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Today’s sermon is called the Two Towers. Anyone Lord of the Rings fans? Yeah, I knew you would be. You’re very nerdy and you too. Yes, I knew you would be. You’re very nerdy and you too. Yes, I got you. I got you Okay. So the two towers.
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Father, please speak to us as we study your word and learn your truth. Help us to stand on your truth. In Jesus’ name, we pray amen.
The Two Towers: Introduction
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Our new identity in Christ does not make sense to the worldly mind. It doesn’t make sense to the worldly mind. We just learned last week that we are the temple of God and holy. All that’s by grace. You’re made the temple of God but we don’t really look holy or feel holy sometimes, right? So if we use our reasoning, we’re going to determine that we’re not really holy. God’s just saying that we’re holy. But we can’t just use our minds. We have to believe our identity minds. We have to believe our identity. So you either know your identity or you believe your identity.
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You might think I’m struggling with sin. I’m struggling with this sin or that temptation to sin. So that must be my identity, because I desire it, I want it, I feel like that will satisfy me, that will completely. So that must be my identity, which means I am a sinner or some other way we put it. I’m an alcoholic, or I’m an addict, or I’m a fill-in-the-blank, because what I believe about myself is what I am. That’s how our minds work, maybe because of the trauma in my past, or repeated failings, or even just deep, dark, secret desires that never seem to go away. And all this evidence adds up in my mind and in my heart to tell me I’ve got a problem that needs fixed, and God doesn’t seem to be willing or able to fix it for me, and so I need to find a way to fix it myself or nothing’s gonna happen happen and I’m going to end up in hell, or at least never free from this struggle that I’m struggling with.
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Hmm, or we just entire the, we abandon the entire idea of sin altogether and holiness and righteousness, and we just stop calling wrong and right wrong and right and there’s no such thing as morality and in this weird new morality that we invent, anyone who believes God is moral is immoral. So that’s how it gets twisted in our minds. And what I’ve just described is the way the wisdom of this world is messed up, the natural way that our minds work, and it doesn’t really make sense because God’s wisdom is completely different than the way the world thinks. It’s contrary to the world, it’s offensive to our natural mind, the way that God’s wisdom is, dare I say, stupid. The world thinks we are stupid or foolish.
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The Bible says the world looks at the way we think about truth and about God’s love and his reality and they’re like man. That doesn’t make any sense at all. So it’s like in one corner we have the world, all the wisdom and philosophy that men can achieve and all the answers men can come up with about why we are the way we are and why the world works the way it works. And then in the other corner we have the wisdom of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they will never agree and they will never have peace, and we cannot have both. You can’t be in both corners.
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Tyson’s going to bite your ear off. We must choose one or the other, and even today we must choose. Choose one or the other. And even today we must choose. Are we going to believe in the wisdom of God or the wisdom of man? Because which one of these you choose will be the path of life or death for you. It will lead to blessings or maybe even some cursings in our lives. It will lead to joy or to frustration. So let’s dive in and let’s put on our grace glasses to see how things really are, because God does an amazingly wonderful job of simplifying everything for us today as we look at the Word.
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So we’re in 1 Corinthians 3, verse 18, and Paul says Let no one deceive himself. And Paul says let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise For the wisdom of this world is foolishness. To God, for it is written, he catches the wise in their own craftiness and again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are futile. So
World’s Wisdom vs. God’s Wisdom
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two worldviews are being discussed here. They’re like two towers built on different foundations the world and its system.
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The world’s philosophy is built on pride and self-sufficiency. Pride, the idea that I deserve something, and self-sufficiency I am going to go get that thing that I believe I deserve. Pride also is this independence from God, while the wisdom of God is built on the foundation of humility and faith. Humility is the attitude of dependency on God, interconnectedness with God. Not, I’m independent and I can do whatever I want, but I’m so dependent I need my father and I’m not complete without him. Oh yeah, I could live my life on my own, but I love him because he loves me, and so this love creates a bond between us, and that’s humility and faith in God. Is this tower of wisdom from God? Paul tells us that one is a deception. It’s stupid in God’s sight. It’s crafty, he says, but it’s not right, it’s futile, weak and pointless. Paul says to build your life and live in that tower of worldly thinking. But our thinking needs to be transformed so we don’t fall for that deception.
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In Proverbs, chapter 3, verses 5 through 7, it says trust in the Lord with all your heart. If see, if the world was writing that, it would say trust in yourself with all your heart. If Satan was the author of the Bible, he would trust in yourself with all your heart. That’s literally his only game plan. Instead of listening to God, listen to yourself. Hmm, trust in the Lord or in ourselves? You can test any thought. You can test any thought. It’s in one of those two towers, each thought you have. And this verse helps us identify and see and learn what faith in God looks like. It’s trusting in God instead of ourselves.
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I think I need this, but you know what I’m going to seek, that I need. I say I need this. What do you say? I need God and I’m going to walk your path. First, I’m going to honor you with my actions and my thoughts. God promises he will take care of you. If you choose faith in him, he will heal you, he will love you. He does love you and he’s asking us to put our trust in him.
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James, chapter 4, verse 6, says but he gives more grace. See, god loves to give us grace, he loves to give us grace. So therefore he says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. So God has a way that he gives grace, but it’s not to the pride, the proud. He gives grace to the humble. That means there’s something in our heart that will keep you from getting God’s help, god’s grace, god’s blessings, god’s gifts, god’s life, and that thing is pride. God is like pouring out his grace, like just think of like a waterfall falling from heaven, just continually splashing down his grace, and it’s just like in this area. And he says if you have humility, you are under that waterfall receiving his grace. If you just have the heart attitude, god, I need you, you are there, you’re getting his grace. But the moment our heart says God, I need me, moment our heart says God, I need me, or you need me, or I need what I think I need and I’m going to abandon, then we immediately are placed outside of his grace waterfall.
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Now, did God change? Did his lovingness change? Did his kindness change? Did his willingness to give grace change? Absolutely not. He’s still pouring out grace. Jesus has so much grace that he’s pouring out. But our response, our heart. Reality, our relationship with him governs whether we will experience the grace that already belongs to you. The waterfall is yours, it’s got your name on it. But we can keep ourselves from his grace by saying I’m going to live in pride.
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God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. His help, his power, his joy, his blessings, they’re all transferred to you in a very real way. So we see the two towers here. We see the tower of pride and the tower of either dependence on God that is, humility or depend on ourself or man’s wisdom. What other men tell me? That’s his plan. It’s been his plan since Adam and Eve. That’s been his one plan and it’s designed to isolate you from God, who loves you and wants to give his life to you and everything that you need, through dependence on him.
The Grace Waterfall
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So the plan of Satan is just to separate you from the grace that he wants to pour out in your life. Grace is God’s wisdom. Self is man’s wisdom. Grace is God’s wisdom. Self is man’s wisdom. Grace is God’s life. Self is man’s sad attempt to live outside of God’s life.
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So now we have an application. How does this matter to us? How does this matter to us? How does this apply to us In the Bible? When you see the word, therefore, you got to know what it’s there for. So cheesy, but what it’s there for is to tell you why. He just said how do we apply what was just said? So look what he says. Therefore, let no one boast in men In the church. He’s saying we need to renounce man’s wisdom, reject it wisdom, reject it, be hardcore about it. I’m going to trust in the Lord exclusively, not in man, not in man’s wisdom. Let no one boast in men. So everything we just learned, the application is don’t trust in men.
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Four, now, this is crazy. All things are yours. He’s going to remind us now of our identity and the grace that’s been given to us, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas. These are different ministries that were happening or the world, or life, or death, or things present or things to come. All are yours and you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s. So again he says let no one boast in men. That’s man’s way, man’s philosophy. Don’t live life in man’s tower, don’t trust it, don’t believe in it, don’t follow their advice.
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It’s a sad but more scary deception of what life is supposed to be. Paul is telling his church family to stop looking to men, stop looking on this plane, and lift their eyes up to the head of the church, which is Jesus. And when they get their eyes on Jesus alone, they will discover that they have everything they need in Jesus alone, because he says all things are yours. But where do you discover that you actually have everything that you need? Only in Jesus, only when you know your identity in him, only when you’ve begun a relationship with him by grace and you’re continuing or growing in that relationship by grace alone.
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He, jesus, jesus is the fullness of life. He is the life. He’s the way, the truth and the life Exactly. There is no life besides him. Outside of him, what we are actually experiencing is a slow, creepy death. He is life, it’s death. He is life. He is that breath of life that was breathed into our lungs in the Garden of Eden and as each one of us breathe our first breath as we’re born, he’s the one who puts that there. He didn’t breathe his life into us so that we could live independently from him, but through him and with him. To be connected to him is the plan, that’s the design.
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So he says, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world, or life or death, or things present or things to come.
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All are yours and you are Christ and Christ is God’s. So all things are yours. Now what does that mean? It’s included in the grace gift that God gives us, the grace that’s included in the grace gift that
All Things Are Yours
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God gives us, the grace that’s been given to us. It includes all things, everything we could possibly need. God has said I will give it to you. I will give it to you. Everything we could possibly need to become. God says I’ll work that in you. Everything you’re ever called to be. God says I will do that for you, I will develop you. Everything you could want, everything you yearn for. God says it’s yours, it belongs to you. Absolutely everything is already yours Things you don’t even know that you need.
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God’s already made the provision. Things that you don’t even know that you desire. Things hurts that you don’t even know that you have, that need to be healed. God knows all about them and he is absolutely, and he is absolutely already given the grace to supply those things. So some of you may be going through incredibly difficult things right now, today. Number one we know it’s not a surprise. Number two God has worked out the situation so that right now, you’re going through something he already knows about and he’s already made the provision for, and so we are experiencing it in real time. He’s like I already know that I love you and this is designed for you to grow in your knowledge of me, to grow in how much I love you. You’re my child and I will not abandon you, and I’m here and I’m going to convince you that I’m here. Things to help us let go of that tower of man’s wisdom and stay in the tower of his wisdom, of humility and faith, of abiding in his life.
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Everything we need Jesus has already given us, and for us it was free. Does anyone know how much it cost Jesus to give us all this? Yeah, it cost him his blood, his life. He had to pay the price for God to freely give. Before Jesus came, in order for us to get those blessings, to feel like God’s children, we had to live a perfect life and he had 10 commandments that we had to follow. But once Jesus comes, he sets us free from having to live up to the standard and he says anyone can come to me and receive all the blessings that God wants to give you, because God wants to pour out his blessings, he loves to pour out his blessings and the system of us trying to earn them was not working, because literally 4,000 years of people tried and zero succeeded. And so God has a new covenant, a new plan, a new way where Jesus earns the blessings and we get to receive them.
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What’s required of us? No works, zero works, but two relational realities called humility and faith. Humility is a heart that says God, I need you, jesus, I need you. I acknowledge that I fail, that I sin, that I’m broken and I’m hurt and I’m sick and I need you and I really believe that. And then faith is a heart that says God, I’m going to trust you, I’m going to trust your word, I’m going to trust your son, I’m going to trust you exclusively. And God says if you develop that heart, if you choose that way, that’s how you get in this tower and you get all the blessings.
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Everything you need and everything you actually want is already yours. What do you actually want? Do you actually want to be rich? No, that’s not actually what you want, because rich people are sad and angry too. What you really want is to feel loved, to feel worth and value, to feel safe. And those are the things God says they’re yours. I love you, you are safe with me, I’m going to protect you, I honor you, you are my child and you have an identity in me, and that’s all the things that are already given to us. All things he says are yours.
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So why do we strive for things that we still think we need? Why do we do that? We should rest in what we have. We should rest in his grace. We should rest from our self-life and enjoy God’s grace life that he’s given us. Because of our union with Jesus, we have access to all spiritual blessings. Let me read to you in Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 3, one of the craziest verses that you’ll ever see. It says blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, jesus Christ, who has blessed us. That’s past tense with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. That means everything heaven could possibly give to you. Everything you could get from God is already yours. You don’t have to earn it. It’s already yours.
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All spiritual blessings includes wisdom, life
Understanding Union with Christ
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First, all spiritual blessings includes life, even victory over death. Paul is teaching us that our identity and worth is not tied to anything man can see or obtain or deliver. Instead, it’s all in a relationship with Christ. Everything you look to men for is really found in Jesus. Ah, man, I want to feel loved, I want to have friends. I want my friends to like me. We all have those needs and those desires in our soul, but we will only ever truly discover those satisfied when we receive it from Jesus. When we get it from Jesus first, he says all are yours and you are Christ, and Christ is God’s.
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This describes our relationship with Jesus, our union with him. We are one with him, just like he is one with his father. You know what blew people’s mind when Jesus came to the earth? He called God his father. Nobody did that until Jesus came. Zero. We’re so used to. Oh, Father, god, and everyone prays that way now and we just accept it and take it for granted Call God their father. So when he because it was too close, it was too familial, it was too much separation, because he’s holy, and Jesus is like I don’t have to, because I’m holy too.
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And in John it says John, chapter 14, verse 20, at that day you will know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you. Sounds confusing, but what it’s saying is it’s describing the union we have with God. Union is what we call this, or you could call it united closeness. And this is the most important thing you can learn in this world. It’s the most important thing you can learn about the gospel in life in general. This is the most important thing. Your union with this is the highest treasure of all the treasures of knowledge. I think it’s dumb. You could succeed. Who cares? You’re not gonna succeed. For all the pursuits of this world? For all the pursuits of this world, this relationship of union with Jesus is the greatest, deepest, most amazing treasure of knowledge anyone could ever discover. You may have your passions and your desires. I’m telling you, what you’re most deeply looking for is found right here, in this union with Jesus and union with Christ is one of the most central doctrines that has ever been discovered.
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With him, you could say, a union is not just like some metaphysical reality, because you are as humans. We are physical, so we have a mind, will and emotions and a body. This is how we interact with the world. Like this, if we’re robots and we are also invisible, so we have an invisible spirit. Now, the animals were not created with that. Animals just have the physical part. They can only interact with the physical world.
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We have a spirit, which is part of our being that connects and relates to God in the spiritual world. And this is just how it’s To be God’s counterpart, to be God’s counterpart, to be God’s bride. You could say we could be loved by him and love him. And so our union is when we are bound to him and connected to him in the spirit. And so, in the spirit, what happened when Jesus died on the cross? Physically, you weren’t there, but his spirit was there. And when Jesus connects you with his spirit, then what happened to him happened to you. So you died on the cross with him. When you trust in him and when he rose from the dead, you also have risen from the dead. So we died on the cross with him, which means we are just as innocent of sin as Jesus was. We are cleansed of our sin, we’re forgiven truly of our sin, and then the fact that Jesus rose from the dead to serve his Father in newness of life, then we also have the same life given to us, and that’s what the Bible talks about.
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What happened to him happened to you and the other way around, what happened to you happened to him. So you think, absolutely he does. He knows your pain, he knows your feelings. He knows your pain. He knows your feelings, he knows your thoughts, he knows your heart. He has united himself that. He feels what you feel and he knows what you know. He shares with you, and so we get to hold nothing back, even the things that I’m worried about. I can share those with Jesus, and he shares with me his life and we live together.
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The apostle Paul describes this as verse 17 when we get there, and so this means that we are inseparably connected to Jesus, sharing his life with us, and this already is true of you, whether you believe it or not, but you’re only really going to experience it if you choose to believe it, and so through this union, we’re given this new identity that we’ve been talking about, where our old self is crucified with Christ and we’re raised to life. Like we said, that means we no longer have to be identified by our past. So when you think of your identity and then a lot of it comes from your past. But that doesn’t have to be the reality anymore. Our sin and our failures, and even other people’s sin that was done to us is erased and our new identity is the righteousness of Christ. His life replaces everything that we have been through. Now you still might have the feelings, the emotions, the trauma that you think defines you, but it actually doesn’t define you anymore. The real that defines you is the love of Christ that you have in the union with him.
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Now, because the Bible says we are new creations, the moment we believe we are given a new heart and a new spirit. He doesn’t change our brain and our body. Your body is the exact same the moment before you believe and the moment you believe and after. Your body doesn’t change. You’re not given a new ticker and your brain also physical has learned how to respond in poor ways and it’s learned how to do all kinds of fleshly things. Okay, so the brain takes time to renew, but your heart and spirit are brand new when you believe. That’s amazing. That’s our new identity.
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So we’re not striving anymore to get closer to God. We are secure in our relationship. Why does this matter? To know your identity, so that you don’t have to try to be something that you’re not. You don’t have to strive to get closer to God, do you have you guys?
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I’ve said this
Rest vs. Striving
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hundreds of times I need to get closer to God. You ever heard someone say that? How many times have you thought that I need to get closer to God? And that’s actually not the situation. You cannot get closer to God than being in him, and you were in him the moment that you believed.
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Now I understand what we’re trying to say. What we’re trying to say is I need more of God in my life. But that’s actually not it either, because we have all of God already given to us. What we need is to surrender more of our life to him, open up our hearts more to him. Let him take control, because he lets us be the boss of how much in control he is. So he can say we can say I only want you to run this much of my life. And that’s where we experience his blessings, where we’re living in humility and faith. But where we live in pride, we’re going to not experience the peace there, we’re not going to experience the blessing there, so we not gonna experience the blessing there.
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So we come to church and then we say let’s all surrender all of our hearts and all of our lives to the Lord, every area of our life, from our private things to our relationships to how we treat people and everything. Let’s surrender it all so that we can experience the life God intends for us to live and the love and the blessings he has for us. We don’t have to strive to get closer to God. We are already as close as we could ever get because of our union in Christ. We have to learn how to rest in it. Rest in it that’s how you walk with humility and faith. It looks like rest. Do you know what it looks like when I’m walking in pride and self-sufficiency? It looks like stress and striving and worry and work. And I look at the church and I see most people are stressed out, discouraged and trying super, super hard to be good Christians and they’re not experiencing it Because, even though they want to be good Christians, they’re struggling and they’re living in this tower over here, doing it by themselves, when God has done everything. All are yours.
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Paul said therefore, let no one trust in men. Therefore, let no one trust in men. Rest in, enjoy what Jesus has given you. Believe it. You’ve already believed it at the beginning. Now continue to believe it, and that’s how we grow. Moreover, this union that we have empowers us to live the Christian life that we’ve been called to. So the Holy Spirit lives inside us and he empowers us, he inspires us to express the fruit of the Spirit in our daily lives, and the fruit of the Spirit is love, love, and that’s why we’re called One2Church, because we desire to have that fruit seen in our lives.
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Love God one, love others two. It’s pretty easy. We can’t produce that. I can’t tell you love God and love others, and you just go do it. That only comes as a fruit of believing the gospel, believing what Jesus has done for you, believing, believing, believing that is our job. To believe.
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They asked Jesus what do we do to work the works of God? Jesus said you need to believe in the one he sent, which is me. Believe, that’s your job, and then he takes the responsibility for your life. He takes responsibility for your heart, your actions, your words. He takes responsibility for your life. He takes responsibility for your heart, your actions, your words. He takes responsibility for your life. If you simply believe, your life will never be the same. We’re not left to our own devices, but we’re continually inspired and supported by Christ in us to live a loving life.
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So, in summary, union with Christ is the foundation of our identity and our life as believers. It assures us that we’re completely forgiven. That’s our new identity. We have an intimate relationship with our God because we are accepted as his child. We’re completely accepted, and this gift of grace transforms how we live and relate to God and others. So we can see ourselves as a son loved by him. So no more daddy issues and we can be patient with our brothers and sisters who are really dumb sometimes or who are really selfish, and we can understand that they. The reason why they’re acting in such foolish ways is because they don’t have their true identity.
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And so, instead of saying you should change and you should do this that way, and give them all these rules of what they should do. Rules don’t ever change people. Instead, where we say I’m going to teach you about your identity, that you are loved, that God is the answer for everything that you’re searching for, that he will meet your every need. I’m going to demonstrate that to you by how I live my life and I’m going to encourage you to make that choice too, because this tower is a tower of blessing and joy and life. That’s his tower, the wisdom that we can choose to believe and follow in God’s word. We can hide ourselves in this tower. Psalm 61, verse 3, you have been a shelter for me, a strong tower from the enemy. Isn’t that cool? The enemy just wants to get you out of the tower. He just wants to get you to believe the tower. He just wants to get you to believe there’s another way to live life besides humble surrender to God. It’s prideful self-sufficiency. And man, it’s a tower that crumbles.
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I’m gonna read to you one last part of scripture, and that’s in the book of Jeremiah. And it says this in Jeremiah, chapter two, verse 12 and 13. Be astonished, o heavens, at this. And it
Broken Cisterns and Living Waters
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says this in Jeremiah, chapter 2, verse 12 and 13. Be astonished at the heavens, oh heavens, at this and be horrified and say or be horrified, be horribly afraid. Gosh, I’m reading it all wrong. Be very desolate, says the Lord. So God’s like you should freak out about this.
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My people have committed two evils. First, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters. Second, they have hewn themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which could hold no water, cisterns. Back in the day they would be in the desert and so they needed water all during the summer. So they’d dig big holes in the ground, in the rock. They’d have to dig them out of a solid rock. But if the rock cracked while they were digging out the rock, then all the water that they put into it would leak out into the sand. Hence no water, you die.
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So God says listen, my people are so dumb. I am a fountain of living waters, which means I am a gushing out fountain that never runs dry, that you don’t even have to work for. It’s a free gift. That’s me. But my people forsake me because they like to do things themselves. So they like to dig their own, so they develop entire philosophies and psychologies based on here’s what we do. But he says every single time the fountain, the cistern breaks, the well is cracked and the water that they’re trying to save, the life that they’re trying to have to get them through. It leaks out and God says be horribly afraid about this. This is a bad news.
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And then, in chapter 17, he continues by saying this. Thus says the Lord cursed is the man who trusts in man. Trust in man that could just be our sermon right there. Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord, for he shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.
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Make no mistake God offers you everything. He’s already given you, everything you need. All that he asks for you in return is your heart. You have to give him your heart to receive everything that he’s given. What does it look like to give him your heart? It means choose humility, saying God, I need you. That’s scary for us, because we have been indoctrinated from the moment we started kindergarten here in America. You can do it with no help from anybody else. Here’s a belt buckle with your name on it. You can do it, and every time we just encourage that philosophy. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it.
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In America, we value independence so much, but the gospel isn’t that. That is not the gospel. The gospel is we live through him and we need him, children, and he is our God and he’s provided everything. You don’t have to do anything to make that happen, except give him your heart, saying Jesus, okay, I’ll humble myself and say I need you and I’ll trust your word. I’ll believe that you are who you say you are, that you will somehow make us one by me simply believing you. Leave from here. You get to choose which tower you want to live in covenant and his love. Walk in humility and you’ll discover all things are yours. You have everything that you could possibly need. All right, would you guys stand with me as we’re going to sing another song?
Speaker 1 43:27
Amen message today is speaking to your heart and you have a desire and receive that forgiveness. That’s not you. That’s putting that in your heart and he’s like working from the inside, calling you. Receive my gift, receive my son,
Closing Prayer and Invitation
Speaker 1 43:54
and your sin will be forgiven. Your life will be transformed. Place it with a brand new heart. If you know that’s what you want.
Speaker 1 44:03
Believe, jesus, that your death pays for sin, and come and live in my heart. You can pray that prayer in a moment, in a second, from the heart, and you will be absolutely forgiven. And, jesus, we as a church family we love you and we are so grateful that you give us your wisdom in the word of God, that you teach us about the union that we have with you. We could have been left with zero information or just believe in you, but no, lord, you give us all that we need to renew our mind and to think differently about our trials and about our needs and about our wants and our desires and our lives. God, you give us a tower we can rest in from the enemy, and I pray that each and every person in here would fully surrender their lives, that we would not live for ourselves but we would live for your glory with every decision that we make. In Jesus’ name we pray Amen.