August 27, 2025 • 50 mins
The battle for your heart isn't just spiritual theory—it's the daily reality that determines whether you'll experience the abundant life Jesus promised or wander in a spiritual desert. In this challenging exploration of 1 Corinthians 10, we confront the limited "shelf life" of the self-life and discover why self-trust is the greatest obstacle to experiencing God's blessings.
Drawing powerful parallels between the Israelites' journey from Egypt to the Promised Land and our own spiritual journey, we uncover a sobering truth: just as millions were rescued from slavery yet only two entered the land of promise, many believers today experience salvation but miss out on the fruitful life God intends. Why? Because they continue trusting in themselves rather than fully trusting in Christ.
At its core, this message exposes the fundamental difference between religion and relationship with Jesus. Religion—with all its rules, rituals, and self-effort—is ultimately faith in yourself and your ability to earn God's favor. True Christianity flips this approach entirely, inviting us to trust exclusively in what Jesus has done rather than what we can do. This distinction changes everything.
What makes the self-life so dangerous is how it masquerades as wisdom. Our hearts naturally crave satisfaction, meaning, and relief from pain—legitimate desires God placed within us. But we face a critical choice: will we trust Jesus to fulfill these longings, or will we turn to idols? Every temptation we face is fundamentally a temptation to idolatry—to look somewhere else for what only Jesus can provide.
Ready to escape the frustration of the self-life and experience the promised land of God's abundant grace? Join us as we discover how complete surrender to Christ—not partial commitment—is the pathway to the life your heart truly desires. Subscribe now and share this message with someone struggling to find true satisfaction in their spiritual journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, today we're going to study 1
Corinthians, chapter 10.
We're going to get through thewhole chapter again.
Look at us, don't worry, we'regoing to slow down massively
here soon, but we're gettingthrough all of chapter 10 today,
so I'm excited.
Father, we ask that you wouldopen our hearts and our minds to
understand wonderful thingsfrom your word, jesus.
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You are perfect, you are loving, you are the air that we
breathe, you are the rock onwhich we stand.
Jesus, we lay down all of ourburdens to you.
We pray for all these thingsthat we need your help, but,
above all, we have been calledto intimacy with our Father
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through Jesus Christ, and so Ipray that we would truly know
you and Jesus, that you wouldlive through us In your name.
We pray Amen.
Today's sermon is called theShelf Life of the Self Life.
The Shelf Life of the Self Life.
Say that 10 times fast in yourspare time.
All right, we're going towhoever coined the term
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expiration date.
I think they really missed theboat.
I think they missed a realopportunity.
That should have been called aspoiler alert.
All right, so we are going to belooking at some examples in
this chapter, chapter 10 of 1Corinthians of why the self-life
must be denied in a Christianso for you to be able to
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discover who God has made you tobe and called you to be in the
life that he has for you.
There's a competition going onfor your attention, for your
heart, and you're only going tobe able to discover what God has
for you if you deny acompetition going on for your
attention, for your heart, andyou're only going to be able to
discover what God has for you ifyou deny the self-life, the
self-life.
What is the self-life?
Well, we'll see as we go.
So Paul is going to be pointingthe church back to the book of
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Exodus as we go through this, toteach them the dangers of the
self-life.
Self-life is self-trust, or youcould say, self-sufficiency,
self-sufficiency.
Now we hear all the time in theworld that self-sufficiency is
a good thing, and in some waysit is a good thing Keeps you
from dropping cups, keeps youfrom having your phone.
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Just kidding, self-trust seemslike it's an okay thing, but in
our spiritual lives, self-trustalienates us from the life of
God.
It's the self-life and that'sthe way of religion.
Religion is self-life.
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What do you mean?
Well, religion, it's the way ofreligion, not the way of Jesus.
Okay, I hate religion.
Anyone else hate religion.
I hate religion.
I am not religious.
People are like you're a pastor, you're religious and I'm like,
absolutely not.
I am as far from religious asyou can get, but I love Jesus
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and I have a relationship withJesus, because being a Christian
is not a religion, all thereligions in the world.
That's not what this is.
This is a relationship with Godthrough faith in Jesus instead
of faith in yourself.
That's what's different Everyother religion.
You are working your way to God.
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It depends on you, what you do.
You meditate enough, youenlighten enough, you work
enough, you serve enough, yougive enough.
It's all about you and yourgood works.
But with Jesus, he says no, Iinvite you into relationship
through faith.
You just have to trust what Ido, not what you do, what I do,
and you're free.
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You're my child and I come andlive through you.
So religion is mostly faith inyourself and in your works to
prove yourself to God, whereasChristianity is faith in Jesus
instead of yourself.
Let me just say that againChristianity is faith in Jesus
instead of yourself.
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You know what doesn't like that?
Our pride, our thinking thatwe're pretty cool, that we have.
You know we got it going on.
That doesn't work with Jesus.
With Jesus, you have to bebroken, which is called humility
, broken of the self-life, ofthat self-trust.
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I'm forgiven because Jesus diedfor me and I trust in that
death.
I'm made a new person becauseJesus gave me a new heart,
because Jesus was raised to life.
He shares that life with methrough his Holy Spirit.
That's the new life we get.
So, with all that being said,that's the big picture of what's
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going on.
The self-life is religion.
We are not that.
We have a relationship with Godthrough Jesus.
So let's begin reading.
He says in 1 Corinthians 10,moreover, brethren, I do not
want you to be unaware that allour fathers were under the cloud
and all passed through the seaand all were baptized into Moses
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.
In the cloud and in the sea,all ate the same spiritual food
and all drank the same spiritualdrink.
For they drank that spiritualrock that followed them, and
that rock was Christ.
So Paul points the people backto the children of Israel being
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rescued from Egypt.
You guys all remember that Godrescued them.
If you haven't read the book ofExodus, watch the Prince of
Egypt.
It's a good cartoon.
Same story Good stuff.
It's a pretty good story.
It's filled with miracles andplagues and battles and a
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last-minute rescue.
Anyway, paul is helping hisfriends to see that we can miss
out on the blessings God wantsus to give us, that he's already
chosen to give us, if we choosethe self-life instead of faith
in Christ.
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Okay, that's our choice.
Your choice isn't.
I'm going to be a better person, I'm going to be a good person.
I'm going to try harder.
I'm going to be a goodChristian.
Those are not your choices.
Those are.
That's a fruitful life God willdevelop in your life if you
trust him.
Your choice is simply thisalways, I'm going to trust in
Jesus or I'm going to trust inmyself.
That is the entire battle thatwe have going on here.
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So he says all our fathers.
So everything that happened inthe Old Testament to the nation
of Israel was written as anexample to all of us.
Okay, so you have this smallgroup of people.
You know the nation of Israeland they were just you know.
But if you compare that withthe size of the church for the
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past 2,000 years, the church isthe big thing.
Okay, there's been billions ofpeople in the church, whereas
the nation of Israel was thesmall thing, but all of it was
written and all of it happenedvery specifically for our
example, and he's going to teachus why right here.
He says this group of people,symbolically, they got saved,
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just like you and I got saved.
So all of this is a picture orit's an illustration.
So picture them crossingthrough the Red Sea.
You remember what happened?
Pharaoh's army is barrelingdown on them.
God says Moses parts the seaand the sea goes up on either
side and they walk through themiddle.
God divides the ocean.
They walk across.
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It's a supernatural salvation,something man could never do.
That's the whole point.
Man couldn't do it.
They got saved.
We got saved in a way man couldnever do also.
So it says they were under thecloud and passed through the sea
, both water.
So there was a cloud thatfollowed them, that protected
them, and it was God's presenceand it was his glory and it
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would follow them wherever theywent.
It would actually lead them.
And both of these, he says, area picture of their baptism.
That means they started arelationship with God.
They got baptized.
He says all our fathers wereunder the cloud, passed through
the sea.
They were all baptized intoMoses in the cloud and in the
sea.
So they had an experience ofbaptism.
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It's something that theyexperienced.
And then it says they had somefood and drink.
So it says they all ate thesame spiritual food and drank
the same spiritual drink.
The same as what?
The same as us?
What is he talking about?
They drank from the spiritualrock which followed them, and
that rock was Christ.
So God fed them with manna fromheaven.
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Do you remember this?
It was angel food, and theywere complaining about being
hungry.
So God said here, here, angelfood.
And they were complaining aboutbeing hungry.
So God said here, here's food.
And he gave them food everymorning and they would go out
and get it and water would fall.
Did you get that picture?
So this picture.
Have you guys ever seen thisbefore?
So, at Mount Sinai, which is inArabia, at Jebel al-Laz, you can
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go on Google Earth and see allthis stuff.
They have found this rock rightat the base of Mount Sinai, and
this rock is the rock that theycamped at, that Moses struck.
It's called the Split Rock atHoreb.
Horeb is the name of themountain and you can see it.
There's thousands of picturesonline of this rock.
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All the rocks below it arewater washed, they are eroded as
if a giant water and the entirething flows into a basin that
would have been like even up tothree miles wide, where two
million people could have gottentheir water and bathed and
everything.
So this is the split rocketmorgue.
You can go there and you cansee it if you go to Saudi Arabia
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and don't get killed.
So it's there, okay, so wefound that today we know that
this is all true.
Moses struck this rock.
And what does this say?
He struck the rock and watercame out and it watered all the
people.
And it says the rock was Jesus.
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Now, does that mean the rockwas Jesus?
There's some people sitting inthe very bottom of the rock
right there.
Well, it means that Jesus.
It represents Jesus.
Jesus is with us.
Jesus provides all our water,but he had to be struck, right?
He had to be crucified andthat's how his life was able to
flow out of him into us.
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Is that he was struck?
Okay?
So we see both experiences.
They were baptized and they ateof the spiritual food and the
spiritual water, which speaks ofcommunion, baptism and
communion.
Baptism and communion these arethe two Christian sacraments.
You ever heard of sacraments?
I don't like that word becauseit sounds really churchy, but
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it's the things that we do toremember Jesus, to things we do
in our life to celebrate whatJesus has done for us.
Here's the thing.
This is the reason why I don'tlike sacraments in our world.
People fake it all the time.
Okay, so we haven't even takencommunion together, and even
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that is weird.
Communion is supposed to be ameal that we share together and
we remember Jesus while we eatthat meal.
We will get to where we'redoing that more often as a
church together, whether in biggroups or in small groups.
We'll figure it out.
Baptism is something that we'vedone.
I remember I baptized.
You helped with Matt, way to go, turtle Taylor, and baptism is
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something that we've done and wecelebrate.
But guess what?
People fake it all the time andsay they want to get baptized
and then they get baptized.
And then what happens?
If it was fake?
Does baptism save you?
No, does taking communion saveyou?
Absolutely not, because youcould have faith in communion
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and that's not Jesus.
You could have faith in baptismand that's not Jesus.
Those are both works.
They can be good works ifyou're celebrating Jesus, but
they aren't.
Works that save you?
Does that make sense?
So they had baptism andcommunion, which means they were
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saved.
They did religious things,things they can trust in.
But then what happens?
It says.
But with most of them God wasnot well pleased, for their
bodies were scattered in thewilderness.
So here's where we get to theimportant, crazy part.
They were supposed to go intothe promised land.
They were supposed to do that.
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This represents the victoriousChristian life, the life of
walking with God and serving Godand presenting yourself to God
and loving on him.
They were supposed toexperience the blessings of God,
but they completely missed outon it.
How many of the two millionpeople that went in to the
desert, how many of them made itto the promised land?
Anybody know?
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Two.
You were halfway there, half ofJesus, half of Jesus, point for
Nate.
There was two Aaron Huh, whatCaleb?
That's right.
Caleb and Joshua.
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I said Aaron.
I was wrong.
Aaron died.
Caleb and Joshua were the onlytwo, because they were the only
ones that really believed andtrusted in the Lord during that
time.
So they all missed out on it,and God wasn't happy that they
were missing out on it either.
He wanted them to go into thepromised land, just like God
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wants you to experience ablessed life.
I'm not saying that you'regoing to be rich.
That's not what we're talkingabout.
We're talking about a fruitfullife, a life that's valuable and
has glory or weight, a lifethat means something that you're
satisfied with, that he'ssatisfied with.
That is what his desire for.
So he wanted to give them thispromised land, but they wouldn't
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have it.
They chose not to believe inhim, and so they missed out on
all that God wanted to give them.
Now, again, they started arelationship with God, but they
couldn't continue in thatrelationship because they
wouldn't believe him fully.
So, yes, they were saved, butthey never entered in to the
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promised land.
Now, what does this say?
Why did all this happen?
Now, these things becameexamples to the intent that we
should not lust after evilthings, as they also lusted, and
do not become idolaters as someof them, as were some of them.
So the people of Israel and allthat happened to them and the
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choices they made, and God'swork with them it's all written
for you and for me to learn howto trust in Jesus today, in 2025
.
That is what this is all about.
How can I trust in God today?
Well, they and their mistakes.
It's going to give me warningsand it's going to give me
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teaching of how I can trust inGod today.
They made a really, really dumbchoice.
They made lots of dumb choices,but we do too, and I find that
you know, if we're not careful,we can destroy our own chance of
seeing all that God has in mindto bless us with.
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God wants to give you a futureand a hope.
That's his declared purpose.
He has a future and a hope foryou.
He wants to use you.
He has a special purpose.
Even if that means you're goingto die in some special way,
that can still be a specialpurpose.
Your life will have meaning.
Your life will have meaning.
Your life will not end withdeath.
You have so much that God wantsto give you.
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They made lots of dumb choices.
We can too.
His plans are to bless you witha future and a hope.
He wants you to know, above all, that you're his child and that
you are special.
He wants you to know that andto believe it.
We can sabotage ourselves bychoosing idols instead of Jesus
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in our life today.
In our life today, you cansabotage all the blessings that
God wants to give to your lifeby choosing idols.
Idols offer competing promiseswith God.
It's like you got a used carsalesman on one side and someone
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telling you the truth on theother side.
Idols offer fulfillment.
I hate shopping for cars, Doyou guys?
I'm not going to get into it.
Idols offer fulfillment.
You're going to be so happywith this car.
You're going to love what Ihave to give you.
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Idols offer joy.
Hey, you're going to be happy.
They offer meaning and value.
Your life will actually havemeaning.
If you get this thing, or havethis or do this, you'll have it.
They even offer healing of yourpain.
Oh, just partake in this andyou'll be set free.
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But they never deliver on theirpromises, and our hearts lust
after these things.
Our hearts want to be satisfied.
Now, is that necessarily wrong?
To want a life that'ssatisfying, to want to be happy?
No, the essence of that desirecomes from God.
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You want to have joy, but theway that it's offered to you is
two different ways.
There's the idol way or theJesus way.
Our hearts lust after the idolway.
We desire satisfaction, wedesire love, we desire value and
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joy.
We desire relief from the pain.
Jesus promises us that hisgrace is sufficient for all
these things, and more so.
He knows that you need some ofit, but your heart wants a lot.
But Jesus says I can satisfyall of it for you.
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You have to trust in me alone,though.
You can't trust in anythingelse.
Anything you trust in when youcould have trusted in Jesus is
an idol.
That's what idols are, so wejust defined it.
Anything that you could havetrusted in Jesus for, but you
turn to this thing instead, orthis person or this idea,
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whatever it is, that is an idol.
We have to choose to trust himor turn to an idol instead.
Everything we do is that choice.
An idol is anything we turn towhen we should have chosen Jesus
.
So how did they choose idols?
Let's look at what he says asit is written.
The people sat down to eat anddrink and rose up to play that
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is a little poem that they usedto say, for they participated in
sexually immoral things.
So he says so.
He says so.
The first example of theself-life is sexual fornication,
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sexual immorality.
He says this is the first wayyou can sabotage getting the
blessings God wants from you issexual immorality.
They chose to participate insinful relationships, and the
result was death.
23,000 people died in a day.
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So what's the lesson for us?
Sexual immorality, sexual sincan sabotage your life Because
your heart is committed topleasing itself instead of
trusting in Jesus to meet yourneeds.
So you can see that thepromised land that he wants to
give you.
But you can't get there becauseyou're choosing to trust in
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yourself and you won't trust inhim.
You won't believe in him.
Instead, you believe the idol.
Whatever the idol is, whateveryour sexual thing is.
That's immoral.
You trust in that thing.
That that's what I need to besatisfied, instead of Jesus
meets my need.
Jesus says I'm not just a goodguy that died for your sins, I'm
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God.
I bought your life.
I bought you Not because I'mmean and I want you to be my
slave, because I love you and Iwant what's best for you.
But make no mistake about it.
Your body is now my body andI'm sharing your body with you.
So I'm going with you into allthe dirty stuff you're getting
involved in and I don't like it.
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It grieves me.
So love is how he motivates usand how we can see his blessings
in our life.
I want you to turn over toHebrews, chapter 3.
In your Bibles and I don't haveit up on the screen but in
chapter 3 of Hebrews and chapter4, it's talking about this
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exact same time in history ofthe children of Israel, but it
gives us some really coolinformation.
Okay, so I'm going to start inchapter 3, verse 12.
Beware lest there be in any ofyou an evil heart of unbelief in
departing from the living God,but exhort one another daily,
while it is called today, lestany of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin.
So he's saying sin is reallydeceitful because you think
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you're going to be happy, butit's going to suck, you're going
to feel the pain.
So don't be deceived and youshould encourage each other to
believe what Believe.
Jesus meets your needs, notthis sin, this idol, for we have
all become partakers of Christ.
If we hold the beginning of ourconfidence steadfast to the end
, while it is said today, if wehold the beginning of our
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confidence steadfast to the endwhile it is said today, if you
will hear his voice, do notharden your hearts as in the
rebellion.
Then he brings in the childrenof Israel.
Right here.
He says for who, having heardrebelled?
Indeed, was it not all who cameout of Egypt, led by Moses.
Now, with whom was he angrythose 40 years?
Was it not with those whosinned, whose corpses fell in
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the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear theywould not enter his rest?
But to those who would not obey?
So we see that they could notenter because of unbelief.
Unbelief.
So then he says in verse 4,therefore, since a promise
remains of entering his rest,let us fear lest any of you seem
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to come short of it.
For indeed the gospel waspreached to us as well as to
them.
But the word which they hearddid not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in those whoheard it.
For we who have believed doenter that rest.
Okay.
So he says, we as a church weneed to.
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He doesn't tell you to beafraid of very much.
He doesn't say be afraid ofdictators and be afraid of the
government, or be afraid ofDemocrats or Republicans.
He never says that.
He says be afraid that youdon't enter into my rest.
What does that mean?
Be afraid that you don'tbelieve that I can meet your
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needs, if you don't believeJesus has already met your needs
, you're going to be strivingafter all the things, you're
going to be searching for lovein all the wrong places.
Searching for love in all thewrong places.
So the people in Israel theychose the self-life and God said
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they couldn't experience.
I was angry that they did thatbecause I wanted to bless them.
That was his purpose.
How many blessings have wethrown away?
How much peace have wesacrificed because we chose our
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own way?
How much of God's love are wemissing out on Because we refuse
to let go of all the stuff, allthe idols, the things we trust
in?
He says.
Nor let us tempt Christ back in1 Corinthians, as some of them
also tempted and were destroyedby serpents.
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Nor complain, as some of themcomplained and were destroyed by
the destroyer.
Okay, so this references twomore stories.
As they were in the desert,they're like God doesn't love us
.
They didn't believe God lovedthem, god cared for them.
They believed he was a harshdeity up in the sky up in heaven
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and he just wanted slaves anddeity up in the sky up in heaven
and he just wanted slaves andpeons to do his bidding.
And this isn't true.
And if you believe that, likethey did, it will kill your
spiritual life.
So God sent them snakes and thesnakes bit them, and everyone
who got bit by snakes was dying.
And all the people are dying.
If God doesn't love me, then Ineed to love myself, I need to
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take care of myself and beself-focused.
That's self-life 101.
And it's a snake.
It's a snake bite.
It will kill your spirituallife.
It leads to destruction.
By the way, what was thesolution?
God sent the snakes.
And then Moses is like can weget a salvation here?
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Can you save us too?
And God's like sure, make abronze snake, put it on a pole
and set it up, and everyone wholooks at the snake will be
healed.
So Moses makes a snake out ofbronze, puts it up on a stick,
and everyone who looked at itwas healed.
And 23,000 people still died.
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How stupid are you that youdon't want to just look at the
salvation God has given you?
What does that mean for ustoday?
Jesus was put up on a stick, ona cross.
Jesus became a snake.
He became sin for us, and weare commanded.
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Every human being is commanded.
Look at him, put your faith inhim and you will be healed.
You will be saved.
That is where all of it is at,not by you doing anything.
It's not what church you go to,it's not how many times you go
to church, it's not how muchmoney you give to church.
It is a free gift, it's yours.
He became sin for you so thatyou could be healed.
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And it's a beautiful, beautifulstory, it says.
Now, all these things happenedto them as examples.
They were written for ouradmonition upon whom the ends of
the ages have come.
Therefore, let him who thinkshe stands take heed lest he fall
.
What is he saying here?
We have to deny the self-lifeidols, so either we can enter
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into the promised land of God'sabundant life that Jesus has
promised us.
Denying these self-life idolsisn't work.
You're not working to get intothe promised land, it's simply
faith.
All you have to do is believeJesus is sufficient and he does
what he says he would do.
So how do we really get thisabundant life of grace?
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Well, we just learned.
Believe, that's faith andhumility.
I need it.
Just learned Belief, that'sfaith and humility.
I need it.
God, I believe I need you.
I don't need these other things, I need you.
That's humility and faith.
I'm going to trust you, notmyself.
Therefore, he says.
Therefore, let him who thinkshe stands take heed lest he fall
.
That's a great definition ofhumility, isn't it?
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I can't succeed if I trust inmyself.
He said that's how to live inHebrews.
We should all be afraid thatwe're going to live the
self-life.
We should be afraid that we'regoing to not enter his rest.
That's what this fear lookslike.
I'm scared that I'm going totrust in myself, because if I
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trust in myself, I'm going tomake a mess of my life, and
that's why we preach the gospelso forcefully and so
consistently.
These idols are tricky.
They're tricky, but if we havea heart of humility, we could
see the danger coming and we cancling to Jesus instead of
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falling into their traps,because he is where the blessing
and the safety is.
He will get us safely into thepromised land.
By the way, what was the nameof the guy that took the name
Petron of Israel into thepromised land?
Joshua, right.
And what's Jesus' name inHebrew?
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Joshua?
You think that's a mistake?
No, moses couldn't take theminto the promised land because
he represented law, religion,trying hard.
None of it could get you intothe promised land.
But Jesus can get you thereBecause he says here, no
temptation has overtaken you,except such as is common to man.
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So all this talk about idols?
Now he's going to tell us thisis how you resist those idols.
Every man is going to face thesame battle Will we trust in
Jesus or something else?
Are you going to trust in Jesusor are you going to trust in an
idol?
That's the temptation thatevery man is going to face.
There's always something else,there's always an alternative to
Jesus.
You can always find somethingelse to seek out life in, and
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our life or death is going to bedetermined by which we choose
to put our faith in.
Trust me, you're going to liveby faith, but you're either
going to live in faith in theidol, which is really faith in
myself, or faith in Jesus.
The idol will let you down,jesus will lift you up, it says.
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But God is faithful, who willnot allow you to be tempted
beyond what you are able, butwith the temptation, will also
make a way of escape that youmay be able to bear it.
One thing important to saythere is that God isn't tempting
you.
He's not bringing thetemptation, but he does allow
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the devil to tempt you.
Okay, satan is just doing whatGod allows him to do, and Satan
is serving a purpose right now,and the purpose is he can tempt
you so that your faith can berefined.
It's like a fire that refinesthe gold or the silver.
Satan is here.
He will tempt you to trust inall these other idols.
Tempt you to trust in all theseother idols, but Jesus says
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it's for a purpose and it's notgoing to be bigger than you can
bear.
Jesus is the way of escape fromany temptation to sin, and all
you have to do is look at thesnake.
What do you mean?
Look at the snake?
Remember Jesus became sin.
What do you mean?
Look at the snake.
Remember Jesus became sin.
Sin is why we are in suchtrouble, and when we look at
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Jesus, that sickness is healedin us, and so we've got to
remember that.
We remember his sacrifice,remember him dying on the cross,
and then his risen life is madeaccessible to us as we trust in
what he did, not what we did.
All temptation is really just atemptation to idolatry.
Look at something else.
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Look at this thing, this idea,this relationship, this
philosophy, this identity,before you look to Jesus.
It's an idol and you won't beable to experience what God has
for you.
The only solution is to liftour eyes in faith to Jesus.
It's never about trying harder,changing man's wisdom or, you
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know, things like accountabilitygroups or programs.
They can sometimes be helpful,but if our eyes are on something
the Bible says that we can do,he claims to be the only
solution to sin.
So then Paul says therefore, mybeloved, flee from idolatry.
See, idolatry is the key totemptation.
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My beloved, he says, flee fromidolatry.
So where do we flee fromidolatry?
To Jesus, just run to me.
Jesus says.
If you're tempted, run to me.
He will always be there to giveyou what you need.
The only reason we don't run tohim the Bible said in Hebrews 4,
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was unbelief.
We don't believe he's there andthat his arms are open to us or
that he's really willing tohelp or there's really salvation
with him.
Every time we don't run to him,it's because we didn't believe
that he was there and Jesus islike.
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That's why the battle is all inthe believing place, because if
you believe it's there, eachone of you is sitting in a chair
right now because you believethat it would hold you up and
that belief was not difficult.
It wasn't a work.
I didn't see anyone inspectingthe chairs to see is this going
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to bear the weight that Icontain?
No, every single one of youjust pulled it out and sat down
because your experience tellsyou it's accurate, it's going to
hold me, it's strong enough.
And Jesus is saying believe inme the same way, trust in me
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explicitly I will take care ofyou.
We think idols have somethingfor us, but Jesus says they
don't.
So why does Jesus always workwhen we're tempted?
Why does running to Jesusalways work when we're tempted?
Why does running to Jesusalways work when we're tempted?
Because of our union with him.
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That's why you share his lifeand only his life.
So, as a believer, you have noother life except Jesus.
You can't obtain life or findlife in any other source.
God will not share you with anidol.
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You can try, but you know whatyou will not find Peace, joy,
satisfaction.
Oh yeah, before you were saved,that tough stuff made you
really happy.
All the stuff, all thesinfulness.
It met your needs.
But once Jesus lives inside you, he will not allow those things
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to satisfy you in the long term.
Your peace will go bye-bye andyou will be like why am I so sad
?
Why am I discouraged?
Why am I depressed?
It's because we're trying tomeet our needs in something
that's an idol instead of Jesus.
He says this I speak as to wisemen.
So Paul's telling his churchlisten, you guys are smart,
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judge for yourselves what I say.
The cup of blessing which webless, is it not the communion
of the blood of Christ?
And the bread which we break,is it not the communion with the
body of Christ?
See what I said.
I said it was our union.
That's how this works, and hesays it right there.
It's our union.
We are in communion with Jesus.
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Where is our blessing?
Well, jesus brought it to uswith his blood and he gives it
to us as bread.
It's his blood.
He said literally I am thebread, the wine is my blood, my
life, it's me giving it to you.
His sacrifice and his life isthe only source for our life.
You don't need anything else.
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You don't really desireanything else as a Christian,
that is what your heart longsfor is his life and your life to
be lived as one.
Jesus says I love my Father andmy Father loves me, and now I'm
going to love you.
The exact same way.
We've been invited into thesame relationship Jesus had with
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his Father.
We have with our Father, withJesus, all together.
He says for we, though many,are one bread and one body, for
we all partake of that one bread.
So now he says all Christiansare unified together and with
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Jesus by eating his bread.
Which is what Jesus says if youwant to eat my body, drink my
blood.
And his disciples are likeyou're crazy, what is this
talking about?
And Jesus is like believe mywords.
That's what this is about.
If you believe my words, that'sthe same as eating my body and
drinking my blood.
Believe my words.
That's what brings all theunity in the church and connects
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us to God is when we believehis words.
And so back then they reallyunderstood this, because if you
ate a meal with someone, thesame bread that I eat and that
you eat becomes a part of us.
So it makes us one, it makes usunified because we ate at the
same table.
So you would never eat at thetable with your enemy, only
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people who you're like.
My life is just the same asyour life and I love you that
much.
Now, that's what eating a mealtogether symbolized.
So he says that's important tounderstand.
Observe Israel after the flesh.
Are not all who eat of thesacrifices, partakers of the
altar.
So the nation of Israel wasunified with God because they
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had faith in the sacrifices thepriest made.
So he's going to.
He's giving us all theseillustrations of unity, how our
union with each other.
When you eat a meal, you'reunified with each other.
The nation of Israel wasunified with God because they
trusted in the sacrifices.
So he's talking about all theseideas of unity.
They're all based on faith.
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If all these things cause aunion this is Paul's point If
all these things cause unionwhen you eat together and when
you believe in the sacrifice ofthe altar, if all these things
cause a union, then don't messwith idols.
That's what he says.
Don't mess with idols.
When you mess with idols,you're inviting major trouble,
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because you're unifying yourlife to a deadly thing, a poison
, through the self-life.
The self-life is a poisonedlife.
It's a sin.
Life, self-sufficiency is apoison.
So he says what am I saying then?
That an idol is anything, orwhat is offered to idols is
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anything?
He's saying, no, it's not aboutthem being magical, it's about
you being stupid and linkingyourself to sinful things.
He says, rather, the thingswhich the Gentiles sacrifice.
They sacrifice to demons, notto God and I do not want you to
have fellowship with demons.
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That's what Paul says.
He says.
That's why all of this isimportant.
When you fall to a temptation,you're chilling with a demon is
what he's saying, becausethey're the ones that inspire
that you won't go to hell orlose your salvation, but you
won't experience the promisedland either, and that is the
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worst place to be.
Demons are simply trying tokeep you from the fruitful life
of Jesus, so they'll offer youanything you will look at.
Let me tell you this Demons arenot concerned with Heathen Joe
on the street.
They've already got him.
All the spiritual battles inthis world are not with
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unbelievers.
They are with Christians.
To simply get you to notbelieve Jesus is your everything
.
That is all spiritual warfare.
They just want to offersomething else, and for pastors
they'll offer fame, respect.
They'll offer differentChristians, no matter what your
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role is.
It'll be money, influence,power, sex, all the different
things, idols, and they knowthey can't drag you to hell, so
they're just going to distractyou.
So your life at least doesn'tmake a difference here on this
earth, because they all knowthey're going to hell, but they
want to drag as many of us.
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Isn't it crazy that the soulsof men are worth so much that
both God and Satan aresingularly focused on us.
All of the spiritual world isfocused on men.
It's amazing.
He says here you cannot drinkthe cup of the Lord and the cup
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of demons.
You can't partake of the Lord'stable and the table of demons.
Or do we provoke the Lord tojealousy?
Are we stronger than he?
So he says, mixing your lifebetween faith in Jesus and faith
in self gratifying life willnever work.
He says you can't do it, youwon't succeed.
How many of you are thinkingright now well, that's what I've
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been doing for like 80 years.
And yeah, life sucks when I mixfaith in Christ with faith in
self.
Now we're growing in this.
We're growing to trust in Jesus, and that's what we're doing
here.
You got too much Jesus to behappy in sin, but you got too
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much sin to experience hisfruitful life, and that's the
conundrum that we find ourselvesin.
The only way to really live isfull faith, extreme Jesus, freak
faith.
You know, jesus freak was myvery first CD.
My mom's like don't listen tothat rock and roll Because it
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had electric guitars in it.
She hated it.
Full, exclusive trust in Jesus.
That's what he asks for.
He says that is what gets youthe promised land.
And guess what?
Every single one of you alreadyknows how to do this.
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Let me prove it to you.
When you asked Jesus to save you, was there any hope that you
could still save yourself?
Or were you absolutelyconvinced he was the only person
that could save you?
Right, you had no other hope.
There is no.
Well, I'll put 10% of my hopein Jesus and 90% in helping old
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ladies across the street and 90%in helping old ladies across
the street.
There's none of that.
You are not born again.
If you have any hope in yourself, that we have no hope outside
of Jesus.
So that's how to live every day.
Also, that's how to avoid thetemptation of idols.
All of it's the same thing Liveby faith, but not faith in
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yourself.
Faith in Jesus, because you'regoing to live by faith, but you
get to choose.
And it says here God is jealousfor your heart.
He's not a bully, he's not mean, he's not trying to ruin your
life and take away all your fun.
He wants your love and yourheart because he wants to bless
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you.
He offers you his own life tobe your strength.
That's why 2 Timothy 2.1 saysyou, therefore, my son, be
strong in the grace that is inJesus Christ.
You do not need to come up withthis faith yourself If you feel
like Jesus.
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I know I haven't been living bythis faith.
I just don't know how I canturn away from this life, from
this identity.
But, jesus, you tell me it's byyour grace and it's a free gift
.
So, jesus, I can't do it.
But, jesus, give it to me, giveme your faith, give me your
grace.
I want to trust in youexclusively.
He will answer that prayerinstantaneously.
It's yours.
That is the promise of the Wordof God.
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But he will wait until you askhim.
He's not just going to boss youaround, because he's a
gentleman, he has real love andhe's given you free will.
He will wait until you chooseto ask him.
What does all this mean?
It means the temptation is tolive a life centered on me,
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whatever I want, and Paul warnsus that this will not lead to
life at all, only frustrationand death.
We are freed from the law.
The law doesn't tell you whatto do anymore.
You are not under it, but alsoyou've been given love.
His love lives in you and youwill only be satisfied by
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letting his love flow throughyou.
So we're going to see how thisapplies to specific examples
here in this church and we'regoing to end it.
We're going to wrap this uppretty quick.
He says all things are lawfulfor me, but not all things are
helpful.
All things are lawful for me,but not all things edify.
Edify who Edify others.
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So love other people.
Yes, you can do whatever youwant.
You will be forgiven.
You can live your life howeveryou choose to live.
But if you choose to live it onself, you're going to be
walking around the desert.
If you choose to live itedifying others, loving other
people, you'll be good.
So he says let no one seek hisown, but each other's well-being
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.
Eat whatever is sold in themeat market.
So he says and you desire to goeat what is ever set before you
, asking no questions, forconscience' sake.
But if anyone says to you thiswas offered to idols, then do
not eat it for the sake of theone who's told you and for
conscience' sake, for the earthis the Lord's and all its
fullness.
Conscience, I say not of yourown, but that of the other, for
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why is my liberty, judged byanother man's conscience.
But if I partake with thanks,why am I so?
He's saying it comes back tohow we treat others.
Are we going to treat them withlove or are we going to focus
on ourselves, he says.
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He says he says giving nooffense either to the Jews, or
to the Greeks, or to the churchof God, just as I please all men
in all things, not seeking myown profit, but the profit of
the many that they may be saved.
So that last part there is.
You have all this liberty tolive with freedom, but what are
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we limited by?
Not by rules, but by love.
So, yes, you're free to liveyour life super selfishly, but
you can't, because God's love isin you and you will never find
joy, happiness, by the idols ofself-fulfillment.
So what do you do?
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Love other people In everythingyou do.
Love other people.
Idols will cause me to choosemyself over loving others.
This is robbing me of theabundant life of God's blessing.
I'm just going to read oneverse and then we're done so as
you guys can come up here andwe'll sing a song.
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Mark, chapter 8, verse 34 and 35.
He says this.
Then, calling the crowds tojoin his disciples.
He said if any of you wants tobe my follower, you must turn
from your selfish ways.
Take up your cross and followme.
If you try to hang on to yourlife, you will lose it, but if
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you give up your life for mysake and the sake of the good
news, you will save it.
God's desire is for you to loveand to be an illustration to
this world of how much he lovesthem, to save them, and we can
do that only if we deny self,cast down those self-focused
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idols.
Okay, does all this make sense?
Okay, if you have any questions, email me, text me, we'll get
it straightened out.
This was a really challengingchapter to teach, but I was
super excited when I got it allkind of in my mind how it all
worked.
So I hope you guys are blessed,because I was really excited
about today.
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So thank you guys for going 12minutes longer than I usually go
.
All right, today we're going to study 1
Corinthians, chapter 10.
We're going to get through thewhole chapter again.
Look at us, don't worry, we'regoing to slow down massively
here soon, but we're gettingthrough all of chapter 10 today,
so I'm excited.
Father, we ask that you wouldopen our hearts and our minds to
understand wonderful thingsfrom your word, jesus.
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You are perfect, you are loving, you are the air that we
breathe, you are the rock onwhich we stand.
Jesus, we lay down all of ourburdens to you.
We pray for all these thingsthat we need your help, but,
above all, we have been calledto intimacy with our Father
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through Jesus Christ, and so Ipray that we would truly know
you and Jesus, that you wouldlive through us In your name.
We pray Amen.
Today's sermon is called theShelf Life of the Self Life.
The Shelf Life of the Self Life.
Say that 10 times fast in yourspare time.
All right, we're going towhoever coined the term
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expiration date.
I think they really missed theboat.
I think they missed a realopportunity.
That should have been called aspoiler alert.
All right, so we are going to belooking at some examples in
this chapter, chapter 10 of 1Corinthians of why the self-life
must be denied in a Christianso for you to be able to
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discover who God has made you tobe and called you to be in the
life that he has for you.
There's a competition going onfor your attention, for your
heart, and you're only going tobe able to discover what God has
for you if you deny acompetition going on for your
attention, for your heart, andyou're only going to be able to
discover what God has for you ifyou deny the self-life, the
self-life.
What is the self-life?
Well, we'll see as we go.
So Paul is going to be pointingthe church back to the book of
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Exodus as we go through this, toteach them the dangers of the
self-life.
Self-life is self-trust, or youcould say, self-sufficiency,
self-sufficiency.
Now we hear all the time in theworld that self-sufficiency is
a good thing, and in some waysit is a good thing Keeps you
from dropping cups, keeps youfrom having your phone.
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Just kidding, self-trust seemslike it's an okay thing, but in
our spiritual lives, self-trustalienates us from the life of
God.
It's the self-life and that'sthe way of religion.
Religion is self-life.
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What do you mean?
Well, religion, it's the way ofreligion, not the way of Jesus.
Okay, I hate religion.
Anyone else hate religion.
I hate religion.
I am not religious.
People are like you're a pastor, you're religious and I'm like,
absolutely not.
I am as far from religious asyou can get, but I love Jesus
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and I have a relationship withJesus, because being a Christian
is not a religion, all thereligions in the world.
That's not what this is.
This is a relationship with Godthrough faith in Jesus instead
of faith in yourself.
That's what's different Everyother religion.
You are working your way to God.
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It depends on you, what you do.
You meditate enough, youenlighten enough, you work
enough, you serve enough, yougive enough.
It's all about you and yourgood works.
But with Jesus, he says no, Iinvite you into relationship
through faith.
You just have to trust what Ido, not what you do, what I do,
and you're free.
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You're my child and I come andlive through you.
So religion is mostly faith inyourself and in your works to
prove yourself to God, whereasChristianity is faith in Jesus
instead of yourself.
Let me just say that againChristianity is faith in Jesus
instead of yourself.
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You know what doesn't like that?
Our pride, our thinking thatwe're pretty cool, that we have.
You know we got it going on.
That doesn't work with Jesus.
With Jesus, you have to bebroken, which is called humility
, broken of the self-life, ofthat self-trust.
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I'm forgiven because Jesus diedfor me and I trust in that
death.
I'm made a new person becauseJesus gave me a new heart,
because Jesus was raised to life.
He shares that life with methrough his Holy Spirit.
That's the new life we get.
So, with all that being said,that's the big picture of what's
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going on.
The self-life is religion.
We are not that.
We have a relationship with Godthrough Jesus.
So let's begin reading.
He says in 1 Corinthians 10,moreover, brethren, I do not
want you to be unaware that allour fathers were under the cloud
and all passed through the seaand all were baptized into Moses
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.
In the cloud and in the sea,all ate the same spiritual food
and all drank the same spiritualdrink.
For they drank that spiritualrock that followed them, and
that rock was Christ.
So Paul points the people backto the children of Israel being
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rescued from Egypt.
You guys all remember that Godrescued them.
If you haven't read the book ofExodus, watch the Prince of
Egypt.
It's a good cartoon.
Same story Good stuff.
It's a pretty good story.
It's filled with miracles andplagues and battles and a
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last-minute rescue.
Anyway, paul is helping hisfriends to see that we can miss
out on the blessings God wantsus to give us, that he's already
chosen to give us, if we choosethe self-life instead of faith
in Christ.
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Okay, that's our choice.
Your choice isn't.
I'm going to be a better person, I'm going to be a good person.
I'm going to try harder.
I'm going to be a goodChristian.
Those are not your choices.
Those are.
That's a fruitful life God willdevelop in your life if you
trust him.
Your choice is simply thisalways, I'm going to trust in
Jesus or I'm going to trust inmyself.
That is the entire battle thatwe have going on here.
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So he says all our fathers.
So everything that happened inthe Old Testament to the nation
of Israel was written as anexample to all of us.
Okay, so you have this smallgroup of people.
You know the nation of Israeland they were just you know.
But if you compare that withthe size of the church for the
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past 2,000 years, the church isthe big thing.
Okay, there's been billions ofpeople in the church, whereas
the nation of Israel was thesmall thing, but all of it was
written and all of it happenedvery specifically for our
example, and he's going to teachus why right here.
He says this group of people,symbolically, they got saved,
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just like you and I got saved.
So all of this is a picture orit's an illustration.
So picture them crossingthrough the Red Sea.
You remember what happened?
Pharaoh's army is barrelingdown on them.
God says Moses parts the seaand the sea goes up on either
side and they walk through themiddle.
God divides the ocean.
They walk across.
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It's a supernatural salvation,something man could never do.
That's the whole point.
Man couldn't do it.
They got saved.
We got saved in a way man couldnever do also.
So it says they were under thecloud and passed through the sea
, both water.
So there was a cloud thatfollowed them, that protected
them, and it was God's presenceand it was his glory and it
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would follow them wherever theywent.
It would actually lead them.
And both of these, he says, area picture of their baptism.
That means they started arelationship with God.
They got baptized.
He says all our fathers wereunder the cloud, passed through
the sea.
They were all baptized intoMoses in the cloud and in the
sea.
So they had an experience ofbaptism.
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It's something that theyexperienced.
And then it says they had somefood and drink.
So it says they all ate thesame spiritual food and drank
the same spiritual drink.
The same as what?
The same as us?
What is he talking about?
They drank from the spiritualrock which followed them, and
that rock was Christ.
So God fed them with manna fromheaven.
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Do you remember this?
It was angel food, and theywere complaining about being
hungry.
So God said here, here, angelfood.
And they were complaining aboutbeing hungry.
So God said here, here's food.
And he gave them food everymorning and they would go out
and get it and water would fall.
Did you get that picture?
So this picture.
Have you guys ever seen thisbefore?
So, at Mount Sinai, which is inArabia, at Jebel al-Laz, you can
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go on Google Earth and see allthis stuff.
They have found this rock rightat the base of Mount Sinai, and
this rock is the rock that theycamped at, that Moses struck.
It's called the Split Rock atHoreb.
Horeb is the name of themountain and you can see it.
There's thousands of picturesonline of this rock.
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All the rocks below it arewater washed, they are eroded as
if a giant water and the entirething flows into a basin that
would have been like even up tothree miles wide, where two
million people could have gottentheir water and bathed and
everything.
So this is the split rocketmorgue.
You can go there and you cansee it if you go to Saudi Arabia
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and don't get killed.
So it's there, okay, so wefound that today we know that
this is all true.
Moses struck this rock.
And what does this say?
He struck the rock and watercame out and it watered all the
people.
And it says the rock was Jesus.
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Now, does that mean the rockwas Jesus?
There's some people sitting inthe very bottom of the rock
right there.
Well, it means that Jesus.
It represents Jesus.
Jesus is with us.
Jesus provides all our water,but he had to be struck, right?
He had to be crucified andthat's how his life was able to
flow out of him into us.
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Is that he was struck?
Okay?
So we see both experiences.
They were baptized and they ateof the spiritual food and the
spiritual water, which speaks ofcommunion, baptism and
communion.
Baptism and communion these arethe two Christian sacraments.
You ever heard of sacraments?
I don't like that word becauseit sounds really churchy, but
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it's the things that we do toremember Jesus, to things we do
in our life to celebrate whatJesus has done for us.
Here's the thing.
This is the reason why I don'tlike sacraments in our world.
People fake it all the time.
Okay, so we haven't even takencommunion together, and even
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that is weird.
Communion is supposed to be ameal that we share together and
we remember Jesus while we eatthat meal.
We will get to where we'redoing that more often as a
church together, whether in biggroups or in small groups.
We'll figure it out.
Baptism is something that we'vedone.
I remember I baptized.
You helped with Matt, way to go, turtle Taylor, and baptism is
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something that we've done and wecelebrate.
But guess what?
People fake it all the time andsay they want to get baptized
and then they get baptized.
And then what happens?
If it was fake?
Does baptism save you?
No, does taking communion saveyou?
Absolutely not, because youcould have faith in communion
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and that's not Jesus.
You could have faith in baptismand that's not Jesus.
Those are both works.
They can be good works ifyou're celebrating Jesus, but
they aren't.
Works that save you?
Does that make sense?
So they had baptism andcommunion, which means they were
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saved.
They did religious things,things they can trust in.
But then what happens?
It says.
But with most of them God wasnot well pleased, for their
bodies were scattered in thewilderness.
So here's where we get to theimportant, crazy part.
They were supposed to go intothe promised land.
They were supposed to do that.
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This represents the victoriousChristian life, the life of
walking with God and serving Godand presenting yourself to God
and loving on him.
They were supposed toexperience the blessings of God,
but they completely missed outon it.
How many of the two millionpeople that went in to the
desert, how many of them made itto the promised land?
Anybody know?
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Two.
You were halfway there, half ofJesus, half of Jesus, point for
Nate.
There was two Aaron Huh, whatCaleb?
That's right.
Caleb and Joshua.
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I said Aaron.
I was wrong.
Aaron died.
Caleb and Joshua were the onlytwo, because they were the only
ones that really believed andtrusted in the Lord during that
time.
So they all missed out on it,and God wasn't happy that they
were missing out on it either.
He wanted them to go into thepromised land, just like God
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wants you to experience ablessed life.
I'm not saying that you'regoing to be rich.
That's not what we're talkingabout.
We're talking about a fruitfullife, a life that's valuable and
has glory or weight, a lifethat means something that you're
satisfied with, that he'ssatisfied with.
That is what his desire for.
So he wanted to give them thispromised land, but they wouldn't
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have it.
They chose not to believe inhim, and so they missed out on
all that God wanted to give them.
Now, again, they started arelationship with God, but they
couldn't continue in thatrelationship because they
wouldn't believe him fully.
So, yes, they were saved, butthey never entered in to the
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promised land.
Now, what does this say?
Why did all this happen?
Now, these things becameexamples to the intent that we
should not lust after evilthings, as they also lusted, and
do not become idolaters as someof them, as were some of them.
So the people of Israel and allthat happened to them and the
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choices they made, and God'swork with them it's all written
for you and for me to learn howto trust in Jesus today, in 2025
.
That is what this is all about.
How can I trust in God today?
Well, they and their mistakes.
It's going to give me warningsand it's going to give me
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teaching of how I can trust inGod today.
They made a really, really dumbchoice.
They made lots of dumb choices,but we do too, and I find that
you know, if we're not careful,we can destroy our own chance of
seeing all that God has in mindto bless us with.
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God wants to give you a futureand a hope.
That's his declared purpose.
He has a future and a hope foryou.
He wants to use you.
He has a special purpose.
Even if that means you're goingto die in some special way,
that can still be a specialpurpose.
Your life will have meaning.
Your life will have meaning.
Your life will not end withdeath.
You have so much that God wantsto give you.
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They made lots of dumb choices.
We can too.
His plans are to bless you witha future and a hope.
He wants you to know, above all, that you're his child and that
you are special.
He wants you to know that andto believe it.
We can sabotage ourselves bychoosing idols instead of Jesus
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in our life today.
In our life today, you cansabotage all the blessings that
God wants to give to your lifeby choosing idols.
Idols offer competing promiseswith God.
It's like you got a used carsalesman on one side and someone
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telling you the truth on theother side.
Idols offer fulfillment.
I hate shopping for cars, Doyou guys?
I'm not going to get into it.
Idols offer fulfillment.
You're going to be so happywith this car.
You're going to love what Ihave to give you.
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Idols offer joy.
Hey, you're going to be happy.
They offer meaning and value.
Your life will actually havemeaning.
If you get this thing, or havethis or do this, you'll have it.
They even offer healing of yourpain.
Oh, just partake in this andyou'll be set free.
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But they never deliver on theirpromises, and our hearts lust
after these things.
Our hearts want to be satisfied.
Now, is that necessarily wrong?
To want a life that'ssatisfying, to want to be happy?
No, the essence of that desirecomes from God.
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You want to have joy, but theway that it's offered to you is
two different ways.
There's the idol way or theJesus way.
Our hearts lust after the idolway.
We desire satisfaction, wedesire love, we desire value and
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joy.
We desire relief from the pain.
Jesus promises us that hisgrace is sufficient for all
these things, and more so.
He knows that you need some ofit, but your heart wants a lot.
But Jesus says I can satisfyall of it for you.
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You have to trust in me alone,though.
You can't trust in anythingelse.
Anything you trust in when youcould have trusted in Jesus is
an idol.
That's what idols are, so wejust defined it.
Anything that you could havetrusted in Jesus for, but you
turn to this thing instead, orthis person or this idea,
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whatever it is, that is an idol.
We have to choose to trust himor turn to an idol instead.
Everything we do is that choice.
An idol is anything we turn towhen we should have chosen Jesus
.
So how did they choose idols?
Let's look at what he says asit is written.
The people sat down to eat anddrink and rose up to play that
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is a little poem that they usedto say, for they participated in
sexually immoral things.
So he says so.
He says so.
The first example of theself-life is sexual fornication,
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sexual immorality.
He says this is the first wayyou can sabotage getting the
blessings God wants from you issexual immorality.
They chose to participate insinful relationships, and the
result was death.
23,000 people died in a day.
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So what's the lesson for us?
Sexual immorality, sexual sincan sabotage your life Because
your heart is committed topleasing itself instead of
trusting in Jesus to meet yourneeds.
So you can see that thepromised land that he wants to
give you.
But you can't get there becauseyou're choosing to trust in
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yourself and you won't trust inhim.
You won't believe in him.
Instead, you believe the idol.
Whatever the idol is, whateveryour sexual thing is.
That's immoral.
You trust in that thing.
That that's what I need to besatisfied, instead of Jesus
meets my need.
Jesus says I'm not just a goodguy that died for your sins, I'm
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God.
I bought your life.
I bought you Not because I'mmean and I want you to be my
slave, because I love you and Iwant what's best for you.
But make no mistake about it.
Your body is now my body andI'm sharing your body with you.
So I'm going with you into allthe dirty stuff you're getting
involved in and I don't like it.
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It grieves me.
So love is how he motivates usand how we can see his blessings
in our life.
I want you to turn over toHebrews, chapter 3.
In your Bibles and I don't haveit up on the screen but in
chapter 3 of Hebrews and chapter4, it's talking about this
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exact same time in history ofthe children of Israel, but it
gives us some really coolinformation.
Okay, so I'm going to start inchapter 3, verse 12.
Beware lest there be in any ofyou an evil heart of unbelief in
departing from the living God,but exhort one another daily,
while it is called today, lestany of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin.
So he's saying sin is reallydeceitful because you think
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you're going to be happy, butit's going to suck, you're going
to feel the pain.
So don't be deceived and youshould encourage each other to
believe what Believe.
Jesus meets your needs, notthis sin, this idol, for we have
all become partakers of Christ.
If we hold the beginning of ourconfidence steadfast to the end
, while it is said today, if wehold the beginning of our
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confidence steadfast to the endwhile it is said today, if you
will hear his voice, do notharden your hearts as in the
rebellion.
Then he brings in the childrenof Israel.
Right here.
He says for who, having heardrebelled?
Indeed, was it not all who cameout of Egypt, led by Moses.
Now, with whom was he angrythose 40 years?
Was it not with those whosinned, whose corpses fell in
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the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear theywould not enter his rest?
But to those who would not obey?
So we see that they could notenter because of unbelief.
Unbelief.
So then he says in verse 4,therefore, since a promise
remains of entering his rest,let us fear lest any of you seem
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to come short of it.
For indeed the gospel waspreached to us as well as to
them.
But the word which they hearddid not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in those whoheard it.
For we who have believed doenter that rest.
Okay.
So he says, we as a church weneed to.
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He doesn't tell you to beafraid of very much.
He doesn't say be afraid ofdictators and be afraid of the
government, or be afraid ofDemocrats or Republicans.
He never says that.
He says be afraid that youdon't enter into my rest.
What does that mean?
Be afraid that you don'tbelieve that I can meet your
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needs, if you don't believeJesus has already met your needs
, you're going to be strivingafter all the things, you're
going to be searching for lovein all the wrong places.
Searching for love in all thewrong places.
So the people in Israel theychose the self-life and God said
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they couldn't experience.
I was angry that they did thatbecause I wanted to bless them.
That was his purpose.
How many blessings have wethrown away?
How much peace have wesacrificed because we chose our
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own way?
How much of God's love are wemissing out on Because we refuse
to let go of all the stuff, allthe idols, the things we trust
in?
He says.
Nor let us tempt Christ back in1 Corinthians, as some of them
also tempted and were destroyedby serpents.
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Nor complain, as some of themcomplained and were destroyed by
the destroyer.
Okay, so this references twomore stories.
As they were in the desert,they're like God doesn't love us
.
They didn't believe God lovedthem, god cared for them.
They believed he was a harshdeity up in the sky up in heaven
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and he just wanted slaves anddeity up in the sky up in heaven
and he just wanted slaves andpeons to do his bidding.
And this isn't true.
And if you believe that, likethey did, it will kill your
spiritual life.
So God sent them snakes and thesnakes bit them, and everyone
who got bit by snakes was dying.
And all the people are dying.
If God doesn't love me, then Ineed to love myself, I need to
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take care of myself and beself-focused.
That's self-life 101.
And it's a snake.
It's a snake bite.
It will kill your spirituallife.
It leads to destruction.
By the way, what was thesolution?
God sent the snakes.
And then Moses is like can weget a salvation here?
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Can you save us too?
And God's like sure, make abronze snake, put it on a pole
and set it up, and everyone wholooks at the snake will be
healed.
So Moses makes a snake out ofbronze, puts it up on a stick,
and everyone who looked at itwas healed.
And 23,000 people still died.
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How stupid are you that youdon't want to just look at the
salvation God has given you?
What does that mean for ustoday?
Jesus was put up on a stick, ona cross.
Jesus became a snake.
He became sin for us, and weare commanded.
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Every human being is commanded.
Look at him, put your faith inhim and you will be healed.
You will be saved.
That is where all of it is at,not by you doing anything.
It's not what church you go to,it's not how many times you go
to church, it's not how muchmoney you give to church.
It is a free gift, it's yours.
He became sin for you so thatyou could be healed.
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And it's a beautiful, beautifulstory, it says.
Now, all these things happenedto them as examples.
They were written for ouradmonition upon whom the ends of
the ages have come.
Therefore, let him who thinkshe stands take heed lest he fall
.
What is he saying here?
We have to deny the self-lifeidols, so either we can enter
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into the promised land of God'sabundant life that Jesus has
promised us.
Denying these self-life idolsisn't work.
You're not working to get intothe promised land, it's simply
faith.
All you have to do is believeJesus is sufficient and he does
what he says he would do.
So how do we really get thisabundant life of grace?
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Well, we just learned.
Believe, that's faith andhumility.
I need it.
Just learned Belief, that'sfaith and humility.
I need it.
God, I believe I need you.
I don't need these other things, I need you.
That's humility and faith.
I'm going to trust you, notmyself.
Therefore, he says.
Therefore, let him who thinkshe stands take heed lest he fall
.
That's a great definition ofhumility, isn't it?
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I can't succeed if I trust inmyself.
He said that's how to live inHebrews.
We should all be afraid thatwe're going to live the
self-life.
We should be afraid that we'regoing to not enter his rest.
That's what this fear lookslike.
I'm scared that I'm going totrust in myself, because if I
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trust in myself, I'm going tomake a mess of my life, and
that's why we preach the gospelso forcefully and so
consistently.
These idols are tricky.
They're tricky, but if we havea heart of humility, we could
see the danger coming and we cancling to Jesus instead of
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falling into their traps,because he is where the blessing
and the safety is.
He will get us safely into thepromised land.
By the way, what was the nameof the guy that took the name
Petron of Israel into thepromised land?
Joshua, right.
And what's Jesus' name inHebrew?
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Joshua?
You think that's a mistake?
No, moses couldn't take theminto the promised land because
he represented law, religion,trying hard.
None of it could get you intothe promised land.
But Jesus can get you thereBecause he says here, no
temptation has overtaken you,except such as is common to man.
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So all this talk about idols?
Now he's going to tell us thisis how you resist those idols.
Every man is going to face thesame battle Will we trust in
Jesus or something else?
Are you going to trust in Jesusor are you going to trust in an
idol?
That's the temptation thatevery man is going to face.
There's always something else,there's always an alternative to
Jesus.
You can always find somethingelse to seek out life in, and
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our life or death is going to bedetermined by which we choose
to put our faith in.
Trust me, you're going to liveby faith, but you're either
going to live in faith in theidol, which is really faith in
myself, or faith in Jesus.
The idol will let you down,jesus will lift you up, it says.
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But God is faithful, who willnot allow you to be tempted
beyond what you are able, butwith the temptation, will also
make a way of escape that youmay be able to bear it.
One thing important to saythere is that God isn't tempting
you.
He's not bringing thetemptation, but he does allow
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the devil to tempt you.
Okay, satan is just doing whatGod allows him to do, and Satan
is serving a purpose right now,and the purpose is he can tempt
you so that your faith can berefined.
It's like a fire that refinesthe gold or the silver.
Satan is here.
He will tempt you to trust inall these other idols.
Tempt you to trust in all theseother idols, but Jesus says
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it's for a purpose and it's notgoing to be bigger than you can
bear.
Jesus is the way of escape fromany temptation to sin, and all
you have to do is look at thesnake.
What do you mean?
Look at the snake?
Remember Jesus became sin.
What do you mean?
Look at the snake.
Remember Jesus became sin.
Sin is why we are in suchtrouble, and when we look at
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Jesus, that sickness is healedin us, and so we've got to
remember that.
We remember his sacrifice,remember him dying on the cross,
and then his risen life is madeaccessible to us as we trust in
what he did, not what we did.
All temptation is really just atemptation to idolatry.
Look at something else.
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Look at this thing, this idea,this relationship, this
philosophy, this identity,before you look to Jesus.
It's an idol and you won't beable to experience what God has
for you.
The only solution is to liftour eyes in faith to Jesus.
It's never about trying harder,changing man's wisdom or, you
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know, things like accountabilitygroups or programs.
They can sometimes be helpful,but if our eyes are on something
the Bible says that we can do,he claims to be the only
solution to sin.
So then Paul says therefore, mybeloved, flee from idolatry.
See, idolatry is the key totemptation.
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My beloved, he says, flee fromidolatry.
So where do we flee fromidolatry?
To Jesus, just run to me.
Jesus says.
If you're tempted, run to me.
He will always be there to giveyou what you need.
The only reason we don't run tohim the Bible said in Hebrews 4,
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was unbelief.
We don't believe he's there andthat his arms are open to us or
that he's really willing tohelp or there's really salvation
with him.
Every time we don't run to him,it's because we didn't believe
that he was there and Jesus islike.
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That's why the battle is all inthe believing place, because if
you believe it's there, eachone of you is sitting in a chair
right now because you believethat it would hold you up and
that belief was not difficult.
It wasn't a work.
I didn't see anyone inspectingthe chairs to see is this going
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to bear the weight that Icontain?
No, every single one of youjust pulled it out and sat down
because your experience tellsyou it's accurate, it's going to
hold me, it's strong enough.
And Jesus is saying believe inme the same way, trust in me
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explicitly I will take care ofyou.
We think idols have somethingfor us, but Jesus says they
don't.
So why does Jesus always workwhen we're tempted?
Why does running to Jesusalways work when we're tempted?
Why does running to Jesusalways work when we're tempted?
Because of our union with him.
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That's why you share his lifeand only his life.
So, as a believer, you have noother life except Jesus.
You can't obtain life or findlife in any other source.
God will not share you with anidol.
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You can try, but you know whatyou will not find Peace, joy,
satisfaction.
Oh yeah, before you were saved,that tough stuff made you
really happy.
All the stuff, all thesinfulness.
It met your needs.
But once Jesus lives inside you, he will not allow those things
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to satisfy you in the long term.
Your peace will go bye-bye andyou will be like why am I so sad
?
Why am I discouraged?
Why am I depressed?
It's because we're trying tomeet our needs in something
that's an idol instead of Jesus.
He says this I speak as to wisemen.
So Paul's telling his churchlisten, you guys are smart,
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judge for yourselves what I say.
The cup of blessing which webless, is it not the communion
of the blood of Christ?
And the bread which we break,is it not the communion with the
body of Christ?
See what I said.
I said it was our union.
That's how this works, and hesays it right there.
It's our union.
We are in communion with Jesus.
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Where is our blessing?
Well, jesus brought it to uswith his blood and he gives it
to us as bread.
It's his blood.
He said literally I am thebread, the wine is my blood, my
life, it's me giving it to you.
His sacrifice and his life isthe only source for our life.
You don't need anything else.
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You don't really desireanything else as a Christian,
that is what your heart longsfor is his life and your life to
be lived as one.
Jesus says I love my Father andmy Father loves me, and now I'm
going to love you.
The exact same way.
We've been invited into thesame relationship Jesus had with
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his Father.
We have with our Father, withJesus, all together.
He says for we, though many,are one bread and one body, for
we all partake of that one bread.
So now he says all Christiansare unified together and with
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Jesus by eating his bread.
Which is what Jesus says if youwant to eat my body, drink my
blood.
And his disciples are likeyou're crazy, what is this
talking about?
And Jesus is like believe mywords.
That's what this is about.
If you believe my words, that'sthe same as eating my body and
drinking my blood.
Believe my words.
That's what brings all theunity in the church and connects
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us to God is when we believehis words.
And so back then they reallyunderstood this, because if you
ate a meal with someone, thesame bread that I eat and that
you eat becomes a part of us.
So it makes us one, it makes usunified because we ate at the
same table.
So you would never eat at thetable with your enemy, only
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people who you're like.
My life is just the same asyour life and I love you that
much.
Now, that's what eating a mealtogether symbolized.
So he says that's important tounderstand.
Observe Israel after the flesh.
Are not all who eat of thesacrifices, partakers of the
altar.
So the nation of Israel wasunified with God because they
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had faith in the sacrifices thepriest made.
So he's going to.
He's giving us all theseillustrations of unity, how our
union with each other.
When you eat a meal, you'reunified with each other.
The nation of Israel wasunified with God because they
trusted in the sacrifices.
So he's talking about all theseideas of unity.
They're all based on faith.
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If all these things cause aunion this is Paul's point If
all these things cause unionwhen you eat together and when
you believe in the sacrifice ofthe altar, if all these things
cause a union, then don't messwith idols.
That's what he says.
Don't mess with idols.
When you mess with idols,you're inviting major trouble,
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because you're unifying yourlife to a deadly thing, a poison
, through the self-life.
The self-life is a poisonedlife.
It's a sin.
Life, self-sufficiency is apoison.
So he says what am I saying then?
That an idol is anything, orwhat is offered to idols is
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anything?
He's saying, no, it's not aboutthem being magical, it's about
you being stupid and linkingyourself to sinful things.
He says, rather, the thingswhich the Gentiles sacrifice.
They sacrifice to demons, notto God and I do not want you to
have fellowship with demons.
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That's what Paul says.
He says.
That's why all of this isimportant.
When you fall to a temptation,you're chilling with a demon is
what he's saying, becausethey're the ones that inspire
that you won't go to hell orlose your salvation, but you
won't experience the promisedland either, and that is the
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worst place to be.
Demons are simply trying tokeep you from the fruitful life
of Jesus, so they'll offer youanything you will look at.
Let me tell you this Demons arenot concerned with Heathen Joe
on the street.
They've already got him.
All the spiritual battles inthis world are not with
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unbelievers.
They are with Christians.
To simply get you to notbelieve Jesus is your everything
.
That is all spiritual warfare.
They just want to offersomething else, and for pastors
they'll offer fame, respect.
They'll offer differentChristians, no matter what your
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role is.
It'll be money, influence,power, sex, all the different
things, idols, and they knowthey can't drag you to hell, so
they're just going to distractyou.
So your life at least doesn'tmake a difference here on this
earth, because they all knowthey're going to hell, but they
want to drag as many of us.
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Isn't it crazy that the soulsof men are worth so much that
both God and Satan aresingularly focused on us.
All of the spiritual world isfocused on men.
It's amazing.
He says here you cannot drinkthe cup of the Lord and the cup
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of demons.
You can't partake of the Lord'stable and the table of demons.
Or do we provoke the Lord tojealousy?
Are we stronger than he?
So he says, mixing your lifebetween faith in Jesus and faith
in self gratifying life willnever work.
He says you can't do it, youwon't succeed.
How many of you are thinkingright now well, that's what I've
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been doing for like 80 years.
And yeah, life sucks when I mixfaith in Christ with faith in
self.
Now we're growing in this.
We're growing to trust in Jesus, and that's what we're doing
here.
You got too much Jesus to behappy in sin, but you got too
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much sin to experience hisfruitful life, and that's the
conundrum that we find ourselvesin.
The only way to really live isfull faith, extreme Jesus, freak
faith.
You know, jesus freak was myvery first CD.
My mom's like don't listen tothat rock and roll Because it
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had electric guitars in it.
She hated it.
Full, exclusive trust in Jesus.
That's what he asks for.
He says that is what gets youthe promised land.
And guess what?
Every single one of you alreadyknows how to do this.
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Let me prove it to you.
When you asked Jesus to save you, was there any hope that you
could still save yourself?
Or were you absolutelyconvinced he was the only person
that could save you?
Right, you had no other hope.
There is no.
Well, I'll put 10% of my hopein Jesus and 90% in helping old
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ladies across the street and 90%in helping old ladies across
the street.
There's none of that.
You are not born again.
If you have any hope in yourself, that we have no hope outside
of Jesus.
So that's how to live every day.
Also, that's how to avoid thetemptation of idols.
All of it's the same thing Liveby faith, but not faith in
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yourself.
Faith in Jesus, because you'regoing to live by faith, but you
get to choose.
And it says here God is jealousfor your heart.
He's not a bully, he's not mean, he's not trying to ruin your
life and take away all your fun.
He wants your love and yourheart because he wants to bless
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you.
He offers you his own life tobe your strength.
That's why 2 Timothy 2.1 saysyou, therefore, my son, be
strong in the grace that is inJesus Christ.
You do not need to come up withthis faith yourself If you feel
like Jesus.
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I know I haven't been living bythis faith.
I just don't know how I canturn away from this life, from
this identity.
But, jesus, you tell me it's byyour grace and it's a free gift
.
So, jesus, I can't do it.
But, jesus, give it to me, giveme your faith, give me your
grace.
I want to trust in youexclusively.
He will answer that prayerinstantaneously.
It's yours.
That is the promise of the Wordof God.
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But he will wait until you askhim.
He's not just going to boss youaround, because he's a
gentleman, he has real love andhe's given you free will.
He will wait until you chooseto ask him.
What does all this mean?
It means the temptation is tolive a life centered on me,
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whatever I want, and Paul warnsus that this will not lead to
life at all, only frustrationand death.
We are freed from the law.
The law doesn't tell you whatto do anymore.
You are not under it, but alsoyou've been given love.
His love lives in you and youwill only be satisfied by
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letting his love flow throughyou.
So we're going to see how thisapplies to specific examples
here in this church and we'regoing to end it.
We're going to wrap this uppretty quick.
He says all things are lawfulfor me, but not all things are
helpful.
All things are lawful for me,but not all things edify.
Edify who Edify others.
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So love other people.
Yes, you can do whatever youwant.
You will be forgiven.
You can live your life howeveryou choose to live.
But if you choose to live it onself, you're going to be
walking around the desert.
If you choose to live itedifying others, loving other
people, you'll be good.
So he says let no one seek hisown, but each other's well-being
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.
Eat whatever is sold in themeat market.
So he says and you desire to goeat what is ever set before you
, asking no questions, forconscience' sake.
But if anyone says to you thiswas offered to idols, then do
not eat it for the sake of theone who's told you and for
conscience' sake, for the earthis the Lord's and all its
fullness.
Conscience, I say not of yourown, but that of the other, for
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why is my liberty, judged byanother man's conscience.
But if I partake with thanks,why am I so?
He's saying it comes back tohow we treat others.
Are we going to treat them withlove or are we going to focus
on ourselves, he says.
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He says he says giving nooffense either to the Jews, or
to the Greeks, or to the churchof God, just as I please all men
in all things, not seeking myown profit, but the profit of
the many that they may be saved.
So that last part there is.
You have all this liberty tolive with freedom, but what are
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we limited by?
Not by rules, but by love.
So, yes, you're free to liveyour life super selfishly, but
you can't, because God's love isin you and you will never find
joy, happiness, by the idols ofself-fulfillment.
So what do you do?
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Love other people In everythingyou do.
Love other people.
Idols will cause me to choosemyself over loving others.
This is robbing me of theabundant life of God's blessing.
I'm just going to read oneverse and then we're done so as
you guys can come up here andwe'll sing a song.
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Mark, chapter 8, verse 34 and 35.
He says this.
Then, calling the crowds tojoin his disciples.
He said if any of you wants tobe my follower, you must turn
from your selfish ways.
Take up your cross and followme.
If you try to hang on to yourlife, you will lose it, but if
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you give up your life for mysake and the sake of the good
news, you will save it.
God's desire is for you to loveand to be an illustration to
this world of how much he lovesthem, to save them, and we can
do that only if we deny self,cast down those self-focused
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idols.
Okay, does all this make sense?
Okay, if you have any questions, email me, text me, we'll get
it straightened out.
This was a really challengingchapter to teach, but I was
super excited when I got it allkind of in my mind how it all
worked.
So I hope you guys are blessed,because I was really excited
about today.
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So thank you guys for going 12minutes longer than I usually go
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