The DECEPTION Of Seeing Yourself As An EXCEPTION! | Brother Chris Teaching
Is there a Delilah in your life you need to disconnect from? Open your heart to receive this eye-opening teaching from Brother Chris - taking a practical lesson from the case of Samson and Delilah - titled, 'The Deception Of Seeing Yourself As An Exception'. This message was shared during a recent Encouragement Service at the God's Heart TV Studio.
"There is nothing more dangerous than darkness perceived as light and wrong perceived as right." - Brother Chris
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00:00There is nothing more dangerous than darkness perceived as light and wrong perceived as rights
00:10Grace and peace
00:13to you all in the wonderful wonderful name of
00:18Jesus Christ
00:20Wow, welcome people of God
00:25Welcome to this
00:27Encouragement service. Oh, wow. What a blessing to see you all connected today from all over the world
00:34For the purposes of God to hear the living Word of God to hear the truth of God's Word
00:42Because we know it is the truth that
00:47sets us
00:49free I
00:51want to thank you all for connecting to this service today and
00:57I have a word of
01:01Encouragement for you a word of
01:05Exhortation from the Word of God, I don't want to stress something before I
01:13Delve deeper into the message today
01:22It is possible to
01:24To
01:26Speak truth without love
01:31But it is impossible to speak love outside truth
01:41My responsibility today is
01:46To speak to you the truth of God's Word
01:55I'm not here to
02:00Gain an emotional reaction from you and I'm not expecting merely your
02:09Intellectual
02:10Agreements. No, no. No, I'm here to speak to your spirits. I'm here to speak to your hearts
02:18and I know I
02:20I
02:22May not be sense to everyone
02:26Who is connected here right now?
02:28But there is someone
02:31God has sent me to with this message and
02:35To the hearts that are open to receive this word
02:39the Holy Spirit will ignite your conscience as you hear it and help you to
02:47act on
02:48it in
02:50fact
02:55Before I begin let me pray for you open your hearts
03:02I speak to your spirits
03:07Be awakened in the mighty name of Jesus Christ I
03:14Say to your spirits
03:17Be engaged in the mighty name of Jesus Christ
03:25Be alert right now
03:29Lord Jesus Christ
03:33Open the eyes of their faith
03:37Open the eyes of their faith
03:40Open the eyes of their faith
03:43grant them
03:46Understanding of your word
03:49grant them
03:51Revelation of your word in
03:57Jesus mighty name
04:02Amen amen
04:05Amen
04:07Yes, I'm here to share the truth of God's words to you today. Um, I'm not here to
04:15Appease your your feelings or seek your approval. No
04:21No
04:22I'm here to share the truth of God's Word and let me
04:27let me just give a word of advice to all of us as believers a
04:33Word of advice as I'm about to begin today's message people of God
04:41Never
04:45Dilute the truth
04:50Out of sympathy for someone's situation
04:57Never
04:59Water down
05:03Compromise the truth because of your natural connection to someone
05:10This person is my friend
05:13This person is my family member or this person is supporting me financially
05:20Because of that I will not speak the truth to them this is dangerous
05:31If you attempt to help someone
05:35By diluting the truth
05:37By diluting the truth it is not helpful. It is hurtful because
05:45Diluted truth cannot equip you to overcome undiluted attacks
05:54Half truths cannot sustain you through
06:00complete trials I
06:02Hope you follow what I'm saying people of God look the message. I'm about to share today
06:09It's not my words that will change you. It's God's Word
06:13It's not nice words that will change you. It's truth
06:19It's not an
06:22Emotional plea that will change you it is truth. It is the truth that sets us free
06:29It's not my charisma in this message
06:32I may be charismatic that is not the thing that will bring change to your life. It is truth
06:40the truth of God's Word if if I
06:45dilute that truth
06:48To try and appease your feelings
06:52appeal to your emotions or
06:55Seek your approval
06:59I'm not actually helping you
07:01I'm hindering you and
07:04This often comes from a place of human sympathy, but if you look deep
07:11The roots of that human sympathy is your own sympathy with sin
07:18Never
07:21Compromise the truth
07:24Dilute the truth
07:26For the sake of trying to please or appease someone no
07:31It is the truth people of God that sets us
07:36free and
07:37today I
07:39Have a message
07:41that I
07:45Believe
07:48Will bring you to a place of self-examination
07:51Self-examination, it's a serious message is a serious subject
07:56But I believe it will help you in your daily life. So let's
08:02Let's open the scriptures together
08:06Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of
08:11Deuteronomy in in the Old Testament Deuteronomy
08:15Chapter 29
08:18and
08:19I'll begin my reading from verse 18, but just to provide a bit of context
08:26this is the chapter immediately after the blessings for
08:32obedience and the curses for disobedience that
08:36Moses declared to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy chapter 28
08:42so
08:44have that in mind as you consider these words, so let me read from this a
08:50teen
08:52So that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose
09:00hearts
09:01turns away
09:05Today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations and
09:12That there may not be among you a roots
09:16bearing
09:17bitterness Wow
09:20Wormwood now just think about these two things these instructions that Moses is giving. He's saying
09:26so that your heart
09:29may not turn away from God to another God and
09:34that
09:35There may not be among you a roots bearing
09:39bitterness
09:44We have to be very very careful of
09:50Whatever roots bitterness takes to take roots within us
09:58Is a is a is a dangerous trap now. Let me read on to verse 19 and
10:04So it may not happen
10:07When he hears the words of this curse that he blesses himself in his heart
10:14Singing I shall have peace
10:17Even though I follow
10:20the dictates of my hearts as though the drunkard could be included with the sober I
10:28will have peace even
10:30if I
10:31Follow what is in my heart?
10:34That is contrary to the Word of God. Hey, I bless myself in my own heart
10:40I declare yes, I will have peace
10:43Even though I follow the wrong path the wrong way the way of self-centeredness or sin. I will have peace
10:53The words of exhortation I have for you today is simply titled
11:02The deception of
11:05seeing yourself as
11:08an
11:09exception
11:11If you are with someone watching this message, I want you just to say it to the persons tell them the
11:19deception of
11:21seeing yourself as an
11:25Exception
11:27If you're alone, you can say it to yourself. You can say the deception of
11:33seeing myself as an
11:37Exception this is the focus today the
11:40deception of
11:42seeing yourself as
11:45an exception hey
11:48The Word of God does not apply to me in my situation
11:53that is the height of deception and this is
11:57the
11:59Strategy of
12:01the devil
12:02He wants you to be deceived to the points where you
12:08Convince yourself. The Word of God does not apply to you. I
12:17Hope you follow what I'm saying people of God I shall have peace even though I follow the dictates of my heart
12:24Even though I'm going contrary to God. I will have this I will have that that is the height of deception
12:32the warning here
12:35Begins by talking about the danger of idolatry
12:38That your hearts may not be turned away to the gods of another nation
12:45now
12:49There is no easier way for the devil to infiltrate our hearts than to switch our attention and affection to another God
12:57And
12:59We may look at our lives and say well, I'm I'm I'm a Christian. I'm a believer. I'm I'm not
13:06Worshiping bowing down to maybe an idol or or another God, but take notes
13:13Whatever you place above God in your hearts
13:22Becomes your God
13:27Anything you place above God in your hearts
13:37Will draw you away from him
13:42This is why as
13:45Christians
13:47We are to love
13:49nothing in
13:52Comparison of God and
13:56Everything in reference to him
14:03Idolatry
14:06Whatever you love more than God will eventually separate your heart from him
14:14Now that's just a point to consider as we are going through this text
14:21Beware of
14:23the deception of
14:26seeing yourself as
14:28the exception
14:32Now I believe there are two
14:34Major ways this deception manifests in our lives and I want to talk about this today
14:40So all of us can examine ourselves
14:43How do we see ourselves as an exception number one
14:47We magnify our problems
14:51Number two we minimize our mistakes
14:58If if you are having a pen as you are connected to this I
15:04Want you to write down those two points and reflects
15:08The deception of seeing yourself as the exception
15:11What do we do number one?
15:14We magnify our troubles brother Chris, you don't know what I'm going through
15:20That is why I had to do this. That is why I behaved in this way
15:24You don't know what that lady did to me. That is why I did this
15:29We magnify our problems
15:33As a justification for our mistakes
15:38We magnify our problems
15:40As a justification for our wrongdoing
15:46Or
15:48Number two we minimize our mistakes
15:53well
15:55I've done many good things
15:58I'm helping this person. I'm doing this. I'm going to church
16:02God knows I'm trying to be faithful so he will understand if I do this
16:06It's not so bad
16:09It's not so bad
16:11we're living in a culture society where this is a normal thing and I
16:17Paid my tithe. I've done this I've done that so it's it's okay
16:22We minimize we we downplay our sins
16:28This is deception
16:30This is a tool of the devil designed to disconnect your heart from God
16:37Because true
16:39Christianity lies in the hearts
16:41We are Christians by hearts not by mere confession not by church attendance not by outward
16:48Signs or signals we are Christians by hearts
16:51the devil's aim is to
16:55Disconnect your hearts from God and
16:58His strategy is clear if he can deceive you into believing
17:06that
17:07your
17:10Situation takes you outside the authority of God's Word if he can deceive you
17:19Into
17:21Believing that the Word of God does not apply to you
17:27Hey in my case
17:29with my situation
17:32With my wrongdoing. It's okay because of this
17:37That
17:39Is a definition of spiritual blindness
17:48Spiritual blindness when you fall into the deception of seeing yourself as an
17:57Exception
17:59Today I will
18:02take you
18:04to a world
18:06well-known biblical character and
18:11Use this biblical characters
18:14story as an
18:16opportunity to emphasize
18:18how important this principle is and also how easy it is for us to fall into this trap of
18:26deception
18:27Let's turn
18:29to the book of
18:31Judges chapter 16. I'm gonna read the portion of scripture
18:36dealing with the case of
18:39Samson and Delilah, I'm sure we are familiar with this story
18:45Samson and Delilah and I know it's very easy for us to just broadly look at this story and
18:52Conclude that Wow Samson really was a very foolish man. How could he?
18:59Fall into the trap of
19:02Delilah so so easily despite all the warning signals. How could he be so foolish?
19:09But as we read I want all of us to examine ourselves
19:15Because the path to deception
19:19Starts with just giving the devil one inch of your hearts
19:25Look if you
19:31If you give him an avenue into your hearts
19:35He will continue to expand and exploit it
19:42If you give him an inch it will soon become a foot
19:46Don't think the devil will relent with whatever you presents
19:49If you open that door to him just in one area, he will continue to push and push and push
19:58Until it widens and widens and widens and widens and the only way out is repentance
20:05So let's read this story together
20:09Judges chapter 16 and I'll read for verse 4
20:14It says this
20:15Now before I read let me remind you that Samson was a judge of Israel and he was mightily used by God
20:25We know in the preceding chapters how God used him to
20:29inflict a lot of
20:32Destruction on Israel's enemies at that time the Philistines and he was he was judging Israel
20:36But let's us take a lesson from his case verse 4. It says this our God
20:42In the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah
20:47Take notes. Whatever you love
20:52Will become a
20:54point of
20:57Temptation the devil seeks to exploits
21:01That is why we must be careful not to love anything more than God
21:05Take notes be careful of who or what you love. I'm not saying we should not show love
21:11I'm saying in reference to God
21:16Be careful people of God now, let's continue
21:20In the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah
21:23Take notes. Whatever you love will become a point of
21:27Temptation the devil seeks to exploits
21:30Be careful people of God now, let's continue and
21:35The Lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her entice him
21:40Find out where his great strength lies and by what means we may
21:47Overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him and every one of us will give you
21:551100 pieces of silver
21:57Verse 6 so Delilah said to Samson, please tell me where your great strength lies
22:05And with what you may be bound to afflict you and Samson said to her if they bind me with seven fresh
22:12Bowstrings not yet dried then I shall become weak and be like any other man
22:19So the Lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bow strings not yet dried and she bound him with them
22:27Now men were lying in wait
22:29Staying with her in the room and she said to him the philistines are upon you Samson
22:35But he broke the bow strings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire
22:41So the secret of his strength was not known
22:44Then Delilah said to Samson look you have mocked me and told me lies now, please
22:51Tell me what you may be bound with
22:55I believe we are familiar with the story this happens
22:59on two
23:01Subsequent occasions
23:03she
23:04Pleads with him to tell her the secret of his strength. He tells her something that is a lie
23:09The philistines come he breaks free the pattern is repeated. So now let's jump a couple of verses later
23:19Verse 15 and it says this
23:22Then she said to him
23:24How can you say I love you when your heart is not with me?
23:30You have mocked me these three times and have not told me where your great strength lies
23:36And it came to pass when she pestered him
23:41Daily with her words and pressed him so that his soul was vexed to death
23:48To death
23:51That he told her all his hearts
23:59And said to her no razor
24:01Has ever come upon my head for I have been a nazirite to god from my mother's womb
24:07If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me and I shall become weak and be like any other man
24:14It's a it's a painful story rereading it painful how samson fell into this trap
24:23Verse 18 when delilah saw that he had told her all his hearts
24:32She sent and called for the lords of the philistines saying come up once more
24:38For he has told me all his heart so the lords of the philistines came up to her brought the money in their hand
24:44Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees and called for a man
24:48And had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him
24:55And his strength left him
24:59And she said
25:00The philistines are upon you samson. So he awoke from his sleep and said I will go out as before
25:10Oh lord jesus have mercy I will go out as before at other times and shake myself free
25:21But he did not know that the lord had departed from him
25:27Then the philistines took him
25:30Cut out his eyes
25:32Brought him down to gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters and he became
25:38A grinder in the prison. Let's
25:40Let's pause the reading there
25:43The philistines took him to the prison
25:46And they put him in the prison
25:49And they put him in the prison
25:51A grinder in the prison, let's let's pause the reading there
25:57I want us to
25:59Look at this story
26:03From the perspective of our interaction
26:09With sin
26:12Remember what I said that one of
26:16The manifestations
26:18Of the deception of seeing yourself as the exception is to minimize
26:26your
26:27mistakes
26:29to justify
26:31your wrongs
26:34Samson maintained his relationship with delilah
26:38Even when it was clear. It was obvious
26:43that her
26:45intentions were to
26:47Destroy him afflict him bind him
26:53He was given warning signals
27:00It happens
27:01No, once not twice not three times
27:05That she asked what is the secret of your strength?
27:08He lied about it and then people came
27:11To attack him clearly with the information. She had provided them
27:16Is that not enough evidence for samson to realize that he had to break off such a relationship
27:24That he had to disconnect from delilah
27:27He had seen enough evidence to know her devilish intentions
27:33Yet he continued in the relationship because of temporary enjoyments
27:40Perhaps he looked at what he had done for god as a judge I have done this
27:45I have
27:46Defeated these enemies. I have been used greatly by god
27:51I have this strength
27:53My case is different
27:56I can still enjoy sin without being trapped by it
28:00I can still
28:01have
28:02the pleasure of sin
28:04without the consequences of it
28:08That's
28:09the deception
28:11Of seeing himself as an exception and you know the painful thing
28:19Because samson
28:23Did not know
28:27When god left him
28:32He caught up that day thinking he would do the same as he did before
28:38But the spirits of god had left him
28:42And samson was blind long before they took out his eyes
28:49He was spiritually blind long before he became physically blind
28:55What was the evidence?
28:57of that spiritual blindness
29:01If you don't know when god is with you you will not know when he has left
29:12If you are not conscious of god's presence you will not be conscious of his absence
29:20Samson
29:22Thought
29:25He could get away with it
29:30The consequences of his actions did not immediately strike
29:35So he was lulled into a false sense of security
29:42As his conscience was being dulled to the truth of god's word
29:48And then
29:51The day that consequence struck
29:54He did not even know
29:56God had left him
29:58People of god as I said at the beginning of this message. This is a word
30:04calling for self-examination
30:06because many of us
30:09Still have dealings with delilah even when we know her intention is to destroy us
30:17Many of us are still engaged in what we know is wrong in the sights of god and we are using our
30:26Circumstance or our situation or our human wisdom or cleverness as a justification for continuing down that path
30:35We feel we have gotten away with it before
30:39We feel we have not seen the consequences
30:43So we continue we feel the word of god does not apply to us. I shall follow
30:49The dictates of my heart and enjoy peace
30:54I will bless myself in my heart
31:00You may
31:01Convince your heart out of truth, but you cannot convince your life out of fruit
31:08You cannot change the consequences of sin the consequences will strike without repentance
31:18Enjoyment of sin leads to entrapment of soul without repentance
31:26You may feel you are getting away with it
31:30But it's getting away with you piece by piece
31:33Little by little
31:36Your conscience is being dulled to the point where you become spiritually blind and will not even recognize when god has left
31:45That is what happens to an unrepentant heart. That is the
31:50Consequence of the deception of seeing yourself as an exception. There is nothing more dangerous
31:57Than darkness perceived as light and wrong perceived as rights
32:02And that is what happens to a heart that is blind
32:07That's the end consequence of a heart that goes down that journey of deception
32:18When you become spiritually blind and you see
32:25Darkness as lights and wrong as rights
32:29People of god beware of the deception of seeing yourself as an exception
32:41Sin may be very enticing
32:48But it is very entangling
32:54Hebrews 12 verse 1
32:56Hebrews 12 verse 1 the sin that so easily entangles
33:07I will say it again people of god. Sin may be very enticing
33:14But it is very entangling
33:19It may start with enjoyments it will end with entanglement
33:26Ensnarements
33:29This is a lesson I believe we must take from the case of samson
33:36In your own life
33:40Perhaps you look at this story and say but I would not do that
33:44But how many of us?
33:47have taken a path
33:49which we have
33:50trodden before
33:52And only ended in destruction
33:55Yet we continue down that same path
33:58Believing there will be a different outcome
34:01I know the devastation of bitterness and offense
34:06I have released forgiveness. But next week when someone offends me
34:10I return to the very same thing that I know poisoned me before that is deception
34:17To go down
34:19The road which you have already walked which brought you nothing but pain to go down that same path
34:26And believe there will be a different outcome
34:29deception
34:31Some of us may may say
34:34with our lips
34:36No, this doesn't apply to me. No, uh, I I I I follow the standard of god's word, but actions speak louder
34:42I want to give an example
34:45an example of this
34:47Here at god's heart cv we received
34:49I think a week or two ago
34:52An email from a lady and this was what she said. This was her prayer request
34:56She said brother chris. I listened to your message on forgiveness and it touched me and I want to let you know
35:03I have forgiven
35:05My ex-husband for what he did, but I want you to pray that god should punish him
35:11I
35:13Have forgiven him but pray that god should punish him god should
35:18Deal with him god should deal with that lady that he went off with I have forgiven him
35:23But there must be punishment there must be
35:26consequence
35:31Now what is the lady doing
35:36Because of her own grievance
35:38Because of the pain in her heart because of the emotional entanglements of what has happened
35:44She believes that in her own case
35:48There is justification for such an attitude because of what that man did to me
35:53Because of what that man put me through because of the pain he caused me
35:57Then there must be a retribution. There must be a revenge, but we are not in a position to take the position of god
36:05The word of god
36:09Has a clear standard
36:12And I tell you this people of god
36:16The light of god's word is not subject to the darkness of your situation
36:22And the truth of god's word is not subject to the deception of your feelings
36:30Irrespective
36:32Irrespective of your situation
36:35What you are facing what someone has done to you the truth of god's word remains constant
36:41God's word does not change because your situation changes god's truth does not change because your condition changes. No
36:50Your fortunes may change the truth does not
36:55Your condition may change the truth does not
36:58Your emotions will change the truth does not that's why
37:06The magnification of your problem should not lead to the minimization of your wrong
37:12Hey, i'm justified in being bitter because of what that man did to me if he did it to you you too would be bitter
37:21You're just saying this brother chris because it's not happened to you. You don't know my situation
37:26You don't know what has happened to me
37:30I agree with you. I don't know what has happened to you
37:36But I know the truth of god's word
37:40And that is our common foundation
37:43I am not in a position to set the standard of what is right and wrong
37:48Who gave me the audacity to define the rules of morality?
37:52Even in the example, I just mentioned
37:55Look, if someone has done wrong to you
37:59someone has has
38:01hurt you
38:03And they are unrepentant in their sin. That person is already in bondage
38:09Don't join them in jail by your response
38:14When someone has done wrong to you
38:17unrepentantly
38:19Recently
38:21Such a person spiritually is already in bondage. They may not recognize it
38:26But spiritually they are in bondage. Don't join them in jail by your response
38:33You can say that to your neighbor tell your neighbor say neighbor if you're with someone say neighbor
38:40If not, you can just say it out loud with me you can say don't join them in jail
38:47Someone does the wrong thing to you don't join them in jail
38:51Someone hurts you someone lies against you someone falsely accuses you someone betrays you
38:57Don't join them in jail by your response
39:03The standard of god's word
39:07Says release forgiveness
39:10And leave it for god
39:12Leave it for god
39:17That is just a practical example
39:21Irrespective of what you are going through
39:24irrespective of your situation
39:27irrespective of your trial
39:29your difficulty
39:32That does not give you the license to change
39:36Or shift the standards of god's word
39:39this is my
39:41Word of exhortation to you today people of god
39:44beware
39:46of the deception
39:48of seeing yourself
39:50as an
39:52exception
39:55Samson
39:57at the beginning
39:59Was playing games with Delilah
40:03Hey, i'm strong enough. I'm strong enough I can manage
40:07It's okay I can still enjoy this relationship
40:11And not face the consequence because i'm strong in myself. Look at my my strength. I'm the judge. No one can touch me
40:19He started as a game but it ended in shame
40:23If you play games with the devil, you will always end up on the losing side
40:29What happened with samson
40:31He thought he could manage it
40:33He thought he could control himself
40:36But Delilah kept pestering him pestering him pestering him to the point that he became
40:43Vexed the bible says even unto death that is sin for you
40:48If you if you continue to play with sin, it will continue to pester you
40:55You think okay I can manage in my own strength
41:00I can manage myself. I will apply self-control
41:04I will be okay. Look you don't apply self-control
41:08After you've succumbed to temptation you apply self-control to avoid succumbing to temptation
41:14This is another deception. Oh, I can manage myself. I'm strong in myself. You will very soon find yourself weak
41:23That is sin for you. If you give sin an inch the devil will take a yard
41:28He will continue to exploit that avenue he finds to enter your hearts that is why people of god
41:37The answer is repentance
41:41God gave samson
41:43enough
41:44warnings
41:46God will never leave you without a warning signal
41:50Is your heart?
41:53Sensitive to recognize it
41:56He'll give you a warning signal but it's not enough just for you to
42:04Acknowledge it you must take action
42:08Samson needed to disconnect from Delilah not merely recognize her sinful wrong devilish intention
42:16He needed to disconnect
42:18Perhaps there's an area of your life
42:20As you're listening to this message that you know
42:23You need to disconnect from that Delilah
42:26You've been justifying yourself by using your situation. Oh i'm doing this because of my family background
42:34I'm doing this because I don't have enough money. I'm doing this because hey
42:39This is what everyone in my society is doing i'm doing this because uh, it's a normal thing in in in today's
42:47Generation that people do that is why i'm doing this. It's okay. It's okay
42:51You can deceive yourself. You cannot deceive sin's consequences
42:59You cannot con your way out of consequence
43:03No matter how clever you are
43:05Samson thought he was clever. He was depending on his own strength
43:10But eventually he became vexed to the point of death and what started in the flesh ended in the hearts
43:16He gave away his hearts. He gave up that secret
43:20And he did not know when god left him
43:26Oh
43:28Don't let that happen to you
43:31Don't let that happen to you
43:36As I bring this message
43:40To a conclusion
43:44I want to emphasize something
43:46Something
43:48I know everyone connected at this moment
43:52watching this message
43:54I know everyone is going through something everyone has a situation
44:04I don't know what you are going through
44:09I don't know that pain. I don't know that hurt. I don't know that trouble
44:16But your situation does not shift god's position
44:24And if you look at your situation today
44:27No matter how bad it seems
44:29I guarantee you
44:31You will find someone
44:33In an even worse situation who has still chosen to take the right path
44:40And no matter how good
44:42Your situation may look today. I guarantee you
44:47If you look around
44:49You will find an example of someone who seems to be in an even better position and still took the wrong
44:57path
45:00The issue is not your condition the issue is your submission
45:10As christians
45:12We are to run
45:14To god and submit to the authority of his word
45:23Not run to god to try and suit our philosophy
45:33We run to god to submit to the authority of his word
45:41Yes
45:43We all make mistakes
45:45This is not a message of judgments
45:48I'm telling you a reality of life
45:51We do make mistakes
45:53We do take wrong steps. We are often influenced by our negative situations to take negative actions. Yes
46:01Don't justify it
46:05Don't look at your situation as an excuse for your action
46:10No
46:12When you recognize repent from it and run back to god get back on track. That's the answer people of god
46:20If if you deceive yourself and say well in my case, no, it doesn't apply to me
46:27No in my case
46:28It's okay for me to be bitter in my case
46:30It's okay for me to watch those lustful things because I can still control myself. I'm having a bad marriage
46:36So it's okay for me to do this
46:38It's okay for me to hold a fence towards my husband because of what he did to me after all i've done for him
46:44It's okay for me. That is dangerous
46:50It's the height of deception to see yourself as an exception and you go
46:56down
46:57down
46:58down
46:59Down down to the point of spiritual blindness
47:04That's why the answer as you hear the truth of god's word look people of god look
47:11What i'm telling you today
47:14My message to you today. Don't just take it at face value
47:17Examine it in the lights of god's word
47:21Let the testimony of your conscience bear witness not the testimony of your emotions. This is not calling for an emotional response
47:29diluted truth
47:32Diluted truth may
47:34Engage you but it cannot sustain you
47:37If I was just here telling you nice words, it may excite you in the moment. It may move you emotionally, but not bring change
47:47This is the truth of god's word
47:51As i'm sharing this truth the holy spirit
47:54Is
47:56Haunting your conscience to identify those areas of your life which need adjustments. Oh
48:03I recognize
48:06This is my delilah, this is the area that i've been
48:11Entangled with sin the answer is not too far from repentance the blood of jesus christ
48:20Has paved the way
48:23For all of us there is no slate. He cannot wipe clean. There is no past
48:29He cannot redeem. There is no situation. He cannot turn around
48:34Come to him
48:36And submit to the authority of his word submit to the authority of truth
48:42And you will find restoration
48:49But don't
48:52Fall
48:53into the deception
48:56of seeing
48:57yourself
48:58as an exception
49:00Because you magnify your problems and you minimize your wrongs
49:08There is no substitutes for spiritual growth
49:14We must return wholly to the word of god
49:20And seek to be holy
49:25As you continue to strive
49:28To be more like him your spirit will remain alive to the dangers of sin
49:38May god
49:41Bless his living word in our hearts
49:45In jesus mighty name
49:49So