Disconnected
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Have you ever felt like your relationship with a close friend is not the same as it use to be and something is just not right?
There is a disconnect that you just can’t put your finger on. You talk less. Any conversation you do have are short and cold.
What has happened? I don’t like this. Is it something I have said or done?
We would always look for opportunities to hangout and do life together.
How do we get back on track again?
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Submit: Subordinate to God.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Resist the Devil: Oppose, Be hostile toward. Stand against.
Some of our resisting muscles have gotten weak.
Signature sin: Satan knows it and will keep attacking you in this area.
Volleyball - attack the weak spot.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
He will flee. - It doesn’t say he might flee?
Little yappy dog comes charging out at you. It acts so tough. If you ignore it, it just keeps coming. But if you turn and face it, it backs off.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
The one who is in you is GREATER! Greater than he who is in the world.
Satan is like a little yappy dog compared to God.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Dr. A.W. Tozer wrote an essay, entitled, “Nearness Is Likeness.” The more we are like God, the nearer we are to God. I may be sitting in my living room with my dog by my side, and my wife may be twenty feet away in the kitchen; yet I am nearer to my wife than to the dog because the dog is unlike me. We have very little in common.
God graciously draws near to us when we deal with the sin in our lives that keeps Him at a distance.
Pastor I don’t feel close to God anymore. Why? I don’t know. What have you allowed into your life that is keeping your relationship with Him at a distance?
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Washing of hands ceremony.
No one washes their hands more than surgeons.
Story of mothers dying in labor because the Dr’s were not washing their hands.
27 and do not give the devil a foothold.
The littlest of openings.
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Don’t take you struggle lightly.
I am sick of it! I am done! This has to happen for any great change in your life.
Alcoholic makes light of their drinking problem. Neoprene cup insulator. - I drink, I fall down, I get up, no problem.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
God graciously draws near to us when we deal with the sin in our lives that keeps Him at a distance.
How bad do you want a closer walk and relationship with God?
Succeed as bad as you want to breath.
17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.