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Our desire to conquer comes from a good place when not perverted. After all, when you belong to the King, you are a conqueror.

But when we pervert them … when we change the plans and create our own narrative?

What Man Has Built Let God Put Asunder

Genesis 11 ³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Many believe that this was the creation and brainstorm of Nimrod. And though the text does not directly link him to the evil that God would deal with, it does not matter.

What does matter is that we are not to become something that we were not created to be.

As it was in the garden, so it was in Genesis 11, and so it is throughout the earth: Man is influenced by a fallen nature, and that nature wants to go its own way. And “going your own way” invites in three things:

Unseen Evil
Wrong Thinking And Actions
Death

We want no part in this.

And as I sit and write this today, I pray that God would open your eyes if He has not done so already.

Jesus wants our eyes wide open.

Matthew 24 ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Jesus returned us to Him in His actions on earth, His execution, His resurrection, and His move at Pentecost. We do not have to live like this.

We have an option:

Get Adopted

God sent Jesus to get rid of man’s narrative and replace it with His original, and perfect, plan.

Jesus.

We have a chance to “reverse the curse”.

We can be adopted.

And with that adoption, we have a chance.

As I write this this morning, and revel in His Name, and His plan, and His Kingdom, I am taken aback by the incredible offer to be adopted.

John 1 ¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

And so it is.

Get Adopted.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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The gospel is truly given to set us free.

And today, I found yet another reason as we sat and talked about mental health as a group of coaches.

Why are we seemingly dealing with this MORE today than at any time in history? Why is it a bigger deal now than it was 10 or 20 or 30 years ago? What can we do for these amazing kids that we get to coach?

As we sat and discussed, I simply had no answers. But my reality is simple: When I have NO answers it pushes me to turn to THE Answer. And, He, is THE Answer.

As I reflected, I was drawn to what Paul said and so I looked it up and found it in Romans 7.

Romans 7 ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Paul was VERY, VERY intelligent. A politician and a lawyer who discovered Jesus—Paul underwent a transformation of Biblical proportions. And he wrote this God-inspired verse for us on this very day.

This verse is not an excuse for us to live at the lowest common denominator.

It isn’t an accusation to put us into a guilt-inspired tailspin.

And it isn’t a “Well, why would I try anything then if I can’t succeed at any of it?” verse.

Paul is letting us all know the reality of our situation:

We aren’t the center of the world or the universe
We aren’t the most important person at our company, or in our family, or on our team
We aren’t the superstar NFL player that crowds gather to see … and those NFL guys aren’t either.

We ARE broken, and we fall short, and we are full of things that make us broken. It is PART of us. And even in that state, we don’t even see most of the things that others could point out to us without hesitation.

We are broken and we fall short of the Glory of God. Period.

And this can’t be fixed by self help guru, a pill, money, or an enormous amount of work.

It CAN ONLY BE FIXED by Jesus.

It CAN ONLY BE FIXED by our confession that we “don’t measure up”.

It CAN ONLY BE FIXED by a Father who loves us too much to leave us the way we are.

Thank You so much Jesus

When I arose today, I felt so much that was heavy in front of me

And I thought of that quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”

If by “what lies within us” he meant Jesus–Amen.

And if he didn’t–I could not disagree with him more.

We are sitting ducks for Hell without Jesus Christ and what He did not the cross.

Gavel Down. End of story.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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