Tricks Are For Kids

0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Hey haul, Yes, let's do it again. Let's do it, 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.160 let's run it back. I can't wait. Elevation Nights. It's 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.319 gonna be amazing. Been to the East coast, West coast, 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.319 YEP Now I think we need to come to Austin, Texas. Yes, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.880 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. About Minneapolis, Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.560 Saint Louis, Missouri, for Wayne, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario. We got 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:28.840 to see you there April eighteenth, April eighteen through twenty seven. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.320 It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, we coordinated that awesome. But 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.000 make sure you go get your tickets right now. Elevation 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.919 Nights dot com. These nights are seriously like the best, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.760 the best. Can't explain it. I wouldn't keep doing it 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.400 if it wasn't amazing. You have to experience it. It'll 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:50.320 be me you Elevation Worship and we'll see at Elevation Nights. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.600 Elevation Nights dot Com. Get your tickets today, let me 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.480 know if you're going to be there. I want you 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.560 to welcome our EPAM around the world right now, all 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:08.920 over the world, all over the world. I just stuck 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.760 in that melody all day. Stop it stop it because 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:18.319 I'm ready to preach. Oh, y'all aren't ready to listen, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:25.160 but I'm ready to preach. I y'all be seated. We're 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.080 going to go right into the word. Can I pick 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:34.440 up where I left off last week? Do the new you? 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:41.240 Resist the temptation to go forward into your future on 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:46.320 the old template. Do the new you. It's a little 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.360 series that I'm doing here in the first month of 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.160 the year, and I'll go as long as God leads me. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.720 But I committed to him to at least do it 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.560 for this first month because I think this cultural phrase 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.200 that we have comes from the pit of hell. Do 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:06.400 you I mean cool? Yeah, be unique? That's great. However, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.600 if the you that you are doing is not the 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:18.000 you that God wants to use, you've got to grow. Amen. Oh, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.720 this is going to go good. This is going to 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.480 go good today. This word that God gave me last week, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.040 and I do want to start with where I ended 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:32.280 last week. Go to Ephesians chapter four briefly as I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.080 read you this scripture, and then kind of remind you. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.080 I don't often like to say this is a review 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.880 because then it'll make you feel like you're jumping into 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.360 the middle of a season, and that's not the case, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.960 especially if you're here for the first time. How many 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.520 of you are in church today really needing God to 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.120 give you some clarity in your life? And then how 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.040 many of you believe put it in the chat as well? 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.600 How many of you believe that that can only come 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.880 from Jesus clarity. Now, we can figure out other things 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.160 other ways, but when it comes to spiritual matters, we 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.399 need Jesus. And that's what Ephesians four is saying, all right, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.120 in this epistle, epistle is not a wife of an apostle. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.200 It's a letter breaking out all my preacher humor for 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.079 the first of the year. Look at verse twenty Ephesians 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.200 Chapter four, Verse twenty. I love y'all. Y'all are a 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.200 little slow to say it back, and I love you 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.840 enough to tell you the truth. And that's what we're 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.840 going to do today. This message is going to be 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:38.320 a grown up adult message, all right. Verse twenty. That, however, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.400 is not the way of life you learned when you 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:46.480 heard about Christ, and we're taught in Him in accordance 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.920 with the truth that is in Jesus. Well, now that 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.840 messes up my other least favorite cultural saying, live your truth. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.960 And Paul just said that I need to learn a 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.120 new truth. And the truth that is new is not 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.600 the truth that is new at all. It might be 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.440 new to you, but the truth is in Jesus, not 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.680 in me. I don't trust my own judgment enough to 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.560 figure out what truth is. There was a time in 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.440 my life when I thought there was a tooth fairy 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.200 that brought me money for my teeth. That's how stupid 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.239 I was. So I figured there's probably something i'm still 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.800 that stupid about today that I haven't figured out that 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.000 is stupid yet. And baby truth doesn't fall out like 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.680 a baby tooth, so it has to be uprooted. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.599 I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. God is good. God 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.719 is good. God is good. We got to yank it out. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.200 But he said the way of life. Look verse twenty two. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.520 This is really really important. You were taught with regard 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.160 to your former way of life, baby Truth, to put 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:57.320 off your old self, which is being shout the next word, corrupted, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:06.479 corrupt by its deceitful desires, to be made new in 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.240 the attitude of your minds, and to put on the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:16.280 new self created to be like God in righteousness or 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:21.320 true righteousness and holiness. And so that's the contrast we 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.320 focused on last week. Corrupted verse twenty two. Put it 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.960 up again, please corrupted, and then verse twenty four created, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.560 and write them both down if you want to corrupted 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.560 and created. And I'm not saying that there are two yous, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.760 but I am saying that, according to the scriptural revelation 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.039 here from Paul, as well as my own personal experience, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:51.880 there is a choosing every day of my life and 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.440 your life about which one of us is going to 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.400 show up for any given situation. And once you realize 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.080 the power that choice, you don't feel so stuck anymore. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.479 And that is a wonderful thing. I get sick of 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.040 myself sometimes and I begin to believe that this is 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.400 just the way I am, and then somebody comes along 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.359 and says, just do you, And I'm like, great past 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.479 the cheese fries. I went out to Gaston County to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.960 watch Graham wrestle yesterday. Those cheese fries look good, and 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.440 there were two mes. And my taste buds know exactly 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.000 about those cheese fries, and my waistline knows what my 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.440 taste buds are trying to make me forget in that 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.440 moment where this leads if I do it long enough. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:46.680 So I didn't eat the fries. Cheer me on, yeah, Pastor. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.039 But sometimes I don't do as good of a job 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:56.440 resisting the fear as I did resisting the fries. Sometimes 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.440 I don't do as good a job about what comes 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.200 out of my mouth as what goes in. Say what 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.720 I want to say, do what I want to do. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.520 And I'm just doing you, and you do you, and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.039 I'll do me, and together we'll get divorced in seven years, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.240 just doing each other. This is what Paul is talking 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.800 about to the church at Ephesus, and to the Church 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.080 at Valentine, and to the church at University City, into 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.000 the church in Nepal, and into the church in the UK, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:29.200 and into the Church of your heart. When he says, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.880 you were taught the truth in Jesus, and so the 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.360 Lord gave me this and it really touched me that 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.920 I need someone to teach me Jesus. He says, you 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.160 were taught a way of life in Jesus. And I 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.800 don't know who taught you about Jesus or who taught 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.760 Jesus to you, but you ought to thank God for them, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.760 and you ought to thank them, whether that's my mom, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.720 thank you, whether that's pastor Mickey. He will never ask 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.280 me an offering for ministry that I won't help him 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.680 build it. And so even if the church had twenty dollars, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.440 if he needed five, if he needed ten, I'd have 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.920 to pray in tongues about it. But I will always 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.840 support him because he taught me Jesus, and I'm really 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 grateful that he did. And he wasn't the first one. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.440 I mean, at the Methodist church where I grew up, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.200 there were Sunday school teachers who taught me Jesus, and 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.720 I appreciate them so much. And you probably can think 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.400 of somebody right now who taught you Jesus or who 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.600 brought you to church so that you could learn Jesus, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.400 and you ought to thank God for them. And know 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.800 this is not a selfish and motivated part of my sermon, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.000 because I'm the one who teaches the Bible. I'm talking 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.400 about those personal people who help lead you to Jesus. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.559 Is amazing, because I need somebody to teach me Jesus 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.560 because the world is screaming everything else, So to teach 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.080 me Jesus a way of life that is outside of 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.720 this crazy, corrupt, crooked culture, this siloed culture, this panic 0:08:54.760 --> 0:09:00.360 attacks society, this judgmental culture, this cancel culture, this hypocritical cure, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.600 this materialistic culture, this jacked up it might burn down quick. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.560 Let's hurry up and praise God while we've still got 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.480 a planet culture. I need somebody to teach me Jesus. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:22.640 But I need Jesus to teach me me because in 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.959 all the things that I've learned about him, there's a 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.360 feeling I get some time that I haven't really met 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:36.120 me yet, that I haven't quite grown into the me 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.520 that I've seen glimpses of. I think I can be 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.920 more free than I am. I think I can be 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.440 more patient than I am. I think I can be 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.840 more intentional than I am. I think I can be 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.559 a little bit less of a control freak. Why did 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.160 you say yes so loud to that you know me? 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.679 We must have grown up together. Takes one to know one, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.439 Oh man. The control thing is one of those dumb 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.000 things that you believe that you have. You have no control, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:18.880 So really, a control freak is an idiot. And where 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.959 we're coming at from the scripture. He says, you were 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:28.720 taught the truth in Jesus, the truth about what the rapture. Sure, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.440 but nobody knows the day or the hour. That's not 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.960 something we can figure out. I mean, I can teach 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.920 you some charts and all that, that'd be awesome. I 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.840 can teach you about prayer, and I will tell you 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.160 one thing about prayer real quick as we go, is 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.040 that prayer is your way to get out of that 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.280 default mode that you wake up in in the morning. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.960 Just like you brush your teeth, Just like we hope 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.840 you brush your teeth and we admonish you to brush 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.680 your teeth. Prayer is that way that you get in 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:09.520 contact with God. I'm talking about God. So any view 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.840 of me that doesn't start with God is doomed to 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:19.280 get stuck in an infinite loop of stupid because the 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.200 truth is in Jesus. And that's why I don't want 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.320 you just buying into everything that you hear out there. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.440 Live your truth. What if your truth is a loop 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:33.760 of doom? What if God, who stands outside of the 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.920 loop of time and comes from a realm called eternity, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.280 knows you in a way that if you knew you 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.360 like he knew you, you would stop doing self destructive things. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.559 You would stop running to people who are limited, trying 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.240 to get an ocean out of a thimble sized personality 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.880 and thinking something's wrong with you. Help me preach, y'all. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.560 There was somebody who wanted your seat today to use it. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.520 I love the Lord because he knows me. And last 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.120 week I was showing you from Ephesians four twenty two. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.280 I hope this is not too esoteric, but it really 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:18.040 helped me that the new you is not something in 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.320 the future. When we talk about new Year, new You, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.240 we all roll our eyes collectively because knew you and 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.839 new Year. Yeah, they both start with why. But I've 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.920 done this before, so move on with that all that stuff. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.199 I'm just out here surviving. I'm just doing me. I'm 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.640 just getting by. And as long as we think of 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.200 who we can be in Christ as some future event 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.440 contingent on our human abilities, we will always be limited 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:54.760 to our moods, our emotions, and our background. Because I 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.840 need somebody to teach me Jesus. But I need Jesus 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.840 to teach me me. Here's why. When I talk about 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.560 you changing, you, think of that in terms of a 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:12.800 destination at a later date. God doesn't think that way. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.880 Here's what I showed last week that a lot of 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.600 people reached out to me and said, oh, I love that. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.360 So in case you missed it, when I say the 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.440 new you, I'm not only talking about you that is 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.720 going to be for your future. I'm talking about the 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:35.280 youth that God is already very familiar with. And I 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.800 take this not from my own mind, but from Jeremiah 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.120 one verse five. Do y'all know this scripture. This is 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.439 a top ten scripture where the Lord says to Jeremiah, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.480 I've got a calling for you. I've got an assignment 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.040 for you. You've never done it before. You don't even 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.559 see yourself in this way. You don't imagine that you 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.959 have the capacity to do it. I'm going to put 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.840 you as a prophet to the nations. And Jeremiah is 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.720 about to give God some excuses. But watch what God 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.720 said to Jeremiah before the excuses begin. He said, before 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:12.560 I formed you in the womb, I knew you now 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.840 for you, the new is out here in the future, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.480 when I get married, when my kids get out of 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.080 the house, when we're able to get pregnant, when the 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.680 economy bounces back when I get out of this job, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:35.080 when they leave this job and I stay when when 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.880 this happens, I will be It's out there. That's one 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.320 way to look at it. You can find plenty of 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.440 people on Instagram that will preach that to you. That 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.320 you know, get on your grind and buy my course 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:58.440 and then the future you will get girls. The future 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.920 you will have washboard ass a superior intellect and be 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.520 able to understand Jordan Peterson perfectly. The future you is 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.760 going to be amazing. And that's what we normally hear, right, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.160 is all this height that we pass off as hope. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.360 It's like, Okay, I'm gonna do a new this year, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.920 and then after three weeks we can't. But God does 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:22.000 it different. Watch this. Jeremiah is insecure. Jeremiah is inexperienced. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.600 Jeremiah is surprised. If you're any of those three things, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.120 this is for you, touch somebody say this is for you, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.480 This is for you. Now. God doesn't tell Jeremiah, no, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.720 You're going to be something in the future that I'm 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.520 telling you about right now if you just do it 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.080 long enough. He says this, before I formed you in 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:50.520 the womb, I knew you so take that knew you 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.920 and put a key on the top of it. Not 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.640 just the new you that people haven't seen yet, that 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.040 you haven't even met yet, not just to you that 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.920 you imagine when you get a real good church high 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.280 a real good church buzz, where's off about twelve minutes 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.920 after you sit in traffic in a church parking lot 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.800 And instead of seeing this as I'm going forward towards 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.400 something that I'm really not seeing how God says it, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.680 because what's in the future to you is what's familiar 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:31.960 to God. Well, what's in the future you call it new. Okay, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.640 That's who I'm gonna be one day when and God's like, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.200 that's who you already are. That's who you always were, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.480 That's what I created you to be before SID corrupted 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:52.080 what I created. Oh God, God got this thing started 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.400 in my life. God set this thing in motion in 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.960 my life. God is the one who set me in families. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.200 God is the one who set me in time. God 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.800 is the one who set me in a generation. And 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.520 I didn't get to say it to the staff Wednesday 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.760 because I forgot, but I wanted to tell you He 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:19.359 is also the lord of your limitations, just as God 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.359 is the God of my potential. He is the lord 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:29.080 of my limitations. It is true that we cannot put 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.199 in what God left out. It is also true that 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.320 most of us have no clue what God has put 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:42.760 in the new you, the one God talks with, the 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.720 one that makes you want to Sometimes you just kind 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.760 of go. I want to change some things for the better, 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.280 and I think I can. I want some relationships that 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.399 encourage me this year, and I think I have the 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.119 right to ask God for that. Yeah. I want to 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.000 get around some people this year who don't just describe 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.760 bones on the valley floor all the time. I want 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.760 to get around some people this year that speak breath 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.320 into the bones and know how to call out something 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:18.399 that's on the inside of me. That me is the 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:29.639 true you, it's the new you. Well that's what we 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:37.320 said last week. This week I got a title, and 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.320 I'm almost done preaching. Kind of maybe we'll see called. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.440 I didn't get this title. I got it from the scripture, 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.880 but I also got it from a cereal box where 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.160 you may remember this. If you're a child of the nineties, 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.000 you definitely remember this. If you remember that Jeremy spoke 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.120 in class today, you definitely remember this. If you remember 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.480 Zach Morris's phone and Kelly Kopowski's temptation as a young 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.800 man for you to lust and she was the first 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.639 girl that you ever fell in love with, was Kelly Kapowski, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:18.879 you will definitely recognize this. I'll start it, you finish it, 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:24.439 silly rabbit. I want to preach for fifteen minutes on 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:33.959 tricks are for kids, because there is no shortcut to this. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.000 There is no magical worship button you're gonna press this 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.320 morning that's gonna take the wind in the waves away 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.680 in your life this week. That's how immature people think. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.560 One of my buddies texted and said, thank you for 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:55.000 sharing that immaturity leads to instability because I needed to 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.439 hear that because it is in my selfishness and my 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.120 own desires. That's what Paul uses that phrase in the scripture. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:07.119 He says deceitful desires. I almost called the message that, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.359 but I thought it would sound too depressing. Today I 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.159 want to talk about deceitful desires. I thought, though, we 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.760 need to talk about these deceitful desires for a moment, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.240 because if the me that God sees is not the 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.200 me that I'm stuck in right now? Then what's happening 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.280 in the darkness. He describes to the Ephesian Church that 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.080 we are children of the light, but he also says 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.680 that the darkness keeps the gentiles from living the ways 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.120 of God, and when we copy the patterns of the gentiles, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.520 we are forfeiting the promise of God. Do you understand 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.560 what I'm saying? So every time you're scrolling through stuff, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.159 trying to figure out stuff of what other people are doing, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.199 you are forfeiting the self that God knows in the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.600 spirit and copying a pattern of the flesh that puts 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:57.679 you in that doom loop of stupid. So now we 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:04.480 have to deal with or desires, which are real. A 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.240 lot of Christian teaching will almost put faith as the 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.320 opposite of feelings. You know, we don't walk by feelings. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.160 We walk by faith. Bible doesn't say that. It says 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.679 we walk by faith, not by sight. So we have 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.919 feelings like even how would you know that there was 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.720 faith if you felt nothing. That's the stupidest thing in 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.000 the world. Preach is good. We don't walk by feelings, 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.720 we walk by faith. But feelings have a place even 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.760 in faith. You know, how do I know what God 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.720 wants me to preach, Well, a certain amount of me 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.600 has to feel I'm not saying that that that's solely 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.879 dependent on It has to be true. It has to 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.359 be from God's word. But there's a lot of stuff 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.360 in God's word. How do I know this is what 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.879 God wants me to preach for now? Well, there's a 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:55.879 certain amount of that. I just have to know it 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.000 on the inside, because God knows I'm not going to 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.439 be one of these preachers that just reads whatever is 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.760 on the headlines of the news and comes in the 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.560 pulpit and just gives you another dose of the same 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.919 crap that's already making you nauseous in the pulpit. You 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:11.840 don't come here for that. So I'm not going to 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.120 do that. I'm not up here to do that. And yet, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.200 what is the word that God has given us for 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.480 this moment, for this year? What is the word that 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.600 God has given your life for this point in time? 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.760 What is it? How do you know if God's calling 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:27.399 you to go here or there? How you going to 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:29.120 know if God's calling you to do this or that? 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.120 How do you even know what you're good at? I mean, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.440 part of this has to be feelings right, they have 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.000 their place. But now here is how the enemy pickpockets you. 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.359 Here is how the devil gets you to give up. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:46.280 Watch this the new self that God knows, the you 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.679 that you kind of suspect us. There, the you that 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.160 you can be for about three days at a time, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.080 and then you give in. How does he get you 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:05.600 to give up on that? So easily? Deception? And in 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:12.879 order to deceive, you have to diminish. Quick story I 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.520 mentioned my mom taught me about Jesus. She also confronted 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.760 this person one time for me and I never will forget. 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:24.000 Being nine years old going to the trading card shop 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.440 in Monk's Corner at the railroad track, right over the 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.399 railroad track. I bought a pack of basketball cards. I 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.520 didn't know anything about basketball cards. This is my first 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.280 pack of basketball cards. I had baseball cards. And I 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.960 open it and there's a Michael Jordan card in the pack. 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:40.520 The guy's watching me. I'm in there by myself. She's 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:44.920 waiting in the car, and he goes, hey, I'll give 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:49.160 you a whole other pack for that one car. I'm 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:55.359 like a whole pack for a car. Sure, mister. They 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.399 called him mister so like the Andy Griffiths show. In 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:04.560 here you were mister gee Whiz Gollie hold back for 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.240 a single card? Wow? Because I'm just a kid, just 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:14.560 a kid. So I opened the next pack. I don't 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.600 recognize any names I knew. Michael Jordan went out to 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.320 the car. My mom said, how'd it go? I said, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.480 I got two packs? She said, how'd you get two? 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.239 And gave money from one? I said, you never believe it. 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:30.560 He gave me a whole other pack for one card. Mom, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.520 she said what was the card? Because she knew this 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.879 man has a book. He knows how much that card 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:47.439 was worth. And he's grown and my kid doesn't know 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:54.639 the value of a car, so so so, so she said, 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:59.480 what was the card? I said, Michael Jordan. She said, 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.440 a Michael Ordon car. How much was it worth? I said, 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:04.440 I don't know what it was worth, But I got 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:10.520 a whole pack. My mom went back in that store 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.680 with my Michael Jordan car and the third pack because 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:22.960 she knew what was it up? Foot? Do you have 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:29.480 a book? Have you read it? Hawn met Jesus? Did 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:34.320 you know he's the perfect slockless laugh of God? Did 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:38.040 you know they marched it up a hill to Calfrey, 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:43.720 and they died for you, and bled for you, and 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.639 suffered for you, and put the stripe for you, and 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:51.240 put the mocking for you. And he stretched his arms 0:25:51.280 --> 0:26:01.280 and said, you're worth this once. Did you know that 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:03.800 when he left to go to heaven, he sent his spirit, 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:08.000 and that spirit lives in you. No, we don't know that. 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.120 We don't know that. We're so busy copy in other 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.399 people's style that we don't even know the spirit that 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.200 came from God because we got so much stuff from culture. 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:25.600 I'm sorry, y'all. I'm Baptist in my heart. I went 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:30.560 to a Baptist school. Comes out sometimes I'm sick of this. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:34.199 They're like walking up in the Devil's card shop and 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:38.040 helping you get your peace back, your toy back, your 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:43.240 dream back, your sweet self back, your creative self back. 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:48.119 I got the book. I looked you up. In the book. 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:51.520 I found out that you are precious in the sight 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:54.240 of God. I found out that you are more than 0:26:54.280 --> 0:27:04.600 a conqueror. I looked you up in the book. You 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:09.720 don't know me, pastor neither to you. That's what I'm 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:15.000 trying to introduce you to. Jesus. So Jesus can introduce 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:21.320 you to you the new you knew with a K 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:26.160 or new with the N both. That's what I want 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:29.520 you to get this yere, and I will preach through 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:34.120 every battery they sell in radio shack until you get this. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:40.200 Do they still have radio shack? I need to update 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:45.760 the reference? All right? What order money Amazon? It'll be fine, 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:49.280 We'll get the batteries. Y'all get distracted by the dumbest stuff. 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:55.240 How about that when you think of the enemy's tricks 0:27:56.080 --> 0:28:00.160 in God's truth, what comes to your mind in your life? 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:03.800 The first step if we're going to do the new 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:12.520 spell it out. Notice evaluate and then the w's are 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:20.399 not quite as good. But walk in okay, notice evaluate 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:24.199 walking psychology for all of you who are too stubborn 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:28.560 to go to therapy. You can't deal with feelings until 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:34.600 you know they're there. So now one habit I've incorporated 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:40.200 my life the last five years. Instead of going I'm scared, 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:42.880 I try to back up and go I'm having a 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:47.040 feeling of fear, because if I say I am scared, 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:54.960 that becomes an identity. I'm feeling fear, that's an event. 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:03.680 The truth is in Jesus. Jesus isn't scare Jesus is 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:08.480 in me? So I'm feeling fear. But that's the old thing. 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:13.480 That's the old thing. So I notice it. I evaluate 0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:17.560 it like how I mean you would you would probably, 0:29:18.400 --> 0:29:22.840 I would think, spend time shopping for a pair of shoes. 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:26.400 If you're gonna spend money on them, you probably would 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:30.280 spend time figuring out do they fit? And we will 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:33.520 spend more time evaluating what we put on our feet 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:39.960 than what we put in our mind, our heart, who 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:46.440 we let in our phone. So is this from God? 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:50.760 Is this what God gave me? Or is this a trick? Now? 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:52.440 How you know if it's a trick, Well, you got 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.080 to have the book value and then you have to 0:29:56.520 --> 0:29:59.640 well you have to actually spend time. You have to 0:29:59.640 --> 0:30:02.360 actually spend time around people who love God. They had 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:05.120 a thousand E Group leaders. I think that online and 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.240 physical that they encouraged this week. Let's thank God for 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:14.800 our E Group leaders. Amazing Holly came out and preached, 0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:17.560 we've just been going this week. Man, we've been going. 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:20.479 We're getting ready. We're getting ready. I don't even know 0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:22.840 what it is that God wants to do, but I 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:25.200 figure since they're saying the world is going to fall apart. 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:28.920 A falling apart world needs a built up church, and 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:31.160 I want to be that. I want to be that 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:37.600 church ready for all over the world. Praise the Lord, 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:41.360 Praise the Lord. I'm gonna do it with whoever God 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:43.200 gives me around me to do it. We're gonna build 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:46.800 something significant for this season of our life in Jesus' name. 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:53.080 And then, you know, if you think about when somebody 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:57.880 uses a counterfeit ticket, because Elijah shops all the time 0:30:57.920 --> 0:30:59.120 for these shoes, I'm like, how do you know if 0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:01.160 they're real or not? If you get it off this 0:31:01.240 --> 0:31:03.120 side or that side, how is it all verified? And 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:06.720 all of that. And when when me and my father 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:08.600 in law and my brother in law Jody, they all 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:10.400 go to our Greenville campus. Holly's family is all at 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:12.600 Elevation in Greenville. They better all be there right now, 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:17.560 because embarrassing if they're not. We went to a New 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.080 York Knicks game and we want We were just spur 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:21.600 of the moment wanting to go. This is when I 0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:23.560 was dating Holly and her dad. You have to know 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:27.560 this guy, he's real. He's kind of like he's a 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:31.479 bull in the China shop. So I said, how how 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:33.920 are we going to get tickets? And we and he said, well, 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:36.000 they're too expensive. We'll just buy them off a scalper. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:38.920 Ain't that dangerous? It's like no, no no, no, not, you 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:40.680 know what you're doing. So we buy these tickets and 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:42.840 we're walking up and it's kind of dark, and so 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:45.360 we're walking up to the game and I'm like, merle, 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:50.120 these tickets don't look are they supposed to be printed 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:56.040 diagonal on? There? Doesn't nicks have a CEA in it somewhere. 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:00.080 It wasn't that bad, but look kind of fake. We 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:01.800 get to the thing and we hand him to the 0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:05.320 guy and he laughs. He doesn't hardly even look. He 0:32:05.400 --> 0:32:09.240 laughs he and he goes, guy, you got ripped off. Man, 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:10.920 Go do what you gotta do at the box office 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:13.640 or go back to the hotel. This in real. And 0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:16.440 my father in law goes, how do you know you 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.560 didn't even hardly look at that pal And he goes, 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:27.960 he goes, this is what I do all day when 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:37.080 you've handled as many real ones as I have. I 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:40.480 saw the fake ticket in your eyes. You walk like 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:43.600 you have a fake ticket, You country bumpkin, This is 0:32:43.680 --> 0:32:51.160 New York City. Anyway, cannot be myself in the pulpit. 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:57.440 Sometimes it feels good, do you, pastor? I promise I'll 0:32:57.440 --> 0:32:59.680 do the holy, the good one, the anointed one. I 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:03.040 won't do the other one. But now we decide what 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:06.040 to walk in. And so when he says deceitful desires, 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.760 when Paul says deceitful desires, the key is for you 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:17.120 to be handling the real thing enough that your feelings 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:24.360 begin to align with your faith. And when they don't, 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:28.080 you notice it and you bring it back. Feelings have 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:32.560 their place. Feelings have their place. How many of you 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:38.560 agree with me. Feelings have their place. But it's not 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:50.160 on the throne. Jesus sits there, The book sits there. 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:57.200 The spirit of God is the seat of my decisions, 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:01.800 not what I feel, because if I do, I'll end 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:08.800 up with a pack of crap and trade the goat. 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:14.839 So if the enemy is diminishing it, he's deceiving you, Well, 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:17.400 you're not that gifted. And I think it comes in 0:34:17.440 --> 0:34:20.520 this way like, well you don't really matter that much. 0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:22.799 This doesn't really matter that much. I mean, there's one 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:29.080 time you get who cares. That's how deceitful desires were. 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:33.920 The desire isn't bad. The way the enemy tries to 0:34:33.960 --> 0:34:38.440 get you to fulfill it is. That's what a deceitful 0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:43.080 desire is. Whether it's a sexual desire, whether it's a 0:34:43.160 --> 0:34:47.880 financial desire, whether it's a desire for success. You can't 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:52.000 attack the desire and demonize the desire. The first question 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:55.280 Jesus asked in the New Testament was what do you want? 0:34:57.120 --> 0:35:00.239 So apparently desires are not something to be bypassed in 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:04.319 our life. The deceit is not in the desire. The 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:06.520 deceit is what the enemy tries to get you to 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:10.279 do to get the desire. That's where the deceit is. 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:13.480 Oh no, you just settle for that, You just scavenged 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:15.920 for that. All you're ever gonna be is that. All 0:35:15.960 --> 0:35:18.279 you're ever gonna get is that. All you really can 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:20.239 do is that all you ever have done, is that 0:35:20.440 --> 0:35:24.479 all you ever have been is that you're trash. That's 0:35:24.480 --> 0:35:28.960 why they walked out. You're trash. That's why it hasn't 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:33.640 happened yet. You're stupid. That's why you haven't built it yet. 0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:37.000 You're an idiot. That's why all your friends make that 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:47.480 you make this. You sup. But if you are growing 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:55.279 in Christ. The more you grow in him, you get 0:35:55.320 --> 0:36:02.560 the ability from the inside to notice it, evaluated and 0:36:02.640 --> 0:36:06.600 look him right in his eyes and say, silly devil, 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:20.279 tricks you should have you should have tried this on 0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:25.160 me before I got back to church this year because 0:36:25.200 --> 0:36:32.480 I'm growing this year. Tricks are for kids, but I 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:37.680 am a new creation. Hey, Christ, I did the bom 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:51.040 silly devil. That's for kids. That's kids. There's child's play. 0:36:51.360 --> 0:36:54.160 That's how I thought when I didn't know God. That's 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:57.080 how I spoke when I didn't know God. That's how 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:00.000 I came running when I didn't have a liberator named 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:03.680 sees Us. That's how I struggled in my sin before 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:08.839 I had his name to call on. I got help. 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:13.600 Now I got a new self and a new self. 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:17.400 And the me that God saw an eternity is the 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:20.600 me that I'm say in the future, and I'm throwing 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:24.080 into it. Hey, I'm throwing into it. Hey, I'm gonna 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:32.319 be it because I have it. Yes, Lord, let somebody says, 0:37:32.360 --> 0:37:37.040 silly rabbit, trying to eat kid's food, trying to do 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:40.200 kids stuff, trying to get people to notice you. What 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:43.520 are you fifth grade saying I can't change. What is 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:47.280 this seventh grade? Somebody wrote in your notebook, never changed, 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.440 and you took their advice and raise hell over the summer. 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:53.319 And here you are still hard, pitching a fin over 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:56.400 what you didn't get when God has skinned you the 0:37:56.520 --> 0:38:00.360 riches of Christ and the spirit of God and that 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:03.800 came down. I want to say a pinacoff this ferdid 0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:16.160 these your pelly. I'm growing now. I'm growing out of this. 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:20.600 Somebody say, I'm growing out of this. I'm growing out 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.600 of this. I'm growing out of this. This addiction will 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:26.040 not be able to hold me another ten years. I'm 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:28.560 growing out of this. It might take me some time, 0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:31.400 it might take me some tears, it might take me 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:34.799 some tough decisions, but I'm growing out of this. I 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:39.280 will not stay in this prison, not one more dang 0:38:39.440 --> 0:38:54.640 put it forward. Somebody should have told Esau the stew 0:38:54.800 --> 0:39:00.439 is not that good. Do y'all know about Jacob and Esau? 0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:05.280 You do you know about Jacob the god of Jacob. 0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:08.320 It wasn't supposed to be the god of Abraham, Isaac 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:11.680 and Jacob. It was supposed to be the god of Abraham, 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:17.200 Isaac and Esau. He was the oldest brother. He had 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:19.719 the right to the inheritance, just like you have an 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:23.360 inheritance in Christ. What is it every spiritual blessing in 0:39:23.400 --> 0:39:27.600 heavenly places, reconciliation with God, the ability to be at 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.319 peace with Him and others, the love of God she'd 0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:33.640 have brought into hearts through the holy spheres. You have that. 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:39.840 So why do we not sing I'm calling on the 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:44.400 God of e Sau apart from the fact that it 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.560 doesn't rhyme with generations, which is the next line in 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:59.839 U saw why because he got hungry because he saw 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:14.440 bull of Was it cereal or stu stu stu? Jacob 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:19.799 was cooking stew. And it's interesting because all the way 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:24.080 from Rebecca's womb they've been wrestling each other. Jacob's name 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:32.080 means deceiver, trickster exactly exactly. And the funniest book in 0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:33.600 the Bible if you know how to look for it. 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:36.600 And if the Bible is boring to you, you're boring. 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:43.080 The Bible's not God is interesting, you're basic because that's 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:45.200 the funniest book. What is the one I gave you? 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:47.680 In Genesis twenty five where it said about the nations 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:50.840 wrestling in her womb, the Lord said the nations are 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:55.400 wrestling in your womb. Two nations, two nature's to you 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.600 to use, wrestling in the womb of what God is 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:02.520 doing in your life. The old one that was put 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:05.400 on that is being corrupted, the new one that's the 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:08.520 real one that was created in the image of God, 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:10.799 that he sent his son to bring you back to. 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:15.240 And he said, two nations are in you, two people's. 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:18.760 One will be stronger than the other, the other will older, 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:24.160 will serve the younger, give me some more. When the 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:25.959 time came Verd to give birth. There are twin boys 0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:29.360 in a womb right now. There are twins in the 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:36.160 womb of your mind, your heart, your desires. I'm not 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:39.160 preaching this in an allegorical way. It's said in Anythesians. 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:43.920 I'm illustrating it. I'm illustrating it to you. That's exactly 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:46.239 what Paul said. And I want you to notice. This 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:47.799 might be the best part of my sermon. And I 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:49.839 saved it too late, so you probably won't even hear it. 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:55.279 But it didn't say make sure you don't take off 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.279 the new nature and put the old one back on. 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:04.760 The old one was the first one that is mentioned, 0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:11.560 which means that your natural state of mind is not 0:42:11.680 --> 0:42:15.960 your true nature. In order to put on what God 0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:17.640 gave you, you you have to take off what he didn't 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:24.000 and stop accepting any old attitude as being you, because 0:42:24.040 --> 0:42:26.640 that's not you. Oh I notice it. There I am 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:30.640 again blaming people. I notice it. There I am again catastrophizing. 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:32.880 I notice it. There I am again, But I'm not it. 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:40.480 I notice it, but I'm not it because I have 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:43.040 learned the truth in Jesus in a new way of life. 0:42:43.400 --> 0:42:47.600 So I'm taking that off and putting this on. I'm 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:50.560 growing out of that old one, and I'm growing into 0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:55.319 my new one. The future me is God's familiar men. 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:59.560 That's what I'm becoming. And since my life had its 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:01.879 origins in the mind and heart of God, nothing can 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:09.719 stop it. Just ask the stone, what can stop God? Therefore, 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:12.520 when we look at Jacob and Esau, we see a 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:15.440 picture of us. We see that they were wrestling from 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:16.800 the womb. And I told you I'd give you the 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:18.560 funny verse, and I didn't yet give me next verse. 0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:21.439 The first one to come out with red his whole body. 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:22.920 It's like a Harry garment. So they named the Misau. 0:43:23.680 --> 0:43:26.799 That's not the funny one. Sounds funny. Who's a Harry. 0:43:26.800 --> 0:43:29.960 They named him Esau, which means red because he was red, 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.640 real creative Isaac. After this brother came out, it is 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:38.000 hand grabbing Esau's heel. That's Jacob grabbing Esauce heel. That's 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:42.040 been you a lot of your life too, that's been 0:43:42.080 --> 0:43:47.080 you trying to by. I want to be first. I 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:49.000 need to be that. Oh no, I need to be that. 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:52.600 Now watch what happens. He was named Jacob Trickster. Isaac 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:55.640 was sixty years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. 0:43:56.080 --> 0:44:05.800 The boys grew up. That's the funny verse because they didn't. 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:10.839 Physically they did. Esau became a skillful hunter. And you've 0:44:10.840 --> 0:44:14.480 accomplished a lot too. No, no, no, you have. I'm 0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:17.359 not saying that sarcastically. You've learned a lot, You've become 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:19.960 a lot, You've overcome a lot, and I want to 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:27.000 pause and celebrate your progress to this point. I'm not 0:44:27.080 --> 0:44:29.560 setting you up. You got that hesitant clap, like is 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:32.520 he about to tell us what were really filthy rags? Not? 0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:37.040 But I'm saying it's possible for you to grow in 0:44:37.120 --> 0:44:45.920 your skillfulness and be deficient in your spirit. So es 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:50.520 he's a good hunter. He's growing up. They're both grown up, 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:52.839 but they're doing the same crap they did when they 0:44:52.840 --> 0:44:57.520 were little boys. They're still fighting and Jacob is still tricking, 0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:02.400 and Esau is still stupid. I mean, he's good at hunting. 0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:05.120 Man of the open country. Jacob is content to stay 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:09.480 home among the tenths. Isaac had a taste for a 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:11.880 wild game, but loved Esau. Rebecca loved Jacob. And I 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:18.560 watched this once when Jacob was cooking some STU. I 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:23.440 think it's no coincidence that STU is the beginning of stupid, 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:27.600 because this is worse than a pack of cards. This 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:30.000 is worse than any house you ever bought. This is 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:33.880 the worst deal in human history. Jacob is cooking some stu. 0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:38.719 Esau came in from the open country. Famish. Now, the 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:41.760 first thing Esau need to do is notice, I'm hungry. 0:45:41.800 --> 0:45:45.160 Right now. I am in no position to make decisions 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:48.279 right now. I am in no position to respond to 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.799 this email right now. I am in no position to 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:54.240 have this conversation right now. I'm hungry. I need a minute, 0:45:54.360 --> 0:45:56.080 even if I have to fake like I'm going to 0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:58.959 the bathroom. That's what I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna 0:45:58.960 --> 0:46:01.239 stand in the bathroom and call on the God of 0:46:01.239 --> 0:46:04.719 the bathroom, and he'll meet me in the bathroom. He's 0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:07.440 the God of the mountain, He's the god of the 0:46:07.480 --> 0:46:11.560 bathroom too. I'm gonna shut this stall and pray before 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:17.080 I sell my soul for some stew. She's not that pretty, 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:20.239 she's not that gorgeous. Not to throw away what God 0:46:20.320 --> 0:46:23.640 gave me. I need a moment to notice. I'm hungry 0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:27.439 right now, trying to make this reel where it can live, 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:32.520 where you live, Praise God, he said. He said, I'm famished. 0:46:32.520 --> 0:46:34.680 And then watch what he did because he did not 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:40.520 notice it. Because he did not notice it, he responded 0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:44.719 to it. And he responded to his hunger now in 0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:49.080 a way that he would hate later. And I've done 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:54.840 it many times quick, he said to Jacob. Let me 0:46:54.880 --> 0:47:05.680 have some of that red stew. I'm famished. I'm famished. 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:09.919 I'm I'm feeling hunger right now. But let me deal 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:14.360 with it the right way. I am what I feel. 0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:18.240 Are y'all getting as much out of this as I am? 0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:24.120 This is a good sermon, Stew right here, look at me, Church, 0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:28.480 give me the verse again. I'm famished, I'm exhausted. That's 0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:32.200 why he was called eat them red Verse thirty one, 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:37.520 Jacob replied, for some of your birthright. Look, I'm about 0:47:37.560 --> 0:47:39.759 to die you. Sau said, what good is the birthright 0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:44.200 to me? But Jacob said, swear to me first. So 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:51.000 he swore and oathed them, selling his birthright to Jacob. 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:54.200 And that's why we're calling on the God of Jacob 0:47:56.120 --> 0:48:01.959 for a single meal. Next verse and final, so Esau 0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:08.800 despised his birthright for some bread and lentil stew. He ate, drank, 0:48:09.840 --> 0:48:15.759 got up left and despised his birthright. I thought that 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:19.600 strong language. It doesn't say he hated his birthright. But 0:48:19.680 --> 0:48:24.759 when you are hungry, When you are hungry, you will 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:28.520 make decisions now that will create a life that you hate. 0:48:28.560 --> 0:48:38.279 Later this year, God brought you to Elevation Church and 0:48:38.360 --> 0:48:42.000 our ethanm online to tell you it's not too late 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:48.960 for you to change. If you're still breathing, you still 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:56.200 got a birthright. If the blood is still running warm 0:48:56.719 --> 0:49:01.480 in your veins, you have a birthright. And the blood 0:49:01.920 --> 0:49:06.720 that Jesus shed for you purchased it back from the devil. 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:12.920 So we've got the book and we've got the blood, 0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:19.040 and we have an opportunity this year, this moment, forget 0:49:19.080 --> 0:49:24.319 about it, this very moment. You have the opportunity to 0:49:24.400 --> 0:49:33.560 make an exchange your unrighteousness for his righteousness, your sin 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:42.760 for his salvation, your no for his yes, your filthiness 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:48.239 for his purity. You don't see it, your ashes for 0:49:48.320 --> 0:49:53.080 his beauty. This is the greatest exchange that has ever 0:49:53.440 --> 0:49:57.520 been made. Not with Jacob, I'm talking about Jesus, the 0:49:57.640 --> 0:50:02.239 great exchange of love and grace. You don't get it 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:05.640 through grinding. Tricks are for kids. You don't get it 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:08.840 through effort. That's for the perfect people. But for the 0:50:09.000 --> 0:50:13.320 children of God. There is a grace for this moment, 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:16.600 a grace to change you, a grace to call you forward. 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:19.560 Is pulling on you now, that's why you feel it. 0:50:19.560 --> 0:50:24.880 It's not me speaking as him speaking. I'm teaching you Jesus, 0:50:27.000 --> 0:50:33.719 and Jesus is showing you you how many times are 0:50:33.719 --> 0:50:39.239 you gonna give the enemy your desires and let him 0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:44.960 tell you how to fulfill them? The new you, I'm 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:48.560 walking in a new way. Ah, it's gonna be step 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:52.359 by step. Baby, what you thought I could just put 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:55.759 this new attitude on you like it's my jacket. I 0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:58.800 would if I could. I could sell this jacket for 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:01.880 a lot of money if it worked like that. No, no, no, 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:07.719 This wardrobe is only received through your daily walk and worship. 0:51:09.640 --> 0:51:15.279 So I keep hearing the Lord say it. It's an 0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:18.400 old line, but I just got to say it. Beans 0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:26.040 for a birthright, Beans for a birthright. Uh huh. You're 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:34.560 making trades every day, stew pid trades, y'all laugh at Esau. 0:51:35.640 --> 0:51:38.479 Me and Esau have a lot in common. I've given 0:51:38.560 --> 0:51:40.600 up a lot of stuff too, because I felt it. 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:45.440 I defied my feelings this week. Everything in me told me, 0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:48.319 you don't have enough songs to record this Friday something 0:51:48.400 --> 0:51:50.319 he said, put it on the calendar and let God 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:52.160 give you the songs that he wants you to have 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:58.799 and do what he told you to do. I got 0:51:58.800 --> 0:52:01.239 a question, answer me in the cha Do y'all think 0:52:01.280 --> 0:52:07.080 God knew about those songs before I? Did you think 0:52:07.120 --> 0:52:09.520 God knew about the season you're in before you did? 0:52:12.000 --> 0:52:14.239 Do you think that he knew that you were going 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:18.799 to need a job before you did? Do you think 0:52:18.960 --> 0:52:21.239 he knew that we would be in a time of 0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:27.160 political how we say this weirdness? Before we did right 0:52:28.520 --> 0:52:32.000 before we were born. He knew what we were born into. 0:52:33.920 --> 0:52:38.160 What I love about the Lord is that there are 0:52:38.200 --> 0:52:49.680 no tricks with him, only a trade. Oh, come to 0:52:51.440 --> 0:53:03.400 the Otar, the fatherest sor this is the trade Spondy 0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:14.359 the fish spa. Oh came wo come to he answer 0:53:16.239 --> 0:53:31.640 the Father? Psalms A fucking n It's folly, Jesus Christ. 0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:34.160 No one moving. In just a moment, our pastors are 0:53:34.160 --> 0:53:36.480 going to give an invitation for people to receive Christ. 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:40.120 Be ready. I just want to tell you this before 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:42.960 I give the service to them. Heads bout ice closed? 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:51.360 Are you hurting and broken with it? Overwhelmed by the 0:53:51.400 --> 0:54:01.120 way of your sin? Jesus is calling? Have you come 0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:11.160 to the end of yourself to their forgery? 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