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The Battle Within: Identifying Idols 0:00 When Jesus left this earth, he told his followers to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything he commanded. Well, here at Everyman0:12 Ministries, we take that charge. Seriously, we exist to teach and admonish every man according to Colossians 1 28 so that we might present every man perfect0:24 in Christ. And that mission is made possible by your generosity. God is doing incredible things through partnerships around the globe. Our content is now being0:36 seen in multiple languages. In a hundred and 70 countries, we just started partnering to minister to over a half a million prisoners in state prisons by0:47 providing our content. God is moving. And we want to invite you to jump in. For those of you who are already on the team, for those of you who are already all0:59 in, God bless you and thank you. To those of you who have been blessed by this teaching and by this ministry, we encourage you jump on in. Because the water is flowing quickly and1:11 God is on the move. Well, welcome brothers to the men's global live stream. Grab your Bible and make sure you download the notes and get ready for this week's1:22 session. 1 of the most important truths for us to grasp is that we are at war. We're at war every day1:34 with a very real enemy. We're battling against lies, against untruth. We're actively seeking to push back, a kingdom of darkness, a kingdom living in1:46 opposition to Jesus, and what he wants to establish in this world. We are at war. But we have to remember that we are at war for the people of this world. They're1:58 not our enemies. They're actually our desire our hope is that everyone would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, a relationship with him. But we have to remember, we have to stay aware of the fact that we're2:10 at war, but that it's a spiritual war. And not only are we within a battle, but there's a battle going on within each of us. Our own spirit2:22 wrestles against our own flesh. And in all of it, all of the lesser gods that we've created, the lesser gods that we've allowed, they are fighting for our2:33 time, for our attention, for our focus. Ultimately, they are fighting for control of our lives. In this series,2:45 no other gods, we have been looking at these these lesser lovers. These false lowercase g gods, these idols, that we are tempted to give our hearts and2:57 our lives to. These are the worldly passions. Some that are that are good in and of themselves. Some that are obviously not so good as we'll look at today. But ultimately, these are all of the temporal3:09 things that we are tempted to live for, to serve and worship. But you remember, we looked at in our first session the fact that everybody worships. It's3:21 just what are they worshiping? And you're gonna serve somebody. The question is whom? And in all of this, in this 4 week journey, we're gonna just try to expose some of the3:32 false gods that we've allowed into our lives. We're trying to figure out where they came from, and then we wanna partner with Jesus and the Holy Spirit to kick them out of our lives so that we can worship the 1 true God.3:44 Last week, we looked at the God of more. The God where our society says that success is equal to excess and how much we possess. And so we spend our time3:56 trying to find contentment through comparison. All the while believing this lie that more will make us feel satisfied. And as we looked through scripture,4:08 we came face to face to face with the hard fact, the hard reality that our flesh is just never gonna be satisfied. It's it's not possible to satisfy our flesh with the things of this world. The God4:19 of more always promised to deliver satisfaction and never did. But in this ongoing battle for our hearts, I hate to tell you, materialism is not the only God4:31 trying to seduce you. That God of more, that God of excess is not the only lesser lover trying to woo your heart away from Jesus. Today, we're gonna expose the God of pleasure.4:43 The idol of pleasure, a life which above all things is trying to pursue pleasure. But before we get into that, let's get into the right mindset, where4:55 God can start to reveal to us the idols that we've constructed or the idols that we've allowed. And so let's revisit what is it exactly that we mean? What does scripture mean when it says the world idol? Because5:06 remember, we're not just talking about small figurines from faraway pagan lands. Practically speaking, an idol is anything that I love more than Jesus Christ.5:19 An idol is is something that I treat as more important than Jesus Christ either with my words or practically with my life. It's something that I look to other than Jesus to find purpose or5:30 meaning or happiness. Idolatry is any time I put something other than God in the place of God in my life, allowing it to tell me what's true5:42 or it to direct my efforts. Right? It's it's the lie that we believe that there's something other than God out there that can tell us who we are or give our life significance or meaning. Simply put,5:54 idolatry is pursuing with our whole beings anything other than Jesus. And you can see very clearly from that heavy list that there's a good6:06 reason why god put the very first 2 commandments as he gave them to his people in Mount Sinai that he put them around idolatry. Remember, don't allow other gods and don't create other gods. Don't make any, don't tolerate6:18 any. And it really should shake us away to realize that this problem has existed since minute 1. As the people were watching God miraculously protect and provide for them, they6:29 were still tempted to give their heart to lesser gods. And this issue is still alive and thriving today. Turn with me to second Timothy chapter 3 in your6:41 Bibles. Second Timothy chapter 3. Now from his prison cell in Rome, and shortly before his death, Paul wrote this letter to Timothy. Timothy, his good friend, his son in the6:53 faith who has become a young pastor. He's been ministering to the church in Ephesus for a few years now. But what I love about this letter is there's this intense sense of purpose. It's almost like Paul knows the7:05 end is near. You can feel it. Right? And so he doesn't pull any punches. I mean, Paul rarely pulls punches, but it just second Timothy is just straight truth. He doesn't mix words. He doesn't mess around. Look7:17 what Paul says when he starts to describe the temperature of the lives of people in the end days, the attitudes, the intentions that really7:29 define people's lives in the last days. Second Timothy chapter 2 through, 3 rather. I'm gonna start verse 1. He says, you should know this Timothy. In the last days, there will be7:41 very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They'll be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They'll consider nothing7:53 sacred. It's a bleak picture. He says point blank. In the last days it's gonna be tough. Difficult days are coming. But what's really interesting to note is that he8:05 doesn't go on after that to describe what's going on out there. He doesn't come with a list of the external factors that are making life hard. He doesn't talk about a failing economy. He doesn't talk8:17 about conflicts arising between nations or political instability. He doesn't talk about what's going on in the public arena at all. He only talks about what's going on in the hearts of8:28 every man. And what he sees there really concerns him. He says, the heart of men has become selfish. They love themselves and they love their stuff. And8:40 their overall attitude, it's self centered, it's boastful, it's rude. They are no longer reverent about God or the things of God. They act without love. It's it goes on to say they're unforgiving. They're self focused.8:52 There's no self control. They don't deny themselves anything. And then look what it says in verse 4. And they will love pleasure rather than9:04 love God. That's the new living translation. Other translations say, or they will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Some say that they love pleasure instead of loving God.9:16 All of them convey the same idea. In the end times, people have decided to pursue, to value, and to desire pleasure9:28 above god himself, and to pursue it above god himself. And I don't think that many of them would have openly admitted to that. Oh, yeah. I've decided to make pleasure, my9:40 god. Haven't you? And I think most of them would have kind of shrunken back and cringed when they realized and saw it in their lives. But the truth remains. The pursuit of pleasure had taken over their9:52 hearts and had caused difficult times. Now the word that Paul uses there in Greek to describe them as being lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God is the word,10:04 which comes from 2 words, phileo or philos, meaning to be actively fond of, to have affections for, to love. And hedon, which describes sensual delight, lust, pleasure.10:17 It's the word that birthed our word for hedonism. That word, hedonos in Greek is only used 5 times in the New Testament. And every single10:28 time it comes up, it's used to describe a group of people completely preoccupied with pleasure, with happiness, with living only to gratify10:40 their flesh, seeking their personal happiness above all things. Today, we describe he hedonism, we define hedonism as the10:52 doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good. It's the addiction to an obsession for pleasure as a way of life. That's the real crux11:04 of what Paul is saying. That's the issue that he's addressing. He's saying that at some point, people have started to look inward. And as they do, their greatest11:16 desire becomes to feel a certain way, and they have become obsessed with their own comfort, their own pleasure, the experiences that they can have, and in all of it, they've been left11:28 pursuing feelings. Now there's so many issues that arise from a life where this is the central pursuit. We leave behind so much11:40 goodness when we sit out to pursue pleasure above all. And what makes this all the more confusing is that culture just cheers you on.11:52 The anthem for pursuing the God of pleasure sounds like this. If it feels good, go for it. If it seems right, do it. If it feels true, believe12:03 it. If you want it, go and get it. And what the enemy has accomplished by pushing those lies onto us is that he's gotten us to12:15 trust and to live to feed our flesh instead of the holy spirit. Instead of God's spirit within us, we look within ourselves to find12:27 truth. We turn to our emotions and our feelings to make our decisions about what it is that we should pursue. Our desire reigns supreme. As we pursue12:39 the God of pleasure, we start to realize that only 1 pursuit in our life can be our chief pursuit. As God's man, I cannot live for both and12:51 by both the flesh and the spirit. I can't allow my feelings to guide my actions and turn over control of my life to the holy spirit. And so13:03 instead of God's spirit guiding us, we've allowed in our culture, we've even heard the encouragement to follow our hearts. To allow our hearts to call the shots. Culture13:14 says our hearts are trustworthy and that we should follow them. Our hearts. That scripture says are deceptive and wicked. Right? Our our flesh13:26 will always desire things of the flesh in contrary to the spirit. And so in order to get us to worship at the altar of the God of pleasure,13:39 oftentimes, the enemy will take a gift that God gave us. Something good that God designed for us. He will pervert it. He will twist it. He will make it ultimate. He will try to get us to live13:51 for it or to a version of it that is so damaged that it actually takes us away from God. This good thing that God intended for us no14:02 longer even resembles the original intention. This is what the God of pleasure does. Take sex for example. Created by our good and14:14 great God. In my personal opinion, 1 of his best creations. Its purpose is to intimately connect a husband and his wife. It creates this mysterious14:27 bond that is powerful, that is beautiful. As we were intended to be, the husband and wife are naked. They're unashamed. They're fully known. They're fully loved. It's a beautiful adventure.14:39 Sex when entered into according to God's design brings a closeness, a unity. It actually brings about the picture of holistic oneness that14:51 God desired when he created marriage in the first place. It produces children. It creates this deep and lasting intimacy. It's incredibly pleasurable. Did you realize that God15:02 didn't have to make sex enjoyable? But he did. He chose to. It's 1 of his intentions of it. So with that as a backdrop, we can see sex is a beautiful gift from God.15:14 That is, until we take that gift and start to listen to the enemy and to the flesh. When the lie creeps in that we know more about this gift15:26 than God himself does. When we design when we decide that his design to the precepts of scripture is somehow outdated and antiquated or unloving. When we separate15:38 the beautiful intimacy of a husband and a wife pursuing sexual satisfaction through pornography. We've perverted the gift to become a selfish outlet and now accept a cheap substitute15:51 that the God of pleasure promises will bring satisfaction and enjoyment yet always leads to separation, to shame, and to conflict. You see, when we remove sex from the intended16:03 context of a committed marriage relationship and instead push it out into the casual hookup culture we see today, we've destroyed it. When we remove God's design of 1 man16:15 and 1 woman and instead, put in any other combination, we have altered it. We have destroyed it. And the gift is no longer a gift. It's now a prison. You see, when16:27 good things become gods in our lives, all of their promises turn to ash. The pleasure that sex promises to bring, when entered into according to God's16:39 design, evaporates. When the God of pleasure remakes the rules. When he takes the gift and twists it. When he convinces us to pursue it above all things, even God16:51 himself. In both scenarios, we come up empty. And then instead of what the God of pleasure has promised, he instead delivers shame and guilt, separation17:03 and pain, contempt, emptiness, isolation, and ultimately imprisonment. Sex makes a wonderful gift, but a terrible God.The God of Pleasure: A Deceptive Pursuit 17:15 And yet our culture wants us to desire sex while ignoring the God who created it. Like a child tearing open gifts without regard to17:27 who gave them the gift, never asking why the gift was given, never seeking to understand how the gift should be used. This overly zealous grabs a grabs this gift and uses it inappropriately17:40 until they've destroyed it. Right. The gift wasn't a weapon but the child used it as 1. The gift was fragile but the child used it like it was a hammer. Similarly, if17:52 we don't receive God's gifts with regard for, with humility and submission to, if we don't look to the giver to explain them to us, we'll always regress18:04 back to our flesh. And so like that child, we take sex, we twist it. We pervert it. We allow our flesh to remove it from marriage, as we said, from a man and a woman, from the original18:15 design. And the results as we see are catastrophic. It's a lot like fire. Fire is wonderful. It creates heat,18:28 creates light, it spawns great conversations when you sit around the fire. It's incredibly useful. We forge things in it. It's beautiful to watch. Right? Cowboy TV. Fire in its18:39 proper context and in the appropriate element is amazing. But removed from it, fire is catastrophic. See, within the firing,18:52 within a fireplace, inside your oven, inside of its intended governance, fire is amazing. But what happens when that fire gets out?19:05 It can rip through forests. It can tear through communities. Destroying homes. Even taking lives. Sex is just like that fire.19:17 Within the context of a marriage, when used according to God's design, it brings unity, it burns brightly. It yields commitment and enjoyment19:30 and oneness. As the Hebrew, authors say it intermingles 2 souls. Yet, when that fire gets outside of the ring, it causes destruction. It19:42 tears families apart. It leads to divorce. It leads to things as dark as pornography, rape, human trafficking, and loss of life. How can we take a gift so good19:53 and turn it into a weapon so destructive? It's the work of the enemy. So then are we left to believe that, well, it must be the sex that's bad. That thing must be wrong.20:05 No. Just like we said, God created it. But whenever we pursue pleasure above the Lord Jesus, we will always end up pursuing it apart from the Lord20:17 Jesus. When we seek things above God, eventually, we will seek them instead of apart from or outside of God's20:29 intended plans. Eventually, even pursuing things we know to be harmful for us and others. Because human desires cannot be trusted. The desires20:41 of our flesh will never ever lead us into godly places. Look at just a handful of our brothers from scripture. David's lust, his strong fleshly desire led20:53 to an affair, to a murder, and to a cover up. Samson's desire for Delilah led to the loss of his strength, the end of his purpose, imprisonment, his own death.21:04 Noah's desire to escape led him to get drunk and humiliate himself in front of his family. These false gods of pleasure promised things to these men that they21:16 never delivered on. Promises that a false god can't deliver on. Promises that for some crazy reason, we still believe in 20 25 that these gods21:27 will deliver on. We believe the lie. Because how can you explain that we would pursue these lesser gods unless we thought they would actually do something good for us. We21:39 have to start exposing the lie. Sexual satisfaction is not found outside of the marriage relationship. That's a lie. Confront it when it comes up in your heart.21:51 Call it out for what it is. That's untrue. That brings destruction. That will never bring what God promised to give to the context of a married couple. There was22:03 a man in scripture who had had enough pursuing things that didn't fill him up. He wanted to know once and for all what it is that makes life good. He wanted to know22:15 if if enough pleasure could actually satisfy him. He had the means, so so he wanted to run kind of a life experiment. He wanted to know exactly how much it took to bring that happiness.22:27 His name was Solomon. Solomon set out to see if pleasure could deliver on the promises that everyone believed it could. Could it provide happiness? Could it22:39 fill me up? And so his MO, the experiment became this. He said, he would deny himself nothing. It it was gonna be this sort of objective study of a life without restraint.22:51 Functionally, he said, I will make pleasure my God. Pursue it, value it, give myself over to it. He had already failed at 1 attempt. He had sought23:03 wisdom. He thought maybe that's what it was. Understanding knowledge. He had kind of initiated his search for life's fulfillment by amassing as much wisdom as he could. Amassed more than any man who's23:15 ever walked the earth, yet he still filled empty. It turns out there wasn't an amount of understanding that could satisfy the longings that he found within his soul. There was no amount of wisdom or knowledge23:28 that could take care of the weight of the question of his life's purpose. And so he he turned to pleasure. That's where he goes next. And for all intents and purposes, like we said, pleasure23:39 became his god as defined by his life's efforts. He pursued it. He valued it. He desired it. He let nothing get in between him and it. He began to worship at23:51 the altar of hedonism. And what's sad is when you look at his life's efforts, they look too familiar. In fact, his life doesn't look much24:03 different from many men walking the earth today in 20 25. So let's look at his journey in the book of Ecclesiastes. It's Ecclesiastes chapter 2 starting in verse 1. This is24:15 Solomon's own account of his efforts of his pursuit of pleasure. He says this in verse 1, I said to myself, come on. Let's try pleasure. Let's look for the good24:27 things in this life. Now let's unpack that intro just a little bit because it's interesting. If we look at Solomon's new life mission statement. There's some clues for us there in in kind of24:39 how he gets off on this journey, and there's actually some patterns for us to see, understand, and then avoid. He starts off by saying, I said to myself, mistake number 1.24:51 Solomon started this journey by looking to his flesh, by looking inward. Brothers of all the lies that culture is currently spinning, 1 of the most25:03 common and 1 of the most deadly is that the power, the answers, and the truth that we desire somehow lie within25:15 us. When Jesus taught the exact opposite. It should not be our hearts or our desires or25:27 our flesh that provide our life's directions. He had always desired that it would be him and his Holy Spirit. Jesus was clear. He said, I am the way25:39 and I am the truth and I am the life. So for us as God's men, as those called by his name, truth only exists within me. That way25:51 is only clear to me to the extent that I am abiding in Jesus daily. Truth is only in me to the extent that he is in me.26:02 So I cannot manifest or self discover or search within. You wanna know why? Like we already said, because the heart is deceptive and wicked. The flesh is not to be trusted.26:15 My daughter and I love watching espionage movies, CIA, FBI movies, and there's always a traitor. There's always a turncoat. There's always someone that as they're sharing their plans, you're thinking, don't tell him he's26:26 the bad guy. Our flesh is the very same character. The flesh cannot be trusted. The flesh is a traitor. And so when we look within, when we take our26:38 cues from our desires, when we look inside to find what it is that we should pursue, when we start to have our spiritual conversations with ourselves alone, we are in trouble. What's26:50 interesting is that in chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes, just fast forwarding 1 chapter. Right? Solomon is looking within for these directives. He's looking to the world for satisfaction. Right?27:02 But as as you as you move on, you can see in the wisdom he starts to amass that he realizes how foolish that is. He says this by chapter 4. He says, 227:14 people are better than 1. They can help each other succeed. If 1 falls, the other can reach out. But pity the man who falls or but someone who falls alone is in real trouble. He starts up by saying, man, you27:26 should not live as if you are all that you have. You need peers. You need other people speaking truth into your lives. And so as he begins his kind of tour of pleasure,27:37 Solomon is his own tour guide. I'll make the decisions. I'll call the shots. I'll deny myself nothing. And like men today, like too many men today,27:50 Solomon let his lust guide his life. He allowed his desires to make his decisions. He looked to the flesh to provide his life's framework.28:02 And he lived into this dangerous lie that we said. Right? If it feels good, do it. As his new God became pleasure, as he starts pursuing feelings and experiences, right, as he28:14 kinda bellies up to the world's table and says, fill me up. Let's do this. He starts off, it says, by experimenting with laughter. Now, as a guy who likes to laugh, as a person who efforts to make28:26 other people laugh, maybe a little too often, I recoiled at this originally when I read it. I'm thinking at face value there's nothing wrong with laughter. I like to think that Jesus was funny. When he made when he28:38 walked the earth, I picture him making, jokes to his disciples. I don't have any scriptural support for that, but it's how I like to envision Jesus. I picture God smiling. I picture God finding things28:49 amusing. But when we read that Solomon sought pleasure through laughter, it's bigger than that. What it means is that he wants entertainment, that he wants this experience to fill him29:01 up, to put him at ease. He wants to feel good. Scripture says he wants to be merry and happy. He starts to seek laughter and entertainment as the vehicle to get him towards29:13 fulfillment. He wants to escape where he is. He wants to leave the emotions that he's feeling. And so he figured that parties, entertainment would be the way out. And this is29:25 an important moment to pause. Because oftentimes, we can focus too much simply on the things that we're pursuing in our life without seeking to understand why it is that we're pursuing those29:37 things. The things that we're after apart from God, they themselves are rarely the issue. They certainly can be an issue as we've read when they're harmful or evil. And there's consequences of sin.29:49 The things can be wrong. Please don't misunderstand me. But when we're looking really for what those core drivers are, the idols that we've allowed ourselves to pursue, it's not really what we pursue that30:00 reveals our deepest needs or our deepest hurts, but it's why we're pursuing them. Right? The thing itself might not really tell me what's going on in my hearts. It wasn't really the laughter30:13 that was the issue. The parties that Solomon was pursuing certainly could have been wrong, but really the issue is not what he was pursuing. The issue was why he was feeling30:24 this deep sense of dissatisfaction. I think as we start to allow God to reveal the idols in our lives, it's wise for us first to ask God, what am I running away from?30:37 Not just seeking to understand what am I running towards, but what am I trying to not experience? I get the question often, now that marijuana is illegal. As a Christian, you know, is it wrong to use30:49 it to sleep? Is it wrong to use it when I stressed out? I don't wanna get into a long conversations about substances. But I'd be more interested in how they'd answer the question, why do you think it is you can't sleep?31:00 What is the stress that's consuming your heart? Let's talk about that rather than whatever the medication is that you're seeking to insert in there. Let's see what it is that we're trying to run away from.31:13 Because we're gonna find out. When we pursue these lesser gods to provide us with safety or security or distraction is that we'll find out just what Solomon did. The escape that31:24 pleasure provides is always temporary. So for Solomon, these feelings of joy or distraction, they only lasted as long as the parties did. That kind of escapism behavior.31:36 It just feeds our need for more escaping. When we pursue pleasure through entertainment, we're just gonna fall into the same pattern that Solomon did. It's the rock star life cycle where you start living from31:48 party to party to party. And I know that in the in the valleys in between the peaks, in between the parties, inevitably, when Solomon was alone, reality began to hit32:00 that this wasn't working. And then after pursuing laughter, it says that Solomon turned to wine. The God of pleasure led him from laughter and32:12 parties to wine. It led him to pursue alcohol just like many do today. I don't know if it's like the remain the32:23 remnants of the the post COVID craziness, but the abuse of alcohol has skyrocketed in recent years. 1 study showed that during the32:35 COVID lockdowns that what they would consider excessive or heavy drinking increased by 20 percent. The amount of Americans that drank heavily increased 20 percent. For whatever reason, many Americans turn to alcohol32:47 during the darkest hours in recent years. And before we start a conversation about scripture stands on alcohol as a whole, I wanna stay with Solomon's tone, with32:59 Solomon's intent seeking to understand how it was that Solomon approached alcohol because in verse 3, he says, I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine. You can see33:10 Solomon's intent. He was not approaching wine casually. He was not treating it like it was a beverage to go along with a meal. He wanted the effects that alcohol were going to give him. For Solomon, it was a drug. He33:22 said, I want to feel. I wanna cheer this flesh up. This is Solomon, guys. Just to pause for a second. Smartest man who ever lived, not unaware of the effects of alcohol.33:34 I'm sure he had been around a lot of alcohol abuse throughout his life of lavish partying. This is Solomon. This is how seductive the god of pleasure can be, specifically alcohol, how seductive33:46 it can be. When we pursue it, when we look to it to cheer our flesh, we start to believe lies after lies after lies. Solomon, as he was pursuing this, as this is starting to get out33:58 of hand, says that Solomon said that his heart still guided him in all wisdom. No, it didn't. You weren't even thinking rationally anymore. You already gave over control of your life to this alcohol.34:10 Solomon himself said this about alcohol. Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler. Whoever is led astray by it is not wise. That's Proverbs 20 verse 1. Solomon34:22 had approached all this like it was some kind of an academic experiment, you know, almost like he was separate from it. And yet it's getting away from him. The effect of this type of living was starting to have on his34:33 heart and his mind, that was real. The depression that he was starting to feel is real. Sinclair Ferguson said this in the pundits folly, Solomon had hoped that alcohol would act as a34:45 stimulant, and he discovered instead that it was a further depressant. A lesser God. A false God. Promising34:57 things it cannot deliver on. Alcohol promises connection, brings separation. Promises fun, brings destruction. Promises peace and relaxation brings35:08 anxiety and regret and turmoil. That's the way the God of pleasure rolls. Always lying. Providing fleeting temporary enjoyment just enough to keep you going.35:21 And why is all the pleasure that it provides temporary? Because it's temporal. Why would we ever expect something that won't last? To35:33 give us joy or fulfillment that will last. Pleasure promises more than it will ever produce, more than it can ever provide, always.35:45 All false gods make real god sized promises. But the God of pleasure is ultimately a band aid of happiness on the bullet wound of our heart,35:57 pains, and hurts. It's the promise of this lasting enjoyment that brings temporary delight. The God of pleasure promises distraction from our problems, but will never deliver us36:09 from them. But what's wild is that our desire for pleasure, the fact that we want to experience good things that we want to enjoy, that we wannaShow more In this video 0:00 The Battle Within: Identifying Idols17:08 The God of Pleasure: A Deceptive Pursuit36:20 Pursuing True Fulfillment in Christ51:05 The Inner Battle: Breaking Through Spiritual PlateausComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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