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Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 2)

June 24, 2026 | 26:59

Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 2)
Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.
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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 2) | June 24, 2026
  • These idols creep in a little at a time.
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  • It doesn't just happen right away.
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  • It happens with a small compromise.
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  • It's really start to think, what are you allowing?
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  • How did you get there?
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  • Why did you make that decision that you regret now?
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  • What things took place to lead you there?
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  • Start to notice the little things
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  • That you give into that allow you to become numb,
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  • That influence you to do the wrong things.
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  • There's two red flags that we see from the beginning
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  • Of saul's kingship.
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  • The first one is this.
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  • Solomon loved god with his words,
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  • But compromise with his habits.
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  • He loves god with his words.
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  • God, i give myself to you.
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  • Make me wise.
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  • But there are small compromises
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  • With his habits that he didn't think was a big deal.
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  • See solomon's story.
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  • Notice this it doesn't start off with idol worship, does it?
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  • Again. it doesn't start big. it starts small.
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  • It started off with small compromises
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  • By marrying the first.
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  • Compromise this by marrying pharaoh's daughter.
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  • Okay, this was a political move for peace.
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  • He was not in love with pharaoh's daughter.
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  • This was political move to make sure
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  • That there was peace for the nation of israel.
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  • But it was morally not right at all, right?
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  • Because god would not tell him to be with pharaoh's daughter.
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  • They believed and worshiped in idols.
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  • They believed in false gods and fact.
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  • Egypt was not just another nation to israel.
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  • They were what
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  • Their in the nation's trauma.
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  • Because let's talk about egypt for a second.
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  • Egypt was a place of slavery for the israelites for 400 years.
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  • Genesis chapter 15, verse 13.
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  • Then the lord said to abraham,
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  • You can be sure that your descendants
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  • Will be strangers in a foreign land.
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  • Now listen to this, for they will be oppressed as slaves
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  • For 400 years.
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  • Egypt is a place of oppression.
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  • Exodus chapter three, verse seven states it like this.
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  • Then the lord told him, i have certainly seen
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  • The oppression of my people in egypt.
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  • I've heard their cries of distress
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  • Because of their hearts.
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  • Slave drivers.
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  • Yes, i am aware of their suffering.
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  • So i want you to understand.
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  • God freed his nation, his people,
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  • The israelites from egypt.
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  • And now solomon is making agreements with the enemy.
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  • How did we get here?
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  • Okay.
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  • Because you're going to see
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  • Pretty soon that it was a common thing to do.
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  • It was a cultural thing to do for kings to marry
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  • And and put together these arrangements
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  • So that there would be peace upon the land.
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  • But even though physically he did not lead the people back
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  • Into the land of egypt and bondage spiritually
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  • He's allowing bondage into their hearts
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  • And to his life quietly, a little at a time.
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  • Because in this time, when royalty married
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  • Other royalty, it formed an alliance.
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  • And so solomon saw this as preventing war.
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  • And again, it seems smart.
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  • He had pressure.
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  • Why, again, the pressure
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  • Is this because everybody else does it.
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  • Everybody around me does it.
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  • So it's no big deal.
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  • But it let them back
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  • Into spiritual bondage and brought in idolatry.
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  • And then we're going to see at the end of the life of solomon,
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  • How solomon's actions actually led to a division
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  • In the nation of israel that became a civil, civil war.
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  • And i want to make this known to as well.
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  • Your sinful actions don't just affect you.
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  • Please hear me on that.
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  • Your sinful actions don't just affect you.
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  • It affects the family.
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  • It affects everybody else.
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  • It affects the generations to come.
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  • Again,
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  • These seem like very small things,
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  • But it's going to affect the entire nation over time.
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  • And we'll dive in more into that very, very soon.
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  • But it doesn't just impact you and impacts everybody.
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  • And so this is why i believe every pastor should preach
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  • On the subject of relationships. you want to know why?
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  • Because when i look in the the stories of the bible
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  • Through the old testament, we see the nation of israel fall
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  • Many times. why did they fall?
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  • Many times they fell into
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  • Worshiping idols and doing the wrong thing
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  • Because of the wrong relationships.
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  • Many times
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  • It was the wrong relationships that led their heart astray.
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  • Even the judges that we see out of the old testament
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  • Were led astray because of the wrong relationships.
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  • And so i want to break this down even deeper today, okay?
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  • Because he didn't just make a treaty with pharaoh's daughter.
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  • Please listen to me on this.
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  • He formed a yoke.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • Every yoke builds an altar.
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  • This is where we dive deeper spiritually as well.
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  • When it comes to relationships, every yoke builds an altar.
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  • There is a warning that paul speaks about influences.
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  • Okay.
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  • And he's
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  • Speaking to the church of corinth,
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  • And the reason why he's speaking to the church
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  • Of corinth in this way is because they have allowed
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  • Sexual immorality into the church.
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  • Why are they doing these things?
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  • Because they're living just like everybody else around them.
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  • They are just surrounded by demonic culture and idols
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  • And sexual immorality.
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  • And so even though they love jesus
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  • And they're trying to do the right thing,
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  • They're also allowing small compromises
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  • Into their lifestyle and to their relationship
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  • That is complicating some things and not allowing them to grow.
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  • So paul has some very strong words, and second corinthians
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  • Chapter six, verses 14 to 16, and it says this don't team up
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  • With those who are unbelievers, okay?
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  • How can righteousness be partner with wickedness?
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  • How can light live with darkness?
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  • And you may be hearing this thing
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  • And that's kind of extreme, but he's talking about, again,
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  • Those that were sacrificing to idols, prostitution,
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  • Doing very dark, spiritual, dark things.
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  • What harmony can there be between christ and the devil?
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  • You hear that
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  • The holy spirit lives inside of you.
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  • There's a light inside of you.
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  • But when you become intimate
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  • With those that don't believe in jesus, you understand.
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  • You're allowing the holy spirit inside of you to be connected
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  • With somebody that's living off the antichrist spirit.
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  • That's what it's saying here.
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  • How can there be harmony between christ and the devil?
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  • How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? now,
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  • I've read this many times.
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  • I preached on this many times.
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  • Show me something new today that i believe is powerful.
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  • Listen to this wording right here.
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  • What union can there be
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  • Between god's temple and idols?
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  • God's temple and idols?
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  • So paul here isn't just talking about dating rules
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  • Or bad influences. please hear me.
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  • He is talking about spiritual agreements,
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  • Spiritual agreements,
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  • What you allow into your heart, into your life
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  • By being intimate, okay, by choosing to sleep
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  • With the darkness and the old testament testament.
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  • Let's talk about it for a second.
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  • The old testament we hear about the temple
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  • And the temple in the lord was the tabernacle,
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  • And many times the tabernacle represented god's presence.
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  • There's many stories out of the bible
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  • Just for exodus chapter 40.
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  • Verse 34 is one of them.
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  • And it states that the cloud covered the tabernacle
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  • And the glory of the lord field the tabernacle.
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  • Okay, so the tabernacle was god's presence.
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  • A light as a kind of glory would come upon the tabernacle.
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  • Sometimes the the fog would be thick from god's presence.
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  • Sometimes the priest actually had to leave
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  • Because god's presence was so strong.
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  • So the tabernacle represents god's presence.
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  • What did demons want to do?
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  • What did the idols want to do?
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  • And again,
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  • It was always formed through the wrong relationships.
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  • People compromise and relationships.
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  • Then they allowed their idols in
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  • And guess where the idols end up?
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  • The idols end up in the tabernacle.
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  • The tabernacle is god's presence.
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  • So we come to a time in israel
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  • And we even see it with judah once the civil war takes place,
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  • That later on in the tabernacle, they're worshiping god.
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  • At the same time, the worshiping bale,
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  • The worshiping molech.
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  • The lies are still in culture today.
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  • We haven't escaped this.
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  • How many times have you heard? you know what?
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  • Just worship whatever you want to worship.
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  • It all leads to the same direction.
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  • No it doesn't.
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  • There is only one way into the kingdom of god.
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  • That's through jesus christ.
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  • Because my jesus is the only one still not in the grave.
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  • He rose from the grave.
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  • He died for your sins.
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  • And understand this when you say all these ways can lead
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  • You there,
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  • Then you literally take away the importance of the cross.
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  • Like the cross represents just how much god loves you,
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  • How significant
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  • You are, and his eyes that it's so bloody, so hurtful,
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  • The way he had to be sacrificed so that we can be free.
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  • If you say there's many other ways
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  • You literally laugh at the cross,
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  • You take it for granted.
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  • But jesus has done for you.
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  • There is only one way, and he paid the price in full.
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  • You've been paid for by a price because god loves you
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  • And he wants to set you free.
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  • And so that's what paul is talking about here.
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  • And he's saying, listen, the temple, the tabernacle
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  • Represented god's presence.
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  • But the idols wanted to creep
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  • Into the tabernacle, to be worshiped to, okay,
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  • Old testament, new testament, new covenant.
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  • What's the temple?
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  • Your body.
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  • Your body is the temple
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  • Who lives inside of you when you give your life over
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  • To jesus, the holy spirit,
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  • The spirit of god lives inside of you.
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  • So i need you to understand how deep this gets
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  • When it comes to allowing idols in the temple.
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  • Because now paul is talking about our bodies.
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  • Any specifically talking about sexual immorality
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  • By allowing these idols into our life.
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  • First corinthians chapter six, verse 18 and 19.
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  • Notice how it starts run from sexual sin.
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  • The truth is, when you
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  • Look in the bible, it says run from sexual sin.
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  • Every time you see how to handle sexual sin, it literally says
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  • Run away from it.
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  • Don't look at it. don't be around it. why?
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  • Because you're not strong enough.
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  • Nobody is strong enough.
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  • And that's why the bible says flee from it.
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  • Run away from it. okay?
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  • Because it's unlike any other temptation. why?
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  • No other sin clearly affects the body as this one does.
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  • Sexual immorality opens up doors
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  • Into your heart, into your life, and you become
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  • One with somebody else.
  • 00:11:20.144 --> 00:11:21.512
  • And sometimes you allow things into your life
  • 00:11:21.512 --> 00:11:23.647
  • That you didn't know was in their life,
  • 00:11:23.647 --> 00:11:26.217
  • Because there's really no covenant agreement before god.
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  • It's just a good time.
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  • And clearly it affects the body as this one does now,
  • 00:11:32.323 --> 00:11:34.658
  • For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
  • 00:11:34.658 --> 00:11:38.429
  • Now listen to this.
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  • Don't you realize that your body is the temple
  • 00:11:39.897 --> 00:11:42.933
  • Of the holy spirit
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  • Who lives in you and was given to you by god?
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  • You do not belong to yourself, and when you give in to sexual
  • 00:11:48.105 --> 00:11:51.709
  • Immorality, listen, you actually grieve the holy spirit.
  • 00:11:51.709 --> 00:11:55.746
  • That's why there's some places that you've been to,
  • 00:11:55.746 --> 00:11:58.482
  • Some people you've been around, and it's like you hear
  • 00:11:58.482 --> 00:12:00.851
  • A voice on the inside screaming, you need to leave.
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  • Why are you around them again?
  • 00:12:04.655 --> 00:12:06.123
  • Why are you looking at this again?
  • 00:12:06.123 --> 00:12:07.591
  • Why are you around these people?
  • 00:12:07.591 --> 00:12:08.793
  • Why are you allowing this into your heart again?
  • 00:12:08.793 --> 00:12:10.694
  • It's not where you need to be.
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  • If you're struggling with it, why you're walking into it,
  • 00:12:13.464 --> 00:12:17.601
  • Walk away from it.
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  • Flee from it.
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  • You grieve the spirit of god.
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  • It's big.
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  • It is important.
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  • Doesn't mean a lot.
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  • Grieve him because you don't belong to yourself.
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  • That's all. i want to make it clear.
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  • When you.
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  • When you willingly become intimate with the darkness,
  • 00:12:40.191 --> 00:12:43.227
  • You open up a door for demonic influence in god's temple.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:12:47.731 --> 00:12:48.532
  • I don't just invade a temple there.
  • 00:12:48.532 --> 00:12:51.769
  • What?
  • 00:12:51.769 --> 00:12:53.470
  • They're invited.
  • 00:12:53.470 --> 00:12:56.407
  • Idols come into the temple when they're invited.
  • 00:12:56.407 --> 00:12:58.843
  • And they're invited by the small compromises of it's
  • 00:12:58.843 --> 00:13:01.846
  • No big deal. everybody else is doing it.
  • 00:13:01.846 --> 00:13:03.514
  • This is what i see in culture. i just want to have fun.
  • 00:13:03.514 --> 00:13:05.749
  • Like they're having fun and you allow these things.
  • 00:13:05.749 --> 00:13:07.885
  • Now i want to make it very, very clear to you.
  • 00:13:07.885 --> 00:13:09.820
  • What is this voice sound like?
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  • What is fake love sound like?
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  • Okay, it's fake love. it's not real.
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  • It sounds like this.
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  • Okay, if i don't have them, i can't be made whole.
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  • You ever heard that before?
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  • Disney movies.
  • 00:13:22.633 --> 00:13:23.701
  • Romantic movies that you see all the time.
  • 00:13:23.701 --> 00:13:25.536
  • Understand this. it's not biblical.
  • 00:13:25.536 --> 00:13:27.671
  • It's actually from from actually from pagan mythology.
  • 00:13:27.671 --> 00:13:31.909
  • It comes from pagan mythology.
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  • It comes from the idea that zeus came
  • 00:13:33.244 --> 00:13:35.579
  • And cut everybody in half.
  • 00:13:35.579 --> 00:13:37.181
  • And so you need to find your other person to be whole.
  • 00:13:37.181 --> 00:13:40.551
  • That didn't come from the bible.
  • 00:13:40.551 --> 00:13:42.286
  • All right.
  • 00:13:42.286 --> 00:13:43.287
  • The bible says, no, no, no, you're made whole
  • 00:13:43.287 --> 00:13:44.088
  • And you're fulfilled by jesus christ
  • 00:13:44.088 --> 00:13:45.689
  • Because only jesus can satisfy you.
  • 00:13:45.689 --> 00:13:47.858
  • Only jesus can bring a love into your life.
  • 00:13:47.858 --> 00:13:49.627
  • And when you put jesus first, guess what?
  • 00:13:49.627 --> 00:13:51.028
  • You're going to love people better.
  • 00:13:51.028 --> 00:13:53.130
  • That's why jesus has to be first.
  • 00:13:53.130 --> 00:13:55.065
  • For god is love.
  • 00:13:55.065 --> 00:13:56.433
  • And without god in your life, you don't know love.
  • 00:13:56.433 --> 00:13:58.702
  • God called you to love differently
  • 00:13:58.702 --> 00:14:00.070
  • Because his love is different from the ways of the world.
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  • It's a commitment.
  • 00:14:02.606 --> 00:14:04.608
  • His love to you is a commitment.
  • 00:14:04.608 --> 00:14:06.176
  • He says, i'll never leave you, never forsake you.
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  • It doesn't matter.
  • 00:14:08.112 --> 00:14:10.214
  • So many
  • 00:14:10.447 --> 00:14:11.548
  • Times we leave or we do things based off of feelings
  • 00:14:11.548 --> 00:14:13.851
  • And feelings can lead you the wrong way.
  • 00:14:13.851 --> 00:14:16.887
  • Listen to this.
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  • Another lie is this
  • 00:14:18.155 --> 00:14:19.356
  • If i get attention, even bad attention, i'll feel loved.
  • 00:14:19.356 --> 00:14:22.626
  • If i let this person have what they want for me,
  • 00:14:22.626 --> 00:14:24.595
  • Then this person will stay.
  • 00:14:24.595 --> 00:14:25.930
  • All these, this, this fake love promises these things.
  • 00:14:25.930 --> 00:14:30.334
  • And only jesus can satisfy these things.
  • 00:14:30.334 --> 00:14:34.405
  • Fake love will promise you all the things you've ever wanted.
  • 00:14:34.405 --> 00:14:37.708
  • But only jesus can satisfy.
  • 00:14:38.309 --> 00:14:39.843
  • And so also want you to see this.
  • 00:14:39.843 --> 00:14:43.814
  • Idols don't just come to visit either.
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  • When you let them into the temple,
  • 00:14:46.483 --> 00:14:48.218
  • They come to rearrange
  • 00:14:48.218 --> 00:14:51.221
  • Some of the stresses that you have today.
  • 00:14:51.221 --> 00:14:53.657
  • Let's break this down.
  • 00:14:53.657 --> 00:14:55.125
  • Come from the idols that you've allowed in.
  • 00:14:55.125 --> 00:14:58.329
  • The first thing i want to show
  • 00:14:58.329 --> 00:14:59.330
  • You is this devotion to god becomes divided
  • 00:14:59.330 --> 00:15:03.233
  • When you allow idols into your life.
  • 00:15:03.233 --> 00:15:06.103
  • Jesus said of matthew chapter
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  • Six, verse 24, no one can serve two masters.
  • 00:15:07.338 --> 00:15:11.375
  • Now notice the wording here. it's very strong.
  • 00:15:11.375 --> 00:15:13.544
  • You're going to hate when you're going to love the other
  • 00:15:13.544 --> 00:15:16.113
  • Two extremes.
  • 00:15:16.113 --> 00:15:17.548
  • Okay, so if you start to love the
  • 00:15:17.548 --> 00:15:19.483
  • Relationships of the world, you're going to start to hate
  • 00:15:19.483 --> 00:15:21.819
  • The way god says do a relationship.
  • 00:15:21.819 --> 00:15:24.822
  • If you start to love just culture around you and say,
  • 00:15:24.822 --> 00:15:28.225
  • You know what, that's my evaluation of what is truth.
  • 00:15:28.225 --> 00:15:31.295
  • And you're going to start to hate the ways of the bible
  • 00:15:31.295 --> 00:15:33.864
  • And the truth that it brings,
  • 00:15:33.864 --> 00:15:35.032
  • Because you'll be devoted to one and despise the other.
  • 00:15:35.032 --> 00:15:40.571
  • That's what happens here.
  • 00:15:40.571 --> 00:15:42.272
  • Devotion to god becomes divided.
  • 00:15:42.272 --> 00:15:44.008
  • And let me also say this god is not asking for party.
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  • Very heart.
  • 00:15:47.244 --> 00:15:48.012
  • He's asking for the whole throne.
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  • There has to be a surrender here.
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  • The second thing is this you lose spiritual clarity.
  • 00:15:52.649 --> 00:15:56.053
  • Okay.
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  • I cloud discernment what used to be in the beginning.
  • 00:15:57.421 --> 00:16:01.258
  • You see it in solomon's life.
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  • What used to be in the beginning was god,
  • 00:16:02.292 --> 00:16:03.994
  • I want to live my life in a way that pleases you.
  • 00:16:03.994 --> 00:16:07.064
  • But over time, with small compromises,
  • 00:16:07.064 --> 00:16:09.166
  • That changes to god.
  • 00:16:09.166 --> 00:16:10.100
  • I want to live a life that pleases me.
  • 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:13.604
  • Does this make me feel good?
  • 00:16:14.204 --> 00:16:15.439
  • Does this please me? does this give me everything that i want?
  • 00:16:15.439 --> 00:16:18.075
  • And that's what that's when it gets really bad.
  • 00:16:18.075 --> 00:16:19.910
  • Because the third thing that happens after this
  • 00:16:19.910 --> 00:16:21.445
  • Is this according to the bible, you become double minded
  • 00:16:21.445 --> 00:16:25.215
  • Back and forth.
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  • I love god, i love the party.
  • 00:16:28.018 --> 00:16:31.622
  • Right?
  • 00:16:31.822 --> 00:16:32.723
  • I'm going to put jesus first.
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  • I'm going to jump into a relationship that ain't good.
  • 00:16:34.625 --> 00:16:38.962
  • I'm going to trust the lord.
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  • And i'm a i'm going to trust myself.
  • 00:16:40.664 --> 00:16:43.767
  • Listen to james chapter one.
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  • Verse eight says, their loyalty is divided
  • 00:16:45.536 --> 00:16:48.138
  • Between god and the world, and they are
  • 00:16:48.138 --> 00:16:52.342
  • Unstable in everything that they do.
  • 00:16:53.143 --> 00:16:56.613
  • That is a big revelation right there.
  • 00:16:56.613 --> 00:17:00.150
  • Unstable when your loyalty is
  • 00:17:00.150 --> 00:17:02.853
  • Divided between god and the world.
  • 00:17:02.853 --> 00:17:06.056
  • Meaning part of you wants to please god,
  • 00:17:06.890 --> 00:17:08.659
  • And the other part of you is addicted to the very
  • 00:17:08.659 --> 00:17:10.461
  • Thing god rescued you from.
  • 00:17:10.461 --> 00:17:12.629
  • And here's what it leads to even more.
  • 00:17:13.464 --> 00:17:16.834
  • You carry god's presence
  • 00:17:16.834 --> 00:17:18.569
  • While entertaining what opposes him.
  • 00:17:18.569 --> 00:17:22.106
  • Your body is the temple.
  • 00:17:22.106 --> 00:17:23.173
  • The holy spirit lives inside of you.
  • 00:17:23.173 --> 00:17:25.742
  • You're carrying his presence.
  • 00:17:25.742 --> 00:17:27.177
  • But yet again,
  • 00:17:27.177 --> 00:17:28.445
  • Maybe you're in a relationship
  • 00:17:28.445 --> 00:17:29.780
  • With somebody who's just full of darkness,
  • 00:17:29.780 --> 00:17:32.182
  • Doesn't believe in jesus, mocks god, and yet you still want to
  • 00:17:32.182 --> 00:17:36.286
  • Be in that.
  • 00:17:36.286 --> 00:17:39.723
  • The temple becomes divided.
  • 00:17:40.324 --> 00:17:41.725
  • And here's why satan loves to use relationships.
  • 00:17:41.725 --> 00:17:44.862
  • Because, mark, chapter three verse
  • 00:17:44.862 --> 00:17:46.263
  • 25 says, if a house is divided against itself, it cannot.
  • 00:17:46.263 --> 00:17:49.867
  • It cannot stand.
  • 00:17:50.267 --> 00:17:52.703
  • If a marriage is divided against itself, it will not stand.
  • 00:17:52.703 --> 00:17:56.340
  • How can you even stand on the truth of god's word
  • 00:17:56.340 --> 00:17:58.775
  • If you're divided in your own mind?
  • 00:17:58.775 --> 00:18:00.310
  • That's what it means to have a double mind.
  • 00:18:00.310 --> 00:18:02.579
  • These idols creep in a little at a time.
  • 00:18:03.447 --> 00:18:05.582
  • It doesn't just happen right away,
  • 00:18:05.582 --> 00:18:08.685
  • It happens with a small compromise.
  • 00:18:08.685 --> 00:18:10.220
  • It's really starting to think, what are you allowing?
  • 00:18:10.220 --> 00:18:13.423
  • How did you get there?
  • 00:18:13.423 --> 00:18:15.292
  • Why did you make that decision that you regret now?
  • 00:18:15.292 --> 00:18:17.828
  • What things took place to lead you there?
  • 00:18:17.828 --> 00:18:20.497
  • Start to notice the little things
  • 00:18:20.497 --> 00:18:22.232
  • That you give into that allow you to become numb,
  • 00:18:22.232 --> 00:18:26.370
  • That influence you to do the wrong things.
  • 00:18:26.370 --> 00:18:29.973
  • Because so
  • 00:18:30.274 --> 00:18:32.576
  • Many times
  • 00:18:32.576 --> 00:18:34.611
  • We say it's no big deal.
  • 00:18:34.611 --> 00:18:37.848
  • And again, what we tolerate today
  • 00:18:37.848 --> 00:18:41.051
  • Can dominate you tomorrow.
  • 00:18:41.051 --> 00:18:43.820
  • So my last point of the message is this
  • 00:18:43.820 --> 00:18:47.324
  • Solomon worshiped god,
  • 00:18:47.324 --> 00:18:50.727
  • But he worshiped god on his own terms.
  • 00:18:50.727 --> 00:18:54.398
  • That's what we see.
  • 00:18:54.865 --> 00:18:56.733
  • And i want to ask you today
  • 00:18:56.733 --> 00:18:57.935
  • Is that's what you're struggling with.
  • 00:18:57.935 --> 00:19:00.337
  • I love jesus, i'm gonna live my life for jesus.
  • 00:19:00.337 --> 00:19:02.673
  • But as long as it makes me happy,
  • 00:19:02.673 --> 00:19:05.309
  • There's things that i
  • 00:19:05.809 --> 00:19:06.410
  • Don't want to give up
  • 00:19:06.410 --> 00:19:09.513
  • Except. right.
  • 00:19:09.513 --> 00:19:10.914
  • Remember,
  • 00:19:10.914 --> 00:19:12.683
  • Let's look again at first kings chapter three, verse three.
  • 00:19:12.683 --> 00:19:15.285
  • Solomon, love the lord. walking in the statutes of his father.
  • 00:19:15.285 --> 00:19:17.821
  • David accepts, except
  • 00:19:17.821 --> 00:19:22.092
  • That he also sacrificed
  • 00:19:22.593 --> 00:19:23.794
  • And burn incense in the high places,
  • 00:19:23.794 --> 00:19:27.431
  • Teaching us that partial obedience
  • 00:19:27.431 --> 00:19:29.466
  • Always hides behind good intentions.
  • 00:19:29.466 --> 00:19:34.972
  • Be honest.
  • 00:19:35.272 --> 00:19:36.940
  • I want to give myself over to the lord.
  • 00:19:36.940 --> 00:19:38.308
  • Except the smoking and drinking, i,
  • 00:19:38.308 --> 00:19:42.379
  • I enjoy it.
  • 00:19:42.713 --> 00:19:45.249
  • I want to give my life over to the lord.
  • 00:19:45.249 --> 00:19:46.850
  • Except
  • 00:19:46.850 --> 00:19:49.453
  • I just like being with this person right now
  • 00:19:49.453 --> 00:19:51.788
  • And i know it's not right, but it's just
  • 00:19:51.788 --> 00:19:55.392
  • Makes me forget how much i don't like
  • 00:19:56.193 --> 00:19:57.628
  • Myself.
  • 00:19:57.628 --> 00:20:01.231
  • Or i would give my life fully to jesus.
  • 00:20:01.231 --> 00:20:02.966
  • Except i still got some bitterness
  • 00:20:02.966 --> 00:20:04.534
  • I don't want to let go of
  • 00:20:04.534 --> 00:20:05.502
  • Because they really hurt me and i don't.
  • 00:20:05.502 --> 00:20:08.338
  • I don't feel like i should just walk away from that.
  • 00:20:08.338 --> 00:20:12.342
  • There's some altars
  • 00:20:12.809 --> 00:20:14.211
  • In your life on high places you need to tear down.
  • 00:20:14.211 --> 00:20:18.548
  • See, that's what happened here.
  • 00:20:19.182 --> 00:20:20.417
  • What are the high places in this story?
  • 00:20:20.417 --> 00:20:22.185
  • What is it talking about?
  • 00:20:22.185 --> 00:20:23.353
  • So remember, david wanted to build the temple of god.
  • 00:20:23.353 --> 00:20:26.023
  • But god told david, no, your hands are too bloody
  • 00:20:26.023 --> 00:20:29.726
  • Because david had an assignment and that was war.
  • 00:20:29.726 --> 00:20:33.230
  • Solomon also had an assignment and that was to peace.
  • 00:20:33.230 --> 00:20:36.733
  • Bring peace.
  • 00:20:36.733 --> 00:20:37.868
  • So the house of the lord was to be a house of peace.
  • 00:20:37.868 --> 00:20:41.305
  • The problem with solomon is this even in his own
  • 00:20:41.305 --> 00:20:44.074
  • Wisdom, i believe that he wanted to much control,
  • 00:20:44.074 --> 00:20:47.344
  • And he thought he had to do things the way man does things
  • 00:20:47.344 --> 00:20:50.647
  • To bring peace, instead of just asking
  • 00:20:50.647 --> 00:20:52.683
  • The lord and trusting god completely.
  • 00:20:52.683 --> 00:20:54.551
  • And so many times we do that to.
  • 00:20:54.551 --> 00:20:58.221
  • So many times we just get ahead of god.
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  • God, i'll take care of this.
  • 00:21:01.091 --> 00:21:02.392
  • You can't don't get ahead of god.
  • 00:21:02.392 --> 00:21:04.928
  • That's when we start to make a lot of mistakes.
  • 00:21:04.928 --> 00:21:08.031
  • And so there was no temple at this time.
  • 00:21:08.031 --> 00:21:09.966
  • And so again,
  • 00:21:09.966 --> 00:21:11.501
  • Traveling to the tabernacle and give me an guess what?
  • 00:21:11.501 --> 00:21:13.804
  • That's inconvenient.
  • 00:21:13.804 --> 00:21:15.972
  • And so the people desired convenient worship.
  • 00:21:15.972 --> 00:21:20.644
  • How? worship according to the ways i want to worship.
  • 00:21:20.644 --> 00:21:22.713
  • And so i'll just go to the high places
  • 00:21:22.713 --> 00:21:24.448
  • That are local,
  • 00:21:24.448 --> 00:21:25.582
  • Those elevated places that are in the nation of israel.
  • 00:21:25.582 --> 00:21:28.185
  • And i worship god. i'm worshiping god.
  • 00:21:28.185 --> 00:21:30.220
  • I'm not worshiping idols.
  • 00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:31.355
  • Right. it's not bad.
  • 00:21:31.355 --> 00:21:34.191
  • Though.
  • 00:21:34.191 --> 00:21:34.591
  • Compromises
  • 00:21:34.591 --> 00:21:36.793
  • Lead to bigger compromises,
  • 00:21:36.793 --> 00:21:39.129
  • Which you feed over time starts to grow.
  • 00:21:39.129 --> 00:21:42.332
  • And again, where did they learn this from?
  • 00:21:42.332 --> 00:21:44.267
  • Okay,
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  • Not only was it a temptation of comfort,
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  • But again, it came from the pagan cultures around them.
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  • Deuteronomy chapter 12, verse two.
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  • When you drive out the nations that lived there,
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  • You must destroy all the places
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  • Where they worship their gods, high on the mountains,
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  • Up on the heels and under every green tree.
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  • Now here's where it gets really sad in the story.
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  • In solomon's life, he thought it was no big deal
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  • Because he's still worshiping god.
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  • But by the time he gets to his son
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  • Ruling the kingdom
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  • First kings chapter 14, verse 23.
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  • For they also built for themselves pagan shrines.
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  • That's what he did in judah, and set up sacred pillars
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  • And ashura poles on every high heel and under every green tree.
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  • And this is where they committed again child
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  • Sacrifices, prostitution,
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  • Evil and despicable things.
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  • All because in the beginning
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  • Solomon said, it's no big deal.
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  • It's a small.
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  • And so what we see out of the story
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  • Is this what solomon normalized privately,
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  • Became normalized publicly eventually.
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  • And what you allow in your life because it's no big deal,
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  • Can often be the very thing that leads you astray
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  • In the future.
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  • And so we need to be careful of this.
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  • For solomon, the high places were an evil,
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  • Yet they were just unregulated.
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  • And let him straight.
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  • Now, i want to say this
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  • Because you don't fall away from god all at once.
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  • You drift away,
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  • You drift away.
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  • But the small decisions that you make.
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  • And here's our love.
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  • Here's what i think.
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  • Actually, i know, i just truly believe this.
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  • This series is going to be life changing
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  • Because i love it when i feel like
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  • God has revealed so much information.
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  • We just have gone over a few verses
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  • And this is the start of this series.
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  • There's a lot more to dive into,
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  • But i want to stop here and we'll continue next week.
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  • But i want to ask the question again
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  • How do we grow spiritually?
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  • Then even more again, wisdom is an amazing thing.
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  • Knowledge of the word of god is an amazing thing.
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  • But it must come with surrender because you can have
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  • All the information in in your mind, but still not surrender
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  • Everything over to the lord.
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  • And so i want to ask you right now,
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  • What is the very thing you're still holding on to,
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  • That you need to surrender over to god that is leading
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  • You astray, that is hurting you little by little.
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  • Let me tell you right now, lust is not your god.
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  • Bitterness and anger
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  • Is not your god.
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  • You can rebuke these things
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  • In the name of jesus christ and jesus comes to rescue you.
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  • I'm telling you, jesus really does and can set you free,
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  • But you have to believe it.
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  • And when you hear the word of god,
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  • You must do
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  • What it says.
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  • And the times when you feel like you don't have the strength,
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  • The holy spirit, because your body is a temple,
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  • The holy spirit inside of you,
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  • He will give you strength you do not have.
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  • You want to defeat the devil
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  • When you feel tempted, open up the bible.
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  • And the moment it's going to be the last thing you want to do,
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  • Because you want to give in to
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  • A temptation, but instead open up the bible,
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  • Watch the temptation flee.
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  • Watch the demons flee
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  • Because jesus came to be our savior.
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  • We love to say that he also came to be our lord,
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  • Which means he requires lordship over your life.
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  • He requires all of 40.
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  • That's where freedom comes from.
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  • So two things, two things we need to apply today.
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  • First of all, what are the small compromises
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  • You have been accepting that you need to stop right now?
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  • It's not a problem yet.
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  • It's not a big deal yet.
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  • But you know what's wrong.
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  • And you know it's starting to make your mind divided.
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  • All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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  • But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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  • There is a reason you heard this word today.
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  • It's not by mistake.
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  • You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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  • And listen, if you love this church
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  • And thinking about giving to this church,
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  • And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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  • Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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  • Not only the nation, but the world.
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  • We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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  • Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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  • So that they know the love of god.
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