Sorry Not Sorry : week 3

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Stick A Needle In Your Eye

Week 3 word or phrase : NO MORE!

*cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye*
Verify your sincerity.
To say you're really telling the truth.

We learn from the story of Saul and David that the true test of a sincere apology is the attention we give to the remedy.

Sincerity.
When we say sorry, are we sincere?

1 Samuel 18:6

Saul became very jealous of David.

Saul is trying to kill David.
Jonathan tries to talk his dad down.
Saul said he was trying to kill David for Jonathan (so Jonathan could become king).
David hides with the priests, Saul killed them.
David hid in caves for 10 years.
20 years between God giving him the dream of being king and David actually becoming king.

Will you hold onto a dream even when it seems impossible?

Finally Saul found where David was as he was backed into a cave.
Saul had to go to the restroom and decided to use the cave David was hiding in.
David cut off a part of Saul's robe and said, I could have killed you but I didn't.

Nothing is ever wasted, it's all preparation!

God puts to use what he puts us through!

Saul spent the better part of his life fighting the wrong enemy.
He thought David was his enemy, but Saul was his own worst enemy.

NO MORE!
When it comes to saying sorry, the acid of sincerity is change.
Do you live differently afterward?

1. If there's no follow through it will be déjà vu.
There can be no remedy without a 180!
Go and sin no more!
NO MORE!

2.  You can't guarantee perfect but you can give radical attention.
Change is a process.
Your heart has to be NO MORE! But you can't guarantee that.
You will give radical attention that you won't do it again.
Attention = special care.
If you don't get crazy with your sin, your sin will get crazy with you.

3. Don't just show it, you've gotta say it.
Don't make a promise you can't keep.
I want to change instead of I will change.

4. Behavior modification is powerless without heart transformation.
We focus on the outside when the inside is where the real problem is at.
Behavior is the fruit, your heart is your root.
True heart change is hating what you've done & hating what it's done to who you've hurt.

As it is in saying sorry, so it is with salvation.