WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 The Lord wants to give us the grace to obey Him. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.019 And it comes by walking in the Spirit. Galatians 00:00:07.019 --> 00:00:10.500 5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in the Spirit, 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.199 and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. 00:00:13.539 --> 00:00:19.059 Those desires of the flesh are overcome as we 00:00:19.059 --> 00:00:30.449 walk in the Spirit. God promises in Joel 2 .28 00:00:30.449 --> 00:00:34.250 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:36.969 to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that 00:00:36.969 --> 00:00:40.070 promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, 00:00:40.229 --> 00:00:43.829 so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 00:00:44.009 --> 00:00:46.630 I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome 00:00:46.630 --> 00:00:49.270 to the podcast today. We're so glad that you're 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:51.750 joining us. 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We just 00:02:34.710 --> 00:02:38.169 think it's so fun to hear from the nations and 00:02:38.169 --> 00:02:40.159 the states and the cities. that you're listening 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:44.539 from so that we have an idea just who is listening 00:02:44.539 --> 00:02:49.919 to us. We know that you're out there. So as I 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.620 was in my devotions this morning, I was being 00:02:52.620 --> 00:02:56.419 moved by the Holy Spirit to... to look at this 00:02:56.419 --> 00:03:00.560 idea of the multiple consequences of disobedience. 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.039 And that goes both ways, really. There's kind 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:07.360 of a ripple effect that happens when we fall 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.639 for temptation. When temptation comes to us, 00:03:10.659 --> 00:03:15.419 like, what does James 1, 14 and 15 say? But each 00:03:15.419 --> 00:03:18.020 person is tempted when he is lured and enticed 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:21.770 by his own desire. Then desire... When it has 00:03:21.770 --> 00:03:24.789 been conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, 00:03:24.889 --> 00:03:28.090 when it is fully grown, brings forth death. That's 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:33.449 from the ESV version. So temptation is something 00:03:33.449 --> 00:03:37.629 that comes to us because of desires that are 00:03:37.629 --> 00:03:41.330 still hanging out there in our flesh. You know, 00:03:41.349 --> 00:03:45.280 that soulish part of us that... really hasn't 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.500 gotten completely, fully submitted to the Lord. 00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:54.020 And, you know, it affects us personally when 00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:59.000 we fall, right? But what we don't always realize 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.800 is the ripple effect, the domino effect, the 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.180 snowball effect, the chain reaction that happens 00:04:07.180 --> 00:04:11.069 when we fall into something. It not only affects 00:04:11.069 --> 00:04:14.069 us and our future, it also affects people around 00:04:14.069 --> 00:04:17.629 us. Yeah, especially if you're high up in a position 00:04:17.629 --> 00:04:21.110 in a ministry. Oh, yeah. Because if you're in 00:04:21.110 --> 00:04:23.209 ministry, you've got a bullseye on your back. 00:04:23.310 --> 00:04:26.519 That's true. He encourages you to turn your back 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.579 to sin, but if you sense something that is satanic 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:33.120 coming at you from the front, you need to deal 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.540 with it. Absolutely. Because you can't turn your 00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:38.639 back on it. It'll get you. Right. And the thing 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.540 is that turning your back on it in terms of just 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:43.779 ignoring it and thinking maybe it'll go away, 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:45.980 you've got to deal with it. You've got to deal 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:48.120 with it. You've got to deal with the flesh. You've 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:53.709 got to say no. No. No. You know, we've walked 00:04:53.709 --> 00:04:57.509 with the Lord for a long time. And as temptations 00:04:57.509 --> 00:05:01.769 have been in my life, as the Lord has given me 00:05:01.769 --> 00:05:07.250 the grace to say no, it gets to a point where 00:05:07.250 --> 00:05:10.689 it's kind of like a bear trap. You know, that 00:05:10.689 --> 00:05:13.829 if that thing comes through the door at me, it's 00:05:13.829 --> 00:05:17.810 like there's an automatic trap door that makes 00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:20.990 the thing disappear because I have an automatic 00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:25.189 no. Because I've developed it, okay? Everything 00:05:25.189 --> 00:05:28.250 is a process. Everything, everything, everything 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:30.889 we do. Everything we do in the Christian walk 00:05:30.889 --> 00:05:33.870 is a process. And, you know, when you're first 00:05:33.870 --> 00:05:38.990 getting there, it's not 100 % success rate, you 00:05:38.990 --> 00:05:43.449 know? I'm reminded of that story of, I guess 00:05:43.449 --> 00:05:45.709 I saw it on somebody's bulletin board in their 00:05:45.709 --> 00:05:49.269 house, this story of this person who goes like 00:05:49.269 --> 00:05:52.800 this. I walked down the street. And I fell in 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.220 a hole and it was so deep I couldn't get out 00:05:55.220 --> 00:05:57.459 of it. And I cried and I cried and I cried for 00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:01.420 help and someone came and helped me out. And 00:06:01.420 --> 00:06:04.259 then the next paragraph is, I walked down the 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:07.699 street and I fell in the same hole and I cried 00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:10.139 and I cried and somebody came and helped me out. 00:06:10.939 --> 00:06:14.040 And the next paragraph is, I walked down the 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:18.240 street and I saw the hole and I fell in it anyway 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.740 and I cried and cried and somebody came and helped 00:06:20.740 --> 00:06:24.529 me out. And the next paragraph is, I walked down 00:06:24.529 --> 00:06:28.529 the street, I saw the hole, and I walked around 00:06:28.529 --> 00:06:32.629 it. And the next paragraph is, I walked down 00:06:32.629 --> 00:06:37.230 a different street. Okay? Okay, how many pitfalls 00:06:37.230 --> 00:06:41.269 did it take to get to that point? That's my whole 00:06:41.269 --> 00:06:45.939 point. It's a process. We go through. It's a 00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:48.680 learning process. It's learning to walk in the 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.560 Spirit so that we don't fulfill the lusts of 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.899 the flesh, whatever those desires of our flesh 00:06:53.899 --> 00:06:57.620 are. But what I'm trying to say is that there's 00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:02.259 this vulnerability area that, you know, we might 00:07:02.259 --> 00:07:05.300 be really strong when we're feeling good, when 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:07.620 we're all prayed up. Oh, yeah. So you get out 00:07:07.620 --> 00:07:10.839 of a meeting. Right, right. You're getting prophesied 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.779 over. You know, you're on the top of the world. 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.699 Yeah, and you're real strong, right? But there 00:07:15.699 --> 00:07:18.379 are times when we're more vulnerable because 00:07:18.379 --> 00:07:21.600 of our flesh. Our flesh is weak. You know, it's 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.339 just flesh. And so there are times when you're 00:07:25.339 --> 00:07:29.139 vulnerable, and there's an old adage where the 00:07:29.139 --> 00:07:32.980 initials of the word spell halt. Yeah, if you're 00:07:32.980 --> 00:07:36.339 hungry, well, that'll do it. Oh, yeah. If you're 00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:41.220 angry, yeah. What gets a lot of Christians angry 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:44.600 quick? Yeah. In your car. Oh, well, that can 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.319 be one of those. I remember somebody, they had 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.540 a revenge button on their dashboard, and they 00:07:48.540 --> 00:07:51.079 would push the, and somebody would take their 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.759 emotion out. Instead of saying something, they 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:55.959 hit the revenge button, you know. Well, that's 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.879 part of the progress, you know, your process, 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.339 and you're making progress in your process where 00:08:00.339 --> 00:08:01.839 you hit a button instead of saying something. 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.500 I hope he gets well. Well, you know what we tend 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:07.959 to do, you know, okay, so you're driving down 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.480 the highway. Somebody flies by you at 90 miles 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.379 an hour, and then you say, I wish there was a 00:08:14.379 --> 00:08:18.459 policeman there. And that's legit. Yeah. That's 00:08:18.459 --> 00:08:22.339 legit. But then, yeah, I hope he gets caught. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.759 And then you rejoice when you see the lights 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:30.839 pull him over. Teach him a lesson. But maybe 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:33.860 there should be a prayer for that person. Yeah. 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.539 Maybe we should be saying, Lord, we ask you to 00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:40.460 go after that person that is practicing lawlessness, 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.860 that you get that person and bring them into 00:08:42.860 --> 00:08:44.820 your kingdom and bring them into this process 00:08:44.820 --> 00:08:47.879 where they will learn not to do this. I'll have 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:52.600 to keep working on that one. So we got hungry 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.240 and angry. Okay, then you're lonely. Yeah. Yeah, 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.100 lonely is a big one, especially if you've lost 00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:02.980 a spouse. Oh, my. Yeah, lost a spouse or a girlfriend 00:09:02.980 --> 00:09:07.200 or grieving over a loss, any kind of a loss, 00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:10.379 like especially a child, you know, a parent losing 00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:13.639 a child. It's not supposed to be that way. You 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.639 know, you're supposed to let your children grow 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.820 up and they take care of you when you get old 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:23.340 and you lose that child in death. And it's horrible. 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:26.279 It's horrible. A lot of marriages break up over 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.240 that. But there's a loneliness. That's a reality. 00:09:30.549 --> 00:09:33.029 And it can cause issues, right? So we've got 00:09:33.029 --> 00:09:35.809 hungry, angry, lonely. If you're tired, yeah. 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:39.490 You say things when you're tired that you wouldn't 00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:42.129 do, especially if you're angry. Because if you're 00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:44.669 tired, that can lean you into anger. Yeah. And 00:09:44.669 --> 00:09:47.509 hunger can do the same thing. They have a word 00:09:47.509 --> 00:09:50.159 now for it, hangry. Oh, especially if you're 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.500 low blood pressure or something. Low blood sugar. 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.500 Your blood sugar gets down and your emotions 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:58.679 can get out of whack. And you can lash out and 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.799 do something, say something. So H -A -L -T, halt. 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.460 That's when you need to halt. When you recognize, 00:10:05.659 --> 00:10:08.500 uh -oh, wait a minute, I'm vulnerable here. I 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:11.100 need to be careful. But there's a couple of other 00:10:11.100 --> 00:10:14.000 ones that I've added to the list. So if you're 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:18.100 in pain or if you're sick, you know, People who 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:21.320 are sick, if you don't feel well, it's hard to 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.360 keep self -control. And that's one of those areas 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.240 that the Holy Spirit wants to work his fruit 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.940 in us. And self -control is one of those things. 00:10:32.019 --> 00:10:35.460 And patience is one of those things. And patience 00:10:35.460 --> 00:10:38.519 and self -control, you know, in the King James, 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:43.629 it calls it long suffering. Where you have the 00:10:43.629 --> 00:10:46.230 grace to put up with stuff. Yeah. When other 00:10:46.230 --> 00:10:49.669 people are out of sorts. So you have your personal 00:10:49.669 --> 00:10:52.970 opportunities to get out of sorts, your personal 00:10:52.970 --> 00:10:58.169 flesh flashes. And then you also have to deal 00:10:58.169 --> 00:11:01.409 with other people's flesh flashes. Especially 00:11:01.409 --> 00:11:04.320 those you love. I know. And when you're hungry 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.279 or angry or lonely or tired, I don't usually 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.519 get angry unless I'm hungry or tired. That's 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.159 just me. And you've tasted that. It takes a lot 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.379 to rattle your cage. It's just pretty good. But, 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.100 you know, if it's suppertime and, you know, I'm 00:11:20.100 --> 00:11:23.840 hungry or if I'm too tired to even think about 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.179 another thing. I can't open another window. Yeah. 00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:34.110 Yeah. So it's so easy to hurt people. when we 00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:37.389 have a flesh -flesh. And if you flip it over, 00:11:37.629 --> 00:11:42.070 think about the times that you've been hurt by 00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:45.149 other people's flesh -fleshes or things that 00:11:45.149 --> 00:11:47.889 might have happened to you as a child. If a parent 00:11:47.889 --> 00:11:51.309 or a sibling or a cousin or a grandparent or 00:11:51.309 --> 00:11:53.269 an aunt or uncle or a neighbor or a teacher, 00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:56.110 a pastor, somebody you should be able to trust 00:11:56.110 --> 00:12:01.470 has harmed you. In some way. Maybe they were 00:12:01.470 --> 00:12:03.129 just having a flesh -flesh because they were 00:12:03.129 --> 00:12:06.309 hungry or angry or lonely or tired. Or it could 00:12:06.309 --> 00:12:09.710 be they just gave in to a temptation to do something 00:12:09.710 --> 00:12:13.029 that they really should never, ever do. Yeah. 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:15.529 When you're talking about temptation, remember 00:12:15.529 --> 00:12:18.889 we listened to, there was an audio. There was 00:12:18.889 --> 00:12:20.970 a little, there was a girl, 14 -year -old girl 00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:24.049 that was spending a lot of time on her phone. 00:12:24.190 --> 00:12:26.440 Yeah. And she was kind of snapped, her little 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.480 brother, and her mom asked her to do something. 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.500 Yeah, it was because they were driving in the 00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:33.980 car and it was raining so torrentially the mom 00:12:33.980 --> 00:12:36.960 could hardly see where she was going. And she 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:42.200 asked the daughter to look on her GPS to be able 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.080 to see where's the exit we're supposed to be 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.340 turning off at. Yeah. And the girl was upset. 00:12:47.820 --> 00:12:52.320 I don't want to. Yeah. And? And then they got 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.220 hit by a truck and then the car went spinning 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:58.120 and screamed and then all of a sudden she's with 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.039 Jesus. And why don't you tell the rest of that? 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.120 Well, she had this experience where Jesus was 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.340 comforting her and she said, am I dead? He said, 00:13:08.460 --> 00:13:11.379 for a little while or something like that. She 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:14.039 actually died for 12 minutes. She died for 12 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.460 minutes. She was clinically dead for 12 minutes. 00:13:21.070 --> 00:13:23.690 This generation, and when I say generation, I'm 00:13:23.690 --> 00:13:26.350 talking about everybody that's alive now. Across 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:28.909 the board. Yeah, everybody that's alive now has 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:32.350 become so overwhelmed with the screen in their 00:13:32.350 --> 00:13:36.049 hand, whether it's their phone or their tablet 00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:40.929 or their PC or whatever, that everyone has become 00:13:40.929 --> 00:13:44.200 so... enamored with their screens and they think 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.440 that they have achieved better connections with 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.220 people when all that's really happening is that 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:54.379 they're becoming more isolated and not able to 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.000 really communicate. And, you know, the Lord sent 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.299 her back with this message to share with other 00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:03.559 people about, hey, put down your screens. Yeah. 00:14:03.620 --> 00:14:06.259 And it was the dark figures. Oh, yes, that's 00:14:06.259 --> 00:14:07.600 right. That would show up. Yeah. And when they're 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.320 looking at something they shouldn't, they just 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.929 dance around like we got them. Yeah. And the 00:14:12.929 --> 00:14:16.509 dark figures were, because they're kind of mesmerized 00:14:16.509 --> 00:14:19.370 by their screens, the dark figures were able 00:14:19.370 --> 00:14:23.490 to put ideas into their heads that they didn't 00:14:23.490 --> 00:14:26.350 have filters for because they were so mesmerized 00:14:26.350 --> 00:14:30.350 by the screens. Wow. What a lesson. Yeah. So 00:14:30.350 --> 00:14:33.610 this is a temptation that pretty much everybody, 00:14:33.870 --> 00:14:36.529 unless you are not into screens, and that's very 00:14:36.529 --> 00:14:39.649 few people these days. I was convicted when I 00:14:39.649 --> 00:14:43.720 saw it. I've already cut way, way back on my 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:45.840 screen time. Yeah, I think her parents did that. 00:14:45.899 --> 00:14:48.259 They cut back on their social media. And then 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:51.159 the dad left his laptop at work when he came 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.399 home. And at dinner time, they put their phones 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.340 in a basket, turned them off. And so they had 00:14:57.340 --> 00:15:00.720 supper as a family, which is the way it used 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.019 to be before TV. Right. It's true. It's true. 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:09.580 So, you know, God is trying to help us. Get some 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:13.820 ideas about the ripple effect, the multiple consequences. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.019 One of the things that Jesus showed this girl 00:15:17.019 --> 00:15:22.019 was he showed her her family together playing 00:15:22.019 --> 00:15:26.139 a game. And he said, this could have been you 00:15:26.139 --> 00:15:30.620 tonight if you had not had the screen in front 00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:33.940 of you. Wow. If she had done what her mother 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:36.899 said, they wouldn't have had the accident. Yeah. 00:15:37.470 --> 00:15:39.509 But Jesus says, I'm giving you another chance. 00:15:39.529 --> 00:15:43.090 Go back and share this message. And she said 00:15:43.090 --> 00:15:45.590 that some of her friends thought she was nuts. 00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:49.250 She lost friends over it. She lost friends over 00:15:49.250 --> 00:15:53.070 it, but others got the conviction in their hearts 00:15:53.070 --> 00:15:57.230 that they could get into line with this. So really, 00:15:57.370 --> 00:16:00.649 God is wanting to restore our relationships with 00:16:00.649 --> 00:16:04.899 each other and with him. Because, you know, the 00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:07.340 more time we spend on our screens, the less time 00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:10.080 we're spending with him, typically. You know, 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:12.360 whatever it is that you're watching, it may be 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.559 perfectly legitimate and okay. But if it's distracting 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:19.860 you, it's keeping you from building relationship 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:24.120 with the Lord. So, you know, this idea of people 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.620 that are hurt, you know, if you were hurt as 00:16:26.620 --> 00:16:29.799 a child by somebody that you should have been 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.419 able to trust. whether they were having a flesh 00:16:32.419 --> 00:16:35.559 flash or whether they were absolutely just down 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.899 the tubes into sin, whatever that is, you know, 00:16:38.899 --> 00:16:42.480 the Lord wants to heal you of that hurt. Because 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.100 what happens is when a child is hurt, traumatized, 00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:51.200 whatever age they are, there's a stunting of 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.299 the growth. There's a stunting of your emotional 00:16:53.299 --> 00:16:56.799 development. You get stuck. So when you get under 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.860 pressure, see these that halt thing when you're 00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:03.000 hungry, angry, lonely, tired, in pain, sick. 00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:06.619 Those are times of pressure. Those are times 00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:12.759 of excess stress that cause you to lose it. You 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.240 know, you're more likely to lose it under those 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.220 circumstances. So if you were hurt as a child 00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:20.359 and you get into those circumstances where you 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.859 get under that kind of pressure, what is your 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:25.490 behavior? Are you behaving like a seven -year 00:17:25.490 --> 00:17:28.349 -old? Are you behaving like a 12 -year -old or 00:17:28.349 --> 00:17:31.269 three -year -old? Are you behaving like, do you 00:17:31.269 --> 00:17:33.769 lose your ability to say anything? Did something 00:17:33.769 --> 00:17:36.410 happen to you before you even learned how to 00:17:36.410 --> 00:17:39.890 talk that got you stuck there? So that when you're 00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:43.990 under pressure, you wind up being unable to communicate. 00:17:44.289 --> 00:17:48.089 You know, it happens. It happens sometimes. So 00:17:48.089 --> 00:17:52.150 the point in this episode is that we look at 00:17:52.150 --> 00:17:56.890 not only what happened to us, but we also look 00:17:56.890 --> 00:18:02.170 inward at what happens when I lose it and hurt 00:18:02.170 --> 00:18:05.269 other people. It's about getting the grace of 00:18:05.269 --> 00:18:10.349 God to overcome temptation and to overcome the 00:18:10.349 --> 00:18:14.269 flesh flashes, you know, those areas where we 00:18:14.269 --> 00:18:18.160 just lost it, you know. So remember in a recent 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.859 episode with Richard from New Zealand, he used 00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:24.440 this expression, and we've said it before ourselves, 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:29.599 hurt people hurt people. So when you're hurt, 00:18:29.700 --> 00:18:32.279 when you have been violated in some way, when 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:37.180 you're hurt, when you've been wounded, it causes 00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:41.940 this disquiet inside of you that causes you to 00:18:41.940 --> 00:18:45.259 be more likely to hurt others. Yeah. So God wants 00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:48.539 to heal you and he wants to heal the hurts, but 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:50.660 he also wants to give you the grace to forgive. 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.140 I had a conversation recently with someone who 00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:58.079 was saying, you know, I was so hurt by, and she 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.500 mentioned family members. I was so hurt by them 00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:04.660 and I'm just still so hurt. I've forgiven them, 00:19:04.779 --> 00:19:09.720 but I'm still so hurt. And that reminded me of 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.990 my own experience. And I was able to share this 00:19:12.990 --> 00:19:16.490 with her where I experienced hurt in my life 00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:20.369 from a family member. And I was ministered to 00:19:20.369 --> 00:19:25.470 in just a tremendously high anointed place that 00:19:25.470 --> 00:19:27.630 the Holy Spirit was moving in a tremendous way. 00:19:27.750 --> 00:19:31.470 And it was ministered to me that this hurt was 00:19:31.470 --> 00:19:35.430 so deep in me that it wasn't just going to be 00:19:35.430 --> 00:19:39.869 healed in a moment, but it was going to take 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:45.799 six weeks. for that hurt to be healed. And it 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.579 was like after that ministry to me, it was like 00:19:49.579 --> 00:19:52.119 I had amnesia. I completely forgot about the 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.640 hurt. And it's not like it's something I dwelled 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.400 on, but it was something that was deep inside 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:02.000 of me that was still affecting me at certain 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.519 points. So for those next six weeks, I was just 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:09.079 busy with other things, didn't think about it. 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:11.380 And at the end of the six weeks, it was kind 00:20:11.380 --> 00:20:15.180 of like I woke up. And I thought, oh, I haven't 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:17.500 thought about that in a long time. I wonder if 00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:20.599 it's been six weeks yet. And I counted it back, 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.240 and sure enough, it had been six weeks. And then 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.559 I thought about the incident that had hurt me 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.140 so much, or the incidents and the person, and 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:33.319 it was like I could remember the incidents, but 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:35.819 it didn't hurt anymore. It didn't make me cry 00:20:35.819 --> 00:20:40.759 anymore. And that is the goal that the Lord wants 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.500 us to get healed in those things. But he also 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:50.799 wants us to understand as we are going through 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.039 our life and our processes, when we are tempted 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:57.859 to do something, we need to really think about 00:20:57.859 --> 00:21:00.940 that cause and effect thing. What happens when 00:21:00.940 --> 00:21:07.569 we lose it? Because you reap what you sow. 7 00:21:07.569 --> 00:21:11.529 through 10 say, Make no mistake, God can't be 00:21:11.529 --> 00:21:15.069 mocked. What you give is what you get. When you 00:21:15.069 --> 00:21:18.329 sow, you harvest. Those who sow seeds into their 00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:21.049 flesh will only harvest destruction from their 00:21:21.049 --> 00:21:24.210 sinful nature. Yeah, that's it. But those who 00:21:24.210 --> 00:21:27.250 sow seeds into the Spirit shall harvest everlasting 00:21:27.250 --> 00:21:30.829 life from the Spirit. May we never tire of doing 00:21:30.829 --> 00:21:33.009 what is good and right before our Lord, because 00:21:33.009 --> 00:21:36.210 in His season we shall bring in a great harvest. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.559 If we can just persist. That's it. So seize any 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.400 opportunity the Lord gives you to do good things 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.660 and be a blessing to everyone, especially those 00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:50.200 within our faithful family. Yeah. If we can just 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.119 persist. And what translation is that? That is 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.880 the voice translation. The voice. Yeah. It's 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.220 a good translation. It's one of the messianic 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:02.480 translations. Oh, okay. So if you can just persist. 00:22:02.579 --> 00:22:06.579 I love that saying. If you don't quit, you win. 00:22:06.900 --> 00:22:09.539 You're going to win if you just don't quit. You 00:22:09.539 --> 00:22:13.779 got to keep persisting. Don't quit. Don't quit. 00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:17.740 So these ideas, there's a few stories in the 00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:22.480 Bible that give us an understanding of the ripple 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.859 effect of when we give into temptation. So you've 00:22:25.859 --> 00:22:28.599 got, obviously, the first one you come to is 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.759 Eve in the Garden of Eden. And you got this, 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:39.720 you got this. And he's busy talking and planting 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:50.440 seeds. Seeds of doubt. Seeds of disobedience. 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:58.180 You know? You're a great radio person. I wish 00:22:58.180 --> 00:23:01.480 the listeners could see. You can see what I'm 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:05.759 looking at. It's really good. On one of these 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:09.039 days, we'll do video. But anyway, you know, he 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.680 was continuously tempting her and coming at her 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.960 day after day after day, making these suggestions 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:22.319 of, you know, God didn't really mean what he 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:29.269 said. What he said. And eventually... You believe 00:23:29.269 --> 00:23:32.809 it. She got thinking about it. It wasn't in a 00:23:32.809 --> 00:23:35.529 moment. It wasn't in just that one suggestion. 00:23:36.150 --> 00:23:38.690 Yeah, this was going on for a while. It probably 00:23:38.690 --> 00:23:40.690 went on for quite a while. You read in the Bible, 00:23:40.829 --> 00:23:43.849 you know, and you think that just happened this 00:23:43.849 --> 00:23:46.369 time. Yeah. No, this was going on for a while. 00:23:46.470 --> 00:23:54.609 It was a continuous suggestion. Yeah, and you 00:23:54.609 --> 00:23:58.259 listen long enough. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah, 00:23:58.299 --> 00:24:00.720 and what that does is it plants seeds of doubt 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:06.079 that make you think outside the box of what you've 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:09.119 been taught, makes you think outside of what 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.119 the Word says God said. You know, God said, God 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.660 said, God said, don't eat of it. But she went 00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.740 on, she'd probably been taught by Adam, because 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:22.500 it was Adam that heard from God, don't eat it. 00:24:22.579 --> 00:24:25.059 He said to her, don't even touch it, because 00:24:25.059 --> 00:24:27.400 if you don't touch it, you won't eat it. Right. 00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:29.799 It's kind of adding to what God said. He just 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:32.220 said, don't eat it. But if you don't touch it, 00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:36.779 you'll never eat it. So she was considering and 00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:39.460 thinking about it and thinking about it and looking 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:43.799 at it. And it does look appealing. It does look 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:46.279 like something I should try. I would like to 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:50.440 be wise like God. Yeah, I think I should do this. 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.380 And she did it and she gave it to Adam. And Adam 00:24:54.380 --> 00:24:56.299 was the one who had heard it from God. Don't 00:24:56.299 --> 00:25:01.240 do it. But he loved her. And sometimes we do 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:04.000 stupid things because of love. Things we know 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.220 better. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't compromise. 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:13.019 But the whole point is she gave in and look at 00:25:13.019 --> 00:25:15.819 the ripple effect. It's still affecting us today. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:21.500 We are having flash flashes now because Eve gave 00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:25.779 in to that. That thing that was constantly after 00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:28.779 her, constantly making suggestions. And that's 00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:32.079 where you have to get so enamored with the word 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:35.700 and in love with our Father. Jesus said, if you 00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:40.400 love me, keep my commandments. So obedience out 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:44.680 of love is a joy. When you come to a place where 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.500 you're tempted to do something and you make that 00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:50.880 decision, no, the Bible says I shouldn't do this. 00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:56.640 I'm not going to do it. End of story. And you 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.539 say that enough times and it stops. That reminds 00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:03.680 me of a situation that I had where the accuser 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:06.240 of the Brethren was speaking to me about our 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.299 founder, Sister Gwen, and it happened when I 00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:11.750 was tired. The end of the day, I'd put our daughter 00:26:11.750 --> 00:26:15.450 to bed. Phillip had gone to bed already. And 00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:18.390 I was, you know, it just it takes a woman longer 00:26:18.390 --> 00:26:20.930 to wind down. There's just things you think you 00:26:20.930 --> 00:26:23.910 got to do and da da da da da. And I'm tired. 00:26:24.470 --> 00:26:28.470 And the accuser is whispering to me about Sister 00:26:28.470 --> 00:26:31.509 Gwen's talking about you behind your back. Sister 00:26:31.509 --> 00:26:33.789 Gwen's talking about you behind your back. She's 00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:35.650 saying things that she shouldn't be saying about 00:26:35.650 --> 00:26:38.599 you. She's telling things. And I'd get angry, 00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:41.559 and I'd get upset, and I'd go to bed. And you'd 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:43.960 go to bed that way. I went to bed angry. And 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.880 then the next morning, she would greet me lovingly 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:51.559 and smiling, and I'm thinking, hmm, is that really 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:54.700 true? And this went on for some time. I don't 00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:58.140 remember how long. But all of a sudden, one night, 00:26:58.259 --> 00:27:04.210 it was like, oh, I know who this is. This is 00:27:04.210 --> 00:27:07.769 the accuser of the brethren. And I responded 00:27:07.769 --> 00:27:10.509 to him and I said, I am too tired to listen to 00:27:10.509 --> 00:27:15.009 this. And I stopped listening and I stopped taking 00:27:15.009 --> 00:27:17.230 it into my head. And it wasn't more than two 00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:19.869 or three nights that he tried it again. And it 00:27:19.869 --> 00:27:25.750 stopped. Wow. You just have to say no. No. This 00:27:25.750 --> 00:27:30.609 is not true. And even if it was true, even if 00:27:30.609 --> 00:27:35.960 it was true. My offense hurts me. Taking offense 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:40.160 hurts me. When you take offense and you get angry 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.000 with a person and you just hold on to that and 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.900 you hold on to that grudge, it's like drinking 00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:47.400 poison, hoping the other person will die. Yeah. 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.380 It's a good expression. Does not work. It's not 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:54.259 true. So, you know, there was a tremendous ripple 00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:58.799 effect from Eve doing what she did. Okay. And 00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:02.500 Adam too. And then we have Joshua 7. where you 00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:05.960 have the story of the Battle of Jericho. And 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:09.299 God told, I think it was in chapter 6, God told 00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:13.440 them that you're not to touch anything. This 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:19.240 whole thing is cursed. And it was like, I really 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:21.359 believe what God was, the big picture of this 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.319 was that this is the first city you're going 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.339 to deal with. This is a first fruits thing. And 00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:30.680 everything belongs to God. It's all supposed 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.240 to be devoted to God, and he spells it out. Silver 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.980 and gold is to come into the treasuries, and 00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:39.460 everything that's the booty, everything that's 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:43.680 the spoils, belongs to God. Don't touch it. Don't 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:47.190 take it. And then... You know, in the next chapter, 00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:50.410 they're having this battle against another town, 00:28:50.509 --> 00:28:53.569 and it's smaller. Whether you pronounce it I 00:28:53.569 --> 00:28:56.990 or whether you pronounce it AI. AI is another 00:28:56.990 --> 00:29:01.650 thing. So they thought, ah, this is simple. Let's 00:29:01.650 --> 00:29:05.450 just take a small company. Well, they didn't 00:29:05.450 --> 00:29:09.089 win. And something like, was it 36? 36, yeah, 00:29:09.150 --> 00:29:12.250 they got killed. Yeah. And then they're running 00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:14.750 for their lives. Like, what happened to our protection? 00:29:15.410 --> 00:29:19.930 Exactly. What weapons did they have? I don't 00:29:19.930 --> 00:29:22.430 know what weapons they had. They came out of 00:29:22.430 --> 00:29:24.930 Egypt. Yeah. And they've been traveling for some 00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:26.609 years. Well, they had had some battles before, 00:29:26.670 --> 00:29:28.849 so they probably had gathered some from their 00:29:28.849 --> 00:29:31.509 enemies previously. But anyway, the point is 00:29:31.509 --> 00:29:35.009 that Joshua was on his face before God, weeping, 00:29:35.009 --> 00:29:37.769 you know, word about this is going to get out, 00:29:37.869 --> 00:29:42.509 and we're toast. And God said, quit your crying. 00:29:42.630 --> 00:29:47.480 There's sin in the camp. And so they looked into 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.119 what the problem was, and it turns out that this 00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:54.160 guy named Achan, whose name means troubler. Yeah, 00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:59.279 he's a troublemaker. He finally confesses that 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:04.279 he was tempted by this beautiful garment. It 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:06.599 could have been a robe or a mantle. It could 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:11.279 have been a tapestry from Shinar, Babylonian 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.400 area. And he was tempted by gold and silver. 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.579 And God said, that all belongs to me. And he 00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:21.839 took it to himself. He buried the treasure in 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.700 his tent. So that makes me think that his family 00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:28.920 must have known. And that's why they also had 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.359 to be destroyed with him, because they were just 00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:35.900 as guilty. You know, guilt by association, but 00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:40.759 they were part of it. So there's long -lasting 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:45.599 effects. from this troubler. Yeah, it says Israel 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.059 has sinned, and they have also transgressed my 00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:52.220 covenant. Exactly. So that's what God said. There's 00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:55.140 sin in the camp, and it says in verse 1 of Joshua 00:30:55.140 --> 00:30:59.279 7, but the children of Israel committed a trespass 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.200 regarding the cursed things. So God is holding 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.759 the entire nation for one person's guilt. Yeah. 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.920 Wow. So when we're being tempted, And we all 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:14.359 get tempted. Come on. We all get tempted to do 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.700 things we shouldn't do. When you get tempted, 00:31:17.819 --> 00:31:21.359 you need to start thinking about the ripple effect. 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.779 It's one thing if I do this one thing myself, 00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:28.019 but it's not only going to be me that's affected. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.819 It's going to affect my family. It's going to 00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:35.980 affect my future. Aiken, his whole family went 00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:40.960 down. His whole family were killed. There's nobody 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.420 in the scripture that's the son of Achan that 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:47.599 lives on. All the generations were wiped out. 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.119 They're all wiped out, the whole family. So there's 00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:57.180 no continuing family. So when we choose to do 00:31:57.180 --> 00:31:59.599 something we shouldn't do, there's an effect 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.140 on our family, there's an effect on our future, 00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.160 and there can be an effect on the whole nation. 00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:09.250 Yeah. He was just one person doing one thing 00:32:09.250 --> 00:32:11.809 that he shouldn't do, but it affected the whole 00:32:11.809 --> 00:32:16.470 nation. 36 people died, okay? Those 36 people 00:32:16.470 --> 00:32:20.750 might have been fathers of children in the future 00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:24.950 if they had lived. Yeah, sure. So it's making 00:32:24.950 --> 00:32:31.809 an effect on more than just you. Think about 00:32:31.809 --> 00:32:34.910 that when you're being tempted. So let's look 00:32:34.910 --> 00:32:38.289 at David. with Bathsheba. So David's sin with 00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:44.329 Bathsheba led into murder. He had Bathsheba's 00:32:44.329 --> 00:32:47.289 husband killed so that he could make it look 00:32:47.289 --> 00:32:51.309 like she got pregnant from him instead of from 00:32:51.309 --> 00:32:55.690 David, right? He was trying to get Bathsheba's 00:32:55.690 --> 00:32:59.059 husband to go spend time with his wife. And he 00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:01.960 wouldn't do it. He was too loyal. He said, the 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.759 armies of Israel don't get to be with their wives. 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.400 It's not fair for me to get time with mine. And 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.420 in the beginning of the scripture, it says it 00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:14.079 was at the time when kings go to war. Yeah, he 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.359 should have been there. He should have been there. 00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:21.180 His eyes went someplace they shouldn't have been. 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.440 He already had a wife. He had several wives. 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.839 Right. Yeah, really. But here's what was unleashed. 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.740 What was unleashed by his sin is one of his sons, 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.960 Amnon, begins lusting after his half -sister, 00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:43.180 Tamar. And he ends up raping her. Right. So here 00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:48.200 is illicit sex going on from dad, and it's affecting 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.920 his son. The spirit was unleashed into his household. 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.789 Okay? Yeah. And the spirit of murder was unleashed 00:33:55.789 --> 00:33:59.990 into his household when he had Uriah the Hittite, 00:34:00.069 --> 00:34:03.190 Bathsheba's husband, killed. Had him at the front 00:34:03.190 --> 00:34:06.950 line where the battle was hot. Yeah. So I'm surmising 00:34:06.950 --> 00:34:11.969 that because David already had this guilt over 00:34:11.969 --> 00:34:16.949 taking Bathsheba as his wife, that he didn't 00:34:16.949 --> 00:34:20.260 deal with Amnon. because, you know, he's feeling 00:34:20.260 --> 00:34:23.199 kind of guilty. You know, how can I deal with 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:26.659 him when I did the same thing? Okay. So then 00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:30.480 Absalom takes matters into his own hands to murder 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:33.559 his brother for what he did to his sister. And 00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:38.440 then Absalom eventually winds up raising an insurrection 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:41.820 against his father and then losing his life. 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:46.340 So David's sin with Bathsheba. It just legally 00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:50.860 opened, spiritually opened up an open door. Exactly. 00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:55.659 Exactly. So the Lord wants to give us the grace 00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:59.719 to obey him. And it comes by walking in the spirit. 00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:03.380 Galatians 5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in 00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:06.119 the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:11.099 of the flesh. Those desires of the flesh are 00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:15.250 overcome as we walk in the spirit. Yeah, we keep 00:35:15.250 --> 00:35:18.769 our focus. Yeah. So the Passion Translation gives 00:35:18.769 --> 00:35:24.210 us some help on this subject. In James 1, verses 00:35:24.210 --> 00:35:26.710 12 to 27, Philip, would you read that, please? 00:35:27.150 --> 00:35:30.010 If your faith remains strong while surrounded 00:35:30.010 --> 00:35:33.610 by life's difficulties, you'll continue to experience 00:35:33.610 --> 00:35:37.510 the untold blessings of God. True happiness comes 00:35:37.510 --> 00:35:40.530 as you pass the test with faith. and receive 00:35:40.530 --> 00:35:43.449 the victorious crown of life promised to every 00:35:43.449 --> 00:35:46.789 lover of God. When you are tempted, don't ever 00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:50.010 say, God is tempting me. For God is incapable 00:35:50.010 --> 00:35:53.170 of being tempted by evil and he is never the 00:35:53.170 --> 00:35:57.230 source of temptation. Instead, it is each person's 00:35:57.230 --> 00:35:59.510 own desires and thoughts that drag them into 00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:03.610 evil and lure them away into darkness. Evil desires 00:36:03.610 --> 00:36:07.230 give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully 00:36:07.230 --> 00:36:10.590 mature, it can murder you. So, my friends, don't 00:36:10.590 --> 00:36:13.949 be fooled by your own desires. Every gift God 00:36:13.949 --> 00:36:16.789 freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming 00:36:16.789 --> 00:36:19.409 down from the Father of lights, who shines from 00:36:19.409 --> 00:36:22.250 the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness 00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:26.570 and is never subject to change. God was delighted 00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.389 to give us birth by the truth of his infallible 00:36:29.389 --> 00:36:32.510 word, so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny 00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:35.610 for us and become the favored ones out of all 00:36:35.610 --> 00:36:39.030 his creation. So we're designed by our Father 00:36:39.030 --> 00:36:45.010 to walk with Him, to walk with His Spirit, to 00:36:45.010 --> 00:36:52.010 let His engrafted Word work on our flesh so that 00:36:52.010 --> 00:36:55.530 we surrender. We surrender our flesh to Him. 00:36:55.769 --> 00:36:59.670 We give it to Him. We take of the grace that 00:36:59.670 --> 00:37:02.130 comes from His Word. We take of the grace that 00:37:02.130 --> 00:37:06.000 comes from His presence. that comes when we're 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.239 worshiping him, when we're in fellowship with 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.199 him. That grace will help us to say no to temptation, 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.960 to say no to sin, and to say no to the hurts 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:23.139 that we've received from others. You know, when 00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:28.280 Jesus was on the cross, Isaiah 53 talks about 00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:31.539 He was wounded for our transgressions. He was 00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:34.000 bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:38.079 of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:41.619 we're healed. Those wounds are every kind of 00:37:41.619 --> 00:37:45.440 wound. And the grief that he bore, surely he 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.300 bore our grief and carried our sorrow. So anything 00:37:49.300 --> 00:37:53.019 that we take from him, as we understand it, we 00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:57.480 take salvation. Because we know that he has done 00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.860 it on the cross. He has paid for it on the cross. 00:38:00.139 --> 00:38:04.900 All of these things he's paid for. So maybe you've 00:38:04.900 --> 00:38:09.980 just experienced his salvation, his knowing that 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:13.440 you can be saved because of what he paid for. 00:38:13.619 --> 00:38:16.380 But all of these things were paid for. Maybe 00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:18.480 you haven't even experienced that. Maybe you're 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.820 saying, I need to get saved. Kind of like when 00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:26.179 you started a 21 -day fast and you're three days 00:38:26.179 --> 00:38:29.460 into it and realize, I got to get saved. Okay, 00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:32.360 maybe you haven't even been born again yet. All 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:35.920 of these things were paid for, including being 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.059 healed of wounds that we've received, including 00:38:39.059 --> 00:38:44.489 having him come into our lives so that The one 00:38:44.489 --> 00:38:46.650 who said from the cross, Father, forgive them, 00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:50.090 they know not what they do. His grace to be able 00:38:50.090 --> 00:38:52.929 to say, Father, forgive them, comes into us to 00:38:52.929 --> 00:38:56.789 enable us to say, Father, forgive them, and I 00:38:56.789 --> 00:39:00.190 forgive them. I give this to you. I release them. 00:39:00.309 --> 00:39:03.449 I release them from the hurt and the pain that 00:39:03.449 --> 00:39:07.090 they caused me, and I receive of your healing 00:39:07.090 --> 00:39:11.869 virtue. And all of the stuff that was lost in 00:39:11.869 --> 00:39:14.869 the time from the time that you got hurt, and 00:39:14.869 --> 00:39:17.349 maybe it was as a child, from the time you got 00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:22.230 hurt until now, all of that lost time, he can 00:39:22.230 --> 00:39:27.110 restore. He can restore you like he did for me 00:39:27.110 --> 00:39:30.869 in those six weeks of not even thinking about 00:39:30.869 --> 00:39:35.150 it. And he healed me of the pain. The pain was 00:39:35.150 --> 00:39:38.239 gone. I did not. have any reason to cry anymore. 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:42.719 It was healed. I had already forgiven, but I 00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.539 was healed. And the Lord wants to do that for 00:39:45.539 --> 00:39:49.139 you today to give you the grace to forgive and 00:39:49.139 --> 00:39:51.840 to heal from hurts and to give you the grace 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:56.159 to overcome temptation. Because our Father is 00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.099 not the one that's tempting us, but the temptation 00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:03.119 is coming to us to really check us out if we're 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.940 going to follow the Lord or not. And so it's 00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:10.659 time to walk down a different street and not 00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:14.619 give in to that place where we've fallen and 00:40:14.619 --> 00:40:18.519 fallen and fallen. And the Lord helps us out 00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:22.820 every time. It's time for us to walk where we 00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:25.960 don't even go down that street anymore. So, Father, 00:40:26.059 --> 00:40:28.179 in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank 00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:30.599 you for the grace that comes from your Spirit. 00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:36.300 to enable us to receive this healing virtue and 00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:40.199 this healing that comes deep into our souls where 00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.980 we've been wounded, where we've been wounded 00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:46.639 even by what Adam and Eve did back in the Garden 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:49.820 of Eden. Lord, that wounding that has come down 00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:53.599 all through our DNA, all these many generations, 00:40:54.059 --> 00:40:59.519 you Jesus paid the price for us to be able to 00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:02.920 walk away from temptation and say, nope. not 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.679 for me. I'm not going there. That is not the 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:10.199 real me. The real me is my spirit. The real me 00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:13.000 is wedded to the Holy Spirit. I'm one with the 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.820 Holy Spirit, and I'm going to walk in the spirit 00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:18.559 and not in the flesh. Lord, we thank you for 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:21.380 that great grace being released to our listeners 00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:24.920 right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:31.849 Receive that healing now. Just receive. Just 00:41:31.849 --> 00:41:33.710 receive. It's kind of like somebody offering 00:41:33.710 --> 00:41:35.570 you a plate of cookies. You just reach out and 00:41:35.570 --> 00:41:39.309 you take one. Thank you, Father. We thank you 00:41:39.309 --> 00:41:44.429 for this great grace. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. 00:41:49.110 --> 00:41:52.349 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, 00:41:52.670 --> 00:41:55.630 rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts 00:41:55.630 --> 00:41:58.489 or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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