Detox: Soul Detox

Detox
Soul Detox
8/9/26
Pastor Mark England

Detox
Removal of toxic substances from a living organism.

Soul Detox
The Soul is your emotions.

2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 (CSB)
Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said:
I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.  ¹⁷ Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.  ¹⁸ And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us…
cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Psalm 42:5 (CSB)
Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

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is like setting yourself on and hoping the person you hate dies from .

Hebrews 12:15 (CSB)
Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.

Sometimes the trouble you are facing is directly connected to the condition of your heart.

Your trouble may be resolved the moment you decide to !

Ephesians 4:31-32 (CSB)
Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice. ³² And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

One of the most toxic traits in culture today is the in people.

James 3:14-16 (CSB) But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. ¹⁶ For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:1 (NIV)
What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

James 4:2 (NIV)
You desire but do not have,
 so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

Worry is assuming responsibility God never intended for you to have.

Worry tries to change the past, control the future, and pollute your “now”.

If worry goes unchecked, it will go through your soul and pollute you and ultimately graduate into fear.

Matthew 6:27 (CSB)
Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?

Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV)
Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life.

If your soul is toxic, it will impact every other area of your life.

God’s Solution From A Toxic Soul

• Right relationships.

You show me your friends, I’ll show you your future.

Proverbs 13:20 (CSB)
The one who walks with the wise will become wise,
but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

• God-defined identity.

Do not trust your feelings to define who you are.

1 Peter 2:9 (CSB)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

• Crucified

Galatians 2:20 (CSB)
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

• Eternal

Colossians 3:1-2 (NIV)
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

When an earthly problem hits you in the gut…
Let our response be “Thank God for heaven!”

Psalm 42:5 (CSB)
Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.