WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.480 Well, I want you to turn with me in your Bibles this morning to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:14.800 I have so much to tell you about what God's doing in our ministry and our new ministries. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:16.800 And it's been fabulous. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:28.399 We've been from Florida back to Tennessee, uh, back to Alabama, just all over, uh playing pickleball and people to Christ in pickleball. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:41.439 But the main thing is and had a lot of folks saved in Florida, and we'll be scheduled to be a whole month in October in Virginia. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.600 So God's beginning to just open the preaching door now. 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:52.159 And I knew he would, but we've been trying to get transitioned from here to Chattanooga, Tennessee. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:01:06.079 And the exciting thing about that is in March, when we made the transition, and God so beautifully and wonderfully made the transition, Rick becoming the pastor. 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.000 And uh when I'm not here, I know we've gone a good bit. 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:11.439 I know, I don't know. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:13.519 I'm it's breaking up. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:19.599 But uh the exciting thing is that when I'm not here, I always listen. 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.680 If I can, if I'm not preaching, or I always listen by the time of the end of the week. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:33.280 And just to watch, and I walked down the aisle a while ago, and this I see so many faces I don't even know. 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.200 And that's so exciting. 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:54.959 The vision David and I had when we started this church 10 years ago is literally taking place, and I saw Eli with the little boys going to the bathroom a while ago, and he's going, uh I said, that's a great the children's ministry's exploding, and you just voted to build a children's wing and educational way. 00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:02.159 Woo! Everything that's happening we saw 10 years ago. 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:03.760 I knew it would happen. 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.240 I knew God had given me that vision, and it's so exciting. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:09.120 It really is. 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.120 So it's good to keep praying. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:21.680 But what I was gonna say about since March, uh, we were having so many difficulties trying to get the land uh started and dug and cleared. 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:29.919 Long story short, they're starting this week, digging the basement on the new chalet, and that's gonna be for the pastors. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.759 So are you ready for this? 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:43.120 Within one year, hopefully, pray that from the time we made the transition, that will be completed, and ministry for the pastors will be started full-fledged. 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.080 That's hey, we serve an awesome God. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:47.280 Can I get an amen? 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:48.560 Give him a clap. 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.240 I'm so excited about that because that's my love. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.479 It's helping and train pastors. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:03.520 That's what I've done all my 40 years of ministry and did it uh at Liberty and did it at Tennessee Temple. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.599 So, but I man, I've got some meat for you this morning. 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.560 I promise. 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:15.599 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verses 6 through 13 will be the verses that we'll be looking at. 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.479 And uh it's dealing with liberty over temptation. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:36.879 When started his new series, God just, I had a message that I was going to preach, but then I said, no, I'm gonna jump right in there because in my quiet time, God had been dealing with me with this topic about temptation. 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.000 Now I know none of you are ever tempted. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.960 You are a, I mean, a spirit-filled Christian. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.520 Uh you're kind of like the Corinthians. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.000 You thought you had your act together and Satan couldn't touch you. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:53.919 Huh. 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.960 Maybe that's not true. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.680 I mean, I get tempted every day. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:01.919 Every day. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.560 Let me tell you my recent temptation. 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.639 I had just prayed. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.639 Lord, you gotta help me with my sweets. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.560 I'm a sweetaholic. 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.599 You want to start an AA for sweets? 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:16.399 I'm in. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.120 And one of my favorite are donuts. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:23.439 In fact, it's the favorite. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.360 There will be donuts at the marriage feast. 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.360 Chocolate-filled donuts. 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:36.720 I'm there getting my gas right there by Lowe's, cheapest gas, usually here. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.600 And I just prayed, Lord, I gotta stay away from the sweets. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.600 I can't eat donuts every day. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.079 I'd gotten where I was starting to do that. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.040 And I'd gotten on the scale and gained a few pounds. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:50.959 I said, that's not of the Lord. 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.399 So anyway, there I am. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:57.279 You hear during now? 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.040 Hey, wait a minute. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.800 And there I am. 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:03.199 And guess what? 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.839 That sign popped on. 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.079 No, it wasn't on when I went by. 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.800 But now I'm filling with gas, and look, there's hot now, hot now, hot now. 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:14.399 I said, no, no, no. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.000 I can't, I can't, I can't. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.160 Satan said, yeah, you can, yeah, you can't. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.319 I won't tell, I won't tell. 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:22.720 And you can get three for something. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:27.360 They have a little box for three and hot now, and you can eat them, and Susan will never know it. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.160 Y'all, that's ain't funny. 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:34.959 I'm struggling. 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.480 So, no, I got it. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.920 Put up the gas lever. 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:44.959 I said, I'll just go this way. 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:47.920 I said, I'll just go out by. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:53.360 And so next thing I know, I'm going right to hot now. 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.600 Then I turned to go through and pick them up. 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.800 And I said, There hath no, verse 13, are you ready? 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:07.040 There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is coming to man. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:15.680 But God is faithful and just who will not tempt you to, hey, that you're able, so that you'll be able to overcome that temptation. 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.720 So I went by right through the window and said, God bless you. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.199 I didn't. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.519 I didn't get three hot now, don't I? 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:31.759 Come on. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.160 That now y'all are y'all laughing at me, and that's okay. 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.319 Yeah, I get laughed at all the time. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:40.480 But that was a struggle. 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:43.120 A big one. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.720 I mean, they just turned them on. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.040 That means they were just coming out of the grease. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:50.240 Oh. 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.839 So that was a major temptation for me this week. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:57.199 I promise. 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.240 Are you ever tempted? 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.160 Are you ever tempted? 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:13.600 I'm gonna give you some meat this morning about the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:14.959 1 John 2. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.959 Love not the world, neither things in the world. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.680 If any man loves the world, love the father's not in him. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.720 But we're getting to the practicality of that. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.079 Lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.920 Paul deals with it with the church of Corinth in this passage. 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:37.040 In fact, he uses, if you'll pick up with me, in chapter verse 11. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:42.000 Now, all these things happened unto them for examples. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.120 Now, who is he talking about? 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.959 The nation Israel. 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:59.279 About their wilderness journey, from the time they were delivered from the bondage of Egypt till they ended up in the wilderness for 40 years. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.160 And only those that were, hey, are you ready for this? 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:11.199 Nineteen years of age and under ever made it into the promised land of Canaan. 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.439 So they didn't do well with temptation. 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:24.720 They fell miserably to temptation constantly and over and over. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:38.080 In fact, what he does, he uses three illustrations here of how they succumbed to the temptation in the wilderness in their journey. 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.320 So notice what he says. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.879 Now all these things happen unto them for temples underlying the word temple. 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:54.240 And they are written for our learning, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.840 In other words, he says, we're gonna be tempted to the world. 00:08:58.159 --> 00:08:59.279 You can just count on it. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.080 Amen. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:01.919 It's gonna happen. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:11.279 And today we'll see, even the first point in this message is the certainty of temptation that's gonna come. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:22.080 But I want you to underline that word examples, because here's what God's been dealing with me personally about temptation and how we can have liberty over temptation. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:29.679 How we can be set free from that temptation when we're tempted, like I was the other day. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.399 And it's a struggle, it's a battle. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.600 But Paul is going to give examples. 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.440 But now here's the word example. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:43.759 You gotta re I am convinced that the two, let me tell you what God just gave me. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:45.519 This is good. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.279 Two things. 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:52.799 The most daddies, granddaddies, men, look at me. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.360 If you're watching online, look at me. 00:09:55.679 --> 00:10:08.720 God just gave me this, and what these are two gold nuggets that can change your life as a godly daddy, godly husband, godly leader of your home. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:13.919 There's two things God wants you to leave for your legacy. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.000 Because I'm, you know, I'm 68 now. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:16.960 I know I don't look it. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:18.080 Thank you very much. 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.039 But I'm thinking about legacy. 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:38.320 And part of the reason when I made this transition with Rick was part of my legacy, I wanted to leave my grandchildren with my grandchildren and be an influence with my grandchildren. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:46.159 We just got to keep our two little twin boys for a whole week while John and Mary were going to uh SERPO uh conference. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.159 And by the time they got back, I had both boys wrestling. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.080 She put on Facebook I left, and Poppy, I come back, my boys are wrestling each other. 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.159 I said it's good for 'em. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.000 But that legacy, what is it? 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.240 I know. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:08.879 But okay. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:10.559 He said, I look good. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:12.240 Thank you very much, Adam. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:13.120 All right. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.720 I but I like my hand, so if I do this, but I I got it. 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:24.879 So two things God's taught me that we can leave as a legacy. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.200 Number one, we can leave a good name. 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:32.480 Your name means a lot. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.600 See, I was raised in the old time generation. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.519 Your your name and your word meant something. 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:41.200 Amen. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:47.279 So you can leave a good name, a legacy with your name and your family. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.559 And then secondly, you can leave, are you ready for this? 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:57.919 A great example of what a Christian ought to be. 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.960 And this is exactly what Paul's telling the church at Corinth. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.720 He's saying, you don't understand. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:17.519 God has birthed this church, and you are to be, hey, a witness to the community, and you are to have a name that means something, and you are to have an example that means something. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.200 Can I get an amen? 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:39.519 And if you don't do anything else, but you leave that recognition of a godly name and a godly heritage and a godly example, you can you will give your family the greatest thing you could give them, far greater than riches and power and all the world has to offer. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.120 Let me tell you how important an example is. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:56.080 Back in the early well, what 40s was World War II. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.480 There was a man named Reddy? 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:00.559 Butch O'Hare. 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.080 Ever heard of Butch O'Hare? 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:05.919 No, I knew you hadn't. 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:07.600 I never heard of him. 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.120 He was a fighter pilot. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.480 And they had taken off an aircraft carrier and the fleet there in the Pacific to go perform a mission. 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:27.759 And about an hour out, Butch looks down and sees they had forgotten to top off the gas tank. 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:38.480 And he knew there was no way he could do this mission and make it and possibly not even get there. 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.039 But knowing he wouldn't get back. 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.320 So he did what he thought was best. 00:13:44.399 --> 00:14:11.679 He turned around and was going back to the fleet by himself and knowing, not knowing to him, as he gets about 20, 30 miles out, he runs into a massive group of zero fighters, of Jap pilots headed toward the fleet. 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:22.399 And all he knew to do, he says, Well, it may cost me my life, but I've got to stop them because there was no defense on the carrier. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:23.600 They were all gone. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:24.720 So what does he do? 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.000 He just dies right in the middle of them, starts shooting and firing. 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:32.399 And I meant just an unbelievable air battle, and it's recorded. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.399 And I meant they shoot him up, and long story short, he survives. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:49.759 And long story short, it was such a fierce battle, and he did such a great job that the 20 to 30 uh zeros that were headed toward the fleet turned off and went back. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:15:02.399 So when he landed, he was so shot up he didn't know that he'd make the landing, but he did, but the plane was totally destroyed. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:12.240 So Butch O'Hare ended up getting one of the greatest medals ever in World War II. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.840 But let me tell you what was so significant about that. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:28.720 Not only did he get the medal, hey, the International Airport O'Hare in Chicago was named after Butch O'Hare. 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.000 What an example. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.559 What an example. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.960 But hey, the story didn't stop there. 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:41.360 You ready? 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:46.399 Earlier in the 30s, there was a man named Al Campon. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.159 Anyone say I'm a gangster nut about studying all that. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:54.799 The untouchables and all that. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.320 Am I the only one that did? 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:57.759 Nobody else likes that. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:58.320 Okay, good. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.919 Well, I'm I'm weird. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.399 I love. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:07.600 But anyway, Al Campone was the mob leader of Chicago and ran the city on the city. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.960 Well, there was a his lawyer was named Easy Eddy. 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.200 Sounds good. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.720 Easy Eddie had it made. 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:24.399 He had a complex in where he lived in Chicago that the length of a city block. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.159 He was the one that kept Al Campone out of jail all the time. 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:33.519 So he had it made in the world's eyes. 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:37.519 But he had a weakness. 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.799 He loved his son more than anything. 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:49.600 And he made sure that his son had the best of the best, the best cars, the best clothes, the best education. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:58.480 Until one day he realized he could not give his son what was the most important thing he could give him. 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.079 And that was a good name. 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.960 And that was a good example. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.880 And he knew that was the most important thing. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:14.640 So you know what he did? 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.279 He did something that most people would have never done. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:19.920 He said, I've got to rectify this. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:30.720 So he went to the FBI and he said, I will testify against our component, knowing it probably would cost him his life. 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:40.960 And my friends, it did because a year later, in the back alleys of Chicago, there was a big shootout, and fast Eddie was killed. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:50.319 But he had rectified for his son what was right to do. 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:58.400 Because he wanted him to know right from wrong, and he wanted to, he wanted to send an example for his son. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:01.119 Well, guess what? 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:04.559 Guess who his son was? 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.279 Butch O'Hare. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:11.920 Is that Niles? 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:14.960 Isn't that Niles? 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:33.759 So today, if I can leave anything with you, as I'm convinced the greatest example, the greatest example we can leave to our family is not just our name, but how to overcome temptation. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:41.039 Show them that you can come over, you can overcome the evil for the good. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.279 Can I get an amen, church? 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.160 The certainty number one of temptation. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.960 No temptation has overtaken you except such it's coming to man. 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:54.240 Verse 13. 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:59.759 And we know that Paul was tempted probably more than anyone. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.839 In fact, in 2 Corinthians 4, 8, 9, it says, are you ready? 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.240 He was hard-pressed on every side. 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.920 Yet, hey, he says, but yet not crushed. 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.640 He was perplexed, but not in despair. 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.519 He was persecuted, but not forsaken. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.960 He was struck down, but not destroyed. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:25.519 Yet this amazing man always seemed to find a way of escape. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:35.519 And this word, the this phrase, the way of escape, comes with the example of you being surrounded by an army. 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:51.599 And the army's about to do you in, attack and destroy you, and then in some miraculous, miraculous way, you find a path that you are able to go through and escape. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:57.839 Another picture is of a ship coming in to landing. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.000 And it comes into a landing place safely. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:09.200 In other words, not only do you come out of that situation, but you land safely. 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:10.559 Can I get an amen? 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:23.839 And I know it's small, but just like the other day when I went right through the drive-in window, I safely got back out of there. 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:29.839 So that's what he says here. 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.720 Number one, that the certainty of temptation. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.640 And two things under that. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:36.559 First of all, look at it. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:38.559 Temptation is common to man. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:50.319 In fact, James 1.13 says, When you are tempted, every one of us will be tempted consistently and constantly. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:52.880 Paul tells us about, are you ready? 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.200 And here's the meat of the message this morning. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:01.839 Five types of temptations that we face. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.440 In fact, he really goes into good detail. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:07.519 Five different kinds of temptation. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.480 Let's deal with them. 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.440 Number one. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.119 And I don't have a blank for these, but just write it down somewhere. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:20.079 Number one, there is the temptation to lust. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.400 The word lust is cachas in the Greek. 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.519 And it means bad. 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:28.319 It means evil. 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:30.000 It means evil to doer. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:31.039 It means misery. 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:32.559 It means depraved. 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:41.200 And then I when I always look at the meanings in the original, and then the meanings in the Webster, then I put my own sentence to it. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.880 Here's what I came up with. 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:44.640 That word means. 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:49.440 To have wrong affections for something. 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:59.200 You desire for something is your desire for something is greater than reason. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.759 Wisdom or character. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:10.480 In other words, it's so powerful that it overcomes you, and you do it knowing that it's absolutely wrong. 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:16.000 That's how strong that word lust really is. 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:19.200 And that's what he talks about in this context. 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:28.880 In fact, he says, now, these things become our example in verse 6 to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.519 Who's they? 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.119 The Israelis. 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:46.079 Israel in Numbers 11, where the Hebrew people despised the manna which God had provided and lusted for the fish, the cucumbers, the melons, the onions, and the garlic of Egypt in Numbers 11, 4 and 5. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:47.839 Remember, they had been delivered. 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:49.759 They had already parted the Red Sea. 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:51.119 They're on the journey. 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.319 God's feeding them every day with manna. 00:22:54.400 --> 00:23:02.799 And to this day, when I get to heaven, I'm going to look at those Israelites and say, why in the world did you get tired of manna? 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:05.920 It was a literally, you know what the manna was? 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.000 It was a sweet bread. 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:10.640 It was a honey bun. 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:17.599 How in the world could you get tired of eating honey buns and coffee every morning? 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:23.519 But here's the point. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:32.720 They desired what they had left in the old world. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:34.880 Now watch this, folks. 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:36.480 Whoo, this is good. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:53.200 What happens with many Christians, especially young Christians, they get saved, they don't get in a good church, they don't get in a small group, they don't get somebody that they can befriend that they know is a much stronger Christian. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:55.759 Listen to me, young people, than they are. 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.359 And thank God for your examples with your parents and your parents. 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:01.200 This is where that example comes in. 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:03.119 This is where that legacy comes in. 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:10.559 That you're showing Christ in your life, in your daily walk, in your quiet time with your relationships and your family. 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:12.079 You've got to have that. 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:20.960 And when they don't see that, and that that that I call it that rush after getting saved, because it's such a, oh, it is a rush. 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:21.359 Why? 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.079 Why is it a rush? 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:23.519 Somebody said, What do you mean by that? 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.160 Oh, it's the greatest things ever happened to you. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.519 The Holy Spirit comes and dwells in you. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.519 You get baptized into the Holy Spirit of God. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:38.640 1 Corinthians 12, by one spirit of we all baptized into one body. 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:44.319 And man, you're just so filled and excited, and you want it, you're like a little bird. 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:46.400 Feed me, feed me, feed me. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:50.559 And when that doesn't happen, listen. 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:55.359 All of a sudden, there's a leanness. 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.079 All of a sudden, there's a void. 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:09.279 And then you start, you don't, but Satan starts bringing all those memories of those good times in the world. 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:11.039 Now you say, wait a minute. 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:16.480 Yeah, hey, I would be a liar if I didn't tell you sin is fun. 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:23.920 But I would also not be, hey, the preacher that I need to be if I didn't tell you. 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:28.079 Hebrews 11 says, sin is fun, but for a moment. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:30.720 And then it brings destruction. 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:32.319 How do you know that? 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.240 James 1.15. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:38.559 When lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.880 And then sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.960 So they had a craving of the flesh. 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:55.119 And here's the bad thing about those festivals and all that good food. 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:59.200 That gave me, that kind of helped me overcome that donut. 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:10.480 In other words, I didn't want that lust for that donut to overcome the power of the Holy Spirit in my life. 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:16.319 And I know that's not good to you because you don't like that, and I didn't either, but that's good, preacher. 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:21.920 So, this is what we see. 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:37.839 And perhaps I think this is the strongest, one of the strongest temptations out of the five sins we're going to look at, is that we have a temptation to go back to the worldliness that we were saved out of. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:42.400 And I know that's the case with young people. 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:48.000 Because they don't have godly, hey, they don't have godly boundaries. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:49.599 Thank God for our youth group. 00:26:49.759 --> 00:27:00.720 And Joe, you better be putting the word in them, living it in front of them, and everybody in this church in leadership, and I know Rick does, and he's got teenage, hey, that's the key. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.279 The name and the example. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:18.559 The one thing I want when I go to be with the Lord, I want my family to be able to stand up from my grave and say, their dad lived what he preached. 00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:21.680 He was an example. 00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:26.480 That's so powerful. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.480 The second thing. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:31.440 Oh, by the way, whoa, whoa, whoa, I put a star. 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:32.880 I'm glad I saw that star. 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:35.680 Hey, here's the sad thing. 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.559 God will let you go back. 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:42.640 But you'll pay. 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:46.000 Let me show you what God showed me. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.519 I mean, I know, you know, but here's what he says. 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:56.400 I I never have you ever felt bad after you do something you know you not ought to do, or things. 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:58.480 You know, you're not walking with the Lord like you ought to. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.440 You're not doing it. 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.839 Don't you just feel kind of bad? 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.240 If you don't, you need to get saved. 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:06.079 That's simple. 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.519 I don't beat around the bush about that. 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.200 You know what it is? 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.359 I'm gonna tell you what it is. 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.279 I just learned this. 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:23.200 It's the leanness of the soul. 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:37.359 You have so displeased God, and you have so quenched the Holy Spirit of God that was filling your whole body, you've grabbed him and said, I don't need you right now. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.279 I'm going back to the way I was, and I can run my life. 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:48.960 And you throw him in the closet and you shut the door and say, If I need you, I'll open the door and let you back in. 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:51.279 And then all of a sudden there's a leanness. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:52.799 Everything starts going bad. 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.640 Boom, boom, boom. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:56.480 It's like it's like dominoes. 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:00.799 Let me prove that scripturally. 00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:08.480 Psalms 106, verse 14 says, they lusted. 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:16.160 Now they're talking about the same situation with Israel that we just looked in Numbers 11. 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:17.039 Are you ready? 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:30.240 They lusted exceedingly, and I put in print seats, their desires ran wild and tested God in the desert. 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:32.799 And then verse 15, here it is. 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:40.160 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:41.759 Wow. 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:45.039 He'll let you go back. 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.880 So here's the thing. 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:50.559 Are you listening to me? 00:29:50.720 --> 00:30:00.319 When there's that leanness and you know something's not right, could it be that you're lusting after the wrong thing? 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:10.240 Could it be, number point, the second sin, that you've allowed adultery to come into your life. 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.680 Now, what is adultery? 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:13.519 Number two, the second sin. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.960 There's the temptation here of adultery. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:18.880 Do not become adultery, look at verse 7. 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:28.160 Do not become adulterers, as were some of them talking about Israel, as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up and play. 00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.720 Oh, I like that word play. 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.119 That's what I do most of the time. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.960 Now, this is a reference to Exodus 32. 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:39.279 You know what happened there? 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.799 Moses was up on the mountain with Joshua. 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:49.119 He had gone about three-quarters up, but he couldn't go all the way up to get the Ten Commandments. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.759 And guess what? 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:56.400 The people got uncomfortable. 00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:58.880 The people started saying, Where's Moses? 00:30:59.119 --> 00:30:59.920 Where's Moses? 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:01.119 We need Moses. 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.079 Moses' not here. 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:06.640 Aaron, come here, Aaron! Aaron, Aaron! And why Aaron did this, I'll never know. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.640