Sermon Tone Analysis

*Trap Doors – Wishful thinking*

It very hard to keep under control the wishes one feels from his heart.

There is something which is in mankind which constantly has wishes, a domain from within us which we can never master, but only try to control.

The world around us is inherently aware of this and we see it all the time.

Commercials and all forms of media stir our desires and our wishes which call for us to go on spending and shopping sprees.

Suddenly something we never thought about becomes our want, we see it and we need it, and then we get.

All of a sudden we see what happens when the desires that are from our fallen nature become the wishes of heart and manifest in our actions.

However, when we are awakened to God’s provision something happens to our wishes.

When we surrender completely to Jesus it seems the domain from within us that wishes, becomes completely altered, and suddenly we are sensitive that our wishes answer to Jesus as he softens our entire nature.

Our awakening not only alerts us to God’s provision but make us sensitive to his voice.

When we hear Him we become aware of our wishes whether they are for virtue or for stuff, and we simply wish to be sensitive with him and his purposes.

God places his wishes within that sensitivity.

As he softens our nature his voice becomes clearer and his provision obvious, but even more then that he lights a fire on our wishes and illuminates our spiritual instincts.

When we were children and our parents gave us our wishes, for example toys, something happened within us and our wishes.

In that domain in which our wishes became realized we recognize another word and it’s meaning for the first time.

“Mine!”

Our wishes became our possession and we were possessed in a way by our wishes as they are made real.

Suddenly we create boundaries and rules and even judgments all wrapped around a wish that manifested into a possession.

At this age we didn’t even know our want was for a toy until that toy became possessed by us.

Then in some way when other kids came around our toy we weren’t open to allowing them to also possess our toy, instead we had to learn another word, “share!”

Now here is the thing, as our parents try to teach us about sharing we did not just pick up on it, we had to be broken until we came to the realization of what it meant.

That realization wasn’t a realization until it manifested in our actions and we actually shared our toys.

Which means the initial lesson of sharing from our perspective came from a heart that was dead against sharing our stuff.

Our hearts were hard toward sharing until they became broken to it.

The wishes that became our possessions didn’t free us or satisfy us from more wishes or possessions, but instead desensitized us to our own sympathies.

Rev 9:20,21

20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

This very important illustration shows us that left to our own wishes we will never  completely surrender.

Even in our earliest age of childhood our hearts are hardened by wishes that come from a domain within us not yet softened to sensitivity of the Spirit.

This hardness of heart isn’t limited to just possession but can be seen in love and relationships just as well.

When we bring our wishes to sex, love, or to relationships and it becomes our possession out of, our desires it desensitizes us to our own sympathies and hardens our hearts.

This hardness of heart only leaves us to our own nature and always opens us up to some unsuspected “hell” until we have been dominated by our Lord. 

 

1 Tim 4:2

2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

When wishes become manifest into possessions they harden our hearts not only to God’s voice, but away from the need in others.

In a sense they sear our consciences focus and dependence upon God.

It confuses what matters in our finite minds away from the eternal treasures we are suppose to be storing up.

Instead of Loving God with all our, heart, spirit, and mind, and loving our neighbors we become obsessed by our wishes.

Rather then focusing on the eternal things of God, suddenly our possession like, our houses, our cars, our money, our boyfriend or girlfriend become to important and take a direction opposite from God.

We are seared in our conscience because we are only sympathetic to ourselves and unsympathetic to everything outside our wishes and our possession.

This is especially true when the Lord tries to speak into your lives and tell someone their thinking is off by another person.

We instantly shut them and head back to our possession.

Luke 14:26

6 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.

27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

When the Lord speaks of discipleship he catalogues the other loves in our lives.

This is because His expectation is for him be to the dominant love in our lives, because any other loves will be a trap door to something entirely removed from God’s purposes.

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When we are awakened to His provision and he becomes our want a change takes place in our nature.

We are softened to his presence and sensitized to His awareness and his voice.

Just as desires shows us we are fallen our wishes manifested into possession show us our hardness of heart when they come from a non-redemptive place.

It is no coincidence that our desires and wishes scream while God’s voice is a still small quit voice heard by the sensitivity of Holy Spirit.

When our wishes are triggered by our wants it only hardens our heart to that sensitivity and to Gods purpose and voice.

When Adam and Eve fell from the garden the biggest loss was the walk they once had and the voice of God that Spoke directly to them.

From that moment on God rarely spoke directly with man, but began to speak through Angels, the written word, and through prophets.

This is because there minds were seared to their desires and wishes rather then to his voice!

*Luke 9:59 -62*

59 He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and    proclaim the kingdom of God.”

61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.”

62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

The light that has awakened us to God’s provision calls us not only to be Christ-like but to completion.

One is not obedient simply because he says he believes, one is obedient because he followed his call after him unto the job is done.

Completion is God’s work in us and God’s work for us.

When God is awakened and revealed that can never be made complete in us until it both awakens us on the inside and manifests from us on the outside.

When a wish is obedient to God it always bears fruit, not only for the kingdom, but in the kingdom of God in you.

You truly can’t separate God’s call from his expectation of action.

When we separate the two our wishes become our wishes and his way goes his way.

Furthermore if his transforming power is not followed by obedience then the wish he places in your heart will translate itself into a corrupting power in your life instead of redeeming power.

So many times, like in the passage above, we take the mundane things of this world and make them more important, but in the structure of the everlasting it has no value at all.

How many times does our wishes become what is important, rather then our obedience to his call till completion.

This has never been truer in people’s lives then when it comes to relationships.

We will take the advice of people and parents who have been divorced, we will read books, and talk about it over with our friends, but will you accept the revelation that has been given for purpose of Gods kingdom, rather the purposes of your own heart for your own kingdom.

Will you accept what he says about relationships?

In essence God’s plan for salvation was for you to hear his voice again.

That’s why it’s so important to quit down.

We have to quit our thought life, what we listen to, what we watch, and humble ourselves to his word.

Again all desires scream and all their demands shout.

But what if through obedience you began to obey Gods commands in full?

What if the things we see as so important are really just a distraction that hardens your heart against God’s voice?

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

When we meet the Jesus of the bible and find the reality of his presence the instincts of our heart become inspired.

We need to let that which is awakened lead and that which is reveled guide us.

Luke 4:22

22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips.

When people came into contact with Jesus and heard his words they were instinctively inspired.

Their instincts turned in the right direction.

However, when our own prejudices come into the picture we close down the witness of our hearts and fall to our own instincts, wishes, and desires.

Luke 4:28

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.

29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff.

We must learn to let the instinct that speaks to our heart within his presence lead us.

God’s word calls for action.

We must be pushed past will and never let awakening settle.

Inspiration always leads us towards something and never makes us look backward to what could have been.

The devils wants us to see our shame and wallow in it, while God wants us to recognize we are sinners and get off the cross and head towards Pentecost.

We can never postpone a moral decision.

Second thoughts in morality are always deflection.

In the presence of God no one ever thought twice they acted.