Sermon
Break Up the Fallow Ground: Returning to God from Idolatry | Pr Ronson
Publisher transcript
Transcript
-
You're listening to a message to go from ex church.
-
We hope this message will light up your.
-
Tea, break up the fellow ground, returning to go from idolatry.
-
Didn't you heard that?
-
Did you?
-
Kaite sanction?
-
Now Osia is part of what we call the minor prophets.
-
He don't you?
-
So when you read the Old Testament, you will notice
-
that there are major profits like Jeremiah Isaiah, and you
-
have minor prophets like Osaiah, Habercoke and moos Joel, ETCETERA
-
family like.
-
She just that two years the song and just also
-
your Isaiah yelling Mia censer.
-
Just so, do you remember what is the difference between
-
major profits and minor prophets. I always say that major
-
profits their chapters are longer minor profits. That chapter is
-
very short.
-
You Vienna, Just so that's in results in Tanowana to
-
kind of timan take sing.
-
But despite having three chapters, twelve chapters, the message youself
-
is significant.
-
Saka is yet back to the sin younger.
-
So to summarize, the book of Hosia is a prophetic
-
message to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Is a book
-
of judgment, grief, covenant, love, and also restoration the.
-
Eily a big fash that the in the sinc just
-
agents when champan your son, it's high your food, sing David.
-
It was the time when the Israelites the heart as
-
a nation has turned away from.
-
God easily and is little hamuan lidersten.
-
But yet God pursued them with a state first faithfulnes.
-
The sooner she has a year run so same things.
-
She's the means. He tells us that no matter how
-
far you have run away from God, God will always
-
pursue you faithfully and patient.
-
Melicia to a mother. Ira lies face nice face into
-
a woman.
-
As a prophetic sign of his message to the nation,
-
God told the prophet to married a halt know.
-
Her life, but sing like you far your life she
-
round take her she actually she she go fantin in
-
the phony.
-
Haland is a prostitute.
-
Then funding just just a teenie. Now all of you
-
may be shocked when you read it. Can then you know,
-
how can God as a prophet to marry a prostitute.
-
A mason when your life you run she seen you.
-
You know in Old Testament you have to believe that
-
God doesn't make mistakes to your any man your face
-
on the team show nation. Fine, when you asked a
-
profit to do a radical thing like this, he's communicating
-
an important message to not just one person, but the
-
entire nation.
-
Do like she run put on the she Talk. You
-
can face Hancie doing in a Shahonda, she told and
-
she her her she fast, how unthinkable kind of think
-
there's a ganga face.
-
But when you put yourself in Hosia's shoe, you know
-
that when Hosia obeyed, he's spoke not just from revelation,
-
but from alieved.
-
Experience, personal down like for Centershna has a short dan see.
-
She told her the Tea and Thing Leader that you
-
want you mean by me.
-
It's different to put younger. So give you an example.
-
I lost my dad when I was twenty years old.
-
That's a straight so just said she or the food
-
scene and today if anyone of you lose a family member,
-
let's say a dad, just neither food seeing I'm able
-
to comfort you. I'm able to speak to you from
-
my lived experience. What's grieving and losing my dad?
-
Well, not gonna, what is it that changed? Like she
-
like Anthhony, like honey, fantantic tong but.
-
Assuming if my dad is still alive today, noogle a
-
footing has one loses his or her dad just near fourteen,
-
I will not have that lif experience that is able
-
to comfort you out of authority, comfort you out of.
-
Emperor gonna take.
-
Th So for Hosiah, he spoke a message fully understanding
-
the heart of God being the brightgroom in loving an
-
unfitful wife being ISTRAELI like the halt.
-
So in a don't go like she ching ticket singing
-
like she hed that down pat you put on the shed.
-
God was giving the Israelites a living illustration. Sure that
-
Israel has been unfaithful to God.
-
Okay is lily and a cant and down palm your
-
ego down just a bush and puts on the shold leads.
-
And that they had committed spiritual adultery, showing the Yet
-
God's covenant of love remained state first, cause you're you know,
-
I have to understand that we enter into covenant with
-
God true Jesus Taman, your person, you listya you covenant
-
is not a contractual relationship. You covenant goes deeper than
-
that you and a ya hold goes deeper than a commitment.
-
They h leader uns how.
-
A contractual relationship is that when one party breaks rules
-
in the contract, the other party can also now split
-
from the contract down eager do you yeah? And hi
-
think yeah the one then? So the world today is
-
see marriage as a piece of paper.
-
Seeks on the woman knda the ta. That's the same
-
time being a.
-
Year uh divorce rate it's on all time high.
-
Tinkle, wonder the deal? You know you realize your go
-
it's getting more absurd, fage hand just a pook.
-
See the point where now people are saying, especially in
-
the Western culture, before they get married, they say that
-
if at all we ended up in divorce, my property
-
is still mine. Gordia.
-
See if I'm GORDIEA come on you wan this? You know, woman,
-
no one take a woman yo.
-
That is it's in case the marriage doesn't work out,
-
my assets gets protected.
-
One in a war.
-
That's a woman that you take a ship by the
-
turn woman to wait, take this. I'm going to tell
-
you that Christian marriage is a covenant too. Women that
-
they yo, marriage is not a piece of paper. They
-
used take That's why in the altar the minister with
-
husband and wife, will you forsake all this.
-
Hold? They that you would like she won't take a full.
-
And think so and so is your husband, and as
-
your wife who lie, she's bigger and so many that
-
she's your down for for sickness and for health.
-
That's a tie like they didn't can't counter to the.
-
City in riches and in poor that pinch on her
-
for your what else, Josh, I can't remember. I don't know,
-
all right. Uh. It promotes a covenant, so don't go
-
around Roman you any Meand it means that when one
-
becomes unfaithful, there's a stronger down ignorant catch a boots
-
own the ship hold the other's ability to choose and
-
to love still continues.
-
Lean why you found a commonian? Yeah, but you should
-
I digger and a citizen. So the romanticize marriage honeys
-
a fatal face land Monday is heart works.
-
The husbandsmen, so that seay man, so amen, the wife
-
say amen to yeah. Event. So I'm trying to help
-
you to see the picture of God being the bridegroom
-
say you know that's extraal Jenna and how to take
-
a scene to say easily. So in the context of Hosia,
-
it came in a time before Daniel yeah, Danili shoots.
-
This probably one hundred and fifty or two hundred years
-
before Daniel.
-
Can say about.
-
What happened in the time of Daniel was a judgment
-
that came to pass on how God took the Israelite
-
and Judah into captivity.
-
Say dan Eli, shoot a Shahona just a uh say yeah,
-
easily run like she like she turned fast.
-
When you read your Bible, when you read first King,
-
second King's first chronicle, second chronicles, you will be able
-
to see the entire history of the kingship in Israel.
-
Don't I sho do.
-
Ya? You cannot.
-
One side's easily.
-
We are all top students here. Let me give some
-
trev here Joey Canno answer because she always get it right.
-
He went, that went he who was the first king
-
of Israel. So it's today it's a little tiger one.
-
So sorry, what the superstitious say, Jesus the Lord, he
-
is the first king of Israel? Yes he is.
-
Sorry, Yes, that's a yes.
-
So the people look at the nations around they wanted
-
the king as well give them.
-
So the first king, you REMI that you come down
-
to say your leader, SHOOTI that's.
-
One who was the second ding of Israel. You are
-
you sure it's David. You can change your mind. Okay,
-
is the wed that way? Wan? Was it? The king
-
of Israel? Sanuela Solomon, which is a direct lineage David
-
Solomon one had just said, Isaiah, you realize that when
-
he spoke a judgment, he was speaking against the northern
-
Kingdom of Israel.
-
Kind of down her real she told the shrink took
-
the Suaza and has an easily big war.
-
After Solomon was real Boem, there is Solomon one hold
-
is a real one. And real Bom was a very
-
wicked king who treated his people very harshly.
-
You say, the one tire life tied just a pace.
-
Was real Boem's reign. That the Kingdom of Israel was
-
divided into twos, and also Judah whole.
-
Another easily one thinks, and the big or your nine?
-
So how many tricks were they in Israel? The easily
-
your tina twelve? All right, twelve your ten tribes was
-
formed as a northern Israel only to form as u
-
uh as Judah, which is Judah and Benjamin.
-
Take a Judici say yoda higher, Yeah, I mean that's
-
where that.
-
Rebellion happened a person by the name of Joo Boem
-
not from a royal lineage. Basically let the rebellion and
-
as a result you have two kingdom.
-
Oh do you the the st in fash.
-
Is it? God's intention is only have one or consequences
-
of Solomon's scene was that his kingdom will be divided
-
in Solo fan traina take do you pay fund? Was
-
Solomon's sin. Solomon take a two dis obeyed God by
-
marrying to many groups of people, who later causes his
-
heart to stray away from God and practices ritual worship
-
that is against god commandment for the nation like she uh.
-
That is he needs like like she inter chances around
-
ha the SAINI just a fun Sandler.
-
So Idolatry didn't begin in the book of Isaiah. Idolatry
-
began at the time at Solomon the okay so Solomon
-
all the way to the subsequent generations. When you look
-
at Israel as the nation has always been idol, God
-
send judgment, come back to God. When they prosper, they
-
turn away from God and they give themselves. It's little me.
-
A Litoman lies you Waitaman Tito Lindman Diem Hong Kong.
-
Listen, there's a principle here, your eager you answer it
-
always start with one generations in the eager nantai like
-
should die if one generalation fears God. If one household
-
fears God, abide in Christ, your subsequent generation will be
-
able to carry on that.
-
Lineae nigga taman no lies she faced something hold lies
-
in Hawaiian.
-
Lie she the one generation decided to disobey God. One
-
household decided to disobey God and turn away from God.
-
The subsequent generation will follow suitttlement. Uh you go you.
-
To issue situation.
-
That's the whold like she away nation. So the Book
-
of Isa is an example of how God pursue a
-
group of people who have turned away from him.
-
Journal this year Uh actually needs one way patient that
-
they shari and mean.
-
So you have to understand Number one, they are in
-
a covenant relationship.
-
Yo, hold you that's a quantity you mean.
-
The covenant made with Abraham stands across generations.
-
Yeah, honey, young take you know put.
-
When they began to worship other gods, specifically bout.
-
That she thinks by Bally.
-
Shows and the istray lights has broken the covenant to type.
-
They say it's a litter. Wait wait like God likeing
-
it like an adultry sea yea, they got turned away
-
to the schooling the ding so adult tree is.
-
A betrayal of covenant love by giving to another what
-
belongs exclusively to.
-
What jingshui is found the inner gay tarrant.
-
So that tree is not just treated as a sexual sin.
-
It is also seen as a betrayal of covenant, a
-
violation of trust, a breaking of a sacred union.
-
Dinging bass on scene from in the tray, big hand
-
away take a big panting and araduation and the ling
-
her that they got taighwei.
-
So the Israelites committed spiritual adultery.
-
Says Tamanian Love.
-
As a nation. Back then they were not struggling economically.
-
That toward Harman, pushing on.
-
Their economic success Harman. Yet they were poor spiritually because
-
Hammonasrulin you has your face on the King Show. While
-
they have wealth and success, they were giving to idols
-
their love, trust, dependence and devotion that belonged to God alone.
-
Tamana like she uh truition. She seeing how a single Hamando.
-
So it's not just a form of disobediences for a year.
-
It is more than disobedience.
-
How postiononed for God commanded them in Exodus twenty three
-
to four, you shall have no other gods before me center.
-
It's true, I tru world, why need cur yours?
-
And throughout the generations God have raised judges. God has
-
raised profit. To remind them of this. It's put on
-
the keys in easily ran that He alone brought them
-
up from the house of bondage Egypt. That's real, senadmans
-
i t lynk should like. For four hundred years they
-
were treated hushi in Egypt, I t that's the who
-
you had delivered them? How much pay near died because
-
does you realize that he alone delivered them and he
-
alone was their covenant god in.
-
That Tama Sana harmony the s.
-
So when Israelites turned to bow, they basically forgot the
-
God who saved them.
-
Hamedy t Parly the son is the one sing Haman
-
the evasion.
-
They could have still been in Egypt being.
-
Slaves Harmon Harmon Palisha in guide highly is true.
-
The intervention of God within generations. They enjoy successes now.
-
Because she into Shapa Haman I t lyn like hold
-
on the phone says, so the word.
-
Bow came comes from a Hebrew meaning lord master or owner.
-
Ali like sepole when they is a juicing the to tour.
-
What's the younger?
-
So when the Instraelights came out, God specifically told them
-
don't intermarry and don't mix around with the cannon Kiites.
-
Son yes bahamas ailin She's Amazon book didn't need a bow.
-
Worship often is associated with the cannon Kites. You got
-
Bali the thing type.
-
Take a team. Often they give credit to bow for fertility,
-
for rain, for crops, and for agriculture, prosperity.
-
Harmony like she party like go you Bali, Hong Kong
-
amed you you yeah your function?
-
So what happened to Israel? That is your fashionst Machina
-
from at one point believing in Yahweh, the one and.
-
True God if I the face that she sounding Yahoa.
-
And generations later they neglected God and they choose to
-
worship of all God.
-
I put on the How many like she think, yeah
-
you know is to the.
-
Credited ball for their green wine and oil instead.
-
Of godman into her. Where you go you Pali opposition
-
is the.
-
Thing says that when they were filled, when they were satisfied.
-
They forgot God.
-
There's about to hold you sing out see you won't
-
see the shed. It was a reminder to our life today.
-
Okay on tea singer.
-
Sometimes if you're not careful, there are bowels in our
-
life that needs.
-
To be dealt with justly, pagefully.
-
In giving God glory for all the achievement and success
-
in our life, we attributed to how smart we are,
-
how many greats we get.
-
It's no mempathic rong yodo question a gentomani woman just
-
a to the chief charming.
-
Than that, instead of attributing to God for his awesome protection?
-
Did you like? Pathic? Ronald the couestions, what's the tap
-
of a woman? Attributed to other thingsdil but specifically for
-
the people back then? Why was it distestable to have
-
bows as idols.
-
Use holda thing by partly always just a face?
-
No, it robbed God of his glory?
-
Get just said hidink toods or gender?
-
Wrong? Yeah, the highest purpose in our life is to
-
always live a life that gives God the glory.
-
Women the water. That's some meaning justications the wrong. Yeah,
-
So these people they rob God of his glory. So
-
this this is Randa Hamed.
-
Yeah, and when people worship about, they have to engage
-
in different ritual practices that sometimes can be very sexual.
-
Or Sensualma lies she th by bar put on the
-
don't note your face answers to rot the remember mont camel,
-
the mant camel that you. But Elijah confronted the Israelite
-
they like she like she is a literal the challenge,
-
and she is prepared sacrifice.
-
That she c and t if Bali's God follow him,
-
if the Lord is Lord, follow him. The challenge is
-
when you call upon the name of your god. If
-
he sends fire, then there's the true.
-
God chancing God basic uhanag do.
-
Like I tell you how perverse bow worship was back there.
-
Bali the thing to model.
-
So these false prophets about were crying out the ball come,
-
come come this year.
-
They j bat that you for your paris on your life.
-
Obviously the false govern the answer because it's false.
-
Eli Iliyah like she is ya Hamond.
-
You should call out that perhaps he was sleeping this.
-
Have you read a Bible in I believe King chapter eighteen.
-
You cannot live on.
-
But I don't know what what did they do? So
-
the tree is getting more difficult. Now, how do you
-
feel like? Think? Won't you? They start cutting themselves having
-
you go? How perverse such ritualists more, that's handed nazi
-
and it's disgestable as well because it reduced worship to
-
a form of manipulation for blessing.
-
No, yes, has t town like dmage? How come to
-
for the show?
-
Right? This that focuses on the out world rather than
-
the inward. Yes, like ship? Why is that inside the thing?
-
But you and I know that to approach God is
-
always the inward cause.
-
Who was face hunting?
-
True?
-
Not just like should the means and a shell cow woman?
-
People? Not only they were they are perverse, but they
-
were also spiritually poor. Face on you not many, it's
-
as truly some faith. That's just remind us today that
-
we can have wealth without worship, yes, mega teaching or
-
mercury your high for success, without surrender your share your
-
son for and this hits me to the high. We
-
can have religion without repentance.
-
No, no, no, take will face face the gentleman. You
-
don't tell the eastern me away.
-
God has repeatedly warn his people not to form covenant
-
unions and alliances with adult trust nations.
-
Ni in the Dosing.
-
Mange so many generations before Hosiah in Deuteronomy seven, verses
-
three to four, It'sasia. Nor shall you make marriages with them.
-
You shall not give your daughters to their son, nor
-
take their daughters for your son. For they will turn
-
your sons away from following me to serve other gods.
-
So the anger of the Lord will be aroused against
-
you and destroy you. Suddenly, Detention means.
-
Book you talmentating book, Yeah, harmon Earth book, Harmon and
-
Earth any way published Earth and leave book Controno Tature
-
from Beatient It's a year, don't.
-
Meet you. It's true for life?
-
Is it?
-
Not just attention?
-
Sry Paul when he wrote Romans say the good that
-
I want to do. I don't want to do the
-
bad that I should not be doing.
-
I do see that's about law. I don't know what
-
was the house, what you put in?
-
What you in? Guys? In Christ, there is always hope.
-
Did you you and your part one? In Christ? There
-
will always be provision of mercy when people choose to
-
repent and turn to Him who.
-
Heartedment like she like transition, need the transation? So you
-
got the show? Had I mean you want man.
-
So the key issue for the Israelts back then was
-
the spiritual compromise that they have made in.
-
The sawn much showing the tors.
-
Yet, you know, compromise are things that you know you
-
shouldn't be doing, but you keep doing it.
-
To say the institution and put guide to a caution
-
needs she put that high.
-
Side all and one day it will eat a side
-
your bany ship without even Earth knowing.
-
Gentlemen, hi put, this is exactly what happened to the Israelites,
-
not just easily fashion the shooting. You know, if we
-
have been unfaithful with money, your government don't eat. We
-
have no integrity in finances even in our workplace. Man's
-
I going to ak was like watts on the one
-
day it will eat us up. You're eating a way
-
that she twines. The woman one will out you're eating
-
and you ego.
-
That she is. If we have been unfaithful even in
-
our purity, it made had about so we make compromises
-
like watching porn and all.
-
Made like you can't vote on the thirteen piano and
-
one day.
-
It will eat us up. You can name all other compromises.
-
Curtious at least your.
-
Yet for the Israelites, it was a compromise of turning
-
to bow when they should have turned to God.
-
To say bally, to say easily and harmonds.
-
Dollar try. It's not just an old Testament problem, so.
-
You too here that won't here.
-
Idolatry is still a very much modern day.
-
Problems to human sing tiger face that face wan't he?
-
You know, I know we are all very good Christians,
-
gentleman woman going to each other's house. We don't see
-
idols there just because we're not supposed to have statues. Guy,
-
But what about our hearts?
-
Because singer?
-
Because an idol is anything that turns our heart away
-
from God and replaces him in affection, dependence, attention, and obedience.
-
Even just should rent hrshoe?
-
Woman?
-
They saying you dsient things that sink and yeek, how
-
too elly potion for some turn So.
-
Let me give you a few examples needs so that
-
we can relate. Haraman, Okay, just mean career can be
-
an idol, Yeah, especially when you progress in your career,
-
you mean not sunction. Progression in career basically means better pay,
-
take a take a sound that eastitution in your gun house.
-
That take a better pay means better economic capacity to
-
buy the things you always wanted.
-
To k like yourn how to take a uh take
-
a go go my pootome the don't see it.
-
Also means a better influence, a higher influence soon than
-
your gum incant, which equals to a certain form of status.
-
Yeah type. We have to be very careful as Christians
-
to know how to give the glory to God face.
-
Since like she is, because I have met people where
-
when they were in your campus years, they used to
-
be on fire for God.
-
What you going, Yeah, it's a hold.
-
They to talk about Jesus. It's a going YESU. They
-
make no compromise that Sunday they'll be found, you know, but.
-
You winnother tours. And since you're eating that, yeah.
-
I've Helena, I said, I've been here long. I can
-
tell you a beating for sixteen years now, Helena. Actually,
-
like Lini, it's in cycles of campus students coming, graduating
-
to become young.
-
With outgation like love to.
-
Pil Sometimes something shift when people enter into a young looking.
-
Adulthood session plamed link you young term.
-
Sundays now are found networking in golf cost and since
-
you know two percents like she to gounsounds alien prayer services.
-
Now is all I need to work again? See that
-
you are the current just amazaing cons opponent, like the
-
commitment to the worship seems to be lesser thinking you
-
know like she think, by the way, do you like
-
your shout? Now you're working at all?
-
Now?
-
What city? Yes, Sam, I'm not a full time pastor.
-
Let me let me say that I'm a full time
-
pastor but with a job.
-
Or say it was a stands now higher your war
-
tie biting you when I say.
-
Full time is I don't work for the church, just
-
get salary from the church's bushes, like your consider full
-
time personal war time and that she changed the full
-
so status. Career can be an idol When we neglect cart.
-
Women say woman amanti there like she send eg around
-
my who's this?
-
And the old Sam. When we make decisions in life,
-
we don't even factor in what would God say? We
-
factor in things like how would it impact my career? Well,
-
my time?
-
It's when you boy, like we do you sense? Isn't
-
a human like.
-
You want to ask me like an ex church to
-
have godly young adults that will never forsake your God
-
like that they like uh like? Who's relationships can be
-
an idol as well. Once you know your husband, your wife,
-
your boyfriend, girlfriend can be your idol.
-
See that term for hired.
-
Already the old sound because sometimes we speak to them
-
more than we speak to God. You know, so what
-
children can be an idol as well? Sound I'm serious
-
because we have also seen when a child is growing up.
-
Of course, attention have to be given to the child. Yeah,
-
but is it but when the child becomes the center
-
of your decision rather than asking God on how to
-
deal with the situation, the child becomes your.
-
Idol anywayating none need you like we rather need the
-
heids like you do without that hides the.
-
In the old emotions can also be an idol the ocean,
-
especially if you harbor resentment, you harbor unforgiveness, your harbor
-
offenses c Exie. Most of the days, what do you
-
meditate on?
-
You?
-
Do you meditate more on God? Or you meditate more
-
on that person? He shouldn't say that, you know, do
-
you do you hear what he said? He shouldn't say that, right, Okay?
-
Now like say see you may put out so are
-
you cool to that's the whole, don't it's afer putting
-
guys point guys.
-
Yeah, so emotions. Sometimes we glorify pain, we glorify unpleasant emotions.
-
It is sure, I know or ified God.
-
The you like she eats a badon you're going that
-
she turned on a bushtization.
-
Addiction can be an idol to.
-
Get something she need the neither take a Yeah.
-
We use the substances to name the pain in us.
-
Well, my conn you're on the dupin has put on
-
the like she like she Roman map.
-
That's why my dad was an alcoholic.
-
No the fourteen has.
-
He passed away as a result of that inter she's
-
too much liquor.
-
A tied daughter, Joe got the liver, had the girl done,
-
Joe whitelo.
-
And back then I wasn't even aware about all these
-
things a present, but having seen my dad, knowing the
-
pain he carried, I always have a heart for people
-
with addiction.
-
No, well, no, go, can't our footing that they got
-
to what's in and go wait it out? Just put
-
on the much I find something on it? Do people
-
like to get at put on the one page. I
-
may get the high at.
-
The hour, but when they are sober, you will know
-
how broken they are.
-
Down Hammond lies. She haunts high Harman color just to
-
take a hunting from the Hamman to call talmentines in
-
the sona how much face and fourth swater anyone.
-
If you're going to addiction, I'll let you know that
-
there is a.
-
Better substitute, well, the ying, the one, the ti tya.
-
God is able to feel that word. God is able
-
to meet that need. Like she mentioned that she she
-
Mansuni like she to me, God is able to give
-
you the power to overcome that addiction. Kenya tone Li,
-
she s a ging. It could be addiction to pornography.
-
It could be addiction to alcohol, It could be addiction
-
to different substances. The pills that you're taking is you know.
-
The day is here?
-
Yeah, they year thirteen p anything. Social media can be
-
an addiction, a certain Maiti. However, you're firsting social media
-
for during one day?
-
Did that?
-
She uh things a certiti.
-
If you're very happy, right, you're free right, just because
-
I firsted social media for forty days before I know
-
the impact of being slaved to social media and being
-
free from social.
-
Don't know that woman the leaders Hi just tonally does
-
I found thenally.
-
Be very careful of idols in our life. Do you
-
measureing face on the c I'll give you another example.
-
Comuter games can be an addiction.
-
You know, dn't You'll see ay that take?
-
It can be okay. I'll give you a relief example Kenya,
-
who was the lead? No hear you like football like me?
-
Less you want to show is got tannation. You know
-
the best football team in the world is Blackburn Roles.
-
So when I was young, I enjoyed Football's face Answer show.
-
So I was going up. I played PS two So
-
that that shows that shows you how old I am,
-
because now it's what PS five? What do my PS two?
-
I play football games? I don't play any other games.
-
I play football game, I play FIFA, I play Winning eleven.
-
How do you some more? And what's one day of
-
tuc sho later? So when I grew up, this is
-
ten zone. For ten fifteen oh years, I have probably
-
not fifteen, probably ten oh years. I have never played
-
commuter games.
-
Just a start all do one things?
-
You see even my mobile if you open no no
-
games eaten with me before at lunch? You know that
-
I don't play. But some of you are playing it
-
all like it? What's this by no mobile games? And
-
so a couple of months ago, I decided that I
-
need some leisure in my life. I got that.
-
Yeah, who are said? I?
-
You look like it was stressed becoming a pastor sometimes.
-
So I decided to download the game. Wait for it.
-
The game is called The Football There just a and
-
it it revived b my childhood memory a year. I
-
get to choose the team. I get to choose a
-
football player. You know, messy and my tea. Now your
-
pound and I got oh my, I get to form
-
my dream team.
-
You be sure you take time to.
-
Very good and very nice. What's the best thing, don't pound?
-
I get to go online and play with other people. Okay,
-
you are what The feeling of winning is very good?
-
Ye that anxiety from one game? You're to play two games? Hanh.
-
But the feeling of losing is also very bad. Sooner yeah,
-
I thinking hotel. You know, I will pray for people
-
who are addicted to computer games. They I tell you
-
what you wait wait too. So it's a du sign.
-
Your started off very well when it types figun pounder,
-
have some leisure, I well, you love from ten minutes
-
become twenty minute and don't be a zone. Twenty minutes
-
become thirty minute, and she went, don't you be a
-
fan zone? Then we always say this will be the
-
last game. So I handah, that's the last game? What
-
do we say, man? We say this will be the
-
last game? Again? The return? Is it? Truely? Series? You know?
-
You say, oh, this is the last episode? Isn't one over? Ready?
-
What you say? D tr like, why not just that
-
season two? D t if my half hour become one hour,
-
one hour become one and a half. As I confess
-
to you cony times this I slept one a m
-
to it. Well, wait, your ill idious tell I know
-
he he who is without saying be the last to
-
custod I.
-
Guess the mayor of may Fan said, okay that she passed.
-
But you know what, I knew something was wrong. But
-
you know what your other little holy spirit saying? What's this? Love? Exactly?
-
So it is a VALATIONI version of the holy spirit. Man,
-
I say a, but but you know what? My day
-
to day life wasn't affected? Do you know what answered me?
-
By in Sander, I still woke up on time?
-
Well, hi, thirty tund she took on.
-
I still performed my work, Hi her bank, I still
-
come for praise service.
-
Yeah, Tony likeway yet like all here, But I knew
-
something in me was being eaten.
-
Up because what's also on? You know you's a prof
-
and Lord says, would you give up your e football
-
these twenty one days?
-
That okay, like she's seeing me that she said that
-
eating that that you'll see.
-
I can't tell you the science behind it there and
-
the science man, the sime man exist. I felt very
-
happy when I played the football the turn soon know
-
what ian kais. So when you win the doctor mean
-
like there's like a document rush there.
-
The door bands that haunts you now.
-
So people get addicted because there's always a chemical reaction
-
in their body as well in me, it's uh the
-
feel good factor for them compound. But God needed to
-
gently pull me aside.
-
Because your face hands face on one road about a
-
large lash pounds.
-
That you're my I'm supposed to depend on it your
-
counter center down the seedler and by giving you this thought,
-
I get that's a do you know what's the true
-
test of and whether you have an idol in your
-
life or not? Like she can't women they're sending down
-
with me. Yeah, you have to ask this one question,
-
won't he When God asks you to give up like
-
she's home, no bad in mind. He's not asking to
-
you to give up forever unless he wants you to
-
the art systemation like you want n ask you can
-
you give this up for twenty one? Can you give
-
this up for forty days? If you find yourself not
-
able to give up? Chances are dead? Is an idol
-
in your life that.
-
H like she should see the face.
-
Eating? So I say, it's not just games, it's not
-
just differently, it's things that have robbed you away from
-
your due worship to God.
-
Didn't you see some much easier like she bandaged on
-
digation thing by.
-
So I started off by saying that God illustrated him
-
being the badgroom show down, not you like she passed
-
land and I was, and by saying that we are
-
actually the bright because we.
-
And the sing young, because Jesus is a bright girl
-
in Yazin Laan.
-
The as his bright, we should steer away from idolatry
-
that at times will pull us into the place of adult.
-
She passes to Roman gods fantin in the.
-
City and don't be substitutes in God her tea type.
-
If any one of you you felt that you have
-
been found away from God, and maybe it's in person
-
saying yeah, I do struggles, I have addiction. I have this.
-
You know I never give God the due respect.
-
That your ni jeerlition, the gication the thing by.
-
Struggled in bitterness, struggling different areas that put on the means.
-
I want to assure you that there's no condemnation here
-
we gaus and her that's a beta. God is a
-
fitful god, Shanta. The evasion as we come back to
-
him is mercy means and me does you come back
-
to him? There is rest storage.
-
Thumman Nally say your show full.
-
I need it. Will be very real with you about
-
my struggle with this e football. Don't downlod guys.
-
Just finish is going to take a DNT to show
-
that take a genza and I think.
-
That was also like that. Can you just are you TM?
-
I'm here to tell you that I'm also flash and
-
like your road you we all have different temptations. Well
-
you put around me fancy in the You know, some
-
people are not tempted with money, but some are tempted
-
with money. Boy in the fundcying, you say, way, but
-
we are here because we serve the same goal. Because
-
you know that as he revealed to me things in
-
my life that I need to you know, repair on,
-
he also revealed to you things that you need to
-
repair that. So in guy, all the honey, it's that
-
Againysia attend Child says that we should sol righteousness. Yeah, uh,
-
you short down man your life, She don't, and that
-
we will reap in mercy noured. So for it is
-
now time to seek the Lord in c till he
-
comes throughout highlight that he may ring righteousness on you
-
is a men, she dunction. I sense in my heart
-
there a lot of dryness here down hands. It's as
-
though that someways were in the wilderness.
-
Coleman, you're sharing gun hand City.
-
Is all that some always need that spiritual ring to
-
come upon our lives. Shoeling though you like she Shell,
-
I'm here to let you know that spiritual ring can
-
only come when there is a written.
-
Well Shoeling, you know no woman who you guys who.
-
In righteousness basically means to be planted in truth, to
-
be grounded in God, to come back and repent.
-
Nomen like take like she tides on the shoulder just way, Yeah,
-
that she and I had a gong sound.
-
So in Mount Camel it was in a context where
-
three and a half years there was no ring Mont
-
come that shune just and me water was very scarce.
-
That is straight your face on face CEO. The people
-
back then sin and God sent judgment, no hold inva
-
dreaming tumber just to fund the fun you like people
-
have got fully turned their hearts to God. Does it
-
mean one like you wait a whole It says that
-
rain king shout downald you like love. So if you're
-
feeling dry, you're.
-
Gonna need you dona guys, where you're in the wilderness,
-
just it's shoot that gun hand? Where is Godnally? The
-
very first step is always repent and return to God.
-
So sing the juice. That's hey, guy, that you don't.
-
We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
-
information on our church, please visit asks Church RG. We
-
are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that
-
this week is going to be a good week, a
-
hit for you.
-
God bless