1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: for you to break it down a little more, to 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: take it a little deeper. 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 3: Let's go. Ephesians four twenty two. You were taught, with 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 3: regard to your former way of life, to put off 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 3: your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires, 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 3: to be made new in the attitude of your minds, 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 3: and to put on the new self, created to be 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 3: like God in true righteousness and holiness. And what caught 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 3: my attention just then reading it was you were taught 13 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: to put off your old self. You were taught to 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: be made new, You were taught to put on the 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 3: new self. 16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: You were taught. 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 3: Paul is assuming that the audience he's speaking to in 18 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: the Book of Ephesians has received instruction on all of 19 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: those things, to put off the old self, to be 20 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 3: made new in the attitude of your mind, and to 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: put on the new self. And I think there is 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 3: a difference between being told to do something and taught 23 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: to do it, because if you tell me what to do, 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: but don't teach me how I'll be trapped. I will 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 3: know that I'm not doing it right, but I won't 26 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 3: know how to do it any different. I was trying 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 3: to learn a few moves the other day with the 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 3: guy who was doing jiu jitsu, and I noticed that, 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: like when he would tell me to do something, I 30 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: would have a really hard time. You know, switch this 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: elbow and put this you know arm now where the other. 32 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 3: I mean, it was like, I'm not I am not 33 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: a athletic guy. Maybe I shouldn't say that. Maybe maybe 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 3: that's me not doing the new me. But what I 35 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: mean is like I don't naturally just pick up a 36 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 3: lot of physical movements and stuff, and I don't know, 37 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 3: like the angles and the geometry of jiu jitsu or 38 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: grappling or whatever, they come naturally to me. But when 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 3: he would get down and show me and go like 40 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: and show me, I could do a lot better. And 41 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 3: I think a lot of times, as I have preached 42 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 3: through the years, it's been easier for me to tell 43 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: people what to do than to teach them. 44 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: How to do it. It's easier for me to tell 45 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: you to I don't know. 46 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: I want to think of one that's pretty applicable spend 47 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 3: time with God pray. But the disciples came to Jesus 48 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 3: and said, teach us to pray. It's a big difference 49 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 3: between telling you to pray and teaching you to pray, 50 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 3: because one is you should. And sometimes when somebody's just 51 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: giving us a list of things we should do, it 52 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: not only gets overwhelming, but we become frustrated when we 53 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 3: give it our best effort. And like with prayer, for instance, 54 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 3: I don't think there's anybody that calls themselves a believer 55 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: in Christ who doesn't feel like, oh man, well, I. 56 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 2: Think there probably are some people. There aren't many people. 57 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 2: There aren't many of us who are followers of Christ 58 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: who don't feel like I. 59 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: Should I should pray more? All right, so pray more? 60 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 3: How do I do it? Our father who I didn't have? Okay, okay, 61 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: But after I pray that prayer, what do I pray? 62 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: Well? 63 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 3: You know, teaching someone something as simple as this can 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 3: be helpful that when you pray a lot of times, 65 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 3: it's a good idea for you to be more very 66 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: specific about where you are in your walk with God 67 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: than being generic about where you should be, So you know, 68 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 3: instead of praying like, Ah, God, I thank THEE that 69 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 3: Thou art most holy, and I desire to do Thy 70 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: will today. 71 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: I think that's awesome, and I don't think that's bad. 72 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: And I think we should magnify God and begin with 73 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 3: thanksgiving and praise and adoration. I'm not making fun of that, 74 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 3: but I'm saying, sometimes you have to start from the 75 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 3: place where you are and go God, I need your 76 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 3: help right now. I can't do this without you. But 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 3: you are the great I am. You are the mighty God. 78 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 3: You could do anything. 79 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 2: God. 80 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 3: I know that you live in me. I know that 81 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 3: you love me. I know that you want to help me. 82 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 3: You said in your word that I could do all 83 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: things to Christ, who strengthens me. Right now, I just 84 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: ask you to flood my body with the energy that 85 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: I need for this task and help me to have 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 3: the words that I need to say in this situation, 87 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 3: because I feel like my own human wisdom has fallen 88 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 3: short and running out of See what I'm saying, and 89 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: by starting with God, I need your help, it enabled 90 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 3: me to tap into my need for God's strength and 91 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: then I praised him. That's a very simple example of it. 92 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 3: But we could we could go on and on read 93 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 3: your Bible more? How how read my Bible? So if 94 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 3: you weren't taught to do something, but you were told 95 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 3: to do it, you might find yourself a lot of 96 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 3: times feeling ashamed. 97 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: Because you feel stupid because you don't know how. 98 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 3: And when it comes to this thought of putting off 99 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: the old self, a lot of people don't know how 100 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 3: to do that, and what we end up doing is 101 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 3: just hating ourself. 102 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm so selfish, and I'm so. 103 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 3: I'm such an idiot and God, I'm such a like 104 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 3: I'm so out of control and what's wrong with me? 105 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: And I'm a screw up and I'm a failure. 106 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: And you know all these things that I mentioned in 107 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: Week one of my sermon that become identity, things like 108 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 3: I'm not disciplined. No, I'm just not being disciplined, But 109 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 3: I am I have the potential for discipline because of 110 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 3: Christ in me. So even the idea of putting off 111 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 3: the old self and Paul saying you were taught to 112 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: put off the old self, a lot of people weren't 113 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: his audience. He had taught them to do it. But 114 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 3: a lot of times we haven't been taught and a 115 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: lot of times. As I mentioned several weeks ago on 116 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: the Daily Devot, we were taught wrong. Therefore, when God 117 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 3: is bringing something into our life to model something for us, 118 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 3: you know, you meet somebody and you see, oh wow, 119 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: I see an example of what it means to be kind. 120 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: I see an example of what it means to be selfless. 121 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 3: I see an example of what it means to think bigger. 122 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 3: I see an example of what it means to walk 123 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 3: in faith. That example that you see that God will 124 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: put in your path a lot of times is to 125 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: show you a preview of what He wants to do 126 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 3: in your future. That he wants to give you some 127 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 3: of those same experiences. He wants to use you in 128 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 3: some of those same ways. When we don't put off 129 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: the old self, and when we don't actively cause ourselves 130 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: to think, like, am I nurturing now the things that 131 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 3: are in me that I will need for what God 132 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: is calling me to be later when we're like short 133 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: term focus. Remember my weird scripture. I haven't got to 134 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 3: preach it yet, but from Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. You know, 135 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 3: when you lay siege to a city for a long 136 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: time and they won't fight you, and you have to 137 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 3: lay siege on the city to try to to try 138 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 3: to keep them in the city. Don't go putting the 139 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: axe to trees that can bear fruit. You can eat 140 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: from them. God wants to feed you from those trees. 141 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: Don't chop them down. And I think of that as 142 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 3: being a metaphor for the things that I cut down 143 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 3: in my life, because, oh man, right now, I need 144 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: this tree to be a battering ram. You know, I 145 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 3: need this relief, So run to this. I need this 146 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 3: need mad in my life. So let me get it 147 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 3: this quick way, right. All the quick hit things that 148 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 3: we do to meet needs that keep us and limit 149 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 3: us from experiencing something richer in our future. So when 150 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: I say don't fight your future, I'm getting to the 151 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 3: fact that a lot of us weren't taught how to 152 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 3: deal with the things that come in our life that 153 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: God wants to use to develop us into the person 154 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: he made us to be. So when correction comes in 155 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 3: our life, we reject it because we're insecure. We chop 156 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 3: down the tree that has our future food on it. 157 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 3: When relationships come in our life that are new, we're 158 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 3: too insecure, so we don't really step into them, or 159 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 3: we don't really develop them or pursue them because we 160 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: don't feel like we're worthy of that. We don't believe that, 161 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 3: we don't believe that God is giving it to us 162 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 3: as a gift, and we're not ready to receive it. 163 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 3: So we chop down the tree of who we could 164 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: be in the future, and instead of experiencing what God 165 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 3: wants to give to us, we go for the short term. 166 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: And I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 167 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 3: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 168 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: get you all of these new messages as soon as 169 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 3: they're available. 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