The Two You's

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Visit Joeloustin dot com slash give Hope to 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.280 give a gift today. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:39.360 Well, God bless you. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.200 It's a joy to come into your homes and if 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.000 you're ever in our area, please stop by be a 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.440 part of one of our services. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.320 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.320 I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:53.400 about this pastor. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.000 He bought a new horse. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.760 He trained it to respond to praise the Lord meaning 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.280 giddy up in Hallelujah meaning woe. Every time he said 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.840 praise the Lord, the horse would take off running. When 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.280 he said Hallelujah, it would quickly stop. One day, he 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.200 was out riding and the horse got spooked and took 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.800 off straight toward a cliff, going full blast. In the panic, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.960 he couldn't remember what he had taught his horse. He said, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.640 Bless God, Glory, Amen. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:22.320 Nothing to work. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.399 At the last second, he shouted, Hallelujah. The horse came 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.760 to a screeching hawk inches before the edge of the cliff. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.000 He breathed a sigh of relief and said, Praise the Lord. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.440 Tell it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.280 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.800 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.640 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.840 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.560 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:55.480 God bless you. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.600 I want to talk to you today about the two yous. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.480 There are two people living on the inside of each 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:10.160 one of us. The strong, disciplined, confident you and the weak, insecure, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:16.280 compromising you. The positive, faith filled, big dreams you, and 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.640 the negative, discouraged not going to happen you. We all 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.000 have these contradictions, inconsistencies. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.600 You're a good person, you love the Lord most of 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:27.959 the time. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.280 You're friendly, easygoing, good morning, great to see you today. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.840 But if someone pushes the wrong buttons, if they're rude, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.800 heart the other. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.000 You can come out. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.080 He may have been hidden for two months, you thought 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.520 he was finally gone, but he was still in there. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.760 There's a battle constantly taking place between the two yous. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.680 The scripture calls it between the flesh and the spirit, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:00.800 between our old carnal nature giving into our feelings, compromising, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.640 telling somebody off. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.760 And the new redeemed nature. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.000 When you gave your life to Christ, Paul sett in Corinthians, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.200 you became. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:15.400 A new creation. Old things are passed away. We celebrate that. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.599 That's good news. But here's what I've learned. The old 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.480 man may be dead, but sometimes he gets resurrected. He 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.240 may have died, but don't kid yourself. He can get 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.359 back up again. We see this in the scripture. With Peter. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.640 Peter was a faithful disciple, a close friend of Jesus, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:41.240 strong committed. His name even means rock. Jesus said to him, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.400 you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.400 my church. Nobody God had more confidence in than Peter. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.160 When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Peter was so loyal, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.599 so determined to stand up for him. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.080 He pulled his sword out and cut off one of 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.479 the soldier's ear. He was ready to die defending Christ. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.080 That was the strong Peter, the faithful Peter, the rock. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.560 That would be great if that was the only Peter. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.200 But there was another Peter in there that came out 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.560 from time to time. When they arrested Jesus and took 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.800 him to the High Priest, Peter followed along, and he 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.800 was standing outside the house in the courtyard, warming himself 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:24.440 by the fire. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.279 There were guards all around. A young lady said to him, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.680 aren't you one of Jesus' disciples? He said, no, what 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.960 are you talking about. I don't know him. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.599 Another person came up and said, are you sure you're 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.600 not one of his disciples? He said it again, I'm 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.960 telling you I don't know him. Then someone came out 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.480 of the house. They said, I know you're his disciple. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.400 I saw you there when we arrested him. This time 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.919 Peter got angry. He started cursing, swearing, I don't know 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.479 the man. Just a little earlier, he was defending Jesus. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.680 What happened the other Peter came out. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.160 There were two Peters in there, the kind Peter and 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.120 the curse you out, Peter. The defend you Peter, and 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.599 the deny you Peter. The great to see you today, Peter, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.360 and the I can't stand to see you today Peter. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.960 I would love to tell you that there's only one 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.719 you in you. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:25.719 You're not like Peter. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.280 You didn't get the rude you, the compromising you, the 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.480 curse you out you. But that's not the truth. The 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.720 other you is in all of us. We are a 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:40.159 new creation. But the flesh, even though it's passed away, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:41.680 it can get back up. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.960 In Romans eight says if you live by the flesh, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.200 you will die. It's not talking about physically. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.080 It means your dreams will die, your potential will die, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.039 your relationships won't be what they should if you're always 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:02.080 saying what you feel, holding grudges, compromising. It feels good 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.000 to feed the flesh, but you won't like the results. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.320 You won't get to where you're supposed to be. It 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.680 goes on to say, if through the spirit, you will 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.600 mortify the flesh, then you will live. Mortify means you 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.760 have to keep it dead when it tries to get 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.160 back up. When you're tempted to do whatever you feel, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.800 you have to say no, I am not going to 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.320 let the flesh rule me. When you do the right 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.280 thing when it's uncomfortable, you're keeping the old man down. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.480 And the scripture says no discipline At the time feels good, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:44.280 but later on it produces a harvest of righteousness. It 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.760 doesn't feel good at the time to walk away when 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.480 somebody insults you, It feels good to insult them back. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.880 Doesn't feel good to stay home and study for the 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.640 test when your friends are. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:57.320 Out having fun. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.040 The flesh likes to be comfortable, but if you're comfortable 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.560 all the time, you won't grow. The reason some people 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.360 are stuck is not because they're not talented, not because 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.160 they don't have favor. It's because they keep letting the 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.480 old man get back up. They're not disciplined to do 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.280 the right thing when it's hard. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.800 You have to be consistent. The flesh is not going 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:25.480 to go away. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.520 You'll never get so spiritual that you don't have to deal. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:31.960 With carnal desires. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.040 Paul said, I die daily, he wrote over the half 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.240 of the New Testament, Yet he admitted he had to 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.080 deal with his flesh. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.720 On a daily basis. Every day. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.920 We have to say no to things. No, I'm not 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.800 going to make that comment. No I'm not going to 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.400 watch that. No I'm not going to hang out with 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.560 that friend that causes me to compromise. You have to 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.120 tell the flesh you are not going to rule me. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.800 I'm not going to eat everything you tell me to eat. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:04.280 Now I'm getting real. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:09.000 At the mall, you can smell those fresh baked cinnamon rolls. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.040 Three blocks away. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.400 You pull into the parking lot and the aroma is 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.079 in the air. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.600 Your new man tells you walk on by. You don't 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:18.080 need that. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.439 Your old man, he may be dead, but he can 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.040 smell too. He'll get up and say you need three 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.000 of those. You deserve it. You can work out extra 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.880 hard tomorrow. You can pray and ask God to take 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.640 away those calories. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.960 You've heard of the walking dead. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.000 Your old man may be dead, but he'll get up 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.520 and walk around. He'll try to run your life. Now, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.559 quit telling yourself. I can't control my temper. I can't 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.560 break this addiction, Joel. I can't keep my eyes on 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.199 the right things. Your old man is not that strong. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.440 The reason he's controlling you is you keep feeding him. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.640 Whatever you feed is and to grow. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.679 Every time you give into the temptation, you're feeding it. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:05.720 It's getting stronger. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.040 Every time you're impatient, offended, you lose your temper. You're 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.120 feeding the negative. Do yourself a favor, quit feeding the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.240 old man. Start starving the temptation, starving the offense, starve 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.000 the negative, and it will become weaker. When Joel I tried, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.200 I just don't have the discipline of quit. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:30.480 Telling yourself that. Philippians too, says God is working in you, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.760 giving you the desire to obey him and the power 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.960 to do what's right. The most High God right now 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.360 is working in you. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.120 He's bigger than any temptation, bigger than any stronghold. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.960 He created you to be free. Instead of going through. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.400 The day thing I can't do this, always give in 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:52.320 turn it around. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:53.000 Father. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.760 Thank you that I have the power to do what's right. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.720 Thank you that you've given me the desire to obey. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.959 That the forces that are for me are greater than 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.600 the forces that are against me. Get your mind going 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.800 in the right direction. That's the first step to victory. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.760 In the scripture, David and his men had been protecting 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.600 the house of a man named Nabel. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.280 Nabel was a wealthy man that owned a lot of sheep. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.000 It was the time of year where they were cutting 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.199 the wool and having a big feast. David sent a 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.520 few men to ask Nabel for some food and supplies. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.280 Since David was doing this good deed, being kind, you 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.000 would think Nabel would be happy to give him something. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.559 But Nabel was rude and ungrateful. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.120 Commentary say he was a harsh man, hot tempered, and 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.200 hard to get along. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.800 With that he spent most of his life dropped. He 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:48.319 said to. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.240 David's men, I don't owe you anything. I didn't ask 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.040 you to protect me. What are you doing on my property? 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.400 He sent them away empty handed. When David heard how 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.240 he had altered them, David was furious. He told his 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.640 men to get their swords. They were going to go 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.280 take care of Nabel. Nabel had a wife named Abigail. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.720 She was not only extremely beautiful, she was very wise. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.200 When she heard what her husband did, she loaded up 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.600 animals with food and supplies and headed out toward David. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.120 They met on the road. She bowed down before him 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.439 and said, David, my husband is a fool. I'm sorry 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.920 for the way he treated you, but I brought you 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.600 and your men these supplies. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.280 Please forgive us for what he did. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.560 She calmed David down and kept him from wiping out 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:47.240 her whole town. David thanked her and turned away went 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:47.880 back home. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.560 He knew that. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.160 God had used her to protect him from making a mistake. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.360 Ten days later, Nabel had a stroke and suddenly died. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.800 David sent word to Abigail asking her to become his wife. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.480 Now that the old man died, she was able to 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:13.800 meet the new man. Nabel is symbolic of our old nature, 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:20.240 hot tempered, rude addictions. The name Nabel means fool. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.560 As long as the old man is alive, you'll never 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.120 meet the new man. I'm speaking figuratively here. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.120 I saw three ladies given high fives that old man 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:33.880 is your husband. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:34.520 You are stuck. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.240 I'm talking about the old man that lives in you. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.720 The bitterness, the bad attitude, the compromise. Don't let the 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.760 same issues keep you from seeing the new man. The 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.959 same unforgiveness, the same hot temper, the same addictions hold. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.280 You back for the next twenty years. You have the 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:56.760 grace to overcome. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.760 The temptation may be strong, but this, the culture says, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.280 where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.360 That means God's grace, his enabling power is greater than 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.040 anything that's trying to stop you. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.200 It's interesting that Nabel died ten days after Abigail did 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.800 the right thing. When you dig your heels in and 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.680 do the right thing when it's hard, there will be 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.760 times like with her, you will come in to your 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.200 tenth day where something suddenly breaks. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.640 That addiction doesn't have the power over you like it did. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.160 That bad attitude, that temper. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.800 It may not totally go away, but it doesn't control 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.760 you anymore. Now, I wonder how much higher we would go, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.520 how much more of God's favor we would see, if 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.560 we would get rid of the old man, if we 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.880 would start saying no to things that we know are 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.640 holding us back. Sometimes a little thing can keep you 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.880 from a big blessing. A little bit bitterness, a little compromise, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.680 just this one friend I hang out with Joel, I've 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.240 always been hot tempered. No, it's time to get rid 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.640 of Nebel. Can I tell you nobody likes him, nobody 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.360 wants to be around him. You might as well put 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.840 the old man back in the grain. We don't want 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.040 the walking dead you. We want the new you, the 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.200 free you, the redeemed you, the blessed you, the confident you, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:31.040 the victorious you. David had to defeat his personal enemies 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.640 before God could trust him with Goliath Goliath in one sense, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.120 wasn't David's enemy. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.120 That was God's enemy. Goliath was sent to establish the Israelites, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.240 to show the Philistines that God was on the Israelites side. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.040 When David was out in. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.760 The shepherd's fields alone, when nobody was watching, he killed 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.720 the lion and the bear. Those were his personal enemies. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.400 He could have slacked off. Nobody can see me out here. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.240 If I lose a sheep or two, it's no big deal. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.080 But David was a person of excellence. He did the 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.760 right thing when nobody was watching. And because he was 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:16.040 faithful to defeat his personal enemies, God was able to promote. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.440 Him and trust him with more. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.200 If you'll do like David and start defeating the things 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.480 that nobody knows about, it may not be a sin. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.080 It's just a wait, a small thing that's keeping you 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.080 from being your best, sour attitude, being jealous of a friend, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.640 showing up late to work. Are there personal enemies you're 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.520 not dealing with? They can all come on, Joel. Everybody 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.600 deals with something now. If you'll start defeating those small 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.640 things that are holding you back, God will releast the 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:52.160 big things that belong to you. But sometimes we're waiting 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.440 for the temptation to go away, thinking that we're not 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.880 going to have the desire anymore. And there are times 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.360 that happens, but most of the time the temptation will 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.240 still be there. Your old man will want to get 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.280 back again and again. But God has given you the 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:14.560 grace to overcome. I'm a very goal oriented person, very focused. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.439 It's my personality type. When I go to the grocery store, 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:19.520 I'm on a mission. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.560 I'm gonna get in, get out, be efficient. I don't 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.359 like waiting go around. I used to be impatient. I 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.760 wouldn't let anybody see it. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.439 But if there was a long line, or if the 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.840 waiter didn't come to the table right away, I'd get 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:33.520 stressed out. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.119 But living with. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.719 Victoria all these years, I've learned to slow down, enjoyed 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:40.280 the journey. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.960 I'm much more relaxed, learned to go with the flow. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.080 But even now, if something is not happening as fast 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.679 as I would like, if the car in front of 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.080 me on the freeway in the fast lane is driving 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.840 forty miles an hour, my old man still. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:57.560 Wants to get back up. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.680 I've had him down for years. We buried him, had 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.280 a nice funeral. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.880 But every week he's trying to get back up. What 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:06.520 am I saying? 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.880 God doesn't take away every temptation, remove every negative desire, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.120 where you're never tempted to be impatient, to be. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.320 Rude, to compromise. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.280 That's why Paul said, I die daily, you're still tempted 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.280 to get off course, join the crowd. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.919 This is where discipline steps in. This is where the 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.400 grace of God shows up. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.960 Yes, I know people that God delivered from an addiction, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.040 they don't have the desire anymore. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.080 That's the mercy of God. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.480 But if it doesn't happen that way for you, don't use. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.120 It as an excuse to let the old man get 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:43.680 back up. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.000 Keep Nabel in the grave. Nabel doesn't look good on you. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.080 Nabel is not your style. Keep the old man. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.880 Down so the new man can shine. Here's the key. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:01.199 What you defeat quickly is not your real enemy. What 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.280 you conquer in a short time is not what you 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:05.879 have to be concerned about. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.119 Be grateful for that, But your real enemy doesn't go 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:11.040 away easily. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:16.400 I'm not tempted to curse, to do drugs, to be dishonest. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.000 By the grace of God, I don't struggle in those areas, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.199 but being impatient. That old man has been trying to 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.240 get up for over thirty years. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.040 He's stubborn. He won't go away for me. He's a 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:30.800 real enemy. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.639 David defeated Goliath in a few minutes, a victory that 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.960 changed the course of his life. But Goliath wasn't David's 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.440 real enemy. He was gone in a moment. His real 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:49.400 enemy was Saul. Saul pestered David for years through spears 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.040 at him when David was being nice. He chased David 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.879 through the desert. David had to live on the run. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.640 God could have delivered David from Saul life he did Goliath. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.320 He could have taken care of him in one afternoon. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.119 No big deal. But there are some enemies. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.320 God doesn't deliver us from some temptations. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:13.960 He doesn't totally remove. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.240 If God is not taking it away, that means he's 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.919 given you the grace to stand strong. You have the 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.600 power to keep the old man down. Now you may 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.840 be tempted to hold on to bitterness. Somebody did you wrong, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.320 they hurt you. It's been years and that temptation is 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.960 still there. That's your real enemy. Keep the old man down. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.920 Do the right thing when it's hard. Bitterness doesn't look 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.480 good on you. Maybe you have an ongoing temptation with alcohol, 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.159 or to compromise in a relationship, to be negative or critical. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.600 Every person has a song. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:21:00.560 There's a temptation, an attitude, some area of compromise that 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.040 doesn't go away. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.359 You need to know what your real enemy is. 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.520 Don't let the saws wear you down to where you 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.680 think this is just who I am. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.879 No announced to that Saul. You will not keep me 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.480 from my destiny if you never go away. I'm not 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.720 giving in. I'm not letting the old man get back up. 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:26.120 I'm gonna keep resisting, standing strong, doing the right thing. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.560 But too often we want a quick fix. God, deliver 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:34.399 me instantly. Take away this hot temper. Lord, make me 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.800 patient and kind, and do it overnight. You will defeat 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:43.960 some giants overnight. You will conquer some golias quickly. But 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.520 most of the time, God will deliver you little by 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.840 little when he sees you doing your part, being patient 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.080 when you could be stressed, forgiving the person that did 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.280 you wrong, resisting the temptation. 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:01.520 As you keep passing these tests, one step at a time, 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.159 God will begin to change things. This is what happened 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.000 to Jacob In the scripture, he was dishonest. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.880 He went around tricking people. He deceived his brother out 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:16.720 of his birthright. Being dishonest was his soul. He struggled 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:17.720 with it for years. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:22.159 He wasn't disciplined, he didn't try to overcome. He accepted 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:23.320 it for who he was. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:28.000 But in Genesis thirty two, when he wrestled with the angel, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:33.439 God changed his name from Jacob to Israel. This was 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:38.200 to symbolize his new beginning. God was saying, Jacob, I'm 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.880 giving you the grace to conquer this dishonesty. And Jacob 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.480 did his best to change and live with integrity. He 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:51.240 started making better decisions. But just because God touched him 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.520 didn't mean he suddenly turned into a different person, and 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:59.880 he didn't have these temptations anymore. In Genesis forty eight, 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.040 he came to the end of life. Verse two says 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.760 when Jacob was told, your son Joseph is here to 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:12.160 see you, Israel gathered up his strength and sat up 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.600 in bed. He was near death, and look. 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.240 Who was there, Israel and Jacob. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.880 You would think the scripture would just refer to him 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:22.680 as Israel. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.080 Jacob was over and done, but. 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:29.160 This was put there to show us that he never 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.280 totally got rid of Jacob. 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:36.040 He lived as Israel his new name. But Jacob didn't 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:37.080 go away easily. 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:40.480 Jacob kept trying to get back up and come again 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:41.159 and again. 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.040 It's the same way with us. God made us a 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:45.880 new creation. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:51.119 He says, you are no longer Jacob, the deceiver, the compromiser. 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:52.800 Now you're Israel. 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.280 But even though you're Israel, Jacob is going to get 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:59.639 up out of the grave and try to work his 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:03.680 way back back. There will be a conflict between these 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:07.040 two men, who you're called to be and who. 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.200 You used to be. Somebody cuts you off in traffic. 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.680 Israel says, no big deal, it's not going to ruin 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:14.160 my day. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:15.240 Bless them, Lord. 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:19.800 It would be easy if Jacob were totally gone. The 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.520 problem is the old man Jacob. He's still in there. 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:27.640 When Israel says I'm going to bless them, Jacob gets 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.080 up and says, no, I'm going to curse them. 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.720 Israel wants to overlook the offense. Jacob wants to tell 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:35.280 them off. 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:40.560 Israel wants to resist the temptation, set a new standard. 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:44.080 Jacob wants to take the easy way out, not be 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:49.560 uncomfortable when you find yourself wanting to compromise. Be impatient 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.960 giving to the temptation. Just say to yourself, no, Jacob, you're. 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.200 Not getting up. You're the old man. 0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:00.760 Stay in that grave. Israel is in charge, redeemed me, 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:01.919 the free me. 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:03.119 The bless me. 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:07.440 Well, Joel, it's hard to take the high road. It's 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:12.520 hard to walk away when somebody insults me. Yes, it's difficult, 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:16.320 but you won't come up higher if you're not willing 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:21.480 to be uncomfortable. These are tests that God allows so 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:26.040 we can grow. The scripture talks about how God uses 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.240 difficulties to separate the chaff. 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:30.080 From the wheat. 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:34.800 The chaff is the unusable part of the plant. If 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:37.919 you don't get rid of that part, then the valuable 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.760 part will go to waste. In Bible days, they didn't 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:44.600 have machinery, so they would take the wheat to the 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:47.879 threshing floor. They would put it on the ground and 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.680 have the oxen walk over it again and again, grinding 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:55.280 up the husk and the straw, the valuable part of 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:58.719 the plant. The grain would come loose from the chaff. 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:03.560 If you're in a situation you don't like, you're uncomfortable. 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:08.880 Instead of being sour, recognize you're on the threshing floor. 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.640 That's God working on you to try to get rid 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:17.760 of the unusable parts, maybe the pride, the jealousy, the impatience, 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:18.919 whatever it is. 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:23.399 Do your part and be willing to change. Stay pliable, 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:24.840 stay mouldible. 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:27.639 You may not like it, but if you'll keep the 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:30.760 right attitude, it's refining you. 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:32.000 You're going to come out better. 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.880 This is what happened with Peter, even though he had 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:40.680 all these inconsistencies. Even though one moment he was defending Christ, 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:45.359 another moment he was denying him. Because he was pliable, 0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:50.320 because he kept growing, his old man didn't keep him. 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:51.160 From his destiny. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:55.359 On the day of Pentecost, a very important day in 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:59.480 the church, out of all the disciples, Peter was chosen 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:01.800 to give the inaugural address. 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.439 He had the honor of leading the church. 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:07.800 You may have let your old man get up way 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.199 more than you should have. Be encouraged. It is not 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.720 going to keep you from your destiny. Now draw that 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.320 line in the sand and say this is a new day. 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:21.240 I'm not letting my flesh rule me anymore. I'm done 0:27:21.359 --> 0:27:25.160 taking the easy way out. I'm gonna be disciplined and keep. 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:26.200 My old man down. 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:31.359 If you'll do this, I believe and declare bondages that 0:27:31.400 --> 0:27:34.960 have held you back are being broken right now. You're 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:38.040 gonna step into a new level of freedom, new level 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:40.280 of favor, a new level of growth. 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:45.240 Like Peter. You're gonna rise higher, overcome obstacles and become 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:49.760 everything you were created to be in Jesus' name, And 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:52.040 if you receive it, can you say amen? 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