Red Flags - Week 1 | Coastal Church

Everything I say here is not meant to condemn, is not meant to judge because God doesn't put these red flags in place to limit you or to take the fun out of relationships. The the best lifeguard in the world, our heavenly father, does this to protect you. There is freedom within his guarded areas, within his protected areas. The bondage comes when we depart from the guarded areas and do our own thing. [00:39:20] (37 seconds)  #GodsLifeguard

You need to make a decision as a married person, as a single person, as a divorced person, that whatever God says about relationships, I'm gonna surrender to. If you kinda decide that you're gonna follow what the lifeguard says before you get to the beach, things are gonna go better and you won't be at such a high risk to drown. [00:55:07] (31 seconds)  #SurrenderToGodInLove

When he woke up, he thought, I'll do as before and shake myself free. But he didn't realize the Lord had left him. Do you know what happens in a double red flag scenario? If it's long term, the lifeguard leaves the booth. This doesn't mean he doesn't care if people drown. This just means I've put the sign in place. [01:07:15] (28 seconds)  #DoubleRedFlagWarning

God set standards in place not to restrict us or bind us, but to liberate us. Who's bound? The one who doesn't get into this crazy red flag relationship or the one who does? Well, they're literally trying to tie this guy up, and you can be tied up with things other than rope. [00:54:41] (25 seconds)  #StandardsLiberate

If you are not going in the same direction, they don't wanna put two oxen together that are mismatched in strength. Or one oxen wants to go off and do his own thing. Well, this oxen wants to go straight. It will pull on the other oxen causing them to stumble. You cannot be strong enough to be in that scenario long term. [01:03:46] (23 seconds)  #DontYokeUnequally

Red flag relationships will drag you, will grab a hold, bind you, and drag you places you didn't intend to go. Let's look at this in Samson's story. See the trouble he gets drug into. Judges chapter 16 verses four and five. Sometime later, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah. You see that? Love how we just fall, right, into these things. [00:52:03] (26 seconds)  #FallingIntoRedFlags

That his lack of spiritual capacity led to his poor relational choices. And as a result, he was blinded. He was bound. He was blinded. And now he's enslaved to grinding in circles, wheat for the enemy. He would be chained to this wheel and like a donkey have to go in circles all day. [01:09:51] (32 seconds)  #SpiritualBlindness

As Samson walked in a circle round and round, it wasn't a moment, it was a cycle, and it just never seemed to end. His his story doesn't end well. He did come back to God, but he was never liberated. Don't wait until it's too late. [01:10:56] (24 seconds)  #BreakTheCycleNow