WEBVTT - Same Lies New Loops 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.080 gives your perspective to see God is moving. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.080 In your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.840 When you give him a hug. Let him know we're 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.799 in this together. Let him know God is good. Bring 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.440 my screen out, would you? Let him know He's still 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.960 on the throne. Let him know I've got a king 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.360 named Jesus, and I'm gonna be. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.000 All right no matter what happens. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.920 He already showed me that the worst can happen, and 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:46.839 He's still great. Somebody shall God is great, He's still great. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.760 Shall He's always great? 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.239 Well, if your God is that great, give him a 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.200 great shallt uf. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:04.000 Grey praise the Lord. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:10.200 Love you, Stacy, Love you, Timothy. I'm looking around for 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:10.960 people I love. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.880 Love you, Brad, you do, she said, we love you. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.520 I want to tell you something. If we ever got 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.120 to know each other, we would be best friends. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.720 I promise you, man, we would be texting each other 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.520 all the time. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.280 Silly stuff, stupid stuff. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.560 You feel a sense of love for those that you lead, 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.319 even if you don't personally know them. It's a strange 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:44.400 thing to describe. On Monday, I was praying for you now. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:49.040 I was half hungover from my sermon on Sunday. It's 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:54.240 a holy hangover, and the Lord started showing me stuff. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:55.840 It was amazing. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.800 He gave me a phrase that I want to teach 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.440 on for the next six weeks. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:02.840 And as different. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:07.200 Events were unfurling and whirling about our heads this week, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.760 I was so glad that God spoke to me and 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.959 gave me this for us, because it's exactly what. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:19.280 We need for right now. I want you to stand 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.079 to your feet and remain standing until I've read my scripture. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.520 We welcome our EPAM around the world. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.839 Although it has been an incredibly difficult week in our nation, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.760 we understand that in parts of the world there are 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.320 tragedies that we never mentioned from this pulpit, But we 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.280 want you to know that wherever you come from, whatever 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.960 you're going through, we are here to bring Jesus into 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.600 your situation, and we believe that if Jesus comes into 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:51.160 your situation, anything is possible. The scripture that I want 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.839 to set up this series with is in Lamentations Chapter three, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.919 Did you say, uh, oh, Lamentations is not the party 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:06.760 book of the Bible. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.120 The name kind of gives it away. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.280 And I think that the Lord, in the way that 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.600 he does, has something hidden in this for us today, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.600 for the questions that we've been asking inside of ourselves, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.600 for the isolation. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.040 That we've been dealing with and not knowing who to 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:26.600 reach out to. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.560 And the prophet Jeremiah was writing from a difficult time 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.200 in the history of the nation that he lived in 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:38.200 called Israel. In fact, their temple had been destroyed, many 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.320 of the people had been carried into exile in a 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.960 place called Babylon by a king called Nebekinezer. He had 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.760 the difficult task of preaching through his own tears into 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.440 the tragedy of the people. In Lamentations chapter three, we 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.560 received a poetic collection of some of his thoughts after 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.760 he revised those prayers, and I want to share with 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.160 you from verse seventeen, as he writes about his feelings 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.720 from this place. Here's what he says, Lamentations three seventeen. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.160 I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:19.440 prosperity is. In one translation, he says, I have rejected peace. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.159 He says, I can't let peace in. I've got so 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.760 much anxiety, so much fear. I can't let it in. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.159 I have rejected wholeness and peace. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.080 And in the ESV. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:36.800 He says, I have forgotten what happiness is. I've forgotten 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.640 not only how to be happy, but I don't even 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:43.839 really remember what it feels like. Now, after he says 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.240 that he gives a little bit of his internal monologue, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.440 he says, so I say my splendor is gone, and 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.200 all that I had hoped from the Lord. I remember 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.400 my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the goal, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.960 I well remember them. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.200 And my soul is downcast within me. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:19.839 Yet this I call to mine, and therefore I have hope. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.280 Because of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:31.400 For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.880 Great is your faithfulness. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.839 One more verse, I say to myself, the Lord is 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:39.440 my portion. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.000 God says, somebody needs to change what you say to yourself. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.760 You need to change what you say to yourself. Somebody shout, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:55.800 the Lord is my portion. Therefore I will wait for 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.680 him now. The word God gave me for us over 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.839 this season of our church, he said, to talk to 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:11.760 you about same lies, new loops, Same lies, new loops. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:19.839 His mercies are new every morning, so are the devil's temptations. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.080 Same lies, new loops. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.760 Father helped me give it to them, just like you 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.000 gave it to me. Don't water it down, don't weaken 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.440 it with my opinion, but preach it like your word. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:32.159 Help me do that. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.960 I give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen, you may 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:45.880 be seated. I have been waiting to worship with you. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.000 I can tell when a sermon really gets a hold 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.040 of me because I start just drawing stuff and scribbling 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:57.599 stuff everywhere. Whenever I start pulling out napkins and restaurants 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.680 and as skin, the server, would you please bring me 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.039 a napkin and a pen. The napkin they understand, but 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.680 the pen they look at you kind of funny. And 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.520 I've been writing all over the house, Same lies, new loops. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:13.600 Let me draw it for you. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.920 I even practiced my drawing, so cheer for me when 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.600 I do this, because I'm insecure about it. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:34.320 Same lies, new loops. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.600 I've been praying for years and the Lord still hasn't 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.760 healed my handwriting. So we're dealing with it. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:43.480 Same lives. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:53.480 You might say, same lies, new loops, thank you, thank you, appreciate. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:01.200 Like an infinity symbol. You know, yeah, same lies. Now. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.960 Holly is hosting Reflect on Friday, September the nineteenth. It's 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.520 going to be an amazing time. Holly is an amazing preacher. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.960 She's an amazing teacher of the Word of God. You 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:15.680 better be here. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:16.680 It's going to be amazing. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.280 She's an amazing wife, even better wife than she is 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.000 a teacher of the Word of God. She's so good 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.400 at so many things. She's my favorite cook. It's a 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:33.480 great kisser, she's a great affirmer. She's a great mother, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.720 she's a great encourager. All of these things are true. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.800 There is one thing that she is not though. She 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:44.480 is a horrible liar. Holly is a horrible liar. She 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.680 is the worst liar. Therefore, you have to be very 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.120 careful what you ask her about, because if I show 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.960 Holly one of my songs that I just wrote and 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.760 ask her how do you like it? I better really 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.280 want to know because she is a terrible lie I mean, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.720 horrible liar. You know, how do you like it? And 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.960 you know should do this thing? She'll go, what is it? 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.000 Finished thought it was maybe not. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.720 She's just supposed to say, yeah, maybe that. I think 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.760 that could be the next gyro. I think that could 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.200 be the next grade. Just just lie to me long 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.040 enough to give me the confidence to put it out. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:25.400 There in the world. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.600 No, she's a horrible liar, even when she tries to 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.680 be polite, she's a horrible liar. You know, should I 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.959 wear this? Does this look good? And you can always 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.560 see it in her eyebrows. You can always see the 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.920 lie in her eyebrows because she's gonna look at you 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.680 so so distinctively before she tells you yeah, it looks 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.000 great that you're not gonna believe it because she's a 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.080 horrible liar. There's a game that our kids showed us 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.960 called out of the Loop, and I think that's what 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.960 it's called Out of the Loop. And the way the 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.640 game works, you have to be a good liar to 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.320 win it, and you pass the phone around the table, right, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.240 and everybody gets a category like animal, and then within 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.640 the category there is a. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.040 Certain animal we say, like hippopotamus. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.839 And then one person doesn't get to see what the 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.400 animal is, but they have to pretend like they know 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.200 what it is. And then you go around the circle 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.880 and ask questions and say this is it that could 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.840 you have this animal as a pet? And then the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.320 person who doesn't know what the animal is they have 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.000 to pretend like they do so nobody will know that 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.439 they were out of the loop and didn't know it's 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.079 a hippopotamus. And so when we play this game with Holly, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.600 it's the moment that we ask her can we have 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:29.160 it as a pet? 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.520 And she'll go, well, and everybody will go it's mom. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.280 Mom's out of the loop. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:38.120 She's such a bad liar. And I'm glad she's a 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.880 bad liar. I'm glad for that. I don't want her 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.040 to get any better at lying. But there's a problem. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.920 When you're not that good at inventing lies, sometimes you're 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:54.720 not that good at identifying lies either, and so sometimes 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.240 it's hard for you, if you have a hard time 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.400 telling a lie, to tell when someone is lying to you. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.880 And the problem with this is that I think she 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.800 needs to become a better liar. I don't want anybody 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.880 in this room to become a better liar. That'd be 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.920 a horrible thing to want for your church. But I 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.800 do want you to become better at identifying the lies 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.880 that the enemy has been telling you all your life 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.160 that have kept you lost in a loop of his lies. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.359 The truth of the matter. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.920 Is, ladies and gentlemen, that God is the creator. He 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:35.120 summoned light, said let it be, and light was. If 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.120 he called light darkness, it would change and turn out. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:39.840 God cannot lie. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.800 If God said that blue shirt was read, you would 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.480 watch a transformation and it would be washed in the 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.439 blood real quick. God cannot tell a lie. It is 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.160 impossible for him to lie. He is not a man 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.320 that he should lie, nor the son of men that 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.120 he should repent. As impossible as it is for God 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.560 to lie, it is impossible for the devil to tell 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.240 the truth. Because Jesus said in John chapter eight that 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.160 when he speaks, he speaks his native language. He's a 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.840 liar from the beginning. He's been lying a long time. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.800 He was lying before you got here. He was lying 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:15.959 over your life when you. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.120 Were just a little baby. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.440 He has been planting lies in your mind before you 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.760 had a conscious thought. He has been lying to you 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.880 a long time, and it is difficult for you to 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.680 identify those lies, because rather than tell a whole bunch 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.120 of different lies, I have noticed that the enemy just 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:40.640 hammers the same lies over and over again. Why because 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:45.360 the enemy is not creative God is. He has no 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.720 light to create, no stars to breathe forth, no sun 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.640 to put in its place, no waters to cost to 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.000 recede and bring forth fish in the sea. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:56.439 And he is not. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.160 Creative by nature. He is created and fallen. He is fallen. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.080 He's fallen. And because he's not created, he cannot be creative. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.120 And so since he can't make anything, he has to 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.560 make something up. But since he's not creative, he has 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.600 to be consistent. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.199 The devil is not very creative. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.640 If you look at your life, he says the same 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.559 things to you over and over again. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.360 He's not creative, but he's consistent. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.480 He'll tell you the same thing over and over again 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.760 until you can't tell the difference between his voice and 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.000 your thoughts. And that's what makes it so diabolical. The 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.679 lies come in disguise. If he said it with. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.240 A big, big voice up here, like. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.960 Holly, Oh, your song is great, I would know he 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.360 was lying because his voice changed. But did you ever 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.679 notice that the devil's voice doesn't change when he starts lying? 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:54.319 In your mind? 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:59.199 It sounds just like your own thoughts. And because you 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.880 are an honest person, you have a very difficult time 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.240 identifying the. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.480 Lies that he tells you. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.200 But if you can ever find the lie that he 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.000 is telling you, you can flow in the truth that 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.760 God has given you. And if you can ever find 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.000 the lie he's telling you, you can begin to fill 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.320 yourself with what God has spoken and receive the peace 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.880 that is your birthright and inheritance as a child of God. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.520 And you can get your happy back, and you can 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.240 get your home back, and you can get your heart back, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.880 because the devil has hijacked your mind your heart with 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.360 lies long enough. And the reason that I know that 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.800 it's him is he is not created. He only has 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.880 two lies that he tells over and over again. And 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.040 the prophet Jeremiah is believing both of those lies and 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.720 lamentations chapter three, and he's going to a very deep 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.920 dark place. See, there are really only two things the 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.280 devil ever tells you, And you might want to write 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.440 this down. So the next time he slithers up to you, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.000 that ancient snake. The next time he slithers up to you, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.440 he's under your feet. The next time he starts speaking 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.080 to you. The next time he starts suggesting to you, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.080 the next time he starts tempting you, the next time 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.000 he starts to make you move your feet off the 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.600 solid rock of Jesus Christ and the Word. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.880 Of God, you can find the lie. There are really 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:21.400 only two. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:31.600 One is it's not enough, and the second is you're 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:32.680 not loved. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.000 Every lie you've. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.880 Ever believed from the enemy, and every pit of self 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.440 pity you've ever dug for yourself, and every relationship you've 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.680 ever reached to that wasn't good for you but it 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.960 felt good to you was because of one of these 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.160 two lies that the enemy told you so consistently and 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.880 so convincingly. He told you it's not enough and you're 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.840 not loved. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.520 Am I right about it? Now? I prayed on my 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.400 knees this week. I said, I'm not going to get 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.240 up in front of my church and tell them there's 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.200 only two lies and just say a bunch of stuff. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.200 You got to show me, Lord, what are the two 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.200 things or three things or four things? He said, there's 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:22.480 really only two. There's really only two things. From the 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.800 time that your mind is conscious in choosing, the enemy 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:27.760 is whispering to. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.360 You it's not enough, and you're not loved. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.240 So I began to search the Bible to see if 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.720 that was correct, because I don't trust my impressions. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.560 The devil is a liar. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.000 And I went all the way back to the Book 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.200 of Genesis and all the way forward to the Book 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.760 of Revelation, and I found out that the snake only 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:49.440 says one thing. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.960 Did God really say? Did God really. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.280 Say that's why he's a snake? He's shaped like that 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.400 question mark? Did God really say to get you to 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.959 question what God clearly said, to get you to step 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.199 outside of how God identified you. He's a liar. And 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.560 so they tell you it's not enough. They tell you 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.000 that it's not enough for you to just believe in Jesus. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.119 You got to have a whole bunch of other beliefs. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.040 You got to have a whole bunch of other dependencies. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.480 It's not enough just to call on the name of 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.240 Jesus and be saved. You got to work your way 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.000 to God. Try to get you so trampled down with shame. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.040 And the devil is so so good at lying. He's 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.639 nothing like Holly. Let me say that for the record, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.840 the devil is nothing like my wife. He's so good 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.400 at lying that he'll do it like this. When you're 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.760 tempted to sin, he'll say it's no big deal. He'll 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.720 get you to believe that the power of God to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.119 resist temptation is not enough. Then, when you sin and 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:58.960 you need to come to God and confess your sin 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.919 so he can cleanse you from you and purify you 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.800 from all unrighteousness. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.680 He'll try to tell you it's not enough. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.440 He'll try to get you to think that the blood 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.439 of Jesus is not enough, that the grace of God 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:12.720 is not enough. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:14.600 So, before you. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.080 Sin, he'll try to get you to think that the 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.080 power of God inside of you is not enough to 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.119 keep you from sin. After you sin, he'll try to 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.520 get you to think that the price that Jesus paid 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.760 for your sin is not enough to take that sin 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.199 off of you, to teach you to roll your shame away, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.680 to bring you into a new beginning, to. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.159 Give you new mercies. With every sunrise, and every. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.200 Day the sun comes up, you're waking up in not enough, 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.439 because the devil is very effective through repetition. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.800 It's not enough. Think about everything you have to do today. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.240 You start thinking this before the covers come off in 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.480 the morning I know you do. It's not enough time 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.679 to get it all done. It's not enough money to 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.200 pay every bill, it's not enough sleep that I got 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:57.840 last night. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.120 It's not enough. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.600 People that I want to see it to make me 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.680 want to throw these covers off and get out of 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.280 these comfortable pajamas with the footies on them, and put 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.320 my uncomfortable shoes on and stand up for eight hours 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.679 all day because when I get home after eight hours 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.520 at work, there's not going to be enough of me 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.520 to go around for all these people. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.000 And since it's not enough, I'm not loved. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:23.080 Because if I don't show up enough, then everybody in 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.199 my life feels like a demand and nothing feels like 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.399 a supply. So now the enemy has got me in 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.720 an infinite loop of scarcity. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.080 Because it's not enough, and you are not loved. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.800 And now he's got you thinking that you are what 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.760 you do, and so if what you do isn't enough, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.560 then you are not enough. Never mind that Christ is enough, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.760 never mind that he wouldn't have created you, planned you, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.280 brought you into this moment in your life, spoken you 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.120 into the earth at this time, put you in that family, yes, 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.000 that family, the weird family, the dysfunctional family. Every family 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.280 is dysfunctional. Stop lying to yourself saying it. If my 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.240 family wasn't dysfunctional, I wouldn't be If your family wasn't dysfunctional, 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.640 you would be an angel. That's the only non dysfunctional 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.400 family that God ever made. They're called angels. They live 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.000 in heaven. We live on earth. It's called hell. Get 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.199 used to it. Bring Heaven to earth and get on 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.479 with it. The family of God is dysfunctional, but we 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:20.000 are here. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.240 Do not be deceived. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.560 So I was scribbling this down on the napkin, and 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.040 I was thinking, same lies, new loops. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:32.440 And what I want you to do. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.200 Is pull back up Jeremiah the prophet in Lamentations chapter three, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.480 And I want you to go all the way from 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:41.840 verse eighteen. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.159 To verse twenty one. And this is what we're working 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:48.760 on in our lesson today. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:54.800 Somebody say, same lies, new loops. Now, if a person 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.320 lied to you as much as the devil does, how 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.600 many times would you keep letting them in front door? 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.120 If every time they came through they stole something, If 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.960 every time they came through they tracked mud all over 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.320 your beige carpet, how many times would it take, and 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.960 yet we go through the same lies over and over again. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.280 Don't feel bad about it, Jeremiah did. And I am 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.320 looking for lamentations. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.640 On the screen. There we go. Oh, I was stollen. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:29.159 I was stollen bad just now. But look at this 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.440 in verse eighteen. I want you to circle this, he said. 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.960 So I say, my splendor is gone, or my glory 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.800 is gone, or it feels like God is gone, or 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.359 it feels like my imagination is gone, or my happy 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.080 is on hiatus and I can't find it. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:53.120 I forgot what it is to be happy, he said. 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.360 So I say my splendor is gone and all that 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.760 I had hoped from the Lord. Now I want you 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:04.600 to circle those three words I had hoped. I had 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.200 hoped put it in the comments. Please, if you're watching online, 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.879 I had hoped. I remember my affliction and my wandering, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.679 the bitterness and the gall I well remember them. And 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.760 my soul is downcast within me. And this is the 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.040 verse we felt so excited about when we read it, 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.359 because it gives us a new loop. 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:26.439 I'll explain in a moment. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.919 Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:32.920 and I want you to circle those three words. Now, 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:38.439