Latest / Treasured Momma | Time Management Tips, Motherhood, Family Life, Daily Routines, Christianity / 37. A Wild Child’s Shenanigans and a Dad Who Nailed It: The Epic Saga of Promises Kept!

Transcript

37. A Wild Child’s Shenanigans and a Dad Who Nailed It: The Epic Saga of Promises Kept! · Treasured Momma | Time Management Tips, Motherhood, Family Life, Daily Routines, Christianity

• 0:00
  Have you ever done the opposite of what your parents advised?
• 0:05
  Have your parents ever broke a promise to you or even your siblings?
• 0:10
  I'd say everyone would more than likely answer yes to both of these questions.
• 0:16
  In today's episode, we explore the connection between a child's rebellion and
• 0:22
  a perfect father's fulfilled promise.
• 0:25
  Speaking of connection, my exceptional Kingdom colleague, Sekira Baez,
• 0:31
  left this incredible five-star review entitled, Connected Community.
• 0:37
  It says, I feel like I am sitting in her home and a part of her community while
• 0:43
  she offers the lens of God on the mess of motherhood.
• 0:48
  So blessed to have a voice of reason to tune into that confirms my identity in Christ.
• 0:53
  Christ yes yes and yes Sakira
• 0:57
  anytime we are gathered together it is
• 1:00
  an amazing Christ-centered experience thank you
• 1:03
  thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for
• 1:07
  this review you mighty mighty woman of God
• 1:09
  these reviews help encourage myself they
• 1:13
  testify to future listeners and they
• 1:16
  position you to be featured in our weekly newsletter
• 1:19
  and a future episode of the podcast podcast head
• 1:22
  over to itunes and leave your very own review because
• 1:25
  i would love for you to be the
• 1:28
  next feature for today let's dive
• 1:31
  into rebellion and what it's really costing us hey hey mama welcome back to
• 1:37
  the treasured mama podcast i'm corey messer a kingdom life coach and messy mompreneur
• 1:42
  and i want to know if you're like me have you ever felt like you've lost yourself in in all the things,
• 1:49
  or perhaps you just need some encouragement on this messy journey of authentic motherhood.
• 1:54
  In this space, we love sharing routines, rhythms, and real stories of real moms
• 1:59
  as we declutter our heads, our hearts, and our homes to discover clarity and confidence.
• 2:05
  If you're ready to gain clarity on who God designed you to be,
• 2:09
  create simple systems for a more peaceful household, and connect with other
• 2:13
  mamas doing the same, this podcast is right up up your alley.
• 2:16
  My prayer is this episode will encourage you. So grab a drink,
• 2:20
  take a mommy moment and listen in to today's goodness.
• 2:23
  I am so happy to be back here with you again for another episode. Coach Kori here.
• 2:29
  We are continuing our exploration of the Bible being a phenomenal love story.
• 2:36
  How love is woven all throughout the Bible.
• 2:40
  Two episodes ago, we started discussing creation and God's extravagant love
• 2:46
  for us as His most prized creation and treasured possession.
• 2:51
  And then the last episode, we talked all about the fall, where sin enters the
• 2:57
  equation, and the Father's love, and how even when we reject His perfect love,
• 3:04
  He still does not reject us.
• 3:07
  Which leads us into today's conversation. We will We'll be spending some time
• 3:12
  in Isaiah and Matthew primarily,
• 3:15
  and we're talking about the rebellious son as well as a promise that is fulfilled.
• 3:23
  It's really fascinating when we continue to look at the narrative of love and
• 3:29
  love in all the ways it is visited and explored in scripture because there's
• 3:35
  this common theme of how God's love does not change based on our behavior.
• 3:42
  He can be disappointed in our behavior and that still doesn't negate his love for us at all.
• 3:49
  And it really speaks to his perfect love, that agape love.
• 3:56
  Let's go back into the story of the Israelites because they began to follow
• 4:02
  along in sinful ways that were a part of their lineage being descendants of Adam and Eve.
• 4:08
  If we continue with the story, the Lord eventually rescues Israel from Egypt
• 4:14
  and Moses was the one that was running that charge.
• 4:17
  God ultimately led them to the promised land.
• 4:20
  At the height of their glory, during the reign of King David,
• 4:24
  the nation became rebellious again.
• 4:28
  One of the ways that they began and to do this is to worship false gods.
• 4:32
  Let's pause here for a moment because many of us think of false gods as being
• 4:39
  a sacred cow or a golden altar or statues or money.
• 4:46
  But a false god is anything you are prioritizing above the Lord. You are making it.
• 4:55
  A God in your life, lowercase g. You are making it an idol.
• 5:01
  You are prioritizing it above the Father.
• 5:05
  And when we are looking into this story, we see that their rebellion oftentimes
• 5:10
  was rooted in the worship of false gods.
• 5:13
  They would bow down to idols. Some people will refer to idols as being a false god.
• 5:21
  Other people will refer to false gods as being idols.
• 5:26
  I tend to think of them as separate, but within the same context.
• 5:31
  So you can fill that in for yourself. The bottom line is, if we are idolizing
• 5:36
  anything in our life and we are prioritizing it above the Father, that is disobedient.
• 5:43
  That is out of line.
• 5:44
  That is in rebellion to the Father, which would make us a rebellious son or daughter.
• 5:51
  And because they did this, God sent the prophets to counsel with them.
• 5:55
  He gave them a word, and they went to go deliver that so that they could warn
• 6:00
  the people and say, hey, if you continue with this rebellious behavior.
• 6:05
  This is what's going to happen.
• 6:07
  God reveals the thing first through his prophets. And the Israelites did not heed the advice.
• 6:14
  They They did not take the warning. In fact, they completely disregarded the
• 6:18
  warnings and they just continued with their same sinful ways.
• 6:23
  God being a just God, one who is righteous, he is not able to step out of being
• 6:30
  righteous because it is who he is.
• 6:33
  His character is consistent.
• 6:35
  He follows through on his promise. He implements a judgment and the Babylonians
• 6:40
  conquered their city and held them in exile for 70 years.
• 6:46
  Ask yourself the question, what is the real cost conversation for a quick fix?
• 6:53
  If you are somebody who is rebelling against something that you know,
• 6:58
  that you know, that you know God has called you to do, sit down and explore
• 7:02
  what is the real cost conversation.
• 7:04
  A situational moment of disobedience may cost you something much greater in
• 7:12
  consequences down the road.
• 7:14
  And is it really worth it?
• 7:17
  Do you really want to separate yourself from God through sin so you can have
• 7:23
  a temporary fleeting moment of gratification?
• 7:27
  Or do you want to surrender to God so you can have that eternal experience with him?
• 7:34
  What is the real cost conversation and is it worth it?
• 7:39
  I can tell you being in exile for 70 years is something I am not interested in.
• 7:44
  And just like Adam and Eve back
• 7:47
  in the garden were cast out of that delightful
• 7:51
  place of dwelling Israel was exiled and
• 7:54
  cast out of the promised land that God
• 7:56
  provided for them why do we separate ourselves from the most beautiful thing
• 8:03
  that is available to us and for so many of us that beautiful thing is somehow
• 8:09
  attached to relationship with the Lord and it's because we We give in to the lies of the enemy.
• 8:16
  It comes down to an identity conversation.
• 8:20
  As a son and daughter of the one true king, the enemy does not want you to live in that identity.
• 8:28
  So be aware of that. Be cognizant of that.
• 8:31
  And know that when God gives you a good and beautiful gift, He gives it to you.
• 8:37
  He delights in delivering that to you.
• 8:40
  God has prepared it for you. And I'm specifically talking about relationship with Him.
• 8:46
  I see so often sons and daughters showing up in life where they are dismissing
• 8:53
  the beautiful gifts God has given them because they feel unworthy and they self-sabotage.
• 8:59
  The Israelites sought their fulfillment in things apart from the Lord.
• 9:03
  So this is where they separated themselves from God through sin.
• 9:10
  They had every opportunity to be totally in alignment with him,
• 9:14
  and they chose sin over their Savior.
• 9:18
  When they chose these things that were out of alignment with the Father,
• 9:24
  it led them to turning away from God.
• 9:27
  And he loved them so deeply.
• 9:30
  They decided to not just separate themselves from their Savior.
• 9:35
  But they became enslaved to sin as a result.
• 9:38
  And that is the consequence I mentioned earlier when you ask yourself what is
• 9:44
  the real cost conversation because consequences lead us in our own form of spiritual exile.
• 9:52
  Again we get to remember that sin separates us from God and when we indulge
• 9:58
  in sin we release or forfeit we give up our relationship with him.
• 10:03
  Beloved it is time that we start taking responsibility for these these choices
• 10:08
  we are making, instead of blaming them on the enemy,
• 10:12
  he doesn't have access to us unless we give it to him by partnering with sin.
• 10:19
  Sin separates us from God. And when we indulge in sin, we forfeit our relationship with God.
• 10:26
  In the comfort and security of God's love, that is where all meaning and purpose for life is found.
• 10:32
  He knows the depths of our hearts
• 10:35
  and God fulfills our every single need
• 10:39
  so the question becomes then why do we ever separate ourselves from him specific
• 10:45
  to Israel when they rejected God's love it eventually brought them to their
• 10:52
  own punishment God never forgot them.
• 10:56
  Even when they were disobedient. God delivered his people from Egypt,
• 11:01
  and he promised to bring full deliverance through his son, Jesus Christ.
• 11:05
  And this brings us to the fulfilled promise, the promise that was fulfilled.
• 11:12
  This is where we dive into Matthew chapter 2.
• 11:16
  When the time came for the promised Messiah, who was Jesus Christ,
• 11:20
  to be born hundreds of years years later.
• 11:23
  The news reached the current king, King Herod.
• 11:27
  King Herod was an interesting man to say the least, and he did not want anyone claiming to be king.
• 11:34
  He didn't want anyone contending for his position in the throne.
• 11:39
  He set out to find this, quote, proclaimed Messiah, end quote,
• 11:44
  for for himself because he was so threatened by anyone potentially taking his spot.
• 11:51
  He had the audacity to order every male child under the age of two in Bethlehem be killed.
• 11:59
  With the newborn son of God as King Herod's target, God had other plans and
• 12:04
  God even appeared to Joseph in a dream. I find that so beautiful.
• 12:09
  God will speak to us in the way that we are prepared to receive from him.
• 12:14
  This is why some people get visions. Some people really dive into the physical
• 12:20
  word and they get great depth by doing word studies.
• 12:23
  Some people see visuals in the natural world. Some people hear songs.
• 12:29
  God will speak to you through any modality that you are prepared to hear him.
• 12:34
  When he appeared to Joseph in this dream, he told him, get up,
• 12:38
  take the child and his mother to Egypt until it is safe to leave.
• 12:42
  And I will tell you when it is safe.
• 12:45
  So that's what Mary and Joseph did. They went to Egypt. And it seems that history
• 12:50
  is repeating itself, doesn't it?
• 12:52
  As the family is headed towards Egypt for refuge.
• 12:56
  In the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew draws our attention to how significant this journey is.
• 13:02
  And he does this by referencing the Old Testament passage in Hosea,
• 13:07
  which says, So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt.
• 13:13
  He stayed there until Herod's death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through
• 13:19
  the prophet might be fulfilled.
• 13:20
  Out of Egypt I called my son. and that is in Matthew chapter 2 verses 14 and 15.
• 13:27
  We see that Matthew uses this reference to identify Jesus as the fulfillment
• 13:32
  of bringing God's people out of Egypt.
• 13:35
  His loving plan of redemption for them. I find it incredible how God's love
• 13:41
  is so deep and so wide simultaneously.
• 13:44
  Jesus traveled to and from Egypt. He passed through the waters to be affirmed as God's beloved son.
• 13:52
  He even went into the wilderness where he was tempted by Satan,
• 13:56
  and yet he did not sin because he is perfect.
• 14:00
  Jesus followed the same path as Israel, but he remained righteous and faithful
• 14:06
  in every single way that Israel failed.
• 14:10
  Just because something has always been a certain way doesn't mean it always has to be that way.
• 14:16
  Just because you've only ever seen parents be modeled in a certain kind of way
• 14:22
  doesn't mean that is how our good, good father is.
• 14:26
  His love is agape love. His love is deep. It is wide.
• 14:32
  It is pure. It is perfect.
• 14:36
  And his character is consistent. This is why we see the Old Testament speaking
• 14:42
  towards things that will be fulfilled in the New Testament because God honors his promises.
• 14:49
  Nothing is going to stop the fulfillment of his promise.
• 14:54
  And this is so representative in the physical man of Jesus, again,
• 14:59
  who followed the same same path as Israel, and yet he remained righteous and
• 15:05
  faithful, even in every way that Israel failed.
• 15:08
  Because of God's love for us, Jesus answered the call to live a life in right
• 15:15
  standing with God and bear the wrath and judgment of God that Israel deserve.
• 15:22
  It's such a deep love. It's so so expansive.
• 15:26
  It's beautiful because I may relate to a certain attribute of God.
• 15:32
  I may really respond to a story or an example in scripture, and yet that may
• 15:39
  not really resonate with you.
• 15:41
  However, the next story that is shared may deeply resonate with you.
• 15:47
  And again, this goes back to the point that God will speak to us in the way we are prepared to hear.
• 15:53
  His word is living and active.
• 15:57
  So just because you haven't had a deep, intimate connection with the Word of God before.
• 16:04
  I want to encourage you, now that you know that you can look at the Bible through
• 16:09
  the lens of learning more about who Jesus is,
• 16:12
  I encourage you to re-explore certain areas of the Bible that you haven't before
• 16:19
  and seek out opportunities to find how love is demonstrated,
• 16:23
  to learn about the character of God,
• 16:27
  to see where God has fulfilled His promises,
• 16:30
  even when His children have been disobedient and even rejected His perfect love.
• 16:38
  Heavenly Father, I thank You so much for Your pure, potent love.
• 16:45
  God, we thank You so much for seeing us as who You designed us to be versus
• 16:51
  how we may have been showing up.
• 16:53
  Heavenly Father, I thank you for giving us this incredible book,
• 16:58
  this incredible word that is inerrant.
• 17:01
  It is perfect, God, for you to show us everything that you need us to know.
• 17:05
  And God, I pray that whoever is listening to this podcast, God,
• 17:09
  that it would just speak to their heart in precisely the way that they are prepared
• 17:15
  to listen so that they get to know you, God.
• 17:18
  And it stirs up some curiosity for them to go grab a Bible, to go look online and uncover, discover,
• 17:27
  and possibly rediscover who you are, the love you have to offer,
• 17:34
  and even be brave enough to uncover the treasure that you have placed within him or her.
• 17:41
  Mostly, we thank you for your presence, God. In your mighty name,
• 17:45
  Jesus, we pray. Amen. Okay, Mama, one quick thing.
• 17:49
  Music.