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0:08open your Bibles with me to Paul's
0:11letter to the Ephesians chapter chapter
0:135 and yes I assign my
0:16shortest passage in the whole series and
0:19that wasn't really intentional but maybe
0:21it was I don't know so so just kind of
0:25to paint the flow here for where we've
0:27been going for months months now so
0:29Paul's been immersing these new
0:32Christians in their new identity right
0:35this has been a big theme and so Paul in
0:37the first three chapters remember he's
0:38retelling the story of what happened in
0:40Jesus about God's decision about screwed
0:44up sinful self focused human beings to
0:48permanently commit himself to love us to
0:52bind himself to us by becoming human by
0:55creating a new reconciled family of
0:57Jesus people out of Jew and non-jew and
1:00where he takes up personal residence by
1:02means of the Spirit and so a big part of
1:04what we've been tracing is how Paul is
1:06just immersing these Christians in their
1:08identity
1:09you used to be whoever whoever you were
1:12before you heard the story about Jesus
1:13but if you've put your trust in Jesus
1:15and have become a part of his people and
1:17placed your faith in him then you are in
1:20new new think of all of the new types of
1:23identity that we've discovered here in
1:25in Paul's letter to the Ephesians your
1:27new kinds of humans he said this more
1:29than one time - what do times he said
1:31you're holy you actually are distinct
1:34and set apart now from your previous
1:36identity he says that you're more loved
1:39than you can possibly imagine your
1:42beloved children your children of the
1:44light you don't have to live in the dark
1:46anymore and so as we moved into chapter
1:504 and then 5 Paul's been really specific
1:53and clear you'll remember about laying
1:55out what we're calling parameters and
1:57these parameters are indications of what
2:01living into this new identity looks like
2:03what does sex and money in relationships
2:06and anger and work and generosity and
2:09work ethic and how does all of this look
2:10like in light of who we really are now
2:12in Jesus and so he's been painting these
2:15parameters and so over this little it's
2:17just a little paragraph right here
2:19chapter 5 verses 15 through 21 and he
2:22actually takes a new turn here because
2:24he doesn't really describe any
2:26parameters here what he does want to do
2:29is show the immense amount of freedom
2:31that we have and so I want to pick up
2:33illustration the JA shoes last week and
2:35then we'll kind of dive we'll dive into
2:37the text here any Josh mentioned this it
2:40really resonated with me and I kind of
2:42fought through it and I actually lived
2:44through it in this last week because he
2:46talked about Paul as being like a loving
2:48parent who's trying to give these kids
2:50these new children's spiritual children
2:53of his freedom by giving them parameters
2:56and that sounds paradoxical to us or
2:59maybe even contradictory but I mean free
3:00to we think of freedom as having no
3:02parameters I can do whatever I want
3:04but that's not at least the Gospels
3:06version of freedom doing whatever you
3:08want leads to ruined human lives and so
3:11it's actually in the freedom of having
3:13parameters so I actually just live I
3:16lived it this week because I'm the
3:18parent of a small two-year-old caveman
3:20and so and otherwise known as a toddler
3:23but toddlers and cavemen really they're
3:26about the same same kind of mentality
3:27and so in in love we have to lay down
3:32parameters one of my goals as a parent
3:34is is to just burn into this little
3:37guy's psyche how loved and committed we
3:40are to him no matter what for the long
3:42haul right that's about his identity but
3:44I also have as one of my goals as a
3:46parent to lay out parameters and keep
3:49him from killing himself basically which
3:51would happen almost every day I'm
3:53certain if I didn't intervene you write
3:55or Jessica did didn't intervene because
3:56he's just into everything and so we've
3:58laid out parameters like in our home
4:00where we have a whole room that's
4:02off-limits to him through the little
4:05door you know the little door prevented
4:06his door that guy that thing there and
4:08then we have about three cupboards that
4:10are that are off-limits to him because
4:12there's like knives in there and they're
4:13sewing needles up in the room and so on
4:15and so like we've created these
4:17parameters and we pay attention as
4:19pouring like a parameters that cramps my
4:21style or whatever we tend to focus on
4:23parameters what I'm being told I can't
4:25do but what we usually neglect and what
4:27roman often neglect when he's obsessing
4:29over what's in that cupboard is the fact
4:31that the whole rest of the house is open
4:33to him I mean even my stuff that I leave
4:35in his presence is open to him and he
4:37gets into it all of the time I often
4:39have packs of chewing gum that I buy
4:41specifically for the purpose
4:42so putting in my mouth when I finished
4:44teaching because you know I've been
4:45talking for a long time and so he just
4:47he can't he can't prevent himself from
4:51getting in to bite you and go I don't
4:52know what it is he just loves it but
4:54whatever you know the whole house is
4:55open to him except these little spaces
4:57this immense amount of freedom and so
5:00what Paul has been doing is just kind of
5:02map this on to Ephesians then is he's
5:03been laying out these parameters of what
5:05it means to live into our new identity
5:07and there's really not that many and
5:09what it does is it leaves open this
5:12whole part of our lives our day-to-day
5:14lives where there's just absolute
5:16freedom to live as these new kinds of
5:20people and the most of what we do in our
5:22day to day lives doesn't cross those
5:24parameters it involves just like work
5:26and family and finding some career path
5:29or providing for myself or others or
5:31doing so I mean that's that stuff and
5:32you search the Bible in vain for God
5:34telling you like where to move and where
5:36to get a job or something you know so
5:38like there's no parameters on that
5:40there's just freedom and so here's what
5:43Paul says to this community of his
5:45spiritual children he's laid out the
5:46parameters to protect the freedom of
5:49these new Christians and here he's going
5:52to guide us into the arena of freedom
5:54and what does Paul have to say as he
5:56guides people into areas of freedom read
5:59verse 15 he says be be supercareful
6:04be really careful then how you live not
6:08as unwise but as wise making the most of
6:13every opportunity because the days are
6:15evil you know therefore don't be foolish
6:19but understand what the Lord's will is
6:23don't get drunk on wine which leads to
6:27debauchery a word none of us used in the
6:30last month I'm certain perhaps
6:31debauchery instead be filled with the
6:34spirit speaking to one another with
6:36Psalms hymns and songs from the spirit
6:38sing and make music from your heart to
6:42the Lord always giving thanks to God the
6:45Father for everything in the name of our
6:47Lord Jesus Christ and submit to one
6:50another out of reverence for Christ this
6:53all this all goes together and actually
6:56as we read that
6:56paragraph it's kind of like reading a
6:58little top ten like bumper sticker
7:00verses that Christians like to put on
7:03their cars or something like that you
7:04know it's still got a bunch of great
7:05little one-liners about that oh yeah
7:07wise and you know discern the Lord's
7:10will and be filled with the spirit and
7:12Psalms and stuff but how does all of
7:14this go together this is all what Paul
7:16is doing what are your guiding light as
7:19you go out into your life as a Christian
7:21you know what the parameters are but
7:23most of your life is just open there
7:25before you like what are you supposed to
7:27do and how do you know how to make
7:29decisions in the areas of great freedom
7:32that we have as Christians and Paul says
7:34Paul says wisdom discerning God's will
7:39and being filled with the spirit as your
7:44guiding lights as you go into your
7:46freedom as a Christian and you know that
7:49you're tapping into and using those when
7:51your life results in being connected
7:54with music giving thanks and submitting
7:57to other people so do I need to say any
8:01more I think I'll just kind of wrap it
8:02up right here at me go settle off so so
8:05no no there's many things we could
8:07explore and we don't have time to do
8:08them all I just want to really what I
8:09want to focus in on is how these three
8:12these three things with them discerning
8:14God's will and being filled with the
8:16spirit because they go they go together
8:18look down with me at verse 15 he begins
8:20by saying is you consider this arena of
8:22freedom in your life he says just be
8:25super intentional be super careful your
8:30decisions matter what you do in your
8:32day-to-day life it really matters how
8:34you live matters be really intentional
8:38and careful and then what he gives is
8:40these three three pairs there's three
8:44little contrasting pairs and you may not
8:46have noticed them as you read as you
8:48read through but there's three pairs he
8:49says not this but this not this but this
8:52not this but this three pairs did you
8:54see them here what's the first pair you
8:55see it he says not as unwise but wise
9:00making the most of every opportunity
9:02verse 17 therefore it don't be foolish
9:04but understand the Lord's will don't get
9:09hammered but be filled with the spirit
9:12do you see them there
9:13these three pairs now let me kind of
9:14throw them up here and my alignment got
9:17off there there you go perpetual
9:20PowerPoint problems there's a lot of
9:22peas in one sentence
9:23so serif you've got if you want to work
9:25I don't know work on that in between in
9:28between the service was where so but you
9:30guys see that there you see the three
9:31pairs right so and they're not just a
9:34ragbag of topics like here Oh Paul just
9:37thought of wisdom that's a good thing to
9:38talk about now and no deserting God's
9:40well you know oh it's good to put that
9:41in or something nice really really you
9:43really choosing his words carefully and
9:45all of these the three don'ts and the
9:48three dues are all connected right so so
9:52in this area of freedom as we approach
9:54our lives there's no rules there's just
9:57go be a human being so here's the
10:00parameters sex that can really set you
10:02you're often money and generosity in
10:04relationships so let's get the
10:05parameters there about what it means to
10:07be a huge new human what are you going
10:08to do with your life now and he uses
10:11these three these three pairs right here
10:14wisdom discerning God's will and being
10:17filled with the spirit and they're all
10:18connected so somehow Paul's definition
10:21of what it means to be a wise person is
10:23waking up and having an intuition or
10:26learning is you going through like what
10:27God's will for that day is and if you're
10:31going to be a wise person who knows how
10:33to discern God's will for what you're
10:34doing on any given day what that means
10:36is you need to learn how to be
10:38influenced by the Spirit and there's
10:41going to be three behaviors that are
10:43constantly going to sabotage your
10:44ability to be a fully mature human being
10:47and that's being stupid and getting
10:50drunk because that's going to ruin
10:52everything it's going to set you back
10:54strides from growing and maturing as a
10:57Christian so let's kind of let's dive
10:59into these real quick here into these
11:00three and you'll see how they how they
11:02issue into the the spirit influence
11:04applies so he says be careful don't be
11:07unwise but wise and here's what's
11:10interesting when you hear the English
11:11word wise I think most of us we we think
11:14of something that happens in your head
11:16right we think of someone's wise we
11:18think of someone who's smart writer who
11:20has a lot of a lot of insight
11:23and that's involved in what the Bible's
11:25trying to get as it talks about wisdom
11:27but there's a number of things going on
11:30but the Bible has is a more robust
11:32really different version of what wisdom
11:34is the Bible talks about knowledge it
11:37talks about understanding but you notice
11:39it has different words for that wisdom
11:41and particularly Paul's it has one Old
11:44Testament passage in the back of his
11:45head here and this might Joe it always
11:47point this out to you because I'm a geek
11:48right so it's from Exodus chapter 31 and
11:51lets us read the passage here and you'll
11:53see how Paul's drawing on the language
11:56of this passage here this is where the
11:58Israelites are at Mount Sinai
12:00they've been redeemed out of slavery in
12:01Egypt and God's designing his own
12:04personal dwelling place in the midst of
12:06his people that he's redeemed and so the
12:09Lord said to Moses he said see I've
12:11chosen Bethel lo the son of early the
12:14son of who are the son of Judah and I
12:17have filled him with the Spirit of God
12:19with wisdom come on
12:22right it's right there you see it you
12:25see it so and and because I like to do
12:28this kind of thing here's the Hebrew
12:30word for wisdom right right there you
12:33want to take a crack at pronouncing it
12:35it's a yeah right here like what those
12:37are not sounds my mouth is used to
12:39making so the KH is the letter in Hebrew
12:43oh right oh ho ma don't you lay with me
12:48oh c'mon
12:49okay I have filled him with my spirit
12:53that is with hokhmah and understanding
12:58and knowledge with all kinds of skills
13:01rescue - and and what's the how do you
13:05know this guy is filled with the Divine
13:06Spirit and hokhmah we'll look he's going
13:10to make artistic designs for work and
13:13gold and silver and bronze and to cut
13:15and set stones and to work in wood and
13:16engage in all kinds all kinds of crafts
13:19the the base vision of wisdom in the
13:22Bible is actually not necessarily your
13:25IQ or how smart you are
13:28do you have to have advanced degrees to
13:30be an artisan no you just have to be
13:34really good at doing this kind of
13:36right and you get how do you get good at
13:38doing this kind of thing well you do a
13:40lot of it right you practice and so on
13:42and then in this case God is animating
13:45this skill set that this guy has so
13:49wisdom at least in these passages and a
13:52lot of others like the Bible wisdom is a
13:54skill that you cultivate about bringing
13:57potential out of something and making
14:00something awesome it's about taking the
14:02raw materials here's a like a whole
14:04bunch of gold earrings melt them down
14:06vessel and make something awesome that
14:08this functions as a candle right so
14:10there's make sure there's that place for
14:11seven candles but just go for it it
14:13needs to have flowers on it okay Rhett
14:15just go right there's just freedom here
14:17take bring the raw potential out of this
14:21material and make something awesome
14:23that's wholesome ah and and God
14:26apparently takes great joy in investing
14:28his own personal presence in the lives
14:31of people to inspire them to make
14:34something and so when Paul saying be
14:37careful how you live not as unwise but
14:40as wise look how he defines it look back
14:42down here at verse 16
14:44how did he define what it means to be
14:45wise not as smart or super intellectual
14:49or bookish what does he say in verse 16
14:51what is wisdom
14:53he says it's making the most of every
14:56opportunity so this isn't actually
15:00particularly religious well Paul saying
15:03is this whole just swath of our lives
15:05their day-to-day lives
15:07there's just relationships and work and
15:09bills and what you do with your time and
15:12you can as a Christian be really stupid
15:16and just not make the most of your life
15:19and you're still a Christian Jesus is
15:21utterly committed to you and He loves
15:23you but you're just not you're not being
15:25wise with your lives how then should we
15:28live in our new identity he urged is
15:32going to urge us every one of us by the
15:34presence of God in our lives has this
15:37presence that's urging us to become more
15:39and more capable of just making good
15:41decisions with our lives
15:43you have people you have relationships
15:45you have your past you have your history
15:47you have whatever your story is
15:49and you are absolutely loved and
15:52cherished by your Creator Jesus loved
15:55you and gave himself for you
15:57here's your life go for it and be wise
16:00make the most of it it's just very
16:03practical you couldn't get here and
16:05there's this connection between being
16:07wise and just making wise decisions with
16:10my life and God's commitment to be
16:12personally present with me so let's keep
16:14on going so that's the first one don't
16:16be unwise of you wise make the most of
16:18every opportunity look at the next pair
16:21he says so don't be foolish but rather
16:25understand what the Lord's will is so if
16:29I'm wise it means I'm cultivating this
16:32understanding that in any given day I
16:33can make decisions that are more in line
16:36or less in line with God's will and this
16:38is one that really throws a lot of SRI
16:40loop I think and because many of us have
16:44a conception of God's will as if it's
16:46like some secret hidden purpose that you
16:48need to figure out for your life
16:50something you know and so is that God's
16:52will that I take this job or that I look
16:55should I try to get married should ask
16:56her out do I want to you know this is it
16:58God's will and I think many of us the
17:00way we talk about it in my hem God's
17:02will am I going against God's will we
17:04think of God's will as if it's like some
17:06hit like it's like a point on a map and
17:08I need to find out where the point is
17:10and then figure out how I'm supposed to
17:12get there and that's not how the Bible
17:14talks about God's well Paul himself he
17:18talks about God's will sometimes to talk
17:20about the parameters the God has set in
17:23place for our new life as new kinds of
17:25humans in Jesus and so he says for
17:28example sexual integrity sexual purity
17:31having sex with someone that I'm not in
17:33a marriage covenant with that is just
17:35never God's will for session Latinas
17:38chapter 4 this is God's will for your
17:40purity with regard to sex
17:42this just never God's will and so that's
17:45okay that's where the pressure is there
17:46that's a way to ruin my life
17:47real quick and start having sex with
17:49someone I'm not married to so that's one
17:52way you can refer to God's will most of
17:54the times that Paul and and the other
17:56biblical authors referred to God's will
17:58it has to do with discerning what's
18:00pleasing to God
18:02so for example my little son Roman you
18:05know we've blocked off the door there
18:08and the three cupboards now he has the
18:11whole house available to him what I'm
18:13not going to do is like when he has a
18:15free afternoon it's like a day off for
18:16me and I'm home and and so he's got the
18:19whole afternoon I'm not liking hover you
18:21know and in the time of his freedom be
18:23like play with a play with your trucks
18:24now okay now it's time to stop that now
18:26we're going to build a tower now Brahmin
18:28we're going to play with your teddy bear
18:29like that's obnoxious that's better so
18:31I'm not going to do that he's free so
18:33just do whatever and all of those would
18:36be my will which is that he flourish as
18:38a little boy and be creative and have
18:40fun
18:40it will never be quite well for example
18:43that he pushes the stool up to the
18:45kitchen sink and throws silverware in
18:47the garbage disposal that will never be
18:49my well even though he really thinks
18:51that is cool you think that's cool so
18:54there's another parameter we had to make
18:55around the garbage disposal but so yes
18:59you know I'm saying here all kinds of
19:01things could be God's will and in many
19:03passages in Paul Paul talks about the
19:06renewal of your minds in Romans chapter
19:0812 and he says when a Christians mind is
19:10renewed when your new identity in the
19:13gospel he says you will be able to
19:15cultivate the skill of discerning what
19:18God's will is he says is good pleasing
19:21and perfect will it just it's just how
19:24it's gaining the intuition now some of
19:27us might be easier said than done
19:29you know so I guess I'm supposed to be
19:31wise and I'm supposed to do what's
19:33pleasing to God okay so how how does
19:37that actually work and that's what the
19:38third element of the contrast is and
19:41this is where where I want to focus so
19:44Paul talks this is the third contrast
19:46verse 18 he says don't get drunk with
19:48wine which leads to debauchery instead
19:53be filled with the spirit okay now
19:55there's a number as a number of things
19:56one is about debauchery debauchery I've
19:59never I never say the word so I actually
20:01don't even know how to pronounce it
20:02so so debauchery so that whatever I
20:06don't know where the word came from an
20:07English none of us use it anymore the
20:08word that Paul uses this just means
20:10without restraint without any boundaries
20:13without any parameters and
20:16so some people have thought at this
20:18point that actually Paul is making a
20:20comparison don't get drunk with wine
20:22rather get hammered in the spirit and so
20:25I'm and there's large traditions in
20:28which the idea is that if I'm a spirit
20:32influenced human or spirit filled human
20:34it will lead to behavior that might be
20:36similar to but just is not actually
20:38induced by alcohol is induced by the
20:40spirit but it still very bizarre strange
20:42behavior and so this is one of those
20:44points again god bless Christianity huge
20:47tent family lots of different kinds of
20:49people but I do think that's one of the
20:50places where Paul would be like wow wow
20:53it didn't see that one didn't see a
20:55misunderstanding of what I was trying to
20:56say so clearly it's a contrast don't be
20:59unwise be wise don't be foolish
21:03understand what the Lord's will is their
21:05contrast right don't get drunk that's a
21:08whole kind of behavior that we'll talk
21:10about in a second be filled with a
21:11spirit that's a completely different
21:13kind of behavior the only similarity
21:15between the two is that we're talking
21:17about some kind of outside influence now
21:19you can be wise and unwise of your own
21:21accord but to get drunk or to be
21:24influenced by the spirit means there's
21:26something outside yourself that's
21:28influencing you that's the commonality
21:32here and so he uses yes this image here
21:35of not getting drunk with wine and all
21:37of a sudden the idea of making the most
21:39being totally on point discerning making
21:41good decisions discerning whether this
21:44decision what I'm doing with my day if
21:46that's going to be something that's
21:47pleasing to the Lord that involves like
21:49you beginning to think about your lives
21:51and one way that you cannot think about
21:53your life is to get drunk right and that
21:56in fact is one of the primary reasons
21:58why many people drink regularly is
22:00because they thinking about their life
22:02is too painful and so Paul in this new
22:05humanity he's laying another parameter
22:07here in this new humanity there are all
22:09kinds of influences you want to avoid
22:12especially influences that will in any
22:15way impair you from being able to make
22:17good decisions in the moment and
22:19discerning what God's what God's will is
22:22now there's this who go alcohol and
22:26Christianity that's not controversial at
22:28all is it right
22:29so I have three minutes to talk about it
22:31so what so here's what's happening here
22:34you you will not find a prohibition
22:37anywhere in the Bible that says that you
22:39drinking is a sin or consumption of
22:41alcohol is is a sin in some way you guys
22:44with me on that one
22:45so actually I should tell you with me
22:47that is the case you will not find that
22:49verse in the Bible what you will find is
22:51the exact opposite so Psalm 104 it for
22:54example talks about celebrating the gift
22:57of human family being able to cultivate
23:00the harvest out of the ground and being
23:02able to enjoy oil and wine which
23:04gladdens the heart have meant Psalm 104
23:06verse 15 and Jesus when he was
23:08celebrating the creation of this new
23:09family at the wedding in Cana he turns
23:12the water into not grape juice this is a
23:16wine okay so the Bible talks about when
23:19it does talk about alcohol it talks
23:20about its potential to be something
23:23beautiful and always connected to
23:24celebration of good things and lies but
23:27there are just as many passages that
23:30while they don't prohibit drinking they
23:32absolutely warn about the abuses of
23:35alcohol this is one of them proverbs
23:38chapter 31 is another really poignant
23:40profound passage and to me there's no
23:43there's no coincidence that Paul is
23:46talking about alcohol in the context of
23:48being wise or being foolish alcohol is
23:51one of those things that you have to be
23:53very wise with isn't it because for some
23:57people enjoying a bottle of wine at
24:00dinner with friends going out for a
24:01drink is actually a way of celebrating
24:03their friendships is celebrating that
24:05manhattan's when they're done well
24:06tastes really really good it's so you
24:08know what I mean like the craft beer
24:10it's part of the culture of Portland
24:11right support the local economy that
24:14kind of thing you know it's great it's a
24:16way to enjoy the culture of our city and
24:18for some people the same exact behavior
24:20might be their way of just thanking
24:22Jesus for good taste and friendship here
24:24in Portland and for another Christian
24:26the same exact behavior might be utterly
24:28foolish utterly foolish and destructive
24:32because of that person's unique story
24:34because of alcoholism that runs in their
24:36family because they know that their
24:38temperament tends towards addictive
24:39kinds of behavior or because I know that
24:42I'm in a tough season in life
24:43and there's a temptation right here to
24:45have another nun a third and then
24:47another because I don't want to think
24:49about my life right now and that's
24:52exactly what Paul is focusing on this
24:55it's an outside influence but not just
24:58deaden it deadens your mind actually
25:00what what alcohol does is if you google
25:04I don't know why I'm smiling about this
25:05but well actually you see in a second so
25:07if you uh if you google alcohol and
25:10brain science which is just a really
25:13interesting experience if you do that
25:15what you'll find is Wikipedia pages they
25:17have all this summaries of research on
25:19how alcohol affects your brain and how
25:21about go affects your brain it affects a
25:23lot of things about your brain one of
25:24the main parts of your brain is called
25:26the prefrontal lobe now I had already
25:28known about the prefrontal lobe because
25:30I learned that on ago that it develops
25:32much more slowly in males than in
25:33females and your prefrontal lobe is the
25:36part of your brain that my son lacks
25:39right now and it's the ability to to be
25:43aware of and think through multiple
25:45sequences of consequences to your action
25:48so when he has his like big metal truck
25:51and he still wants to throw it at the
25:52window he's he's actually not thinking
25:55about what will happen to the window
25:56he's just like that's cool this right
25:58he's just thinking at this moment right
26:00here and what alcohol impairs is exactly
26:05the part of your brain that allows you
26:07to wisely think through the consequences
26:09of your decision right as this is not
26:12rocket science and we didn't need brain
26:14scans to tell us that getting drunk
26:16makes you stupid okay but it's really
26:18interesting because this all it's all
26:20fits together then pulse pulse point is
26:22that if I'm a Christian if I'm a new
26:24kind of human if Jesus has taken up
26:26residence in my life
26:28this whole freedom the whole freedom is
26:30opened up to me of becoming a new and
26:33different kind of person that's that's
26:35actually saying no to influences that
26:39are going to they're going to dehumanize
26:41me then make me less of the human that
26:43God is calling me to be and for some of
26:46us that might be alcohol and so Paul he
26:49doesn't say don't drink he says know who
26:51you are don't get drunk don't get drunk
26:55and if I had time I would just say a
26:58whole long aside here that I'll try and
26:59wrap into 30 seconds that will probably
27:01be 45 is that as your friendly
27:04neighborhood pastor and I know a ton of
27:06people around or hope I know a lot of
27:08you not really well but I do know a lot
27:10of you and I do know that there are a
27:13lot of people around to our hope that
27:14are celebrating their freedom in Christ
27:16because we're that's big part of who we
27:18are as door of Hope is centered on grace
27:21and avoiding legalism at all costs and
27:23there's a lot of people around door of
27:25hope that's just straight up drink too
27:27much and you know you know if you do you
27:30know who you are and so I just want to
27:33urge you as your pastor it's not the way
27:36forward and perhaps one of one of the
27:39most significant moments you could have
27:42in your spiritual journey would not be
27:44to get all legalist and be like no one's
27:46drinking and if you drink your sub
27:47Christian or something like this
27:48ridiculous right so but at least like
27:50maybe you need to take a break for a
27:52while maybe you need to just say you're
27:54not just out of out of deference to
27:57Jesus and wanting to have him be the
27:59primary influence in my life I'm just
28:01I'm going to call six months right here
28:03take a break I'm not going to hold
28:04anybody else to it but out of devotion
28:06to Jesus I need to do this to make sure
28:09I'm not being influenced by alcohol in
28:13an unhealthy way that is my minute and
28:15forty five aside to those of you who
28:17need who need to hear that and the flip
28:18side of don't get drunk then is be
28:21filled with the spirit and now there's a
28:23lot that can be said about this I'll
28:25just say a couple things the New
28:28Testament uses lent the language of the
28:29Spirit this image be filled with the
28:31spirit and it might be a very common
28:34phrase to most of us we have maybe even
28:35use it so many times we don't even know
28:37what I mean anymore so when when Paul
28:40talks about being filled by the spirit
28:42he's not saying you need to somehow get
28:45the spirit back into your life again
28:47because you've lost Jesus's presence
28:49with you the Spirit is the Bible the way
28:51of talking about Jesus and God's
28:53personal presence being directly with
28:56you within you and in our midst is
28:58Christian and what the New Testament
29:00talks about is that when people wake up
29:02to the story of Jesus when you hear the
29:04story of Jesus and when it clicks and
29:06they realize like holy cow Jesus is
29:09and what he did for me the Bible talks
29:11about that person making a conversion
29:14making a confession of faith in Jesus so
29:17that's a work of the Spirit that's
29:19Jesus's direct presence and the perking
29:23up to that and there's a new awareness
29:25and the new sensitivity and a new
29:29reality of the presence of Jesus in my
29:31life New Testament uses words like
29:33baptism like being immersed in the
29:35presence of Jesus or even look just
29:37quickly turn across the page to chapter
29:394 look at chapter 4 verse 30 here's
29:46another word Paul uses to talk about
29:47this Paul says don't grieve the Holy
29:49Spirit of God with whom you were what
29:52what does he say here not baptize he
29:55says with whom you were sealed for the
29:57day of redemption
29:59so if I've made a profession of faith in
30:01Jesus if I'm making her attempt to just
30:04grab on to him and trust and faith and
30:06given my devotion to him so if that was
30:09a three-month process if that was a
30:10year-long process is that was a moment
30:12or an evening whatever your conversion
30:15process looks like you were you were
30:17baptized immersed in the spirit or to
30:20use another metaphor it's as if God took
30:23a stance and he just said mine put mine
30:26marked and sealed and it's actually the
30:29presence of Jesus with you
30:31that is part of that seedling it's like
30:33your mark your stamped you can't do
30:35anything that you can't undo it
30:36you know you've got your number now from
30:39here on out right but what you can do
30:42you can't unbaptized and seal yourself
30:45but what you can do is grieve the
30:48presence of Jesus what you can do is
30:51what Paul says elsewhere is extinguish
30:54or put out the flame of the Spirit in
30:56your lives or to say it more positively
30:59what he is inviting us into is newer and
31:03newer experiences of having the presence
31:05of Jesus influence and fill up more and
31:09more and then refill and fill up more of
31:11my life and just when you thought like
31:13wow I'm actually getting some traction
31:15as a Christian have you discovered this
31:17whole other area of your life where he's
31:18not filling up any part at all and then
31:20you got to get you know what I'm saying
31:21here
31:22what'd he say be filled with the spirit
31:24now how does that work if it was simple
31:27we wouldn't have to talk about it but
31:30it's not simple and so I'm going to both
31:32close and then also just kind of share
31:36the the one way that this has made most
31:39sense to me over over the years and has
31:41to do I shared about my children i'ma
31:43share about my my marriage tread lightly
31:45here right so so I Tim Maki I am without
31:51a doubt I am the best version of myself
31:54as a human being when my wife is present
31:58in my life with without a doubt getting
32:01married her was the best possible thing
32:02I could have ever done believe me
32:04believe me and so when and I know this I
32:07know that I'm the best version of myself
32:08when she's in my life is because when
32:11she goes away she occasionally will take
32:13like the boys up to be with her parents
32:15a few hours away or something
32:16and when she's gone for more than a day
32:18I just revert back to these old ways and
32:23these old ways for me involve staying up
32:26way too late watching skateboard videos
32:27on Thrasher calm they involves eating
32:31way too much ramen or frozen pizza and I
32:34just becomes a disorganized I'm actually
32:36not that organized of a person I tend to
32:38procrastinate on things and and there
32:40you go and it's just like I just watch
32:42my life crumble but when I don't live
32:45with my wife there's something about her
32:47actual presence I love you sweetie
32:49wherever you are in the room in my life
32:50she makes me a better human being now
32:53here's what here it raises an
32:55interesting question then is so her
32:58presence in my life she just by her
33:01presence compels me inspires me to want
33:04to be more on point more responsible get
33:06better sleep patterns you might be more
33:08generous just better in every way
33:10and I know this is because that changes
33:12when she leaves so so because of her
33:15influence on my life I think back over
33:17the 12 years that we we've been married
33:19and I think of all of the ways that
33:21she's enhanced and made me grow as a
33:23human being now the interesting question
33:25is this is is that me is that me
33:29doing that and growing and changing as a
33:31human being is it me or is it her
33:36you guys get my question here in other
33:38words I know for a fact that I've grown
33:40and changed as a human is that just me
33:44making really good decisions and doing
33:46that or is it her and see that's the
33:50wrong question to ask because she has a
33:53high degree of influence on my life but
33:56I also allow her to have a high degree
33:58of influence in my life
34:00so sometimes she'll just like suggest
34:02things to me like why did you say that
34:04that way to that person yeah
34:06or you know like so or all the time
34:08she'll be even more force like what were
34:09you thinking when you were doing that
34:11are you you know are you see are you
34:12kidding me right now does that just
34:14happen you know so whatever whether it's
34:16really nice or maybe a little more
34:18aggressive whatever she has a degree of
34:21influence but at the end of the day who
34:23has to make the decision to come under
34:26the influence of her I do it's me I have
34:30to make the decisions that will be
34:33difficult that will be about setting new
34:35habits and new patterns of behavior but
34:37there's no way I would ever be motivated
34:40to make those decisions if she weren't
34:41in my life in the first place do you see
34:42where I'm going with this here that's
34:44what I think this is exactly what Paul
34:46means if it weren't for the presence of
34:48Jesus in your life speaking into your
34:50life you wouldn't care you wouldn't you
34:52would just be kind of be the human that
34:54you think is the right way to be a human
34:56being or you can open yourself up to
34:59this new person who's trying to speak
35:04into your life and whose presence will
35:06both convict and also speak new truths
35:10and point out ways like yep that's
35:12totally like outside the parameters
35:14that's just not wise that's just stupid
35:17you know like don't make that it's about
35:20opening myself up to this new relational
35:22presence and so look what he says here
35:25he says don't get drunk on wine which
35:28leads to debauchery but be filled with
35:31the spirit allow this new presence to so
35:34fill your life that you actually it's
35:36like having a new person in your lives
35:38and that might seem weird to us cos like
35:41well Jesus is invisible so like how does
35:44he talk to me yeah my god so Jessica
35:46she's just right there but like Jesus
35:48how is he
35:49and this is exactly what he goes on to
35:52say what does in the fruits of the
35:54spirit filled life one of which let's
35:56just keep going this finished reading
35:57passage he says speaking to one another
35:59with Psalms hymns and songs from the
36:03spirit sing and make music from your
36:06heart to the Lord
36:08the Book of Psalms was the songbook of
36:12the earliest Christians the Scriptures
36:15have always been the primary prayer book
36:18and songbook of both Jewish and
36:20Christian traditions and so it's
36:22precisely through the scriptures but
36:24also through each other that we allow
36:27Jesus to begin to have input into our
36:30lives and if specially you know that a
36:33community of Jesus is alive with the
36:35presence of Jesus and its myths when
36:37there's new poetry there's new music
36:39that when we sing we're actually
36:41teaching each other but we're also
36:43singing and giving thanks he goes on
36:45giving thanks to God the Father for
36:48everything in the name of Jesus worship
36:50is not just about singing songs it's
36:52about new poetry inspired by the
36:55scriptures where we're teaching each
36:56other and giving each other new language
36:58and ideas about what it means to be a
37:00Christian and then as we go throughout
37:02our day you're at 3:00 p.m. you had a
37:04hard morning at work and then all of a
37:06sudden is just the voice in your mind
37:07like do that what you said to that
37:09person lame lame and when you made that
37:12decision last night stupid stupid and
37:14you know and you go holy cow
37:17and and all of a sudden there's their
37:19scripture there's words from a song and
37:21then you go out for your weekly or
37:23bi-weekly you know a cup of coffee with
37:25your friend to read the Bible together
37:26pray for each other because it's part of
37:28what it means to be in a community and
37:29then you're like dang it from them to
37:31really and then all of a sudden you have
37:33this outside influence speaking into
37:34your life that's compelling you to
37:36change into Grau and then what it leads
37:39to in the last verse verse 21 is then
37:43the last fruit or the outcome of the
37:45Spirit in our lives is submitting to one
37:48another out of reverence for Christ it's
37:50actually that we allow the community and
37:53the scriptures to speak into my life and
37:55actually being open to submitting
37:58humbling myself like if left of my own
38:01devices I'm actually probably going to
38:02be pretty stew
38:03and make dumb decisions I need the input
38:06of others into my lives and that it
38:09seems to me is the picture that Paul is
38:11painting right here he lays out the
38:13parameters of what it means to be a new
38:16human he gives us this huge area of
38:18freedom and then he talks about
38:20influences becoming a new kind of human
38:23being wise learning how to discern what
38:26God's will is on any given day and how
38:29do you do that you become open to the
38:32influence of Jesus presence of Jesus and
38:34the Spirit in your life and you submit
38:36to it because that's the way that we're
38:39going to grow that might have been the
38:43shortest little sermonette I've given a
38:44door of hope period and I'm really proud
38:46of that so I'm going to close in prayer
38:50and I just what I want to do is just
38:53challenge you there's so many different
38:55angles that this could connect and and
38:57connect with our lives but I would just
38:59like just ask yourself the simple
39:01question are you even aware or are you
39:04open to the presence of Jesus
39:08influencing your lives what if it's some
39:10part of your life that you don't want to
39:13change or you don't think needs to be
39:15changed like what if the spirit being
39:17filled with the spirit it's going to
39:18mean going there are you open to that
39:21and that will tell you whether or not
39:24you will be open to being filled with
39:26the spirit or not let me close with a
39:29word of Prayer
39:37you

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