Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for
Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take
Speaker 1: it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message.
Speaker 1: Let me know, let's go. We have choice to make today.
Speaker 1: Boom corrupted created, old self, new self, deceitful desires divinity within.
Speaker 1: What choice am I making today? The beauty of it
Speaker 1: is which one of me? You know, when you find
Speaker 1: yourself struggling and going, all right, well, there's a part
Speaker 1: of me that wants to do the worst thing in
Speaker 1: the world, say the worst thing in the world, be
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world, be lazy, not do
Speaker 1: anything that God is calling me to do. There's another
Speaker 1: part of me that really does want to do what
Speaker 1: God wants me to do. Which one is really me?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And and then a lot of times we just settle
Speaker 1: for the lower one. Oh, that's really me, that's just
Speaker 1: me being me. I'm just being me, right, That's that
Speaker 1: elevation of authenticity where we're like the meat that I
Speaker 1: am right now is the me that I'm going to be,
Speaker 1: and nobody's going to change me. And we start living
Speaker 1: out the advice in our fifth grade yearbook never change,
Speaker 1: raise hell over the summer, all right, we elevate our
Speaker 1: self and we put ourself in our current state as
Speaker 1: being the ideal. And that's not what the Scripture said
Speaker 1: has said we want to be like God, and even
Speaker 1: more specifically, that we were created to be like God.
Speaker 1: So which one's really me thinking, dang, one is being
Speaker 1: corrupted by deceitful desires. One was created to be like God.
Speaker 1: And when you think about all of the Bible stories
Speaker 1: Old Testament and all the Scripture's New Testament that reinforced this,
Speaker 1: you can't get away from it that God has things
Speaker 1: in mind for us, whether they be gifts that he
Speaker 1: wants to give us or things he wants to do
Speaker 1: through us.
Speaker 2: And our decision to live into.
Speaker 1: That or not to live into that does play a part,
Speaker 1: plays a big part. And so I decided today to
Speaker 1: put on these workout clothes and go work out. There
Speaker 1: was a decision. Nobody dressed me. I didn't sleep in
Speaker 1: these clothes.
Speaker 2: I could have.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a strategy in the future going forward, but
Speaker 1: a decision today, and will I decided again tomorrow?
Speaker 2: I hope. So it's a pattern I think I will.
Speaker 2: I will. How am I going to decide that? Well?
Speaker 2: I decided that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work out on these certain days, physical exercise.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: If I wake up tomorrow and go, do I feel
Speaker 1: like working out, my shoulder is going to say no,
Speaker 1: you feel that you feel that right there that you
Speaker 1: need to day off, and sometimes you do, but you know,
Speaker 1: my lower back is gonna be like we're still tight
Speaker 1: from just day. We can't do leg day like day tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just realized that I have like
Speaker 1: day tomorrow. So how am I gonna decide tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: whether or not to put on these clothes and go
Speaker 1: in that workout room and do that workout again?
Speaker 2: How am I going to decide?
Speaker 1: Well, I do it based on my priorities, what I
Speaker 1: want most, or by my feelings and my emotions. What
Speaker 1: I want now? Because what I want now another thirty
Speaker 1: minutes of sleep? What I want now, anything but that
Speaker 1: squad rack? Oh god, I hope we don't have any
Speaker 1: Bulgarian split squad nonsense tomorrow on like day. See, like
Speaker 1: right now, even thinking about it makes me go I
Speaker 1: better come in it to put on these clothes tomorrow
Speaker 1: and go through that consistent routine tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: What in the world are you talking about right now,
Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen Simple, I'm talking about the place that your
Speaker 1: emotions have in your decisions. Emotions have a place. We
Speaker 1: got to pay attention to how we feel. How else
Speaker 1: would we know when to rest. We got to pay
Speaker 1: attention to how we feel. How else would we know
Speaker 1: what God is leading us to do. We kind of
Speaker 1: have to feel it, right. There has to be a
Speaker 1: sense that we get. How else would we know how
Speaker 1: to let love? And if we didn't feel. Feelings have
Speaker 1: a place. Emotions have a place, But I want to
Speaker 1: make the case to you that they don't belong on
Speaker 1: the throne of our life. Emotions have a place, and
Speaker 1: that place is not the throne. Okay, Jesus is on
Speaker 1: the throne. Christ is on the throne. Practically speaking, that
Speaker 1: means that what he speaks, what he wants, the bigger
Speaker 1: picture of where He's taking my life and how he
Speaker 1: wants to use me, and what I believe by faith
Speaker 1: he's called me to do.
Speaker 2: Even though I'll always feel.
Speaker 1: That that belongs on the throne, not my feelings. You're like,
Speaker 1: that's obvious, isn't it. No, we don't live like that.
Speaker 1: We put our feelings on the throne. We want to
Speaker 1: go off, we go off. We want to skip, we skip.
Speaker 1: And some people are better at this than others. You know,
Speaker 1: some people are good at pushing through. People are good
Speaker 1: at hold him back. But I know we all have
Speaker 1: places that we can grow in this where we don't
Speaker 1: always feel like saying something encouraging to someone because it's
Speaker 1: kind of embarrassing. But if God wants me to say
Speaker 1: something encouraging to somebody, I should say it. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: feel like doing something super sinful to feel relief in.
Speaker 2: A moment, just giving into temptation. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1: I have those moments too, and sometimes I give in
Speaker 1: and sometimes I resist. But the moments that I give in,
Speaker 1: it's usually because I put my feelings or emotions or
Speaker 1: desires that's where I wanted to get. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: remember this. Deceitful desires that's how we get corrupted. And
Speaker 1: you know what's funny about a deceitful desire. You don't
Speaker 1: know it's deceitful, or else it wouldn't be deceitful.
Speaker 2: With it.
Speaker 1: You don't know you're being deceived, or else you're not
Speaker 1: being deceived. If you know you're being deceived, then you're
Speaker 1: not being deceived. You're just deciding to do something. But
Speaker 1: if if you're being deceived by the desire, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? That means I think I want this, And
Speaker 1: I've been many times in my life pummeled and punished
Speaker 1: by the consequences of things I thought I wanted.
Speaker 2: I know you have too.
Speaker 1: The call to maturity in Christ and the call to
Speaker 1: grow up in Him and let more and more of
Speaker 1: His grace permeate our lives is Psalm thirty seven four.
Speaker 1: To light yourself in the Lord, and he will give
Speaker 1: you the desires of your heart. Who will he will?
Speaker 1: That does not mean he gives you everything you want.
Speaker 1: That would be a way to read that verse. He
Speaker 1: will give you the desires of your heart. Oh awesome,
Speaker 1: Let me give you my list. God, this is what
Speaker 1: I want. He will instill the desires so he can
Speaker 1: fulfill the desires. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.
Speaker 1: And that's the process we have to go through of
Speaker 1: putting off and putting on.
Speaker 2: So, like I said, a few days ago. The tricks
Speaker 2: of the trade.
Speaker 1: I use that phrase, which can mean like, you know,
Speaker 1: you use some high pressure sales tech me to get
Speaker 1: somebody to buy something if you're a salesman, or you
Speaker 1: kind of cut corners if you're building something and sell
Speaker 1: it as thing when it's really another.
Speaker 2: But they'll never know. The enemy has tricks of the trade.
Speaker 1: He tries to get you to trade things that matter
Speaker 1: most for things that meet now needs now needs.
Speaker 2: I want for better, I want to forget. I want
Speaker 2: to get out of it.
Speaker 1: And then we do things and we put on the
Speaker 1: old self and we think we want relief, but we
Speaker 1: really want freedom, and so we don't give freedom, we
Speaker 1: get slavery, deceitful desires. You have some I have some
Speaker 1: could be going after certain people's approval and then finding out, wait,
Speaker 1: they're they're screwed up. They're more screwed up than I am.
Speaker 2: That's a mess. Oh man, I hope this, uh, this teaching.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound dark or condemning, because the choice we have
Speaker 1: is we can put on the righteousness of Christ and
Speaker 1: we do that daily. And an interesting that the default
Speaker 1: setting here isn't that you have Christ on. That's That's
Speaker 1: what I thought it would be. Keep Christ on, keep
Speaker 1: the new self on, don't take it off and put
Speaker 1: on the old self. No, it starts with putting off,
Speaker 1: which means that many days and many situations that I face,
Speaker 1: my default reaction is not.
Speaker 2: Going to be the best one.
Speaker 1: Remember how Jacob and Esau were fighting in the womb
Speaker 1: and when it came time for Rebecca to give birth,
Speaker 1: you know, they were fighting. I remember Jacob tried to
Speaker 1: come out first. He was grabbing Esau's heel, and so
Speaker 1: they named him trickster. That's what Jacob means. And then
Speaker 1: verse twenty seven, this is the verse that I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about. Verse twenty seven, Genesis twenty five, twenty seven.
Speaker 2: I found it.
Speaker 1: The boys grew up and Esau became a skillful hunter.
Speaker 1: And what's funny about that is it's describing physical growth.
Speaker 1: They grew up. That's describing the fact that they matured physically.
Speaker 1: They'll watch this. What happens a lot of times is
Speaker 1: we grow in our bodies, and we even grow in
Speaker 1: our skills and our interest. He's a skillful hunter, right,
Speaker 1: he's good at hunting. But there's some growth that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen on the inside of Esau. And this is the
Speaker 1: story I'll read before I close it said, he grew up.
Speaker 1: Both of the boys grew up, and Esau became a
Speaker 1: skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob
Speaker 1: was content to stay at home among the tents. Isaco
Speaker 1: had to taste for a wild game. Loved Esau, but
Speaker 1: Rebecca loved Jacob. Once, when Jacob was cooking some stew,
Speaker 1: Esau came in from the open country.
Speaker 2: Famished.
Speaker 1: He said to Jacob, quick, let me have some of
Speaker 1: that red stew. I'm famished. That's why he's called eatom
Speaker 1: eat I mean dread, and the Israelite would have challenges
Speaker 1: with the Edomites throughout their history. Jacob replied, for some
Speaker 1: of your birthright. Look, I'm about to die. Esau said,
Speaker 1: what good is the birthright to me? And so you
Speaker 1: know verse thirty three, Jacob said, swear to me first.
Speaker 1: So he swore an oath, selling his birthright to Jacob.
Speaker 1: Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lental stew.
Speaker 1: He ate and drank and then got up and left.
Speaker 1: So Esau despised his birthright. Wait a minute, that's not
Speaker 1: what he did. He ate stew, he didn't despise his birthright.
Speaker 1: He didn't say I hate my birthright, you can have it.
Speaker 1: But the net effect of it was that he valued
Speaker 1: something now more. What did he value now more satisfying
Speaker 1: his physical hunger? And I'd been there before, where Like
Speaker 1: physically I was anxious and I wanted to stop feeling anxious,
Speaker 1: Or physically I was bored and I wanted to not
Speaker 1: feel bored. Physically, I was lonely. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: feel lonely, so.
Speaker 2: I just go to stuff.
Speaker 1: Physically, I was scared, so I wanted to not be scared.
Speaker 2: And I reach for things that are like stew.
Speaker 1: I know STU is not a bad thing, but sometimes
Speaker 1: I reach for things that are worse than that. What
Speaker 1: it shows me about Esau in this moment is that
Speaker 1: his emotions were on the throne. He had a deceitful desire.
Speaker 1: This desire was not bad, I want to eat, but
Speaker 1: the deceit was in that he was more focused on
Speaker 1: what he wanted to eat than who he was called
Speaker 1: to be. As it.
Speaker 2: What he wanted to eat versus who he was called
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Because when you hear the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Speaker 1: it was meant to be the god of Abraham, Isaac
Speaker 1: and Esau because he was the first born.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't. It wasn't, and therefore.
Speaker 1: Jacob ended up taking the place of Esaul. Yesaul was
Speaker 1: still blessed in his own way, but it was costly.
Speaker 1: And this isn't a message to say, hey, for the
Speaker 1: mistakes that you've made and the bad trades that you've made,
Speaker 1: you can't make a comeback, because yeah, Esau never got
Speaker 1: that blessing back, but he was still blessed. The decision
Speaker 1: today isn't like about something that we gave up in
Speaker 1: the past, whether that's yesterday or five minutes ago or
Speaker 1: years ago. The decision is about what to do going forward.
Speaker 1: And the question is deceitful desires will corrupt you. You
Speaker 1: won't even know what's happening because you're being deceived. But
Speaker 1: this new attitude that we have available in Christ, as
Speaker 1: we daily exchange what we think, what we want, what
Speaker 1: we feel for what He says, walk by faith, not
Speaker 1: by sight, this new way of being, this new way
Speaker 1: of living in the world, is available to us. And
Speaker 1: the fact is, this is who we really are. This
Speaker 1: is who we really are, This is that other stuff
Speaker 1: that the world puts on top of us.
Speaker 2: But God created you to do good works, to be
Speaker 2: his masterpiece, to be his poem.
Speaker 1: And I want you to experience that as much as possible,
Speaker 1: and I want to experience that more in my life.
Speaker 2: God help us today.
Speaker 1: To dethrone our emotions, to give them place in our lives,
Speaker 1: but not first place.
Speaker 2: You have first place.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to a nevertheless moment in our
Speaker 1: life where we don't want to drink the cup but
Speaker 1: we need to. We don't want to make the change,
Speaker 1: but we need to. We don't want to say no,
Speaker 1: but we need to help us depend on your spirit,
Speaker 1: not our willpower for that, because we're going to have
Speaker 1: like esau if we just try to do it in
Speaker 1: our own strength.
Speaker 2: But because you're in us, we have what it takes.
Speaker 1: We have what it takes to be a new creation,
Speaker 1: because that's who we are in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Bless you.
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