because sometimes you will find in your life that the place you escape to
becomes the place that you are enslaved in and you didn't go there to be a slave
you went there to survive can I preach a little bit some of the addictions that
people deal with in their life they form them because they were trying to survive
emotionally they didn't want to be hooked on pills they just needed to take
something to escape the way that they felt and now I'm taking two and now I'm
taking three and I didn't know that this would cause me to lose my mind in my
control and my grip on reality because I wasn't taking it to be a slave I was
taking it to survive but one day I woke up and found that this thing that used
to feed me is now mastering me I didn't start it to to be enslaved to it
I started to survive and this is what they rarely preach about temptation is
that the reason temptation is so difficult to resist is that it offers a
way of escape and when you feel so trapped inside of yourself that you want
to be anybody but you and you have heard lies of how worthless that you are
either through people or the perspective of your own limited reasoning which sees
yourself only through the filter of your flaws it is difficult to stay in that
situation and so you look for a way of escape that's why I started drinking too
much I was looking for a way to escape I was looking for a way out just a way out
of the pressure a way out of the pain a way out of the feeling that that I was
alone a way out of feeling so weird and so different a way out of replaying the
memory a way out of having to deal with the day in and day out nonsense of just
going through this life and and trying to provide for my family but realizing
that nobody really appreciates it and I don't even feel like I'm doing a good
job and I need a way out and the devil will always be there to offer you a
tunnel
called temptation and the problem is that it works for a while it's good till
it ain't cuz I'll tell you right now escape is enjoyable until you become
enslaved by it you know what they ate in Egypt quail that is a delicacy Kentucky
Fried quail
KFQ on the menu they feed you in Egypt they take care of you in Egypt
it's the place they went to escape but then you live there a little while and
your like I thought this was a way out I thought this was a tunnel you know the
little things we do to escape I know I mentioned drugs and I've mentioned some
sexual things but complaining is a way of escape too y'all don't like that one as
much let me talk about something we don't all do blame is a way of escape
and what it offers you a way out of is the pain of self-awareness because to
really deal with my life might mean taking responsibility for some of my
actions now so blame lets me put it on you so I
don't have to feel it on me the only problem is I put my freedom on you when
I put the blame on you it's a way out that after a while it keeps you locked
in and the Bible says that when God saw his people's misery He came to deliver
them it was the way of escape now I need to show you this because in the Bible
that the way of escape that God gave them was not around the Red Sea huh you
said it was through it their way to freedom was
through their fear their way to freedom was through their fear and it required
for them to go through it to be set free from it y'all I feel like I'm preaching
this right today but I feel like there's somebody here who you have been escaping
to things that are now enslaving you I was trying to get it across to the kids
on Friday night because I figured that if we can get them to understand that
these temptations these tunnels are actually traps maybe they won't still be
dealing with the stuff when they're 52 that God could have delivered them from
when they were 15 come on I need somebody's faith today if you break the
chain before it develops its strength but see when you escape there over and
over again it's like even just zoning out on your phone you ever thought about
this what am i doing I'm escaping to what the images of people whose lives I
am not accountable for why because it numbs me from having to deal with
whatever boredom is present in my life now I'm not telling you not to go on
your phone I'm just saying that some of us have completely lost our capacity for
actual presence because of our way of escape now you sitting at the dinner
table talking about trying to swipe your wife stalking you trying to go to the
next scene the next story get past the next detail it doesn't work like that
the way of escape is it's the way that you escape is it's the way that you
escape we all need a way of escape and the Bible says that God brought his
people through the waters of the Red Sea God brought his people with a mighty
hand and an outstretched arm He brought them through what was in front of them
and drowned their enemies He wants to remind you that there's nothing in front
of you that God cannot bring you through there's nothing hey thank you for
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