Unclean Litter on Holy Highway | Dr. Gene Kim

isaiah chapter 35 please isaiah chapter 35 and we'll look at verse 8 isaiah chapter 35 and we'll read verse 8 the passage is a doctrine concerning about the millennial kingdom at the millennial kingdom the lord jesus christ will reign as king of kings and lord of lords and no one will be able to put him down at that day and at that day at the land of israel god says that it is going to be a pathway pure of holiness no sin allowed and nobody sick and nobody hurt it'll be pure perfection every abled body every perfect body a sinless state amen and how he describes it is as follows at verse 8 and then highway shall be there and away and in it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men though fools shall not air therein now this passage how i can see is spiritually applied to us is that the lord he's prepared you away and there are so many hymns that talks about on my way to heaven i'm going home to heaven and during this highway as we're walking along we've got to understand that there will be sometimes unclean things that hinder us from walking along our path spiritually growing but this is known as the way of holiness as you might notice in your verse in the way of holiness we've got to be determined as that book says the unclean the unclean shall not pass over it and i strongly believe the reason why there are so many things in your walk with jesus christ something's holding you back something is preventing you from spiritually growing but a lot of times we don't realize what it is and usually we look at our sins or our problems but i believe the number one thing we don't look at is the causes the causes sure we look at our sins and our problems but we don't look at the causes behind those things if we were to look at the causes behind those things then we would realize what's preventing us from walking along our path what's preventing us from walking along our path is because there was a cause a blockade to begin with something put it there whatever that unclean thing that's blocking along the holy highway to heaven you better get it out of the road it shall not pass the title of my sermon today is unclean litter on the holy highway let's pray god my father as we are driving along this holy highway to heaven i pray that any litter that be along this road that will be cleared out by the precious blood of the lamb that you'll give us victory that you'll fill within me the power of your holy spirit forgive me of my iniquities and use this vessel this broken vessel to keep giving you glory and honor as you have used this broken vessel so many times over and over again do it again father in jesus name we pray amen my first point we're going to keep looking at this main text over here first point at verse 8 is any and in highway shall be there and the way and it shall be called the way of holiness so that's what i want to concentrate is the first part of that text is that you'll notice over here that it is a highway that is going to be there and this way is going to be the way of holiness so if it is called the way of holiness and the highway shall be there we've got to realize that we got to understand the highway we're walking upon is holy ground we think that this body is our own our lives are our own the path we're walking along this highway that we're going to heading toward is our own we take life normally but first corinthians chapter 6 verse 19 says what knowing not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you which ye have of god and ye are not your own you see so many christians do not open their eyes and see that there these certain things are holding back our spiritual progress a lot of times we would say well i can't come to church that day well i can't do silt winning that time lord when the when there was a person you given to me father i couldn't read my bible and pray that time and but you got to understand this is that a lot of times when we say these things we don't realize that it could be worldliness that's the reason why that prevented us from doing the spiritual thing it could be the sin itself that's holding us back from doing the spiritual thing or it could be discouragement itself or busyness either or it could be any of those things that those are the reasons why you have not been spiritually growing in the lord and that's the reason why god hasn't been answering your prayers that's the reason why the trials in your life have not been improving and that's the reason why you don't feel like there's true joy in your christian walk or you would feel that when you're trying to spiritually accomplishing accomplish something for the lord you're struggling or you feel like it's still small it's not enough and the main reason why is simple is because you're not seeing that hey this is the problem i got to stop making excuses and justify my actions and reasons and remain ignorant and blind and i got to realize why i'm not reading my bible why i'm not praying why i'm not coming to church why i'm not spiritually growing it's because of these things these things why aren't so let's start off with your current situation let's go backwards if we go backwards maybe we can open our eyes a bit and see the actual problem let's start off with your current life do you really feel like the lord has given you the joy that you wanted can you honestly say that you've been seeing god answering your prayers can you honestly say that the trials you're going through you're seeing improvement that you're maturing out of it that you're getting better at it let's look at your spiritual work you're doing for the lord do you feel like you're still struggling do you feel like man is still so small well let's go backwards then if you still if you have these problems let's go backwards then then i wonder if it's worldliness then is it because you're still tied to the world what is it your property your work your school life is it possession is it fame you want to receive more recognition a higher promotion a higher salary to transfer to a better school and better opportunity to win public adoration from your friends around you in your school place in your job around your neighborhood is a worldliness is it worldliness or let's be more plain about it let's is it your sin maybe that's why sin because you wasted so much time in these sinful things that you're still messing around with and you don't see how much time it has chunked out of you it has sucked the energy and the joy out of you it kept putting guilty conscience after guilty conscience in you could it be because of busyness then because everyone especially when you're in california or new york we all run around like chickens with their heads cut off that's the time and day and age we live in you go to the south they're so laid back you know so pretty much they got nothing to do so they can go to church no please forgive me all right if you're in the south don't get angry don't unsubscribe please i love you all but the thing is this is that in the big cities that we live in that's the tendency is always busy busy busy busy and i understand that myself because i was full-time school and full-time pastoring a church and then trying to make ways meet so i understand that busyness is the number one excuse but busyness could that be the reason why that you know that your bible reading your prayer and your spiritual conditions have not been improving and maybe that's the reason why you don't feel like you've gotten the joy of the lord maybe that's the reason why your prayers haven't been getting answered maybe it's because it's just discouragement maybe because of discouragement that's why you feel like that the spiritual accomplishment that you've done is still so small you beat yourself down and you say man when i compare myself with some brothers and sisters in this room or to the pastor i feel like there's a long way to go and and you get so discouraged and then every time you spiritually accomplish something for the lord you don't get happy about it you don't take joy in it you're not patient in it and you know what you got to realize that is from the devil the devil is the one that put the discouragement in you that's not conviction from the holy spirit good that's probably the reason why you feel like your spiritual labor is small and you're still struggling a lot of times i felt that way too i beat myself up over the head and saying lord what did i do wrong why isn't my church growing what did i do wrong and you got to realize that when your spiritual labor feels such a hassle a struggle and so small that's just plainly the cause is discouragement and that is from the devil and that is not sent from god it's usually those small things that the lord does great things does he not so what is it i hope that your eyes are starting to open up a little bit and you're starting to see the causes now the causes to why the lord has not been giving you the true joy that you wanted you're still attached to some worldly environment friends family members you're still attached to the sin that you're struggling with to that screen to the drinking to the music to whatever it is discouragement you always think negative thoughts you don't take joy in what the lord is going to lose out of it or the lord's trying to teach you patience it's busyness you let the things that happen with family workplace marriage or even new sudden things that just randomly come out of nowhere and fall upon your lap to make you more busy you let these things prevent you you need to check carefully the causes that made you fall and you need to open your eyes so sometimes we have to look more carefully at the causes now okay we see that worldliness or sin or discouragement or busyness is what's preventing us from spiritually growing but now let's look even deeper now let's even look back even further all right let's go back even further why did you fall into the trend of busyness again why did you fall into discouragement again why did you fall into worldliness or sin again why could it be the feelings of your flesh maybe the flesh just memorized how busy it was and it was like a robot procedure so that it just tends to go by that type of schedule is it the feelings of your flesh because maybe that's why you fell into sin again because it just i mean it just feels good and you need it it just feels right and you hear so many garbage music going around about feeling good feeling good what your heart desires what your heart wants and that's wickedness it's because of the feeling of your flesh it feels great when you have a nice home worldliness when you have nice property when your family's all in order and you have enough money to take care of your children's future your own security and then plans for your retirement etc it feels great is it the feelings of your flesh the flesh tends to be discouraged more than encouraged so if the flesh feels bad you're tired you had a bad day the flesh will tend to feel discouraged that's why discouragement sees so could it be the feelings of your flesh let's look at probably another instance maybe it's because of the people you hang around with the people you hang around with if everybody in your work environment or in your school environment for example are so preoccupied with their work or their studies you tend to follow along with them if they tend not to come to church you tend to follow along with them and maybe that's why busyness took over it's because of the people that you hang around with maybe because that's why you fall into worldliness and sin again why because you just feel weird with the people that you love and hang around with they look at you funny they look at you here and that's the reason why you have the tendency to fall into the worldliness or the sin again people you hang around with because they always say you know why do you have such a small church you know that spiritual thing that you've done is not as great compared to what i did for the lord the people you hang around with that's what causes you discouragement i know it did for me because i sometimes believe it or not some bible-believing pastors when i hang around them i get that discouraged by from them it happens it happens maybe let's look at another example maybe it's because you don't recall what the bible said first maybe you wouldn't have fell into that worldliness or that sin again if you just before you looked at it at the advertisement on television or something wrong and dirty on the freeway billboard that maybe if you quoted a bible verse then you wouldn't have felt for that worldly attraction that the tv advertisement gave to you so that you can buy it by it so that you can want it or that you can fall into that sin again due to the dirty billboard maybe if you quoted a bible verse first maybe it's because you didn't recall a by what the bible says and that's why you fell into worldliness and sin again maybe that's the reason why you fell into discouragement again because you didn't recall what the bible told you you didn't recall the preaching everyone forgets the preaching you go amen that's a good sermon and you forget when you don't put that into practice and that's why you fell into discouragement again busyness you didn't quote a bible verse you don't recall the preaching that could have helped you on that one i mean i actually preached the sermon uh twice uh very busy and very dizzy actually i preached that twice because it helped me a lot in my life concerning busyness perhaps uh it's because of self-attention and pride maybe that's the deeper cause and the reason maybe that's another instance why you fell into worldliness and sin again is because you want something that pleases you you want people to pay attention to you and if people don't pay attention to you then there must be something wrong with them and that's the reason why sin stirs up within you again and you get bitter and mad when mom and dad tell you not to do that or when pastor preaches against that kind of topic why because self-attention and pride and you want to keep your wilderness you want to keep your sin self-attention and pride that's why you're discouraged why because you want to think about me me poor me you don't want to think about there are so many people who are suffering worse than you because it gets the attention off of you so you take great pride in yourself and that's why you constantly get discouraged that's why you that's another reason why you could be busy as well that's another reason why you could fall into sin again maybe another reason why is because you don't observe your outward actions you don't observe we don't pay attention to how we talk or we react but you ever notice that if someone video recorded you then you get so embarrassed and you go why did i say that why did i act that way so if god were to show you that video recording at the judgment seat of christ of when you fell into worldliness and sin and discouragement busyness etc the times where you're not spiritually progressing you skipped and you failed your bible reading your prayer your soul winning and etc if you saw that on video then perhaps you would change your attitude your heart your feelings and the way you talk and act and behave around other people you probably changed that wouldn't you but you don't you don't see that all you see is yourself your own world but if you actually saw the outside you how you look discouraged or how you feel bible reading and prayer how you fell into sin again you know what you would do you would just beat up you and say stop doing that and just go to church amen why did you say that why did you behave that way why are you so selfish and prideful why are you so mean why are you so discouraged why are you so beaten down why don't you serve god maybe that's the deeper cause is because you don't observe your outward actions but if you were to observe your outward actions on television that would change did this sermon help you a little bit more to see the causes now the causes and to realize that you're truly an holy instrument and what these causes are embarrassing your holy vessel here my second point is found on the next part of verse 8 the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the way faring men that's the thing is that that's the powerful verse the unclean the unclean shall not pass you need to look at all of these sinful problems or even if they're not considered sinful if they prevented your spiritual growth it is considered simple you need to see all these sinful areas and you need to tell that unclean thing you will not pass this highway but you let it pass you let it pass into your highway and that's why it prevented you from walking from progressing on the highway to heaven as i mentioned before your worldliness or your sin it could be that could be one of the causes that could be one of the problems to why you're not spiritually growing in the lord but let's be more specific now and let's compare them with the deeper issues i mean what is the worldliness and the sin that you're struggling with what is it that you're drinking what is it that you're smoking what is the drug that you're still taking do you still have these gambling issues do you still go out to the casinos is it are you infatuated with your television with your computer games with the internet your social networks the cell phone the worldly conversations that you have something that's sensual and dirty and wrong is it your worldly music that you're struggling with again those times that you listen it to your car that no one's listening the things that you look up in your cell phone and mess around with that no one is looking is it because of the worldly dressing that you're still struggling with the worldliness and the sin is it other sinful addictions addictions addictions are the sinful things that you're addicted to that you cannot get victory and then you say i tried pastor i try to get victory but you're not looking at the causes is it because of the feelings of your flesh because you let your flesh feel the way it feels and that's why you fell into the worldliness in the city is it because of the people that you hang around with look you hang around people who drink you hang around who keep messing up with games people who uh dress sensually or appear or accentually towards you no wonder you still mess around with the worldliness or the sin is it the people that you hang around with is it because you don't recall what the bible told you what the preaching told you what the bible teaching told you or what you read from the scriptures or the memory verse that you're supposed to memorize that's why you fell into sin like i told you before you try sinning after you quote a verse you quote a verse with god speaking to you well i i'll still mess up in sin again well you might but i'll tell you what you'll have a hard time it'll be a little blockade it'll be at least a little prevention maybe it's because you're just full of self-attention and pride you don't think about other people you don't think about other people maybe because you don't observe your outward actions i mean try video okay if you're gonna sin and mess up video record yourself sinning all right video record yourself sitting and then after that why don't you watch that then let's see you try to commit sin again after that see you don't observe your outward behavior if you watch yourself sitting on tv you'd be so embarrassed and you probably never want to do it again but when you're sinning you're not looking at yourself how you behave how you act you only look at your own virtual fanta fantasy world of sin and how it would feel good and taste good and hear good or it may not be sin it's just worldliness and you justify and say okay pastor calls it worldly that people think it's whirling but you know it's just a normal part of life but look at yourself outside that box and see yourself observe your behavior in action and probably you get under conviction and change what is it that uh that is attached to this world that is blind in you and preventing you from spiritually growing it's your nice house right is it trying to get more money is it the nice area that you live in that or that you desire and dream a nice car is it clothes makeup fun things in life social things in life fun things in this world what is it the things of this world is that's what preventing you from spiritually growing and how did you get those worldly things to begin with huh because how your flesh felt right that was a deeper cause it's because of the people you hung around with right and they influenced you it's because you didn't recall what the bible told you right what the preacher preached it's because you are all thinking about yourself self pride me me me me me or it's because you don't even observe how your outward your outward actions in the eyes of others you're not seeing how you behave discouragement and depression always happens and it could be because of the issues with your health some of you have painful struggles with your health and man when the flesh hurts it really hurts but you got to realize this that's the cause it's from the feeling of your flesh and the feeling of the flesh is what's preventing you from spiritually growing and that's what causes you to get depressed and discouraged again money issues when you're jobless or when you're not making enough money or you're struggling to make ends meet or you're paying all your debts and you're still in debt and you want to get out of debt why you get easily discouraged and depressed well what could that be could that have been caused by because of the people you hung around with or self-attention and pride maybe if you recall what the bible said first you would not have gotten discouraged depressed easily right over your money issues over being jobless over your debts i mean when you look at your bills you just keep quoting my god shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory by christ jesus you keep telling yourself and reminding yourself what the bible says does not our god own a cattle on a thousand hills didn't create all of creation so what isn't can he take care of a little you this small little life of yours that would have cured your discouragement and depression during money issues maybe you're discouraged and depressed because of loneliness and i knew what that was like i knew what it was like to uh study hard at berkeley staying away from the worldly friends i did not get involved with the world of friends over there because i was afraid that once i befriended somebody then i get sucked in so i stayed away from that and when i pastored a church i started out with two people no way nowhere near my age and our demographics and our lifestyles is totally different nothing we can have in common but i had uh so i understand the discouragement and depression you know what kept me going i had to recall what the bible said i had to recall all of god's promises i had to tell myself this is a feeling of the flesh and you can't let how your flesh feels get the best of me i can't let the people that i look around me influence my thinking look at them how they're hanging around with people why can't i have that so the people you hang around with make a big difference i couldn't have self-attention and pride i can't think about me me me what kept me going to not quit the ministry to face through loneliness think about souls dying and burning in hell that got me out of self-attention and i had to look at my outward actions always being depressed always being miserable and if i looked at myself in a mirror i'm like saying gene put some life in you that would solve your discouragement depression during loneliness maybe it's suffering i don't know what you're suffering maybe you lost somebody close in your life whatever you're suffering though that discouragement that depression may have been cured if you saw the original cost to begin with perhaps you didn't recall what the bible told you perhaps it's because of the people you hang around with who seem to have better lives than you and they don't seem to be suffering perhaps it's because how your flesh feels it feels painful it feels miserable so it wants to stay that way you get discouraged and depressed because you lack spiritual results and that happens you know if you don't feel like that you led a lot of soul salvation or somebody left your church again or perhaps that you try to work with somebody and that person you know just fell away and you don't seem to be accomplishing a lot for the lord and that's why you get easily discouraged and depressed but again are those from the feelings of your flesh is it because you're having so much pride and attention to yourself rather than so many thousands in china and muslim countries who are suffering worse than you are who have smaller spiritual results than you are yet they're standing strong for jesus christ so many other ministries who are struggling and have smaller amounts of people than you do you know what kept me going hey uh some of you may not know this but what kept me going as pastoring here in california was thinking about pastor steve andrus not a big church but he's been here much longer than i am three times longer than i am all right but look he still hold the four so i would i told myself all by myself with two people look man i mean he can all afford i should do much better come on and i did it thinking about the missionary to japan brigham when he was working there more full-time talking about that he only passed out two tracks within 20 minutes in a busy japanese subway that kept me going you get ridiculed by sinners and fellow christians and that's why you get discouraged and depressed and for me that was a huge thing because i'm a pastor whom everybody knows online so public will watch me not only that the bible believing preachers will know about me and they really discourage me because of my uh because of my status being single and a young age it's more easy to find problems with me it's easy it's more easy to find criticisms against me and then i let ridicule by sinners and fellow christians discourage me and depress me but i had to recall what the bible said i have to recall what god says and i have to say look it's what god says not what man says so you keep doing the ministry what god told you to do and don't care what other people think when people leave the church or when more people unsubscribe online post a negative comment that i was unloving and i shouldn't have said it that way and sure there are times because i have a compassion and care for people i doubt myself don't you know i still doubt myself i go maybe i could have changed it this way i could have said it that way i didn't have to teach it at that time but i had to tell myself look what matter was what god said not what you said and you got to trust god amen you get tired and tiredness really prevents us from serving the lord from spiritually progressing why do we get tired because of suffering when we suffer we tend to be more tired and we don't get motivated to come out soul winning because of busyness you think that after a long day of work that you feel so motivated to now it's time to read the bible it's time to pray we get so tired because of why we don't take good care of our health you don't exercise properly you don't have a good diet amen because you get locked up in home and that's why because of those things you get more tired easily and you lack sleep so that's why we get tired because basically why do we get tired of reading the bible praying and soul winning because we just have no desire that happens let's be honest don't be so spiritual now how dare you pastor no no no no you hypocrite okay i know there was a time in your life that you just plainly had no desire you plainly had no desire to read the bible and say why do i have to read the bible you had no desire to come to church today don't be so pious now all right you didn't want to come to church today you want me to be honest with you i didn't want to come to church today i didn't want to preach to you today i want to get away you know good preaching all right i'm being honest with you all right oh sunday again wednesday again but you know what that is you know that's why that's why we all get tired why plainly because of no desire all right i don't do that every sunday and every wednesday all right don't feel bad all right i love seeing you all i can't wait to fellowship i can't wait to sing there are times i just love preaching and i love teaching all right but there are those moments that the flesh comes out and you do too okay you do too okay [Music] especially when you go on a long drive you get tired long drives especially becomes tired but why do you get tired and that's and during these specific instances well because why don't you have no desire and you become tired because of suffering you get tired busyness you get tired you don't take care of your health you become tired that's because feelings of the flesh that was the original cause your flesh didn't feel that way so that's why you took poor care of your health that's the reason why you had no desire to begin with it's because of the people you hung around with people you hung around with you get tired or you get so much self-attention and pride or you didn't recall what the bible told you or you didn't observe your outward action if you saw how depressed and tired and always tired always tired you look you would probably say man just drink some coffee and get some life in you busyness is another reason why we don't spiritually grow and it's due to our job we become busy school we become busy or other things we become preoccupied it could be the children you just had a newborn baby you get so preoccupied or you're preoccupied with your family or you're preoccupied because some kind of bad instance has happened in your life and busyness happens and we let these things prevent us from spiritually growing because we didn't see the original cause what caused you to become busy to begin with and you let it catch up to you you didn't look at your outward action if you did you would have been more careful because that's how your flesh felt it was addicted and prone to that busy phase so you let your flesh just feel your fleshly feeling get the bene best of you it's because all you thought about yourself thought about me me me a critical spirit happens and why does a critical spirit prevent a church from growing your own life from growing it could be specific instances that a critical spirit comes out of just being nitpicky finding problems here and there because of so much knowledge of the bible and that tends to become a critical spirit a pastor said something wrong over here brother and sister in christ said something wrong over there so let me correct them etc it's because of pure legalism you know you're just so pharisaical you think you're so spiritual and holy and then the brother and sister in christ did not dress as well like you did do not behave and act spiritually like you did legalism just complaining just complaining oh you know why are we stuck over here you know oh why are we ended up i mean outside's too hot there were five cockroaches that we've counted three weeks ago and this is a rundown building and i mean why can't we have it better you know pastor could have done a better schedule you know when you're a kid you say the games are not fun i mean it's just so boring and dull you know oh i wish i had so many more people around my age and people around my culture my background to fellowship with and that critical spirit happens that's why you can't spiritually grow but why does why does that critical spirit come out because of self-attention and pride you don't think about others didn't you know fellowship becomes much more sweeter when you think about others it feels better too it feels better when you start to think about others more than yourself yeah and the evidence is where you saw it at summer camp and at the blowout you thought that you were in heaven because you were nitpicky you were trying to find fights you weren't being legalistic you just loved each other yeah just thought about others maybe because you didn't observe your outward action if you self-recorded yourself every time that you gave a complaint you would just slap yourself and say won't you shut up man if you were my child i'd slap you one day you would do that when you have kids and they're going to be a reflection of yourself and you hate that so you're going to slap them even more and you're going to go don't become that way things that waste time that's a big thing i there's one thing i hate is wasting time but there are things that waste time which prevents you from spiritually growing and you know what they are you spend too much time on okay that's all i'll say right those things happen and you spend so much endless uh minutes to hours on it the conversations that you have with people when you could have cut the time shorter and that wastes your time your work and your school situation is what wastes your time and maybe that's what the reason why the lord wants you to go to a different school pick a different major pick a different job and situation and some of you people did that because you know that it would waste your time serving god sleeping waste time didn't you know that sleeping waste time sleeping waste time fun time you have your oh i need my rest time i need my fun time but it wastes your time these fun times perhaps because you just have lack of time management you're just bad at it and you need to work on it you need to write those notes down you need to write out a schedule but why do these things happen though why do i end up wasting time because how your flesh fell your flesh does not want to write down a schedule it does not want to manage time your flesh is prone to just touch this a little more because it's a pretty little button you want to amp up another level you want to go to the next stage at the video game you want to throw in a cool comment you want to see the likes okay how many likes did i get how many views did i get because of the people that you hang around with because of self-attention and pride what you want well i love this job i love this school so i want to keep it that way and i wasted your time from serving god impatience and a bad spirit prevents you from spiritually growing in the lord didn't you know you can get impatient you can get a bad spirit that happens during suffering that's why bitterness comes out that's why anger comes out when you're sm when you're accomplishing small things you're not seeing progress in your work you're not seeing progress in your marriage like progress in your family and your children or the prayer requests that you pray for a long time and there's no progress the ministry that you're working in or because of eagerness you want to accomplish something big and then when you don't accomplish the big thing for the lord you just say lord why you blame god because why you just have an impatience and a bad spirit about it but why did these things happen uh the original causes how your flesh felt it's just flesh you let the flesh get the best of you you didn't recall what the word of god told you about patience how god uses small things because of the people you hang around with you see them growing bigger doing better things life without much suffering compared to you that's why you get impatience in a bad spirit this brings out to my final point the bible says at the final part of verse 8 though fools shall not air therein this is encouraging this verse shows that even though you're a fool you're not going to air you're not going to fall away romans 14 4 says who art thou that judges another man's servant to his own master he standeth or falleth yea he shall be hold him up holding up for god is able to make him stand that should encourage you that no matter how much of a fool you are in making mistakes over and over again look i make it you make it you're still gonna make it but guess what you guarantee you'll never go wrong when you're determined to look at these original causes the original litter that's in your highway feelings of the flesh people you hang around with the times you didn't recall what the bible told you self-attention and pride when you didn't observe your outward actions when you have the determination i want to get rid of these things get this litter off of my holy highway guess what yeah you'll make mistakes but you will see vast improvement vast improvement i want to get victory over my sin and temptation you can't until you look at the original cause behind it you're not looking at the original cause first proverbs chapter 29 verse 1 says he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be be destroyed and that without remedy that verse is very scary is that see you're hardening your neck despite of often being reproved why because you think that this is normal i think i'll be fine for the lord pastor i all these things that you pointed out okay sure but i think i'm doing fine as i am i mean it's not like that i uh stopped attending church stop my bible reading and prayer permanently not like i'm committing some drastic sin it's not some sin that's going to affect some other people it's just my little fleshly thing i sometimes get into here and there i think i'll be fine for the lord i don't think i have to go that deep like you said i don't think i have to conquer these original causes as much it's not that much too bad because the reason why is faster is it's gonna feel a little bit too much strain to what i already have that's good i'm already strained with what i have already so it's just a little too much but that kind of weakness and indifference is what gave you the hurt of the litter to begin with did it not why didn't you spiritually grow why did all these problems happen busyness worldliness sin things of this world discouragement depression why did all those things happen to begin with because of that indifference of yours that like toleration of yours it's fine it's fine it's fine but you don't realize you're dying right now you're not all fine that's good if you're dying you're hurt and you need to get rid of that cause otherwise you're still gonna keep going on with the trial that you're struggling with the unanswered prayer requests and the true joy that is not really felt you'll still remain that way hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 through 2 says wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking unto jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of god you know the verse encouraged you to lay aside your sin your sinful cause and look unto jesus and endure and just to head forward you know what i'm asking you from this sermon today i'm actually not asking you to dedicate yourself to do a huge cleanup where i'm gonna okay i give up the sin 100 i'm gonna faithfully attend church so winning everything 100 no i'm not asking you to do that in this message you know what i'm asking you to do i'm simply asking you to not get rid of that sin or that problem but the cause behind it all that's all i'm asking you to do just get rid of the cause behind it like did you let your flesh felt the way you wanted to feel is it because of the people you hang around with was that your influence was it because you didn't recall what the bible said first before you did it is it is there that self-attention and pride in you or it's because you don't observe your outward actions how you're talking and behaving if you simply dedicated those things to the lord i guarantee you this is that you will see progression those sinful things and those problems will fade away more and more but if you can't dedicate yourself even those small things then guess what how are you going to dedicate yourself to conquer your problems and sins never it shows that you probably didn't even dedicate yourself anything for the lord then if you dedicate yourself just on these causes then trust me the dedication will grow even more what will you dedicate to the lord what litter is on this highway right now that you will say to the litter you shall not pass every head bow and every i shut the altar call is open if the lord laid upon your heart feel free to come forward on this altar's floor and to look at the cause it's not the sin it's not the problem all right some of you have repented about that all uh on the altar that sin in that problem like the thousandth time i'm not even asking you to do that it's the cause the cause dedicate yourself the lord to the lord today on the cause tell the lord that lord before i fall into the same problem the same habit and the same sin again i will recall the preaching the word of god the teaching the memory verse what is said before i even do it lord god it's the people that i've hung around with i promise lord that i'm gonna distance myself from them i'm gonna distance myself i wanna be more abstract i'm gonna stay away a little bit more i'm gonna hang around a little bit more with the people in this church that's what i need father that will help me be spiritually motivated help me to hang around the people lord i'm not going to go by how my flesh feels i'm going to remember that i'm going to remember it's because my flesh feels this way and i can't let it take over my in a compulsive way lord i realized that i wasn't thinking about other people i wasn't thinking about so many other people who are in need who are unhurt and that's the reason why i had a critical spirit that's the reason why i got discouraged and had a self-pity party lord i'm going to start observing my outward action i'm going to view myself as if i'm watching myself on tv and see myself as look man just get up out of that problem how embarrassing that is come on get out of there what is your cause that has become the litter on your holy highway whatever that unclean litter is on the holy highway tell that letter you will not pass when the feelings of the flesh come up say you shall not when people you hang around with come to join you on your highway you tell them you shall not pass when self-attention and pride starts to come into your holy highway you say you shall not pass when you're not observing your outward actions and neglect of that you're not looking at yourself on how you behave and act tell that litter you're not going to pass over this line get out of here i am going to observe my action i'm going to look at myself when a failure and neglect and pure ignorance of the bible comes up where you don't recall what the bible told you first before you did something and that starts to come into your highway again tell that thing you will not pass i will remember i will quote the verse i will remember the preacher i will look at it on a billboard i will write it down on a piece of paper post it on my refrigerator on my screen on my driving wheel on the mirror in my bedroom by my father i pray that whatever unclean litter is in our holy highway that it will be kicked out of there heavenly father these are the main causes on why we have fallen so many times and i pray that we'll get victory over it so that we can do great things for you see our lives spiritually progress and if our lives spiritually progress hence we can see finally the answer to prayers taste what true joy is in our lives in the lord to see your mighty hand at work in jesus name i pray amen

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Published: Sun Oct 25 2020