1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker: Romans eight, verse 12 is where we're starting. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:05,130 All right. 3 00:00:05,130 --> 00:00:06,090 We've been in Romans eight. 4 00:00:06,090 --> 00:00:10,230 We've talked a lot about the Holy Spirit and, and, and not, and 5 00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:12,840 all this stuff and, and what it's like to not have the Holy Spirit. 6 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:16,710 And, um, something that we've talked a lot about in Romans right, is. 7 00:00:17,025 --> 00:00:19,815 We've talked about the kind of the legal side of being saved, right? 8 00:00:19,815 --> 00:00:21,735 Being justified, being made righteous. 9 00:00:21,735 --> 00:00:21,915 Right? 10 00:00:21,915 --> 00:00:25,395 You, your guilt is gone and, and we think of like a courtroom, right? 11 00:00:25,395 --> 00:00:28,965 Maybe you think of like a courtroom, you're guilty, but then, um, if you 12 00:00:28,965 --> 00:00:32,115 trust Jesus, you can be declared not just innocent, but righteous. 13 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:32,235 Right? 14 00:00:32,235 --> 00:00:35,115 We talk a lot about that side of being saved, but something that 15 00:00:35,115 --> 00:00:36,915 we're talking about with the Holy Spirit is we're talking about 16 00:00:36,915 --> 00:00:39,165 the relational side as well of. 17 00:00:39,925 --> 00:00:42,535 Loving God and being a Christian, what that looks like. 18 00:00:42,535 --> 00:00:48,055 And so what we're gonna see today is that the Holy Spirit is the only way. 19 00:00:48,085 --> 00:00:52,075 Having the Holy Spirit and living under the influence of the Holy Spirit is the 20 00:00:52,075 --> 00:00:54,595 only way that you can be close with God. 21 00:00:54,925 --> 00:00:57,205 So maybe you, you think of times and you think of like, oh, at 22 00:00:57,205 --> 00:00:58,855 camp I felt really close to God. 23 00:00:59,215 --> 00:01:01,435 Or maybe you think, oh, there's this time in my life where 24 00:01:01,435 --> 00:01:02,755 I felt really close to God. 25 00:01:02,755 --> 00:01:04,735 Or you think of certain people, you're like, oh, it seems like 26 00:01:04,735 --> 00:01:05,905 they're really close to God. 27 00:01:06,445 --> 00:01:08,365 What we're gonna learn today is that the Holy Spirit. 28 00:01:09,225 --> 00:01:14,475 Is the only person, the only way that can, you can have a 29 00:01:14,475 --> 00:01:15,585 close relationship with God. 30 00:01:15,585 --> 00:01:18,210 It has to be through the Holy Spirit. 31 00:01:19,545 --> 00:01:22,305 And in fact, if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you can't. 32 00:01:22,365 --> 00:01:25,695 You can't, and we saw that in Romans eight last week. 33 00:01:25,695 --> 00:01:25,965 Even. 34 00:01:25,965 --> 00:01:28,755 So, if you're looking at Romans eight, look at verses seven and eight. 35 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:32,715 Before we get to our passage tonight, look at verses seven and eight of Romans eight. 36 00:01:32,775 --> 00:01:33,225 All right? 37 00:01:33,225 --> 00:01:35,925 It says, the mind that is set on the flesh, right? 38 00:01:35,925 --> 00:01:38,715 Someone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit, someone who is opposing 39 00:01:38,715 --> 00:01:41,505 God, that person is hostile to God. 40 00:01:41,625 --> 00:01:42,675 They're God's enemy. 41 00:01:43,065 --> 00:01:45,405 They're not just, there's no neutral people. 42 00:01:45,645 --> 00:01:46,245 You're either. 43 00:01:46,575 --> 00:01:49,125 On God's team or you're against God, right? 44 00:01:49,125 --> 00:01:49,465 That's what we learned. 45 00:01:50,085 --> 00:01:54,104 Last week, that the person who's, who's living for themselves, who's trying to be 46 00:01:54,164 --> 00:01:58,514 independent from God, they're hostile to God because they don't follow God's law. 47 00:01:58,604 --> 00:02:01,664 And it's not just they don't want to, it's that they can't, they're unable to. 48 00:02:01,725 --> 00:02:03,074 We talked about this last week too, right? 49 00:02:03,074 --> 00:02:07,155 You can't obey God unless you have the Holy Spirit, and in case you're 50 00:02:07,155 --> 00:02:09,285 wondering if that's true or not, you've got verse eight right here. 51 00:02:09,685 --> 00:02:11,695 If you're in the flesh for someone who doesn't have the Holy 52 00:02:11,695 --> 00:02:13,855 Spirit, you cannot please God. 53 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:16,855 Nothing you do doesn't matter how many times you, you know, help 54 00:02:16,855 --> 00:02:17,994 your grandma across the street. 55 00:02:17,994 --> 00:02:21,024 Doesn't matter how many nice compliments you give people, it doesn't matter how 56 00:02:21,024 --> 00:02:25,165 many times you read your Bible, you cannot do anything pleasing to God. 57 00:02:25,765 --> 00:02:27,595 God doesn't look at you and say, oh, awesome. 58 00:02:27,595 --> 00:02:28,255 That's so great. 59 00:02:28,644 --> 00:02:30,684 Unless you're doing something. 60 00:02:31,545 --> 00:02:32,835 With the Holy Spirit. 61 00:02:33,165 --> 00:02:37,095 That's the, so our main point is that the Holy Spirit enables closeness with God. 62 00:02:37,095 --> 00:02:39,195 This is kinda the big idea, not the first point, but the 63 00:02:39,195 --> 00:02:40,515 big idea for the whole sermon. 64 00:02:40,695 --> 00:02:45,795 If, if whole sermon in one sentence, the Holy Spirit enables closeness with God, if 65 00:02:45,795 --> 00:02:49,335 the only way you can be close with God is through the Holy Spirit, if you try to be 66 00:02:49,335 --> 00:02:53,625 close with God by doing things apart from the Holy Spirit, then you can't do it. 67 00:02:53,630 --> 00:02:58,725 You, you might as well give up because you can't draw close to God. 68 00:02:58,905 --> 00:02:59,505 Doesn't matter. 69 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:00,645 You know how. 70 00:03:01,065 --> 00:03:01,515 Great. 71 00:03:01,515 --> 00:03:06,825 Your camp Worship time was, it doesn't matter how much you know about the Bible, 72 00:03:06,825 --> 00:03:08,265 it doesn't matter who your parents are. 73 00:03:08,505 --> 00:03:11,145 The Holy Spirit is the one that brings closeness with God. 74 00:03:11,565 --> 00:03:14,025 Not, you know, great worship music. 75 00:03:14,265 --> 00:03:18,045 Not a lot of Bible knowledge, not doing good things. 76 00:03:18,045 --> 00:03:18,375 Okay. 77 00:03:19,005 --> 00:03:21,735 And maybe you've never thought about this before, but one of 78 00:03:21,735 --> 00:03:23,715 the reasons that Christians. 79 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,790 Don't wanna sin isn't just because we wanna follow God's rules. 80 00:03:26,790 --> 00:03:29,880 It's not just because we, we know, oh, those things are bad. 81 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,549 But one of the reasons, one of the main reasons actually, that Christians don't 82 00:03:32,549 --> 00:03:37,619 wanna sin is because sin actually is the opposite of being close with God. 83 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,609 Sin is interrupting that closeness with God, even as a Christian, if you're a 84 00:03:41,609 --> 00:03:45,420 Christian and you sin, you're interrupting some of your closeness with God, right? 85 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:47,100 Because you're opposing the Holy Spirit. 86 00:03:48,119 --> 00:03:50,939 The Bible says that sometimes when you're sinning, you're grieving the Holy Spirit. 87 00:03:50,939 --> 00:03:53,670 You're making him really sad, which by the way, holy Spirit's a person, right? 88 00:03:53,670 --> 00:03:54,660 We talked about this last week too. 89 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,579 We wanna use his preferred pronouns, right? 90 00:03:56,579 --> 00:03:58,920 We don't wanna say it, we wanna say him, and he, right? 91 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:00,960 Not it or that. 92 00:04:01,109 --> 00:04:04,739 So anyway, um, but sin interrupts closeness with God. 93 00:04:04,739 --> 00:04:09,420 So actually one of the reasons that we fight sin as Christians. 94 00:04:09,734 --> 00:04:14,085 Is because we wanna be close with God and the Holy Spirit is the 95 00:04:14,085 --> 00:04:15,825 way you do that as a Christian. 96 00:04:16,005 --> 00:04:22,125 The Holy Spirit is the um, reason you can even get rid of any sin in your life. 97 00:04:22,125 --> 00:04:27,075 So our first point tonight is kill sin by the Spirit. 98 00:04:28,245 --> 00:04:30,375 The Holy Spirit is the one who enables you to kill sin. 99 00:04:31,155 --> 00:04:34,755 He's the one who gives you the ability and even the desire 100 00:04:35,235 --> 00:04:37,304 to do anything about your sin. 101 00:04:40,799 --> 00:04:43,169 Now, something really interesting that we're gonna see in our verse 102 00:04:43,230 --> 00:04:45,600 is that killings, sin actually doesn't start with things you do. 103 00:04:46,169 --> 00:04:48,000 It starts with who you are. 104 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,909 So look at verse 12 in Romans eight, okay? 105 00:04:50,909 --> 00:04:52,710 Romans eight, verse 12. 106 00:04:53,010 --> 00:04:55,830 So we just talked about how the Holy Spirit, um, he lives 107 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:57,270 in you if you're a Christian. 108 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,360 And then he says this, so then brothers, right? 109 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,700 He's talking to his, his, his church family, right? 110 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:03,960 You ever hear that phrase, church, family. 111 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:04,740 This is what Paul's doing. 112 00:05:04,919 --> 00:05:06,809 He's like, you guys are my relatives, you're my brothers. 113 00:05:06,809 --> 00:05:07,080 We're. 114 00:05:07,515 --> 00:05:08,265 Debtors. 115 00:05:08,265 --> 00:05:10,725 So debtor is someone who like owes someone money, right? 116 00:05:10,725 --> 00:05:12,015 Someone who's in debt, they're a debtor. 117 00:05:12,585 --> 00:05:14,684 Um, he says, we're debtors not to the flesh. 118 00:05:14,684 --> 00:05:17,205 So we're not, we don't owe the flesh anything. 119 00:05:17,355 --> 00:05:20,085 You don't owe your old sinful self. 120 00:05:20,115 --> 00:05:21,554 If you're a Christian, you don't owe 'em anything. 121 00:05:21,554 --> 00:05:24,255 You have no obligation to sin anymore. 122 00:05:24,345 --> 00:05:24,914 You don't have to. 123 00:05:26,085 --> 00:05:27,855 To live according to the flesh, right? 124 00:05:27,975 --> 00:05:29,175 You don't have to do it anymore. 125 00:05:29,175 --> 00:05:30,225 And why is that? 126 00:05:30,315 --> 00:05:33,615 Well, remember what we learned the past couple weeks in Romans eight. 127 00:05:33,975 --> 00:05:36,585 You have been transformed. 128 00:05:36,585 --> 00:05:38,715 If you're a Christian, if you have the Holy Spirit, you're different now. 129 00:05:39,315 --> 00:05:41,355 It's not just that you do different things. 130 00:05:41,625 --> 00:05:43,034 You have been changed. 131 00:05:43,034 --> 00:05:45,315 You've gone from a flesh person to a spirit person. 132 00:05:45,375 --> 00:05:50,505 Remember that You've gone from a person who's in the flesh, who's opposed to 133 00:05:50,505 --> 00:05:55,365 God, who doesn't have the Holy Spirit to someone who now has the Holy Spirit who. 134 00:05:55,830 --> 00:05:56,580 Loves God. 135 00:05:56,580 --> 00:05:57,960 You're a different person now. 136 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,590 Not just you do different things, not just you had new habits, not just you. 137 00:06:01,710 --> 00:06:03,060 You learned some more facts. 138 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:06,510 You became a different person when you became a Christian. 139 00:06:06,930 --> 00:06:09,120 If you don't see that evidence in your life, we talked 140 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,140 about this last week, right? 141 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:13,770 Then maybe you should ask, do I even have the Holy Spirit? 142 00:06:14,580 --> 00:06:16,800 'cause the Holy Spirit is gonna make a big difference in your life, right? 143 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,310 He's God. 144 00:06:17,370 --> 00:06:19,650 So if God's in your life, he's gonna make a big difference. 145 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:23,550 And so the first reason that. 146 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,250 We kill sin is because of who we are. 147 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:29,819 You have no obligation to your old self anymore. 148 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,789 You don't have to do the things you used to do anymore. 149 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:33,179 Right? 150 00:06:33,179 --> 00:06:36,929 It's almost like, um, when you think about, oh, if you, if 151 00:06:36,929 --> 00:06:39,058 you owe someone money, right? 152 00:06:39,058 --> 00:06:42,030 You, you on a sense have to do what they say, right? 153 00:06:42,030 --> 00:06:45,630 I, I was, um, watching this video the other day and, and this guy, he 154 00:06:45,630 --> 00:06:48,390 accidentally, like, they were playing a video game and he accidentally hurt 155 00:06:48,390 --> 00:06:51,179 someone and he was like, you know what, because I hurt you, I feel bad, 156 00:06:51,179 --> 00:06:52,345 so I'm gonna do whatever you say. 157 00:06:53,069 --> 00:06:54,689 For the rest of this episode. 158 00:06:55,470 --> 00:06:57,270 And so whatever the guy told them, he's like, all right, 159 00:06:57,270 --> 00:06:58,558 we're gonna go build this castle. 160 00:06:58,558 --> 00:07:00,780 We're gonna go over here and attack these people. 161 00:07:00,780 --> 00:07:03,240 He was like, I have to do it 'cause I'm in your debt, right? 162 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,319 I owe you stuff. 163 00:07:04,829 --> 00:07:08,010 If you're a Christian, you don't owe your old self anything. 164 00:07:08,039 --> 00:07:09,000 You don't have to sin anymore. 165 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,120 You have no, you don't never earn a situation where you 166 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,439 say, I just have to sin. 167 00:07:14,069 --> 00:07:14,699 I have. 168 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:15,960 I just had to be anxious. 169 00:07:16,409 --> 00:07:17,640 I just had to be angry. 170 00:07:18,090 --> 00:07:19,559 I just had to watch that. 171 00:07:19,620 --> 00:07:20,574 I just had to feel that. 172 00:07:21,284 --> 00:07:22,365 I just had to be impatient. 173 00:07:22,365 --> 00:07:22,995 They're so annoying. 174 00:07:22,995 --> 00:07:23,595 I just had to do that. 175 00:07:24,074 --> 00:07:27,105 If you're a Christian, you never have to do that. 176 00:07:27,465 --> 00:07:29,115 You have no obligation to do that anymore. 177 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:29,625 You're free. 178 00:07:30,044 --> 00:07:30,794 You're not in debt. 179 00:07:31,335 --> 00:07:31,814 You're free. 180 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:33,975 You don't have to worry about it anymore, and that's because 181 00:07:34,034 --> 00:07:35,895 who you are has changed. 182 00:07:35,895 --> 00:07:38,715 That's really important that you start there, right? 183 00:07:38,715 --> 00:07:41,145 Because as a Christian, there's times where you feel like, 184 00:07:41,145 --> 00:07:42,794 man, I just can't stop sinning. 185 00:07:43,470 --> 00:07:46,230 There's times where you feel that like, man, I just, I just 186 00:07:46,230 --> 00:07:47,909 keep having these thoughts. 187 00:07:47,970 --> 00:07:49,590 I just keep having these desires. 188 00:07:49,590 --> 00:07:51,990 I just feel like the words just came outta my mouth. 189 00:07:51,990 --> 00:07:54,840 I just started gossiping and I didn't really try, or I just got 190 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,039 angry and I didn't really try. 191 00:07:56,159 --> 00:07:59,909 And sometimes you can feel like, oh, I, I can't stop. 192 00:08:00,750 --> 00:08:01,770 And it's so important. 193 00:08:01,770 --> 00:08:04,680 And remember we talked about the first command in the whole book of Romans, if 194 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,100 you're a Christian, is consider yourself, think of yourself a different way. 195 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:10,140 That's not me anymore. 196 00:08:11,130 --> 00:08:11,310 Right. 197 00:08:11,310 --> 00:08:14,700 Whenever you're attempted to sin, you can, you can tell yourself, you can tell 198 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:16,230 that sin, I'm, that's not me anymore. 199 00:08:16,230 --> 00:08:16,980 I don't have to do that. 200 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,720 I don't have to feel that way. 201 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:19,560 I don't have to want that. 202 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,280 I don't have to do that. 203 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,120 I don't have to try and, and look for approval from that anymore. 204 00:08:24,810 --> 00:08:27,030 And that's huge that you start there. 205 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:28,680 You start with who you are, right? 206 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,290 Change is a Christian is inside out, not outside in. 207 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:38,850 Something else though that we see I in this passage is another. 208 00:08:39,750 --> 00:08:40,110 Way. 209 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:41,250 God helps us kill sin. 210 00:08:41,250 --> 00:08:42,539 It starts with who we are. 211 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,400 But he also starts by giving us warnings and rewards. 212 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,530 Look here in verse 13, he says four, right? 213 00:08:49,530 --> 00:08:52,650 Because you don't have to, you don't have to live your old way 214 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,310 because if you live according to the flesh, if, if you live the the way, 215 00:08:56,310 --> 00:08:58,020 that's independent from God, right? 216 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,690 When you think of living coordinated flesh, don't only think of like, 217 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:01,710 oh, those are the bad people. 218 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,080 I want you to think living according to flesh. 219 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,330 It could be someone who looks really good, right? 220 00:09:06,330 --> 00:09:08,190 Like the Pharisees, we would all say, oh, the Pharisees. 221 00:09:09,285 --> 00:09:10,095 They're the bad guys. 222 00:09:10,095 --> 00:09:10,275 Right? 223 00:09:10,275 --> 00:09:12,645 But really, a lot of times, if, if you see a Pharisee in real life, 224 00:09:12,645 --> 00:09:14,325 he'd be like, oh, he knows his Bible. 225 00:09:14,445 --> 00:09:15,225 He goes to church. 226 00:09:15,375 --> 00:09:18,015 He prays, they're, they're serving at church. 227 00:09:18,015 --> 00:09:19,155 They're super involved, right? 228 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:21,255 They've memorized all this stuff from the Bible. 229 00:09:21,675 --> 00:09:25,035 You would say that's, that's a person I, I'm, I like, I like that person. 230 00:09:25,155 --> 00:09:30,105 They're, they're a godly looking person, so living according to the 231 00:09:30,105 --> 00:09:34,695 flesh might not be your typical, oh, that's the bad kid in the class, right? 232 00:09:34,695 --> 00:09:36,495 Living according to flesh might be a really religious 233 00:09:36,495 --> 00:09:37,965 person, a really nice person. 234 00:09:38,490 --> 00:09:40,050 Who is just saying, I don't want God. 235 00:09:40,050 --> 00:09:40,800 I don't need God. 236 00:09:41,130 --> 00:09:42,120 I'm good enough on my own. 237 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:42,600 Right? 238 00:09:43,020 --> 00:09:45,450 You might have grown up in church your whole life and been 239 00:09:45,450 --> 00:09:46,680 living according to the flesh. 240 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,240 So anyway, when you see that, don't think of, oh, just people who are 241 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,319 doing really bad things, right? 242 00:09:52,620 --> 00:09:56,430 Anything independent from God is living according to the flesh. 243 00:09:56,790 --> 00:09:58,920 So if you live according to flesh, you will die. 244 00:09:59,670 --> 00:10:01,830 And hopefully this reminds you of Genesis three, right? 245 00:10:01,890 --> 00:10:05,700 If you eat of the fruit of in the garden, right, you will surely die. 246 00:10:06,810 --> 00:10:08,069 Sin leads to death. 247 00:10:08,069 --> 00:10:13,110 So the first reason that we see here of, oh, here's some motivation for 248 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:17,069 you, not just who you are anymore, but here's some motivation to avoid sin is 249 00:10:17,069 --> 00:10:19,410 think of the consequences of your sin. 250 00:10:20,189 --> 00:10:25,290 That's one of the ways the Holy Spirit helps you kill your sin, is he gives you 251 00:10:26,130 --> 00:10:29,010 a new vision of the consequences of sin. 252 00:10:29,010 --> 00:10:31,050 You see your sin, you're like, oh, you know what? 253 00:10:31,845 --> 00:10:36,105 If I give into that desire, where's that desire going to take me? 254 00:10:37,365 --> 00:10:41,145 I want you to think of your, your choices, almost like path. 255 00:10:42,045 --> 00:10:44,595 You know, those, um, like choose your own adventure books. 256 00:10:45,165 --> 00:10:49,245 Um, like where if, if you, oh, if you choose to go here, go to page 14. 257 00:10:49,545 --> 00:10:51,585 If you choose to go to here, go to page 47. 258 00:10:51,735 --> 00:10:51,945 Right? 259 00:10:51,945 --> 00:10:55,575 I, I read one of these as a kid and I literally spent hours reading it. 260 00:10:55,575 --> 00:10:57,105 It was like a Star Wars with the Clone Wars. 261 00:10:57,105 --> 00:10:57,975 Choose your own adventure book. 262 00:10:58,335 --> 00:11:04,545 And I could not figure out the right, I, I died like 564 times reading this book. 263 00:11:04,875 --> 00:11:06,465 Like every, it feels like every choice. 264 00:11:06,465 --> 00:11:08,925 I went, I was like, oh, you went down this path and you're gonna die. 265 00:11:08,955 --> 00:11:10,995 Or you went down this path and then you ended up. 266 00:11:11,370 --> 00:11:14,939 In another, you know, another planet and enslaved paja of the hut or whatever, 267 00:11:14,939 --> 00:11:15,900 and it was like, it was horrible. 268 00:11:16,290 --> 00:11:18,840 Um, anyway, some of you are like, I have no idea what that is. 269 00:11:19,110 --> 00:11:19,530 That's fine. 270 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:24,510 Whole point, right, is I want you to see your choices like paths, right? 271 00:11:24,689 --> 00:11:30,120 You have, and every situation, when you have a choice to live for God or live 272 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:31,950 for yourself, you're choosing a path. 273 00:11:32,819 --> 00:11:36,180 Is your path gonna lead to life or is it gonna lead to death? 274 00:11:36,660 --> 00:11:36,840 Right? 275 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,860 If you choose to live for yourself, that path is going to lead to death. 276 00:11:42,270 --> 00:11:46,110 Something that God does for us is he gives us a lot of warnings in the Bible. 277 00:11:46,110 --> 00:11:47,939 Maybe you think in the Bible, oh, the warnings. 278 00:11:47,939 --> 00:11:48,930 That's so mean, right? 279 00:11:48,930 --> 00:11:52,260 I don't like churches and pastors or sermons where you talk 280 00:11:52,260 --> 00:11:53,370 about all the warnings, right? 281 00:11:53,370 --> 00:11:55,350 Oh, if you sin bad things will happen. 282 00:11:55,350 --> 00:11:56,910 Or if you sin, you're gonna go to hell. 283 00:11:56,910 --> 00:11:59,520 Or if you do, this is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. 284 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,050 All people don't like that. 285 00:12:01,319 --> 00:12:04,290 But the reason warnings are actually so good is 'cause 286 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:05,430 they're kinda like guardrails. 287 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,550 A warning like this, Hey, if you live for yourself, you're gonna die. 288 00:12:09,270 --> 00:12:12,030 That's a guardrail to keep you on the right path. 289 00:12:13,230 --> 00:12:16,710 That's the way that God protects you from things that are bad for you. 290 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:17,670 Right? 291 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:20,400 It's the way that God says, Hey, don't pick that one. 292 00:12:20,550 --> 00:12:23,280 'cause that one will take you to to tattooing and you're 293 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:24,510 gonna be frozen in Carbonite. 294 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:24,840 Right? 295 00:12:25,260 --> 00:12:27,900 Don't take that path 'cause that'll be bad for you. 296 00:12:29,445 --> 00:12:33,675 So this is a loving warning from God saying, Hey, if you 297 00:12:33,675 --> 00:12:35,025 live apart from me, right? 298 00:12:35,025 --> 00:12:38,475 If you try to use your own wisdom and your own values, or if you 299 00:12:38,475 --> 00:12:40,185 fall for the world's values, right? 300 00:12:40,185 --> 00:12:43,515 If you fall for what the culture says is important, or what the 301 00:12:43,515 --> 00:12:47,355 culture says you need to say or do or think or where, right? 302 00:12:47,535 --> 00:12:52,665 You are going to go down the path that leads to death. 303 00:12:54,345 --> 00:12:56,865 When you think about temptation, one thing you can do even is think 304 00:12:56,865 --> 00:12:59,205 about if I do this, what do I get? 305 00:12:59,355 --> 00:12:59,595 Right? 306 00:12:59,595 --> 00:13:04,695 Maybe you're really tempted to use your words to tear someone down, right? 307 00:13:04,695 --> 00:13:07,665 Maybe someone's really, really annoying and you're really tempted to just, you 308 00:13:07,665 --> 00:13:11,025 know, text them or say something that's, you just wanna get back at them, right? 309 00:13:11,385 --> 00:13:13,635 One thing you do is pause and think about where will this take. 310 00:13:14,775 --> 00:13:16,395 Where is my sin going to take me? 311 00:13:16,515 --> 00:13:17,865 Maybe it'll make me happy for a little bit. 312 00:13:17,895 --> 00:13:18,525 'cause I'll feel good. 313 00:13:18,555 --> 00:13:19,815 'cause I, I really stuck it to him, right? 314 00:13:19,815 --> 00:13:22,695 I got, I, I said that thing and it was really witty and I, I 315 00:13:22,695 --> 00:13:24,405 roasted them and embarrassed them. 316 00:13:24,405 --> 00:13:24,585 Right? 317 00:13:24,585 --> 00:13:26,325 And you're like, oh, wow, that was so great. 318 00:13:26,385 --> 00:13:29,235 And then you think about, oh, but what about the conflict that's gonna cause, 319 00:13:29,265 --> 00:13:32,565 what about the, all of the, the hurt that's gonna cause Oh, I said I'm a 320 00:13:32,595 --> 00:13:34,035 Christian and now I'm hurting this person. 321 00:13:34,035 --> 00:13:36,675 And then my, now I am trying to share the gospel with someone 322 00:13:36,675 --> 00:13:38,835 later and they're like, well, you just said this about that person. 323 00:13:38,835 --> 00:13:40,485 You think about all the consequences of your sin. 324 00:13:41,325 --> 00:13:43,305 That's a good way to avoid. 325 00:13:43,830 --> 00:13:46,380 Temptation is you think about what's gonna happen to me if I do this? 326 00:13:47,490 --> 00:13:49,980 'cause sometimes what temptation does right, is it makes you, it 327 00:13:50,370 --> 00:13:52,080 makes you shortsighted, right? 328 00:13:52,380 --> 00:13:55,080 Um, I have glasses because I am nearsighted. 329 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,790 I can't see things that are far away. 330 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,700 They get really blurry, but I can see things up close. 331 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:01,110 That's what sin does to you sometimes. 332 00:14:01,110 --> 00:14:04,560 Temptation it, it makes the things that are short term really clear. 333 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:07,680 You're like, oh yeah, if I watch this video, I'll feel really good. 334 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,200 Or if I say these words, it'll feel good in the moment. 335 00:14:10,230 --> 00:14:10,470 Right. 336 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,890 It blinds you to what's really gonna happen down the road. 337 00:14:15,150 --> 00:14:17,430 And then you, if you think about that, maybe if you, you know, 338 00:14:17,430 --> 00:14:18,420 put your glasses on, right? 339 00:14:18,420 --> 00:14:21,420 And that's like reading a warning in the Bible and you see that and you're 340 00:14:21,420 --> 00:14:24,270 like, oh, I, I can see where this is gonna take me, is not a good idea. 341 00:14:25,890 --> 00:14:31,170 So God uses warnings to protect us from sin, but something else he does to protect 342 00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:33,390 us from sin is he gives us promises. 343 00:14:33,975 --> 00:14:37,065 If by the spirit you put to death the deed of the body, you will live. 344 00:14:37,065 --> 00:14:38,355 This is another way you look down the road. 345 00:14:38,715 --> 00:14:41,505 You don't just look down the bad path and say, oh yeah, I don't wanna go there. 346 00:14:41,685 --> 00:14:46,035 You look down the good path and you say, man, if I choose God's will, right? 347 00:14:46,035 --> 00:14:49,335 If I live for God, if I do the things that God says are important, if I 348 00:14:49,335 --> 00:14:53,355 love the things that God loves, if I put myself under the influence 349 00:14:53,355 --> 00:14:57,405 of the Holy Spirit and not under the influence of the world, that's 350 00:14:57,405 --> 00:14:59,445 gonna lead me to life, to happiness. 351 00:14:59,445 --> 00:15:01,405 When you see death and life in the Bible, they're not just. 352 00:15:02,070 --> 00:15:06,660 Places you go, they're states of, of being, right. 353 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:07,800 They're experiences. 354 00:15:08,790 --> 00:15:12,240 It's almost like you're, you're going into the, not just the, you know, 355 00:15:12,270 --> 00:15:15,960 oh, one day you're gonna, you're gonna enter into death forever. 356 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:20,730 But along the way, you're going to experience all of this sorrow 357 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,810 and the un, the dissatisfaction that comes from that living for 358 00:15:24,810 --> 00:15:25,920 the world and living for yourself. 359 00:15:26,130 --> 00:15:29,190 But on the way to living for God, you experience life 'cause 360 00:15:29,190 --> 00:15:30,840 God is what you're really made. 361 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,250 Four. 362 00:15:35,189 --> 00:15:38,100 And essentially what we're talking about here is by the spirit you 363 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:39,030 put to death of these of the body. 364 00:15:39,030 --> 00:15:40,199 We're talking about faith, right? 365 00:15:40,350 --> 00:15:45,390 Faith is the ability to say, I trust that God's path is good 366 00:15:45,390 --> 00:15:47,670 for me and my path is bad for me. 367 00:15:48,390 --> 00:15:50,220 What faith does, it helps you see the end of the road. 368 00:15:50,550 --> 00:15:52,890 You're like, oh, well, if I go down that path, I'm gonna die. 369 00:15:53,220 --> 00:15:54,510 If I go down this path, I'm gonna live. 370 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,250 Sometimes what we do, the problem right, is, is we don't call the 371 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:00,810 end of the path to mind, right? 372 00:16:00,810 --> 00:16:02,310 We don't think about where is this gonna take me? 373 00:16:02,910 --> 00:16:06,780 And so God gives us promises to say, look, it's gonna be so good, right? 374 00:16:06,780 --> 00:16:11,070 A promise like blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God like, 375 00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:13,080 man, I, I want God, I love God. 376 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,130 And so you say, okay, I'm gonna be pure because I, I I want more of God. 377 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,750 Or a promise, like our memory verse as a church, right? 378 00:16:21,750 --> 00:16:23,760 Cast your anxieties on the Lord. 379 00:16:24,420 --> 00:16:25,590 For, he cares for you, right? 380 00:16:25,590 --> 00:16:26,430 It's a promise. 381 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,880 And you can say, man, God cares for me, and so I can trust him 382 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,080 with what I'm worried about. 383 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:32,970 It's a promise, right? 384 00:16:33,270 --> 00:16:36,240 Or humble yourself before the Lord for he will exalt you. 385 00:16:36,420 --> 00:16:37,290 God gives you a promise. 386 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,100 Hey you. 387 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:41,699 You can humble yourself now because it's gonna be worth it later. 388 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:45,600 The, maybe you get embarrassed by someone because you don't do the 389 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:46,800 things they do or they make fun of you. 390 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,620 If for not going to the places that they wanna go to or using the words 391 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:53,610 that they use, you can humble yourself and say, I'm not gonna fight back. 392 00:16:54,345 --> 00:16:56,685 'cause I know that God is gonna take care of me, right? 393 00:16:56,685 --> 00:17:00,075 You can trust God to do that and that's what faith does. 394 00:17:01,305 --> 00:17:05,565 And so what I want you to do is envision the future of your choices, right? 395 00:17:05,565 --> 00:17:07,185 Envision, even think about this. 396 00:17:07,214 --> 00:17:11,175 If like, if I keep being lazy, what's my life going to be like? 397 00:17:12,435 --> 00:17:16,694 Versus if I keep being disciplined and self-controlled, 398 00:17:16,694 --> 00:17:17,835 what's my life gonna be like? 399 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:19,500 Think about it. 400 00:17:19,679 --> 00:17:23,098 Something that my school did, um, in when I was in high school that they 401 00:17:23,098 --> 00:17:26,250 did I think every two years is this thing is called every 15 minutes. 402 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:29,040 I don't know if you guys do this here, but something that they did is called 403 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,899 every 15 minutes and what they would do, um, because they were, 'cause young 404 00:17:33,899 --> 00:17:37,649 people cause most of the car accidents in, in the world, that's why your parents 405 00:17:37,649 --> 00:17:42,060 pay way more for insurance when you're young, um, is they would show us what it's 406 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:44,639 like for a real car accident to happen. 407 00:17:45,509 --> 00:17:49,409 So what they would do is they would like simulate this car wreck 408 00:17:49,649 --> 00:17:52,860 in the school parking lot and they'd have like real policemen, 409 00:17:52,860 --> 00:17:55,110 real ambulances and real actors. 410 00:17:55,439 --> 00:17:59,100 And they'd have all this and we'd all just sit there and there'd be people like 411 00:17:59,340 --> 00:18:01,919 acting, like screaming and like crying. 412 00:18:01,919 --> 00:18:02,999 And it was crazy. 413 00:18:02,999 --> 00:18:08,070 It was like a real like acted out drama of this person died. 414 00:18:08,669 --> 00:18:09,090 Right. 415 00:18:09,269 --> 00:18:11,550 And what they would do during the week is they would take 416 00:18:11,550 --> 00:18:12,749 someone out of our classes. 417 00:18:13,889 --> 00:18:16,919 Um, because essentially the reason it's called every 15 minutes is because every 418 00:18:16,919 --> 00:18:20,070 15 minutes someone dies in a car accident. 419 00:18:20,159 --> 00:18:23,490 Statistically, every 15 minutes, someone, so during the school day, 420 00:18:23,490 --> 00:18:27,870 every 15 minutes, they'd ring the bell, um, and they would come into your 421 00:18:27,870 --> 00:18:30,389 class and pull someone outta class. 422 00:18:31,379 --> 00:18:34,199 And so by the end of the day, there's all these missing seats 423 00:18:34,199 --> 00:18:37,679 in your class and you're like, oh, that's how many people just died 424 00:18:37,679 --> 00:18:40,110 today because of reckless driving. 425 00:18:42,285 --> 00:18:46,785 What they do for us is they help us visualize, this is what 426 00:18:46,785 --> 00:18:50,565 happens when you drive recklessly. 427 00:18:51,675 --> 00:18:53,625 And that was super helpful for me, right? 428 00:18:53,625 --> 00:18:56,385 Because in the moment when you're, you know, you're talking in the car, you're 429 00:18:56,385 --> 00:19:00,645 listening to music, you're having fun, you're not thinking about, oh, if I hit 430 00:19:00,645 --> 00:19:04,965 this person right and I, and I kill them, 431 00:19:07,245 --> 00:19:08,565 you know, there's gonna be a funeral. 432 00:19:09,345 --> 00:19:12,314 Someone's gonna lose their son or their daughter, or their best friend, 433 00:19:13,695 --> 00:19:15,314 or someone's not gonna get married. 434 00:19:16,215 --> 00:19:16,455 Right? 435 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:20,084 You don't think about that because you're having fun, you know, maybe 436 00:19:20,084 --> 00:19:22,155 there's alcohol involved, right? 437 00:19:22,155 --> 00:19:25,485 If you're older, or maybe there's, you know, maybe you're just distracted. 438 00:19:25,485 --> 00:19:27,014 You don't think about the consequences. 439 00:19:27,014 --> 00:19:28,665 'cause in the moment you're just having fun, right? 440 00:19:28,784 --> 00:19:31,814 But what that does is it thinks you, it helps you really take it seriously, right? 441 00:19:31,814 --> 00:19:33,915 Because you, you're just clarifying, oh, here's what, 442 00:19:34,365 --> 00:19:35,715 here's what the consequences are. 443 00:19:36,629 --> 00:19:38,940 And also, here's what the rewards are, right, is I can 444 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:41,520 have this person alive, right? 445 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,310 I can save their life, protect their life by being responsible. 446 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:49,110 So I know that's a more serious kind of story, but God does the same thing 447 00:19:50,070 --> 00:19:53,040 with promises and warnings, right? 448 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,670 He helps you see where your decisions will take you, right? 449 00:19:56,670 --> 00:20:04,230 If you keep ignoring God, where will that take you if you keep choosing 450 00:20:04,230 --> 00:20:05,580 to hang out with those bad friends? 451 00:20:05,909 --> 00:20:06,960 Where will that take you? 452 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:08,520 Right? 453 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,070 But if you keep trusting God, where will that take you? 454 00:20:11,490 --> 00:20:16,350 If you make wise decisions with your time, with your money, where will that take you? 455 00:20:16,350 --> 00:20:19,020 If you keep investing in the world and what the world thinks is important, 456 00:20:19,949 --> 00:20:25,590 that's gonna leave you upset, empty, unsatisfied, wishing you did differently. 457 00:20:26,460 --> 00:20:29,639 But if you keep investing in what God says is important, that's gonna 458 00:20:29,639 --> 00:20:31,020 leave you fulfilled and happy. 459 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:31,620 Right? 460 00:20:32,879 --> 00:20:33,270 So. 461 00:20:33,705 --> 00:20:34,725 What we do here, right? 462 00:20:34,725 --> 00:20:38,205 We see, oh, a warning helps me see the consequences, and a 463 00:20:38,205 --> 00:20:39,915 promise helps me see the benefits. 464 00:20:39,915 --> 00:20:45,765 Now, the key phrase here though is by the spirit you put to death of deeds of 465 00:20:45,765 --> 00:20:49,005 the body, and this is really interesting, right, because you are doing it. 466 00:20:49,635 --> 00:20:51,195 Who's killing the sin, right? 467 00:20:51,195 --> 00:20:51,735 The deeds of the body. 468 00:20:51,765 --> 00:20:52,095 That's sin. 469 00:20:52,635 --> 00:20:53,295 Who's doing it? 470 00:20:53,415 --> 00:20:54,885 You are, you're killing it. 471 00:20:55,515 --> 00:20:56,535 But how are you doing it? 472 00:20:57,105 --> 00:20:58,275 By the spirit, right? 473 00:20:58,275 --> 00:20:59,175 By that's like a. 474 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,110 That's how something happens, right? 475 00:21:01,110 --> 00:21:02,970 Like I got here by car. 476 00:21:03,090 --> 00:21:04,260 I didn't get here by boat. 477 00:21:04,380 --> 00:21:05,490 I didn't get here by plane. 478 00:21:05,490 --> 00:21:06,480 I got here by car, right? 479 00:21:06,750 --> 00:21:07,590 That's how I got here. 480 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,690 How do you kill sin By the spirit? 481 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:13,260 You use the Holy Spirit's power to kill sin. 482 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:14,640 You don't use your own power. 483 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,080 It doesn't say by trying really hard. 484 00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:17,430 It doesn't say by knowing a lot. 485 00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:18,330 It doesn't say by. 486 00:21:19,229 --> 00:21:20,429 Showing up to the right things. 487 00:21:20,429 --> 00:21:21,479 It says by the spirit, right? 488 00:21:21,479 --> 00:21:25,439 The Holy Spirit is what gives you the ability to kill sin. 489 00:21:25,439 --> 00:21:26,159 Now, how does that work? 490 00:21:26,159 --> 00:21:29,370 Well, remember last week we talked about setting our minds on the 491 00:21:29,370 --> 00:21:30,090 things of the spirit, right? 492 00:21:30,090 --> 00:21:31,679 Having the mindset of the spirit. 493 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,919 So part of that means you need to think about the right things. 494 00:21:36,509 --> 00:21:40,889 A lot of sin starts with your thoughts, starts with how you see the world. 495 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,209 It starts with the your priorities and your values, what you think is important. 496 00:21:45,899 --> 00:21:48,030 It starts with how you view people and situations. 497 00:21:49,064 --> 00:21:50,235 How do you change your thoughts? 498 00:21:51,254 --> 00:21:53,894 Well, you influence your thoughts by what you take in, right? 499 00:21:53,894 --> 00:21:55,634 What you take in are, you are, well, who are you listening to? 500 00:21:56,324 --> 00:21:57,614 What are you telling yourself? 501 00:21:59,175 --> 00:22:02,294 How do you, when, when something happens to you, what's the, the narrative 502 00:22:02,294 --> 00:22:04,544 that you give yourself about it? 503 00:22:05,175 --> 00:22:05,384 Right? 504 00:22:05,445 --> 00:22:06,164 I'll give you an example. 505 00:22:06,164 --> 00:22:08,804 I'll, um, let's say you're, um, 506 00:22:11,399 --> 00:22:14,564 you, you, uh, go to school and in your class your teacher gives you a 507 00:22:14,564 --> 00:22:16,300 ton of homework and you're just like. 508 00:22:17,850 --> 00:22:18,629 That was so lame. 509 00:22:18,629 --> 00:22:19,260 Why did they do that? 510 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:19,979 That was horrible, right? 511 00:22:20,129 --> 00:22:22,590 Like we, we just had star testing. 512 00:22:22,590 --> 00:22:23,969 Why are they giving his homework during star testing? 513 00:22:23,969 --> 00:22:24,510 This is terrible. 514 00:22:24,510 --> 00:22:25,560 What, what, what's going on? 515 00:22:26,729 --> 00:22:27,149 Right? 516 00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:31,020 You can talk to yourself and say, man, my teacher must hate us. 517 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,459 She's a horrible person. 518 00:22:32,550 --> 00:22:34,889 I dunno why I said she, he could be a horrible person too. 519 00:22:35,219 --> 00:22:38,969 Um, but you could, you could do this whole, we're we're equal 520 00:22:38,969 --> 00:22:40,290 opportunity illustrations here, right? 521 00:22:40,439 --> 00:22:41,340 So, um. 522 00:22:43,185 --> 00:22:45,045 You could do all the, all the different things, right? 523 00:22:45,045 --> 00:22:46,575 You could, you could tell yourself, you could, you could 524 00:22:46,575 --> 00:22:49,215 start grumbling and complaining like you talk to your classmate. 525 00:22:49,215 --> 00:22:51,345 Can you believe that, that they did this right? 526 00:22:51,345 --> 00:22:53,775 Can you believe that our teacher just, did your teacher do that? 527 00:22:53,775 --> 00:22:57,435 And, and you, what you've done now is you have filled your 528 00:22:57,435 --> 00:22:59,745 mind with sinful thoughts. 529 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:01,575 You've talked to yourself. 530 00:23:02,445 --> 00:23:04,485 Into this spiral of sin. 531 00:23:04,514 --> 00:23:08,774 You've talked to yourself into complaining and grumbling, and maybe 532 00:23:08,774 --> 00:23:10,064 now you're anxious about all the work. 533 00:23:10,094 --> 00:23:11,024 How am I gonna get it done? 534 00:23:11,024 --> 00:23:12,074 What am I gonna do? 535 00:23:12,165 --> 00:23:13,094 Uh, how is this gonna work? 536 00:23:13,094 --> 00:23:13,245 Right? 537 00:23:13,245 --> 00:23:18,165 You have just spun your own narrative about how this goes, right? 538 00:23:18,165 --> 00:23:22,215 You've set your mind on the things of the flesh, but instead, you could set 539 00:23:22,215 --> 00:23:23,084 your mind on things of the spirit. 540 00:23:23,084 --> 00:23:26,564 You could say, man, you know, I, maybe I don't like all this homework, but. 541 00:23:27,270 --> 00:23:28,320 God is sovereign. 542 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,990 God wanted me to have all this homework right now for some reason, 543 00:23:31,409 --> 00:23:34,830 and so I'm gonna try to honor God in what he's given me, right? 544 00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:36,120 This is my responsibility right now. 545 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,740 Complaining is not gonna help me. 546 00:23:37,740 --> 00:23:39,389 Maybe you envision the end of your complaining. 547 00:23:39,389 --> 00:23:41,070 If I complain about this, is that gonna help me? 548 00:23:41,580 --> 00:23:45,449 No, it's actually gonna give me less energy to do what I need to do, right? 549 00:23:46,110 --> 00:23:48,449 And so you think about it and you, you fill your mind with the things of the 550 00:23:48,449 --> 00:23:51,209 spirit and you're like, okay, well, uh, what does God say about working hard? 551 00:23:51,209 --> 00:23:52,590 He says that working hard is a good thing. 552 00:23:53,144 --> 00:23:55,364 God loves when I work hard for his glory. 553 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:57,884 I can please God by doing this homework. 554 00:23:57,975 --> 00:23:59,654 I can please God, by not complaining. 555 00:24:00,314 --> 00:24:02,415 I can please God, by not joining in with the grumbling. 556 00:24:02,445 --> 00:24:05,685 I can trust God that even if I think this homework is pointless, 557 00:24:05,894 --> 00:24:07,094 he's gonna use it for something. 558 00:24:07,604 --> 00:24:11,144 And maybe he's using it to help you not be a complainer, right? 559 00:24:11,144 --> 00:24:12,254 Because no one likes a complainer. 560 00:24:12,884 --> 00:24:13,784 Complainers are the worst. 561 00:24:14,324 --> 00:24:18,374 And maybe I'm complaining about complainers, but, um, regardless, right, 562 00:24:18,374 --> 00:24:21,854 is we, that's an illustration of you just. 563 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,350 Either filled your mind with the things of the flesh or with 564 00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:27,330 the things of the spirit, right? 565 00:24:27,389 --> 00:24:31,379 How you talk to yourself about your life is really important, but also 566 00:24:31,379 --> 00:24:34,289 maybe the things that you surround yourself with or the people you 567 00:24:34,289 --> 00:24:37,049 surround, you surround yourself with, influence your thoughts as well. 568 00:24:37,049 --> 00:24:39,299 If you have a bunch of friends who are just complaining about 569 00:24:39,299 --> 00:24:40,560 school, I think it's so lame. 570 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,279 Why would I do this? 571 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:43,350 That's gonna rub off on you, right? 572 00:24:43,350 --> 00:24:44,939 So that's the starting point, right? 573 00:24:44,939 --> 00:24:48,029 We wanna set our mind, we're gonna control the narrative in our head 574 00:24:48,689 --> 00:24:50,519 of, okay, what's happening here? 575 00:24:51,344 --> 00:24:54,344 Is this a situation for me to complain or is this a situation for me to honor God? 576 00:24:54,344 --> 00:24:54,614 Right? 577 00:24:54,854 --> 00:24:58,754 But then the second thing we do is we don't just say no to sin, right? 578 00:24:58,754 --> 00:25:00,524 Is we say yes to God, right? 579 00:25:00,524 --> 00:25:04,154 We don't just kill sin, we put on righteousness. 580 00:25:04,784 --> 00:25:08,264 Um, and that's where we talk about faith, right? 581 00:25:08,564 --> 00:25:12,344 Um, the Holy Spirit has given you a weapon to fight, right? 582 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:16,154 The Ephesians six says that scripture is the sword of the spirit. 583 00:25:16,665 --> 00:25:20,625 And so to put on the, the things that God wants you to do right to, 584 00:25:20,685 --> 00:25:23,054 to actually to do the right thing. 585 00:25:23,504 --> 00:25:28,605 You need God's word to inform your thoughts, to fight your sin, right? 586 00:25:28,605 --> 00:25:30,554 You use the sword, the Holy Spirit's given you. 587 00:25:31,455 --> 00:25:33,105 And that's why we care so much about the Bible here, right? 588 00:25:33,105 --> 00:25:35,445 That's why we want you to, to read the Bible. 589 00:25:35,504 --> 00:25:36,794 That's why we want you to know God's word. 590 00:25:36,794 --> 00:25:38,355 That's why we do sermons, right? 591 00:25:38,355 --> 00:25:43,065 Not most youth groups don't have a sermon that's this long, and 592 00:25:43,065 --> 00:25:47,115 most youth groups don't have a sermon that's about Rowans, right? 593 00:25:47,685 --> 00:25:50,565 But we do this 'cause we, we love you and we want you to know God's word. 594 00:25:50,565 --> 00:25:53,595 We want you to go to go to war with good weapons. 595 00:25:53,835 --> 00:25:56,534 We don't want you to go to war with, you know, a, a fork. 596 00:25:58,110 --> 00:25:59,520 Like some snowballs, right? 597 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,600 We want you to go to war with, with swords and shields and spears, right? 598 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,520 We, we want you to do battle with the right things. 599 00:26:05,820 --> 00:26:12,419 So you use scripture by faith to change how you feel and what 600 00:26:12,419 --> 00:26:13,439 you think about and what you do. 601 00:26:13,439 --> 00:26:15,300 And that's why we want you to know God's word, and you'll talk 602 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:18,570 about that more in, in your small groups of how exactly that works. 603 00:26:18,570 --> 00:26:20,939 But the point of all of this, right, the point of killing sin 604 00:26:20,939 --> 00:26:21,669 is we wanna be close with God. 605 00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:23,250 That's the point. 606 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:24,690 It's not so I can do better. 607 00:26:24,690 --> 00:26:26,160 It's not so I can feel better about myself. 608 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,860 It's not so I can fit in with my Christian friends and not 609 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:30,060 feel guilty after the sermon. 610 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,110 The, the point of putting on righteousness and killing sin is 611 00:26:34,110 --> 00:26:35,250 because we wanna be close with God. 612 00:26:35,250 --> 00:26:39,310 The whole point of all this, the Holy Spirit sanc, he, he sanctifies us. 613 00:26:39,390 --> 00:26:42,540 He makes you holy because he, he wants you to be close with God. 614 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,460 And if you're a Christian, you wanna be close with God. 615 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,380 And so that's the whole point of all of this. 616 00:26:47,715 --> 00:26:47,865 Right. 617 00:26:47,895 --> 00:26:51,405 The point of killing sin is closeness with God, and it comes from who you are. 618 00:26:51,435 --> 00:26:53,115 Again, like we talked about at the beginning, that's 619 00:26:53,115 --> 00:26:55,065 where this four comes in. 620 00:26:55,245 --> 00:26:56,595 Connecting words are important, right? 621 00:26:56,835 --> 00:26:58,695 Uh, you put to that these of the body, you'll live. 622 00:26:58,845 --> 00:27:03,285 Because the reason you do this, the reason you kill sin is because if 623 00:27:03,285 --> 00:27:04,965 you're led by the spirit of God, right? 624 00:27:04,965 --> 00:27:07,665 If you're following the leadership of the Holy Spirit, which 625 00:27:07,665 --> 00:27:09,105 you find in his word, right? 626 00:27:09,465 --> 00:27:11,655 Um, you are sons of God. 627 00:27:11,745 --> 00:27:15,855 So the people who are children of God, not everyone. 628 00:27:16,739 --> 00:27:17,939 Not everyone is a child of God. 629 00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:19,590 Maybe that's new for you. 630 00:27:19,709 --> 00:27:20,879 Not everyone is a child of God. 631 00:27:21,629 --> 00:27:26,789 The people who are children of God are the ones who are following the 632 00:27:26,789 --> 00:27:31,350 leadership of the Holy Spirit, the people who, the Holy Spirit it lives in. 633 00:27:31,379 --> 00:27:32,729 Those are the people who are God's children. 634 00:27:33,389 --> 00:27:34,919 And how do you know who those people are? 635 00:27:34,979 --> 00:27:38,939 Well, they're the people that are killing sin 'cause they wanna be close with God. 636 00:27:39,060 --> 00:27:41,399 The Holy Spirit gives them new desires and like, I wanna be close with God. 637 00:27:41,580 --> 00:27:42,669 I don't wanna do these things God hate. 638 00:27:43,139 --> 00:27:46,139 I don't wanna do these things that offend God, that put Jesus on the cross. 639 00:27:46,350 --> 00:27:47,129 I don't wanna do that. 640 00:27:47,370 --> 00:27:48,000 I love God. 641 00:27:48,330 --> 00:27:52,739 And so then they follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit and that shows, 642 00:27:52,770 --> 00:27:54,719 oh yeah, you're a child of God. 643 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,870 You've been adopted by God and closeness with God. 644 00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:02,760 It doesn't just start with what you do, right? 645 00:28:02,820 --> 00:28:03,810 It starts with who you are. 646 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,409 God makes you close with him, which is kind of an interesting 647 00:28:07,409 --> 00:28:08,010 way to think about it. 648 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:11,580 But whose idea was it for you to be close with God? 649 00:28:12,855 --> 00:28:13,755 It was God's idea. 650 00:28:13,815 --> 00:28:14,655 Remember what we started with? 651 00:28:15,225 --> 00:28:16,785 We were all hostile to God. 652 00:28:16,785 --> 00:28:19,335 We were all living according to the flesh opposing God. 653 00:28:19,395 --> 00:28:20,895 We were all saying, God, I don't want you. 654 00:28:21,345 --> 00:28:23,025 I want your stuff more than I want you. 655 00:28:23,535 --> 00:28:23,685 Right? 656 00:28:23,685 --> 00:28:25,935 That's sin as I love all this other stuff and I love God. 657 00:28:27,495 --> 00:28:33,075 And so because if you're a Christian, you have been adopted by God as his child. 658 00:28:33,345 --> 00:28:37,695 You can now draw near to him, and that's all possible by the Holy Spirit, right? 659 00:28:37,695 --> 00:28:40,215 Your status as a beloved child. 660 00:28:40,950 --> 00:28:42,540 God is because of the Holy Spirit. 661 00:28:42,570 --> 00:28:45,810 Not because you did really great or you cleaned yourself up and 662 00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:47,760 and made yourself likable to God. 663 00:28:47,910 --> 00:28:49,140 It's because of the Holy Spirit. 664 00:28:49,470 --> 00:28:52,800 So our second point is to confidently approach. 665 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,230 God confidently approach God. 666 00:28:55,410 --> 00:28:59,265 Because if you have the Holy Spirit, you're his child, you're adopted, you 667 00:28:59,265 --> 00:29:02,730 can be confident of his love for you. 668 00:29:05,189 --> 00:29:08,070 The Holy Spirit enables you not just to put away the things that 669 00:29:08,070 --> 00:29:09,510 draw you away from God, right? 670 00:29:09,510 --> 00:29:10,770 It doesn't just help you get rid of sin. 671 00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:18,120 The Holy Spirit helps you come to God and be confident in his love for you. 672 00:29:22,050 --> 00:29:22,949 Now, here's the thing. 673 00:29:23,189 --> 00:29:27,360 Um, I almost put one of these things. 674 00:29:28,350 --> 00:29:28,649 You know what? 675 00:29:28,649 --> 00:29:29,129 These are a tree. 676 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,340 I almost put an uh, that's not a tree, that's an asterisk. 677 00:29:32,429 --> 00:29:36,060 I almost put one of those here because if you are not a 678 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:38,310 Christian, you cannot do this. 679 00:29:39,419 --> 00:29:41,340 You have zero confidence to approach God. 680 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:47,489 If you're not a Christian, if you approach God, you should expect is depart from me. 681 00:29:47,489 --> 00:29:48,239 I never knew you. 682 00:29:48,524 --> 00:29:55,469 If you're not a Christian, you should not be confident because you're God's enemy. 683 00:29:56,175 --> 00:29:58,245 You don't like God, you're hostile to him. 684 00:29:59,175 --> 00:30:05,024 Maybe you don't feel hostile to him, but that's what loving 685 00:30:05,024 --> 00:30:05,864 things more than God is. 686 00:30:05,864 --> 00:30:06,914 It's saying, God, I don't want you. 687 00:30:06,914 --> 00:30:07,814 I want your stuff. 688 00:30:09,014 --> 00:30:12,314 So if you're not a Christian, you have no confidence to approach God. 689 00:30:12,584 --> 00:30:14,759 But if you are, you have all the confidence you ever need, 690 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:15,945 it's not because of you. 691 00:30:16,215 --> 00:30:18,554 It's because you've been adopted by God. 692 00:30:18,554 --> 00:30:20,175 It's because of something God did for you. 693 00:30:20,445 --> 00:30:24,404 Romans eight 15 says You didn't receive the spirit of slavery to fall back. 694 00:30:25,169 --> 00:30:29,340 Fear that you've received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry. 695 00:30:29,340 --> 00:30:30,179 Abba, father. 696 00:30:30,179 --> 00:30:31,110 Now this is really important here. 697 00:30:32,669 --> 00:30:35,999 You're not adopted by God as a slave, right? 698 00:30:35,999 --> 00:30:38,909 You're, you're not drawing near to God like he's your master and you're 699 00:30:38,909 --> 00:30:40,259 just here to do stuff for him. 700 00:30:40,889 --> 00:30:43,529 You're drawing near to God if you're a Christian because. 701 00:30:43,844 --> 00:30:45,314 You have closeness with God. 702 00:30:45,314 --> 00:30:47,084 So Abba, that's the Hebrew word for father, right? 703 00:30:47,084 --> 00:30:50,205 It's not a rock band, it's the Hebrew word for father. 704 00:30:50,384 --> 00:30:51,614 It's the, it's that close. 705 00:30:51,674 --> 00:30:53,114 I think only the grownups got that. 706 00:30:53,664 --> 00:30:54,914 Um, but that's okay. 707 00:30:55,245 --> 00:31:00,944 Um, but the whole point is this, is, this is the term of closeness, right? 708 00:31:00,944 --> 00:31:04,634 It's, it's something that a child would say to their, to say to their dad, right? 709 00:31:04,634 --> 00:31:06,794 It's not something that you'd say to anyone and everyone. 710 00:31:07,394 --> 00:31:10,424 Now, this does not mean you can call God daddy, okay? 711 00:31:10,455 --> 00:31:11,174 I wouldn't do that. 712 00:31:12,375 --> 00:31:13,784 Let's just we'll through that about later. 713 00:31:13,784 --> 00:31:14,415 We're not gonna do that. 714 00:31:14,415 --> 00:31:14,835 All right. 715 00:31:15,495 --> 00:31:18,435 I saw you smiling and so I had to, I had to clarify, right? 716 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:25,965 Um, this is not saying that, okay, now, um, but the whole point is 717 00:31:26,294 --> 00:31:28,215 because of the Holy Spirit, right? 718 00:31:28,245 --> 00:31:29,475 The spirit of adoption. 719 00:31:29,685 --> 00:31:34,754 You have as a Christian, this closeness with God you wouldn't otherwise have. 720 00:31:35,745 --> 00:31:36,075 Okay? 721 00:31:36,165 --> 00:31:36,825 That's the whole point. 722 00:31:36,945 --> 00:31:40,004 So again, it comes. 723 00:31:40,649 --> 00:31:42,000 From the Holy Spirit. 724 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,860 Now, there's a couple things that I want to point out real quick 725 00:31:43,889 --> 00:31:46,620 about all of this, right, with, if you're a Christian, you can approach 726 00:31:46,620 --> 00:31:48,180 God because of the Holy Spirit. 727 00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:52,110 Now, the first thing that I want you to notice is the Holy Spirit gives 728 00:31:52,110 --> 00:31:54,000 you the desire to approach God. 729 00:31:54,840 --> 00:32:00,480 You see that by whom we cry, Abba Father, the Holy Spirit 730 00:32:00,810 --> 00:32:03,540 gives you the desire to want God. 731 00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:08,340 So if you have the Holy Spirit, you should expect, I want God. 732 00:32:09,465 --> 00:32:11,055 You should expect to want to be with God. 733 00:32:11,085 --> 00:32:12,495 You should expect to want to be close with God. 734 00:32:13,395 --> 00:32:16,004 You should expect to want to hear from God in his word. 735 00:32:16,185 --> 00:32:19,215 You should expect to want to talk to God in prayer, right? 736 00:32:19,215 --> 00:32:22,545 So if you don't see that, it might be because you don't have the Holy Spirit. 737 00:32:23,055 --> 00:32:26,565 The Holy Spirit gives you those desires to to want God, to want that 738 00:32:26,565 --> 00:32:28,095 closeness to that relationship with God. 739 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,590 So that's the first thing I want you to notice is there's new 740 00:32:31,590 --> 00:32:33,629 desires that that come from that. 741 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,800 Now, what's also really cool about that, right, is that anytime you want, God, 742 00:32:37,860 --> 00:32:40,440 that's, God actually initiated that. 743 00:32:41,310 --> 00:32:44,190 Anytime you want to pray, that was God's idea. 744 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:45,840 Isn't that cool? 745 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,740 Anytime you want to read your Bible, that's actually God saying, here, 746 00:32:49,740 --> 00:32:51,389 I want you to to come near to me. 747 00:32:52,350 --> 00:32:53,730 That's God inviting you. 748 00:32:53,909 --> 00:32:54,750 Isn't that really cool? 749 00:32:54,899 --> 00:32:56,840 Anytime you wanna pray, that's God inviting you to pray. 750 00:32:57,959 --> 00:32:59,969 He gave you a desire from the Holy Spirit to pray. 751 00:33:00,989 --> 00:33:05,969 Anytime you want to do something for God, God's inviting you into that, right? 752 00:33:05,969 --> 00:33:09,360 It's not you coming up with your own, oh, I really want God. 753 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,379 I hope he'll accept me. 754 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,100 That's God saying, no, no, no, I want, I want you. 755 00:33:14,370 --> 00:33:15,510 I gave you that desire. 756 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,699 Now follow it back to me. 757 00:33:18,510 --> 00:33:19,770 And that's really, really cool, right? 758 00:33:19,770 --> 00:33:20,340 That's really awesome. 759 00:33:20,370 --> 00:33:22,320 'cause the whole point is you're not a slave. 760 00:33:22,979 --> 00:33:24,750 You're not like, oh, I hope God likes me. 761 00:33:24,750 --> 00:33:26,110 Maybe if I do enough, he'll be pleased with me. 762 00:33:27,554 --> 00:33:32,054 You don't have to do that anymore because you're accepted by God already, 763 00:33:32,774 --> 00:33:34,034 so you don't have to work for it. 764 00:33:34,064 --> 00:33:34,695 That's the whole point. 765 00:33:34,695 --> 00:33:37,155 You're, you're a child, not a slave. 766 00:33:39,284 --> 00:33:42,434 Now the second thing I want you to see is there's this new status, right? 767 00:33:42,765 --> 00:33:46,754 Um, you're a loved son that's not in there, and that's the love 768 00:33:46,754 --> 00:33:49,215 isn't in there, but you see it with this whole picture, right? 769 00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:52,394 Of being someone who, who God loves. 770 00:33:52,724 --> 00:33:55,095 God is not against his children, right? 771 00:33:55,095 --> 00:33:55,695 He's for them. 772 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,184 He is working for their good. 773 00:33:58,184 --> 00:33:59,084 He protects them. 774 00:34:00,345 --> 00:34:03,195 If you think about, hopefully you think about your parents, you think, man, 775 00:34:03,195 --> 00:34:04,874 my parents want what's best for me. 776 00:34:04,934 --> 00:34:05,115 Right? 777 00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:06,044 They're, they're in my corner. 778 00:34:06,615 --> 00:34:07,995 They don't necessarily want what I want. 779 00:34:08,324 --> 00:34:11,025 They want what is best for me, right? 780 00:34:11,745 --> 00:34:12,495 Because they love me. 781 00:34:12,495 --> 00:34:14,895 They love me so much that they're even willing to tell 782 00:34:14,895 --> 00:34:15,795 me things I don't want to hear. 783 00:34:16,665 --> 00:34:20,114 And maybe they're willing for me to maybe not like them because they love me, right? 784 00:34:20,114 --> 00:34:21,435 My mom was a great example of this. 785 00:34:21,885 --> 00:34:24,975 My, I hated my mom for a few years in middle school. 786 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,600 Because she wanted what's best for me. 787 00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:32,190 And I didn't, I didn't, I wanted to live for the world. 788 00:34:32,190 --> 00:34:33,239 I wanted to live for myself. 789 00:34:33,420 --> 00:34:34,980 And she, I thought she was restrictive. 790 00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:37,020 I thought she was mean and I really didn't like her. 791 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,960 And then I became a Christian and our relationship totally 792 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,840 changed 'cause I realized, oh, she's loved me this whole time. 793 00:34:43,590 --> 00:34:45,870 She hasn't just been mean to me and giving me these rules 794 00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:46,770 because she doesn't like me. 795 00:34:46,980 --> 00:34:49,889 She's actually giving me these rules 'cause she loves me so much 796 00:34:50,730 --> 00:34:52,864 and she wants to take care of me and she wants what's best for me. 797 00:34:54,210 --> 00:34:56,219 And that totally changed our relationship. 798 00:34:58,380 --> 00:35:02,070 And that's kind of what happens when you become a Christian, is you go from someone 799 00:35:02,070 --> 00:35:04,950 who's fighting against God's rules and be like, oh, God's rules are the worst. 800 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,180 I hate that I have to do this. 801 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:07,200 I hate that God tells me to do this. 802 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:07,710 I hate my parents. 803 00:35:07,710 --> 00:35:08,280 Want me to do this. 804 00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:13,380 And, and you, you fight against God's rules because you don't really 805 00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:14,520 see that they're from his love. 806 00:35:15,450 --> 00:35:19,710 And then when you become a Christian, you realize, oh, God's whole like orientation 807 00:35:19,710 --> 00:35:21,780 towards me has always been, he loves me. 808 00:35:24,975 --> 00:35:26,475 And it changes everything, right? 809 00:35:26,475 --> 00:35:29,115 Because now it's not you fighting against God. 810 00:35:29,115 --> 00:35:31,695 It's you saying, okay, God, you love me. 811 00:35:31,815 --> 00:35:36,765 You're way smarter than me, and you've been for me, and I, I I want 812 00:35:36,765 --> 00:35:39,405 to trust you and, and live for you. 813 00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:47,895 And so as a Christian, you can come to God and be confident with that, right? 814 00:35:47,895 --> 00:35:49,275 Because you know he's for you. 815 00:35:49,305 --> 00:35:49,740 He's for your good. 816 00:35:50,535 --> 00:35:51,525 So even when you sin, right? 817 00:35:51,525 --> 00:35:55,455 Like before, when I wasn't a Christian and I hated my mom, I didn't wanna 818 00:35:55,455 --> 00:35:56,955 tell my mom when I broke the rules. 819 00:35:58,245 --> 00:35:58,665 I didn't. 820 00:35:58,665 --> 00:35:59,655 That was the last thing I wanted do. 821 00:35:59,655 --> 00:36:00,405 I tried to hide it. 822 00:36:00,405 --> 00:36:01,245 I tried to cover it up. 823 00:36:01,545 --> 00:36:03,495 I tried to do all this stuff to, to hide that. 824 00:36:03,495 --> 00:36:06,105 I broke the rules because we were against each other. 825 00:36:07,425 --> 00:36:12,195 And then when I became a Christian, if I broke the rules, if I did something wrong, 826 00:36:12,195 --> 00:36:14,175 I would come to my mom and admit it. 827 00:36:14,325 --> 00:36:15,705 'cause I knew she loved me. 828 00:36:15,945 --> 00:36:17,025 I knew she was for me. 829 00:36:17,775 --> 00:36:19,350 I knew that she was working for my good. 830 00:36:20,625 --> 00:36:22,995 Even if, if you're a Christian and you sin, right, and you will, 831 00:36:25,335 --> 00:36:28,905 you can still come to God with your imperfections, right, with your sin, 832 00:36:29,355 --> 00:36:37,095 with your guilt, and be confident that he's for you because he's your father. 833 00:36:37,245 --> 00:36:37,875 He loves you. 834 00:36:38,625 --> 00:36:41,655 And so the Holy Spirit gives you that confidence of God is for me. 835 00:36:42,375 --> 00:36:43,875 I don't have to hide from him. 836 00:36:44,625 --> 00:36:45,885 I can come to him. 837 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:47,490 And that's what Christians do. 838 00:36:47,490 --> 00:36:48,120 When Christians sin. 839 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,110 They don't hide from God. 840 00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:53,340 They come to God because they're confident in God's love for them. 841 00:36:55,050 --> 00:36:56,880 And the last thing we'll talk about this next week, so I won't spend too 842 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,370 much time on it, is that the Holy Spirit gives you a new future, gives 843 00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:03,060 you new desires, he gives you new status, and he gives you a new future. 844 00:37:03,090 --> 00:37:03,240 Right? 845 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:06,750 We'll talk about that next week, but what I want you guys to really 846 00:37:06,750 --> 00:37:11,820 focus on here is the fact that the Holy Spirit is the one who enables 847 00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:13,620 your closeness with God, right? 848 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:14,430 You. 849 00:37:15,015 --> 00:37:18,675 Drawing near to God on your own, coming up with your own way to, to come to God. 850 00:37:20,535 --> 00:37:21,735 That's not how this works. 851 00:37:22,605 --> 00:37:27,915 God invites you to come to Him his way, right by the Spirit. 852 00:37:27,945 --> 00:37:29,595 He, it's, he initiates that. 853 00:37:29,595 --> 00:37:34,635 He gives you the Holy Spirit, and that's how you draw near to God. 854 00:37:35,205 --> 00:37:37,155 Let's pray and, and we'll talk about that more in small groups. 855 00:37:39,045 --> 00:37:41,355 God, we are grateful for your love. 856 00:37:41,385 --> 00:37:42,165 We're grateful that. 857 00:37:43,065 --> 00:37:48,255 Christ, we can have you for us, for our good that all of who you are, 858 00:37:49,515 --> 00:37:55,154 um, loves your children, you don't kind of love us or sometimes love us, 859 00:37:55,965 --> 00:37:59,445 but you fully love us all the time. 860 00:38:00,404 --> 00:38:02,925 And we're grateful that because of Jesus and because of the Holy Spirit, 861 00:38:02,925 --> 00:38:05,175 we can be confident in your love for us. 862 00:38:05,205 --> 00:38:07,210 So I pray for anyone here who wants that. 863 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:13,560 And isn't in Christ, doesn't trust Jesus that you would help them do that tonight. 864 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:17,670 And I pray for anyone here who thinks that you love them, um, 865 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,110 but is really hostile to you. 866 00:38:19,140 --> 00:38:22,050 I pray that you'd show them that I pray, that they'd be honest, um, and 867 00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:25,320 that you would help them see that um, they actually are opposing you. 868 00:38:25,740 --> 00:38:31,230 And I pray that you help them to turn from that and turn to you, um, so that they 869 00:38:31,230 --> 00:38:33,315 can be adopted by you into your family. 870 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,040 We pray this in Jesus name. 871 00:38:35,670 --> 00:38:36,000 Amen.