the question is are we doing it with that in mind this is the difference
between envy and jealousy envy is a desire to gain possession of something
that is not currently possessed it's just like when you see your neighbor
driving that nice car that you don't have and you're like oh gosh that's envy
right your hater you're a hater basically jealousy is the desire
jealousy is the desire to maintain exclusive devotion within a relationship
in the face of a challenge to that exclusive devotion that's jealousy
versus envy how will you like if you are if you are married to someone how would
you like if your spouse is talking about their ex with you in it with their eyes
glimmering shimmering and glimmering oh he was such a sweetheart are you are you
gonna okay let's say let's say you're in the same room and then she's telling it
to your to her friend how do you like that
what are you gonna feel sure you feel like me you're feeling like you want to
break something you know the jealousy rages on into your emotions
correct because my wife is my wife now I could care less if the ex was nicer than
I am right that's jealousy but Envy is different it's not yours she or he is
not yours that car is not yours and you're just envious two different things
we can all we we know this is very simple right such a small reminder but
the question now is how are you living your life I'm gonna keep asking that
question are you living your life with the knowledge that God is a jealous God
are you spending your life that you say is his supposedly is his how are you
spending it for him if we say time is the most expensive
commodity which it is how are you spending your time here are you spending
it for him are you spending it for you
it's the hardest question right because sometimes the answer is always the wrong
thing Oh Lord I'm sorry you know that the beauty of it is if you recognize it
you heard God right if you hear what God says if you belong to God you hear what
God says you hear you listen hopefully as you step out of this building the
whole week you will do it because it's gonna be such a waste if you were paying
for this meeting here pretend you were paying a thousand dollars to be here
tonight to hear what God has to say tell you and then you're not gonna do
anything about it I tell you you're gonna be writing notes you're gonna be
taking my picture you're gonna be taking my video on your own phone if you paid a
thousand dollars because that's what they do in investment classes OGS are
there's like five million investment classes during the summer you pay a
hundred bucks for you to get rich right yeah you paid them a hundred bucks
they'll tell you their secret they'll tell you their secret on how to get rich
the first thing is if it's a such a secret why would you tell it if it's
really working why would you share it you know where the money is it's you you
that's how they're making their money but you pay it you're gladly paid and
guess what you'll do it those investment classes for real estate I get five calls
minimum from people who go there and they tell me all the great ideas because
they went to that class hopefully what we're talking about here you will take
it with you and you will do something about it pretend as if you pay the
thousand dollars for you because this is if time is the most expensive commodity
in in your life you're spending it right now there's
spending an hour here it'll be such a waste if you go out there and you won't
do anything about it because you never know we might not be here next week
right that's my prayer my daughter hurt hit 12 already so I'm praying for the
rapture I'm serious so if we know that God is jealous if we know that God is
just and we acknowledge that he is jealous that everything that we do he
wants us he wants her obedience he wants to be intimate with us
the God of the universe wants you can you please wrap your mind around that
first with all humility because some of you probably think well of course why
wouldn't you want me I'm so special Yeah right yeah if you're gonna be really
honest why would the God of the universe continue to pursue our relationship with
you why while your spouse wants you to get
out of the house the eight o clock it's 8 o clock now you're not going to work
yeah I'm not working today how about that god of the universe continues to
pursue a love relationship with you for those of you have not accepted him as
your Lord think about that if you can take yourself to heaven why would he do
the sacrifice of the cross to give his life there and then the next question
when he did that why and then if you're that special for him
ingratitude supposedly ingratitude out of gratitude of everything of all that
truth in granite in out of gratitude you're gonna obey and you're gonna
oblige to that relationship
now there's a need for discernment believers hopefully
here at least us here we have discernment godly discernment because
you know your doctrines because you know your God you know the right and the
wrong that's what discernment is right should
know should be able to identify what's a mistake what's false and what's true
paul speaking but I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the Serpent's
cunning by serpents cunning your minds may somehow be led astray from your
sincere and pure devotion to Christ we've discussed this many times the
transformation starts in the mind correct it started here when you
accepted Christ your heart now belongs to Christ right but then your mind needs
to continue to transform by how by studying his word how do you study is
word you read this word you come to church or this said right transformation
comes here but then it also becomes it this is the part where we get this is
where we get attracted where we lose focus is here your minds may somehow be
led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ you happily put up
with whatever anyone tells you even if they preach a different Jesus than the
one we preached or a different kind of spirit than the one you received or a
different kind of gospel that the one you believe do you understand this do
you understand that this up to now is happening because of the selective
hearing because of the selfishness of the believer himself there is prosperity
gospel a lot of people would rather this is to that guy because that guy tells
them I can be rich name it I claim it boom I have it right they'd rather
listen to that there's there's so many false prophets out there
and people are falling into it some real Christians falling because of their lack
of knowledge because if you don't change this if you don't feed yourself and
immerse yourself in the Word of God the inspired Word of God guess what the
world will continue to deceive you because the world is the enemy's he's
the prince of this world and his goal is to continue to for the believer to make
you useless for the kingdom of God because he knows when you accepted
Christ it's done for him like God she accepted Christ already oh well I'll
just make him useless I'll keep him busy who were you which one here no show of
hands most of us are always busy right sincerely busy with work with children
with our family most of us are always busy we never have time for God right we
never have time for God some of us will tell that some of you will tell me some
some of you have told me I'm working on Sundays good but then you took a
vacation three weeks before that right you took a vacation you missed three
Sundays on your vacation you don't want your vacation to be done on an ordinary
Sunday you want it to be done outside the country we should deserve a vacation
there's no problems with vacation the problem is when there is no time for
God but you have time for everything else do we agree now if we're gonna
think again for the sake of our topic tonight jealous God if God is a jealous
God and you're spending all these things for everything else but not for him and
you can't identify because you have no discernment and you're not developing
your discernment because you you you could care less to sit on a Bible study
there's so many bye studies so many podcasts that you could
listen to as well but you know there are so many shows in
Netflix that you'd rather do right Netflix binge where's the popcorn we're
gonna go through five seasons of a show but you can barely go through one book
of the Bible and then your life as the Christian is like and you wonder I don't
know why Pastor Joe I don't know why I'm not growing well really it has to be
discernment there has to be have to be able to identify that people out there
right now even up to now are preaching a different Jesus people are out there
preaching a different kind of spirit and there's different kinds of gospel I pray
that all of us here at this church at least we have developed our minds to the
right doctrine to the right belief to the right gospel to the right and true
Jesus you meant this is his problem here they're not seeing it he has to write
two letters for his dismay but because he loves them he truly loves them in
verse five but I don't consider myself in fear in any way to these super
apostles now the false prophets in Koreans we're calling themselves the
super apostles they were part they're considering themselves as part of the
original twelve right we talked about this last week about the credentials
that they were carrying with them and then they're just building themselves up
they're puffing up their their credentials their accolades
they're saying that we're part of the super apostles we're the super apostles
well here Paul will tackle it ever so lightly without disrespecting the
original apostles and he says here who teach such things
I may be unskilled as a speaker but I'm not lacking in knowledge folks
the what is said should matter more than how it was said when it comes to our
faith what was said should matter more than how it was said most of us some of
us we like compelling preachers we can hear everything they're saying our
selective hearing goes to them right it's just like with my children
sometimes I tell them one thing here right and they're not listening they
won't listen they're not doing it and someone else tells them they're like oh
yeah that's right I got it like wait a minute you told him
he told me differently he said it differently right what was said should
matter more than how it was said do you agree that should be our focus it
shouldn't be anything else because pause it says yeah I'm not a good speaker but
I don't lack knowledge we have made this clear to you in every possible way was I
wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's good news to you
without expecting anything in return now this first seven here means because Paul
decided not to take payment from the Corinthian church so the super apostles
the false prophets that were with them they made an issue out of that because
when Jesus sent out the disciples before before this Jesus told them don't take
anything with you right just go out there so that's been the missionary
practice of everyone so when Paul and his crew decided hey we're not gonna
take anything from these guys because but they do take some from the volunteer
from the churches that were more than happy to give it to them
because Paul and his team were their main focus was to just empower these
guys plus they have a problem giving it anyway
now instead of them being thankful for that they took it against Paul because
of the false prophet say see if he were a true disciple of Jesus why is he not
taking pain that's what they said so now here now
they're faulting him for that they're faulting him and he says there I
robbed other churches by accepting their contributions so I could serve you at no
cost see this Corinthian church is such a
paying up behind for Paul right he worked almost close to a volunteer
status for them but yet some people whispered things to them and now they're
faulting him for that good action but sometimes that's how we are we leave her
sadly I don't mean you guys okay sadly some of us are like that I know we
discussed this last week that the DES credentials is what we look for we
stereotype people and then we have our own preferences oh because he has a
degree he knows everything that he's talking about he should know he has
money listen to him that guy's poor don't even invite him right some of us
act that way and here again they're making this this shows you the
shallowness of the some of the Christians and grin I hope and pray that
we don't act this way we have to see this couple of things again going back
to the points here where Paul intentionally did not want to take money
from them because he knows they had a problem giving anyway right this is
where you say damned if you do damned if you don't that's what happened to him so
we need discernment we need discernment we need to know is this God's will is
this is this the right gospel well how do we do that by the renewing of our
mind that's the only way warning against false prophets true and false prophets
this is Jesus speaking watch out for false prophets
they come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves it
still happening up to now so be careful have discernment as we talked about
earlier have discernment now here the spiritual the the selective hearing will
apply very well with discernment if you're hearing something is this that
was said that was wrong that's not biblically correct you should be able to
identify that and right away you should point them categorize them to hear a
false prophet oh there you go Joe I don't like that
I've had this many arguments with some people that just once our belief our
faith to just be about love it is greatly about love Christianity is about
love yes but you will never know the love of God if you don't know his wrath
we agree and there is there is a certain thing that is called false right there's
there's always something that's true and there's something that's incorrect
correct true and people will say well I'm entitled to my own opinions you're
right you are but you're not entitled to your own facts especially when it comes
to the Word of God if Jesus tells us and warrants us be careful of false prophets
how will I why would I tell you no you know it changed it's about love now we
have to love each other there's no such thing as false prophets they're out
there you have to be able to know your discernment how again the studying of
the word but we just don't take time there's there's lack of commitment in
believers now that's why the church is dying the church is dying because
there's lack of commitment there's lack of committed
christ-followers there's not enough committed christ-followers there's a lot
of Christians confess Christ followers versus there's not a lot of committed
Christ's followers committed means all for it yeah
you've sold into the idea we've sold into the faith and you're gonna do
whatever it takes to obey God to live your life according to his will into his
ways some of us we just live our life the way the world tells us to live it
get rich or die trying' is your motto
here there's a warning against false prophets and when I was with you and
didn't have enough to live on I did not become a financial burden to anyone Paul
letting them know the obvious for the brothers who came from Macedonia brought
me all that I needed I've never been a burden to you and I've never and I never
will be as surely as the truth of Christ is in me no one in all of Greece will
ever stop me from boasting about this why because I don't love you God knows
that I do the current and believers sold into the fact to the the the they sold
it to the story of the false prophets that Paul was a false prophet just
because he number one because he wasn't taking their payment and then him did
not taking their payment now the Corinthian church were saying what you
don't like us you don't love us so they're telling Paul that's why Paul
says what you don't think I love you is why I'm not taking money from you God
knows that I do call it's so hard to argue with people that don't want to
listen correct again the selective hearing of the Corinthian church was now
they were just now listening to the false prophets believer whom to whom are
you now listening to when I say listen is how is your life
now how are you spending your life right now how are you living your life are you
living it for God or are you living it to what the world is telling you to live
it
- which fact have you sold in - those are both true you can live your life the
way the world tells you to live it or you can live it the way God wants you to
live it there's but then there's nothing for Paul here when he did this
he's like why is this thing being taken against me I got really big to upwe I
keep hitting now no no Mike there's not enough room because I really I got
really chubby as surely as the truth of Christ is in me
no one in all Greece will ever stop me from boasting about this Paul never
wanted to become a burden to them but yet they took it against believers we
have to know that God doesn't God doesn't want to be a burden to us God
doesn't want to be a burden to us but well you know what sometimes we act as
if he is a burden to us do you agree how how Joe explained church five
o'clock Sundays at five o'clock why is it such a burden for you to make it God
just wants you to be with him God just wants you to spend time with his people
prayer how much praying do you do talking to him he just wants you to talk
to him right just like any other parent that
wants to be in a relationship with their children they want to be talking correct
they want to have a dialogue with their loved ones same with God but why do we
ask us if it's such a burden the point you have a timer while you're praying
Lord you know what I'm about to say before I even say it
in Jesus name I pray some of us we pray like that
Oh God knows what I need alum Nonya even before I say he already knows you before
I say it
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