1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,320 Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project Podcast. 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,600 I'm your host, Jason Cooper, and I've got my co-host here. 3 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Hey, it's me, Dylan. 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,000 What's up, Dylan? 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,000 How are you doing today? 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,000 I am doing good. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:28,680 A little hot here, but oh well. 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,240 I think it's funny when you talk about Heat because for those who don't know, he's Californian. 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:42,960 And me being in Phoenix, Arizona area, greater Phoenix area in general, Heat is usually my 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,320 best friend here. 11 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,380 That's crazy to me. 12 00:00:49,380 --> 00:00:50,880 How hot is it over there right now? 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,800 It is a beautiful 94. 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,600 It's actually hotter there than it is here. 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,920 It's only 87 here. 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:04,200 I don't know if you did, but you know, dang. 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,480 I prayed that you'd experienced my troubles. 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,560 No, no, that's the reason I live here. 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,560 The reason I live here. 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,440 70 to 75, perfect. 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:16,440 Beautiful. 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,760 No, that's too cold. 23 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,520 This morning I got up. 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Too cold. 25 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,720 Listen, this morning I got up, got to my car and it was like 68 degrees and I was like, 26 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,720 brr, I need my jacket. 27 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,720 You are ridiculous. 28 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,120 I was about to go full on winter coat here. 29 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,120 Oh my gosh. 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,120 Ridiculous. 31 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,800 It's amazing. 32 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,080 So what's going on with you? 33 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:42,080 What's exciting going on? 34 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:43,520 What are you up to? 35 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,060 I just met on Wednesday. 36 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:52,400 So I just getting ready for youth group today, tomorrow and the podcast. 37 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,680 That's pretty much it. 38 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,040 That's my agenda today. 39 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,400 That's exciting. 40 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,280 Cut this one out a little bit shorter than normal because we are running behind. 41 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,840 Yeah, I mean, OK, don't worry. 42 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,920 We got content for this one. 43 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:11,920 Last week I know. 44 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,080 Yeah, of course we do. 45 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,500 Last week we I know we talked about like, hey, we don't know what we're going to talk 46 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:17,500 about next week. 47 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:18,600 And that was true. 48 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,800 And throughout the week just been texting back and forth like, what if we talk about 49 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,800 this? 50 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,800 What if we talk about this? 51 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,840 And I think we got a good topic to talk about this week. 52 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,920 But we do have a topic already for next week. 53 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:36,520 Yeah, which which I am excited to go over and it's going to be a little bit more intense. 54 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,680 So this episode is going to be a little bit easier and a little bit more straightforward, 55 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,000 I guess is a good way to put it. 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,720 Yeah, definitely. 57 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,280 I'm glad we came to a decision because we had too many and that was the cover issue 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,800 and we're like, what are we going to do? 59 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,280 We have this idea, we have that idea. 60 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:03,440 So I have some good shows lined up in the next two weeks. 61 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,880 I think a lot of like you and me, we have a lot of ideas that we want to do. 62 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,560 And some of those ideas take a little bit more study and then last minute or a day before 63 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:19,980 or something like a little bit more research to make sure that we are, you know, portraying 64 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:22,120 the right light on those subjects. 65 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,020 So as you notice, the first couple of subjects that we have done are a little bit more easier 66 00:03:27,020 --> 00:03:32,720 to get into, understand like prosperity gospel. 67 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,780 What is it? 68 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:39,000 That kind of stuff is a little bit more simplistic and easy to understand, which is good. 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,200 And it's just very, very easy to look at the Bible and say, oh, yeah, that is biblical 70 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,060 or yeah, this is biblical. 71 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:52,700 So today we are actually going to go on the topic of sin and what is it? 72 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:53,700 What is sin? 73 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:55,960 That's a good question. 74 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:56,960 That's a question too. 75 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:03,200 You know, I feel like nowadays there's a lot of, you know, well, it says it's the same, 76 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,200 but why? 77 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:12,040 And like it gets into a lot of that type of stuff of like, well, is it, is it a sin? 78 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,800 Is it really a sin and stuff like that? 79 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,800 I mean, there's some topics we could maybe, we may talk on, I don't know. 80 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:25,040 We'll see where it goes here the next, you know, 45 or so. 81 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:34,120 But you know, this is, if you just think about what is sin, you know, yeah, it's just, it's 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,840 like, it's the absence of God without God. 83 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:44,800 I believe that's, I'm honestly, it's the Hebrew or Greek, but then you've got some Bible 84 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,520 verses here you wanted to share with real quick. 85 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:49,520 Yeah. 86 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:56,000 One right off the bat that because we, as Christians, we talk a lot about sin in general 87 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,160 and a lot of issues we see nowadays is that people and media and people who say, oh, I'm 88 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:03,920 Christian or something like that. 89 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,560 And then you see them in the media where they're just like, you're going to hell because you 90 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,560 sinned. 91 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:16,680 And I think obviously that's a wrong way of proclaiming God's love by, you know, doing 92 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,760 it that way. 93 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:18,760 It's not love. 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:19,760 It's not loving. 95 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:20,760 It's not love. 96 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,640 You have to meet the person. 97 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Right. 98 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,520 At, you know, where they need to be met. 99 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,560 You know, you can't just be, you're a sinner. 100 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,560 You're going to hell. 101 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,800 It's like, well, we all are sinners. 102 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,160 You know, in a sense, we've all fallen short. 103 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,520 So I mean, you got to be in a loving way, but there's sometimes you do need to be, there's 104 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,880 a time and place for harshness, I believe, but sometimes, I mean, not harsh, but tough 105 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,040 love is a place for tough love. 106 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:55,200 But there's also a time to be understanding and loving. 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,200 Right. 108 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:01,960 And the reason why to bring that up is because a lot of times we use the term sin and people 109 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:08,480 who do not understand who God is or what Christianity is for the most part, they'll look at that 110 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,360 and like, I don't know what sin is. 111 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,920 And the generic idea of sin is like Sin City Vegas. 112 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,480 It's like prostitutes and drugs and alcoholism. 113 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,920 Like, you know, that kind of stuff. 114 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:26,000 There's a lot, you know, people to think of the problem is what I think we get caught 115 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:35,120 up with with sin is that we look at through our eyes, not God's eyes necessarily. 116 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,760 Because see, for us, it's like, oh, well, this is worse than that sin. 117 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,280 Oh, murder is worse than telling a white lie. 118 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:50,560 But you got to like, it says that all sins are the same in the Lord's eye. 119 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,640 Whether we can actually see that in Galatians five, which we talk about a lot because I 120 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:56,640 love that. 121 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,280 This is all you need. 122 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,240 I mean, right. 123 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,520 Not really. 124 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:10,360 But no, no, but it's a good place to start because it talks about, you know, what is 125 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:15,000 like walk by the spirit because if we accepted Jesus, like we talked about a week before 126 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,200 in salvation was that we walk by the spirit that's gifted to us from Christ. 127 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,640 We accept him, desires of the flesh are against the spirit and desires of the spirit are against 128 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:27,760 the flesh. 129 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,960 And then it goes on to say what the desires of flesh are. 130 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:35,080 And that's kind of what that that's what sin is, is against what God is. 131 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,160 Right. 132 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:42,200 And so you can see that it's wrapped up in 19 Galatians five, 19, where it talks about 133 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:49,840 sexual morality, impurity, sensuality, adultery, sorcery, and meditators, strife, jealousy, 134 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:55,880 fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies. 135 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,360 But you can see that there's a range of stuff there that we say is a range. 136 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,360 Right. 137 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,920 As humans, we look at that and like, well, fits of anger, you get mad sometimes. 138 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,960 Oh, you get a little jealous sometimes. 139 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,960 But man orgies. 140 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,760 But in the same sense, never those orgies. 141 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,800 That's not too far. 142 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Right. 143 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:19,480 So if you see this from a biblical perspective, that's all one thing. 144 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,400 That's all left or right. 145 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,360 Spirit or flesh. 146 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,640 That's the whole thing. 147 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,080 Sin itself is black and white. 148 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:33,000 And that's something I think people need to understand is that when you're walking a Christian 149 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,800 lifestyle, sin is very black and white. 150 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:40,960 It's either it is part of God and the Holy Spirit and what he wants to bring or it's 151 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:41,960 not. 152 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,960 Simple as it gets. 153 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,520 That's why we talked about the fruit of spirit. 154 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,400 Yeah, we talked about the fruit of spirit, which is what God brings. 155 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,640 And if it doesn't line up with those things that you could see that they're not of God 156 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,280 because those are of God. 157 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,120 That was one of the verses I wanted to bring up. 158 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:06,720 But we as Christians talk about one thing I wanted to bring up is first John one nine, 159 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,120 which you might know. 160 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:15,440 But it's if we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, he is faithful and just 161 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:22,080 true to his own nature and promises and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually 162 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:27,400 from all unrighteousness, our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with his will 163 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,080 and purpose. 164 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:34,840 So that right there can sum up anything that's not his will and purpose in our life. 165 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:40,440 Everything not in conformity with it is wrongdoing, that it's unrighteousness, it's it's sin. 166 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:46,160 So that's something to keep in mind. 167 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,160 What do you take from that? 168 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,160 I just thought I was talking. 169 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,600 I thought I was talking back to you for a little bit and I had my mic was muted. 170 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:57,600 Hilarious. 171 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,560 Can you repeat the question? 172 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,440 I totally I know myself off. 173 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,120 No, it's just it's just that verse where it talks about that will forgive our sins and 174 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:13,680 cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness, our wrongdoing, everything that is in which 175 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:16,720 is not in conformity of his will and purpose. 176 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:23,800 So anything outside his will and purpose is wrongdoing, sin and unrighteousness, right? 177 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,760 Anything that is not of the Lord. 178 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:26,760 Yeah. 179 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:27,760 Yes. 180 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:28,760 Yes. 181 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,040 And is anything that is not of God or, you know, not yeah, not of God, as God has made 182 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,400 clear what he wants and what he expects from us. 183 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:43,800 And if we don't do that, whether it's like he says that's a lie, whether it is a dramatic 184 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:53,640 big lie or it's, you know, like saying my hair is super thick and lush, like it's long, 185 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,320 it's, you know, luscious, luscious logs. 186 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,200 And, you know, that's a lie. 187 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,880 Like, it's not a big lie to say, no, I have my father's hair. 188 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:04,880 It's fine. 189 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:05,880 It's cool. 190 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,360 I look forward to going bald. 191 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Art. 192 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:11,840 More bald. 193 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,800 I'm not really that bald, but you know. 194 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:22,240 That puts it in perspective that we as humans think of levels when God himself thinks of 195 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,040 is it or is it not? 196 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Yeah. 197 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:26,040 That's it. 198 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:27,040 That's it. 199 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:33,720 Actually, first John three, four through five through three, first John chapter three, verse 200 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,760 four and five, everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. 201 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,380 Sin is lawlessness. 202 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:47,260 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins and in him there is no sins. 203 00:11:47,260 --> 00:11:51,720 So no one who abides in him keeps on sinning and no one who keeps on sinning has either 204 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,960 seen him or knowing him. 205 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:03,480 And if you look into this from a perspective, when it's talking about like keeps on sinning, 206 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:08,280 it's talking about living a sinful life, right? 207 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,360 And that's true is that we fight the flesh now. 208 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,360 I'm not perfect. 209 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,840 No one's perfect. 210 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,540 But my lifestyle does not revolve around sin anymore. 211 00:12:17,540 --> 00:12:22,520 My lifestyle is not sinful in the sense that I do not live to sin. 212 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:30,800 My point and my purpose of my life is to live for Christ, to live in the word and to read 213 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:39,360 and to let the Holy Spirit guide me and interact with people with like we talked about before. 214 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,080 So not living in sin. 215 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:46,340 That's the whole point is that if we abide in him, we don't keep living in sin. 216 00:12:46,340 --> 00:12:48,320 We are now renewed, right? 217 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,600 Yeah, 100%. 218 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:58,960 Because accepting Jesus is basically saying it's denying your flesh, denying your sin, 219 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:06,640 full nature and saying, no, I'm choosing God, I'm choosing Christ. 220 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,040 And then not saying there's still not going to be the temptation, so there's still not 221 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:18,200 going to be the, oh, like, you know, it's like basically, you know, there's a pie sitting 222 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,160 there, like the classic cartoon, like there's a pie sitting there, you're like, that pie 223 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:24,160 looks really good. 224 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,160 But you know you shouldn't be eating it. 225 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,840 Why shouldn't I, Dylan? 226 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,200 Because it's temptation right there, the pie. 227 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:39,960 You know, it's like, this is a nice French apple pie. 228 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,040 You know, you got vanilla ice cream in the freezer. 229 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,480 Like it just sounds good. 230 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:47,480 Like, why not? 231 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,520 Just one slice of pie ain't gonna hurt, right? 232 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,400 You say that, you end up eating the whole pie and then, you know, you're 20 pounds 233 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,080 heavier going like, what happened? 234 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,440 That brings up 1 Corinthians 10 13, actually. 235 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,480 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. 236 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:12,520 God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability. 237 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,600 But with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape that you may be able to 238 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,560 endure it. 239 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:22,280 How's them for apples? 240 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,840 Well, it's not apple pie, but yeah. 241 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:27,840 Right. 242 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,840 It's true. 243 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:36,600 The temptation and like that and he does, he gives you the strength. 244 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:43,320 It was like Philippians 4 13, I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. 245 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:48,600 I need to remember that sometimes because there's times where there's apple pie and 246 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,080 I'm like hmm. 247 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:55,000 That looks really good. 248 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,040 It's interesting to me that if you go into what I just read, the first Corinthians 10 249 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:06,400 13, if you take the no temptation has overtaken, if you read the original Greek translation 250 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,200 of that, it's actually more, there's more context there. 251 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:16,240 It's no temptation, regardless of its source has overtaken or enticed you that is not common 252 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,280 to human experiences. 253 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,840 I think that's a really cool way to say it because some people are like, well, we have 254 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,480 technology nowadays and things so readily available for a guy. 255 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:32,560 It's hard to stay away from certain temptations or for a female, it's harder to stay from 256 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:40,640 certain temptations or it's like using technology and advancement in human science and stuff 257 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:46,360 like that as a crutch to why you can keep on living a sinful life when in reality you're 258 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,640 just finding excuses for yourself to keep on living in that way. 259 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,040 Yeah, exactly. 260 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,320 I think what is it? 261 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:01,720 I think of what I've always been told to like, you know, by coaches and stuff like my dad, 262 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:09,320 it's like, well, excuses are like buttholes, you know, everybody's got one. 263 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:10,320 That's the way to put it. 264 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,160 I mean, I was never told it wasn't exactly said buttholes. 265 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,200 I was used, you know, something else. 266 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,800 So just keep it PG. 267 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,800 Oh, they were used. 268 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,160 Everybody's got an excuse for something. 269 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,160 Everybody has one. 270 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:30,400 You know, whether it's like, oh, well, you know, I just drink a little, you know, because, 271 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,720 you know, I get tired off of work, I was relaxed. 272 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,000 Like, oh, you know, I don't get drunk that often. 273 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 It's okay. 274 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,680 You know, I only do this a little bit. 275 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:47,480 It's like, right, it goes back to the whole thing. 276 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,520 A little bit, right. 277 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:57,280 It's still, you know, I don't know why it's the goes to basketball or like a sport for 278 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:58,280 him. 279 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,880 Like, you know, if you score one point, two points or three points in basketball, it's 280 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,120 still it's still points on the board. 281 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:09,000 Like, still counts. 282 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,720 Like, you can't just pick and choose like, well, it's not really because, you know, it's 283 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:14,720 just not big enough. 284 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,800 Like, you know, nothing's too big or too small for the Lord. 285 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Right. 286 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:25,600 I mean, I mean, that it sounds like they able to heal people and they do miracles. 287 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,640 And also he keeps that standard thing across the board. 288 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:40,840 And yeah, I think it's important to that we classified sin and what it is. 289 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:48,000 And I think it's important to know where sin comes from because it comes from somewhere. 290 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,360 Where could that be? 291 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:50,360 Right. 292 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,080 We know that God is good. 293 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,320 Everything good comes from God. 294 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,880 And that is right. 295 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:57,840 That's biblical truth all the time. 296 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,240 And when it comes down to all the time, we know that. 297 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,240 Right. 298 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:10,360 So when I've had people come up to me and say, you know, and say, hey, if God is good, 299 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,640 why does sin exist or why do bad things happen? 300 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,280 And I know this one. 301 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:17,800 Oh, yeah. 302 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,800 Go for it. 303 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,320 Well, it's because we live in a fallen world. 304 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:30,080 People need to know, I hear that a lot too, like, well, why do people get sick? 305 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,760 Why do people get cancer? 306 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,960 Why is there all this bad stuff and disease in the world? 307 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:40,080 It's like, well, there wasn't. 308 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,360 The initial plan wasn't for there to be any of that. 309 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:44,360 Right. 310 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,560 Adam and Eve had it made. 311 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,880 And they're like, you know what? 312 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,240 We have choice. 313 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,240 The whole thing. 314 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:55,240 We have choice. 315 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:03,240 And free will is what makes us well, you know, it's us. 316 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:08,160 And that also is the reason that we are in the situation we are in. 317 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:14,360 First John chapter one, eight through 10 says, if we say we have no sin, refusing to admit 318 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:19,020 that we are sinners, we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us. 319 00:19:19,020 --> 00:19:21,140 His word does not live in our hearts. 320 00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:26,760 If we freely admit that we have sinned and confessed our sins, he is faithful and just, 321 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:31,660 true to his own nature and promises and will forgive our sin and cleanse us continually 322 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:36,380 from unrighteousness, wrongdoing, everything not as conformity with his will and purpose. 323 00:19:36,380 --> 00:19:41,920 If we say that we have not sinned, refusing to admit access and we make him out to be 324 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,160 a liar by contradicting him and his word is not in us. 325 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,640 And that's really important because we can look at it and say, you know, where does this 326 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:54,680 come from? 327 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,680 And we can see that it comes from our from us. 328 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,000 Like we say that's in our hearts. 329 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,400 We're sinful beings, right? 330 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:11,480 And it's always comes down to interesting where I think the Bible actually talks about 331 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,920 where sin comes from, which is, oh, I got it here. 332 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,920 I found it. 333 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,440 It's in Acts seven, 20 to 23. 334 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,400 And he said, whatever comes from the heart of a man, that is what defiles and dishonors 335 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:30,240 him for from within that is out of the hearts of men come base and malevolent. 336 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,840 How do you say that word? 337 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:41,200 Thoughts and schemes, acts of sexual immorality, deaths, murder, adulteries, acts of greed, 338 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:47,120 covetousness, wickedness, deceit, unrestrained conduct, envy, jealousy, slander, profanity, 339 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,480 arrogance and self-righteousness and foolishness, poor judgment. 340 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,560 All these evil things, schemes and desires come from within and defile and dishonor the 341 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,560 man. 342 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,560 Right. 343 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:03,560 It's because God is good and he gives us the free will to choose him or the opposite. 344 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:09,480 And we already clarified that sin itself is the opposite of God's will. 345 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,480 That's it. 346 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:15,680 It's the opposite of what God's will and purpose in our lives. 347 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,880 And what is his will and purpose in our lives, Jason? 348 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:20,880 Even better. 349 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,400 Do you have verses for this one? 350 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,960 No, I don't have any of those verses. 351 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,760 I have John and Matthew, Mark. 352 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,360 I have all these other verses up right now, but I cannot find the notes. 353 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:40,080 So I have all my Bible study things open right now and I can't find, I got like 20 tabs open 354 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,160 and I'm trying to search through it. 355 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,480 That's fine. 356 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,880 So Bible say about God's purposes. 357 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,720 So we know first off Romans 8 28 says that we know that for those who love God, all things 358 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,920 work together for good and for those who are called according to his purpose. 359 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,480 Right. 360 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:07,460 And when it comes down to it, verse after verse after verse, it says that it's his purpose. 361 00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:09,000 We pray for his will to be done. 362 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,860 We pray for his guidance. 363 00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:12,280 We pray for his thing. 364 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:19,900 And I think the reason why it's not, it usually isn't very specific on what that looks like 365 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:26,120 outside of, okay, I'll say outside of this outside of loving others outside of living 366 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:31,480 in the word, reading the word, praying to him, getting involved with him, sharing the 367 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,560 gospel that kind of stuff is our purpose. 368 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:41,320 But that's God's purpose for us is to bring more people to his love and his understanding 369 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,600 and what he's here for. 370 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,360 Right. 371 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:50,720 And I think that's why it's always saying like, this is our role in things and this 372 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,040 is what God wants us to do. 373 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,840 And that's God's purpose. 374 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,520 And that can look a little bit different per person. 375 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,560 Like for you, it's being in ministry for the youth. 376 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:01,560 Fantastic. 377 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,560 Right. 378 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:03,560 My purpose might be different. 379 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,000 I might be making this podcast and making sure it's up and running. 380 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,720 It might be pastoring someday. 381 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,720 We don't know. 382 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:14,880 That's the whole point is that the Bible transcends time because God's outside time. 383 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,400 So his purpose is very purposeful. 384 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:19,400 Wow. 385 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,400 That's a PK. 386 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,400 Wow. 387 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,520 No, but you're right. 388 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:27,520 You're right. 389 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:28,520 Right. 390 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:29,520 Oh man. 391 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:35,760 I just think that was really good. 392 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,000 Yeah. 393 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:45,600 There's a lot to this and I think it's really important to understand that you can't just 394 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,120 take things at face value. 395 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:51,560 If someone's telling you this is what it is and then you're just like, oh yeah, I'll take 396 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:52,600 that as a word. 397 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,680 I don't want you to take my word for it. 398 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,260 I don't want you to take Dylan's word for it. 399 00:23:57,260 --> 00:24:00,480 Like people need to look this up. 400 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280 Oh, read. 401 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:10,640 Like I said, I think I said it, I don't know, maybe the first or second podcast, but I tell 402 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:17,080 my students too, I'm like, okay, if you hear somebody like quote a Bible verse or they 403 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,720 say something, check it up, pull it up. 404 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:21,720 We have the resource. 405 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:29,160 Just because they're in a place of authority or leadership doesn't mean they can't be called 406 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,160 out. 407 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:36,800 Not like necessarily called out, but like in a respectful way, be like, hey, let me 408 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:44,080 like as accountability, make sure they're being honest and maybe they were wrong. 409 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,680 I always try to catch Jason. 410 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,800 It's more of a game for me. 411 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,000 I'm like, oh, what did you say, Romans? 412 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I'm like, oh, he was right in there. 413 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,800 I'm like, I ain't going to call him out. 414 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,760 That's good because I think it was an act 17 where the Barians, the Barians, I think 415 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,760 that's how you pronounce it. 416 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:10,760 They were more noble than those in Thessalonica, which because when Peter, I think it was Peter 417 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,800 that went to preach to him and they corrected him. 418 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,120 Right. 419 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,920 And I think it was Peter, was it Peter? 420 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:19,920 It actually might have been John. 421 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,920 Now I got to look it up. 422 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:21,920 I was trying to look it up. 423 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,800 I was trying to look it up real quick so I could see. 424 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:34,720 But I noticed act 17 where the Barians corrected who was with them preaching to him and said, 425 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,920 well, no, actually the Bible says this, like scripture says this. 426 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,120 And he was like, wow, you corrected me. 427 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,120 Thank you. 428 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:48,040 And he valued that because when you're giving correction, it's fantastic because I want 429 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,040 to grow. 430 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,040 I want to learn. 431 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,560 I want to know more. 432 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,320 I want to be strengthened based on what I'm saying. 433 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,440 That's really, I think that's a really crucial thing about being a Christian in general is 434 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:07,440 that learning more and acquiring more knowledge and things like this so you can discuss it 435 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,920 better for people who have questions. 436 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,720 Otherwise, if someone comes up to you and starts asking you questions, you're like, 437 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,200 ah, it's in there somewhere. 438 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,960 Yeah, it's true. 439 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:22,600 It's part of being a Christian and having your faith is always to be growing and to 440 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:28,520 be learning because as soon as you put, you can't put God in a box. 441 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,040 You can't put your faith in a box. 442 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,320 If you put it in a box, it's not going to grow. 443 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,800 People stay as small as you allow yourself to be, like you should constantly be trying 444 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,240 to push yourself and grow. 445 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,240 That's intimidating. 446 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,240 It is. 447 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,920 I'm in leadership and it's like, ah, how am I growing? 448 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:49,920 Can I be doing this more? 449 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,440 Or can I be doing more to help? 450 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,960 I find the most biggest time I probably push myself and I should do it more. 451 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:06,320 When I go to Mexico, it's like, oh, dang, okay, I don't understand everybody. 452 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,320 I don't know what I'm doing. 453 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:18,400 But I know that I'm like, oh, when you knew this pizza oven, I can lift heavy things. 454 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Okay, I can go be a blessing that way and just waking up and not necessarily knowing 455 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,480 how you're going to serve the Lord, but that's all you wake up. 456 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,080 That's all you're going to do. 457 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:35,560 It puts it in a perspective that's a little bit different. 458 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,560 It's like, whoa. 459 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:37,560 Okay. 460 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:38,560 Yeah. 461 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:46,760 I mean, it's it's first Peter 3, 15, 3, 15 that says, but in your heart, set Christ apart 462 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:52,440 as Lord, always be ready to give a logical defense to anyone who asked you to account 463 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,280 for the hope and confident assurance elicited by faith that is within you. 464 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:02,240 Yet do it with gentleness and respect. 465 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,240 That's what you reminded me there of. 466 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:05,240 Oh, dang. 467 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,240 That's pretty good. 468 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:14,000 Yeah, it's a good important verse because I see it a lot of times where I even I have 469 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,920 brothers and sisters in Christ who are like, they this is wrong. 470 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,040 They need to stop this. 471 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,480 And I told them off because of it, and I'm like, you did what? 472 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:26,480 What are you doing? 473 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,280 Like it needs to be respectful, calm, like gentleness is one of the traits of the Holy 474 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,280 Spirit. 475 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,040 And if you're not reflecting that, then I have some questions for you because we talked 476 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:42,720 about this last week where salvation is part of that is that you get the Holy Spirit within 477 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,800 you and part of that is gentleness. 478 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,320 And if you can't discuss with someone in a gentle manner, then I might ask you, are you 479 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,360 are you sure you're connected with Christ and who he is and what his real purpose is 480 00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:03,200 in your life and make sure that you're staying connected, you know? 481 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,160 Dylan, I think your mic is me. 482 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,160 Yes, it was. 483 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,560 I, you know, it is you got to make sure I click it. 484 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,840 So I unmute myself. 485 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,760 I was sitting there going like, yeah. 486 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,120 And I was like, I don't even remember what I was saying anymore. 487 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,640 But you know, it's too dang hot. 488 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,040 Yeah, it's so hard. 489 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:31,400 This is where the Lord can test your patience and a lot of other things. 490 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,800 It's when it's hot. 491 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:40,080 Yeah, I think if anybody knows me that they know that my favorite book is James. 492 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,080 And I said that before. 493 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,320 I think you said it every podcast to this point. 494 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,280 Every podcast, every single one. 495 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,800 So one thing I want to, if you haven't read it, read James four. 496 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:59,400 And the reason why I say James four is because it talks about that our flesh is what we fight 497 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,960 against, right? 498 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:07,480 That we want to submit ourselves to God and resist the devil and he'll flee from you and 499 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,840 resist resist temptation, those things that do tempt us. 500 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:20,560 And it's it's funny because I think it's very important to understand that it's not like 501 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,960 some mystical force out there with more power than you can ever imagine. 502 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,280 That's like playing you like a puppet. 503 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,600 It's literally just your flesh. 504 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,800 Your flesh desires that of the world. 505 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:37,000 And that is what we're at war against every single day is that our flesh does crave those 506 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,720 things. 507 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,000 I had one person come up to me and we were talking about this a couple of years ago where 508 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,960 they felt wrong and felt like they were in the wrong because they craved those things 509 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,120 like they were they were craving alcohol because they used to be an alcoholic and they were 510 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:58,640 craving drugs because they were clean for five years and they were craving it. 511 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,360 And they felt like they were sinning because they were craving it. 512 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,760 I was like, that's temptation. 513 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,280 Temptation in itself is not a sin. 514 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,760 Jesus was tempted in the desert from from the devil. 515 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,120 But when it came down to it, it's the choices you make at the end of the day and to rely 516 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,800 on God and drawing near to God so that he can keep us clean and purify us. 517 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,240 That's what you need to be doing. 518 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,240 That's the goal. 519 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,460 Yeah, not necessarily the temptation to do it because your flesh is going to crave it 520 00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:28,320 one day. 521 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,600 And the next day and the next day and the next day, you know, it's not going to stop. 522 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:38,120 And that's like I had a pretty pretty awesome youth leader. 523 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,760 I'm not a youth leader. 524 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,840 I think it was actually it was college ministry at the time. 525 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,960 He said he was talking for the men. 526 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:53,080 He's like, hey, you know, temptation of like lust and all that stuff. 527 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,600 He's like, hey, that's something you guys need to get a hold on. 528 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,240 Like and try like get accountability. 529 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,920 You know, this is like it does not change when you get older just because you get married. 530 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,480 Temptations, your temptations, no matter what you go through, what they are, will always 531 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,480 be there. 532 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,600 It's like unless you're grounded in the word and have accountability and a team. 533 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,600 True. 534 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,600 You will fail. 535 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:23,240 And it's like, dang, it's like it's because we live in a world that is so fallen and you 536 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,080 need Jesus to get through it. 537 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,080 Right. 538 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:34,320 So in Romans 12, one to two, it says, I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies 539 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,640 of God to present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your 540 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,040 spiritual worship. 541 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,840 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that 542 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,440 by testing you may discern what is the will of God and what is good and acceptable and 543 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,560 perfect. 544 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:59,000 That's the basic English translation to understand what is being talked there. 545 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,320 And I think it's important because by the renewing of your mind, if you again, going 546 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:11,960 back to original Greek, Greek words have more like read between the lines kind of thing. 547 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,000 What's the what's the terminology there that I'm trying to think of here? 548 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,320 I can't do what I'm trying to say in context. 549 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,880 Yeah, it has no context. 550 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,960 There's no context before. 551 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:22,960 Yeah. 552 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,040 Yeah, more context. 553 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:29,760 So when you look at renewing of your mind in context, if you look at scripture from 554 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:36,360 a Greek standpoint, your renewing of the mind is focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes 555 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:43,240 so that you may prove for yourself what the will of God is and that which is good and 556 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,360 acceptable and perfect in his plan and purpose for you. 557 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:53,960 And I think that's important because it's your renewed, which means that your focus 558 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:59,480 change like I said before, and you said before, it's the idea that we're not living that 559 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,220 sinful life anymore. 560 00:34:02,220 --> 00:34:03,220 We do sin. 561 00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:04,220 Yes. 562 00:34:04,220 --> 00:34:08,640 But our focus and our goal and we strive for Christ and getting closer to him, drawing 563 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:14,480 near to him and reading up on him and getting close to him. 564 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:21,120 A lot of people who do struggle with sin usually do it. 565 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,920 Now this is just what I've noticed. 566 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:29,800 When people do struggle with sin more, it's you can see that it correlates closely to 567 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,840 them studying and getting close to God more or not. 568 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:40,320 If I'm reading the Bible five times a week and praying all day every day or in general, 569 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,920 I'm like connecting to God. 570 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,080 Exactly. 571 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,080 I'm floating on air. 572 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,760 I'm so involved in the Holy Spirit. 573 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,360 I feel great because I feel that peace at presence of God with me. 574 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,360 Continue. 575 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,360 Go on. 576 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:56,360 Say what you're saying. 577 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:57,360 I'm babbling now. 578 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,360 I know. 579 00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,360 I had to unmute myself. 580 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:07,000 But no, like the more you're walking with the Lord, the harder you're like, I think 581 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,160 I said last time, but the more you're walking with him, the more there's going to be the 582 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:18,880 enemy attacking you because you are doing the work for the Lord and for the kingdom. 583 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,640 Because you're doing that, there's going to be more struggle. 584 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,200 There's going to be attacks on you. 585 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:33,240 That's why you have to dig into the word more, be more equipped, being more ready to go. 586 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:38,240 I remember I felt I had a grip on it and then getting the leadership into ministry. 587 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:39,240 I'm like, whoa. 588 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:45,800 I'm like, get hit with depression, get hit with this temptation like crazy. 589 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,440 I was going like, what the heck? 590 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,960 What is this? 591 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,880 I thought I was in leadership now. 592 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,880 It's going to be easier. 593 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,720 I don't have everybody talking about it. 594 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:02,440 I think it's a big thing too is that a lot of the temptation, I just broke a pen. 595 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:03,440 Oh well. 596 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,440 I heard that. 597 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:15,720 If my sister's listening to the podcast, please don't let mom know that I broke her pen. 598 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:23,000 What the thing is though is that there's a whole, think of not wanting to talk about 599 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,800 when you're struggling. 600 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,600 There's a lot of that, the enemy wanting us to feel like you're alone. 601 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,240 I think that happens so much. 602 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:40,400 You're told like, oh, 60% of pastors deal with pornography. 603 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:41,400 It's high. 604 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,120 Which is like 60, that's 60, that's a lot. 605 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,440 It's even worse when you think of that 60% that's been confessed about it. 606 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,240 I think that was like, I like to say they're all being honest. 607 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,240 It was an honest group, polling. 608 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:03,240 Almost 100% of them are all liars. 609 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:04,240 You know what I mean? 610 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:09,600 The thing is there's so many things like, oh no, we'll talk about what sins are, but 611 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,280 do you want to talk about how you are sinning? 612 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,960 It's like, oh no, because of your judgment and everything. 613 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,600 I feel like you and me though, we have that relationship. 614 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:25,000 We're like, hey man, I am struggling in this right now. 615 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:32,000 I've sat down on the stairs and bawled my eyes out and talked to you about things where 616 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,920 your wife is there and I'm sitting there crying. 617 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,520 We're like, oh, I feel like this. 618 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,920 The enemy allowed the enemies to tear me down to the point where I was like, yep. 619 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,480 You're like, why didn't you tell me? 620 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,960 I'm like, I don't know. 621 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,800 The enemy wants to make you feel alone. 622 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:59,160 If someone is listening to this and they feel like you're alone, you feel like, oh no, I 623 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,440 don't want to share that with anybody. 624 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,440 They don't understand. 625 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:08,680 There's not a single person that has not gone through what you've gone through most likely. 626 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,840 There's nothing new on this earth. 627 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:17,160 Whether it's depression, suicide, alcoholism, sex addiction, anything like that, there's 628 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,880 somebody who's probably gone through it. 629 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,280 There's somebody who's been through it, got through it, who would love to help you, talk 630 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:29,160 to you, reach out to those who you love, who care about you. 631 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,280 Reach out to us if you want. 632 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,800 We may have not gone through it, but we can at least try to understand where you're coming 633 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,800 through. 634 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,000 Thrum, what's the other word? 635 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000 Thrum. 636 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:50,480 But no, we can try to help you and be there for you. 637 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,480 We're not priests. 638 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:56,360 We're not asking you to confess to us, but if you need those people or need somebody 639 00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,640 to be there for you, we can be there for you. 640 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,760 Is it? 641 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,760 Yeah. 642 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,920 That's all I have to say on that. 643 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,760 I think it's because we, I think most people don't understand the power of confession. 644 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,760 Oh, a hundred percent. 645 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,160 I think that's something that's going on a lot right now is that people don't understand 646 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:28,200 the power of confession and confession doesn't have to be to leaders, right? 647 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,320 It's not exclusively to Bible leader shepherds. 648 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,320 Oh no, not at all. 649 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,240 I said, like, you know, you're just one of my best friends. 650 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,960 I'm like, talk to a friend. 651 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,120 It's like talking to a friend venting about your day at work, like, oh man, today at work, 652 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,800 don't believe this. 653 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,680 And this person on the freeway, they cut me off. 654 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,560 Like you just talk about like that stuff with your friends and you can, you know, just if 655 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,520 you have that openness that really, cause as soon as you admit to and you're like, Hey 656 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,680 man, like I've been struggling with lying lately. 657 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,160 He takes away the power that that sin has. 658 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,720 You're like, Oh, Oh, all of a sudden the depression is kind of fleeting. 659 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:09,080 I don't feel bad about that. 660 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,080 I don't know. 661 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,200 I'm not a bad person. 662 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,440 Everybody deals with this. 663 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,440 Right. 664 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,760 And that's where you get like James five 16 where it says, therefore confessor sins to 665 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:28,160 one another, your false steps, your offenses and pray for one another that you may be healed 666 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,680 and restored. 667 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:35,040 The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man and a believer can accomplish much when 668 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,200 put into action and made effective by God. 669 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:43,240 It is a dynamic and can have tremendous power that right there in itself talks about confessing 670 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:44,240 to others. 671 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:48,240 And it doesn't say confess to preacher, pastor, leader, whatever. 672 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:51,520 It doesn't say that it says to each other as a community. 673 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:57,960 And we can see this again when in first John one seven, it says, but if we really walk 674 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,800 in the light, that is live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God 675 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:08,120 as he himself is in the light, we have true and broken fellowship with one another. 676 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:13,440 He with us and we with him and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin by 677 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:19,040 erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin and all its form and manifestations. 678 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:24,680 So it's that fellowship with God and it's talking with others about it and we're renewed 679 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,240 from because of Christ and what he did for us. 680 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:30,600 Right. 681 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:35,480 I think it's in Galatians six to where it says carry one another's burdens and in this 682 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,480 way, you fulfill the requirement. 683 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:38,480 Yeah. 684 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,800 And in this way, you fulfill the requirement of the law of Christ that is the law of Christian 685 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:43,800 love. 686 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,560 Pretty sure that's what that one is. 687 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,480 Are you looking at one up? 688 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,240 Trying to find my Bible tab. 689 00:41:52,240 --> 00:42:01,120 Bible, Bible, Bible. 690 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,600 While you're finding Bible tab, it's also first John one nine. 691 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:10,600 If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, he is faithful and just 692 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:16,380 true to his own nature and promises and will forgive our sins, cleanses continually form 693 00:42:16,380 --> 00:42:21,080 all unrighteousness, which I did read earlier because it's really important to know that 694 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,040 that confession is really big part of it. 695 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:29,840 And that's something that I think a lot of Christians deal with because even especially 696 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:34,680 not just especially in leadership, but a lot of leadership has that issue with Dylan was 697 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,640 mentioning there were 60 percent of them deal with pornography addiction or something like 698 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,640 that. 699 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,960 And the issue there is because their leaders, they feel like they can't admit those things 700 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:50,240 because they'd be looked down upon or removed as leaders or invalidated. 701 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:54,320 And in reality, that's that right there is leading by example. 702 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,800 And we need to lead by example as leaders lead to need to lead by example. 703 00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,800 Yeah. 704 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,200 And under that example is made clear. 705 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,200 It's true. 706 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,600 Like is there is such a shame to when you are in a leadership, you're like it's like, 707 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,520 oh, I don't want to be seen as weak. 708 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,200 Ignorance is weak. 709 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:17,920 But like, oh, I think there is a stigmatism that comes with leadership that you feel like 710 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:23,800 you're put on a pedestal like, oh, I can't I people can't know that I struggle with this. 711 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:29,240 You can't know that I'm, you know, dealing with this. 712 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:31,960 But people need to also know, hey, we are human. 713 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:39,400 I found the churches that I've been around or been with. 714 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:45,080 I probably enjoy the most the pastors that are like up front and they're like, hey, I've 715 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,080 dealt with this. 716 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,680 I've been through this like I just I'm not going to say any names or anything. 717 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:55,400 But I was this one pastor years ago. 718 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,400 I had an affair. 719 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:03,400 No, she's on his wife and they got through it. 720 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,640 They got through all that and everything. 721 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:06,640 It's horrible. 722 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,560 It's like it's he's open about that. 723 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:13,120 And he talks about like how that, you know, the redemption, how they came out of that 724 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,080 and through that. 725 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:21,960 And like, and I'm like, dang, I'm like, oh, I'm like, you know, like it goes back to sin. 726 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:27,240 Like us as humans is like, that is a really bad sin. 727 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:33,960 Like, whoa, like, how could you like that's how dare you like and God's eyes is the same 728 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:40,840 as, you know, you know, things that I've done where I've lied or I've been dishonest or 729 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:48,040 I, you know, or cheated on a English test in eighth grade. 730 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:53,760 No, I'm like, that's just it's the same thing. 731 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,520 And it's like, and I've had pastors who talk about, you know, the depression after their 732 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,360 wife has passed stuff like that. 733 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,080 And it's like, you know, it's real. 734 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:09,760 And being open with that in the congregation, too, I think opens up like, you know, more 735 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,440 room for others to share. 736 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:19,920 And for them, I just I think it builds up tearing yourself down, builds yourself up 737 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,840 and build other people up in the community and their walk with Christ. 738 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:30,020 I think we definitely need to do a podcast episode that's about leadership in general, 739 00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:34,680 because there's a lot about leadership that's like exactly what you're saying. 740 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:39,420 If the leader is pretending to be perfect and hides his sin, we're not. 741 00:45:39,420 --> 00:45:43,400 The congregation is going to do that, too. 742 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:49,480 We are just messed up people like the rest of you who have been called to do this. 743 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:50,480 That's it. 744 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:56,920 It's like, you know, the verse that talks about casting the first song. 745 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,480 It's like, you know, we were no better. 746 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:06,080 Like, we are just called to teach and to lead by example. 747 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:10,520 There is a higher, right, higher level of judgment put on us. 748 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,680 But there's nowhere that we are. 749 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,600 You know, we're not holy or we're not more. 750 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,440 You know, we don't deserve to be praised or anything because we are just a vessel for 751 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,320 the Lord. 752 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:27,920 And this by leading by example, which is why there's such a high pressure on that position 753 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,640 is because the lead by example. 754 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:37,920 But like, again, we'll get to leadership stuff on another podcast. 755 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,000 Like you mentioned earlier, finding someone to confess to like you and me, we talk to 756 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,720 each other and we will be open with each other. 757 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:52,000 And I think a good verse to end off with is Luke 17, three to four. 758 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,800 Pay attention and always be on guard looking out for one another. 759 00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:01,240 If your brother sins and disregards God's precepts, solemnly warn him and if he repents 760 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:03,280 and changes, forgive him. 761 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,720 Even if he sends against you seven times a day and returns to you seven times and says, 762 00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:09,720 I repent, you must forgive him. 763 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:14,800 That is give up resentment and consider this offense recalled and annulled. 764 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,080 And this is brothers and sisters in Christ. 765 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,260 And for you to me, we can talk to each other. 766 00:47:20,260 --> 00:47:27,600 If I have another friend that I like a newer friend, for example, who says, oh, I'm I follow 767 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:28,600 Christ. 768 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,600 I love God. 769 00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,560 I love the Bible and I see them doing something that's that's not of God. 770 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:37,200 I'll pull them aside and be like, hey, dude, like this isn't of God. 771 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,200 Like what are you doing? 772 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:39,840 Or that's not really of God. 773 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,200 But in the sense of like, I'm I'm trying to help you. 774 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,520 I'm looking out for you. 775 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:45,520 That's all. 776 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:52,320 And that's where a lot of people use that to try to attack or to go after people who 777 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:53,320 aren't Christian. 778 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,960 And that's not what we're supposed to do. 779 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:59,160 We're supposed to love people, show them who God is. 780 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:05,120 And this just comes with it once, you know, once you're all accepted and into accepted 781 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:06,400 Christ as your Lord and savior. 782 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:10,280 And part of that, you work together for the greater good and the greater good of what 783 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:17,480 God's desire is upon us, upon our life and upon others. 784 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:18,480 And that's just important. 785 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,280 I just wanted to say that because again, it comes down to like, I repent. 786 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,400 I turn away from that and we'll do it again. 787 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,400 Whatever. 788 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:26,760 I think I want to get away from that. 789 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:27,760 I want to get away from that. 790 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,720 I want to get away from that. 791 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,680 And that's just kind of that's kind of it. 792 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:36,080 You know, make sure that you talk to each other, make sure that if you're dealing with 793 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,080 something, you're not alone. 794 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:43,680 There are people, including us, like you can tweet at us and DMS on our Twitter page or 795 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,480 go into our discord and there's places for people to talk. 796 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:54,800 And it's just important to know that we are here because God is there for us. 797 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,960 So we are there for others. 798 00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,680 And that's important. 799 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,720 As Christians, we are supposed to be there and you're not alone. 800 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:07,920 And like Dylan, like you said, that sin will always push to say you're alone and we're 801 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,680 not. 802 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:15,040 And sin happens and we need to make sure that we're not living in sin, but our focus is 803 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:27,200 on him and striving to be closer to him by reading, confessing and by worshiping him. 804 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:28,200 Worshiping. 805 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:29,200 Yeah, just all worship. 806 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,200 Yeah. 807 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:35,720 And if you're doing to reach out to, you know, just like you said, this quarter, the Gospel 808 00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:43,240 Truth Project, DM us on our Twitter, the podcast, it's at the podcast, GTP. 809 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:47,400 Yeah, we'd love to hear from you guys. 810 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,280 We're here. 811 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:50,280 We're here. 812 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,040 We are always on our phones. 813 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,920 So you hit us up. 814 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:54,920 A little too much. 815 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,200 I know I get told often that it's like, why are you on your phone? 816 00:49:58,200 --> 00:49:59,760 I'm like, just checking. 817 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:00,760 I'm like, checking. 818 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:01,760 Checking what? 819 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:02,760 It's like, I don't know. 820 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:03,760 It's like I had to. 821 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,760 It's been five seconds. 822 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:07,760 Yep. 823 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,840 So, yeah, we're going to end the podcast here. 824 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,120 Tune in next Wednesday as well for our next episode. 825 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,240 And again, we do already have a topic for next week and we're excited to talk about 826 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:20,240 it. 827 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:21,880 And we will let people know on the Twitter. 828 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,760 If you follow us there, we'll let you know early what the topic is going to be about. 829 00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,040 So you can decide to tune in or not. 830 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,040 Please do. 831 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,320 Jason, you want to pray us out though? 832 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:33,320 Sure. 833 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,360 Yeah, I'll pray us out. 834 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:40,160 God, I thank you for the time that we get to spend here together as we discuss your 835 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,960 word and discuss who you are. 836 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:47,640 I pray that the truth of your word is revealed to those who are listening, that you bring 837 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,280 that truth to them and use us for this. 838 00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:56,500 And I just pray for those who are struggling with sin, who are feeling alone or feeling 839 00:50:56,500 --> 00:51:00,160 depressed or feeling teared down, beaten down and to the bottom. 840 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:05,120 I just pray that you give them that person that they can talk to, that you open them 841 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:06,120 up. 842 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:12,560 That this message helps them just receive your Holy Spirit, God, to just feel that peace, 843 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:17,720 feel that joy, feel that love from you and be able to just break the chains of sin itself 844 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:23,440 through you, God, through the power of the confession that you have anointed through 845 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,440 the word of God. 846 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:30,140 And I just pray that all of us here who are listening, as well as me and Dylan, that we 847 00:51:30,140 --> 00:51:36,560 just continue to seek you, continue to look for truth and continue to speak truth to others 848 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,760 around us and be that influence that you called us to be. 849 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:41,760 Jesus name. 850 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:42,760 Amen. 851 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:43,760 Amen. 852 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:50,720 Everybody, I hope you have a good rest of your day and week and weekend and see you 853 00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:51,720 next Wednesday. 854 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:54,480 Thanks for listening, thanks for joining us. 855 00:51:54,480 --> 00:52:03,760 See you guys on the flippity flap. 856 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:25,040 Bye.