Thanks, pastor, banner thanks team Queen of these
guys around close as well.
That all the things I cannot do it about you, but I have no
music ability at all in me whatsoever music and art are not
gifts that God has bestowed upon me and I never seen these guys
he's driving away in all their glory. It is inspired me to so,
so much they're doing an incredible job well. We are
continuing our series to normal wait until 8:00 AM brings out my
illustration. Just you know this would this would otherwise
distract you wait. This is
Pinocchio. I own him.
Just in case you are modified or you thought you borrowed it now,
it went on Facebook marketplace. You can find anything on
Facebook. Marketplace literally anything like who needs the
black market when you have Facebook marketplace. Another
I've used it for that reason, but I'm sure you could I mean,
if you can find a wooden Pinocchio in less than 25
minutes you could find anything.
Don't try that theory. Yet we are continuing our sermon series
on the night. Time is called tough texts of the Bible and
this is an interesting thing because who knows if you been
saved while they're being scriptures in your Bible Way.
You've read that passage and thought I have no idea what that
means next passage and we can often leave our Christian life.
Skipping through much of the Barbara laser few chunks of the
Bob was simply because we don't understand it. If this is your
first time to church tonight, maybe a friend brought you this
night will be extremely interesting for you and can I
say this is that there's some passages in the Bible that as
Christians. We believe, and we read that are odd and then are
confusing. As Christians that sometimes that case that we
wrestle with that. That makes it OK. I was training with their
student number of years ago and he had some doubts and he was
wrestling with a few things in his faith and he came and saw me
set my time really worried about
my faith. Because I'm I'm resting when certain things, and
he equated wrestling with ideas and wrestling with topics and
wrestling with things in the scriptures are something
negative and something detrimental to his face and said
hang on a stick.
The wrestle often produces understanding and the wrestle
often produces something of worth in the wrestle often
produces when he read a passage of scripture when you raise
something you think I don't necessarily understanding or
does that even mean and when you wrestle with it. It's when your
face starts to come to life watching movie recently. And
there was a married couple that arguing they weren't fighting or
arguing over a certain point of view and there was a couple next
summer who were split up and is this married couple arguing.
The the other the separator wife turned to her.
Voice husband and said if we argued like that, we would still
be married and I looked in there. I thought interesting
point that often times are Christians and as people of
faith. We rest with things we argue with passages of scripture
to make our faith, hope and this passage here is is interesting.
One you may have read it. You may have not done it before you
may think what on Earth. Are we training that can I encourage
you there's still a few things that God can teach just in this
passage of scripture in the second Timothy Paul writes that
all scripture is God breathed.
An old scripture is useful that even though passengers can seem
obsolete or passages can see just totally left of field.
So we can still gain something out of them tonight and so we're
going to read a passage from Genesis Chapter 6 in Genesis
Chapter 6, it's after the creation story. Just did a theme
called 7 sermons back God the past been did that talked over
the topic of creation and and this follows on from that, but
the story goes slightly if not extremely pear. Shaped Genesis
Chapter 6 verse 6. We're going to start out there.
It will be on the screen or you can refer this in your blah blah
as well. I also believe all the kids are in Kids Church. But if
you haven't had the birds and the bees talk with your kids.
This does briefly involved that in a negative way. Some of you
got excited. But it's not good verse. Six then the People began
to multiply on the earth and the daughters were born to them and
the sons of God saw the beautiful women and took as
there any as they wanted to be their wives. Then the Lord said.
My spirit will not be put my spirit will not put up with
humans for such a long time.
For they are only mortal flesh in the future their normal life
span will be no more than 120
years. In those days and for some time after dry it never
lights or lived on the earth for whomever the sons of God had
intercourse with women. They gave birth to children who
became the heroes and famous Warriors of ancient times.
Job chapter one verse 6.
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themself key passages sons of
God. Came to present themselves before the Lord
and Satan, who also came among them. If you just saw
what on Earth. You are correct in this passage of
Scripture Genesis talks back. It's the very, very beginning
beginning of the human story. God has done creation. His
build something that is great. He's built something
that is perfect build something that is constantly
says Time and time again, the creation story, it is good.
And then in Genesis, 6, it says the sons of God came had
intercourse with women. 'cause they saw their attractive had
children by them and those children with a great men. There
were essentially the great men over. Now they were heroes and
famous Warriors of ancient times, it gets more interesting
when their terms. Sons of God. There's a few different
theological points of view on this topic, and you can search
this, if you would like to later on in your spare time and go
down a million different rabbit Warrens and conspiracy theories.
If you would like to but most theologians would say that.
The terms sons of God, it really refers to demons or a fallen
spiritual. Angels drove 16. I mentioned before because it says
the sons of God came with Satan to say, Hey, God can, we start
to tempt job.
And so it goes on the story of job where God says OK but these
are your limits and see if this passes rescriptor that says what
there was daughters and fallen Angels or or demons. Moses
refers them as demons. First often Jenner on me, so that the
ladies were attractive came instead of having children with
them and these children were somewhat divine, but also not
divine now we see this in popular culture don't me without
superheroes. Half God or half divine and also half mortar at
first one up here if you.
A love one woman, we've seen one woman one woman is obviously
half. Something half God or the divine being and also half human
the next one. We see in pop culture. If you're a kid in the
90s here grew up with this as your constant babysitter.
Hercules on the Disney Channel was incredible. The old one is
always much better. We have Hercules again son of Zeus, but
also had a mortal mother the
next one. And my personal favorite if you haven't seen
Guardians of the Galaxy spoiler alert star. Lord also has divine
heritage. And this passage of scripture sort of goes on. This
light and we think it wasn't just a fairy tale isn't that
just something that People create in way back in the day in
terms of mythology. But ancients believes that Once Upon a time
in the Bible says that.
Something similar happened this story and I'm gonna get a little
bit history. Gate carefree with you for a moment. There's a
statue of the screen, and the oldest story that archaeologists
have ever found is called the Epic of Gilgamesh. You can
search this up online and this is a statue of Gilgamesh. Yes,
he is holding a lion under his
armpit. So he was a massive man in the Epic of Gilgamesh talked
about a man called Gilgamesh did Gratian might mighty things and
he started up civil civilization in Mesopotamia and he was half.
Devine and a Half Men and because of that. He did
incredible things and this was founded and it was data 2100 BC
4000 years ago, the oldest story that humankind has ever picked
up and this was the story of that ancients believed and we
have this passage here that
talks. Similar and says, well after creation, something
happened, and it wasn't good that God created a world that
was good and was pure and whatever the logical perspective
on how you interpret expect the policies sons of God. If it was
fallen spiritual. Angels or or if it was just People that were
fallen in rebellion to God. However, you take it that the
main point is this that something came into God's
creation and turned it.
Because you have Genesis 1 comes in and 2 comes into the creation
story is incredible. And then evil comes in and Genesis 6, the
whole story goes S.
And it ends up finishing was not.
The evil penetrates to such a great extent that God and we'll
get to in a minute. God says this has gone too far. That is
almost irredeemable and thank the Lord for nola and it says
that Noah came and Noah was one who was righteous and knows one
that serve God. But it was if that the rest of civilization
was somewhat controlled or influenced or having their
strings pulled by.
The evil that literally stood
behind it. Have you ever heard the term someone
pulling the strings?
Someone behind the scenes, pulling the strings and they're
unseen and often times you don't realize that are there, but they
are there behind pulling the strings and making things happen
or not happen?
If your movie box, we see the
movie all time. If you've seen Captain America, The Winter
Soldier who's the Captain America for anybody here.
And in Winter Soldier, we see Hydra and hydro is obviously the
Bad Fellows and the bad guys. But there's a God. They are
played by Robert Redford, who's there. The main guy in the World
Security Council. You know this is serious when you have titles
like that as your job. The world security cancel and hide from
the bad People if you haven't seen the movie should consent.
And a Hydra is there during all the bad things and it turns out
the end, Samuel L Jackson because who knows every cool
movie has Samuel L Jackson in it, he must be like 70 by now,
but I don't know how he keeps doing it. He comes in and it
turns out that one of the good guys is actually the bad guy,
and all these bad things that have been happening has just
been this guy behind the scenes. Pulling the strings and causing
issues to happen. We see if you seen it double 07. Spectre just
ain't seen there were James Bond? Is there and his brother
is there. Evil guy amenaza get anymore, crazy in this and his
brother is there in any turns to James Bond. He says all the
stuff for the pain in that you've gone through it wasn't
me. Papa bow then the car chase in the movie gets incredible.
My favorite, however, scene with
this in terms of. Someone behind the scenes, pulling the strings
is of course, the greatest Disney movie of all time, which
is The Lion King. Now, if you were born in the 90s a Lion King
is your childhood to a great extent. I have not seen the new
Lion King yet mainly because I'm scared. I'm like the Star Wars
nerd afraid to go and see the new Star Wars movies because
you're afraid that the new ones would be worse than your
original because the original is perfection and he knows The Lion
King it starts out with Simba in
the Gorge. And scar his uncle is there in scars walking along
with Simba down the Gorge and chatting with him and then.
Is that it the movie goes and scar is on Top of the Rock and
the hyenas are out with the water based. There says don't
start this Stampede yet because we're waiting for Sky did give
the signal. Hang on a second
thought scale was good. And Scott gives a symbol on the
wildebeests running and Simba is in the middle of the Gorge and
so scar runs to move fossa. His my Fasa. The water be still
running again, which move faster applies great there would be
sent to do that and then he says the famous line Simba is in
there. He's in a situation that he is just cause but now he's
trying to play the good guy.
And so the story goes that he orchestrates the death and move
faster and. Simba goes off to be with Simone and Pumba.
Happy for the rest of their days
no worries. And he goes off, and as a whole Life, which scar has
been behind the scenes and being the string master with the
proper until symbol realizes that that's what's car's been
doing and he goes, and fights it
as passage scripture. We see a well, just gone wrong because
evil is had his way. We see a world that has gone wrong
because evil has so infiltrated humanity and People have allowed
themselves almost to be under that spiritual covering that's
not good. That Amber notes to them. They've been that puppet
with the string master that isn't for their benefit.
And no one comes in the story and a low is singled out here as
the only righteous men left.
Talks about men of renowned men who were great Warriors men who
will Warriors of ancient times, but they weren't good which
brings the point that power isn't necessarily good that the
good things that we seem as good can often be just ways at the
enemy is trying to use as a puppet on a string.
In Genesis, 6 comes in and regardless of its complexity and
what does that mean we just see something that went so far S so
very, very quickly that we have to see the spiritual
implications from it.
In Genesis Chapter 6 verse five it says the Lord
observed the extent of human wickedness on the
earth and you saw that everything they thought or
imagined was consistently and Totaly evil.
That is crazy have you read this passage before and this is the
passive dressed before the flood comes in. When God has made the
world and he says everything they thought or imagined.
They even have any good thoughts husbands never even thought to
buy their wives Flowers.
Like People didn't even think, to do anything could it wasn't
even a flickering thought of or I should do something nice but I
wanted the thought wasn't even
there. It says whatever they thought whatever they imagined
was consistently and Totale evil. I mean, usually even a bad
People have some sort of conscience and then even the
worst of the worst havoline that they even they won't cross.
And it says here that that line, just simply wasn't there
because. Enemy you're evil or Satan and so infiltrated.
The thing that God had made her sticks of the Lord was sorry
that he had ever made them and put them on the earth well.
And it broke his heart.
God says repeatedly is good. It is good. It is good. It is good.
It is good, but the devil has
so. Create a civilization where he's the puppet master and
they're acting out evil. The God says it broke his heart and the
Lord said. I will wipe this human race that I've created
from the face of the Earth. Yes, I will destroy every living
thing all the People and large animals. The small animals that
scary along the ground and even the birds of the Sky. I'm sorry
that I ever made them.
But Noah found favor with the Lord. You can see the extent
here. The Biblical writers of Genesis are trying to get across
that God is so, so sorry that he ever made it because of what
evil has done to his perfect and good creation ever made
something and then it broke or made something even worse and
somebody else came in and
destroyed it. Couple years ago, I had the opportunity to run a
Lego club at school for some reason in some way, shape or
form, in Panama, which happens drop. Emma someone above me put
me on the roster to do a primary group, which was the
Lego now don't mind getting paid for now to play Lego with
small children. That's perfectly fine. They of course.
I have nothing else to do that. You possibly take up much time,
but the most interesting part of Lego was there another when
the roster guys in here.
Is when People would make a Lego and if you have children? You
would have seen this yourself they would make a Lego statue.
And then somebody else will get there look in there, I know it
seems like a great two boy.
And the other person was usually a girl who's more creative in
them and then better at Lego than them and the boy would look
and this would happen often.
And there were 10. And they would look back and there were
10 and then we get their arm go
black. And destroy the little girls Lego person
and she would be so distraught. He broke my
leg. Oh, he break it break your own Lego.
Because it made it and someone else is coming in broken. It
even tried to build something or build a relationship or build a
career or build something of worth or something in value in
your life and then something else has come along and
destroyed it. And you almost couldn't stop it from breaking.
We're in this image here in Genesis, where God has built
something great, but that evil has come into his creation and
twisted it and destroyed it and the very thing. He loves turns
S. He says, but now I found favor with the Lord. It's
interesting here that Genesis Chapter. One verse 28, says that
the first command that God gives to humankind is to go forth to
multiply or their People said I'm in and to be fruitful.
The Internet for negative effects. The Genesis, one
multiplying was good because they did it in God's why they
multiply because they walked with their Lord, but now there
multiplying but has a negative effect because there's something
in the background, causing them
to act. And why they weren't
meant to before. China seeks it says the game that People
began to multiply on the earth and daughters or wants
them and ahead. Detrimental effect is a few things here,
we can learn from this passage of scripture in all
its seemingly absurd nature.
First thing we can learn is don't become a puppet to the
wrong master. That something good in God's creation.
Is now used in the wrong way?
That we don't become a puppet to the wrong masturbate. Instead we
realize what God has in store for us. Instead, Genesis 6 verse
8. It says, but now I found favor with the Lord.
Continues on averson iron and this is the account of Noah and
his family. Go imagine everybody else has worked so far away from
their moral compass and only know it is left. Imagine this in
your workplace you're the only one that ever tells the truth.
You're the only one that does the right thing and the only one
that does even a thought of
purity? This is not so this is the kind of noise family. Nor
was a righteous man that only blame was person living on the
earth at that time.
No is a good man.
And he walked in close fellowship with God.
Everyone else is being influenced by the evil and
there's Noah. So even know was extremely strong willed, or had
the moral compass of a Saints or he had something different.
You had something different that the rest of the world
didn't seem to have wouldn't want to have that period of
time.
It says here versus non and he walked in close
fellowship with God.
No what's in close fellowship regard that when everyone else
was announced to them simply the hand of a puppet master and evil
was controlling and manipulating them to do issues and things
that they didn't shouldn't have been doing. Noel was one that
instead of allowing himself to come under that chose to walk.
The sound of a different drum.
And chose to walk differently and chose to believe
differently by the life that he was meant to live.
We say this the New Testament pull right system. Ephesians
chapter 6, it says for we are not fighting against flesh and
blood enemies. But against evil rulers and authorities of this
unseen world against mighty powers in this Dark World and
against evil spirits in the heavenly places. All rights in
the New Testament way way way past this and reminds believers
or minds. Christians remind this one that we have an enemy and
even may not see it, but he still there trying to pull the
strings in our relationships.
As a church this morning.
And there was.
A family there and
When you come by both him and his spouse had been at church
and knew they were going through some sort of difficulties and
she hadn't been there for awhile and it comes up to me at the end
of church this morning says before I walked out the door. My
wife came to me and said.
I want to step right and this is over and now we've got 2 kids.
But I'm out. I'm done and he said. I was looking at the
church. The time and he's like well. We're not doing you wanna
stay here, we can Taurus at
night go yet. And he said his I've been praying and believing
in a bit, but just seems like there's a veil across her face.
It seems like the violence seems that whatever I say whatever I
do this is something that's not going in. It's almost like this
is something else. There manipulating the situation. Even
when I say I love you. It doesn't get across even when I
try to do something nice. It's as if it's not received even
whenever I do it as if there's something else, there trying to
get ahead of this happening that is happening that won't happen
and just simply trying to play in the problem sure you've seen
this in your own life in terms of relationships or deeds or
things that work with uh something behind them and say.
Lord I know it's not you but I know it's not them is there
something else here that need to pray against Saint Paul writes
interference that I fight isn't against People, but against
principalities and powers of darkness that we have a
spiritual battle and as Christians. We need to be simply
aware of the first thing we learn is don't become a puppet
to the wrong master.
It says in those days and for some time after dry it never
lights lived on the Earth.
For whatever the sons of God intercourse with women. They
gave birth to children who became the heroes and the famous
Warriors of ancient times.
The part of the Christian worldview is that evil is
present, and needs to be known.
But there was able that came and evil that had its effects, but
it seems as if an entire civilization became unaware.
Of the roots of the issues. They yes, they were soon that yes,
they were doing the wrong thing with the Barber. Clear says
there was something else behind it. The second thing we can
learn from this passage of scripture is simply to be aware.
But everyone else was captive to
evil. The strings are paying almost pulled by
evil itself. But it says Noah found favor with the
Lord now was simply away.
No, I mean?
You have the human race and then somehow Noah is singled out.
Me know was stillborn.
In a normal way.
No wasn't divine it was just a Manolo.
Maybe he looks like Russell Crowe if you've seen the movie.
I want to get your theology from it, but he was just Noah.
Princess nor walks with the Lord, which means that he was
aware that he could walk with the Lord that he was aware that
it was possible to not be played by the spiritual powers of evil.
But he actually had the opportunity to walk with the
Lord and to walk differently. But he almost busted being aware
that actually what's going on over here isn't good.
And he must have had some awareness that it was wrong and
it was bad. And it's not the way that he or his family should go
as this brilliant book that is a personal favorite mind called
the screwtape letters and run by men called CS Lewis also ratnani
and he writes. The book from the perspective of almost the
opposite perspective on which you would think it's written or
written in the universe that it's a devil writing to his
nephew and his nephew has a person here on Earth, which he
is trying to get to not follow
God. So his uncle, Screwtape is writing to his nephew, saying if
you want him to not follow God make him do this and make him do
that and it's almost a battle plan for how to get this person
to fall away from Christ.
And in it, he has this
incredible. Ah.
Conversation with his nephew.
It says it's in response to even asking should I make myself
known. Should I make myself the big fat booty amounts to under
his bed try make him scared of the devil and scared of
spiritual thing is the scale of the battle and should I make him
really fear. The Devil and this is the response of his uncle in
the story as a demo as a devil in says I do not think you will
have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark.
The fact that Devils are predominantly comic figures in
the modern imagination will help you if any, faint of suspicion
of your existence begins to rise in his mind simply suggested him
a picture of something in red tights with a Pitchfork and
persuade him there since. He cannot believe in that he cannot
believe in you? Is writing instead of simply just keep your
patient keep the person that keep him absolutely unaware that
you even exist that you're simply just the puppetmaster
trying to play.
His strings a 30 second point we can learn here is simply to
be aware that when we get into an argument or we get into a
pattern of life that isn't helpful and we get into doing
things or even in the argument with somebody else.
The maybe not fighting against
them. But maybe a fighting against the thing that they've
allowed themselves to be controlled by all rights of
Ephesians. We don't fight against flesh and blood enemies.
He's running to People that will literally being persecuted and
murdered and mastered by the Roman Empire had pauses just
just hang on a sack because it's hard to love them. If you've got
argument with them. But if you realize that your argument isn't
necessarily getting stem. But it's against the evil behind
them that have allowed to influence then you can start
praying. Send it pull rights and later on, he says because the
weapons of our warfare are
useful. Because if we were just fighting against People
then maybe I would have to get the gunner and had to get this
Aubrey says because you're.
Pho is spiritual means you've got weapons that your side.
We've got prayer. We've got fast and then we can actually go into
battle and fight against his spiritual powers are not
defenseless and get what against with the enemy throws at us for
our families. No, we are to be aware certain last thing we can
learn from this passage of scripture is to know who you're
walking with it says, but Noah walked with the Lord. When
everyone else was simply going along and being influenced by
evil itself that Noah walked with the Lord.
And it adds intentionally
doesn't it? Even in the midst of chaos. Can you imagine trying to
be say Christian but?
Trying to follow God as Noah.
I mean, it's not as if like my work. Place is tough, but church
on Sunday phrasal over church aren't some Christians 'cause my
workmates are all crazy.
Me no, I didn't have that is this Noah like he's a loner.
It's just nice isn't Noah walked with the Lord.
Pretty much by himself and Minnie and his wife and his
kids, but here's the one
influencing them. And no, I had the intentionality that even
when his world was in chaos to walk with the Lord.
You know what the Lord Mister
Claus. Number number of years ago, I was preparing a message.
I was preaching at Chapel Hill High School and we were living.
And really Creek just across the road here at the time and.
I went for a walk. If you like me or this is less true for me.
If I pray at home. I fall asleep. That's just being
honest, so I'll get up and I'll
go for a walk. No, it's 7 in my head and I walked down the road
up to Observatory. I would see the Observatory and there's
quite often simply just praying at the message in my head and
seek the Lord and went up there. One night just walking with the
Lord. And here this helicopter above my head.
And after of living in Nerang. Amusing helicopters flying over
my head because the little that happened on a daily basis living
in Nerang on the edge of the state florist, but back then. It
wasn't a common occurrence and so there's this helicopter.
Willits spotlights shining around the park that I'm sitting
at the Observatory just doing just walking with the Lord.
And the topic continues like 5 minutes and for 10 minutes and
then a police car rocks up.
And 2 German Shepherds get out of the car and 2 policemen and
they start walking towards me. I thought this is a God like is
the Observatory undress walking with the Lord and now chaos
comes into my situation is police officers come up to me.
I'm sitting there, minding my own business walking with the
Lord being very spiritual and they came up to me and says, and
say what are you doing? Who are you? Why are you here? It's the
middle of the nights have you broken into homes in the
Observatory to which I answered.
So I'm at school chaplain.
And I'm up here praying doing my sermon.
And you can picture the looks on their faces.
As a 20 year old says this to 2 police officers with their
German Shepherds and their Tasers and they said really.
So you didn't go through any homes on your way here to pray
and walk with the Lord.
And funny enough next to me was a butter knife on the
table and they said, is that your butter knife. Have you
used that tonight and I'm thinking? What the heck? Can
I do with a butter knife?
Like even if I wanted to do something it's a butter knife.
What would I do this?
And so for the next 45 minutes. I was interrogated
observers Troy because apparently someone that had
been traipsing through back yards in Observatory,
breaking into homes and because no one else is
around. I was the subject.
And then in my Terra Gation
Observatory. I said look we do believe that you did something
we believe that you did break into houses. We believe that you
haven't been telling us the truth. But because we have no
proof. We suggest that you walk home very quickly and without
going into any more homes.
I just said, I'm a man if you like how walk home. I'm going to
argue but I simply tried to follow the Lord and to walk with
the Gobots Chaos, just came in here trying to walk with God,
and seems like chaos is all around you and you almost are
only one saying but Noah.
Found favor with the Lord.
And everyone else is going
cuckoo. And then as a means I'm just trying to walk with the
Lord in chaos. And the same thing we can learn from here
simply to know who you're walking with in the midst of the
couch that often surrounds us. I'm sure now. I also looked
around, and thought, what the
heck is going on. What on earth?
We simply chose to know here, he was walking with the worship
team and come up.
The story of Pinocchio.
May have seen the movie, it was
1940s, so. I want single edit
out. A surfer Nokia made 9 of Pinocchio is made out of wood.
And IKEA is there made of wood and.
The owner goes to bed.
And I'm going to bed. He makes a simple wish in the story starts
off with Jiminy crickets, saying saying if you wish upon a star.
The only goes to sleep in, said I wish that Pinocchio would be
made into a real boy.
Historia star comes and Pinocchio best life.
In the movie, Pinocchio is there.
Is it a show when there's all these puppets all of them with
strings attached to them. There's a boy puppets's girl
puppets as big puppets of small puppets as puppets that are
animals as puppets for the entire show. There's puppets
attached with strings being moved by men up the Top and the
audience watchers as puppets move and puppets go to the left
and public are there right and puppets jump up and jump down
and jump sideways and puppet sing in public stores puppets
doing the children are applauding and entertaining
everybody. And then Pinocchio
jumps up. And Pinocchio used to have strings.
But he became alive.
But Nokia jumps up there any things this song?
I've got no strings to hold me down to make me Fritz will make
me frown. I had strings, but now I'm free there are no strings on
Main. Hi Ho, the Mariot That's the only way to go.
I want the world to know nothing ever worries me.
I've got no strings, so I have
fun. I'm not tired to anyone they've got strings, but you can
see. There are no strings on me.
Romans Chapter 6 verse 17 going to land this thing here.
Paul writes about the faith in
the hope. And the stringless life, we have in Christ.
He says, but thanks be to God.
That, he you who once slaves to sin.
Have become obediente from the
heart. The stand of teaching to which she would committed.
And having been set free from
sin. To become slaves?
To righteousness. Genesis 6 talks about it.
Time in an era where everyone was simply a puppet
on a string, but Nola.
And we say thank God for the
cross. Thank God for Jesus did.
But we can also seem like Pinocchio did I once had
strings, but now I'm free there are no strings on me.
The Devil often tribes to attach the strings, but
we can say through faith and through Christ. There
are no strings on me.
When the enemy comes and tries to cause us to go back.
To Papatya, we simply say you have no hold on me. You have no
hold of my actions. You have no hold on my face. You have no
hold on my family, you have no hold on my arguments or assembly
where you're having a hold on
me. Because Noah what's with the Lord Church when we send
our feet here.
Maybe here and you said I once had strings, but now I'm free.
Or maybe you're hearing is simply say you know, I I've seen
that spiritual fight in my life.
I've seen that fight sense when evil has come in.
And she tried to manipulate a situation or circumstance.
Maybe here have simply said. You know, I reckon much my love. I'm
still giving my freedom over the puppet master of old.
I've allowed evil to come in and
to influence me. One it's not you simply want to say Jesus
would you come in which cut those strings have been that
slave to sin but Lord? I want to be a slave to the good on a walk
with you wanna be set free only redeem that I want your grace
and your mercy and your life to come into me their UI clothes
and head bowed. Simple not
simple question if. You saying on my life.
Isn't being directed?
By God Jesus isn't the leader of my life and give up my sins.
But I want him to be that soon this place, which is simply
raise your hand and say Jesus.
All those strings cut off.
Crosses through many of them before you simply saying
Jesus would you come I've been that slave to sin?
There's been at spiritual fight what I want that freedom. That's
in this place, which is simply
raising hand. Come on yesterday, Hendersonville right team going
to come in chat with the options
anybody else. Is anybody else?
It's also very raising here there's anybody else here.
Come on, but you can open your
eyes. I'm going to finish this song and options going out
hanging out. Can I cash? Maybe we've seen this last curse. You
like you know what? The enemies try to attach a few of those
strings. Maybe an argument in a fire or something in your life
where you know that their spiritual enemies come and
tried. To play.
It's lost some kind carriages simply give every
crossed and say Jesus I once had strings, but there are
no strings on Main.
Let's pray God, we thank you
father. So what's your team site supply. God we thank you.
Freedom we thank you for your grace. We thank you. Have got it
says. But Noah found favor with you. I think we've found favor
with you look God through? What Christ did for us on the cross.
We're not saved by works with by your Grace God. I pray lives
anymore. Obvious now logo that is simply maybe allowing
ourselves we played. By the enemy that by the spiritual
enemy, we have low God. Thank you right now is we give it to
you find freedom in you?
In Jesus name and make him lunch. I just worship a
boyfriend.