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  THE SILENT SIN
  by Shane Idleman
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Summary: The silent sin refers to the hidden, unconfessed sins in our
hearts that can lead to spiritual death and destruction, and can only be
overcome through forgiveness, release, and a willingness to seek God.

Duration: 47:20 Topics: "Heart Repentance", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Psalm 51:10, Matthew 5:21-24, Matthew 15:18-19, Mark 7:20-23, James 4:8

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This sermon delves into the importance of addressing the silent sins of
the heart, such as unresolved anger, pride, and hypocrisy. It emphasizes
the need for repentance and cleansing of the heart to experience true
worship and spiritual growth. The speaker highlights the significance of
going beyond external actions to address the condition of the heart, as
well as the consequences of harboring toxic emotions. The message
underscores the power of forgiveness, humility, and seeking God through
prayer and worship to break down facades and experience genuine
transformation.

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Well, you can be seated a couple quick announcements before I forget We
have a lot of families gone this week, and I'm hoping that they'll know
this but next Monday There are no more Monday studies. We we ended last
Monday so if you're gonna show up Monday, you'll probably see the VBS
going on and that's That's you know if you want to bring your kids.
That'd be great, but there will not be a Monday night service Probably
for a few weeks or at least a few months even till we decide what we're
going to do And we're still needing help with children's ministry of
course so if you have the desire to help in children's ministry.

Let us know and With that said if you haven't been here before we
welcome you and we are in the book of Matthew We're going systematically
through Matthew Verse by verse and trying to see what Jesus's words what
the relevance is for us today So you can go ahead and turn to Matthew
chapter 5 Verse 21 Matthew chapter 5 verse 21 if you were not here last
week last week's message is already online It was that it was titled law
the law of God clearing up the confusion and we talked about the law of
God How does that apply to us today? Does it still apply or we now under
grace? What what's what's what's what's going on with the law of God in
the Old Testament? How is that applicable today? So it's on our website
last week's message if you want to grab that Also, we ask that all cell
phones be muted or turned off. I just checked mine, and I'm good So go
ahead and check that if you get chance, and you'll see the title the
message tonight is the silent sin And I'm going to take from that
Matthew chapter 5 verse 21 Let's just pick up there You have heard that
it was said to those of old you shall not murder and Whoever murders
will be in danger of judgment, but I say to you that whoever is angry
with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and
Whoever says you fool shall be in danger of hellfire Therefore if you
bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother
has something against you Leave your gift there before the altar and go
your way First be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer
your gift Agree with your adversary quickly while you're on the way with
him lest your adversary Deliver you up to the judge and the judge hand
you over to the officer and you be thrown into prison I Surely I say to
you you will by no means get out of there until you have paid Every last
penny and I'm gonna stop there because next week He says you've heard
That you shall not commit adultery But I say to you and that's a lot to
pack as it is I want to just stop and just talk about this issue of of
what Jesus is talking about if you If you've heard that it was said to
you of old you shall not murder Whoever murders will be in danger of
judgment but I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without
a cause shall be in danger of Judgment, and I'm talking to you obviously
tonight Fred you can go back to the initial screen I didn't mean to get
to the the word that quickly. I apologize The silent sin see the problem
is with many of us we can hold sin in silently Because people can't see
what's going on in the heart.

It's almost like we can stage our lives right, we can build this nice
little thing and we can stage our lives, but Jesus is going after the
silent sins of the heart and Really? That's what God is after. He's
after the heart issue of things So when we talk about like we did last
week the Old Testament and the law of God and all these things All of it
goes back to the heart of the person because the person you can do all
these things I do this I do this I do this but the heart if the heart is
not right There's an issue there. So one of the points of preaching is
to go after the heart that's the whole role of the pulpit many times is
to go after the heart and do what we call heart surgery and That's what
Jesus is really talking about.

He's he's digging into the heart and he says for out of the heart comes
evil thoughts murder adultery sexual morality Theft false testimony and
slander it all comes from the heart And interesting I came across a
story this week and It's talking about this whole idea of repentance and
if there's no change of heart There can be no pardon of sin and that's
how somebody if they want their sins Forgiven their repentance has to
take place. What is that basically doing? We've talked about that
numerous times here. The heart is breaking Repenting crying out to God
Lord.

I have a wicked heart. I'm a sinful person. Would you come and save me?
They're asking for a pardon.

It's it's it's something happening in the heart But some years ago a
murderer was sentenced to death The murderer's brother to whom the state
was deeply indebted for former services Besought the governor of the
state for his brother's pardon The pardon was granted and the man
visited his brother with the pardon but in his pocket What would you do?
He said if you were to receive a pardon Well, the first thing I would do
he answered is to track down the judge who sentenced me and murder him
The next thing I would do is track down the chief witness and murder him
The brother arose and left the prison with the pardon still in his
pocket Why what happened? There's no change of heart All that was was
brewing beneath the surface And I would like to submit to you tonight
that most of the the the issues we're facing are not Really known to
most people are they not? They're brewing beneath the surface through
the silent sins and that's what God goes after That's what Jesus is
going after what Jesus is saying. It is here. He's not superseding the
law He's not saying well, you've heard it said and that's not true What
he's saying is you've heard it said Yeah, don't commit murder, but if
you even hold all that anger in your heart, you're guilty Because what
these guys were were loving to do is saying see we've never murdered
anybody Yeah, I feel it in my heart.

I'd love that for that person to die I have so much content and jealousy
and envy but see I've never broken the law and Really took it to its
full course and killed somebody Jesus saying that's nice But I say to
you if you even hold that murdering temperament that murdering at you in
your heart you're guilty And people say see I never committed adultery.
I've never committed adultery How many of us could say that in the room
quite a bit of us some can't some can't I've never committed adultery
And then I tell man, well, let me see your your computer history for the
last few months Well Can I go home first and delete the history What's
going are you in dressing people every week in your mind and we think
well, we're so spiritual I've never committed adultery. Jesus saying
well you bet you have Because it's in here and you're acting it out in
here and in your heart for out of the abundance of the heart Your mouth
is gonna speak your your your actions are gonna be there because of
what's in the heart So this is this is really important because a lot of
people get so caught up on I don't do this and I don't do this and I
don't do this and I don't do this like the Pharisees They were they
walked around they look at what we do We we obey all these laws and we
we don't do this and we don't do this and Jesus just called him out And
he said listen Look at your heart and that's a silent sin.

Many people don't know I don't know what's going on in your heart and
your heart and your heart Now eventually your sin will find you out it
will manifest itself But there's a period of time there where that sin
is silent and that's what Jesus is going after And this really is not
unlike a lot of people today. They were justifying their hard hearts
with the Word of God That's what these religious leaders did. They
justified their hard hearts with the Word of God Yeah, I know, you know,
I'm a sinful man, but I'm obeying the Word of God and we do that today
We throw scripture in there Yeah, but yeah, but as I've talked about
before anytime you have to say yeah, but there's trouble Yeah, but this
but this but that and we use the Word of God kind of to mask what's
going on in our own lives And really there's two sins here that I want
to deal with tonight The first one obviously with these guys is pride
and anger and as we know the pride of your heart had has deceived you So
these people are leaving Living in deception and then Jesus also tackles
this issue of anger Anger work is not the righteousness of God and it's
ironic how a lot of times prideful people are very angry people Have you
ever noticed that? That's interesting think about it the most angry
people I know Including seasons of my life are when pride was at the
forefront Pride and anger go together You don't see a humble person very
much serving God and just loving life very angry What happened? It's
that prideful heart and anger and that's what I'm gonna talk about in
just a mix I think it's gonna help a lot of people and that's the
context here.

They were very proud They kept the law and their interesting thing is
these guys weren't even saved I'm sure Nicodemus and other people
Possibly obviously their Pharisees and Sadducees religious leaders who
came to know the Lord But for the majority of these men, these people
were not even saved They were on the broad road to destruction yet. They
were Obeying God's Word Isn't that a little bit? dissettling It's like
whoa, you've got to be careful here, right? Because it's always the
condition of the heart but on one hand it is a little alarming on the
other hand We don't have to worry because we know if our heart is in
right relationship with God that we're secure We're saved but these men
were going around they had a form of religion They had a form of
godliness But they denied the one true living God hell by their heart
the condition of their heart and you'll see that a lot of times People
knocking on doors trying to push their religion Right, they do do do do
do they do a lot of good things and that's what I often hear Well,
they're good people. I'm a good person.

Well, when is good good ever enough? I should do a sermon on that
sometime It's good good enough or when is good good enough? Because
we're doing all these things and that's what that's what these people
were guilty of Pride always says look at me. Look at what I did That's
what these guys are saying. We do that to in the Christian community.

Look at what I did Look at look at whether it's giving or serving or
this look at what we do. Look at we don't even do this We don't even do
that. Look at us.

Look at how great we are. We follow all these rules All the time we hear
that look out. I've had people come up to me and and say man I'm we're
so, you know, holy in our house.

We don't go to the movies We don't even own a TV and the wife says yeah,
but he yells at me and chews out the kids and throws things around the
house You see you see the irony with this wow, that's good for you Why
don't you put turn on something that's gonna build up your marriage and
your relationship with God? Why don't you you have to have your heart
break? That's what God looks at. God says I look at a broken and
contrite heart not by doing and doing and doing now granted I want to be
careful because as a student of God's Word and Loving God's Word and
seeing the necessity of obedience and holiness. We don't want over over
look that either Because changing us sanctification is God's job but
Obedience is ours So there are scriptures that we have to we want to
obey out of because grace has set me free It's from that grace compels
me that the law of God lays out certain things ways of conduct that I
should live So we don't want to Dismiss that either but the moment we
start to say look at what I do When the heart is not right, that's when
we're in trouble and that's what these guys were doing Legalists and
Pharisees are so proud of their conduct, but their heart is a cesspool
of pride and sin You want to prove text for that? Jesus said in Matthew
23 woe to you teachers of the law and you Pharisees you hypocrites
Basically, they were they were a hypocrite we've talked about before
they're putting on a mask They're this and then they take oh now I'm
this they're putting on a mask or hypocrites are saying one thing But
they're doing another You are like whitewashed tombs which look
beautiful on the outside, but inside you are full of bones of the dead
and everything that is unclean and Basically, what did these guys do?
They staged their life Did they not nice little chipmunk? He's not too
threatening This stuff nice a little pig here.

You know, they just staged their life But Jesus looks behind the facade
what's behind all of that and pulls that back and it's full of dead
bones and in all uncleanness and That is one of the things Jesus would
go out more than anything else is hypocrisy I'm not talking about a
struggle People struggle and they need to be built up and they need
encourage But I'm talking about a hypocrite who says one thing yet does
another Comes in here worthy as a lamp. It wasn't wasn't worship. So
great and then they get home and click click click click Oh, but what
where's the hypocrite brother Shane? It's so great to see you and then
they go in there they go home and there's something there's something at
home that they're not here The best thing is just to be all transparent
and say we're sinners saved by grace.

Would you help me? Would you pray for me? I'm struggling with these
issues. I'm not a hypocrite I don't want to be hypocrite but I want to
serve God even more and be honest and be transparent about these things
and Jesus is saying whoever says to his brother Raka shall be in danger
of the council But whoever says you fool shall be in danger of hellfire
Now that would be a whole sermon we could unpack Raka and Jesus saying
in danger of the council They had a council back then that would wave
matters and then he's taking a step further you fool You shall be in
danger of hellfire and basically my sir. What in the world is this guy's
problem? What's the big deal with Raka? Are you fool? Well, I can't say
what it would mean in our vernacular today because it would be you know
Probably a little inappropriate from the pulpit But these are some
pretty hard statements in the Jewish community when you would say these
things Raka basically was a worthless fellow.

We have contempt for them We pull them down every chance we get Raka you
worthless fellow and they kept attacking these people and they attacking
these people and that happens to us Is there people at work former
churches all you do every time you talk about them you pull them down Or
is it just me? I'm guilty of that in the past. Oh Yeah, I bring up that
guy. You just pull them down you Say look and do some heart surgery get
this junk out of your heart Get this stuff out of your heart Are there
people who you keep murdering with your words? That's a heart check
right now.

Are there people at work former churches family members? Ex-spouses that
you keep murdering with your words you pull them down every chance you
get not last week not last month But even last year or the last 10 years
So what happens is we come in and we worship Stage our lives have a
facade yet God is going behind that saying look at this evil wicked
uncleanness in your heart Repent of it get rid of it because all it does
is pull you down. It kills you spiritually there's no filling of the
Spirit of God when you're holding all that uncleanness in because we
were meant to forgive and release not hold and Resent and a lot of
times, you know, they'll tell you in the in the fitness industry as well
With my background of this is when you hold on to all these toxic
emotions They are toxic not only spiritually, but they're toxic
emotionally and physically Look at all the research that shows very
angry men will suffer heart attacks at a young age that anger is Toxic
it releases all this adrenaline all this this toxin you keep putting in
your body and your body can't take a lot of that That's what God says
release forgive and forget let it go Let it he this is so powerful.
Jesus says if you're a church and you're coming to worship God and you
feel in your heart Oh, I've got something against my brother or my
brother's got something against me He said put down your guitar stop
playing the piano and go work it out That's how important it is.

Why because it kills us and eats us up I've seen people be cured and
healed by forgiving and releasing Instead of holding in all that
bitterness and unforgiveness and especially ex-spouses They use their
children as pawns to tear each other down for the rest of their lives
That's wrong. And that's prideful and God's calling us to task on that
The bottom line is are you a negative fault-finding person? That's if I
could boil all this down to it would be this. Are you a negative? Fault-
finding person And if I'm pointing at you, there's always four fingers
right pointing back at me If you're not sure just ask your spouse ask
your friends What would they say? Because once you can begin to do this
kind of heart surgery, it's freeing So many people want to be desperate
for more of God.

They want to be filled the Spirit of God They want direction for their
life. They want peace They want to know God more intimately But they're
not willing to give up all of these toxic emotions and toxic things that
they're holding on to no I like my Uncleanness, I like my bitterness and
resentment that way I can hold them captive for the rest of their life
Actually, you're not holding them captive They're holding you captive
the walls you've built to protect you are now imprisoning you they've
moved on They're gone. It's you holding all this in that's why Jesus
says I don't care whose fault It is bring forgiveness that'll lead to
restoration You could see the coldest couple in the room when they both
break and repent and forgive and come back God can redeem and restore
that marriage But what do we see nine times out of ten back up is
getting there's no way.

I'm not there's no way And I can't find one scripture that tells me to
wait for the other person It always puts it back on our shoulders,
doesn't it? You forgive you let it go you repent you do what you can you
respect you know, I don't want to see the powers and the obedience of
God's Word and Actually, I'm gonna say something here might upset a few
people, but that's okay The person who is more spiritually mature will
be the person who does the right thing regardless of whose fault it is
When we hold it in we become like little children Paul would say carnal
immature. You're still in the milk of the word. I can't even give you
meat There's no maturity there.

So whether you're wrong or not if you take the initial step, I'm sorry I
apologize you release all this unforgiveness You're you become the more
spiritually mature person and God works in your life with that Now the
big challenge right now is as I'm saying this in our minds a lot of
people going Yeah, I know, but you don't know what they did. You don't
know the hell I've been you don't know how much they hurt me
financially. You don't know.

I I just can't I know God's Word says it but I can't just let it go and
You'll be stuck for the rest of your life There's no wiggle room here.
There's no little gray area God says release these things that are there
like dead men's bones in your body Pride is the only disease I love this
quote pride is the only disease known to man that makes everybody sick
except the person who has it Wow Doesn't in that true and as I said
before I'm not pointing pink fingers up here. I'm quoting I'll quote CJ
Mahaney again I'm a prideful man Working on humility by the grace of God
And as soon as you come to that realization that we are prideful people
there then healing can take place But as soon as we think well, I've got
it master I've got together I'm not real I'm a humble if you say you're
a humble person.

You're not Others will point it out. You never want to point that out in
yourself because Saying I'm a humble person now. I'm a prideful person.

I'm prideful over my humility And that doesn't work Pride is the only
disease known to man that makes everybody sick except the person who has
it That's why I honestly don't like to be around a lot of prideful
people They make me sick They just talk about themselves all the time.
It's all about them. It's all about this part Look what I did.

Look what I did. Look what I did. Look it's just it's like Oh God get
away from me It just makes me sick.

Why are you sick of this because it's self-glorification pride Satan was
prideful. That's what caused him to fall from heaven many theologians
will agree. I Will be like the Most High God.

I will be like God. I will exalt myself and what happened It's not a
good story and that same that same sinful nature resides in us Many
people have others fooled, but we don't have God fooled We always have
to remember that see we can make this stage and doesn't this look nice
and kids and little things and stuff We've got everybody fooled, but God
can see behind this stage It's what once we realize that I think it's
healthy because we can say you know what I might have this person fooled
this or My spouse but God knows it's it's God we have to do business
with That's what everything is about and on that note. I want to give
some some help here on this issue of anger We've talked about being
toxic spiritually physically and emotionally Anger also destroys
relationships, which is I'm not repeating anything.

It's new pride fuels anger So we've already said all that so now what
happens when let's get to the cure For this Jesus said therefore if you
bring your gift to the altar in other words people are coming to worship
They're coming to worship God if you bring your gift to the altar and
there Remember that your brother has something against you leave your
gift there before the altar and go your way First be reconciled to your
brother and then come and offer your gift Agree with him quickly while
you're on the way with him Lest your adversary deliver you to the judge
and the judge hand you over to the officer and you're thrown into prison
Jesus says I say to you you will by no means get out of there until
everything has been paid There's consequences to that. So the key is
this anger is often a secondary emotion Does anybody struggle with anger
you want some help tonight? Remember this anger is a secondary emotion
Often it's not a primary. It's fueled from something else Perfect
example.

I came in here in a great mood. I came to church in a really good mood
until I saw This I'm not joking What is this? I'm gonna be a little joke
up here. This stuff hits the internet and Wow Dennis is like can we get
a big sheet and hang it down and I'm thinking I would love to how are we
gonna cover all This up.

So but I'm just being honest looking forward to church. Now. I'm a
little PO'd like they can't wait till Sunday afternoon Well, what is
this all about? Mean this kind of this really doesn't go with my image
right The Godzilla preacher telling people true God's truth.

Oh, there's a nice little pig and cute little snake And so that was I
mean, it was like wow, this is there's no way around this one So, what
do you have to learn Frank go with the flow Grab my notes real quick and
start throwing in here the stuff about staging our lives stage That's
all just an hour ago once I saw this But point was what do I do with
that anger? It was irritating. I could tell oh my lord. Nobody even told
me I mean, I don't like when you're blindsided.

You've got you know, this kind of stuff behind you and But we have a
saying at our house It doesn't always work and you don't want to say it
at the wrong time, but go with the flow Morgan's upset. I usually don't
say go with the flow because that doesn't help things but that's a
biblical principle I know it seems maybe a little like Childish or that?
Yeah, Shane. That's nothing new Of course But if you can learn to go
with the flow meaning be content in all things be joyful Don't be
grumbling complaining for 40 years the children of Israel Wandered and
wandered and wandered why because they grumbled and complained grumbled
and complained God finally said, you know what? You're not gonna enter
the promised land your kids are I'm done with you So that's what going
with the flow is flat tire this spout this this this we just found out
now We've got a maybe a wedding coming up in a few months.

We have to go to my in Arizona It's like all it's like wow all the steps
just go with the flow be content because I feel see the anchor I didn't
feel It's a secondary emotion something caused that What's usually cause
it I'm not getting my way Well, let's be honest tonight. I'm I came to
be honest When I get mad, it's usually because I'm not getting my way
Things aren't going like I thought this isn't working. This plan is not
working or this financial I was counting on this money now.

It's dead in the water. What happened? I'm inked So see you have to
remember that it's not a primary emotion all the time. It's a secondary
emotion an Anger can be good that anger is what forced William William
Wilberforce rent the movie to end finally get get petitioning Parliament
to change and stop the the slave trade 30 years But that righteous anger
Martin Luther said when I am angry I can preach well and I can pray even
better anger over abortion Pornography the sex trade all these things.

That's a good thing. If it's directed in the right direction a secondary
emotion But what do we do with the other anger that comes up and you
want to pop off at your spouse? Or that just happened in my house Nobody
wants to be honest tonight We just talked about this last week. I'm
like, I don't know.

I should know I should stop being so transparent What happens we're
having a meeting with another pastor and it's funny. He said to me He
goes see if I can remember this he goes somebody came up to me in my
congregation said pastor Do you ever do anything wrong or you ever we
never you never say anything wrong about yourself? Do you ever blow it?
Are you transparent and he took that? No, that's good advice Maybe I
should do that and I said my problem Friday the opposite. I probably am
too transparent But we you know in trying to give it give our own
Illustrations on this but going with the flow ruining plans Jealousy,
you know somebody's getting something that I want That's mine and they
got it envy the family members get this big inheritance.

I mean we hear it all the time You know somebody gets I just might you
know something Well, what I don't know what you fill in the blank and I
just got a million dollars What am I gonna do with it? I'm like, wow
That's a you know, that's a good problem to have next athlete signs at
80 million dollar deal over 10 years like all he does is hit a ball and
entertains people and It's what's a sec So that's why when I when I and
I don't want to minimize going with the flow because it's very healthy
It's helped me a lot. In other words you go through life. Okay, Lord.

How are you going to move today? What it's going to happen flat tire
sick this you go with the flow. You're not grumbling. You're
complaining.

You're thankful It's a state of thankfulness As soon as you get out of
that anger can rear its ugly head and when things aren't starting to
work perfectly Let me be honest with you every day. Something is gonna
come up. That is not working.

Well So the quicker we can say Lord just thank you Or I don't want to
grumble. I don't complain. I don't want this right now, but Lord help me
find something in this and It he will see us through but I want to talk
about this briefly on resolving this kind of stuff conflict resolution
Jesus said notice this this is interesting.

He said act quickly Leave your gift go and go your way So one of the one
of the the keys behind conflict resolution dealing with anger
Forgiveness all these things especially with spouses or others that have
wronged us is to go quickly if you remember it stop coming to church
every single weekend and Deal with it when you go home when you go home
tonight. There's something deal with it There's no way around this if
people have offended you and your family at other churches Maybe at this
church if I've offended you after the service come up and say Listen, we
need to resolve this. I don't think there is at this night tonight, but
that's okay I don't have anything against anybody in this room either,
but if there is that's all point of this go quickly But what do we do?
Oh, geez? I Want to get into that debate again? I don't want to talk to
them.

Well, it's been a while now. I think they'll forget Isn't it over now?
We've talked about you know, I mean they probably don't remember right?
It's been so long ago. We've moved on I saw them at the mall.

We just said hi, you know We all there's no excuses here. Just go to
them go quickly and every time you do that. There's a freeing aspect
there Whether you're right or wrong you see it doesn't matter If there
you remember that your brother has something against you like oh, he's
got something against me It's not even this person's fault necessarily.

We know if it's our fault We need to go and ask for forgiveness But he's
even saying listen if somebody's got something against you go to them
say listen We need to resolve this it happened years ago months ago.
Whatever it is. Let's resolve this.

That's at the heart of God But what we come in and we worship God, I
know I've got that issue But I'm gonna come and work and we sometimes
use worship as a mask to cover what we know. We don't need to do But I'm
going to church, but I'm reading my Bible, but I'm doing but God says no
get out and do some card examination Clean your heart. The second thing
I glean from this is no matter who is to blame you take charge You take
charge stop being in self-defense mode Yeah, but yeah, but and that's
where pride comes in yeah, but yeah But and I know this is an issue in
many lives because I hear it a lot I'll talk to somebody and they'll
yeah, but you don't know You know Shane they they just treated me this
way for a long time, and they actually do this to me And well, let's go
back to this issue Well, yeah, but you see the how they're not ready to
deal with that and he says no matter who's to blame Just just take
charge what I like to say suck it up Suck it up and deal with it go deal
with it listen.

I'm sorry. This is wrong We need to work this out or anger apologize.
That's how marriages get restored you realize that that's how
relationships get restored That's how you many of you who want to be
filled more with the Spirit of God and be desperate for more of God
That's how you begin to be filled with the Spirit of God is you start to
obey not in these well I haven't committed adultery.

I haven't killed anybody you saying I don't look at your heart We've got
a lot of people coming in our churches. They're carrying if you could
open them up It would be a cesspool of filth of resentment and
bitterness their care. It's almost like not a backpack They're cut
they're carrying a u-haul of Unforgiveness and bitterness over that
person that person that person that person God says I didn't even design
you to be that way if I forgave you if I sent my son to forgive you he
could he bore the sin of humanity for something He didn't even commit If
I did that to you surely Surely you can forgive others God and Christ
Jesus who forgave us It's that it's a releasing power That's why I'm
passionate about this area too because I've seen a break I've seen a
break people be healed marriages restored relationships restored people
get a pat They go Shane the Word of God was dead for two years until I
finally resolved that issue with my other spouse Then the Word of God
became alive again.

I hungered for it. I thirsted for what was it? What was the disconnect
what I like to call the kink in the water hose? That story I told if
last year when my son he does this a lot He goes out and turns the water
hose on off full and then nothing's coming out. He comes and gets me So
here's what you got to do You see this kink take that one out and that
one out and then he can't even hold it It's gets it gets wet.

He starts crying a little bit. What what what happened? Same thing with
us. There's kinks in the hose.

No wonder No wonder you come in week in and week out and you just I want
what Shane's talking about But I don't know how to get it. I want to be
closer to God I want to be filled with the Spirit of God. I want to read
this like he's talking about I want to have a passion for the thing I
want all that shame but well because you got to start obeying what you
know to be right you've got to clean the heart and as soon as the heart
is clean you empty it of all this junk and then the Filling of the
spirit comes in and fills you with peace love joy contentment long-
suffering Gentleness kindness why because I just got out all the
rudeness all the anger all the disgust all the pride not completely
clean That's not on this side of the of heaven But at least you can make
attempts God honors the heart saying Lord help me get these things out
And I don't think I think a lot we look at these big sins.

That's what Jesus. That's what's so ironic with this Well, I don't
commit and it's a big one I don't commit adultery and people say it to
me a lot why I don't commit adultery. I've never really stole anything
big I'm not addicted to pornography I've never murdered anybody and
yeah, but you're you're inside you're you're like dead bones there It's
just filth So what do we do? We have the stage we have the facade We put
all this on so somebody can't really see we I mean to paint a pig pink
Do you know what they wallow in? That's the most dirty animal on the
face of the earth well It's why is it painted like that? Why does it
look so nice and friendly here? It's a facade.

It's it's it's a staging. They're staging everything And that's what we
do in our own lives if we don't deal with these issues unresolved anger
has Consequences Jesus is paralleling this with the legal system Listen,
if you don't work this out if you don't go to your adversary your
adversary takes this to court You're in deep trouble I've told a lot of
people back when I was in the more in the business world Listen, you
better go and work this out because this is a legal nightmare that you
do not want to take on Guess what happens They don't and it explodes.
They see they cook the books They see that the IRS audited mom a million
and a half short of my town You should have went and worked this well
long ago It's a Lee.

He's talking about the legal system. So unresolved anger as well has
consequences The problem with unresolved anger is a lot of times we can
be angry and say I'm sorry be angry and say I'm sorry But the long-term
effect is you'll eventually damage your marriage. You'll damage the
relationship with your children You'll damage future relationships with
others You'll damage your walk with the Lord because anger worketh not
the righteousness of God Anger worketh not the righteousness of God.

You'll never get anything right through wrath and anger Never And so
it's a hard pill to swallow, but it's okay. We need to hear it number
four We think as long as I don't say anything, I'm good As long as I
don't say anything, I'm good. I Come to church.

I worship. I'm just not gonna say anything. I'm good.

Jesus ain't no I see your heart See, we don't realize that I'm not gonna
say anything that person I'm not gonna do I'm just gonna be just gonna
close my mom good, but Jesus sees the heart He looks right to the heart
of the matter. I need to get going. I won't get through all this We
excuse bad attitudes with worship or service.

I talked about that. We come in That's what Jesus is talking about go
and bring you bring your gift to the altar You're coming to worship God
if you know, there's something in your heart. That's not right deal with
it Don't wait because you know what happens it gets harder and harder
and harder and harder to deal with it And we get a hard heart there
because we're not dealing with it Verse six is or number six.

This will help a lot to that old cliche, you know hate the sin, but love
the sinner That's really true. You can it really will help with anger if
you hate the sin you see in them But you still try to love the person
the way Christ loves us right hate that sin But love the sinner that's
where a lot of this this this this anger comes from the reason the love
of Christ is not shed Abroad in many hearts is because we're holding on
to toxic emotions They are stifling our growth hindering our
relationship with the Lord and quenching and grieving the Spirit of God
How dare we worship with a toxic heart Jesus would say hypocrites Don't
come and worship with a toxic heart because why because what worship is
you're coming engaging God Worshiping giving him your heart repenting of
those things It's a clean heart who may ascend into the hill Lord or
stand in his holy place He who has a clean hands and a pure heart and
who's not lifted up a soul to an idol So it's always an issue of the
heart So God said you're coming here worshiping me or saying that you
are but your heart is toxic We've got to get rid of these things this
this anger or this pride This modern-day Pharisees and by all this rules
and rules and rules and just be a humble broken people so then we can
truly worship God our Outward actions simply reveal the condition of the
heart Isn't that true? We talked about this this anger and all these
these pride our outward actions simply reveal What's what's inside of
our heart for out the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak it's
eventually going to come out So the ironic or ironic thing about the
silent sin is it's silent temporarily until it begins to run its course
and Then that's when it comes out and it destroys everything in its wake
As I said last week the law condemns but Christ releases So a lot of
what I'm saying might be condemning it might can be convicting But
Christ wants to take all that and release all that from our lives again
If there's no repentance there can be no pardon Let me take your
attention back to that story the guy who's gonna be pardoned of his of
his From his sentence his jail sentence He was gonna be pardoned the guy
had the pardon in his pocket until he heard What was in that man's heart
and the same thing applies to us if there's no repentance there can be
no pardon from God And that's why I really I really harp on the subject
of repentance because that's how we get back and right relationship with
God It's through that repentance And another thing Basically on this
closing note with the cross there as well, too I thought of this we try
to stage our lives to avoid the cross Hide that cross get that cross out
of out of here. I don't want to see that cross I want I want all this I
want the cares of this world to to kind of you know lead me in and lead
me It would basically lead to we lead me astray hide the cross get rid
of the cross That's what the devil wants to do.

He wants to hide that cross from our lives But we live in this facade we
live in the stage here It is I hide everything in my heart, and I've got
this stage I've made and it hides the cross, but when the cross of
Christ comes to the forefront no longer in the foreground That's when
all these things can be exposed. That's when a sinner breaks and repents
it comes back to God That's what many of us in our audience see the
cross again. We remember the sin.

He died for it I need to repent of it think about that. We want to hold
on to the very thing that Christ died for He says repent of it turn from
it. No, but I want to hold on to it The cross of Christ releases And I
want you to really get that point home that that releases all this this
this this maybe this condemnation We're feeling or this conviction can
be released tonight You can leave here pure as a trevon snow the Bible
would say if you just Repent of these wrong attitudes this anger this
unresolved issue.

Whatever it is you fill in the blank I don't need to come up here and
this this this this you know what it is How do I know because if it's
there God's convicting right now I've been dealing with with you on this
for many years or many months this needs to change tonight And you fill
in the blank I don't need to whether it's pride or legalism or jealousy
or backbiting or gossip or slander or hypocrisy Whatever it is we come
in we put on the facade we stage our lives we come in we worship God
Everybody we play church and we leave but until you can break down that
stage and that facade God can't work into your heart That's where it all
starts I know many people shake their head, but do you know that the
shaking of the head and saying this sounds great does nothing What what
really makes a person change when the heart? Cries out to God and breaks
and truly repents and say Lord these things are wrong. Would you help
me? It's very healthy statement It's a very healthy thing get in your
prayer life. That's why most people don't have a prayer life.

Can I be honest with you a Prayer life in the morning or late at night
where you're in an hour with God and the Word of God in the Bible why?
Because a prayer life will destroy Hypocrisy it will to it will rip if I
had I could just rip this whole thing down in a matter of minutes That's
what the prayer life does that's what the prayer closet does it rips all
of our hypocrisy out of all of our facade We actually stand naked in
front of God bearing everything because he sees everything That's why
most people don't pray. That's why it's the hardest thing to do I'm
actually speaking in men's conference in a few weeks in the in the guys
to chain Would you come speak on prayer and worship? I said love to But
don't tell the guys that cuz it's gonna bore him to death. They'll
probably miss that session.

Why? Why do we want to? Avoid prayer and worship I'll listen to the
message. I'll download messages all week, but I don't want to pray I
don't want to worship why because both of those go right to the heart of
that you cannot sit and pray with God and Keep your little my little
hypocrisy going my little facade my little stage I can't sit there in
the morning and pray Lord help me Lord. Take this will take whatever I
don't have anything to take away Just you know I can't you can't you
can't pray you don't want to pray What do you want to do you want to
turn on Fox News you want to take a drive you want to stay busy busy
busy Busy busy people who have issues of the heart that need to be
resolved do not pray Well, they'll say a three-minute little quick
prayer before dinner Lord bless his food You know have this business
deal go through and he'll heal my wife who's sick tonight.

Thank you Lord That's about it, but to really pray and to seek the heart
of God That's where that's when the heart surgery takes place, and
that's why many people do not do that So I want to offer that tonight's
Chelsea comes up we're gonna end on this note of Seeking God during
worship. She's gonna do another song or two and just whether you're in
your seats Whether you're standing whatever you want to do. This is the
time to do it Say Lord.

I need to work on these areas. Will you help me? Well, that's what
preaching does it goes right to the heart of these issues and God wants
to deal with them tonight So it's bow our heads and pray Lord We do ask
that you remove these areas of our life story including my own life Lord
areas of the heart that have crept up Lord even idolatry things that
used to be small Lord, they're turning into big deals and we're putting
them before you Lord, we pray tonight that we can put all of this at the
cross We can leave all of the at the cross of Christ tonight Lord, I
pray that you would begin to reveal areas in our lives Lord of jealousy
or envy or unforgiveness Or bitterness or if there's things in the path
or that we're holding on to that We need to be that need to be resolved
tonight that that would take place Lord begin to work in our hearts so
that we can be filled with your spirit and honor and serve you in a
deeper way We ask this in Jesus name

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