Unmasking the Source of Your Noise - 2 Peter 1:2-3

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Understanding the facts about reality is a major factor in determining whether your life brings glory to God and whether you're a faith filled and stable person. Understanding the facts, the truth. Amen? Church is the pillar and ground of the truth. You ought to hear it a lot around here. We ought to know about God, learn about God, know about him and what he stands for, who he is, you know. [00:30:33] (27 seconds)  #KnowTheTruth Download clip

So but your belief is what you accept to be true so in reality your belief is revealing to you what you regard as truth and that truth may be fantasy or it may be a foundation, may be based on the scripture. Amen? To the extent that your beliefs are rooted in fantasy, you will be unstable. You will dishonor God, and you will experience many unpleasant things as you try to live out your fantasy in real life. [00:31:45] (30 seconds)  #BeliefMatters Download clip

many of us have rejected certain realities of God and have believed fantasies about God more than we realize. Because if I were to ask you, you believe God? Yes. Do you believe everything he said in his word? Oh, absolutely. Then why are you such a mess in your soul? Why are you tormented? Why are you angry? Why are you bitter? Amen? If you've got noise in your soul, it's proof. [00:26:19] (34 seconds)  #RejectFantasy Download clip

See, I I always say, you know, folks, we're we're not born as bad as we really are. If you were born as bad as you really are, you would never wanna hear about Jesus. You would you would you would automatically live in a moral lifestyle right off the bat. And anybody would wanna tell you otherwise, you would just dispose of them. But he gave you something. He gave you a conscience. He gave you the ability to make a choice between light and darkness. [00:16:51] (32 seconds)  #ConscienceMatters Download clip

This is about how every person that rejects the knowledge of God begins to disintegrate, and they start living a sinful lifestyle. And it isn't just homosexuality and that is there but you know what it is? It's immorality. It's pornography. It's it's stealing to get what you want. It's lying. When your foolish heart is darkened, you go into a pattern of disintegration, and your life is being stolen from you by your own sin. [00:45:30] (36 seconds)  #TruthOrDestruction Download clip

You know what you need? You need reality, not a fantasy life that we're creating to cushion ourselves against all these hard things we're going through. And that's what people do. They just create this this cushion of fantasy, and all that's gonna do is just collapse on you one day. Be real, man. They always gotta make a positive statement for the negative things of life. Sometimes there's negative things and you say that's negative. That's not a good thing. [01:04:57] (31 seconds)  #ChooseReality Download clip

You know what you need? You need reality, not a fantasy life that we're creating to cushion ourselves against all these hard things we're going through. And that's what people do. They just create this this cushion of fantasy, and all that's gonna do is just collapse on you one day. Be real, man. They always gotta make a positive statement for the negative things of life. Sometimes there's negative things and you say that's negative. That's not a good thing. [01:04:57] (31 seconds)  #NoMoreFantasy Download clip

Stability exists only upon a foundation of truth. Only upon a foundation of truth. If you wanna be stable, you have got to build your life upon the truth. If you're not gonna build upon the truth, I don't care how much you try to get your life in order, it is not gonna be in order. You're gonna be an unstable person till Jesus comes. [00:18:55] (22 seconds)  #BuiltOnTruth Download clip

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