WEBVTT - How Do I Do This (The Basin) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.280 Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.440 this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.399 for you to break it down a little more, to 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:12.560 take it a little deeper. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.960 I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:26.000 Let's go. Ephesians four twenty two. You were taught, with 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.360 regard to your former way of life, to put off 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.560 your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.479 to be made new in the attitude of your minds, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.320 and to put on the new self, created to be 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.560 like God in true righteousness and holiness. And what caught 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.599 my attention just then reading it was you were taught 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.720 to put off your old self. You were taught to 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.960 be made new, You were taught to put on the 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:54.480 new self. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.000 You were taught. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.240 Paul is assuming that the audience he's speaking to in 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.800 the Book of Ephesians has received instruction on all of 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:10.800 those things, to put off the old self, to be 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.959 made new in the attitude of your mind, and to 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.319 put on the new self. And I think there is 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:21.960 a difference between being told to do something and taught 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.800 to do it, because if you tell me what to do, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.959 but don't teach me how I'll be trapped. I will 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.600 know that I'm not doing it right, but I won't 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.440 know how to do it any different. I was trying 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.959 to learn a few moves the other day with the 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.760 guy who was doing jiu jitsu, and I noticed that, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.840 like when he would tell me to do something, I 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.640 would have a really hard time. You know, switch this 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.520 elbow and put this you know arm now where the other. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.720 I mean, it was like, I'm not I am not 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:07.800 a athletic guy. Maybe I shouldn't say that. Maybe maybe 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.800 that's me not doing the new me. But what I 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.720 mean is like I don't naturally just pick up a 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.440 lot of physical movements and stuff, and I don't know, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.079 like the angles and the geometry of jiu jitsu or 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.360 grappling or whatever, they come naturally to me. But when 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.840 he would get down and show me and go like 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.440 and show me, I could do a lot better. And 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.200 I think a lot of times, as I have preached 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.960 through the years, it's been easier for me to tell 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.360 people what to do than to teach them. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.000 How to do it. It's easier for me to tell 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.720 you to I don't know. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.320 I want to think of one that's pretty applicable spend 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.440 time with God pray. But the disciples came to Jesus 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.160 and said, teach us to pray. It's a big difference 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.919 between telling you to pray and teaching you to pray, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:13.120 because one is you should. And sometimes when somebody's just 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.040 giving us a list of things we should do, it 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.560 not only gets overwhelming, but we become frustrated when we 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.239 give it our best effort. And like with prayer, for instance, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.720 I don't think there's anybody that calls themselves a believer 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:31.040 in Christ who doesn't feel like, oh man, well, I. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.600 Think there probably are some people. There aren't many people. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.800 There aren't many of us who are followers of Christ 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:37.600 who don't feel like I. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.720 Should I should pray more? All right, so pray more? 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.600 How do I do it? Our father who I didn't have? Okay, okay, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.960 But after I pray that prayer, what do I pray? 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:49.360 Well? 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.040 You know, teaching someone something as simple as this can 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:57.320 be helpful that when you pray a lot of times, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.200 it's a good idea for you to be more very 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.160 specific about where you are in your walk with God 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.880 than being generic about where you should be, So you know, 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.520 instead of praying like, Ah, God, I thank THEE that 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.520 Thou art most holy, and I desire to do Thy 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:13.160 will today. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.440 I think that's awesome, and I don't think that's bad. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.719 And I think we should magnify God and begin with 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.200 thanksgiving and praise and adoration. I'm not making fun of that, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.800 but I'm saying, sometimes you have to start from the 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.040 place where you are and go God, I need your 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:33.479 help right now. I can't do this without you. But 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.560 you are the great I am. You are the mighty God. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.360 You could do anything. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:37.599 God. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:38.919 I know that you live in me. I know that 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.400 you love me. I know that you want to help me. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.840 You said in your word that I could do all 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.000 things to Christ, who strengthens me. Right now, I just 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.120 ask you to flood my body with the energy that 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.880 I need for this task and help me to have 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.880 the words that I need to say in this situation, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.719 because I feel like my own human wisdom has fallen 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.360 short and running out of See what I'm saying, and 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.640 by starting with God, I need your help, it enabled 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.039 me to tap into my need for God's strength and 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.640 then I praised him. That's a very simple example of it. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.520 But we could we could go on and on read 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.680 your Bible more? How how read my Bible? So if 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.640 you weren't taught to do something, but you were told 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.680 to do it, you might find yourself a lot of 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.960 times feeling ashamed. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.000 Because you feel stupid because you don't know how. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.480 And when it comes to this thought of putting off 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.400 the old self, a lot of people don't know how 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.960 to do that, and what we end up doing is 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.279 just hating ourself. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.440 Oh man, I'm so selfish, and I'm so. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.000 I'm such an idiot and God, I'm such a like 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.839 I'm so out of control and what's wrong with me? 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.279 And I'm a screw up and I'm a failure. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.560 And you know all these things that I mentioned in 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.960 Week one of my sermon that become identity, things like 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.159 I'm not disciplined. No, I'm just not being disciplined, But 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.360 I am I have the potential for discipline because of 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.479 Christ in me. So even the idea of putting off 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.359 the old self and Paul saying you were taught to 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.719 put off the old self, a lot of people weren't 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.440 his audience. He had taught them to do it. But 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.599 a lot of times we haven't been taught and a 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.200 lot of times. As I mentioned several weeks ago on 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:31.680 the Daily Devot, we were taught wrong. Therefore, when God 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.120 is bringing something into our life to model something for us, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.239 you know, you meet somebody and you see, oh wow, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.159 I see an example of what it means to be kind. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.360 I see an example of what it means to be selfless. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.839 I see an example of what it means to think bigger. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.560 I see an example of what it means to walk 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.040 in faith. That example that you see that God will 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.520 put in your path a lot of times is to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.120 show you a preview of what He wants to do 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.600 in your future. That he wants to give you some 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.039 of those same experiences. He wants to use you in 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:08.280 some of those same ways. When we don't put off 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:13.640 the old self, and when we don't actively cause ourselves 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.800 to think, like, am I nurturing now the things that 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.360 are in me that I will need for what God 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.280 is calling me to be later when we're like short 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:26.320 term focus. Remember my weird scripture. I haven't got to 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.560 preach it yet, but from Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. You know, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.880 when you lay siege to a city for a long 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.400 time and they won't fight you, and you have to 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.240 lay siege on the city to try to to try 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.680 to keep them in the city. Don't go putting the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.040 axe to trees that can bear fruit. You can eat 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.640 from them. God wants to feed you from those trees. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.400 Don't chop them down. And I think of that as 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.320 being a metaphor for the things that I cut down 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.360 in my life, because, oh man, right now, I need 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.120 this tree to be a battering ram. You know, I 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.360 need this relief, So run to this. I need this 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.160 need mad in my life. So let me get it 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.080 this quick way, right. All the quick hit things that 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.040 we do to meet needs that keep us and limit 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.400 us from experiencing something richer in our future. So when 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.520 I say don't fight your future, I'm getting to the 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.640 fact that a lot of us weren't taught how to 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.800 deal with the things that come in our life that 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.320 God wants to use to develop us into the person 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.720 he made us to be. So when correction comes in 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.680 our life, we reject it because we're insecure. We chop 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.040 down the tree that has our future food on it. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.040 When relationships come in our life that are new, we're 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.520 too insecure, so we don't really step into them, or 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.160 we don't really develop them or pursue them because we 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.040 don't feel like we're worthy of that. We don't believe that, 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.480 we don't believe that God is giving it to us 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.120 as a gift, and we're not ready to receive it. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.960 So we chop down the tree of who we could 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.840 be in the future, and instead of experiencing what God 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:12.719 wants to give to us, we go for the short term. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.520 And I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.640 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.280 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.080 they're available. 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