You Are Not the Problem
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Welcome to contagious power live!
All negative beliefs about yourself and God will die here. I’ll do everything i can to stop you from believing bad things about yourself here!
You are powerful. You are accepted. You are worthy and righteous. You’re a good person. You’re really, really important.
I’m a former pastor. I stepped down from my church to help address some of the really bad problems i see in the church.
I’m an evangelical. I believe Jesus is the only way to God. I believe salvation is not by works, but by grace through faith.
I’ll take questions at the end.
I started this channel to bring clarity! To help everybody understand some of the most confusing things about serving God. If we’re free from the law, what do we do with the law? Why is it so hard to live correctly? Why are Christians so mean?!
The Devil has one goal: to make you believe bad things.
First, about yourself.
Secondly, about God.
Why?
If you believe bad things about yourself, you can’t believe good things!
If you believe good things, you will act accordingly.
Examples:
Believing you’re dirty vs. righteous.
Believing you’re powerless vs. powerful
Believing it’s bad to believe in yourself, vs. believing in yourself.
Believing God is mad at you vs. believing He’s patient, loves you, and took away the requirement of the law!
In today's church world, Christians are continually told that we are fighting ourselves.
That our flesh, or sin nature, desperately wants to sin and disobey God. In this episode, we'll see how these ideas are not in the Bible and are actually responsible for Christians feeling defeated, hopeless, depressed, and pushed away from the church.
churches today want you to believe you are totally corrupt and only want to sin.
They have passages to support this view.
Total depravity. The corruption of the flesh. Our sin nature.
But i can PROVE they are wrong.
What’s the result? People believe they’re dirty and hate God and in love with sin.
If you think that, how will you behave?
Churches are scared that if you stop believing you’re evil, you’ll stop fighting your flesh.
But you should stop fighting your flesh! Flesh is not what we’re fighting as believers.
Our flesh is a problem, but only because it’s weak, not because it loves sin.
3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
The Bible does not say our flesh is strong. It is weak.
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
evil craving n. — an inordinate, self-indulgent craving (that displaces proper affections for God).
We all bring presuppositions into the Bible. We really have to let go of our upbringing, and what others say, and just look at the Bible.
Peter says we should be like newborn babes and desire the pure milk of the word.
What does this verse actually say? Does it say our flesh lusts after sin?
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Sin is not simply actions. We all think sin is nothing but missing the mark.
Or we think sin is only actions such as lying, stealing, cheating, etc. But how could actions live in your flesh? How could actions produce evil desires in you?
The greek word for “sin” is “hamartia”. It has 3 main definitions. Here is the one used in R7:
sin (personification) n. — sin personified as a destructive and depraved principle reigning over unbelievers and persisting in believers; especially as a slavemaster doling out payment with the currency of death and decay.
It’s not just actions! Sin is also a force, or a principle. It has the ability to reign over us.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Sin, as a force, has dominion over us. It is sin that we’re fighting, not our flesh.
What does romans 7 say? We delight in the law of God. We “will” to do good, not sin!
Our enemy is the force of sin.
I want to release everyone right now, you are a good person. you want to please God. You love Him.
You aren’t sinning because you want to. You’re sinning because your flesh is too weak. You’re sinning because you’re trying and striving.
Here’s how I can prove all those churches are wrong:
YOU FEEL TERRIBLE WHEN YOU SIN!!!
You don’t feel terrible about doing stuff you want to do!
The solution is righteousness because of Jesus.
1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
If your flesh wants to be righteous, then believing you are righteous finally shuts your flesh up.
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