WEBVTT - Tricks Are For Kids 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Hey haul, Yes, let's do it again. Let's do it, 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.160 let's run it back. I can't wait. Elevation Nights. It's 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.319 gonna be amazing. Been to the East coast, West coast, 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.319 YEP Now I think we need to come to Austin, Texas. Yes, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.880 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. About Minneapolis, Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.560 Saint Louis, Missouri, for Wayne, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario. We got 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:28.840 to see you there April eighteenth, April eighteen through twenty seven. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.320 It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, we coordinated that awesome. But 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.000 make sure you go get your tickets right now. Elevation 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.919 Nights dot com. These nights are seriously like the best, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.760 the best. Can't explain it. I wouldn't keep doing it 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.400 if it wasn't amazing. You have to experience it. It'll 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:50.320 be me you Elevation Worship and we'll see at Elevation Nights. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.600 Elevation Nights dot Com. Get your tickets today, let me 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.480 know if you're going to be there. I want you 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.560 to welcome our EPAM around the world right now, all 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:08.920 over the world, all over the world. I just stuck 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.760 in that melody all day. Stop it stop it because 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:18.319 I'm ready to preach. Oh, y'all aren't ready to listen, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:25.160 but I'm ready to preach. I y'all be seated. We're 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.080 going to go right into the word. Can I pick 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:34.440 up where I left off last week? Do the new you? 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:41.240 Resist the temptation to go forward into your future on 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:46.320 the old template. Do the new you. It's a little 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.360 series that I'm doing here in the first month of 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.160 the year, and I'll go as long as God leads me. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.720 But I committed to him to at least do it 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.560 for this first month because I think this cultural phrase 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.200 that we have comes from the pit of hell. Do 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:06.400 you I mean cool? Yeah, be unique? That's great. However, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.600 if the you that you are doing is not the 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:18.000 you that God wants to use, you've got to grow. Amen. Oh, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.720 this is going to go good. This is going to 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.480 go good today. This word that God gave me last week, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.040 and I do want to start with where I ended 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:32.280 last week. Go to Ephesians chapter four briefly as I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.080 read you this scripture, and then kind of remind you. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.080 I don't often like to say this is a review 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.880 because then it'll make you feel like you're jumping into 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.360 the middle of a season, and that's not the case, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.960 especially if you're here for the first time. How many 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.520 of you are in church today really needing God to 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.120 give you some clarity in your life? And then how 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.040 many of you believe put it in the chat as well? 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.600 How many of you believe that that can only come 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.880 from Jesus clarity. Now, we can figure out other things 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.160 other ways, but when it comes to spiritual matters, we 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.399 need Jesus. And that's what Ephesians four is saying, all right, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.120 in this epistle, epistle is not a wife of an apostle. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.200 It's a letter breaking out all my preacher humor for 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.079 the first of the year. Look at verse twenty Ephesians 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.200 Chapter four, Verse twenty. I love y'all. Y'all are a 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.200 little slow to say it back, and I love you 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.840 enough to tell you the truth. And that's what we're 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.840 going to do today. This message is going to be 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:38.320 a grown up adult message, all right. Verse twenty. That, however, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.400 is not the way of life you learned when you 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:46.480 heard about Christ, and we're taught in Him in accordance 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.920 with the truth that is in Jesus. Well, now that 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.840 messes up my other least favorite cultural saying, live your truth. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.960 And Paul just said that I need to learn a 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.120 new truth. And the truth that is new is not 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.600 the truth that is new at all. It might be 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.440 new to you, but the truth is in Jesus, not 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.680 in me. I don't trust my own judgment enough to 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.560 figure out what truth is. There was a time in 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.440 my life when I thought there was a tooth fairy 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.200 that brought me money for my teeth. That's how stupid 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.239 I was. So I figured there's probably something i'm still 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.800 that stupid about today that I haven't figured out that 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.000 is stupid yet. And baby truth doesn't fall out like 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.680 a baby tooth, so it has to be uprooted. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.599 I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. God is good. God 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.719 is good. God is good. We got to yank it out. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.200 But he said the way of life. Look verse twenty two. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.520 This is really really important. You were taught with regard 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.160 to your former way of life, baby Truth, to put 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:57.320 off your old self, which is being shout the next word, corrupted, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:06.479 corrupt by its deceitful desires, to be made new in 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.240 the attitude of your minds, and to put on the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:16.280 new self created to be like God in righteousness or 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:21.320 true righteousness and holiness. And so that's the contrast we 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.320 focused on last week. Corrupted verse twenty two. Put it 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.960 up again, please corrupted, and then verse twenty four created, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.560 and write them both down if you want to corrupted 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.560 and created. And I'm not saying that there are two yous, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.760 but I am saying that, according to the scriptural revelation 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.039 here from Paul, as well as my own personal experience, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:51.880 there is a choosing every day of my life and 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.440 your life about which one of us is going to 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.400 show up for any given situation. And once you realize 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.080 the power that choice, you don't feel so stuck anymore. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.479 And that is a wonderful thing. I get sick of 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.040 myself sometimes and I begin to believe that this is 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.400 just the way I am, and then somebody comes along 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.359 and says, just do you, And I'm like, great past 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.479 the cheese fries. I went out to Gaston County to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.960 watch Graham wrestle yesterday. Those cheese fries look good, and 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.440 there were two mes. And my taste buds know exactly 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.000 about those cheese fries, and my waistline knows what my 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.440 taste buds are trying to make me forget in that 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.440 moment where this leads if I do it long enough. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:46.680 So I didn't eat the fries. Cheer me on, yeah, Pastor. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.039 But sometimes I don't do as good of a job 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:56.440 resisting the fear as I did resisting the fries. Sometimes 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.440 I don't do as good a job about what comes 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.200 out of my mouth as what goes in. Say what 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.720 I want to say, do what I want to do. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.520 And I'm just doing you, and you do you, and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.039 I'll do me, and together we'll get divorced in seven years, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.240 just doing each other. This is what Paul is talking 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.800 about to the church at Ephesus, and to the Church 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.080 at Valentine, and to the church at University City, into 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.000 the church in Nepal, and into the church in the UK, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:29.200 and into the Church of your heart. When he says, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.880 you were taught the truth in Jesus, and so the 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.360 Lord gave me this and it really touched me that 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.920 I need someone to teach me Jesus. He says, you 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.160 were taught a way of life in Jesus. And I 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.800 don't know who taught you about Jesus or who taught 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.760 Jesus to you, but you ought to thank God for them, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.760 and you ought to thank them, whether that's my mom, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.720 thank you, whether that's pastor Mickey. He will never ask 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.280 me an offering for ministry that I won't help him 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.680 build it. And so even if the church had twenty dollars, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.440 if he needed five, if he needed ten, I'd have 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.920 to pray in tongues about it. But I will always 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.840 support him because he taught me Jesus, and I'm really 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 grateful that he did. And he wasn't the first one. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.440 I mean, at the Methodist church where I grew up, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.200 there were Sunday school teachers who taught me Jesus, and 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.720 I appreciate them so much. And you probably can think 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.400 of somebody right now who taught you Jesus or who 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.600 brought you to church so that you could learn Jesus, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.400 and you ought to thank God for them. And know 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.800 this is not a selfish and motivated part of my sermon, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.000 because I'm the one who teaches the Bible. I'm talking 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.400 about those personal people who help lead you to Jesus. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.559 Is amazing, because I need somebody to teach me Jesus 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.560 because the world is screaming everything else, So to teach 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.080 me Jesus a way of life that is outside of 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.720 this crazy, corrupt, crooked culture, this siloed culture, this panic 0:08:54.760 --> 0:09:00.360 attacks society, this judgmental culture, this cancel culture, this hypocritical cure, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.600 this materialistic culture, this jacked up it might burn down quick. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.560 Let's hurry up and praise God while we've still got 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.480 a planet culture. I need somebody to teach me Jesus. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:22.640 But I need Jesus to teach me me because in 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.959 all the things that I've learned about him, there's a 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.360 feeling I get some time that I haven't really met 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:36.120 me yet, that I haven't quite grown into the me 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.520 that I've seen glimpses of. I think I can be 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.920 more free than I am. I think I can be 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.440 more patient than I am. I think I can be 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.840 more intentional than I am. I think I can be 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.559 a little bit less of a control freak. Why did 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.160 you say yes so loud to that you know me? 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.679 We must have grown up together. Takes one to know one, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.439 Oh man. The control thing is one of those dumb 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.000 things that you believe that you have. You have no control, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:18.880 So really, a control freak is an idiot. And where 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.959 we're coming at from the scripture. He says, you were 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:28.720 taught the truth in Jesus, the truth about what the rapture. Sure, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.440 but nobody knows the day or the hour. That's not 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.960 something we can figure out. I mean, I can teach 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.920 you some charts and all that, that'd be awesome. I 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.840 can teach you about prayer, and I will tell you 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.160 one thing about prayer real quick as we go, is 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.040 that prayer is your way to get out of that 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.280 default mode that you wake up in in the morning. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.960 Just like you brush your teeth, Just like we hope 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.840 you brush your teeth and we admonish you to brush 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.680 your teeth. Prayer is that way that you get in 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:09.520 contact with God. I'm talking about God. So any view 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.840 of me that doesn't start with God is doomed to 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:19.280 get stuck in an infinite loop of stupid because the 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.200 truth is in Jesus. And that's why I don't want 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.320 you just buying into everything that you hear out there. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.440 Live your truth. What if your truth is a loop 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:33.760 of doom? What if God, who stands outside of the 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.920 loop of time and comes from a realm called eternity, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.280 knows you in a way that if you knew you 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.360 like he knew you, you would stop doing self destructive things. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.559 You would stop running to people who are limited, trying 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.240 to get an ocean out of a thimble sized personality 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.880 and thinking something's wrong with you. Help me preach, y'all. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.560 There was somebody who wanted your seat today to use it. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.520 I love the Lord because he knows me. And last 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.120 week I was showing you from Ephesians four twenty two. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.280 I hope this is not too esoteric, but it really 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:18.040 helped me that the new you is not something in 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.320 the future. When we talk about new Year, new You, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.240 we all roll our eyes collectively because knew you and 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.839 new Year. Yeah, they both start with why. But I've 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.920 done this before, so move on with that all that stuff. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.199 I'm just out here surviving. I'm just doing me. I'm 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.640 just getting by. And as long as we think of 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.200 who we can be in Christ as some future event 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.440 contingent on our human abilities, we will always be limited 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:54.760 to our moods, our emotions, and our background. Because I 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.840 need somebody to teach me Jesus. But I need Jesus 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.840 to teach me me. Here's why. When I talk about 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.560 you changing, you, think of that in terms of a 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:12.800 destination at a later date. God doesn't think that way. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.880 Here's what I showed last week that a lot of 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.600 people reached out to me and said, oh, I love that. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.360 So in case you missed it, when I say the 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.440 new you, I'm not only talking about you that is 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.720 going to be for your future. I'm talking about the 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:35.280 youth that God is already very familiar with. And I 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.800 take this not from my own mind, but from Jeremiah 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.120 one verse five. Do y'all know this scripture. This is 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.439 a top ten scripture where the Lord says to Jeremiah, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.480 I've got a calling for you. I've got an assignment 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.040 for you. You've never done it before. You don't even 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.559 see yourself in this way. You don't imagine that you 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.959 have the capacity to do it. I'm going to put 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.840 you as a prophet to the nations. And Jeremiah is 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.720 about to give God some excuses. But watch what God 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.720 said to Jeremiah before the excuses begin. He said, before 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:12.560 I formed you in the womb, I knew you now 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.840 for you, the new is out here in the future, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.480 when I get married, when my kids get out of 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.080 the house, when we're able to get pregnant, when the 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.680 economy bounces back when I get out of this job, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:35.080 when they leave this job and I stay when when 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.880 this happens, I will be It's out there. That's one 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.320 way to look at it. You can find plenty of 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.440 people on Instagram that will preach that to you. That 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.320 you know, get on your grind and buy my course 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:58.440 and then the future you will get girls. The future 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.920 you will have washboard ass a superior intellect and be 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.520 able to understand Jordan Peterson perfectly. The future you is 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.760 going to be amazing. And that's what we normally hear, right, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.160 is all this height that we pass off as hope. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.360 It's like, Okay, I'm gonna do a new this year, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.920 and then after three weeks we can't. But God does 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:22.000 it different. Watch this. Jeremiah is insecure. Jeremiah is inexperienced. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.600 Jeremiah is surprised. If you're any of those three things, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.120 this is for you, touch somebody say this is for you, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.480 This is for you. Now. God doesn't tell Jeremiah, no, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.720 You're going to be something in the future that I'm 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.520 telling you about right now if you just do it 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.080 long enough. He says this, before I formed you in 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:50.520 the womb, I knew you so take that knew you 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.920 and put a key on the top of it. Not 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.640 just the new you that people haven't seen yet, that 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.040 you haven't even met yet, not just to you that 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.920 you imagine when you get a real good church high 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.280 a real good church buzz, where's off about twelve minutes 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.920 after you sit in traffic in a church parking lot 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.800 And instead of seeing this as I'm going forward towards 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.400 something that I'm really not seeing how God says it, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.680 because what's in the future to you is what's familiar 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:31.960 to God. Well, what's in the future you call it new. Okay, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.640 That's who I'm gonna be one day when and God's like, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.200 that's who you already are. That's who you always were, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.480 That's what I created you to be before SID corrupted 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:52.080 what I created. Oh God, God got this thing started 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.400 in my life. God set this thing in motion in 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.960 my life. God is the one who set me in families. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.200 God is the one who set me in time. God 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.800 is the one who set me in a generation. And 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.520 I didn't get to say it to the staff Wednesday 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.760 because I forgot, but I wanted to tell you He 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:19.359 is also the lord of your limitations, just as God 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.359 is the God of my potential. He is the lord 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:29.080 of my limitations. It is true that we cannot put 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.199 in what God left out. It is also true that 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.320 most of us have no clue what God has put 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:42.760 in the new you, the one God talks with, the 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.720 one that makes you want to Sometimes you just kind 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.760 of go. I want to change some things for the better, 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.280 and I think I can. I want some relationships that 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.399 encourage me this year, and I think I have the 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.119 right to ask God for that. Yeah. I want to 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.000 get around some people this year who don't just describe 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.760 bones on the valley floor all the time. I want 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.760 to get around some people this year that speak breath 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.320 into the bones and know how to call out something 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:18.399 that's on the inside of me. That me is the 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:29.639 true you, it's the new you. Well that's what we 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:37.320 said last week. This week I got a title, and 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.320 I'm almost done preaching. Kind of maybe we'll see called. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.440 I didn't get this title. I got it from the scripture, 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.880 but I also got it from a cereal box where 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.160 you may remember this. If you're a child of the nineties, 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.000 you definitely remember this. If you remember that Jeremy spoke 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.120 in class today, you definitely remember this. If you remember 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.480 Zach Morris's phone and Kelly Kopowski's temptation as a young 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.800 man for you to lust and she was the first 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.639 girl that you ever fell in love with, was Kelly Kapowski, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:18.879 you will definitely recognize this. I'll start it, you finish it, 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:24.439 silly rabbit. I want to preach for fifteen minutes on 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:33.959 tricks are for kids, because there is no shortcut to this. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.000 There is no magical worship button you're gonna press this 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.320 morning that's gonna take the wind in the waves away 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.680 in your life this week. That's how immature people think. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.560 One of my buddies texted and said, thank you for 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:55.000 sharing that immaturity leads to instability because I needed to 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.439 hear that because it is in my selfishness and my 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.120 own desires. That's what Paul uses that phrase in the scripture. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:07.119 He says deceitful desires. I almost called the message that, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.359 but I thought it would sound too depressing. Today I 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.159 want to talk about deceitful desires. I thought, though, we 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.760 need to talk about these deceitful desires for a moment, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.240 because if the me that God sees is not the 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.200 me that I'm stuck in right now? Then what's happening 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.280 in the darkness. He describes to the Ephesian Church that 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.080 we are children of the light, but he also says 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.680 that the darkness keeps the gentiles from living the ways 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.120 of God, and when we copy the patterns of the gentiles, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.520 we are forfeiting the promise of God. Do you understand 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.560 what I'm saying? So every time you're scrolling through stuff, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.159 trying to figure out stuff of what other people are doing, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.199 you are forfeiting the self that God knows in the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.600 spirit and copying a pattern of the flesh that puts 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:57.679 you in that doom loop of stupid. So now we 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:04.480 have to deal with or desires, which are real. A 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.240 lot of Christian teaching will almost put faith as the 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.320 opposite of feelings. You know, we don't walk by feelings. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.160 We walk by faith. Bible doesn't say that. It says 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.679 we walk by faith, not by sight. So we have 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.919 feelings like even how would you know that there was 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.720 faith if you felt nothing. That's the stupidest thing in 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.000 the world. Preach is good. We don't walk by feelings, 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.720 we walk by faith. But feelings have a place even 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.760 in faith. You know, how do I know what God 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.720 wants me to preach, Well, a certain amount of me 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.600 has to feel I'm not saying that that that's solely 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.879 dependent on It has to be true. It has to 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.359 be from God's word. But there's a lot of stuff 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.360 in God's word. How do I know this is what 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.879 God wants me to preach for now? Well, there's a 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:55.879 certain amount of that. I just have to know it 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.000 on the inside, because God knows I'm not going to 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.439 be one of these preachers that just reads whatever is 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.760 on the headlines of the news and comes in the 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.560 pulpit and just gives you another dose of the same 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.919 crap that's already making you nauseous in the pulpit. You 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:11.840 don't come here for that. So I'm not going to 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.120 do that. I'm not up here to do that. And yet, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.200 what is the word that God has given us for 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.480 this moment, for this year? What is the word that 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.600 God has given your life for this point in time? 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.760 What is it? How do you know if God's calling 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:27.399 you to go here or there? How you going to 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:29.120 know if God's calling you to do this or that? 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.120 How do you even know what you're good at? I mean, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.440 part of this has to be feelings right, they have 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.000 their place. But now here is how the enemy pickpockets you. 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.359 Here is how the devil gets you to give up. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:46.280 Watch this the new self that God knows, the you 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.679 that you kind of suspect us. There, the you that 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.160 you can be for about three days at a time, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.080 and then you give in. How does he get you 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:05.600 to give up on that? So easily? Deception? And in 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:12.879 order to deceive, you have to diminish. Quick story I 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.520 mentioned my mom taught me about Jesus. She also confronted 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.760 this person one time for me and I never will forget. 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:24.000 Being nine years old going to the trading card shop 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.440 in Monk's Corner at the railroad track, right over the 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.399 railroad track. I bought a pack of basketball cards. I 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.520 didn't know anything about basketball cards. This is my first 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.280 pack of basketball cards. I had baseball cards. And I 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.960 open it and there's a Michael Jordan card in the pack. 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:40.520 The guy's watching me. I'm in there by myself. She's 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:44.920 waiting in the car, and he goes, hey, I'll give 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:49.160 you a whole other pack for that one car. I'm 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:55.359 like a whole pack for a car. Sure, mister. They 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.399 called him mister so like the Andy Griffiths show. In 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:04.560 here you were mister gee Whiz Gollie hold back for 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.240 a single card? Wow? Because I'm just a kid, just 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:14.560 a kid. So I opened the next pack. I don't 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.600 recognize any names I knew. Michael Jordan went out to 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.320 the car. My mom said, how'd it go? I said, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.480 I got two packs? She said, how'd you get two? 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.239 And gave money from one? I said, you never believe it. 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:30.560 He gave me a whole other pack for one card. Mom, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.520 she said what was the card? Because she knew this 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.879 man has a book. He knows how much that card 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:47.439 was worth. And he's grown and my kid doesn't know 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:54.639 the value of a car, so so so, so she said, 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:59.480 what was the card? I said, Michael Jordan. She said, 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.440 a Michael Ordon car. How much was it worth? I said, 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:04.440 I don't know what it was worth, But I got 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:10.520 a whole pack. My mom went back in that store 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.680 with my Michael Jordan car and the third pack because 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:22.960 she knew what was it up? Foot? Do you have 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:29.480 a book? Have you read it? Hawn met Jesus? Did 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:34.320 you know he's the perfect slockless laugh of God? Did 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:38.040 you know they marched it up a hill to Calfrey, 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:43.720 and they died for you, and bled for you, and 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.639 suffered for you, and put the stripe for you, and 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:51.240 put the mocking for you. And he stretched his arms 0:25:51.280 --> 0:26:01.280 and said, you're worth this once. Did you know that 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:03.800 when he left to go to heaven, he sent his spirit, 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:08.000 and that spirit lives in you. No, we don't know that. 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.120 We don't know that. We're so busy copy in other 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.399 people's style that we don't even know the spirit that 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.200 came from God because we got so much stuff from culture. 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:25.600