Habits That Matter – Part 2

Message Date: January 9, 2022
Bible

Review

  • Habits are more about who you’re being–who you are becoming–than what you’re doing.
  • Real change only happens at the level of identity.
  • God is the true source of your identity, and so is the only One who can truly change how you really see yourself.

 

  • Vice: practice, behavior, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant, or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit. Vices are usually associated with a transgression in a person’s character or temperament rather than their morality. Synonyms for vice include fault, sin, depravity, iniquity, wickedness, and corruption.
    • The Bible word for “vice” is iniquity: to bend, twist, distort; to be bent, be bowed down, be twisted, be perverted (growing with a bent like a tree in the wind)
  • There are habits that can free us from our vices:
    • ‭‭31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John‬ ‭8:31-32‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
      • Abide: to remain, abide; in reference to place, to sojourn, tarry not, to depart; to continue, to be present, to be held, kept, continually
  •  1. The Word is to be a HABIT.
  • 2. The WORD IS THE STRAIT LINE. Anything that differs from that is bent.
      • Know (Ginosko): to get to know, to experience
      • Freedom is the ability to relate to God fully as the person you were created and redeemed to be: free from vice.
  • The nature of the Word:
    • 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4:12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
      • The Bible is the only book that reads you as you read it.
      • The mirror of the Word brings FREEDOM, not CONDEMNATION.
  • 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. ‭‭James‬ ‭1:25‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • 1. Law of liberty: a constitution tells you what your rights are.
    • 2. Shows you what you are free from.
    • 3. The intention is for you to be blessed and prosper–not condemned.
  • 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. ‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭3:18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • How?
    • S O A P
      • Story
      • Observation
      • Application
      • Pray
    • How to make observations:
      • P I E C E S
        • Promise to believe for?
        • Instruction to follow?
        • Error to avoid?
        • Command to obey?
        • Example to follow?
        • Sin to repent of?