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Dr. Barrett Deubert

The founder of The Real Health Co. and the host of The Real Health Co. Podcast, Dr. Barrett is passionate about helping people find true and complete health in any stage of life!

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Grant Crenshaw

Content Producer at the Real Health Co.

What is Manna Monday?

The Team at the Real Health Co. shares a weekly message to help you center yourself and start your week off strong!

Speaker 1: 00:11

I I feel like the longer I live and and the older I get, the more I realize just the vulnerability of man. And I've been processing something out of Genesis and as we look to our Bible reading plans, right, sometimes we're seeing things that are new, that we haven't seen before. And in Genesis four, God speaks directly to Cain before he murders his brother, Abel. And what God says is is is super sobering and humbling. He says that sin is crouching out the door.

Speaker 1: 00:53

It desires to have you. You must rule over it. So sin is at your door, it desires to have you, you must rule over it. That sentence stuck out to me and explains more about the temptation, responsibility, and spiritual growth than almost any other scripture, and it comes right out of the gates with it in Genesis four. It shows us that that sin is external before it's internal.

Speaker 1: 01:23

You know, God says that sin is at the door. It's not inside the house yet, it's at the door. And sin is not described as Cain's identity, it's not described as who he is, it's described as something that's outside of him waiting for access into his heart, right? The murderous kind of, the anger that's in his heart is waiting to access Cain's heart. And temptation often begins as a knock or not as like a full on takeover, right?

Speaker 1: 02:00

It's like, I've heard it said in a song that, it's like a slow fade or, you know, our fall is not sudden, it's slow. And temptation, you know, often begins as a thought or an offense or a comparison, which robs our joy or a wound, you know, unforgiveness, bitterness that hasn't been healed. It's just these little things that just stand out the door just lightly knocking, and sin positions itself as the threshold of your heart waiting to rule it. But yet God says, hey, I want you to actually rule over it. We are called, to rule over it because God even says it desires to have you or the desire is for you.

Speaker 1: 02:56

You know, the language that's intense. Sin doesn't want partnership. It wants dominion. It wants to rule over your heart and your mind. It's going to take over, slow takeover, but finally it wants full ownership.

Speaker 1: 03:09

And so when we look at spiritual growth, have to recognize that whatever you refuse to confront will eventually, it'll try to control you. That's where accountability and honesty is so important. So when we look at ruling over it, because it wants to rule over you, God ends with the final charge, you must rule over it. That means Cain is not powerless, we're not powerless, temptation did not remove responsibility, spiritual maturity is learning that we have feelings, and you know, Cain had anger in his heart, but it doesn't have to rule over you. Know, God didn't say, hey, Cain, you won't feel angry.

Speaker 1: 03:59

He said, don't let anger rule over you. Growth happens when we stop asking, why do I feel this way, and start asking who is in authority right now. And so as sin knocks, right, don't let it enter, right? It waits before it rules over you. And God is is this is just a reminder for you this week, that sin is at the door constantly knocking on your heart, trying to gain access.

Speaker 1: 04:27

But you were called through Christ, through the redemption blood of Jesus, with power to rule over it. You are a son and daughter called to rule over sin. So you rule over it by surrendering the powerlessness of it to Jesus. The power that you receive is not of your own accord. It's not by might, not by power, but it's by his Spirit.

Speaker 1: 04:51

His Spirit gives you the power to rule over it. And as we might be tempted this week, or we might feel a resentment or bitterness or anger, whatever, make sure we not only share with God, but we share with others so that sin doesn't rule over us, but we rule over it. Because what you rule over today will not rule over you tomorrow. And so as you resist, it'll flee. This week, be aware that the reality is this.

Speaker 1: 05:24

Sin is at the door knocking and trying to get into your heart, but you were called as a child of God to rule over it.