1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,500 Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton, the official podcast of Cross Christian Fellowship 2 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:13,720 Route 66 in the heart of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Burton is the lead pastor. 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:14,720 We're glad you're here. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,280 Well again, good morning. 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,640 This week, I'm going to start us off with a question. 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,960 Now I don't expect anybody to answer it. 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,440 I want you to keep it in the back of your mind. 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,360 And if you think you have an answer, write it down because it's something you'll be 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,040 able to refer to later on. 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,040 All right? 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:40,960 And question is, do you fully put your faith into God or do you treat it like a business 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:41,960 transaction? 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:47,280 Like I said, it's something to write down. 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,760 It's something to keep in the back of your mind because that's basically what we're 15 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:50,760 looking at today. 16 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:56,960 Do you fully have your faith in God or do you treat it like a business transaction? 17 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,560 All right? 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:05,240 Now in general, if you think about it, we put our trust in companies, right? 19 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:14,560 But we put that trust in companies based upon how they hold and respond to our values, right? 20 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,800 When companies do things that we don't like, we're very vocal about it. 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,040 Right? 22 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,440 We have boycotts and all sorts of stuff. 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:36,440 And wasn't that long ago that Budweiser and Target basically were canceled out for the 24 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,840 same reason? 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,760 People didn't like how they were going about a certain thing. 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,880 And they're still feeling that pain today. 27 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,520 Right? 28 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,080 Not that long ago even, what, Papa John's had a little backlash, right? 29 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,320 They had to push out their CEO and bring in somebody new. 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:04,560 The NFL to this day is still being talked about for people taking a knee, right? 31 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,840 How they go about their national anthem, all that kind of stuff. 32 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:16,280 You know, and that's just a few modern time hits that we've seen that people have responded 33 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,240 to. 34 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:26,480 Now while cancel culture itself has gone to new extremes, the heart of the concept isn't 35 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,400 new by far, not even close. 36 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:35,600 In fact, if you look back at the history of our country, it's based upon it. 37 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,920 People uprooting their families, leaving their native countries to come here to escape issues 38 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,840 that they had problems with, with the government and the way things were run there. 39 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,080 Matter of fact, even just here in the homeland, what happened in Boston? 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,280 The Boston Tea Party in 1773, right? 41 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,800 There's a huge boycott right there. 42 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,760 We filled up a harbor with tea. 43 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,120 A lot of other things, but the tea was the main thing, right? 44 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:12,400 So we have a long, long history of canceling things from protests to rallies to riots, all 45 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,720 that war. 46 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,640 We've experienced civil war ourselves, just like other countries have. 47 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:26,160 And one thing as a country we've learned is to let our tempers get the best of us, to 48 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,200 impact our faith. 49 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,600 But is that how we should act? 50 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,120 No. 51 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,180 So let's open our Bibles or your Bible apps to 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 52 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:45,920 So 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 11 through 13. 53 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,160 All right. 54 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,760 And Paul writes, we have spoken openly to you Corinthians. 55 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,360 Our heart has been opened wide. 56 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:02,840 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. 57 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:12,720 I speak as to my children as a proper response, open your heart to us. 58 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,200 As a people, we withhold our love when we shouldn't. 59 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,560 And it's not just a cultural thing. 60 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,040 This is worldwide, right? 61 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:27,080 But especially as Christians, we allow suspicions and conspiracies and rumors to impact the 62 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:32,360 way we think, to impact the way we treat people, the way we isolate either ourselves or others. 63 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Right? 64 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,000 Various other things influence us. 65 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,960 And we take that love and we stick it in our pocket and we keep it there. 66 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:49,140 What's worse is we allow our emotions and our hate, our anger and our jealousy to reign 67 00:04:49,140 --> 00:04:50,640 in our lives. 68 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,280 It's no different when it comes to Jesus. 69 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:57,440 We pray, we pray, we pray, we pray. 70 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,920 That we don't get, or at least we don't see the answer that we want. 71 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,320 Right? 72 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,320 So what happens? 73 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:12,120 We turn a blind eye and we turn a blind ear or deaf ear, I should say, to the answer that 74 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,820 has been given. 75 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:21,400 We beg and plead with God, please answer it, please do it, but do it this way. 76 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,400 This is the way I want it done. 77 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,360 No regard to his way or his better movements, that he knows better. 78 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:37,360 It all becomes about me, me, me and we become angry and filled with hate and discontent, 79 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:45,720 especially when he answers in the way that we need, not the way we want. 80 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,960 Sometimes our needs, oftentimes our needs are a lot different from our wants. 81 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:51,960 Right? 82 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:57,160 And I could say, I want a new motorcycle. 83 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,000 Do I need a new motorcycle? 84 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 No. 85 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,040 Should I be upset about it? 86 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,480 No, I should be grateful for what I have. 87 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,480 Right? 88 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,440 You know, it's much like how people were responding to Paul when he wrote this. 89 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,940 You know, we become mean-spirited, we allow our hearts to harden. 90 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:18,560 We put up walls, we burn bridges. 91 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:24,680 We turn love into a weapon. 92 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:25,680 Think about it. 93 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,880 We use love as a weapon. 94 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,720 Of all the things that are out there that people want to use, you know, sex and lust 95 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,820 and all this other stuff that we see out there today, money. 96 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:39,360 We also use love. 97 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,600 It's probably one of the most painful weapons that's out there. 98 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,800 You know, something, we only share it with those that we deem worthy. 99 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,960 Right? 100 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:57,640 You know, others look to use it as a tool to manipulate people into doing their will. 101 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:58,960 Right? 102 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:06,720 Or to punish others who refuse to be controlled by them. 103 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,640 See a lot of relationships like this. 104 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:16,280 You know, people, they take it and they look to change the hearts and minds of others to 105 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:23,320 get them to side with them instead of looking to see the other person's side and why they 106 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,320 won't. 107 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,800 We're not always going to agree on everything. 108 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,320 It's not a reason to push people to the side. 109 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,480 Not a reason to wall people off and throw them away just because somebody's politics 110 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,800 aren't the same as yours. 111 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:40,800 Right? 112 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,080 Someone's beliefs aren't the same as yours. 113 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,120 It's not on us to force our beliefs on other people. 114 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,160 We can explain them. 115 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,040 We can plant the seed. 116 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,920 But you know what? 117 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,420 There's a lot of things that go and influence people. 118 00:07:54,420 --> 00:08:00,560 We can't force feed them our beliefs or our faith. 119 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,560 They have to find theirs for themselves. 120 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,880 All we can do is give them the information. 121 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,640 What they do with it is on them. 122 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:13,320 Yet when it comes to Christ, we have people who want to pray under the guise of asking 123 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,280 for something. 124 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Asking for something. 125 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,280 But what's the reality? 126 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,120 They're demanding things from Him. 127 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,120 Demanding. 128 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:30,920 You know, it's not asking with a grateful heart or a loving heart or an open heart. 129 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,440 You know, hey, I might not get what I want or, you know, things might not go my way. 130 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,040 But we demand from Him. 131 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,280 We're not asking in the way that we should. 132 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,420 We're being greedy and we're being selfish. 133 00:08:43,420 --> 00:08:47,800 And when He doesn't give into the demands of a terrorist, and at that point we are a 134 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,400 domestic terrorist in the kingdom, we suddenly think of ourselves as the victim. 135 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,160 Oh, woe is me. 136 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:58,160 And our faith is hurt. 137 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:03,360 Our relationship is hurt. 138 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,080 Little Paul writes in that final verse to open our hearts. 139 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:15,280 You see, that's a thing in disappointment. 140 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,680 When things don't go our way. 141 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:22,360 When things don't happen the way we feel that they should or people let us down or don't 142 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,560 act in the way that we feel that they should. 143 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:30,280 You know, we need to keep our hearts and our minds open. 144 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,360 Not close them off. 145 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:36,360 There's an alarm there. 146 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,360 I don't know whose that is. 147 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,360 Okay. 148 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,360 There we go. 149 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,360 Okay. 150 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,720 Whatever that alarm is, it's gone now. 151 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:46,720 All right. 152 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,720 I don't think it was me. 153 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,440 Anyway, moving on. 154 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,560 Before I got distracted by that car alarm. 155 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,680 These walls are so thin here. 156 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:03,560 Anyway, you know, things don't go the way we feel they should. 157 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,120 People let us down. 158 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,680 We need to keep our hearts and our minds open. 159 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:13,040 These are the times that we need to lean into the Lord a little deeper to pray a little 160 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,040 bit more. 161 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:21,360 To actually close our mouths and listen to the answer that he's sending us. 162 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,560 Right? 163 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:25,560 Ask him. 164 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:26,560 Things are getting hard. 165 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:27,640 Things are getting tough. 166 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,360 What do I need to learn? 167 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:30,800 Is there something I need to learn here? 168 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,920 Or is there something I need to change in my life? 169 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,440 Do differently. 170 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,480 What is it that I need to change there, Lord? 171 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,520 Because even in doing things differently, and that's a learning point in and of itself, 172 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,520 right? 173 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,600 Because sometimes we have bad habits that we need to break and we need to learn good 174 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:45,600 habits. 175 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,880 So there's still a learning curve. 176 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,100 You know, it's like with me with eating, you know, I could probably learn a few things 177 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,880 there and do a little bit better myself or take some of the things that I do know and 178 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:57,880 apply them a little bit better. 179 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,640 I'd probably lose a little bit more weight, a little bit faster. 180 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,800 You know, I know I'm not alone on that one. 181 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,520 We all have our jelly bellies, you know. 182 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:06,760 Well, I should say all of us. 183 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,040 Some of us are in better shape than others. 184 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,520 But you know, my dog has a jelly belly just like me. 185 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,760 There's that whole thing about dogs taking on their owners. 186 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,520 You know? 187 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,320 But you know, we need to ask the Lord, hey, show me the way. 188 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,620 Guide my steps. 189 00:11:24,620 --> 00:11:25,620 Teach me. 190 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:35,160 You know, instead, what happens is we let the devil win this battle. 191 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,160 We do. 192 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,240 We almost, we basically hand it to him. 193 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,240 We hand it to him. 194 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,240 Here you go. 195 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:42,240 It's on a silver platter. 196 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:43,240 Take it. 197 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:44,240 It's yours. 198 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,240 Enjoy. 199 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:46,240 I made it just for you. 200 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,940 A little cherry on top. 201 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:50,680 You know, we let him cast doubt. 202 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:52,820 We let him cast shame. 203 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:55,320 And we listen to all this nonsense. 204 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,040 He's whispering in our ear. 205 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,360 We forget who he really is and what he really wants. 206 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:07,720 We allow our ego and our pride and our prejudice to take a hold of our lives, much like the 207 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,400 leaders of Jesus' day, the same leaders Jesus had to confront. 208 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:18,500 And we allow these things to turn us away from God. 209 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:27,320 We willingly, blindly walk away from him and towards the enemy, willingly and blindly. 210 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,800 We put on our own blinders and go, here we go. 211 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,940 Like it's all good. 212 00:12:33,940 --> 00:12:38,960 But it's not. 213 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,260 Turning to John chapter 8, verse 44. 214 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:55,420 So John 8, 44, the word says, you are of your father the devil and the desires of your father 215 00:12:55,420 --> 00:12:58,120 you want to do. 216 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:04,660 He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no 217 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:07,080 truth in him. 218 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:13,840 And he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources for he is a liar and the father 219 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,320 of it. 220 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,440 We forget who the devil is. 221 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,840 Devil is a fallen angel. 222 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,300 It's a fallen angel. 223 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:33,560 So when he speaks to us, it isn't this big, dark, red, evil dude with pitchforks, breathing 224 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:41,160 fire, any of that kind of stuff, a tail whipping about and all that kind of stuff, a big, deepy, 225 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,840 bassy voice. 226 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:50,120 We kind of get those images of Tim Curry in legend a lot of times. 227 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,780 TV's try to make it down and make them kind of pretty, which is scary because it's a much 228 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:59,740 more accurate depiction of who the devil really is, an angel. 229 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:07,480 So when he whispers to us, it's not this gravely evil, it's this sweet, gentle whisperer, it's 230 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:13,520 an angelic voice because it is the voice of an angel. 231 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,920 So it sounds very soothing, it sounds very welcoming, very tempting. 232 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:24,520 Hey, come on in, stay awhile, take your coat off, put your shoes over there, we're good, 233 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,160 right? 234 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,400 People wonder why the devil gets such a foothold in our lives, and it is, it's because he's 235 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,200 a very welcoming person. 236 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,120 There's a lot of things that soothe people. 237 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:42,400 You go into places, certain colors are used, bands, when they're up there, even in churches, 238 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,320 you go to these big mega churches, they use lighting along with the songs to manipulate 239 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,680 certain emotions, certain moods, right? 240 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,000 You go into a hospital, especially like surgery, my surgery unit. 241 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,280 We all wore blue scrubs, I had to get special permission to wear red on Fridays because 242 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,000 I always wear red on Fridays, right? 243 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,840 Remember everyone deployed, it's a nice acronym. 244 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,880 But anyway, we wore blue. 245 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,080 The walls were painted with a very light tint of blue in them, even though it was white, 246 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,980 there's just a little tint. 247 00:15:10,980 --> 00:15:11,980 And why? 248 00:15:11,980 --> 00:15:17,560 Because blue is a very soothed, calming color, it impacts the subconscious. 249 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:18,560 Right? 250 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,920 You ever been at a turn signal, or I shouldn't say turn signal, but a light? 251 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,720 You're sitting at a red light, and you're wondering why you have that urge to just step 252 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:26,720 on it and go? 253 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:31,160 Well, it's one of those things, our colors are a little switched around. 254 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,840 Because you notice the light turns green, and you're a little bit more hesitant to hit 255 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:34,840 the gas sometimes, right? 256 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,000 You're kind of sitting there, it's like, oh, it's green, I can go. 257 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,920 It's because red is very much, hey, let's go, hit it. 258 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,480 That's the emotion that evokes with green, it's a little bit more soothing, it's a little 259 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,160 closer to blue, right? 260 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,560 So we're a little bit more relaxed, we're willing to just kind of sit there for a little 261 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,560 while. 262 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,880 It's time to go, we're good, cool. 263 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,640 Hit the gas. 264 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:00,880 Home James, right? 265 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,180 So it's the same thing when it comes to the devil and his voice, that angelic voice enticing 266 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:09,360 us to give into our own desires. 267 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:15,800 You know, those leaders who look to trip up Jesus, our attitudes are exactly the same 268 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,440 whether we realize it or not. 269 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,880 You know, we have people who shout, Christ, yes, give it all to Jesus. 270 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,960 Amen, hallelujah, singing on the mountain, right? 271 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,040 But what are their attitudes actually conveying? 272 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,060 What they're actually doing, their actions? 273 00:16:34,060 --> 00:16:39,760 They say otherwise, don't they? 274 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:47,400 People are unconscious to the fact that they allow this hatred, these lies, this ambition, 275 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:55,440 all these biases to run their lives instead of Christ. 276 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,800 They speak ill of people and wish ill. 277 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,280 It's like, oh, you voted for that son of a gun? 278 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,680 No, bye bye, just unfriend me, I hope you rot, right? 279 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,220 And we see this on both sides. 280 00:17:08,220 --> 00:17:13,920 We all probably know at least one person who has said or posted those words, whether it 281 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,920 was in this election or a past one, right? 282 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,960 And not even just that. 283 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,280 Somebody goes blowing past you on the road. 284 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:30,900 I'm still thinking of my grandpa, my dad's son, grandpa Flick. 285 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:35,960 Somebody would do something silly on the road, you know, instead of yelling and cussing. 286 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,760 Well, he'd still raise his voice a little bit. 287 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:43,280 The, I hope you turn over and burn his two-peat-o-ombre. 288 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,160 I probably said that as wide as I'll get out, but that's how my, that's what my grandpa 289 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:52,280 would say every time somebody to blow past, you know, or merge lanes without turn signal 290 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,000 or just something stupid, right? 291 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,180 That was his thing. 292 00:17:57,180 --> 00:18:00,600 You know, or he'd be watching a ball game because he's big in his sports, you know, 293 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,080 he's a hall of fame himself. 294 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,160 And somebody would make a bad play. 295 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,920 It's two-peat-o-ombre, put your brains in a jaybird's butt and it would fly backwards. 296 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,080 You know, things like that. 297 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,080 That was his way of cussing. 298 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,360 He was kind of cute, but he would say it every time. 299 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:18,760 But that's our attitude, isn't it? 300 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,760 It's our attitude. 301 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:21,760 Yeah. 302 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:22,760 Mm-hmm. 303 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:23,760 That's right. 304 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:24,760 That's right. 305 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,160 Cause you got blocked in. 306 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,160 Yeah. 307 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,160 Little, like heated there, huh? 308 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,160 It happens. 309 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,040 It happens to all of us. 310 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:46,680 You've been in the car when it's happened to me, somebody's done, like, ooh, moron. 311 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,560 Maybe some choice words come out, sometimes a little more colorful, you know, that Marina 312 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,560 and me comes out. 313 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,160 Like, forgive me, Lord, forgive me. 314 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,760 Those people probably didn't deserve it. 315 00:18:55,760 --> 00:19:01,040 Even if they did, it wasn't my place to say it, right? 316 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,040 But that's how we act. 317 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,040 That's our attitudes. 318 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,320 They are the same as those leaders. 319 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,320 And we're often unconscious to the fact that we're doing the same thing. 320 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:16,800 And you know what it is, especially the more heated people get and the more they lean into 321 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,440 these types of attitudes and temperaments, it's a clear indicator of how much control 322 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,400 Satan has over their lives. 323 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,560 Satan has some control over each and every single one of us, whether we want to admit 324 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:28,680 it or not. 325 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,200 As much as we love Jesus, there is some part of our life where we're just sitting there 326 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,320 going, ah, right? 327 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,320 Things get under our skin. 328 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:38,320 That happens. 329 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:39,320 It's going to happen. 330 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,320 That's part of being human. 331 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:49,280 You know, it's control. 332 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,320 It's control. 333 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:56,320 I see where you're going with that, with influence, but no, it is control. 334 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,040 Because ultimately, what's the enemy's goal? 335 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,920 To pull us away from God. 336 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,760 You know, he doesn't care that we pray. 337 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,560 He doesn't care that we go to church or come together in fellowship. 338 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,240 What he cares about is pulling us away from God and preventing us from knowing Jesus. 339 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,480 And if he can control those factors, whether it's to his influence or other things, guess 340 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:17,480 what? 341 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,440 He's going to do it. 342 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,160 Because unfortunately, there are some barriers that he's going to put up that do have controlling 343 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,920 factors in our lives. 344 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,680 All right. 345 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:32,560 I was mentioning a few days ago, or not a few days ago, a few minutes ago, talking about, 346 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,040 you know, we just had a big political thing, didn't we? 347 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,040 We had Inauguration Day. 348 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:45,160 Leading up to it, and in the day since, we still see people posting horrible things on 349 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:50,880 social media, speaking horrible things at work. 350 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:51,880 You know? 351 00:20:51,880 --> 00:21:00,400 Whether it's politicians in general or signaling out a specific person, such as the president. 352 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,800 It happens. 353 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Acting in hate and discontent instead of looking to what the Bible tells us and doing what 354 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,600 the Bible tells us. 355 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:20,320 People are more willing to throw people to the side, wish harm on people. 356 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:26,400 Over just this one thing, they disregard the Bible and what the Bible has said and what 357 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,640 the Bible has said about how we should respond to our leaders. 358 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:38,360 Friendships ended, families divided, and it happens at every election. 359 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,060 And it's sad. 360 00:21:40,060 --> 00:21:41,060 It's very sad. 361 00:21:41,060 --> 00:21:45,200 It's heartbreaking. 362 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:53,280 All these people dividing themselves over men and women instead of looking to God. 363 00:21:53,280 --> 00:22:02,280 They want to yell, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, but in their hearts, Satan, Satan, Satan. 364 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:09,240 They're looking to people to effect change in a dark world when the only person who can 365 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:15,360 truly effect any good change, any lasting change, any effective change, any lasting change 366 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:20,600 is God and God alone. 367 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,080 People don't like to hear that, do they? 368 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,640 Oh, go to God. 369 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:24,640 No. 370 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,960 And more and more so people are shutting themselves off from that, closing themselves off to the 371 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,420 word or even the mention of it. 372 00:22:32,420 --> 00:22:34,000 They want to keep God out of it. 373 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:42,920 You know, they had this whole conversation, the separate separation of religion and state. 374 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,120 This whole this whole mindset like, oh, no, it goes over there and it just stays in its 375 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,480 own thing. 376 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,960 You know, you can't even look at our founding papers without seeing God there. 377 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,120 And it's for a reason. 378 00:22:54,120 --> 00:23:02,540 You have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. 379 00:23:02,540 --> 00:23:04,320 It doesn't just go away. 380 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,760 It's one of the founding principles of our nation. 381 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,200 Instead, people, they want to keep God out of it. 382 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:19,440 They want to keep God out of their lives is really what they're saying. 383 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,640 Because if they allow him in, even into this little section, then they have to deal with 384 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,400 themselves and where they're falling short, their own bias, their own prejudice, their 385 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,840 own hate, their own discontent. 386 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,160 They have to confront it all. 387 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:41,840 And it's very convicting. 388 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:51,680 Let's turn to 2nd Timothy chapter 4, 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verses 2 through 4. 389 00:23:51,680 --> 00:24:00,320 So 2nd Timothy 4 verses 2 through 4, the word says, preach the word, be ready and even seize 390 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:05,520 in and out of season. 391 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,440 Corrects rebuke and encourage with great patience and teaching. 392 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,220 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to 393 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:22,760 their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to 394 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,900 hear what they want to hear. 395 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:32,120 They will turn away from hearing the truth and turn aside to myths. 396 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:36,040 And people do, people want to feel good, don't they? 397 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,040 They do, they want to feel good. 398 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,760 There's this whole, if it feels good, do it. 399 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:45,200 That is the devil straight up. 400 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,400 You know, they want this imaginary Jesus who loves them just as they are. 401 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,400 That they're perfect. 402 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,320 They just, they have a couple of things in their lives that they haven't gotten quite 403 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,080 right because of poor teaching. 404 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,840 So let's just tweak that a little bit and you'll be good as, I'll get out, right? 405 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,720 In like Flint. 406 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,280 You know, you're a good person just the way you are. 407 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,960 That's what people want to hear. 408 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,000 And it's garbage, isn't it? 409 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,800 We all need to be corrected from time to time. 410 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,560 It's going to happen. 411 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:25,060 If we're so great, why did Jesus have to come not only just to teach us, but ultimately 412 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:27,840 to go to the cross and die for us? 413 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,320 Why did he have to take on our sin if we're so good? 414 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,880 We're that good, wouldn't that mean that we're without sin? 415 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:34,880 Right? 416 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,520 Or that, you know, even if there is a little sin, it's just, it's a little thing. 417 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,880 So it wouldn't be anything worthy of having to go to the cross for, would it? 418 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,640 But that's the kind of Jesus people want. 419 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,400 And feel good, you don't need to change who you are. 420 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,600 You were born this way, nonsense. 421 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,560 And it is nonsense. 422 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,640 All that hate, all that sin. 423 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,800 You weren't born that way. 424 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,080 It's learned. 425 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,560 It's learned. 426 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:14,160 Because Dennis Leary, he made a comment years ago about his kid. 427 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,400 Be like, you know what? 428 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,640 My kid didn't learn racism. 429 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,520 My kid doesn't hate people because they're another color. 430 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,520 You know what my kid naps one thing and one thing only naps. 431 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,560 Anyone who's ever tried to put down a small child knows they hate naps. 432 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:29,800 And it's true. 433 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,460 Because all the rest of that stuff, it's learned. 434 00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:36,400 It starts in the home with mom and dad or whoever the caretaker is. 435 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,800 You know, whether they're left alone with the TV or a babysitter who's smoking a bowl 436 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,240 on the side, you know, enjoying that meth or whatever. 437 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,440 All this stuff, it's learned. 438 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,640 It happens. 439 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,080 You know, the word, it's hard for people to hear. 440 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,080 They don't want to hear it. 441 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,080 Why? 442 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,800 Because it convicts them. 443 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:04,760 God's word tells us that we've made some serious missteps, that we need to change. 444 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,680 We've believed things that aren't true. 445 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:15,020 And we need to search for the truth. 446 00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:22,040 That we need to change as a people, as a society, as a nation, as a world, as a human being 447 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,400 on the planet Earth. 448 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,640 Doesn't matter where you live. 449 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,520 You know, a human being, guess what? 450 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,660 You need Jesus. 451 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:34,880 You have things you need to change. 452 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,920 And it's not just diapers. 453 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,520 You know, but it's hard to hear that. 454 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,500 People don't want to hear that. 455 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:48,040 It's very hard to hear that you've made a mistake, that you're not perfect. 456 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,560 And it's very humbling, especially when you actually hear what's being said. 457 00:27:52,560 --> 00:28:00,960 It's like, oh, wow, yeah, I did kind of fall short of the goal there, didn't I? 458 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,680 Huh. 459 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:11,000 So it is very humbling to realize that we've made poor choices in life. 460 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,640 And we need to change how we're living. 461 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,640 So what happens? 462 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,360 What happens when this occurs? 463 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:25,160 We see people packing into buildings with this feel-good message that tells them that 464 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,160 they're good. 465 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:33,520 You know, they get someone who will tell them the things that they want to hear. 466 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,000 Motivational speakers is really what these people are. 467 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,920 Because they're not ministers of the word. 468 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,080 At that point, they cease to be. 469 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,840 They're motivational speakers that are up there getting people pumped, getting them 470 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:57,680 excited, getting people feeling good, but at a cost. 471 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,600 And the cost be damned. 472 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,800 What's the cost, though? 473 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,800 What is it? 474 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,040 It's a person's soul. 475 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,000 We have thousands and thousands and thousands of people packing in to all these places for 476 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:21,880 a bogus message to make them feel good. 477 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,960 As leading them down a road of damnation. 478 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,760 It's going to cost them their soul. 479 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:35,600 And that is the cost to hear this false message of hope from a false teacher. 480 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,640 These are people, they're like Satan. 481 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:44,320 And we think of Satan and how he talked to Adam and Eve. 482 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,540 How he attacked Job. 483 00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:49,300 How he tempted Christ. 484 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:50,680 What has he done from the beginning? 485 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,720 What does he still do? 486 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,480 He omits certain parts of the truth. 487 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,680 He withholds it, twists things, manipulates things. 488 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:07,600 He puts his own little spin on there to try to get the word to say what he wants it to 489 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,860 say, to get it to serve his purpose. 490 00:30:12,860 --> 00:30:21,360 To cast doubt and shame. 491 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:26,000 His biggest tool, the father of lies. 492 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,300 And he gets this built into people. 493 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:30,000 People get programmed with it. 494 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,360 Unfortunately, there's a lot of good people out there who don't realize that what they're 495 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,120 being fed is garbage. 496 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,880 It's kind of like going to McDonald's. 497 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,480 You know, you go to McDonald's, you get those fries. 498 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,240 Those fries are delicious, right? 499 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,240 They're awesome. 500 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,840 And most people agree, they're probably some of the best fries you can buy out there. 501 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:56,920 But that food is anything but good for you, isn't it? 502 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,960 It's garbage. 503 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,160 We scoop it up and we eat it. 504 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,000 You know, people would say, oh, I want to eat garbage. 505 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,000 We do. 506 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 We do. 507 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Oh, I don't like McDonald's. 508 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 You like something out there. 509 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Don't lie. 510 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Don't fool yourself. 511 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,080 Because there's going to be somebody out there, oh no, I get a salad. 512 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,560 They don't have salads there anymore. 513 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:13,560 Sorry. 514 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:14,560 You're not fooling anybody. 515 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,560 They haven't for years. 516 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,400 I actually heard that just the other day. 517 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,480 Somebody was talking about, oh, I love their salads. 518 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,120 They stopped doing that before COVID. 519 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:30,400 Half a decade ago. 520 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,360 But we get these people, these speakers up there, you know, they get their lights and 521 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,040 the sound and all this are looking sharp. 522 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,040 They're sounding good. 523 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,040 They're very charismatic. 524 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,240 And they do the same thing. 525 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,320 They omit things. 526 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,720 This can hurt people's feelings. 527 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,460 Oh, this is going to offend people. 528 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:48,840 Well, let's not talk about it, right? 529 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,880 Let's skip over books entirely from the Bible. 530 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,260 Full books. 531 00:31:56,260 --> 00:32:04,040 There's actually a series, if you look it up, the 10 least preached books in the Bible. 532 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,560 A lot of people have no idea what they are. 533 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,460 And certain ones, they do know what they have heard of them. 534 00:32:10,460 --> 00:32:11,860 They know bits and pieces of it. 535 00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:12,940 But that's it. 536 00:32:12,940 --> 00:32:15,880 Bits and pieces. 537 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,480 Because there's a lot of these people that go up there and they refuse to go through 538 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,560 the entire book. 539 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:25,320 They will pull a small piece out that fits the moment and call it good. 540 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,360 And then they wonder why people don't understand the context of what's actually being said. 541 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:30,800 And you go back and you look at things. 542 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:31,960 You're like, hey, guess what? 543 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,120 Let's go back a whole chapter. 544 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,920 Let's read up from there to here. 545 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,640 It's like, oh, whoa. 546 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,640 That's not what that meant at all. 547 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,640 Holy cow. 548 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:41,640 Right? 549 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:47,880 And we're talking about things like tithing and God amongst us. 550 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,560 There's a lot of stuff in there. 551 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,560 It's taken out of context. 552 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:56,640 But when you get in there, you actually read the word, word by word, chapter by chapter. 553 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,720 A different picture starts to emerge and you go, oh. 554 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,080 I'm not talking about honest mistakes. 555 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,300 People make mistakes. 556 00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:06,160 But there are people out there that do this deliberately. 557 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,160 They do it all the time. 558 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,640 And it's eaten up by the masses. 559 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,640 Even songs. 560 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:17,520 You know, my wife, Brian here, you know, even Darren's heard me say, you know, it's probably 561 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,040 been a while since he's heard me say it. 562 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:25,320 But there are certain songs that I will not allow to be played in here because they're 563 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,840 not biblical. 564 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,480 They're theologically garbage. 565 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,240 But they're radio hits because they sound good. 566 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:42,720 It's still poison, though. 567 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,720 People are hedonistic. 568 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,400 They're very hedonistic. 569 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,400 Let's take a look at that here. 570 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,800 Let's, you know, let's take a look at Mark chapter 8. 571 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:54,800 Maybe. 572 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,240 Maybe it'll go. 573 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,360 There we go. 574 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,960 Mark chapter 8, verses 36 through 38. 575 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:10,280 So Mark 8, 36 through 38. 576 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:17,720 Jesus said, for what will a prophet man, if he gains the whole world and loses his own 577 00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:19,680 soul? 578 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,040 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 579 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:30,000 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of 580 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:36,600 him, the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the 581 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,040 holy angels. 582 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,680 Jesus is saying the same thing. 583 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,600 People are hedonistic. 584 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,040 People like to spend time looking for those things that make them feel good. 585 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,040 Right? 586 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,800 Something that's going to bring them joy, some kind of pleasure. 587 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,040 And it does not matter how fleeting it is. 588 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,880 It doesn't matter if it's for a second, 10 minutes, a year, whatever. 589 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,480 Hey, it makes me happy. 590 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,240 So it's got to be good. 591 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:11,480 Does it? 592 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:17,780 And Jesus is speaking to this world in this, these idols, because it is all temporary joy. 593 00:35:17,780 --> 00:35:21,220 And the problem with it and why they become idols is because they make us take our eyes 594 00:35:21,220 --> 00:35:24,300 off the Lord. 595 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:27,280 Here in a couple of weeks, we have a big sporting event coming up, don't we? 596 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,600 It's one of the biggest ones on TV. 597 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,120 I see my wife over there shaking her head with a big smile. 598 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,280 What is it, babe? 599 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,560 That's right, the Super Bowl. 600 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:39,560 The Super Bowl. 601 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,720 Okay, now sports are good. 602 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:42,720 Games are good. 603 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:43,820 They're fun, right? 604 00:35:43,820 --> 00:35:48,880 But people get so pumped over this, a game, a sport. 605 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,240 A bunch of guys who are definitely overpaid in my opinion, going out there and playing 606 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:59,280 a game that most of us played as kids for free. 607 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,280 Nothing wrong with that. 608 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,280 They're having a good time. 609 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,280 Cool. 610 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:09,440 The problem though is people take this sport and they turn it into an idol because what 611 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:17,440 we're going to see here in a couple of weeks, churches are going to be almost empty. 612 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,440 Why? 613 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:23,520 A little feedback there, sorry. 614 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:24,520 But why? 615 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:25,800 Well, there's a lot going on. 616 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,800 They have ads starting. 617 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,520 Oh, don't want to miss the ads. 618 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,360 For some people, that's the best part of the day, right? 619 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,080 For others, oh, you got your pregame. 620 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,720 You got your interviews on this channel and that channel and this other channel. 621 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:41,280 You got all the analysts over here and their predictions. 622 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,680 You got the casinos and all that Vegas and all that. 623 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,360 They're running the odds of who's going to do what and this and that. 624 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,360 People got to get plugged. 625 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,120 They can't miss any of this, can they? 626 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,080 Black Friday, there's another one. 627 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,200 Going out and getting gifts is good. 628 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,920 What happens? 629 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,680 People went shopping. 630 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:11,120 Other people went to a boxing match with a little shopping involved. 631 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,440 Things coming out of people's mouths that even a sailor would step back and go, oh, 632 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,280 I haven't heard that since my drill instructor. 633 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,840 Oh, my goodness, right? 634 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,960 But that's how people are. 635 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,600 They want those things that are going to bring them happiness even for a few seconds, that 636 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,000 worldliness thing. 637 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,880 These temporary things that make us take our eyes off of God and we put other things first. 638 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:40,560 Temporary things, worldly things, things that will disappear eventually. 639 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:41,560 And what happens? 640 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:47,040 They do it at the cost of their faith and the cost of their soul. 641 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,160 They do it at the cost of their relationship with Jesus Christ. 642 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:56,000 They give it up for whatever flavor of the week it is. 643 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,840 Whatever this latest fad, whatever the latest craze is. 644 00:37:58,840 --> 00:37:59,840 Oh, I got to go out. 645 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:00,960 I got to get my nails done. 646 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,800 I got to get my hair done. 647 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,800 Got the guys out there. 648 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:04,800 Oh, I got to go out, get a new pair of jeans. 649 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,800 I'm going to go over to Walmart, get me some new shoes. 650 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,800 I'm going to be looking good. 651 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,920 I'm going to spend $300 on some cologne. 652 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,440 I'm supposed to have pheromones or whatever in it. 653 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,560 Bunch of garbage, right? 654 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,560 But that's how people are. 655 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,560 Oh, I got to go out. 656 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,280 Oh, I got the newest Tesla. 657 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,280 Check that out. 658 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,360 Can't afford my rent hardly, but I got a Tesla. 659 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,920 Yeah, I think. 660 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,200 Living so far out of my means. 661 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,200 Oh my goodness. 662 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,920 If it breaks down, I'm going to be out of car. 663 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:34,920 Right? 664 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,520 That's how people are. 665 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,320 You know, just because you weren't healed. 666 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,320 Let me tell you. 667 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:50,560 Just because you're not in perfect health or given great financial wealth. 668 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,640 You know, have that relationship just dropped into your lap that you want so much with that 669 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,040 person. 670 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,240 It doesn't mean that God doesn't love you. 671 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:03,740 It does not mean that God's not there. 672 00:39:03,740 --> 00:39:07,240 It does not mean that God does not exist. 673 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:10,680 But you have to be honest with yourself. 674 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:11,680 Why are you turning? 675 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,880 Why are you wanting to walk away? 676 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:18,040 Why are you wanting to give everything up? 677 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,680 And it comes down to why are you asking for the things that you're asking for? 678 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:28,120 I said, we, a lot of a lot of people, we go to, we go to God and we're asking at a, from 679 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:34,800 a greedy, selfish heart. 680 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,320 We're demanding things from God. 681 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,240 Give me, give me, give me. 682 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:44,840 We're treating him like an ATM. 683 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:50,400 Because a lot of times that's the only time people actually go to God. 684 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,360 Because they're wants. 685 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:59,920 And none of us, not a single one of us has power or dominion over God to be able to go 686 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,720 to him and demand things in this way. 687 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:08,320 I don't care what the prosperity preachers say. 688 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,880 That's where name it and claim it falls short. 689 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,440 Because if it was name it and claim it, we'd all be billionaires living on a beach, sipping 690 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,200 on fruity drinks in perfect health with a perfect body, with a perfect family. 691 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,200 Right? 692 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,920 It's not the way it works though. 693 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:25,920 We're not little gods. 694 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,360 See, that's the thing in today's world, people are willing to walk away because of their 695 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,360 hurt. 696 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:41,040 They're willing to denounce God because their own unanswered selfish desires. 697 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,600 We're told to bear our crosses, not celebrate our sin. 698 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:51,040 But we've got people out there wanting a whole month to celebrate their sin, throw it in 699 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,040 people's face. 700 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,480 Except me, I was born this way. 701 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,640 No, you weren't. 702 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,200 It was learned. 703 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:02,920 I don't care if you're drunk. 704 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:09,560 I don't care if you're a junkie, a gambler, an adulterer. 705 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,360 And that's the thing, you look at adult movies, they have banquets for these things. 706 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,400 Big old movies like the Golden Globes, they go and they give each other awards for doing 707 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,000 deviant acts. 708 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,160 It's a big thing. 709 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,200 And they do, it's a lot of glitz and glam. 710 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,880 It's just like the Golden Globes and all that. 711 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,200 They roll out a red carpet the whole bit. 712 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,960 I don't care what your sin is, insert it here. 713 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:39,080 And all this stuff is getting put out there more and more so. 714 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:44,840 Porn stars make headlines. 715 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,400 That's just the way it is. 716 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,720 People want to celebrate their sin. 717 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,960 We're not supposed to though. 718 00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:04,880 And the way we treat God is we treat him like somebody who owes us something. 719 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:11,120 We demand things of God like an entitled brat, like a kid throwing a fit, screaming and kicking 720 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:17,760 and wailing away on the floor in a store because they can't get a toy or a piece of candy. 721 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,040 Right? 722 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,520 It happens. 723 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:30,560 So many people, they've come into a fellowship or church and they've left because they didn't 724 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:37,360 feel that their requests were adequately met in the time that they gave. 725 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:44,880 You know, an ailment of some sort, an addiction, you know, or some other hardship. 726 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:51,000 They come with an attitude of, well, I came, I said the things, I did the stuff, why hasn't 727 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000 it happened yet? 728 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,400 It's like, you said, that's all I had to do. 729 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,400 Why isn't it here? 730 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,400 It's like your God's fake. 731 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,120 You know, if he was real, he'd have fixed things. 732 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,120 And then they leave. 733 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,960 Most of the time never to return. 734 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,840 Sometimes in and out of different places. 735 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,000 But that's the way they look at it. 736 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,600 Yet we have people who want to say, once saved, always saved. 737 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,920 They came, they were here, they were saved. 738 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,680 No, they weren't saved. 739 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,360 And if this was you, you were not saved. 740 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,640 Not at that time. 741 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:32,640 If you, you know, it's, when you do this, your faith has been put into men and the people 742 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,600 and to doing this things that they say to do and the saying the things that they say 743 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:41,680 to do and trusting in them, not in God, not in Jesus. 744 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,880 Because if it's in Jesus, you'd have found a different answer. 745 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:44,880 You'd have found a joy. 746 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,140 You'd have found that hope inside you that, Hey, you know what? 747 00:43:48,140 --> 00:43:52,000 Maybe I'm not getting this, but I'm getting this and this is even better. 748 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:59,400 Instead, your vanity and your selfishness has taken over. 749 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:06,320 And that's why when this happens, if it's happened to you, if you're honest about it, 750 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:13,240 you question who God is and if he even really exists. 751 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:18,040 Even though all the signs and the evidence are around you that he does, you still question 752 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,200 it. 753 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:27,920 Let me remind you, God supplies for your needs, not your wants. 754 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,440 Not to be crude, but as the saying goes, you can, you can want in one hand and poo in the 755 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,160 other and see which one feels first. 756 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,640 It's a little crude, but it's true because your needs are going to outweigh your wants 757 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,400 every time. 758 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:49,280 And unfortunately, people want to see their needs as poo until they're really hurting 759 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:50,520 and they have nothing else. 760 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,880 That's why people are able to find Jesus when they're at their lowest points because they 761 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,880 have nothing else to give. 762 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,760 They're much more open to finding him at that point. 763 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:06,640 Rock bottom. 764 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,840 Up until you get to that point, you can yell and cry all you want, but Jesus is not going 765 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,440 to bend your will because life is not about you. 766 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,240 It is about him. 767 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:23,800 And until you realize that you're never going to truly have hope and joy in your heart, 768 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,200 that fulfillment that's going to get you through. 769 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:32,480 Jesus didn't come and die on the cross so that you can have life like a Burger King 770 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,160 menu. 771 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,120 It's not your way right away. 772 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,360 It's never going to be. 773 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,720 It's his way, not yours. 774 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:41,720 And the false teachers. 775 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:47,080 Well, if you give some more and you pray a little bit harder, if you want it just a little 776 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,880 bit more, it's nonsense because it's not about you. 777 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,200 It's not about what you want. 778 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,200 It's about him. 779 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,200 Don't worry, guys. 780 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,200 I'm almost there. 781 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,200 We're going in the homestretch here. 782 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,200 A few years ago, there's a movie. 783 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,240 It's a real life account, Desmond Doss, during the Battle of Okinawa. 784 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:08,080 Some of you probably already know the movie I'm talking about, Hacksaw Ridge. 785 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,200 Even aside from the movie, though, you can go and you can look it up and there's interviews 786 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,480 with him. 787 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,920 And when he went into this battlefield, conscientious objector had a whole different meaning back 788 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:18,920 then. 789 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,640 He went up, he went to this battlefield without a weapon. 790 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,600 He was a medic. 791 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,640 He was there to save lives. 792 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:33,360 One of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific, when others had retreated, he stayed behind 793 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,360 and he kept going deeper and deeper into the battlefield trying to find soldiers. 794 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,840 And every time he would get one, he'd bring them back, he'd get them to safety and he'd 795 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,840 go back in. 796 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,240 And when he was going back in, he'd pray, Lord, let me just get one more. 797 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:50,960 Lord, let me get one more. 798 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:51,960 It wasn't about him. 799 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,320 It wasn't guide me to safety. 800 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,120 It wasn't, Lord, get me through this. 801 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,080 It was, Lord, help me get one more. 802 00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,720 It wasn't about him. 803 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:07,440 It was about his love for his fellow man and his love of God because he valued life above 804 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:14,320 all else, because he loved as he should, as we all should. 805 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:21,520 And he kept going back in, kept going back in and is credited with saving dozens, if 806 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:35,040 not at least 100 lives by himself without a weapon running into the fire. 807 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,880 John 15, 13, you probably know where I'm going with this one. 808 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:45,400 Okay, if the slides wouldn't work again, I don't know. 809 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,400 Maybe. 810 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,400 There we go. 811 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:54,800 John 15, 13, greater love has no one than this and to lay down one's life for his friends. 812 00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:01,520 See, it's time to stop looking to God to accept this sin you want to keep living in. 813 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:08,200 It's time to start looking to what he is really all about, which is love. 814 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,540 Sometimes that means tough love because the truth isn't always easy. 815 00:48:12,540 --> 00:48:16,000 Sometimes it's going to hurt. 816 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,600 But sometimes that hurt is a good thing. 817 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,000 It's just like when you go into surgery. 818 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:23,000 Yes, this hurts. 819 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,000 This is painful. 820 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,000 But you know what? 821 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,840 Sometimes we have to cause a little bit more pain in order to fix what needs to be fixed 822 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,760 and to get it to heal. 823 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,360 Just like a surgery. 824 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:43,160 It's time to stop trying to cancel God and running away as a prodigal child. 825 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:44,640 He's ready for you to come home. 826 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,000 He's waiting with arms wide open. 827 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:55,520 So again, I ask you, is your faith fully in God or do you treat it like a business transaction? 828 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:56,520 Is it about you? 829 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:57,760 Is it about him? 830 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,720 Is it about your life or is it about his kingdom? 831 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:05,840 Are you walking away from Christ or are you leaning into him? 832 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:12,160 Are you giving into the world's culture or are you walking for the Lord? 833 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,480 Ask yourself these questions. 834 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,720 Be honest with yourself and then pray about it. 835 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:24,600 And on that note, let us pray. 836 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,240 Lord, we thank you for being with us. 837 00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:33,720 We thank you for speaking for us, speaking to us, for convicting us of our sin. 838 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:37,480 We ask for your guidance and breaking away from it because we know you are the chain 839 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:38,980 breaker. 840 00:49:38,980 --> 00:49:44,040 We ask for your guidance in making life less about us and more about pointing the way to 841 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:48,380 you and loving on other people as we should. 842 00:49:48,380 --> 00:49:53,400 We ask that you forgive us for our many sins and missteps and guide us in forgiving others 843 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:57,760 of theirs as well because we know there's a lot of people out there that have hurt us. 844 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:02,480 And we still have part of that pain within us that we need to release, but we need you 845 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,640 to come into us to do that. 846 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:11,200 Please speak to our hearts and minds that we come to a better relationship with you 847 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:18,520 and learn how to put you before ourselves when we start to put our wants first. 848 00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:24,000 Help us to remember that that gentle voice that we hear often time comes from the devil 849 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:29,200 when it's trying to entice us to do things that we know we shouldn't. 850 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:34,360 Help us to push it to the side and only hear the voice of our shepherd calling us and guiding 851 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,400 us home. 852 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,400 And all of these people said, Amen. 853 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,300 Thank you for joining us at Healing Scars with Pastor Burton. 854 00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:48,760 If this message spoke to you or if you would like to help us reach more people, please 855 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:52,200 like, review, and share our podcast. 856 00:50:52,200 --> 00:51:01,760 You can learn more about our ministry or how you can support us at www.thecross66.org. 857 00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,680 Until next time, take care and God bless.