Romans Chapter 8:5-7

Once you get focused on the things of this world you give away something extremely valuable. You give away your peace and even if you're a child of God a believer if you focus on the world you will lack peace friend of your here today of your lesson was a simple answer right to counsel refocus to do a course correction every will to make sure that your man spiritually minded will go to cross the bridge with David McGee going through life we may have peace. But sometimes we lay that piece down and pick up problems and offenses. Find out how you can hold on the piece and not lose today as Pastor David teaches the Romans eight with choose life and peace. Is David McGee so were in Romans chapter 8 I've been encouraging people would encourage you to to take the time to read this chapter.

Several times lower in minimum actually read it like once a week either Saturday night or Sunday morning. I'm not saying that's all you should read the Bible, you really should read the Bible every day. But keep in mind is not necessarily a speed reading contest coming sometimes it all just read a few verses and just, you know, the Lord just so speaks to me and other times I you know I'm in there for chapter 2 everyday and Salem encourage you to read the Bible, but especially what were looking at this chapter to reread it several times lower in it. I know we all think water. I just don't have time to do that well. Take the time to read because he took the time the bully okay so get God gave us his word to read and to be a life-changing experience a week should give it time and priority in our lives. So when Romans chapter 8 verse five and then we ended with that with such a great verse in Romans chapter 8 verse process for those who live according to the flash set their minds on the things of the flash, but those who live according to the spirit, the things of the spirit. Now when we talk about flash.

The bombs talk about our selfish desires are old nature that part of us that wants to turn and run from God wants to do wrong thing were all battling this nature of the flesh of the will and Paul in the book of Romans says here that paying attention it were all concerned if all consumed about the things of the flesh were not to be living according to the things of the spirit. Many goes on in verse six. The site for the be carnally or fleshly minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Thinking of what your driving force.

What's what your purpose of your will.

What what's what's got you going what gets you up in the morning when you think of for your edits Philip will what you all about what to is controlling your life. There's a lot of things that you can live for.

You can live. To do this you can live for your job or live for this or that. The other, but none so worthily is living for the Lord. It's a solid something you can lean on it says here that in your spiritually minded you have life and peace. The lack peace then according to these passages, you're not being spiritually minded once you get focused on the things of this world you give away something extremely valuable. You give away your peace and even if you're a child of God in a believer if you're focused on the world you will lack peace friend of your here today of your lesson and the lack peace is a simple answer right here to counter refocus to do a course correction every will to make sure that your man spiritually minded because of the lack peace.

According to these passages, you're not being spiritually monitor my missionary opacity just on you just don't know what I've been through this week or this month or what my life is right, you're right. I don't know, but by the same token, you don't know what I've been through in the past week, and here's what I can assure you that I walked in peace that even in the midst of troubles and trials and tribulations. I've been at peace when because I'm so spiritual, but because I'm leaning on God and be it's amazing that I know that's a work of God. When I go through an hour and I don't lose my piece that's not me that's the Lord. What happened sometimes as we trade a piece for things got to say I'm giving you peace not the way the world gives it I'm giving it to and then we give it away often. Often we give it away because we get offended you got peace, but then you come to a situation where you're getting offended you want to get offended you got a choice or something even really like a new what you do is you put down your peace and you pick up an offense and then you carried around anyone slices. How are you doing, doing, have you heard about this offense. Do you know what she said to me. Have you read that email and you carried around you become focused on the friend you can't carry your peace in your offense. At the same time you want. The Lord want you.

This is, this means virtually no carnally minded so chapter dues go well and I could be offended about this but I'm not going to be put down. This offense and pick up a piece of God said is the same thing because if you got unconfessed sin in your life. Guess what you can't, you're not to be at peace and love you too much to allow you to be paid at peace when you're trashing your life and got put down your sin and walking the piece must be on sin according to the is pleasurable for season it's it's fun if it we can use that language can we better things in the spot I was trying to tell you truth for a season that is what you pay a big price for that season you give away your peace.

You can't walk in sin and walking pace can do so, you walk away from your sin and you can walk in that piece because when you are out of rest. You're not walking in the spirit. And if you're at peace. You are walking in the spirits of Paul's given a suggested key thing about life. It is sinful and versus absolutely, since sin is pleasurable for season. I was a pleasure we wouldn't be doing wrong to hurt ourselves and her people around us.

Is there something so much more valuable. Don't live for that walk away from his friend has been said, there is no highlight the most. A man in the world doesn't have a substitute for, and when you surrender to God. Your spiritually minded and it is just is an incredible way to it is an incredible way… I'm in so fleshly minded points in my life and I'm been so spiritually minded, let me assure you. To be spiritually minded as this process is life and peace.

Colossians chapter 3 verse six is but now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.

Don't allot each other for your strip off your old evil nature, in all its wicked needs in its place. You have clothed yourselves with a brand-new nature that is continually being renewed. As you learn more and more about Christ created this new nature within. So when you come to Jesus asking to forgive you of your sins.

You've been given a new nature but then you grow in that new nature and I got is forgiving of your sins by grace within your life against the change in things that used to matter don't matter as much anymore and things that used to hold you down while you you come away from those things and they don't control anymore and everything in your life.

You can look in spiritual terms are in carnal term. Some of you going through hard times and in the economy and stuff to look at it in terms of spiritual what what is God doing what is is God, perhaps getting my focus again on and get it off jobs and in monies in retirement accounts is content.

Refocus my life and see you can walk away with a spiritual win web rather than fleshly what you can look at the Bible in terms of spiritual terms are Carlton you can look at other people in terms of spiritual terms are Carlton you is my God guys by such losers. This is that I can look at it. We really started something in according to this passage. What's the difference between carnally monitors spiritually on its life and peace. This is especially important to remember because a lot of Christians think you can just live however in God is still supposed to give you joy will not according this passage, you can't live however year not built.

You were created to sit on the fence and if you're trying to sit on the fence of the Christian year not going to be a happy camper.

Not only that but the people around your dog and be happy While because somebody with 1 foot in the world and 1 foot in the Lord.

It is is miserable.

I think perhaps even more miserable. Somebody who doesn't know the Lord. Life lesson from this is simple the way to walk in pieces to be spiritually in heavenly minded the way to walk in pieces to be spiritually and heavenly minded life in its fullest in its highest expression in its most glorious purpose is found in be spiritually minded and I know we've heard that phrase well.

He says heavenly minded. He's no earthly good.

Your right and yet that's a cute little thing is so wrong.

I have never met a person who was so heavenly minded that is no earthly good.

But here's what I have met friend I met people who were so earthly minded. There were no heavenly good because they weren't living their lives for the Lord and live in the share live in the tell about the love of God, the goodness of God and that the strategies and today you can make that change when we sin the relationship is still there. We broken fellowship will when my children mess up sometimes it's strange the relationship are the Fellowship, but it doesn't change the relationship.

I've never looked at my daughter looked at my two sons that will exit you're no longer my daughter never looked at my sons as it will.

That's it.

You're not my son.

The relationship was still there but the Fellowship sometimes broke and see when we choose sin over God when we break the Fellowship and we need to be washed. We need to be forgiven and we need to do this often. I mean often how often you want friend, I repent several times a day over things that I say don't say things I think things I feel God forgive me continue to change. If you wait until Sunday to repent and that's way too long till you get that unconfessed sin out you can enjoy his peace. Why would you hang on unconfessed sin.

Anyway, it'll eat you alive. Remember there's a little passage of the Last Supper, when Jesus is wont to wash the disciples is like this. John 13 verse eight it says no Peter protested, you will never wash my feet and Jesus replied but I don't want you, you don't belong to me to Simon Peter exclaims and wash my hands in my head as well. Lord, not just my feet should be our attitude are going well. I don't know about you go for should do. It seems like an emotional thing. Maybe if I go for people. Wonder what I'm doing up there good. Maybe there wondering why you don't come, maybe the praying that you come for knowing that you're struggling with something something is holding you back. It's amazing how we argue with God like this. The apostle Paul laid the foundation for the New Testament church and yet few of us in the church today really understand the events and places that shaped this remarkable man, but now pastor and Bible teacher David McGee has created the footsteps of Paul tour through the heart of the ancient world will be a part of a breathtaking three-day tour of the famous Greek islands. Also during the tour. David McGee will be opening the Bible to teach on Mars Hill. The Very Pl. in Athens. Paul talked about the unknown God will go up to the Acropolis and visit the Parthenon also will visit Patmos. The place where John wrote the book of Revelation will continue to Ephesus and Turkey sharing the history stories and reality of these historic places that change the future of the church. Plus be a part of an actual television production as we film parts of the tour for national TV program across the bridge. The footsteps of Paul tour with pastor and Bible teacher David McGee combined your vacation with in-depth experience in the reality of God's word. For more information visit cross the bridge.com or call us at 877-458-5508. That's 877-458-5508. Contact us today because space is limited and this tour will fill up fast. Did you know one of the keys to spiritual growth is to daily be in the word of God. I want to help you to do that.

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Speaking of this is not speaking and so I really differ. There's a few commentators on these passages I talked about before.

He was a Christian is talking about when he was a Christian.

There was this internal battle that was going on. Of yielding to the Holy Spirit to do what's right, yielding to a selfish nature to the last to do what's wrong this war's going on. The worst thing we can do for is denied that Ward because what happens then. Especially we would do that in churches if I tell you need to deny that you have a sinful nature with your struggling with any sort of guess what I you have to do one of two things you have to leave you have to become a hypocrite. You have to put on your mask when I use hypocrite when apostle uses hypocrite. This is somebody that loves God occasionally messes up that's not the Greek people creep these means of someone who wears a mask. May God grant us the grace for this place always be somewhere we can take the mass off, how you doing man.

Please pray for me. I am struggling with this and be open to that when God pulls at your heart, maybe to come for the first struggle with.

Somehow we got well you can only really go the altar once in your life which you know if I was not here I be down there like every time that I give myself a break for every other Sunday probably more like every forgive me of trash wash away these things it would hold me back to understand the reason we don't want the thing with the keeps us from doing you think it's our spirituality will need to go. We soon this week here in our own church went flat their little angel wings and fly know we all mess. The one thing that keeps us from asking God to either just flat out denial or pride. Pride asked Jesus to forgive you.

I'm okay, but a good week and messed up that much ask your spouse never messed up this week.

Yes honey I actually have a list I'll share with you now and you can think about your even hold on the Prado graphology and you know in this moment it would. Well my war is not as bad as some people I don't know why we do well makes us feel better pick up the newspaper. We watch television, listen to the radio, we hear about horrible people praise God I'm not that bad yet. There was some money in the bottom of the maybe you remember the story to people go into Temple church if you will. One observer, the one thing I can.

The other thing God be merciful to me a sinner passages which one do you think God is part of you is at war with Kathy have to come to grips for you, not only at war with God really think about your with yourself. If you come to the Lord asking to forgive your sins actually wants to follow the Lord you keep stumbling.

We talked about before we go to these passages, how do you how do you do that will part of it is an act of will to follow the Lord. He's given you the power I renewed life or change life or you can make decisions for God you can do that you're able to do, but you have to make a decision on what controls the spirit of the flesh. Most of your somewhat familiar with my test used to play rock 'n' roll music and and in that lifestyle is just like it's normal to indulge every fleshly desire. You and you get in the circles around people and everybody else is doing well. It must be okay because everybody's doing this, but is still wrong and you know what, there is no peace. There is no joy in living that life yielding to the Holy Spirit. Some people they still held most of been the lifetime timeout. I'm here I'm not there. Guess what this is better. I've explored both. So now you don't have to go find out for at war with God, you realize this will you realize that if you your carnal fleshly so important. Your body dies your selfish nature.

Your carnal nature dies and in your spirit lives on and and part of why that is because of you and your present form got the habit you would walk around to figure out what was wrong. You would walk and go that musically. Do I angels because they sing a little more quietly. I don't like that your carnal nature doesn't belong with realize this and of your carnal natures at war with God, he realized you can't fix.

You cannot fix it.

He doesn't say life in in your little self-improvement. Think life in the spirit he gives you the will to make the decisions. Part of it really is up to you but the life you cannot fix you. You need to do that you realize you can't fix persons persons in front of persistent body that you want to live a life of Christian frustration tried to do that. Pray for me can share with, but they need the Holy Spirit to change them from the inside out. You cannot fix. He gives you the will to make the decisions. Part of it really is up to you the life you cannot fix you. You need to do that you need friend. You know for sure that your sins have been forgiven.

You can know right now only Jenna short, simple prayer simply telling God you're sorry and asking him to help you to live for him. Please pray this prayer with me out loud right now. Dear Jesus, I believe you died for me that I could be forgiven and I believe you were raised from the dead that I could have a new life not done wrong things I have sent and I'm sorry. Please forgive me of all those things. Please give me the power to live for you. All of my days in Jesus name, amen friend of you prayed that prayer according to the Bible.

You've been forgiven you've been born again, so congratulations for you just made the greatest decision that you will ever make.

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