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Scripture Intro:
Scripture Reading (“Please stand…”)
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Pray...
Intro:
Prisoner of War
From “War Psychiatry”
The stages of the POW captivity experience are as follows:
capture, imprisonment, confinement, repatriation, and reintegration.
Capture:
Expectations fade of being rescued
A sense of disbelief that it’s actually happening
Imprisonment:
Feelings of longing for freedom, wishes for sympathy,
disconnected from the world are common in this phase.
This is also the period of hyper-vigilance, alertness, orienting to surroundings,
and attending to detail.
Long-Term Confinement:
The third phase of the POW experience, confinement, is characterized by
exploitative interrogations, confessions, isolation, boredom,
demoralization about the uncertainty of the situation,
and the need to make decisions regarding resistance and compliance.
The hypervigilant state (Imprisonment) is replaced by apathy,
unease/dissatisfaction with life,
and gradual movement toward accommodation to the situation.
Temporarily in Bondage
Awaiting Rescue
Ashamed that they were forced to surrender
Easily Lose Hope - “Will I ever get out of this?”
Felt Enslaved/Bondage
Life is Not Worth Living
Hungry/Mistreated/Malnourished
For us as we live out our lives...
many seeking Christ are frustrated, disillusioned and perilously close to despair because they are burdened by habitual sins that “rule over them.”
And often these sins are kept hidden because of the fear of judgment and rejection.
First, there is a sincere desire to stop but an inability to do so despite their best efforts.
They feel trapped in their behavior.
Think about it in terms of addiction: addicts feel powerless to stop the controlling behavior.
Second, the sin and the extent of its destructiveness remain in the dark.
Consequently, they experience tremendous shame and guilt.
It begins to define their walk with Christ and becomes THE ISSUE of their lives.
Third, there may be a Jekyll and Hyde quality to their lives.
When the pattern of behavior kicks in, they become someone else.
In addition, they may do really well in achieving victory and then have a sudden slip or relapse, seemingly out of nowhere.
Fourth, the behavior almost always isolates people from true relationships.
And both the cause and the solution of the behavior have, at their roots, a relational component.
Thus, the solution has to focus on the relational and not just the moral.
But more on that later.
Finally, acting out the habitual sin has an idolatrous aspect to it.
Whatever they use in seeking to get their needs met is taking the place of God in their lives.
And the list of things that could fit into this category of struggle is long...
Lust / Pornography
Sexual Sin
Alcohol Excess and Abuse
Substances
Over-Indulgence
Gossip
Control
Fear of the Future or Fear of Man
Pride
Envy
Anger
Grumbling and Complaining
Discontentment
Laziness
Greed
Lying
Manipulation
If you need summary categories:
Augustine divided the flesh into two main branches,
pride (self-aggrandizement) and
sensuality (self-indulgence),
Luther - the main root of the flesh behind all other sins was unbelief;
Our Behaviors are the Result of Our Desires
Verse 16 sets the stage...
Verse 17 helps us truly understand the true nature of our struggle.
“desires of the flesh” and “desires of the Spirit”
We will return to the fact that they are at odds with each other.
For now, I want us to see how our desires manifest themselves into actions.
In v. 17, “desires of the flesh”
v. 19, “the works of the flesh are evident: (the list of things)”
In v. 17, “desires of the Spirit”
v. 22, “the fruit of the Spirit is … love, joy peace, patience...”
In the case of sin,
“Desire” becomes “works”
In the case of the Spirit,
“Desires” becomes “fruit”
In both cases, desire leads to a more tangible realization of that desire.
We often think of these as attitudes, characteristics, or outward behaviors.
So, the desire to have the same wealth as someone else,
leads to “enmity”, “envy”, maybe even “fits of anger”.
So, if you wishing you had someone else financial status...
and it shows up in you having “fits of anger”...
Then, for you to seek to stop your fits of anger...
is only dealing with the symptom of your real issue.
Now, stopping “fits of anger” is a good thing.
Yet, it does not solve the real issue.
Typically, our anger reveals what we really value...
And when that gets blocked,
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