164 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 1: in my nature, you know. And so but now I 165 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: will say that I'm not as infatuated with those people. 166 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: Now years later, God is kind of starting to remove that. 167 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: But it's still struggle, you know, And so we need 168 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: to listen carefully to the warning from the apostle Paul. 169 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: Let's go to nineteen. He tells us more about it. 170 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: He said, they've become callous and they've given themselves up 171 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. So 172 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: what he's saying is, and I remember this too in 173 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: my life when I was lost. He said, you have 174 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: to understand, they're so lost, and they're so far gone. 175 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: They don't have conviction of any kind because they don't 176 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: have the Holy Spirit. I can tell you, guys, I'm 177 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: ashamed of it. I'll bring no glory to it. 178 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 2: I will not. 179 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: I will spare you the gory details, as I have 180 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: learned as I'm growing up a little bit spiritually, be 181 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: careful with TMI too much information. Okay, you can just 182 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: genuinely tell us. We don't have to know the gory details. 183 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: You don't have to shock us. But what he's saying there, 184 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: and I remember this, I remember the drift. Some of 185 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: you may the when I kind of left the church 186 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: and I was a cultural Christian and then I did 187 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: a few things I wasn't supposed to do, and then 188 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: but it kind of bothered me a little bit and 189 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: then the further I got down the road, I really 190 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: had no guilt whatsoever about anything I was doing. 191 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 2: And this is what he say. 192 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: And you've got to understand they're past conviction, not saying 193 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: they can't be convicted, but right now, in their last state, 194 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: they are callous. They've completely gone all in on sin. 195 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: They practice every kind of impurity, and frankly it doesn't 196 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: bother them. You may look at their life and say, 197 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: how can they do this evil? They're not thinking like 198 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: that the callous. What does a callous do? So? I mean, 199 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it keeps you from even feeling anything right. 200 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: And so he says, this has happened, and I remember this. 201 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: It's a scary thing to look back on. Is I 202 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: was up for anything, and everything was about me trying 203 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: to satisfy my desires and whatever I wanted to do. 204 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: I'd step on where anybody, do anything to get there, 205 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: and didn't have any conviction about it. 206 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: So that's what he's saying. 207 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: Now, Praise God, he delivered me from that, and he 208 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: can from he can any anyone. But until that happens, 209 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: these are not the kind of people you need to 210 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: be associating with. And then he comes back and reminds them, 211 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: have you have you ever talked to somebody really helped them, 212 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: really try to give them sound biblical knowledge, And you 213 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: look and they're just disregarding it, and you're like, this 214 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: is what we talked about. And so Paul comes back 215 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: and says that I like seeing that. He struggled with 216 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: that too. 217 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: He says, but this is not the way you learn Christ. 218 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: This is not what we've been teaching you that you 219 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: would look after these people are act like these people. 220 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: This is not what we talked about. There's a conversion 221 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: of the redeemed. You know, it's Christ. It's not a 222 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: set of rules. Christ is the power. Notice he's didn't say, 223 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: remember all the things I taught you. I told you 224 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: not to do this. I told you not to do that, 225 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: and you should do this, and you should do that, 226 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: don't do that. He didn't say that, I taught you Christ, 227 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: not a bunch of rules. I taught you about redemption 228 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: in Him. I talked to you about the redemption that 229 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: only he provides. I taught you Christ, and and that's 230 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,479 Speaker 1: all you need to know. And I think that's important 231 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: because especially with with men, because being one I know 232 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: more about that. 233 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like to be a woman. 234 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: I've tried, I've lived with a woman for a long time, 235 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: and I still don't understand all that. But but but 236 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: but I, but I will say to this that you know, 237 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: as we're told in scripture, you know to to to 238 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: love them in an understanding way, and that requires supernatural power. 239 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 2: Uh. 240 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 1: But but one of the things that I that I 241 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: know as a man is the after I was redeemed, 242 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: because what this is just what you know? 243 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,439 Speaker 2: What I thought of? What's my rules? 244 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: What? So give me the give me the give me 245 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: the plan of now what it is to be a 246 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: man of God? And Paul said, no, no, no, you're getting 247 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: ahead of it. Abide in Christ and the plan will 248 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: flow from him. But I want to know what the 249 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,479 Speaker 1: plan was and would that lead to frustration? 250 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 2: Right? 251 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: You abide in Jesus and the plan flows out, the 252 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: redemption and the fruit as he tells us in John fifteen, 253 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: he does all the change. And just abide in him. 254 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: Go find out everything you can possibly know about him, 255 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: pray to him, Just abide and just make that if 256 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: you want to make a decision, make the decision to 257 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: abide in him. And once I finally did that. I 258 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: will say that as he told us that being obedient to. 259 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: Him was not a burden. 260 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: It flows smoothly. It's changed, that's coming from him. So 261 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: be careful about you saying I'm redeemed. Now what are 262 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: the new rules, because you know what I was always 263 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: guilty of if you went that route. I started studying 264 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: the Bible for what was still allowed, not what was commanded. Okay, 265 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: that was the way I first started studying the Bible. 266 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: Let me see what he'll still allow and that's Look, 267 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: I'm not proud of that, but that's just the absolute truth. 268 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: Now I realize I need to be looking at what's commanded, 269 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: not what's allowed, you know, And so that that's going 270 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: to serve me a lot more. So. 271 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 2: Now let's get to twenty one. 272 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: So this look back at twenty one more time, because 273 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: it's gonna flow into twenty one. But that is not 274 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: the way you learn Christ twenty one, assuming that you 275 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: have heard about Him and were taught in Him as 276 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: the truth is in Jesus. Now that that's a little 277 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: bit of a challenge there. But that little word, if 278 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: I remember the first pastor that ever discipled me, Jerry 279 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: Starling Sary and I went to Lakeview Baptist Church, Highway 280 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: seventy eight, Oxford, Alabama. First man to ever me to 281 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: be listening to and be learning from as a follower 282 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: of Christ. And I remember he said, look, there's a 283 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: little word in the Bible and it's only got a 284 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: couple of letters, but it's powerful and that word is 285 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: if look for those ifs. So he says, the way 286 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: you learn Christ, assuming or if you do, I have 287 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: this right where you taught the truth about Jesus. Paul's 288 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: being a little bit sarcastic here. Now, unless you just 289 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: didn't listen, I'm assuming you learned it. I'm assuming that 290 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: you that you that you knew this, that you heard 291 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: about him correctly, You were taught in him as the 292 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: truth in Jesus. And he said what So what what 293 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: I want to know is you learn this right? That's 294 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: really what he say. So you did? You did learn that? 295 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: When you've been redeemed, it's not just business as usual. 296 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: And you're you're still going out here with these pagans. 297 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: You're still looking at these that their their minds are feutile. 298 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: You're still trying to gain knowledge from people who are dark. 299 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: You're still trying to follow people that have no conviction 300 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: and they don't see any stop signs in it where 301 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: they don't see any boundaries that are provided by God. 302 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: I assume that it's not just business as usual. You 303 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: know what he's saying. You have been changed, right, And 304 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: let me say that. And you're gonna hear this in 305 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: today's lesson big time. We've just been screaming this from 306 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: the rooftop. What is the worst thing that can take 307 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: place of the world watching the church is to see 308 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: the church consisting of people that are rolling through business 309 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: as usual. I'm not going to heaven now, but nothing 310 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: about me's changed. I've just decided to start going to 311 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 1: a church if it doesn't rain or it isn't too inconvenient. 312 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: And I said some prayer and I believe some things, 313 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: and that ought to be good enough. But if you're 314 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: looking for transformation, you're not gonna find it. Well, let 315 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: me tell you something from one who believed that lie 316 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: for a long time. If Jesus Christ has not transformed us, 317 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: you're lost. You cannot call him that insignificant. I'm just 318 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: gonna let you do it. And and so if you 319 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: still are more intrigued with a dying world than you 320 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: are Jesus. Jesus is not the problem. 321 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: And that's exactly what Paul said. 322 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: Now y'all do have this right Verses twenty two through 323 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: twenty four, A new look. 324 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: Look at this. 325 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: We should look different. And these are going to be 326 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: some action things coming up here. Twenty two to put 327 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: off your old self, which belongs to your former manner 328 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: of life and is corrupt through deceitful desire. So the 329 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: first thing he says, there's something you got to take off. 330 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: You know, if you want to be truly converted, if 331 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: you want a transformation to take place in your life, 332 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: you cannot go in and tell Jesus you'd like to 333 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: have him him and your old self. You want both. 334 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: He said, No, the old self's got to go. It's 335 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: and he's using an action word. This is not This 336 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 1: is not mild. The the the old you, that old self, 337 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: those old that the things that were you before conversion, 338 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: they have got to go. They must be removed. Put 339 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: off your old self because that belongs to the former 340 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: manner of life that. 341 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 2: Was corrupt and full of deceitful desires. 342 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: Oh how I would just beg you if you want, 343 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: one of the things that we need to pray and 344 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: pray and pray is to the Lord God Almighty, take 345 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: away and change my sinful desires, you know, as opposed 346 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: to living our life as sin dar devils. 347 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 2: I mean not. 348 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: Let's not get to the place where we think that 349 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: I still desire those things, but I want to act 350 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: on them. How about this, Let's go all in on 351 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: the power of Jesus, and how about let's not desire them. Listen, 352 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: let's let's lose our taste for them. Let's be nauseated 353 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: by things that are sinful, not intrigued. Now that that's 354 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: not overnight. That's not overnight. You've heard me mention C. S. 355 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: Lewis's great words many many times when he talked about 356 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: you don't know the power of the Nazis back in 357 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: the day. If you just went along with them, that's 358 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: that's our flesh. If you want to know their true 359 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: power and how vicious they can be, go against them. 360 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: Same with sinful desire. If you decide, you say I'm 361 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: gonna I'm redeemed, I want to move away, I want 362 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: to repent, and then all of a sudden that spirit 363 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 1: is made alive by the power of the Holy Spirit, 364 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: that dead spirit comes alive. 365 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 2: And and and and. 366 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: Now God's Spirit as it was originally intended is is back. 367 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: Because you've been redeemed, that sin nature will begin to 368 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: fight for its life, because now it's competition. Now there's 369 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: a war going on before you glorified. I just got 370 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: the word a minute ago that a dear friend of mine, 371 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: his mother, godly woman, lived into her nineties. He just 372 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: sent back Mom's home. You know what sanctifications over for her. 373 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: All she knows now is glorification. What a wonderful well. 374 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: Can't you just breathe that sigh of relief. 375 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 2: The battle's over. I've gone, I've been justified. 376 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: I've been fighting being sanctified, and now I'm glorified. 377 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about that sin nature anymore. 378 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 2: It's over. 379 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: And so this is what Paul is saying. You've got 380 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: to while you're here on earth, you got to put 381 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: off that old self and be done with it. You 382 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: got to go into the high places as we saw 383 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: through the Old Testament. You know this is putting off 384 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: of the old self. It's not just dealing with the 385 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: things right in front of Let me get rid of 386 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: the biggies. Let me give you I got a bag 387 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: of all my sins. Let me give Jesus three four 388 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: so it, but I'm gonna keep it forth. Now what 389 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: this is talking about is you. You don't just deal 390 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: with all the idols here in the valley. You go 391 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: up into those mountains and you go into those secret 392 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: rooms of your life and you get rid of all 393 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: of it, and you give it all to Jesus, even 394 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: that precious sin that you just kind of lay. I 395 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: just I just got to hang on to it, give 396 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: it up, be done with it, because that belongs to 397 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: your old self. And you know I can speak to this, 398 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: and I bet a lot of you can. I look 399 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: back at my old self. He didn't do me much good. 400 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: Why in the world would I want to go back 401 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: to that. The old self didn't do anything. It caused 402 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: me regret and. 403 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 2: Trouble, had a few moments of fun, but never slept 404 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 2: with peace. The old self is. 405 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: There to do his harm, not good. So then he 406 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: moves on. He said, all right, so get you got. 407 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: You gotta put off the old self. And then look 408 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: at twenty three, goes further and be renewed in the 409 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: spirit of your minds Now, let's don't let's don't hang on. 410 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: This is like your old self has got to be 411 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: put away, but also your old desires have got to go. 412 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: These are those old, adam things that you desired before 413 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: we got that. And now you've got to change your direction. 414 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: Your old direction has got to the roads you're on. 415 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: You got to turn go the other way? Right, how 416 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: many of you done? I'm just not very good at this. 417 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: You have the GPS on your phone, right, I can 418 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: speak to this now since my dad is going to 419 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: have and he can't come back and tell me he 420 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: didn't understand why anyone goes anywhere that they don't know 421 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: where they're going. Uh, But anyway, So have you ever 422 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: had the GPS? And it works pretty good in the 423 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: car and you decide you're going to now walk to 424 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: the destination from where you parked, And. 425 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: How many times you look down and go, am I going? 426 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 2: Am I? Is this the street work? You turned? 427 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: You? And you're doing this, and all of a sudden 428 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: you realize you've been walking blocks in the wrong direction, 429 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: and what do you do? You have to turn around 430 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: and go all the way the other way. So this 431 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: is what he's saying. He's saying, you can't even you 432 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: gotta think differently. Satan always attacks the mind. Regeneration, the 433 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit will regenerate the mind. The 434 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: carnal mind wants to continue in the old, same direction. 435 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: And I love that when I was reading some of 436 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: these commentaries, and it's true, Satan loves to go after 437 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: the mind. You got to change the way you think. 438 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: You can't think the way you've always thought. I'm not 439 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: talking about your brain, I'm talking about your mind, the 440 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: inner you. So there has to be a change in 441 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: the way that you think. And the Holy Spirit will 442 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: regenerate the mind, and that carnal mind always wants to what. 443 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: Let's just go back to light we were. I was 444 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: much more comfortable the way we were. You knew how 445 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: to think, you knew how to do that. You don't 446 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: know how to do this new life. You can't you 447 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: can't think this way. You can't think like those people. 448 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: Have you ever honestly looked at somebody that was very 449 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: devout and the more you talk to them, and all 450 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: of a sudden, your sin nature, the demons or whatever said, 451 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: you can never get there. You can never get there. 452 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: First of all, that person. You need to spend more 453 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: time with them. 454 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 2: They got things they're still working on too. 455 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: But I can tell you speaking from experience, God, not me, 456 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: my not my new. 457 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna buckle down. It's not that. 458 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: It's not my efforts, not my new self control, it's 459 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: not any of that. It is a powerful transformation by 460 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: the glory of God that has given me the ability 461 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: to do things in my faith that I never thought 462 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: were remotely possible. And sitting here for eleven years is 463 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: one of them. You see a miracle. Sitting here for 464 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: eleven years. This is nothing I ever thought I could do, 465 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 1: thought it was unattainable. I've had people come to me 466 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: and say, how do you prepare these and do this 467 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: and all that? And I'm like, it's supernatural. I don't 468 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: know how to tell you anything different. I can give 469 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: you a couple of things to start with. But all 470 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: the greatest plans in the world never worked for me 471 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: until the power of God just gave me a thirst 472 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: to want to know everything about Him I could possibly know, 473 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: and not be afraid to say I don't know, but 474 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: I'll find out, and they go try to find somebody 475 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: could help me. So that's what I would suggest for 476 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: you too, but never because you can still be humble, 477 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: keep it in the right place. Yes, I have incredible limits, 478 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: so to you, but God doesn't. It's what God can 479 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: do through you, not what you can do through you. 480 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: What God can do through you. And I'm telling you, 481 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: wherever you are and wherever I I am, let's not 482 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: be satisfied. Let's not ever think we've arrived. Let's not 483 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: ever think that I've been going in the right direction 484 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: so long now, I'd never turn back and go the 485 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: other way. 486 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,719 Speaker 2: I will tell you this. I've watched people fall. 487 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,239 Speaker 1: I've seen far too many, and I use them as 488 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: a warning, and you'll see some things that always happen. 489 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 2: First of all, they start, they start. 490 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 1: Losing and becoming delusional about their own potential for sin. 491 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: They become delusional about it. They think they're good now. 492 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: They take accountability out of their lives and replace those 493 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: people with people that are enamored with them, and they 494 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: remove the people that shoot them straight because they get 495 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: kind of tired of being corrected on something, even though 496 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: the people are correcting them for their own good. Those 497 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: things happen every single time in the life of somebody 498 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: that'll fall. They become delusional about their own potential for sin, 499 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: and they remove accountability from their life and replace. 500 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: It with people that are enamored with them. 501 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: And that's usually when you'll see that platform is in trouble. 502 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: So let's never do that. I want to think, and 503 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: when I think about all the things I still don't 504 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: know at sixty one, I get excited about God teaching. 505 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 2: It to me. 506 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: So and y'all know this, I'm learning things from the 507 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been taught this letter so many 508 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: times with some of the best teachers that I've ever 509 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: been around, much better than me, and I'm still learning, 510 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: which is incredible because I decided to continue to pursue 511 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: what God would teach me twenty six. Now he's going 512 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: to kind of show you some specific things at twenty 513 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Twenty five. First, he says, where am I skipping? 514 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: I've skipped a bunch. All right, Let's hang on a minute. 515 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: Let me get you to twenty four. First, twenty four 516 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: and put on the up. We're renewing our minds. And 517 00:28:58,600 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: then the next thing we got to do. We've put 518 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: off the old self. We got to put on the 519 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: new self created after the likeness of God and true 520 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: righteousness and holiness. There's a lot going on right there. Now, 521 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: we got talked about what we're gonna put on. Just 522 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: as we inherited Adam's nature, the new man has to 523 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: inherit Jesus's nature. You got me, that's the new atom. 524 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: So when I was born, I inherited Adam's nature. When 525 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: I was redeemed, I've now inherited Jesus's nature because he 526 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: is the new atom. We had the first atom failed, 527 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: so we had to have That's why it was a 528 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: god man. 529 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 2: We had to have. 530 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: One hundred percent God but also sinless, one hundred percent man, 531 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: which only God could do that in his son as 532 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: part of the triune God. So Adam's out, Jesus is in. 533 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: And so he says, so there's there. You don't just 534 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: put off Adam. You got to put on Jesus. 535 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: And then he goes on to say this, this is incredible. 536 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: Look at everything that we're putting on, crafted after the 537 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: likeness of God and true righteousness and holiness. Who gives 538 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: us that Jesus? See there it is again. You got 539 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: we got to be righteous and we're not. 540 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 2: We got to be holy and we're not. 541 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: But through Jesus, the new self provides both. So put 542 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: on Jesus and put off Adam. Uh and and this 543 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: is something that that also happens. What that's why Jesus 544 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: kept saying that you have to be born again. And 545 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: he explained it's not that, you know, not a physical birth. 546 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: You don't go back into your mother's womb, and then 547 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: you're born again. You were born into the sin of Adam. 548 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: When you're redeemed, you've been reborn into the nature of Jesus. 549 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: You were born the way you were supposed to be 550 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: righteous and holy, just as the God who made us 551 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: and always intei did his spirit to be in us. 552 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,719 Speaker 1: You got a old nature, you've got a new nature. 553 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: You had an old birth, you now have a new birth. 554 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: So then we move on, and we're going to talk 555 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: about the converted disposition. This is verses twenty five and 556 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: twenty six. Therefore, therefore, having put away falsehood, let each 557 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for 558 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: we're members of one another. Okay, now this is now 559 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: He's given us some examples here of a transformed tongue. 560 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: He says, you know, once you put on the new self. 561 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what Jesus doesn't do. He doesn't lie. 562 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 2: Who lies? Satan? 563 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: I mean that's that, stop lying, stop being deceitful. The 564 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 1: principles of our new faith in Jesus will now be Also. 565 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: You know what comes with that, a practice of that faith, 566 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit? The spirit was it called John fifteen 567 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: twenty six? What's the holy spirit called the spirit of truth? 568 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: We also know that John says that what Jesus told 569 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: us is that lies are the language of the devil. 570 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: So lying is like the devil. Speaking in truth is 571 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: like Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth. Okay, 572 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: So the next thing he says in twenty six, be 573 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun 574 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: go down on your anger. I want to clarify that 575 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: one because that one has bothered me. And I did 576 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: a lot of research on this, and I understand it 577 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: better now. But let's start with the first one. So 578 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: we got a transformed tongue. We also got to have 579 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: what a transformed temper. Jesus is gentle. Jesus is meek, 580 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: and I was taught meekness. I struggled with meekness as 581 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: a lot. 582 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 2: Of men do. 583 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what Let me tell what Jesus was. 584 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: And there's actually a poem out there. I think Wesley 585 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: wrote that I disagree with because he uses the word mild. 586 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: I think he did that because it rhymes with child. 587 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: But Jesus was not mild. Jesus was meek, which is 588 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: what strength under control. We've talked about that strength. I 589 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: remember when I learned that, I was like, okay, I 590 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: needed that. 591 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 2: That helps me. 592 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm like a horse that's ready to go. But I'm 593 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: under control, like I'm being bridled by the Holy Spirit. 594 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: And if I need to use my strength, I do 595 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: it correctly. But it's it's strength under control. So yes, Jesus, 596 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: Jesus talked about being meek, but he was not mild. 597 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: He was not soft, and he was not passive. So remember, 598 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: meekness is not to be soft. It's not to be mild, 599 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: and it's not to be passive. It's to have your 600 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: strength and your anger under control. Did Jesus get angry, yes? 601 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: Did he do it correctly? 602 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 2: Yes? 603 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: And that's what Paul's telling us. If you can even 604 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: handle anger right under the authority of Christ, there is 605 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 1: a righteous anger, there's a time to be angry. Uh. 606 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: But but we can't be out of control. We got 607 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: to be under control now this don't let the sun 608 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: go down For the longest, I took that to mean 609 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: I got to resolve whatever issue I got with somebody 610 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: for the sun goes down. 611 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 2: Uh, And I realized that that's incorrect. 612 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: What what what Paul is talking about here is what 613 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 1: we're saying. When do you get yourself in trouble with 614 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: anger when you let it linger? I'm just fistering. This 615 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: is festering, and the more I think about it, that 616 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: we're ungruge it. And so what he's saying is as 617 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: for what you can control, because I don't know if y'all, 618 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: if you ever tried to work something out with somebody 619 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,720 Speaker 1: for the sun went down and then they just wouldn't 620 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 1: do it. And I'm like, I remember I got into 621 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: a disagreement with a brother one time, and I even said, 622 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: I said, we got to work this out. We can't 623 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: let the sun go down on this, and he was 624 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,479 Speaker 1: not willing. He was he wasn't ready. I will tell 625 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: married people something sometimes you go ahead, let's sun go 626 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,320 Speaker 1: on down, okay, Uh, just uh, let let that settle 627 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: a walk, Okay, yeah, let's try that again tomorrow. 628 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 629 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: So so, But what it means is, don't let your 630 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: anger linger you when you're mad about something, don't let 631 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: it continue to fester. By the time that sun goes down, 632 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: you have that thing in check. It may mean you 633 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: still got to go resolve it with the person you're 634 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: in conflict with, like even tomorrow. But as for us, 635 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: we don't let anger fester. We don't let it linger. 636 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm mad, I'm done with it. I'm not gonna let 637 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: it turn it because usually when it when it festers, 638 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: you end up doing something you just want to go 639 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: back and say, I wish I could have taken that back. 640 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 2: So take a deep. 641 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: Breath, don't don't let your temper get away from you, 642 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: and don't let the sun go down. You haven't got 643 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: your anger in check. That's actually what that means, which 644 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: makes a lot more sense. It's it's a transformed temper. Uh, 645 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: let let calm follow the storm, don't let the day 646 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: end and you're still have that anger out of control. 647 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 2: That's what that's talking about. 648 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: So then he gets into twenty seven and he says, 649 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: what and give no opportunity to the devil. How many 650 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,839 Speaker 1: times have you have you let your your anger get 651 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: away from you? And the devil says, that's all I 652 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 1: needed Right now, I'm on And boy, have you ever 653 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: have you ever been angry and all of a sudden 654 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: you just start like vomiting it out and you're renting 655 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: and you're rolling, and it is just building, and I'll 656 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: tell you another thing, and before you know it, you're thinking, 657 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: that's not good enough. I want to say something even worse. 658 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 1: And and then you go, if I could have reeled 659 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: that back in, that'd been great. That's why we need 660 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: to keep our anger in check, you know. And I 661 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: love what Paul's saying here. If you really look at 662 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: some of the words he's using here, you know what 663 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: he says, Why do you keep being giving attention to 664 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: a conquered devil? 665 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 2: Satan has crushed his head? I mean, Jesus says, crushed 666 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,320 Speaker 2: Satan's head. 667 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: Do you realize the distance between your savior and this 668 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: rebellious angel. Don't let him keep coming here and having 669 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: victory over you, and you belong to Jesus. 670 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 2: You've got the weapon, you know. 671 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: Think about as Sherry talked about this yesterday, think about 672 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 1: the simplicity of what James said. Look, submit yourself then 673 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 1: to God, come near to God. Resist the devil, Come 674 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 1: near to God, and he'll come near to you. Just 675 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 1: that's just the instruction. 676 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 2: Just resist the devil. 677 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: A lot of times when I get in trouble with 678 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: temptation is I didn't resist him. I'm playing games with 679 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: my sin nature. I'm playing games with the things of 680 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: the devil. I haven't just said that's out. Do not 681 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:42,280 Speaker 1: let a conquered, defeated devil dictate us to do anything. 682 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: He's defeated. Remind him that he's defeated. Tell your anger 683 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 1: that he's defeated. It's a conquered he's defeated. Don't give 684 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: him the opportunity or an invitation. Look, he doesn't fear us, 685 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 1: that's the problem. Tell what he does fear. He fears 686 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. So you just remind him who you 687 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,720 Speaker 1: belong to. He's not afraid of us, but he's afraid 688 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 1: of Jesus. He's afraid of the Holy Spirit. He's afraid 689 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: of God the Father, and that's who we need to 690 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 1: remind him that we belong to. If you're gonna come 691 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: get me, you got to come through God, and that's 692 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,799 Speaker 1: who he's afraid of and he's defeated by. So we 693 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,680 Speaker 1: have to remember that, don't give opportunity, don't make it easy. 694 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: You know, it's a silly analogy, but like dealing with sports, 695 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: what happens so many times. You go, if we just 696 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: won't turn the ball over, if we just won't give 697 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 1: them gifts, we can win this game. Well, if we'll 698 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: stop giving the devil gifts that he didn't even earn. 699 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,960 Speaker 1: Most of the time we do pretty well. We usually 700 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,319 Speaker 1: give him the opportunity. And Paul says, don't do that, 701 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: and then he goes into twenty eight. Let the thief 702 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 1: no longer steal, but rather let him labor, do an 703 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,520 Speaker 1: honest work with his own hands, so that you may 704 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 1: have something to share with anyone in need. So what 705 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 1: is he saying there. It's an interesting little example he 706 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: throws in there. But I'll tell what he's saying. Those 707 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: that have been redeemed there should be a noticeable different 708 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: in their life. That there should be a noticeable difference. 709 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 1: You shouldn't be the way you were, and the difference 710 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 1: in your life should be noticeable. 711 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 2: The people can see it. 712 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,719 Speaker 1: And I will tell you this and I don't want 713 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: anybody to have a testimony like mine, but I will 714 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: tell you that I was so bad that once I 715 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,800 Speaker 1: was redeemed, there was a noticeable difference. People were saying, 716 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,760 Speaker 1: this is the same guy that did blankety blankety blank, 717 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: and he doesn't seem like he's like that anymore. Some 718 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 1: of my friends they would marvel and just say what 719 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: has happened? And then you point to Jesus. So he's 720 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,320 Speaker 1: going as far as to say a thief, once he's redeemed, 721 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: will no longer still that thief, will go out and 722 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: earn an honest living, do honest work with his own hands. 723 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 1: And now he's working honestly, and he's going to take 724 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 1: what he's got now and not just earn his own way. 725 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: He's gonna give it to other people. He's gonna become 726 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,760 Speaker 1: someone that goes out and gives what he's earned before. 727 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 2: He stole and whatever he stole, what he kept for himself. 728 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: But now he's been so changed by Jesus that he's 729 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: gone out and become an honest laborer working with his 730 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,399 Speaker 1: own hands. And now he doesn't say I went out 731 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 1: to work so that I might have something. He's now 732 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 1: working to have something to share with anyone in need. 733 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: And you know, people saying, is this the thief? Did 734 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: I just see the thief go provide for the food kitchen? 735 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: This guy, he must have stolen it. So he's no, no, no, 736 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: He's got a job now, he honest worker, makes a 737 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 1: good living. So he's not only not stealing it anymore, 738 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: he's giving. And you know what they say, noticeable difference. 739 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: I see that he's been changed. Does anybody say that 740 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,080 Speaker 1: about us self? Reflect right now? Does anybody say about 741 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,279 Speaker 1: us there's a noticeable difference in these men of God 742 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,120 Speaker 1: or these women of God, if you're watching listening, than 743 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:21,280 Speaker 1: those that are not redeemed. 744 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 2: Is it noticeable? 745 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: It should be, according to what Paul says, because of 746 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,480 Speaker 1: the power of Jesus, not because of us. Now here 747 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,160 Speaker 1: comes another one that's really, really tough, and it is counterculture, 748 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: and it is something that I continue to struggle with, 749 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,799 Speaker 1: and that is there should be a redeemed way that 750 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:47,120 Speaker 1: we participate in conversation. It should not be corrupt. Look 751 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: what he says, Let no corrupting talk come out of 752 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,239 Speaker 1: your mouths. But only such as is as good, is 753 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,560 Speaker 1: good for building up as fits the occasion that may 754 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: give grace to those that hear. So let's go back again. 755 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 1: I know sometimes we wish the Bible would say something different. 756 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 1: So it does not say don't let as much corrupting 757 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,879 Speaker 1: talk come out anymore, because that's where I am right now. 758 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 1: It says, let no corrupting talk come out of your 759 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,560 Speaker 1: mouths Now, if you want to talk, birge, maybe you 760 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: could use your mouth to build people up, as would 761 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,760 Speaker 1: fit any occasion. And then maybe that mouth of yours 762 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,960 Speaker 1: should be flowing with grace for those who hear, not 763 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,120 Speaker 1: tearing people down, not saying bad things about them, not 764 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 1: talking in a way that is corruptible. It's such a 765 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:52,000 Speaker 1: bad word outward example. Uh, and you think, well, what 766 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,240 Speaker 1: give me, give me, let's let's talk about that. Gossip 767 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,800 Speaker 1: would appear here. Of course, now nobody loves gossip. 768 00:42:58,840 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 2: We know that. 769 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: Social media has not thrown kinlin on that fire in 770 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 1: gasoline on that fire. You know, the only thing better 771 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: than gossiping when people know it's you is to be 772 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 1: able to gossip without anybody knowing it you, and to 773 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: be able to gossip without having to face anybody. And 774 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 1: of course that's what we have now. But think about 775 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:26,200 Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty six seventy three, when Peter is denying 776 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,040 Speaker 1: Jesus to the people by the fire, and remember the 777 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: girl by the fire, what does it tell us? He 778 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: finally started doing to convince everybody he had nothing to 779 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 1: do with Jesus. 780 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,719 Speaker 2: He began to cuss, He began to use foul language. 781 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: So that was his way of going, what can I 782 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: do right now that would really convince everybody that I 783 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:46,760 Speaker 1: have nothing to do with Jesus. 784 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,280 Speaker 2: I start cussing, I start using foul language. 785 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,400 Speaker 1: So we are to take that is the use of 786 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: foul language is one of the biggest ways that we 787 00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:02,560 Speaker 1: can tell somebody we don't know Jesus. That was very convicting. 788 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,759 Speaker 1: Not that I try to use foul language, but the 789 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 1: fact that, you know, it's something that I have struggled 790 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,920 Speaker 1: with and continue to struggle with to a degree that 791 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,160 Speaker 1: still needs to be completely done away with. So it's 792 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,840 Speaker 1: corrupt means bad, it means rotten, it means. 793 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,800 Speaker 2: Putrid, decaying animal. 794 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,960 Speaker 1: Also is the Greek word here, and it's a bad 795 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: outward example, and so is gossip because you know what 796 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,040 Speaker 1: he's saying. Also here is what Jesus told us, Hey, 797 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,160 Speaker 1: maybe a little more grace flowing out of your mouth 798 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: would really help people. Why don't you not deny grace 799 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,959 Speaker 1: to people that Jesus didn't deny. 800 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 2: You remember Jesus saying. 801 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,560 Speaker 1: That, I've really been taking that with me. It's really 802 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: helped me with giving people grace, because the bottom line 803 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 1: is Jesus said, now, should I've given you grace? And 804 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,719 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, you really shouldn't have. Well, then why 805 00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,680 Speaker 1: don't you give somebody else grace? They're not near as 806 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,560 Speaker 1: bad as you were compared to me. Well, true, since 807 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,120 Speaker 1: you're perfect. Think about that. I mean, anybody that we 808 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,400 Speaker 1: think has done something bad, it's nothing because we're also 809 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: bad people. So they've done done something bad to another 810 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,680 Speaker 1: bad person. We did things bad to a perfect person, 811 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: a perfect God. So there's really no comparison. And if 812 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,400 Speaker 1: he can give grace, if there's anybody that could have 813 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,959 Speaker 1: just said now, I'm not giving grace to anybody because 814 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,399 Speaker 1: I'm perfect, that'd be God. 815 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,680 Speaker 2: And and he did not deny grace to us. 816 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,400 Speaker 1: So we're being told again by Paul, let's not deny 817 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,560 Speaker 1: that to other people. And by the way, let's just 818 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,680 Speaker 1: let's just get real here, okay, And it's about to 819 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,279 Speaker 1: talk about it here. If you just go ahead and 820 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:45,879 Speaker 1: give the grace that you've been given, Okay, it's it's 821 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,960 Speaker 1: gonna help the person, but it's also gonna free you. 822 00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,480 Speaker 1: And Paul's going to get into that. So he says, 823 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,319 Speaker 1: and do not grieve underline that because that that is 824 00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: that is specific. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, 825 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,800 Speaker 1: God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption, 826 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,480 Speaker 1: grieving the Holy Spirit. 827 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,359 Speaker 2: So if you look in scripture. 828 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:17,760 Speaker 1: You realize that the Holy Spirit is not to be grieved. 829 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,839 Speaker 1: Now it can be resisted. Acts seven point fifty one 830 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,799 Speaker 1: tells us that resisting the Holy Spirit is a sin 831 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:27,839 Speaker 1: of the unsaved. 832 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,520 Speaker 2: These are the people that hear the Gospel. 833 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:35,319 Speaker 1: Many many times, but they never heed the truth of 834 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 1: the gospel. So the Holy Spirit can be resisted. That's 835 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,320 Speaker 1: even called the only unforgivable sin, the blaspheming of the 836 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:47,120 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, by rejecting it completely, by not never submitting, 837 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:52,040 Speaker 1: never repenting, never believing with a saving faith. So that's one. 838 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 1: But also we know the Holy Spirit can be quenched. One. 839 00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:02,160 Speaker 1: Thessalonians five nineteen tells us this. Now, the the blaspheming 840 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,600 Speaker 1: of the spirit. That's what lost people do. Quenching the 841 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,040 Speaker 1: spirit is a sin of the church. Frankly, I just 842 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: heard our pastor. I never heard this phrase before, and 843 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,759 Speaker 1: he calls them the cold water Committee. I never heard 844 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,880 Speaker 1: that phrase. I'm sure those of you that are pastors 845 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,799 Speaker 1: in here you've heard it before. But I know what 846 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,000 Speaker 1: it meant immediately because I've seen it happen. And that is, 847 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 1: if the church is really really doing well and seems 848 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,759 Speaker 1: to really think that the spirit is moving and people 849 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,840 Speaker 1: are coming to Christ and we're baptizing people, there's always 850 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 1: the cold water committee that wants to meet with the 851 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,359 Speaker 1: pastor and say I don't like the way we're doing this, 852 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 1: and they'll just take the Holy Spirit and just just 853 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: put the cold water right on it. And so that 854 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,520 Speaker 1: is a sin of the church. It's fellowship. That is, 855 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:54,560 Speaker 1: it's undisciplined, it's inconsistent, it's quarrelsome, it's prayerless, it's unhappy 856 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,760 Speaker 1: with everything, it's unthankful, it's critical of the preacher, slack 857 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,560 Speaker 1: on faith, morality is shaky. The home of the cold 858 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,560 Speaker 1: water Committee, we'll just put it. We'll just put it 859 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,720 Speaker 1: that way, because they're more concerned with how the church 860 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,480 Speaker 1: is doing things, and they are about the Holy Spirit 861 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,200 Speaker 1: actually being in the church, and they cannot wait to 862 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 1: quench it. There was an example I had not heard of, 863 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,719 Speaker 1: and it was a revival that broke out in a 864 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,719 Speaker 1: church and uh, and it really happened. It was this incredible. 865 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,279 Speaker 1: It came to a time of decision. It was a 866 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:36,400 Speaker 1: Sunday night. It was a Sunday night and and people 867 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,200 Speaker 1: somebody came forward and began to confess their sin before 868 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:40,960 Speaker 1: the church. 869 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:43,520 Speaker 2: Completely repented. 870 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,279 Speaker 1: Than other people started coming up, and they said they 871 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,839 Speaker 1: had things to repent of, and they wanted to. 872 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:50,760 Speaker 2: Get right with God. 873 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,640 Speaker 1: And there was even a family that was praying for 874 00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,160 Speaker 1: their prodigal son to come back home. 875 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,759 Speaker 2: He had left and was hitting the bars and all this. 876 00:48:58,880 --> 00:48:59,880 Speaker 2: Didn't even know where he was. 877 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,160 Speaker 1: They had not seen him in a long time. And 878 00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,800 Speaker 1: they begin to pray that that Sun would come back. 879 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,880 Speaker 1: And that Sun tells his testimony that he was in 880 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,239 Speaker 1: a bar somewhere in Texas. He was only about an 881 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,560 Speaker 1: hour from his family. They didn't know he was that close, 882 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,520 Speaker 1: maybe a little over an hour. He just felt conviction 883 00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,640 Speaker 1: of the sin that was there. When out of the 884 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,480 Speaker 1: bar went all the way to his parents' house. They 885 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,160 Speaker 1: weren't there. It was almost midnight. He didn't know what 886 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,399 Speaker 1: had happened to him because they should be long home 887 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,799 Speaker 1: from church, long in bed. He thought, well, I'm going 888 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,440 Speaker 1: to go check the church, because that's all they do 889 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,279 Speaker 1: on Sunday night. He gets there, the lights are on, 890 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,360 Speaker 1: the church is still having service, and that family is 891 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,120 Speaker 1: down front praying. He walks into the lobby and says, 892 00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,160 Speaker 1: is my mom and dad here? And they said, they're down. 893 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:50,920 Speaker 2: At the altar. 894 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,960 Speaker 1: And he walks into the church, goes to the altar 895 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:53,920 Speaker 1: and gives his life to Christ. 896 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:55,680 Speaker 2: And guess what happened. 897 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,560 Speaker 1: The Cold Water Committee met with a pastor and said, 898 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,000 Speaker 1: we don't need to be doing that anymore. It ran 899 00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,680 Speaker 1: too long, that got out of hand, and they said. 900 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:07,919 Speaker 2: The revivals stopped just like that. 901 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 1: They were people that went and complained about it. There's 902 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:14,359 Speaker 1: some of the things that were done. There were out 903 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,800 Speaker 1: everybody's comfort zones. That's not the way we do things, 904 00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,160 Speaker 1: you know. It was undisciplined, it was out of control 905 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,880 Speaker 1: and uh. And they said the Holy Spirit stopped just 906 00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: like that. So that's that's the Holy Spirit being quenched. 907 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,680 Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit, though can be grieved. What is and 908 00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,239 Speaker 1: that's what Paul's talking about. It can be grieved. So 909 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:41,520 Speaker 1: what does that mean anybody in here? Parents, okay, grandparents. 910 00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:47,640 Speaker 1: This is when you're redeemed, and the God that redeemed 911 00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,640 Speaker 1: you sees you committing sin. 912 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:52,440 Speaker 2: And it grieves him. 913 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: It grieves the Holy Spirit to see someone who is 914 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,640 Speaker 1: redeemed continuing to live a lot of sin. When that 915 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,080 Speaker 1: person goes back to sin, or commits sin, or is 916 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,480 Speaker 1: living a life that is not in keeping with the transformation. 917 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:16,400 Speaker 1: Provided it's individual disciples. We grieve because the word grieve, 918 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,440 Speaker 1: did you know, it's a love word. You can't grieve 919 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,160 Speaker 1: someone who doesn't love you. Write that down. That's important. 920 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,880 Speaker 1: You can't grieve someone who doesn't love you. So God 921 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,359 Speaker 1: loves us, and when we don't obey him and we 922 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,520 Speaker 1: reject him after all the redemption. 923 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,560 Speaker 2: He provides, it grieves his spirit. 924 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,280 Speaker 1: It causes the Holy Spirit to grieve doing and saying 925 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:44,439 Speaker 1: things that are contrary to what his character, because that's 926 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,920 Speaker 1: the seed that lives in us. Now he is holy, 927 00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 1: and when he sees ung governed behavior that is not 928 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,920 Speaker 1: in his character, it grieves the holiness of the Spirit. 929 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,920 Speaker 1: So that's what it means to grieve the Holy Spirit. 930 00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,800 Speaker 1: And he says by whom you were sealed for the 931 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,640 Speaker 1: day of redemption. You were redeemed by the power of God. 932 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,279 Speaker 1: And it was the power of the Holy Spirit that 933 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,480 Speaker 1: raised Jesus from the dead. The Holy Spirit is grieved 934 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,879 Speaker 1: when you've been redeemed and you don't act like it. 935 00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,720 Speaker 1: Verse thirty one. Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, 936 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,320 Speaker 1: and clamor and slander be put away from you, along 937 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,160 Speaker 1: with all malice. 938 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:30,200 Speaker 2: He seals us. 939 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,800 Speaker 1: He's our inheritance, our protector from the wiles of the devil, 940 00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,760 Speaker 1: the weakness of our flesh, the wickedness of the world, 941 00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,040 Speaker 1: until we're glorified and we sin no more, and we 942 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:45,319 Speaker 1: should have an ungrudging human spirit. All the things that 943 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,200 Speaker 1: grieve the spirit are now listed here, some of the 944 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,279 Speaker 1: things at least. And these things need to be discarded. 945 00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:58,000 Speaker 1: It's an ugly list of human characteristics, the signs of 946 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:03,080 Speaker 1: our stained character. Uh there, it's sour things in our life. 947 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:10,520 Speaker 1: Bitterness and wrath. They all leave scars. Bitterness will destroy you. Bitterness, bitterness, bitterness. 948 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,960 Speaker 1: It's almost if you know anything, or you're someone who hunts, 949 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,160 Speaker 1: or you fish, anything you think draws in what you're 950 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,000 Speaker 1: looking for. If you're looking for the devil, just put 951 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:26,640 Speaker 1: out bitterness because he loves it. If you want the 952 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,719 Speaker 1: demons to come, just put some bitterness out there that 953 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:34,840 Speaker 1: it'll draw them to you. Bitterness is a poison. Wrath 954 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,239 Speaker 1: in us, wanting vengeance is a poison. All of this 955 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:45,320 Speaker 1: leaves scars. It's it's unchecked anger, it gets out of control, 956 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:50,240 Speaker 1: clamor slander. This is evil speaking. It's the tearing down. 957 00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:56,080 Speaker 1: Malice means that it's it's a vicious disposition. And sadly, 958 00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,200 Speaker 1: as I sit here today and I'm so grateful to God, 959 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:12,120 Speaker 1: I can remember when all these things described me vicious vengeance, anger, wrath, bitterness, 960 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,880 Speaker 1: and these things grieve the spirit because there's so many 961 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,960 Speaker 1: things in life that we've been delivered from in our 962 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,560 Speaker 1: sin and how it's the same way you feel if 963 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,200 Speaker 1: you've taught a child the way to go, and the 964 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,200 Speaker 1: child has looked you in the eye and says, yes, 965 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,719 Speaker 1: I believe all these things to be true, and you 966 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,680 Speaker 1: get the report back that they're doing exactly what you 967 00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: told them not to do, and they even agreed with 968 00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:47,000 Speaker 1: you they shouldn't do it. 969 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:49,480 Speaker 2: You know, that grief. 970 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,520 Speaker 1: That's the way God feels, and that's why it's important 971 00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,520 Speaker 1: to remember that we got to stop looking at sin 972 00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,279 Speaker 1: the way we look at it and see it the 973 00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:04,279 Speaker 1: way He sees it changes everything. So then he says, 974 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:05,920 Speaker 1: let me tell you the things that do not grieve 975 00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:11,120 Speaker 1: the spirit. Then we'll be done for today. Be kind 976 00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:18,400 Speaker 1: to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in. 977 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,520 Speaker 2: Christ forgave you. Wherever it is, isn't it things that 978 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,560 Speaker 2: are to be displayed. 979 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,160 Speaker 1: So there's a list of things that should not be 980 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,319 Speaker 1: displayed in the life of the redeemed. Here's things that 981 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:36,400 Speaker 1: should be displayed spiritual grace versus soul destroying grudges. And 982 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,680 Speaker 1: if you really just want to simplify it, because when 983 00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,760 Speaker 1: I describe tenderhearted forgiving, who. 984 00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,879 Speaker 2: Does that sound like? It sounds more like Jesus, doesn't it. 985 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,239 Speaker 2: When I think about Jesus just. 986 00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,640 Speaker 1: Crying and we talked about this at a funeral the 987 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:03,680 Speaker 1: other day, but him just crying with the sisters of Lazarus, 988 00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:05,960 Speaker 1: I mean, why in the world would he be crying 989 00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,719 Speaker 1: about this? I mean, he knows, but he's heard from them. 990 00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,680 Speaker 1: If you've been here, this wouldn't have happened, and I 991 00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,600 Speaker 1: think it, and I think that there's no doubt this 992 00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,880 Speaker 1: can be substantiated. Substantiated, I'm sure there's a lot of 993 00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,960 Speaker 1: there's a couple of different ways you can look at that, 994 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,040 Speaker 1: but one way is pretty simple. Why is Jesus crying 995 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,480 Speaker 1: with these people because he's just sad about what. 996 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:31,080 Speaker 2: Sin has done. Look at all this, look at this 997 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,080 Speaker 2: morning and wailing lazarus. 998 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,319 Speaker 1: Body has died, even though I raise it again, He's 999 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:40,680 Speaker 1: just gonna die again. The children that I love and 1000 00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,359 Speaker 1: created are having to die and their bodies fade away 1001 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 1: because of the sin they chose over me. And look 1002 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,800 Speaker 1: at the anguish and the sadness this has caused. And 1003 00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,759 Speaker 1: the one hundred percent human side of him grieved. But 1004 00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:00,799 Speaker 1: then there's also that other side or Lazarus has made 1005 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:06,400 Speaker 1: it home and he's done with this battle, and he 1006 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:11,200 Speaker 1: now stands in the presence a perfection only to hear 1007 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,080 Speaker 1: Jesus saying I'm sorry, but you got to come back. 1008 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,320 Speaker 1: I kind of think that probably grieved Jesus too, because 1009 00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,240 Speaker 1: when Lazarus came back, his life was not great. 1010 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,400 Speaker 2: You know what the Pharisees said, we got to kill 1011 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,600 Speaker 2: this guy. This is not good. 1012 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,520 Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't say he raised Lazarus 1013 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,120 Speaker 1: from the dead. Maybe we should believe him too. They 1014 00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,840 Speaker 1: just were so sold on they wasn't going to allow 1015 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,040 Speaker 1: him be who he said he was. They couldn't accept it. 1016 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:51,000 Speaker 1: So Lazarus comes back. It glorifies Jesus, it glorifies God. 1017 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,640 Speaker 1: But then Jesus has to move on and Lazarus has 1018 00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,560 Speaker 1: left to have death threats against him, trying to kill him, 1019 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,160 Speaker 1: and then just die again. 1020 00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:09,520 Speaker 2: So Jesus does care, not just about the things that 1021 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:10,120 Speaker 2: bother us. 1022 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,959 Speaker 1: He cares that we've been redeemed and we still are here, 1023 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,960 Speaker 1: and he's with us, and he hadn't left us, and 1024 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:21,680 Speaker 1: he know. He says, it's not always going to be 1025 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:26,040 Speaker 1: this way. Remember that have peace. It's not always going 1026 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:30,160 Speaker 1: to be this way. But just continue to be obedient, 1027 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,240 Speaker 1: continue to be an example of me and draw people 1028 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:38,640 Speaker 1: to me by living a life that looks consistent with 1029 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:43,560 Speaker 1: the redemption that I provided. And then the day will 1030 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,920 Speaker 1: come that you'll hear from me well done, good and 1031 00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:52,640 Speaker 1: faithful servant, which is so much better than living a 1032 00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:59,560 Speaker 1: life that constantly grieves him. Let's pray Lord, thank you 1033 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:04,720 Speaker 1: for today. Thank you for this reminder, and thank you 1034 00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,800 Speaker 1: so much. We're just so great. I can just sense 1035 00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,280 Speaker 1: in here. We just got hearts full of gratitude, and 1036 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,000 Speaker 1: we are embarrassed and ashamed of the times that we've 1037 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,400 Speaker 1: grieved you. But Lord, that same holy spirit that we 1038 00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,600 Speaker 1: can grieve is the holy spirit that keeps turning us 1039 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,080 Speaker 1: into something more like You. And may we abide in 1040 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,919 Speaker 1: the power of You and let your fruit flow through us, 1041 00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:31,400 Speaker 1: and stop trying to be good, which we can't do 1042 00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:38,320 Speaker 1: as opposed, we just wallow and perfection that only you provide. 1043 00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,200 Speaker 1: In your name, we pray Amen.