Conflict : Man vs Self
Do you know you and your husband or your are your boyfriend? Going on a date and you're looking through your closet and you're saying to yourself I have.
I just heard your Ginger this place. I have nothing to wear and you up while you're looking at your clothing. Do you like? Yeah, because I have nothing to wear. You never seen that dress ever first time. So that's conflict there. Then we can be the same way and it different. Write the different about the same exact way. We might not do it over closing. Like what do I wear?
That's right Frank. That's where I was going never look man. I need some new tools. I don't know. If I do babies act when this car parts lady. I know I got this bumper. But this bumper did you see the fender? In James 1:8 this is going to be our first it was dead until today. It says this. a double-minded man unstable in all his ways. Do in the context of the scripture did Jesus talk the author is talking about face. You know what you're talkin to God you better make sure that your mind is set on what you're asking for because if not and you have doubt your double mind it but it's really weird in a weird way. We pray this sometimes pray for the best. prepare for the
that's not face.
Oh snaps. I just put a Christian cliche didn't I? Best double mindedness. What do you mean Jesus that word say that but think about Jesus for most put this in Jesus's mouth.
Jesus can you cast a devil out of my son? Yes, I'm going to pray for the best, but you need to prepare for the worst. It's not fair. It sounds ridiculous in price of off. Don't worry. I'm a pray for the best.
That statement who created so much instability in your prayer life. I am not saying don't plan for rainy days what I am saying when you pray you have to come into a place expectations because your mind is focused because of this appointment. You know why? We don't we were just pray for son. You really got it you believe you fought the fight of Faith like I'm not eating breakfast. Maybe it's not breakfast you maybe it's lunch, but maybe you really switch to get out going for 2 days no food. If you were to place of believing expecting and you didn't get it.
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I had that happen to me and let me tell you that hurts your like you like your feel like God. Where are you?
But then we don't we never we tell we make stories that we like I'll never do that again. And I'm going to tell you something faith is the substance. It's a substance of things hoped for and evidence of Things Not Seen.
Even when you didn't receive it and you still believed I could that is Faith and Satan wants to rob you of that type of face when you don't get what you believe four and prayed for and then you give up That's what Satan wants to do. It's called wearing down the Saints but God wants to create stability or not. He wants us to be so he wants us to be stable is not double-minded because it will produce a lot of crazy things in your life. The Sixers of conflict are still the same today. It's still going to be God and man man in self man and man man in society man and nature and man demonic. These are going to be the six areas of conflict right now World area number 2. We covered area number one, but now we're on area number 2 of Man vs self. And this is the place of internal conflicts from double mindedness.
I don't know what you got for me don't couples and they may have broke up like 10 different times and then finally the guy proposes. But then he says now we're breaking it off and then he has to propose again.
You never know someone like that. I do and I'm thinking my heart like Are you guys really going to get married? Are you guys going to keep going back and forth?
How many people know that's like an unstable relationship?
right with your self. Are you like that?
Yeah, is there colder yes is there no?
Who's singing that song now? Yeah, I know. What does how it is and they don't you know, which way you're going which way is up, which way is down. I want to tell you where the internal Compass starts to we're going to look at Kings. Okay? Give you some background stories. So you guys know the first king. What was his name? First king of Israel. What was his name second king of Israel It was awesome, right third king of Israel. king of Israel
Yes, we're here. That's a weird name. Like imagine if your parents named you rid of them. What's your name?
What is Solomon's son rehoboam he's on the scene has gone he died and he's the new king and his friends. How should I treat the new the people that I'm over and his friend told him this is what you do you tell them that you're going to work harder. 35% you tell them that the way my father was and you thought that was terrible. I'm going to be 10 times worse.
She tells the people this stuff and this is where the story fix up. It says that when the people realize that the king meant what he said and he was refusing to listen to them. They began shouting down with David and all his relatives. Let's go home of his own family and they all deserted him except for the tribe of Judah Who Remain loyal and accessory of them as their King went in Riverside Auto Ram who was in charge of the draft that can strip conscript men from other tribes a great mom still in the death, but King. Ravana Escape B. And fled to Jerusalem and Israel has been a rebellion against the dynasty of David to this day.
That's true even now. Play Israel is still a rebellion to the line of David who Jesus came through because they rejected Christ.
But there's always a rain that I want to say that.
Imagine this for a moment what things in your life? It's going to change your lineage.
and either bring acceptance or rejection. Let's move on.
And when the people visual learn observable has returned to Egypt he was asked to come before an open meeting of all the people and there was there and there he was made king of Israel only the tribe of Judah continued under the kingship of the family of David. When King River arriving in his army, all the able-bodied men of Judah and Benjamin 180,000 special troops to force the rest of Israel to acknowledge Him as key. But God send a message to shemaiah the prophet.
Tell me about the son of Solomon king of Judah and all the people of Judah and Benjamin. They must not fight against their brothers the people visual tell them to disband and go home for what what what has happened to real balm is according to my whiskey. So the Army went home as a lord had commanded your ball now built the city. I checked him in the hill of the country Ephraim and became the capital later built Pinnell unless I'm careful the people will want to descend of David Hazard chain.
You guys found the story kind of want to talk to me so I can just do you like now?
Israel's divided now into Kings you have one king who is Solomon from David's line? Who's over Judah and Benjamin is with him a little bit. Then you have the other king whose over the 11 tribes name Jermaine and jeroboam jeroboam said you're going to be the next king because I'm ripping it from Solomon. Because Solomon disobeys me so his sons going to pay.
We already talked about this Solomon son when you get into the store if you got rid of arm and jeroboam my goodness gracious.
Crazy ones are ones of Jay.
And so real go ahead who is the king of Israel? He's like listen, they're going to worship God that's where the temples at. And Israel would go there commanded by God a certain times and festivals to Worship the Lord your appointed by God over the 11 tribes. He's sitting there like, oh my goodness. Thank you. Thank you. Do these bombs I tell you.
Thank you. So jeroboam is thinking to himself right now. He's like, oh know if they go back to Judah. They're going to fall back in love with the King. rib pain
The king of Judah so I don't want them to do that all the sudden jeroboam got this fear. God damn 11th drive and he's afraid that they're going to turn back to the king of Judah. Go ahead.
And when they go to Jerusalem to sacrifice at the temple, they will become friendly with a cake with with King real boss and they will they will kill me and asked him to be their King instead. So on the advice of his counselors, the king had to golden calf Idols made until the people. It's too much trouble to go to Jerusalem to worship. Just stop right there. Why did he? Create this cat. These two cows. Why did he create that? out of fear
instead of allowing them to worship God he created an idol out of fear.
Amigos on it says this from now on these will be your God. They rescued you from the your captivity in Egypt. One of these calf Idols was placed in Bethel Music Bethel means what house of God and the other one and Dan.
This was of course a great sin for the people worship them.
This King because of a place of fear. He had internal conflict. I want to share something with you your internal world. That's you come up there this week myself and I sometimes me is fighting self and I don't know why.
The first place of conflict is found internally internally with man. When did it start it started after Adam egg in the your God and immediately said I was Brave any head. So ever since then been had this fear problem going on.
Most of our conflict in life is an internal struggle between fear.
This is when this was jeroboam became so unstable. He's like, oh no. Oh, no, they're going to fall back in love with this other king. What am I going to do? What am I going to do?
I mean you have to think to yourself. How did that work out for your forefathers? And then he's like those about the calves opens up.
What the rules are 1000 East? Like why?
You have brisket, dude. It's good. something I mean
But your Red Bull him King jeroboam came to a place where she became double-minded. Double-minded this is instability. And because of fear and caused him to be double-minded and double minded people are unstable and all their ways according to the word of God. Let me tell you something. I don't know about you mad, but my wife's not here right now.
But you know like when we used to go and try to get food is better now, but in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and Mickey D's. I would go and say honey. What do you want to eat? She said I don't know and I would say what do you think about this? I'm not in the mood for I thought you did know what you wanted to eat.
Don't know man, cuz he ain't been relate to what I'm saying. You ever have that issue iclick.
And you said oh, yeah, never.
I don't sit there like what you said. You didn't know what you come on to me. Finally, I'm like, how about you choose what we tell her? I'm in the mood for Chipotle. That sounds good to me. Actually any food sounds good to me.
Double mindedness and trust me. She can have Stories We around like that to see if you like. What do you want to watch today? Like when it's our time to just relax?
Superman but very complicated. Japanese anime voice does not like that stuff at all. But I'm just like well. What are you watching? This is us.
Look, what's that about is this drama?
If it's a really good show though. She really got me into it's a good show. When your double-minded you ever sit there at a TV screen and just Flik Flik Flik Flik Flik, you looked at the guide already and you kept going you're like, I don't know what I want to watch. Or you might say this statement. There's nothing to
the three areas of instability are these areas right here can be measured emotional mental and physical.
Most people wear in stables in our emotional Bean which is in their soul.
You ever been angry that excited and angry again? Kinda like this weird looking roller coaster at Six Flags.
Or are you more like that other thing called the doctor Jekyll and mr. Hyde that just drops you're up and then you drop. Tell me when it's mental mental instability.
Mental instability is really just really can't make up your mind.
Can't make up your mind about nothing or you don't even know how you're feeling. I don't know how I'm feeling. I'm feeling what feeling.
You go to the dentist and he can give you a Feeling.
Last is physical physical instability. Do you know what that is? thickness
that is when you're physically unwell.
But trust me I know how that feels.
Instability can be measured though. And what does this have to do with us as believers?
In your emotions, you might want to be well, but you might be fighting negative feeling you see how that's conflict and your mind you may be thinking that this way I could go that way but you also have another thought this is what about that and then it kind of freezes you're making any decision. And physically cuz your body's fighting well.
I'm not going to go to the physiology of all that. But it happens. That's why our body has its own immune system. So when don't go there?
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One thing that we can say about all those things. It is an internal conflict. All those things are found within a person not outside of a person. Like if I'm emotionally unstable, what does it have to do with RJ? Cat making me emotional because like you don't know mad.
If I am mentally unstable, what is why is that Jim's problem?
And if I'm physically ill why in the world would I blame Katie?
right These are all internal they are within a person during a person's own being and I promise you the root of internal conflict is is love versus fear.
the root I'm willing to go there and say all internal conflict is rooted in love horses fear.
Love will always respond in fear will always react.
jeroboam He could have responded but he reacted and that reaction started off a chain reaction. This internal fear of the people being swayed back to the king of Judah made him react. It away where now he's reacting to do and that he finds his counselors.
And he convinces people out of his own fear. And they make a calf actually two of them and they start worshiping a false god.
jeroboam reacted bad
It was always your reactions. You're not responding. Is there a late what's the difference between a reaction and a response you ever put it out son you wish you never said. I didn't even think about it and it's out there now. reaction But then you might have had loving you responded in a place of reasoning when you are in a place of fear your but your mindset proven goes to the back of your head your thinking from this place. It's also known as a Reptilian Brain.
Survival instincts and you're in survival mode and the only thing you're thinking of is how can I survive? How can I get out of this? What am I going to do next and you're not thinking logically anymore?
You're just reacting now. Why do we have this? I don't know about you. But if I'm in war that I want to make sure I can kick it to my survival gear, right? Tucker's of Place Ford But which one we're using it out of place.
reacting in a place of fear will bring about a chain reaction of fear. And it will spread to others.
This one man's fear caused the 11 tribes to send. If you go on reading in King's it tells you that this was a group one of the greatest says done in Israel. Chapter after chapter guys remembered for his fear. and how his fears cause people to set
How do you say about internal conflict is that love? When you're an internal conflict that love brings internal control beer brings external control?
When you're in the state of fear you or if you're trying to control things outside of you. What was really going trying to do we're going to rejoin the people study. Hope you like it.
Rib pain was like, oh no.
They're going to want to kill me. So then he had to bring about external control to bring internal. Peace.
When you are in a state of fear, you're going to try to control your outside so that you have peace in the inside.
Have you ever done that before?
story time
you're at Walmart. You got your kids, right? Yeah, little kids exact five of them.
And you're pushing your shopping cart a law do to do to do and your little kids are starting to act crazy, you know. I don't know why but in Walmart, that's where they think it's time to let go of man pulling stuff off the shelf run around the store and one of the worst days is they start screaming right and then immediately Other people in the store start looking at you. I want you to keep their family and control. How do you know what I'm talking about? And they look at you and they're putting their condescending judgment and you feel that without them saying a word? because of your body language
immediately internal inside of you you lose. Peace.
Because now your kids are making you look. Okay, so we know exactly what I'm talking about.
and because now you don't have internal peace you start reacting in a place of fear of what others are thinking about you and you start saying
you don't want to spank them right there because guess what? I know you're bad.
I can't believe that woman just gave their child a little pat on the but I would never Poor judgment, even how you responded with reactive there's judgment and criticism and because of that that's what happens and we try to control outside to bring peace to the inside that is when you know, you're living in the state of fear. Do reacting in fear is when you're trying to control the outside the ring internal. Peace.
Love will always bring self control. Love doesn't care about what others think about that. The hotel that will Jesus do you really care what they thought or did he commit himself to no, man? about his father How about we just follow his example cuz he was love wrapped up in the Flash.
The only remedy that we have to deal with this fear that we all said some fear at times at times. That's what the scripture tells us in Timothy. Go ahead. 2nd Timothy 16 through a Timothy we did it activation weeks ago about stirring each other's up by the laying on of hands don't picked up here. That's why I would remind you to stir up kindle embraced of fan The Flame or and keep burning the Grace's gift of God. The inner fire that is in You by the means of laying on of my hand with those of the elders ordination. For God did not give you the spirit of timidity of coward of Craven and cringing and fawn and falling fear. You guys don't following theories?
No. Find Sears to find a subtle. It's very subtle. If you don't know can't pick it up. We really don't pick it up. Cuz we we sometimes take it as extrication. vegetation could be like Jen which is the encouragement gym, dude, and you worship God it's crazy and I get excited to worship God to expectation but funny is this thing that people do when they're afraid because they're really scared of rejection. And if you don't see that you won't recognize it. It's simply this cuz tell you how amazing you are. Amazing. Your nose is amazing dude. I like your nose.
Didn't you shirts me?
Yeah, I'm falling over him. And it's not really because I sincerely like your nose your nose looks good on you, but I don't think it look good on me to do magic.
IMovie fun with it. I can't do like I can't reason this right now.
What is the funny thing that people do because it's a fear of rejection. So he's telling Timothy who's the pastor don't you fall on people like that? Because you're afraid they don't want listen to you with you. You don't got a spirit of fear that goes on but has given us a spirit of power and of love and of course, well-balanced mine discipline and self-control. So when your operating in love come on because it is self con. Pictures God is telling you learn how to deal with your internal temperature. And quit trying to deal with the external to bring your temperature at peace. How do you say Do not flush or be ashamed then to testify to and for our Lord North me a prisoner for your sake but with me take your share of the suffering to which the preaching of the Gospel mix suppose you and do and do it as a power of God.
Post tell Timothy look dude. The only remedy that you have to get rid of your fear is the power of God is the spirit of God. The only way that you can overcome that overcame. Hold on. Let me remember the word of the Prophet that told me I was going to be the king over the 11 tribes because God had a stab with a decent if I follow his ways like David man who make my lineage long and it would be beautiful, but if I don't good Lord But instead of finding stability on the word of God that was spoken to him taking it in and demonstrated out words. He was unstable flashlight.
Thank you. I love you. We must reason then if God said I didn't give you a spirit of fear than fear is a Oh, no.
fear is a and the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal means freshly, but they were spiritual Mighty to bring down strongholds in the Flash. We were in the spirit of the Living God is a spirit that I must reason also that love is a
Come with thank you. Love is God's. When you are moving in a good God, you're moving in a place of Love Actually moving in a place of God if I can say it's called being in the god state.
What is spirit-led mean being in the god State led by God?
Not that you're a God put in a stink or God is functioning in you and through you.
You understand what I'm saying?
You have a fear state in a love Stage. And when you rid of fear State you function from a place of survival and self-preservation. If you want to examine it a little more Adam, he's hiding covers himself with big leaves. I don't know if he was doing but that's what he did.
And godly, where are you? Why are you hiding who told you to be afraid? What's going on here? I do believe when God saw Adam again. He saw a man in God's image, but not men with God's.
Because a new thing came about coffee r But how many people know that we can overcome this because the scripture says so buy what buy what buy the spirit he's given us which is a power love and soundness of Mind self control.
Next week. We're going to look at how we can overcome the state of fear. And how we can actually live in a place of self-control cuz self-control is not controlling others.
You think your resume realize that they meet me at a time learning so much stuff. There is so much stuff about God know what I got married. I learned a lot about God when I became a and I'm not good Lord. I'm learning and I really realize how much I really don't know.
But the funny thing about it is me and my wife we had two different upbringings, but we're learning of a way of parenting and we're basing it on the style that we see God teaching us and parenting us.
Approve this last statement. Then we're done does god control you.
Now you got busy. Give you stink of Free Will doesn't he? And then you know why you did that because you wanted you to be responsible.
Because you can't be responsible. He can't entrust you to more of his kingdom. So he says learn to govern you well.
Self-control better word is governing. Self-government. Yes.
and for that reason we the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union.
I'ma pray Jesus. We thank you for your word. We thank you. That is true. We take you that you're transforming Us by the power of your word and by the energizing of the Holy Spirit In Our Lives. We thank you for you just breaking down things to us so that we can live the abundance of life that you promised us. And we acknowledge you as Lord of our life and king of our heart and we give you praise honor and glory in Jesus. Mighty name. Amen.