Ep. 133 How to Be Successful, Part 2 | The Debrief Podcast with Matt Brown
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
4.9 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey everybody. |
| 0:11.9 | We took last week's episode and split it into two parts. |
| 0:14.7 | So we want to go ahead and just jump right into the second half of our conversation with Pastor Matt and getting into some real answers to your tough questions. |
| 0:25.4 | Listen in. Alrighty, so jumping right into getting some real answers to some tough questions from you, Pastor Matt, Ricky wrote in and said, this is a tough one. I've been in a relationship |
| 0:29.7 | for a year now and claimed to be a Christian. I wasn't following any of my Christian practices, though, |
| 0:34.8 | and was drifting away further and further. Soon after my relationship started to deteriorate, I realized that the reason for this was my lack of relationship with God. |
| 0:42.4 | So I started to really trust in the Lord and was hoping to see a change in our relationship. |
| 0:46.2 | But as soon as I did that, we finally called it quits. |
| 0:48.7 | Why is this happening, Pastor Matt? |
| 0:50.2 | And what can I do to stay on track without having the confusion from heartbreak? Yeah, I mean, I don't know your situation, but it sounds like you got the wrong God. |
| 0:58.7 | So the God you want is the God who is, not the God who fixes your relationships and stuff. |
| 1:05.2 | And so you really got to get those things in order. |
| 1:08.2 | So the first commandment is thou shall have no other gods before me, |
| 1:11.0 | and that includes boyfriends, specifically includes boyfriends, |
| 1:14.0 | girlfriends, and so good things can become sinful things |
| 1:18.2 | if they are misplaced. |
| 1:19.7 | And so that's the first thing that I would do is, |
| 1:21.3 | I think for a lot of young people, |
| 1:23.5 | it's really, really hard to juggle multiple relationships, |
| 1:26.5 | especially when you don't have a good relationship with God. |
| 1:29.2 | You don't want to try to improve that relationship and work on this other relationship. |
| 1:33.0 | You want to make a choice, and the choice to make is always God. |
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