Living As Enemies | Pastor Daniel Ethridge | Liberty Live Church

We have gotta get back to preaching and teaching the cross of Jesus. You don't gotta be a preacher in a pulpit with a microphone. Every day as you live, you're preaching somebody. You're either preaching yourself or you're preaching Christ Jesus. If you're preaching yourself, it might just be evidence that you're an enemy of the cross of Christ. Number three. They're controlled by their stomachs. This is such a funny phrase to me. Their God is their stomach. [01:03:57] (44 seconds)  #PreachChristDaily

There is not one person who doesn't start as an enemy of God. There's not one person. I told you to evaluate yourself. Look at your own life. If you're sitting here convicted, if you're sitting here really questioning how you're walking and how you're living, amen. Me too. All week. Every one of these areas, I wanna get right. But I'm telling you why those things don't define me. Because there was a moment in my life where I realized my need for Jesus, and I surrendered to him. And he came into my life, and the power of his holy spirit overwhelmed me. So I'm no longer defined by those things. [01:10:23] (41 seconds)  #TransformedByGrace

Well yeah, because this is a window into heaven right here. This place is sacred ground. When listen. When people in the city talk to you, they they should immediately know they're different. They don't sound like me. They don't look like me. They don't act like they're of another world. Who are these people who love so well? Who are these people who are so full of joy and peace while the world's falling apart? I'll tell you who we are. We're citizens of heaven. [00:54:10] (30 seconds)  #AmbassadorsOfHeaven

You know where you look at determines which direction you're going. Come on Virginia drivers. I mean Lord, I can't drive when I'm looking at the road, much less when I'm looking at my phone. And you can either because I've been out there on 64 with y'all and y'all cannot drive. Bless it. Y'all need to get your eyes on the road because where you're looking at determines where you're going. And it's the same way in our spiritual lives. The focus of our mind and our heart determine the direction of our lives. [00:45:36] (32 seconds)  #FixYourFocus

It's bad enough to live in sin and to live against the word. And there's no reason, listen to me, there is no reason you should live in sin and live in shame because of what Jesus has done. But it is a whole another level to actually boast about the things that God condemns. I have no interest in preaching at the world or society at large. I told you I came to preach to the church today. And as much as the world has their sins, we have sins that we tolerate. [00:55:55] (34 seconds)  #StopBoastingInSin

And I almost rephrased it to say they celebrate what God condemns. But I wanted to I wanted to give you the exact verbiage that the scripture gives you right here. They glory in their shame. The the literal word means to praise or to boast in. They boast about things they ought to be ashamed of. The other translation in the original language is they're filled with pride about what they should be filled with shame. [00:55:16] (38 seconds)  #StopGloryingInShame

and peace. Come on. We say all the time, it's not just church. It's life. Jesus said, I came that you might have life and not life to the fullest. And I'm asking you, are you really living? Are you living to the fullest? Look at this word. Do you have peace? Now come on, think about this. Do you have peace? If you're living in turmoil, if you're struggling to live with peace, it may be evidence that you're living as an enemy of the cross. [00:48:53] (32 seconds)  #LiveInPeace

What a reality that we could live in. Y'all our minds are too consumed with the things of the world. The news, social media, your phones, the radio, the music we listen to, all programming our minds to think on the things of the world, the things of this earth. And I'm telling you, all of those things are demonic programming your mind away from the things of Christ. You say demonic? How can you say that? Well scripture says that the world is under the control of Satan. [00:46:33] (39 seconds)  #UnplugFromWorldlyNoise