WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:12.000 The teaching text for today comes from Mark 14, verses 53 through 54, and then jumping forward to 66 to 72. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:13.919 So Mark 14. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:16.160 This is about Peter denying Jesus. 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:20.960 And we got an image right there that is just haunting. 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.239 This is what Mark writes. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:30.640 So they took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests, the elders, and the teachers of the law came together. 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:39.280 Peter followed him at a distance right into the courtyard of the high priest, and there he sat with the guards and warmed himself with the fire, jumping forward. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:45.039 While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.280 When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.840 You also were with that Nazarene Jesus, she said, but he denied it. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.719 I don't know or understand what you're talking about, he said, and went out into the entryway. 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:04.640 When the servant girl saw him there, she said again to those standing around, This fellow is one of them. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:06.239 Again he denied it. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:14.159 After a little while, those standing near Peter said to Peter, Surely you are one of them, for you are Galilean. 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.519 He began to call down curses, and he swore to them, I don't know this man you're talking about. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.000 And immediately the rooster crowed the second time. 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:26.159 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him before the rooster crows twice. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:28.079 You will disown me three times. 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:30.000 And he broke down and he wept. 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:31.359 This is the word of the Lord. 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:41.040 This week we were on vacation with Teddy and my wife, and um it was it was a great time. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.000 We had a good time. 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:55.760 One of the things that was uh odd, just a theme of the the week, we kind of entered into conversations with Teddy, describing like the dangers of different things or like the the reality of the world. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.079 Um he is um just in his heart just an innocent child. 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.959 That's probably because I'm so innocent and raised him that way. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:07.200 Um but there's just things like you know, that's not me, it's my wife. 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:11.120 But um there are things that like you want to let him know about. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.199 Like people can be cruel and then blame you, right, for their own cruelty. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.520 Well, the only reason I was mean to you is because you did this. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.840 And it's like, bro, that's not on me, that's on you. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.439 But for him, like he'd be like, Wait, really, really, is that is that me? 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.280 Am I the reason why they were so cruel? 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:50.159 And so just trying to like explain like the dangers of online gaming, and like, hey, there are these things called predators, and um they like to use this and say that they're kids while they're talking to other kids, but they're really not kids, they're like creepy old men or whatever, and like like I don't like and he's in the back of the car, just like odds, like, what is happening? 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.599 What are we talking about? 00:02:51.759 --> 00:03:04.639 And I don't know where, but he started to play this app on thing, and it needed like uh parental permission because it had a function where you could chat and stuff, and I was like, we're gonna not do that whatsoever, because I don't want to ever have to deal with any of that. 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:15.199 But we spent a lot of time talking about different things, and that opened one conversation to the next, and it was really good stuff, but just the dangers of the world that we live in and the reality of different things that are broken in our world. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:24.000 So I say all that to say that uh today I want to look at the dangers of sin, or just the reality of sin. 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.639 And maybe that's why we ended up talking about it so much with Teddy because I was thinking about this throughout the entire week. 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:37.120 But I want to look at two dangers that we see in Peter's life, two dangers of sin that you see in his life, and then what those things also still mean for us. 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:45.280 And really just trying to paint a picture from this scene that helps us to really grasp the reality of what sin wants to do in our lives. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.120 It's not neutral, it's death. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.639 It is actually something that's trying to crush and steal and destroy. 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.080 And so I want to look at two dangers of sin and then what it means for us. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.879 The first, the first danger of sin is that it is deceptive. 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.639 It's really deceptive. 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:08.400 When you look at Peter's life, one of the things that you need to remember in this story is he is doing something he does not want to do. 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.240 He has said it before, he said it back in Mark 14, 30 through 31. 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.079 Jesus said to him, Hey, before the rooster crows twice, you're gonna disown me three times. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:21.360 And Peter insisted emphatically, even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:32.720 Like he does not want to do this thing, and yet, even when he's doing this, if you notice the story, he's actively doing it and not realizing it's even happening. 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.279 He doesn't even see it taking place in his life. 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:37.279 He is like, I will never ever do that. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.680 And he denies once and he doesn't even register. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.879 He doesn't even see it. 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.160 He doesn't see that he's sinning in this way, he doesn't even see that it's happening. 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:51.839 So the first time, this says when Peter was warming himself, uh, a little girl looked at him and said, You were also with the Nazarene, but he denied it. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:53.600 I don't even know or understand what you're talking about. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.680 And notice, like, nothing hits, nothing, nothing registers in his heart, like, oh no, it's begun. 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:00.560 Like it's happening. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:01.839 I'm doing this terrible thing. 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.639 It flew under the radar, he didn't even see it happening. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:09.040 And then the second time he does it again, still not realizing that what he wanted to avoid. 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.439 I do not want to deny Jesus in this way. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:12.399 I will not do that. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.079 I will die before I ever do that. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.959 I do not want to do that. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:22.480 Denies him a second time still, does not realize I am walking down the path that Jesus said I would walk. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:28.240 And maybe he's just tired because sin is really easy to hit us when our guard is down and things like that. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:33.279 But he does not realize I am walking down the path that I do not want to walk down. 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.040 I'm going in that direction. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.199 And then he does it again. 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.040 Notice the change in the third one when he denies him the third time. 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.680 It says in verse 71, he swore to them, I don't know this man. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.160 The first time he was saying, I don't really understand what you're talking about. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.360 Second time, I'm really not quite sure what you're even talking about, little girl. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:58.240 But now he's like talking to other people, and he's like, I do not know this man you're talking about. 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:03.040 And immediately the rooster crows, and that's when it says that Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him. 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:08.240 And it's like in that moment, after the third time, it's like he wakes up and he's like, Oh no. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.000 Like, what did I do? 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:14.000 Like, how did I wind up in this spot that I never wanted to be in? 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.920 How did I, how did I get here? 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.079 I never wanted my life to go this way. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:23.759 I had like one direction I definitely wanted to avoid, and somehow I wound up in the direction I hoped to avoid. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:30.639 And the reason he wound up in this space is one, that he's actually dealing with sin in his own life, but two, sin is just sneaky. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.000 It is deceptive. 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:40.319 It will sneak into your life and lead you into spaces and get you into spots where you're like, I never ever wanted my life to go in this direction. 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:48.800 I don't know how I got here, but somehow, without me even noticing, I started taking steps down a path I didn't even want to walk. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.120 And that's how sin works in our lives. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.759 That's how the enemy wants to use sin in our lives. 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:54.240 C. 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:54.480 S. 00:06:54.639 --> 00:07:01.439 Lewis says that the devil's strategy, Satan's strategy to ruin our lives is to use sin deceptively. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:07.920 He is the deceiver, and so he uses sin deceptively in our lives to lead us into spaces that are terrible for us. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:18.879 He says, Do remember, do remember, the only thing that matters to Satan is not how spectacular the sin is, but the extent to which the sins separate us from God. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:26.639 It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect edges us, edges us away from the light and out into the nothing. 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:31.279 And so murder is no better than gambling with cards if cards can do the trick. 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:40.000 Indeed, the safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signpost. 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:46.959 The safest road to hell that Satan is trying to lead us into, the safest road to destruction, is the one that you don't even realize you're walking. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:48.639 Like that's what he's trying to do. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.839 And so the enemy doesn't tempt us with spectacular sins. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.800 He tempts us with ones that could go unnoticed, ones that we would probably see and be like, that's not that big of a deal. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.720 And Peter probably felt the same way. 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:06.879 When Jesus told him, You're gonna deny me, Peter probably had in his mind, he's like, To the Romans? 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:14.079 Like maybe to the Sanhedrin, like this little girl, that can't be what Jesus was meaning. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:20.079 So, like to say to her, like, I don't know what you're talking about, little child, probably felt like that's not the same thing. 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:21.120 That's a small thing. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:26.240 Then he does it again, and then it builds to men, the guards standing around, and then he says it again. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:34.480 And every small compromise along the way that felt like this is probably not gonna do anything, this probably isn't that bad, led him into a space where he never wanted to go. 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.519 The safest road to hell is the one that you don't even realize that you're on. 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:44.080 And so for us, he won't tempt you, the enemy will not tempt you to have an affair at first. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.600 That's not how it begins. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.080 It begins with a text message that you decide to hide. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:49.679 He tempts you to hide that. 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:53.279 He doesn't tempt you like I just blow up your marriage in one fail swoop. 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:54.000 He doesn't do that. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.519 It's like just linger in that conversation a little bit longer. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.200 Just begin changing what you dress like and those types of things. 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.240 And you're you're doing it, but you're really doing it for him or for her or for whatever. 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:09.519 Like you're just it's small things that edge you away from the light out into the nothing. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:14.480 He doesn't tempt you to have an addiction, can't wait to be addicted to stuff. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:22.639 No, it begins with a cell phone, it begins with an app, it begins with a swipe, it begins with like, I'm tired right now, and this will make me feel better. 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:23.519 Just something small. 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.080 This will this will make you feel better, then you can go to sleep. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.240 This will make you feel better, and so it's just one more thing. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:29.279 You deserve this drink. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:30.320 You deserve these things. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.600 It's small stuff that ends up grabbing onto us and leading us into something that's far worse. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:41.840 He doesn't tempt you to hate your spouse, he tempts you to just develop a habit of talking badly about them. 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:46.320 And like just focus on, like you're so annoyed at that thing. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.840 Just focus on that one thing. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:48.960 Stay focused on that. 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.440 Make sure they never forget that one thing that they did. 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:57.200 When you're getting married, it's like he's not trying to get you and tempt you in a space like one day I hope I hate them. 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:58.320 He's not gonna do that. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.720 It's gonna be these like focusing on those things. 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:06.399 Work harder on your job than you do on your marriage, work harder on your fitness than you do on your marriage, work harder on your children than you do on your marriage. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:11.360 It is small compromises along the way that lead you into a space with like, how'd we get here? 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.600 I'm pretty sure when we got married, we loved each other. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:15.440 Why do we hate each other's guts right now? 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:17.039 How'd this happen? 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:26.080 He doesn't tempt you to be a bitter and angry person, he just tempts you to hold grudges and then he leads you down the road towards bitter and angry. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:32.000 He doesn't tempt you to neglect your children, he tempts you to use an iPad or a screen to give to them when you're tired after a day of work. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:33.840 I don't want to be a neglectful parent. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:35.279 I'm not gonna tempt you with that. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:36.320 But you're tired, right? 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:37.519 And that phone's right there. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:38.799 That iPad's right there. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:39.679 Just use that. 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:41.039 Give that to them. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:42.639 This is how it works. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.240 It's not, I'm gonna tempt you with huge, crushing credit card debt. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:54.480 It's like just just a small splurge, just here and there, just small things that like I need this, and I it would like this is the only this is the last thing I need. 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:59.120 I just need this one more thing, and then all of a sudden you wind up in a spot and you're like, why can't I breathe? 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.039 It's like, because you're underwater. 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.039 It's small gossip, small fears, small lies that look like nothing. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.279 But the goal for Satan is the same. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:15.360 I need to get them away down a path without them ever knowing that they're walking down that path. 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.519 How can I crush and ruin their lives? 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:19.440 I can't do it in one fail, swoop. 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:21.120 They'll say no, they'll see it. 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.039 Everybody that sees the cliff normally is like, oh my gosh, there's a cliff right there. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:26.000 Don't walk off that. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:34.399 But if I can distract them long enough to the edge of the cliff and then all of a sudden they just accidentally fall off that thing, then I got them right where they need to be. 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:35.759 It's the small stuff. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:37.759 That's how he works and uses that. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:48.799 This is why Peter later warns when he's writing to another church, he's writing to Christians, and he says, Y'all, the enemy, your enemy, the devil, he prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking to devour you. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:50.559 And he is writing from experience. 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.799 He's going, seriously, I felt this. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:55.200 Somehow I wound up and I was devoured. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.240 My whole life in a moment was devoured in this thing. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.639 Like he is prowling, looking for his space, looking for a space to get in. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:10.799 The enemy is trying any way that he can in our lives, using sin, to devour the good things in our lives, to devour our dreams, to devour those things. 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:12.320 And it is deceptive. 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:19.360 Sin is deceptive, used by a deceiver in order to try and edge you out into something that, into spaces you never wanted to be in. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:20.799 That's how it works. 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:29.200 So, just as an aside, um as I preach, sometimes I can feel the room a little bit, and I'm like, is this heavy? 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:29.759 This is heavy. 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:30.320 This is heavy. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:31.600 So I apologize that this is heavy. 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.120 We're gonna talk about like it's dangerous, it's gonna get you, like it's gonna feel maybe like a scary horror film or something. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.000 I don't mean for it to, but like it is, there's something here. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.360 I think it's something to see. 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.159 And so um, not trying to like use fear to scare you, I'm like, oh, think of hell. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.159 Not I'm not telling you to do that, okay? 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:49.360 Just so you know. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.759 Um, that wasn't in my notes, and maybe I should have just left that out. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.720 But if it feels heavy, I apologize for that, okay? 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.159 But that's the first. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:57.600 It is deceptive. 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.679 Peter did not see this coming. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:02.559 Like he's doing the thing and he's he doesn't even realize it. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:03.600 He has no idea. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.919 I will definitely always avoid that. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:08.000 I will never enter into that space. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.879 And he walked down that path for a minute, didn't realize he was walking down that path. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.399 That happens to us. 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:21.519 And it will happen to us if we allow sin to deceive us into these spaces, because that's one of the dangers of it. 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:22.799 It's just deceptive. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.000 The second. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.960 The second thing that we see about sin is that it is incapable of giving us what we actually desire. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.399 It is incapable. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:34.960 It does not have the ability to give you what you actually desire in your lives. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.440 And so you see in verse 53, Peter is staying close to Jesus. 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.320 He's like, I'm gonna stay near to where Jesus is. 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:43.600 I'm not gonna go in. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:52.240 I just need to stay close because at the right moment, there's gonna present itself an opportunity where I'm gonna be able to help in some way. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.240 I just need to stay close enough that I'm able to help when the time is right. 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.600 And so for him, I can't cause a scene, I can't be noticed. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:06.879 If I'm noticed, they'll do something to me and I won't be able to help Jesus, and I'm here to help. 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.679 I'm here to be the rock, I'm here to do this thing. 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:11.919 And so the means justifies the end. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.039 They can't know I'm here. 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:14.960 If they find me out, then I have to go. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.600 And so he lies and he denies. 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:21.279 And it's like, but I'm using this, I know I'm doing something bad. 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.480 But the intention is to get me into a space that's good. 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.639 And the issue is sin does not work like that. 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.080 It can't work like that. 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:33.679 You can't do sin in order to and try and to find something good and to find help and to find life. 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:34.960 Sin does not function that way. 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:35.919 It does not help. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.080 It does not give, it only takes. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:44.720 You can't use it to wind up where you actually want to be because it has a life of its own and it will take you where you don't want to go. 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.799 And that's exactly what happens to Peter. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:51.039 He's doing something that he thinks is necessary to wind up in a better spot. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.679 I'm sinning to wind up in a better spot. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.840 And it just doesn't work that way. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:57.360 Sin does not work like that. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.279 You cannot actually, from sin, you can't get what you truly desire. 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.000 Steve Hope, um, in this book called Sipping Saltwater, uh, which is an okay book. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.080 This illustration I'm gonna give you is the best part of the book. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:11.279 So if you want to read it, read it. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.000 But honestly, I'm about to read you the best part of the book. 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:23.200 But he has this book called Sipping Saltwater, where he illustrates the idea that sin can't actually give us what we really desire. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.879 He illustrates it so well, which is what led to the book deal, I'm sure. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:28.639 He just didn't couldn't fill it out. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:29.679 Sorry, Steve. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.720 Um but he uses a story of Louis Zamporini, this Olympic athlete. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.080 He fought in World War II. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:37.600 They did a couple movies about his life. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.279 But this is what he says about Louis. 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:45.440 He says, Louis was flying in a fighter plane when he was shot down and crashed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.159 He survived the crash, but was stranded in the middle of the ocean and nobody knew where uh he was there. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.039 He drifted for 47 days on the ocean. 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:58.000 He had sharks trying to get him from below, Japanese enemy fighters trying to shoot him from the air. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.879 But the worst challenge was neither of those things. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.120 His worst challenge was his thirst. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.480 He was surrounded by water and he couldn't take a sip. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.000 It looked refreshing. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.399 It looked like the very thing that would satisfy him. 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:16.320 But if he would have drank from the salt water, it would have dried out his insides and left him thirstier than before. 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:27.279 He would have experienced explosive diarrhea, pounding headache, muscle cramps, dizziness, vomiting, increased blood pressure, rapid heart rate, kidney failure, hallucinations, and seizures. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:33.279 Surrounded by water, but if he hydrates himself with this water, it wouldn't save his life, it would take it. 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:35.279 Sin works like that. 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:36.799 It looks refreshing. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:38.720 It looks like just what you need. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.039 But the more you press in, the more it hurts you. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.440 The more you drink from it, the thirstier you get. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.679 I think it's the most incredible illustration for the way that sin actually works. 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:52.320 Salt water looks like exactly, it looks, it even has the same texture. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.360 It looks exactly like what will satisfy your thirst. 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.200 But it can't satisfy your thirst. 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:58.720 It can only take from you. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.799 It can't help you, it can only kill you. 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:02.240 It won't actually do the thing. 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:03.519 It looks like the thing that you need. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.240 It looks like what will satisfy, but it cannot do that. 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:10.799 Salt water promises fulfillment, but in the end it actually pays you in death. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.799 Sin works the exact same way. 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:14.559 It promises you fulfillment. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.319 If you do this, this will help you. 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.079 If you do this, life will be better. 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.960 If you press into this sin, it will give you what you want. 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.160 It promises fulfillment, but it pays you in death. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:28.400 It looks like the thing that you need in order to survive and to thrive. 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:29.599 I just need this. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.359 I think this will get me there. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.039 But it's salt water. 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.839 It promises fulfillment, but it pays us in death. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.920 This next scroll is it. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:43.519 This next swipe, this next relationship, this next purchase, this next drink, this next whatever. 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.640 Just one more, like I'm pretty sure it's gonna get me there. 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.599 It promises fulfillment, but it pays us in death. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:18:00.400 I dated this girl in high school whose mom always shamed her about uh the way that she she looked, her weight, uh, shamed her about what she ate and her weight. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:05.599 Um she was an actress trying to make it uh in Atlanta, acting stuff. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:11.680 Um and so she was in pageants and uh auditioning for roles and all the different things. 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.119 And so the mom talked about how heavy she was all the time, talked about what she ate all the time. 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.119 We're ever at dinners, lunches, wherever, always talking about that. 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.000 And just to be clear, this girl was 103 pounds. 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.559 She was teeny, teeny tiny, 103 pounds. 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:39.039 And her mom would tell her that when she auditioned and didn't get the part, or she was in a pageant and didn't win, or whatever, took second or whatever, it's like, ah, it's because of the bathing suit, you know, it's because of your weight, it's because of what you look like. 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.680 Um, you need to be thinner, you gotta be skinnier. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.680 And her line was because it was really, it was awful to be around. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.720 Um, but her line was like, I'm just trying to help. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.000 I'm the honest voice. 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.440 Everyone else is gonna lie to you. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.160 I'm gonna give you the brutal truth, I'm gonna tell you the truth. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:58.000 And she was trying to help, help her get thin, and it worked. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.599 She got super thin. 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.359 She developed an eating disorder and went from 103 to 61 pounds. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.039 She had 0% body fat and had to be hospitalized, and she almost died. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.240 It worked. 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.880 Everything you longed for, you got. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:13.279 She's so skinny. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:24.960 She had to spend two years in a rehabilitation center in Arizona to like heal her mind of the trauma that her mom had done in her mind and in her heart. 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:32.640 Because she began to feel herself unworthy of food, that food is something to always be like, it's the problem, it's this thing that's out to get you. 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.480 It was wild what she had to deal with. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:40.480 The place she went had a 90% success rate of healing people within the first year. 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:41.920 Like it's just so, it's so good. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:47.039 It's if you know anything about rehabilitation centers in Arizona, it's the one you send people to that are really broken. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:48.799 And she had to stay there for two years. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.200 I think you actually six months you're supposed to stay. 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.759 She had to do four times the amount. 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.880 And it's like the mom got exactly what she wanted. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:04.000 She used shame and was critical and was guilting her to make her thin, and you got her to be thin. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.240 But you can't get life from sin. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:07.759 You get death from sin. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.519 It will give you something that looks similar, but it will be far, far worse. 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:13.039 Sin works like that. 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:14.559 That's how it works. 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:16.400 It's salt water. 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:19.039 It looks like life, and it'll actually pay you in death. 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:20.880 And that's what Paul says about it. 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:24.480 The wages, the only thing it can give you is something that's destructive. 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.039 It looks exactly like my anger. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.640 I think if I'm just so angry towards this person, I'll get exactly what I want. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:35.359 You probably will get what you want, but in the end, it's gonna take far more than you actually get. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.039 And we need to know this about sin. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:46.160 We need to lock it in our conscience and our minds, like it cannot give you the results that you actually want. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.920 It cannot pay you in life, it will only steal and pay you in death. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.240 Because people try this so often. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.680 Like people lie a little bit, like I'm just lying to keep the peace. 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:01.359 And it's like it's gonna give you something, it's just not gonna give you real peace. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:03.920 Like it's just never gonna be able to do that. 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:21.599 People use some substances or porn or something to nor to numb themselves out, to make themselves feel better, and it's like it might reduce stress and release chemicals in your brain to all of a sudden make you feel a little bit better, but it will pay you an addiction and chain and like just chaining you down to something you no longer can escape. 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:27.759 People overspend and buy things to feel better, to feel successful, to feel like I matter, I need this thing. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:34.400 And it's like all that's gonna do eventually down the road is give you financial stress and debt and stuff and take more than it gives. 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.400 People hold grudges instead of forgiving. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.160 I mean, make sure that person gets what they deserve, make sure they never hurt me again. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.920 It's like all you you're doing in holding that grudge, it's gonna take from you. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.440 It's gonna make you bitter, it's gonna make you angry, it's gonna make you isolate, it's gonna make people in your life not want to be around you anymore. 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:53.599 Because all you can think about is this person and how much they deserve what they're gonna get. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:54.960 That's all you can talk about. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.319 Because you won't let it go, you won't forgive. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:05.519 People seek Their worth and their value in the wrong places, they go to social media to like, I'm gonna feel more valuable by going to social media. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:11.119 I just need to post on social media and then the comments and the likes and the things that I get from other people. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.920 Then they they post and it doesn't get what they want, so they get a little more scandalous and they post a little bit more. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:18.400 It's like I just need, I need people to tell me I'm beautiful. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.960 I need people to tell me I'm matter, I need people to do those things. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:27.279 And it's like this was supposed, you went here to get to feel better, and somehow you wound up feeling like they didn't like me enough. 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:30.799 You became so needy and so anxious, and now I can't escape this thing. 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.680 Like I need the approval of people I don't even know. 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.119 That's how it works. 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:38.640 It looks like the thing that it's gonna make you feel better, but it actually doesn't. 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.039 People worry constantly and they're so anxious. 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:43.680 If I just worry enough, then I'll be able to rest. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:46.799 I can worry enough about the future that eventually they'll give me rest. 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:51.599 And it's like it doesn't pay you in actual rest, it will pay you in more worry, it'll make you more anxious. 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:57.759 People who are people pleasers, like I just need to, I'm gonna become whatever anybody needs in order to feel safer. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:03.200 I'm gonna I'm gonna try and make them feel so so good with me that they'll they'll never reject me, they'll never let me go. 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:08.799 It's like all that's really gonna do is gonna make you a doormat, they're gonna walk all over you, or it's just gonna exhaust you. 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:16.960 You're gonna lose yourself in trying to be something for everybody else and never actually realizing who you actually are, because the only person that you are is whoever they need you to be. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.000 It works like the list could go on. 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:21.039 We could just keep going. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:24.079 These small things that look like I think this sin is gonna help. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:32.160 And it's like maybe in the immediate thing, it might give immediate relief, but long term, it cannot pay you in life. 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:33.279 It's salt water. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:36.559 It looks like life, but it can only actually pay you in death. 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:37.759 It cannot help. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.279 You can't get life from sin because it doesn't live there. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:42.319 Peter tries. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:43.440 That's what he's trying to do. 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:45.039 I'm trying to get life. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:47.440 I'm trying to help by sinning. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:50.880 And it says in verse what 72 where he winds up. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:51.759 He tries sin. 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:52.799 Let's see where he winds up. 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:55.039 It says he broke down and wept. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:56.799 How'd that sin work out? 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:58.880 Did it lead you to where you wanted it to go? 00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.839 Did it help? 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:06.880 Or did it break your life down, tear your dreams in part, tear your relationship apart, and actually leave you filled with despair? 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:09.039 I was like, oh yeah, I did that last one. 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:12.880 It tore my life apart, it broke me down, and it left me with despair. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:18.640 Everything that I loved and everything I wanted to be and everything I wanted to do, it stole all of that stuff from me. 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:19.440 What did sin do? 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:20.480 That's what it did. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.000 And that's what it does. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:23.680 That's where sin leads. 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.680 And so those are the two dangers. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:27.599 If it's heavy, just shake it off. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:28.160 You're okay. 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:30.160 If those are the, but those are the two dangers. 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:32.400 It is, sin is deceptive. 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:36.319 It will lead you unknowingly without even knowing it, soft underfoot. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.079 It won't even feel like it's hurting. 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.640 It will lead you unknowingly into spaces you're like, I never wanted a marriage like that. 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:43.920 I can't believe I have one. 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.079 I never wanted to end up in an affair. 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:46.960 How did I get here? 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.039