Hello, and
welcome to Heart Lift.
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I'm Jill Morikone,
and I'm so glad that you
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have joined us today.
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We're on a journey
toward hope, toward healing,
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toward the transformation that
the Lord Jesus wants to work
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in your life and in mine
as women, as daughters of God.
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If you're just joining
us, we're in the middle
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of a section on pride.
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We talked about the boastful
heart, the critical heart,
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the jealous heart.
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And no matter which heart
we find ourselves saddled with,
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God says, I want to
bring you deliverance.
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I came to set you free.
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Today we're going to be
discussing fearful pride.
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This is totally different
than the fear section we did
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several programs before.
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This is different than a worry.
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This is fearful pride,
and we'll unpackage that.
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Our Scripture is Galatians 1:10.
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If you have your Bible,
open up and follow along.
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If not, feel free to
jot down that reference
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and look it up later.
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Galatians 1:10. For do I
now persuade men, or God?
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or do I seek to please men
or God? If I still pleased men,
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I would not be a
bondservant of Christ.
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Lord, in our own
hearts and lives right now,
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as I look into my own heart,
I know there's still areas in me
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that want to please man.
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And so I just ask right now that
You would create in me a clean
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heart, that you would
renew in me a right spirit.
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I pray for the
cleansing blood of Jesus.
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I ask that for
my sisters as well.
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And right now as we discuss
this topic of fearful pride,
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I pray that You would
come, and that You would speak
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to our hearts and lives.
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And we thank You in
the precious and the holy
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name of Jesus, Amen.
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She was a young Middle
Eastern girl; a beautiful girl
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just coming into womanhood.
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She lived at the palace because
her mother had married one
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of the local kings.
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Herod they called him.
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Now this woman,
her mother, Herodias,
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she was married to Herod.
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And she did not like a
certain person who began
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preaching there in Galilee.
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His name, you probably guessed
it, was John the Baptist.
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Perhaps it was the strange
way that this prophet dressed.
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Maybe it was the
weird food that he ate.
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Whatever it was,
Herodias didn't like him.
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She nagged, she talked to,
she bugged her husband Herod
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until he had the
prophet of God imprisoned.
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Did Herod think John the
Baptist was really a bad person?
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Did he think he was
worthy of being imprisoned? no.
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But he gave into the
pressure from his wife.
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Some time later Herod
held a banquet for all the big
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names around Galilee.
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I would imagine Captains, and
maybe Generals, maybe there were
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some politicians there, and
they all came for a time of,
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feasting and frolic.
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In the midst of their drunken
feast, because the wine was
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flowing pretty freely,
in the midst of that feast,
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they invited Herod's
wife Herodias, her daughter,
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to come out and dance.
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She was that beautiful,
young, Middle Eastern girl.
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Her name was Salome.
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She came out to dance,
and she danced so beautifully,
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and held those drunken men
so captive that Herod was moved
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in his heart to offer her a
reward; whatever she wanted.
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She ran back to Mamma and
said, What should I ask for?
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We hear the terrible request.
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Herodias said, Say this,
my daughter, Give me the head
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of John the
Baptist on a platter.
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Now what type a woman is that?
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That's just incredible to me.
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Give me the head of John
the Baptist on a platter.
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Herod was horrified.
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I just imagine anxiously
his eyes darting from one
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drunken face to another.
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I think some fully grasped
the import of the message,
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but they merely
shrugged their shoulders
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and lifted another glass.
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Others maybe
laughed, or told jokes.
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Still others, they probably
never liked the Baptist,
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so his death might be
even a relief to them.
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We pick up this
story in Mark 6, Mark 6:26.
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The Bible says, And
the king... That's Herod.
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...was exceedingly sorry;
yet because of the oath...
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Because of what he had promised
to his step daughter Salome.
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...and because of
those who sat with him,
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he did not want to refuse her.
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Because of those who
sat; fear of those who sat,
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fear of what other people,
what those big names around
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his table, fear of what they
thought led him to behead John
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the Baptist; that forerunner of
the Messiah, John the Baptist.
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Fearful pride is a fear of
what other people think of me.
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It is always self motivated,
self focused, and self driven.
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To me its maybe
being a people pleaser.
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And if I'm being honest with
you, I think of all the prides
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that we've been discussing,
this one is my biggest struggle:
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fearful pride.
This one really gets me.
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We're going to look
at our self evaluation.
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As always, when you do a
self evaluation be honest.
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Put down which one you
identify most closely with.
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Is there any
fear lurking there? 1.
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And I have been there. 2.
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And I have been
there. The last one.
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It's really the fear of what
other people think is kind of
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the fowopt experience.
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Fowopt is an acronym
that my friend, Bobby Davis...
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He works here at 3ABN, and
he came up with this acronym.
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It stands for fear of
what other people think of me.
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Fear of what other people
think, or the fowopt experience.
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Fowopt. It's the reason we let
a popular person gossip to us
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about our best friend,
yet we don't say anything.
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It's the reason we don't want
to get up and lead song service
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at church when a gifted
singer or song writer happens
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to be in the audience.
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It's the reason we don't
step out in obedience and do
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something that God calls
us to do because we're afraid
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someone's going to
say, You didn't do it right.
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You didn't hear God's voice.
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You aren't supposed to do that.
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Fowopt experience: fear
of what other people think.
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It dictates what we eat,
what we wear, where we go,
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who we talk to;
the Fowopt experience.
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I had a pastor friend once,
and he said to me something,
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this was years ago,
but it stayed with me
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through all those years.
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He said, Jill, if you feel
nervous when you get up front,
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or if you feel nervous doing
something, it's a sign of pride.
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Now as soon as he said
that, my own pride bristled.
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I thought, How
dare you say that?
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That's not right!
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It's not pride in
me because I'm afraid.
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But the longer I thought about
it, the truer it seemed to be.
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Why would I be afraid?
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1. Say I'm up front speaking.
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Why would I be afraid?
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Well, I
wouldn't want to mess up.
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That's a good thing.
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Now why would I
not want to mess up?
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Because people
would think badly of me.
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They might think, You
didn't prepare very well, Jill.
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Or they might think, You're
not very good at speaking.
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Or they might think,
Why is she up there anyway?
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You see how that pride, the
fear of what other people think,
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it covers and it springs into
many, many aspects of our lives.
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Now I want to
caution you right now.
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As we're talking about this,
this does not mean that you go
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out and you tell someone
else who's afraid to get out
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and minister for Jesus,
who's afraid to speak for Jesus,
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or to share, or to use
the talents that God has
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given them in ministry.
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Don't go and tell
them, You know what?
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You've got pride in your life.
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Because if we do that
that's condemnation, and we know
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that's from the enemy.
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That's the critical spirit.
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And we just went over
that a couple programs ago.
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Simply come to God yourself.
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This isn't for anybody
else. It's for our self.
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Simply come to God and ask Him
in the quietness of your heart,
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Is there fearful
pride in my heart?
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Is there fearful
pride in my life?
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Nicodemus had a little
bit of this fearful pride.
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He came to
Jesus, remember? John 3.
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He came to Jesus at night.
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Why? he was afraid.
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He was part of the Sanhedrin.
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He was a religious leader in
their time, and in their day.
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And Jesus was not so popular
with the religious leaders.
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The common people loved Him.
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The children flocked
to Him to sit on His lap,
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to be blessed over
by Him, to get a word of
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encouragement or commendation.
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The women loved Him because,
in their culture, men didn't pay
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attention to the women.
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But yet He gave women value.
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The common people loved Him,
because He identified with their
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needs, and He
bade them, Follow Me.
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The religious
leaders had an issue,
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probably because of pride.
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Here was somebody popular.
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Here was somebody that
everyone was flocking to.
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And what? Maybe their
synagogue was a little more
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empty that Sabbath.
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Maybe their synagogue was
a little dry and they said,
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Why is
everybody going over here?
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He can't be the Messiah.
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Nicodemus was one of those
rulers, and he had this fear
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in his heart; fear of
what other people thought.
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And so he came
to Jesus at night.
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He wasn't the only one
who had an issue with that.
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We see in John 12, John 12
we see that some of the other
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ones had a similar issue.
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We're in verse 42.
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Nevertheless even among the
rulers many believed in Him,
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meaning many believed in Jesus,
but because of the Pharisees
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they did not confess
Him, lest they should be put
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out of the synagogue:...
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And then this verse: For
they loved the praise of men
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more than the praise of God.
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I have to ask myself every time
I read that, Jill do you love
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the praise of men more than the
praise of your Father in Heaven?
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If you feel that today, if you
feel like, I love the praise of
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men more than my Father
in Heaven, there is hope.
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We want to talk about the steps,
the keys for us to experience
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freedom, and deliverance,
from the fear of men,
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from the fear of what
other people think of me.
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There's four. How do we break
free from the fearful pride?
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1. Ask God to
show you your heart.
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Psalm 139:23, 24. I quote
this often, but I love it.
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Search me, O God, and know
my heart: try me, and know my
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thoughts: and see if
there is any wickedness in me,
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and lead me in
the way everlasting.
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I just flipped
there in my Bible.
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In the Hebrew, the Old
Testament's written in Hebrew.
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In the Hebrew it says, Search
me, O God, and know my heart.
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Do you know what the
word search means in Hebrew?
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intimately examine.
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So when we come to God
we're saying, Really look at me.
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Really examine my heart.
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What is going on in there?
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Is there fearful pride?
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I might think, I
don't have any pride.
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I don't have any fearful pride.
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I don't care
about what men think.
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I'm all focused on Jesus.
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And all of a
sudden something pops up,
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and I hadn't even
realized it was there.
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Go to God and ask Him
to show you your heart.
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2. Trust Him to
change your heart.
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We can't change our heart.
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Jeremiah 13:23. The Bible says,
Can the Ethiopian change his
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skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may you also do good,
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who are
accustomed to doing evil.
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We can't change our hearts.
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We can't break free
from that fearful pride.
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Trust God to change your heart.
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3. Trust Him to
complete the work that He has
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begun in your life.
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Philippians 1:6. Being
confident of this very thing,
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that he who began a good
work in you will carry it
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forward to completion.
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God says, Trust Me.
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Trust Me to complete the
work I have begun in you.
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4. Is behold Jesus.
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I'm jumping back here to Isaiah.
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Behold Jesus. He was a
young man, yet he'd been called
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to a very difficult mission, a
hazardous job, a thankless task.
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And I think God wanted to
give him a special calling,
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a special equipping for service.
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I'm talking about, of
course, the prophet Isaiah.
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We see his call in
Isaiah 6, Isaiah 6:1-4,
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we're going to
look at initially.
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In the year that
king Uzziah died, I...
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This is Isaiah speaking.
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I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, high and lifted up,
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and the train of His
robe filled the temple.
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Above it stood seraphim:
each one had six wings;
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with two he covered his face,
and with two he covered his
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feet, and with two he flew.
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Verse 3. And one cried to
another, and said, Holy, holy,
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holy, is the Lord of
hosts: the whole earth
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is filled with His glory.
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And the posts of the door were
shaken by the voice of him who
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cried out, and the
house was filled with smoke.
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You notice that?
Isaiah was beholding God.
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Not beholding God for,
Okay, God's on my level.
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He saw God for who He truly is.
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There's a difference.
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He saw the holiness, the
majesty, the glory of God.
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He saw the way the
angels treated Him.
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The, what's it say?
the posts were shaken.
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I mean this was incredible;
the glory of God that he saw.
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And notice the next
verse, verse 5 is in contrast
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to the glory of God.
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Verse 5. He said, So I said,
Woe is me! for I am undone;
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because I'm a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst
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of a people of unclean lips: for
mine eyes have seen the King,
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the Lord of hosts.
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What's he saying there?
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When he truly saw
God for who God is,
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he got a picture of himself.
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He got a picture of
his own unworthiness,
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and that picture humbled him.
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It humbled him into the dust.
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He realized who he
was in relation to God.
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You know, so many times
when I think I'm doing well,
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or I'm afraid of other people.
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You know what? I'm
looking this way, sideways.
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I'm looking between me
and other people instead
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of looking vertically;
looking between me and God.
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If we really get a sense of who
God is, I realize I'm nothing.
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And at the same time, I
won't have some sort of false
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humility, because I
will realize I am something.
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I am the daughter of God!
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He created me, He loves me,
and He has a plan for my life.
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When we truly see God for who
He is, then we can see others,
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and ourselves, for
who they truly are.
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I believe its important
to go to God for approval.
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How often I want
to go to other people.
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Maybe you seek for
approval from your boss,
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or from a co-worker.
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Maybe you're seeking approval
from your spouse, or a neighbor.
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Maybe you say, I can
never be good enough.
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I can never live up
to their expectations.
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I can never be what I
think they want me to be.
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God says, You are enough.
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Come to Me for approval.
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Come to Me. And you
know what God's going to say?
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I made you. I love you.
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I want to cherish you.
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I want to protect you.
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I have a plan for your life,
and its way better than the life
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that you're currently living.
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So ask. Ask God to
show you where the fearful
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pride is in your heart.
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Ask God to show you who
you look to for approval.
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2. Trust God to
change your heart.
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Recognize that you
can't do it yourself.
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Trust God to change your heart.
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3. Trust Him to
complete the work that He has
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begun in your life.
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Trust Him to finish it. And,
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4. get a picture of who God is.
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Get a picture of His greatness,
and awesomeness, and majesty.
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Go to Him for approval.
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Look to Jesus until He
becomes more important to you
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than anybody else.
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I think that's really the key.
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As I spend time in His Word,
as I spend time getting to know
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Jesus, as I look to Him He truly
becomes more important to me
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than anybody else.
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We need to take a
break at this time.
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When we come back we're going
to talk about our practical
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application, something
you can do to carry you
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through this week.
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