Convicting Verses For Sidewalk Ministry

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.759 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours, and me, 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:11.349 Lord, I am yours. Welcome to the Gospel Center prolife podcast. The 3 00:00:11.429 --> 00:00:15.789 Bible is the foundation of everything we do as believers. In this episode we 4 00:00:15.869 --> 00:00:19.710 talked about some convicting verses that we use on the sidewalks to reach MOMS and 5 00:00:19.750 --> 00:00:31.859 dad's stay with us. I felt show passish, touch your heart, use 6 00:00:32.020 --> 00:00:39.170 me. Welcome to the Gospel Center pray life podcast. Appreciate you guys, 7 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:44.049 listening as always, and we encourage you to share this podcast with other people. 8 00:00:44.729 --> 00:00:49.090 This is a gospel centered podcast. This is a biblical podcast, right. 9 00:00:49.130 --> 00:00:52.799 Yes, Gospel centered, yeah, not focused centered. That's right. 10 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.439 It's focused on the Gospel, but in particular it's called the Gospel centered pro 11 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.159 life podcast. I've got that now. And we believe, as a Gospel 12 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:08.829 Centered Podcast, part of a Gospel Centered Ministry Love Life, that the principles 13 00:01:08.909 --> 00:01:14.870 that we that we share and that we base our ministry on, come from 14 00:01:15.390 --> 00:01:19.260 the book. That's right, the Bible, the word of God's matter of 15 00:01:19.299 --> 00:01:22.219 fact, have my Bible right here, and what does it say on the 16 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:27.019 Front? Vicki Holy Bible. That's right, it's a holy it's a Holy 17 00:01:27.099 --> 00:01:33.209 Bible. Right. Amen. Amen. One time, I believe was my 18 00:01:33.290 --> 00:01:38.489 brother was talking to a young she's a young Christian and as a girl that 19 00:01:38.569 --> 00:01:42.290 we went to churchious and asked her he was trying to get at what version 20 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:46.609 of the Bible she was reading. Okay, because she wasn't exactly understanding scripture. 21 00:01:46.769 --> 00:01:48.920 So he's like, so, what Bibe are you reading? She's like 22 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.079 the Holy Bible, okay, the holy one. Well, well, we 23 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.920 believe, but she knew the most important thing, that most important part the 24 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.189 word of God is holy. Yes, word of God is important. It's 25 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:05.549 important in the principles that we that we glean from the word of God and 26 00:02:05.590 --> 00:02:08.909 that we apply in ministry, but also in the midst of ministry it's important 27 00:02:08.949 --> 00:02:14.030 that we use the word of God. If you guys listened to my podcast 28 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:16.900 about putting on the armor of God, there is a piece of that armor 29 00:02:17.020 --> 00:02:22.620 that the Bible names, yeah, basically itself, right, the sword of 30 00:02:22.659 --> 00:02:25.460 the spirit, which is the word of God. Right. And so, 31 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:30.689 and I encourage you guys bring Your Bible out to the sidewalk with you. 32 00:02:30.169 --> 00:02:35.770 Don't I mean listen people's perceptions or what they are, and I could care 33 00:02:35.810 --> 00:02:38.689 less what their perceptions are if, as long as what I'm doing is is 34 00:02:38.729 --> 00:02:44.360 biblical, and I believe having the word of God with you is Biblical. 35 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.240 This is our weapon. It's alway. It is our weapon out there. 36 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.199 Now, I know you might just want to say, even though you might 37 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.879 think I don't want to appear to be like a Bible thumber or whatever, 38 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:54.479 just don't thump it. Just have it with you. Ain't got a thump 39 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.750 it right, have it with you to read. Yeah, I think it's 40 00:02:58.750 --> 00:03:02.750 powerful personally. Yeah, that if you can open up your Bible and show 41 00:03:02.870 --> 00:03:06.949 somebody in the scripture what the Bible says, open it up to some one 42 00:03:07.270 --> 00:03:09.789 thirty nine versus thirteen and fourteen and show them, here's what God says for 43 00:03:09.830 --> 00:03:14.740 you, form my inward parts. Yep, rather than okay, I don't 44 00:03:14.740 --> 00:03:17.900 want to discount this, but I personally, this is a personal conviction of 45 00:03:17.939 --> 00:03:24.020 mine, but I can't stand when I see someone sharing from their iphone. 46 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:28.569 Yeah, I don't like it, like like your friend Vicki over here, 47 00:03:28.729 --> 00:03:30.849 like my friend Vicki. Or I'll tell you what I hate even worse. 48 00:03:31.449 --> 00:03:34.889 I maybe hates hates, a strong word. Okay, I don't hate the 49 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:37.930 people. Right, you hate this. Just an old fashioned guy, I 50 00:03:38.009 --> 00:03:42.159 guess. I like just have a Bible. What I see someone preach from 51 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.400 their phone. I've seen people do that, street preachers preaching from their phone. 52 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.360 Yeah, or even like counselors on the sidewalk. Please, guys, 53 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.759 if you're listen, don't take this as like criticism. For me, it's 54 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.280 probably a just a personal issue I need to deal with. Read from your 55 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:58.389 phone, that's fine, but just know while you're reading from your phone, 56 00:03:58.389 --> 00:04:00.590 I'm judging you for it. Yeah, exactly. Well. So to that 57 00:04:00.750 --> 00:04:04.069 point, I will share a story that happened on the sidewalk. Okay, 58 00:04:04.349 --> 00:04:06.949 where I was out there? I think it was this pest. Well, 59 00:04:08.069 --> 00:04:11.539 two Fridays to go, and one of the pro abortion people claim to be 60 00:04:11.580 --> 00:04:15.539 a pastor. She was do I never seen her before and I was shocked 61 00:04:15.819 --> 00:04:17.699 and said, well, what do you do with the verse? Why do 62 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:20.939 you call me Lord Lord and not do what I say, which was an 63 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:29.009 actually word for word, perfect recitation of that verse. But she said what 64 00:04:29.129 --> 00:04:31.810 verse is that? And I didn't know off the top of my head. 65 00:04:32.089 --> 00:04:35.250 I mean I knew it, I had recited it correctly, but I didn't 66 00:04:35.250 --> 00:04:40.839 know the reference. I'm terrible at at memorizing the references, and then she 67 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.959 said, where's your Bible, because I pull out my phone. I said, 68 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.279 I'll find you the verse, I can get you the reference. Said 69 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.360 No, get your Bible. Where's Your Bible? I'm afraid that was I 70 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:55.550 was ashamed. That was convicting for me. I but today I stood and 71 00:04:55.670 --> 00:04:59.750 bring my Bible out there. I have, I have valid reasons. I 72 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:03.269 feel they're my Bible is small. That's all I can carry out there with 73 00:05:03.310 --> 00:05:06.180 all the other stuff I carry. Okay, and the print is small and 74 00:05:06.300 --> 00:05:09.899 I don't see it. Yeah, so what am I going to do? 75 00:05:10.019 --> 00:05:13.980 I mean, I could wear my reading glasses, use your giant print Bible 76 00:05:14.100 --> 00:05:15.939 and have it in a backpack. On expect though. Oh yeah, I 77 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:20.449 would, or maybe just like have a little wheelbarrow with all my supplies that 78 00:05:20.569 --> 00:05:25.089 I drag around the hire me well, but you make it dislike this podcast 79 00:05:25.170 --> 00:05:29.410 is not necessarily about that. Okay, that's again. That's a little side 80 00:05:29.490 --> 00:05:30.689 track. Think it's the head. I think it's good to have your Bible 81 00:05:30.730 --> 00:05:34.290 with you and I have a smaller Bible than I kind of can slip in 82 00:05:34.410 --> 00:05:39.639 my in my bag and whatever else. Yeah, I don't carry a man 83 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.079 purse, but I guess I could, you could, or you could have 84 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.040 their they make all kinds of suff suzs of bibles you can slip in belly 85 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:48.839 packs and all that stuff. But that's not the point of this podcast. 86 00:05:49.670 --> 00:05:55.149 The point of this podcast is whether you read it from your phone or whether 87 00:05:55.189 --> 00:05:58.829 you have it printed out, like Vicki does. She has several scriptures printed 88 00:05:58.949 --> 00:06:03.339 out right, whether you have it memorized or whether you have your physical Bible 89 00:06:03.500 --> 00:06:09.579 there. We need to be using scripture and in particular we're going to talk 90 00:06:09.579 --> 00:06:15.220 about some convicting verses right, because there are certainly comforting verses and versus, 91 00:06:15.420 --> 00:06:17.379 like I shared some one hundred and thirty nine that are really powerful verses that 92 00:06:17.459 --> 00:06:21.850 need to be shared, but there are also some convicting verses that need to 93 00:06:21.850 --> 00:06:26.889 be shared, like we can share John Sixteen. Great, okay, for 94 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:30.730 God, so love the world can probably I'll quote that one. That's an 95 00:06:30.730 --> 00:06:34.399 awesome passage and now I think it's very appropriate at an abortion center. But 96 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:40.279 there's also some convicting versus that we need to share, where Jesus talks about 97 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:45.319 loving your neighbor as yourself and he talks about why do you call me Lord, 98 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.269 Lord and not do what I say? Yeah, and pin people down 99 00:06:48.350 --> 00:06:53.029 with the scripture, because you get them to agree to John Sixteen. Yeah, 100 00:06:53.550 --> 00:06:56.750 and which they've agreed to John Sixteen, you could ask the question, 101 00:06:56.829 --> 00:07:00.550 would you believe the whole Bible? Yeah, okay. Well, let's go 102 00:07:00.829 --> 00:07:03.939 into Luke. Was it six six hundred and forty six I will be never 103 00:07:04.100 --> 00:07:08.579 forget that reference. Now let's see what Luke, six hundred and forty six 104 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:12.699 I says. Yeah, and so, anyway, we want to talk about 105 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:15.259 some of these convicting verses. So we're going to share them with you as 106 00:07:15.379 --> 00:07:18.930 yeah, maybe you as right these verse references down. Yeah, put these 107 00:07:19.050 --> 00:07:23.689 on a sheet carried in your belly back like Vicky does. Yeah, or 108 00:07:23.889 --> 00:07:26.810 put them to memory, if you can, holight them in your Bible. 109 00:07:27.250 --> 00:07:30.920 But they're convicting versus that, I think, can bring the conviction the Holy 110 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.000 Spirit, because God uses his word to bring conviction. The Holy Spirit, 111 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:39.120 coupled with the word of God, brings conviction and God can open these people's 112 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.160 eyes to the fact that what they're doing is not right in God's sight. 113 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.750 Yeah, turn their hearts right. So here's some convicting verses. We're going 114 00:07:45.790 --> 00:07:47.389 to share them with you and then we're going to kind of talk around them, 115 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:51.110 how they apply, how you can apply them on the sidewalk and share 116 00:07:51.189 --> 00:07:55.550 them with the women going into the abortion center and the oneonone conversations with the 117 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:59.259 men also going into the abortion center. There's one on one conversations when they 118 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:03.180 might be appropriate. Yeah, you said, because I just in general, 119 00:08:03.579 --> 00:08:07.660 they're not what I lead with. Right. I actually just if I were 120 00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:13.569 to characterize how I tend to counsel, I tend to lead with a positive 121 00:08:15.050 --> 00:08:20.250 message. Not that these are not positive, but they're they're more the warnings 122 00:08:20.410 --> 00:08:22.170 there are. I guess that's what these are. More these verses, I 123 00:08:22.250 --> 00:08:28.360 think the convicting verses in general have warnings in them and that's not where I 124 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:35.039 lead. I start with just the kind of the inspiration for good behavior, 125 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:41.669 following and trusting in God. And if that gentle answer or that gentle beginning 126 00:08:43.110 --> 00:08:48.190 is not sufficient for helping to change their heart, then I moved you for 127 00:08:48.269 --> 00:08:52.389 the de Jugular. Then I go for the Jugguler. I you know what 128 00:08:52.309 --> 00:08:58.820 to put a little context behind that biblically, if you think about Elijah when 129 00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:05.860 he runs from Jezebel and he's hiding out or reads, he's on the mound. 130 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:09.980 I forget where he ends up, but but he's just ready to give 131 00:09:09.009 --> 00:09:13.570 it a give everything up. He's in such despair. And when God appears 132 00:09:13.649 --> 00:09:20.049 to him, that progression of God was not in the storm. God was 133 00:09:20.210 --> 00:09:28.039 not in the heavy wind, God was not in the whatever the next progression 134 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.840 was, I can't remember. But then there was a gentle breeze. Yeah, 135 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.639 and yeah, and that's when he first heard God. And and so 136 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:41.549 I was thinking God came to him in his despair, not as a storm 137 00:09:41.669 --> 00:09:48.029 but as a still quiet get with gentleness. Yeah, and and I think 138 00:09:48.110 --> 00:09:50.669 God would have moved into all those other things had and that does happen. 139 00:09:50.870 --> 00:09:54.940 God does do that throughout the Bible, where it gets worse and worse and 140 00:09:54.019 --> 00:09:56.539 worse for you if you're not listening to that still small voice. But if 141 00:09:56.539 --> 00:10:01.740 we can get them with that still small voice, that's probably best. Yeah, 142 00:10:01.740 --> 00:10:07.649 yeah, you don't have to go for the juggular. Enlist absolutely absolutely 143 00:10:07.690 --> 00:10:09.730 need to. Yeah, right, I mean basically, at the end of 144 00:10:09.769 --> 00:10:16.049 the day, you can try anything and everything to get to a person's heart, 145 00:10:16.169 --> 00:10:20.409 to soften their heart, to bring conviction and there's only so far we 146 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.799 can go right. It's got to be the Holy Spirit convicting them and they've 147 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.919 got to open their hearts to the word of God, and so I think 148 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.480 it is good for us to kind of throw it through. Everything we can 149 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.600 Adam give them with the Bible says about comfort, about his love for them 150 00:10:35.750 --> 00:10:39.710 and for their baby. Do think that's where we start, but then get 151 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:43.110 into the conviction of the Holy Spirit as far as they're sin, the rebellion 152 00:10:43.149 --> 00:10:50.100 against God. You know that that actually played out for me just probably Saturday 153 00:10:50.100 --> 00:10:54.820 before last, where I was talking to a young lady and started out very 154 00:10:54.860 --> 00:11:00.259 kind of like, I guess, comforting in the sense that God's with her, 155 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:03.289 with, you know, her and her baby. God has a love 156 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:05.490 for her and her baby. But her heart was just hard and she was 157 00:11:05.529 --> 00:11:11.529 trying to justify herself, and so I went into some convicting Scriptures and convicting 158 00:11:11.649 --> 00:11:15.490 realities and really broke down for her. You know, if you believe that 159 00:11:15.610 --> 00:11:18.679 God loved you, because I kind of went in that whole you know my 160 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.519 fail proof probablife argument that, you know, Does God love you? When 161 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.399 did he begin to love you? Before I was born. And I pin 162 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.960 her down, doesn't he also loved this baby, and I kind of really 163 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.480 got into the idea that, you know, because she said, well, 164 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.590 God gives us all free will, so what you're using is you're using the 165 00:11:35.669 --> 00:11:41.669 free will that God has given you as a justification to take someone else's free 166 00:11:41.710 --> 00:11:46.700 will away from them. Yeah, and and the word of God will not 167 00:11:46.860 --> 00:11:50.779 stand with that, like God's God's not okay with that and you're going to 168 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:56.100 stand accountable before him for what you're doing. Justifying yourself about God's love for 169 00:11:56.179 --> 00:12:00.139 you and then saying basically, God's love for this baby is not the same, 170 00:12:00.299 --> 00:12:03.370 to use some other convicting verses and things. Yeah, yeah, but, 171 00:12:03.490 --> 00:12:07.210 yeah, I kind of went from, I guess, comforting to convicting. 172 00:12:07.970 --> 00:12:11.049 Yeah, because I thought that was appropriate in that situation. And I 173 00:12:11.169 --> 00:12:16.759 think to your point, ultimately, every single person you have the opportunity for 174 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:22.600 any kind of extended discussion, you can't ignore the convicting verses of God, 175 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.120 because the reason that they're there for an abortion is in all likelihood, they 176 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.629 are leading a life of sin. Yeah, and and unless they are convicted 177 00:12:31.710 --> 00:12:35.350 that not only is abortion wrong, but so many of the choices that have 178 00:12:35.470 --> 00:12:39.990 led them to that place need to be addressed and ultimately they need to submit 179 00:12:39.029 --> 00:12:41.590 their lives to the Lord, and you're not going to get there if they're 180 00:12:41.590 --> 00:12:46.980 not convicted of their sin, which is a heart truth. So, but 181 00:12:46.179 --> 00:12:52.059 we don't always have that opportunity in those few minutes be in front of an 182 00:12:52.059 --> 00:12:56.179 abortion center, but I do think we usually, at least I usually do, 183 00:12:56.460 --> 00:13:01.450 have the opportunity to introduce some of these convicting verses, even if I 184 00:13:01.490 --> 00:13:05.289 can't go into the full gospel presentation or anything like that. Right, but 185 00:13:05.490 --> 00:13:09.409 some of these were some of my favorite, okay, favorites that that I 186 00:13:09.529 --> 00:13:13.919 found that I've used, okay, frequently. Yeah, and so read a 187 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.639 few of them. I kind of talk random holy apply yeah, and how, 188 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.159 you guess, can use them out there on the sidewalk. So this 189 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.000 the first one. You have here. A second Peter to Twenty three, 190 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.629 twenty one, and it says for if, after they have escaped the pollutions 191 00:13:26.629 --> 00:13:30.909 of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Save Your Jesus Christ, 192 00:13:31.070 --> 00:13:35.710 they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for 193 00:13:35.789 --> 00:13:39.309 them than the beginning, for it would have been better for them not to 194 00:13:39.389 --> 00:13:43.220 have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn from 195 00:13:43.220 --> 00:13:46.379 the holy commandment delivered to them. That's pretty powerful statement. It's yeah, 196 00:13:46.379 --> 00:13:50.059 yeah, because that is what's happening out there, isn't it? Yeah. 197 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:54.620 Well, you encounter so many of these people that go into the abortion centers, 198 00:13:54.659 --> 00:13:56.450 that claim to be Christians, that claim to love God. Yeah, 199 00:13:58.330 --> 00:14:01.730 in this verse speaks just to that. When you've okay, you claim to 200 00:14:01.809 --> 00:14:05.610 be to haven't had some kind of encounter with the Lord, have some kind 201 00:14:05.610 --> 00:14:07.730 of relationship with Jesus, you ask Jesus into your heart or something like that, 202 00:14:09.929 --> 00:14:13.039 and by that you've escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of 203 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.679 Jesus, then you're entangling yourself again into sin. Yeah, like you bring 204 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.590 yourself under greater condemnation and judgment. Now you can get into all the theological 205 00:14:24.669 --> 00:14:28.429 implications of that, and there's debates out there about once saved, always saved 206 00:14:28.590 --> 00:14:31.309 and all these other things. That's not really what you're getting to in front 207 00:14:31.350 --> 00:14:35.710 of the abortion center. You're just bringing to bear the word of God. 208 00:14:35.950 --> 00:14:39.419 What, what do you believe about this? Because the Bible says if you've 209 00:14:39.259 --> 00:14:43.700 escaped the blutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus and you're going to 210 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:48.899 go back into that stuff, back into unrighteousness. You murdering your own child. 211 00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:54.929 Yeah, then it would be better have do you have not even really 212 00:14:56.409 --> 00:15:00.049 connected yourself with Jesus? Yeah, claim to be connected with Jesus and being 213 00:15:00.129 --> 00:15:03.769 rebellion to him. Yes, your judgment is going to be worse. Well, 214 00:15:03.009 --> 00:15:07.759 that part that you just said about righteousness, that you're, you know, 215 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.240 piggyback in off of that phrase. It would be better not to have 216 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.919 known the way of righteousness. Went. Before I introduce this first, I'll 217 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.919 I'll often say, do you believe this is a human being? Yes. 218 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.830 Do you believe it a living human being? Yes. Do you believe that 219 00:15:26.990 --> 00:15:31.190 we should not murder innocent living human beings? Yes, and then you say 220 00:15:31.309 --> 00:15:35.269 so. And does God say anything about that? Well, yes, the 221 00:15:35.389 --> 00:15:37.820 sixth commandment that shall not murder. Yeah. Is that the way of righteousness? 222 00:15:39.019 --> 00:15:43.100 Well, yes, what would you make of this verse? And then, 223 00:15:43.139 --> 00:15:46.740 because they do know, they know the way of righteousness. Sure, 224 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:50.490 yeah, if they, if they and if they claim to and have any 225 00:15:50.570 --> 00:15:54.850 knowledge of Jesus Christ, they know the way of righteousness. You can't ignore 226 00:15:54.929 --> 00:15:58.169 them. What that verse is saying. Yeah, absolutely so I think it's 227 00:15:58.169 --> 00:16:03.679 powerful if you build on one of the things that I think you do well 228 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:10.679 and and I think it's really important, is to take a passage and break 229 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.840 it down and pull out the different pieces one at a time and build to 230 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:18.230 you agree with this, you agree with this, you agree with this. 231 00:16:18.389 --> 00:16:23.629 Well, what do you say with Russa? Then? Yeah, you can't, 232 00:16:23.789 --> 00:16:26.870 and one of the points I'll try to get to with people. You 233 00:16:26.950 --> 00:16:32.029 can't affirm portions of the word of God that you agree with and reject other 234 00:16:32.149 --> 00:16:34.659 portions that you disagree with. Right, if you believe that John Sixteen is 235 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:38.740 true, then you also need to believe that Second Peter to Twenty three, 236 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:42.019 twenty one is true. And if not, why do you decide? Why 237 00:16:42.059 --> 00:16:45.419 do you reject one and accept the other? I'll sometimes ask that and there's 238 00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:49.889 no real good answer, sure for that. Yeah, another verse is He 239 00:16:49.970 --> 00:16:55.450 Brews Ten, twenty six through absolutely one of my very favorites. I quote, 240 00:16:55.529 --> 00:16:59.289 I have this one memorized, which is hard for me to do, 241 00:16:59.529 --> 00:17:04.079 but this one was so important in sharing the Gospel. I actually do use 242 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:10.039 this verse when I share the Gospel because I think the danger of this verse 243 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:15.640 is to take it before you actually dwell on and know this verse after Hearing 244 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.309 The Gospel, is to just think, well, I'm saved, I ask 245 00:17:19.390 --> 00:17:25.470 forgiveness, Jesus forgives me so I can go in and have the abortion, 246 00:17:25.789 --> 00:17:29.750 because I know that Jesus will forgive me and I want to get rid of 247 00:17:29.829 --> 00:17:33.059 that misconception right away. Right. Yeah, yeah, so Hebrews Ten, 248 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:37.579 twenty six through twenty seven, for if we sin willfully after we have received 249 00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:41.660 the knowledge of the truth, they're long no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 250 00:17:42.259 --> 00:17:48.730 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the 251 00:17:48.849 --> 00:17:52.410 adversaries. Wow, that's heavy. I will often say when I finish this 252 00:17:53.170 --> 00:17:56.089 that's a pretty frightening verse, isn't it? Yeah, and just let it 253 00:17:56.250 --> 00:18:00.960 sit with them. I don't even need to really explain it because it says. 254 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.039 It says if we after we receive the knowledge, tooth, there no 255 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:15.190 longer remains a sacrifice for sins. That's heavy. Yeah, that is they're 256 00:18:15.269 --> 00:18:19.349 no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, and I'm one of the reasons I 257 00:18:19.430 --> 00:18:23.789 don't explain it is because I have a hard time explaining it to myself. 258 00:18:23.829 --> 00:18:32.299 Yeah, but if a heart has become so hardened that they are willfully continuing 259 00:18:32.539 --> 00:18:37.660 down a path that God has clearly told them not to go, then is 260 00:18:37.900 --> 00:18:42.769 any repentance sincere? Right? Yeah, maybe that's what it's saying. Whatever 261 00:18:42.849 --> 00:18:47.529 it's saying, it's scary. Yeah, well, it is scary and I 262 00:18:47.650 --> 00:18:52.490 could try to get into it and break it down hermonoustically and exogetically and every 263 00:18:52.569 --> 00:18:55.759 other way. It's big, weird. Ill, I won't try to do 264 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.079 that because I think we'd have to get into the larger context of the entire 265 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.920 book of Hebrews, especially in particular. I mean the context of the ten 266 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.720 chapter of Hebrews. I won't get into that, but I think just kind 267 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.029 of let it be out there at face value. And, like you said, 268 00:19:11.750 --> 00:19:17.309 don't you believe that's a scary verse? And if anybody reads that verse 269 00:19:17.390 --> 00:19:22.549 and doesn't think it's kind of a scary verse, ends with the fiery judgment 270 00:19:22.589 --> 00:19:26.420 it speaks, you know that the last part of it is and fiery indignation 271 00:19:27.099 --> 00:19:32.779 which will devour the adversaries, the adversaries of the Lord. Yeah, right, 272 00:19:32.859 --> 00:19:37.460 that's pretty that's how pretty good? That's it. That's definitely describing hell 273 00:19:37.660 --> 00:19:42.890 of and if you willfully continue in sin, that's what's going to be awaiting 274 00:19:42.970 --> 00:19:47.609 you. And what does it mean to willfully continue in sin? Well, 275 00:19:47.730 --> 00:19:51.369 you got to have knowledge. They do have knowledge. They will. They 276 00:19:51.690 --> 00:19:53.839 have expressed that, usually in a conversation where at when I come to this 277 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.559 verse, they have expressed an understanding. They have knowledge that what they're about 278 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:03.640 to do is s in. Many of them have continued that. That that's 279 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.470 an important part of it. Having, you know, while willfully, if 280 00:20:07.509 --> 00:20:11.789 we go on sending my version, I think says continue in sin. So 281 00:20:11.910 --> 00:20:15.910 if you're continuing and sin willfully, and for many of these women this is 282 00:20:15.109 --> 00:20:19.750 the third, fourth, Fifth Abortion Shun, that to me is a wilful 283 00:20:21.349 --> 00:20:26.619 continuation, continuing and sin. So so if you start talking with them about 284 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:33.579 that and then what God says awaits them and just let them ponder, is 285 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:40.690 what you're about to do worth this? Right? Yeah, yeah, without 286 00:20:40.730 --> 00:20:44.130 again, without getting into the theological implications of it. And you know, 287 00:20:44.809 --> 00:20:48.170 what could that mean for the Christian and what does it mean to continue willfully 288 00:20:48.210 --> 00:20:52.039 own and sin? Fact is there's a stern warning here, right, there 289 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.119 is judgment and you don't want to risk it. Yeah, right, yeah, 290 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:02.440 and so, to be specific, I would I will often use this, 291 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.549 like I said, after sharing the Gospel, but also if someone says, 292 00:21:07.109 --> 00:21:11.549 well, God is a forgiving God, and so I've already said I'm 293 00:21:11.549 --> 00:21:15.710 sorry. Sometimes I'll say that more I'm just going to go in there and 294 00:21:15.789 --> 00:21:18.619 do this, but it's the last time and then I'll then I'll repent. 295 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:21.980 Then I'll tell him I'm sorry. That's a that's a good time for trotting 296 00:21:22.019 --> 00:21:26.019 out this verse, in my opinion. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, well, 297 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:30.140 another verse that thinks, a powerful verse, maybe even one of the 298 00:21:30.420 --> 00:21:33.769 most powerful verses to share, and you share this often, even in just 299 00:21:33.890 --> 00:21:37.369 breaking down the Gospel. Yeah, and sharing about the Lordship of Jesus, 300 00:21:37.410 --> 00:21:41.690 because we're sharing the gospel. We're not saying just just ask Jesus into your 301 00:21:41.730 --> 00:21:44.450 heart and going your life, going with your life right. We're yeah, 302 00:21:44.609 --> 00:21:48.880 we want them them ask Jesus into their life as Lord Right now. We 303 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:52.960 do just so you guys know, we do try to pin them down with 304 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.960 really surrendering their life to Jesus right then and there. We're not doing the 305 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.240 you know whole says, say the sinner's prayer thing, necessarily kind of want 306 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.630 them to articulate a prayer themselves. Yep, we shared the Gospel along the 307 00:22:03.750 --> 00:22:07.630 lines of what Ray Comfort does, sharing the law and then the grace of 308 00:22:07.710 --> 00:22:14.910 God in light of the law and our guilt before him. But to some, 309 00:22:15.150 --> 00:22:17.660 some, what I'm trying to say is we talk about Lordship. We 310 00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:21.420 talked about Jesus becoming not just your savior, right, but your Lord. 311 00:22:21.460 --> 00:22:23.259 And Yeah, what does that mean? What does that mean? And they 312 00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:29.420 can't answer that. And I'm not sure Ray Comfort goes heavily into Lordship in 313 00:22:29.619 --> 00:22:33.650 the he may, but in the the Youtube presentations that I've watched, I 314 00:22:33.730 --> 00:22:37.970 don't think he does so much. I do because I have found in all 315 00:22:38.009 --> 00:22:42.569 the years being out there sharing the Gospel, it is a huge issue. 316 00:22:42.650 --> 00:22:47.880 Yeah for it, because so many people, they're on the virtual and their 317 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:52.599 baby, claim Jesus is their Lord and they really have no idea what young 318 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.400 chip means. So lukendred and forty six says, but why do you call 319 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.509 me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say? 320 00:23:00.549 --> 00:23:07.470 Yeah, and the word Lord Means Master. Yeah, it's what a servant 321 00:23:07.509 --> 00:23:11.940 calls his master. So Jesus is saying, why do you call Me Lord? 322 00:23:12.299 --> 00:23:15.099 Why do you say that you're my servant when you're not doing what I 323 00:23:15.180 --> 00:23:19.859 say. Yeah, and in the context of the abortion center, of course, 324 00:23:21.019 --> 00:23:22.900 when you've kind of pinned them down with the truth that's a baby that 325 00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:26.059 they carry, that their struggles are real, yes, but their baby doesn't 326 00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:30.690 deserve to die. And yet they claim to be a Christian. What does 327 00:23:30.730 --> 00:23:33.250 Jesus say? So why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do 328 00:23:33.369 --> 00:23:37.930 the things which I say? You can get a woman to agree that abortion 329 00:23:37.049 --> 00:23:41.759 is wrong, you can get them to agree that their baby is loved by 330 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.400 God, that it to abort their child is sin. But it's not just 331 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:51.480 the agreement, it's the doing right, and that's what Jesus is talking about 332 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:56.509 here. Yeah, and after that first the next one that that we wrote 333 00:23:56.549 --> 00:24:00.789 down, and maybe you could read that, is the Matthew Seven Twenty hundred 334 00:24:00.789 --> 00:24:03.750 twenty three, because it piggybacks off of that. It takes it even a 335 00:24:03.109 --> 00:24:07.150 step further, which is obvious when you read it. Yeah, sure, 336 00:24:07.470 --> 00:24:11.460 and this is a scary verse here. It is, yes, because it 337 00:24:11.579 --> 00:24:15.539 speaks of judgment, it speaks of, you know, Jesus being fed up 338 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:21.099 with with people hypocritically proclaiming him to be Lord and so this is Matthew Seven, 339 00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:23.849 twenty one through twenty three, right says. Not everyone who says to 340 00:24:23.890 --> 00:24:27.450 me, Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does 341 00:24:27.529 --> 00:24:32.130 the will of my father in heaven. Many will say to me in that 342 00:24:32.250 --> 00:24:34.250 day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name and cast 343 00:24:34.250 --> 00:24:38.039 out demons in your name and done many mighty are many wonders in your name? 344 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:42.000 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart 345 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:47.799 from me, you who practice lawlessness, depart from me. I never knew 346 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.839 you. Here they are, they're doing these apparent miracles and they are certainly 347 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:57.430 calling him Lord, but he's saying I never knew you, depart from me. 348 00:24:57.950 --> 00:25:04.549 That is that's a huge warning to people saying Jesus as Lord. Yeah, 349 00:25:04.589 --> 00:25:07.660 and being if I'm sharing the scripture with someone out in front of the 350 00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:11.299 abortion center, sharing it with a mom or with a dad breaking this down, 351 00:25:11.859 --> 00:25:15.259 I'll ask them pointedly, are you one of those people that are calling 352 00:25:15.299 --> 00:25:22.809 Jesus Lord Lord, and yet you're not willing to obey him? That's hypocrisy. 353 00:25:22.849 --> 00:25:26.130 Yeah, just because you, and I'll use the term talk is cheap. 354 00:25:26.490 --> 00:25:30.930 God's not after just your words, God's not after you, just saying 355 00:25:30.009 --> 00:25:36.599 he's Lord. God is after you. You actually letting him be Lord in 356 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:38.720 your life, right, but if you continue to do what you want to 357 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:42.759 do in contrast to what he wants you to do, he's not the Lord 358 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:47.480 of your life. You are the Lord of your own life's guess what that's 359 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.349 going to lead you, exactly, and look where it has let you, 360 00:25:49.509 --> 00:25:52.789 where it has led you, look where it's going to continue to lead you. 361 00:25:52.829 --> 00:25:56.509 It's ultimately going to lead you to hell. Yeah, yeah. The 362 00:25:56.190 --> 00:26:03.470 one I think thing to be careful, excuse me of with with these verses, 363 00:26:03.509 --> 00:26:06.579 is I have had people say, well, it's by fair faith, 364 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:11.940 not works, that that you're saved, and and so here Jesus is saying, 365 00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:18.019 but your works will reflect your faith. Yeah, exactly, and to 366 00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:22.329 make that distinction clear. Yeah, absolutely. It's not the works that save 367 00:26:22.450 --> 00:26:25.609 you, right, but the works are the outflow of the fact that you 368 00:26:25.730 --> 00:26:30.769 are saved. Right, that's that's the evidence. That's like the fruit does 369 00:26:30.849 --> 00:26:33.359 not what makes the tree what it is, but it is the evidence of 370 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.440 what kind of truth that it is. Yeah, right, and he could 371 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:40.799 not make it any clearer. Don't call me Lord unless you're doing what I 372 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:44.440 say. Yeah, or I am not your Lord. Yeah, you're the 373 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.710 Lord of your life. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, very good verse. 374 00:26:48.349 --> 00:26:52.589 So another verse. This is John, the gospel of John, Chapter Fourteen, 375 00:26:52.630 --> 00:26:56.869 Verses Twenty three through twenty four, says Jesus answered and said to him, 376 00:26:57.589 --> 00:27:00.859 if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father 377 00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:04.460 will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. 378 00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:08.660 He who does not love me does not keep my words, and the 379 00:27:08.819 --> 00:27:12.579 word which you hear is not mine, but the fathers who sent me. 380 00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:18.609 So this is Jesus talking about his word, talking about his commands. If 381 00:27:18.690 --> 00:27:22.450 anyone loves me, he's going to keep my word. And you know, 382 00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:25.769 I think this is appropriate to share as well. Out there on the sidewalk 383 00:27:25.849 --> 00:27:30.200 or whatever context, you're counseling a woman WHO's trying to justify her abortion by 384 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.319 saying that God loves her and she loves God and all this. But Jesus 385 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.519 this is saying, if you love me, you're going to keep my word. 386 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.039 Yeah, and Boarding your child is not keeping Jesus word. Right. 387 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:44.119 And and a way to introduce this verse might be to say do you love 388 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:47.349 God? Yeah, I asked that a lot out on the side. Wrek. 389 00:27:47.390 --> 00:27:51.589 Do you love God? They almost always say yes. And then this 390 00:27:51.710 --> 00:27:56.470 would be a great verse to say at that point. Yeah, because if 391 00:27:56.910 --> 00:28:00.140 again, God is very clear. Okay, if you love him, keep 392 00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:06.059 his word. And what is his word say about killing innocent people? That 393 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:10.140 shall not murder? His whird is clear. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 394 00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:15.490 Yeah. So another verse. It actually the whole book of First John Is 395 00:28:15.609 --> 00:28:18.089 Powerful. Let me just tell you. First John is probably one of my 396 00:28:18.130 --> 00:28:22.450 favorite books outside of Hebrews. I really like Hebrews as well. Keep who's 397 00:28:22.450 --> 00:28:25.930 a lot too, but first John is really practical, really kind of pins 398 00:28:25.970 --> 00:28:32.440 people down, because we do have this kind of false notion that that almost 399 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:37.000 got owes us something and that the way we live is kind of irrelevant to 400 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.509 God and that our words are actually what's important. Well, John's cutting through 401 00:28:41.549 --> 00:28:44.910 that garbage. It's not just your words, yes, it's not. Let's 402 00:28:44.950 --> 00:28:47.470 not love or his he says this. And First John, let's not love 403 00:28:48.109 --> 00:28:52.269 our brethren only in word, but also in word. And indeed, so 404 00:28:52.390 --> 00:28:57.380 here's what he says in this first John. Three, three, right, 405 00:28:57.420 --> 00:29:00.180 yeah, versus four through six, and then I think you kind of broken 406 00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:03.420 it up in verses eight through ten here. Yeah, so i's going to 407 00:29:03.460 --> 00:29:08.539 read. It says everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is 408 00:29:08.740 --> 00:29:12.690 lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and 409 00:29:12.769 --> 00:29:17.410 in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins. 410 00:29:17.609 --> 00:29:22.809 No one who sins has seen him or knows him. The one who practices 411 00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:25.799 sin is of the devil, for the devil as sinned from the beginning. 412 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:29.599 The son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. 413 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.599 No one who was born of God practices sin, because his seat abides 414 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:38.509 in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By 415 00:29:38.630 --> 00:29:41.069 this, the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. 416 00:29:41.109 --> 00:29:45.470 Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 417 00:29:45.789 --> 00:29:49.670 does not love his brother. Wow, that is chock full, yeah, 418 00:29:49.710 --> 00:29:55.819 of convicting. Yeah, and I'll just be be really candid, convicting for 419 00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:59.339 me as well. Yeah, not just for the people I'm ministering tight right 420 00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:03.180 now again. I've let me there's one point in there. It says he 421 00:30:03.380 --> 00:30:08.089 who is born of God or who who no one who is born of God 422 00:30:08.210 --> 00:30:12.289 practices sin, because he sees, abides in him and he cannot sin. 423 00:30:12.569 --> 00:30:18.609 Wow, no one who sees him, I'm sorry, no one who sins 424 00:30:18.009 --> 00:30:23.000 has seen him or knows you. Wow, have you sinned? Not In 425 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:27.559 the past five minutes. Okay, I mean I would say this is a 426 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:33.240 verse where conviction should be there and we need to examine our own hearts first. 427 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.470 Yeah, I do think, though, if you share this verse, 428 00:30:37.829 --> 00:30:40.430 the question is going to be asked. Well, if this is true, 429 00:30:40.470 --> 00:30:42.869 then then we're all doomed, right, because I've sinned, and then they'll 430 00:30:42.869 --> 00:30:47.269 ask you, have you sinned also, which they do, by the way. 431 00:30:47.349 --> 00:30:51.619 This happens all the time. That is the response exactly. Yeah, 432 00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:53.019 I get when I read this verse. Yeah, and so what is your 433 00:30:53.220 --> 00:30:56.180 what is your reply? Well, it's an opportunity, then, to share 434 00:30:56.220 --> 00:31:00.099 the Gospel, the truth of the Gospel, that that all have sinned and 435 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:03.059 fall short of the glory of God and there is a penalty for sin, 436 00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:07.170 but there is also an answer. Yeah, and and then go on to 437 00:31:07.329 --> 00:31:11.529 share the full Gospel as well, as well as I can, but I 438 00:31:11.730 --> 00:31:17.130 will focus on taking the heat off of me. Yeah, since I'm not 439 00:31:17.170 --> 00:31:19.200 about to kill a baby right then and there, and they are so at 440 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:23.079 the moment, that is the more pressing issue, and then when I go 441 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:27.079 home I can deal with my own my own issues. But but I'll focus 442 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.839 on things like the one who practices sin is of the devil. Yeah, 443 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:37.950 and no one who is born of God practices sin, and that the those 444 00:31:37.029 --> 00:31:41.269 who are the children of God and the children of the devil. They're obvious. 445 00:31:41.390 --> 00:31:45.750 than ask them. which do you think, looking here at this abortion 446 00:31:45.950 --> 00:31:51.700 center and your choice is before you? which is the choice that shows you 447 00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:55.299 are a child of God and which shows you the Cho Voice, or which 448 00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:59.980 choice shows you that you are a child of God or of Satan? Yeah, 449 00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:02.930 and the answer is obvious, just like this first says. It is 450 00:32:04.250 --> 00:32:08.730 obvious. So at least I think what we're kind of trying to get them 451 00:32:08.930 --> 00:32:13.930 to is a point of acknowledging, right, that what they're about to do 452 00:32:14.490 --> 00:32:17.519 is a grievous sin, yeah, against God, and that there are going 453 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.480 to be SEF severe constantly. Yes. So we're not sharing this verse from 454 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.759 a perspective of we're not sinners, you are right. This is not like 455 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.950 condemning them and showing them how much better we are than they are. Right, 456 00:32:31.390 --> 00:32:35.789 but this is showing them that sends a big deal to God. Yes, 457 00:32:36.109 --> 00:32:38.109 and then it incurs wrath and judgment from God and we need to examine 458 00:32:38.150 --> 00:32:43.509 our own hearts. Now I'll just say generally what's being conveyed in this scripture 459 00:32:44.269 --> 00:32:47.140 is the pattern of our life. If the pattern of your life is one 460 00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:52.980 of sin and rebellion to God, don't pretend to be his child. If 461 00:32:52.059 --> 00:32:59.410 the pattern of your life is righteousness and you seek to please God, then 462 00:32:59.490 --> 00:33:02.769 you're his child. Right. That's that's evident. So at that point where 463 00:33:02.849 --> 00:33:07.130 says he cannot sin, obviously we know that we can. And their scripture 464 00:33:07.170 --> 00:33:09.769 versus. It tells even John Himself. John's not saying a Christian can never 465 00:33:09.809 --> 00:33:13.960 sin. He's saying that it should not be the pattern of her life. 466 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.200 And if you go back in the first chapter of First John where he talks 467 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.039 about this, he says I write you these things, little children. I 468 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:23.039 think it's actually in the second chapter. Write these these things you little children, 469 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.430 so that you will so that you would not sin. But if you 470 00:33:27.509 --> 00:33:30.630 do sin, you have an advocate with the father. So he's saying I 471 00:33:30.990 --> 00:33:32.390 don't want you to sin, but if you do, and so he's not 472 00:33:32.509 --> 00:33:37.990 refuting himself in his same letter. Right he's he is saying that Christians, 473 00:33:37.430 --> 00:33:42.299 yes, they do sin, but it's not the pattern of their life. 474 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:45.740 And I think laying that out and helping helping a person at the abortions that 475 00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:49.339 are to understand that what he's talking about. Now you don't always have time 476 00:33:49.420 --> 00:33:52.819 to lay all that out. I think the most important thing is like what 477 00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:57.730 you mentioned, that contrast between lights and darkness. Yeah, between the Devil 478 00:33:58.170 --> 00:34:00.049 and the Lord. Yeah, whose side are you? All Right? That's 479 00:34:00.049 --> 00:34:04.049 the most helpful thing. Things. First, I probably wouldn't go to the 480 00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:07.210 part about the advocate, that we have an advocate, he who sins, 481 00:34:07.289 --> 00:34:12.440 because again, they're just waiting to grasp it. Anything you offer that allows 482 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.639 them to justify what they're about to do. And if you're in if they're 483 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.079 thinking, oh well, I've got an advocate and when I do sin, 484 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.599 then and then it's fine for me, for me to go sind. So 485 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:30.110 so the contrast is really critical because even they see it, and I've rarely 486 00:34:30.269 --> 00:34:35.989 had someone that will say that they have not had a pattern of sin. 487 00:34:36.349 --> 00:34:39.340 Yeah, and that that is what has led them there. Very few of 488 00:34:39.500 --> 00:34:45.059 them will say, well, I'm I'm really mostly good. This is like 489 00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:47.219 the only really bad thing I've ever done. Right, most of them, 490 00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:52.809 see, there's been a progression of bad, sinful choices that have led them 491 00:34:52.929 --> 00:34:59.130 to now this really serious yeah, sinful choice now t takes the life of 492 00:34:59.170 --> 00:35:01.730 an innocent human being. Yeah, and I think sometimes we can get into 493 00:35:01.769 --> 00:35:06.769 the mount the mindset and sharing these scriptures that we somehow have to explain them 494 00:35:06.809 --> 00:35:08.199 all thoroughly and there's going to be questions, like you said, and you 495 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.039 share this scripture, there's questions. Or what about this? It says he 496 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:15.039 cannot say in it all. Okay, there's can be questions, but certainly 497 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.679 the Holy Spirit needs to do a work in their hearts and just to share 498 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.110 the words. And if they ask me a question, and I don't want 499 00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:28.829 to get in depth and try to explain some theological exegetical breakdown with that scripture 500 00:35:28.869 --> 00:35:34.230 means, I'll just say think about that verse, think about where you stand 501 00:35:34.269 --> 00:35:37.940 in light of that verse and let the Lord speak it to your heart. 502 00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:40.179 And I even pray over them and that that sort of thing. Ultimately, 503 00:35:40.219 --> 00:35:45.099 I'm trust in the word of God to do it's work. Yeah, and 504 00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:46.980 so these are just some scriptures and we're actually going to put an article out 505 00:35:47.099 --> 00:35:50.530 right and I think we'll have all of the scriptures. We get in touch 506 00:35:50.610 --> 00:35:52.929 on all of them, but there's there's quite a few more and I'm sure 507 00:35:52.969 --> 00:35:57.849 you guys know many more verses that you can share. But I think at 508 00:35:57.889 --> 00:36:00.730 the end of the day the point of this podcast episode is that, guys, 509 00:36:00.769 --> 00:36:04.800 you need to use the word of God. Use The word of God 510 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.639 to bring comfort and use the word of God to bring conviction, that God 511 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:14.679 use his word right to pierce hearts and you can't do it if you don't 512 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.199 know the word of God. So obviously the first thing is no, the 513 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:23.110 word of God and take the time to to organize your Bible with, I 514 00:36:23.190 --> 00:36:28.510 don't know, mark or something where you can pull this scripture up quickly when 515 00:36:28.550 --> 00:36:30.869 you need it. But you can't pull it up if you don't know it's 516 00:36:30.909 --> 00:36:35.539 there. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, all right, guess we appreciate you 517 00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:37.980 tuning in and, as always, we appreciate if you guys would share this 518 00:36:38.099 --> 00:36:44.940 podcast leave us a review. If you have issues subjects you like for us 519 00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:46.690 to cover, we love to cover those in future episodes. So you can 520 00:36:46.730 --> 00:36:51.289 shoot me an email danuite love life dot org. You can shoot Vicki an 521 00:36:51.329 --> 00:36:52.969 email at Vicky at love life dot Org. Would love to hear from you, 522 00:36:53.449 --> 00:37:01.280 but until next time, God, bless God. Bless our love for 523 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:14.719 love. Give me our love for gratitude. I know it will cost me 524 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:22.670 my life. Nothing's too precious in some you