Romans #15 - Good Gifts: New Desires

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this sermon from Romans 7, Pastor Mark tells how, when you become a Christian, your desires change and that, even though the flesh tries to pull you back down, the Spirit pulling you up is stronger.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mark Driscoll Podcast to find more Bible teaching from Pastor Mark visit realfaith.com
0:06.0	Thanks for listening and being a part of real faith and remember it's all about Jesus
0:11.8	You are new we've been going through the book of Romans this year
0:14.7	It's been a supernatural incredible extraordinary year the church has doubled real faith live online is doubled
0:20.9	God has done some incredible things and this will be the last sermon in Romans for this year
0:25.6	And we'll pick it up again after Valentine's Day so we're in Romans chapter 7 and the really great news
0:31.8	That I have for you today's during this Christmas season when we are
0:34.9	Buying gifts and giving gifts and receiving gifts
0:37.6	God has good gifts to give to his children and today he's going to talk to us about one of the greatest gifts
0:43.0	That is the gift of new desires that comes with the gift of the Holy Spirit
0:46.7	And this is one of the great secrets of the Christian life that non-Christian's quite frankly don't understand
0:51.5	And that is that Christianity is not a bunch of things that we have to do
0:54.6	It's a bunch of things that we get to do because God changes our desires and ultimately the things of God are the things that we want to do
1:01.5	That makes the Christian life the most joyful life the most exciting life the most satisfying life
1:07.2	But if we're honest, there are also moments time seasons of struggle
1:11.8	Let me explain it this way when we were kids
1:14.0	We played tug of war and have you ever played that game?
1:16.5	Okay, not that I'm an adult I'm bigger. It'd be much better at it
1:19.6	But when I was a little kid
1:21.3	Play tug of war
1:22.4	Tug tug tug when you're an adult. It's a different kind of tug of war
1:26.0	It's literally a tug of war between heaven and hell
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