WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.259 This morning, well, a couple weeks ago, we went to California for a trip. 00:00:05.459 --> 00:00:05.940 It was great. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:14.179 And this morning, I was telling Stacey that I think my deep California tan is starting to fade. 00:00:17.420 --> 00:00:20.100 Today, we're going to talk about seeing ourselves rightly. 00:00:20.859 --> 00:00:20.980 Okay. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:25.039 So anyway. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:32.399 So today, though, we are going to talk about the self. 00:00:33.179 --> 00:00:38.879 Now, I'm not going to wade into like psychological gobbledygook or something like this, right? 00:00:39.019 --> 00:00:44.960 But I want to talk about the self in the way the Bible talks about our self. 00:00:45.739 --> 00:00:48.320 So I'm pretty excited about this. 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:51.179 My background is in psychology and stuff like that. 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:56.460 So I can definitely wade off into places, but we won't go there. 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:59.119 We'll talk about the biblical self. 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:03.719 But the first thing I want to talk about is this concept called sanctification. 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:09.239 And sanctification, that's the principle I want to start with. 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:20.979 And it is basically the once a person is justified and saved by grace, then for the rest of their life, 00:01:20.979 --> 00:01:28.640 they follow this process of growing to be more like Christ for the rest of their life. 00:01:29.099 --> 00:01:37.619 And that process is ongoing work of God in our lives with the goal of looking more like Jesus. 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:40.120 That's basically sanctification. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:49.900 Now, sanctification is a cooperative work between God and us. 00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:56.020 So there are elements where we work together toward our sanctification. 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.780 Primarily, though, the Lord works in us. 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.659 That's the primary. 00:02:04.659 --> 00:02:07.879 God has certain plans. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.259 Philippians 2.13. 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:15.800 It is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.039 That's God working in us. 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:24.740 We submit, trust, and pray for his work and power in our lives. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.759 But primarily in sanctification, it's God doing this. 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:31.919 It's his purposes and his work. 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:33.579 All of it truly is his purposes. 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:39.620 Now, we have an active and a passive role. 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:47.500 So the passive role, Romans 12.1, present your bodies as a living sacrifice. 00:02:48.220 --> 00:02:51.100 So there's a passive presentation. 00:02:51.240 --> 00:03:00.240 I'm presenting my body to God to allow him to do, as you know, the verse goes on to talk about his good will. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:07.700 In passive, we are dependent on the Holy Spirit and his work within us. 00:03:07.699 --> 00:03:15.359 And we present, humble ourselves, lay down our lives, and then he works in us. 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.259 Now, we also, that's part of our side of cooperation in sanctification. 00:03:22.259 --> 00:03:25.899 The other part of ours is an active role. 00:03:26.299 --> 00:03:27.319 Philippians 2.12. 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:38.719 Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence, but even more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:45.539 Now, he does say work out your salvation, not work for your salvation. 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:46.900 So we want to be clear. 00:03:47.020 --> 00:03:57.000 This is not a works-based mentality here, but it is working in what he had, in the grace that he's given to us in salvation. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.759 There's directives throughout Scripture. 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:08.259 When it comes to our active role, all through Scripture, we see directives. 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:10.020 Live this way. 00:04:10.259 --> 00:04:11.360 Do this this way. 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:18.560 As he tells us what to do, we obey because we love him. 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.199 John 14.15, I think it is. 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:24.519 If you obey him, or if you love him, you'll obey him. 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.319 Well, that's our cooperative part. 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.019 Wayne Grudemey says, 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:41.479 It is important that we continue to grow both in our passive trust in God to sanctify us and in our active striving for holiness and greater obedience in our lives. 00:04:41.899 --> 00:04:44.120 Here's an important point. 00:04:44.459 --> 00:04:51.279 If we neglect active striving to obey God, we become passive, lazy Christians. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:05:00.599 If we neglect the passive role of trusting God and yielding to him, we become proud and overly confident in ourselves. 00:05:00.939 --> 00:05:05.659 In either case, our sanctification will be greatly deficient. 00:05:06.219 --> 00:05:11.000 We must maintain faith and diligence to obey at the same time. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:15.160 So, these two flip sides, right? 00:05:15.180 --> 00:05:16.800 You can't have one without the other. 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:23.560 So, if we just live in a sense that says, I'm just going to let God work on me. 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:25.060 He'll teach me everything I need to know. 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.879 I don't need to really participate with that. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.180 He'll do everything. 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.399 That produces a lazy Christian. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:50.079 On the flip side, pride can exalt in a believer's mind, in a Christian's mind, pride can exalt themselves to where they think they have to work for everything, which is counter gospel, counter grace. 00:05:51.159 --> 00:05:56.759 So, sanctification, though, is important for our discussion today in Colossians. 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:04.079 We must realize where the Bible is asking us to cooperate in the sanctification process. 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.560 So, we have to realize, okay, when is he telling me what to do? 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:17.019 So, I know where to be obedient and where to follow what he's telling us to look forward with the goal of looking like Christ. 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.360 We must listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts. 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:33.980 We must examine the focus of our self, our self, and ask the hard questions about where your affections are directed. 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:39.040 So, today, I want to talk about the self out of Colossians chapter 3, if you'll turn there. 00:06:39.460 --> 00:06:40.819 Colossians chapter 3. 00:06:40.819 --> 00:07:10.800 Colossians chapter 3. 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:40.800 Colossians chapter 3. 00:07:40.819 --> 00:07:42.120 We might call that the flesh. 00:07:42.860 --> 00:07:53.319 Our self also needs to be controlled and focused on things above. 00:07:53.620 --> 00:07:55.920 So, let's read Colossians chapter 3. 00:07:56.939 --> 00:07:59.779 3 through 1 through 11 is our text. 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:08.139 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 00:08:08.779 --> 00:08:12.939 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.419 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 00:08:18.420 --> 00:08:23.920 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also appear with him in glory. 00:08:25.460 --> 00:08:28.080 Put to death, therefore, what is earthly in you. 00:08:28.460 --> 00:08:34.500 Sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and toughness, which is idolatry. 00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:37.580 On account of these, the wrath of God is coming. 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:44.919 In these two you once walked when you were living in them, but now you must put them all away. 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.179 Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 00:08:49.179 --> 00:08:57.459 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self, the old self with its practices, 00:08:57.859 --> 00:09:03.799 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:11.479 Here, there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave-free, 00:09:11.739 --> 00:09:14.559 but Christ is all and in all. 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:21.799 So the first thing is setting the self. 00:09:22.859 --> 00:09:29.859 Verses 1 and 2, he opens up there in verse 1 with this sort of a question, this if. 00:09:29.859 --> 00:09:37.119 If you have been raised, if you have been raised as a believer in Jesus Christ, 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:49.779 and when his grace is imparted to you, you are raised with him to new life. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.360 So that's where the new life comes from. 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:57.720 But that's, he's talking to this crew in Colossae, who is a church, 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:03.940 and he says, if you have been raised, he doesn't just automatically assume, 00:10:04.139 --> 00:10:09.019 number one, that his listeners or the readers right there, 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.940 but also now that it's in the Bible, down through history, talking to believers, 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.060 he doesn't assume that they've all been raised. 00:10:17.620 --> 00:10:21.220 Because we know certain things about the church even, 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:27.320 that there are weeds and there are tares, doesn't there are wheat and tares, I'm sorry, 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:29.860 weeds and good fruit. 00:10:30.779 --> 00:10:33.860 So there's these two things that both grew up in the church, 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:35.860 and he doesn't take that for granted. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.540 He says, if you have been raised. 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:43.879 Well, he continues, and as he talks about the self as we go, 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.320 we can understand how to answer that if question. 00:10:48.700 --> 00:10:49.419 It helps us. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:54.519 It helps us to see our own self in terms of being raised or not. 00:10:56.740 --> 00:10:59.159 So the first thing is seek. 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:04.879 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above. 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.480 Seek here is a look to apprehend or lay hold of. 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:13.019 More than just simply to discover something, 00:11:13.019 --> 00:11:14.639 you know, like a hide and seek. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:15.419 Oh, I found it. 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:22.259 It's something to apprehend and really take in. 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:26.439 And the things that we seek to apprehend are the things that are above, 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:30.799 where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 00:11:31.439 --> 00:11:33.840 The things of the Spirit, the mind of Christ, 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:36.500 the things that are important to Jesus. 00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:39.139 That's what we want to apprehend. 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.340 How he thinks. 00:11:41.340 --> 00:11:43.320 Obviously, it's in Scripture. 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.759 And that's what we want to lay hold of. 00:11:49.800 --> 00:11:53.060 Seeing his heart, seeing his mind. 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:54.560 That's what we want. 00:11:54.620 --> 00:11:55.720 That's the things above. 00:11:57.700 --> 00:12:01.660 The things of the Spirit and the mind of Christ. 00:12:02.060 --> 00:12:03.300 His church, for example. 00:12:03.300 --> 00:12:10.040 Have you sought and apprehended the things above regarding the church? 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.139 And the church's importance. 00:12:13.819 --> 00:12:15.139 Have you sought those things? 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:21.059 Its mission, our mission, the kingdom of God and all of life together. 00:12:21.959 --> 00:12:25.980 We have, that's our mission statement for Christ Church. 00:12:27.599 --> 00:12:29.259 Seeking his kingdom first. 00:12:29.719 --> 00:12:33.199 Sharing those same kingdom priorities together. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.200 And we all do this together. 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:35.800 And we all do this together. 00:12:35.800 --> 00:12:39.480 In open fellowship and open with each other. 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.940 And the way that we communicate. 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:45.440 What about the people? 00:12:45.540 --> 00:12:49.520 Have you sought Jesus on his heart for the church people? 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:58.879 As we go about our work. 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:01.939 Jesus is the head of the church. 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:07.319 And so in seeking what he wants for the church. 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.000 How the church should operate. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.699 How we should interact with one another. 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:13.620 That's his heart. 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.780 Now, when we lose it. 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:18.800 As we'll see here in just a minute. 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:22.940 Is when the old self creeps in. 00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:26.160 So there's the new self. 00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:29.200 Which is what we were raised to be. 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:30.500 In Christ. 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:33.040 But the old self creeps in. 00:13:33.660 --> 00:13:34.500 In anger. 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:36.280 In malice. 00:13:36.520 --> 00:13:37.720 In selfish ambition. 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:40.700 In this whole list that he gives here in just a second. 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:44.060 That's when the old self creeps in. 00:13:44.780 --> 00:13:48.100 That's when no longer are we seeking Christ. 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:50.420 And his heart for the church. 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.400 Now it's something we think we should have for the church. 00:13:54.620 --> 00:13:56.200 Something the church should be. 00:13:56.340 --> 00:13:58.940 To either fit my mentality. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.560 Or what I know. 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:02.060 Or whatever. 00:14:02.740 --> 00:14:05.140 We joke about the carpet a little bit. 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:06.700 This is a beautiful carpet. 00:14:06.920 --> 00:14:08.420 I hope you enjoy the carpet. 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:10.320 Especially visitors. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.280 You know. 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:12.720 Take it in. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.840 But each carpet square is different. 00:14:17.100 --> 00:14:19.340 And one of the jokes that sort of happened was. 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:23.260 Because we have all heard of churches that fought over the carpet. 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:24.120 Well here. 00:14:24.280 --> 00:14:25.160 There is no fighting. 00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:26.080 Everyone's got one. 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:26.640 Look at this. 00:14:27.340 --> 00:14:28.180 So like that's. 00:14:28.400 --> 00:14:29.920 That is when we lose track. 00:14:30.060 --> 00:14:32.460 The old man wants to jump in. 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.340 And start to take charge. 00:14:34.540 --> 00:14:35.760 And take away from. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.340 What Jesus has for the church. 00:14:38.340 --> 00:14:38.559 Even. 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:40.980 Well what are the things above as well? 00:14:41.500 --> 00:14:43.139 Spiritual gifts and fruits. 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:45.100 We seek as believers. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.559 The gifts and fruits of the spirit. 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.319 And these are from above. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:52.179 Ephesians 4. 00:14:52.319 --> 00:14:53.299 7 through 8. 00:14:53.299 --> 00:14:55.479 But grace was given to each one of us. 00:14:55.479 --> 00:14:56.639 According to the measure. 00:14:56.939 --> 00:14:58.159 Of Christ's gift. 00:14:59.259 --> 00:15:00.059 Therefore it says. 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.419 When he ascended on high. 00:15:01.979 --> 00:15:03.620 And he led a host of captives. 00:15:03.819 --> 00:15:04.899 And he gave. 00:15:05.319 --> 00:15:06.099 Gifts to men. 00:15:06.959 --> 00:15:07.439 There's. 00:15:07.959 --> 00:15:08.479 There's. 00:15:08.899 --> 00:15:09.620 His heart. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:10.879 There's the things above. 00:15:11.459 --> 00:15:12.319 When he gives us. 00:15:12.439 --> 00:15:12.559 The. 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:14.319 The fruits of the spirit. 00:15:14.459 --> 00:15:15.500 And the spiritual gifts. 00:15:15.979 --> 00:15:17.019 That is an example. 00:15:17.019 --> 00:15:18.019 Um. 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:20.019 I mentioned going to California. 00:15:20.340 --> 00:15:20.519 And. 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.100 We had an opportunity to go tide pooling. 00:15:23.199 --> 00:15:23.899 Has anyone ever done. 00:15:24.579 --> 00:15:25.360 Tide pooling. 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:27.419 Like when the ocean goes out. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.039 And it's like all these rocks are there. 00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:31.360 And there's little animals. 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:32.220 And crabs. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:33.220 And sea anemones. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:34.639 That if you touch them. 00:15:34.699 --> 00:15:35.620 They sort of hold on to you. 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:36.259 And it's really weird. 00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:36.799 Makes you jump. 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:37.899 Um. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.120 Well we were tide pooling. 00:15:40.439 --> 00:15:40.840 Uh. 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:42.000 In Monterey. 00:15:42.220 --> 00:15:42.919 By Monterey. 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:44.179 And uh. 00:15:44.299 --> 00:15:46.120 Stacy and I were scouring the pools. 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:47.240 Looking for just eating. 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:48.620 All kinds of fun things. 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:48.940 Whatever. 00:15:49.299 --> 00:15:50.139 We could find. 00:15:50.560 --> 00:15:52.279 But one thing we weren't seeing was. 00:15:52.940 --> 00:15:53.379 Starfish. 00:15:54.460 --> 00:15:54.820 Uh. 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:55.720 Which now they're. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:56.340 They're called. 00:15:56.779 --> 00:15:57.299 Sea stars. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:58.460 Sea stars. 00:15:58.620 --> 00:15:59.399 Because we're woke. 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:02.899 I don't know why they changed it. 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:03.960 We always call them starfish. 00:16:04.139 --> 00:16:04.240 That's. 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:05.240 But now they're sea stars. 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:05.460 Right. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.539 We hurt their feedings. 00:16:06.659 --> 00:16:06.840 Or something. 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:08.620 Anyway. 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:09.580 So. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:11.159 We were looking for the starfish. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.860 And we couldn't find any. 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:14.200 We were turning over rocks. 00:16:14.259 --> 00:16:14.779 We were looking. 00:16:14.779 --> 00:16:16.980 And we kind of went out a little bit further. 00:16:17.139 --> 00:16:17.559 Where the. 00:16:17.620 --> 00:16:18.699 The water was a little bit deeper. 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:19.779 Couldn't find any out there. 00:16:19.839 --> 00:16:20.679 We were asking people. 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:20.839 Hey. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.000 Have you found any starfish out there? 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.240 No. 00:16:23.319 --> 00:16:23.500 No. 00:16:23.959 --> 00:16:24.220 Well. 00:16:24.579 --> 00:16:25.799 I was looking on. 00:16:25.980 --> 00:16:27.100 So we were seeking. 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:28.259 The starfish. 00:16:28.459 --> 00:16:28.620 You know. 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:28.919 We need. 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:30.120 Needed to find one. 00:16:30.839 --> 00:16:31.519 And uh. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:32.779 So we were out. 00:16:32.899 --> 00:16:33.120 Uh. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:33.279 On. 00:16:33.379 --> 00:16:34.259 On the beach part. 00:16:34.259 --> 00:16:34.539 And. 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:36.179 And kind of looking through. 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:36.659 Sifting. 00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:36.879 You know. 00:16:36.899 --> 00:16:37.639 There's like seaweed. 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:38.620 And there's all these little. 00:16:39.079 --> 00:16:39.339 Uh. 00:16:39.339 --> 00:16:40.679 Pieces of animals. 00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:42.179 And shells. 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:42.779 And whatever. 00:16:42.959 --> 00:16:43.279 You know. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:44.159 On the beach there. 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:45.819 And I'm kind of moving stuff around. 00:16:45.819 --> 00:16:46.659 And looking at it. 00:16:47.019 --> 00:16:48.379 And I see. 00:16:48.979 --> 00:16:50.239 A starfish. 00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:52.659 The size of my thumbnail. 00:16:53.099 --> 00:16:54.120 This is probably smaller. 00:16:54.599 --> 00:16:54.879 Um. 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.899 This thing was a little tiny guy. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:57.620 Just sitting right. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:58.459 Just one of them. 00:16:58.459 --> 00:16:58.899 Right there. 00:16:59.059 --> 00:17:00.539 I thought maybe there's like a whole crowd. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:00.879 Oh no. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:01.659 There was one. 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:02.379 We found one. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:03.899 Sitting right there. 00:17:04.460 --> 00:17:05.440 And it was so exciting. 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:06.639 Because we were seeking. 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:07.419 This creature. 00:17:07.500 --> 00:17:08.879 And I didn't want to just look at one. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:10.180 I want to take him home. 00:17:10.420 --> 00:17:10.640 You know. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.880 I wanted this. 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:12.180 I wanted. 00:17:12.780 --> 00:17:14.240 A nice big one would have been really cool. 00:17:14.300 --> 00:17:14.380 But. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.080 A little bitty one's fine. 00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:17.000 It's perfect. 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.500 I wanted to apprehend. 00:17:19.840 --> 00:17:20.880 This starfish. 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:22.160 And I did. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:23.480 Got it. 00:17:25.060 --> 00:17:25.540 Ask. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:26.340 Seek. 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:27.380 Knock. 00:17:28.140 --> 00:17:29.460 Is what Jesus says. 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:33.800 Looking for the things that are on the heart of the risen Christ. 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:35.480 Seek. 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.900 To lay hold of things of God. 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:41.060 Not simply to read about it. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:43.120 Or gain knowledge. 00:17:43.340 --> 00:17:44.120 Or things like that. 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:44.340 See. 00:17:44.580 --> 00:17:45.700 Any one of us. 00:17:46.260 --> 00:17:46.500 Can. 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:46.960 Can. 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:48.100 Study our Bibles. 00:17:48.220 --> 00:17:48.720 We can read. 00:17:48.780 --> 00:17:49.620 And we can understand. 00:17:50.360 --> 00:17:51.720 Because we're intelligent beings. 00:17:51.940 --> 00:17:53.680 We can all understand things. 00:17:54.800 --> 00:17:56.480 There's this difference. 00:17:57.060 --> 00:17:58.980 There's this laying hold. 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:00.500 Of the truth. 00:18:01.120 --> 00:18:04.500 Laying hold of the fact that he's sitting on the right hand of God. 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:07.380 Laying hold of the fact that. 00:18:07.380 --> 00:18:08.460 He died. 00:18:09.040 --> 00:18:09.640 For me. 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:10.240 And for you. 00:18:10.860 --> 00:18:12.920 That he took the sin of the world. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.400 And we have a place in glory. 00:18:17.060 --> 00:18:18.800 Because our life is hidden in him. 00:18:19.900 --> 00:18:22.900 We understand that as words on a page. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.400 But there's a step further to apprehend it. 00:18:26.700 --> 00:18:27.660 And apply it. 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:29.520 Apply it in our hearts. 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.279 Second thing he says. 00:18:32.980 --> 00:18:34.619 So the first thing is see. 00:18:35.019 --> 00:18:36.319 Second one in verse two. 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.559 Set your minds on things that are above. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.839 Not on things that are on the earth. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.400 Set your mind is a phrase. 00:18:47.639 --> 00:18:49.440 That's not three different words. 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:51.319 That's a phrase in Greek. 00:18:51.819 --> 00:18:52.980 It's phronel. 00:18:52.980 --> 00:19:03.640 And that phrase is to direct one's mind to a thing to seek or strive for. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:10.360 There's a deepness to that phrase. 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:14.319 It's setting affections on. 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.479 It's that idea that I was just describing. 00:19:17.740 --> 00:19:20.879 Laying hold of the things of God. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:31.399 But set your mind is where you are focusing on that one thing. 00:19:31.699 --> 00:19:32.719 Striving for it. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.980 In other words, it is what directs the compass of our heart. 00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:39.000 It sets it. 00:19:40.620 --> 00:19:43.000 The true self, if you will. 00:19:43.660 --> 00:19:44.700 Matthew 6, 21. 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.259 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 00:19:49.380 --> 00:19:51.440 Your treasure is your heading. 00:19:52.380 --> 00:19:54.140 What is it that you treasure? 00:19:55.059 --> 00:19:55.880 That's your heading. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:57.140 That's your compass. 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.720 That is what you set your mind to. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:05.579 Whether, see, we do it, whether it's good or bad. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:10.380 Because there's lots of times we set our mind to bad things. 00:20:10.740 --> 00:20:12.579 Something other than Christ. 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:18.960 On the submarine, we had digital headings. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.240 Like if you've ever boated or things like that. 00:20:21.360 --> 00:20:27.039 On the water, you set a heading. 00:20:27.600 --> 00:20:29.720 And so it's at a 360 degrees. 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:30.380 It's a circle. 00:20:30.980 --> 00:20:32.339 So, chief of the watch. 00:20:32.460 --> 00:20:34.480 Make your heading 250. 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:35.720 250, right? 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:37.319 So that's how they would talk, you know. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:38.380 And then they would turn. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:39.480 They would make it 250. 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:44.160 Well, whatever they set on that boat, that's the way it's going. 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.079 That's the way, the direction that that boat's going to head. 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:49.640 Because that's where the compass is set. 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:56.240 Believers in Christ set the heading for the things above. 00:20:57.800 --> 00:20:59.660 We set it for the things above. 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:06.540 Those things that we've sought and apprehended, the truth, the reality of Jesus, 00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:10.080 we apply it and then set our heading that way. 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:19.000 Those things are how we cooperate in sanctification. 00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:21.379 Because it's a directive. 00:21:22.299 --> 00:21:23.240 You seek. 00:21:23.899 --> 00:21:25.939 You set your mind, is what he's saying. 00:21:26.419 --> 00:21:27.759 You do this. 00:21:28.500 --> 00:21:29.699 That's my part. 00:21:29.980 --> 00:21:32.419 That's my active part in sanctification. 00:21:32.420 --> 00:21:34.259 I set my mind. 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:36.000 I seek. 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:40.300 Setting your mind is the realm which governs us. 00:21:41.539 --> 00:21:45.460 And that realm includes flesh or spirit. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:48.620 The flesh or the spirit. 00:21:50.580 --> 00:21:56.100 Once the mind's direction is set, the thought, actions, and behaviors follow. 00:21:57.100 --> 00:22:01.680 Now, you can hear how bad that can go. 00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:02.660 Right? 00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:10.500 If you set it toward the flesh, the contrast here is in verse 2. 00:22:10.600 --> 00:22:11.100 Look at the end. 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.880 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. 00:22:16.320 --> 00:22:17.539 It's either or. 00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:18.940 One or the other. 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:28.080 The differentiation between what our hearts desire and move toward is either the earth or the things above. 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:29.380 It's one or the other. 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:31.500 There's not like a middle space. 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:34.500 There's not an inner part here or a neutral. 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:36.619 It's one or the other. 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:40.359 I'm either choosing my compass or God's compass. 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:47.819 How do you truly decide what to set your heart on? 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:51.419 Let's look at Romans 8, 5 through 8. 00:22:54.219 --> 00:22:55.319 Turn there with me. 00:22:56.639 --> 00:22:57.519 Romans 8. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:05.359 5 through 8. 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.779 And he just expounds on this whole concept. 00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:08.259 Okay. 00:23:11.379 --> 00:23:14.900 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds. 00:23:14.900 --> 00:23:15.920 There's our phrase. 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:17.039 Hang on. 00:23:17.779 --> 00:23:20.480 Set their minds on the things of the flesh. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:26.319 But those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. 00:23:26.860 --> 00:23:30.180 For to set the mind on the flesh is death. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:35.460 But to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:41.079 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God. 00:23:41.579 --> 00:23:43.740 For it does not submit to God's law. 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:45.120 Indeed, it cannot. 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.960 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:58.279 Anything can drive our affections. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.940 Even good things. 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:00.980 Even good things. 00:24:01.059 --> 00:24:01.920 We can mess this up. 00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:05.579 We can distort something that's good. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:17.240 This is, as I was thinking about this, of setting our hearts and how we do that and those kind of things. 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:22.740 This silly thing, maybe you've heard it before, of what sparks joy. 00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:24.339 Have you ever heard this? 00:24:25.660 --> 00:24:26.819 There's a person. 00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:27.759 I forgot her name. 00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:29.140 Oh, what do you mean? 00:24:29.819 --> 00:24:30.339 Kyle? 00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:31.500 Yes. 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:32.000 Yes. 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.180 And so this, what sparks joy. 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:39.440 Now, this is something for tidying your space. 00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:40.160 Your home. 00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:40.859 Your whatever. 00:24:41.099 --> 00:24:41.839 Your car. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:44.359 Whatever space you need to tidy. 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:45.779 That's what she works in. 00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:46.039 Okay. 00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:48.180 So she's not a theologian or something like this. 00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:49.399 I'm not trying to make that out to me. 00:24:50.659 --> 00:24:53.440 But I thought about that. 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:54.339 That's what came to mind. 00:24:54.399 --> 00:24:55.279 So I looked it up. 00:24:55.399 --> 00:24:57.519 And basically, what sparks joy. 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:59.339 So it's a rule for tidying. 00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:01.619 And this is what the method says. 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.819 I'll read it straight off of the website. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:05.659 I'm not teaching this, by the way. 00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:09.079 I have no idea, but this does or whatever. 00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:09.899 Okay. 00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:17.100 In the KonMari method, your feelings are the standard for decision making. 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:20.200 Specifically knowing what sparks joy. 00:25:20.340 --> 00:25:26.560 To determine this when tidying, the key is to pick up each object one at a time and ask 00:25:26.560 --> 00:25:29.000 yourself quietly, does this spark joy? 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.480 Pay attention to how your body responds. 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.119 Joy is personal, so everyone will experience it differently. 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:44.940 Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely 00:25:44.940 --> 00:25:50.059 what you love and what you need. 00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:55.579 Now, like I said, this is not theology that she's purporting here. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:58.039 But there's a couple of things here. 00:25:58.919 --> 00:25:59.619 Is this silly? 00:26:00.940 --> 00:26:03.000 Or is it the way we think? 00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:05.200 So a couple of points. 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:10.259 Number one, how often do we act on feelings instead of faith? 00:26:11.299 --> 00:26:15.119 How often do feelings guide how we interact? 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:22.079 How often do feelings dictate to us where our compass is headed? 00:26:25.179 --> 00:26:26.639 What sparks happiness? 00:26:27.219 --> 00:26:28.899 What feeds my anger? 00:26:29.439 --> 00:26:31.019 What makes me feel safe? 00:26:31.879 --> 00:26:33.979 How can I get back? 00:26:34.679 --> 00:26:37.419 Where do I get my revenge? 00:26:37.679 --> 00:26:38.659 On and on and on. 00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:43.239 Those are the feelings that can mess up our compass because it's earthly. 00:26:43.639 --> 00:26:45.099 It's the things of earth. 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:49.119 You cannot let feelings dictate your true self compass. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:50.599 Only truth. 00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:52.459 That's the only thing. 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:58.359 What really kind of grabbed me here was her final thought. 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.539 When acting on feelings, you can identify precisely what you love. 00:27:06.219 --> 00:27:09.719 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:10.220 Right? 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:10.819 Right? 00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:17.900 If I act on my feelings, doesn't it betray what I really love? 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:21.160 If the feelings are negative. 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.779 Or if I pursue anything other than the things that Christ would have for me. 00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:28.000 For his heart. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.000 It betrays me. 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:29.839 It betrays me. 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:29.859 It betrays me. 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.259 It shows me exactly how I'm off. 00:27:33.259 --> 00:27:35.259 Of where things aren't right. 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:40.819 It identifies precisely what I love. 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.819 And unfortunately, in those times, it's not Jesus. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.779 It's not the things above. 00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:47.279 It's me. 00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:49.059 It's myself. 00:27:49.059 --> 00:27:52.559 If we go back to verse 2. 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:59.440 Set your minds, your affections, your true self, your heart on things that are above. 00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:03.019 And not on the things that are on the earth. 00:28:03.179 --> 00:28:04.940 We have an either or situation. 00:28:06.099 --> 00:28:09.279 Things above or things of the earth. 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:13.619 What's on the earth? 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:15.339 Let's differentiate here. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:21.279 We talked about fruits and spiritual gifts and the things that matter to Jesus. 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:23.139 What are the things on the earth then? 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:27.099 Well, we've got you. 00:28:28.399 --> 00:28:30.139 Which kind of trips us up right there. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.359 That's probably one of the biggest things that trip us up. 00:28:34.059 --> 00:28:36.240 But you can't get rid of yourself. 00:28:36.639 --> 00:28:38.180 You have to deal with this. 00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:40.259 These are things that we have to do. 00:28:40.820 --> 00:28:42.039 We can't ignore. 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:43.080 There's you. 00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:43.980 There's your family. 00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:44.980 There's your pride. 00:28:45.100 --> 00:28:45.779 Your fears. 00:28:46.060 --> 00:28:46.720 Your house. 00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:47.900 Your selfish ambition. 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:49.759 On and on and on. 00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:57.180 Whatever it is that we take and idolize over the things of Christ. 00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:58.600 That's the earth. 00:28:59.380 --> 00:29:00.740 That's the things of the earth. 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.920 And anything can become an idol with which we, quote, 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:12.240 fall in love with something other than Jesus. 00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:15.900 So if you set your affections on things above or things of the earth, 00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:21.940 that's the question, at least one of them, that I really need to answer. 00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:23.720 And I'm asking you to answer. 00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:29.680 This is the one that I've thought about a lot as I've prepared this for today. 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.900 Is where are my affections? 00:29:32.900 --> 00:29:37.440 In each area of my life, what have I set my affections on? 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:39.900 And where does it lead me? 00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:46.019 When I'm not setting them on the things of Christ above. 00:29:46.820 --> 00:29:50.620 Are you pursuing what satisfies your feelings over truth? 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:56.039 That selfishness is part of another self. 00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:59.519 Let's look at verse 3 of Colossians 3. 00:30:00.439 --> 00:30:02.259 There's a 4 there. 00:30:02.439 --> 00:30:03.259 So he says, 00:30:03.679 --> 00:30:05.500 Seek the things that are above where Christ is. 00:30:05.879 --> 00:30:08.319 Set your minds on things that are above, not on the earth. 00:30:08.899 --> 00:30:12.279 For you have died. 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:14.700 For you have died. 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.099 And your life is hidden with Christ. 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:23.899 For the reason we seek and set our minds on things above 00:30:23.899 --> 00:30:29.279 is because we are dead to the old self and alive in Christ, 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:30.759 in the new self. 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.519 For that reason. 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:36.700 What is the old self? 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.180 Romans 6.6 00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:43.420 We know that our old self was crucified with him 00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:47.799 in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:50.360 so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:52.799 Colossians 2.13 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.320 God made us alive together with him. 00:30:57.460 --> 00:30:59.000 In Galatians 2.20 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.519 I've been crucified with Christ. 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.160 It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.759 And the life I now live in the flesh, 00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:13.080 I live by faith in the Son of God 00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:15.420 who loved me and gave himself for me. 00:31:16.860 --> 00:31:18.980 You have died to death. 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:21.180 John Piper said, 00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:22.920 My deadness has died. 00:31:25.580 --> 00:31:26.300 Dichotomy. 00:31:26.840 --> 00:31:28.380 My deadness has died. 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.220 Sin can no longer control you. 00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:38.960 We were dead in trespasses or sin, 00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:41.259 now alive in Christ. 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.559 But we still wrestle with the flesh. 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:47.799 We still have this directive, 00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:50.819 part of our sanctification, 00:31:51.059 --> 00:31:52.579 our growth to look like Jesus. 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:55.740 We still have this directive that says, 00:31:55.740 --> 00:31:58.440 Set your mind for now. 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.519 Set your affections on the things above. 00:32:03.980 --> 00:32:06.700 Because we wrestle with the old man. 00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:09.039 Because we wrestle with the old self 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:12.319 who keeps wanting to get his saying 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:17.000 and lead us and set that compass somewhere else. 00:32:20.220 --> 00:32:21.960 Well, Christ is my life. 00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:24.160 Look at verse, the second part of three. 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:24.960 Well, just three. 00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:26.960 For you have died and your life is hidden 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.259 with Christ in God. 00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:30.400 When Christ who is your life appears, 00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:34.380 then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.759 Your life is hidden with Christ in God. 00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:41.680 If we go back to our Galatians 2.20 verse, 00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:43.820 it's no longer I who live, 00:32:44.120 --> 00:32:46.300 but Christ who lives in me. 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:51.060 If we look at Jesus' descriptions thus far 00:32:51.060 --> 00:32:52.920 in verses one through four, 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:55.200 and we look at how Jesus is described. 00:32:56.100 --> 00:32:58.800 First, raised from the dead in verse one. 00:32:59.800 --> 00:33:01.220 Jesus is alive and seated 00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:03.100 at the right hand of God the Father. 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:05.620 I have died. 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.620 My life is hidden in the Messiah. 00:33:08.380 --> 00:33:10.039 My life is hidden in his. 00:33:11.560 --> 00:33:13.580 Jesus is my life. 00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:15.039 And when Jesus appears, 00:33:15.180 --> 00:33:17.640 you also will appear with him in glory. 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:23.600 Now, these amazing realities, 00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:27.460 these beautiful expressions of grace and love to us, 00:33:27.860 --> 00:33:31.220 these realities should make it easy to obey, 00:33:31.560 --> 00:33:33.880 easy to set our minds. 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:39.140 But if you do see Jesus rightly or clearly, 00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:41.340 the things of earth will take, 00:33:41.840 --> 00:33:44.920 or if you don't see him clearly, 00:33:45.140 --> 00:33:47.160 the things of earth then will take precedent. 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:49.620 So we, again, 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:51.560 there's the knowledge. 00:33:51.860 --> 00:33:53.300 We can read those verses. 00:33:53.760 --> 00:33:56.260 We can see what Jesus has done for us. 00:33:56.259 --> 00:34:00.599 But until we bring that in, 00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:04.220 until we agree in our hearts 00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:06.119 and believe, 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.880 we won't see him rightly. 00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:12.719 We'll read words on a page, 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:17.199 but that's not truly believing 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:18.360 and seeing him rightly. 00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:23.160 And that's when the things of earth take precedent. 00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.820 And it can take precedent in our personal lives, 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:29.000 in our homes, 00:34:29.380 --> 00:34:30.280 in our churches. 00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:34.420 If all of our compass is off, 00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:36.280 what happens to the church? 00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:38.300 What happens to the body? 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:44.380 What do we do when others, 00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:47.760 when others exhibit their compass being off, 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.780 when others exhibit fruit of not 00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:55.100 taking and laying hold 00:34:55.100 --> 00:34:56.460 and seeking the things above 00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:58.500 and then setting their minds to it? 00:34:58.980 --> 00:34:59.780 What do we do? 00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:01.560 We help him. 00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:03.980 We preach the gospel to him. 00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:05.900 We go back over this together. 00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:07.840 We encourage. 00:35:08.200 --> 00:35:09.080 We talk this. 00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:11.040 We share about this. 00:35:11.220 --> 00:35:13.300 We fellowship regarding this. 00:35:13.700 --> 00:35:13.960 Right? 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:15.380 We don't leave anybody. 00:35:15.540 --> 00:35:16.380 We don't let them go. 00:35:16.380 --> 00:35:18.640 What's our own personal responsibility? 00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:21.160 Well, there's got to be a point 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:23.320 at which I realize 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.980 that I'm off. 00:35:27.160 --> 00:35:30.000 That takes a bit of looking into my heart, doesn't it? 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:32.000 I have to realize 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:34.599 if my compass is off, 00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:36.559 I start to see fruit to that. 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:38.880 I can't pretend that doesn't exist. 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.340 That's when I ask the Lord, 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.640 what's going on in my heart? 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.660 Am I off? 00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:52.039 Am I finding that I'm going my way 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:52.800 and not your way? 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:57.280 Parenting is a great example. 00:35:57.539 --> 00:35:58.240 I'm going to use parenting 00:35:58.240 --> 00:36:02.180 because I don't have any little ones here 00:36:02.180 --> 00:36:02.579 or whatever, 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:04.380 so no one can say 00:36:04.380 --> 00:36:05.579 whether I'm a good parent or not. 00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:08.880 My older ones, 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:09.920 I think they're pretty good. 00:36:12.799 --> 00:36:14.039 So parenting is a great example. 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:15.039 Let me read some verses. 00:36:15.619 --> 00:36:16.960 Ephesians 6, 1 through 4, 00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:17.940 at least just parts of it. 00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:19.840 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. 00:36:21.219 --> 00:36:22.039 And then later he says, 00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:24.159 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:25.239 but bring them up 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:26.900 in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:28.779 Children, obey your parents. 00:36:29.299 --> 00:36:30.360 Who's that up to? 00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:32.019 Who makes that happen? 00:36:32.799 --> 00:36:33.400 Parents do. 00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:33.880 Yes. 00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.180 Okay. 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.660 Hebrews 12, 7b through 8. 00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:40.079 For what son is there 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:41.720 whom his father does not discipline? 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:43.720 If you are left without discipline 00:36:43.720 --> 00:36:45.960 in which all have participated, 00:36:46.220 --> 00:36:47.780 then you are illegitimate children 00:36:47.780 --> 00:36:49.099 and not sons. 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:52.599 Psalm 103, 13. 00:36:52.740 --> 00:36:54.619 As the father shows compassion to his children, 00:36:54.940 --> 00:36:56.360 so the Lord shows compassion 00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.000 to those who fear him. 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.820 See, we're getting all these pieces in there. 00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:02.519 Proverbs 13, 20. 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:03.420 There's way more than this. 00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:04.019 I'm just reading a few. 00:37:04.640 --> 00:37:05.820 Proverbs 13, 24. 00:37:05.940 --> 00:37:07.780 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, 00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:09.620 but he who loves him 00:37:09.620 --> 00:37:11.600 is diligent to discipline him. 00:37:12.640 --> 00:37:13.760 And there's many more. 00:37:14.140 --> 00:37:16.140 Many more verses on parenting 00:37:16.140 --> 00:37:16.800 all throughout. 00:37:17.180 --> 00:37:18.559 And then tons of other applications. 00:37:19.100 --> 00:37:21.080 But just these truths 00:37:21.080 --> 00:37:22.800 and these verses make our case. 00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.500 If they are, 00:37:24.620 --> 00:37:25.440 these truths, 00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:26.820 if they are neglected, 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:29.440 this is what God says right here. 00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.260 But if we neglect those truths, 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:35.619 maybe wanting to be the child's friend 00:37:35.619 --> 00:37:36.639 and not parent, 00:37:37.740 --> 00:37:39.240 some of this will be neglected. 00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:42.099 Maybe anger running rampant 00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:44.400 and not having patience 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.039 and compassion like what God offers. 00:37:48.099 --> 00:37:50.179 Looking more like Jesus in that way. 00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:53.099 Maybe neglecting discipline, 00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:54.679 including neglecting spanking. 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:57.559 Maybe a lack of consistency. 00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.340 These verses all speak to consistency 00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:01.820 in parenting 00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:03.380 and how we do that. 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:08.519 What about parental laziness? 00:38:09.539 --> 00:38:11.179 All these things. 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.559 This is an example of the mind 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:15.679 being set on the things of the earth, 00:38:15.940 --> 00:38:18.000 not on the things of God. 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:23.380 The beauty and truth 00:38:23.380 --> 00:38:25.699 of Jesus in our lives, 00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:27.119 hidden in him, 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:28.599 is lost. 00:38:29.539 --> 00:38:30.079 Is lost. 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:30.719 If, 00:38:30.820 --> 00:38:31.019 if, 00:38:32.059 --> 00:38:33.340 when we go to scripture, 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:35.579 when we go to his word, 00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:36.800 when we listen 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:38.199 to the spirit, 00:38:38.699 --> 00:38:40.460 when we work in community 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:41.079 and we hear 00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:42.239 from a brother and sister 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:44.119 speaking into our lives, 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.639 this is helping us 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:51.339 set our affections 00:38:51.339 --> 00:38:53.480 toward the things above. 00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.159 We ought not to be mad at that. 00:38:56.579 --> 00:38:57.900 We ought not to fight that. 00:38:57.900 --> 00:38:59.900 We ought not to find some way 00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:01.819 that this doesn't apply to me. 00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:02.719 Right? 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:06.239 We set our affections 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:07.639 on the things of God. 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:11.119 when we don't do that, 00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:15.179 just using that parenting example, 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:18.000 you've exchanged truth 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.159 for a lie. 00:39:20.279 --> 00:39:21.420 The truth is, 00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:23.379 this is how he says to parent. 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:24.839 It's how he says to do it. 00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:27.000 If I get rid of that, 00:39:27.179 --> 00:39:27.920 push that out, 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:29.460 I've taken up a lie, 00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:30.940 taken up something different 00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:31.900 altogether. 00:39:33.179 --> 00:39:33.659 Why? 00:39:33.659 --> 00:39:34.819 Why would I do that? 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:36.779 Why would I, 00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:38.840 why would I make such a 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.900 horrible decision like that? 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:42.500 Well, 00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:43.600 that particular question 00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:45.700 has so many tentacles 00:39:45.700 --> 00:39:47.480 into our lives 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.900 of why we do the things we do. 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:54.200 This again is, 00:39:54.300 --> 00:39:56.340 is why it is important 00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:59.560 to ask the Lord 00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:00.960 to show us 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.120 where it is that, 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:04.560 that I'm focused on me. 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:06.380 I'm focused on the things 00:40:06.380 --> 00:40:07.079 right here. 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:08.760 I'm living by sight 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:09.720 and not by faith. 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:10.780 Lord, 00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:12.180 how am I doing that? 00:40:12.700 --> 00:40:13.599 How am I doing it? 00:40:14.059 --> 00:40:15.240 And there's a lot of stuff 00:40:15.240 --> 00:40:17.180 that I turn a blind eye to 00:40:17.180 --> 00:40:19.059 because maybe I don't want 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.960 to look into it. 00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:22.180 Maybe I've protected that 00:40:22.180 --> 00:40:23.180 for so long 00:40:23.180 --> 00:40:23.380 and, 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:24.920 and I've lived this way 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:25.500 for so long. 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:26.940 I've made excuses for it 00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:28.019 and I don't want anyone 00:40:28.019 --> 00:40:28.500 to really 00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:30.019 fight me on it. 00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:32.119 So I hold on to that. 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:36.159 verse five 00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:37.440 in Colossians. 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:39.259 What does he say to do? 00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:41.839 Put to death, 00:40:42.500 --> 00:40:42.819 therefore, 00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:44.500 what is earthly in you. 00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:46.920 Put it to death. 00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:48.420 Wow. 00:40:49.259 --> 00:40:50.779 Think about those words. 00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:54.400 I've shot deer before 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.480 and they die, 00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:57.120 you know, 00:40:57.160 --> 00:40:57.860 when you shoot them. 00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:01.100 But it's a life. 00:41:01.600 --> 00:41:02.700 Now that's for food. 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:03.860 It's for those kind of things, 00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:04.019 right? 00:41:04.120 --> 00:41:05.400 I'm careful with all this stuff. 00:41:05.900 --> 00:41:06.700 But it's a life. 00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:07.600 Think of this. 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:08.720 Put to death. 00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:10.720 We're putting something to death. 00:41:11.660 --> 00:41:13.080 Those are strong words. 00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:15.980 How do I deal 00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:16.900 with these things 00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:18.079 that are deep in my heart? 00:41:18.179 --> 00:41:18.900 How do I deal 00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:19.340 with the, 00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:20.739 the fruit of the, 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:21.199 my, 00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:21.940 uh, 00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:23.880 eyes off of the things 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:25.500 above and on the earth? 00:41:25.819 --> 00:41:27.500 Put it to death. 00:41:27.799 --> 00:41:28.500 Put it to death. 00:41:32.299 --> 00:41:33.799 He gives a list there. 00:41:34.699 --> 00:41:35.139 Oh, 00:41:35.279 --> 00:41:35.559 uh, 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:35.699 wait, 00:41:35.779 --> 00:41:35.980 let me, 00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:36.519 let me say, 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.559 uh, 00:41:38.380 --> 00:41:39.179 necrosate. 00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:39.980 So, 00:41:40.179 --> 00:41:40.400 uh, 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:40.980 we have 00:41:40.980 --> 00:41:41.940 froneo, 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:43.539 which is set your mind, 00:41:43.619 --> 00:41:44.200 a phrase. 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:45.760 And here we have necrosate, 00:41:46.139 --> 00:41:47.920 which is put to death. 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:49.920 So it's another phrase here 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:51.099 that he uses. 00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:51.980 Um, 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:52.679 and so, 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:53.220 uh, 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:55.039 it translates put to death 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:57.200 or I make to be dead. 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.980 I make to be dead. 00:42:02.720 --> 00:42:03.320 Right? 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:04.639 Um, 00:42:04.780 --> 00:42:06.619 my cooperation is sanctification 00:42:06.619 --> 00:42:07.179 right there. 00:42:07.380 --> 00:42:08.200 That's part of it. 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:10.240 In the spirit's power, 00:42:10.240 --> 00:42:10.980 I put to death 00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:12.420 what is earthly in me. 00:42:13.059 --> 00:42:13.719 Holy spirit, 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:14.380 show me, 00:42:14.740 --> 00:42:16.460 show me, 00:42:16.579 --> 00:42:17.460 show me these things 00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:17.760 that, 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:18.659 that have 00:42:18.659 --> 00:42:20.300 wormed their way 00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:21.400 into my life, 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.240 into my behavior, 00:42:22.539 --> 00:42:23.639 into my thinking. 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.219 And it's messed me up. 00:42:26.659 --> 00:42:27.440 Help me. 00:42:28.619 --> 00:42:29.460 These things 00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:30.300 in the old self 00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:31.659 are so deeply rooted. 00:42:31.780 --> 00:42:32.360 I've protected 00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:33.240 for so long. 00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:34.099 Uh, 00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:34.800 we were watching 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:35.480 alone. 00:42:35.579 --> 00:42:36.360 Have you guys ever 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.019 watched alone 00:42:37.019 --> 00:42:37.360 that, 00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:37.900 uh, 00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:38.420 TV show 00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:40.159 where they go out 00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:40.519 and they 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.119 are alone. 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:43.720 Anyway, 00:42:44.019 --> 00:42:44.780 it's a appropriate title. 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:46.000 Um, 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:46.360 anyway, 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:47.079 they're out in the, 00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:48.139 in the bush 00:42:48.139 --> 00:42:48.820 and stuff like that 00:42:48.820 --> 00:42:49.059 and, 00:42:49.180 --> 00:42:50.059 and trying to live 00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:51.000 and win the game. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:51.159 But, 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.980 but a quote came up 00:42:52.980 --> 00:42:53.440 on, 00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:53.940 uh, 00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:54.960 we saw it the other night 00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:56.440 and this quote came up 00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:57.280 and Stacy's like, 00:42:57.420 --> 00:42:58.340 that'd be a great quote 00:42:58.340 --> 00:42:59.000 for what you, 00:42:59.440 --> 00:42:59.720 I'm like, 00:42:59.780 --> 00:43:00.139 you're right. 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:01.159 Um, 00:43:01.240 --> 00:43:01.860 here's the quote. 00:43:01.860 --> 00:43:02.420 It says, 00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:05.099 man is not what 00:43:05.099 --> 00:43:06.400 he thinks he is. 00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:08.460 He's what he hides. 00:43:10.680 --> 00:43:11.120 Now, 00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:11.820 uh, 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:13.320 Andre Matro, 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:14.280 I don't know who he is, 00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:14.500 but, 00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:16.000 but this thought, 00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:17.280 there's a lot of humanism 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:17.840 to that thought. 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:18.380 You could take it 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:19.400 a lot of different ways, 00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:20.240 but, 00:43:20.460 --> 00:43:22.000 if you think about 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:23.640 the sense 00:43:23.640 --> 00:43:24.599 of our 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:25.640 froneo, 00:43:26.260 --> 00:43:27.360 the sense of 00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:28.720 setting our minds, 00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:30.720 we can think 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.259 that we're something, 00:43:33.099 --> 00:43:34.480 but in all actuality, 00:43:34.759 --> 00:43:36.199 it's what's hidden 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:37.319 that we are, 00:43:37.899 --> 00:43:38.179 right? 00:43:38.859 --> 00:43:39.839 What's hidden? 00:43:40.439 --> 00:43:40.779 Well, 00:43:40.939 --> 00:43:41.519 it's our, 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:43.259 it's our earthly desires, 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:45.179 it's our internal 00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:46.359 compass that's, 00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:46.639 ah, 00:43:47.299 --> 00:43:49.019 it's those kind of things 00:43:49.019 --> 00:43:50.539 that we don't necessarily 00:43:50.539 --> 00:43:51.500 even see, 00:43:52.099 --> 00:43:53.279 but it's there 00:43:53.279 --> 00:43:54.519 and it's driving us. 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:02.799 pray for willingness 00:44:02.799 --> 00:44:03.539 to hear. 00:44:05.799 --> 00:44:06.879 Are you willing 00:44:06.879 --> 00:44:07.719 to hear? 00:44:07.899 --> 00:44:08.659 Are you willing 00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:09.299 to hear 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:10.079 what might be 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:10.559 difficult 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:11.659 to hear 00:44:11.659 --> 00:44:13.359 about yourself? 00:44:13.899 --> 00:44:14.299 Are you, 00:44:14.339 --> 00:44:15.039 are you willing 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:15.659 to hear 00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:17.239 what the Holy Spirit 00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:18.539 speaks to you? 00:44:18.759 --> 00:44:19.399 Are you willing 00:44:19.399 --> 00:44:19.799 to hear 00:44:19.799 --> 00:44:20.859 what your community 00:44:20.859 --> 00:44:22.480 says to you? 00:44:22.759 --> 00:44:23.419 Are you willing 00:44:23.419 --> 00:44:24.699 to humble yourself 00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:26.079 when Scripture 00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:27.399 jives 00:44:27.399 --> 00:44:28.239 with what everybody 00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:29.159 else is saying 00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:29.719 to you? 00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:31.079 Man, 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:32.639 that is a place 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:33.259 of humility. 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:34.079 That's a place 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:34.920 where we open 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:35.839 ourselves up 00:44:35.839 --> 00:44:37.299 to the fact 00:44:37.299 --> 00:44:38.379 that we may be 00:44:38.379 --> 00:44:38.879 off, 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:40.659 that we may be 00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:41.179 sinning, 00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:42.500 that we may be 00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:43.219 in a place 00:44:43.219 --> 00:44:43.960 where we are 00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:45.519 totally just looking 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:46.500 at the things of earth 00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:47.559 and nothing else 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:50.019 and fooling ourselves 00:44:50.019 --> 00:44:50.940 into thinking 00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:53.359 that we're something 00:44:53.359 --> 00:44:54.000 that we're not. 00:44:56.219 --> 00:44:57.500 Sins that cannot 00:44:57.500 --> 00:44:58.119 coexist 00:44:58.119 --> 00:44:59.920 with a mindset 00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:00.940 on things above. 00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:02.179 Sexual immorality, 00:45:02.699 --> 00:45:03.259 impurity, 00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:04.359 passion, 00:45:04.579 --> 00:45:05.579 which from Romans 1, 00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:06.159 we know that's 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.019 a disgraceful passion, 00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:11.759 evil desire, 00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:12.779 and covetousness, 00:45:12.839 --> 00:45:13.920 which is idolatry. 00:45:15.839 --> 00:45:17.159 The wrath of God 00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:18.159 will be demonstrated 00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.299 on those who make 00:45:20.299 --> 00:45:21.420 these things 00:45:21.420 --> 00:45:21.980 their God. 00:45:21.980 --> 00:45:26.380 in other sins 00:45:26.380 --> 00:45:27.199 you once walked. 00:45:29.699 --> 00:45:30.539 Verse 7, 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:31.099 in these two 00:45:31.099 --> 00:45:31.820 you once walked 00:45:31.820 --> 00:45:32.599 when you were 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:33.579 living in them, 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:34.420 but now 00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:35.860 you must put them 00:45:35.860 --> 00:45:37.000 all away. 00:45:38.940 --> 00:45:39.380 Anger, 00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:40.219 wrath, 00:45:40.740 --> 00:45:41.240 malice, 00:45:41.740 --> 00:45:42.240 slander, 00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:43.400 obscene talk 00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:44.119 from your mouth. 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:45.139 Do not lie 00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:45.880 to one another. 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:45.940 Do not lie 00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:45.960 to one another. 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:53.539 note how all 00:45:53.539 --> 00:45:55.079 these sins 00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:55.659 can creep 00:45:55.659 --> 00:45:56.519 into community. 00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:57.079 Yeah. 00:45:57.820 --> 00:45:59.300 How they can wreck, 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:00.960 how it can tear 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:01.599 us apart, 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:03.280 how it can divide 00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:05.260 all of these things. 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:07.420 If we aren't 00:46:07.420 --> 00:46:08.300 listening 00:46:08.300 --> 00:46:09.340 and we aren't 00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:09.980 careful 00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:12.159 to keep our eyes 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:13.079 where they should be, 00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:14.159 these things 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:14.760 will come 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:15.500 in here 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:17.780 and divide us. 00:46:20.120 --> 00:46:21.140 One drop 00:46:21.140 --> 00:46:21.980 of poison 00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:23.460 spoils 00:46:23.460 --> 00:46:24.240 the whole glass 00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:24.740 of water. 00:46:25.980 --> 00:46:26.620 We don't want 00:46:26.620 --> 00:46:27.240 poison. 00:46:28.260 --> 00:46:28.760 We cannot 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:30.080 have poison 00:46:30.080 --> 00:46:32.760 in the church. 00:46:33.600 --> 00:46:34.360 Put these things 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:35.000 far away 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:35.560 from yourself, 00:46:35.620 --> 00:46:36.000 he says. 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:38.220 You have put 00:46:38.220 --> 00:46:39.500 off the old self 00:46:39.500 --> 00:46:40.640 with its practice 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:41.960 and you have 00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:42.680 put on 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:43.760 the new self 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.680 this self 00:46:46.680 --> 00:46:47.100 is being 00:46:47.100 --> 00:46:47.580 renewed 00:46:47.580 --> 00:46:48.300 in knowledge. 00:46:48.460 --> 00:46:48.920 God is 00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:49.800 teaching you. 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:50.380 It's that 00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:51.020 sanctification 00:46:51.020 --> 00:46:51.600 process. 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:52.560 He's teaching 00:46:52.560 --> 00:46:53.020 you. 00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:54.460 He's speaking 00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:55.000 to you, 00:46:55.140 --> 00:46:55.940 guiding you, 00:46:56.380 --> 00:46:56.900 making you 00:46:56.900 --> 00:46:57.940 into his 00:46:57.940 --> 00:46:58.600 image, 00:46:58.920 --> 00:46:59.500 the image 00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:00.360 of the creator 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:01.720 looking like 00:47:01.720 --> 00:47:02.460 his son. 00:47:03.200 --> 00:47:04.020 That's where 00:47:04.020 --> 00:47:04.500 he's going 00:47:04.500 --> 00:47:04.900 with you. 00:47:05.300 --> 00:47:05.760 That's where 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:06.300 he's taking. 00:47:07.600 --> 00:47:08.240 Paul notes 00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:08.760 there are no 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:09.220 boundaries 00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:09.800 to this 00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:10.500 transformation, 00:47:10.940 --> 00:47:11.820 this sanctification 00:47:11.820 --> 00:47:12.580 in verse 11. 00:47:13.160 --> 00:47:13.940 There's no 00:47:13.940 --> 00:47:14.539 racial, 00:47:14.860 --> 00:47:15.340 cultural, 00:47:15.580 --> 00:47:16.400 social boundaries. 00:47:17.160 --> 00:47:18.039 None of that. 00:47:18.220 --> 00:47:18.880 None of that 00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:19.400 exists. 00:47:20.059 --> 00:47:21.000 All matter 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:21.660 to God. 00:47:22.820 --> 00:47:23.360 We love 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:24.080 others with 00:47:24.080 --> 00:47:24.539 his love. 00:47:27.059 --> 00:47:27.960 And Jesus, 00:47:28.140 --> 00:47:28.620 if you look at 00:47:28.620 --> 00:47:29.220 the very end 00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:29.420 there, 00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:29.880 look at that 00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:30.539 last line. 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:31.920 I think I heard 00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:32.460 it prayed two 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:33.080 or three times 00:47:33.080 --> 00:47:33.600 already this 00:47:33.600 --> 00:47:33.840 morning. 00:47:35.380 --> 00:47:36.039 But Christ, 00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:37.360 who is all 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:38.519 and in 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:38.760 all, 00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:41.420 he is what 00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:41.940 matters. 00:47:42.820 --> 00:47:43.300 He is the 00:47:43.300 --> 00:47:43.840 one that our 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:44.559 eyes are on. 00:47:45.420 --> 00:47:45.820 He's the 00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:46.519 one that we 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:47.820 seek to 00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:48.660 apprehend 00:47:48.660 --> 00:47:49.900 his thoughts 00:47:49.900 --> 00:47:51.599 and then 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:52.460 set our 00:47:52.460 --> 00:47:53.500 minds on 00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:53.960 those very 00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:54.340 thoughts. 00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:56.059 Let's pray. 00:47:56.059 --> 00:47:56.120 Let's pray.