Peter Roselle: Possessing Your Vessel – Bitter Root Judgments
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 11/11/2019

The leadership team at Kings of Kings Worship Center in Basking Ridge, NJ, has been teaching the material of John and Paula Sandford, founders of the Elijah House Ministries, since our founding in 1999. 
In this teaching on Bitter Root Judgments, we unpack the toxic effects of recurring patterns of sinful behavior. In Ephesians 6:2-3 Paul wrote, “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.” We sin when we dishonor our parents by judging them. Ironically, we find we become the thing we judge. 

We pray this material will be a blessing to you and encourage you to read the book, “Transforming the Inner Man,” by John and Paula Sandford. It the first book in the four-part "Transformation Series" written by the Sandfords.

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I want to welcome you to the teaching on Bitter Root Judgments.
This is another teaching like Performance Orientation
and Parental Inversion that's had a profound impact on hundreds of people
here in our church at King of Kings.
This teaching has high potential to help you get free in a major way.
There are some things that are confusing to people.
So, if we can get past those things that seem contradictory and confusing,
I believe it will bring tremendous freedom to your life.
The essence of the whole teaching is that God loves people.
We learn to love what God loves, even when they’re hard to love.
When we judge other people – 
and in the strongest form, judging is called contempt - 
so when we show contempt for people, it's one of the most
toxic elements in the whole relational universe.
It devalues someone that God holds in high esteem.
I'm going to use this CD to introduce you to something
that we refer to as the topic of fluency.
I'm sure you're familiar with the regular use of that
term as it refers to expertise in a foreign language.
But the Sanford's have helped us gain a broader understanding
of the concept.
Just like learning a foreign language, at the core, the idea is
that fluency requires a very high level of skills.
It requires two things really - a vast
accumulation of knowledge, as well as the
real-life application.
You might have studied French in high school and
accumulated knowledge in the classroom.
But that doesn't mean if you went to
Paris you could speak fluently with the locals.
Head knowledge is important and necessary,
but it's not enough to truly become fluent.
You would do well to move to Paris and spend the summer.
You’d be submerged in their culture.
You'd build your fluency bit by bit - daily in
the cafes - not so much in the classroom.
Similarly, our attempt to walk with the
Lord benefits from head knowledge.
We should read the Bible.
We need to pray, attend church, a long list of disciplines.
But our goal should not be just accumulating knowledge.
The ultimate goal in this life is to be transformed into the
image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18).
A common theme on the road
of being transformed into the image of Christ.
God, through His Holy Spirit,
His word, and many other ways, is going to
reveal that there's been obstacles in
your life that are holding you back from your goals.
Even though you're saved, and if you
died today you'd go to heaven, that
doesn't mean there aren't still
obstacles that are holding us back from
the fulfillment of the calling of God in our lives.
Obviously, the biggest obstacle is sin.
What the Sanford's have done is
help us understand the different
delivery packages the devil uses to
deliver the sin to us.
One of them would be Performance Orientation.
Another is Parental Inversion.
There are many different topics that we'll cover.
The one we're doing today is called
Bitter Root Judgments.
We talked about fluency we're using it to describe our
growth in Christ's likeness.
As I walk out my daily life with my family, on
my job, in my community and I run across
situations - what would Jesus do?
In this situation how would He react?
How would He treat people?
Christian fluency means you'd respond the same way
Jesus would in every situation.
You become so knowledgeable and so practiced
on how He would live his life, so full
of the Spirit, and so dead to your old
fleshly nature.
Jesus never sinned, so we have hope that
we too can eliminate those besetting sins
that are trying to hold us back.
In John 14:30, Jesus said,
“I no longer will talk much with you
for the ruler of this world is coming
and he has nothing in me.