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[758.44 --> 759.92] Therapy hopefully leads you to truth. |
[760.64 --> 763.54] But here we're saying theology becomes therapy. |
[763.54 --> 767.94] The biblical interest in righteousness is replaced by the search for happiness. |
[768.32 --> 769.54] Holiness by wholeness. |
[770.46 --> 771.80] Truth by feeling. |
[772.20 --> 774.18] Ethics by feeling good about oneself. |
[774.54 --> 777.72] The world shrinks to a range of personal circumstances. |
[778.14 --> 781.26] The community of faith shrinks to a circle of personal friends. |
[781.60 --> 782.62] The past recedes. |
[782.76 --> 783.62] The church recedes. |
[783.76 --> 784.58] The world recedes. |
[784.98 --> 788.74] All that remains is the self. |
[788.74 --> 793.56] All right. |
[795.20 --> 796.46] That doesn't sound healthy. |
[798.24 --> 803.30] These are some of the profound lies that we live with in our world today. |
[804.08 --> 808.50] And as Christians, we have to be careful that we don't get swept up into them somehow. |
[808.50 --> 812.50] Now, here's one of the big problems with these lies. |
[812.90 --> 816.88] The problem is this puts crushing weight on the self. |
[817.08 --> 818.98] One that it was never designed to bear. |
[819.20 --> 821.40] When we say things like stay true to yourself. |
[821.78 --> 822.80] Justify yourself. |
[823.16 --> 824.74] Make yourself happy. |
[825.20 --> 826.98] The pressure is exhausting. |
[827.84 --> 829.18] Because it doesn't work. |
[829.28 --> 830.18] You can't do it. |
[830.44 --> 834.54] And it's no wonder we feel so anxious and so burnt out so often. |
[834.54 --> 842.52] If I'm in charge of my happiness, that's exhausting. |
[844.34 --> 850.98] If I'm to surrender to the one who actually makes me deeply happy, that's a whole other matter. |
[853.46 --> 855.88] Neil Plantinga, the theologian, said, |
[855.88 --> 869.68] In such a culture, the self exists to be explored, indulged, and expressed, but not disciplined or restrained. |
[873.68 --> 874.96] I have these feelings. |
[875.08 --> 876.12] I must explore them. |
[876.42 --> 877.44] I don't have to restrain them. |
[878.58 --> 880.40] This is the world we live in. |
[880.40 --> 887.40] What did Jesus say is actually the real way toward peace and happiness and all that God promises us? |
[888.12 --> 890.02] In Matthew 16, Jesus says it this way. |
[890.92 --> 892.52] Then Jesus said to his disciples, |
[893.08 --> 895.82] Whoever wants to be my disciple must what? |
[895.94 --> 897.46] Must indulge themselves. |
[899.24 --> 899.54] Right? |
[899.64 --> 900.56] It doesn't say that, does it? |
[901.00 --> 902.38] Must indulge themselves. |
[903.20 --> 903.66] No, no. |
[903.72 --> 905.02] Must deny themselves. |
[905.56 --> 907.40] Must take up their cross and follow me. |
[907.40 --> 912.22] Whoever wants to save their life, make it on their own terms, will lose it. |
[912.40 --> 915.40] Whoever loses their life for me will find it. |
[915.58 --> 922.54] That is the pathway to happiness, to blessing, to wholeness, to holiness even better. |
[926.00 --> 934.50] And the irony that's so easy to miss in our modern world is that our strongest desires are not actually our deepest desires. |
[934.50 --> 941.04] You might feel a tremendously strong desire to do whatever it might be. |
[941.28 --> 944.32] But it's not necessarily your deepest desire. |
[944.84 --> 949.52] So in that moment of temptation, with the strong desire pulling at the flesh, |
[950.02 --> 954.88] with that desire to maybe make condescending remarks about someone else so you can feel better about yourself, |
[955.14 --> 957.20] with that desire to buy something you don't need, |
[957.56 --> 960.44] or to overeat, or overdrink, or lust, or ignore God, |
[960.56 --> 962.92] or watch that show you shouldn't be watching. |
[962.92 --> 965.54] Although those desires feel overwhelming, |
[965.92 --> 971.36] they are not the deepest desires in you. |
[973.02 --> 976.86] That's the truth against those lies. |
[980.48 --> 982.02] Let me ask you this. |
[983.16 --> 988.10] Some of you might struggle with certain desires. |
[989.32 --> 990.86] There's all kinds of them. |
[990.86 --> 995.18] I have mine. |
[996.86 --> 999.04] When you give in to those desires, |
[999.68 --> 1003.86] do you ever feel better afterwards? |
[1003.86 --> 1019.14] One of the things in the cycle of addiction that takes place is when you give in to these impulses that aren't great for you, |
[1019.86 --> 1022.22] you end up in a place called self-loathing. |
[1022.22 --> 1028.10] You end up hating yourself and think of yourself, what a loser I am. |
[1028.48 --> 1031.88] And it kind of feeds the addiction cycle even a little bit more again. |
[1032.36 --> 1034.74] It pushes you to want to feel good again. |
[1034.94 --> 1036.68] And then you're back to those desires. |
[1037.36 --> 1041.44] But we never, because those are lies, they never satisfy. |
[1041.44 --> 1047.50] You never meet someone who's addicted to something and finally say, |
[1047.56 --> 1050.38] oh, finally I got there through the addiction. |
[1052.84 --> 1056.68] Oh, took me about 20 years, but finally the alcohol worked. |
[1056.68 --> 1060.22] We don't go there. |
[1064.22 --> 1066.76] So here's the question we should be asking. |
[1067.32 --> 1068.70] What do you really want? |
[1070.34 --> 1071.34] What do you really want? |
[1071.34 --> 1075.40] And I think if you go deep enough, |
[1075.88 --> 1080.18] you're going to find out what you really, really, really, really want is God. |
[1081.46 --> 1083.58] And you want to live in His love, |
[1084.20 --> 1087.68] that forever love that only exists in God. |
[1091.16 --> 1095.02] And whatever set of desires that you give in to, |
[1095.46 --> 1097.42] the desire to follow Christ, |
[1097.50 --> 1099.76] or the desire to give in to whatever it is that is, |
[1099.76 --> 1102.74] you will shape the trajectory of your souls |
[1102.74 --> 1105.52] and the society at large. |
[1107.56 --> 1110.38] Let's look at Galatians 5. |
[1110.48 --> 1113.18] Paul gives a list here, 19 through 21. |
[1113.46 --> 1117.68] He gives a list of choosing to follow your not deepest desires. |
[1118.00 --> 1118.78] Here's what happens. |
[1119.42 --> 1121.26] The acts of the flesh are obvious. |
[1121.50 --> 1121.94] What are they? |
[1122.58 --> 1125.10] Sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, |
[1125.44 --> 1126.62] idolatry and witchcraft, |
[1126.86 --> 1129.26] hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, |
[1129.26 --> 1131.96] selfish ambition, dissension, factions, |
[1132.38 --> 1134.24] envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like. |
[1134.50 --> 1135.76] I warn you as I did before, |
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