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Bridging the Inner Chasm 0:03 Men, if you call every man your home for getting in, getting healthy, getting strong, and getting going, then we have a special ask for you. We need men like you to stand in the gap with us as we take back territory for0:15 God's kingdom with our new giving campaign. We're calling it the 12 for 12 giving campaign, and all it takes is 12 dollars a month for 12 months. Now your commitment and donation0:27 will help us reach our 20 city goal with our dangerous good conference in 20 21. And we can't do this without your support. Now, if you haven't noticed, every man is on the move, and we've been able to build an0:39 army of strong men that are choosing Jesus over the world. You know why? That's because of people like you that help our ministry thrive, especially in these difficult times. So, will you join0:50 us and commit to donating 12 dollars for 12 months? Every dollar equals change, not only in the men, but also change for the women, children, and communities connected to these men. Thank you in1:02 advance for your support and God bless.1:11 Welcome to the global live stream. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold a spot in Luke chapter 10. We're finishing up this powerful series called the inner man. If you're joining us for the first time, you can always1:23 go back and look at parts 1 through 4. We're in part 5. But just by way of review, what we're talking about is how our inner journey, reflects1:35 our life story that what's going on on our insides actually determine our life path and what's happens on our outsides. And for the man of god, the inner1:47 the inner journey is about Christ dwelling, through faith in in your heart. His love deepening in your life, your soul, your inner person filling,1:59 right, and then that filling of Christ and his love displacing health and then your life transforming. That's the the inner journey with the inner man, and2:11 that's what God wants to see happen in our lives. But then in part 2, we acknowledge that, you know, our inner man has inner junk. How do you deal with that? Right? How do you deal with2:23 sin and and attitudes and things that displease God? Well, we gotta do what Jesus says to do, which is to first clean the inside of the cup2:35 and get clean on the inside. So we looked at spiritual blind spots, and then we looked at talking about dealing with those spiritual blind spots through exposing the lies and2:47 exposing the behaviors and coming clean with God by renewing our commitment to truth and repenting through confession. So part 1, the inner man. Part 2, getting clean2:59 in the inner man, Getting the inner junk out. Part 3 was about interchange and how God's love changes us from an inner boy to an inner man. We3:10 stop living out of insecurity and immaturity through God's love and we start living in security, solid, confident in God's3:22 love and that love brings us into maturity. That is the interchange. But you know that interchange through God's love, you're gonna experience an inner challenge. And then we talk about3:34 spiritual warfare on the inner man and how there's a hacker of our soul, and he seeks to get into our inner man and corrupt what's most important3:46 about the man of God, which is his security in God's love. And the goal of the hacker of your soul, the devil, is to corrupt and pollute your understanding and self3:58 perception rooted and grounded in God's love and get you not living in and out of God's love, but to corrupt that thought process and and4:10 your thinking and get you living out of fear and living in fear. You know, so we talked about how to put up a firewall in4:22 your inner man to defeat the hacker of your soul. So part 3 was interchange, maturity immaturity to maturity. Part 4 was the inner challenge. And now4:34 in part 5, I'm gonna talk about what I call the inner chasm. Alright? And it's between this and this, between your head and a4:46 head knowledge about God's love in your inner man and your heart and having an experiential knowledge. It's the separation and4:57 qualitative difference between knowing about God's love and knowing it in experience. And I think all of us wanna make that transition because, you know, there are a lot of Christians where5:09 they know about something in their heads, but they're not experiencing it in their heart. And that is super frustrating. It's like on a relational level, if someone asked me if I knew a certain person, they say, hey.5:21 Do you know that guy? And I can have, 1 of 3 responses. I can say, well, no. I don't know him. Or I can say, I know about him, or I can say, oh, I know him personally,5:33 and he's a close friend. And as it relates to, God's love, you and your connection to Christ, God wants a heart connection,5:46 not just a head connection because there's a big difference. And I think you would agree with me, between someone saying, oh, I know a lot about God,5:58 versus, oh, I know God in my experience. I know his presence. I know his work of love, in my life. You see, there's a difference in6:10 knowing about God and actually knowing him in experience. And the key measure of that is distance and detachment that happens when we know a lot about God,6:23 versus closeness and connection and transformation in knowing him in experience and knowing his love. You see, I wanna be really specific. God's love was6:35 never intended to stay in your head. Alright? God's love is not a knowledge thing as it relates to your inner man. Alright? It is a knowing that that6:46 rises above lifeless knowledge, and it turns into something that comes into your heart and is practical and experiential, and6:58 it changes you forever. And I think that's where we all wanna be. That's why we're rounding out our series talking about this inner chasm between head and heart and as it relates to7:10 you and God's love. You see, this is a battle between your heart and your head that you gotta win to fully experience God in your life. So if you don't get anything out of part7:22 5, just get this. God's love is a fact. Alright? But it is meant to be felt and experienced. God's love is a fact, but it's intended to be7:34 felt and experienced. So we're gonna look at God's word. We're gonna look at some scripture, and then we're gonna kinda unpack it on this whole idea, right, of moving God's love7:46 from your head to your heart knowing about God's love versus experiencing God's love. And the first passage of scripture that we wanna read is Romans 5 5, and it says this, and hope7:58 does not put us to shame because God's love, listen, has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.8:10 Right? Let's look at our next scripture. We're gonna unpack that first 1, but I wanna go through 3 scriptures. Alright? So that was Romans 5 5 about God's love being poured into our hearts. Let's look at the next8:22 scripture. Ephesians chapter 3 verses 17 to 19 says this. Alright. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have8:34 power together with all the Lord's holy holy people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. And to8:45 know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Alright. That's passage 2, talking8:57 a lot about the experience of God's love. Passage 3 is in first Peter 1 8, and then we're gonna unpack all 3. First Peter 1 8 says, though you have not seen him,9:09 you love him. Even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with, listen, an inexpressible and glorious joy.9:21 Alright. So you've got 3 passages from God's word talking about the experience of the believer with god's love. So let's just unpack it. If you have9:33 notes, that you've downloaded right off the the website, you're gonna wanna take those out and take your pen out. Number 1, experiencing god's love is an infusion9:44 process. That comes out of Romans 5 5 where it says, and hope does not put us to shame. Right? So we're we're dealing on an emotional level. Okay? Because God's9:56 love has been poured into our hearts. So imagine you got a big picture picture and you're pouring it into something. And whatever is inside the container,10:09 whatever is getting poured in continuously is displacing what was in there previously. Right? This passage of scripture is a picture of10:21 displacement. So God pours his love into our hearts, into our insides through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us, and then we have this process10:33 of replacement and displacement. Right? Reminds me of when I was a, a chaplain on the seventh floor of Western Med in oncology. I would work with patients10:45 and some cancer types responded very well to a therapy using what's called monoclonal antibodies. It is so cool how these work. But what they do is10:56 they take antibodies and they put chemotherapy inside of the antibody. Get this. Then they infuse it into the person who has a certain type of cancer.11:09 Those monoclonal antibodies enter the blood system and they begin to seek out cancer cells. They're they're magnetizing to cancer cells. Then what11:21 happens is that the monoclonal antibody attaches to the cancer cell, and this monoclonal antibody has chemotherapy in it. It attaches. It injects the cancer or the11:33 chemotherapy in directly into only the cancer cell. Right? And then it eliminates that cell. So cool. Resulting in an elimination11:46 of the cancer. Super cool. Now why do I share that with you? Because god's love acts the same way. When God's love is infused into your life, it11:58 seeks out and it attaches to cancers of the soul, cancers of character, cancers in your emotions. Right? And it attaches to it and then it12:09 infuses that, replaces it, kills those harmful wounds and those parts of you on the inside through his love and eliminates it.12:21 So the Bible says that experiencing God's love is an infusion process. Think of it as as God's love infusing itself into your life and seeking out things12:33 to heal, to eliminate things and replace things and to heal you from the inside out. Number 2, experiencing God's love is an internalizing process.12:45 And we picked this up, from the passage in Ephesians 3 where it says, and I pray that you being rooted and established, listen, in love may have power, that's the outcome, together12:57 with all God's holy people. How? To grasp. Right? How wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. So when you think of somebody grasping something, right, you think of them,13:09 you know, seizing it. Right? And this picture in God's word is all about seizing all that our faith in Christ and God's love has13:21 accomplished. So we have God's love. It's it's poured into our hearts. And now what we're doing as believers in faith is we're seizing all that that love13:33 has accomplished for us, all that that that love wants to accomplish inside of us. And so we gotta we gotta go deep, and we gotta go wide in God's love. We gotta go long. We13:45 gotta we gotta go high in God's love. And it's this process, right, of internalizing and grasping and comprehending all the amazing13:57 capacities and qualities of God's love. 3, we want to see that experiencing God's love is an intimacy14:09 process. So same passage, Ephesians 3, and he talks about grasping, the love of Christ and to know, keyword, and to know. Alright? That word14:21 know, is an intimate word. Alright? It is in the Greek, and it means to not know it up here. It means to know it here. It's14:32 to be the difference between knowing about something or about someone and being familiar with it through experience. Again, here's that word. Alright? So experiencing14:45 God's love is like an infusion. Alright? It's an internalizing process. It's an intimacy process. And the Bible says here in Ephesians 3 that that that God wants us to know this love that14:56 surpasses knowledge. See the compare contrast? It's not about the head stuff. This love of God, it's supposed to go in the elevator of your spirit and hit15:08 you in your inner man and accomplish all this work. And it's a it's a personal thing. It's an intimate thing, which is powerful.15:20 Alright? Next, we wanna see that experiencing God's love is an invasion process. Same passage, Ephesians chapter 3, where it says, you God wants us to15:31 grasp the love of Christ and to know this love, intimacy that surpass knowledge, that, here's the payoff, that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness15:43 of God. So you see this filling aspect where it's just it's soaking into you. It's it's taking territory, filled to the measure, filled to the15:55 brim. It comes inside of you and it just starts displacing stuff and there's this invasion, right, of God's love in your life and it's taken over. Because when16:07 something invades you, it takes over control. Right? So we see how God's love is an infusion process. It's a internalizing process, right, of grasping16:19 and intimacy process of knowing, an invasion process of filling us up. And then what's the result? Next fill in. Experiencing God's love16:30 causes a shift emotionally or it's a sensing process. Right? That's the passage from first Peter chapter 1 verse 8. Listen to what it says. Again, it says,16:42 though you have not seen him, you love him. And even though you do not see him now, you believe in him. There's the catalyst. That's what triggers all of this interchange and work through god's love. You16:54 believe in him and are filled with what? An inexpressible and glorious joy. Wow. Okay. That means that whoever17:05 is filled up, whoever is getting infused with God's love, whoever is internalizing God's love, whoever is knowing God's love and becoming familiar and intimate with him, whoever is17:17 being invaded by God's love, there is a shift that God's love, affects inside of that man that produces this, an inexpressible17:30 and glorious joy. Wow. That's awesome. And there's a permanence to that joy. It's not a temporary thing. God God dwells in the forever17:42 space. And when God moves and acts through, his forever love, man, it's inexpressible. It's glorious. You can never lose it. It's permanent, and powerful.17:54 Alright? So as we've done in parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, here's your inner man fact flowing out of this head to heart discussion from God's word about what18:06 God's love is and how it works. Write this down. I work out emotionally what God has worked in spiritually. Right? God18:18 has worked his love into us. He's poured it into our hearts. We're grasping it. We're knowing it. It's filling us. We're sensing it. That has an18:29 emotional inner effect on me. I'll give you an easy example, from my own life and probably thousands of you who are watching. You know, when I figured18:41 out that God accepts me unconditionally and permanently, where I'm fully loved and I'm fully accepted by the 1 who18:52 matters most, I stopped being afraid emotionally of men or people rejecting me. Did you catch that?19:04 When I figured out that God accepts me unconditionally and eternally, I stopped fearing men rejecting me relationally. I stopped chasing their19:16 approval. I stopped comparing myself with other dudes or other people, and I started living for an audience of 1. Do you see how I worked out and you are19:28 too, I'm sure, if you're connected to God's love, you're working out emotionally on the inside. What God has worked into you spiritually, he's telling you who you are. You're mine.19:40 I love you. I accept you. You're fully identified with me. And then emotionally, we stop living out of fear and we start living in and out19:52 of God's love. Alright? So here's where we're headed now. If that's what's supposed to happen, if there's this unimaginable innerShow more In this video 0:00 Bridging the Inner Chasm19:55 Four Obstacles to Experiencing God's Love47:24 Three Keys to Unlocking God's Love
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