The "Break-up" ~ Pastor Brandon Davis #TeamLifted

Scripture reference: Romans 6, beginning at verse number one.
- there's nothing like being free from sin
*The most miserable people on Earth are the back-slid Christians because they know the truth! They know and have experienced God for themselves! 
- why hide from God when he's the ONLY one who can fix it??! --> It's very important that we don't take advantage of God's mercy.. because we don't know when it will run out. 
- Our God didn't change! His character is unchanging. The same God that poured his wrath out onto the people of the old testament is the same God we serve today. The reason we have not yet felt his wrath is because Jesus satisfied it by dying on the cross. 
-How do you know if you're truly living for God if you live that way?? If you live as if you can do whatever you want and just ask God to forgive you when you slip up? 
- People that take advantage of other people really don't love them--> friends that only come to you when they want something. Are they really your friends? (apply to spirituality) Do you really love God when you only seek him to fix your problems or forgive you?
- if sin is dead to you, it no longer has influence over you. It doesn't look good to you anymore. 
-your spirit is affected by three things: what you hear, say, and watch
- If we are playing in sin, we may not be happy Jesus washed them away! 
- God says to hate ALL sin--> that includes sinful MUSIC, TV, etc. Anything not of god. 
*However, when you've surrounded yourself with sin for so long, and you've been playing with sin, you sometimes won't be able to tell the difference between what is evil(sin) and what is acceptable. 
-ex: let's use music. Some people say that they listen to a certain kind of music because they "like the beat," even though they know it contradicts the God they say they serve. 
      Q: "If it's just music, why can't you put it down?" 
      someone answered: " because i like it." --> okay...Q: "why do you like it? If it has NOTHING in common with the God you say you serve, but you "like it," maybe your relationship with Him isn't as tight as you though.." **oxymoron don't you think?? 
- The whole purpose of you being buried in Christ and being resurrected is to put all the sinful ways aside and live a life according to God's will and His word. 
* Many people want to share in the burial of Christ, which symbolizes Jesus dying for our sins, but they don't want to share in his resurrection, which symbolizes newness of life. 
- you can't expect to be forgiven by Christ while not even trying to live your life his way. 
- we want to do wrong, but we want our lives to go well, THEN get mad at God if it doesn't. 
(we didn't finish this lesson, so more is to come next week hopefully)