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*The Power of No Part #1:*
*Drawing a Line Against World, *
*Flesh and the Devil*
*7-5-09*
Summer book tradition
· This year—didn’t find
· Conference—series—Frank D—piqued interest
· Do something different
o Going to draw from this series
o SHAPE this for us this summer
o Feel it is CURRENT~/powerful~/needful in this season
Preacher disclaimer
· We all borrow from one another
o TG quote ‘Best things I’ve ever preached, I’ve stolen from other preachers’!
· Reading books—preach a part of what is said
o Always preach my own
· Sometimes God will give me a word—just from hearing the TITLE of something
o Kinda what happened here
Heard about this Series
· On NO
· And on YES
Something stirred in my spirit
· In world situation today—
· Upheaval everywhere
· How are we to respond as church
· Need to have a clear sense of our yes and our no
Let your Yes be YES and your NO be NO Matt 5:37 let 5your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.
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We Need that CLARITY—
· Because We are a people of FAITH
· We have to have clarity of our boundaries
· Etc. Develop
*Boundary—Ps 16*
*/5 Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.
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*/6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance/*/.
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· *PERMEABLE Boundaries!!! (Relatives??? Certain Friends???)*
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Gotta know Where your NO IS—where is your YES
Going to START this series – with a look at ‘NO’
· Later we’ll get to the YES!
How many know if can’t say NO—*overrun!?*
· When can’t say YES—miss out on right stuff
o Provision
o Blessing
o Faith
FAITH is integrally linked
· To our YES—opening the doors
· And to our NO—closing the doors—not being ‘too permeable’
o Some people allow ALL KINDS of things—they should say no to
*TITLE POWER of NO!!*
Going to talk about the word NO, today
· Positive Twist on it
· Has an attitude with it
· An attitude of ‘no more’, enough is enough, I draw the line here
Wanting to ADDRESS An attitude coming against our lives
Today I’m going to talk about 3 Enemies that come against our LIFE
· Cause you have to know what you are going to say no to!
· World~/Flesh~/Devil
· *World*--Disclaimer
o Has own system
o Own values—KOG and world values don’t mix
§ World says—grab all you can get—step on others—fight your way
§ Jesus said, ‘Give and it shall be Given’; Greatest-Servant
o What world would give—does NOT have
o World might push you into reality that is unacceptable
o World has it’s own value system
o Has it’s own way
o But */we’re not of the world/*
*/I Peter 2:11 /*11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.[1]
o Children of Most High God—Adopted—
§ In world not OF the world
o But world tempts us
o Romans—*/need to be transformed by mind of Christ/*
o If not careful—mind grabs hold of world’s ways~/values~/ideas~/lifestyle
o Before we know it—we allow world to press into our lives
o Start compromising things
o Pretty soon—can’t see difference between Christian and world
Has anyone here been tempted to be shaped by the world lately?
o Film~/media~/writings~/ built by something we can’t be a part of
o For some—ideas—like divorce is an option
o Not what the Bible says
o World says—living together—having sex before marriage
o You have a choice
o Immorality becomes acceptable
But that’s not what the Bible says
o Bible is very clear—if you commit sexual sin—there is a judgment on your body
o But the world says—it’s alright
o There are tons of examples
§ Develop
· *God wants to show us WHERE we need to take a NO position w~/world*
· *Flesh*
o Disclaimer—physical body Good
§ Bible talks about Carnal nature
§ Nature to do something WRONG
o Adamic nature
o Has an *appetite for the wrong thing *
You know what it’s like to have a natural appetite
o */Ever crave something you shouldn’t have?/*
§ */Just because you crave—doesn’t mean you should get it/*
o Appetite of flesh is not the appetite you should live with:
§ Selfishness
§ Self-centerdness
§ Ambitions glories that shouldn’t be lived
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