WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.839 Today on the Bible Guys, we're actually talking about life 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:06.679 at Spirit Airlines. That's what we're talking about. Life at Spirit. 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.359 No, not Spirit Airlines, life in the Spirit. 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.119 I saw a life in the Spirit at the Capital 5 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.640 last I thought we're talking about Spirit. 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.359 Airlines, favorite airlines. So hey, this is Kyle and I'm 7 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:17.719 Jeff and we're the Bible Guys. 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.839 All right, So today before we get into talking about 9 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:33.799 life in the Spirit, I actually just want to let 10 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:36.200 you know we actually were submitting there's some questions have 11 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.880 been submitted to us trying to stump the pastor. And 12 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.200 there's one that was submitted today from these these great yes, 13 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:43.079 everybody asks. 14 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.079 Really good questions on these stumped pastor things, and. 15 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:46.320 So we encourage you send those in. 16 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:46.560 You can. 17 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.240 If you're on the Bible Guys dot com, we have 18 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:50.079 a spot on there you can contact us. You can 19 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.240 comment on one of our YouTube pages and Facebook, and 20 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:54.479 we read all these things. We keep a collection of them. 21 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.000 You send an email to info at the Bible Guys 22 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:57.560 dot That's right. 23 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.200 And then Ed P had this really good, uh the 24 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:00.759 pastor question? 25 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:01.280 Thanks Ed. 26 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.120 He says, when did Jesus know after being born that 27 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:06.280 he was the son of God. 28 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.640 Oh, that is a good question. The easy answer, and 29 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:14.959 the seems to be the standard answer to the stumped 30 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.879 the Bible guys is we don't know. But there seems 31 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.439 to be a couple of indications of Jesus awareness. Particularly 32 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.359 there's the story of Jesus when he was twelve years 33 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:27.159 old and his mom and dad took him to Jerusalem 34 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.840 and he's with the people in the temple. Yeah, yeah, 35 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.560 and his Mary and Joseph. They were traveling in a 36 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.159 large group, and then they leave Jerusalem and then you know, 37 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.159 they're halfway home and they find out they left Jesus 38 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:43.560 good parenting, which is hysterical. Hey, mam and dad, if 39 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.640 you think that you're not a very good parent. Mary 40 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:51.640 lost God, she lost the son of God. So that's funny. Anyway, 41 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:53.920 she realizes, they both realize that they don't have Jesus 42 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:55.840 with them. They turn back and they go back to Jerusalem, 43 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.480 and when they finally find Jesus, he's sitting on the 44 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.760 steps of temple some of the other scribes and the teachers, 45 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.640 and he's pretty amazing in his depth of biblical knowledge, 46 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.159 and they're amazed by him. And so Mary says, Jesus 47 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:12.639 you know your father and I've been looking for you 48 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.479 for all this time. And Jesus looked at his mother 49 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.319 and said, didn't you know that I'd be about my 50 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.960 father's business. And he was differentiating between his stepdad Joseph 51 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.639 and his heavenly father. So at that point I think 52 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.000 Jesus had a strong awareness of his heavenly father and 53 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.680 perhaps what his role was. So the question I think 54 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:34.400 for a lot of people is was he born with 55 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:39.080 that awareness or did he gradually grow into that awareness? 56 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.599 But yeah, at least by the age twelve. 57 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.319 We know for sure by twelve he was aware of 58 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.759 his relationship to his father. Yeah, we don't really have 59 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.479 a lot of indication. 60 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.039 Yeah, we don't know that he knew that he was 61 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:50.639 going to die in the cross at that point, right, 62 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.159 But yeah, he at least had an awareness that he 63 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.599 had a special mission from the Father. 64 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.199 So it wasn't like a Luke Skywalker, That's right. 65 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.199 And the thing about this, the reason why this question 66 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.960 is so important, is some people make the mistake of 67 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.360 thinking that Jesus was a really good guy that God chose. Man, 68 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.240 I like this guy, he's great. Jesus was the visible 69 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.960 image of the invisible God, Jesus was born God in 70 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.639 the flesh, and so that then, for you know, when 71 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.080 we think about it, Jesus had to be potty trained. 72 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.719 Mary had to teach him to walk, She had to 73 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.759 change his diapers, she had he had to nurse as 74 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.719 a baby. Now he had to learn to chew with 75 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.680 his mouth closed and not talk with his mouth full. 76 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.199 And he had to learn his ABC's and his well 77 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.439 not ABC's, but you know, he had to learn his letters, 78 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:39.719 and he had to learn how to do math. He 79 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.520 all that stuff because he was completely human. 80 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.639 Yes, that is and that's the part people I think 81 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.159 struggle with the fully god, fully man. That's the part 82 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.000 that I think is has hard people to wrap their 83 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.000 minds around. They assume it's one or the other, fifty 84 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.280 to fifty or whatever it may be. 85 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.199 So I think that in the same way that he 86 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.800 gradually began to understand language as a baby, as he 87 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.319 gradually learned how to walk as an infant, as he 88 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.719 began to learn social norms as an adolescent, all those things, 89 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.319 I think that he gradually came to this stronger and 90 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.039 stronger awareness of what his mission was because he was 91 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.000 fully human, but he's also fully god which meant that 92 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:20.319 he had, you know, all the power and the knowledge 93 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.560 of God, but that knowledge seems to be limited. Jesus says. 94 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.800 At one point, they're asking Jesus, hey, when are you 95 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.600 going to return the disciples? And Jesus said, I don't 96 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.680 know that. Only my father in Heaven knows that. So 97 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:36.800 God is everywhere. Right, then God chose in Jesus to 98 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.720 limit himself to one place at one time. So God 99 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.319 is everywhere outside of time. Now Jesus is God limited 100 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.399 in one body, in one place at one time, and 101 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.000 so he chose to set aside and you know, the 102 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.000 Bible tells us he set aside some of the glory. 103 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.199 He set aside those things to limit himself into a 104 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.279 human and so he's operating with human knowledge and at 105 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.800 the same time he's God. And there's this tension there 106 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.800 all the time. But the Bible's not specific. 107 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.759 So when it happened, well, another thing too, is I 108 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:08.680 think about it like we see many instances in the 109 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.839 few years of his ministry where he goes away to 110 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.720 talk with his father, I mean for hours at a time, 111 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.079 days at a time, and it almost seems like the 112 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.839 most inopportune times to do that. Right, So he found 113 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.079 it necessary to go and have that communion with it. 114 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:21.639 And so it makes you wonder, like, that's not just 115 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.079 a habit you pick up in ministry. That's that's something 116 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:25.879 he'd been carrying. It makes you wonder how many years 117 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.040 he had he'd had that sort of a relationship with 118 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:29.720 God where he can go away, where you take this 119 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:31.959 there's moments of silence, solitude and just be with his father. 120 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.759 The Bible says it was his habit. Yeah, right, it 121 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.240 was his habit. Then you go up into the mountains 122 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.720 or you go out into the desert or whatever and 123 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.319 pray early in the morning. 124 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.160 Yes, maybe from a young age though, could have been 125 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:41.639 something where he had I believe. 126 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.680 The reason why he did this, you know, the Holy 127 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.480 Spirit descended on him while he was being baptized. I 128 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.879 believe that he functioned as a spirit filled man, but 129 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.399 he was carrying the sinless blood of God. Right, yeah, yeah, 130 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.480 so his his sinless blood is what was able to 131 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.920 pay the price for our sin. But he functioned on 132 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:06.560 earth as a spirit filled man, and this is why 133 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.639 he was able to say, my followers will do greater 134 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.000 things than I did. Yeah, So as we are spirit 135 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.439 filled and as we walk in the spirit, then we 136 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.319 have the ability to have the kind of impact that 137 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:17.920 Jesus had. 138 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.079 That's really good. That's really good to keep sending in 139 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.199 your questions and hopefully that was a good answer to 140 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:24.600 that at p wherever you are. 141 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.279 Thanks, it's a really good one. Yeah. 142 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.079 Hey, So, as we get into Romans chapter eight today, 143 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.720 just to if you didn't get a chance to watch 144 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.160 or listen to the podcast yesterday, we're talking about a 145 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.439 little bit more about the law. That's kind of what 146 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.839 Paul's been talking about, and he's basically talking about the 147 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.040 fact that so often when it comes to sin, we 148 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.000 do what we don't want to do, we don't do 149 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.279 what we want to do. And then he provides the. 150 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.399 Solution to He says, what a miserable person person I am. 151 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:49.879 But then you come to verse eight. Thank goodness, you 152 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.879 know we read your chapter eight. We read these in 153 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:55.720 chapters and verses, but he's not no, yeah, right, so 154 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.680 you just come to the end of this. I feel 155 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.120 like I'm a miserable person, but thank God Jesus can 156 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.839 solve this for me. And then you go right on this, 157 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:03.879 yes right, verse one. 158 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.759 And I don't know because this is a Bible Guys podcast, 159 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.639 we push you know, the study Bibles and that sort 160 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:09.240 of thing. But if you haven't heard of have you 161 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.639 ever heard the story Bible by any chance? They basically 162 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.040 where they take the Bible in chronological order and they 163 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:15.800 treat it like a like a novel. We still have 164 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:19.480 chapter slily, the whole chapter like Jesus' ministry on Earth, 165 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.519 and they'll be and they remove all the chapters, the verses. 166 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.399 There's no Matthew, there's no and they just put them 167 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.399 in respect cool because you read the same thing, you'd 168 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.560 be reading it would not even think about the chapter change. 169 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.680 So anyway, we're going to continue on here. In verse one, 170 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.720 chapter eight, Paul saying this, so now there is no 171 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.399 condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because 172 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.319 you belong to him, the power of the life giving 173 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.399 spirit has freed you from the power of sin that 174 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:44.959 leads to death. The Law of Moses was unable to 175 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.319 save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. 176 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.360 So God did what the law could not do. He 177 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.759 sent his own son in a body. Hey, we're talking 178 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:55.279 about that earlier. You go in a body like the 179 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.120 bodies we sinners have and in that body, God declared 180 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.639 an end to sins control over us, giving us giving 181 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.480 his son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did 182 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.920 this that the just requirement of the law would be 183 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.000 fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful 184 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.560 nature but instead follow the spirit. Those who are dominated 185 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.839 by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those 186 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.519 who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things 187 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.160 that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control 188 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.439 your mind leads to death, but letting the Spirit control 189 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.399 your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful 190 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.639 nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey 191 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.159 God's laws, and it never will. That's why those who 192 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.320 are still under the control of their sinful nature can 193 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.320 never please God. But you are not controlled by your 194 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:42.840 sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit. If you 195 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:44.840 have the Spirit of God living in you, then it 196 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.080 says in quotations, remember that those who do not have 197 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.320 the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong 198 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.960 to Him at all. And Christ lives within you. So 199 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:55.440 even though your body will die because of sin, the 200 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:58.120 Spirit gives you life because you have been made right 201 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.840 with God. The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from 202 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:04.960 the dead lives in you. And just as God raise 203 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.720 Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give you life 204 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.360 to your mortal bod bodies by this same spirit living 205 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.480 within you. Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no 206 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.559 obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do, 207 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.240 for if you live by its dictates, you will die. 208 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:21.960 But if, through the power of the Spirit, you put 209 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.600 to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 210 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:27.360 For all who are led by the spirit of God 211 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:29.960 are children of God. So you have not received the 212 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.200 spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you receive God's 213 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.919 spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now 214 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.080 we call him abba Father, for his spirit joins with 215 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.799 our spirit to affirm that we are God's children and spins. 216 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.639 We are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, 217 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.519 together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. But 218 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.960 if we are to share his glory, we must also 219 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.759 share his suffering. Wow, there's a lot to that. 220 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:54.720 Yeah, well he covers a lot. 221 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:55.240 Yes he does. 222 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.480 So he comes out of the statement, what a miserable 223 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:00.879 person I am. Thank God for g Jesus, And then 224 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.960 he says, So there is now no condemnation for those 225 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.480 who belong to Christ. Jesus condemnation. He's talking about judgment, right, 226 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.759 the judgment of hell for our sin. So in Christ, 227 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:14.879 those who are in Christ or those who belong to Christ, 228 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:16.919 we don't have to worry about that judgment anymore. 229 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.440 So we were on death row. Essentially, we're on death row. 230 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.519 There's now no condemnation. Therefore we're free. 231 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.440 Yeah, well, there's that note. I think you're referencing the 232 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.759 note here for eight verse one in the Life Application Bible. 233 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.960 He says, not guilty, let this person go free. What 234 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.279 would those words mean to you if you were on 235 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.240 death row? In reality, the whole human race is on 236 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:40.279 death row, justly condemned for repeatedly breaking God's holy law. 237 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.960 Without Jesus we'd have no hope at all. But thank God, 238 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.519 he has declared us not guilty and has offered us 239 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.000 freedom from sin and supernatural power to do his will right. So, 240 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.279 as as a people, as humanity, we were all on 241 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:57.080 death row individually, we were on death row spiritually, but 242 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.919 because of Jesus. Now he says, let him go free. 243 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.799 They're free from sin, they're free from the consequences of sin, 244 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.080 and this is all because of the life giving Holy Spirit, 245 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:12.200 and so I love it. In verse three, it says 246 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.759 the Law of Moses was unable to save us because 247 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:17.919 of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did 248 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.200 what the law could not do. Right, that's really it. 249 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:25.159 So if you're trying to obey all the religious rituals 250 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.720 and all the things that religion has told you you 251 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.080 must do, you have to receive communion at this time, 252 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:31.720 and you have to get baptized at this time, and 253 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.440 you have to stop doing these things. And you better 254 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.279 never ever do those sins or you can't go to heaven. 255 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:42.399 That's all the law, and so they have value. They 256 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.480 just can't get us to heaven. And so he says, instead, 257 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.000 God did what the law cannot do. God's the one 258 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.159 who saves us. God's the one who makes it possible 259 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:53.320 for us to have our sins forgiven and have a 260 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:57.120 right relationship with Him and have access to Him and eternity. 261 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.279 The law can never do that. There's no way we 262 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.639 can perfectly keep every rule that's right. 263 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.000 So that's really good. I so like to and I 264 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:05.679 think it mentions this as well. In the Life Application, 265 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.600 study Bible, but uh in five and six from one 266 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.600 of those who live according to the flesh and then 267 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:12.720 those who live according to the spirit. So there's really 268 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:14.320 it basically said, there's two types people in the world, 269 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:16.320 those who are living according their flesh. So you kind 270 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.759 of simplifies like two types people live accordion, flesh live 271 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.600 by the spirit. I know that you're a big Michigan fan, 272 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.480 so it's almost like there's two types people. There's Ohio people, right, 273 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.279 there's Michigan Michigan people and Ohio or even in our 274 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.480 state who that's all the world consists of is Ohio 275 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.679 state people and us the rest of it. But it's 276 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.639 almost like Michigan, Michigan State. It's like, you know here 277 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.120 in in you know, our our area here in Michigan. 278 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.000 You know, people get pretty divided, you know, and here 279 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:41.200 he's kind of saying that there's two. 280 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.919 Types people, and yeah, you know, I just made me 281 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.559 think of the the well, so I think it really 282 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.879 comes down to these two uh, these two issues, and 283 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:55.320 it really simplifies quite honestly, my decision making in my 284 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:02.879 my self, uh you know, measurements about my life when 285 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.360 I look and I go, okay, is this decision I'm making. 286 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.960 Is this a fleshley decision? Yeah? Or is this a 287 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.480 godly decision? This is literally one of these what would 288 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.000 Jesus do kind of things. He's really dividing it down 289 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.480 to either you're only pleasing yourself or you're only pleasing God. 290 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.399 There's no mixing and there's nothing in between. Yeah. Right, 291 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:21.679 So if you're living for your flesh, that's usually a 292 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.480 wrong decision. When you're wanting to go tell off that coworker, 293 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:26.639 you have to ask yourself, would Jesus go tell off 294 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.039 my coworker in this moment? Right? If not, then okay, 295 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.559 maybe I should step away from that. I'm going to 296 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.320 walk in the spirit instead. And so it really simplifies 297 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:35.279 our decision making. 298 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.000 Yeah, well what happens all the time. 299 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:37.759 I mean, think about you. 300 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:39.440 You mentioned that telling off the coat. I mean, there's 301 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.440 so many of those instances where you're like, yeah, my 302 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:43.879 sinful desire, my simpul nature is telling me to do 303 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:45.960 this right, or I'm following the emotions, or I'm following 304 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:47.960 this you know, even the Bible. Like, it's funny how 305 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.399 in our culture, in this day and age, it's about 306 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.440 listening to your heart. You watch so many about what's 307 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:53.159 your heart telling you to do? And you know from 308 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.759 the Old Testament that the heart is deceitful, right, and 309 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.720 don't listen to your heart, don't trust your heart. And 310 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.000 oftentimes your heart is lying to you in those areas. 311 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.360 And so you know, whenever you hear from somebody or 312 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.720 ever I'm talking somebody are counseling somebody on certain decisions. 313 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.360 You know, it's like a lot of times you have 314 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.120 to look and see what the spirit spirit's telling you 315 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.360 to do, or also what God's word, God's word that 316 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.039 tells you to do. So you go back to his word, 317 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:12.919 which is foundation. 318 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:14.840 But the Holy Spirit will never tell you to do 319 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.279 something contrary that's other than what yes, exactly right. 320 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:18.399 So a lot of times you'll have though like, well, 321 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:19.559 I really want to do this, or I really want 322 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:20.960 to quit this, or I really want to start what 323 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:22.720 I'm going to do, and it's like, well, what does 324 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:23.679 his word. 325 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:23.919 Say to do? 326 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:27.080 And then in that you'll essentially find what it looks 327 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.919 like to live in the spirit when you're when you're 328 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:30.679 actually in the world, when it's written in your heart, 329 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.240 when it's an overflow of what you're reading and growing 330 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.320 and ultimately you are living in the spirit in that way. 331 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.759 Yeah. James, in his book he talks about the difference 332 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.679 between light and light and darkness. Yeah, or John the 333 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.000 same thing in first, second, third John, he talks about that. 334 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:46.960 Peter talks a little bit about it that. So here 335 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.519 it's the flesh or the spirit. For them, they're talking 336 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.440 about light and darkness. It's the same same kind of thing. 337 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.320 There is no gray, yes, right, right right. 338 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.200 Either it's for the flesh or it's for And a 339 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.120 lot of times I get with people who go, oh, well, 340 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.600 if you understand you know, businessman, Well, if you understood 341 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.120 how real business happens, you know, So I walk in 342 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.960 the light on Sundays, but Monday through Friday I have 343 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.879 to walk in the darkness. And God's not making any 344 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.200 room for that at all. No, even business people, everybody 345 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.879 should be choosing. If you're if you've been saved, if 346 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.399 you've been forgiven of your sins, if you've received the 347 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.200 spirit of Christ in you, then you should choose to 348 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.840 be walking in the light, not based on guilt and fear, 349 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.200 but based on the fact that He loves you, and 350 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.639 so out of love for him, you choose to walk 351 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.759 in the light. And this is a is a difficult 352 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.919 issue because we really want to please ourselves, and what 353 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.080 we kind of want is we want God to also 354 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.879 please us. That's our goal. Our goal is that God 355 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.360 would affirm us and approve of us and please us, 356 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.639 give us what we want. So it winds up being 357 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.600 a self centered life that's always living in the flesh. 358 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.000 But he says when we begin to grow up to 359 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.519 become more like Christ, suddenly it stops being about us 360 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:02.120 and God is no longer there. We don't expect him 361 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.360 to please us. Instead, we flip the script and we 362 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.519 want to please him. Right, that's really that's good. 363 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.960 Well, I honestly think that is even in our culture. Again, 364 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.440 going back to that, it's so we live in a 365 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.559 culture that just wants the approval. We wanted the affirmation, 366 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.080 and we want somebody to It's like, you know, we 367 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.200 want the friends to surround us who don't tell us 368 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:21.960 any bad news, just tell us that everything we're doing 369 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.240 is great, the yes men or yes women around us. Right, 370 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.759 and so it's like no, no, no, we have to 371 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.799 walk in the spirit. In fact, it actually talks about 372 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.720 that in fifteen sets, you have not received a spirit 373 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:32.000 that makes you fearful slaves. 374 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:33.480 So I was just looking at it. Yeah. 375 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.679 So, I mean obviously the whole adoption thing, the abba 376 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.759 father you talk about that, I feel that's pretty important 377 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:38.480 for our listeners, like. 378 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.519 He'll adopted you as his own children. You know, a 379 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.399 lot of people know my story. My dad adopted me, 380 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:44.559 and I know what it means. You know, when when 381 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.039 my dad we were with the judge and you know, 382 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.320 the judge was affirming with my dad, Hey, this is 383 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.679 kind of an irreversible thing. It's not something you do 384 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.279 flippantly and then change your mind later. And I can't remember. 385 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:03.000 My dad got down on his knees and he said, Jeffy, 386 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.200 I choose you. That's great. And I can't remember what 387 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.039 it's like to be chosen, you know, by my dad 388 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.880 and be because I mean, I was thrilled. I was 389 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.880 excited as a little boy, but I was super excited. 390 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.079 And that's kind of what he's saying is God decided 391 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:19.079 to adopt you as his own children. And when he 392 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.160 did that, he changed your name, He changed your future, 393 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.680 he changed the direction of your life, he changed the 394 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.480 opportunities in your life. And now you don't have to 395 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.880 be this street Urchin. That's, you know, running from all 396 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.960 the demons in your life. Instead, you've been given the 397 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.079 spirit of God. You don't have to be living a 398 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.440 life of fear anymore, which was my life. My life was, 399 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.759 you know, full of fear. And instead he says, you 400 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.240 don't have to live this life of fear anymore. You've 401 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:44.759