Idol – Pleasure, Part 2

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Just do it. Simple advertising slogan that come to characterize much current thinking, but today Dr. Evans is blindly following our impulses without counting the cost lead to big regrets. What's joining the is that you enjoy in creating Sean that leaves the create the pleasure is you enjoy in creating Sean that leaves out the create tour.

If you having fun and God isn't that becomes an of idolatry. Now the world has become expert in offering us the pleasure without making it seem like the world system headed by Satan.

That leaves God out. Once the draw you while keeping God out and one of its primary tools is the tool of enjoyment desirability pleasure. Now the Bible has a whole litany of things that in this category in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 3 to 8. He gives a list of things that would fit in the category of pleasure that would also be equally anti-God does categorize some of them so that we on the same page. Let's talk about entertainment pleasure.

All of us know about televisions. We love our movies to entertain us, but I'm sure you would agree that a lot of it leaves God out the living God out. It becomes anti-God and what it is promoting and while we are laughing.

Sometimes God is crying because we are finding that which excludes him in the creation not consistent with the create tour world is set up set up. It's built to call you and me. All of us except for the few spiritual people here all of us have to wrestle with titles in the world is set up to us to an by making it fancy desirable pleasurable by making us want it bad enough.

By making it new and improved. So we gravitate to it because the world is set up to us from God, for God will not be intimate when we are intimate with and I and since the system is set up idols.

The system is set up to draw from God. So if you believe we in league with title the Bible is clear that you won't be in league with God.

This explains a lot. This explains why we don't hear more from God experience more power from God experience more victory in our lives. The prayer we may be doing the spiritual thing were doing it with an old boyfriend with an idol God says you can't have it. I will call me Overbay and expect me to respond every good and perfect gift comes from above, the father of lights so God is not against pleasure. He's against idolatrous pleasure.

Pleasure, the joy of the Lord is my strength.

Rejoice in the Lord always again. God is not against pleasure. He says in Luke chapter 12 verse 32.

He says it is not sure to give you the kingdom. To give you what the king ruled all is not sure.

So God not only exist for his own pleasure exist pleasure. So you want you to enjoy legitimately the plasterers that he himself enjoys what Satan is. Satan comes along to that which God offers legitimate pleasure and he legitimizes it and turns it into an idol certain pleasures are wrong on their face wrong when the pain of what they come out of the box and it's it is an illegitimate pleasure and just start all if you smoking crack illegitimate pleasure because it alters the mind legitimately owned by the way limits by Summit. When the Bible talks about drug use the word pharmacopeia publicly is a Greek word that we get is what pharmacy from pharmacy is the dispenser of drugs so site have pharmacy and he dispenses rocks. So when a person takes crack or heroin and referred to when when he takes my beginnings to shift Satan gets into the shift caused by the drought and operates his own Machida his own so that now is now been insulted by the devil in order to create the addiction started off with pleasurable feelings that now control you.

But on the other hand, there can be good for things that are legitimate, that Satan gets a hold of and makes it illegitimate. Although it's not all big legitimate Genesis chapter 3 verse 1 to 6, you know that was the The Fall of mankind in the previous chapter, Genesis 2, God told Adam and Eve every trip. God may freely accept the tree in the den God put in the middle so that when I went to the kitchen and go by when we get a better medical by it was in the middle of the house reason why I put this Google tree in because this information tree Google tree is the tree of the information. Good and evil is one thing I don't want to do in the middle of God.

You Were Destroying Because I Don't Want You to Get Information Apart from Me. I Want to Decide What's Right and Wrong, Good Man, up, down, I Want to Decide That. So You Can Do That and I Want to Put Your Reminder That This Tree Is Off-Limits for You Want to Enjoy All the Other Trees You Mess with This Tree You Will Lose the Benefit of All the History Alone. Remember You're Not Autonomous You Want on Your Own Really Want to Make the Point You Disagree with the Brothers Initial Thing Said No We Not Went out with No You Can't Do What You Want to Do When It Comes to the Street.

You Can Do What You Want to Do When It Comes to All the Things That You Can Do so When Any Real Edge in That Spends More Time on What You Can't Do What You Can Do Has Made God over Because the Whole Is to Do All That God Is Giving You Freedom to Do within the Boundaries He's Given You to Do It Because God Is for Enjoyment Here for Pleasure with It As Well. So Now into the Garden Come Slick. Satan. Satan Come See in the First Question Says Have To What What What God Said What Was Said by the Tree She Forgot God Said We Could Eat It and Robin Told Me Not to Touch This. Just Look at and Keep Going by past Century, Things Are Limitations about God and What You Have Fun Going to Have Fun Using a Pretty Country Is Nicer Treated You Sweet Sweet Aroma Coming from the Fruit on the Tree. God Is Holy Joy Killing Him What You Have. He Took Her Mind off of the Things She Could Enjoy and Got Her Focus on the One Thing She Was Prohibited from Enjoy but the One Thing She Was Prohibited from Enjoying Became the Only Thing in the Garden. It Was like No Other Trees with Because He Fixated Her Mind on the One Thing She Couldn't Have and Now It Was the Only Thing She Wanted It Says When She Saw That the Tree Was Good for Food, Initiates a Naturally Everyday Walk by Naturally Everyday.

All Of A Sudden She Sees That's Because the Pain, He Embellished He Made. He Made It Look Really Was Meant to Be When She Saw the Food and Medicine and It Was His Work on the Line She Took from It. Satan's Goal with Pleasure Is to Balance the Pleasure without Discussing the Pain He Wants to Tell You How Much Fun It Is without Telling You What the Consequences Will Be That You Discover That Your Doctrines Will Recommend a Way to Avoid the Deceivers Trap When He Continues Her Message Just a Moment with Us. The Only Constant in Life Is Change and Currently We Live in a Nation Where Change Is Shifting for the Worse, Morally, Culturally, Economically and Politically. So How Do You Find Balance and Peace through All the Chaos Dr. Tony Evans Brand-New Message Series Called American Idols. In His Book America Turning a Nation to God Will Give You Solid Answers to What Is Really Happening to Our Nation. God Is Calling You to Return to Him How You Respond to Both resources@tonyevans.org America turning a nation to God will teach you practical steps you can take to put God first in your life for the betterment of your family, your community and your nation.

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Get yours today@tonyevans.org not become idolatrous with pleasure that we have to say things I will watch some songs. I will say certain downloads. I will take certain certain Internet pages I will read because while it may be planned mobile. I'm not willing to lose God for the play. I'm not really know the Bible talk to Ephesians Ephesians passes five talks about: suggesting the talk. I know the kings accompany a funny and I know the Queens comedy funny but also felt so just because it makes you laugh doesn't mean it's worth laughing at idolatry is what God cannot be included and we all facing.

But that's why the Bible says personal about 21 brothers keep yourselves from idols because he's trying to keep us in fellowship with God wants to be the basis of your highest pleasure in Hebrews chapter 11 verses 24 to 26 it says Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh and Moses would not accept the pleasures of sin for a season. Why not Moses got plenty of money to kings. Pharaoh's kid got all this opportunity, why wouldn't you go with the crowd. He says so that he wouldn't miss out on his room number words want to miss anything God had for him. Contemporary note idols of this world, the pleasure idols of this world always temporary like I can go back to can go back for another here I deeper experience. Got to keep going back to it because because they're not probably send when he kept his eye on what he was looking forward to getting from God. He did not. Yes, what culture would telling him to do. The problem of worldliness today has engulfed the church and will trust into it.

Call to conform to it losing our distinction God is calling us back to himself. The Bible is calling people away from idols really idols destroy the idols get rid of the idols so that you can have me. Psalm 16 David's prayer in his perspective. I want to read it because I want you to get the sense of God being central to pleasure preserve your God says I take refuge in you. I said to the Lord, you are my God, I know good besides all the saints who are in the earth.

They are the majestic ones, in whom is all my delight the sorrows of those web another God. I will be multiplied to some all the bills for another God will be multiplied.

I shall not pull their drink offerings of blood when I take their names upon mother is the portion of my inheritance and Michael you support my mind the lines of following me in pleasant places. Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

I will bless the Lord, who has counseled me indeed my mind instruct me in the night. I have set the Lord continually before me because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad of my glory rejoices. My flesh also will dwell securely for you will not abandon my soul Visio nor will you allow your holy one to undergo decay you will make known to me the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy in your right hand there are pleasures for evermore God because that's where the real pleasure is God because God's will give me security not my God is going give me protection, not my God will give me joy, not my God will give me the 12 and safety. Not my God is go cover me now my question is who you will watch Idol gives you a temporary kick, a temporary boost that you gotta pick up again or do you want to God. Life provides pleasure to provide ongoing joy and stability mean is no problem to me that no suffering no difficulty. When you drop the world idols. Some problems like manna but the question is do you want real pleasure or do you want a temporary temporary temporary you want to temporary experience. Do you want this ever dwelling consuming presence of God. The question is how bad you want any surface surviving okay you seen on television. Okay what is right ways out of the water on top of the surfing board waiting for the wonderful way they stand up on the board and they begin right away and how pleasurable of experience in the way because the wave is called and is kind of a long joy and excitement. The problem is that the way back out again. On top of the top of the board wait for another way, when the next wave comes in go for another pro rata but again the way maybe another way to capture all the men so they can have fun one more time about the way runs out again and hope that there is another way to grab them and bring them back in so that they can sell all day long veil looking for new experience looking for fresh way looking for fresh role of pleasure that will give them a momentary way you can handle the water you will see is a waterski what is gave a little different ways they create ways tied into a power source to about one and a way that they made are created by the bowel moving through the water so they never run out and hold on tight.

Hold on tight and white men to give them a momentary girl got a hold on the pile in front of me while writing waterski, the ball will turn around and come back around. You want to be getting a little way in a little way and I'm trying to find a new one runs out of juice or do you want to build the power of God. The presence of God. The joy of God you decided Lord is my portion is my pleasure to know what Dr. Tony Evan with a message exploring how to experience God's best for your life as you seek to keep him first before we go for today. Don't forget to visit Tony have a start or to check out that new package of resources I mentioned earlier, it starts with Tony's timely and important book America turning a nation to God, and include CDs and instant downloads of all eight full-length messages in his brand-new teaching series American idols yours with our thanks when you make a donation to keep this listener supported program on the air, but this special offer won't last so don't wait visit Tony Evans.org today or reach out to our resource Center at 1-800-800-3222 were team members are always on hand to help you. That's 1-800-800-3222 God is creator and we are created in his image, which makes it logical that we to create. Dr. Evans warns there's a hidden threat and that shiny new things we build.

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