Emotional Intelligence: Redeemed from the Control of Your Emotions

we've been talking about emotional intelligence for the last several I guess a couple months I've been on this topic of emotional intelligence and and and and really just like you have an intelligence quotient there's an emotional quotient there's like you have an IQ you have an EQ an emotional quotient so to speak I don't know how to measure it other than by the things that I'm sharing with you and sharing with those that are joining us online as well is is that when you when you when you learn how to how to how to name how to how to frame how to name and how to tame your emotions then you really have what what I would call emotional intelligence when you know when you know how to frame what's happening in your soul you know how to name what's happening in your soul and then you're able to tame what's happening in your soul that really is what emotional intelligence is all about and it's really like when I think of Adam and Eve the in Genesis chapter 3 verse 7 he says the eyes of both of them were opened after they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings so they were they were naked and they felt shame because they were they were no longer experiencing the presence of God and when you don't experience when you're not experiencing the presence of God you feel naked you feel bare like they didn't have they didn't have any clothes on prior to their sin and so what changed is not what they were wearing but what change was whose presence they were in so sin separated them from the presence of God and what I've learned and what I noticed is what we like we when we say I'm redeemed from the curse we say we believe were redeemed from the curse of sickness we believe were redeemed from the curse of poverty we believe were redeemed from the curse of sin but we we don't realize that were redeemed from the curse of being emotionally ruled people this is also something were redeemed from we're redeemed from from being overtaken by our emotions and this is what emotional intelligence is it's it's being able to to have emotions it's being able to express emotions but have but have a harness on them and have control of them and if you if you think about anything in life but a relationship your health your your dreams your desires the goals you have in life everything is driven by the degree of how you can control your emotions like in a relationship you're in any relationship there going to be tension there's going to be tension there's going to be there's going to be things that happen that that go against your expectations and go against your what you what you were hoping for and how you process and how you handle those emotions are what determines the quality of your life the quality of your life is not determined by what happens to you but the quality of your life is determined by how you respond and how you relate to what happens to you right and so what we see as soon as Adam and Eve sin and realize they were naked and they were ashamed they immediately went into this emotional emotionally ruled lifestyle like God created us to be ruled by his presence and ruled by love and you know the Bible says all the commands are fulfilled in love right love is the is the is the highest and the greatest and when you're when you truly understand God's love for you that's when you can love others and that's when you can be loving and that's when you can that's when you can truly impact other people with your life but but the the highest thing that should be governing our lives is not our emotions should not be ruling our life like I'm so mad I could do this and I'm so depressed and I'm so sad and I'm so angry and I'm so this and I'm so discouraged about this and our emotions begin to overpower us and oppress us and control our lives and it all started in the garden and so if I can just kind of unfold how this controlled them we can then dismantle it and reverse it and truly elevate our emotional intelligence because life is life is lived we live in an emotional world we live on in emotions and we have them and they're not something that we should try to get rid of there's something we should try to enjoy and employ and not have them controlling us you with me so so now in verse eight so they hear the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of God among the trees of the garden and the Lord God called to the man and said where are you and he said I heard where are you and he said I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid again Jesus remember I remember I shared on Sunday Jesus asks the man at the pool do you do you want to get well and the guy goes well I have no man to put me in like Jesus asked a yes-or-no question do you want to be well and the man goes into this this explanation of telling his story where did that start it started right here with Adam and Eve like this is where it this is where we started shifting the blame and this is where mankind started to stop directly answering God and started to tell their story and justify and rationalize their behavior and he said God says where are you a simple question where are you three words where are you and the answer is uh well we saw we heard this and the Lord God walking oh he I heard the sound of you in the garden I was afraid because I was naked so I hid myself and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you to eat and the man said the woman wrong answer though so God says who told you God says who told you that you were naked and Adam says the woman but he's not even answering the direct question the direct question is who told you you were naked the woman didn't tell Adam he was naked but he's not answering the question he's blaming somebody okay so it's the first thing he does I want you to see the first thing Adam and Eve does do after they sinned after they've eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil the curse that is on their life now is that they they're irresponsible they don't take responsibility for their life they blame others so he says the woman the woman who you gave me the woman what does he say exactly he says the woman the woman I heard the sound of you and he said - who told you you were naked and the man said the woman who you gave to be with me she gave me from the tree and I ate like look at the layers of blame in this verse the woman number one is one layer who you gave - you gave her to me like that's another layer of blame like this guy is immediately fallen now you can see how fallen he is like he was made in the image of God but he's not acting at all like that now he's no longer in the image of God you do understand right that man is no longer Adam has just changed his nature Adam has just become Adam has taken on the nature of Satan at this at this point in his life Adam and Eve has have taken on the nature of Satan they have become children they have become sons of darkness they have literally given Satan authority in the earth because they were given authority by God and then Adam and Eve ended up giving the authority to Satan by listening to him and submitting to him and of course Jesus comes hallelujah Jesus comes and takes the authority back but pays for it in his blood so Jesus didn't just come - he didn't just come to just wash us of our sins he came to take back the keys of hell and death he came to take back the keys the authority of life the authority of the universe he took it back from Satan Satan doesn't rule this world anymore he's the god of this world system but he is not your God your God has given you authority and you have the power over your life over your soul over your choices over your emotions over how you react and respond to - to how you're treated at work or how you're treated at home or how you're treated by a family member on the holidays or how you're treated you know how you respond to to whatever life throws at you like you like we're masters of life we're not mastered by life we're the masters of life we have to wake up to the reality of of who we are like you you no longer sit around and have pity parties when you understand the kind of authority that you wield with your tongue and with your with your words with your with your prayers with your faith with your love like the authority we get to walk in the power we get to walk in is all the power that Adam and Eve walked in before they sinned what Adam what Adam became is what we were born has but what but what Adam was before he sinned is what we're born again as do you follow what I'm saying what with what what what we became we are what Adam was like we went we are born as the seed of Adam we are born as sinners we are born as blamers we are born as dumbs we are born as as people who have a chip on our shoulder from the moment we come out of the womb we're whining like think about it you don't have no baby comes out of the womb rejoicing happy full of light you know full of like a good attitude like he's crying bleeding angry hungry demanding feisty and you're attached to them you got to cut that thing like Adam we have like we have to grab ahold if I know this is you might be thinking like come on pastor are we ever gonna get out of Genesis like yeah I guess but you gotta go you gotta you gotta see how far man has had fallen so that you can appreciate how high God has raised you up in Christ like we have been like the the kind of the quality of life that Adam and Eve lived before they sinned was they ruled the earth they they were masters of the earth they had dominion he God said be fruitful and multiply fill the earth subdue the earth and ruled the earth Adam and Eve named all the animals Adam and Eve had complete authority over everything and he said God told them in Genesis in Genesis one over every creeping thing you have authority over everything that creeps every creeping thing and here comes the creep the devil himself the creepiest of the creeps he comes creeping in the form of a serpent and Adam and Eve had total authority to kick him out of the garden or to kill him or to tame him or to do whatever they had to do they had authority they were masters over all of creation they had command over all of creation they acquiesced that they abdicated their authority but they had it they abdicated abdicated their responsibility but they had the authority to drive the devil out of the garden all they had to do was say hey get out of here you don't belong here and you don't get to be in our garden you go out over there in the field we're not letting you in here you we are in charge of you but what what they did was they they they held a conversation with the enemy and therefore they eventually he won the conversation he won the argument they God didn't call us to talk with the enemy he called us to talk to the enemy he gave us authority to talk to resist the devil and he will flee from you don't have a conversation with him resist him firm in your faith see when Jesus came into the earth and he was tempted in the wilderness this was this was the redemption of Adam and Eve that when they gave in to Satan in the in the garden Jesus is he redeems it when he's in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights and he's resisting the devil the very thing that Adam and Eve should have done Jesus does and then he gives us the authority to do it because how does Jesus do it Jesus doesn't resist the devil by by showing the devil that he's God Jesus resists the devil by speaking the Word of God to the devil it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God it is written it is written it is said it is written every time Satan comes Jesus responds with the Word of God now then after Satan leaves and he left the Bible says he left Jesus for a more opportune time which he never got until the moment that Jesus died on the cross Satan thought he had him but you know Jesus pulled a switcheroo on the devil right Jesus like had the God had the head first current first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 says had the verse 7 says had the rulers of this world known what they were doing they would have never crucified the Lord of glory the Lord of glory that's our that's our Savior the Lord of glory that's our Savior had they know what they were doing they would have never crucified him but because they said you know remember that Jesus tells the story of the of the vineyard owner and I think it's Luke chapter 20 or Matthew 20 it's one of those he tells the story of the vineyard owner and he said he sent out his his workers to to go and check out how the guys that were renting the the field how they were doing and the Bible says that the people that were on this man's property tending the field attending the vineyard they beat whoever the vineyard owner sent then they they attacked whoever they sent and then and then finally and then they killed some of them and then finally he sends his son to go and check on the field and they kill the son thinking they killed the son and they say let's kill the son and the inheritance will be ours Jesus tells the story because it's the picture of how of what Satan thought he said bike he thought by killing the son the inheritance of the earth would be his the inheritance of the world would be his but by killing the son he actually gave birth by killing the son it gave birth to many sons by killing the son it created a multiplication of sons and daughter this is the beautiful this is the beauty of scripture when the vine girl when the vine growers saw they reasoned among their let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours guess what happened when they killed the heir the inheritance became ours man if we get a hold of this we can understand where the heirs it's our inheritance and we have the power over our emotions and over our lives and over and oh man let me tell you something you just begin to walk in freedom and you walk in peace and you walk in in joy and you walk in in laughter and you're smiling like Christians should be the one smiling more than anybody on this on this planet we've got the Holy Spirit we've got the promises of God we've we're going to heaven when we die the worst that could ever happen to us is we die and go to heaven that's the that's the that's the worst thing that can happen to any of us my god we have it so good we have it so so good and so so everything that when we're born we are born into everything that Adam became but when we're born again we are born into everything Adam lost and we have to think like that like we have to think we have to start living like we're in charge like we're in charge like I'm in charge of my choices I'm in charge of my life I'm in charge and as I started to share on Sunday we'll pick this up on Sunday but that the idea that that somebody else has control over your life that's oppression and that's what Satan is he's an oppressor and he wants to rob you of your power to control your own life and God wants to give you the power to control your own life like God doesn't that God doesn't even want to control our lives God's not a controller he he put Adam and Eve in this garden he said you guys hey do it take it multiply tend the garden enjoy each other enjoy the fruit eat from any of the trees eat freely eat all you want by the way that one in the middle don't eat from that one there's a tag on that don't remove the tag you know like the mattress that you're not supposed to remove the tag on the mat don't eat from that one cuz you know who knows what do you get arrested if you remove the tags or the mattress I guess I don't know but if you eat from that tree like lip you're gonna die don't eat from that one you're gonna die and I believe in I believe in the God I believe in a yes God not a no God there's way more yeses than there are noes and the fact is is that if you fill up on the yeses that God says yes to you'll lose your appetite for the knows that God says no to it's not about us being so strong that we can resist the devil it's about us being it's not about us being so strong that we can resist temptation it's about us being so full that we can't eat another bite that's really the Christian life the Christian life he said jesus said the thief comes to steal kill and destroy but I have come that you would have life and have it in abundance to the full till it overflows that kind of life is not what's modeled among Christianity what's modeled in Christianity is a defeated life what's modeled in so much of Christianity is a we're out of control like only God is in control we don't even know like the angels and the devils and let me tell you something about the Angels by the way because we because angels showed up after Jesus after after Jesus was tempted in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights and the angels came and strengthened him but let me tell you what the Angels didn't do what the Angels didn't do is the Angels didn't resist the devil the Angels didn't stop the devil the Angels didn't overcome the devil Jesus and your angels don't stop the devil your angels don't stop the sickness your angels don't stop fear your angels don't stop any of that you stop it then your angels come and they sort of rearrange stuff in as you speak the word the Bible says the Angels carry out the voice of God's Word they carry out the voice of God's Word so when you're speaking God's Word you are giving your angels an assignment to carry out and you're you they they're in the unemployment line until you start giving them something to do so well we get a hold of this kind of authority we start mastering our feelings and our emotions and like the first place to exercise this god-given Authority is over yourself the first place we exercise our authority is not over the devil the first place we exercise our authority is not over things the first place we --over we exercise our authority should be over our attitudes our emotions this is what I'm talking about when I talk about emotional intelligence it's like this is the first thing to get control of look we are trying to control everything else in life my god we could get ahold of this we try to control we try to control people we try to control we try to control our situation we try to control the weather we try to control we try we try to control the temperature we try to control and not that you can't you know turn the thermostat up that's another that's another example and for another time but we we we are control freaks as human beings because of one thing because of the because it we're always compensating for something we feel inside so when we lack self-control we we accentuate our need to control other things and people and the environment and our circumstances when really Jesus slept in the middle of the storm because he had self-control he had supernatural peace he slept in the midst of the storm he he didn't need the storm to stop for him to have peace he had peace inside he had mastery of himself so now then what when they woke him and they're like master don't you care that we're perishing he's like he was sleeping like he's he would have been no different than you and somebody wakes you up here you're like upset right somebody wakes you up you're you've fallen asleep like like it's hot like it as we get older sometimes it's a little harder I'm just I'm not prophesying to anybody but for me I've had a little harder time sleeping so as soon as I fall asleep if somebody wakes me up I'm I'm ticked like I just finally fought fell asleep you know Romans comes running into my room dad I gotta talk to you dad dude man come on wake up I'm knock you out boy not good this is bad timing bro so Jesus is like like he's okay whoa they're like don't you care they wake them they shake them they wake up don't you care we're perishing and Jesus is like whoa okay where's your faith guys well oh ye of little faith okay just move aside for a moment oversight for a moment peace be still and this and the storm stopped and the wind ceased and the waves he's you know stopped and there was caught and there was a great call the Bible says there was a great calm on the outside because there was a great calm on his insides you see this is what I'm talking about like we have got to get calm inside and you're not moved by all the activity of everybody else being stressed out and you don't like you're not so touchy when you've got this mastery over yourself and this is what Adam and Eve this is what they gave up this is what they this is what they lost this is what they sacrificed this is what they lost control they lost control of themselves of themselves they no longer are governed by the Spirit of God and by the relationship with God now they're governed by their sense of smell their sense of touch they're governed by this by their feelings and their emotions and they're completely controlled by them so much so that the first two kids they have are Cain and Abel and let's look there real quick now the man had Genesis chapter 4 verse 1 now the man had relations with his wife Eve and if you're not sure what that means that he had relations with his wife Eve look at what happened next she conceived and gave birth to Cain so they were getting down as you as you all know and as you can all read and she conceived and gave birth to Cain said god I have God has given me a man-child or I've gotten a man-child with the help of the Lord and again she gave birth to his brother Abel and Abel was to keep her flocks and he just gets right to it like gods like I want you to see how fast what Adam and Eve did how fast it destroyed mankind I want you to see how quick the devastation was he gets right to it Abel's the keeper Cain's the keeper of tiller of the ground Abel's the keeper of the flock so it comes to pass in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground Abel on his part brought of the firstlings of the flock and of the fat portions and the Lord respected Abel and his offering but for Cain his offering he had no respect or no regard so watch this so Cain became very angry and his countenance fell now what I want you to see is that there's there's there's a lot here that is happening but what I want to point out is this deteriorate deterioration deterioration can anybody and enunciate that can anybody nothing a nun nun she ate that the deterioration I don't know why I can't say like it sounds like Ida like guy it sounds like I had a couple shots before I got here like the deterioration the deterioration of the imagination the deterioration all right he looked look at look at look he says now Kane became angry now look at I want you to see where the anger came from this is gonna really help you it says it says for Abel God was pleased he respected the word is pleased God was pleased with Abel's offering but God was not pleased with Cain's offering now listen to me really really important point this is how God reverses it in our lives like once we're born again we now our emotions flow from the same fountain that that that their emotions flowed from our emotions flow from our connection with God so our emotions flow from how we feel about what God thinks so when you feel that when you feel that God's not pleased with you this is this is what happens now fear fear comes in and then anger which leads to to hatred rejection low self-worth and retaliation this is the downward spiral of Cain's emotions that we see that we see unfold he gets afraid he gets angry he gets depressed he gets painful he gets ready feel rejected he feels low self-worth and he feels like his only way of compensating for how he feels is to eliminate the threat in his life and the threat is coming from the threat he doesn't deal with the threat inside of him he deals with what he projects the threat out onto under his brother like it's really you you're the problem so if I get rid of you then I won't be compared to you anymore and I won't be the one that doesn't that doesn't please God so this is what I'm trying to get across to you is that I believe with all my heart that Christians they they don't mature because they are constantly trying to obtain this this this moving target of pleasing God like you got to really please God like your action like your life isn't really pleasing to God like you haven't you haven't prayed enough so you're not pleasing to God you haven't done enough so you're not pleasing to God you haven't you know you haven't given enough so you're not pleasing to God you haven't you haven't you haven't been holy enough so you're not pleasing to God and and it's this moving target like at what point is God pleased with you like if you win somebody to the Lord should you've won two people to the Lord if you want two people to the Lord should you've won four people to the Lord like at what point is God pleased with you and this is the whole essence of Christianity and the whole essence of our soul and what Jesus came to redeem us from was being ruled by fear and being ruled by the displeasure of God feeling that we have that we have fallen short of pleasing and fallen short of glorifying God that's why that's why the only requirement the only necessary ingredient that that is required for us to be pleasing to God is to simply believe it's to simply believe him like what pleases God is that you take him at his word that's why it says in Hebrews chapter 11 verse five and six it says now without faith it is impossible to please God without faith it's impossible to please God for he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is the reward of those who seek Him like and by the way those who seek Him doesn't mean like again we ascribe meaning to words that that they don't really mean like okay so those that seek Him so if I prayed for an hour it was I seeking Him enough like at what point do you seek Him enough just like at what point do you love him enough that God causes all things to work together for good to those that love him and are called according to his purpose at what point do you love him enough for all things to work together for good I believe that loving God means believing in his love for you that at the moment you believe his love for you you love him you are not you are the moment you accept his unconditional love you are now committing the act of loving God you are committing the act of loving God the moment you believe the love he has for you and and in the same way the moment you put your faith in Jesus as your only source of salvation is the very moment you are seeking God you are seeking God the moment because at what otherwise it's like we have all these different measurements of okay who's really actually seeking God like what's the pastor do when he's not preaching by the way is he really seeking God like what does he do cuz you know he only preaches for you know well sometimes it goes a little longer than others but he's he sees should be is he spending all of his time seeking uh is he spending enough time seeking God like we ask ourselves this and this is what religion has done in religion has taken the Bible and has ascribed meanings that were never meant to be ascribed to seek Him means that we forsake all other forms of what we're putting our trust in God is a rewarder none of those who pray enough to qualify for seeking Him but God is the reward of those that look to him as their source that's what seeking God is I I look to him on the cross as the only source of my salvation I look to him and the stripes on his back is the only source of my healing I look to him as becoming a curse for me is the only source of my Redemption I'm redeemed from the curse because he was crucified I'm forgiven because his blood was shed I'm healed by His stripes like that's seeking God it is it is it is it is refusing to look to any other source than Jesus as the only source of my Redemption you see that's what seeking God is and that takes the religion out of it that takes the gosh am i doing it enough you see do you see so without faith it's impossible to please God so when when Cain getting back to the emotion affects our emotions when Cain comes to the realization or he doesn't even get come to the realization but we see the story plays out his offering is not pleasing to God and and the reason that his offering is not pleasing to God is because the only way to satisfy a perfect God in an imperfect sinful world is through the exchange of blood so Abel brings the he brings the firstlings of the flock and blood is shed and God is pleased Cain brings effort the work of his hands and God is not pleased because no matter what you do in your effort it will never be enough to be pleasing to God so the moment that you put faith in the blood you are pleasing to God and when you put your faith in anything else you're out of sync with that pleasure because it pleased it says in Isaiah 53 it pleased him it pleased God to crucify Jesus it pleased him that Jesus would suffer it pleased God it doesn't mean like he was happy about it it means that it it earned his it earned his pleasure and his favor and earned his it earned his favor toward us God was pleased God was satisfied the price was the the price of sin was compensated for and therefore God is pleased now when you live your life knowing that God is pleased with you your emotions become stable your emotions become healthy you're not compensating you're not you're not compensating for for this lack of approval this lack of of feeling sure like when you're not confident in Jesus we're not confident before God you can't even pray and-and-and-and-and and be sure that you receive like your faith doesn't work when you're not confident that God is pleased and so we we have been trained and brainwashed by religion that God is displeased if you cuss God is displeased the case like we're all screwed and and you might be that you might be the cleanest talker but these are not the things that that God derives pleasure from like a person who never gets angry or never gets mad or never never lusts or never stumbles that's not that's not what determines God's pleasure what determines God God's pleasure is that you have put the whole weight of your confidence the whole weight of your trust the whole weight of your salvation the whole weight of your relationship with God is is put completely on the back of Jesus and you have no you have no works of your hands to try to earn God's approval now we should have works of our hands but not to earn God's approval but because we're so grateful that we have his approval that we want to do works for his glory like I want to do things for the glory of I want to I want to spread the gospel I want to feed the poor I want to help the hungry I want to you know help widows and orphans and and people I want to get drinking water to people that don't have it I want to get the gospel to people that haven't heard it I want to get healing to people that are sick I want to I want to get deliverance to people that are addicted like I want to do that because I know that God loves people enough that he has paid for that and he's given us the tools and he's given us the he's given us the equipment that we need to see people set free and we should want that but nothing we do earns God's pleasure because what gives him all the what gives him glory is when you realize he's pleased to offer up his son maybe somebody can find that verse where it says in Isaiah that it that he that that he was pleased to sacrifice his son or something like that something along those line but that I want you to know why that's so important to God is because there it is Isaiah 53 verse 10 but the Lord was pleased to crush him putting him to grief so he would render himself as a guilt offering this is like fifteen hundred years or a thousand years before Jesus even showed up God had prophesied that this was going to happen and how beautiful that this passage of Scripture predicting the the way Jesus would be would suffer and it would please God so the Lord was pleased to crush him why because now the price of Adam's sin has been paid and the price of all of our sin has been paid and we now can rest in knowing that God's justice has been satisfied God is pleased with us because our faith is in him in Jesus and we're approved and out of out of the awareness of our approval our emotional health flows out of disapproval unhealth emotional sickness flows out of disapproval emotional health flows out of his approval and the moment you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord you have God's full approval that doesn't mean he approves of everything you do he doesn't approve of everything I do but I have his approval in my life in my soul in my heart he's never gonna be mad at me he's never gonna hold my the things that he wouldn't approve of my behaviors that he wouldn't approve of he will never hold against me then you get a hold of that your emotions start becoming healthy and restored and repaired and balanced and you're not using people to get approval and you're not needing people to give you likes on Instagram or Facebook for you to feel good about yourself and you're you don't need somebody's attention to give you a sense of regard and respect and value of yourself you you feel Worth and you feel value because God approves of you that that Jesus didn't die for trash he died for treasure he's not stupid he doesn't he wouldn't die for trash you weren't trash and then he turned you into a treasure you were treasure because all humanity is a treasure to God they're just broken we're just broken and he comes and restores us and heals us and and draws and and recreates our spirit but he loves our soul so much he loves you he loves the personality of you so much that he doesn't he doesn't tamper with destroying that and giving you a new one he restores that and renews it that should tell you something about what God thinks about your soul what he thinks about you as a human being is he adores you he loves your personality he loves the fact that you that you're kind of you know that you laughed certain things and that you are affected by certain things and that you like certain types of movies you like certain types of food like God is he loves that he doesn't need you to sacrifice that he needs you to believe he sacrificed for you to enjoy your life as a child of God trusting him and letting his spirit walk operate through you in the fruit of the Spirit because your eating of the fruit of the Spirit therefore you therefore you give off the fruit of the Spirit to others like we can eat of love God's love we can eat if God's joy we can eat of God's peace we can eat all this and freely and we can live like this we can live healthy balanced lives full of emotional well-being and and when something happen over react to things we don't we don't snap at people we don't we don't try to take out our brother cuz cuz we don't feel approval but he looks like he's getting approval so I'm gonna and I'm gonna kill him and and folks he didn't need him you know he didn't need a weapon to do it I don't know if he strangled them I don't know if he hit him with a rock I don't know what he did I don't know if he had a Fred Flintstone kind of gun thing like you know I don't know if he had a bow and arrow I don't know buddy but he but he killed this guy and 25 percent of the world's population was killed in one day think about that that would be equal to today that would be equal to 2 billion people being wiped out in an instant one in one one fell swoop 25 percent of the world's population because there's only four people in the world that we know of at that time and one of them has killed this is how dark man had gotten and all because they didn't all because they they that he didn't have God's approval through blood but we have the blood of Jesus and we have God's approval now and we can calm our nerves and we can walk in peace and we can walk in confidence and we can stand before God without guilt without shame you know why I stand before God without shame it's not because I've never done anything shameful we all have I stand before God without shame because he because he washed it away because his blood is greater than my shame his blood is greater than my actions his blood is greater than his blood speaks still the blood of Cain still speaks hebrews chapter eleven says the blood of King or the blood of Abel still speaks the blood of Abel still speaks so if the blood of Abel still speaks how much more does the blood of Jesus still speak saying to you saying not guilty saying shame off of you not shame on you shame off of you that's what the blood of Jesus has done and this is where we get our approval and this is where balanced emotions begin to emerge and anger subsides because you're not you don't need to take out your your you don't need to compensate for your disapproval you have his approval all right let's stand together we're done we had a little quiet quiet night quiet time with God this was our quiet time with the Lord right and it was beautiful it was beautiful in his sight and I want you to I want you to go home thinking about it pleased him to crush Jesus so you don't need to live crushed anymore you don't need to live crushed under the dealings of disapproval and the feelings of of shame and the feelings of guilt and the feelings that you're not enough Jesus took it all paid for it all and now all we need to do is recognize and embrace his approval and how do we obtain it by faith by faith in what Jesus did for us we're approved say I'm approved by faith in the blood of Jesus God is pleased with me through Christ therefore I have his full approval and I am redeemed from disapproval I am redeemed from fear I am redeemed from rejection I am redeemed from having to compensate for disapproval in my life I God has God is satisfied with me therefore I'm satisfied with me in Jesus name Amen amen god bless you guys I love you guys thanks for being here have a beautiful rest of your week and bring some of the church with you Sunday their life will never be the same thanks for coming out Wednesday night have a beautiful beautiful rest of your evening god bless you guys thanks for watching online everybody

Channel: Gregory Dickow

Views: 6,070

Rating: 4.8876405 out of 5

Keywords: gregory dickow, emotional intellegence, christian motivation, christian inspiration, prayers for emotional healing

Id: IDHa_5t2Ne8

Length: 51min 25sec (3085 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2019