John Carver - "The Waist Up War"
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Channel: John Carver · 2017 · People & Blogs
A substantial part of your, personal, problems and mine come from the waist up. There is something that has stood out to me, for a long time, that is echoed in Romans 7. That is, TRUE leaders understand that they are a “work in progress” just like everyone else. It gives me great hope that if St. Paul had struggles there is still hope for you and me. An internal civil war goes on inside many of us. Romans 7:14-25 – NASB - The Conflict of Two Natures 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold [m]into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. There are many moral choices in life that will move you up or drag you down. “Your friends are like buttons on an elevator. They take you up or down.” Bishop Dale Bronner Joyce Meyer: Proverbs 4:23 says, Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life (NLT). Notice that it doesn't say somebody else will guard your heart. It doesn't say God will guard your heart, your neighbor will guard your heart or your pastor will guard your heart. It says you need to guard your heart. Once emotions are full steam ahead good judgement takes a back seat. Compromise of character. Pay attention. Thank you for watching.
