Sin is clear

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What is sin? Choosing your desires over Gods…. it is more than just keeping the 10 commandments. 

Jesus himself said “love the lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and spirit”. That is an intense relationship- intimate! Now you know his desires and can keep them beyond just the rules.

We covered yesterday that when we sin it is due to our sin nature that is disguised as “good intentions”. Our Good intentions are the little parasites that turn our good intentions into evil behavior and mindset. 

THE NATURE OF SIN

Hebrew words

Chatha- to miss the mark, to miss ones step in the ones of sin, chetah signifies any responsible failure of man to meet exactly Gods standard, his will or his favor. 

*The rocket starts off only .01% off course… BARELY MISSING THE MARK… but what happens over time?

Avah - to bend to curve to make crooked, to distort in the sense of sin, signifies perversion or distortion of that which is ordained by nature. 

HERE IS THE PROBLEM: Sin distorts our perception of sin

It’s like measuring with a ruler that is off…

Amal - To labor, toilsome, which is a result of sin, the burdens of life traced back to the iniquity of life

Life is already hard enough- why sin and make it harder

Aval - to turn away to distort to deviate from that which is right

Avar - To pass over, in the sense of sin, avar signifies the crossing over a boundary between right and wrong. You step out of bounds.

Ever have house rules in a game…

over time you have no rules!

ONCE YOU CHANGE ONE BOUNDARY, NONE MATTER!

Ra - To break in pieces, to ruin through breaking

Sin in a relationship can make it impossible to rectify. 

Sin is here

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The story of the world is basically this: Creation and Redemption… the middle 8 chapters are all titled sin. 

Where did sin come from? 

You must ask where evil comes from. 

If God created all things, but he cannot create evil then where did evil come from? 

EVIL CAME FROM GOOD.

It came from Good… Let me explain. 

Sin is the little parasite that eats away at good. 

You always have good, but when you do not do good… those are the little parasites that ruin it. 

WHAT IS SIN? = DOING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT GOD DESIRES. 

  -  All I have to do to sin is to do the opposite of Gods desires. 

  -  All I have to do to be evil is to do the opposite of Gods desires. 

An evil genius is still a genius. But he took the good and added his own sinful parasites to it… and in time it will be evil known to all **(but still evil from the beginning) 

**Sin is evil not only because it is the opposite of God, but because of its nature.

Bitten by a snake in the wild.

VS.

Being eaten by your pet snake.

(Sin has an ever growing appetite=that is what makes it evil)

i.e. Sin is wrong

Its voracious appetite makes it evil. You can’t tame sin! 

How did satan get Adam and Eve to sin? He took the truth and added a parasite to it. Something that would slightly change the truth…AND GROW

What is that parasite? Our good intentions.

We excuse our sin due to our good intentions.

I slept with my GF because I love her

Were getting married

I added an extra hour to my paycheck because I am short on rent this week

I told lies and gossiped about that person because they deserved it and someone needs to put them in their place… and they did it to me. 

Sin is evil 

Regardless of the deed, 

the intention, 

the intensity or measure. 

**how much feces would you like in your wine tonight sir?

C.S. Lewis says badness is simply Goodness that has spoiled. 

How do you hunt a blue elephant? 

With a blue gun.

How do you hunt a pink elephant? 

You hold its trunk until it turns blue and shoot it with a blue gun.

Ahhh Sin. How do you get rotten bananas? You start with good bananas and let them go rotten.

AND… Sin entered the world and it started to go bad! 

Sin is simply choosing our wants over Gods best for us. It is choosing not to do what God desires.

Wait for it…

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There a few things we all hate… I hate cauliflower, I hate slivers, I hate dentists… I hate waiting. Wow what if you had to wait at a dentists office with a sliver of cauliflower stuck in your teeth… torture! just saying!  

Have you ever been put on hold - I was on hold for 2 hours once….

Ever wait in line…

Just wait… what does that mean to you?

Slow burn

Anger

Change your plans

Time to rest

Did you know that airports put your baggage claim stations as far away from your arrival gate as possible, that way once you get there it feels like you barely wait for your luggage.

What you do while you wait, will determine wether you will be average or be great! 

We hate waiting…

What do you do when you wait?

I always have a book on me… on my phone.

When I watch TV I am either on my computer, or on my guitar… rather than waiting on a commercial break.

When I am in my car I have about 60 podcasts that I listen to (or at least have to chose from to listen to) so I am not stuck in traffic for nothing.

When a project is in limbo, I start to plan what to do when it takes off or if it bombs.

Waiting is my bonus time to work on that which needs sharpening. 

I have also had to wait 3 agonizing days to see if Cancer had spread through out my body. Now that waiting was simply the most intense waiting I had ever gone through. But even in that I was still sharpening my plans for the future. I was thinking through my wife’s future, my kids and even my grandkids - and I didn’t have any at that point. 

Is. 40:31 Those that wait upon the Lord…

but those who wait/hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Wait/hope = you are expectantly waiting for God to show up in your circumstances. 

It puts a whole new spin on waiting. I commissioned an artist years ago for some paintings. He said it would take about a year… 

Now I had a few options when he said “year”.

I could have thought- is he lazy,

does he not know what he is doing?

Are others ahead of me?

Why does this take so long, its just 3 paintings…

But because I knew him my first thought was simply this…

Wow these are going to be awesome! 

When you are stuck in a time of waiting… use it for your good and also change your mindset from a negative… why me… to a positive Wow God! 

No Second Chances!

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Maybe the hardest thing for us to understand is Gods forgiveness. His forgiveness is not earned, it is not measured out by behavior, it is not lost, it is not built up like credit. We don’t get any more forgiveness than the next person nor do we get an extra nod and smile when we have done really well and ask for extra forgiveness. 

The truth is, God does not give second chances…

oh yea I know where this is going, he doesn’t give second chances, he gives 3rd, 4th, 5th etc…

No he truly does not give second chances… why? Because when he forgives he not only forgets, but he abandons our sins into utter non-existence. Listen to this verse. 

He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. Psalm 103:12

The word remove in the Hebrew means completely and utterly lost and abandoned. They are gone forever, and forgotten forever.

So you come to God and you ask him into your life and you ask for his blood to forgive you… and he does. You are forgiven and clean, righteous before him. But in time you sin again… you go to him and confess your sins and ask him to strengthen you… he does. But you blow it again and you go to him and say God can you please give me a second chance and forgive me and he says “what do you mean second chance?”. I checked my records and you are righteous and holy. No matter how many times we sin, when we come to him he forgives and forgets forever. When we come back to him and repent and ask for forgiveness he does not see it as a second chance, but rather the first time you repented. Now I believe this is different then the first time we come to him and ask for his forgiveness and for him to take over our life and lead us, to become Lord of our life. But after that we are called to confess our sins to others and to God to bring our sin out into the light. It is at this point he sees it as our first time… and never remembers it again. 

Now this is not the point of todays podcast. The point is we keep score even if God does not. Why is it so hard to step out in boldness? Because we keep score! But if we realize that God has washed us in his blood, forgiven and free from our sin we can move freely to serve him. 

And wait there’s more…. so if I am forgiven why do I go to him and repent when I sin again… well it has to do with intimacy. Forgiveness is the platform for intimacy. Once you have acquired a taste for God and his intimacy you don’t want to stain it. 

Today is not about forgiveness it is actually about intimacy. How much time do you spend with Jesus?

I have people say, how can you do a podcast every day? Well if I am intimate with Jesus its easy. If I miss a day, I feel it. If I miss 2 days my wife feels it, If I miss 3 days everyone notices it. I need, want and desire intimacy. I am addicted to it. 

So I revel in his forgiveness and I am eager to repent when I need to - because its about intimacy. 

36 years and for what?

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36 years of marriage…

The number one key in making marriage last is???

Communication

Handling differences

Balancing money

A great sex life

Understanding expectations

NO NO NO NO NO

I believe it is simply knowing this… 

Don’t give up, it will get better. 

Yes there are times I wanted to leave my wife, divorce my wife, yell at my wife… yes there are times I wondered what it would have been like if I had married that other girl… will it ever get better, will she ever love me, will she ever appreciate me… and we all go through things like this.

But in the end, if you choose to stick it out, it will always get better. There are highs and lows but if you are smart you play marriage like the real estate market - if you hang on to it long enough, it’s value becomes worth the wait.

last night we celebrated 36 years of marriage. Our first day of marriage (on our honeymoon) we had sex 5 times in 24 hours… that is roughly once every 4 hours and 45 minutes.

Now we have sex only twice a week, but now when we do have sex it’s 4 hours and 45 minutes after dinner. We gotta let our food digest or its just to uncomfortable… and well you know … were old. 

Whats the point… I thought our first year of marriage was the pinnacle - the peak of how great it could get. Sex every day, laughing, goofing off, traveling… For the first 15 years I looked back on those first few months and thought… it was good while it lasted…But it will never be that good again… or so I thought. 

But its not even close… it is so much better now! 

Last night as we were out to dinner, my wife looked at me and said “thank you for keeping the vows you made 36 years ago. You are a man of God and that is the only way this marriage has made it”. Now if she would have said that at our 1 year anniversary… ok, thanks, but not much of an intimate compliment, nor very meaningful. 

But after 36 years….

So we talked about the last 36 years. Conflict, fights, depression, anxiety, moves around the country, kids with issues, cancers, cancers, cancers, brain tumors, hurts and broken promises, failed businesses, bankruptcy and more… we agreed that at this point the best part of being together is simply being together. Knowing that no matter what comes our way, we will be together to face it. 

Whats the best part of marriage? Never giving up. Knowing your partner will never give up. Oh, they may in fact tell you to your face they hate you, they can’t stand you, they are so close to leaving (and you may have brought some of that on yourself) but… to look your spouse in the eye and say I will never quit on you. Come hell or high water… I am always here. If you cheat on me I will still be here for you. Now thats the foundation that is unbeatable. 

As we sat there eating, we talked about our boys, our grandkids and our family to come. We were encouraged that our boys can look at our marriage and know that we went through it all and still made it work because of Jesus. Neither of our boys will be able to say well she did this…. Yep, been there done that, and now work through it- it gets better.

I have a sneaky suspicion in another 36 years when we celebrate our 72 anniversary Kim will say something like “honey thanks for keeping your, what was that again, for saying you would uhm… something about love… any way thanks! And I will say “what?”.

But we will be together! 

Angels Aliens and UFO’s

Gen. 19

Lot is living in Sodom and Gomorrah and it is a perverted city. Lot has two visitors come to him. 

Abraham knew they were angels.

Lot probably knows this… but the men of the city could also tell. There verbiage here in the hebrew says they were 

Aliens - somewhere different

Judges - had an air of superiority. 

I believe these men of Sodom and Gomorrah knew they were celestial beings. They sought out sex with them.

We know it has happened in the past and Jesus said we will return to the days of Noah and sexual perversion. 

If I am not straight, 

If I am not gay

If I am not lesbian

IF I AM BIANARY or Genderqueer- NON SEXUALLY ORIENTATED

Who do I attract into a sexual relationship?

Demonic or fallen angelic beings.

This will happen again in the End times. 

Wash yourself in the blood of Jesus and cry out for purity of heart! 

Stay accountable

Stay pure

Stay in love with Jesus 

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Wiener

Whiner

Wanker

Warrior

Winner

Winner

Here is a hard concept for some to understand… if you want to be a winner (and who doesn’t) than simply quit trying to win… and start trying not to lose.

Its not about winning, its about not losing. 

More neurons fire in competition i.e. proving I am not a loser, than when at rest… i.e. I am a winner. The mind of the top performers like Michael Jordan were not driven to the highest peak performances because they went into competition thinking they were winners, but rather to prove they were in fact not losers. Your brain works harder and fires at a much higher rate when not relying on your winning mindset but rather your mindset of I am not a loser.

Lets dumb it down a little. Lets say we meet at the locker room and I am seriously and meaningfully telling you what a great player you are. I go over your past victories, over your past top performances and then we go out to the field to actually play. You will tap into your prefrontal cortex and show me how good you are, but it will be limited because you are in a sense resting on your victories. However if we meet in the locker room and I question your talent, I minimize your victories and I challenge your accomplishments and THEN we go out to the field to play… watch out. You are now tapping into your full Lateral Prefrontal cortex and your synapses and dendrites are hyper firing at a much greater degree. STREET TALK: You out to prove you ain’t no punk! 

1. Watanabe M, Sakagami M (2007) Integration of cognitive and motivational context information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Cereb Cortex 17(Suppl 1):i101–i109.

We were especially interested in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC), because competition involves both cognitive (such as rules and strategy) and motivational (desire to obtain a reward) components, and the LPFC is known to be involved in the integration of cognitive and motivational information. 

Again, the brain rests when it achieves victory. It fires less when it is perceived as a winner. 

Have you heard the interviews of athletes who competed against Michael Jordan. He would play cards against someone until he won. It went beyond just losing, He could not stand being considered a loser or seen as a loser. 

Do you want to be a winner? Then set out to see the potential God has give you. Set out to see all the resources you have at your hands. Realize that you are not here to be a loser. You work, strive, create, practice, perform, read, risk etc… no matter how much you lose in the process you do this until you win and in order to prove you are not a loser. And when you win… you realize that you are only as good as your next victory. That is Key! 

Listen to these verses:

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 139:13-15

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

I cannot accept being a loser when I see how much God has poured into me.

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Mindsets!

Wiener

Whiner

Wanker

Warrior

Winner

Warrior

This seems like a great mindset… and don’t get me wrong it is. I typically have a warrior mindset. However one major flaw we have is we don’t give up… (the curse of loyalty) well thats good right? Not always. I Planted a church I should have given up on it a long time past it’s prime. I had a job I should have given up on a few years before the boss tapped my phone and fired me. I have had friends who I should have cut out a long time ago, but I just hate giving up. In the end they all cost me money, opportunities and peace of mind. What good is it to be a warrior if you don’t know when and who to fight, and or how long? The longest war in history was the Iberian war lasting 781 years. How can war go on so long? Because war is still profitable. There is a pot of gold that comes with that victory. Wait just a second, ask yourself… how much is the pot of gold worth and at what cost to me? I had a friend who wanted to beat a competitor so badly that he would low ball every bid just to keep this guy from getting any business. Did it work? For a while, but soon it cost him everything.

So you are a warrior. What is worth fighting for in your life? And at what cost? Do you know when to back off and retreat in order to fight another day. Do you know when to give up? There is nothing wrong with giving up or quitting if it is the best way to continue to follow your dream. (you may want to meditate on that one for a second) Dreams don’t come with a “this is the only way” label on them. How many businesses have had to pivot to stay afloat and then they boom because of it. I can name plenty. You might be the next one. Sometimes it is ok to fight until you find another way to win. There are truly very few things worth dying for when I think about it. My faith, my family and…. uh… yea thats about it. I like a good war story, but not if it costs me more than it was worth. 

Gal. 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Mark 6: 11 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

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Mindsets!

Wiener

Whiner

Wanker

Warrior

Winner

Ever walk into the bathroom and see that you have some food in your teeth, or a booger hanging out of your nose… I once walked around for 20 minutes at a McDonalds and I had forgotten I had put some of my sisters acne medicine on my face… big white spots all over my face… no one said anything. Please tell me next time. 

Whiner 

I don’t whine I complain… is there a difference? Yes, maybe whiners have a little more nasal tone than complainers. 

There are those who never seem to be satisfied. These are known as chronic complainers. They have a tendency to ruminate on problems and to focus on setbacks over progress. Some research suggests that making a habit of complaining can “re-wire” the brain so that those particular thinking orientations become ingrained. It is possible to re-wire this re-wiring to make it more positive, of course, but chronic complainers probably don’t think it would work all that well.

Some complain simply to bring attention to themselves. It’s all about me… and life is unfair to me. I need you to change XYZ because it’s all about me. Its a mindset of why do bad things always happen to me. They actually don’t see the reality that life happens to everyone- regardless. 

I think both of these can also stem from your upbringing. Downer Debby had a mom called Downer Doris. You see life the way your parents saw life. 

So what to do? First find out if you are a whiner. Ask those closest to you. Ask your boss, your wife, your friends, your pastor… Why do this? Because most whiners don’t realize they are whiners! When you ask, be ready to hear the truth. 

Now simply validate your feelings. What do I mean by that. You can accept that some things in life are hard, and its ok to not like it. But next you must realize everyone has these situations and problems in life. So your next step is crucial…. move on with a solution or move on with your life. Not everything can be fixed, but you can continue to focus on what is most important at hand. 

Notice Philippians 2:14 says do all things without grumbling or complaining. 

Notice it does not say you will not have things that could cause you to grumble or complain- but simply when those things that seem unfair or wrong happen to you- move on, don’t complain. 

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

I think what God understands is what scientists are now discovering with neuroplasticity. whatever you think on you will program your mind to naturally fall into that mindset. 

If your team is down 8 runs in the bottom of the 9th, do you complain about the weather, the lack of talent, the fact that your best team members are missing, your back is sore…

or do you think about what an amazing comeback this is going to be. what a story you will be able to tell. Its up to you. 

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Mindsets!

Wiener

Whiner

Wanker

Warrior

Winner

Wanker - Definition: Someone excessively and annoyingly pretentious and/or false. At the gym the other day… Now before I get into this let me just say when it comes to the gym I attend, there are a few details one must understand about me. It is a big box gym. I know just about everyone. I am asked daily for training advice and give it freely. I used to own a powerlifting gym that was voted number 1 in the country. I never assume or ask why someone is doing a certain exercise a certain way unless they will hurt themselves. So there is a young kid about 16 training a very pretty girlfriend… I only mention that because this kid had insecure arrogant 4 out of 10 stars all over him. But I walked up to them and kindly and jokingly asked if the old guy could give them advice… from the second the sentence left my mouth this kid explained to my what he was doing, why he was doing it and how I didn’t understand. I kindly said “well, if you want to save your knees you might think about doing this”. He again explained to me why I (and about every other strength coach in the world does not know what they are talking about). I smiled and said as serious as I could “wow, I didn’t know that you knew everything, good for you”. And simply walked away. What a Wanker! 

You know why most people and I mean 99.99% of most people succeed? They willingly seek out advice from others who are smarter than themselves. It really is that simple. Perseverance is great unless you are headed the wrong way. Reading and studying the competition is great unless you can actually talk to them and or even hire them… so much better. When I was young I thought it was cool to know everything… but nobody else thought it was cool that I KNEW EVERYTHING. I went to a conference and my brother in law and I went to eat lunch. We got a chance to bump into and eat with one of the most renowned speakers in the world regarding theology. (Im a geek). My brother in law plastered him with questions. At one point he smiled and said “thats all I know now, but I hope to continue to learn from more discussions like this”. Look he could have buried by Bro in seconds. But he was kind, calm, reflective and still seeking to learn from us. I walked away from their thinking, “I am going to buy every book this guy has ever written and read them”. And I did. You can learn a lot from really smart people, and sometimes it is simply that you can learn from anyone if you check your ego at the coat rack. 

Take this reality check: fill a note book up with a list of things you do not know. The easier it is, the less of a wanker you are.

Now Read this and do it again:

Psalms 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Search Gk= intimately and deeply penetrate every area of my life in detail. 

anxious Gk - Secret thoughts, unknown to me.

now with God telling you what to work on, begin to pray over these. And keep continuing to work on them.