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by. And so we're coming to our subject today,
not being sin conscious, but being relationship
conscious. This has kind of been a how shall
I say, it's not a thorn in my flesh or anything
like that, but something that's bothered me in
the scripture that I, you know, when we have
these difficulties understanding something that's
written there and our flesh goes, no, that's
not true. We did a recent episode about the consequences
of sin. Because the consequences, they're like
a ripple effect that go out among others around
you. That your sin that you do yourself isn't
just affecting you. And it's not just affecting
your relationship with God. It affects other
people because you're allowing some darkness
in and affects others. So one of the scriptures
that has bothered me for... oh, probably decades,
is Psalm 51, 4, where David is confessing his
sin and he's repenting from his sin of having
had an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba,
his neighbor's wife, and his neighbor Uriah,
who was one of his mighty men. Sent him to the
front line purposely to get him killed. Yeah,
yeah. Basically, Uriah's blood was on David's
hands, really. So in this verse, David is saying
against you, he's talking to God, against you,
you only have I sinned and done this evil in
your sight that you may be found just when you
speak and blameless when you judge. And that
just irked me that no. David, you're not seeing
the big picture. This is hurting a whole lot
of people. And the ripple effect was huge. We
didn't mention it. We talked about this subject
in that previous podcast. But we didn't talk
about the fact that Ahithophel, who was one of
David's counselors, turned on him because he
was bitter and angry at David because Bathsheba
was his granddaughter. So that's why he sided
with... Absalom. When Absalom revolted against
his father. It gave a legal right for that to
happen. Exactly. All of these things were a ripple
effect. But now David has been saying in the
scripture, I've only sinned against you, God.
And only you. Only you. And that just always
bothered me. But then I ran across a scripture
recently. that helped me to begin to understand.
And now, you know, maybe you've always gotten
this, but I didn't. So I'm just going to go off
of... Well, we just didn't think as deep as you.
No, but I mean, I didn't, I didn't, I just couldn't
get it. But now I'm beginning to get it because
I came across Leviticus chapter 6, verses 2 to
7, that talks about trespassing or sinning against
a neighbor. and that it's really a trespass against
God. So it says in Leviticus 6, 2 -7, do you
want to read that? If a person sins and commits
a trespass against the Lord by lying to his neighbor
about what was delivered to him for safekeeping,
or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if
he has extorted from his neighbor, or if he has
found what was lost and lies concerning it and
swears falsely, In any one of these things that
a man may do in which he sins, then it shall
be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that
he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing
which he has extorted, or what was delivered
to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which
he found, or all that about which he has sworn
falsely. He shall restore its full value. Add
one -fifth more to it, and give it to whoever
it belongs on the day of his trespass offering.
And he shall bring his trespass offering to the
Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, with
your valuation as a trespass offering to the
priest. So the priest shall make atonement for
him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven
for any one of these things that he may have
done in which he trespasses. Okay, so here's
how it began to come to me. Like, this is obviously
a trespass against a person. But it says at the
beginning, if a person sins and commits a trespass
against the Lord, well, the dots connected in
that moment. And I began to realize, hey, our
sins, regardless of whom we sin against, our
sins are really Against the Lord, because he
gave us the rules. So if we're doing something
against the rules, and when I say rules, I'm
talking about the instructions that God gave
us in his word. Because God said, if you'll do
these things, you're going to be blessed. Everything's
going to go well for you because you're doing
these things. And here's some things you don't
do. So don't do those things. Do these things
and everything's going to go well for you. But
when you choose to do something that is contrary
to his word, something that's contrary to the
instructions, like let's just take it back to
the Garden of Eden. I was studying this the other
day also that, you know, when God uses double
words, It's really significant in the scripture.
And we don't get it usually in the English interpretation.
But if you go back into Genesis, where God is
giving instructions to Adam, he says, of all
the trees, you may freely eat. That's how it's
translated into English. But in the Hebrew, it
would be more accurate to translate it, eating
you shall eat. And then he goes on in the next
verse and says, but don't eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Don't eat of
that fruit. Because in the day that you eat of
it. You shall surely die. You shall surely die
is how it's been translated for us. But from
the Hebrew, it would be more accurate to say,
dying you shall die. See, that was one of those
other things that bothered me. from my youth.
You know, if God said, you shall surely die,
didn't he mean you're going to drop dead on the
spot? You know, that's what I thought it should
mean. But he didn't drop dead. But dying, he
began to die. The process began in that moment.
And in that moment, he realized, oh, I'm naked.
Oh, the glory has departed. It's like when a
body starts shutting down, you know, like organ
at a time and all that. It's a process and it
takes a while. Right, right. And it took over
900 years for Adam. Dying, you shall die. But
God's intent was because he had also given them
instructions to reproduce. And so in order for
them to complete. Those instructions that he
gave them, he had to let the dying process go
for a long time so that more generations would
come forth and mankind would exist. Because if
he dropped dead on the spot, God would have to
start over and make another man out of mud. Another
mud ball. So anyway, the thing that didn't enter
my heart until now is that when we choose to
disobey, We're actually hurting our Father. We're
trespassing against Him. We're sinning against
Him. Now, I have been thinking, and I understand
this principle from Isaiah 52, verse 2. In the
King James, it says, But your iniquities have
separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid His face from you that He will
not hear. And in the margin, it says, have made
him hide his face from you but in the literal
translations like young's literal translation
it says but your iniquities have been separating
between you and your god and your sins have hidden
the presence from you from here yeah so you know
when the presence of god leaves you when you've
done something yeah well that that was part of
what david prayed in that Psalm that we started
with in Psalm 51, take not your Holy Spirit from
me. May have already happened. And then Nathan
just confirmed it when he came in and gave him
the word. Yeah. You know. Yeah. So let's go on
to talk about that. Yeah. I want to mention too,
before this happened with Bathsheba, because
you write in the first chapter, I mean, you read
that at the time when kings go to battle. True.
So David should have been in the battle. You
know, because he lost, maybe he was just, I don't
know. We don't know why he didn't go. We don't
know why he didn't go. It could be another reason,
but he got set up. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. He
wasn't where he should have been. I mean, he
can be out on your porch, but don't go looking
down into your neighbor's window. Right. And
apparently she must have had a very big window.
I don't know. I think she was on the rooftop.
On the rooftop? And he had a higher roof. Oh,
wow. I think that's how it was. So before we
go into the story, I want to emphasize that as
we're talking about this, we need to think of
God as our father. If you are a parent or if
you have had good parents, knowing that God is
our father should help you feel what he feels.
Like the golden rule. that we learned as children,
do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. It's from Matthew 7, 12. Treat other people
like you want to be treated. Yeah. Okay. Now
think in terms of parenthood. As a parent, think
about how you feel when your children disobey
you. And think about how your father feels when
you disobey his word. You know, sometimes a parent
wants to just shut themselves away and cry at
the disobedience of their children, especially
as they get older. You know, I taught you better
than that. Why are you doing this? You know,
and especially as your children get older, you
have to give them some space. You can tell them,
The right thing to do, you can, probably the
best thing to do is, if they're teachable, is,
well, let's look at your choices. Tell me what
you think based on your choices and teach them
wisdom. Teach them how to make a wise decision
rather than telling them what to do, right? But
God does that for us. He teaches us from his
word how to make good decisions. So anyway, let's
go back and talk about God's dealings with David.
2 Samuel 12, 13 to 25. Would you like to read
that? So David said to Nathan, I have sinned
against the Lord. Yeah, this is after Nathan
has confronted him about his sin. You're the
man. Yeah. And Nathan said to David, the Lord
also has put away your sin. You shall not die.
And I'll add there, according to Old Testament
law, you know, you commit adultery. Yeah, you
should die. You should be stoned, right? Yeah.
Can't think about stoning the king. However,
verse 14, Stop and to think about that. Your
deed has given great occasion to the enemies
of the Lord to blaspheme. Think about that in
terms of, okay, so you've got the enemies that
are In the physical realm. But you also have
these enemies that are in the demonic realm.
The demonic realm, yeah. And it's given them
great delight. Yeah. And that loosed the spirit
of sexual immorality in David's house. Yeah.
So that Amnon went after Tamar. Tamar, yeah.
And it loosed murder in Absalom that he would
kill his brother for having raped his sister.
And, you know, all of these demonic things were
released. And Nathan points that out. But at
the same time, David is saying against you, you
only have I sinned. But David says, I have sinned
against the Lord. And Nathan says, I've put away
your sin. The Lord has also put away your sin.
You shall not die. However, because by this deed
you have given great occasion to the enemies
of the Lord to blaspheme the child, also who
is born to you shall surely die. Then Nathan
departed to his house, and the Lord struck the
child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it
became ill. Okay, let's stop there. The Lord
struck the child. Yeah. We've been taught that
God doesn't cause disease. Because this is a
child out of wedlock. Exactly. This is the fruit
of disobedience. This is the fruit of sin. This
is the fruit of, I mean, you've got adultery,
and you've got... David trying to hide it by
bringing Uriah back from the battle and sending
him to his wife, he thinks. But Uriah wouldn't
do that. So then he sends him out to be killed.
So the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife
bore to David. Look at that phrase, Uriah's wife
bore to David. And just go ahead and read the
next little part. David therefore pleaded with
God for the child, and David fasted and went
in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders
of his house arose to him to raise him up from
the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat
food with them. Then on the seventh day it came
to pass that the child died, and the servants
of David were afraid to tell him that the child
was dead. For they said, Indeed, while the child
was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not
hear our voice. How can we tell him that the
child is dead? He may do some harm. When David
saw that his servants were whispering, David
perceived that the child was dead. Therefore
David said to his servants, Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead. So David arose from
the ground, washed and anointed himself, and
changed his clothes, and he went into the house
of the Lord and worshiped. Wow, look at that.
Yeah. And he knew why. Yeah. He knew. That the
Lord was right in doing what he did. Remember
what he said at the beginning of this in that
Psalm 51 .4, that you may be found just when
you speak and blameless when you judge. He knew
that God was right in what he did. He was just
begging for mercy. Then he went to his own house,
and when he requested, they set food before him,
and he ate. Then the servants said to him, What
is this that you've done? You fasted and wept
for the child while he was yet alive, but when
the child died, you rose and ate food. And he
said, While the child was alive, I fasted and
wept. For I said, Who can tell whether the Lord
will be gracious to me that the child may live?
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I
bring him back again? I shall go to him, but
he shall not return to me. Isn't that amazing?
He understood what it is like to be an intercessor.
He was begging God. Please have mercy. Yeah.
And God had mercy on him. God had mercy, big
mercy on him. But he recognized there might be
a chance. You know, when he numbered the people,
he said, I'd rather fall into the hands of God
than into the hands of men. Yeah. So he understands
he has a relationship with his heavenly father.
He has a relationship with God. Yeah. So we don't
know how much time goes by between verse 23 and
verse 24. But read verse 24 and 25. Then David
comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and went into
her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and
he called his name Solomon. Now the Lord loved
him, and he sent word by the hand of Nathan the
prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah because
of the Lord. This is very interesting because
this is the only time you'll see this in Scripture.
Yeah. I love how it says that David comforted
Bathsheba, his wife, after that baby that was
born out of wedlock died. So now it's a legit...
Yes. Now we have Bathsheba as David's wife. She's
no longer Uriah's wife. She's now David's wife.
And as David's wife, she can be the mother of
the next king. And just as a side note, Ahithophel,
her grandfather, was one of the wisest men ever.
And so that's where Solomon got the DNA of wisdom.
Interesting. That, of course, God embellished.
God made it bigger. God made it better. Because
this is a union of the granddaughter of a very,
very wise man and her husband, David. is a man
after God's own heart. So those two sets of DNA
together could make Solomon the wisest man in
the world. Unfortunately, he wasn't so wise when
it came to foreign wives. And that kind of goofed
things up for him. And I think a lot of these
wives were gifts, too. Oh, that could be. A lot
of them were gifts. I'm giving you my wife because...
I'm giving you my daughter. Daughter. It doesn't
mean that he had any relation, sexual relation
with them. He probably did. Yeah. Moving right
along. But those were political marriages. And
because of being political marriages, and it
says in another place that Solomon loved many
foreign women. Okay. So he was loving them. But
that's really not where we're going with this
story. Let's go back to where we were. So the
Lord sent word, it says in verse 24, that David
called, the child Solomon. And in Hebrew, that
name is Shlomo. Shlomo, yeah. It sounds a little
funny to us because we're used to Solomon. Yeah.
But Shlomo. Sounds Yiddish almost or something.
Yeah. Hey, Shlomo, come here. Shlomo means peace
or peaceful or peaceable. he was all about peace.
And actually, Absalom was intended to be a peaceful
man too, but he didn't end up being that. David
was trying to bring peace into his house, really,
because he had been a man of war all along, and
he was still being a man of war. But Absalom
also means, my father is peace. So David was
trying to present himself as a peaceable king.
Yeah. So anyway. Interesting. So Solomon is given
the name by David, and it says that the Lord
loved him. Yehovah, the God of David, loved this
baby, loved this child. And he sent word by the
hand of Nathan the prophet. So he called his
name, he meaning. God called his name. You could
say Jedidiah, that's anglicized, but it's probably
Yedidiyah. And it means beloved of Yehovah or
beloved of Yah. Gezaniah says the delight or
the friend of Jehovah or Yehovah. Yedid means
beloved or friend. So it was intended by our
father that Solomon. the one that came after
David's sin with Bathsheba, that Solomon would
be his friend. And he started out really well.
Started out well. The Lord appeared to him. Yeah,
yeah. And because you didn't ask me for riches
and silver and that for wisdom, how do I lead
this people? Right, right. Wow. But he didn't
do a great job of following after the Lord. And
that's not the point of this. The point of this
episode is that our sins are sins against our
Father. So let's look at a story that Jesus told
about a father and a son sinning against him.
In Luke chapter 15, we have the story of the
prodigal son, and we know that the beginning
of the story is that The man had two sons, and
the one son, the younger son, he just was bored
with working on the farm. And he said, come on,
Dad, you're going to divide the inheritance between
us when you die. Why don't you just do it now?
My big brother gets twice as much as I do, but
give me my portion. You know, the firstborn gets
the double portion. So big brother gets the double
portion. Just give me my portion. I'm going to
kiss you goodbye and go and live the way I want
to because I just don't like working in the fields.
I wasn't born for that. That's not how I like
it. So the father actually did what the younger
son said. Yeah, that was quite amazing. But that's
the story, though. Yeah, yeah. So the young man
goes and he spends his money wildly. gains friends
that will help him spend his money ridiculously
and he wastes it. And then when the money's gone,
a drought comes to the place where he has gone.
He's gone to some foreign country and he's desperate
now. He's hungry and he's penniless and he doesn't
know what to do. So he goes to work on a farm.
Only this time it's not a kosher farm. That's
what's interesting because this is a Gentile.
Yeah, well, he's gone to a foreign nation, obviously.
He's hanging out with Gentiles. So now he's feeding
pigs. And that's just about as low as you can
go. That's what you call lower than a sow's belly.
Yes, that's a good way to put it, honey. So,
you know, here he is, and he's so hungry that
he's ready to eat the husks that he's feeding
the pigs. The pigs have food and he doesn't.
Ugh, awful. So then he comes to himself. You
want to read that? Luke 15, 15. Then when he
went and joined himself to a citizen of that
country, and he sent him into the fields to feed
his swine, and he would gladly have filled his
stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and
no one gave him anything. But when he came to
himself, he said, How many of my father's hired
servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish
with hunger. I will arise to go to my father
and say to him, Father, I have sinned against
heaven and before you. I have sinned against
heaven. Yeah. And before you. Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Right. Uh -huh. Verse 19. And I am no longer
worthy to be called your son. Make me like one
of your hired servants. And he arose and came
to his father. But when he was still a great
way off, his father saw him and had compassion
and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven and in your sight, and I am no
longer worthy to be called your son. But the
father said to his servants, Bring out the best
robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand,
sandals on his feet, and bring the fatted calf
here and kill it. Let us eat and be merry. For
this my son was dead and is alive again. He was
lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
So we're not going to go into the deal with the
older brother. That's not the point of this podcast.
The point of this episode is I have sinned against
heaven and against you. We have to recognize
that our sin, when we stumble, when we are trying
to make a decision about, am I going to do the
thing that I want to do, even though I know I
shouldn't do it, if we'll just stop and think
about our father and think about how the prodigal's
father must have felt when he watched his son
walk away. And now he's so excited that he's
come back. And that's how our father is when
we come back to him. When we do like David did
and said, I have sinned against you. I'm sorry.
Please don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore
unto me the joy of my salvation. You know, all
of those things that David did and his expressions
about how I've hurt you. I'm so sorry that I've
hurt you. If we could just stop and think before
we make that blunder, before we trip on that
thing, before we do something that's ultimately
going to hurt lots of people, not just ourselves,
it's those little decisions that we make when
we think nobody's looking. When you think nobody's
looking. Yeah. Those things come back to bite
you. You know, Satan will tempt us. And then
once we have fallen into that thing, then he
smears us and slimes us with shame. And look
how many ministries were within a previous sin,
all of a sudden, that maybe it's been repented
for. But see, God forgives, but man doesn't.
Man has a harder time. Well, it's true. And you
have to think about the people that you're hurting.
Yeah. And then they come back and... Or their
family comes back to get you. Yeah. Maybe they
won't, but somebody else in their line will.
Yeah. It reminds me of the scripture that we
just read a little while ago about what the Lord
said through Nathan. By this deed, you have given
great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to
blaspheme. And that's why all of these people
that are being exposed now. And I just read something
recently about... some ministry or school or
something that was supposed to be a Christian
organization, and they were trafficking children.
Evil. Absolute evil. We have caused great blaspheme.
It's horrific. But you can't blame Jesus when
somebody that names his name goofs up. But the
point is that we're hurting our relationship
with our Father. When we make those bad choices.
And God wants to redeem. That's the whole point.
He wants to redeem. You know, we were raised,
you and I, we were raised with the idea that
you do things right because people are watching
and what will they think if we do something wrong?
Yeah. We weren't raised with, don't you realize
that you're hurting God? Yeah, I never. Never
heard that. I never thought of it that way. But
that's really what this is about. That you're
actually hurting our Heavenly Father. His disappointment.
It's just so sad. He grieves. It's not His will
for anyone to perish and go to hell. It's not
His will. It's His will that we all be saved
and come to the knowledge of Him. And it grieves
Him. when his children get the wrong attitude
about other people who are sinning. And they're
not really taking his side. They're looking for
his wrath to come. And I was just looking that
up today. I found it very fascinating that where
it talks about the wrath of God. So the word
wrath, and I'm thinking King James. Okay, I looked
this up in King James. Wrath, including all of
man's wrath. occurs, the word wrath occurs 197
times. Wow, okay. The word, and I spelled this
venge, V -E -N -G -E, so it includes revenge
and vengeance, okay, 34 times. The word anger
plus the name Yehovah, 109 times. Wrath plus
Yehovah, 27 times. Wrath plus God, 20 times.
Okay, and some of those are included in the previous
verses. If you look at the name of the Lord,
Yehovah, and the word chesed, which means loving
kindness, it appears 246 times. Wow. He loves
us. He loves us. He loves us deeply. And the
word for tender mercies, racham, that appears
32 times. And it's translated, racham, is that
the right one? Oh, I see Raham plus the Lord
or God. But there's 44 times it's translated
as mercy or compassion or like your gut feeling.
Okay. And Deuteronomy 7, 7 to 9 says, the Lord
did not set his love upon you nor choose you
because you were more in number than any people.
For you were the fewest of all people, but because
the Lord loved you. Do you realize a thousand
generations is more than 40 ,000 years? Wow.
And, you know, we've only been on the planet
for about 6 ,000 years. So his love and his compassion
goes for, well, pretty much forever. I mean,
it's beyond time. Time is short. You know, this
time is just up until the judgment of the devil
and, you know, all of the fall of Lucifer and
all that host of heaven that fell with him, the
one third. But our Father has this love for us.
And his most important commandment is, love Yehovah
your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind, with all your strength. If
you love him, you're not going to sin against
him. And how do we keep from sinning against
him? What does the Bible say? How do you keep
from sinning against him? Psalm 119 and verse
11 says, Your word have I hidden in my heart,
that I might not sin against you. Yeah, that
was going in my head before I even saw the scripture.
And I like what it says in the Young's literal
translation. In my heart I have hid thy saying,
that I sin not before thee. What does it say
in the Passion Translation? I consider your prophecies
to be my greatest treasure, and I memorize them
and write them on my heart. To keep me from committing
sin's treason against you. Sin's treason. See,
that's what it is. Treason, treason. It's treason
against the Lord. Wow. And even in the Ten Commandments,
the first one is, I am Yehovah your God. Have
no other gods before me. Don't put anyone in
front of me. Don't put anything in front of me.
Don't make an idol and bow down to it. Yeah.
I am your God. And I think we have really left
that out of our teaching. I certainly didn't
get it as a child. It was all about, you know,
don't sin. But it was really more about what
other people are going to think of you. Yeah.
I mean, really. And that's the wrong reason.
The Lord is looking for joyful obedience. Joyful
obedience. He's looking for loving obedience.
He's looking for, there's a scripture that talks
about, because you didn't serve me with gladness,
therefore. And that's where the curses begin.
So the point here is, it's not about being sin
conscious. Because I think we were raised to
be sin conscious. We were raised to watch out
for sin. This is sin, that's sin, this is sin,
do this, don't do that. It was mostly don't do
this, don't do that. Yeah, a lot of don'ts. Right.
But not for the right reason. It's about our
relationship with God. When we sin, we hide His
presence from us. Take not your Holy Spirit from
me, Lord. It's only against you that we sin.
I would say it's primarily, it's first. First
we sin against Him. And when we sin against Him,
it gives the devil something to work with to
bring blasphemy against God. Because he's really
looking out to bring accusations against us,
like is written in Revelation chapter 12, verses
10 and 11. And I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven, now is come salvation and strength and
the kingdom of our God. This is after the accuser,
the brethren, is cast down. okay verse 9 says
the great dragon was cast out that old serpent
called the devil and satan which deceives the
whole world he was cast out into the earth and
his angels were cast out with him and i heard
a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation
and strength and the kingdom of our god and the
power of his christ or his messiah For the accuser
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night. And, verse 11,
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and
by the word of their testimony, and they loved
not their lives unto the death. And that is really
our answer, like when we do fall into sin. In
1 John 4, 7 -9, it says, if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, We have fellowship one
with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his
son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Hallelujah.
So if we can just recognize that when we sin,
we're sinning against our father. We're hurting
him. Just like as a parent, you hurt when your
child sins against you. When your child disobeys,
you know, when daddy comes with the paddle and
says, this is hurting me more than it's hurting
you, kid says, no, I don't believe that. But
until you become a father, you don't get it.
But when you become a father, you realize how
much it hurts to have to hurt your child. But
if you don't correct your child, it's going to
be worse. If you love him, you won't spare the
rod, whatever form that takes. But our Father
is waiting for us to come back. So if you find
that you are in one of those places where you
have blundered, where you have willfully done
something you shouldn't have done, and you haven't
repented of it, now's a good time. Now's a good
time to ask God to forgive you. and to cleanse
you from all unrighteousness that's what the
blood of jesus does and that's how we overcome
we overcome that accuser once he's blotted our
sin out the accuser has nothing to work with
our slate has been cleaned And that's the beauty
of this relationship with our Father. He wants
to gather us up into His arms. He wants to keep
us close to His heart. He wants us to be able
to hear His very heartbeat of how much He loves
us. We don't hardly get it. No. Hardly. This
week we, you know, how YouTube offers you...
things that you can click on, right? Well, I
clicked on one of those and I'm not sorry I did.
I don't spend a lot of time doing that, but once
in a while. And what I ran across was, and we'll
put it in the show notes because it was life
-changing for me. We've interviewed Dean Braxton
and we love the experience that he had in heaven.
Well, this is a young man that had a similar
experience of going to heaven. And the way he
describes it agrees so much with what Dean says.
But what he said was that when he got to heaven
and he's standing before Jesus, every part of
Jesus was loving him. He said even his nose hairs
would have been loving him. And this is a little
chorus for me, but he said if he had boogers,
I didn't see that he had boogers, but if he had
boogers, his boogers would have been loving me.
I mean, he was that complete in his love for
this young man. And Dean didn't put it that way.
Everybody has their own way to put it. And this
interview was with Randy Kay. Now, Randy Kay
also went to heaven. He had a death experience
and went to heaven and met Jesus. And so Randy
is interviewing Gabe Poirot. And then Gabe Poirot
interviewed Randy on his YouTube channel. So
I'll put the links to both of those. Because
if you want to get... a better handle on how
much our Father loves us. I strongly suggest
that you listen to these because I think it'll
be life -changing for you like it was for me.
You just have to be reminded once in a while
about how much He loves you and just get lost
in His love. If you get lost in His love, you're
not going to sin against Him. You're just not
because you get lost in His love and it's going
to cause you to love Him. And when you love Him,
you're going to keep His commandments. Would
you like to pray for our listeners, Philip? Yeah.
Well, Father, we thank you for your great love.
And Father, for your great mercy. And Lord, that
you're always there. And that, Lord, you forgive
us. But Lord, sometimes we have a hard time forgiving
ourselves because of consequences and things
that happen. But Holy Spirit, we thank you that
you are so faithful, that you're there nudging.
But the nudge sometimes... The temptation is
there too. And sometimes we listen to the temptation
more than we do the nudge of the Holy Spirit.
And we end up doing something we shouldn't do.
So we thank you, Lord, how much you really love
us. Yes. And that you died for us, Lord. You
shed your blood for us, Lord. Picture you, the
price that you paid, that, Father, that we can
be free and stay free, Lord. Yes. So we thank
you, Father, that Holy Spirit that you continue
just to quicken us. And, Lord, that we would
just be filled, just stay filled. And the more
we stay filled, the less temptation. that we'll
be able to get through to us. The more we keep
our eyes on you, the more that temptation will
bounce off of us. Yes, and the more we study
your word and hide it in our hearts, the better
chance we have of not sinning. Yes. Thank you,
Father. In your name, Lord Jesus. Amen. If you
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