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Break Up the Fallow Ground: Returning to God from Idolatry | Pr Ronson

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from ex church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your.

  3. Tea, break up the fellow ground, returning to go from idolatry.

  4. Didn't you heard that?

  5. Did you?

  6. Kaite sanction?

  7. Now Osia is part of what we call the minor prophets.

  8. He don't you?

  9. So when you read the Old Testament, you will notice

  10. that there are major profits like Jeremiah Isaiah, and you

  11. have minor prophets like Osaiah, Habercoke and moos Joel, ETCETERA

  12. family like.

  13. She just that two years the song and just also

  14. your Isaiah yelling Mia censer.

  15. Just so, do you remember what is the difference between

  16. major profits and minor prophets. I always say that major

  17. profits their chapters are longer minor profits. That chapter is

  18. very short.

  19. You Vienna, Just so that's in results in Tanowana to

  20. kind of timan take sing.

  21. But despite having three chapters, twelve chapters, the message youself

  22. is significant.

  23. Saka is yet back to the sin younger.

  24. So to summarize, the book of Hosia is a prophetic

  25. message to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Is a book

  26. of judgment, grief, covenant, love, and also restoration the.

  27. Eily a big fash that the in the sinc just

  28. agents when champan your son, it's high your food, sing David.

  29. It was the time when the Israelites the heart as

  30. a nation has turned away from.

  31. God easily and is little hamuan lidersten.

  32. But yet God pursued them with a state first faithfulnes.

  33. The sooner she has a year run so same things.

  34. She's the means. He tells us that no matter how

  35. far you have run away from God, God will always

  36. pursue you faithfully and patient.

  37. Melicia to a mother. Ira lies face nice face into

  38. a woman.

  39. As a prophetic sign of his message to the nation,

  40. God told the prophet to married a halt know.

  41. Her life, but sing like you far your life she

  42. round take her she actually she she go fantin in

  43. the phony.

  44. Haland is a prostitute.

  45. Then funding just just a teenie. Now all of you

  46. may be shocked when you read it. Can then you know,

  47. how can God as a prophet to marry a prostitute.

  48. A mason when your life you run she seen you.

  49. You know in Old Testament you have to believe that

  50. God doesn't make mistakes to your any man your face

  51. on the team show nation. Fine, when you asked a

  52. profit to do a radical thing like this, he's communicating

  53. an important message to not just one person, but the

  54. entire nation.

  55. Do like she run put on the she Talk. You

  56. can face Hancie doing in a Shahonda, she told and

  57. she her her she fast, how unthinkable kind of think

  58. there's a ganga face.

  59. But when you put yourself in Hosia's shoe, you know

  60. that when Hosia obeyed, he's spoke not just from revelation,

  61. but from alieved.

  62. Experience, personal down like for Centershna has a short dan see.

  63. She told her the Tea and Thing Leader that you

  64. want you mean by me.

  65. It's different to put younger. So give you an example.

  66. I lost my dad when I was twenty years old.

  67. That's a straight so just said she or the food

  68. scene and today if anyone of you lose a family member,

  69. let's say a dad, just neither food seeing I'm able

  70. to comfort you. I'm able to speak to you from

  71. my lived experience. What's grieving and losing my dad?

  72. Well, not gonna, what is it that changed? Like she

  73. like Anthhony, like honey, fantantic tong but.

  74. Assuming if my dad is still alive today, noogle a

  75. footing has one loses his or her dad just near fourteen,

  76. I will not have that lif experience that is able

  77. to comfort you out of authority, comfort you out of.

  78. Emperor gonna take.

  79. Th So for Hosiah, he spoke a message fully understanding

  80. the heart of God being the brightgroom in loving an

  81. unfitful wife being ISTRAELI like the halt.

  82. So in a don't go like she ching ticket singing

  83. like she hed that down pat you put on the shed.

  84. God was giving the Israelites a living illustration. Sure that

  85. Israel has been unfaithful to God.

  86. Okay is lily and a cant and down palm your

  87. ego down just a bush and puts on the shold leads.

  88. And that they had committed spiritual adultery, showing the Yet

  89. God's covenant of love remained state first, cause you're you know,

  90. I have to understand that we enter into covenant with

  91. God true Jesus Taman, your person, you listya you covenant

  92. is not a contractual relationship. You covenant goes deeper than

  93. that you and a ya hold goes deeper than a commitment.

  94. They h leader uns how.

  95. A contractual relationship is that when one party breaks rules

  96. in the contract, the other party can also now split

  97. from the contract down eager do you yeah? And hi

  98. think yeah the one then? So the world today is

  99. see marriage as a piece of paper.

  100. Seeks on the woman knda the ta. That's the same

  101. time being a.

  102. Year uh divorce rate it's on all time high.

  103. Tinkle, wonder the deal? You know you realize your go

  104. it's getting more absurd, fage hand just a pook.

  105. See the point where now people are saying, especially in

  106. the Western culture, before they get married, they say that

  107. if at all we ended up in divorce, my property

  108. is still mine. Gordia.

  109. See if I'm GORDIEA come on you wan this? You know, woman,

  110. no one take a woman yo.

  111. That is it's in case the marriage doesn't work out,

  112. my assets gets protected.

  113. One in a war.

  114. That's a woman that you take a ship by the

  115. turn woman to wait, take this. I'm going to tell

  116. you that Christian marriage is a covenant too. Women that

  117. they yo, marriage is not a piece of paper. They

  118. used take That's why in the altar the minister with

  119. husband and wife, will you forsake all this.

  120. Hold? They that you would like she won't take a full.

  121. And think so and so is your husband, and as

  122. your wife who lie, she's bigger and so many that

  123. she's your down for for sickness and for health.

  124. That's a tie like they didn't can't counter to the.

  125. City in riches and in poor that pinch on her

  126. for your what else, Josh, I can't remember. I don't know,

  127. all right. Uh. It promotes a covenant, so don't go

  128. around Roman you any Meand it means that when one

  129. becomes unfaithful, there's a stronger down ignorant catch a boots

  130. own the ship hold the other's ability to choose and

  131. to love still continues.

  132. Lean why you found a commonian? Yeah, but you should

  133. I digger and a citizen. So the romanticize marriage honeys

  134. a fatal face land Monday is heart works.

  135. The husbandsmen, so that seay man, so amen, the wife

  136. say amen to yeah. Event. So I'm trying to help

  137. you to see the picture of God being the bridegroom

  138. say you know that's extraal Jenna and how to take

  139. a scene to say easily. So in the context of Hosia,

  140. it came in a time before Daniel yeah, Danili shoots.

  141. This probably one hundred and fifty or two hundred years

  142. before Daniel.

  143. Can say about.

  144. What happened in the time of Daniel was a judgment

  145. that came to pass on how God took the Israelite

  146. and Judah into captivity.

  147. Say dan Eli, shoot a Shahona just a uh say yeah,

  148. easily run like she like she turned fast.

  149. When you read your Bible, when you read first King,

  150. second King's first chronicle, second chronicles, you will be able

  151. to see the entire history of the kingship in Israel.

  152. Don't I sho do.

  153. Ya? You cannot.

  154. One side's easily.

  155. We are all top students here. Let me give some

  156. trev here Joey Canno answer because she always get it right.

  157. He went, that went he who was the first king

  158. of Israel. So it's today it's a little tiger one.

  159. So sorry, what the superstitious say, Jesus the Lord, he

  160. is the first king of Israel? Yes he is.

  161. Sorry, Yes, that's a yes.

  162. So the people look at the nations around they wanted

  163. the king as well give them.

  164. So the first king, you REMI that you come down

  165. to say your leader, SHOOTI that's.

  166. One who was the second ding of Israel. You are

  167. you sure it's David. You can change your mind. Okay,

  168. is the wed that way? Wan? Was it? The king

  169. of Israel? Sanuela Solomon, which is a direct lineage David

  170. Solomon one had just said, Isaiah, you realize that when

  171. he spoke a judgment, he was speaking against the northern

  172. Kingdom of Israel.

  173. Kind of down her real she told the shrink took

  174. the Suaza and has an easily big war.

  175. After Solomon was real Boem, there is Solomon one hold

  176. is a real one. And real Bom was a very

  177. wicked king who treated his people very harshly.

  178. You say, the one tire life tied just a pace.

  179. Was real Boem's reign. That the Kingdom of Israel was

  180. divided into twos, and also Judah whole.

  181. Another easily one thinks, and the big or your nine?

  182. So how many tricks were they in Israel? The easily

  183. your tina twelve? All right, twelve your ten tribes was

  184. formed as a northern Israel only to form as u

  185. uh as Judah, which is Judah and Benjamin.

  186. Take a Judici say yoda higher, Yeah, I mean that's

  187. where that.

  188. Rebellion happened a person by the name of Joo Boem

  189. not from a royal lineage. Basically let the rebellion and

  190. as a result you have two kingdom.

  191. Oh do you the the st in fash.

  192. Is it? God's intention is only have one or consequences

  193. of Solomon's scene was that his kingdom will be divided

  194. in Solo fan traina take do you pay fund? Was

  195. Solomon's sin. Solomon take a two dis obeyed God by

  196. marrying to many groups of people, who later causes his

  197. heart to stray away from God and practices ritual worship

  198. that is against god commandment for the nation like she uh.

  199. That is he needs like like she inter chances around

  200. ha the SAINI just a fun Sandler.

  201. So Idolatry didn't begin in the book of Isaiah. Idolatry

  202. began at the time at Solomon the okay so Solomon

  203. all the way to the subsequent generations. When you look

  204. at Israel as the nation has always been idol, God

  205. send judgment, come back to God. When they prosper, they

  206. turn away from God and they give themselves. It's little me.

  207. A Litoman lies you Waitaman Tito Lindman Diem Hong Kong.

  208. Listen, there's a principle here, your eager you answer it

  209. always start with one generations in the eager nantai like

  210. should die if one generalation fears God. If one household

  211. fears God, abide in Christ, your subsequent generation will be

  212. able to carry on that.

  213. Lineae nigga taman no lies she faced something hold lies

  214. in Hawaiian.

  215. Lie she the one generation decided to disobey God. One

  216. household decided to disobey God and turn away from God.

  217. The subsequent generation will follow suitttlement. Uh you go you.

  218. To issue situation.

  219. That's the whold like she away nation. So the Book

  220. of Isa is an example of how God pursue a

  221. group of people who have turned away from him.

  222. Journal this year Uh actually needs one way patient that

  223. they shari and mean.

  224. So you have to understand Number one, they are in

  225. a covenant relationship.

  226. Yo, hold you that's a quantity you mean.

  227. The covenant made with Abraham stands across generations.

  228. Yeah, honey, young take you know put.

  229. When they began to worship other gods, specifically bout.

  230. That she thinks by Bally.

  231. Shows and the istray lights has broken the covenant to type.

  232. They say it's a litter. Wait wait like God likeing

  233. it like an adultry sea yea, they got turned away

  234. to the schooling the ding so adult tree is.

  235. A betrayal of covenant love by giving to another what

  236. belongs exclusively to.

  237. What jingshui is found the inner gay tarrant.

  238. So that tree is not just treated as a sexual sin.

  239. It is also seen as a betrayal of covenant, a

  240. violation of trust, a breaking of a sacred union.

  241. Dinging bass on scene from in the tray, big hand

  242. away take a big panting and araduation and the ling

  243. her that they got taighwei.

  244. So the Israelites committed spiritual adultery.

  245. Says Tamanian Love.

  246. As a nation. Back then they were not struggling economically.

  247. That toward Harman, pushing on.

  248. Their economic success Harman. Yet they were poor spiritually because

  249. Hammonasrulin you has your face on the King Show. While

  250. they have wealth and success, they were giving to idols

  251. their love, trust, dependence and devotion that belonged to God alone.

  252. Tamana like she uh truition. She seeing how a single Hamando.

  253. So it's not just a form of disobediences for a year.

  254. It is more than disobedience.

  255. How postiononed for God commanded them in Exodus twenty three

  256. to four, you shall have no other gods before me center.

  257. It's true, I tru world, why need cur yours?

  258. And throughout the generations God have raised judges. God has

  259. raised profit. To remind them of this. It's put on

  260. the keys in easily ran that He alone brought them

  261. up from the house of bondage Egypt. That's real, senadmans

  262. i t lynk should like. For four hundred years they

  263. were treated hushi in Egypt, I t that's the who

  264. you had delivered them? How much pay near died because

  265. does you realize that he alone delivered them and he

  266. alone was their covenant god in.

  267. That Tama Sana harmony the s.

  268. So when Israelites turned to bow, they basically forgot the

  269. God who saved them.

  270. Hamedy t Parly the son is the one sing Haman

  271. the evasion.

  272. They could have still been in Egypt being.

  273. Slaves Harmon Harmon Palisha in guide highly is true.

  274. The intervention of God within generations. They enjoy successes now.

  275. Because she into Shapa Haman I t lyn like hold

  276. on the phone says, so the word.

  277. Bow came comes from a Hebrew meaning lord master or owner.

  278. Ali like sepole when they is a juicing the to tour.

  279. What's the younger?

  280. So when the Instraelights came out, God specifically told them

  281. don't intermarry and don't mix around with the cannon Kiites.

  282. Son yes bahamas ailin She's Amazon book didn't need a bow.

  283. Worship often is associated with the cannon Kites. You got

  284. Bali the thing type.

  285. Take a team. Often they give credit to bow for fertility,

  286. for rain, for crops, and for agriculture, prosperity.

  287. Harmony like she party like go you Bali, Hong Kong

  288. amed you you yeah your function?

  289. So what happened to Israel? That is your fashionst Machina

  290. from at one point believing in Yahweh, the one and.

  291. True God if I the face that she sounding Yahoa.

  292. And generations later they neglected God and they choose to

  293. worship of all God.

  294. I put on the How many like she think, yeah

  295. you know is to the.

  296. Credited ball for their green wine and oil instead.

  297. Of godman into her. Where you go you Pali opposition

  298. is the.

  299. Thing says that when they were filled, when they were satisfied.

  300. They forgot God.

  301. There's about to hold you sing out see you won't

  302. see the shed. It was a reminder to our life today.

  303. Okay on tea singer.

  304. Sometimes if you're not careful, there are bowels in our

  305. life that needs.

  306. To be dealt with justly, pagefully.

  307. In giving God glory for all the achievement and success

  308. in our life, we attributed to how smart we are,

  309. how many greats we get.

  310. It's no mempathic rong yodo question a gentomani woman just

  311. a to the chief charming.

  312. Than that, instead of attributing to God for his awesome protection?

  313. Did you like? Pathic? Ronald the couestions, what's the tap

  314. of a woman? Attributed to other thingsdil but specifically for

  315. the people back then? Why was it distestable to have

  316. bows as idols.

  317. Use holda thing by partly always just a face?

  318. No, it robbed God of his glory?

  319. Get just said hidink toods or gender?

  320. Wrong? Yeah, the highest purpose in our life is to

  321. always live a life that gives God the glory.

  322. Women the water. That's some meaning justications the wrong. Yeah,

  323. So these people they rob God of his glory. So

  324. this this is Randa Hamed.

  325. Yeah, and when people worship about, they have to engage

  326. in different ritual practices that sometimes can be very sexual.

  327. Or Sensualma lies she th by bar put on the

  328. don't note your face answers to rot the remember mont camel,

  329. the mant camel that you. But Elijah confronted the Israelite

  330. they like she like she is a literal the challenge,

  331. and she is prepared sacrifice.

  332. That she c and t if Bali's God follow him,

  333. if the Lord is Lord, follow him. The challenge is

  334. when you call upon the name of your god. If

  335. he sends fire, then there's the true.

  336. God chancing God basic uhanag do.

  337. Like I tell you how perverse bow worship was back there.

  338. Bali the thing to model.

  339. So these false prophets about were crying out the ball come,

  340. come come this year.

  341. They j bat that you for your paris on your life.

  342. Obviously the false govern the answer because it's false.

  343. Eli Iliyah like she is ya Hamond.

  344. You should call out that perhaps he was sleeping this.

  345. Have you read a Bible in I believe King chapter eighteen.

  346. You cannot live on.

  347. But I don't know what what did they do? So

  348. the tree is getting more difficult. Now, how do you

  349. feel like? Think? Won't you? They start cutting themselves having

  350. you go? How perverse such ritualists more, that's handed nazi

  351. and it's disgestable as well because it reduced worship to

  352. a form of manipulation for blessing.

  353. No, yes, has t town like dmage? How come to

  354. for the show?

  355. Right? This that focuses on the out world rather than

  356. the inward. Yes, like ship? Why is that inside the thing?

  357. But you and I know that to approach God is

  358. always the inward cause.

  359. Who was face hunting?

  360. True?

  361. Not just like should the means and a shell cow woman?

  362. People? Not only they were they are perverse, but they

  363. were also spiritually poor. Face on you not many, it's

  364. as truly some faith. That's just remind us today that

  365. we can have wealth without worship, yes, mega teaching or

  366. mercury your high for success, without surrender your share your

  367. son for and this hits me to the high. We

  368. can have religion without repentance.

  369. No, no, no, take will face face the gentleman. You

  370. don't tell the eastern me away.

  371. God has repeatedly warn his people not to form covenant

  372. unions and alliances with adult trust nations.

  373. Ni in the Dosing.

  374. Mange so many generations before Hosiah in Deuteronomy seven, verses

  375. three to four, It'sasia. Nor shall you make marriages with them.

  376. You shall not give your daughters to their son, nor

  377. take their daughters for your son. For they will turn

  378. your sons away from following me to serve other gods.

  379. So the anger of the Lord will be aroused against

  380. you and destroy you. Suddenly, Detention means.

  381. Book you talmentating book, Yeah, harmon Earth book, Harmon and

  382. Earth any way published Earth and leave book Controno Tature

  383. from Beatient It's a year, don't.

  384. Meet you. It's true for life?

  385. Is it?

  386. Not just attention?

  387. Sry Paul when he wrote Romans say the good that

  388. I want to do. I don't want to do the

  389. bad that I should not be doing.

  390. I do see that's about law. I don't know what

  391. was the house, what you put in?

  392. What you in? Guys? In Christ, there is always hope.

  393. Did you you and your part one? In Christ? There

  394. will always be provision of mercy when people choose to

  395. repent and turn to Him who.

  396. Heartedment like she like transition, need the transation? So you

  397. got the show? Had I mean you want man.

  398. So the key issue for the Israelts back then was

  399. the spiritual compromise that they have made in.

  400. The sawn much showing the tors.

  401. Yet, you know, compromise are things that you know you

  402. shouldn't be doing, but you keep doing it.

  403. To say the institution and put guide to a caution

  404. needs she put that high.

  405. Side all and one day it will eat a side

  406. your bany ship without even Earth knowing.

  407. Gentlemen, hi put, this is exactly what happened to the Israelites,

  408. not just easily fashion the shooting. You know, if we

  409. have been unfaithful with money, your government don't eat. We

  410. have no integrity in finances even in our workplace. Man's

  411. I going to ak was like watts on the one

  412. day it will eat us up. You're eating a way

  413. that she twines. The woman one will out you're eating

  414. and you ego.

  415. That she is. If we have been unfaithful even in

  416. our purity, it made had about so we make compromises

  417. like watching porn and all.

  418. Made like you can't vote on the thirteen piano and

  419. one day.

  420. It will eat us up. You can name all other compromises.

  421. Curtious at least your.

  422. Yet for the Israelites, it was a compromise of turning

  423. to bow when they should have turned to God.

  424. To say bally, to say easily and harmonds.

  425. Dollar try. It's not just an old Testament problem, so.

  426. You too here that won't here.

  427. Idolatry is still a very much modern day.

  428. Problems to human sing tiger face that face wan't he?

  429. You know, I know we are all very good Christians,

  430. gentleman woman going to each other's house. We don't see

  431. idols there just because we're not supposed to have statues. Guy,

  432. But what about our hearts?

  433. Because singer?

  434. Because an idol is anything that turns our heart away

  435. from God and replaces him in affection, dependence, attention, and obedience.

  436. Even just should rent hrshoe?

  437. Woman?

  438. They saying you dsient things that sink and yeek, how

  439. too elly potion for some turn So.

  440. Let me give you a few examples needs so that

  441. we can relate. Haraman, Okay, just mean career can be

  442. an idol, Yeah, especially when you progress in your career,

  443. you mean not sunction. Progression in career basically means better pay,

  444. take a take a sound that eastitution in your gun house.

  445. That take a better pay means better economic capacity to

  446. buy the things you always wanted.

  447. To k like yourn how to take a uh take

  448. a go go my pootome the don't see it.

  449. Also means a better influence, a higher influence soon than

  450. your gum incant, which equals to a certain form of status.

  451. Yeah type. We have to be very careful as Christians

  452. to know how to give the glory to God face.

  453. Since like she is, because I have met people where

  454. when they were in your campus years, they used to

  455. be on fire for God.

  456. What you going, Yeah, it's a hold.

  457. They to talk about Jesus. It's a going YESU. They

  458. make no compromise that Sunday they'll be found, you know, but.

  459. You winnother tours. And since you're eating that, yeah.

  460. I've Helena, I said, I've been here long. I can

  461. tell you a beating for sixteen years now, Helena. Actually,

  462. like Lini, it's in cycles of campus students coming, graduating

  463. to become young.

  464. With outgation like love to.

  465. Pil Sometimes something shift when people enter into a young looking.

  466. Adulthood session plamed link you young term.

  467. Sundays now are found networking in golf cost and since

  468. you know two percents like she to gounsounds alien prayer services.

  469. Now is all I need to work again? See that

  470. you are the current just amazaing cons opponent, like the

  471. commitment to the worship seems to be lesser thinking you

  472. know like she think, by the way, do you like

  473. your shout? Now you're working at all?

  474. Now?

  475. What city? Yes, Sam, I'm not a full time pastor.

  476. Let me let me say that I'm a full time

  477. pastor but with a job.

  478. Or say it was a stands now higher your war

  479. tie biting you when I say.

  480. Full time is I don't work for the church, just

  481. get salary from the church's bushes, like your consider full

  482. time personal war time and that she changed the full

  483. so status. Career can be an idol When we neglect cart.

  484. Women say woman amanti there like she send eg around

  485. my who's this?

  486. And the old Sam. When we make decisions in life,

  487. we don't even factor in what would God say? We

  488. factor in things like how would it impact my career? Well,

  489. my time?

  490. It's when you boy, like we do you sense? Isn't

  491. a human like.

  492. You want to ask me like an ex church to

  493. have godly young adults that will never forsake your God

  494. like that they like uh like? Who's relationships can be

  495. an idol as well. Once you know your husband, your wife,

  496. your boyfriend, girlfriend can be your idol.

  497. See that term for hired.

  498. Already the old sound because sometimes we speak to them

  499. more than we speak to God. You know, so what

  500. children can be an idol as well? Sound I'm serious

  501. because we have also seen when a child is growing up.

  502. Of course, attention have to be given to the child. Yeah,

  503. but is it but when the child becomes the center

  504. of your decision rather than asking God on how to

  505. deal with the situation, the child becomes your.

  506. Idol anywayating none need you like we rather need the

  507. heids like you do without that hides the.

  508. In the old emotions can also be an idol the ocean,

  509. especially if you harbor resentment, you harbor unforgiveness, your harbor

  510. offenses c Exie. Most of the days, what do you

  511. meditate on?

  512. You?

  513. Do you meditate more on God? Or you meditate more

  514. on that person? He shouldn't say that, you know, do

  515. you do you hear what he said? He shouldn't say that, right, Okay?

  516. Now like say see you may put out so are

  517. you cool to that's the whole, don't it's afer putting

  518. guys point guys.

  519. Yeah, so emotions. Sometimes we glorify pain, we glorify unpleasant emotions.

  520. It is sure, I know or ified God.

  521. The you like she eats a badon you're going that

  522. she turned on a bushtization.

  523. Addiction can be an idol to.

  524. Get something she need the neither take a Yeah.

  525. We use the substances to name the pain in us.

  526. Well, my conn you're on the dupin has put on

  527. the like she like she Roman map.

  528. That's why my dad was an alcoholic.

  529. No the fourteen has.

  530. He passed away as a result of that inter she's

  531. too much liquor.

  532. A tied daughter, Joe got the liver, had the girl done,

  533. Joe whitelo.

  534. And back then I wasn't even aware about all these

  535. things a present, but having seen my dad, knowing the

  536. pain he carried, I always have a heart for people

  537. with addiction.

  538. No, well, no, go, can't our footing that they got

  539. to what's in and go wait it out? Just put

  540. on the much I find something on it? Do people

  541. like to get at put on the one page. I

  542. may get the high at.

  543. The hour, but when they are sober, you will know

  544. how broken they are.

  545. Down Hammond lies. She haunts high Harman color just to

  546. take a hunting from the Hamman to call talmentines in

  547. the sona how much face and fourth swater anyone.

  548. If you're going to addiction, I'll let you know that

  549. there is a.

  550. Better substitute, well, the ying, the one, the ti tya.

  551. God is able to feel that word. God is able

  552. to meet that need. Like she mentioned that she she

  553. Mansuni like she to me, God is able to give

  554. you the power to overcome that addiction. Kenya tone Li,

  555. she s a ging. It could be addiction to pornography.

  556. It could be addiction to alcohol, It could be addiction

  557. to different substances. The pills that you're taking is you know.

  558. The day is here?

  559. Yeah, they year thirteen p anything. Social media can be

  560. an addiction, a certain Maiti. However, you're firsting social media

  561. for during one day?

  562. Did that?

  563. She uh things a certiti.

  564. If you're very happy, right, you're free right, just because

  565. I firsted social media for forty days before I know

  566. the impact of being slaved to social media and being

  567. free from social.

  568. Don't know that woman the leaders Hi just tonally does

  569. I found thenally.

  570. Be very careful of idols in our life. Do you

  571. measureing face on the c I'll give you another example.

  572. Comuter games can be an addiction.

  573. You know, dn't You'll see ay that take?

  574. It can be okay. I'll give you a relief example Kenya,

  575. who was the lead? No hear you like football like me?

  576. Less you want to show is got tannation. You know

  577. the best football team in the world is Blackburn Roles.

  578. So when I was young, I enjoyed Football's face Answer show.

  579. So I was going up. I played PS two So

  580. that that shows that shows you how old I am,

  581. because now it's what PS five? What do my PS two?

  582. I play football games? I don't play any other games.

  583. I play football game, I play FIFA, I play Winning eleven.

  584. How do you some more? And what's one day of

  585. tuc sho later? So when I grew up, this is

  586. ten zone. For ten fifteen oh years, I have probably

  587. not fifteen, probably ten oh years. I have never played

  588. commuter games.

  589. Just a start all do one things?

  590. You see even my mobile if you open no no

  591. games eaten with me before at lunch? You know that

  592. I don't play. But some of you are playing it

  593. all like it? What's this by no mobile games? And

  594. so a couple of months ago, I decided that I

  595. need some leisure in my life. I got that.

  596. Yeah, who are said? I?

  597. You look like it was stressed becoming a pastor sometimes.

  598. So I decided to download the game. Wait for it.

  599. The game is called The Football There just a and

  600. it it revived b my childhood memory a year. I

  601. get to choose the team. I get to choose a

  602. football player. You know, messy and my tea. Now your

  603. pound and I got oh my, I get to form

  604. my dream team.

  605. You be sure you take time to.

  606. Very good and very nice. What's the best thing, don't pound?

  607. I get to go online and play with other people. Okay,

  608. you are what The feeling of winning is very good?

  609. Ye that anxiety from one game? You're to play two games? Hanh.

  610. But the feeling of losing is also very bad. Sooner yeah,

  611. I thinking hotel. You know, I will pray for people

  612. who are addicted to computer games. They I tell you

  613. what you wait wait too. So it's a du sign.

  614. Your started off very well when it types figun pounder,

  615. have some leisure, I well, you love from ten minutes

  616. become twenty minute and don't be a zone. Twenty minutes

  617. become thirty minute, and she went, don't you be a

  618. fan zone? Then we always say this will be the

  619. last game. So I handah, that's the last game? What

  620. do we say, man? We say this will be the

  621. last game? Again? The return? Is it? Truely? Series? You know?

  622. You say, oh, this is the last episode? Isn't one over? Ready?

  623. What you say? D tr like, why not just that

  624. season two? D t if my half hour become one hour,

  625. one hour become one and a half. As I confess

  626. to you cony times this I slept one a m

  627. to it. Well, wait, your ill idious tell I know

  628. he he who is without saying be the last to

  629. custod I.

  630. Guess the mayor of may Fan said, okay that she passed.

  631. But you know what, I knew something was wrong. But

  632. you know what your other little holy spirit saying? What's this? Love? Exactly?

  633. So it is a VALATIONI version of the holy spirit. Man,

  634. I say a, but but you know what? My day

  635. to day life wasn't affected? Do you know what answered me?

  636. By in Sander, I still woke up on time?

  637. Well, hi, thirty tund she took on.

  638. I still performed my work, Hi her bank, I still

  639. come for praise service.

  640. Yeah, Tony likeway yet like all here, But I knew

  641. something in me was being eaten.

  642. Up because what's also on? You know you's a prof

  643. and Lord says, would you give up your e football

  644. these twenty one days?

  645. That okay, like she's seeing me that she said that

  646. eating that that you'll see.

  647. I can't tell you the science behind it there and

  648. the science man, the sime man exist. I felt very

  649. happy when I played the football the turn soon know

  650. what ian kais. So when you win the doctor mean

  651. like there's like a document rush there.

  652. The door bands that haunts you now.

  653. So people get addicted because there's always a chemical reaction

  654. in their body as well in me, it's uh the

  655. feel good factor for them compound. But God needed to

  656. gently pull me aside.

  657. Because your face hands face on one road about a

  658. large lash pounds.

  659. That you're my I'm supposed to depend on it your

  660. counter center down the seedler and by giving you this thought,

  661. I get that's a do you know what's the true

  662. test of and whether you have an idol in your

  663. life or not? Like she can't women they're sending down

  664. with me. Yeah, you have to ask this one question,

  665. won't he When God asks you to give up like

  666. she's home, no bad in mind. He's not asking to

  667. you to give up forever unless he wants you to

  668. the art systemation like you want n ask you can

  669. you give this up for twenty one? Can you give

  670. this up for forty days? If you find yourself not

  671. able to give up? Chances are dead? Is an idol

  672. in your life that.

  673. H like she should see the face.

  674. Eating? So I say, it's not just games, it's not

  675. just differently, it's things that have robbed you away from

  676. your due worship to God.

  677. Didn't you see some much easier like she bandaged on

  678. digation thing by.

  679. So I started off by saying that God illustrated him

  680. being the badgroom show down, not you like she passed

  681. land and I was, and by saying that we are

  682. actually the bright because we.

  683. And the sing young, because Jesus is a bright girl

  684. in Yazin Laan.

  685. The as his bright, we should steer away from idolatry

  686. that at times will pull us into the place of adult.

  687. She passes to Roman gods fantin in the.

  688. City and don't be substitutes in God her tea type.

  689. If any one of you you felt that you have

  690. been found away from God, and maybe it's in person

  691. saying yeah, I do struggles, I have addiction. I have this.

  692. You know I never give God the due respect.

  693. That your ni jeerlition, the gication the thing by.

  694. Struggled in bitterness, struggling different areas that put on the means.

  695. I want to assure you that there's no condemnation here

  696. we gaus and her that's a beta. God is a

  697. fitful god, Shanta. The evasion as we come back to

  698. him is mercy means and me does you come back

  699. to him? There is rest storage.

  700. Thumman Nally say your show full.

  701. I need it. Will be very real with you about

  702. my struggle with this e football. Don't downlod guys.

  703. Just finish is going to take a DNT to show

  704. that take a genza and I think.

  705. That was also like that. Can you just are you TM?

  706. I'm here to tell you that I'm also flash and

  707. like your road you we all have different temptations. Well

  708. you put around me fancy in the You know, some

  709. people are not tempted with money, but some are tempted

  710. with money. Boy in the fundcying, you say, way, but

  711. we are here because we serve the same goal. Because

  712. you know that as he revealed to me things in

  713. my life that I need to you know, repair on,

  714. he also revealed to you things that you need to

  715. repair that. So in guy, all the honey, it's that

  716. Againysia attend Child says that we should sol righteousness. Yeah, uh,

  717. you short down man your life, She don't, and that

  718. we will reap in mercy noured. So for it is

  719. now time to seek the Lord in c till he

  720. comes throughout highlight that he may ring righteousness on you

  721. is a men, she dunction. I sense in my heart

  722. there a lot of dryness here down hands. It's as

  723. though that someways were in the wilderness.

  724. Coleman, you're sharing gun hand City.

  725. Is all that some always need that spiritual ring to

  726. come upon our lives. Shoeling though you like she Shell,

  727. I'm here to let you know that spiritual ring can

  728. only come when there is a written.

  729. Well Shoeling, you know no woman who you guys who.

  730. In righteousness basically means to be planted in truth, to

  731. be grounded in God, to come back and repent.

  732. Nomen like take like she tides on the shoulder just way, Yeah,

  733. that she and I had a gong sound.

  734. So in Mount Camel it was in a context where

  735. three and a half years there was no ring Mont

  736. come that shune just and me water was very scarce.

  737. That is straight your face on face CEO. The people

  738. back then sin and God sent judgment, no hold inva

  739. dreaming tumber just to fund the fun you like people

  740. have got fully turned their hearts to God. Does it

  741. mean one like you wait a whole It says that

  742. rain king shout downald you like love. So if you're

  743. feeling dry, you're.

  744. Gonna need you dona guys, where you're in the wilderness,

  745. just it's shoot that gun hand? Where is Godnally? The

  746. very first step is always repent and return to God.

  747. So sing the juice. That's hey, guy, that you don't.

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