Losing the Weight of Worldly Absorption / Pastor Randy Goldenberg / FCF Church

Some of us have been toe danglers maybe, maybe for a long time in the kingdom of God. Maybe some of us what we're wasting, you know, we're we're we're kinda in and kinda not in. We're kinda devoted to Christ and god's will through revealed through us where we're kinda not. And then some of us, man, long ago, we've dove in, and we're just loving being immersed. Listen to what I'm saying here. Immersed in God's truth. I am learning to live the way God created me to live, to become who he created me to become. I'm learning each day to become a little bit more like Christ, my creator, and I'm loving the work that God is doing in me. [01:05:53] (38 seconds)  #BeFullyImmersedInChrist

Technology has made it where we cannot escape its messaging for the most part, so we have to be that much more vigilant, that much more determined, that much more clear of how dangerous the system is so that we can use it but not allow it to become important in our lives. So each of us are gonna respond to this or needs to respond to this in different ways. Maybe you're the image of the pool. You're the foot dangler, the toe dangler, and the lord is saying, man, you got you gotta get in at least get in waist waist deep and see what's happening. Maybe you're the waist deep person. You're half hearted. You're half committed. And he's saying, you you gotta dive in. You will never understand. You'll never experience what God wants you to experience till you dive in. [01:24:53] (43 seconds)  #UseTechDontBeOwned

that scripture is stating that when we thought we were doing our thing, we were doing his thing, that he was puppeteering us and we didn't even know. Why? Because philosophically, we were unknowingly united to Satan. Satan just is utterly selfish. And when we live this way, utterly selfish, just doing what we feel like doing when we feel like doing it, we are in league and we are being led by this dark spirit that is behind the world system. But what I wanted you to see when it says follow the world's evil ways, this is what going on. We are all in this. We can't escape it. Ignorance is not bliss. It will not save us from this reality. [00:56:55] (41 seconds)  #WakeFromSpiritualBlindness

The world imposes, first of all, its vision or view of life. The world system's view of life, it's it's temporal. It starts at birth. It ends at death. It doesn't know for sure beyond that. And so it tries to squeeze everything in to this short uncertain existence. So so it's a very, very pressurized kind of a way of living. It creates values or what's important. Well, what's important is I know that in this life, there's some pleasure and there's some pain. Pain is not, know, enjoyable, so I want pleasure. So we start trying to incorporate as much pleasure in our life and as little as pain, so that becomes our value system. [00:59:59] (39 seconds)  #RejectTemporalValues

Oh, man. You feel good when you get a new car. I mean, just the smell alone. Right? Or some new furniture or whatever. There's nothing wrong with those things, but they can really get into your heart if you're not careful, and we chase newer, nicer, bigger, better for the rest of our life. Popularity. Oh, man. I got so many likes. Everybody likes me. And we become a slave to likes or friendships and and we lose our identity. Prestige. I wanna accomplish things. I want accolades. I I wanna be identified as one that is, you know, achieved a certain level in society. And then this one is the last one, power. I want control. [01:11:24] (32 seconds)  #GodWarnsWithLove

Now, each advertisement when you think about it, it is playing on your and my desires. It's trying to get us to think that we should want what it is they offer and they see us as just profit, just merchandise. Now now don't you wish this? Don't you wish advertisements and people came with truth cards? You know what I'm saying? So something like this. This product is totally bogus. All you're doing is putting a smile on my face as I put your money in my pocket. Wouldn't it be great if you could just avoid be because the question we we ask or we should ask at least, two questions, is this worth it? [00:42:27] (42 seconds)  #DontFollowTheCrowd

In the book of Romans chapter 12, it says, do not allow this world to do what? Mold. Mold you in its own image. So this tells us this world system seeks to influence us. It seeks to change us. It seeks to shape us, our our character and our vision. The the thing about we as humans is is we we wanna fit in. We wanna belong. We wanna be liked. We want we don't wanna be looked upon as a weirdo. Let let me let me show you how this works in an everyday situation. So let's say you were in a strange city and you're walking down one street and you're gonna make a sharp left hand turn to get to your destination. [00:57:38] (37 seconds)  #EternalValuesOverTemporal

How how many know who Samson is in scripture? Samson? Yeah. He he was big and he was bad. Then he saw a young lady named Delilah. Is it worth it? To him, it was worth it. And he ended up instead of big and bad, he ended up blind and bald. Was it worth no. No. Knock on anybody that's blind or bald. I'm just but that was not his normal condition. Was it worth it? Not so much. I don't think he would have said so. So I wish the products came this way, but I wish even more people came this way, you know. [00:43:15] (32 seconds)  #BreakTheWorldsGrip