Your Choices Determine Your Destiny

00:01 want to welcome you to our seventh
00:04 session of choices determine destiny
00:06 it's an in-depth study of Psalm one
00:09 my name is Sue Burdullis and i'm the
00:12 director of the Camarillo Healing Rooms
00:14 in tonight's session we will look at the
00:17 choice you and I have you and I are
00:22 confronted with every day of our life
00:24 the choice between two trees that stood
00:28 in the Garden of Eden and someone
00:30 clearly presents these two choices you
00:34 can either go God's Way or you can go
00:37 your own way God's Way leads to blessing
00:41 and your own way it's gonna lead to
00:44 death the path of the ungodly is spoken
00:49 about in Psalm 1 and it clearly shows us
00:53 that it's the pathway that leads to
00:55 death
00:56 God's fervent desire is for you and I to
01:00 choose life Deuteronomy 30:19 says this
01:04 I have set before you life and death
01:08 blessing and cursing therefore choose
01:11 life that both you and your descendants
01:15 may live Roman numeral 1 God's gift of
01:20 love Jesus Christ someone presents each
01:26 one of us with the most important choice
01:29 that we will ever make in our life the
01:33 choice of accepting God's love or
01:38 rejecting God's love for anyone who has
01:42 been journeying with us through someone
01:44 choices determine destiny you you can
01:47 understand that you cannot live like the
01:51 blessed man like verse 1 tells us or you
01:55 can't become like the Tree of Life and
02:00 laugh you have made the choice to
02:03 receive Jesus Christ into you your heart
02:09 it is only through Jesus Christ that
02:13 you'll not pay
02:14 like the shaft in the final judgment
02:18 like Psalm 1 verses 4 through 6 talk
02:22 about it's only through Jesus Christ
02:26 that you'll be able to follow God's
02:28 instructions in your life in John 4:10
02:33 there was a woman at the well and Jesus
02:36 is speaking to her and she's asking him
02:39 you know well you know he comes and you
02:42 know he wants a drink of water and this
02:44 is what he says to her if you knew the
02:48 gift of God and who it is who says to
02:51 you give me a drink you would have asked
02:55 him and he would have given you living
02:58 water
03:00 Jesus is proclaiming to this woman that
03:03 he is the gift of mankind if you want to
03:09 receive the water of life Jesus is
03:12 offering to you I thought we could pray
03:14 together and just pray a prayer after me
03:17 asking his water to come in and just
03:22 satisfy our thirst is that okay so let's
03:24 pray just repeat this after me Jesus I
03:29 am thirsty for you today I opened my
03:35 heart to drink from your river of life
03:40 that flows from your throne cause your
03:45 river to flow into the desert areas of
03:49 my life and my loved ones now I want you
03:56 to think of an area where you feel like
03:59 it's like a desert area in your life and
04:03 then I want you to ask Jesus this river
04:07 to come into that area so Jesus come
04:11 into this specific area that I am I am
04:15 mentioning right now come into this area
04:19 and now that he we believe him through
04:23 faith we're gonna thank him thank you
04:26 Jesus
04:27 for giving me this river of life and
04:30 satisfying my thirst although it only
04:36 takes a moment to receive Jesus Christ
04:38 into our heart it takes a lifetime to
04:43 abide in God's gift of love because his
04:50 love is so abundant that I believe that
04:53 we're not only going to be discovering
04:55 it here during our lifetimes right now
04:57 but we're going to be discovering it
04:59 throughout eternity learning new ways of
05:04 abiding in the fullness of his love
05:09 someone clearly shows you the main
05:12 pathway of abiding in God's love it is
05:16 through your prayerful meditation on
05:19 God's Word day and night
05:22 their primary focus of your meditation
05:24 on God's Word is to be Jesus Christ
05:28 Jesus Christ is the ultimate
05:30 manifestation of God's love for you all
05:35 of God's Word points to Jesus Christ who
05:39 is the word of God made flesh who is the
05:42 gift of God's love for you and I
05:45 throughout this psalm one study we have
05:48 clearly seen the exultation of Jesus
05:51 Christ from the very first words and the
05:54 very first letter of Psalm 1 to the very
05:57 last words and last letter of Psalm 1
05:59 through the love of Jesus Christ you'll
06:02 be empowered to know and to believe the
06:05 love that God has for you first John
06:08 4:16 says this and we have known and
06:11 believed the love that God has for us
06:14 god is love and he who abides in love
06:18 abides in God and God in him God's
06:24 fervent desire for each one of us is to
06:28 abide in his love finding him supremely
06:32 satisfying above all else
06:38 and the one of the main ways that you
06:40 abide in God's love in your time of
06:42 meditation with him is talking to God
06:45 about how much he loves you
06:49 one of the resources we have on
06:52 Camarillo Healing Rooms website under
06:54 resources it's called the Father's love
06:56 letter and it has a lot of Bible verses
07:00 talking about God's love and so it's
07:04 good for you if you find one that just
07:06 goes ah I need to know God in this way
07:10 his love for me in this way and you
07:11 highlighted and then you can just talk
07:13 to God so it's really key for us
07:17 to have this as a central part of our
07:20 conversation with God on a daily basis
07:25 understanding Wow Lord you love me just
07:30 like I am and just like God loved Jesus
07:36 to understand that he loves you with the
07:38 same intensity and the same fervency so
07:43 we need to get that into our
07:44 conversation so it goes deep down in our
07:47 heart why do I say this because when we
07:52 start reading Psalm 1 we're going oh I
07:55 don't think I could ever do all that
07:57 someone's calling me to do especially as
08:01 it begins in verse 1 where it tells us
08:05 not to walk in the counsel of the godly
08:08 nor stand in the path of sinners nor sit
08:11 in the seat of scoffers the only way
08:14 that we're going to be able to do that
08:16 is if we're firmly grounded in our heart
08:19 in God's love we're only going to be
08:23 able to overcome compromise in our life
08:27 if we firmly believe and know that God
08:32 loves us this is the only way that Jesus
08:35 was able to overcome temptation and
08:38 compromise in his own life because he
08:42 was one with the father's love and this
08:46 is how we are to be with our father's
08:50 love for
08:55 numbered Roman numeral two the choice
08:57 between two trees every day you're
09:01 confronted with two fundamental choices
09:04 that underlie every decision that you
09:08 make in life the choice of going God's
09:12 Way the way of the tree of the life or
09:15 the choice of going your own way the
09:19 choice of the tree of the knowledge of
09:21 good and evil these two choices are
09:24 clearly seen in Psalm 1 with two
09:28 drastically different destination the
09:33 Tree of Life leads to what life and the
09:37 tree of death leads a tree of death the
09:39 tree of knowledge of good and evil leads
09:42 to death by looking at what happened to
09:45 Adam and Eve in the in the Garden of
09:48 Eden where they have they have this
09:49 perfect kind of environment going on
09:51 you'll be able to understand more
09:54 clearly the spiritual battle that goes
09:57 behind every choice that you make along
10:01 with how God has equipped you as a
10:03 believer in Jesus Christ to walk the
10:06 Tauri ously through the times of
10:09 temptation so in the beginning of time
10:12 in the midst of the Garden of Eden stood
10:14 God's love gift The Tree of Life God had
10:20 given Adam and Eve every good and
10:23 perfect gift like James 1:17 tells us
10:26 they were given every tree that was
10:29 pleasant to the eyes and good for food
10:33 to eat including they were given the
10:36 very best gift of all the Tree of Life
10:40 that stood in the midst of the garden
10:42 Genesis 2:9 says this and out of the
10:45 ground the Lord God meet every tree grow
10:48 that is pleasant to the sight and good
10:50 for food The Tree of Life was also in
10:54 the midst of the garden and the tree of
10:57 the knowledge of good and evil Adam and
11:01 Eve they
11:03 had everything that they needed to
11:05 prosper and have good success in their
11:08 god-given mission to be fruitful to
11:11 multiply to subdue and have dominion and
11:15 as a born of begin a believer you have
11:19 been given every spiritual blessing in
11:22 the heavenly places in Jesus Christ
11:24 you've been given everything you need to
11:27 accomplish your god-given mission past
11:31 Matthew 28:18 through 20 tells us before
11:35 Adam and Eve sinned this is really
11:38 interesting today as I was preparing for
11:39 this I never have seen this before in
11:42 Genesis 2 and 3 there are basically only
11:46 two conversations that God has with Adam
11:51 and Eve the first conversation revolves
11:55 around the blessing you're gonna be
11:57 fruitful multiply subdue and have
11:59 dominion the second conversation he has
12:03 with him revolves around a commandment
12:06 you have all these trees you can eat
12:09 from any of the trees including the Tree
12:12 of Life but I don't want you to eat from
12:14 this tree of the knowledge of good and
12:16 evil so they had a conversation with God
12:20 about a blessing and a conversation with
12:24 God revolving around a commandment and
12:30 what God showed me was that all of us
12:34 loved the blessings we want to be
12:38 blessed but how many of us are really to
12:44 follow God's commandment so think of
12:47 this you have a GPS unit on your car and
12:51 you want to go to Disneyland or
12:53 someplace you really are excited about
12:56 going to maybe it's an ice-cream shop so
13:00 you punch that in and you know that when
13:04 you get there you're gonna be blessed
13:07 but you know what you have to follow the
13:10 instructions of how to get there and if
13:14 you don't follow those in
13:16 actions which are God's commandments
13:19 you're not gonna receive the blessing we
13:23 don't like to think of that we all feel
13:26 that wait a minute I just want to be
13:29 blessed I don't really want to follow
13:33 God's instructions you know there's so
13:36 many extractions does he expect me to go
13:40 ahead and follow all of them he gave us
13:45 Jesus Christ he died so that we would be
13:49 blessed and that will be empowered to
13:54 follow God's instructions yes there's
13:58 grace but I truly truly believe that we
14:03 will not experience the depth of God's
14:07 love for us unless we go ahead and not
14:12 only receive His blessings but also do
14:16 His commandments and these are the two
14:20 elements really that you see in Psalm 1
14:23 starts off Psalm 1 blessed is the man oh
14:29 that man is Jesus Christ and I love that
14:34 when I'm in Jesus Christ I'm gonna be
14:36 blessed and most of us think I don't
14:39 have to do anything to be blessed but
14:42 the very next thing that God says is who
14:47 does not walk in the counsel of the
14:50 ungodly we'll be exploring a little bit
14:54 more about that next week when we go in
14:57 more in-depth about God's love for us
14:59 but the blessing and the commandments
15:03 are two sides of one coin and if you
15:08 want to really go deep in God's love for
15:11 you you need to be involved with both in
15:18 the garden Eden Adam and Eve had a
15:20 choice of whether or not they're going
15:22 to follow God's commandment as you
15:25 understand what these two trees
15:27 symbolized and in part you
15:29 be able to clearly understand what is
15:32 behind every decision you make and the
15:34 importance of following God's
15:36 instructions as given in his word
15:40 Genesis 2:16 through 17 says this and
15:43 the Lord God commanded the man saying of
15:46 every tree of the garden you may freely
15:48 eat but of the tree of the knowledge of
15:51 good and evil you shall not eat for in
15:53 that day you eat of it you will surely
15:56 die we went over the Tree of Life quite
16:00 a bit last session The Tree of Life was
16:03 not only a symbolic representation of
16:06 the life of Jesus Christ but it also had
16:09 the ability to impart life and today we
16:13 can eat as believers in Jesus Christ we
16:16 can eat from the tree of life by
16:18 partaking of his word which is John 6:63
16:21 tells us it's spirit in life by
16:24 partaking of communion the communion
16:27 elements drinking he says this is the
16:31 cup my new covenant the blood we can
16:34 drink that we can eat his body the body
16:38 of Jesus Christ you can partake of it
16:40 that way and Jesus said this he says my
16:45 food is to do the will of God what's the
16:51 will of God it's revealed in the
16:53 commandments and instructions of God so
16:56 part of our eating from the tree of life
16:59 is following God's instructions for us
17:03 that's John 4:34 the tree of the
17:06 knowledge of good and evil had the
17:09 ability to impart death to Adam and Eve
17:12 through the partaking of its fruit
17:14 although it's not directly stated I
17:17 believe that the tree was a symbolic
17:19 representation of the law because it had
17:23 to be obeyed perfectly otherwise death
17:25 was a result and as I went through many
17:28 many scriptures comparing the tree of
17:31 the knowledge of good and evil
17:33 to the law this week I saw wow this
17:37 really is a representation of the law so
17:42 Roman numeral 3
17:43 the tree of the knowledge of good and
17:45 evil from Genesis 1:31 we understand
17:47 that everything God made was good so
17:51 that would include the tree of the
17:53 knowledge of good and evil the tree of
17:59 the knowledge of good and evil is good
18:00 but it was not good for Adam and Eve to
18:04 eat from him because God told them they
18:06 would die if they ate from it Genesis
18:09 2:17 God said for in the day that you
18:12 eat of that tree he's talking about the
18:15 tree of the knowledge of good and evil
18:16 you shall surely die doesn't this sound
18:19 like the law the law in an in and of
18:22 itself was good Romans 7:12 therefore
18:26 the law is holy and the commandment holy
18:29 and just and good but like the law if it
18:34 is disobeyed the consequence is death
18:37 that's Romans 7 verse 5 and 10 for when
18:41 we were in the flesh the sinful passions
18:43 which were aroused by the law were at
18:47 work in our members to bear fruit to
18:49 death and the commandment which was to
18:52 bring life I found to bring death ok now
18:58 I want you to take a look at the diagram
18:59 here that I have up it's a picture of a
19:04 tree representing the null tree of the
19:07 knowledge of good and evil in the roots
19:09 you see the word the law there the tree
19:15 the tree trunk and the branches coming
19:17 up from the law is labeled sin now sin
19:23 if you take the middle letter of the
19:26 word sin you get the letter I sin is all
19:31 about me myself
19:34 it's placing pie on the throne of my own
19:37 life it's worshipping I okay now first
19:43 Corinthians 15 56 says this the strength
19:48 of sin is the law so how does sin grow
19:55 and become
19:56 strong in your life it's through trying
20:00 to obey the law of the commandments
20:03 apart from the life of Jesus Christ
20:07 okay the fruit on this tree on this
20:12 diagram you see the word death
20:14 the consequence of Adam and Eve going
20:17 their own way doing what was right in
20:19 their own sight being a God unto
20:22 themselves was death and we know that
20:24 through Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin
20:27 is death Roman numeral four follow God's
20:32 counsel in your choices Adam and Eve
20:35 were given the choice of following God's
20:38 Word his commandment which reflected
20:41 God's will God's Way and God's plan for
20:47 their lives or they had the choice of
20:51 following Satan's word which reflected
20:55 Satan's will Satan's way and Satan's
20:59 plan for their lives Psalm 1:1 the
21:04 psalmist refers to Satan's words as the
21:08 counsel of the ungodly you need to know
21:12 that all ungodly counsel has its origin
21:17 in Satan and his demonic forces ungodly
21:23 counsel leaves out the instructions the
21:27 words of Jesus Christ
21:29 it leaves God out of the picture that's
21:32 why you have ungodly with unmeaning
21:35 without godly without God in every
21:40 decision you make you have a choice of
21:43 following the counsel of God or you have
21:46 the choice of following the counsel of
21:48 Satan a lot of us don't think in that
21:50 terms you know counsel of god counsel is
21:54 Satan and we just kind of make choices
21:56 and let it order didn't we kind of go
21:58 about our own way of life and not think
22:01 God if it's not specifically saying it
22:05 in his word which a lot of our decisions
22:07 there can
22:10 there's direct things that the God says
22:12 how to direct our lives how to order our
22:15 lives but if it's not directly in here
22:18 we can ask the Holy Spirit living in us
22:21 which way should we should go and we
22:24 need to follow God's counsel and not
22:27 Satan's counsel Psalm 1 132 said blessed
22:33 is a man who walks not in the counsel of
22:35 the ungodly nor stand in the path of
22:37 sinners nor sits in the seat of scoffers
22:39 but his delight is in the law of the
22:42 Lord and in his law he meditates day and
22:47 night so like I was saying God's counsel
22:50 is fine found in his word god exhort you
22:54 to meditate on his word day and night if
22:58 you allow God's counsel to get into your
23:01 heart you'll realize that his counsel
23:05 that stems from his heart of love for
23:07 you will grow and you'll become more and
23:11 more like that tree of life but just the
23:15 opposite will happen if you allow the
23:17 counsel of Satan his words to get into
23:20 your heart you'll soon find yourself
23:22 standing in the path of sinners this
23:27 means that you're actually carrying out
23:28 Satan's plan in your life as shown by
23:33 your actions just like Adam and Eve did
23:35 with their actions and if you continue
23:39 down Satan's pathway for your life
23:40 you'll find yourself speaking Satan's
23:43 words out of your mouth allowing Satan
23:46 to use your voice to contradict God's
23:50 Word and to mock God himself this is
23:55 what it means to sit in the seat of the
23:57 scornful you might think you're just
23:59 mocking friends but if you're going
24:02 contradicting God even if it's you know
24:05 just playful sarcasm even that God wants
24:11 us to go ahead and follow his voice his
24:16 words you must realize that unlike God's
24:20 counsel Satan's counsel stems
24:24 his hatred for you and his desire like
24:29 John 10:10 says his desire to steal kill
24:33 and destroy your life Roman numeral five
24:37 Satan's deceptive taxing tactics the
24:42 mean deceptive tactic that Satan takes
24:45 is to cause you to doubt
24:48 so his favorite thing is did God really
24:52 say that does God really expect you to
24:59 do that so in the Garden of Eden Satan
25:06 disguised himself as a serpent today
25:09 Satan disguises himself through the
25:12 voice of the flesh and the voice of the
25:14 world Satan tries to influence you by
25:19 mixing his words with your natural
25:24 reasoning your finite wisdom does God
25:28 want you to do that
25:30 no God calls you to mix his words with
25:34 faith faith in His infinite wisdom as
25:39 revealed by his words his instructions
25:43 our finite wisdom only sees a small
25:48 immediate picture right in front of us
25:51 whereas God's infinite wisdom sees the
25:55 big picture things that we do not see
25:58 Adam and Eve they didn't understand why
26:01 they couldn't eat from the tree of the
26:03 knowledge of good and evil they didn't
26:05 understand that God was trying to
26:06 protect them and to help them they could
26:10 have learned the same things without
26:11 eating from the tree of the knowledge of
26:14 good and evil God would have taught them
26:17 proverbs 3:17 says wisdom is a tree of
26:22 life to those who take hold of her those
26:25 who hold her fast will be blessed the
26:30 other word we've learned for blessed is
26:32 happy
26:34 as you look at how Satan influenced Adam
26:37 and Eve you'll understand how he
26:39 influences you and those around you
26:42 Satan usually has a two-pronged attack
26:46 against your life he mainly tries to
26:51 attack your belief about who God is and
26:54 who you are in Jesus Christ you'll see
26:59 this as he has chosen his words very
27:02 carefully as he speaks with Adam and Eve
27:06 to go ahead and lure them into his trap
27:11 so let's take a look at how Satan caused
27:14 Adam and Eve to question God's identity
27:17 his nature and character in Genesis 2:16
27:21 this is what goes on God says the Lord
27:26 God commanded the man that's Adam saying
27:30 of every tree of the garden you may
27:33 freely eat but the tree of the knowledge
27:35 of good and evil you shall not eat for
27:38 in the day that you eat of it you shall
27:41 surely die so we have tens of thousands
27:46 of millions of trees that they could eat
27:49 from that we're all pleasant to the
27:51 sight and good for food that they could
27:54 partake of and there was only one tree
27:57 that they weren't supposed to eat from
28:00 okay so Satan disguised as a serpent
28:05 goes ahead and has a conversation with
28:08 them and as God really said that has God
28:13 indeed said you shall not eat of every
28:16 tree of the garden now Satan's basically
28:20 saying you can't eat up God's telling
28:23 you that you can't eat up any of these
28:25 trees in the garden when God said you
28:28 can eat every tree except one Satan's
28:31 going God's telling you you can't eat
28:33 anything man your God so he's trying to
28:36 imply that you God is so restrictive now
28:41 that contradicts God's character God is
28:43 a God of abundance of abounding love and
28:47 here's
28:49 Satan is trying to tell Adam and Eve man
28:52 students truing to put you in a
28:54 straitjacket you know so you can't do
28:57 anything in this garden there's just no
28:59 fun here you know how many times though
29:02 in our life we step out of doing God's
29:06 commandments because we feel that way
29:10 that we're being put in a straightjacket
29:13 we're just not having fun like everybody
29:15 else's Steven was proposing to Adam and
29:21 Eve just like he does to you and I that
29:23 God is one who tries to limit you from
29:27 flourishing from becoming all you were
29:29 created to be by putting very
29:31 restrictive boundaries on you that's
29:35 what I was just talking about when God
29:37 is really a God of abundance the next
29:42 thing we see the contradiction of what
29:46 God tells Adam and Eve and then what
29:49 Satan tells Adam and Eve it was the same
29:52 thing he had basically he takes just a
29:56 little bit of tree takes the truth and
29:59 then he inserts one little tiny word or
30:02 just twisted a little tiny bit and then
30:05 the whole thing gets twisted around so
30:08 here he Satan
30:09 inserts this word not God says you eat
30:12 from this tree of the knowledge of good
30:14 and evil
30:14 you're gonna surely die Satan says not
30:21 you not you're not gonna die
30:24 no and this is what Satan usually does
30:29 he wants to first tempt you he when he
30:34 comes to you he says you know what if
30:39 you just do it this one time it really
30:45 isn't gonna make too much of a
30:48 difference you know you really don't
30:53 have to obey God completely you know
30:55 you're doing pretty good in most things
30:57 so this way an Arri not so what happened
31:02 I I fish and one thing with fish I fish
31:09 with bait and so you have this piece of
31:11 bait and you have a hook so you put the
31:16 hook through the bait and you don't want
31:19 the bait to be real visible because you
31:22 want to trick the fish into eating food
31:25 when there's really a hook in there and
31:28 that's what Satan does so he says this
31:30 one time this just this one time it's
31:33 not gonna really hurt you
31:35 and what happens in you up you eat the
31:40 bait
31:41 Satan's bait and he hooks you and now
31:45 you're trying to swim through this great
31:47 ocean that the Lord's provided for you
31:51 and you're hooked and he is just he is
31:57 so patient he just keeps reeling in
31:59 reeling in hour after hour day after day
32:03 until you come and get caught completely
32:07 and you see this happening with
32:09 marriages right just falling apart
32:12 somebody having one affair somebody
32:15 having doing this one conversation I
32:18 mean one of the things that happened in
32:21 our Healing Room and I won't tell you
32:22 the full situation but just a few years
32:25 ago and their person happened to come
32:26 into my room and I it was an identity
32:31 thing just like you know God called you
32:35 know Satan tries to trick all of us into
32:37 question who we are in Jesus Christ and
32:40 so this person for four months Satan was
32:44 trying to reel them in because they
32:47 heard something from somebody else and
32:50 they thought maybe just maybe you know
32:53 and so they were on a hook and
32:56 fortunately they come into the prayer
32:58 room and it was over an hour prayer time
33:02 and I just delivered what the truth of
33:06 the word of God said about them and how
33:08 much God loved them and that's really
33:10 key to share how much God loves them
33:13 and the person just broke out and tears
33:16 cried most of the session and then
33:19 afterwards gave me a big hug and said
33:21 you saved my life this is what God wants
33:27 us to do he wants us to know his words
33:30 so we get people off the hook off the
33:33 Satan's hooks telling them who God truly
33:37 is and who they truly are in Jesus
33:40 Christ so Satan he tried to get Adam and
33:45 Eve to question their own identity this
33:48 is what he says in Genesis 3:5 to them
33:51 for God knows that in the day that you
33:53 eat of it your eyes will be open and
33:55 you'll be like God knowing good and evil
33:58 well they were already like God Genesis
34:01 1:27 says that they were created in the
34:03 very image of God and Satan says you
34:06 will be like God and guess what they
34:13 believed it when they when Satan went
34:18 ahead and told them that God is a God
34:21 that was their flourishing and putting
34:24 them in a straitjacket because they
34:26 couldn't eat anything in the garden you
34:28 know and you know poor me type of thing
34:33 God Satan was basically calling God a
34:35 liar you're not gonna die he's limiting
34:38 you and Adam and Eve are going yeah I
34:41 think you're right Satan we don't
34:45 realize when we come in agreement we you
34:48 know it looks really obvious in the
34:50 story that I'm telling you because we
34:52 got we know the story but we don't know
34:53 the story so well in our own lives and
34:56 when Satan does this to us when he lures
35:01 us like that through counts you know
35:04 telling things about God who God really
35:07 isn't and we start believing that we are
35:11 basically calling God a liar it actually
35:14 says this in the Word of God I was
35:17 trying to maybe they have that earlier
35:19 1st John 5 Hugh does not believe God has
35:23 made him a liar
35:26 so when we fall for Satan's lie and go
35:30 uh-huh uh-huh
35:31 rather than coming back with a word of
35:33 God we're basically saying you know God
35:37 you're not all that you're made out to
35:39 be you're not really a good father you
35:42 really don't have my best interest at
35:45 heart you know what are we telling God
35:49 when we believe Satan's lies we're
35:53 questioning God's character his nature
35:55 and that brings separation in our
35:58 relationship with him so we have the
36:06 slithering serpent and he comes knocking
36:08 at the door of our heart now if he was
36:11 all dressed up like a serpent like we
36:13 have imagined in Genesis we probably
36:16 wouldn't answered the door but he
36:18 doesn't appears like that you know when
36:20 he comes knocking at the door of our
36:22 heart so we we aren't we aren't quite
36:24 sure but the best thing is is when you
36:27 start having that discernment like ah
36:31 that's really the enemy coming and he's
36:35 trying to go ahead and hook me the best
36:38 thing is don't answer the door don't get
36:41 into a conversation with him and the
36:45 second best thing is if you do get into
36:47 a conversation and then you realize ah I
36:51 gotta get him out of my door you know
36:53 and he's already got his foot in your
36:56 door once that conversation begins don't
36:59 come and agreement with him and start
37:01 pushing him out and ask me God's help
37:03 and strength submit to what God is
37:06 saying his word resist the devil and he
37:09 will go from you okay let's see here in
37:20 Romans 4 19 through 20 Abraham he did
37:25 just that God had given him a promise
37:29 and when he looked at his own body which
37:33 was in the 90s and he looks at Sarah's
37:35 body and he knew that it was impossible
37:37 this is what it says
37:39 and not being weak in faith so what was
37:43 he doing he is mixing though the Word of
37:46 God with the infinite wisdom of God and
37:50 he says not being weak in faith he did
37:52 not consider his own body as dad you're
37:55 the deadness of Sarah's womb he did not
37:59 waver at the promise of God through
38:02 unbelief and that's what we want to do
38:04 we want to just stand in God's Word and
38:07 we don't want to get into that question
38:10 is that who God really is is that really
38:14 who I am I'm not like God you know we
38:17 don't want to get into that questioning
38:18 thing I'll never forget this one lady
38:21 she came into the healing rooms and she
38:24 actually got healed in another healing
38:27 room in our area of a knee condition and
38:29 then she was diagnosed with breast
38:33 cancer and it just showed like the worst
38:36 kind of breast cancer there were it was
38:38 and it was on they had done it at one
38:41 Hospital in Ventura County and they
38:43 wanted her to go to the main hospital to
38:45 have it redone because immediately to
38:48 have it done in the meantime so she gets
38:51 this report you know what the first
38:53 thing she cuz your knee got instantly
38:54 healed in a Healing Room here and so she
38:57 believed that God would heal her breast
38:59 and so the first thing she did with his
39:01 doctors report that was very bad she
39:03 took it and crumpled it she said and
39:05 threw it in the trash she actually gave
39:07 our testing her testimony years ago and
39:09 when we were meeting back here for
39:11 teaching I'm going wow that's pretty
39:14 like awesome you know she was standing
39:17 on God's Word we aren't all that brave
39:19 to do that I'm not saying that you have
39:20 to do that then the next thing she did
39:23 she went out to lunch with her
39:25 girlfriend her girlfriend start saying
39:27 hey did you see on the Internet what the
39:30 steps that you're supposed to take to
39:32 prevent this and she said to her friend
39:34 basically she knew she goes I don't want
39:37 to hear it okay and when she went back
39:43 to the next time to get x-ray and it was
39:46 just like with I don't remember a day or
39:48 two days or what it was because it was a
39:49 real serious situation
39:52 she was hours there and she couldn't
39:54 figure out what was going on
39:56 and they kept repeating and repeating
39:57 and repeating well what we were trying
39:59 to do is find the cancer that was there
40:02 on the first ones that they had done and
40:04 they couldn't find it anywhere where it
40:06 was all kind of I don't know how it
40:07 appears like all black or whatever you
40:09 know all her whole breasts and there was
40:12 nothing there
40:12 praise God huh but do you see how she
40:15 went ahead the first word she just she
40:19 didn't fall for Satan's bait the Lord
40:22 says by His stripes you are healed so
40:25 she didn't take on that identity of I am
40:28 a woman with cancer you know we heard a
40:32 lot of grease you know about not kind of
40:34 the clarisse clue it came about not kind
40:36 of in agreement with God this last
40:38 weekend okay so Adam and Eve they ate
40:42 from Satan's tree of knowledge of good
40:45 and evil and they failed to be God's
40:48 instructions of love his wisdom for them
40:51 regarding this one tree so my question
40:54 to you is is there an area one thing
40:57 where God's calling you to believe in
40:59 obey and if he is ask him for strength
41:02 this oncoming week to unhook y'all so
41:08 you can get out of this area of
41:09 compromise in your life Roman numeral
41:16 six what happened after Adam and Eve
41:18 sinned when Adam and Eve ate from the
41:21 tree of knowledge of good and evil they
41:24 came into the experiential knowledge of
41:27 the way of the law the law judged Adam
41:31 guilty for his sin and the judgment was
41:35 death Romans 6:23 some of the agents of
41:41 death are listed in Deuteronomy 28
41:44 includes a long list of sicknesses and
41:47 diseases poverty and lack and many other
41:50 things it's really a good read for you
41:52 to read to understand everything that
41:55 you've been redeemed from and then to
41:57 stand on Galatians 3:13 saying Christ
42:00 has redeemed me from this and this
42:03 and this why did Adam and even and as a
42:08 result why did Adam and as a result the
42:11 entire human race come under such a
42:14 harsh judgement for one sin there's two
42:18 things that I see because the law
42:21 reflected number one because the law
42:23 reflected God's standard of holiness
42:26 which means it had to be obeyed
42:29 perfectly if man failed to obey in one
42:34 aspect of the law he was found guilty of
42:37 the entire law because God's standard of
42:40 holiness was not met that's in James
42:43 2:10 whoever shall keep the whole law
42:45 and yet stumbles in one point he is
42:48 guilty of all the second thing I believe
42:50 is that God knew it was impossible for
42:53 mankind for you and I to keep his
42:55 standard of holiness every point of his
42:58 law that is why God warned man not to
43:02 eat from the tree from the tree of the
43:04 knowledge of good and evil the moment
43:07 that they ate from the tree of the
43:08 knowledge of good and evil their lies
43:10 became quite the opposite of what they
43:14 had hoped they would gain and but you
43:16 know say didn't promised that they would
43:18 gain a chasm greater than the Grand
43:21 Canyon opened within the depths of their
43:24 heart as a life of God left them and
43:27 what rushed in to this Grand Canyon
43:29 shame and guilt rushed in filling the
43:34 emptiness within they were kicked out of
43:37 the garden their home and they were no
43:40 longer allowed access back in where the
43:44 tree of life stood death had consumed
43:47 their very lives and all that belonged
43:49 to them just as 3:24 says this so he
43:53 drove out the man and he placed cherubim
43:56 at the rest of the Garden of Eden and a
44:00 flaming sword which turned every way to
44:03 guard the way of the Tree of Life
44:05 instead of fulfilling their god-given
44:07 assignment to extend the blessing of God
44:10 his love his garden throughout all the
44:14 earth they caused the curse to
44:16 infiltrate
44:17 have dominion over themselves their
44:19 descendants and over God's beautiful
44:21 creation from that moment forward a cry
44:24 came out from earth man started to cry
44:28 out and this is what Paul said o
44:30 wretched man that I am who will deliver
44:34 me from this body of death the answer
44:38 was a tree of life Jesus Christ who
44:41 stood in the midst of the garden where
44:43 mankind was no longer allowed access to
44:46 why was mankind locked out of the garden
44:50 where the tree of life stood the
44:51 antidote to their sin because sinful man
44:55 could not come directly in contact with
44:58 God's holiness otherwise it would kill
45:01 them it would leave them in a state of
45:05 death eternally without any way to be
45:08 redeemed God knew the heart of fallen
45:11 man he knew that man needed exhaust all
45:14 their ways their own ways of trying to
45:17 save themselves from the depraved state
45:21 that they were in from the curse before
45:24 they really turned to the only one way
45:27 that God provided through His Son Jesus
45:29 Christ isaiah 53:6 says this all of us
45:34 like sheep have gone astray each of us
45:37 has turned his own way
45:39 how does mankind try to save themselves
45:42 basically by eating from the tree of the
45:45 knowledge of good and evil the law
45:47 trying to justify ourselves by our own
45:51 good works if we try to follow Psalm 1:1
45:57 trying to save ourselves by following
46:01 the law completely without God's help
46:04 God says no way so some of the ways that
46:11 men try to justify themselves apart from
46:14 God are doing good deeds doing religious
46:16 doing good eases do good get good doing
46:20 religious deeds to pray faster others be
46:23 morally good do deeds a self punishment
46:25 that's something also people do they
46:29 don't forgive themselves they put
46:31 selves in timeout and some people even
46:33 resort to suicidal things
46:37 what is Jesus's response to man's deeds
46:41 for self justification what does he say
46:44 no way Jesus says in John 5:40 but
46:50 you're not willing to come to me that
46:53 you may have life what is the one way
46:56 that God has provided for mankind to be
46:59 redeemed from his sin and go back to his
47:01 original identity there's only one way
47:04 and that's through Jesus Christ jesus
47:07 said I am the way the truth and the life
47:10 no man comes to the Father except
47:13 through me John 14:6 there was a flaming
47:16 sword that turned every self righteous
47:19 act away guarding the only one way to
47:22 the Tree of Life the purpose of the tree
47:25 of the knowledge of good and evil which
47:26 represents the law it had its purpose it
47:30 pointed man backed for their need for a
47:33 savior their need for Jesus Christ their
47:36 need for the Tree of Life there was no
47:40 way we can follow the commandments of
47:42 God perfectly only Jesus Christ could do
47:46 that Galatians 3:24 through 25 says this
47:50 therefore the law was a tutor to bring
47:53 us to Christ that we might be justified
47:55 by faith but after faith has come we are
47:59 no longer under a tutor so in the
48:02 fullness of time Jesus came to redeem
48:04 mankind back to God through the laying
48:07 down of his life on the tree of Calvary
48:10 on this tree he became a curse he was
48:14 made sin so that you could be redeemed
48:17 back from your sinful state and be made
48:20 righteous with his righteousness 2nd
48:23 Corinthians 5:21 by receiving the gift
48:26 of God Jesus Christ into your heart and
48:28 by being born again you're able to eat
48:31 from the tree of life where you're able
48:34 to have his life and have it abundantly
48:38 so I really wanted to express
48:43 tonight the importance of obeying God's
48:46 commandments not just dwelling and his
48:50 blessings but following his Commandments
48:53 so I gave you a lot of really hard
48:56 things to understand the last question I
48:59 have posed at the last part of this
49:02 session session 7 is this are you
49:06 willing to follow God's commandments now
49:09 listen to the Great Commission that
49:12 Jesus said to his disciples right before
49:15 he departs from the earth and goes to
49:17 heaven this is what's burning on his
49:21 heart and you can see what I underlined
49:26 one of the things that was burning on
49:27 his heart
49:28 is that we would teach people to obey
49:31 all of God's commandments isn't that
49:34 something for him to say that this is
49:39 what it says all authority has been
49:41 given to me in heaven and on earth go
49:44 therefore and make disciples to all of
49:47 the nations baptizing them in the name
49:49 of the Father and the Son and the Holy
49:50 Spirit teaching them to observe all
49:53 things I have commanded you and lo I am
49:57 with you always even to the end of this
50:01 age so at the beginning this session I
50:04 said that the second conversation there
50:07 were two conversations that Adam and Eve
50:09 had with God one the conversation about
50:13 the blessing the other the conversation
50:16 about the commandment that's God's first
50:19 conversations with man the second
50:24 conversation we see now Jesus is leaving
50:27 the earth and what does he say he says
50:30 these words teach them to observe all
50:33 things that I have commanded you
50:37 Wow that's on his heart and it still on
50:43 his heart was in his heart the beginning
50:45 of the time and at the end of time so
50:49 there's over 500 commandments and exort
50:54 ations in the New Testament that Jesus
50:56 spoke out
50:57 how can we follow all of those well I
51:01 believe there's some key things that
51:03 Jesus gave us to make every other
51:06 commandment possible and I've covered
51:09 some of these in this session 1 listen
51:13 to what God says pay attention to his
51:16 words of life and follow them to be born
51:19 again receive God's greatest gift his
51:23 son Jesus Christ into your heart 3
51:26 believe in Jesus Christ his word drink
51:29 from his rivers of love we went over
51:31 that a lot last session 4 abide in the
51:35 love of God for you as you see in the
51:37 face of Jesus Christ and we'll cover
51:39 more of that next week or last session
51:42 for Psalm 1 number 5 love God with your
51:46 all because He loves you
51:49 with his all finding your greatest
51:51 delight in him number 6
51:54 turn and repent from going your own way
51:57 and doing your own will and follow his
52:02 commandments follow Jesus Christ amen so
52:05 father I thank you for tonight's session
52:06 I pray Lord that you would strengthen us
52:11 and help us by the power of your spirit
52:13 in the inner man to receive not only
52:17 your blessings but also to walk in your
52:22 commandments so strengthen us to do your
52:26 will your way and to follow your voice
52:29 your plans for our life we thank you
52:33 Lord for what you're teaching us we're
52:34 excited what you have taught us and we
52:37 look forward follow there too next week
52:39 our last session of Psalm 1 in Jesus's
52:43 name Amen
52:45 so Wes