Freedom through Enjoying God - January 14
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🗓️ 14 January 2019
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Summary
As we wrap up this week-long focus seeking to answer the important question, why should we spend time alone with God, today we’re going to look at how God provides freedom through simply enjoying him. I hope and pray that chains weighing you down to the cares and sins of the world fall of of you today as we follow the Spirit down a path to more fully enjoying God.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 5:17, and today's worship is Could You Be This Good by Kristene DiMarco.
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| 0:00.0 | As we wrap up this week long focus, seeking to answer the important question, why should we spend time alone with God? |
| 0:12.0 | Today we're going to look at how God provides freedom |
| 0:14.7 | through simply enjoying him. I hope and pray that chains weighing you down to |
| 0:20.1 | the cares and sins of the world fall off of you today as we follow the spirit down a path to more fully enjoying God. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our Versa Our verse of today comes from 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17. |
| 0:47.0 | Scripture says, |
| 0:51.0 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is passed away, behold the new has come. |
| 1:00.0 | You were created to enjoy God. The Westminster shorter Catechism says, |
| 1:08.0 | Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. |
| 1:14.7 | And David wrote in Psalm 1611, |
| 1:17.1 | you make known to me the path of life. |
| 1:20.3 | In your presence, there is fullness of joy. |
| 1:23.0 | At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. |
| 1:28.0 | We were designed to seek enjoyment in God. |
| 1:32.0 | We were made to delight ourselves in His goodness, His provision, |
| 1:37.2 | the wonders of His creation, and the simplicity of His Unconditional Love. So important, so powerful, is finding enjoyment in God, that it has the power to set us free from sin. |
| 1:52.0 | You see, when we don't seek enjoyment in God, we will naturally |
| 1:56.4 | seek it in the world. We can't live our lives apart from pleasure. We aren't created to live without happiness, love, passion, and |
| 2:07.4 | joy. Most of us have been indoctrinated to the idea that we sin because we aren't controlled enough. |
| 2:16.6 | We believe that if we could just get rid of a need for pleasure or enjoyment, we'd be free. |
| 2:23.2 | And self-control is absolutely crucial in experiencing freedom from sin. |
| 2:29.0 | But we will never be able to rid ourselves of our immense need to enjoy life. We will never stop seeking |
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