Heaven or Hell: Who Governs Your Life?

Yes. They had those back then. So they they the deflectors on the side of the road and in the middle of the road. And if you hit the reflector, you got a demerit. It's called demerit. And that you know, the person with the most demerits loses. So you wanna have as few of those as can. And I remember one time I'm driving, and I kept I kept running into them. And I I my dad is realizing that I'm looking at them. And he's like, listen. Stop stop looking at those. Look straight down the middle of the road. If you look down the middle of the road, what you look at is what you're gonna veer towards. You know this. This is it's a it's a principle in life. [00:48:33] (31 seconds)  #AimWhereYouLook

And and it's not because you're a truth seeker or somebody somebody else a truth seeker, and and you're really at some point, you're gonna be really all about the truth and you're gonna bring things out in the light. You're gonna bring truth. It's not the reason. The reason is is because you're freedom seekers. lies incarcerate us. And eventually, what happens is when people live in unreality, when they pretend, when they cover up and they hide, eventually, they can't deal with it anymore because they wanna be free. [01:00:10] (30 seconds)  #FreedomOverFalsehood

But when you look and you look again and look at what you shouldn't and you watch in private and you set your sights way too low, you aim way too low, you're governed by lust, you settle for pleasure, which doesn't satisfy. The promise is you'll be satisfied. You know, focus on this and go after this and you'll get what you want and and you don't. And what happens is you you settle for a distorted, perverted, counterfeit version of your real desire, which is which is intimacy. [00:54:24] (29 seconds)  #SeekTrueIntimacy

As you're looking towards where where should I strive for in my life? What should I be reaching toward? He's going, I want you to think on the realities of heaven. In fact, he he he what he's saying is, look. If you want things to go well for you, here's how this works. You need to focus your attention. Your attention's important. What you focus your attention on, you're gonna move towards. [00:47:14] (24 seconds)  #FixYourEyesOnHeaven

What you give your attention to is what you move toward because what you move toward is what you focus on. The apostle Paul is going, set your sights on the realities of heaven. You wanna bring the goodness of heaven down in your life? Strive towards that. Give that your attention. [00:49:04] (17 seconds)  #BringHeavenToEarth

And and this governance battle, it's not out there. It's not like here's my reality and the governance battle's out here. It's out there somewhere in the world, in some unseen world. That the battle, Paul's saying, is within you. So he says, put to death. You have to disregard. You have to turn. You have to close your eyes to. You have to you have to close yourself off to the options to be governed by the sinful nature. [00:52:01] (25 seconds)  #BattleWithinPutToDeath

this is what the apostle Paul says. He's like, look, these things, these are the tools that the enemy uses to pull hell up into your life, to create a mess of your life, to get you into all sorts of hellish situations. You have to consciously, day in and day out, you have to put to death these things. You have to put to get death certain evil desires. You have to put to death certain evil pursuits. [01:06:38] (32 seconds)  #CrushEvilDesiresDaily

Here here's here's how this how how that looks. Is with with Christians in our world, the truth is is is I don't think Christians really see the Bible as as an authority in their life. I mean, we we've we've blended this idea with with our Christian values and and our our Christian views. And we'll only allow the Bible to govern our lives to the degree that we agree with it. [00:43:59] (28 seconds)  #CulturalChristianity