WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.799 Today I want to talk about the idolatry of self. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:12.240 ! We'll unpack that through these different scriptures. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:18.559 ! I want to begin with an illustration that begins how I want to look at things. 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:28.320 ! In 1989, I signed my life away, so to speak, and went to the Navy. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:36.320 Went to boot camp and there I learned how to be a sailor. That was what they taught us. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:43.759 And nobody, the whole group, we all went in and we learned the same thing. They sort of broke our 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:51.679 will, if you know, to become a sailor. No longer a civilian. Now we are something different and that 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:58.640 would be how we were to operate for however many years. Six is what I did. I was a sailor for six 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:06.960 years after that. And so we all did that. But by the end of boot camp, everyone graduated and so 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:13.439 forth. And nobody at that point looked around and said, I want to ride on a tank. Where's my tank? 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:22.400 I want to go across the land on a tank. Nobody said that. Nobody said that. Because we were all there to be 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:29.120 sailors. We were all going to sea. We were not going to be on tanks. If you guys don't know how the Navy 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:37.039 works. There is no tanks there. So we were all going to go to sea. So this new group of men that were all 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:44.080 assembled were going to be on a boat, a submarine, a ship or something like that. And that's why we 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:49.680 were assembled and what they taught us to do. And frankly, what we signed up to do. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:02:00.560 Well, what are we here at Christ Church? What are we assembled to do? We have a statement and that is 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:08.960 the kingdom of God in all of life together. And there's a lot more that goes to the purpose of 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:15.680 our assembling. But in a nutshell, that is what we gather under is that purpose statement. And 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:27.120 we are no longer, we don't look to other things, specifically other things that maybe me as an 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:38.960 individual want to be or do or deem important. It is Christ Church. It is God's will for us as a body, 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:46.240 as a church. That's how we operate. In other words, the group, the church, the body is in jeopardy when 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:55.120 individuals seek and idolize themselves to the detriment of the unity of the body. So if any of us 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.280 individually seek our own will, our own way, our own sense of what should or shouldn't be, 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:09.200 that is a detriment to the body of Christ. And that will create trouble and division and problems. 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:19.040 So today, I want to talk about this particular thought of idolatry of self, because we're about 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:25.759 to launch into a couple of months of talking about partnership, talking about the church. 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:35.759 And if we aren't thinking in terms of a body, and we're thinking individually, the church won't exist 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:42.479 the way it should exist, the way that a unified body is supposed to exist. And so this is something 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:49.759 that we need to iron out, each of us, before we understand fully the purposes of the church. 00:03:52.319 --> 00:04:01.120 So the church is a unified body. Idolatry of self, and we'll talk about idolatry in just a second, 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:08.079 but idolatry of self will isolate, divide, and play into the devil's schemes against the body. 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:17.120 That's how it will work out. When we are working and thinking and operating as individuals in a sinful 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:26.080 way, that's going to play right into what the devil wants to do with the body of Christ, with our church, 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:34.160 with Christ's church. And that cannot be. So over the next months, as we learn about the church and 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:41.760 partnership, let's lay down our lives and understand the church rightly. And so that's my encouragement 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:49.440 to us today. We're not going to ride a tank. We're going to see. All right. To sort of follow up with my 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:55.600 illustration there. So the first thing is the problem of idolatry. So let's talk about that first 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:04.640 and deal with that issue. So turn to Romans chapter one, looking at 24 and 25. Romans chapter one, 00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:08.800 verses 24 and 25. 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:16.960 Paul says there, 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:38.719 Amen. 00:05:38.719 --> 00:05:42.719 So you see the problem here. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:53.360 There's a worshiping of the creature instead of the creator, the thing rather than God. There's eyes. 00:05:53.360 --> 00:06:01.360 So this, what, who he's speaking to here is mankind. So people who are believers, people who are not 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:11.600 believers, the fundamental problem of man, of us, each one of us is this issue where we look at and think 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:20.879 about and worship what has been made and not the one who made everything. It's, it's, uh, if you go back 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:26.879 to Adam and Eve, what was their interest? What was, why did, why did sin enter in the first place? 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:33.600 They started to look at and worship things from inside what they wanted rather than the creator 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.960 that, that, that, uh, was right there walking with him. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:46.560 So what, what would some of the creature or created things be? And this is where we start to look at, 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:54.879 okay, as we whittle this down, this idea of idolatry, where is this in my life? Where does it show up? How 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:59.760 does it show up? What does it look like? We'll talk about those things. Here's some areas in which 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:10.240 we may worship the creature or the created thing, spouse, children, our church, my job, money, safety, 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:22.159 time, fun, leisure time, and self. A lot of these are born from self. A lot of these are born from the 00:07:22.159 --> 00:07:29.680 things that we seek inside for whatever reason, things that are opposed to God. And it is 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:36.800 the idolatry that we will put on that pedestal that is generated out of our own hearts. And that's 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:43.600 the idolatry of self. All the things of self, your life, your loves, your interests, your position, 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:52.800 all these things are easily, easily what will supplant the Lord himself in our hearts. And we'll put 00:07:52.800 --> 00:08:01.360 something else there and follow that. Idolatry is elevating the creature above the creator. And 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:10.400 idolatry is a vertical problem. It's a problem between ourselves and God. Now that vertical problem, 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:17.600 though, plays out and the fruit is horizontal. So when I am not right with God, when I have 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:27.680 myself where the Lord Jesus should be in my heart, that is going to show with other people. It's going 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:34.320 to show as I walk that out with this body. It will be seen. It's understood. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:38.480 Fruit of the problem 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:47.920 is always going to be seen in relationships. Timothy Keller says, when we worship an idol 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:56.879 in his place, he is no longer, Jesus is no longer the one thing we have to have in life. Something else 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:06.000 is. It rules us. And ultimately, we will do anything, however destructive to ourselves or to others, 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:15.360 to have it, increase it, and keep it. That's what idolatry will do. It will run us down a path that is so 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:24.799 selfish and so individually minded that we'll bring that here and we will fight with one another to get 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:35.919 what we want. Believing lies and maintaining idols will be divisive. It will be divisive. 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:43.120 Especially in the church. It will be in a family too. It will be between friends, between relationships, 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:49.039 but especially in the church where there's unity. Should be. Where there should be unity. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:57.599 Well, there's some commands for fellowship. There's some commands that are directly opposed to 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:07.360 individual idolatry. Number one, Ephesians 5.21, submit to one another. If I'm about my idolatrous 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:13.519 position on things, I cannot submit to one another in the church. I can't. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.879 Ephesians 2.3, consider others as more important than yourself. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:30.000 1 John 3.16, lay down your life for the brothers, just like Jesus did. Follow what he did in love. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.240 And we lay down our life for the brothers and the sisters, the body. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:46.560 Those in the church acknowledge Jesus as the head of the church. Following, trusting, obeying. It's his church, not ours. 00:10:46.559 --> 00:11:04.959 As a believer, we say that, Jesus, you are now my master. I am now following you. I sacrifice all to follow you. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:22.480 But then self creeps in. Then the self wants to take over portions of that, wants to take Jesus down off of the throne of your heart and put other things in place. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:33.879 Idolatry occurs as one begins to put the self first and find a new compass. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:44.920 A new compass is seen there. So instead of taking the scripture and following Christ, a compass that's designed by self shows up. 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:54.279 And that compass is off. And it wants its own way. It wants to do what the flesh wants to do. 00:11:54.459 --> 00:11:59.399 What one thinks is right instead of what the Lord says is right. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:08.279 And it's a faulty compass. So things turn inward. My ideas, my concerns, my needs, my hurts. 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:14.659 That becomes the most important thing. As I gather in a unified body, I'm not interested in anybody else's. 00:12:14.659 --> 00:12:21.480 It's my thing. That becomes most important. I've lost the compass there. 00:12:22.379 --> 00:12:31.019 And there becomes a lack of unity. And then people start turning on others or backing away from others. 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:45.699 Not trusting in God in interactions with one another. Not leaning on the spirit for that, for the encouragement and fruit and words that only come from the spirit. 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:54.800 So my encouragement to you today as we finish out this study. 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:59.219 That's idolatry. That's idolatry. That's the idea behind idolatry. 00:12:59.339 --> 00:13:02.359 So my encouragement to you is consider your heart. 00:13:03.419 --> 00:13:04.599 Trace your passions. 00:13:05.599 --> 00:13:07.959 So consider your heart. Where are you? 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:12.639 Are you putting something before Christ himself in your heart? 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.879 And if you see that, then trace those passions. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.819 And identify your object of worship. 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:25.220 Hopefully, it's Jesus. 00:13:25.819 --> 00:13:29.039 If it's not, we'll talk about some of the fruit of that. 00:13:29.319 --> 00:13:30.519 How do we know? 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.319 How do we know if it's not? 00:13:33.860 --> 00:13:35.080 Well, we'll talk about that. 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:43.780 But as you see things, as you look at your heart, this is pretty much all messages are supposed to be something where we take and we apply to ourselves, right? 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:46.460 We're not supposed to be thinking of everybody else, in other words. 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:48.500 This is especially, right? 00:13:48.520 --> 00:13:52.259 I would say that for any of God's word that comes to us. 00:13:52.259 --> 00:14:01.960 But this one in particular, this is something that only you in your heart can supplant Christ for something that you think is more important. 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:04.060 Nobody else can do that. 00:14:04.059 --> 00:14:06.199 No one else can make you do that. 00:14:06.719 --> 00:14:08.000 And so you take that. 00:14:08.319 --> 00:14:12.579 And if you see fruit that's bad, trace it down. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.319 What is it that you're making more important than Christ? 00:14:16.439 --> 00:14:18.719 And so that's my encouragement to you as we go through this. 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:22.179 There is a solution. 00:14:24.139 --> 00:14:25.119 Strangely enough, right? 00:14:25.359 --> 00:14:26.879 The Lord provides a solution to this. 00:14:27.599 --> 00:14:29.239 And I want to continue, actually. 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.320 I'm going to pick up from where Zemir was last week in Psalm 139. 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:33.960 Zemir, back here. 00:14:34.019 --> 00:14:34.259 Thank you. 00:14:35.100 --> 00:14:35.320 Yep. 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:36.980 I want to pick up. 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.200 And so if you turn to Psalm 139. 00:14:39.779 --> 00:14:41.340 Turn to Psalm 139. 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:47.560 And we know the first part, what Zemir shared last week, was just the greatness of God, 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:55.639 the all-powerful, all-knowing attributes of God, right? 00:14:55.839 --> 00:15:02.899 So that's the context that we read, verses 23 and 24 of Psalm 139. 00:15:02.899 --> 00:15:07.340 So you have to remember that context, okay? 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.379 And in 23, starting with 23, he says, 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.120 Search me, O God, and know my heart. 00:15:14.779 --> 00:15:17.600 Try me and know my thoughts. 00:15:18.019 --> 00:15:21.360 And see if there be any grievous way in me. 00:15:22.059 --> 00:15:24.740 And lead me in the way everlasting. 00:15:24.740 --> 00:15:31.960 So the first thing he says there, the first idea is search me. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.980 So that all-knowing God, that all-powerful God, search me. 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.659 This is a position of the heart, right? 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:46.419 Because number one, God already knows. 00:15:46.560 --> 00:15:47.519 We've already identified. 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:48.820 He knows all this already. 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:50.039 Who doesn't? 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:50.799 Me. 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.139 I don't know it. 00:15:53.139 --> 00:15:55.039 I don't know what he has for me. 00:15:55.139 --> 00:15:58.139 I don't, I can't search like he searches me. 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.159 He knows my depths, right? 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.840 So the heart posture is, Lord, you know, so search me. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.740 Look, take a look at my heart. 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:14.439 Take a look at my priorities, at my passions, at things that I've got out of whack. 00:16:15.299 --> 00:16:16.519 Search those things. 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.340 Know my heart. 00:16:20.179 --> 00:16:22.659 And please search it. 00:16:23.139 --> 00:16:27.600 Are you willing for God to do this? 00:16:29.019 --> 00:16:31.699 Are you willing for God to do this? 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:33.399 Not a self-help book. 00:16:33.539 --> 00:16:39.899 Not something that you use to sort of diagnose yourself. 00:16:40.139 --> 00:16:44.840 Not looking across your life and saying, well, I think that this is, you know, whatever. 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:46.319 I think this isn't very good. 00:16:46.379 --> 00:16:47.439 I think I'm okay here. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:48.500 None of that. 00:16:48.500 --> 00:16:53.679 Are you willing for God who knows all to search you? 00:16:53.679 --> 00:17:01.939 There is a willingness there that to go any further, you have to be open to. 00:17:01.940 --> 00:17:04.019 You have to be open to that. 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:08.100 Will you submit to his searching? 00:17:08.500 --> 00:17:14.440 And not only his searching, but what he actually finds and tells you about. 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.320 Are you willing to have that? 00:17:17.900 --> 00:17:19.980 For him to work in that way in your life? 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:26.000 If the idols are going to go, they've got to be pointed out. 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:28.360 You have to know what to confess. 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:30.700 You have to know what to repent from. 00:17:31.539 --> 00:17:32.380 God will tell you. 00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:33.900 He will tell you. 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:37.680 God knows hearts. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.580 We confuse things. 00:17:40.580 --> 00:17:41.860 We mess it up. 00:17:42.780 --> 00:17:43.700 He knows hearts. 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:45.060 We don't. 00:17:45.580 --> 00:17:46.300 Even our own. 00:17:48.259 --> 00:17:50.840 We run on emotions or feelings. 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:51.960 The flesh, basically. 00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:53.200 This is what we operate on. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:18:05.240 And whatever seems to sometimes, whatever makes us feel better or gets us going this way or that way, just to maybe get heat off our back a little bit. 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.680 That's the things that we're more inclined to pursue. 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:17.380 Instead of the searching that opens up spaces in our hearts that have to be cleaned out. 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:27.960 We run up against an immovable object in this because he speaks the pure words of doctrine. 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:33.780 When we look at scripture and he shows us, we say, Lord, will you search me? 00:18:34.600 --> 00:18:36.380 And then he shows us something. 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:37.700 Where is it going to be found? 00:18:38.340 --> 00:18:40.360 Well, in his word. 00:18:40.760 --> 00:18:42.260 That's his will for us. 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:43.620 We'll see it in his word. 00:18:43.619 --> 00:18:50.139 And when we see it in his word, now we're up against an immovable object there. 00:18:51.159 --> 00:18:57.259 Am I going to be broken on that rock of doctrine? 00:18:57.899 --> 00:18:59.359 Or am I going to fight it? 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.019 Am I going to believe what he says? 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.179 Or am I going to fight it? 00:19:04.099 --> 00:19:06.759 I've asked him to search me and show me. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.379 Then he does. 00:19:08.659 --> 00:19:09.539 Now, what do you do? 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:11.039 What do you do? 00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:12.500 Do you ignore it? 00:19:12.500 --> 00:19:14.380 Do you continue to hear? 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.000 Do you go on? 00:19:16.779 --> 00:19:19.099 And to the next thing that he talks about? 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.359 His truth will not budge. 00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:27.559 That means if we're going to follow him, who budges? 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:29.200 It's us. 00:19:29.819 --> 00:19:30.079 Right? 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:32.279 We're the ones that have to change. 00:19:33.019 --> 00:19:34.380 He's not going to change. 00:19:34.619 --> 00:19:36.200 His word is not going to change. 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.059 It's us. 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:38.640 We're the ones. 00:19:39.299 --> 00:19:40.460 And that has to happen. 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:41.839 It has to happen. 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.879 The second thing he says in that verse, he says, try me. 00:19:47.419 --> 00:19:51.319 So search me and try me. 00:19:53.179 --> 00:19:55.439 How will he do this? 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.620 How will he try me? 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:02.340 Has anybody ever been tried? 00:20:04.820 --> 00:20:09.660 I did a marketing visit to a little clinic down in the country. 00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:18.340 So the marketing visit, what it was, I had set up a time for a luncheon. 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:21.019 It's a little clinic and there's like three people there. 00:20:21.100 --> 00:20:23.440 There's a nurse practitioner and a couple others. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:29.680 And so I set up this time to go down for a lunch. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:38.440 And the girl at the desk, she says, yeah, you can have this time and that lunch hour and everything. 00:20:38.560 --> 00:20:41.220 I said, am I expected to bring the lunch? 00:20:41.259 --> 00:20:41.900 And she said, yeah. 00:20:41.900 --> 00:20:43.800 So I said, OK, that's good. 00:20:43.940 --> 00:20:45.820 I don't typically do this type of marketing. 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.519 So it's kind of new to me a little bit. 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:48.280 Lessons learned. 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:53.460 But so I said, OK, so I'll bring lunch and we'll meet on such and such day. 00:20:53.540 --> 00:20:53.980 And that was great. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:56.860 So it was the day before. 00:20:57.360 --> 00:21:02.880 And, you know, I'm thinking maybe get a pizza or some sandwiches or something, you know, lunch stuff. 00:21:02.980 --> 00:21:03.660 I don't know, whatever. 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.259 I said, whatever you guys want, you know, let me know and I'll pick it up. 00:21:08.059 --> 00:21:18.480 And so that morning I get a text and apparently they wanted Olive Garden, which I didn't anticipate Olive Garden. 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:20.980 But OK, I did put parameters on it. 00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:21.480 My fault. 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.259 And so let's let's do Olive Garden. 00:21:24.460 --> 00:21:27.579 And then they sent me their menu from Olive Garden. 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:35.039 Well, if you are familiar with Olive Garden, they have entrees, which is like the full thing. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:39.819 And then they have lunches and the lunches are like half the price of an entree. 00:21:40.420 --> 00:21:45.180 They all ordered entrees, not the lunch thing, which was for lunch. 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:47.940 They all ordered entrees. 00:21:48.019 --> 00:21:49.559 And there was a fourth person that joined. 00:21:50.059 --> 00:21:50.700 Surprise, surprise. 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.120 And so they all ordered the entrees. 00:21:54.259 --> 00:21:58.819 And then they all got the special five dollar drinks. 00:21:59.740 --> 00:22:02.599 And then a couple of them got the ten dollar dessert. 00:22:03.259 --> 00:22:07.420 And I was a little bit upset at this. 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:07.819 Right. 00:22:07.819 --> 00:22:12.419 I thought, oh, I kind of feel like they're taking advantage of me a little bit. 00:22:12.619 --> 00:22:15.319 But I didn't put any parameters on it. 00:22:15.379 --> 00:22:18.359 I didn't say one way or another, you know. 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:26.939 And so I get there and put out everything on this little kitchen space that they had. 00:22:27.259 --> 00:22:31.939 And they kind of flocked in like vultures and they all grabbed their food and split. 00:22:32.719 --> 00:22:34.279 Except for one person. 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:37.299 And so a hundred and forty dollar bill. 00:22:37.299 --> 00:22:40.559 I got to talk to one person for about 30 minutes. 00:22:41.339 --> 00:22:46.980 So at that point, I thought about this idea of trials. 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:47.579 Right. 00:22:47.579 --> 00:22:53.399 Was God allowing this to try me in this moment? 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.779 You know, like, Chris, what will you do? 00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:58.460 What will you do about this? 00:22:58.519 --> 00:22:59.500 Will you get mad? 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:02.059 Will you look on them with disdain? 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:04.439 Will you throw big ziti at them? 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:05.699 You know. 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:09.539 So the trials, they come all the time. 00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:12.900 They come in every which way, in every style. 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:17.340 And the try here is, it's like a prove or a test. 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:20.100 So search me. 00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:22.279 Lord, show me these areas. 00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:24.420 And then try me. 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:26.720 Let's walk this out. 00:23:26.840 --> 00:23:30.360 The search means that we're open to God's revelation. 00:23:31.140 --> 00:23:35.220 And then the trying basically answers the question. 00:23:35.700 --> 00:23:39.740 Did the revelation of what he showed me make it actually to my heart? 00:23:40.100 --> 00:23:42.420 Did it actually sink in? 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:43.220 You know. 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:45.500 I don't know that I have. 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:49.299 Well, nobody likes to be taken advantage of, you know. 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.940 But that was something that, okay, let's try this. 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:53.799 You know. 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:54.420 Truly. 00:23:54.840 --> 00:23:56.120 Chris, how are you going to respond? 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:01.680 Do I confess it? 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:09.060 When God shows me something in my life that I, that he gives me like that? 00:24:09.860 --> 00:24:13.340 And then tries me and, you know. 00:24:13.700 --> 00:24:15.380 Do I confess my sin there? 00:24:15.460 --> 00:24:16.220 Do I repent? 00:24:18.820 --> 00:24:19.940 Verse 24. 00:24:21.019 --> 00:24:22.320 He said the last part. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.579 And see if there's any grievous way in me. 00:24:26.539 --> 00:24:28.019 So in that testing. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.859 Is there things that aren't right? 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:35.700 Is there still those things that aren't right? 00:24:36.419 --> 00:24:39.559 And that sin that's still lurking in those spaces? 00:24:39.899 --> 00:24:42.079 Because we will be tested, won't we? 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:43.460 We will be. 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:49.299 The third thing he says is, lead me in the way everlasting. 00:24:50.019 --> 00:24:54.620 In other words, I think if you could sum that up, it would be, be my God. 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:56.400 Be my God. 00:24:57.019 --> 00:24:57.500 No idol. 00:24:58.440 --> 00:24:59.200 No idol. 00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:00.600 Search me. 00:25:01.340 --> 00:25:02.660 I'm open to this. 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.680 Try me. 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:05.819 Test me, Lord. 00:25:06.500 --> 00:25:07.660 Make me stronger. 00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:08.740 Refine me. 00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:10.039 And be my God. 00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:20.700 When I went to sign up for the Navy, this, this, I took the test and, and they liked how I did. 00:25:20.840 --> 00:25:27.240 I, I, I didn't think I really had very many brains to work with, but, but they liked how I did. 00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:29.420 And so I sat across from the recruiter guy. 00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:35.740 And I, at that point, I really didn't care where I went or what happened or whatever. 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:43.360 And, and he says, well, you know, you got to get a job and, and they got to know where to, 00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:44.579 put you and send you. 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:46.900 And so he says, Hey, how about electronics? 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:48.319 And I was like, all right. 00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:51.100 And he says, how about on a submarine? 00:25:51.380 --> 00:25:52.819 And I said, okay. 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:54.160 And so that's what they did. 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:56.420 They taught me electronics and put me on a submarine. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:59.400 I never thought about it. 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:04.000 I never, you know, I just, I just signed up to, to learn these things. 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:05.819 And then I followed their orders. 00:26:05.819 --> 00:26:09.539 I followed what they told me to do, um, and walk that out. 00:26:09.659 --> 00:26:16.559 Now, if I had got to the submarine, if I had got there and the very first time that we're, 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:21.460 we're going out and then all of a sudden they say, dive, dive. 00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:23.339 And the thing starts going underwater. 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.619 And I, I wake up and I'm like, Hey, what's going on here? 00:26:27.619 --> 00:26:34.719 You know, uh, that, that would not, uh, make a lot of sense with it, you know, um, because 00:26:34.719 --> 00:26:40.599 that's what I signed up to do was to go underwater in something, a tube. 00:26:41.219 --> 00:26:49.039 Um, and, uh, so that's sort of, uh, if you think about how ludicrous that statement would 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:49.939 be at that point. 00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:50.620 Okay. 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:57.200 Well, have you ever said, Lord, be my God, lead me. 00:26:57.900 --> 00:26:59.779 Have you ever said that to the Lord? 00:27:00.580 --> 00:27:03.799 Lead me, be my God. 00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:09.180 And then when he starts to lead you, you pump the brakes and you say, wait a minute, what's 00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:09.799 happening here? 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:11.100 What are you doing? 00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:11.980 What are you doing? 00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:14.440 Has that ever been the case? 00:27:17.320 --> 00:27:19.920 Search me, help me identify the sin. 00:27:19.940 --> 00:27:24.880 The lies, the idolatry that stands between us. 00:27:25.299 --> 00:27:30.440 Try me, grow me through refinement and opportunities to walk in faith and lead me. 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:34.720 Give me the paths of righteousness to follow you. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.440 This is the solution to idolatry. 00:27:40.120 --> 00:27:42.299 This is the solution right there. 00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:46.740 Confession of sin and repentance. 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:48.920 Let me give you an example. 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:56.840 Um, so, uh, one, one thing that, that is, is talked about a bit or that, that comes up 00:27:56.840 --> 00:28:04.160 often, especially in today's world is, uh, different, different ways to discipline in 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:04.640 parenting. 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:10.160 Well, one of those ways that sort of a lightning rod is spanking. 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.279 And, uh, that's something that is awesome conversation. 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:16.540 Very important conversation. 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:20.120 So I'm, I'm a parent. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:26.800 Uh, the kids are older now, but, um, but I'm a parent and there was at some point I had to 00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:27.759 answer this question. 00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:29.840 How does discipline look? 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:31.639 So where do I go? 00:28:31.639 --> 00:28:32.099 Okay. 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:33.919 Lord search me. 00:28:34.659 --> 00:28:37.559 I, uh, uh, be my God. 00:28:38.459 --> 00:28:46.359 And he says in his word very clearly that spanking is a part of discipline. 00:28:46.939 --> 00:28:47.939 That's a part. 00:28:48.419 --> 00:28:49.019 Okay. 00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:50.180 I read that. 00:28:50.379 --> 00:28:51.059 I see that. 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:57.539 Um, so I can, at that point, I can fight what he says. 00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:59.980 Now this, this applies to so many different things. 00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:01.460 I'm just using this as an example. 00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:03.539 I can fight that. 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:08.980 I can go against that immovable object of God and what he says. 00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:15.799 I asked him, search me, show me your way, be my God. 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:19.779 And then he tells me, do I follow? 00:29:20.259 --> 00:29:20.400 Yeah. 00:29:20.860 --> 00:29:21.720 Do I follow him? 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:22.920 Because you know what? 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:27.059 If I take that as a discipline measure, do you think I'm going to be tried? 00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:33.180 Probably that day, maybe that hour, maybe, you know, and I'll have to make those decisions 00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:36.640 according to what God tells me to do from his word. 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:42.720 And then he leads us. 00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:44.180 And then you see the fruit. 00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:52.180 You see the fruit of a person who follows, who hears, who truly takes his word in and 00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:58.299 truly follows and leads, is led, then everlasting. 00:30:01.299 --> 00:30:06.440 So the next question, how does this principle affect the body? 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.880 How does it affect us as a church? 00:30:10.460 --> 00:30:13.500 The principle of, of, uh, idolatry. 00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:22.440 If you would turn to first Peter three, eight, first Peter chapter three and verse eight. 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:22.440 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:22.440 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:41.220 Finally, all of you have unity of mind. 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:51.460 Is look at, uh, what does idol, less idol, no idols, idol, less. 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.519 What does the church look like when it's idol, less? 00:30:56.180 --> 00:30:56.779 Make sense. 00:30:57.380 --> 00:30:58.059 Okay. 00:30:58.680 --> 00:30:59.940 First Peter three, eight. 00:30:59.940 --> 00:31:10.779 Finally, all of you have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble 00:31:10.779 --> 00:31:11.320 mind. 00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:19.259 We can take this verse and use it to inspect the fruit of our life in the body. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.200 Specifically. 00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:22.799 We can take this verse and use it. 00:31:22.860 --> 00:31:27.420 Peter's writing to the church at a time when the persecution was super high. 00:31:27.420 --> 00:31:29.580 And they were saying, why is this happening? 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:30.380 Why is this happening? 00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:40.100 And he's encouraging them in this way to keep their eyes on Christ and don't get sidetracked. 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.240 Don't start to apply your own thinking. 00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:45.140 Don't do these things. 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.019 This is what you should look like. 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:50.580 This is what the body should look like. 00:31:52.340 --> 00:31:53.880 This type of fruit. 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:54.900 Okay. 00:31:54.900 --> 00:31:54.920 Okay. 00:31:55.460 --> 00:32:01.660 So now in this, what we're going to do is we're going to look at each of these, uh, ideas. 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:10.220 Now there is a, is the fruit that we're looking for, but there is also the fruit of, uh, uh, 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.980 where idols would get, would, would take the stage. 00:32:15.100 --> 00:32:15.380 Okay. 00:32:15.580 --> 00:32:20.640 So in other words, there's a, there's a good, uh, the good fruit, but there's also an indicator 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:27.820 of bad fruit when these particular characteristics are gone the wrong way. 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:28.560 Make sense. 00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:32.540 Let's do one and we'll go through and you'll understand if I'm not explaining it right. 00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:38.500 Uh, so the first thing, finally, all of you have unity of mind, unity of mind. 00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:43.620 So basically that is being together, rowing the same way, right? 00:32:43.619 --> 00:32:46.419 We don't have some people trying to go the other way. 00:32:46.659 --> 00:32:52.859 We're all rowing together and submitting to leadership, unity of mind. 00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:56.239 We're all thinking together in that as a body. 00:32:57.059 --> 00:33:05.439 So idolatry fruit instead of unity, when idolatry is present, then what does it look like? 00:33:07.019 --> 00:33:11.399 Well, number one, it would be lifting high my own way. 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:14.180 This is a body. 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.259 It's a unified body, all going the same direction. 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:23.900 If I have idols that are not Christ, the spirit is speaking for us to move together. 00:33:24.300 --> 00:33:29.380 If I have idols that are not Christ, I'll start lifting up my way. 00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:31.640 My way is most important. 00:33:31.820 --> 00:33:33.680 My way is what should happen. 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:34.840 Is that divisive? 00:33:35.540 --> 00:33:36.140 Absolutely. 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.460 That's divisive. 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:39.060 It'll cut at the core. 00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:47.539 Going against leaders, complaining, gathering others to divisive causes. 00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:52.220 Basically doing anything that threatens unity. 00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:55.759 Anything that threatens unity. 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:01.519 If that is the fruit, if that's what, as you say, God, search me. 00:34:02.220 --> 00:34:03.079 Search me. 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:04.139 Try me. 00:34:04.140 --> 00:34:08.240 Am I doing anything that's threatening the unity of this body? 00:34:12.180 --> 00:34:13.200 Second thing. 00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:14.700 Sympathy. 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.000 Sympathy. 00:34:17.240 --> 00:34:18.619 Weep with those who weep. 00:34:18.700 --> 00:34:20.480 It's a giving of self. 00:34:20.720 --> 00:34:29.160 Like a very deep, deep place there that you go with other people and care for them and love them. 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:33.539 Walking in other shoes, you know, like understanding. 00:34:35.839 --> 00:34:39.359 So what about the fruit of idolatry instead of sympathy? 00:34:39.899 --> 00:34:41.699 What would the fruit look like in that? 00:34:42.759 --> 00:34:46.440 Well, a person would be focused on their own pain. 00:34:47.299 --> 00:34:51.980 They come to the group and they interact in fellowship. 00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:55.699 But the only thing that's ever shared is their own pain. 00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:58.340 They never walk with anybody else. 00:34:59.099 --> 00:34:59.780 Never listen. 00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:02.199 Never go deep with somebody else. 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:04.000 And what's going on with them. 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:10.119 Brings everything back to themselves. 00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:12.380 They hear the pain. 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:13.920 They hear what's going on. 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:15.980 And everything comes back to self. 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:25.039 Not having any time for other people who are in their pain. 00:35:25.139 --> 00:35:26.639 That's a lack of sympathy. 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.139 A lack of sympathy. 00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:34.440 Or minimizing others' troubles. 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:37.900 Thinking that it's not as important. 00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:41.380 Sometimes with children. 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:43.720 It's easy to do. 00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:50.480 Like, you know, a four-year-old's problems are not something we would consider a problem. 00:35:51.200 --> 00:35:52.900 But the thing is, it is to them. 00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:53.639 Right? 00:35:53.980 --> 00:35:55.139 It is to them. 00:35:55.780 --> 00:36:00.579 And sympathy and care would go with a four-year-old. 00:36:01.059 --> 00:36:02.059 And listen. 00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:03.740 And be a part of that. 00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:06.240 And engage with them in a loving way. 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.379 But it's the same thing with adults. 00:36:08.919 --> 00:36:11.359 Sometimes we can minimize somebody else's issues. 00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:12.719 The things that we know. 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:13.659 Oh, that's not a big deal. 00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:15.559 It is to them. 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:18.000 How do you care for them? 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:21.599 Third thing is brotherly love. 00:36:22.819 --> 00:36:23.659 What is it? 00:36:23.959 --> 00:36:24.799 In a good way? 00:36:24.919 --> 00:36:26.059 In a unified body? 00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:26.939 Brotherly love. 00:36:27.279 --> 00:36:29.000 Considering others more important than ourselves. 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:30.339 We already talked about that verse. 00:36:30.919 --> 00:36:32.279 Laying down my life for the brothers. 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.460 It's all of that concept of just loving one another. 00:36:38.060 --> 00:36:38.860 Sacrificially. 00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:41.160 It's not about me. 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:45.820 It's like I'm willing to sacrifice for you in love. 00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:49.200 How about the fruit of idolatry in this? 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:55.640 Instead of love, the fruit is considering my needs as most important. 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:02.400 choosing me when I have something to give. 00:37:02.619 --> 00:37:10.839 So in other words, if I have time and money and energy and all these things and I choose not to give it, 00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:14.019 that is a fruit of idolatry. 00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:17.980 If it's a sin, if I have it and don't give it. 00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:20.019 Bible says that's a sin. 00:37:20.019 --> 00:37:24.920 It's a closed heart, not an open heart. 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:35.780 When our hearts are closed to others, that is putting us, ourselves, on the throne. 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:40.500 Not willing to be sacrificially minded. 00:37:42.380 --> 00:37:43.800 How about a tender heart? 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:44.980 The next one there. 00:37:45.099 --> 00:37:45.780 Tender heart. 00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:50.460 As kind, compassionate, willing to see somebody in their situation. 00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:55.420 That tenderness that we should have one for another. 00:37:58.180 --> 00:37:59.660 What does idolatry look like? 00:38:00.460 --> 00:38:05.300 Expecting everyone to care for me without caring for others. 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.840 But I expect everyone to care for me. 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:11.780 Do you hear like a trend, by the way, with the idolatry? 00:38:12.100 --> 00:38:14.380 Everything is I, me, self. 00:38:14.380 --> 00:38:16.200 Do you hear the trend? 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:19.000 That's, that's, we get this, we get this. 00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:19.420 Right. 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:26.280 No consideration of others or steamrolling other people for my own purposes or my own way. 00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:34.160 Not willing, again, to give time, energy, or any effort to others. 00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:35.160 How about this? 00:38:35.220 --> 00:38:39.760 Getting bored with somebody while they're talking to you. 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.880 This, this is a choice. 00:38:44.660 --> 00:38:45.100 Right? 00:38:45.620 --> 00:38:46.700 This is a choice. 00:38:47.020 --> 00:38:50.180 It's a choice to not yawn. 00:38:50.540 --> 00:38:52.700 It's a choice to look in their eyes. 00:38:53.020 --> 00:38:55.580 It's a choice to pay attention and give feedback. 00:38:55.579 --> 00:38:59.860 There, there's no reason why you can't do that. 00:39:00.279 --> 00:39:04.599 Other than, we're losing a tender heart. 00:39:05.279 --> 00:39:06.719 I'm thinking about myself. 00:39:07.279 --> 00:39:10.199 I'm not, I'm not engaged with somebody else. 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.019 For two minutes. 00:39:12.579 --> 00:39:13.460 Give it. 00:39:14.179 --> 00:39:15.079 Give the time. 00:39:15.659 --> 00:39:16.099 Love them. 00:39:16.099 --> 00:39:19.880 The next one is humble mind. 00:39:21.279 --> 00:39:27.440 Submitting to God, his leadership, the leadership in the church, your husband, etc. 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:30.759 That's what it looks like. 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:33.559 Righteousness found in Christ, not in self. 00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:34.679 That's a humble mind. 00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:36.839 That's what a humble mind looks like. 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:42.860 What does idolatry of self, what is the fruit then? 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:46.579 Number one, trusting in my own righteousness. 00:39:48.260 --> 00:39:50.380 And what is born from that? 00:39:50.780 --> 00:39:52.500 I'm going to judge you. 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:58.360 Because if I trust in my own righteousness, I'm going to hold you to that same standard. 00:39:58.700 --> 00:40:00.280 Beginning of Romans says that very thing. 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:01.079 Right? 00:40:01.579 --> 00:40:05.820 That I'm going to be judged by the way I judge you. 00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:06.220 Right? 00:40:11.600 --> 00:40:13.880 Sense of being higher than others. 00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:16.740 The idea of my way or the highway. 00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:17.620 Right? 00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:20.920 This is not a humble mind. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:24.160 This is not a humble heart toward one another. 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:34.920 All those, all those negative fruit characteristics point to a worship of the creature. 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:36.900 And not the creator. 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:50.360 All of those characteristics point to, really, in our discussion here, a point to a worship of myself and not the creator. 00:40:50.700 --> 00:40:54.280 It puts me squarely on that throne. 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:59.280 And I couldn't, I could not go more wrong. 00:40:59.280 --> 00:40:59.900 It puts me squarely on that throne. 00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:08.000 Idols do not belong in Christchurch. 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:16.860 Our unity as a body is threatened. 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:28.780 If we insist as individuals, if we insist on putting idols on the throne, Christchurch will not be unified. 00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:29.780 It won't. 00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:30.920 It won't. 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:39.360 It's threatened when Jesus is not in his rightful place in our hearts. 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:47.580 Let's submit to God's all-knowing search of our hearts. 00:41:47.579 --> 00:41:49.579 Show me. 00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:49.579 00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:51.179 Show me. 00:41:53.179 --> 00:41:55.639 His trying of our lives. 00:41:56.699 --> 00:42:01.599 And the sanctification that goes with that. 00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:03.299 In those trials. 00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:07.480 That probably are happening right now in your heart. 00:42:07.579 --> 00:42:08.559 In one way or another. 00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:11.360 As you consider these things. 00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:13.519 As he's bringing things up. 00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:15.960 And immediately you want to discard it. 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:17.179 Don't discard it. 00:42:17.860 --> 00:42:18.800 What's he saying? 00:42:19.820 --> 00:42:20.380 Listen. 00:42:21.059 --> 00:42:22.039 Listen to him. 00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:23.539 And let him lead you. 00:42:24.699 --> 00:42:27.000 Submission to his leadership alone. 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:30.059 His leadership alone. 00:42:30.720 --> 00:42:31.659 Not what you think. 00:42:31.740 --> 00:42:33.340 Or not the way you feel. 00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:35.579 Or any context other than. 00:42:35.860 --> 00:42:37.380 What does God say? 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:39.220 And then let him lead you. 00:42:40.659 --> 00:42:41.260 Confess. 00:42:41.699 --> 00:42:42.220 Repent. 00:42:42.220 --> 00:42:44.720 Get rid of the idols. 00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.380 I encourage you to do that today. 00:42:50.380 --> 00:42:51.380 Hopefully. 00:42:53.380 --> 00:42:55.860 As you consider these things. 00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:58.240 You'll look across your life. 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.000 Think about the fruit of these. 00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:02.940 Of the positive. 00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:04.539 The rightful. 00:43:04.900 --> 00:43:07.380 Unified aspects of a family. 00:43:07.720 --> 00:43:11.559 Of what Peter tells that early church to pursue. 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:14.079 And where do you cross it? 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.140 Where are you against it? 00:43:16.139 --> 00:43:20.719 Where are you against the immovable object of God's truth? 00:43:21.359 --> 00:43:22.199 And I pray that. 00:43:22.319 --> 00:43:24.019 I pray that for all of us right now. 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:26.159 Let's pray. 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859 00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:26.859