1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Starting with I'll Fly Away. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I'll fly away in the morning when I die. 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I'll fly away, I'll fly away. 4 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 When the shadows of the slumber go, 5 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I'll fly away. 6 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Like a bird from within, but this one, 7 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I'll fly away. 8 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 I'll fly away. 9 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I'll fly away. 10 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Okay, let's get this. I'm going to ask you what's an easy leading question. 11 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Wacked out simple stuff. Something simple. An easy leading question. 12 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Of all that God created, what did He create to stop the enemy? 13 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:42,000 To put an end to the ministrations called the devil, evil, whatever. Stop evil. What did He create? Go ahead. 14 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Yeah, He did it, right? When He was creating in the beginning. 15 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:54,000 From the beginning. When He first started creating, what did God create to end the ministry of evil? 16 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Put it that way. Okay, let's read a couple verses real quick and then we'll try to answer that again. 17 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 This is from Psalm 8. 18 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Or maybe if I find Psalm 8. 19 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Psalm chapter 8. I'm going to read the whole thing. 20 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I'm going to read verse 1 and verse 2. That's it. Verse 1 and verse 2. 21 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,000 This is Psalm 8. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name? 22 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Somebody tell me what the word majestic means. 23 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Okay, that's good. I'll go with that. It has to do with kingship, right? 24 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Majesty. Think of like His Majesty and Majesty. That's how awesome and ruler. 25 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Think that. How majestic is thy name in all the earth, who has displayed thy splendor above the heavens. 26 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Now here's verse 2. From the mouth of infants and nursing babes, thou hast established strength. 27 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 To establish something is to put it on a firm foundation, right? Make it solid. 28 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And God did that. From the mouth of infants and nursing babes, thou hast established strength. 29 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Because of thine adversaries, adversaries are the people that are against God, because of God's adversaries, 30 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,000 to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. 31 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:25,000 So let's read it one more time. From the mouth of infants and nursing babes, thou hast established strength. 32 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Because of thine adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. 33 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Now I ask you again, what was it that God created to stop the enemy? 34 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:47,000 From the first day you were born, you took your first breath, you had in you the ability to stop the enemy. 35 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Now the truth is, because of sin, we get enticed, we go do things we shouldn't do, that kind of thing, right? 36 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Because of that, we're not available. That's the truth. 37 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000 And so it says we're dead in our trespass and sin. What died? 38 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,000 The ability to stop the enemy. The ability to overcome evil. The ability to do good. 39 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,000 So we're dead in our trespass and sin, which means we can no longer do that what we were created for. 40 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:18,000 And then reborn in Christ, made new in Christ, you get that ability again. 41 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Not by virtue of who you are now, but by virtue of who you are in need. 42 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Because Jesus never lost his ability to stop the enemy. 43 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 So when Jesus comes and lives in us, we're here to see that he lives in us, and he lives in the world. 44 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 So what did God create to stop the enemy? People. Us. 45 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Now remember, the next time you run into something that seems evil, maybe you're there just for that purpose. 46 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 To speak up. Not even being mean or evil yourself, or be wicked or hateful or anything like that. 47 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Don't turn to violence if you don't have to. Right? Nothing like that. 48 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 But maybe you're there just for the purpose of stopping bad people. 49 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Because God created you with the ability to do that even before you lost it. 50 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And then hopefully if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you got it back again. 51 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Okay, we're going to pray together at this time. Then we have one more song. 52 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,000 And then we'll release the children. And then one more song. And then we'll go to the Word. 53 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Again, that's what we've already been through the Word tonight. We're going to read through the Word twice. 54 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Cool. Alright, let's pray. 55 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Father, thank you so much that you foresaw what it was that was coming. 56 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:36,000 As terrible as it is, you knew that we would face disease. 57 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,000 That we would face poverty. That we would face violence. Persecution. 58 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:49,000 You knew that mankind would walk through the fire of self-sufficiency. 59 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 And you made us just the right thing. 60 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And then for my part, I wasted 25 years plus, over 25 years, of my ability to do the right thing. 61 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Sometimes I guess I maybe did the right thing. But a lot of times even when I was doing the right thing, I was doing it for the wrong reason. 62 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Because I wasn't making people see I was contributing. 63 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 But in Christ, we get again the ability to make a difference. 64 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Wherever we go to speak up, for us to be able to see clearly, someone asks us to do something, we can say, no, that's just not me. 65 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 That's not right. That is not what God would want. And we tend to see clearly in Christ. 66 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And I thank you for that for us. 67 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Father, I pray for those who are sick. There are numerous. 68 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:40,000 It's a blue bug. And a week and a half ago we even had somebody diagnosed with COVID. 69 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,000 And we had stress. And there was something we might have had to stress that they didn't test for because it had already been a while. 70 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 And it was already maybe a little on the men. 71 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And Lord, we're grateful. We pray for those who are still sick. 72 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 And those who are hurting in other ways. 73 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:00,000 We pray for special blessings upon those who during the Christmas season have to work so many hours and push through. 74 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 And in some ways it's good because they get paid a lot more. 75 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And in some ways it's hard because it's hard to have a life when you're doing that. 76 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 And we have special blessings upon them. 77 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 We have special blessings upon those who are traveling and can be with us for whatever reason. 78 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Those who are still on their way here. 79 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 We pray for little Zoe. 80 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 It sucks to be sick when you're little and she's so sad. 81 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And she's not really even sad, but it makes it sad to look at her. 82 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 She just keeps right on like a trooper. 83 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 And she may cry a little easier when she gets bumped. 84 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Things like that. 85 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 We just make her healthy and strong. 86 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:42,000 And Lord, be with us as we learn and grow tonight that we would repute somehow our ability to stop evil wherever we go and stand up for you. 87 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 We pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. 88 00:07:44,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Thank you. 89 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:29,000 We pray that the Father, with the joy of the Lord, is our spring. 90 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:44,000 We bow down to our shepherd now, the great, awesome is he. 91 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Everyone sing. 92 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:14,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 93 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:29,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 94 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:44,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 95 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Now Lord, we come together we sing. 96 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:14,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 97 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:29,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 98 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:44,000 The earth is filled with his glory. 99 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Okay, at this time we'll let the children through sixth grade and their leaders go to class. 100 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Hallelujah means praise the Lord. 101 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 So what's better than a praise the Lord? 102 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Better than a praise the Lord. 103 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:50,000 We pour out our miseries. God just hears the melody. Beautiful the mess we are. The honest cries of breaking hearts. 104 00:11:50,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Better than a hallelujah. 105 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:19,000 The woman holds a handful of eyes. The darling man gives him a little light. Better than a hallelujah. 106 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Tears of shame from what's been done. The silence when the word from her. Better than a hallelujah. 107 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:49,000 We pour out our miseries. God just hears the melody. Beautiful the mess we are. The honest cries of breaking hearts. 108 00:12:49,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Better than a hallelujah. Better than a church bell ringing. Better than a choir singing out. 109 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:21,000 We pour out our miseries. God just hears the melody. Beautiful the mess we are. The honest cries of breaking hearts. 110 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Better than a hallelujah. 111 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:35,000 That's what we're going to talk about. This lesson is entitled, Getting Dressed. It's a play on words though, so it's okay. 112 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Did somebody hold up one for Tim? Okay, awesome. 113 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:49,000 So the reference is Colossians 3 verse 5. So if you have a Bible and you want to turn there, that will be the only reference 3.5 through 16 that we will primarily focus on. 114 00:13:49,000 --> 00:14:00,000 At the end I'll share just a few quickly with you to kind of like reinforce, you know, that it really is the same across the whole Bible what we're talking about in the New Testament. 115 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Okay, so as we read, I'm going to first tell you how this page works. Okay, and I'll try and we'll be picking out the blanks as we read the verses. 116 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Okay, so looking at the paper, you see the face and the face to the right and then over here you see the aside and then down on the bottom it says members, dead two. 117 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Okay, so these are the things that we're putting aside. Like if you went to your closet and you say, oh I don't fit in those fans anymore, you put those aside. 118 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Right, so these are the things that we're putting aside. So we're going to read some things we're going to put aside. 119 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:44,000 And down on the bottom here, these are the things that are members and your members are part of your body. So your hands, your arms, your shoulder, your liver, your lungs, those are all members. 120 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Okay, your jaw, that's a member. So those are all members. And those are things that we are dead, we're going to put things that our members are dead to. 121 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I'm giving you the first letter of most of them. Okay, over here on the right it says put on and the new self and we're going to get a list of things that we're going to put on. 122 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Okay, all the way down to where it says even complaints and then below that, those are all things that we're going to put on. 123 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:26,000 And then you've got in the middle, you've got three things that are in your heart. So we're going to discover three things that are in your heart. I bet you could guess one of those right now, couldn't you? 124 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Sunday School answer. What or who is in your heart? God. Yeah, the Lord, right? So the Lord or God is one of those things. 125 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,000 So if you want to just kind of jump ahead and fill that in, case you get behind later you could. 126 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Okay, and there's one thing that in all the verses it says it's an absolute no when it goes in the box. Okay, and it also goes in the box over here on the things that we put aside. 127 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Because if it's an absolute no you should put it aside, right? And then down here in between the arrows is a block and we'll get it at the very end. 128 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:05,000 That's what we're going to end up at. And that is what we do, what the church does, what we as Christian people do. 129 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Okay, and some of them I gave you the first letter. If you get behind or you get messed up and don't have a blank filled in, stop me. It's okay. 130 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Because I didn't do like the start, follow the whole arrows thing, right? So I understand. It can be like that. 131 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:31,000 So I'm going to begin reading in 3-5. Before I read 3-5 though I want to explain to you the reason for everything that we're about to read is right before that. 132 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Whenever a verse starts with therefore, it's wise to always look and see what it's there for. Okay? 133 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,000 So like the verse says therefore blah blah blah blah blah, then what does the therefore point back to? 134 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:55,000 In this case these verses point back to verse 4 where it says, when Christ who is our life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. 135 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Okay? And so that revealed there means you're going to be laid naked. You're going to be laid out bare. It's going to be obvious. Everyone will be able to see. 136 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Okay? So the reason for everything we're about to read is because when Christ is completely revealed and everybody can see him and nobody can deny him anymore, 137 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:19,000 it's probably going to be at that moment where the Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue confess, then we also will be revealed with him in glory. 138 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Okay? So it's going to be obvious to everybody what we are and what we've been doing. Then it goes verse 5. 139 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Therefore, because that's true, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to, so find it on the paper, members, members dead to, right? 140 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:50,000 And we're going to have a list. Okay? Our body is dead to, immorality, so immorality is behavior that's not moral, right? 141 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:57,000 So you're doing wrong things that, and probably I think immorality anyone would recognize, right? 142 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Impurity, so you notice you've got two I's there. Passion, now passion is an interesting thing because we always talk about what's your passion, 143 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:19,000 I'm passionate about this, passionate about that, right? But this passion here is being driven like by a physical passion or you want something, 144 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,000 going after it because you want it even if it's something God doesn't want for you. Okay? 145 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:35,000 And then evil desire, so the E is evil. And then greed is the last one. Greed is the pursuit of anything that you don't want. 146 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Now it's interesting because in my life greed, I know this firsthand, has taken another form which is I love bargains. 147 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:49,000 I love flea markets, I love yard sales and like that, and I always want to get a bargain, right? 148 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Now I have money, I get an allowance, that's how we handle our miscellaneous spending. I get an allowance, she gets an allowance, 149 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,000 we just spend it on whatever, wherever, whenever we want to, whatever, it doesn't come out of the rest of the spending plan, right? 150 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:07,000 And typically when I get my new allowance, my past allowance has not been spent because I'm a miser, I don't want to spend money. 151 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:13,000 I will spend money if God tells me to and I will spend money on people, I like to be nice to people, right? 152 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:21,000 But be aware, greed is not just the pursuit of money like going to get a better job or going to play the lottery or whatever to get rich. 153 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Greed can be just penny pinching. It can be unwilling to spend money that God wants you to spend, right? 154 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Or for example, this is how they tell you, well you don't get it today, you're not going to get it for this price. 155 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:39,000 And you know you have to buy it today because you have to get it for that price. Well that's greed. They're playing off your greed, okay? 156 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Now you'll notice that all of those come together. Who can tell me what that I is? Say it again. 157 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Yes, it's idolatry. Yep, idolatry. So now who can tell me what idolatry is? 158 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:04,000 I-D-O-L-A-T-R-Y. Idol, A, try. That's what it is, but it's all one word, okay? 159 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:14,000 The verse actually says which amounts to idolatry. So all of those things, the immorality, impurity, passion, evil, desire, and greed, those things amount to idolatry. 160 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,000 And so what is idolatry? Yes, that's exactly what it is. 161 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Okay, now I have a particularly large bag of candy up here tonight. So I'm going to throw candy at my son. 162 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Okay, so that's how far we've gotten. Now we're in verse six. 163 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Why? So there's a four. So if you see a four, you want to ask why. So those things, those things are put away, those dead to immorality, those things. 164 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,000 For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come. 165 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:13,000 In other words, God is going to violently oppose men, and the reason he's going to do that is because of idolatry. 166 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Much idolatry is wrapped up in immorality, impurity, passion, evil, desire, and greed, right? So God is going to violently oppose men. 167 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,000 You realize that God loves men, right? God loves all human beings. God is love. 168 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:31,000 And so it takes a lot to make God violently oppose people. God does not do that lightly. 169 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:40,000 When the people in the promised land that were living there were sinning against God and into idolatry, they were throwing their firstborn babies in the fire 170 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:46,000 to a false God called Molech, who was probably a demon, but they were burning their babies in the fire. 171 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:57,000 God's people were in Egypt, and God had already told those people that they were going to come out and take that promised land away from the people who were burning their babies in the fire. 172 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Yet God left his people in Egypt for 400 years more until that people who was in the promised land, their sin had reached full measure. 173 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Then when God called them out of Egypt, he said, wipe them out. Their sin had reached full measure, right? 174 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:23,000 God does not want to hurt anybody. God is not against anybody, and God would never willingly send anyone to hell, ever. 175 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:30,000 People don't go to hell because God says, you're going to hell. They go to hell because they refuse to come to Christ. 176 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It isn't even because of their sin. They're separated from God because of their sin. And then ultimately, even if they had sin, because I have sin, I have sin. 177 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,000 So if I would accept Jesus, that sin would be dealt with, then I could have a relationship with God again. 178 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:53,000 But if I could never have a relationship with God, there's going to come a time when there's only heaven, the new heaven and the new earth, and the final time it will be the new heaven and the new earth, and hell. 179 00:22:53,000 --> 00:23:01,000 And if you can't be in the new heaven and the new earth because you can't be with God, then you have to be in hell, by extension. 180 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:12,000 So God does not want to oppose people. But this is how bad idolatry is. It's on account of these things that the wrath of God, his violent opposition, will come. 181 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Verse 7 says, And in them you also once walked when you were living in them. 182 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:26,000 So if you're a Christian and your eyes are open and you realize the way you're supposed to be in Christ, you realize that before you became a Christian, you used to do things that you weren't supposed to do. 183 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 That's not godly. That God would not want you to do. 184 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:35,000 And now we're not supposed to be like that anymore. We used to walk in those things, but now we're supposed to be different. 185 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:44,000 So we're putting those things off. But now you also put them all aside. See, that's why it's listed under the aside column. 186 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,000 And then there's a colon. So these things are included in what we would put aside. 187 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Now you're up under where it says aside old self and there's a row of blanks going down. 188 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 First blank says anger. 189 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Now anger, the Bible does not say you cannot be angry. What does it say you cannot do? 190 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:13,000 If you can be angry but don't throw things. Kind of. Maybe it could be don't sin in your anger. 191 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,000 So throwing things that people could be. Or acting out. That would be sinning in your anger. 192 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:26,000 So you can be angry. Also, just on a side note, this word anger here is the Greek word orgy. 193 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:33,000 It's where we get the word orgy from, which is like a party where men and women come together and do things they shouldn't do with each other. 194 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:41,000 It's all about emotion. So it's about emotive energy. It's not really anger as you and I have been trained to think of it. 195 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It's about emotive energy. So you have to be careful not to be controlled by your emotive energy. 196 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Suddenly I want this. Suddenly I think this. Suddenly someone hurt me and I'm going to react. 197 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 You can't be controlled by that. You have to put that aside. 198 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Wrath. We already said wrath is violent opposition. So we want to oppose people. 199 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 So if we can't oppose them violently, how do we oppose them? 200 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:08,000 There's only one other alternative, right? Peacefully. Do the best you can to stay peaceful. 201 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Somebody comes against you to attack you, for example. You only defend yourself. 202 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:19,000 At the point at which their attacks become now you could be killed or you could be seriously harmed in a wheelchair for the rest of your life or something like that, 203 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:24,000 then you become violent. Then you become offensive because you have to stop that. 204 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 But in the meantime, we're always peaceful. We always try to be peaceful. 205 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Malice. Malice is nasty. It's almost like hate. Nasty feelings toward other people. 206 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Somebody did something you don't like and you go, I don't like that person. 207 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I can't be around them. You have to put that away from you. 208 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Slander. Slander is when you talk bad about somebody. Hang on. 209 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Because slander is when you talk bad about somebody even if it's true. 210 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:57,000 You hear me? So somebody lies and you go tell other people that they lied. You're slandering them. 211 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 That's biblical slander. In the modern English, because of our court system, 212 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,000 the court says you can't do that either. You can sue somebody for slander. 213 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,000 You have to have some damages. Like somebody slanders you, says bad things about you, it's true or not. 214 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,000 And then you don't get a contract, so you lose $100,000, you lose the job, you get fired, whatever. 215 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,000 You can sue them for slander in the court. Because our court system is based on a biblical model, 216 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 even though it's not very biblical anymore, it's based on a biblical model. 217 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:30,000 So that's not right to slander people. Whether you're telling the truth or telling a lie, it's still not right. 218 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Then abusive speech from your mouth. So that's the last one on that list there. 219 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:46,000 So we went all the way down the list. So it was anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech. 220 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 The long line is abusive speech. You can try to squeeze in from your mouth if you want, 221 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 but I think you pretty much know where your speech comes from. 222 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Then nine. This is the no, so it goes in the box there, and it goes in the box over under the no exclamation point next to heart. 223 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:08,000 It goes in both places. It says, do not lie to one another. Do not lie. 224 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 So you can put just lie in the box, you can squeeze in do not lie if you want to, but no lying. 225 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:21,000 The word says no. It says no exclamation point next to the box. You put lying, no lying. 226 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:30,000 So right here. Lie is L-I-E. Yep. 227 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:38,000 So it goes right there in this box and also right here in this box. There's two boxes that say no exclamation point. 228 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Or just lie. I just put lie in both when I did it. It says do not lie. So you cannot lie. 229 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Specifically it says do not lie to one another. Why? Why shouldn't we lie to one another? 230 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:58,000 It says since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices. 231 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:04,000 As sad as it is to say, you do realize that most people lie. 232 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Most people do. Saved people learn not to, try not to, grow and try not to lie. 233 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 They shouldn't lie. They're supposed to put it away from themselves. But a lot of people lie. 234 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,000 That is a normal practice. In fact, in politics it's considered vogue to get away with lying. 235 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 If you lie and nobody catches you, yay for you. You're a good politician. 236 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:32,000 In a court of law, if you can pass off a lie, not make a lie, not lie because you're not allowed to lie outright, 237 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,000 but if you can pass off a lie so that the opposition believes a certain thing or the judge rules a certain way, 238 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:45,000 well then you're a good lawyer. But the Bible says for Christians we do not lie to one another 239 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,000 since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices. 240 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:56,000 And before I go any further, what do you think is the most important reason why Christians cannot lie to one another? 241 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:02,000 To me. It's most important to me. Jason? 242 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Because if the Christian lies, then people might think that what the one guy is saying might be true. 243 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Okay, yeah. That's an interesting way of looking at it. That wasn't what I was going for. 244 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000 I'll tell you mine in a minute. Nobody else gets it. But you're right. That would be bad. 245 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:25,000 So you lie to somebody and then they start thinking it's true and pretty soon you're fooling yourself too. 246 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 And everybody believes your lie. And that does happen in Christianity. Sometimes people get away from God and they start doing that. 247 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 That's a good point. Who else has got one? Tommy? 248 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Yeah. Okay, you're getting really close to what I was going after right there. 249 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:51,000 So if the church is lying to one another and somebody else is aware of it, then you go out into the community, 250 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:58,000 or your brother, your sister, your cousin, or whatever knows that Dustin lied to you and you're okay with it. 251 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Or they know Dustin's a liar and he's a deacon in the church. Or Dustin's a liar and he's a pastor or whatever. 252 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,000 The ministry of the church is ruined. It's gone. You can't win anybody to Christ if you're a liar. 253 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Because how do they know? And that brings me to what I think is the main most important thing why you can't lie. 254 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Because how do they know the truth? If I say I'm a Christian and then I lie to you about something else, 255 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:30,000 how do you know I wasn't lying to you and I said I was a Christian? If we say we're a church and we go try to win people to Jesus, 256 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:38,000 but over here we're lying about other things, like we said we're going to do something but we don't, or whatever, 257 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:45,000 how do they know you're telling the truth? I had a young man I was doing marriage counseling with at one point in time 258 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,000 and he said, well everybody in the world lies. And I said, so you lie? He said, yeah. 259 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 And I said, well you know what the problem with that is. I mean it's good that you're humble and you're willing to admit your weaknesses 260 00:30:53,000 --> 00:31:00,000 and whatever, but if you're sitting here and you know it's called when you lie, he said, what? I said, you know what they call you 261 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:07,000 if you lie, it's a liar. So if you're a liar, then when you stand up and say I do, how do we know you're not lying? 262 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,000 That's the whole point of marriage. When you say I do, you're making a commitment to be with that person for the rest of your life. 263 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,000 That's what marriage is. It's not a one-time deal, it's not for a day, it's not when you change your mind, 264 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 and it's not because you said it one time but you didn't really mean it. 265 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,000 And that's the problem is so many people don't do that. They don't take it seriously. 266 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,000 So the point is if Christians are liars, are they Christians? 267 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,000 And you could say maybe because they could still be wrestling with it, they're still growing out of it, whatever, 268 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,000 but regardless of what you think, what does the world think? 269 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 They may think, yeah, they're Christians but they lie, so Christians lie. 270 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Or they may think, no, they can't be Christians because they're liars. 271 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:56,000 But either way, you're not going to win anybody to Jesus because they're going to think that place, that people is full of lies. 272 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:03,000 So it basically takes the gospel out. And by the way, the Bible says Jesus is the truth. 273 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,000 And so you're going to talk about Jesus, you better be saying the truth. It should be the truth. 274 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Verse 10, it says, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the one who created him. 275 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:26,000 A renewal which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, 276 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,000 barbarian, Scythian, slave and free man, but Christ is all and end all. 277 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 So in other words, who can be saved? Who are we actually talking about here? 278 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:40,000 What race of people, what culture, what social class? All. 279 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Which is why it says nice and big at the top, all. 280 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Because this passage of scripture applies to everybody. If you will allow it, God will renew you. 281 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:54,000 And that's huge for one reason I'll get to at the very end, it's really important. 282 00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Continuing on verse 12, and so as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on, here we go, a heart of compassion. 283 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:09,000 If you look in the middle, under all, it says in, and then there's a blank, and it says of, and there's a blank. 284 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000 It's heart on the top line, compassion on the next line. 285 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,000 So right in the middle above the heart. What kind of heart? A heart of compassion. 286 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Now notice over on the right hand side under put on, is the same thing. It says there's three blanks, it's heart of compassion. 287 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000 So you've got a heart of compassion, that's what this is in the middle, a heart of compassion. 288 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,000 And then up here on the right hand side, the first thing on the new self is heart of compassion. 289 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Under where it says new self, and there's arrows indicating that those are the same thing. 290 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,000 So we've got heart of compassion, and now we're going down that list, we've got a K. 291 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Anybody following along in their Bible that can tell me what the K stands for? Kindness, very good. 292 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:03,000 So kindness goes in the first blank there, and then humility. 293 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,000 You know what kindness is, I don't have to define kindness for you, right? 294 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Kindness is when you treat people the way you would want to be treated. 295 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:16,000 Not the way they treat you, but the way you would want to be treated. That's kindness. 296 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:24,000 Humility. Anybody want to define humility? Not the dictionary definition, but tell me what you think humility is. Anybody? 297 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,000 That's beautiful. That's a biblical definition of humility. 298 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:34,000 It's a realistic perspective of yourself in relation to other people and in relation to God. 299 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 So humble in relation to somebody else is to say you're less than them, right? 300 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000 But if you say it falsely, then that's not humility. 301 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:49,000 So for example, if I say I'm a better guitar player than Josh, that is arrogance, whether it's true or not. 302 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:56,000 If I say I'm a lesser guitar player than Josh, that also could be arrogance, right? 303 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Just because you're saying somebody's better than you doesn't mean you're not arrogant. 304 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Is it your job to decide? If I look at a good preacher and I say I'm better than he is, that's probably arrogance. 305 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 If I look at a good preacher and I say I'm worse than he is, also probably arrogance. 306 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Because who is, am I the one gets to judge his preaching? That's not my job. 307 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Don't judge other people. Have a realistic estimation of yourself, which is to say God is God and I am not. 308 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:30,000 That's our realistic explanation. And so we think I'm not God. I'm going to let God handle it, right? 309 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Somebody, an authority figure comes to you, a police officer. You're not a police officer, right? 310 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Police officer writes you a ticket. You can't flash your badge and get out of it because you ain't got a badge to flash to get out of it as a police officer, right? 311 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:52,000 So you pay the ticket. The police officer stops you when you're speeding. You treat him with respect because he's doing his job and you are breaking the law, right? 312 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:58,000 That kind of thing. Humility. Realistic estimation of yourself even in relation to others. 313 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Gentleness. Gentleness is pretty obvious. Gentleness is what you do with a small child when they need help or they're crying, right? 314 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:15,000 That's how we're supposed to behave. We should be gentle all the time. That's what we put on. We should be gentle all the time. 315 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Now, there is a time just like God comes to the end of his rope, there's a time where you got to say, OK, gentleness didn't work, right? 316 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:29,000 So the child is heading for the road. They're still 20 feet away. You say, hey, honey, don't go toward the road. I'd like you to stay back. That makes me nervous. 317 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:35,000 At 10 feet, you say, hey, you're getting off of close the road. It's too close for comfort. Please stay back. And you're already moving that way. 318 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:42,000 At five feet, you're like, stop right now. That's not gentle. You're not being gentle anymore because they're five feet from the road heading out into a car. 319 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:49,000 When you're one foot away and they're going into the road, you grab their hair or their shirt or whatever you have to. And they'll be crying because you jerked them. 320 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:56,000 It's not gentle, right? You start with gentleness and sometimes you might have to give up gentleness to do right. 321 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:01,000 But most of the time you don't have to. A gentle word turns away wrath is what Proverbs says. 322 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:07,000 So most of the time people come against you. If you use a gentle word, you'll be OK. And they won't do anything. They don't have to. 323 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:12,000 But sometimes they will. And if they do, you may have to stand your ground. OK. 324 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,000 And then patience. This is one of the things I struggle with the most. I always have. I had zero or very little patience before I got saved. 325 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:26,000 And God has poured out abundantly in me. And it's not a lot because I was not very patient to start with. 326 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Patience is nicely laid out when dealing with other people. Verse 13 says bearing with one another. 327 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:42,000 In other words, you're going to put up with each other. And that's what the B-W-A-O-A is. Bearing with one another. 328 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:51,000 OK. And then forgiving each other. F-E-O. Forgiving each other. So you get all the way down that list. 329 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Kindness was the first one. Humility. Gentleness. Patience. Bearing with one another. 330 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000 Forgiving each other. And notice I put in parentheses there. Even complaints. 331 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:10,000 It does not say forgive each other when the person asks for forgiveness. 332 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:17,000 People always use that because one of the disciples came to Jesus and said, Lord, when my brother sins against me and asks for forgiveness, how many times should I forgive him? 333 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:23,000 77 times 7 times. Meaning infinitely. If your brother comes and asks for your forgiveness, you forgive infinitely. 334 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:30,000 You never stop forgiving if they come and ask. It doesn't mean you let them have access to things that they can hurt you again. 335 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,000 So you don't have to be unwary. But you forgive them. You don't hold a grudge against them. You don't have malice toward them. 336 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,000 You don't hate them. You don't try to undo them. 337 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:48,000 But this says forgiving each other and it doesn't say only if they come and ask you forgive. 338 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:54,000 In fact, if you look at the next phrase, it says, whoever has a complaint against anyone. 339 00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:01,000 In other words, anyone has done anything to you, here's what you do. Forgive them. 340 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,000 God forgave them. If they're indeed saved, God already forgave them. And if you don't, you're just arguing with God. 341 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Or as Gamaliel said, talking about Peter and John, maybe you'll wind up fighting against God. 342 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:18,000 Because God says put on forgiveness. And it says, just as the Lord forgave you. 343 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000 Nicely done. Jesus taught the disciples to pray what we call the Lord's Prayer. 344 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000 Even though it was really like more like the disciples prayer. It's kind of a weird title for that. 345 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Because he taught the disciples how to pray. And in there he said one of the phrases, forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us. 346 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:42,000 And then Jesus after the Lord's Prayer says, if you cannot forgive others, you cannot be forgiven. 347 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,000 So put on forgiveness. All right. So all shall should you. We're in verse 14 and we're almost done. 348 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:55,000 And beyond all these things, put on love. So that box there that has the hearts on either side. 349 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,000 Love in the middle. Love goes in there. 350 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:07,000 And love is the perfect bond of all unity. It says. 351 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,000 And then 15 says, and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. 352 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:17,000 So one of the three lines we already said in the middle of the heart was Christ or the Lord. 353 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Another is peace. 354 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000 Okay, so we'll go a little further and see if we get the last one. 355 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,000 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful. 356 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:37,000 And then it says in verse 16, let the word of Christ richly dwell within you. 357 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 So what's the third line? The word. Right. 358 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,000 So we've got peace, the Lord or Christ or God, whatever we put there, and the word in our hearts. 359 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:54,000 What kind of heart is it, by the way? A heart of compassion. 360 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,000 Right. So we remember we have a heart of compassion. 361 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:08,000 And I submit to you, it is because you have peace and the Lord and the word in your heart that you can have a heart of compassion, 362 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:15,000 because otherwise you don't feel safe. If Jesus isn't taking care of everything, then you might feel a little worried about taking big risks. 363 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000 Right. Okay. So now we're down to the right hand side. 364 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,000 We're talking about the things that we do. And this one will step on your toes a little bit. 365 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000 I'll begin with verse 16 so we get the whole sentence. 366 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:36,000 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom, with all wisdom teaching, sorry. 367 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:41,000 And okay, I didn't put that one. All right. With all wisdom teaching and admonishing. 368 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 So the A is admonishing. There it is. 369 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,000 By the way, what does it mean to admonish someone? Kind of. Yep. 370 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:58,000 Encourage them to do the right thing. Yep. So admonishment is just encouragement, but it's specifically encouragement to do the right thing. 371 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:03,000 Yeah. Constructive encouragement, I guess you could say. All encouragement is kind of constructing. 372 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Okay. I lost my spot. All right. Here we go. Admonish one another. Okay. 373 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:17,000 And then it's the P. A-ha. Psalms. P-S-A-L-M-S. Psalms. 374 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Even though it starts with an S, it's a silent P. Okay. Then hymns and spiritual songs. 375 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:32,000 There's two S's. Spiritual songs. Say again. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Just like that. 376 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000 There's only like, I don't know, what did you say Bill? Like a half dozen words probably. 377 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:44,000 All the words that have Pneuma, which is actually wind or spirit. Yeah. Pneumatic. All those words have a P. 378 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000 And pterodactyl. Yep. Okay. Anyway, we're off track. 379 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Singing. Then it says spiritual songs. Then it says singing with thankfulness. 380 00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:03,000 So S-W-T. Singing with thankfulness. 381 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:11,000 In hearts. I for in a art to God. 382 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,000 And that ends that. That ends the worksheet. 383 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000 So do we have blanks? Anybody got empty blanks? 384 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000 H-O-S-N-H-I-T-G. 385 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,000 What? You confused me. What did you say? 386 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:39,000 Okay. So, yep. So the H is hymns. H-Y-M-N-S. Hymns has a silent N in it. H-Y-M-N-S. 387 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:44,000 And then spiritual songs. Yes. 388 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000 The P, the I-P, the I-P-G. 389 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000 Okay. So which P are you missing? 390 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,000 The up-end. 391 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000 Up under put on? 392 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,000 No. 393 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,000 Oh, down at the bottom there? Psalms. That's Psalms. 394 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:09,000 So Psalms in the Bible is a prayer or a song to God. That's what a psalm is. 395 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,000 What about the I-T? 396 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:17,000 It's I-H-T-G in heart to God. 397 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:24,000 In heart to God. 398 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Any other questions? Okay. So just a real quick summary piece to this. 399 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,000 As I mentioned to you, your heart of compassion is what makes all this work. 400 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:41,000 So what do you do when something makes you angry? 401 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:48,000 What do you do? Now I'm angry. And I'm supposed to what? What do I do with anger? 402 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,000 It's on the left side. Put it aside. 403 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000 So I don't act out of my anger. Does that mean it goes away? 404 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000 You ever try to do that? I'm just going to put this away for a while. 405 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,000 I'm not going to think about it. I'm mad. I'm really mad about this. 406 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,000 But I'm not going to think about it. Later when you think about it, do you feel better? 407 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,000 Probably not unless something changed. 408 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,000 Like if you totally got off course or didn't think about it or whatever. 409 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,000 But probably the same. It might have dimmed a little. 410 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,000 But it's still enough to make you angry. If it really was something in the first place. 411 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,000 If you're just getting angry about something dumb. 412 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000 Then when you come back to it later you're probably like, yeah I was just dumb. 413 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000 But if somebody truly hurt you or somebody you love, that's a reason to be angry. 414 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,000 If you put that aside, come back to it later, you're going to have the same feelings about it. 415 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000 It's not going to go away. You have a right to be angry. 416 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:40,000 So what you need is something to change that anger into something you can use. 417 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:46,000 See what I'm saying? You need to take that. People get angry. 418 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,000 People oppose other people. If you have an enemy and they're trying to hurt your family, 419 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000 you are supposed to oppose that person. You're not supposed to stand by and let it happen. 420 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,000 There have been lots of times in history where people say, well we're not going to do that. 421 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,000 We're just going to be passively resistant and whatever. 422 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,000 While horrible injustices are taking place. 423 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000 And I'm not going to say anything. 424 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,000 And the line, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. 425 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,000 Which is actually not from the Bible. It's from Hamlet or something. One of those. 426 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000 I think it's Hamlet. It's from Shakespeare anyway. 427 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:19,000 That line is very true. If you stand by and do nothing, not only are you not going to stop the evil, 428 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:25,000 which is what you were created for, but on top of that, they're going to think you agree. 429 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Right? If you stand by while somebody is bullying your friend and you say nothing, 430 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 you run away and leave them standing there. 431 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000 They're going to be like, well he doesn't care. Right? 432 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,000 Or if you just laugh, they're bullying your friend. 433 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,000 You're like, yeah that's funny. Yeah, you stuck paint on his face. 434 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,000 Or you pulled his pants up in his butt crack. 435 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,000 That's funny. Ha ha ha ha. 436 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,000 So you agree. That's what you're saying. No. 437 00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:00,000 So you need something that's going to transform these emotions that we experience. 438 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,000 Because we're creating the image of God and God also experiences it. 439 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000 And we need something that's going to transform that. 440 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:09,000 And the something that's going to transform it is a heart of compassion. 441 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:15,000 Filled with the Lord and with peace. Right? 442 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000 And with the Word of God. 443 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,000 So you now, you get emotive energy. I've got to do something. 444 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,000 I've got to do something. What am I going to do? I've got to do something. 445 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,000 And you've got Jesus in your heart. 446 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000 You've got the peace that whatever you do is going to be okay. 447 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,000 Even if you screw up, God is going to take care of it. Right? 448 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,000 And you've got the Word to tell you what you actually should do. 449 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:41,000 You've got all of those things. And those three things working together will take that anger 450 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:47,000 and make it so that you can act in your anger in a way that will not dishonor God. 451 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,000 Not the way you would have done it before you were saved. Right? 452 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:55,000 And if you channel all that anger inwardly and don't change it into something that you can use. 453 00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:00,000 It's like if you have a closet in your bedroom and you've put on about 25 pounds. 454 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,000 And everything in there is two sizes too small. 455 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,000 And you go to the closet and you're putting everything inside. 456 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,000 I can't use this. I can't use this. I can't use this. 457 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,000 What do you feel like when you're done in that closet? 458 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:19,000 Fat. Right? And undressed. Right? 459 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,000 And that's what we're talking about. We're talking about how to be dressed in the Lord. 460 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000 How to be ready for what comes. Because stuff is coming. 461 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,000 And some of it ain't going to be good. And you're going to go through it. 462 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:35,000 And when you go through it, what are you going to do with it is determined by who you serve. 463 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:40,000 What you've learned. Right? And the peace that we have in Christ. 464 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,000 The verses I listed at the bottom, I won't go over them and read them. 465 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000 But Romans 12.2, that's that verse where it says, by the renewing of your mind. 466 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,000 Here, in case you were wondering, Colossians 3, if you go back to the beginning. 467 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:57,000 The verse that I read it, verse 11 says, a renewal in which there is no distinction. 468 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:03,000 So we're renewing everything. It's being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the one who created him. 469 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:10,000 That's what's happening to us. We're being renewed according to a true knowledge, Jason. 470 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000 So that we'll be more and more like Jesus. Right? 471 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,000 Okay. So if there are young people in the room, if you've been taking notes, 472 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,000 hold up your paper so I can see what percentage of notes we have. 473 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,000 I want to see. I'm curious. What do we got? Just hold it up. 474 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,000 See how many blanks you got filled in. 475 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,000 Okay. Pretty good. 100% looks like. 476 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,000 Oh, you missed a few on the right there. No, I see it. 477 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:39,000 You got small, pretty hand writing. Very good. Very nice. 478 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:44,000 Look at that. We rocked the house. Okay. So we did good. We did good. We nailed it. 479 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:48,000 Okay. So that means everybody gets candy pelted at them. 480 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:54,000 But Karina, didn't you put yours up? 481 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,000 This will be fun. Watch this. 482 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:05,000 Everybody in the back ready? Okay. Get this on camera. 483 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,000 Okay. I always got to adjust the camera. 484 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:16,000 You might want to cover your head. 485 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,000 Okay. He's dialing the camera in. Okay. You ready? 486 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,000 Go! 487 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,000 I'll be much gentler on this side of the room. 488 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:37,000 I got you right in the nose. 489 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,000 Okay. All right. So we're through with our lesson. We had fun. 490 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,000 Walk in it. That's how you get it done. Okay. 491 00:50:46,000 --> 00:51:13,000 We're going to pray in closing and then...