WEBVTT 00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:11.620 Speaker 1: In chains I was bound, I was a madman on the run 00:00:12.510 --> 00:00:17.540 Speaker 1: Through the hills I wandered, I was running from the sun 00:00:18.710 --> 00:00:23.740 Speaker 1: But truth found me there, it was in my darkest hour 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.980 Speaker 1: I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power 00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:33.060 Speaker 1: Truth set 00:00:33.060 --> 00:00:42.840 Speaker 2: me free. Truth came to me. I once was blind, but now I see. Truth set me free. 00:00:44.140 --> 00:00:54.860 Speaker 2: Oh, oh, truth set me free. Oh, oh, truth set me free. 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:04.120 Speaker 3: Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast about faith, current events, and life in general. 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:10.640 Speaker 3: Brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church, live every Monday night at 6 p.m. Central Time. 00:01:13.140 --> 00:01:14.540 Speaker 3: And welcome back this week. 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:20.080 Speaker 3: It is great to be back and nice to have all of our equipment actually work out of the gate tonight. 00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:21.520 Speaker 3: It's wonderful. I love it. 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:25.240 Speaker 3: Tonight, we're going to be discussing grace and mercy. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.200 Speaker 3: And that's something that is an awesome, awesome thing to discuss and an awesome thing to talk about. 00:01:30.290 --> 00:01:33.140 Speaker 3: So I can't wait to dive in to that here in a moment. 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:45.300 Speaker 3: But as always, we'll kick off with Brother Dennis as soon as I can get the other camera to working because it decided to quit working on me. 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:48.640 Speaker 4: Okay, I was picking my nose, man. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:52.460 Speaker 3: Hey, that is the perfect time to do it, right? 00:01:52.740 --> 00:01:57.740 Speaker 3: switch the camera over there right as you right as you go to get that booger out oopsie um let me 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:04.880 Speaker 3: see unplug that plug that back in then we'll try it again you're getting to watch some live debugging 00:02:05.100 --> 00:02:11.640 Speaker 3: here folks we'll try that one does it work better hey it works better and there we are 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:18.020 Speaker 3: and a quick transition to that one brother dennis how you doing tonight doing all right 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:18.659 Speaker 4: man doing 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:18.960 Speaker 4: All right. 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:20.280 Speaker 4: I'm ready to talk about Jesus. 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:21.160 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:21.820 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:02:21.980 --> 00:02:25.320 Speaker 4: Like we were saying before, you know, we get all this news junk all day, every day. 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:27.120 Speaker 4: Let's talk about Jesus for an hour. 00:02:27.420 --> 00:02:28.360 Speaker 4: Let's just do this. 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:28.720 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:02:28.950 --> 00:02:29.040 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:29.520 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:02:29.710 --> 00:02:30.880 Speaker 3: Get our eyes where they need to be. 00:02:30.910 --> 00:02:31.260 Speaker 3: I love it. 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:31.420 Speaker 3: That's right. 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:32.760 Speaker 3: And Brother Brian, how about you? 00:02:32.860 --> 00:02:33.420 Speaker 3: How are you doing tonight? 00:02:33.640 --> 00:02:34.240 Speaker 5: I'm doing good. 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:35.140 Speaker 5: I've been doing good. 00:02:35.190 --> 00:02:35.580 Speaker 5: I love. 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.540 Speaker 5: We are serving a God who is alive and well and 00:02:39.540 --> 00:02:40.960 Speaker 4: bidding on the throne. 00:02:41.210 --> 00:02:41.300 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:02:41.390 --> 00:02:41.620 Speaker 4: And no 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:46.080 Speaker 5: matter what goes on around us and what's happening, he is in charge. 00:02:46.300 --> 00:02:46.460 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:47.320 Speaker 4: And he is king. 00:02:47.720 --> 00:02:48.060 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:48.660 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:49.220 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:02:49.740 --> 00:02:50.020 Speaker 5: Awesome. 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:54.220 Speaker 4: I love, I love, love, love that he's going to prepare a place for us. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:54.540 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:02:55.160 --> 00:02:55.480 Speaker 5: That 00:02:55.480 --> 00:02:57.120 Speaker 4: wherever he is, we may be awesome. 00:02:57.260 --> 00:02:57.660 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:02:57.920 --> 00:02:58.020 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:02:58.860 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:06.200 Speaker 3: Well, as we get ready to dive in tonight, the only thing I really have to say on anything 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:09.580 Speaker 3: is just, man, we got a lot of distractions right now 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:10.740 Speaker 6: going 00:03:10.740 --> 00:03:11.480 Speaker 3: on around us. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.120 Speaker 3: I think some of it's intentional distraction. 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:18.280 Speaker 3: We've got some arguments between a couple of people that were in charge, a person that 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:22.220 Speaker 3: charge and isn't in charge of anything anymore and the person who is in charge and they like to argue 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:28.160 Speaker 3: real publicly so uh which is by the way a brilliant way to distract people because it's all a lot of 00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:33.760 Speaker 3: people talked about all weekend and uh so it worked i think that worked out quite well we don't have 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:39.500 Speaker 3: to worry about them anymore just let them argue and and stay over there out of the way and uh don't 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:43.420 Speaker 3: get distracted don't get bogged down by that stuff because at the end of the day he's on the throne 00:03:43.620 --> 00:03:45.700 Speaker 3: and we know where we're headed and we know who we serve right 00:03:45.700 --> 00:03:46.540 Speaker 5: that's right uh 00:03:46.540 --> 00:03:47.420 Speaker 3: the only other thing 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:57.000 Speaker 3: that really came up over the weekend uh be praying be praying for um the folks up in nashville right 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:04.940 Speaker 3: now in the christian uh christian music industry um they're they're basically getting their own 00:04:04.970 --> 00:04:09.060 Speaker 3: little me too movement right now where there's a lot of stuff coming out that turns out a lot of 00:04:09.060 --> 00:04:12.860 Speaker 3: these contemporary christian artists aren't the people we thought they were 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:13.860 Speaker 2: yeah and 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:15.440 Speaker 3: uh and uh 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:18.880 Speaker 3: the biggest one that hit over the weekend was the lead singer, 00:04:18.970 --> 00:04:21.140 Speaker 3: the former now lead singer for 00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:23.040 Speaker 5: newsboys 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:24.480 Speaker 3: has a lot. 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.720 Speaker 3: And they are very credible sounding. 00:04:27.020 --> 00:04:30.660 Speaker 3: And apparently this has been kind of an open secret that everybody's known how 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:31.960 Speaker 3: he was for a long time. 00:04:32.430 --> 00:04:32.540 Speaker 3: And, 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:33.540 Speaker 3: you know, 00:04:33.640 --> 00:04:34.600 Speaker 3: there's even talks of, 00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:34.940 Speaker 3: you know, 00:04:35.090 --> 00:04:36.720 Speaker 3: possible drug involvement and all that. 00:04:36.820 --> 00:04:37.800 Speaker 3: So be praying because his, 00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:39.200 Speaker 3: and his family is like, 00:04:39.250 --> 00:04:39.540 Speaker 3: I mean, 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:39.760 Speaker 3: they're, 00:04:39.860 --> 00:04:42.440 Speaker 3: they're old school Southern gospel group and, 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:43.360 Speaker 3: and singers. 00:04:43.640 --> 00:04:45.080 Speaker 3: And so be praying for all of them. 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.580 Speaker 3: because that is a tough, tough thing to go through. 00:04:48.580 --> 00:04:50.460 Speaker 3: But apparently now it's starting to really, 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:51.620 Speaker 3: people are talking about it, 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:53.860 Speaker 3: that it's not isolated. 00:04:54.060 --> 00:04:55.400 Speaker 3: It's not a onesie-twosie thing. 00:04:55.580 --> 00:04:58.600 Speaker 3: It's a lot of these people that are out here 00:04:59.260 --> 00:05:01.160 Speaker 3: selling us music and putting stuff in churches. 00:05:02.940 --> 00:05:05.400 Speaker 3: If you are a song leader for your church 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:07.200 Speaker 3: or you're somebody who does music for your church, 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:09.220 Speaker 3: take the time to vet. 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:10.900 Speaker 3: Take the time to vet that. 00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:13.520 Speaker 3: Read up on these artists. 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.220 Speaker 3: Make sure you kind of know a little bit about them. 00:05:16.780 --> 00:05:21.040 Speaker 3: The biggest problem we have with that, I think, is that we put a lot of these guys up on a pedestal. 00:05:21.570 --> 00:05:25.620 Speaker 3: And then just kind of once we did that, just went, okay, cool. 00:05:25.700 --> 00:05:26.280 Speaker 3: They're good. 00:05:26.790 --> 00:05:30.540 Speaker 3: And it's like, hey, well, first of all, we should have been lifting these guys up. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:39.360 Speaker 3: Every single time we got down to pray, we should have been praying for these artists and for these people that are doing this stuff because they need our prayers. 00:05:39.620 --> 00:05:41.980 Speaker 4: You know, these people are a lot like preachers. 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:42.880 Speaker 4: Sure. 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:46.440 Speaker 4: You know, in the spotlight, you know, they got a microscope on them a lot of times. 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:51.000 Speaker 4: And they, man, they need God's mercy and grace just as much as we do. 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:51.320 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:51.540 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:05:51.740 --> 00:05:51.960 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:52.840 Speaker 4: They're 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:53.340 Speaker 5: not superhuman. 00:05:53.340 --> 00:05:53.980 Speaker 5: They get attacked. 00:05:54.220 --> 00:05:55.680 Speaker 5: No, no, no, they don't. 00:05:55.740 --> 00:06:00.920 Speaker 5: And I don't want to, of course, make him sound like a victim because what he done is wrong. 00:06:01.420 --> 00:06:02.020 Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely. 00:06:03.340 --> 00:06:08.520 Speaker 5: But absolutely, yeah, because that's who Satan is targeting, right? 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:08.940 Speaker 6: He's going 00:06:08.940 --> 00:06:24.320 Speaker 5: to target those that are vetted in the church or that hold an authority or a position or a place of popularity and just tear Christianity down. 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:24.600 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:06:24.780 --> 00:06:25.520 Speaker 5: That's what he does. 00:06:26.220 --> 00:06:26.640 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.060 Speaker 5: And that's been going on for years. 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:29.560 Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:29.880 Speaker 6: You 00:06:29.880 --> 00:06:37.120 Speaker 5: know, not even in not just in contemporary, but in I've heard of, you know, heard of stuff with with gospel, southern gospel groups through the years, 00:06:37.320 --> 00:06:38.360 Speaker 6: stories 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:42.020 Speaker 5: that would curl your hair, you know, that now and they're not all like that. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:42.760 Speaker 5: We can't 00:06:42.760 --> 00:06:44.460 Speaker 6: put the audience in the same same 00:06:44.460 --> 00:06:50.260 Speaker 5: category because there's people out there that are really doing this for the right purpose and the right reason. 00:06:50.460 --> 00:06:54.380 Speaker 5: And maybe maybe a lot of those that fail started out that way. 00:06:54.860 --> 00:07:00.140 Speaker 3: You know, I was after I had heard all that because I just heard that last night and this morning. 00:07:00.250 --> 00:07:03.000 Speaker 3: I hadn't heard, you know, been been keeping up with too much of it. 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:05.260 Speaker 3: But I got to see a lot of commentators talking about it. 00:07:05.260 --> 00:07:09.980 Speaker 3: And like I say, and again, the victims pray, pray, pray for them because that is hard. 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:15.920 Speaker 3: And I am well aware that in this particular instance, a lot of these victims were adults. 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:16.600 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:22.140 Speaker 3: That things didn't get horrible as bad as it could have gotten in a lot of the cases. 00:07:22.580 --> 00:07:22.680 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:07:23.580 --> 00:07:28.280 Speaker 3: But just the fact that they were put in a position that was that compromising and that horrible is awful. 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:29.620 Speaker 3: Be praying for them, too. 00:07:30.860 --> 00:07:32.040 Speaker 3: But I was reminded of. 00:07:34.060 --> 00:07:40.960 Speaker 3: And I had to go back and double check because so many of the old artists that I've listened to, I found out over the years, wow, they really weren't the people that we thought they were. 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:47.820 Speaker 3: But one that I couldn't find really anything on other than the fact that a lot of people didn't always were kind of iffy about him was. 00:07:48.150 --> 00:07:49.400 Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys remember Carmen. 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.640 Speaker 3: He used to used to work with TBN. 00:07:51.640 --> 00:07:52.500 Speaker 3: He was kind of a rapper. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:59.500 Speaker 3: kind of a I actually was not aware he passed in 2021 from a complication from melanoma had a 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:05.820 Speaker 3: surgery and passed but it reminded me of a song that he had done back in the 90s and we're talking 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:10.680 Speaker 3: like 1993 when the song came out and it was America again and in it he just made the statement when it 00:08:10.820 --> 00:08:14.960 Speaker 3: gets to the point where people would rather come out of the closet than clean it it's the sign that 00:08:15.020 --> 00:08:16.360 Speaker 3: the judgment of God is going to fall 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:19.140 Speaker 4: it's right at the door and 00:08:19.140 --> 00:08:21.280 Speaker 3: I mean you know these guys were 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:25.340 Speaker 3: preaching this in the nineties and here we are in 2025 and it's like, oh yeah, yeah. 00:08:25.430 --> 00:08:28.220 Speaker 3: This is an everyday thing that we have to deal with now. 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:30.580 Speaker 3: So it's just something, be lifting it up. 00:08:30.670 --> 00:08:34.659 Speaker 3: If you're doing, if you, if you have a lot of these newer songs and stuff, and if you 00:08:34.669 --> 00:08:38.159 Speaker 3: have a lot of this, the material, I'm not even so much concerned about the songs, which 00:08:38.340 --> 00:08:38.500 Speaker 3: those 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:39.200 Speaker 6: sometimes 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:40.260 Speaker 3: can be kind of rough. 00:08:41.060 --> 00:08:44.800 Speaker 3: The material that comes out, these people that managed to justify this stuff. 00:08:44.950 --> 00:08:50.260 Speaker 3: And as I heard one pastor say today, he said, the problem isn't that the person, you know, 00:08:50.680 --> 00:08:53.580 Speaker 3: made a mistake and did something that was human that was bad. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.320 Speaker 3: It's that he was living in the sin and he was wallowing in it and just, 00:08:58.720 --> 00:08:58.880 Speaker 3: and, 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.040 Speaker 3: and really going out of his way to hide it. 00:09:01.700 --> 00:09:02.660 Speaker 3: And he said, 00:09:02.660 --> 00:09:02.900 Speaker 3: you know, 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:04.980 Speaker 3: that then he hit the nail on the head when he said, 00:09:05.020 --> 00:09:08.760 Speaker 3: the thing we have to do is really make sure that when we're getting the 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.740 Speaker 3: materials from these folks in and you're getting stuff from them into your 00:09:11.890 --> 00:09:11.980 Speaker 3: church, 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:15.500 Speaker 3: take the time to go over it before you hand it out to your kids and to your 00:09:15.620 --> 00:09:16.060 Speaker 3: church members. 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.700 Speaker 3: And if there's something that's questionable, 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:20.860 Speaker 3: Be willing to question it. 00:09:21.180 --> 00:09:21.260 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:09:21.560 --> 00:09:25.580 Speaker 3: These guys, at the end of the day, a lot of these modern groups are out there. 00:09:25.700 --> 00:09:26.440 Speaker 3: They're there to make money. 00:09:26.900 --> 00:09:27.840 Speaker 3: Well, and here's the 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:28.120 Speaker 5: thing. 00:09:28.520 --> 00:09:34.040 Speaker 5: You know, a lot of these songs and a lot of these artists that are, you know, sometimes their doctrine is questionable. 00:09:35.220 --> 00:09:38.060 Speaker 5: But the song may not have that doctrine in it. 00:09:38.260 --> 00:09:38.800 Speaker 6: That's kind 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:40.040 Speaker 5: of the way I try to look at it. 00:09:40.140 --> 00:09:47.280 Speaker 5: You know, I mean, if we start checking everything off, every bad thing that everybody does, it's like we're going to throw all songs out 00:09:47.280 --> 00:09:47.800 Speaker 6: because none of 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:48.580 Speaker 5: them are going to be good. 00:09:49.020 --> 00:09:58.580 Speaker 5: You know, we sing, I know there's Ray Bolt songs that people sing in our church, and man, those songs are powerful, powerful songs. 00:09:58.750 --> 00:10:09.480 Speaker 5: And he came out, you know, many years ago, an open homosexual, you know, and has not repented of that and has not, you know, turned from that. 00:10:10.260 --> 00:10:14.140 Speaker 5: But does that X out his songs? 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.260 Speaker 5: Does that X out the meaning behind it? 00:10:17.300 --> 00:10:19.360 Speaker 5: But I think, you know, I think we got to look at that. 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:20.520 Speaker 5: I think we're going to see that. 00:10:20.660 --> 00:10:21.520 Speaker 3: I think so, too. 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:23.160 Speaker 3: And I think that hits the nail on the head. 00:10:23.340 --> 00:10:24.280 Speaker 3: It's one of those things. 00:10:24.540 --> 00:10:26.020 Speaker 3: Just, you know, be cautious. 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.180 Speaker 3: Be cautious about the stuff you bring into your churches. 00:10:28.460 --> 00:10:38.780 Speaker 3: So whether you're song leaders, whether you're the ministers and the people that work with stuff, because a lot of times we get caught up and just kind of take things at face value and go, yeah, we'll just we'll get this thing. 00:10:38.880 --> 00:10:40.440 Speaker 3: We saw it online and we'll hand it out to people. 00:10:40.520 --> 00:10:41.960 Speaker 3: It's like, well, did you read over before you started? 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.140 Speaker 4: I think we need to turn the camera back on ourselves a little bit, too. 00:10:47.260 --> 00:10:50.180 Speaker 4: when we start judging people and their lives and how they live. 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:52.200 Speaker 4: I mean, some things like the unrepentant thing, 00:10:52.860 --> 00:10:53.920 Speaker 7: it's got to be really 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:54.720 Speaker 4: watch out for. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.640 Speaker 4: But when I think of people that have fallen, have stumbled, 00:10:57.780 --> 00:10:59.900 Speaker 4: I look back at how many times I've fallen and stumbled. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.160 Speaker 4: I was saved in 1991 watching a Billy Graham crusade on 00:11:03.160 --> 00:11:03.620 Speaker 7: television. 00:11:04.370 --> 00:11:05.000 Speaker 7: And I spent 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.860 Speaker 4: years following the Lord and studying my rear end off. 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:09.780 Speaker 4: I couldn't get enough hunger and thirsty. 00:11:10.700 --> 00:11:12.540 Speaker 4: And then I just caved. 00:11:12.670 --> 00:11:14.240 Speaker 4: I went right back to the mud. 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:15.940 Speaker 4: I was wallowing in the mud again. 00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:19.200 Speaker 4: And this prodigal son, God came and lifted him up again. 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:23.520 Speaker 4: Psalm 40 was my life verse for a while. 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.020 Speaker 4: Verses one through three. 00:11:26.160 --> 00:11:29.420 Speaker 4: I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined to me and heard my cry. 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:35.900 Speaker 4: He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, making my footsteps firm. 00:11:36.140 --> 00:11:37.800 Speaker 4: And he can do that for you. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:39.140 Speaker 4: He can do that for me. 00:11:39.260 --> 00:11:40.380 Speaker 4: He can do that for anybody. 00:11:40.760 --> 00:11:41.500 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. 00:11:42.100 --> 00:11:43.460 Speaker 3: And that's the thing. 00:11:43.620 --> 00:11:44.560 Speaker 3: It's a struggle. 00:11:44.880 --> 00:11:46.080 Speaker 3: It's a struggle that we all deal with. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:47.540 Speaker 3: We all deal with struggling against sin. 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:48.940 Speaker 3: I'm right there. 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:49.600 Speaker 3: What's your struggle? 00:11:49.820 --> 00:11:49.880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:11:50.020 --> 00:11:50.700 Speaker 4: That's the thing. 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:51.380 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:52.060 Speaker 4: Everybody's 00:11:52.060 --> 00:11:52.400 Speaker 3: fighting. 00:11:52.660 --> 00:11:53.320 Speaker 3: So that's right. 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:54.160 Speaker 3: But we all. 00:11:54.420 --> 00:11:58.860 Speaker 3: And like I say, the biggest thing is just just be prayerful. 00:11:59.400 --> 00:11:59.720 Speaker 3: Prayerful. 00:11:59.820 --> 00:12:05.200 Speaker 3: That is the number one thing to keep to help keep that stuff from from getting too out of control. 00:12:05.660 --> 00:12:09.040 Speaker 3: All we can do is be prayerful and put the safeguards in place. 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:10.120 Speaker 3: Don't be afraid to do that. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:10.320 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:12:10.420 --> 00:12:10.940 Speaker 3: Be accountable. 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:11.860 Speaker 5: Hold people accountable. 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.120 Speaker 5: Man, that's so important. 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:18.240 Speaker 5: It's so important to be accountable to each other. 00:12:19.580 --> 00:12:22.220 Speaker 5: I don't care what position you're in, what place you're in. 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:24.460 Speaker 5: Accountability is a huge thing. 00:12:24.810 --> 00:12:30.220 Speaker 5: And that was a big part of when we called the men's group, men's accountability group. 00:12:30.640 --> 00:12:38.320 Speaker 5: That was a big part of what I wanted to see is it's not just men going in there and confessing all their mess, but being accountable to each other. 00:12:38.350 --> 00:12:41.380 Speaker 5: To know there's men around you, they're lifting you up, first of all, in prayer. 00:12:42.040 --> 00:12:46.080 Speaker 5: And second of all, they're there to show grace and mercy to you, too, like he shows to us. 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:51.900 Speaker 5: Because if it was not for his grace and it was not for his mercy, I can promise you I would have been blown to smithereens. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:52.460 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:53.380 Speaker 5: A long time 00:12:53.380 --> 00:12:53.680 Speaker 4: ago. 00:12:53.760 --> 00:12:54.080 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 00:12:54.500 --> 00:12:54.860 Speaker 4: Exactly. 00:12:55.460 --> 00:12:55.520 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:12:55.740 --> 00:12:56.580 Speaker 4: They saved my life. 00:12:56.670 --> 00:12:58.720 Speaker 4: I don't know how many times I'm going to find out one day. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:12:59.060 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:12:59.140 --> 00:12:59.660 Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. 00:12:59.940 --> 00:13:00.020 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:01.740 Speaker 4: Protected me even before I was here. 00:13:01.940 --> 00:13:02.040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:13:02.260 --> 00:13:04.280 Speaker 5: From protecting me of my stupidity. 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.520 Speaker 5: You think about that. 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:09.780 Speaker 5: He protected us long enough for us to accept his free gift. 00:13:09.940 --> 00:13:10.060 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:10.460 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:11.380 Speaker 5: I mean, wow. 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:17.080 Speaker 3: That pretty much leads us straight into grace and mercy. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.140 Speaker 3: So let's just dive on in. 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:19.980 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:22.400 Speaker 5: Grace, man, what is it? 00:13:22.800 --> 00:13:23.440 Speaker 5: What is grace? 00:13:25.060 --> 00:13:26.580 Speaker 5: It's unmerited favor. 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:28.160 Speaker 5: I mean, it really is. 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:36.120 Speaker 5: The biblical definition is unmerited favor toward man, something that we didn't deserve. 00:13:36.420 --> 00:13:36.660 Speaker 5: Right. 00:13:37.300 --> 00:13:38.860 Speaker 5: But he gave it to us anyway. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.660 Speaker 5: So how good is it to receive it? 00:13:42.700 --> 00:13:43.140 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. 00:13:43.660 --> 00:13:46.640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I love the definition of it's getting what I don't deserve. 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:47.080 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:47.380 Speaker 5: Right. 00:13:47.540 --> 00:13:47.840 Speaker 5: Mercy 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.640 Speaker 4: is me not getting what I do. 00:13:49.900 --> 00:13:50.000 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:13:50.540 --> 00:13:50.620 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:51.720 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. 00:13:51.900 --> 00:13:53.540 Speaker 5: Yeah, because he could show no mercy. 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:53.840 Speaker 5: Right. 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:55.620 Speaker 5: And there'll be a point in time. 00:13:55.660 --> 00:13:56.820 Speaker 5: We need to understand that, too. 00:13:56.940 --> 00:14:01.960 Speaker 5: There'll be a point in time where if we don't accept his grace and we don't accept his mercy, 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:05.880 Speaker 5: then then we will find that there will be no mercy for us. 00:14:06.020 --> 00:14:06.080 Speaker 5: Right. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:06.540 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:14:06.740 --> 00:14:06.820 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:14:07.140 --> 00:14:07.960 Speaker 5: I mean, time's up. 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:08.680 Speaker 5: Time's up. 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:08.980 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:09.700 Speaker 5: Yeah, man. 00:14:10.170 --> 00:14:10.860 Speaker 5: But it's there. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:12.360 Speaker 5: It's there for the taking. 00:14:12.640 --> 00:14:14.140 Speaker 5: He's offered it to us. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:26.380 Speaker 5: It doesn't always come in a package that we think it should or sometimes in the time frame as far as grace is concerned that we would expect. 00:14:26.970 --> 00:14:28.760 Speaker 5: But it's always there. 00:14:29.230 --> 00:14:33.760 Speaker 5: And I think about that old song that was grace for every need. 00:14:34.490 --> 00:14:36.200 Speaker 5: And that's why there was a sermon. 00:14:36.290 --> 00:14:38.500 Speaker 5: I pulled a sermon out that I preached a long time ago. 00:14:38.660 --> 00:14:46.740 Speaker 5: But that song, you know, it just talks about whatever you're going through, whatever you're facing, there is grace for that need. 00:14:46.900 --> 00:14:48.100 Speaker 5: And the Word of God tells us that. 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:50.220 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not just a one-time thing, is it? 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:51.160 Speaker 5: It's just not, 00:14:51.180 --> 00:14:53.980 Speaker 4: well, I accepted God's grace, and now I'm going to move on and do it myself. 00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:56.180 Speaker 4: No, man, it's every day. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:57.200 Speaker 4: He's given 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:57.680 Speaker 5: us grace. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:58.200 Speaker 5: He's given us 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:58.440 Speaker 4: mercy 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.180 Speaker 5: everywhere we go and everything we do. 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:00.480 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:01.060 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:15:01.620 --> 00:15:03.080 Speaker 5: Ephesians 4, 7 says, 00:15:03.640 --> 00:15:09.020 Speaker 5: And unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:16.760 Speaker 5: So grace is the gift that is given to us straight out of the bountiful measures of Christ's storehouse. 00:15:16.880 --> 00:15:17.500 Speaker 5: Think about that. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.160 Speaker 5: That's where it comes from. 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:25.700 Speaker 5: He gives us a measure of grace according to the gift of Christ. 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:26.500 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:15:26.820 --> 00:15:28.660 Speaker 5: That's endless, isn't it? 00:15:28.880 --> 00:15:30.280 Speaker 5: That doesn't run out. 00:15:30.540 --> 00:15:30.820 Speaker 4: Right. 00:15:30.980 --> 00:15:31.380 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 00:15:31.520 --> 00:15:32.900 Speaker 4: And same letter. 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:40.160 Speaker 4: Ephesians 2, 4 through 6 or 4 through 7, but God being rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, 00:15:40.750 --> 00:15:45.100 Speaker 4: even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ. 00:15:45.280 --> 00:15:51.080 Speaker 4: By grace, you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 00:15:51.550 --> 00:15:56.600 Speaker 4: so that in the ages to come, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace and kindness toward us. 00:15:56.660 --> 00:15:56.920 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:15:58.380 --> 00:15:58.760 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:00.060 Speaker 5: Oh, what a wonderful. 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:00.780 Speaker 5: He's good, man. 00:16:00.920 --> 00:16:01.720 Speaker 5: He is good. 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:02.960 Speaker 5: And I don't understand 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.640 Speaker 4: people's reluctance to come to him. 00:16:04.900 --> 00:16:05.300 Speaker 5: And 00:16:05.300 --> 00:16:08.360 Speaker 4: the Bible just says because their deeds are evil. 00:16:08.920 --> 00:16:09.400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:16:09.540 --> 00:16:10.240 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:16:10.620 --> 00:16:10.740 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:16:10.920 --> 00:16:16.740 Speaker 5: I think a lot of times we don't believe or trust in the fact that his grace is sufficient for us. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:24.160 Speaker 5: And that's what 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9, it says, it tells us his grace is enough. 00:16:24.160 --> 00:16:30.040 Speaker 5: And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 00:16:30.740 --> 00:16:37.560 Speaker 5: Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.160 Speaker 5: I mean, that's what Paul was saying. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:48.560 Speaker 5: Look, he said, he said, when I'm at a weakest point, when I am down in the dunks and when I am, I'm counted out by the rest of the world. 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:50.280 Speaker 5: His grace is sufficient 00:16:50.280 --> 00:16:51.320 Speaker 6: at that moment, 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:52.240 Speaker 5: at that time. 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:54.260 Speaker 5: In fact, he shows his strength. 00:16:54.430 --> 00:16:56.700 Speaker 5: He shows his he shows who he is. 00:16:56.780 --> 00:16:56.840 Speaker 5: Right. 00:16:57.040 --> 00:16:58.000 Speaker 5: He says, I'm God. 00:16:58.460 --> 00:16:59.320 Speaker 5: I got this. 00:16:59.400 --> 00:17:00.720 Speaker 5: I got the mercy for you. 00:17:00.730 --> 00:17:02.340 Speaker 5: I got the grace for you that you need. 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:06.959 Speaker 4: And that's Jesus in the Beatitudes, right? 00:17:07.760 --> 00:17:09.040 Speaker 4: Blessed are the poor in spirit. 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:09.480 Speaker 4: Yeah, 00:17:09.780 --> 00:17:09.900 Speaker 5: yeah. 00:17:10.100 --> 00:17:10.220 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:11.319 Speaker 4: We're weak. 00:17:11.620 --> 00:17:13.400 Speaker 4: We know we're not good enough in ourselves. 00:17:13.600 --> 00:17:13.819 Speaker 4: That's 00:17:13.819 --> 00:17:14.040 Speaker 5: right. 00:17:14.270 --> 00:17:14.380 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:17:14.780 --> 00:17:14.880 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:17:15.520 --> 00:17:17.819 Speaker 5: Blessed are those that mourn, but he'll comfort those that 00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:18.140 Speaker 4: mourn, 00:17:18.260 --> 00:17:18.380 Speaker 5: right? 00:17:18.520 --> 00:17:20.900 Speaker 5: I mean, he gives us just exactly what we need. 00:17:21.040 --> 00:17:26.839 Speaker 5: If it's death, if it's sickness, if it's trials, tribulations, if you're having marriage issues, 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:33.280 Speaker 5: if you're having problems with a friend or work or whatever it is, there's grace right there for you. 00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:33.720 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:17:33.820 --> 00:17:35.100 Speaker 5: In that moment, in that time. 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:35.920 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 00:17:36.460 --> 00:17:44.640 Speaker 3: Well, and one of the things I think part of the reason that we as human beings in general have a tendency to reject it and not come to it, 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:46.700 Speaker 3: because grace is an exciting thing. 00:17:46.980 --> 00:17:47.060 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:17:47.340 --> 00:17:47.440 Speaker 6: It's 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:48.540 Speaker 3: not something we have to work for. 00:17:48.620 --> 00:17:50.040 Speaker 3: It's not something we have to do anything for. 00:17:50.580 --> 00:17:52.320 Speaker 3: You know, it's unique. 00:17:52.780 --> 00:17:56.360 Speaker 3: It is unique among religions because there is nothing you can do to earn it. 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:57.880 Speaker 3: There is nothing you can do to deserve it. 00:17:58.120 --> 00:17:59.220 Speaker 3: You do not deserve it. 00:17:59.700 --> 00:18:03.540 Speaker 3: And it is sparing you from that which you do deserve and that which you have already earned. 00:18:03.900 --> 00:18:04.040 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:18:05.820 --> 00:18:08.060 Speaker 3: But there's nothing you can do. 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:10.120 Speaker 3: There's nothing I can do for it. 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:10.580 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:10.800 Speaker 6: Well, 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:12.280 Speaker 3: but I want to do something. 00:18:12.380 --> 00:18:15.100 Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, I have to do something. 00:18:15.800 --> 00:18:17.200 Speaker 3: I have to earn it some way. 00:18:17.540 --> 00:18:18.840 Speaker 3: And I think it's that pride. 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:20.840 Speaker 3: It's pure pride. 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:21.680 Speaker 7: I've 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:22.900 Speaker 3: got to do something and 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:24.600 Speaker 4: then I'll be good enough for God. 00:18:24.780 --> 00:18:24.980 Speaker 7: Right. 00:18:25.780 --> 00:18:25.860 Speaker 7: No. 00:18:26.600 --> 00:18:27.220 Speaker 3: We're not. 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:27.640 Speaker 3: No 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:27.820 Speaker 4: way. 00:18:28.150 --> 00:18:28.500 Speaker 4: No way. 00:18:28.580 --> 00:18:32.620 Speaker 4: You know, all we've got to do after that is just let him change you. 00:18:32.780 --> 00:18:33.980 Speaker 4: Let him transform you. 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:34.340 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:34.600 Speaker 4: Right? 00:18:34.820 --> 00:18:36.660 Speaker 4: And we stay in the Bible. 00:18:36.750 --> 00:18:37.520 Speaker 4: We stay in prayer. 00:18:37.610 --> 00:18:38.660 Speaker 4: We stay with other believers. 00:18:39.020 --> 00:18:39.240 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:39.780 Speaker 4: And, man, 00:18:39.820 --> 00:18:40.300 Speaker 5: we grow. 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:41.020 Speaker 5: We grow and grow. 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:41.420 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:18:41.550 --> 00:18:49.080 Speaker 5: He tells us not only can you have grace, but you can be bold because if you trust in him 00:18:49.170 --> 00:18:53.420 Speaker 5: and you've been saved and you know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, then you can be bold 00:18:53.530 --> 00:18:54.620 Speaker 5: in asking for grace. 00:18:55.020 --> 00:18:55.160 Speaker 5: Right? 00:18:55.600 --> 00:19:00.100 Speaker 5: That doesn't mean disrespectful, but that means I'm going before his throne. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.600 Speaker 5: Hebrews 4, verse 16. 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:08.580 Speaker 5: Let us therefore come boldly under the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy. 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:11.340 Speaker 5: Come before his throne of grace. 00:19:11.630 --> 00:19:12.580 Speaker 5: Grace is already there. 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.620 Speaker 5: And let us obtain mercy, right? 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.740 Speaker 5: And find grace to help in time of need. 00:19:20.060 --> 00:19:23.040 Speaker 5: Grace and mercy are right there before the throne of God. 00:19:23.220 --> 00:19:24.360 Speaker 5: It's here for the taking. 00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:27.080 Speaker 5: He's offering it to us in abundance. 00:19:27.520 --> 00:19:27.660 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:28.040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:31.080 Speaker 4: And it's all because he's a good father. 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:31.580 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:19:31.840 --> 00:19:32.760 Speaker 4: He's a good father. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.160 Speaker 4: He's better than any father we could think of on earth. 00:19:35.360 --> 00:19:35.520 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:19:35.780 --> 00:19:36.840 Speaker 4: And we sell him short, man. 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:41.200 Speaker 4: We think, well, he's this angry God that's just wanting to hit us with a lightning bolt when we mess up. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.040 Speaker 4: And that's not true at all. 00:19:43.980 --> 00:19:47.440 Speaker 4: We haven't received a spirit of slavery leading to fear. 00:19:47.900 --> 00:19:49.540 Speaker 4: We've received a spirit of adoption. 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:50.040 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:19:50.110 --> 00:19:51.120 Speaker 5: We've called Abba Father. 00:19:51.220 --> 00:19:51.460 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:52.200 Speaker 5: He's our daddy. 00:19:52.460 --> 00:19:53.120 Speaker 5: Yes, he is. 00:19:53.350 --> 00:19:53.440 Speaker 5: Father. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:54.360 Speaker 5: Yes, he is. 00:19:54.770 --> 00:19:54.860 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:56.060 Speaker 5: And he's good, man. 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:56.920 Speaker 4: He is so good. 00:19:57.060 --> 00:19:58.660 Speaker 4: He's been so good to me in my life. 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:05.420 Speaker 4: He's taken me out of that miry clay, I don't know how many times, and set my feet on a rock, and I go jump into miry clay again. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:06.280 Speaker 4: I'm stupid. 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:06.980 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. 00:20:07.260 --> 00:20:08.140 Speaker 4: You know, I really am. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:08.680 Speaker 4: I'm stupid. 00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:09.460 Speaker 4: I'm like a sheep. 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:10.380 Speaker 5: I am too. 00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:11.500 Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder. 00:20:12.340 --> 00:20:13.040 Speaker 5: Like the Facebook 00:20:13.040 --> 00:20:17.180 Speaker 4: video, you know, where the guy gets the sheep out of the ditch, and he takes off running and goes right back in the ditch. 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:17.860 Speaker 5: He jumps right in there. 00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:19.220 Speaker 5: That's us. 00:20:19.580 --> 00:20:20.500 Speaker 4: I mean, it really is. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:20.900 Speaker 4: It really is. 00:20:20.940 --> 00:20:21.040 Speaker 4: It 00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:22.959 Speaker 5: describes us 100%. 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:24.760 Speaker 5: James 4, 60. 00:20:24.830 --> 00:20:25.340 Speaker 5: Would you read it? 00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:26.360 Speaker 5: Nobody read it yet? 00:20:27.280 --> 00:20:35.260 Speaker 5: But he giveth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:36.660 Speaker 5: Proud. 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:37.200 Speaker 5: Pride. 00:20:37.760 --> 00:20:39.460 Speaker 5: You know, think about that a little bit. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:40.260 Speaker 6: Think about where 00:20:40.260 --> 00:20:40.620 Speaker 5: we're at. 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.800 Speaker 5: Think about the month we're celebrating right now and where that pride goes. 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:48.000 Speaker 5: I mean, you know, lay down pride. 00:20:48.220 --> 00:20:54.680 Speaker 5: Lay down pride and come to him and receive the grace and the mercy that he can give you. 00:20:54.840 --> 00:20:56.560 Speaker 4: That's the only way we can come, right? 00:20:56.740 --> 00:20:57.820 Speaker 5: Jesus said, you've got to come 00:20:57.820 --> 00:20:58.680 Speaker 4: to me as a little child. 00:20:58.740 --> 00:20:59.400 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:00.420 Speaker 5: And we're 00:21:00.420 --> 00:21:01.200 Speaker 4: at the end of ourselves. 00:21:01.600 --> 00:21:02.340 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:03.540 Speaker 4: God help me. 00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:04.700 Speaker 5: Yeah, amen, amen. 00:21:05.299 --> 00:21:07.600 Speaker 5: And I think it doesn't matter what the sin is. 00:21:07.660 --> 00:21:11.560 Speaker 5: We're all a little prideful in our sin, especially when we're in the middle of it. 00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:13.160 Speaker 5: I'm fine. 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:13.900 Speaker 5: I know where I'm at. 00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:15.180 Speaker 5: I'm good right where I am. 00:21:15.220 --> 00:21:20.780 Speaker 5: yeah i've been right there before and i thought i'll be all right you know and going back to what 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:26.960 Speaker 5: you said before god god has been so merciful to me because you know i was saved when i was seven 00:21:27.180 --> 00:21:33.880 Speaker 5: years old and i know i was saved but uh but but i walked away from him in my in my teenage years 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:41.280 Speaker 5: and i can remember all these times just uh there was these moments that that it was like i was 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:46.020 Speaker 5: alone by myself i was doing something that i knew i didn't need to do you know and i walked off from 00:21:46.020 --> 00:21:51.200 Speaker 5: the crowd for a minute or whatever it may have been and and as soon as i did as soon as i got 00:21:51.270 --> 00:21:55.260 Speaker 5: away from the crowd god's like this is not you this is not where you belong you're not supposed 00:21:55.350 --> 00:21:56.060 Speaker 5: to be here 00:21:56.060 --> 00:21:56.580 Speaker 6: yeah you 00:21:56.580 --> 00:22:00.500 Speaker 5: know and i and i would feel that guilt and i feel that shame you know what i 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:05.640 Speaker 5: do i just tuck it back in i'd be like oh yeah yeah i know i know god i know i'm not supposed to be 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:12.000 Speaker 5: here but i i know that and in my mind i knew what i was doing was wrong i never justified it i wasn't 00:22:12.060 --> 00:22:16.640 Speaker 5: one of those that really said well you know there's nothing wrong with this or i i can do this it's 00:22:16.730 --> 00:22:22.300 Speaker 5: okay to do this i knew i was out there just just in the muck in the mire and i was wallowing in it 00:22:22.900 --> 00:22:31.620 Speaker 5: and i knew it was wrong and and but yet i stayed in it and he was merciful to me right and you know 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:37.200 Speaker 5: I remember I remember telling my brother in law one time and he and he got in some trouble. 00:22:37.340 --> 00:22:40.120 Speaker 5: He was he was a teenager at the time. 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:47.800 Speaker 5: And and I remember him looking at me because he knew how I had lived before I had rededicated my life. 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:48.800 Speaker 5: He knew where I'd been. 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:49.780 Speaker 5: He knew where I'd lived. 00:22:50.500 --> 00:22:55.140 Speaker 5: And and he looked at me and I was telling him, I said, I said, you've got to come out of this. 00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:56.720 Speaker 5: You got to step away from this. 00:22:56.780 --> 00:22:59.680 Speaker 5: You know, you're not promised tomorrow. 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:01.160 Speaker 5: And he goes, well, you did. 00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:02.120 Speaker 5: You came out of it. 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:02.680 Speaker 5: I will. 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:05.780 Speaker 5: Eventually, you know, I'll come out of this and I'll be okay. 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:20.400 Speaker 5: And I told him, I said, that doesn't mean that because God was merciful to me and he allowed me to come back to him, right, it doesn't mean everybody gets the same exact chance. 00:23:21.060 --> 00:23:26.240 Speaker 5: I mean, there's a time and a place for everybody, and that mercy and that grace is gone. 00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:29.780 Speaker 4: Yeah, and he'll turn you over to your own things. 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:30.880 Speaker 5: To replicate mine. 00:23:31.060 --> 00:23:31.980 Speaker 4: Romans chapter one. 00:23:32.140 --> 00:23:32.300 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:32.760 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:34.920 Speaker 5: He'll let you do what you want to do. 00:23:35.080 --> 00:23:35.440 Speaker 5: That's it. 00:23:35.820 --> 00:23:36.120 Speaker 4: That's it. 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:36.740 Speaker 4: Man alive. 00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:37.480 Speaker 4: Is he not faithful? 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:39.200 Speaker 5: He is faithful in everything. 00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:40.460 Speaker 5: Great is thy faith. 00:23:40.560 --> 00:23:40.900 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:44.800 Speaker 5: And I believe he'll give us that grace right up until the last moment. 00:23:45.100 --> 00:23:54.320 Speaker 5: You know, the business I'm in now, I deal with a lot of people that are sick and they're in their last days. 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:54.900 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:23:56.539 --> 00:23:59.840 Speaker 5: And I see families break down. 00:24:00.840 --> 00:24:05.820 Speaker 5: worry because they have maybe they haven't made a decision they haven't got to that place yet 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:13.200 Speaker 5: but i believe that god is is merciful and and his grace is sufficient right up until the very end 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:13.980 Speaker 6: i 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:20.240 Speaker 5: said i i tell them i said look i i know that their life may not reflect it but who knows what 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:26.800 Speaker 5: god spoke to their heart in their last breath you know he's that merciful i mean he was he when you 00:24:26.740 --> 00:24:34.460 Speaker 5: look back at noah and the art uh 120 years that he let noah preach to those people this certain 00:24:34.630 --> 00:24:39.720 Speaker 5: group of people that he let him preach to those people look god's coming he there's he's sending 00:24:39.730 --> 00:24:45.900 Speaker 5: a flood and you better get ready you better get ready and they wouldn't do it they ran out of time 00:24:45.990 --> 00:24:53.779 Speaker 5: but god was merciful for so long right christ died 2 000 years ago and he's merciful today 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:54.240 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:24:55.100 --> 00:24:59.880 Speaker 4: And that reminds me of, I don't know if I've ever told anybody this, but about my dad. 00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:05.160 Speaker 4: You know, I have told certain parts of it, but my dad was rough. 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:05.980 Speaker 6: He 00:25:05.980 --> 00:25:06.940 Speaker 4: grew up without a mama. 00:25:07.080 --> 00:25:09.220 Speaker 4: He grew up just right after the Depression era. 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:10.820 Speaker 4: Didn't have a dime. 00:25:11.100 --> 00:25:14.240 Speaker 4: I mean, his dad struggled to make ends meet, and he had a brother. 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:18.860 Speaker 4: And he grew up like somebody, and he acted like somebody that never had a mama. 00:25:19.100 --> 00:25:19.360 Speaker 6: Right. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:19.640 Speaker 6: Right. 00:25:19.780 --> 00:25:20.340 Speaker 6: He was rough. 00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:21.000 Speaker 6: He was rough 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.140 Speaker 4: language most of his life. 00:25:23.340 --> 00:25:26.480 Speaker 4: But at the same time, I grew up hearing him singing hymns around the house. 00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:27.020 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:28.700 Speaker 4: You know, he went to church every Sunday. 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:31.180 Speaker 4: I know he was a believer on some level. 00:25:31.230 --> 00:25:35.080 Speaker 4: He just didn't live like a preacher. 00:25:35.520 --> 00:25:38.240 Speaker 4: You probably wouldn't know it if you met him out somewhere. 00:25:38.560 --> 00:25:38.820 Speaker 4: Right. 00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:40.480 Speaker 4: He didn't know the Bible. 00:25:40.590 --> 00:25:41.860 Speaker 4: He didn't know all his stuff. 00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:43.620 Speaker 4: And I was worried about him. 00:25:43.630 --> 00:25:47.700 Speaker 4: And he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given three months to live. 00:25:48.540 --> 00:25:49.420 Speaker 6: And about 00:25:49.420 --> 00:25:51.760 Speaker 4: a month, month and a half into it, he was bedridden. 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:54.300 Speaker 4: And a couple of weeks before he died, 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:54.900 Speaker 6: me 00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:58.700 Speaker 4: and Diane were down at their house and had a hospital bed in the living room. 00:25:58.780 --> 00:26:00.020 Speaker 4: And he was facing away from us. 00:26:01.159 --> 00:26:01.960 Speaker 6: And Diane 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:04.100 Speaker 4: looked down there, and he had his arms raised up in the air. 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:04.900 Speaker 6: And he 00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:05.880 Speaker 4: couldn't raise his arms anymore. 00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:06.860 Speaker 4: He couldn't talk anymore. 00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:08.260 Speaker 4: He couldn't turn himself over. 00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:09.820 Speaker 4: He couldn't do anything for himself anymore. 00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:10.560 Speaker 7: He had 00:26:10.560 --> 00:26:11.460 Speaker 4: his arms up in the air. 00:26:11.520 --> 00:26:11.700 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:13.300 Speaker 4: I'm like, whoa, what's going on? 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:15.680 Speaker 4: And Diane walked down there and said, you okay, Jack? 00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:19.180 Speaker 4: And he said, I'm bowing before my Lord. 00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:21.240 Speaker 4: And he was crying. 00:26:21.540 --> 00:26:21.660 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:26:22.260 --> 00:26:27.540 Speaker 4: And by the time I got over there, he was just looking at his hands going, my hands, my hands. 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:31.860 Speaker 4: This was God being merciful to me, brother. 00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:33.080 Speaker 4: Yeah, letting you know. 00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:35.100 Speaker 4: And I've taken that with me ever since. 00:26:35.150 --> 00:26:38.220 Speaker 4: I know that I know that I know where he's at 00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:38.640 Speaker 5: right now. 00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:39.380 Speaker 5: Yeah, amen. 00:26:39.660 --> 00:26:39.880 Speaker 5: God 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:41.180 Speaker 4: did that for me, I believe. 00:26:41.620 --> 00:26:42.280 Speaker 4: Yeah, amen. 00:26:42.780 --> 00:26:43.420 Speaker 4: Because Jesus 00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:45.300 Speaker 5: was showing himself to him right there. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:45.660 Speaker 6: Yeah, 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:46.560 Speaker 5: yeah, amen. 00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:47.640 Speaker 5: And I'll never forget it. 00:26:47.750 --> 00:26:47.860 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:26:48.230 --> 00:26:51.560 Speaker 5: And he's so gracious and so merciful to do that. 00:26:51.880 --> 00:27:01.860 Speaker 5: And again, just being working with hospice and seeing patients after patients after patients, I hear that same story over and over again. 00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:09.480 Speaker 5: God gives them that moment, that time, that assurance that, you know, that, hey, they're okay. 00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:10.300 Speaker 5: They're okay. 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:11.860 Speaker 5: And that's the God we serve. 00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:12.220 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:27:12.420 --> 00:27:12.500 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:27:12.860 --> 00:27:13.040 Speaker 5: It is. 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:14.160 Speaker 5: He's good. 00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:15.300 Speaker 5: He's so good. 00:27:15.540 --> 00:27:16.160 Speaker 5: He sure is. 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:16.580 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:17.880 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:18.400 Speaker 5: God. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:25.680 Speaker 5: So there's not a short supply of grace, 00:27:26.060 --> 00:27:26.220 Speaker 1: right? 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:32.500 Speaker 5: I mean, it's not like it's running out, but it's bountiful. 00:27:32.620 --> 00:27:33.600 Speaker 5: It comes from him. 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:42.920 Speaker 5: And so we're learning here that if we pray and if we'll be humble, that Christ will pour it out, right? 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:44.560 Speaker 5: I mean, he will pour out his grace. 00:27:45.260 --> 00:27:48.800 Speaker 5: And as James tells us here, it's more grace. 00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:51.440 Speaker 5: It's more than you could ever want. 00:27:51.600 --> 00:27:53.380 Speaker 5: It's more than you could ever need, right? 00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:58.080 Speaker 5: I mean, we say his grace is sufficient, and we say there's grace for every need. 00:27:58.410 --> 00:28:05.740 Speaker 5: And I think when we think about that, it's like, okay, it's like you're in a desert, 00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:12.140 Speaker 5: and somebody gives you enough water, and they say, okay, there's just enough water in here for five days. 00:28:12.390 --> 00:28:14.240 Speaker 5: And after that five days, you're going to run out. 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:21.260 Speaker 5: So I think that's the way we look at grace, that it's only for a short time or it's only a certain amount to get us through. 00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:23.820 Speaker 5: But it is abundant 00:28:23.820 --> 00:28:24.560 Speaker 4: grace. 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:26.080 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's unlimited. 00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:28.980 Speaker 4: You didn't read 2 Corinthians 12, did you? 00:28:29.180 --> 00:28:29.400 Speaker 5: No. 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:30.280 Speaker 5: But this 00:28:30.280 --> 00:28:31.120 Speaker 4: is Paul. 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:31.920 Speaker 4: Oh, in verse 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:32.600 Speaker 5: 9 I did. 00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:32.980 Speaker 5: I'm sorry. 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:33.480 Speaker 5: I did. 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:34.520 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, you did. 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:34.900 Speaker 4: Yeah, you did. 00:28:35.320 --> 00:28:35.980 Speaker 4: Read it again. 00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:37.100 Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. 00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:41.220 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but it is. 00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:42.860 Speaker 5: I mean, it's bountiful. 00:28:43.060 --> 00:28:43.580 Speaker 5: It's full. 00:28:44.560 --> 00:28:44.920 Speaker 5: It's 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:46.420 Speaker 6: so 00:28:46.420 --> 00:28:46.760 Speaker 3: good. 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:47.660 Speaker 3: He's so good, too. 00:28:47.890 --> 00:28:58.600 Speaker 3: Well, I always think of grace as like the story of the widow woman that went to, was it Elisha? 00:28:59.380 --> 00:29:01.880 Speaker 3: And, you know, was trying to figure out what she was going to do. 00:29:01.930 --> 00:29:03.020 Speaker 3: She couldn't take care of the family. 00:29:03.130 --> 00:29:06.460 Speaker 3: And he said, you know, just go out and get a little oil and take that little bit of oil. 00:29:06.520 --> 00:29:09.260 Speaker 3: And we're going to borrow some jars from everybody. 00:29:09.390 --> 00:29:12.800 Speaker 3: And she just filled and filled and filled and filled and filled and filled and filled. 00:29:12.990 --> 00:29:13.900 Speaker 3: And then had to go borrow more. 00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:15.320 Speaker 3: and kept filling. 00:29:15.430 --> 00:29:17.820 Speaker 3: And she was like, goodness, it started with like this little big thing of oil. 00:29:17.980 --> 00:29:19.020 Speaker 3: And now I got all this oil 00:29:19.020 --> 00:29:19.440 Speaker 5: barrels. 00:29:19.780 --> 00:29:20.000 Speaker 5: And it 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:21.860 Speaker 3: was just barrel upon barrel. 00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:23.500 Speaker 3: And she was like, what am I going to do with all this? 00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:24.960 Speaker 3: And he's like, well, OK, that's how. 00:29:25.080 --> 00:29:26.320 Speaker 3: And that's how I think of grace. 00:29:26.520 --> 00:29:27.040 Speaker 6: It's just you 00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:28.480 Speaker 3: start pouring and it just keeps coming 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.240 Speaker 6: and it keeps coming 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:29.960 Speaker 3: and it keeps coming 00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:30.760 Speaker 3: and it keeps coming. 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:35.500 Speaker 3: And we're never going to we're never going to completely we're never going to run out 00:29:35.540 --> 00:29:37.020 Speaker 3: of it, but we're going to keep overflowing. 00:29:37.320 --> 00:29:40.320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to continuously just overflow and overflow and overflow. 00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:45.480 Speaker 3: And that's the thing about grace that is so wonderful and awesome and amazing and powerful. 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:48.180 Speaker 3: It covers everything. 00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:58.060 Speaker 3: Even the times where we knew, okay, I'm out here and I'm wallowing in the dirt and I shouldn't be here. 00:29:58.450 --> 00:30:00.940 Speaker 3: Even the times that we said, well, I'm just going to justify it. 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:03.960 Speaker 3: I mean, it's all right that I do this this time. 00:30:04.090 --> 00:30:06.740 Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like I'm bringing anybody else into this. 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:07.840 Speaker 3: This is just me. 00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:08.920 Speaker 3: It's okay. 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:10.540 Speaker 3: There's nobody else around. 00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:13.080 Speaker 3: I'm not actually out here doing this. 00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:15.220 Speaker 3: I'm just watching that movie. 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:16.380 Speaker 6: I'm 00:30:16.380 --> 00:30:17.800 Speaker 3: just watching that video. 00:30:18.010 --> 00:30:20.040 Speaker 3: I'm just reading that thing online. 00:30:20.460 --> 00:30:24.080 Speaker 3: I'm just chatting with that person I shouldn't be chatting with. 00:30:25.020 --> 00:30:31.280 Speaker 3: I'm just – we do that, and we don't think about it, and we try to justify it in our mind. 00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:32.120 Speaker 3: Well, it's not real. 00:30:32.300 --> 00:30:33.080 Speaker 3: It's not legitimate. 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.660 Speaker 3: I'm not really doing anything. 00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:37.740 Speaker 3: The grace is there to cover it. 00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.260 Speaker 3: But there is an expectation. 00:30:40.320 --> 00:30:45.720 Speaker 3: we have to go to him we have to we have to have that acknowledgement of that's not right yeah 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:45.960 Speaker 4: if 00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:49.800 Speaker 4: we feel like if we feel like we're running him out of grace that's a that's a check mark that's a 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:52.200 Speaker 4: that's maybe i need to get on my knees for a while 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:55.100 Speaker 5: exactly yeah yeah that's right we're 00:30:55.100 --> 00:30:55.560 Speaker 4: tapping it 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:56.020 Speaker 4: out well 00:30:56.020 --> 00:31:00.880 Speaker 5: i i think you know in our minds we think we'll never get past it right we'll never whatever 00:31:01.060 --> 00:31:05.799 Speaker 5: it is we're going through and and it may not be a it may not even be a sin that we're involved in 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.520 Speaker 5: But it may be some trouble, some trial, some, like I said, a sickness or a pain or suffering. 00:31:11.460 --> 00:31:13.740 Speaker 5: And we think, how am I going to get to the other end of this? 00:31:14.130 --> 00:31:15.960 Speaker 5: And then Christ comes along. 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.060 Speaker 5: If we're willing to turn to him, he comes along and he pours it out. 00:31:20.300 --> 00:31:21.060 Speaker 5: He pours it out. 00:31:21.220 --> 00:31:22.780 Speaker 5: He says, here's you some grace for that. 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:23.960 Speaker 5: I'm going to get you through this. 00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:24.980 Speaker 5: I'm going to get you through this. 00:31:27.020 --> 00:31:29.900 Speaker 5: He gives us all we need every time, every single time. 00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:32.760 Speaker 4: It all comes back to, you know, he's a good father. 00:31:33.140 --> 00:31:33.760 Speaker 6: He's a good father, 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.100 Speaker 4: man. 00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:36.040 Speaker 4: And we're safe. 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:37.260 Speaker 4: We're secured in him. 00:31:37.560 --> 00:31:38.160 Speaker 6: You know, it's it. 00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:38.340 Speaker 6: And that 00:31:38.340 --> 00:31:47.800 Speaker 4: Jesus said in in John chapter 10, starting at verse 27, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give eternal life to them 00:31:47.800 --> 00:31:48.480 Speaker 6: and they 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.480 Speaker 4: will never perish. 00:31:49.800 --> 00:31:51.720 Speaker 4: And no one will snatch them out of my hand. 00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:54.720 Speaker 4: My father who has given them to me is greater than all. 00:31:54.840 --> 00:31:57.800 Speaker 4: And no one is able to smash to snatch them out of the father's hand. 00:31:58.040 --> 00:31:58.140 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:31:59.060 --> 00:31:59.780 Speaker 5: We're in his hand. 00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:00.340 Speaker 5: We are. 00:32:00.620 --> 00:32:01.500 Speaker 4: And it's full of grace. 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:02.840 Speaker 4: You know, we're swimming in it. 00:32:02.940 --> 00:32:07.620 Speaker 5: But it's like we've been in that courtroom and we've been found guilty. 00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:11.780 Speaker 5: And God said, hey, mercy stopped. 00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:15.220 Speaker 5: The song that mercy walks in, right? 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:18.160 Speaker 5: I mean, it gives us exactly what we need. 00:32:18.320 --> 00:32:20.420 Speaker 5: And when we didn't deserve it, right? 00:32:20.620 --> 00:32:23.000 Speaker 5: I mean, we call grace undeserved favor. 00:32:23.140 --> 00:32:25.240 Speaker 5: Well, mercy really is, too, isn't it? 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:27.300 Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't deserve mercy either. 00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:28.960 Speaker 3: I didn't deserve either one of them. 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.660 Speaker 3: Well, the difference there is grace is the unmerited favor of God. 00:32:34.560 --> 00:32:36.320 Speaker 3: Mercy is the forgiveness. 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.000 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:44.040 Speaker 3: It's the I'm not going to hold you accountable for this thing that's already been paid for. 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:44.300 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:32:44.660 --> 00:32:45.980 Speaker 3: That's the difference between that. 00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:48.420 Speaker 3: That's how I've always looked at that difference. 00:32:48.510 --> 00:32:52.660 Speaker 3: There is that mercy is that that's where the forgiveness comes in. 00:32:53.080 --> 00:32:53.200 Speaker 3: Why 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:54.060 Speaker 4: does he do this? 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:54.300 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:55.720 Speaker 4: Why does he do this, man? 00:32:55.810 --> 00:32:57.020 Speaker 4: He is love, ain't he? 00:32:57.180 --> 00:32:57.600 Speaker 4: He is. 00:32:57.760 --> 00:32:57.840 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:32:58.500 --> 00:32:58.600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:00.460 Speaker 5: I can't understand it. 00:33:00.460 --> 00:33:03.660 Speaker 5: I can't comprehend why he would love me. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.100 Speaker 5: No. 00:33:04.260 --> 00:33:05.560 Speaker 5: Why would you create me? 00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:11.400 Speaker 5: Why would you even let me breathe the breath of life when I know I don't deserve it? 00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:17.900 Speaker 5: But yet he did, and yet he loves us, and yet he created us, not like a bunch of robots where we're, 00:33:17.900 --> 00:33:18.540 Speaker 6: yes, 00:33:18.820 --> 00:33:19.600 Speaker 5: God, we love you. 00:33:19.760 --> 00:33:21.480 Speaker 5: Yes, God will serve you. 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:22.900 Speaker 5: Yes, God will follow you. 00:33:24.040 --> 00:33:30.420 Speaker 5: That's not the way he made us, but he made us with with minds that could think and and and and hearts that could love. 00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:38.680 Speaker 5: And even though our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, he the Bible says when we get saved, he gives us a clean heart. 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:44.360 Speaker 5: He replaces that stony heart with a heart of flesh and it changes us. 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:49.500 Speaker 5: And I know that it does, because that's what that's where we forgive people. 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:51.160 Speaker 5: That's where we show grace. 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:52.500 Speaker 5: That's where we show mercy. 00:33:53.560 --> 00:34:01.600 Speaker 5: Once we're not able to do that, we're now able to do that through the grace and the mercy that he's bestowed upon us. 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:03.540 Speaker 4: Yeah, and we have that choice every day, right? 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:03.740 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:08.700 Speaker 4: I was reading Romans 1 again today, and I just got hung up on the first verse. 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.120 Speaker 4: It's like, Paul, a bondservant. 00:34:10.399 --> 00:34:10.500 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:11.440 Speaker 5: And think about what 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:12.260 Speaker 4: a bondservant is. 00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:13.899 Speaker 4: He's got a choice whether to be a 00:34:13.899 --> 00:34:15.320 Speaker 5: bondservant of Christ or not. 00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:15.720 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:34:16.040 --> 00:34:16.560 Speaker 5: He's not 00:34:16.560 --> 00:34:19.020 Speaker 4: a literal slave that's chained down. 00:34:19.659 --> 00:34:20.379 Speaker 4: He's got a choice. 00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:22.120 Speaker 4: And we should be the same way. 00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:26.080 Speaker 4: And that's really what love boils down to, choosing to love God. 00:34:26.100 --> 00:34:27.620 Speaker 4: And it always shows itself as obedience. 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:27.919 Speaker 4: That's 00:34:27.919 --> 00:34:28.100 Speaker 5: right. 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:28.540 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:34:28.919 --> 00:34:31.780 Speaker 5: And, you know, we talked about that word slave and bond servant. 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:36.919 Speaker 5: We've been talking about that a little bit on Wednesday nights and what it actually means. 00:34:37.080 --> 00:34:46.780 Speaker 5: It's not always that somebody is a slave, that they've been bought by someone and they're going to work for them for nothing and they're going to get beaten, that kind of thing. 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:55.700 Speaker 5: But a lot of times what the Bible's talking about, and especially what Paul is talking about here, is he's a slave to Christ because Christ paid a debt that he could not pay. 00:34:55.980 --> 00:34:56.080 Speaker 5: Right. 00:34:56.399 --> 00:34:58.560 Speaker 5: The debt that I owed it. 00:34:58.760 --> 00:34:58.940 Speaker 5: Right. 00:34:59.060 --> 00:34:59.500 Speaker 5: You owe. 00:34:59.720 --> 00:35:00.540 Speaker 5: You owe that. 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.380 Speaker 5: And Christ said, no, you can't afford it. 00:35:03.560 --> 00:35:03.880 Speaker 4: But 00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:04.340 Speaker 5: I can. 00:35:04.620 --> 00:35:05.600 Speaker 5: I can afford that. 00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:06.240 Speaker 5: I can. 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.800 Speaker 5: And I'm going to give you grace and mercy on top of that. 00:35:09.340 --> 00:35:09.560 Speaker 4: Boom. 00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:09.960 Speaker 4: Right. 00:35:10.180 --> 00:35:10.240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:35:10.540 --> 00:35:11.980 Speaker 4: He became my sin. 00:35:12.340 --> 00:35:12.440 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:35:13.060 --> 00:35:14.080 Speaker 5: Who knew no sin? 00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:14.800 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:15.940 Speaker 5: He might become our. 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:17.260 Speaker 4: He became a curse. 00:35:17.290 --> 00:35:17.940 Speaker 4: Is that not? 00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:20.800 Speaker 5: Well, he took it all upon him. 00:35:21.350 --> 00:35:26.940 Speaker 5: He became the worst of the worst villain, criminal that you can think of. 00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:30.440 Speaker 5: He took those things upon him and the guilt and the shame. 00:35:31.510 --> 00:35:32.720 Speaker 5: You think about this. 00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:39.600 Speaker 5: You think about when I think about some of the things I've done that may not even seem that heinous to the world. 00:35:40.200 --> 00:35:43.340 Speaker 5: But I think about some of the things I've done when I was away from him. 00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:46.220 Speaker 5: And the guilt and the shame is almost too 00:35:46.220 --> 00:35:46.620 Speaker 6: much. 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.500 Speaker 5: And that's what Satan brings up to me is remember who you were. 00:35:51.740 --> 00:35:52.880 Speaker 5: Remember what you've done. 00:35:53.020 --> 00:35:56.200 Speaker 5: And then Christ is over here going, I forgot what you've done. 00:35:56.200 --> 00:35:57.540 Speaker 5: I forgot where you were. 00:35:57.820 --> 00:35:59.120 Speaker 5: I took your place. 00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:01.340 Speaker 5: I clothed you in righteousness, right? 00:36:01.640 --> 00:36:06.080 Speaker 5: So that you wouldn't have to wallow in your own righteousness, this filthy rags. 00:36:06.140 --> 00:36:06.300 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:08.180 Speaker 5: It's like, stop bringing it up. 00:36:08.420 --> 00:36:08.620 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:09.020 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:11.860 Speaker 5: I don't need to hear it anymore. 00:36:12.160 --> 00:36:13.140 Speaker 5: I've been forgiven. 00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:19.400 Speaker 5: and I am loved and forgiven, and that doesn't give me the freedom to just go out and just sin 00:36:19.520 --> 00:36:20.760 Speaker 5: and do whatever I want to do. 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:26.540 Speaker 5: But because of that, it should change us and make us want to love him and serve him. 00:36:26.680 --> 00:36:30.260 Speaker 4: Yeah, I love what Paul says in Philippians 3. 00:36:30.350 --> 00:36:32.800 Speaker 4: He said, not that I have already obtained it. 00:36:33.120 --> 00:36:36.120 Speaker 4: He's talking about the resurrection from the dead or already become perfect, 00:36:36.270 --> 00:36:41.340 Speaker 4: but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 00:36:42.040 --> 00:36:50.680 Speaker 4: Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. 00:36:51.020 --> 00:36:54.900 Speaker 4: Press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 00:36:55.180 --> 00:36:55.280 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:36:55.640 --> 00:36:56.180 Speaker 4: Forget it. 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:56.780 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:36:56.820 --> 00:36:57.620 Speaker 4: Forget what lies behind. 00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.800 Speaker 4: Man, let's move forward. 00:36:58.980 --> 00:36:59.100 Speaker 3: Amen. 00:36:59.620 --> 00:36:59.720 Speaker 3: Amen. 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:02.140 Speaker 3: We're just drowning our old sins all day. 00:37:02.200 --> 00:37:05.560 Speaker 3: Well, we forget that they are separated as far as the east is from the west. 00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:06.740 Speaker 3: We forget they were cast. 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.520 Speaker 3: They were they were taken from us and cast into the sea 00:37:09.520 --> 00:37:10.380 Speaker 2: to be 00:37:10.380 --> 00:37:11.960 Speaker 3: to be remembered no more. 00:37:11.970 --> 00:37:13.720 Speaker 3: I mean, we forget that sometimes. 00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:17.060 Speaker 3: And we etch our sin. 00:37:17.890 --> 00:37:18.360 Speaker 3: And I do. 00:37:18.510 --> 00:37:21.960 Speaker 3: I think we're guilty of doing this to ourselves and we're guilty of doing this to other people. 00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:30.420 Speaker 3: Sometimes we have a tendency to etch the sin that affects us, whether it's our own or something somebody else does where they stepped on our toe or they did something. 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:33.400 Speaker 3: And it's not even major things most of the time. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:34.140 Speaker 7: People 00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:37.160 Speaker 3: are, and I don't know how it is we do it. 00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:42.000 Speaker 3: Somehow we get past the big things way faster than we get past the little things. 00:37:43.620 --> 00:37:46.720 Speaker 3: And we forget that our sins are forgotten. 00:37:47.020 --> 00:37:50.240 Speaker 3: God just goes, well, okay, it's covered in Christ's blood. 00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:51.500 Speaker 3: He's already become the sin. 00:37:51.560 --> 00:37:52.400 Speaker 3: He's taken it on himself. 00:37:52.940 --> 00:37:53.400 Speaker 3: It's gone. 00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:59.060 Speaker 3: And we go, let me etch this into the stone right here to make sure I never forget it. 00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:01.440 Speaker 3: And God's going, but I threw it away. 00:38:02.220 --> 00:38:06.360 Speaker 4: This is one of the only things that makes me excited about the judgment seat of Christ. 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:07.680 Speaker 4: It's going to be embarrassing. 00:38:08.200 --> 00:38:08.260 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:09.860 Speaker 4: But it's going to be burned up. 00:38:10.020 --> 00:38:10.740 Speaker 4: It's going to be gone. 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.300 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:38:11.580 --> 00:38:11.680 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:38:13.860 --> 00:38:20.200 Speaker 5: It's not that he's there to humiliate us, but, you know, those are things that we will pay for. 00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:28.060 Speaker 5: I mean, in the way that we, I think it'll be the shame and the humiliation. 00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:31.560 Speaker 5: That'll be kind of how we pay for what we missed, 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:32.500 Speaker 6: those things 00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:32.940 Speaker 5: that we missed, 00:38:32.970 --> 00:38:34.100 Speaker 5: those missed opportunities. 00:38:34.980 --> 00:38:39.680 Speaker 5: It's not necessarily about him trying to shame us in front of everybody else, 00:38:39.810 --> 00:38:43.400 Speaker 5: but like, hey, here's what I had for you, and here's what you've done, 00:38:43.460 --> 00:38:44.520 Speaker 5: here's what you didn't do. 00:38:45.919 --> 00:38:50.620 Speaker 5: But now enter in because we're going to forget about all of this. 00:38:50.730 --> 00:38:51.340 Speaker 5: It's going to be erased. 00:38:51.740 --> 00:38:52.600 Speaker 5: It's going to be forgotten. 00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:54.060 Speaker 5: It's going to be done. 00:38:54.220 --> 00:38:55.580 Speaker 5: That wood, hay, and stubble is – 00:38:55.600 --> 00:38:56.640 Speaker 5: It's going to be burned up. 00:38:56.700 --> 00:38:56.920 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:38:57.290 --> 00:38:57.380 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:38:57.640 --> 00:38:57.860 Speaker 3: Gone. 00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:00.000 Speaker 3: I mean, amen. 00:39:00.900 --> 00:39:00.960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.860 Speaker 3: Well, and I always, anytime, anytime we talk about grace, anytime we talk about mercy, the 00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:09.200 Speaker 3: one I always think of, of course, is the story of Corrie ten Boone when she talked about, 00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:13.920 Speaker 3: because that was her thing was grace and mercy, grace, grace, grace. 00:39:14.060 --> 00:39:17.420 Speaker 3: She, you know, pushed it and preached it and taught it till the day she died. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.000 Speaker 3: Grace, grace, grace. 00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:24.400 Speaker 3: But, you know, after, I mean, you know, what she went through in World War II and what 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:27.560 Speaker 3: She went through being in a concentration camp and being exposed to all of that. 00:39:28.820 --> 00:39:32.320 Speaker 3: And then to forgive the man who was one of the chief guards. 00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:37.040 Speaker 3: He was he was, you know, not the head of the place, one of the people that was head over the place, one of the very high ups. 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:44.640 Speaker 3: And he comes up to her and just tells her, hey, look, isn't it so God so good that God does, in fact, forgive us 30, 30 years almost after it happened. 00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:49.220 Speaker 3: And this man walks up to her right to her face and says, I'm so glad that God forgives. 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.260 Speaker 3: And she's thinking, how in the world am I supposed to be in the same room as this man? 00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:53.540 Speaker 3: Right. 00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:56.300 Speaker 3: And she had she had to beg God right there. 00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:57.060 Speaker 3: God, forgive me. 00:39:57.110 --> 00:39:57.820 Speaker 3: I can't do it. 00:39:58.060 --> 00:39:58.160 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:39:58.340 --> 00:39:58.900 Speaker 3: And God did. 00:39:58.940 --> 00:40:01.320 Speaker 3: And he forgave her and gave her grace and gave her mercy. 00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:04.680 Speaker 3: And then she goes on and realize, OK, I've got to teach people this. 00:40:04.690 --> 00:40:07.860 Speaker 3: And so, well, that whole thing was kind of God's way of teaching her. 00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:09.100 Speaker 3: Put your money where your mouth is, honey. 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:09.500 Speaker 3: Right. 00:40:09.700 --> 00:40:12.480 Speaker 3: Because she'd been teaching this to people forever because she watched. 00:40:12.620 --> 00:40:18.620 Speaker 3: But now we watch these people that come out of their maimed and just mutilated. 00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:20.700 Speaker 3: Sometimes they couldn't function. 00:40:22.140 --> 00:40:29.340 Speaker 3: And some of them that weren't even hardly injured never made it out of the hospital because they just couldn't let go of the pain and the hurt. 00:40:29.350 --> 00:40:33.420 Speaker 3: And they let it eat them up and they let it just burn in there until it just killed them. 00:40:34.040 --> 00:40:38.400 Speaker 3: And she said she watched it and watched it and realized, yeah, yeah, you got to go for the grace. 00:40:38.620 --> 00:40:39.340 Speaker 3: God's given us grace. 00:40:39.580 --> 00:40:40.420 Speaker 3: You've got to give it to others. 00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:41.300 Speaker 6: And 00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:42.640 Speaker 3: she started telling people this. 00:40:42.690 --> 00:40:47.280 Speaker 3: And my favorite story she tells, though, is years after all that happened. 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.320 Speaker 3: She's she's getting older at this point, and she was basically getting ready, getting to the point she couldn't go and do stuff. 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:57.040 Speaker 3: And some friends did something that really, really hurt her, Adam. 00:40:57.180 --> 00:40:58.000 Speaker 3: She was real hurt. 00:40:58.030 --> 00:41:00.400 Speaker 3: She said, and it's funny when you see her writing about it. 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.680 Speaker 3: She says, I don't even really remember what it was now. 00:41:04.040 --> 00:41:07.980 Speaker 3: But at the time, I was mad and she was so fired up about it. 00:41:07.990 --> 00:41:12.320 Speaker 3: And she was she was and she had invited some of them over to talk about it. 00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:18.020 Speaker 3: And, you know, she was going to let them know, hey, I've I just want y'all to know I forget. 00:41:18.350 --> 00:41:20.240 Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to I've let go of that. 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:21.920 Speaker 3: I'm not going to hold it against you. 00:41:22.340 --> 00:41:22.840 Speaker 3: I'm done with it. 00:41:23.100 --> 00:41:24.360 Speaker 3: And they looked at her and said, what are you talking about? 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:24.940 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:41:25.680 --> 00:41:30.060 Speaker 3: And she got so mad that they did not upset her. 00:41:30.270 --> 00:41:35.440 Speaker 3: And she went to a friend of hers who was some kind of priest there, whatever, because they're in the Netherlands. 00:41:35.610 --> 00:41:42.260 Speaker 3: They have a couple of different non-Catholic, but they still have priests, you know, Episcopal, Lutheran kind of stuff. 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.900 Speaker 3: there. And she went to, she said, I just don't know what to do. They're telling me they don't 00:41:46.020 --> 00:41:50.540 Speaker 3: remember it. I can prove it. I have the letters in here. I have the stuff they wrote to me. I have 00:41:50.620 --> 00:41:53.480 Speaker 3: the stuff they said, but I got it right in here in my door. You want to see it and goes in and pulls 00:41:53.560 --> 00:41:59.320 Speaker 3: it out of her. And he just looked there. He said, Corey, he said, did God cast your sins into the 00:41:59.870 --> 00:42:03.020 Speaker 3: sea so that you can hang on to theirs for the rest of your life? Yeah. 00:42:03.600 --> 00:42:04.060 Speaker 4: And she 00:42:04.060 --> 00:42:05.520 Speaker 3: went, uh-oh. 00:42:05.900 --> 00:42:12.360 Speaker 3: Yeah. And she said, here I was like, I think she was like 70 or 80 years old at this point. She 00:42:12.380 --> 00:42:13.880 Speaker 3: the end of my life and i'm still learning 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.000 Speaker 4: how to forgive yeah yeah it's critical that's why jesus 00:42:17.070 --> 00:42:19.940 Speaker 4: is so hardcore about forgiving others right because 00:42:19.940 --> 00:42:20.780 Speaker 7: yeah he's 00:42:20.780 --> 00:42:22.200 Speaker 4: sitting there knowing he's about to pay 00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:24.420 Speaker 4: for your sins and you're not forgiving somebody else 00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:27.560 Speaker 7: yeah it's tough yeah i 00:42:27.560 --> 00:42:28.480 Speaker 4: mean this is this is 00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:29.320 Speaker 4: god stepped out 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.560 Speaker 7: of heaven you're right amen 00:42:31.560 --> 00:42:35.760 Speaker 4: to live in this horrible place for 33 years and die 00:42:35.660 --> 00:42:35.960 Speaker 4: on the cross 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:36.800 Speaker 7: yeah and 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:42.380 Speaker 3: we always leave that verse out right after the lord's prayer where he says 00:42:43.180 --> 00:42:45.900 Speaker 3: forgive others so that your father in heaven will forgive you 00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:47.020 Speaker 4: yeah for 00:42:47.020 --> 00:42:47.960 Speaker 3: if you do not forgive others 00:42:48.020 --> 00:42:52.840 Speaker 3: their sin neither will your father in heaven forgive you yours and it's like oh wow and multiple times 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.360 Speaker 3: he tells me he's like look the measure you use for others it's going to be used to measure you 00:42:56.620 --> 00:42:59.660 Speaker 4: and we need it we need to keep our focus on his grace and mercy don't we that's 00:42:59.660 --> 00:42:59.820 Speaker 5: right 00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:00.460 Speaker 3: have to 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:01.360 Speaker 3: Amen. 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:12.040 Speaker 5: Amen. He's good. He is so good. And, you know, I don't I don't know who's listening today and who might listen to this in the future. 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:18.220 Speaker 5: But I guess my question to you is, what is it that you need grace and mercy for today? 00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:23.520 Speaker 5: You know, what is it that you're going through? What is it you're facing? What is it you're doing? 00:43:24.560 --> 00:43:26.500 Speaker 5: What is it that you need grace? 00:43:27.580 --> 00:43:30.920 Speaker 5: Maybe it's over the death of a loved one that you just can't get past that, 00:43:31.060 --> 00:43:34.040 Speaker 5: or someone's dying and you can't get past that. 00:43:34.180 --> 00:43:37.920 Speaker 5: Maybe it's, you know, you just got a bad report from your doctor, 00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:43.760 Speaker 5: and you need grace and mercy for that, or there's a trial in your life, 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.340 Speaker 5: or maybe your marriage is falling apart. 00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:49.720 Speaker 5: You know, you're in a place where you don't know how it got here. 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:55.740 Speaker 5: You once thought you had a good marriage, and now things are falling apart at the seams. 00:43:56.500 --> 00:44:01.620 Speaker 5: And I want you to know that there's enough grace and mercy that God can take that marriage and restore it. 00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:02.180 Speaker 6: Absolutely. 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:07.620 Speaker 5: And bring it back to something that honors him and glorifies him. 00:44:08.980 --> 00:44:10.080 Speaker 5: Don't let go of that. 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:11.020 Speaker 5: Don't let go of that. 00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:15.880 Speaker 5: If you're a Christian man and woman and you're struggling in your marriage, know that God's grace and mercy is enough. 00:44:16.120 --> 00:44:22.660 Speaker 5: whatever you've done, whatever's going on, that it can be forgiven and God can heal in that. 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.060 Speaker 5: Or, you know, maybe it's a unique grace because you've got a child that's went the wrong way. 00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:29.940 Speaker 5: You know, you've got a child that's strayed away from God. 00:44:30.070 --> 00:44:32.240 Speaker 5: And we've sat here and gave our testimonies. 00:44:32.270 --> 00:44:37.440 Speaker 5: And you've heard them on here before about how, you know, we've walked away from the Lord. 00:44:37.550 --> 00:44:44.360 Speaker 5: And we're sitting here today preaching and teaching and talking about him and just being loved by him. 00:44:44.520 --> 00:44:47.980 Speaker 5: You know, I mean, didn't deserve it, but he done it anyway. 00:44:48.150 --> 00:45:02.740 Speaker 5: So keep praying for that child and get that grace that you need to walk through this, because you cannot destroy your life and your Christian life and your testimony because of what's going on with that wayward child. 00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:03.540 Speaker 6: You 00:45:03.540 --> 00:45:04.320 Speaker 5: can't keep it. 00:45:04.350 --> 00:45:05.760 Speaker 5: You can't stay and wallow in that. 00:45:06.120 --> 00:45:07.180 Speaker 5: Don't stop praying for them. 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:08.440 Speaker 5: Don't stop reaching out to them. 00:45:08.540 --> 00:45:10.680 Speaker 5: Don't stop loving them and showing them mercy and grace. 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:14.040 Speaker 5: But know that God is there to give you what you need to, 00:45:14.140 --> 00:45:14.600 Speaker 6: because as 00:45:14.600 --> 00:45:16.040 Speaker 5: a parent, you need that sometimes. 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:16.860 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:45:17.780 --> 00:45:21.060 Speaker 5: And and and maybe it's just for that thing that that's coming. 00:45:21.540 --> 00:45:21.640 Speaker 5: Right. 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:26.120 Speaker 5: Because if you haven't had tragedy or troubles or trials hit yet, you will. 00:45:26.220 --> 00:45:26.520 Speaker 5: It's coming. 00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:27.140 Speaker 5: It's coming. 00:45:27.520 --> 00:45:27.900 Speaker 5: It's coming. 00:45:28.140 --> 00:45:32.460 Speaker 5: I'm not trying to to preach doom and gloom, but it's just something that we need. 00:45:32.520 --> 00:45:39.460 Speaker 5: And and the light of it is and the bright the rainbow in the crowd is is that that he's there and he 00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:39.720 Speaker 4: gives 00:45:39.720 --> 00:45:40.560 Speaker 5: us grace and mercy. 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:51.680 Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's, man, I'll tell you, this is an age that's difficult. You know, you get in your 50s, 60s, and you've got older parents. 00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:52.440 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:54.720 Speaker 4: Man, it's hard. 00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:55.280 Speaker 5: It's 00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:00.020 Speaker 4: hard, you know. And of course, I'm almost 60. And of course, Diane just turned 29. 00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:02.500 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. I knew that. 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:03.640 Speaker 5: You're laughing, man. 00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:11.340 Speaker 4: No, she's in her 50s, and our parents, they're moving on. 00:46:11.460 --> 00:46:14.280 Speaker 4: They're just getting old, you know, and this is just the cycle of life. 00:46:14.560 --> 00:46:14.920 Speaker 6: It is. 00:46:15.200 --> 00:46:15.920 Speaker 6: And it's hard. 00:46:16.180 --> 00:46:16.740 Speaker 6: It's hard. 00:46:17.060 --> 00:46:18.060 Speaker 6: And don't 00:46:18.060 --> 00:46:18.660 Speaker 4: give up praying. 00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:21.620 Speaker 4: And you said something about a wayward child. 00:46:21.740 --> 00:46:23.580 Speaker 4: You know, I'm a result of a mama praying. 00:46:24.680 --> 00:46:24.860 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:25.480 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:46:25.700 --> 00:46:27.980 Speaker 4: Mama praying for somebody is powerful, 00:46:28.220 --> 00:46:28.360 Speaker 5: man. 00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:29.280 Speaker 5: A grandmother 00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:31.500 Speaker 4: praying for somebody is powerful stuff. 00:46:31.720 --> 00:46:31.960 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:46:32.130 --> 00:46:32.240 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:46:32.580 --> 00:46:33.160 Speaker 5: And don't 00:46:33.160 --> 00:46:34.820 Speaker 4: leave the grandfathers out. 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:35.220 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:36.600 Speaker 5: Grandfathers need to be praying. 00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:37.500 Speaker 5: Fathers need 00:46:37.500 --> 00:46:38.000 Speaker 4: to be praying. 00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:38.520 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:38.920 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:40.880 Speaker 5: Bear down and pray for those kids. 00:46:40.950 --> 00:46:41.880 Speaker 5: Pray for those children. 00:46:42.120 --> 00:46:44.800 Speaker 5: Pray for them now, right? 00:46:44.980 --> 00:46:45.080 Speaker 4: I 00:46:45.080 --> 00:46:45.740 Speaker 2: don't 00:46:45.740 --> 00:46:47.300 Speaker 5: know if y'all know this, but I got a grandbaby. 00:46:47.470 --> 00:46:48.020 Speaker 5: You didn't mean I have. 00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:51.900 Speaker 5: But I'm already praying for her. 00:46:52.030 --> 00:46:56.540 Speaker 5: You know, I'm praying because I know there's going to be so many obstacles in her way. 00:46:56.590 --> 00:46:58.400 Speaker 5: And that there's a Satan. 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:02.980 Speaker 5: There's a devil out there that wants to destroy her already. 00:47:03.540 --> 00:47:06.120 Speaker 5: And I'm praying a hedge of protection around her. 00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:17.100 Speaker 5: And I feel, you know, I think we have a need to, our kids and our grandkids should give us a reason to be accountable, too. 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:26.340 Speaker 5: You know, I don't want to do anything that would dismiss not only my witness for them, but also my prayers. 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:32.700 Speaker 5: Right. Because, I mean, I don't want to put something in a way of asking God, hey, God, you do. 00:47:32.900 --> 00:47:35.380 Speaker 5: I need you to do this and I'm not where I need to be. 00:47:35.740 --> 00:47:38.120 Speaker 5: Yeah. And we got it. We got to be careful with that, too. 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:41.660 Speaker 5: So, man, man. Good stuff. 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:42.380 Speaker 5: Good stuff. 00:47:43.160 --> 00:47:50.660 Speaker 3: Well, and and all I was going to throw in there is, you know, as parents, as grandparents, as aunts and uncles and family members, 00:47:50.780 --> 00:48:00.000 Speaker 3: Sometimes we have a tendency to think that, you know, if we get in there and we do enough, we can convince that wayward child to come back. 00:48:00.540 --> 00:48:00.820 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:48:02.120 --> 00:48:02.460 Speaker 5: Having 00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:03.740 Speaker 3: been the wayward child, 00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:05.880 Speaker 5: there's 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:06.240 Speaker 3: nothing. 00:48:06.660 --> 00:48:07.340 Speaker 3: There's no amount. 00:48:07.420 --> 00:48:09.420 Speaker 3: You can talk to them until you're blue in the face. 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:14.980 Speaker 3: The only thing that's going to get them back is when God gets a hold of them and they start listening. 00:48:15.300 --> 00:48:15.400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:48:15.600 --> 00:48:17.260 Speaker 3: Because God's poking at them the whole time. 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:19.960 Speaker 3: If they're saved, I can go ahead and tell you he's poking the whole way. 00:48:20.200 --> 00:48:20.300 Speaker 6: Absolutely. 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:20.540 Speaker 6: Hey, 00:48:20.820 --> 00:48:22.220 Speaker 3: hey, you're going to pay attention to me. 00:48:22.500 --> 00:48:22.700 Speaker 6: And, 00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:24.340 Speaker 3: you know, we've said it multiple times. 00:48:24.460 --> 00:48:24.860 Speaker 3: He's a gentleman. 00:48:24.910 --> 00:48:28.200 Speaker 3: He doesn't come in and just beat you down and grab you and shake you by the throat. 00:48:28.860 --> 00:48:31.600 Speaker 3: Sometimes I kind of wish you give me a good shake just to get my attention. 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.080 Speaker 3: But he tends to, you know, be that quiet voice. 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.340 Speaker 3: That's still a small voice saying, hey, pay attention. 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:39.140 Speaker 3: Pay attention. 00:48:39.240 --> 00:48:39.600 Speaker 4: I'm here. 00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:40.200 Speaker 4: Listen. 00:48:40.330 --> 00:48:41.000 Speaker 4: Well, son, right. 00:48:41.200 --> 00:48:43.360 Speaker 4: He just he just gets to the end of himself. 00:48:43.640 --> 00:48:44.460 Speaker 4: This is the end of the rope. 00:48:44.680 --> 00:48:46.360 Speaker 4: You know, he just got nowhere else to go. 00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:46.860 Speaker 4: He's desperate. 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:48.300 Speaker 4: Boy, I'm ready to listen then. 00:48:48.540 --> 00:48:50.820 Speaker 4: Boy, I could go back and be my father's slave. 00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:51.620 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:48:52.900 --> 00:48:55.440 Speaker 5: No, we're bringing you back in and we'll give you the best. 00:48:55.600 --> 00:48:57.480 Speaker 5: Father hocks up his robe and is running at him. 00:48:57.620 --> 00:48:57.920 Speaker 4: That's it. 00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:58.800 Speaker 4: And he does the same for 00:48:58.800 --> 00:48:58.960 Speaker 5: us. 00:48:59.040 --> 00:48:59.480 Speaker 5: Yes, he does. 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:00.100 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 00:49:00.520 --> 00:49:01.820 Speaker 5: He comes after us, right? 00:49:02.150 --> 00:49:03.100 Speaker 5: He comes after us. 00:49:04.839 --> 00:49:09.200 Speaker 5: And it goes back to the verse that tells us, you know, raise your children up in the way they should go. 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:12.100 Speaker 5: And when they're old, they will not depart from it. 00:49:12.900 --> 00:49:16.500 Speaker 5: Now, people would say, well, I've seen kids stray and not come back. 00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:19.780 Speaker 5: But it goes back to what Tyler was saying a minute ago. 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.780 Speaker 5: If that child is truly saved, you have given them a background. 00:49:24.030 --> 00:49:25.380 Speaker 5: You have built a foundation. 00:49:25.690 --> 00:49:30.900 Speaker 5: You have given them something that I promise you God has dealt with them and it's on their minds. 00:49:31.080 --> 00:49:38.440 Speaker 5: Now, whether they make that decision or not, they're not going to depart from what they knew because it's always going to be etched in their minds. 00:49:38.600 --> 00:49:39.300 Speaker 6: It's always going 00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:39.900 Speaker 5: to be there 00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:40.740 Speaker 6: following 00:49:40.740 --> 00:49:42.460 Speaker 5: them all the days of their life. 00:49:42.700 --> 00:49:47.280 Speaker 5: Right. Because even when I was at my worst, I knew I knew what was right. 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:49.140 Speaker 5: I knew what I had grown up with. 00:49:49.140 --> 00:49:55.340 Speaker 5: I knew what my dad and my mom and God's word had done for me and in me. 00:49:55.600 --> 00:50:01.520 Speaker 5: Yeah. So, you know, sometimes we don't make the choice to to turn back and be who we need to be. 00:50:02.140 --> 00:50:07.900 Speaker 5: But that what's been imputed into us and what's been placed into us through him never, never leaves 00:50:07.900 --> 00:50:08.080 Speaker 4: us. 00:50:08.200 --> 00:50:14.000 Speaker 4: And I knew I still had the spirit of the one that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of me, giving me nudges. 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:14.480 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:15.040 Speaker 5: Right. 00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:16.360 Speaker 5: Every now and then. 00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:16.820 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:50:17.140 --> 00:50:17.360 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:50:18.120 --> 00:50:18.380 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:50:19.900 --> 00:50:20.380 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:50:20.740 --> 00:50:24.100 Speaker 4: I want to read Psalm 18 because the first three verses. 00:50:24.340 --> 00:50:24.840 Speaker 4: I love this. 00:50:24.940 --> 00:50:27.480 Speaker 4: It says, I love you, O Lord, my strength. 00:50:28.020 --> 00:50:37.440 Speaker 4: The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, 00:50:37.720 --> 00:50:41.580 Speaker 4: my stronghold, I call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. 00:50:41.780 --> 00:50:42.000 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:50:42.740 --> 00:50:43.120 Speaker 6: Amen. 00:50:43.540 --> 00:50:44.420 Speaker 4: He is our rock. 00:50:44.540 --> 00:50:44.840 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:50:45.220 --> 00:50:45.280 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:47.120 Speaker 4: He never moves, never changes. 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:47.760 Speaker 4: That's right. 00:50:47.860 --> 00:50:48.060 Speaker 6: Thank 00:50:48.060 --> 00:50:48.880 Speaker 4: God he don't. 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.100 Speaker 4: Thank God he don't shift with the culture. 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:51.720 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:52.580 Speaker 5: He don't change 00:50:52.580 --> 00:50:53.120 Speaker 4: his mind. 00:50:53.180 --> 00:50:54.400 Speaker 4: What he says is true and 00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:54.640 Speaker 5: forever. 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:57.740 Speaker 5: He's the same yesterday and today and forevermore. 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:02.780 Speaker 5: And not one jot or one tittle, the Bible says, of his word will change. 00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:03.160 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:51:03.380 --> 00:51:04.260 Speaker 5: It's the same. 00:51:04.500 --> 00:51:05.040 Speaker 5: That's the same. 00:51:05.380 --> 00:51:11.680 Speaker 5: When you get all these people saying, oh, well, that was just because that was back then, and it's not that way now. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.460 Speaker 5: His word is timeless. 00:51:14.820 --> 00:51:14.880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:51:15.020 --> 00:51:15.480 Speaker 4: It's timeless. 00:51:15.900 --> 00:51:17.900 Speaker 4: Jesus said, my words will never pass away. 00:51:18.030 --> 00:51:18.120 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:18.860 Speaker 4: They will. 00:51:19.220 --> 00:51:19.320 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:20.600 Speaker 5: Pretty quick. 00:51:20.980 --> 00:51:21.100 Speaker 5: They 00:51:21.100 --> 00:51:21.340 Speaker 3: will. 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:23.120 Speaker 5: They'll be forgotten. 00:51:23.460 --> 00:51:23.580 Speaker 3: Right? 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:24.100 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:51:24.540 --> 00:51:24.640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:25.500 Speaker 3: Amen. 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:33.780 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I mean, at the end of the passage where Paul is writing about love, he says, look, all these other things. 00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:37.380 Speaker 3: He goes through all these spiritual gifts and he's like, hey, look, the tongues are going to cease. 00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:41.960 Speaker 3: The knowledge is going to fail and it's going to fade away and all of these things. 00:51:42.200 --> 00:51:43.780 Speaker 3: And we forget that. 00:51:44.020 --> 00:51:44.520 Speaker 5: We forget 00:51:44.520 --> 00:51:44.720 Speaker 3: that. 00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:48.500 Speaker 3: But God's love, which is where his grace and mercy come from, his love. 00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:49.880 Speaker 3: It's forever. 00:51:50.600 --> 00:51:51.400 Speaker 5: It's permanent. 00:51:51.740 --> 00:51:52.640 Speaker 5: It is etched 00:51:52.640 --> 00:51:56.320 Speaker 3: into the very fabric of the universe. 00:51:58.020 --> 00:51:59.160 Speaker 3: And he's given it to us. 00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:00.720 Speaker 3: Man. 00:52:01.580 --> 00:52:02.640 Speaker 3: And he gave it to us. 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:04.380 Speaker 3: He gave us the ability to love. 00:52:04.650 --> 00:52:06.400 Speaker 3: He gave us his grace and he gave us his mercy. 00:52:07.020 --> 00:52:11.220 Speaker 3: Those are the three things that through Christ has been just imputed to us. 00:52:11.680 --> 00:52:12.080 Speaker 5: They're there. 00:52:12.700 --> 00:52:14.340 Speaker 3: Every single Christian has those things. 00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:23.840 Speaker 3: And you can worry about, and sometimes God does give some people one gift and other people another gift. 00:52:24.420 --> 00:52:31.500 Speaker 3: But the one thing I can guarantee, if you are saved, if you are a Christian, and I think y'all will agree with me, we're given his love. 00:52:31.940 --> 00:52:36.980 Speaker 3: And it's in us for us to give to others, for us to show to others. 00:52:37.140 --> 00:52:38.040 Speaker 3: It's not to hold on to. 00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:39.360 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not just his 00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:40.660 Speaker 3: love to us. 00:52:41.040 --> 00:52:43.020 Speaker 3: It is his ability to love others. 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.120 Speaker 3: And that's something that he's given every single person. 00:52:46.260 --> 00:52:47.500 Speaker 3: If you're saved, it's there. 00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:50.580 Speaker 3: And we're supposed to be using it. 00:52:51.660 --> 00:52:53.040 Speaker 3: And sometimes we just don't. 00:52:53.180 --> 00:52:55.000 Speaker 3: And again, it's not like we're going to run out of it. 00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:55.540 Speaker 3: He's 00:52:55.540 --> 00:52:57.200 Speaker 5: going to keep pouring it into us, right? 00:52:57.740 --> 00:52:58.980 Speaker 5: I mean, we pour it out. 00:52:59.100 --> 00:53:00.380 Speaker 5: He pours it back into us. 00:53:00.380 --> 00:53:01.480 Speaker 5: He fills us back up. 00:53:01.660 --> 00:53:02.540 Speaker 4: You're boundless. 00:53:02.660 --> 00:53:03.440 Speaker 4: I feel like you're bugging him. 00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:03.920 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:04.860 Speaker 5: Sorry. 00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:05.860 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:53:06.980 --> 00:53:07.040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:53:07.240 --> 00:53:07.500 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:53:07.640 --> 00:53:08.380 Speaker 4: I got something else. 00:53:08.500 --> 00:53:08.640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:16.160 Speaker 4: But something just reminded me of a really, really old hymn that, what does it say? 00:53:16.820 --> 00:53:22.980 Speaker 4: It says, he speaks in eternity, filled with his voice, re-echoes the praise of the Lord. 00:53:23.460 --> 00:53:25.360 Speaker 4: It's like when he speaks all of eternity. 00:53:25.700 --> 00:53:26.200 Speaker 4: He listens. 00:53:26.660 --> 00:53:26.740 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:28.000 Speaker 4: He listens and shakes. 00:53:28.300 --> 00:53:28.400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:53:28.580 --> 00:53:29.120 Speaker 4: Quakes. 00:53:29.240 --> 00:53:29.440 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:53:30.040 --> 00:53:30.320 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:31.720 Speaker 4: I love this. 00:53:31.740 --> 00:53:37.440 Speaker 4: I got to read this before we stop, man, because this is probably my favorite part of Scripture in history. 00:53:38.120 --> 00:53:40.480 Speaker 4: It said, what shall we say to these things? 00:53:40.560 --> 00:53:42.460 Speaker 4: If God is for us, who is against us? 00:53:42.640 --> 00:53:42.860 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:53:43.860 --> 00:53:50.900 Speaker 4: He who did not even spare his own son but delivered him over for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things? 00:53:51.180 --> 00:53:51.420 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.760 Speaker 4: Who will bring a charge against God's elect? 00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:55.380 Speaker 4: God is the one who justifies. 00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:56.980 Speaker 4: Who is the one who condemns? 00:53:57.300 --> 00:53:59.020 Speaker 4: Christ Jesus is he who died. 00:53:59.080 --> 00:54:00.420 Speaker 4: Yes, rather, who was raised? 00:54:00.580 --> 00:54:03.660 Speaker 4: who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:06.860 Speaker 4: Who will separate us from the love of Christ? 00:54:07.420 --> 00:54:12.780 Speaker 4: Will tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 00:54:13.140 --> 00:54:16.720 Speaker 4: Just as it is written, for your sake we are being put to death all day long. 00:54:16.740 --> 00:54:18.640 Speaker 4: We were considered a sheep to be slaughtered. 00:54:19.140 --> 00:54:22.160 Speaker 4: But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer 00:54:22.160 --> 00:54:23.040 Speaker 5: through 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:23.880 Speaker 4: him who loved us. 00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:28.300 Speaker 4: For I'm convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, 00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.720 Speaker 4: nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, 00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:36.320 Speaker 4: nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God, 00:54:36.660 --> 00:54:37.760 Speaker 4: which is in Christ Jesus. 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:38.100 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:54:38.560 --> 00:54:38.840 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:54:39.340 --> 00:54:39.500 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:42.420 Speaker 5: And where does his mercy and grace come from? 00:54:42.580 --> 00:54:43.540 Speaker 5: It comes from his love. 00:54:43.620 --> 00:54:43.900 Speaker 5: Amen. 00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:44.420 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:54:44.640 --> 00:54:45.620 Speaker 5: That's what encompasses 00:54:45.620 --> 00:54:46.380 Speaker 3: everything. 00:54:46.560 --> 00:54:47.200 Speaker 3: Every bit of it. 00:54:47.260 --> 00:54:47.420 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:48.440 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.820 Speaker 3: I think that is a perfect note to end on. 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:53.440 Speaker 3: Yes, it is. 00:54:55.660 --> 00:54:57.740 Speaker 3: Brother Dennis, pray us out tonight. 00:54:58.160 --> 00:54:58.900 Speaker 4: Father, thank you. 00:54:59.220 --> 00:55:04.380 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for this time we've had to just talk about you, Father, to praise you, 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.880 Speaker 4: to worship you for all that you've done for us, all we know you're going to do. 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:12.360 Speaker 4: And Father, not just for the things you do, but for who you are, that you are love, you 00:55:12.500 --> 00:55:15.740 Speaker 4: are mercy, your grace, your kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 00:55:16.780 --> 00:55:19.340 Speaker 4: Father, that you take care of us every single day of our lives. 00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:20.880 Speaker 4: We can't live without you. 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:21.880 Speaker 4: You're our bread of life. 00:55:22.100 --> 00:55:22.620 Speaker 4: You're our shepherd. 00:55:23.720 --> 00:55:29.720 Speaker 4: Lord, help us, lead us, guide us, and overcome our sheet block tendencies to be really dumb. 00:55:30.580 --> 00:55:34.120 Speaker 4: Father, you love us through all these things, and your grace never runs out. 00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:34.720 Speaker 4: Thank you. 00:55:35.180 --> 00:55:35.640 Speaker 4: Thank you. 00:55:35.660 --> 00:55:40.000 Speaker 4: And Father, I pray for everybody listening, Father, that if anybody is distant from you 00:55:40.040 --> 00:55:44.260 Speaker 4: and they're hearing this, Father, that they would come home, come home where you're waiting 00:55:44.340 --> 00:55:44.620 Speaker 4: on them. 00:55:44.620 --> 00:55:47.280 Speaker 4: You're sitting on the front porch looking for them every day. 00:55:47.940 --> 00:55:49.800 Speaker 4: Father, I pray that they would come back to you. 00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:53.520 Speaker 4: And Father, for anybody whose marriage is in trouble, Father, I pray that you're sitting 00:55:53.540 --> 00:55:57.320 Speaker 4: you would just poke and prod them to remind them of who you are and how much you can do 00:55:57.420 --> 00:55:59.400 Speaker 4: and how great your grace and mercy are. 00:55:59.940 --> 00:56:01.080 Speaker 4: Father, that you can reconcile. 00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:02.860 Speaker 4: It's what you're in the business of. 00:56:03.210 --> 00:56:04.920 Speaker 4: And Lord, we give you thanks for that. 00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:07.800 Speaker 4: Father, I pray for anybody listening that's not saved. 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:12.080 Speaker 4: Father, I pray that you pour your spirit out and Father, drive them to their knees. 00:56:12.300 --> 00:56:13.220 Speaker 4: Don't let them sleep tonight. 00:56:13.820 --> 00:56:15.220 Speaker 4: Lord, that they might turn to you. 00:56:15.540 --> 00:56:19.560 Speaker 4: I know you want none to perish, but all to be saved. 00:56:19.610 --> 00:56:22.740 Speaker 4: And Father, may your will be done in every person listening's life. 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:26.840 Speaker 4: Father, thank you for this time and bless us as we go through the rest of this week. 00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:28.300 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, amen. 00:56:28.420 --> 00:56:28.540 Speaker 4: Amen. 00:56:31.820 --> 00:56:41.480 Speaker 3: Special thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson, Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our theme song, Truth Set Me Free. 00:56:42.220 --> 00:56:44.280 Speaker 3: I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio. 00:56:45.020 --> 00:56:48.300 Speaker 3: We hope you can join us live next Monday at 6 p.m. Central. 00:56:49.060 --> 00:56:49.780 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening. 00:56:50.060 --> 00:56:50.160 Speaker 3: But 00:56:50.160 --> 00:57:00.960 Speaker 1: truth found me there. 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