(273) “The Multiple Consequences of Disobedience and the Grace to Overcome Temptation”

WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120
The Lord wants to give us the grace to obey Him.

00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.019
And it comes by walking in the Spirit. Galatians

00:00:07.019 --> 00:00:10.500
5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in the Spirit,

00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.199
and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

00:00:13.539 --> 00:00:19.059
Those desires of the flesh are overcome as we

00:00:19.059 --> 00:00:30.449
walk in the Spirit. God promises in Joel 2 .28

00:00:30.449 --> 00:00:34.250
to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome

00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:36.969
to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that

00:00:36.969 --> 00:00:40.070
promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

00:00:40.229 --> 00:00:43.829
so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

00:00:44.009 --> 00:00:46.630
I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome

00:00:46.630 --> 00:00:49.270
to the podcast today. We're so glad that you're

00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:51.750
joining us. We're going to have a discussion

00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:56.810
today about the multiple consequences of disobedience.

00:01:03.210 --> 00:01:05.569
Thank you so much for joining us today. We are

00:01:05.569 --> 00:01:09.170
really blessed to be able to come into your life

00:01:09.170 --> 00:01:12.349
and that you are becoming a part of our lives

00:01:12.349 --> 00:01:15.969
as we do these podcasts together. But before

00:01:15.969 --> 00:01:18.090
we get started, we want to make sure that you

00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:20.629
are staying in touch with us, that we're staying

00:01:20.629 --> 00:01:24.170
in touch with you. And to do both of those things,

00:01:24.230 --> 00:01:27.189
you can go to our website, globaloutpouring .net.

00:01:27.790 --> 00:01:31.209
And for you to hear from us, click on that teal

00:01:31.209 --> 00:01:34.569
colored subscribe button that allows you to sign

00:01:34.569 --> 00:01:37.450
up for whichever of our email lists that you

00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:39.909
want to be on. Whether you want to hear from

00:01:39.909 --> 00:01:42.650
us once in a while or all the time, you have

00:01:42.650 --> 00:01:45.109
selections there for that. And if you're an intercessor,

00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:47.489
there's one for emergency prayer requests and

00:01:47.489 --> 00:01:50.510
another one for our prayer letter. So we want

00:01:50.510 --> 00:01:54.349
to encourage you to join in with what we do by

00:01:54.349 --> 00:01:56.730
doing those things. And you can also send us

00:01:56.730 --> 00:01:59.129
feedback at that place. There's a feedback form

00:01:59.129 --> 00:02:01.989
that you can fill out if you have comments or

00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:05.030
if you want to tell us something, if you want

00:02:05.030 --> 00:02:07.870
prayer for something, anything that we can do

00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:11.129
to help you, to serve you. We want to do that

00:02:11.129 --> 00:02:13.870
if we possibly can by the leading of the Holy

00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:17.169
Spirit. And you can also send us an email, feedback

00:02:17.169 --> 00:02:21.050
at globaloutpouring .org. That will get to us

00:02:21.050 --> 00:02:23.569
the same way as the feedback form. We'll hear

00:02:23.569 --> 00:02:27.069
from you and we can respond to you. So we want

00:02:27.069 --> 00:02:30.009
to just encourage you to stay in contact with

00:02:30.009 --> 00:02:32.810
us and let us stay in contact with you. We want

00:02:32.810 --> 00:02:34.710
to know where you're listening from. We just

00:02:34.710 --> 00:02:38.169
think it's so fun to hear from the nations and

00:02:38.169 --> 00:02:40.159
the states and the cities. that you're listening

00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:44.539
from so that we have an idea just who is listening

00:02:44.539 --> 00:02:49.919
to us. We know that you're out there. So as I

00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.620
was in my devotions this morning, I was being

00:02:52.620 --> 00:02:56.419
moved by the Holy Spirit to... to look at this

00:02:56.419 --> 00:03:00.560
idea of the multiple consequences of disobedience.

00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.039
And that goes both ways, really. There's kind

00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:07.360
of a ripple effect that happens when we fall

00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.639
for temptation. When temptation comes to us,

00:03:10.659 --> 00:03:15.419
like, what does James 1, 14 and 15 say? But each

00:03:15.419 --> 00:03:18.020
person is tempted when he is lured and enticed

00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:21.770
by his own desire. Then desire... When it has

00:03:21.770 --> 00:03:24.789
been conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin,

00:03:24.889 --> 00:03:28.090
when it is fully grown, brings forth death. That's

00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:33.449
from the ESV version. So temptation is something

00:03:33.449 --> 00:03:37.629
that comes to us because of desires that are

00:03:37.629 --> 00:03:41.330
still hanging out there in our flesh. You know,

00:03:41.349 --> 00:03:45.280
that soulish part of us that... really hasn't

00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.500
gotten completely, fully submitted to the Lord.

00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:54.020
And, you know, it affects us personally when

00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:59.000
we fall, right? But what we don't always realize

00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.800
is the ripple effect, the domino effect, the

00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.180
snowball effect, the chain reaction that happens

00:04:07.180 --> 00:04:11.069
when we fall into something. It not only affects

00:04:11.069 --> 00:04:14.069
us and our future, it also affects people around

00:04:14.069 --> 00:04:17.629
us. Yeah, especially if you're high up in a position

00:04:17.629 --> 00:04:21.110
in a ministry. Oh, yeah. Because if you're in

00:04:21.110 --> 00:04:23.209
ministry, you've got a bullseye on your back.

00:04:23.310 --> 00:04:26.519
That's true. He encourages you to turn your back

00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.579
to sin, but if you sense something that is satanic

00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:33.120
coming at you from the front, you need to deal

00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.540
with it. Absolutely. Because you can't turn your

00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:38.639
back on it. It'll get you. Right. And the thing

00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.540
is that turning your back on it in terms of just

00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:43.779
ignoring it and thinking maybe it'll go away,

00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:45.980
you've got to deal with it. You've got to deal

00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:48.120
with it. You've got to deal with the flesh. You've

00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:53.709
got to say no. No. No. You know, we've walked

00:04:53.709 --> 00:04:57.509
with the Lord for a long time. And as temptations

00:04:57.509 --> 00:05:01.769
have been in my life, as the Lord has given me

00:05:01.769 --> 00:05:07.250
the grace to say no, it gets to a point where

00:05:07.250 --> 00:05:10.689
it's kind of like a bear trap. You know, that

00:05:10.689 --> 00:05:13.829
if that thing comes through the door at me, it's

00:05:13.829 --> 00:05:17.810
like there's an automatic trap door that makes

00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:20.990
the thing disappear because I have an automatic

00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:25.189
no. Because I've developed it, okay? Everything

00:05:25.189 --> 00:05:28.250
is a process. Everything, everything, everything

00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:30.889
we do. Everything we do in the Christian walk

00:05:30.889 --> 00:05:33.870
is a process. And, you know, when you're first

00:05:33.870 --> 00:05:38.990
getting there, it's not 100 % success rate, you

00:05:38.990 --> 00:05:43.449
know? I'm reminded of that story of, I guess

00:05:43.449 --> 00:05:45.709
I saw it on somebody's bulletin board in their

00:05:45.709 --> 00:05:49.269
house, this story of this person who goes like

00:05:49.269 --> 00:05:52.800
this. I walked down the street. And I fell in

00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.220
a hole and it was so deep I couldn't get out

00:05:55.220 --> 00:05:57.459
of it. And I cried and I cried and I cried for

00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:01.420
help and someone came and helped me out. And

00:06:01.420 --> 00:06:04.259
then the next paragraph is, I walked down the

00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:07.699
street and I fell in the same hole and I cried

00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:10.139
and I cried and somebody came and helped me out.

00:06:10.939 --> 00:06:14.040
And the next paragraph is, I walked down the

00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:18.240
street and I saw the hole and I fell in it anyway

00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.740
and I cried and cried and somebody came and helped

00:06:20.740 --> 00:06:24.529
me out. And the next paragraph is, I walked down

00:06:24.529 --> 00:06:28.529
the street, I saw the hole, and I walked around

00:06:28.529 --> 00:06:32.629
it. And the next paragraph is, I walked down

00:06:32.629 --> 00:06:37.230
a different street. Okay? Okay, how many pitfalls

00:06:37.230 --> 00:06:41.269
did it take to get to that point? That's my whole

00:06:41.269 --> 00:06:45.939
point. It's a process. We go through. It's a

00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:48.680
learning process. It's learning to walk in the

00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.560
Spirit so that we don't fulfill the lusts of

00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.899
the flesh, whatever those desires of our flesh

00:06:53.899 --> 00:06:57.620
are. But what I'm trying to say is that there's

00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:02.259
this vulnerability area that, you know, we might

00:07:02.259 --> 00:07:05.300
be really strong when we're feeling good, when

00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:07.620
we're all prayed up. Oh, yeah. So you get out

00:07:07.620 --> 00:07:10.839
of a meeting. Right, right. You're getting prophesied

00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.779
over. You know, you're on the top of the world.

00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.699
Yeah, and you're real strong, right? But there

00:07:15.699 --> 00:07:18.379
are times when we're more vulnerable because

00:07:18.379 --> 00:07:21.600
of our flesh. Our flesh is weak. You know, it's

00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.339
just flesh. And so there are times when you're

00:07:25.339 --> 00:07:29.139
vulnerable, and there's an old adage where the

00:07:29.139 --> 00:07:32.980
initials of the word spell halt. Yeah, if you're

00:07:32.980 --> 00:07:36.339
hungry, well, that'll do it. Oh, yeah. If you're

00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:41.220
angry, yeah. What gets a lot of Christians angry

00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:44.600
quick? Yeah. In your car. Oh, well, that can

00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.319
be one of those. I remember somebody, they had

00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.540
a revenge button on their dashboard, and they

00:07:48.540 --> 00:07:51.079
would push the, and somebody would take their

00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.759
emotion out. Instead of saying something, they

00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:55.959
hit the revenge button, you know. Well, that's

00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.879
part of the progress, you know, your process,

00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.339
and you're making progress in your process where

00:08:00.339 --> 00:08:01.839
you hit a button instead of saying something.

00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.500
I hope he gets well. Well, you know what we tend

00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:07.959
to do, you know, okay, so you're driving down

00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.480
the highway. Somebody flies by you at 90 miles

00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.379
an hour, and then you say, I wish there was a

00:08:14.379 --> 00:08:18.459
policeman there. And that's legit. Yeah. That's

00:08:18.459 --> 00:08:22.339
legit. But then, yeah, I hope he gets caught.

00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.759
And then you rejoice when you see the lights

00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:30.839
pull him over. Teach him a lesson. But maybe

00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:33.860
there should be a prayer for that person. Yeah.

00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.539
Maybe we should be saying, Lord, we ask you to

00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:40.460
go after that person that is practicing lawlessness,

00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.860
that you get that person and bring them into

00:08:42.860 --> 00:08:44.820
your kingdom and bring them into this process

00:08:44.820 --> 00:08:47.879
where they will learn not to do this. I'll have

00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:52.600
to keep working on that one. So we got hungry

00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.240
and angry. Okay, then you're lonely. Yeah. Yeah,

00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.100
lonely is a big one, especially if you've lost

00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:02.980
a spouse. Oh, my. Yeah, lost a spouse or a girlfriend

00:09:02.980 --> 00:09:07.200
or grieving over a loss, any kind of a loss,

00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:10.379
like especially a child, you know, a parent losing

00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:13.639
a child. It's not supposed to be that way. You

00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.639
know, you're supposed to let your children grow

00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.820
up and they take care of you when you get old

00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:23.340
and you lose that child in death. And it's horrible.

00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:26.279
It's horrible. A lot of marriages break up over

00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.240
that. But there's a loneliness. That's a reality.

00:09:30.549 --> 00:09:33.029
And it can cause issues, right? So we've got

00:09:33.029 --> 00:09:35.809
hungry, angry, lonely. If you're tired, yeah.

00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:39.490
You say things when you're tired that you wouldn't

00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:42.129
do, especially if you're angry. Because if you're

00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:44.669
tired, that can lean you into anger. Yeah. And

00:09:44.669 --> 00:09:47.509
hunger can do the same thing. They have a word

00:09:47.509 --> 00:09:50.159
now for it, hangry. Oh, especially if you're

00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.500
low blood pressure or something. Low blood sugar.

00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.500
Your blood sugar gets down and your emotions

00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:58.679
can get out of whack. And you can lash out and

00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.799
do something, say something. So H -A -L -T, halt.

00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.460
That's when you need to halt. When you recognize,

00:10:05.659 --> 00:10:08.500
uh -oh, wait a minute, I'm vulnerable here. I

00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:11.100
need to be careful. But there's a couple of other

00:10:11.100 --> 00:10:14.000
ones that I've added to the list. So if you're

00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:18.100
in pain or if you're sick, you know, People who

00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:21.320
are sick, if you don't feel well, it's hard to

00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.360
keep self -control. And that's one of those areas

00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.240
that the Holy Spirit wants to work his fruit

00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.940
in us. And self -control is one of those things.

00:10:32.019 --> 00:10:35.460
And patience is one of those things. And patience

00:10:35.460 --> 00:10:38.519
and self -control, you know, in the King James,

00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:43.629
it calls it long suffering. Where you have the

00:10:43.629 --> 00:10:46.230
grace to put up with stuff. Yeah. When other

00:10:46.230 --> 00:10:49.669
people are out of sorts. So you have your personal

00:10:49.669 --> 00:10:52.970
opportunities to get out of sorts, your personal

00:10:52.970 --> 00:10:58.169
flesh flashes. And then you also have to deal

00:10:58.169 --> 00:11:01.409
with other people's flesh flashes. Especially

00:11:01.409 --> 00:11:04.320
those you love. I know. And when you're hungry

00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.279
or angry or lonely or tired, I don't usually

00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.519
get angry unless I'm hungry or tired. That's

00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.159
just me. And you've tasted that. It takes a lot

00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.379
to rattle your cage. It's just pretty good. But,

00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.100
you know, if it's suppertime and, you know, I'm

00:11:20.100 --> 00:11:23.840
hungry or if I'm too tired to even think about

00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.179
another thing. I can't open another window. Yeah.

00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:34.110
Yeah. So it's so easy to hurt people. when we

00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:37.389
have a flesh -flesh. And if you flip it over,

00:11:37.629 --> 00:11:42.070
think about the times that you've been hurt by

00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:45.149
other people's flesh -fleshes or things that

00:11:45.149 --> 00:11:47.889
might have happened to you as a child. If a parent

00:11:47.889 --> 00:11:51.309
or a sibling or a cousin or a grandparent or

00:11:51.309 --> 00:11:53.269
an aunt or uncle or a neighbor or a teacher,

00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:56.110
a pastor, somebody you should be able to trust

00:11:56.110 --> 00:12:01.470
has harmed you. In some way. Maybe they were

00:12:01.470 --> 00:12:03.129
just having a flesh -flesh because they were

00:12:03.129 --> 00:12:06.309
hungry or angry or lonely or tired. Or it could

00:12:06.309 --> 00:12:09.710
be they just gave in to a temptation to do something

00:12:09.710 --> 00:12:13.029
that they really should never, ever do. Yeah.

00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:15.529
When you're talking about temptation, remember

00:12:15.529 --> 00:12:18.889
we listened to, there was an audio. There was

00:12:18.889 --> 00:12:20.970
a little, there was a girl, 14 -year -old girl

00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:24.049
that was spending a lot of time on her phone.

00:12:24.190 --> 00:12:26.440
Yeah. And she was kind of snapped, her little

00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.480
brother, and her mom asked her to do something.

00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.500
Yeah, it was because they were driving in the

00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:33.980
car and it was raining so torrentially the mom

00:12:33.980 --> 00:12:36.960
could hardly see where she was going. And she

00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:42.200
asked the daughter to look on her GPS to be able

00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.080
to see where's the exit we're supposed to be

00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.340
turning off at. Yeah. And the girl was upset.

00:12:47.820 --> 00:12:52.320
I don't want to. Yeah. And? And then they got

00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.220
hit by a truck and then the car went spinning

00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:58.120
and screamed and then all of a sudden she's with

00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.039
Jesus. And why don't you tell the rest of that?

00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.120
Well, she had this experience where Jesus was

00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.340
comforting her and she said, am I dead? He said,

00:13:08.460 --> 00:13:11.379
for a little while or something like that. She

00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:14.039
actually died for 12 minutes. She died for 12

00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.460
minutes. She was clinically dead for 12 minutes.

00:13:21.070 --> 00:13:23.690
This generation, and when I say generation, I'm

00:13:23.690 --> 00:13:26.350
talking about everybody that's alive now. Across

00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:28.909
the board. Yeah, everybody that's alive now has

00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:32.350
become so overwhelmed with the screen in their

00:13:32.350 --> 00:13:36.049
hand, whether it's their phone or their tablet

00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:40.929
or their PC or whatever, that everyone has become

00:13:40.929 --> 00:13:44.200
so... enamored with their screens and they think

00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.440
that they have achieved better connections with

00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.220
people when all that's really happening is that

00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:54.379
they're becoming more isolated and not able to

00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.000
really communicate. And, you know, the Lord sent

00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.299
her back with this message to share with other

00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:03.559
people about, hey, put down your screens. Yeah.

00:14:03.620 --> 00:14:06.259
And it was the dark figures. Oh, yes, that's

00:14:06.259 --> 00:14:07.600
right. That would show up. Yeah. And when they're

00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.320
looking at something they shouldn't, they just

00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.929
dance around like we got them. Yeah. And the

00:14:12.929 --> 00:14:16.509
dark figures were, because they're kind of mesmerized

00:14:16.509 --> 00:14:19.370
by their screens, the dark figures were able

00:14:19.370 --> 00:14:23.490
to put ideas into their heads that they didn't

00:14:23.490 --> 00:14:26.350
have filters for because they were so mesmerized

00:14:26.350 --> 00:14:30.350
by the screens. Wow. What a lesson. Yeah. So

00:14:30.350 --> 00:14:33.610
this is a temptation that pretty much everybody,

00:14:33.870 --> 00:14:36.529
unless you are not into screens, and that's very

00:14:36.529 --> 00:14:39.649
few people these days. I was convicted when I

00:14:39.649 --> 00:14:43.720
saw it. I've already cut way, way back on my

00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:45.840
screen time. Yeah, I think her parents did that.

00:14:45.899 --> 00:14:48.259
They cut back on their social media. And then

00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:51.159
the dad left his laptop at work when he came

00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.399
home. And at dinner time, they put their phones

00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.340
in a basket, turned them off. And so they had

00:14:57.340 --> 00:15:00.720
supper as a family, which is the way it used

00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.019
to be before TV. Right. It's true. It's true.

00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:09.580
So, you know, God is trying to help us. Get some

00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:13.820
ideas about the ripple effect, the multiple consequences.

00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.019
One of the things that Jesus showed this girl

00:15:17.019 --> 00:15:22.019
was he showed her her family together playing

00:15:22.019 --> 00:15:26.139
a game. And he said, this could have been you

00:15:26.139 --> 00:15:30.620
tonight if you had not had the screen in front

00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:33.940
of you. Wow. If she had done what her mother

00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:36.899
said, they wouldn't have had the accident. Yeah.

00:15:37.470 --> 00:15:39.509
But Jesus says, I'm giving you another chance.

00:15:39.529 --> 00:15:43.090
Go back and share this message. And she said

00:15:43.090 --> 00:15:45.590
that some of her friends thought she was nuts.

00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:49.250
She lost friends over it. She lost friends over

00:15:49.250 --> 00:15:53.070
it, but others got the conviction in their hearts

00:15:53.070 --> 00:15:57.230
that they could get into line with this. So really,

00:15:57.370 --> 00:16:00.649
God is wanting to restore our relationships with

00:16:00.649 --> 00:16:04.899
each other and with him. Because, you know, the

00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:07.340
more time we spend on our screens, the less time

00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:10.080
we're spending with him, typically. You know,

00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:12.360
whatever it is that you're watching, it may be

00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.559
perfectly legitimate and okay. But if it's distracting

00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:19.860
you, it's keeping you from building relationship

00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:24.120
with the Lord. So, you know, this idea of people

00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.620
that are hurt, you know, if you were hurt as

00:16:26.620 --> 00:16:29.799
a child by somebody that you should have been

00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.419
able to trust. whether they were having a flesh

00:16:32.419 --> 00:16:35.559
flash or whether they were absolutely just down

00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.899
the tubes into sin, whatever that is, you know,

00:16:38.899 --> 00:16:42.480
the Lord wants to heal you of that hurt. Because

00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.100
what happens is when a child is hurt, traumatized,

00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:51.200
whatever age they are, there's a stunting of

00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.299
the growth. There's a stunting of your emotional

00:16:53.299 --> 00:16:56.799
development. You get stuck. So when you get under

00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.860
pressure, see these that halt thing when you're

00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:03.000
hungry, angry, lonely, tired, in pain, sick.

00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:06.619
Those are times of pressure. Those are times

00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:12.759
of excess stress that cause you to lose it. You

00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.240
know, you're more likely to lose it under those

00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.220
circumstances. So if you were hurt as a child

00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:20.359
and you get into those circumstances where you

00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.859
get under that kind of pressure, what is your

00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:25.490
behavior? Are you behaving like a seven -year

00:17:25.490 --> 00:17:28.349
-old? Are you behaving like a 12 -year -old or

00:17:28.349 --> 00:17:31.269
three -year -old? Are you behaving like, do you

00:17:31.269 --> 00:17:33.769
lose your ability to say anything? Did something

00:17:33.769 --> 00:17:36.410
happen to you before you even learned how to

00:17:36.410 --> 00:17:39.890
talk that got you stuck there? So that when you're

00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:43.990
under pressure, you wind up being unable to communicate.

00:17:44.289 --> 00:17:48.089
You know, it happens. It happens sometimes. So

00:17:48.089 --> 00:17:52.150
the point in this episode is that we look at

00:17:52.150 --> 00:17:56.890
not only what happened to us, but we also look

00:17:56.890 --> 00:18:02.170
inward at what happens when I lose it and hurt

00:18:02.170 --> 00:18:05.269
other people. It's about getting the grace of

00:18:05.269 --> 00:18:10.349
God to overcome temptation and to overcome the

00:18:10.349 --> 00:18:14.269
flesh flashes, you know, those areas where we

00:18:14.269 --> 00:18:18.160
just lost it, you know. So remember in a recent

00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.859
episode with Richard from New Zealand, he used

00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:24.440
this expression, and we've said it before ourselves,

00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:29.599
hurt people hurt people. So when you're hurt,

00:18:29.700 --> 00:18:32.279
when you have been violated in some way, when

00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:37.180
you're hurt, when you've been wounded, it causes

00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:41.940
this disquiet inside of you that causes you to

00:18:41.940 --> 00:18:45.259
be more likely to hurt others. Yeah. So God wants

00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:48.539
to heal you and he wants to heal the hurts, but

00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:50.660
he also wants to give you the grace to forgive.

00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.140
I had a conversation recently with someone who

00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:58.079
was saying, you know, I was so hurt by, and she

00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.500
mentioned family members. I was so hurt by them

00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:04.660
and I'm just still so hurt. I've forgiven them,

00:19:04.779 --> 00:19:09.720
but I'm still so hurt. And that reminded me of

00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.990
my own experience. And I was able to share this

00:19:12.990 --> 00:19:16.490
with her where I experienced hurt in my life

00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:20.369
from a family member. And I was ministered to

00:19:20.369 --> 00:19:25.470
in just a tremendously high anointed place that

00:19:25.470 --> 00:19:27.630
the Holy Spirit was moving in a tremendous way.

00:19:27.750 --> 00:19:31.470
And it was ministered to me that this hurt was

00:19:31.470 --> 00:19:35.430
so deep in me that it wasn't just going to be

00:19:35.430 --> 00:19:39.869
healed in a moment, but it was going to take

00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:45.799
six weeks. for that hurt to be healed. And it

00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.579
was like after that ministry to me, it was like

00:19:49.579 --> 00:19:52.119
I had amnesia. I completely forgot about the

00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.640
hurt. And it's not like it's something I dwelled

00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.400
on, but it was something that was deep inside

00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:02.000
of me that was still affecting me at certain

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.519
points. So for those next six weeks, I was just

00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:09.079
busy with other things, didn't think about it.

00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:11.380
And at the end of the six weeks, it was kind

00:20:11.380 --> 00:20:15.180
of like I woke up. And I thought, oh, I haven't

00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:17.500
thought about that in a long time. I wonder if

00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:20.599
it's been six weeks yet. And I counted it back,

00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.240
and sure enough, it had been six weeks. And then

00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.559
I thought about the incident that had hurt me

00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.140
so much, or the incidents and the person, and

00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:33.319
it was like I could remember the incidents, but

00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:35.819
it didn't hurt anymore. It didn't make me cry

00:20:35.819 --> 00:20:40.759
anymore. And that is the goal that the Lord wants

00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.500
us to get healed in those things. But he also

00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:50.799
wants us to understand as we are going through

00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.039
our life and our processes, when we are tempted

00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:57.859
to do something, we need to really think about

00:20:57.859 --> 00:21:00.940
that cause and effect thing. What happens when

00:21:00.940 --> 00:21:07.569
we lose it? Because you reap what you sow. 7

00:21:07.569 --> 00:21:11.529
through 10 say, Make no mistake, God can't be

00:21:11.529 --> 00:21:15.069
mocked. What you give is what you get. When you

00:21:15.069 --> 00:21:18.329
sow, you harvest. Those who sow seeds into their

00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:21.049
flesh will only harvest destruction from their

00:21:21.049 --> 00:21:24.210
sinful nature. Yeah, that's it. But those who

00:21:24.210 --> 00:21:27.250
sow seeds into the Spirit shall harvest everlasting

00:21:27.250 --> 00:21:30.829
life from the Spirit. May we never tire of doing

00:21:30.829 --> 00:21:33.009
what is good and right before our Lord, because

00:21:33.009 --> 00:21:36.210
in His season we shall bring in a great harvest.

00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.559
If we can just persist. That's it. So seize any

00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.400
opportunity the Lord gives you to do good things

00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.660
and be a blessing to everyone, especially those

00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:50.200
within our faithful family. Yeah. If we can just

00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.119
persist. And what translation is that? That is

00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.880
the voice translation. The voice. Yeah. It's

00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.220
a good translation. It's one of the messianic

00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:02.480
translations. Oh, okay. So if you can just persist.

00:22:02.579 --> 00:22:06.579
I love that saying. If you don't quit, you win.

00:22:06.900 --> 00:22:09.539
You're going to win if you just don't quit. You

00:22:09.539 --> 00:22:13.779
got to keep persisting. Don't quit. Don't quit.

00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:17.740
So these ideas, there's a few stories in the

00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:22.480
Bible that give us an understanding of the ripple

00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.859
effect of when we give into temptation. So you've

00:22:25.859 --> 00:22:28.599
got, obviously, the first one you come to is

00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.759
Eve in the Garden of Eden. And you got this,

00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:39.720
you got this. And he's busy talking and planting

00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:50.440
seeds. Seeds of doubt. Seeds of disobedience.

00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:58.180
You know? You're a great radio person. I wish

00:22:58.180 --> 00:23:01.480
the listeners could see. You can see what I'm

00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:05.759
looking at. It's really good. On one of these

00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:09.039
days, we'll do video. But anyway, you know, he

00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.680
was continuously tempting her and coming at her

00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.960
day after day after day, making these suggestions

00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:22.319
of, you know, God didn't really mean what he

00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:29.269
said. What he said. And eventually... You believe

00:23:29.269 --> 00:23:32.809
it. She got thinking about it. It wasn't in a

00:23:32.809 --> 00:23:35.529
moment. It wasn't in just that one suggestion.

00:23:36.150 --> 00:23:38.690
Yeah, this was going on for a while. It probably

00:23:38.690 --> 00:23:40.690
went on for quite a while. You read in the Bible,

00:23:40.829 --> 00:23:43.849
you know, and you think that just happened this

00:23:43.849 --> 00:23:46.369
time. Yeah. No, this was going on for a while.

00:23:46.470 --> 00:23:54.609
It was a continuous suggestion. Yeah, and you

00:23:54.609 --> 00:23:58.259
listen long enough. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah,

00:23:58.299 --> 00:24:00.720
and what that does is it plants seeds of doubt

00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:06.079
that make you think outside the box of what you've

00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:09.119
been taught, makes you think outside of what

00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.119
the Word says God said. You know, God said, God

00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.660
said, God said, don't eat of it. But she went

00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.740
on, she'd probably been taught by Adam, because

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:22.500
it was Adam that heard from God, don't eat it.

00:24:22.579 --> 00:24:25.059
He said to her, don't even touch it, because

00:24:25.059 --> 00:24:27.400
if you don't touch it, you won't eat it. Right.

00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:29.799
It's kind of adding to what God said. He just

00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:32.220
said, don't eat it. But if you don't touch it,

00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:36.779
you'll never eat it. So she was considering and

00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:39.460
thinking about it and thinking about it and looking

00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:43.799
at it. And it does look appealing. It does look

00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:46.279
like something I should try. I would like to

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:50.440
be wise like God. Yeah, I think I should do this.

00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.380
And she did it and she gave it to Adam. And Adam

00:24:54.380 --> 00:24:56.299
was the one who had heard it from God. Don't

00:24:56.299 --> 00:25:01.240
do it. But he loved her. And sometimes we do

00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:04.000
stupid things because of love. Things we know

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.220
better. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't compromise.

00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:13.019
But the whole point is she gave in and look at

00:25:13.019 --> 00:25:15.819
the ripple effect. It's still affecting us today.

00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:21.500
We are having flash flashes now because Eve gave

00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:25.779
in to that. That thing that was constantly after

00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:28.779
her, constantly making suggestions. And that's

00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:32.079
where you have to get so enamored with the word

00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:35.700
and in love with our Father. Jesus said, if you

00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:40.400
love me, keep my commandments. So obedience out

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:44.680
of love is a joy. When you come to a place where

00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.500
you're tempted to do something and you make that

00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:50.880
decision, no, the Bible says I shouldn't do this.

00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:56.640
I'm not going to do it. End of story. And you

00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.539
say that enough times and it stops. That reminds

00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:03.680
me of a situation that I had where the accuser

00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:06.240
of the Brethren was speaking to me about our

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.299
founder, Sister Gwen, and it happened when I

00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:11.750
was tired. The end of the day, I'd put our daughter

00:26:11.750 --> 00:26:15.450
to bed. Phillip had gone to bed already. And

00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:18.390
I was, you know, it just it takes a woman longer

00:26:18.390 --> 00:26:20.930
to wind down. There's just things you think you

00:26:20.930 --> 00:26:23.910
got to do and da da da da da. And I'm tired.

00:26:24.470 --> 00:26:28.470
And the accuser is whispering to me about Sister

00:26:28.470 --> 00:26:31.509
Gwen's talking about you behind your back. Sister

00:26:31.509 --> 00:26:33.789
Gwen's talking about you behind your back. She's

00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:35.650
saying things that she shouldn't be saying about

00:26:35.650 --> 00:26:38.599
you. She's telling things. And I'd get angry,

00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:41.559
and I'd get upset, and I'd go to bed. And you'd

00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:43.960
go to bed that way. I went to bed angry. And

00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.880
then the next morning, she would greet me lovingly

00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:51.559
and smiling, and I'm thinking, hmm, is that really

00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:54.700
true? And this went on for some time. I don't

00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:58.140
remember how long. But all of a sudden, one night,

00:26:58.259 --> 00:27:04.210
it was like, oh, I know who this is. This is

00:27:04.210 --> 00:27:07.769
the accuser of the brethren. And I responded

00:27:07.769 --> 00:27:10.509
to him and I said, I am too tired to listen to

00:27:10.509 --> 00:27:15.009
this. And I stopped listening and I stopped taking

00:27:15.009 --> 00:27:17.230
it into my head. And it wasn't more than two

00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:19.869
or three nights that he tried it again. And it

00:27:19.869 --> 00:27:25.750
stopped. Wow. You just have to say no. No. This

00:27:25.750 --> 00:27:30.609
is not true. And even if it was true, even if

00:27:30.609 --> 00:27:35.960
it was true. My offense hurts me. Taking offense

00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:40.160
hurts me. When you take offense and you get angry

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.000
with a person and you just hold on to that and

00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.900
you hold on to that grudge, it's like drinking

00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:47.400
poison, hoping the other person will die. Yeah.

00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.380
It's a good expression. Does not work. It's not

00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:54.259
true. So, you know, there was a tremendous ripple

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:58.799
effect from Eve doing what she did. Okay. And

00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:02.500
Adam too. And then we have Joshua 7. where you

00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:05.960
have the story of the Battle of Jericho. And

00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:09.299
God told, I think it was in chapter 6, God told

00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:13.440
them that you're not to touch anything. This

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:19.240
whole thing is cursed. And it was like, I really

00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:21.359
believe what God was, the big picture of this

00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.319
was that this is the first city you're going

00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.339
to deal with. This is a first fruits thing. And

00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:30.680
everything belongs to God. It's all supposed

00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.240
to be devoted to God, and he spells it out. Silver

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.980
and gold is to come into the treasuries, and

00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:39.460
everything that's the booty, everything that's

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:43.680
the spoils, belongs to God. Don't touch it. Don't

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:47.190
take it. And then... You know, in the next chapter,

00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:50.410
they're having this battle against another town,

00:28:50.509 --> 00:28:53.569
and it's smaller. Whether you pronounce it I

00:28:53.569 --> 00:28:56.990
or whether you pronounce it AI. AI is another

00:28:56.990 --> 00:29:01.650
thing. So they thought, ah, this is simple. Let's

00:29:01.650 --> 00:29:05.450
just take a small company. Well, they didn't

00:29:05.450 --> 00:29:09.089
win. And something like, was it 36? 36, yeah,

00:29:09.150 --> 00:29:12.250
they got killed. Yeah. And then they're running

00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:14.750
for their lives. Like, what happened to our protection?

00:29:15.410 --> 00:29:19.930
Exactly. What weapons did they have? I don't

00:29:19.930 --> 00:29:22.430
know what weapons they had. They came out of

00:29:22.430 --> 00:29:24.930
Egypt. Yeah. And they've been traveling for some

00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:26.609
years. Well, they had had some battles before,

00:29:26.670 --> 00:29:28.849
so they probably had gathered some from their

00:29:28.849 --> 00:29:31.509
enemies previously. But anyway, the point is

00:29:31.509 --> 00:29:35.009
that Joshua was on his face before God, weeping,

00:29:35.009 --> 00:29:37.769
you know, word about this is going to get out,

00:29:37.869 --> 00:29:42.509
and we're toast. And God said, quit your crying.

00:29:42.630 --> 00:29:47.480
There's sin in the camp. And so they looked into

00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.119
what the problem was, and it turns out that this

00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:54.160
guy named Achan, whose name means troubler. Yeah,

00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:59.279
he's a troublemaker. He finally confesses that

00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:04.279
he was tempted by this beautiful garment. It

00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:06.599
could have been a robe or a mantle. It could

00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:11.279
have been a tapestry from Shinar, Babylonian

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.400
area. And he was tempted by gold and silver.

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.579
And God said, that all belongs to me. And he

00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:21.839
took it to himself. He buried the treasure in

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.700
his tent. So that makes me think that his family

00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:28.920
must have known. And that's why they also had

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.359
to be destroyed with him, because they were just

00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:35.900
as guilty. You know, guilt by association, but

00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:40.759
they were part of it. So there's long -lasting

00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:45.599
effects. from this troubler. Yeah, it says Israel

00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.059
has sinned, and they have also transgressed my

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:52.220
covenant. Exactly. So that's what God said. There's

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:55.140
sin in the camp, and it says in verse 1 of Joshua

00:30:55.140 --> 00:30:59.279
7, but the children of Israel committed a trespass

00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.200
regarding the cursed things. So God is holding

00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.759
the entire nation for one person's guilt. Yeah.

00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.920
Wow. So when we're being tempted, And we all

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:14.359
get tempted. Come on. We all get tempted to do

00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.700
things we shouldn't do. When you get tempted,

00:31:17.819 --> 00:31:21.359
you need to start thinking about the ripple effect.

00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.779
It's one thing if I do this one thing myself,

00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:28.019
but it's not only going to be me that's affected.

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.819
It's going to affect my family. It's going to

00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:35.980
affect my future. Aiken, his whole family went

00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:40.960
down. His whole family were killed. There's nobody

00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.420
in the scripture that's the son of Achan that

00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:47.599
lives on. All the generations were wiped out.

00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.119
They're all wiped out, the whole family. So there's

00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:57.180
no continuing family. So when we choose to do

00:31:57.180 --> 00:31:59.599
something we shouldn't do, there's an effect

00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.140
on our family, there's an effect on our future,

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.160
and there can be an effect on the whole nation.

00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:09.250
Yeah. He was just one person doing one thing

00:32:09.250 --> 00:32:11.809
that he shouldn't do, but it affected the whole

00:32:11.809 --> 00:32:16.470
nation. 36 people died, okay? Those 36 people

00:32:16.470 --> 00:32:20.750
might have been fathers of children in the future

00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:24.950
if they had lived. Yeah, sure. So it's making

00:32:24.950 --> 00:32:31.809
an effect on more than just you. Think about

00:32:31.809 --> 00:32:34.910
that when you're being tempted. So let's look

00:32:34.910 --> 00:32:38.289
at David. with Bathsheba. So David's sin with

00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:44.329
Bathsheba led into murder. He had Bathsheba's

00:32:44.329 --> 00:32:47.289
husband killed so that he could make it look

00:32:47.289 --> 00:32:51.309
like she got pregnant from him instead of from

00:32:51.309 --> 00:32:55.690
David, right? He was trying to get Bathsheba's

00:32:55.690 --> 00:32:59.059
husband to go spend time with his wife. And he

00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:01.960
wouldn't do it. He was too loyal. He said, the

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.759
armies of Israel don't get to be with their wives.

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.400
It's not fair for me to get time with mine. And

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.420
in the beginning of the scripture, it says it

00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:14.079
was at the time when kings go to war. Yeah, he

00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.359
should have been there. He should have been there.

00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:21.180
His eyes went someplace they shouldn't have been.

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.440
He already had a wife. He had several wives.

00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.839
Right. Yeah, really. But here's what was unleashed.

00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.740
What was unleashed by his sin is one of his sons,

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.960
Amnon, begins lusting after his half -sister,

00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:43.180
Tamar. And he ends up raping her. Right. So here

00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:48.200
is illicit sex going on from dad, and it's affecting

00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.920
his son. The spirit was unleashed into his household.

00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.789
Okay? Yeah. And the spirit of murder was unleashed

00:33:55.789 --> 00:33:59.990
into his household when he had Uriah the Hittite,

00:34:00.069 --> 00:34:03.190
Bathsheba's husband, killed. Had him at the front

00:34:03.190 --> 00:34:06.950
line where the battle was hot. Yeah. So I'm surmising

00:34:06.950 --> 00:34:11.969
that because David already had this guilt over

00:34:11.969 --> 00:34:16.949
taking Bathsheba as his wife, that he didn't

00:34:16.949 --> 00:34:20.260
deal with Amnon. because, you know, he's feeling

00:34:20.260 --> 00:34:23.199
kind of guilty. You know, how can I deal with

00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:26.659
him when I did the same thing? Okay. So then

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:30.480
Absalom takes matters into his own hands to murder

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:33.559
his brother for what he did to his sister. And

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:38.440
then Absalom eventually winds up raising an insurrection

00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:41.820
against his father and then losing his life.

00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:46.340
So David's sin with Bathsheba. It just legally

00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:50.860
opened, spiritually opened up an open door. Exactly.

00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:55.659
Exactly. So the Lord wants to give us the grace

00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:59.719
to obey him. And it comes by walking in the spirit.

00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:03.380
Galatians 5 .16 says, This I say, then walk in

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:06.119
the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts

00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:11.099
of the flesh. Those desires of the flesh are

00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:15.250
overcome as we walk in the spirit. Yeah, we keep

00:35:15.250 --> 00:35:18.769
our focus. Yeah. So the Passion Translation gives

00:35:18.769 --> 00:35:24.210
us some help on this subject. In James 1, verses

00:35:24.210 --> 00:35:26.710
12 to 27, Philip, would you read that, please?

00:35:27.150 --> 00:35:30.010
If your faith remains strong while surrounded

00:35:30.010 --> 00:35:33.610
by life's difficulties, you'll continue to experience

00:35:33.610 --> 00:35:37.510
the untold blessings of God. True happiness comes

00:35:37.510 --> 00:35:40.530
as you pass the test with faith. and receive

00:35:40.530 --> 00:35:43.449
the victorious crown of life promised to every

00:35:43.449 --> 00:35:46.789
lover of God. When you are tempted, don't ever

00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:50.010
say, God is tempting me. For God is incapable

00:35:50.010 --> 00:35:53.170
of being tempted by evil and he is never the

00:35:53.170 --> 00:35:57.230
source of temptation. Instead, it is each person's

00:35:57.230 --> 00:35:59.510
own desires and thoughts that drag them into

00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:03.610
evil and lure them away into darkness. Evil desires

00:36:03.610 --> 00:36:07.230
give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully

00:36:07.230 --> 00:36:10.590
mature, it can murder you. So, my friends, don't

00:36:10.590 --> 00:36:13.949
be fooled by your own desires. Every gift God

00:36:13.949 --> 00:36:16.789
freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming

00:36:16.789 --> 00:36:19.409
down from the Father of lights, who shines from

00:36:19.409 --> 00:36:22.250
the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness

00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:26.570
and is never subject to change. God was delighted

00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.389
to give us birth by the truth of his infallible

00:36:29.389 --> 00:36:32.510
word, so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny

00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:35.610
for us and become the favored ones out of all

00:36:35.610 --> 00:36:39.030
his creation. So we're designed by our Father

00:36:39.030 --> 00:36:45.010
to walk with Him, to walk with His Spirit, to

00:36:45.010 --> 00:36:52.010
let His engrafted Word work on our flesh so that

00:36:52.010 --> 00:36:55.530
we surrender. We surrender our flesh to Him.

00:36:55.769 --> 00:36:59.670
We give it to Him. We take of the grace that

00:36:59.670 --> 00:37:02.130
comes from His Word. We take of the grace that

00:37:02.130 --> 00:37:06.000
comes from His presence. that comes when we're

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.239
worshiping him, when we're in fellowship with

00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.199
him. That grace will help us to say no to temptation,

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.960
to say no to sin, and to say no to the hurts

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:23.139
that we've received from others. You know, when

00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:28.280
Jesus was on the cross, Isaiah 53 talks about

00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:31.539
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was

00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:34.000
bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:38.079
of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes

00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:41.619
we're healed. Those wounds are every kind of

00:37:41.619 --> 00:37:45.440
wound. And the grief that he bore, surely he

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.300
bore our grief and carried our sorrow. So anything

00:37:49.300 --> 00:37:53.019
that we take from him, as we understand it, we

00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:57.480
take salvation. Because we know that he has done

00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.860
it on the cross. He has paid for it on the cross.

00:38:00.139 --> 00:38:04.900
All of these things he's paid for. So maybe you've

00:38:04.900 --> 00:38:09.980
just experienced his salvation, his knowing that

00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:13.440
you can be saved because of what he paid for.

00:38:13.619 --> 00:38:16.380
But all of these things were paid for. Maybe

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:18.480
you haven't even experienced that. Maybe you're

00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.820
saying, I need to get saved. Kind of like when

00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:26.179
you started a 21 -day fast and you're three days

00:38:26.179 --> 00:38:29.460
into it and realize, I got to get saved. Okay,

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:32.360
maybe you haven't even been born again yet. All

00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:35.920
of these things were paid for, including being

00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.059
healed of wounds that we've received, including

00:38:39.059 --> 00:38:44.489
having him come into our lives so that The one

00:38:44.489 --> 00:38:46.650
who said from the cross, Father, forgive them,

00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:50.090
they know not what they do. His grace to be able

00:38:50.090 --> 00:38:52.929
to say, Father, forgive them, comes into us to

00:38:52.929 --> 00:38:56.789
enable us to say, Father, forgive them, and I

00:38:56.789 --> 00:39:00.190
forgive them. I give this to you. I release them.

00:39:00.309 --> 00:39:03.449
I release them from the hurt and the pain that

00:39:03.449 --> 00:39:07.090
they caused me, and I receive of your healing

00:39:07.090 --> 00:39:11.869
virtue. And all of the stuff that was lost in

00:39:11.869 --> 00:39:14.869
the time from the time that you got hurt, and

00:39:14.869 --> 00:39:17.349
maybe it was as a child, from the time you got

00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:22.230
hurt until now, all of that lost time, he can

00:39:22.230 --> 00:39:27.110
restore. He can restore you like he did for me

00:39:27.110 --> 00:39:30.869
in those six weeks of not even thinking about

00:39:30.869 --> 00:39:35.150
it. And he healed me of the pain. The pain was

00:39:35.150 --> 00:39:38.239
gone. I did not. have any reason to cry anymore.

00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:42.719
It was healed. I had already forgiven, but I

00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.539
was healed. And the Lord wants to do that for

00:39:45.539 --> 00:39:49.139
you today to give you the grace to forgive and

00:39:49.139 --> 00:39:51.840
to heal from hurts and to give you the grace

00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:56.159
to overcome temptation. Because our Father is

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.099
not the one that's tempting us, but the temptation

00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:03.119
is coming to us to really check us out if we're

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.940
going to follow the Lord or not. And so it's

00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:10.659
time to walk down a different street and not

00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:14.619
give in to that place where we've fallen and

00:40:14.619 --> 00:40:18.519
fallen and fallen. And the Lord helps us out

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:22.820
every time. It's time for us to walk where we

00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:25.960
don't even go down that street anymore. So, Father,

00:40:26.059 --> 00:40:28.179
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank

00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:30.599
you for the grace that comes from your Spirit.

00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:36.300
to enable us to receive this healing virtue and

00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:40.199
this healing that comes deep into our souls where

00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.980
we've been wounded, where we've been wounded

00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:46.639
even by what Adam and Eve did back in the Garden

00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:49.820
of Eden. Lord, that wounding that has come down

00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:53.599
all through our DNA, all these many generations,

00:40:54.059 --> 00:40:59.519
you Jesus paid the price for us to be able to

00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:02.920
walk away from temptation and say, nope. not

00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.679
for me. I'm not going there. That is not the

00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:10.199
real me. The real me is my spirit. The real me

00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:13.000
is wedded to the Holy Spirit. I'm one with the

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.820
Holy Spirit, and I'm going to walk in the spirit

00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:18.559
and not in the flesh. Lord, we thank you for

00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:21.380
that great grace being released to our listeners

00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:24.920
right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:31.849
Receive that healing now. Just receive. Just

00:41:31.849 --> 00:41:33.710
receive. It's kind of like somebody offering

00:41:33.710 --> 00:41:35.570
you a plate of cookies. You just reach out and

00:41:35.570 --> 00:41:39.309
you take one. Thank you, Father. We thank you

00:41:39.309 --> 00:41:44.429
for this great grace. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

00:41:49.110 --> 00:41:52.349
If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe,

00:41:52.670 --> 00:41:55.630
rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts

00:41:55.630 --> 00:41:58.489
or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your review

00:41:58.489 --> 00:42:01.329
helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast

00:42:01.329 --> 00:42:03.869
to other listeners who are also looking for a

00:42:03.869 --> 00:42:06.590
great move of the Holy Spirit. Check out our

00:42:06.590 --> 00:42:09.429
website at globaloutpouring .org to find out

00:42:09.429 --> 00:42:11.989
more information, read our blogs, connect with

00:42:11.989 --> 00:42:15.010
us, and donate. You can also browse our web store

00:42:15.010 --> 00:42:18.070
for life -changing anointed books. Until next

00:42:18.070 --> 00:42:21.369
time, this is Sharon Buss. And I'm Philip Buss.

00:42:21.429 --> 00:42:24.590
God bless you with His overwhelming, loving presence.