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Opening
Stage Three: Walls
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ILLUSTRATIONS:
(G) Streets & Alleys Game
(O) Walls from construction at home
(2) Sin Video (Vibe Volume 10)
OPENING:
We’ve talked about having a plan and doing demolition.
The next step in renovation is to build walls.
Show pictures
Discuss how walls are put together:
2x4’s, 16” apart at center (studs) anchored to floor and adjoining wall
Sheet rock (drywall) screwed into studs
Insulation between studs and sheetrock
Tape & mud over joints, mud over screws
Sand and more mud (2 more times)
Spray texture
What do walls do? (Protect, hide, enclose, guide, limit, hold up ceiling, mark boundaries)
Walls are a necessary part of any house.
They create the boundaries of our homes.
Walls are also a necessary part of our lives.
Godly boundaries create protection, safety, and ultimately, freedom.
Teaching
POINT 1: Walls limit us, but also protect us.
Walls make it so that we have fewer choices.
Once we were finished with the remodel, we couldn’t just look into the back room at our house.
We had to open the door.
Because of walls, kids can’t just run out of the house in any direction they choose at any time – walls force them to use pathways – they create limits.
However, walls also protect us: from weather, others’ eyes, criminals, noise.
The two go together: for walls to protect us, they MUST ALSO limit us.
Without the limits, we lose the protection.
So it is in our lives with God.
We need walls for our protection, but those walls will limit us.
If we want the protection, we have to accept the limits.
Israel was told this:
· – God will give the land to them: PROTECTION
God will give the land to them: PROTECTION
· – If they do not do his will, they are punished: LIMITS
If they do not do his will, they are punished: LIMITS
· – walk is blameless: LIMITS.
Is kept safe: PROTECTION
Live with integrity: LIMITS.
Is helped: PROTECTION
· – Obey: LIMITS.
Love: PROTECTION.
Keeping His word: LIMITS.
Love and making their home with us: PROTECTION.
POINT 2: Walls constrain us, but also free us.
Walls trap us, it’s true.
If there is a fire in a house, every direction is not an avenue of escape.
But walls also free us: we can escape to our rooms because of walls; we can shower in privacy because of them; we can rest and be alone and focus because of walls.
Freedom in Christ does not mean give us the right to do as we please, but the power and ability to do as we ought.
So it is with God:
His rules and desires for us constrain us from our desire to sin…
But it is in being constrained from sin that we experience what true freedom really is!
If we were truly free to do whatever we wanted to do whenever you wanted to do it, with no possible negative repercussions, how much of what we did would be to choose to pursue sin?
We would like to say, “none.”
But look at what Paul said to the Romans about who they were before they came to faith in Christ:
Is this what we want to be free to do?
You want to be free to do all of the dead, vicious, hideous, destructive stuff you can?
This is what we want to be free to do?
You want to be free to do all of the dead, vicious, hideous, destructive stuff you can?
He didn’t say they were free to be righteous.
He said they were free from righteousness.
God gives us walls so that we have a standard to compare ourselves to, and an objective to strive for, not in order to save us, but so that we will not be trapped by very different walls: walls of sin and destruction.
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Our freedom in Christ isn’t just for us: it’s for others as well.
When we are free from the control of the flesh because we are in Christ, then we are truly free to serve others.
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· Freedom must have constraints to be freedom, or our “freedom” would merely enslave us to the consequences of our poor choices.
Freedom must have constraints to be freedom, or our “freedom” would merely enslave us to the consequences of our poor choices.
POINT 3: Godly walls must be built in our lives.
I had to build the big wall in my back room for Linda to have her own space.
I had to build the closet wall for her to have a closet.
God is constantly at work building walls in our lives.
He does this by His Word convicting us by His Spirit, through our church family, maybe through the government, or through us learning from our earlier consequences.
He is doing this so that our lives will honor Him.
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· Your parents have a responsibility to provide walls around your life – whether you like it or not.
And they are held accountable to God for whether or not you have and follow those walls.
You have a responsibility to submit to the walls in your life, based upon God’s Word and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
You have a responsibility to build walls in your life, based upon God’s Word and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
But you don’t have to do it alone.
POINT 4: We need others to stand in the gaps in our walls.
Talk about Nehemiah.
– Standing in the gaps
Standing in the gaps
We need our brothers and sisters to stand with us.
We need to stand with them.
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· We need to form real, honest relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ who will hold us accountable for the walls we have built, and stand with us in the areas that we are weak in.
We need to form real, honest relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ who will hold us accountable for the walls we have built, and stand with us in the areas that we are weak in.
Closing
Walls are good and useful.
Build walls to protect your walk and give yourself true freedom.
Read the Bible
Obey your parents
Read the Bible
Have friends keep you in check
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