Jeff Schreve - Forbidden Love

August 10, 2025 | 28:40

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From His Heart: Jeff Schreve | Jeff Schreve - Forbidden Love | August 10, 2025

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Pastor jeff schreve: hey, did you know that there is a love in
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The bible that god hates?
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It's a love for this world's system of sin and independence
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From god.
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We're gonna be in 1 john chapter 2 today, so grab your bible and
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Follow along as we discuss "forbidden love."
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Jeff: the world is the external foe.
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The world is trying to squeeze us into its mold.
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Romans 12, verse 2: "do not be conformed to this world."
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Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold, and the world is
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Coming for you and for me and for our kids.
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This is what the scripture says in 1 john chapter 2, beginning
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In verse 15: "do not love the world nor the things in
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The world.
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If anyone loves the world," guess what?
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"the love of the father is not in him.
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For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the
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Lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not
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From the father, but is from the world.
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And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one
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Who does the will of god abides forever."
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We're gonna talk today about why it's forbidden for a christian
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To love the world, and we're gonna talk about what it is,
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What the world is, what the world does, and how the world
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Can be overcome.
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So first discovery.
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What is the world?
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Well, the world is the humanistic system that
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Opposes god.
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When john is talking about here "do not love the world," not
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Talking about the world of nature, not talking about the
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World of men.
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He's talking about that humanistic system, that fallen
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System, that opposes god.
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Now we see that so clearly in the book of genesis.
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You know, it only took 100 years from noah and his family to get
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Off the ark for people to proliferate, ham, shem, and
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Japheth, everybody is related to noah, and noah had three sons,
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Ham, shem, and japheth, and the whole world is populated through
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Those 3, and it took 100 years until you hit genesis chapter
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11, and in genesis chapter 11 we have this--the account of
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The tower of babel.
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Now god had told them when they came off the ark, noah wasn't
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Gonna have any more children, so he told ham, shem, and japheth,
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"be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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So to fill the earth you're gonna scatter."
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What does it say in genesis chapter 11, verse 4?
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"the people said, 'come, let us build for ourselves a city, and
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A tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for
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Ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over
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The face of the whole earth.'"
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And they built the tower of babel, this structure that was
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Given over when they say whose height may reach into heaven,
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They're talking about the top of that thing was given over to the
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Worship of the stars and the astrology, the study of the
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Stars, but not from a scientific point of view, but from
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A worship point of view.
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And so god confounded the languages in genesis chapter 11.
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He told them to scatter and they said, "no god, we're
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Gonna gather.
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We're gonna make for ourselves a name."
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And that is a picture of this humanistic--this humanistic
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System that is against god that says, "i don't care what you
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Want, god.
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I don't care about your word, your will, and your ways; i
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Wanna do what i want to do."
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So don't love that world.
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Now, james tells us in james chapter 4, he says, "you
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Adulteresses," strong words, "do you not know that friendship
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With the world is hostility toward god?
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Therefore whoever wishes to make himself a friend of this world
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Makes himself an enemy of god."
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Now, god and the world are mutually exclusive.
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The world has nothing in the lord and the lord has nothing
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In the world.
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Think about this.
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So you--we talked about the world of flesh and the devil.
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We spoke about the devil last week.
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He prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour,
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And he is the infernal foe.
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He is the foe from hell, but we also have an external foe, the
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World, and we have an internal foe, an internal enemy, which is
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The flesh.
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And we're gonna get to the flesh next week, but we have this
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Internal enemy, this part of us that wants to do evil.
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Now the world is just like the flesh, but it's external.
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And the bible says in romans chapter 8 that the flesh is
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Hostile toward god.
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It does not subject itself to the law of god.
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It is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh
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Cannot please god because the flesh is against god and god is
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Against the flesh.
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Well, the world is just like that.
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It's just like the flesh, but it's on the outside and it's
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Coming at us to try and squeeze us into its mold.
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It is the epitome of man's hubris saying we're gonna build
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A tower and we're gonna do things our way and we don't
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Need god.
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That is how the world comes across.
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It opposes god and it is against god and god is against
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The world.
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And the ruler of this world is not a surprise.
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The ruler of this god-opposing system is satan.
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He's called the god of this world.
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2 corinthians chapter 4, verse 4.
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It says: "if our gospel is veiled,
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It is veiled to those who are perishing in whose case
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The god of this world has blinded the minds of the
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Unbelieving," so they can't see the light of the glory of the
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Gospel of christ who is the image of god.
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The devil is someone who deceives and he blinds the eyes
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Of unbelievers.
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He rules this system.
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It says in 1 john chapter 5, verse 19: "we know that we are
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Of god, and the whole world," the whole cosmos, "lies in the
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Power of the evil one."
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It is literally cradled in the lap of the evil one.
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The devil is calling the shots in the world.
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He's kind of running the show in the world, and he uses it to
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Steal and kill and destroy.
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Now a christian is somebody--a true christian, somebody who has
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Been saved out of this world.
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Jesus said in john 15, verse 19, to his disciples: "if you were
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Of the world, the world would love its own; but because you
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Are not of the world, but i chose you out of the world,
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Because of this the world hates you."
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So here is a christian, a person before he becomes a christian,
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It's a person who hears the gospel and responds to the
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Gospel, turns from sin and puts his or her faith and trust in
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Jesus, and when that happens, boom, you are transferred and
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Delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred into
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The kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption,
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The forgiveness of sins.
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Now that is all spiritual.
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That's not--you don't feel that physically; it
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Happens spiritually.
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You become a citizen of heaven.
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Your name is written in the lamb's book of life.
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You are taken out of the world, so to speak,
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As a twice-born person.
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But then the lord puts you back into this world and he saves us
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Out of this world and sends us back to the world to be a
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Witness in the world, and that's our only business that we have
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In the world.
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So what is the world?
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It's the humanistic system that opposes god that lies in the lap
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Of the evil one.
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No wonder the scripture says don't love that world, don't
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Love that system.
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Secondly, so what is it?
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That's what it is.
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Secondly, what does it do to us?
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How does it work in us or on us?
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Well, second discovery, the world is not only a humanistic
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System, but it's also an evil system that tempts us to sin.
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So the devil uses the world, for all that is in the world, the
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Bible says, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and
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The boastful pride of life is not from the father but is from
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The world, and the devil is the tempter.
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And he's got three different lures in his tackle box and all
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That is in the world is there in 2--in 1 john chapter 2: the
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Lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride
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Of life.
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And that's what the devil uses to try and derail your train, to
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Try and derail my train as a believer.
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So the first lure: the devil tempts us with the desire of our
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Flesh, the lust of the flesh.
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Now, when the bible talks about the lust of the flesh, it's
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Talking about the sensual things, things related to the
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Physical senses.
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Well, that's the first lure in the tackle box.
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And i have a friend, i think about my friend ron.
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I remember years ago, probably 30 years ago, when we were just
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Young guys and we were talking at breakfast one day, we met
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Once a week for breakfast to just encourage one another in
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The lord and he told me, he said, "jeff," he said, "you
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Know, i'm not really tempted in the area of the physical.
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I'm not tempted to commit sexual immorality and be unfaithful to
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My wife," and not that that could never happen, but he said,
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"that's not a big temptation for me."
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But what was a big temptation for him?
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The lust of the eyes.
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And that's the second lure in the tackle box, the lust of the
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Eyes, the desire of the eyes.
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Now that's a little more refined as a temptation goes.
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Because that's not just the base nature, your
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Animalistic tendencies.
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That has to do with materialism.
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That has to do with goods and things and houses and lands and
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Cars and boats and you want more and more and more.
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That's geared on greed.
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The devil tempts with the desire of our eyes.
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And then, thirdly, he tempts us with the desire to be exalted,
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The boastful pride of life.
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That is the voice of the braggart and this thing that
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Wells up within us that wants to impress people, wants people to
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Notice us, wants people to say ooh, they want us--they wanna
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Ooh and ahh over you, and you have this desire for that.
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And the devil has that lure in his tackle box.
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He throws that out there.
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If he can't get you with the lust of the eyes, he can't get
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You with the lust of the flesh, then he'll try the boastful
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Pride of life.
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That's all that's in the world.
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Every sin falls into one of those three categories.
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That's the world's evil system.
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It tempts us to sin and discovery number 3: the world,
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Not only is it a humanistic system against god, not only is
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An evil system that tempts us to sin, but it's a doomed system
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That can be overcome.
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You don't have to be succumbed by the world.
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You don't have to let the world squeeze you into its mold,
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And neither do i.
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Verse 17 again: "the world is passing away,"
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John says, "and also its lust; but the one who does the will of
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God abides forever."
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The world is passing away.
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The world is departing and its lusts are departing.
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Think about it like this: the-- everything that the devil has is
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Like a train that is leaving the station, going off on train
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Tracks that go off a cliff to an eternal hell.
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The world is passing away and also its lusts.
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Who would want to get on that train?
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You'd be an--you'd be an idiot to want to get on that train,
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'cause that train is going to the second death, the lake
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Of fire.
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But the one who does the will of god, that's the person who
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Abides forever.
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So hey, let's face it, all of us, we're very attuned to the
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Fact we may be, you know, twice-born men living in a world
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Of once-born men, we may be, as the scripture says, dead to sin,
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But alive to god in christ jesus, but all of us know that
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Even though we're dead to sin, we still hear the call of sin
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And we're still tempted with the lust of the flesh, the lust of
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The eyes, and the boastful pride of life, all that's in
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The world.
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So how do you possibly overcome the world, and the devil who
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Tempts us in those things that really seem to appeal to us, how
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Do you overcome?
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Well, you overcome the world by feasting on god's love.
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By feasting on his love.
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"do not love the world nor the things in the world," verse 15.
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"if anyone loves the world," guess what?
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"the love of the father is not in him."
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The way you overcome the world is by marinating yourself in the
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Love of god.
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Everything starts with the love of god.
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We love because he first loved us, and the only way that we can
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Please god, greatest commandment is to love the lord your god
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With all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and to love
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Your neighbor as yourself.
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Well, where are you gonna get that love?
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We love because he first loved us and when we understand how
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Much he loves us, then we're able to love him back and then
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We're able to love everybody else.
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Everything breaks down in the christian life when you do not
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Receive the love of god.
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1 john 3, verse 1: "see how great a love the father has
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Bestowed upon us that we should be called children of god.
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And such we are.
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For this reason, the world does not know us because it did not
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Know him."
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This world system doesn't know us.
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They don't recognize us as twice-born men.
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They just say, "those people are weird."
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And we need to see how great a love the father has for us, that
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He would--that he would send his son, that jesus would die on
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The cross for me, and rise again from the dead for me.
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"he who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for
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Us all.
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How will he not also with him freely give us all things?"
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You overcome the world by feasting on god's love.
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Secondly, you overcome the world by doing god's will.
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"but he who does the will of god abides forever."
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Now, when you're right with god, then you are living your life
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Through the prayer of jesus, "not my will, father, but yours
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Be done," and you want to do his will.
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And you want to shine, you want to share, you want to walk in
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The light as he himself is in the light.
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You don't want to live a hypocritical life.
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You know, he says in 1 john chapter 1, "god is light and in
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Him there is no darkness at all."
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Hey, if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in
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Darkness, guess what?
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You lie and the truth is not in you.
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You're not walking in the truth, but if we walk in the light as
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He himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another
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And the blood of jesus, god's son, cleanses us from all sin.
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You overcome the world by doing god's will.
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And thirdly, you overcome the world by walking in faith.
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We walk by faith.
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Hey, the christian life is all about grace and faith.
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How do you become a christian?
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"for by grace you've been saved through faith.
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And that not of yourselves, it is a gift of god, not as
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A result of works, lest anyone should boast."
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So that's how i come to christ.
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I turn from sin and i put my faith, and i put my puny little
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Hand of faith in god's great big hand of grace, and he saves me
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By grace through faith.
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How do you walk with god as a christian?
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By grace through faith.
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It's by grace through faith the whole way.
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Colossians chapter 2, verse 6: "as you therefore have received
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Christ jesus the lord by grace through faith, so walk in him by
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Grace through faith."
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That's how you do it.
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It's grace and faith the whole way.
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And so it says in 1 john chapter 5, verses 4 and 5: "for whatever
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Is born of god overcomes the world; and this is the victory
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That has overcome the world-- our faith.
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And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes
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That jesus is the son of god?"
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Your faith--we used to sing that song, "faith is the victory
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That overcomes the world," and so feasting on the love of god,
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Doing the lord's will, and walking by faith and not by
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Sight, that's how you overcome the world.
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Now, in closing, you know, i was really wrestling with this
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Because you ask yourself the question, well, you know, 1 john
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Was written to expose those who claim to be christians
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And weren't.
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And then it was written to give assurance to those who truly
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Were christians.
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And we have tests in 1 john to see if you're really
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In the faith.
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And so if you walk in the darkness, he says, hey,
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You gotta wonder if you're really in the faith.
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He says in verse 4: "the one who says, 'i have--'" chapter 2,
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Verse 4: "the one who says, 'i have come to know him,' does not
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Keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him."
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And so you look at a person's life.
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If there's no shine, there's probably no holy spirit there.
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Well, the other test that he gives is the test that we just
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Read: your heart.
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Is your heart in love with the lord or is it in love with
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The world?
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Because if your heart is in love with the world, hey, guess what?
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You probably have never been saved.
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Now, we have a guy in scripture named lot.
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Lot was the one who fell into the lust of the eyes.
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Lot was abraham's nephew.
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Genesis 13, they're having a problem, the cowboys of abraham
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And the cowboys of lot, because they have lots of flocks and
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Herds, and abraham said, "this isn't good.
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We're living among the heathen and we're fighting, and we're
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Brothers, so we need to separate.
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You go left, i'll go right, you go north, i'll go south."
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And he pitched his tent toward sodom.
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And it says in genesis 13 that "the men of sodom were wicked
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Exceedingly and sinners against the lord."
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He fell prey to the lust of the eyes, and he knew, hey, this is
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Great pasture land, and i'm gonna have flocks and herds and
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Money and all the wonderful things that money can buy, if i
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Just go east, and he did.
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And as we read about lot, the bible says in 2 peter, calls him
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A righteous man who, it says: "who--that righteous man while
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Living among them," the sodomites, "felt his righteous
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Soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds."
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Now lot did love the lord, but the love of the world, the lust
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Of the eyes, got in there and wrecked and ruined his life.
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He lost his family, he lost his wealth, he lost everything.
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It was just a disaster.
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His life's a disaster.
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Now he's a christian, but he fell prey to the lust
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Of the eyes.
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And then you have another guy in scripture, and his name
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Was demas.
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Demas was there with paul, he was there with the big guys that
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The lord was using in such a great way.
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And the last letter paul writes, 2 timothy, the last chapter,
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Chapter 4.
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He's about ready to get his head cut off.
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And he says to timothy: "make every effort to come to me soon;
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For demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me
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And gone to thessalonica."
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Demas loved this present world.
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Why did he desert paul at paul's hour of need?
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Because he had never been saved.
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He was around it, he was experiencing ministry, but he
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Never loved the lord, he loved this present world, and when
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Push came to shove, he chose the world over the lord.
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You have to decide where you stand.
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See, the last blank on your outline says this: the test
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Of worldliness.
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What is your heart longing for today?
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Are you longing for the things of god?
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Do you desire to please the lord?
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You don't do it perfectly.
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I don't do it perfectly, but listen, when i sin, i feel it,
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And i don't wanna sin.
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I wanna please god.
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I want to live my life, not my will but yours be done.
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I want god to use me.
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I want to hear from the lord at the end of my life, "well done,
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My good and faithful servant.
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You were faithful in a few things, i'm gonna put you in
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Charge of many things.
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Enter into the joy of your master."
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And you know, when we talk about the prosperity gospel that's
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Preached so much on television or on the radio, what is the
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Prosperity gospel?
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It's all about the lust of the eyes.
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It's all about, "listen, you come to jesus and he will give
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You all these things you want."
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You come to jesus, and you know what you're gonna find?
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All who desire to live godly in christ jesus will
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Suffer persecution.
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You're gonna find that you're in the lord's army, and paul says,
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"suffer hardship with me and this good soldier of
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Christ jesus."
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You're gonna find hatred from the world because jesus said,
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"if the world hates you, guess what?
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It hates you because it hated me before it hated you.
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And it hates you because you're not of this world.
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I've brought you out of this world, called you out of this
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World, sent you back to this world to be a witness in
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This world.
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And just as i called out the world," he said to his brothers,
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"the world can't hate you, but it hates me.
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Why?
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Because i testify against it that its deeds are evil."
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And as we really shine and we really share, the world is going
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To hate us and the lord jesus christ is going to be
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So proud of us.
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We need to stand up for the truth.
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Stephen preached in acts chapter 7, and they got so mad at him at
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His sermon, the chief priests and the religious leaders.
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They covered their ears, they couldn't hear it anymore.
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They were gnashing their teeth at him and they rushed upon him
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And they stoned him to death, and stephen, before he died,
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Said, "i see the son of man standing at the right hand
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Of god."
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The lord jesus christ gave that man a standing ovation for
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His faithfulness.
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That's the way i want to live.
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Jeff: every single day people around the world are battling
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Powerful enemies they can't even see: temptation, fear, shame,
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Confusion, addiction.
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Families are under pressure, kids and teens are bombarded
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With lies, marriages are strained, and the faith of
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Many is weakening.
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It is spiritual warfare and it's raging all around us.
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That's why this month on "from his heart" we're airing my new
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Six-message series, "this is war!
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Overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil."
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Now, in this series you'll discover how to break free from
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Destructive patterns, how to tear down strongholds and fight
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The good fight of faith all the way to the finish line.
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Jeff: and we come to the most important question of all: have
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You turned from sin and selfishness and given your heart
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And life to jesus?
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If not, today is the day for you.
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Just pray this prayer from your heart: "lord jesus, i need you.
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I know that i'm a sinner and i can't save myself, but jesus,
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I believe that you are god in the flesh.
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I believe you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from
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The dead, and right now, jesus, i turn from my sin.
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I ask you to forgive me and save me and make me the person you
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Want me to be.
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I surrender my life, my all to you, and promise to follow you
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All the days i have left."
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Now listen, if you'll pray that kind of prayer and mean it,
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The lord will come into your life and change you forever.
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I would love to hear from you.
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Please contact me, share with me
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What's going on in your life so
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That we can pray for you.
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You really are important to god
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And you're important to us
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And we're here for you.
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♪♪♪
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Jeff Schreve - Forbidden Love

August 10, 2025 | 28:40

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