• Ideas Have Consequences - So What are the Ramifications of Our Ideas, or are They Really Ours in the First Place?

  • Apr 7 2022
  • Duración: 1 h y 10 m
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  • Purpose: What’s your general idea of purpose? How do you think about yourself in the grand scheme of things? Too many people have no clue what their purpose is? It’s scary to think that Christians actually feel this way… like they have no connection to the truth… why though? Their worldview and ideas about importance are mostly framed by those with the biggest influence. They follow Jesus in theory because he’s love, and the embodiment of kindness and compassion. It’s easy to follow this idea of Him in that way… but this is as far as people go… in fact, Christian people today are more like vampires… sucking on the blood of the truth of Jesus when they need it, but aside from that… they could care less about Him. I know this way too. I lived this way… (example of living inside the palace… do you live as close to the center as possible, or are you in the business of empire-building, pushing the boundaries and getting as close to the edge as possible while still staying inside… this is an easy thing to do. This ends up playing out something like this: we just go along to get along. Churches today are filled with people just going along. Here’s the thing… it can’t be like this… C.S. Lewis said this… Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.I believe I am created with a specific purpose, not a generic one; I’ve been given new hope through Jesus… In chapter 5 of the same letter, Paul reminds us why Jesus matter… why this purpose exist… before we were dead, because Adam, way back when… decided for the rest of us… not to follow the purpose and plan of the Creator… this then brought about massive consequences for creation… you and me… but Jesus in short, took upon Himself the consequences, and being the only acceptable means of doing so, restored me to that place where I can not once again begin to relate with my creator, through Jesus. What this all means then, is that, what Jesus thinks of me, is most important, because He made me, redeemed me, and gives me new purpose. These are not spiritual feel-good bumper sticker cliches, but the facts… this is what we need to key in on. Facts matter. So let’s be clear… purpose is real, it’s attainable, so it’s pretty safe to say that I am not here to say some verses and shout amen in church a few times. I’m not here to sing praise songs, and pass out Jesus literature… I’m here because God wants to relate to me, like Adam, who he created in the Garden… I am on purpose, and therefore, I need to bath my thinking every day in what that means; the significance of this cannot be understated… perspective comes from living in right of these facts… going along, fitting in, doing what others do… letting stronger, more clever people and personalities dictate what I do and think… this cannot be any way to live… everything that is taking place in my life is inevitably part of the plan… why would I allow what others think than to have the same influence over me… What should have influenced me is the reality of this truth… Let us rejoice in our hope and the confident assurance of [experiencing and enjoying] the glory of [our great] God [the manifestation of His excellence and power]. And not only this but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation]. Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints usLet’s look at the practical implication of this and how we should benefit from this… because we can’t ignore human nature and how we actually function… there are real scientific things taking place that keep us from living in light of the truth Paul lays out in these verses.Habit: How you compare yourself to others, what they think… things like this become the cue that creates the habit. When a person's response becomes a cue for them to behave a certain way. When the way that they feel they might need to act or conform becomes that cue for the way they will behave at that moment,  they are forming a habit matrix based on a thought process that says, “I believe that people, their responses, opinions, and perspectives towards me really matters a lot. Does this jive with Romans 5? We need to recognize what is going on here…  How do you see yourself in a room of people? Does insecurity make you act a certain way? Do you take your cue from how you feel and how someone may be looking at you? Do you have the habit of needing to appear a certain way, or be seen a certain way by people in order to have confidence? Do you create a caricature to impress people… young dudes tend to be the “funny guy” masking insecurity by knowing something clever, having a better story...
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