7 John Verstegen - Cutting Ties With Darkness

it has been a good day good food physical and spiritual yeah out there and we asked to discuss some things about possibility of next year's conference and that is that if the weather is good and cyrene I captured the message to adjust the schedule accordingly the weather is good instead of having two messages after supper we'll have one before supper okay that's let's open the Colossians chapter number one here and as David mentioned my topic is cutting ties with darkness cutting ties with darkness the quarry Colossians chapter number one again we're going to go back to verse nine and then we're down at verse 13 and other passages in this cause we also since the day we heard of it you're not deceased to pray for you any desire that you might feel the knowledge of this world as all wisdom and spiritual understanding that's my walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all night cling to his glorious power unto all the patience and long-suffering of joy was giving the bank's under the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints and white and here's one of our key verses for tonight who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son that's been a missing person all races God our Father we thank you for well bit what we able to enjoy today unless your work and that is the fellowship among each other here and the joy that we get as we are identifying in your work we ask mother has to be bring today's messages to a close by this message here tonight that our hearts would indeed be strengthened and edify them encouraged by varying passages that we're reading here now fact that you have already delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us in the kingdom of your dear son and then and now as we study your word you are seeking to edify us and strengthen us so that we can indeed practically cut those ties to darkness that you suffered when you delivered us from that power and will thank you for this the Christ precious family what I want to do tonight in and just take a little little time to do it when I think going to super law here I really want to look at three things number one is that passage when it talks about and hath delivered a son hath delivered us from the progress we want to make sure you recognize what God has already done that there's something you've already done by faith you've gotta believe it number two is how do we take the reality of that position that that verse is talking about and how do we cut ties with darkness the ties were written in trust but how do we actually do that in our practical okay and then number three is okay what does that actually look like you know why what's that going to look like and so I think you overlook that analysis is going to be the perfect fit with what you're disciplined over the fact that right now before we God what God wants to work out the Duke and our last right now is don't stop and really prepare us for those Thrones dominions my spousal powers in heavenly places so the first thing I want to do then is notice look how verse 13 it's a reference to our identity everybody's out there it's not something we did Norse is something that we are doing neither is it something that is ongoing here is Anna verse we look at that verse is the work done yes yes who done it in Christ okay so that verse is really talking about our identity it says who hath so this is a past tense deliverance he hath delivered us from what the power of memories now that's the Jordan became the first three messages he talked about that the whole nature of that power of darkness how the rebellion in the light program is very much operational in the world today and all of us were in the light bro there all of this war and so when the trust of the Lord Jesus Christ for a personal Savior we were separate from that when we're delivered from it and we were translated into a different Kingdom was the man that we wore a different one prior to that look at a couple of other quick passages here if you would go to acts 26 back seven number 26 so in the first one I want to make is something but is the fact that about our position or identity it's a past completed Acton we didn't do it Rob did it and it's complete it's done look over to acts 26 in Alaska 26 the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking then verse 16 there to solve them this is going to become Paul of course he says but rise instead of like deep threat appear at the D for this purpose to make me minister and a witness both of these things were stopped passing and of those things in which I will appear up to you so obviously prices go up here into them again right and he says as a delivery made from the people and from the Gentiles now I send in Paul's ministry as the apostle of Gentiles started right from his conversion okay that's important to recognize but why we says in verse 18 to over their eyes and to turn them from darkness to what and from the power of Satan unto God see that they're so without question the idea of darkness is connected with whose power Satan's power the way that Satan maintains number of Asian sisters which we passed several times Asians six the rulers of the darkness of this world the rules of the darkness this world their job is to maintain the light program that's their job they maintain the darkness how do they remove the dirt how do they maintain the darkness they don't go around the physically turning lights along the way they rule the darkness of this world is that maintains Satan's life and maintain that yet God said alright so when you trust Christ for your Savior what happens you're you're delivered from the power of the light program you're delivered from Satan's power that actually happen to your translated from that Kingdom to the kingdom of life the kingdom up or Jesus Christ they're everything to see that principle there okay is something that actually happens to you when you slip when you trust Christ you don't know if I works you know didn't happen this because we were good enough it doesn't happen because we did some good deed if other when happened he you didn't even know what happened to you did you know that when you trust Christ a whole bunch of things happen to you and you didn't even only happen to unless to you unless you read in verse or unless someone told you about it think of all the things that you now know that happened to you the moment you trusted Christ as Savior that you didn't know that day you've got saying that happened to you you're reading the Paul's epistles in the earth all things Wow this happened in this 2 and this 2 of it all the police cool things happen one of them was that we were delivered from the power of darkness it's not absolute position of identity in Christ absolute and never be reversed God did it and he didn't do it based upon our works and let me ask a question that's true and it is what does that do to us what can it do to us so yes yes no yes okay but what has to happen in order for the intended impact - yeah but - no it's okay nobody have to know it what else you have to believe it believe it is so what else do you have to do why the afterlife apply you have to apply it but how we that's not my question how do you do that what do you have what has to happen what's that you have to trust it you know yeah what's this looking for - a feed and spy and then we're going to go go to peace one as well the program patients five and then whatever Houston's a chapter to rest oh what a feat in Chapter five what's this I'm going to start at verse one of Asians five we're gonna need several verses down here and I want to give us down to down to verse 6 he says be there for followers of it well who are we following the boat against 8 out there he says and he says ask dear children didn't colossians say the delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear son run out dear children because we're in the dear son sit out there when when he says at verse 2 of Ephesians three divisions 5 outside he says and walk out walk and love so so walk in the same realm that exists between the Godhead God they walk in love that's what motivates them he says walk in love as Christ also loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour amazing he says but this but but the porn occasion all all the quaintness or covetousness let it not be once named the money next phrase with three words was each other so I don't so why don't do those things anymore what right do the let's not do the things in verse three how come it's mother usually this is not how we are now but in this room we used to be when we were in the darkest yeah he says neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting we're sure not could be knows those things don't head up I know rather do something that does mattified or whatever price does why is why is giving thanks a lot what do you think before within the collage and say giving thanks in delivered us from the paradise today you see Paul's is the conduct is based on identity right action is based upon the recognition of our new identity he says first I'm going to jump ahead verse seven being that just this time he says be not ye therefore partakers with what's he doing there we're not them anymore we're Saints now for ye war on the birthday for ye war are sometimes what because we were in the power darkness we wore darkness that wasn't right didn't before we were saved so when he says for ye were sometimes darkness but there are no what's the next word there see the position I think identity the identity he says you were some instructions but now are you like in the Lord so there's our identity so the next phrase says what there's our practice what as who we are there was the other walk as you are well who are we who are needs they're saying that the last night on your singing strike there that we're back together verse three says that's become same stats here we are who did we used to be darkness we used to be completely in the power of darkness willing participants them now the worst answer the most I got the way he says verse nine is really really mean and I want you to make a connection with the first time he says for the fruit of the Spirit guess what it is what word is it then for his spirit what is it verse 9 what is it it's in all goodness and righteousness that chatsworth with the fruit spiritus what's the fruit of spirit they're nice love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance right lovely would you ever like to have that in your life because that's think to make sure the tree that's going to produce the fruit is in the right soil what's the right soil the soil is doing this righteousness and truth yes there is spirit is in the tree will produce the fruit as long as it's in the right soil I got we have some a few trees in the backyard and they just don't do so well probably most likely because I don't I'm not I don't have a green thumb I think a brown thumb everything I kill everything I plant yourself buddy even tomato plants no jewels tomato I kind of you know but my good friend John here he's this kind of settle gross stuff okay all the colonies fig trees all that kind of stuff you know Felicity's come to the conference or in disguise every year we bring to literally a truckload freshly picked organic oranges so good and and again just been demonstrations so it so John here he could take any treat about the point of death he'll resurrect a thing okay so he gave me some continental some cutting some a couple of pictures some time one time and he actually brought buttoning the drying route victory he said to be giving perfect instructions do this and I still kill about that immersive up the fruit of the Spirit it's you got to put it in my soil and stuff and keep the critters from there all in kinda stuff but eating my soul so that my point my first point is this we've got to understand our identity we have actually already been delivered from the power practice now why would God deliver us from certainly can we use it by him to manifest the truth righteousness and without being delivered from it you just don't have any way to belong to him yeah yes yeah and he writes this things down he's telling us here's what I did they stood on the finished work of Christ here's who Your Honor that's point number one we need to recognize we need to believe what he says as to our new identity okay yeah because if you don't believe your new identity there's no way you're gonna get in a red light so you got to believe your new identity first but what's this now go with me if you would to Ephesians chapter number two so now we know about our new identity I've been delivered from the power of darkness I'm in a different Kingdom now and the kingdom of his dear son I'm in the light now that's why I get it in the new realm around us in Christ is dear son that's where I live now what needs to change so that I'll live consistent with my identity I yes in order for that to happen I gotta go to school yeah I gotta go to school I gotta go to a completely different education system I started kindergarten I'm serious really a penis I gotta go through a whole new course of education because all of my life taught them to the point I got say I was already attending a different school that was teaching the power of darkness it was teaching that I killed men yeah and it was getting into me and I was a willing participant done look look at how he says it here in Ephesians chapter number two what what's these three verses look at this think about this he says a new happy quickened who were dead in trespasses and sin by the way being dead in trespasses and sins doesn't mean you aren't doing anything what's in the next few verses how active dead people are some things about the fallacy of Calvinism when people stay in communism what can a dead man do listen I'll show you I'll read by the blessedness what wouldn't dead men can do first dude we're in time past you okay so dead man can't walk you know the movies dead man walking and came out of the Bible it says we're in time past you want to put into the course of this world what's the course people say their course was like a past weekend yeah but you've got I mean it's a path new subject but it's an instruction it's a course of information right I'm gonna take a course in math but for some physics or a course in horticulture so he says the course of this world okay well who's the author of that course according to the Prince of the power of the earth so who wrote that curriculum some people have my wife's back that my wife writes a lot of curriculum focuses a lot of books in that time for homeschooling economy so she knows about writing courses writing books and that type of thing well who wrote this course in the first house here same difference other if Satan was to write the course of curriculum what do you suppose the main overriding thing through all these books are ha yea hath God said there are this again so when that is going to the course of this world according to precedent how their the spirit that now worketh where where where what's the word after worketh where is the one in listen the live program it works inside the inner end of every unbelievers we used to be there so how are we doing in that education system we were following it perfectly we were making straight A's in that system that okay that fast I think about that that principle it says among whom also we all in case any one of us thinks well no I was never I mean John I wasn't back dad I was living a pretty good life I didn't go to you this day that person else among whom also we all had our conversation keep that word night a little later he says among whom also we all have a conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind look at that just there's the tree of the knowledge of not just evil but so some people as they study through this course what they do the lust of their questions that give themselves over to they go to the what mankind would say the people side others go through this course and they give their flesh over to what man said will that s good stuff but it's all the flesh see that it's all the flesh either way the interesting you think about a guy who really is just messed up in his life and he realizes it the other self says man I you know I didn't do so well makes me really bad decisions and I've got consequences in my life that I live with right now I just did this the other in the spectrum you've got someone who's been in church all their life is more open to the guidance in religion he thinks he's okay did all those things now both have equal need both are equally lost and both require the exact same total complete grace of God did you say it doesn't take more grace to save one guy than the other both people only need the blood of Christ in his total capacity to totally forgive but the one thinks he doesn't mean it the other at least is a position to recognize manly kind of lonesome things and I wonder if there's a difference so when that verse says in verse 3 it says among whom also we all have a conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and a life west's and we're by nature the children of Wrath even as others and the ask a couple things about these two verses these three verses what was our predicament in verse 2 rut read in the verse to what world to visited in who were we disobey me we weren't disobeying the Prince of the power of the air we were following his program so who are we just know anything so then at verse three what were we here entertain the first reading to the children of Wrath see the consequences of following the course of this world that earned us which we're only participants that earned us and justly so wrath so never what happens here were in this I'm in big school the tiredness gutsiness deaths that's not reading big you need to be over in in the school called Christ because Paul's gonna stay in Ephesians seven before their if you've learned Christ you need to be deities go call Christ you know so so he he delivers us from this program this school this education system and he puts us in Christ but doesn't mind change about everything immediately changes a few things but most things not what has to happen we got to be re-educated I got to start from scratch okay you know here a little there though I have expressed and I gotta go through all total revolutionary change in my thinking everything I believed everything I read about everything it's no wonder than the Paul when he starts the book of Ephesians but we're in Ephesians so by the time here in Ephesians you've already studied to the Romans that already studied your first assignment always tied to Galatians and he says here in Ephesians 1 I'm gonna go down in verse 15 of the one worth I also have to heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of all the saints here so on which you're obviously she's not to give thanks to me many of you of my career that the God our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory now that's in contrast with the Prince of the power of this world see the fatherhood he wants to give you some information we've been willingly taken on board information from the Prince of the power of the air because we were studying his course but the father Lord is not the father who authored this plan intending to glorify Christ and make us a part of that he wants to give us wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of him in Revelation in Africa the eyes or understanding being what okay think about that when he says the odds we understand being like what does that imply about the condition of the odds of our understanding before we're going to say Garten total darkness full of lies okay so as you follow through you followed your chaplain are moving one of these crises out there far above all heavens as an abiding Christ inequity be confessed which we come apart check the number two here's where you used to be you were in the power of Ganesha following of course this world sure McGrath don't dismiss but God who is rich in mercy for his great love only he loved us he talked about many places under Christ made us together mentally Christ in heaven places in Christ so that in the ages to come he can put on display his capacity to glorify Christ in the body of Christ and each successive Angie's going to do that each successive nation each new age is going to be two demarcated by God bringing some for else waiting for some new capacity to glorify Christ in the body of Christ that's amazing and then he reminds us that the second half of chapter number two he's doing all this dis Gentile circle without without the government was the family of God and then you see says generally what was this new cream he never told anyone about this it's brand-new information so he wants the information to empower us in the inner man that's the end of chapter 3 now so they should come to chapter number 4 he says manga I want you to walk worthy of this vocation what vocation that were members of the body of Christ going to be placed than that how many places to glorify Christ out there long valiant and the Statesmen state of that with them amen Soviet make itself what's he doing he's educating us he's reorienting he's equipping us to change our thinking and understanding about that ok and then he talked to us about the importance of the body of Christ functioning together as one by now having said all that verse 17 in chapter 4 now a good chapter for 17 was this this I say therefore and what you know whenever you see the word therefore one should be asked therefore therefore well this I say therefore won't work why because it based on everything I've talked to you in chapters 1 through this point the chapter 4 because of all that information do you know what was takes and really is about foundation Corinthians and Galatians come along and stabilize the information in Rome so now you've gone in the sense from from say first grade to say a tenth grade slow speed neither in the book of Ephesians and now you're 11th and 12th grade you're getting the Graduate School spiritually speaking okay just in terms of get a page process right so it says listen this I say in light of all that new information by all that new understanding there's a different way to walk now you see it Bert chapter 4:1 see the word block you say there walk worthy chapter 417 walk not chapter fibrous want to walk and let's see that see its progression here in order for our conduct our identity you know for us to be able to walk in this new round first of all of deliverance had to happen and it did happen but second a whole new education system has to happen in a vacation home the spiritual Amish thing has to happen and that's what's happening as we're studying through the region Paul's epistles it's designed to change the software okay has been punched in there so look at how he says it this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that since birth walked as other Gentiles walk well however they want they want it what's the next grave there okay what does that mean and the if they're like what's that mean yes and what we think the vanity it's it's empty but but what's it what's the basic of the work manatees is vain if something is named so if if something's empty what is it what's happening it's a vacuum so what's it doing it's nothing everything hands what happens right so that's one reason we did such a good job in the course of this world of because it was just put them bunch of hot air and it just kept sucking all the life already so that's how unsaved people base the conduct of their life but by the way your eyes you can be a safe person and not yet applied and then walk based upon the same information have you up before he got sent sure there were a person's demands effectiveness that's the possible issues don't do that if you don't understand the Word of God money divided and the near language the King James Bible you might be a same guy and you think you're Israel you're still walking to the battery of your life that's the problem and it's gonna wind up being would have stumbled at the judgment seat of Christ for saved person had Paul write these books so that that would not be the outcome what she I was immersed in God was to give us the information that Robbie you ruin it in the book for us but it says that that verse they're welcome other Gentiles walking the band the other line having me not understanding what by the time you get to Ephesians four if you read your Paul's epistles and if you're believing what you're reading is your understanding darkened let me ask the question again let's say you read the Romans and you're believing in grieving do Corinthians have believed agreed to Galatians lady it's this point in the book of Ephesians thing they're believing wasn't reading is your understanding darker it's not it's been enlightened at this point yeah he says have an understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them these verses clearly describe the predicament we used to be and but we are no longer so live like we used to be in darkness he says because of the blindness that there hardly being past feeling they have passed spiritual sensitivity being being passed the ability to have a conscience is based upon truth you've got a seared conscience a conscience is making fun of false information in your past okay he says who being passed on have given themselves over unto lasciviousness boy even if you don't know what that word means you probably want to stay away from before we're safe we gave herself to all that it's a few less to business to work all uncleanness with greediness have you heard brother preach on that birth my parents if your head yes you know he says but he says your flesh isn't all your flesh is a harm and it's toward all of the cleanest and then they end up with greediness now look at verse one but you have not so what's our next word in order for us to not walk like we're still and the live program according to verse 20 what is packed what has to happen learning learning has to happen education at that spiritual edification that has to happen the everywoman why Christianity as a whole is spiritually so weak and so confused they're not learning Christ when that person is learning Christ look look look at what Paul specifically means by that what he says if so be that you have heard what's he say first women if somebody's you've heard food and they've been taught by who I've read I read my Bible through many many times I've read Matthew Mark Luke and John many many times as have you I don't ever see a scripture that tells me Christ went to Ephesus and felt the Ephesians yes my bringing one up and that verse says right there is Sophie that ye have heard him and have been taught by him did the Lord Jesus Christ according to the written record of the word of God that he personally ever known in Ephesus to teach the Ephesians no yes he didn't well then this is not a mistake in your Bible how do you and I he requested Christ we come to the comfort of the coast conference yes you hear them through the water but on that specifically the Word of God by the way that the Ephesians Herr Preiss learned Christ was through your personal ministry and the written Ministry of the Apostle Paul that's how people hear him today that's what you hear him today okay so when he says that we're splitting the first point says but you have not so learned Christ that his Christ has taught by Paul faced racism initiative heard him and have been taught by him as guess where the truth is the truth is in Jesus as finished by the Apostle Paul no not the Jesus back here in Matthew Mark Luke and John the truth is in Jesus the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery see death and then watch them given the principle I won't go through this quickly because I want to get to point number three here's what the truth that's in Jesus has taught by Paul conveys as to how this works verse 22 that's you what now our first point to be and what and verse 24 there you got to put something off you have to be renewed somewhere and then you put something on together there's the principle now is that every challenge because they have a contractor in my house no interesting how the word of God not the word of God comes at this end you've learned price you've been taught by Christ through the course the Apostle Paul says ministry cost of all misery that she put off this way to thinking be renewed in the light of new information and put on weight we've all seen these verses have we not what are these verses that were a struggle for us yes see we still have the flesh and multiplaza Paul tells us that sinners rest of it it's condemned in the flesh but it's in the flesh okay it's in there with does we we live in the present evil world we're Satan as the god of this world so the whole force of this world keeps shouting it out and come back to me come back come back to me I'll give you meaning your purpose for your life our state was not really ready it really wasn't that thing you need you the leeks and the guns were pretty good back there we say the same thing he's well said when it came out of Egypt over the leeks and the garlic's in Egyptian you know I heard a guy already all the time you need to become a book my baby said wrong lessons are not an ageist that you know the blessings are not in the power of darkness that's right your muscles personal blessings in Christ so the principle is here put off be renewed well but what what he says look at verse 22 that you put off concerning the former what did we receive over tonight in Ephesians where where DC Network look at Ephesians two number verse two there was the course of this world verse three among whom also we all have our lot there it is again one of the reasons is so hard to put off that former conversations because we have too many good memories we found too much comfort in was it was a result and everybody's afraid of the other bumper self it's what we knew though experience for our friends not or one it's where we relate their suspect it's where we got our identity from some one reason is sorry but that stuff office because we it feels sort of familiar to our flesh we know it we experienced it and so on flesh lusteth it wants to go back there's looking for the feeling in the old feeling an event but the Word of God says that's that's enough we're homeless that's not who you are so take it and put that off and think differently based upon your identity that's not who you are anymore so so renewed in the spirit of your mind and then verse 24 it put on what to say there man that's what we are the Christ which after God is what's the word it's to create it created it by the way you realize you're not born again you're created it says which is created in what righteousness and through all this remember the verse with read in Chapter five of fruit Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth no wonder were three is this let's see what this looks like just in life sometimes we tend to make this a lot harder than it really is or needs to be sometimes we know this because someone says we just don't want to put other than okay this is the back to the other word is to come through the liver than the flashing okay but let's look at some examples of what this actually looks like in real life the first kind of life wherefore putting away what and stand do something different how come left to sit so put away line go man speak every man what truth with his neighbor why because because of this new I didn't workers were members of one no we're in the body of Christ so we're putting the way life what system teaches that no lies are okay you know it was the well maybe not all the time the system teaches that of course my programmers were today why did we lie because real life got easier with everything ok so why do we lie like one of the people who live and please somebody but but why a little further than that go deeper why do people who live people or white people my fear is why fear is the answer there if it's there's there's some kind of communication that is expected that doesn't come across the right way then it's going to be a consequence we don't want to get so when we lie out of fear either fear that we're gonna get smacked or a little fear not gonna be accepted or will fear rocket that job that transaction we like out of fear why do we fear we're afraid that somebody might really see us for them to really dog that's right concept area so we all talked about about how people go to masquerade parties what's the masquerade party you don't just don't maybe wear a mask why do that because you're liable to me to everybody asking you when you're doing that to go to a party like that because we're afraid where somebody really finds out who I am they may not love me they may not accept me so the essential issue of line has to do with the idea of fear self-preservation intention to gain something that we think we might not gain someone finds out who you really are so the essential issue of that is we're lying about our own identity but if you're living in have been had been taught by the course of darkness it's no wonder you lie all the time you live in fear because you're afraid it's those who you really are but in Christ who are we really who does god thing he saves us in the beloved that remember brother said was talking about except in the end of the beloved he's trespassing in a king of his dear son how would his God see you how does he see me he sees us in price don't we still do but we don't need to because we can go to the scripture of the scripture says listen here's - I was black and white house can then lost justly deserving condemnation and he saved me by His grace along to finish work for Christ the law I don't deserve it I'm not worried about will never be one day of it's done without questioning it worthy it's a question of the finished work of Christ perfect first in Jesus Christ and he flipped and maintained impressed that's what I would accept me God already has so wherefore putting away lying I don't need to think about myself like I used to do in the life where we have speak every man truth with his neighbor I can see myself as Who I am with my neighbor in Christ because I'm immersed when I'm gonna see the change that can occur he says verse 26 be angry and sin not let not the Sun go down upon your wrath and he seriously couple things in that person when he says be angry set up anger in itself is not a sin when designed to become a sin interactions is what's that when the react yes the reaction is what the terms will notice is see anchors design motivate you to do something and as the waiver you have to do something right but as an unbeliever since I've been taught the course of this world what are we using anger to do people very telling exactly people people get so angry so bad about most gates are small think about Jordans talking about even in the last five years you seem to just he was shift in our culture and I mean everyday if you want to don't do this this would be really depressing but every day one don't go read the news about some just just crazy action that someone doesn't just to go and kill someone just because there were a different gender and different color they just know just cuz they get up like up I mean anger that people experience out there but you can no wider than thinking that way they're in the power garters but that's how we usually think we would justify set itself even if it meant off you someone else listen be angry and sin not but not the Sun go down upon your out go go and deal with it okay because you can never because you have the proper information that stuff how to do not only with anger but whatever whatever was bringing up the anger he says neither give place verse 27 not a good place to give anything crazy you know that so so I continue lying I'm really not believing Who I am and if I that in my anger turn into wrath I'm actually giving place for Satan for working my thinking he says let in that stole steal no more rather let and labor working with his hand which is good at that and they have to give to anybody what's going on the network's what's the very first work and that so what's going on there it's a decision I'm making a choice right you look down the first when I let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth generally speaking people use that first to talk about the idea why shouldn't be cussing now they should be customer bank no but that purse really isn't speaking about the idea of using square waters you know that we shouldn't reason with you or that like and almost never says let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth well type of communication corrupts the labor instead of enterprises labor what type no not walk around all saying don't communicate the Word of God one invited that perhaps let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth rather that which is good to be severe by the grace message but that come out of our own okay and how do you learn as you study Roman strengthens place into pieces and all that you Paul's epistles right he says verse 30 and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God will by her seal and their nation in the context how do we grieve the whole spirit how do you do it yeah everything we're reading here decide them I'm gonna I'm gonna keep functioning based upon how I used to be in the power darkness instead of who I that's how you read the agreement your two hindering his operation that's what you're doing there's something in that verse though that I think is can be really encouraging and helpful and strengthening pluses frustrated and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God which means you could do it right we're alive you are sealed as long as you don't read it nope are you agreeing with you are you are you sealed one on the agreement yes let's run around the last few verses and what your own personal stake then just read the rest of ropes and you'll see what it looks like they have unity you know why you do this husbands do this don't do this pause this and so forth this is what it looks like in get our lives do you remember the passage in 1st Timothy 3 great the submission of godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified spirit next phrase they're seen as they're observing God manifesting life last better let's just wrap it up with these last two verses 31 he says bless there's that word again what what has to be true in order for its let see back to verse 28 left 29th less frustrated one that what has to occur yeah allow so therefore who said what choose joy free will did that get back to Genesis pretty low source he says they let watch this drove let all bitterness and anger and clamor and you doesn't get more intense okay evil speaking be put away from you and all those things you lieutenant you go from bitterness and so instead of putting another way you kind of let it fester then it grows to wrath and then now that develops to anger and clamor just a bunch of going along on your head and then evil speaking and now you got a malice and intention see how gross I know let that be good away from it the problem with the idea of letting me put away is you pretend to put it somewhere we can where we can find it easily just within reach forgive that person as long as I won't hardware but as long as and then we just make sure it's accessible I go back and doing but it really harms us instead verse 32 it better do things in verse 31 see that's the course of this world right the bitterness the wrath and anger he was speaking that's verse 13 and be what wait a minute if I minded that person first of all they don't deserve remember kids are walking there and isn't that far yell about what about he says and be kind one to another and then what's the next phrase they're tender-hearted tender-hearted what's tender a heart this tender to the need in the situation of the other person sometimes when you see a person just lashing out no it's not justifying the other person that's one today I wonder why that kind of functions that way what is it that happened in that guy's life it brought him to the place where he thinks that's the only way to feel secure by hurting someone else for example why do they think that I mean we know seriously guys because they're the power of darkness but it allows our hearts to be a little bit more tender to maybe reach out to that person maybe there's an opening you start gospel but he says tender hearted and incest forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath and what's it say there but no there's a couple of really good verses those incredible verses let me try to close with this nastiness I gave have we found personally in this duster and that closes down and so ordered the things that we read just from verse twenty 25 verse 32 have we found opportunities in our life to attempt to do any of this there was no one trust me okay how did it turn out okay so when I lose part on the other person in your part well okay well that's enough that's a good answer not answer me can we control the other person's response to what we did no no no whose response can control [Music] what's that seiga these verses don't say do these things with expectation that your opponent responds accordingly the persons don't say that he says no this is our new identity let's live this way leave the response on the part of the other person we go to the other person but we're in Christ now the the way that we set ourselves practically from the power of darkness right because that's the topic right that right is Severus for social nerves the way that we sever ourselves practically experiencing in our life this first recognize that we've been severed and actually because of the finished work of Christ and trust about Christ and then we get reeducate we go through this system of study God God's Word by divine it and then we make choices such as they simple choices of language business describes life situation is about angular situations without lying situations about helping other situations about harboring bitterness this is business of life right life is power Daniel's in the lives day life is our Shadrach Meshach and Abednego in the fire that's what it is reach depends I think we might think that oh then I'm going to study all this stuff and so did so the one day when I didn't get cast in the lion's den they don't let me serve Jesus there and you don't need to wait for the lion's den to do these things life right now is the opportunity this just make my day and if you mess up without pay and there's something happy and you hope they're bursting you memorize it first and like you only happen to it yeah it was a perfect updated I've long yeah so with the iconic because it's all just continue to grow and learn learn yeah Maurice has got a private example that we could spend over time today

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Length: 57min 56sec (3476 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018