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03-I Declare War-Act Like A Wolf
Well, welcome to I Declare War, Part Three.
We're glad you're here.
Fresh Life Church, every
single church joining in with us, church online, podcast audience, thanks so much.
What we're going to do today is we're going to talk about how to act like a wolf.
In the first
installment, we spoke about thinking and the way our thoughts work and the way our thoughts
influence what comes of our lives.
And then in the second installment, we talked about
speaking.
We talked about how weighty our words are.
But this naturally now progresses where we need to think about our actions.
Because if all our
love for God amounts to is thoughts and words, then it's literally just good intentions.
And
when it doesn't lead to a changed life, when it doesn't lead to new actions and a whole new
way of living, then unfortunately, we end up with the predicament where people around us
would object to our intention to tell them about Jesus because of all the hypocrites that they
know.
Who their love for God is all just thoughts and all just words because the book of James puts it
well when it says that if you have all kinds of faith, how good is that?
Not very good because
faith-- finish it if you know it-- without works is dead.
And we don't want a dead faith.
We want a living, vibrant faith.
Anybody with me?
So how do
we get there?
Well, it's got lead into our actions.
We've got to act like a wolf.
And if you have a copy of the Scriptures, is where we're going to be.
And if
you didn't bring a Bible with you, we're going to put the Scriptures up on the screen.
Here's
what Paul says.
This is so helpful.
He was speaking, of course, to a specific local church that existed at a certain point in history.
And they're all dead.
They're not here anymore.
But what Paul didn't know, that God knew,
was that he was going to use these words that were encouraging them to encourage us as
well.
And Paul's probably stoked that he didn't know because that would have put a lot of
pressure on him.
Like, I'm writing the Bible, ah!
He would've totally been overwhelmed by that, but the Holy Spirit used his words to speak to
us.
And God had a bigger plan even than what was happening there in that moment.
And so
we get to be blessed by what he told them.
Notice how he speaks about identity.
He says in verse five, "you're sons of light, daughters of
day."
You can just stop right there and just take a big breath in because that's rad.
You are
sons of light.
If you're a Jesus follower, what does God think about you?
He thinks that you're a
son of light and you're a daughter of the day.
That is to say that you are not your pain, you are not your past, you are not your guilt, you are
not your shame, you are not your family of origin, you are not your dysfunction, you are not
your overeating tendencies, you're not your obsessive compulsive nature that drives people
away from you, you are-- who are you?
A son of the light and a daughter of the day.
And when the enemy can get us to identify ourselves as our mistakes, he can keep us crippled
in a loop and a downward spiral of disorder.
But when we hold on-- stop for a second, say, I
am who God says I am.
It flips the script and changes the game.
We're just five, six, seven
words in.
"We live under wide open skies and know where we stand.
So let's not sleepwalk through life
like those others.
Let's keep our eyes open and be smart.
People sleep at night and get drunk
at night but not us.
Since we're creatures of day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight
sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
"God didn't set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our master, Jesus Christ.
He
died for us, a death that triggered life.
Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the
dead, we're alive with Him."
And one more time, verse eight, the emphasis "since we're
creatures of the day, let's act like it."
My whole sermon in just one sentence is this-- your daily activity should come from your new
identity.
What you choose to do tomorrow, what you choose to do with the precious minutes
and the hours that you get living this life of faith, living this new life, it should come from, your
day-to-day activity, should come from your brand new identity.
Or I've said, we should live
acting like a wolf.
If we're going to do that though, we can't do it alone.
Why?
Because every wolf has a pack.
Every wolf has a pack.
Wolves are social creatures.
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