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It is time, it is time, it is

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time to get our minds aligned with the

0:09

truth of God's word. My

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name is Cary Green and I'm going to start out

0:13

here with a story that I'm not sure is even

0:15

going to be very interesting, but it has to do with

0:17

when my wife and I first got married. We've

0:20

been married 35 years this year and

0:22

when we first got married, I was doing a carpet cleaning

0:25

job for a company

0:27

called Coit, C-O-I-T. And

0:30

we always referred to Coit

0:32

hands as the kind

0:34

of hands all of us who worked there

0:36

had because we had to handle hot hoses

0:39

and chemicals and things like that in our

0:41

hands after a while would just get all

0:43

cracked and calloused and hard. And

0:46

it was just a really kind of a unique time

0:48

in my life. And I tell you

0:50

that story to bring up that idea of callousness.

0:52

You know, there were times where after

0:55

a while I could hold a hot hose and

0:57

couldn't even feel it because my hands were so

0:59

calloused. And today in

1:01

Ephesians chapter four, the apostle Paul is

1:03

going to talk to us about

1:05

people whose hearts become calloused

1:08

and what happens to them as a

1:10

result. We're really going to be looking at the

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end, the end result of

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a hard heart or a calloused heart. So

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friends, before we dig into Ephesians four, once again,

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let's pray. Together. The. God will

2:01

teach us. What he wants us

2:03

to know today. Or

2:06

Lord no dog, we're humble before you

2:08

knowing that you are so good to

2:10

reveal twist the truth of who you

2:12

are and what you think about the

2:14

world and and this passage in particular

2:16

is going to us understand the world

2:19

we live in and were asking Lore

2:21

to show us how to respond to

2:23

that as your people. In. Jesus'

2:25

name he met. With

2:27

a frenzy seasons for seventeen to

2:30

nineteen, Paul has been describing what

2:32

happens to those who harden their

2:34

hearts toward. And Iversen

2:37

a team. He kinda sums it

2:39

up. He says they have become

2:41

callous. And have

2:43

given themselves up to

2:46

sensuality. Greedy to practice

2:48

every kind of impurity.

2:52

The I quite often get people asking

2:54

me flight in the world is going

2:56

on on this planet. What Is all

2:58

this craziness? An evil that I see

3:00

going on all around me. What's happening

3:02

to the world. The. Prince

3:05

I feel like I just need

3:07

to point to two Seasons for

3:09

seventy to ninety. Paul describes this

3:11

digression that happens once people with

3:13

hardened your heart's you know if

3:16

we look at our culture right

3:18

now. There's all kinds

3:20

of people who have given

3:22

themselves up to. Sensuality,

3:25

And all kinds of impurities

3:28

from homosexuality to transvestite is

3:30

them to all these different

3:32

things. This is a giving

3:35

up. Of themselves They

3:37

willingly or going into these places

3:39

into these realms. Because.

3:41

Of the hardness of heart toward got.

3:44

A Please hear me carefully. All right.

3:48

I love transvestites. I.

3:50

love homosexuals i love bisexuals i

3:52

love all these people who want

3:54

to identify as all these different

3:56

types of sexuality i love all

3:58

of them Because my God

4:01

loves them, I want to see them

4:03

receive the greatest gift they could ever

4:05

receive. And part of that gift

4:08

is loving them enough to tell them the

4:10

truth as God reveals it here. That

4:13

the things they are giving themselves up to

4:15

are not going to lead them to satisfaction. It

4:17

is not going to give them a sense

4:19

of purpose and identity. In fact, it

4:21

is going to facilitate more ignorance,

4:23

it is going to facilitate hardening even

4:26

more, they are going

4:28

to eventually wind up where this verse says

4:31

in the practice of every kind

4:33

of impurity. And my

4:35

hope friends is that we as

4:37

believers in Jesus Christ can hold forth the light

4:39

of Jesus for anyone

4:41

and everyone, doesn't matter what their

4:44

particular flavor of sin is. They

4:47

need Jesus just like we do. They have callous

4:49

hearts just like we once did. We

4:52

friends are to be the light and

4:55

not to be taking part in

4:57

these kinds of giving over,

4:59

giving themselves up to the sensuality. We shouldn't

5:01

be condoning it, we shouldn't be

5:03

acknowledging it as normal, we shouldn't

5:06

be people who are

5:08

castigating them and mistreating them

5:10

either. We should be

5:12

like Jesus, a friend of those

5:14

who need the help of God. Lord

5:18

Jesus, teach us how to not

5:20

be affirming of these kinds

5:22

of behavior or identities yet to

5:25

be loving enough to

5:27

care about them, to show them the love

5:29

of Jesus and to invite them to

5:31

become a part of God's family. Lord

5:34

God, you are the answer, you are

5:36

the transforming difference in every human

5:38

life. We ask you to rip

5:41

away the calluses, to soften the hard

5:43

hearts and to bring more and more

5:45

people to yourself. About

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