WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:03.480 Father, we thank you for your word today. We thank you that you 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:10.119 are already here visiting us with grace, with insight, with wisdom from above, 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:15.679 and we welcome you to continue in Jesus' name. And everybody said, 4 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.440 ef heeas ins two one through five. As for you, you were dead 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:27.239 in your transgressions and sins in which you used to live when you followed the 6 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:31.359 ways of this world. Everybody say, ways of this world, And the 7 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:35.119 ruler of the Kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:41.679 in those who are disobedient, not on those, but in those. All 9 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:46.960 of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our 10 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:55.640 flesh. Said together, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires 11 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.840 and its thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 12 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:03.359 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich 13 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.000 in mercy, made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in 14 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:12.079 transgressions. For it is by grace we have been saved. So we got 15 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:21.519 these passions and desires. We've got these cravings and those used to rule our 16 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:27.599 life. That we still have appetites, cravings and desires, but they don't 17 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:34.120 rule our life anymore. That's the hope of the power of the Gospel, 18 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.159 and the hope of the power of the endwelling Holy Spirit within us, not 19 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:48.200 only convicting us of righteousness, but empowering us to overcome. Right, Yeah, 20 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:53.079 come on on preaching good for Sean two sixteen. For all that is 21 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.280 in the world. So here's the topic of the world again. All that 22 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.840 is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the 23 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:07.159 eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is 24 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:16.759 of the world. So this insatiable, craving, desire, yearning, not 25 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:24.240 the common appetites that we have, not the appetites He gave us, but 26 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:34.159 turbocharged appetites, the demand to be fed, demand for self pleasure, and 27 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.919 partner with the demonic realm in how they are fulfilled. That's not of God, 28 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:45.120 it's not of our Father. It's of the world's system. So we 29 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:50.719 reject it. Here's the amplified for all that's in the world. The lust 30 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.080 and sensual craving of the flesh, and the lust and longing of the eyes, 31 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.319 and the boastful pride of life. These do not come from the Father, 32 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:05.599 from the world. Last James four. I want to go to James 33 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:14.000 four. James four, four through seven. This is kind of heavy. 34 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.759 Most all of James is heavy, right, most all of it is like 35 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.439 punching you in the nose. All the way through. James is just right. 36 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:30.520 Hook uppercut left hook James four, four through seven. You adulterous people. 37 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:38.319 He starts with you, adulterous people. Don't you know that friendship with 38 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:49.240 the world means warfare with God. Friendship with the world means enmity with God. 39 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.120 So here's our third time talking about the world system. The desires of 40 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:00.840 the world. Now, these aren't outside of you. Are literally things that 41 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.280 we need to put to death all the time. The water of baptism is 42 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:14.560 about burying and putting to dead the former life. You can't counsel it out, 43 00:04:15.079 --> 00:04:17.959 you can't talk it out. You got to put it to death. 44 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:28.959 And it's an everyday it's literally a moment by moment thing like this afternoon you're 45 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:30.920 gonna have to do it again, and this evening you're gonna have to do 46 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.800 it again, and tomorrow morning you're gonna have to do it again. At 47 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:43.160 lunchtime, you might have to do it. Because God gave us appetites, 48 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.759 and those appetites ruled us. But by the Spirit of God, now we've 49 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:57.720 been given the spirit of love, power and self control. We've been given 50 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:05.279 the spirit of love, power and self control. So even at lunchtime, 51 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.160 I might have to control myself, because when I came to the Lord, 52 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.839 he didn't remove my appetites. He just gave me the ability to regulate them. 53 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:20.560 He gave me the ability to feed them under the promises of the Word 54 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:26.120 of God, to feed them according to the Word of God. They still 55 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.399 get fed, but they're not fed in a partnership with the demonic realm. 56 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:40.480 I've put that realm of satisfaction to death in the waters of baptism, in 57 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:51.360 the burial service of Baptism. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend 58 00:05:51.480 --> 00:06:01.199 of the world becomes an enemy of God. Now, I think that James 59 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:05.319 gave us that in a big splash, right, that's like a big broad 60 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:12.040 brush splash. Anyone that chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an 61 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:17.160 enemy of God. But I think that it can be more categorically, and 62 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:25.800 that most of the time it's understood and practically it's lived out more categorically than 63 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:30.399 it is. Oh, I've got this going on in my life. I'm 64 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:38.879 no longer a friend of God. I think a bunch of us, me 65 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.160 included. I think a bunch of us that are friends of God, worshiping 66 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.399 God, loving God, passionate for God, broken by God, want more 67 00:06:47.439 --> 00:07:00.360 of God. Also struggle at times with having methodologies and processes in our life 68 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:11.040 that actually cause God to be our enemy in that category. And that's part 69 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.800 of the work of sanctification. Is the washing of the Word, is that 70 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:20.360 He embraces us recovered by the righteousness of Jesus, not our own. I'm 71 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:26.920 not the righteous one. I guarantee, I'm not the righteous one. He's 72 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:32.040 the righteous one. He covers me with his righteousness. And then he opens 73 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:38.240 the robe and scoops out the crowd every so often as the robe of righteousness 74 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.839 is covering over my cride, bringing me into acceptance with Father, where I 75 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.519 can still have communion with Father and be washed by the washing of the Word. 76 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:57.720 Thank the Lord for the washing of the Word. Anybody ever get washed? 77 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.600 I was getting washed this morning. I was getting washed by the washing 78 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:13.319 of the Word this morning. So do you think for no reason? The 79 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.639 scripture says that he jealously longs for the spirit that he's calls to dwell in 80 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:26.120 us, but he gives more grace. That's why Scripture says God opposes the 81 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.839 proud, but shows favor to the humble. So submit yourselves therefore to God 82 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:37.720 resists the devil. Oh, it's not just you. It's not just you. 83 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.519 It's not like you've got this. It's not like you're purposing to destroy 84 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:50.720 yourself. It's not just you. Sometimes we're actually deceived. Sometimes we're actually 85 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:58.360 being moved by things outside of us our own mindset. Things are moving us 86 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.639 and we don't even know we're moved, but then we act out in ways 87 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:11.720 that it poses God. Therefore it's seen as pride, and he has to 88 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:20.480 resist us. He can't dispense grace when we're partnering with the world's system or 89 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:31.399 the way the world thinks. As you know, you saw him by the 90 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:39.039 video. The cute, precious thing that I started smooching forty two years ago 91 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:50.879 is in Mexico, and so I had really good intentions. But the kitchen 92 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.480 looks like a bomb went off, and I sent her a video of the 93 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.919 kitchen last night. I thought she'd really like to see that. So I 94 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:03.039 swept every count top, you know, with the camera, and I'm like 95 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.440 a bomb went off in the kitchen. And she did not say I'll have 96 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:09.840 it cleaned up when I get home. She didn't say I'll take care of 97 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:22.600 you on Thursday. She said, you've got till Wednesday. I am married 98 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.960 to one tough nut, and so all right, thank you, love. 99 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.000 But I told her I got other bad news. She said, what's that. 100 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:37.440 I said, I've gained weight. So I wanted to talk to you 101 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:46.559 this morning about three appetites, the eating appetite, the sex appetite, the 102 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:54.159 prosperity appetite. So all of these appetites, like we can be moved upon 103 00:10:54.840 --> 00:11:01.799 by the unclean realm, and some times it's due to I told her, 104 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.200 its loneliness. Why I have one piece of chicken when you can have two. 105 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:16.840 The satisfaction lasts longer. And then she buys these dark chocolate chips and 106 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.360 I know exactly where they're sitting on the pantry. And then we never eat 107 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.679 ice cream, but there was a carton in the freezer. We never eat 108 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.000 it, so it starts getting old. But I figured I could scoop past 109 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:37.919 the old stuff and find something good. She wasn't there. The regulator was 110 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:50.320 gone. Glory to God. Here's the crazy thing with these appetites. God 111 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:56.200 gives us these appetites, and the enemy knows that an appetite is a vulnerability. 112 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:03.120 An appetite is a vulnerability. And even when you drive out or confront 113 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.159 the unclean realm, the appetite doesn't go away. So it's a vulnerability. 114 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.639 At five o'clock again, it's a vulnerability. I don't know when you have 115 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.200 dinner, but it's around five at my house because if we eat later, 116 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.440 we get fatter, So we got to eat soon, right, So I 117 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.200 don't know, come on, and so then you know there's going to be 118 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.200 another meal, and another meal creates a and don't take me to those all 119 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:37.759 you can eat buffet things. Don't take me there because I will blimp right 120 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.639 up. It won't be good, right because I need help with self control, 121 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:52.080 right. And so I'm just saying that the enemy knows we've got these 122 00:12:52.159 --> 00:13:01.759 vulnerabilities. And sometimes our vulnerabilities are fed by loneliness, reject depression, sorrow, 123 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:13.320 self loathing, lack of fulfillment, the need to feel good. I 124 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.559 mean, there's things that partner with these appetites. With regard to the enemy 125 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:26.159 impressing himself upon her appetites to where all at once, now the appetite is 126 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:33.000 getting more attention than the lord. And we've lifted the appetite above the lord. 127 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.519 And now when the appetite is telling what the lord what to do instead 128 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.519 of the Lord, remember that it's he's called lord because he's supposed to be 129 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:50.399 in charge. But if your appetites in charge instead of the Lord's in charge, 130 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:58.840 now all at once we have an idol. And what I really want 131 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:05.799 to talk about was money, because the money appetite. A lot of times 132 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:11.399 we don't realize this, We don't realize that we literally have a god given 133 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:18.600 appetite to prosper. Do you have a God given appetite to be fruitful? 134 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.559 It's one of the first commandments in the garden, be fruitful, be fruitful. 135 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:30.519 God hired hardwired you to prosper, to be fruitful, to increase, 136 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:39.000 to build, to plant, to grow. God hired hardwired you with that 137 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:46.759 appetite. But that appetite also creates a vulnerability because the enemy says, shouldn't 138 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.360 you partner with me? Shouldn't you partner with a little cheating? Shouldn't you 139 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.639 partner with a little exaggeration. Shouldn't you partner with a little lying? Shouldn't 140 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.000 you partner with a little bit of theft? Shouldn't you partner? I mean, 141 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.440 you really don't. They aren't even there collecting. We'll just walk on 142 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:13.559 through. Shouldn't you just walk on through? There's always, continually every day, 143 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.759 even if you think you're delivered of the unclean realm, there are every 144 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:26.000 day opportunities for you to partner with the unclean realm in a new, fresh, 145 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:35.519 wonderful way. I didn't mean wonderful, That was facetious. But what 146 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:41.000 we have to remember is that when we partner with the unclean realm concerning money, 147 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:50.879 now we're circumventing the grace. So we might have grace for healing, 148 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.879 we might have grace for health, we might have grace for salvation, we 149 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.919 might have grace for love, we might have grace for kindness, we might 150 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:08.320 have grace for other stuff. But if our partnership with the methods of the 151 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:18.799 world concerning money are lifted up in that appetite and the fulfillment of that appetite, 152 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:26.000 now God has to resist us. So other things could be pretty good. 153 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:33.879 But God's resisting us in the money realm because our thinking is wrong, 154 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:45.039 our partnerships are wrong. We're engaging in worldly methodology, which he sees as 155 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:53.879 pride instead of humility. And so the grace from God, not the grace 156 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.879 from the sinners, not the grace from other people, maybe not the grace 157 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:07.359 in this and that, the grace from God for you to increase stops flowing. 158 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:17.480 And the Bible calls it the love of money. The Bible calls it 159 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:22.200 the love of mammon. The Bible calls it the exalting of Mammon, trusting 160 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:29.839 in Mammon instead of trusting in God. We used to trust in God. 161 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.559 It was on our money. But now that every store is opened on the 162 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:37.640 Sabbath or on Sunday, we know we really don't trust in God anymore as 163 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:49.799 a nation, because we've elevated our prosperity above sanctifying his name. But we 164 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.880 can do this ourselves. We can do this personally. We can do this 165 00:17:53.319 --> 00:18:00.880 in our own experience, where we elevate making money or spring above what it 166 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.440 is to serve him, lift him up, make his name great, and 167 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:15.799 trust him so that he releases the shalom of increase over our heart and leads 168 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:22.359 us into prosperity. You, okay, I need to wind this up because 169 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:29.319 we're going to baptize people and they are going to partner with Holy Spirit to 170 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:37.759 put the unclean realm to death in the waters of baptism. Amen. Four 171 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:47.400 steps in two minutes. If you're getting baptized, I'm going to dismiss you 172 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.319 to begin to prepare. And then are we coming right up to the front? 173 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.599 Are we going around the building? We're walking right up here. Okay, 174 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:02.359 so let's do that. And you that are dunking, come on up 175 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:11.319 and get ready. The band, the polease come up and get ready. 176 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.000 Roman chapter six, verse six says that we present ourselves dead to sin. 177 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:27.000 Everybody say I'm dead to sin. That means when the temptation comes, the 178 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:36.880 temptation to feed an appetite, an eating appetite, a sexual appetite, a 179 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:45.160 prosperity appetite, when that temptation comes defeated with an illicit or an unclean method. 180 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.599 You remember something. What do you remember? I'm dead to sin. 181 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.920 I'm dead des sin. Say it with me, I'm dead. Descend number 182 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:03.160 two. We meditate on his word. Part of the reason that Joshua was 183 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.480 told meditate on my word day and night and never let it depart from you. 184 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:15.240 Is because your appetites don't go away, and you're attempted to fulfill them 185 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:22.720 with unclean methods day and night, day and night, moment by moment. 186 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:34.319 So Joshua one six through a meditate on my word, Meditate on my promises, 187 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:42.440 day and night, never let them depart from your mind or from your 188 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:51.960 word. Why because the enemy is right there twenty four to seven to draw 189 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.839 you away, to feed those appetites in an unclean way, which will stop 190 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.960 the grace of God. So we feed on his promises. Number three. 191 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:08.480 I'll just give you three. Number three. Take every thought captive to the 192 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:17.039 obedience of Christ. Say it with me. Take every thought, Take every 193 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:22.759 thought captive? Say it again, Take every thought captive? How many thoughts 194 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:32.480 do I take captive? What am I taking? These thoughts captive to the 195 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:38.000 victory of Christ, the promises of Christ, the anointing of Christ, the 196 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:45.519 enablement of Christ, the thoughts of Christ, the superiority of Christ, the 197 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.960 testimony of Christ over me before the Father. Take how many thoughts captive? 198 00:21:52.559 --> 00:22:00.640 And bring those thoughts in to obedience. When I do that, I'm exercising 199 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:07.079 the weapons of warfare to put the enemy under my feet. When I do 200 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.960 that, I'm exercising the weapons of my warfare to put the enemy under my 201 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.119 feet. Stay it with me. This morning, Frank and Angelo are going 202 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.160 to lead us out and our baptisms. Come on up, would you please, 203 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.279 we'll just prepare for that. Moms and dads, if you want kids 204 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:32.839 in here from Nitro or Kingdom kids, as soon as I finish my prayer, 205 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:34.640 go back and get them and bring them out and come right up to 206 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:40.440 the front. Moms and dads, bring Nitra kids in and Kingdom kids in. 207 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:49.200 Say this with me, Holy Spirit, I agree with you that I'm 208 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:56.720 dead to the old nature. I have no obligation to listen to it. 209 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:07.640 That natures and buried in the waters of baptism, and I disregard its voice. 210 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:14.720 I silence the enemy speaking through it. I'm as good as dead to 211 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:21.680 sin, and sin is dead to me. Holy Spirit. I thank you 212 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:26.920 that you've filled your word, and you're filling my heart with the promises from 213 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:36.920 above to satisfy every appetite better than any method Satan can offer. I receive 214 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:42.960 your promises. I meditate on your word day and night. I never let 215 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:51.160 anything but your word dominate my heart and mind and holy spirit. I take 216 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:56.759 every thought captive, I regulate and watch over every thought, and I bring 217 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:06.519 it into the obedience of the supreme victorious One who's giving me victory and pouring 218 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:11.000 out his grace upon me. In Jesus' name. Give the Lord a thank offering.