Speaker 1: Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue
Speaker 1: in our riveting journey through the series The Invisible War.
Speaker 2: In it will explore the.
Speaker 1: Unseen world of good and evil and see how it
Speaker 1: impacts our day to day existence. Join us for eye
Speaker 1: opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our
Speaker 1: lives in ways we never imagined. Right now, here's Pastor
Speaker 1: Rick Warren with the final part of a message called
Speaker 1: winning the Battle inside Me.
Speaker 3: Second preliminary step to ending the battle going on inside
Speaker 3: of you and winning the battle, I must detect and
Speaker 3: disarm the lie I'm believing. I must detect and disarm.
Speaker 2: The lie that I'm believing.
Speaker 3: You need to understand that the number one way Satan
Speaker 3: messes up your life is by suggesting lies to you
Speaker 3: or to get you to lie to yourself. And that's
Speaker 3: the number one way you mess up your own life
Speaker 3: is lying to yourself. Every time you expose and challenge
Speaker 3: a lie that you've listened to in your mind, you're
Speaker 3: going to be further set free every time you sin.
Speaker 3: You might write this down. In fact, look at this verse.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, if we claim to be without sin,
Speaker 3: we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He's saying there that sin causes us to deceive ourselves,
Speaker 3: and deception causes us to sin. Now, we all tell
Speaker 3: ourselves lies all the time, all the time. In fact,
Speaker 3: one of the big lies that you tell yourself is
Speaker 3: this one. It's not really a problem. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not really a problem. My finances, they're not really
Speaker 3: a problem. Our sex life, it's not really a problem.
Speaker 2: My kids.
Speaker 3: It's not really a problem. My work, not really my temper,
Speaker 3: my foul mouth, my thought life, my little secret habit
Speaker 3: over here in the corner.
Speaker 2: It's not really a problem. Who are you kidding?
Speaker 3: The Bible says, if we claim to be without sin,
Speaker 3: we deceive ourselves, and.
Speaker 2: The truth is not in us.
Speaker 3: So let me just ask you this real blunt question,
Speaker 3: is somebody who loves you, what are you pretending isn't
Speaker 3: a problem in your life? What are you pretending not
Speaker 3: to know? What are you pretending isn't a problem in
Speaker 3: your marriage? Isn't a problem in your personality? And you
Speaker 3: don't want to admit it. The Bible tells us that
Speaker 3: if I'm going to win this battle, I have to
Speaker 3: stop lying to myself, and I've got to stop listening
Speaker 3: to Satan's lives. And I want you to write down
Speaker 3: a couple important things. We'll go into these in deeper
Speaker 3: detail in following weeks. Behind every self defeating act is
Speaker 3: a lie I have believed. Behind every self defeating act
Speaker 3: is a lie that I have believed. Either I lie
Speaker 3: to myself or or I let Satan lie to me.
Speaker 2: You see, we have an amazing.
Speaker 3: Ability to lie to ourselves and to convince ourselves of
Speaker 3: things that aren't true. Look at this verse up here
Speaker 3: on the screen Jeremiah seventeen to nine. The heart is
Speaker 3: deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Speaker 2: Who can understand it? What does it mean?
Speaker 3: The heart is deceitful? We have an amazing ability to
Speaker 3: lie to ourselves. The biggest liar you know is you,
Speaker 3: And the person you lie to the most is yourself.
Speaker 3: The person I lie to the most is myself. I
Speaker 3: tell myself things are right when they're not right. I
Speaker 3: tell myself things are okay when they're not okay. I
Speaker 3: often tell myself things are not okay when they are okay.
Speaker 3: And you do this all the time, and we rationalize
Speaker 3: and we minimize and we make excuses and we tolerate
Speaker 3: things in ourys going.
Speaker 2: It's no big deal. It's no big deal.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to get free and if you're
Speaker 3: going to have victory in this number two, write this down.
Speaker 3: To stop defeating myself, I must stop deceiving myself. To
Speaker 3: stop defeating myself, all those self defeating things in my
Speaker 3: life that.
Speaker 2: I don't like about me that I'd like to change.
Speaker 3: To stop defeating myself, I have to stop deceiving myself.
Speaker 3: I must become a person of the truth. I stop denying,
Speaker 3: I stop rationalizing, stop minimize. Is going to stop excusing
Speaker 3: and stop tolerating.
Speaker 2: Again. Let me ask you a very blunt question.
Speaker 3: What self destructive behavior in your life are you putting
Speaker 3: up with? And you know it's bad for you, and
Speaker 3: you know it's gonna cut years off your life, and
Speaker 3: you know it's going to hurt you in the long run,
Speaker 3: and you know it may red destroy a relationship.
Speaker 2: But you justify it. What is the truth?
Speaker 3: You need to admit? This is the second step to
Speaker 3: winning the battle. Jesus said this next verse. When you
Speaker 3: know the truth, the truth.
Speaker 2: Will what But first it will make you miserable.
Speaker 3: The truth makes you miserable as long as you deny it.
Speaker 3: The truth does not free you until you admit it.
Speaker 2: As long as you deny the.
Speaker 3: Truth, it doesn't help you. In fact, it just makes
Speaker 3: you mad. The truth makes you mad, and the truth
Speaker 3: makes you miserable. It is only when you are humble
Speaker 3: enough to admit it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is really what I am.
Speaker 3: And yeah, this is really what I do, and yeah
Speaker 3: this is really a compulsion, an addiction, a habit, a
Speaker 3: problem in my marriage, in my life, or whatever. When
Speaker 3: you admit the truth, then it sets you free. It
Speaker 3: doesn't set you free until you admit it. We'll come
Speaker 3: back to this in future weeks. I delete or detect
Speaker 3: and disarm the lie that I'm believing. The Bible says
Speaker 3: Satan is the father of lies. All he can do
Speaker 3: is lie to you. It's the only way can influence
Speaker 3: is you can suggest lies that Jesus said, I am
Speaker 3: the truth. You got to decide whether you're going to
Speaker 3: listen to God's truth or the world's lies, or Satan's
Speaker 3: lives or your own lives. Number Three, The third thing
Speaker 3: I need to do to get started in overcoming this
Speaker 3: battle is I must declare my struggle to another. Declare
Speaker 3: my struggle what I'm struggling with to another. I'm struggling
Speaker 3: with my mouth. I'm struggling with my mind. I'm struggling
Speaker 3: with my memory. I'm struggling with my behavior. I'm struggling
Speaker 3: with my secret addiction.
Speaker 2: I'm struggling with and and you.
Speaker 3: The Bible says we just share it. Sharing, revealing your
Speaker 3: feeling is the beginning of healing. Now, if all you
Speaker 3: want to do is be forgiven, you just admit it
Speaker 3: to God. But if you want to change and you
Speaker 3: want to be healed and you want to be different,
Speaker 3: God says you're gonna have to admit it to one
Speaker 3: other person. You don't have to admit it to everybody.
Speaker 3: Just all you need to do is have one person
Speaker 3: who's gonna love you unconditionally, accept it, pray for you.
Speaker 3: They're going to be an accountability partner. They're gonna be
Speaker 3: a uh you know, nobody goes into battle fight in
Speaker 3: a war by themselves. You go with the team, You
Speaker 3: go with a platoon. You need a battle buddy. You
Speaker 3: need one person in your life that your gut level
Speaker 3: honestly frank with, and you can share that with and
Speaker 3: if it's not your husband or your wife, then if
Speaker 3: you're a woman, you need to get another woman to
Speaker 3: share it with. If you're a guy, you need to
Speaker 3: get another guy to share it with.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 3: Go look, I just need to tell you I'm struggling
Speaker 3: with this. And by doing that, the relief valve is
Speaker 3: opened and the pressure is off, and.
Speaker 2: The boogeyman isn't as big as you thought he was.
Speaker 3: Now the Bible claims this James five point sixteen. Confess
Speaker 3: your sins to each other and pray for each other
Speaker 3: so that God can heal you. When a believing person prays,
Speaker 3: great things happen. Now he says, confess it, not to God.
Speaker 3: It says, confess to each other and pray for each other,
Speaker 3: and then you'll be healed. Now we've talked about this
Speaker 3: verse dozens and dozens of times. Here settle back, So
Speaker 3: I want us to memorize this verse today, just the
Speaker 3: first part of it. So look up here on the
Speaker 3: screen James five sixteen. Remember the hardest part is to
Speaker 3: remember the address where the verse is in the Bible.
Speaker 3: So you always say the address at the beginning and
Speaker 3: at the end of the verse, and you'll memorize the
Speaker 3: verse by saying it aloud over and over. You don't
Speaker 3: remember something by saying it silently. You only memorize it
Speaker 3: by saying it aloud. So you write it on a
Speaker 3: card and then you read it over and over till
Speaker 3: you get it down. So let's say this together, James
Speaker 3: five sixteen. Confess your sins to each other and pray
Speaker 3: for each other, so God can heal you. And where
Speaker 3: is that verse found? James five sixteen? Now today our
Speaker 3: memory verses what verse James five sixteen? And what does
Speaker 3: James five sixteen say? Confess your sins to each other
Speaker 3: and pray for.
Speaker 1: Each other so God can heal you?
Speaker 2: James five sixteen.
Speaker 3: I want you to write that down in a card,
Speaker 3: and I want you to say it every day this week.
Speaker 3: Revealing your feeling is the beginning of healing. Confess your
Speaker 3: sins to each other and pray for each other, so
Speaker 3: God can heal you. Now, one last version will close.
Speaker 3: Galatians five sixteen says this, live according to your new
Speaker 3: life in the Holy Spirit. Circle that phrase in the
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Live your according to your new life in
Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. Then you won't do what your sinful
Speaker 3: nature craves. Now The difference between Roman seven, which is
Speaker 3: a picture of total defeat, and the picture of Romans eight,
Speaker 3: which is a picture of a man or woman in total.
Speaker 2: Victory, is this word spirit.
Speaker 3: In Roman seven, the phrase holy Spirit is never mentioned,
Speaker 3: not one instead forty one times. We have I, me,
Speaker 3: my myself, mind, all these personal pronouns. It's all about me,
Speaker 3: it's not about the spirit. In Romans chapter eight, the
Speaker 3: word spirit is mentioned nineteen times.
Speaker 2: And that's the difference.
Speaker 3: Is whether you are going by my spirit are going
Speaker 3: by the Holy Spirit to empower me. An example, let's
Speaker 3: say you and I go down to the lagoon of
Speaker 3: this afternoon and we're walking on the beach and I
Speaker 3: see a dead seagull, and the seagull has only been
Speaker 3: dead less than a minute, still warm. And I pick
Speaker 3: up this dead seagull. Now it's still got the same muscles, bones, feathers,
Speaker 3: wings that it had a minute earlier. But I pick
Speaker 3: up that dead seagull and I throw it up into
Speaker 3: the air, and what happens It comes right back down.
Speaker 3: Why because the life is going out of it. It
Speaker 3: is not the muscle, it is not the bones, it
Speaker 3: is not the wings, It is not the feathers. That
Speaker 3: makes a seagull fly. It is the life that God
Speaker 3: puts into it. And when the life, when the spirit
Speaker 3: is out of that bird, it ain't flying.
Speaker 2: It's still got all it's all the same equipment, but
Speaker 2: it's not going to fly.
Speaker 3: You have the equipment to live a successful, victorious life,
Speaker 3: but it's not worth anything if you don't have the
Speaker 3: spirit powering you to do it.
Speaker 2: You cannot do it on your own.
Speaker 3: If there's anything I want you to understand this week
Speaker 3: as we start this very long series on spiritual warfare
Speaker 3: and understanding the deeper things of God and getting to
Speaker 3: know Him better, is willpower doesn't work. It's like throwing
Speaker 3: a dead bird in the air. It's got all the equipment,
Speaker 3: but it can't fly without the spirit of God in it,
Speaker 3: without the life that God puts in it. And you
Speaker 3: can go out and have all the best intentions and
Speaker 3: make all the promises to yourself which you have broken
Speaker 3: over and over and over because you cannot do it
Speaker 3: on your own. You cannot be like Christ. You have
Speaker 3: to let Christ live through you. We'll be talking about
Speaker 3: that in the days ahead. And what the spirit does
Speaker 3: is two things the spirit does for me the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit does for me the things I cannot do on
Speaker 3: my own.
Speaker 2: I don't have that power.
Speaker 3: And second, he fulfills in me what God desires to
Speaker 3: do in my life. Now, resolutions are good, they're a
Speaker 3: good start, but they'll only get you so far. Then
Speaker 3: you've got to have spirit power in your life.
Speaker 2: That's power. Heads.
Speaker 3: Now, all of our best intentions are not good enough.
Speaker 3: The alcoholic who says I'll never take another drink, and
Speaker 3: the violent person who says I'll never lose my temper again,
Speaker 3: and person controlled by porn who says I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: never gonna look at it again is going to fail.
Speaker 3: How many promises to yourself have you broken?
Speaker 2: A lot?
Speaker 3: The only way to win this battle against the first enemy,
Speaker 3: the old nature, is.
Speaker 2: To let the Holy Spirit do it.
Speaker 3: Now, you're never going to get to the victory of
Speaker 3: chapter eight until you experience the frustration of chapter seven
Speaker 3: and you finally realize you can't live the Christian life
Speaker 3: on your own power.
Speaker 2: So what's your problem?
Speaker 3: Temper, impatience, self control, being honest, fought life, pride, laziness,
Speaker 3: self centeredness. You know, every one of us have our
Speaker 3: skeletons in the closet. The problem is that skeletons don't
Speaker 3: stay in the closet, and you want to do the
Speaker 3: right thing, but you end up doing wrong, and that's frustrating.
Speaker 2: So it may as well be honest and say it
Speaker 2: isn't working.
Speaker 3: Me trying to flap my wings against gravity is like
Speaker 3: me trying to live a life that's good on.
Speaker 2: My own power.
Speaker 3: God has given you a new nature if you've invited
Speaker 3: Christ into your life. But we are still sinners after
Speaker 3: we believe, and there is that battle between the two dogs.
Speaker 3: Some of you really feel defeated today and you say,
Speaker 3: I feel like giving up. And my answer to you
Speaker 3: is good, give up. Stop trying to do it on
Speaker 3: your own. You cannot be Jesus Christ. Nobody can be
Speaker 3: Jesus like Jesus can, and He can live through you
Speaker 3: if you will let his spirit empower you with new
Speaker 3: life and it will lift you, lift you up out
Speaker 3: of the cycle of sin. I want you to pray
Speaker 3: this prayer right now. Dear God, you know the confusion
Speaker 3: in my life.
Speaker 2: You know the frustration I feel.
Speaker 3: You know the guilt and the shame, You know the
Speaker 3: compulsions and habits and addictions, and you know how many
Speaker 3: times I've made promises to myself and to you that
Speaker 3: I haven't kept. Today I realize that I have two
Speaker 3: natures inside of me, and they are at war. I
Speaker 3: ask you to use this series to help.
Speaker 2: Me have victory.
Speaker 3: Deepen my understanding of what Jesus Christ has done for me,
Speaker 3: show me how to let go and how to let
Speaker 3: your spirit live through me.
Speaker 2: And this week, help me.
Speaker 3: To challenge the lies that Satan puts in my mind,
Speaker 3: and to challenge the lies that I tell myself, to
Speaker 3: detect them and to disarm them, to stop deceiving myself.
Speaker 3: I want to know the truth about me, and I
Speaker 3: want it to set me free and help me to
Speaker 3: have the courage to declare my struggle to one other person,
Speaker 3: a battle buddy, a co worker, a friend in arms
Speaker 3: fighting their battle too, and may I be offer unconditional
Speaker 3: love and receive it. Help me to confess my sins
Speaker 3: to others and pray for others so that God may
Speaker 3: heal me and help me to live according to your
Speaker 3: new life in the Holy Spirit. If you've never invited
Speaker 3: Jesus into your life for the first time, you don't
Speaker 3: have any resources.
Speaker 2: You need to say Jesus Christ, come into my life
Speaker 2: right now, live in me.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it all, but I want to learn
Speaker 3: to trust you, love you, follow you, and most important,
Speaker 3: let you live through me by your spirit.
Speaker 2: I pray this in your name. Amen.
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