Revival Life Church

What is Your Why? In this message, learn how misplaced desires can disguise spiritual traps and why God’s correction prepares us for freedom. In this message, discover how to trust the Father’s heart when obedience requires surrender. Disordered desire makes a trap look like treasure. Israel saw valuable gold covering the Canaanite idols, but God saw the bondage that bringing those idols home would create. Desire would lead to possession, and possession would lead to entrapment. “When what we want matters more than what God has said, a trap can look like a treasure.” God wanted His Word, rather than the idols of the surrounding culture, to shape Israel’s homes and future. God seeks the motivation beneath our actions because good intentions cannot make disobedience righteous. Consequentialism assumes that an action is acceptable when it produces the result we want, but “you do not get godly fruits from ungodly means.” God asks why we want what He has forbidden, why we are willing to disobey to obtain i