HERES WHY WE STRUGGLE AS THE BRIDE AND BODY OF CHRIST.  

• WE HATE HARD TRUTH
• WE RESIST BIBLE WITH TEETH
• Hebrews‬ ‭5‬:‭11‬-‭14‬ ‭ 
• “About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”

• CONDITIONED TO KEEP UP APPEARANCES 
• I GOT THIS ON MY OWN!
• DUCK IN WATER
• FAKE IT TIL WE MAKE IT

BACKDROP & FRAMEWORK

• what shapes the way you internalize conceptualize contextualize and apply scripture?
• We are most impressionable in our early childhood and teenage years.
• The people we are exposed to people we idolize or look up to most influence and mold our worldview, perspective, and interpretations.
• We can break bad habits we can break the mold and we can reprogram our neural pathways.
• However, it is such a long process, and it requires so much discipline and commitment to exposure of truth, and to be immersed in a new way of thinking repetitively.
• So many people water down the scriptures because they don’t want to deepen their understanding or expand their knowledge because it would require so much of a change in an adjustment to their ordinary way of processing the world, relationship relationships, their own identity, and information in general.

Our pain dictates our perspective

Our difficulty has defined where we derive our dependence.

• we are Not defined by our scars, but by Jesus’s scars and sacrifice.
  

WAYS WE MIS-DEFINE THE BIBLE

WAYS WE DILUTE AND SANITIZE

• We talk about the lamb but hardly ever the lion

• We talk about the armor of God, but rarely discuss our heads on a silver platter. Is the enemies fantasy 
• There’s a hook with your name on it 

• Nice is a myth kindness is in the Bible. Nice is not and they are very different.

WE DISCUSS THE PLEASANT QUALITIES AND MIRACLES OF JESUS BUT NOT THE ONES THAT CALL US OUT AND CONVICT US.

• Tender and tough 
• Rugged and repentant 
• Bland Christianity 
• Vanilla gospel 
• Water down and woketize the word 

• Lukewarm losers: JESUS SPITS OUT OF HIS MOUTH

“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ‭

Wicked adulterers and idolater Galatians 5

• ALWAYS GRAVITATE TO FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT 
• VANILLA!

“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”  Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬-‭21‬ ‭

dog to its own vomit

“For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.”

‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭

Dragon slayer Jesus in revelation, bloody robe , eyes of fire

To those who say, Lord Lord, he will say go away from me. I never knew you. 

““Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭21‬-‭23‬ ‭