Part 2 (What do you really want)
Don’t
Be Deceived!!
INTRODUCTION
We’ll never
get what we really want until we discover what is most valuable. But choosing
what’s valuable doesn’t come naturally. We’ve all had the experience of getting
what we naturally want, only to discover it’s not what is most valuable—it’s
not what we ultimately want. But how do we avoid being deceived by our
short-term desires?
So,
what do you want?
The goal
The goal of
this series is not just for believers to align with the wants that God has for
you, but also for the un-believers to hopefully wrestle with some questions as
to what you truly want in your life and for your life.
So let’s get to it, the big questions
of the day is: What do you want?
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The
answer is different for everyone
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The
older you get there seems to be less “what”
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When
your younger there is more “what”
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In
different seasons of life the “what” changes
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But
one things is for sure there we always want something!
Recap
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One thing is for sure, we want our way!
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And we want to do what we want to do!
o
What we really want is perpetual
pleasure!
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And you may not know what you want, but
you know you want it now!
o Regret
always starts with getting something we want
o
This wanting thing, is a tricky thing!!
o
Sometimes getting or way, we lose our
way
Sometimes we will do whatever we can to get
what we want!
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You
say I wouldn’t kill for anything, really??
o We kill friendships
o We kill work deals
o We kill families
o We kill marriages
o We destroy the things that mean the
most to us for what we want
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To
get what we want!
Here is the problem.
Most
of don’t know what we really want, because we are so distracted by what we want,
what we desire right now!
The skinny of it all
What we really what we rarely explore!
“What we really want lurks in a realm that we
rarely explore” Andy Stanley
The good news!
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God, your father, wants more for you
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He doesn’t want more from you
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He wants more for you!
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And lurking in the shadows is what you
ultimately want
o What
you value
o What
is really important!
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So, for the next few weeks we are going
to help you find what you really value!!
So, maybe the bigger question is,
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What
kind of person do you want to be?
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What
kind of legacy do you want to leave?
o From your job
o From you school
o From your marriage
o As a parent?
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Lurking
behind every want, is a bigger question.
o You want to be rich, why?
o You want to be successfully, why?
o What lurks in the background?
We will never get what we really want,
until we discover what we really value!
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Until
you start to figure out what you really value
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Until
you take the time to ponder this question
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You
will go through life searching for something and never find it
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No
one can figure it out for you
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Only
you can
This is true weather you believe or
not, this is true for everyone!
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But
as Christians we believe that our father in heaven wants more FOR us
Know this, choosing what’s valuable is
not natural!
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To
find out what we value, we have to get past what’s natural
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Inside
us all is a conflict between what’s natural and what we value
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And
this is not an easy battle to win!
So
how do we win the battle? Paul tells us in romans!
The problem!
Romans
7:15 (NIV)
15I do not understand what I do.
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This
could be our life verse!
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We
can all relate to this
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We
can all tell a story that’s starts like this!
o Why did I do that
o You know the, “hey hold my beer moment”!
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Just
think about it. Why do you do what you know you don’t want to do?
o This is the problem; your human nature
is to do what you want to do right now!
o Not think it through!
Paul takes it one step further!
Romans
7:15 (NIV)
15I do not understand what I do. For what
I (really) want to do I do not do,
but what I hate I do.
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Some
of us are here right now!
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We
don’t do what we know we want to do
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And
we get to where we hate what we do
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And
that’s is about a half inch form hating ourselves
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And
some of you look in the mirror and don’t even like who you see anymore!
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For
all of us this is a everyday struggle, some times a minute by minute struggle!
We know what’s right and what’s wrong!
Romans
7:16 (NLT)
16But if I know that what I am doing is
wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
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We
know what’s right
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We
know the law
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We
know how we want people to treat us
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We
know how we think people should act
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We
know we shouldn’t do certain things
o Eat unhealthy
o Drink too much
o We should save more money
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But
we just don’t
Can’t you relate?
Romans
7:18–19 (NIV)
18For I have the desire to do what is
good, but I cannot carry it out.
19For I do not do the good I want to do,
but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
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Can’t
we all relate to this
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We
want to do it
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We
try to do it
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But
we just can’t do it!
Why, you ask?
What we
naturally want is in conflict with what we ultimately want!
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What
we want right now
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What
we think we can’t live with out
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Gets
in the way of what we value and ultimately want!
Think about this, nature is dangerous!
·
Look
around you
o Nature is only beautiful from a
distance
o There is no fairness in nature
o Its survival of the fittest
o Its kill or be killed
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And
for us it’s no different
o Cheating
o Lying
o Racism
o Adultery
o Me first
o Revenge
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That’s
natural for us
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And
it will undermine all we value and truly want
Galatians
5:19–21 (NLT)
19When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very
clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,
20idolatry, sorcery,
hostility, quarreling, jealousy,
outbursts of anger, selfish ambition,
dissension, division,
21envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and
other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone
living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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He
is saying we are broken
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All
of this is in you and in me!
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We
are products of a sinful world, full of sinful desires
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And
our natural state, what we naturally want
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Is
ultimately bad for us!
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No
matter how good you think you are
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We
all battle with this daily!
What’s dragging you away?
James
1:14–16 (NIV)
14but each person is tempted when they
are dragged away by their own evil
desire and enticed.
15Then, after desire has conceived, it
gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
16Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and
sisters.
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Think
about that for a minute
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We
don’t ever think we are dragged away from anything
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What
about
o When we get dragged away by old habits
o When an opportunity comes along and
drags us away
o What about relationships that drag us
away
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Sometimes
we are dragged away from the natural, and its keeps from getting what we really
want!
Sin leads
to death!
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When
we get dragged away it leads to sin and sin leads to death
o Death of a marriage
o Death of a friendship
o Death of future opportunities
o Death of a legacy
o Death morals
o And ultimately death of what we really
value and want!
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and
sisters.
So, the
first lesson to getting what you REALLY want, Don’t be deceived!
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Don’t
let the natural get in the way of the ultimate
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Don’t
let the immediate get in the way of your future
o Husbands don’t be deceived
o Wife’s don’t be deceived
o Kids don’t be deceived
o Parents do be deceived
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Sin
will come in and try and drag you away
o Drag you away from opportunities
o Drag you away from relationships
o Drag you down financially
o And ultimately drag you away from what
you really want!
o So don’t be DECEIVED!
Following
Jesus will make your life better, make you better at life, and will constantly
point you toward what you ultimately want and help in the battle for the
natural!
Life is
hard enough, without you constantly chasing the natural and never truly getting
what you truly value and ultimately want!
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