SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH

Welcome back to another week's episode of The Pick It Up Podcast! This week we discuss and feed off of Bro. David's Sermon of Suppressing the Truth! What is TRUTH? Throughout our lives we live and we learn from mistakes! Sometimes though we know what the truth is, but we still deny it and therefore sin against God Himself. Ultimately we have to make a decision Follow the Truth, which Jesus Himself is, or Follow the Lie! 

The Lord will never lead you astray, but the world and the things within the world will! We pray that the Lord convicts and moves through this ministry as we continue to be led by Him and His Word! 

Bro. Lane, Bro. Zach, Bro. Ryan, Bro. David

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:10

Welcome to the Pick It Up Podcast, the podcast where we'll discuss what it means to pick up your cross and follow Christ. Living a life for Christ takes commitment, sacrifice, and ultimately being obedient to his word. Not only on Sundays, but every day. God's word says it, that settles it. So pray about it, practice it, and proclaim it. Let's get into it. Gentlemen, how are thou?

SPEAKER_04 0:39

Thou art good.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Yep. Wonder when they stopped talking like that, you know.

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When Southeast Arkansas rolled up.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Lord said, we're gonna have to change something.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Oh man. Well, y'all having a y'all have a good Monday yesterday? A wonderful day. Man, what about this weather? Cold Monday. I'm telling you. It's back. We uh we had baseball practice last night. Not for long. And I ain't gonna lie, I kind of felt bad for them boys. I kind of served in the bathroom baseball practice last night and it was cold. That wind was whipping.

SPEAKER_04 1:16

Well, Tanner's got a game tonight. They practiced last night. We got a game tonight, and it's gonna be it'd be all right. It'd be like 50. 55. 50? Yeah, it'd be like 50. 50's cold to be. I got my long guns on.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

We uh we kind of skipped a week. We want to talk about the reason why we skipped the week, or we just gonna leave it and leave it up in the air. We were fellowshipping. We we we went for a retreat. So we retreat.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

A real treat.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

A real treat. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:47

Had a good time.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

These boys don't want to speak about it, Zach.

SPEAKER_05 1:51

I heard there were fish caught. Oh, yeah. I wasn't there. I don't know. I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. Boy, Sam did good. I'm gonna tell you that. Sam caught some fish.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

And I put them in the live vessel. What was the total for the group? Oh man. I think that figured it out at one time. Tuesday night. Tuesday night we had over 600 fish. So I mean. The first two days. Yeah, it was close to a thousand.

SPEAKER_05 2:17

And that was between how many boats?

SPEAKER_03 2:20

Ten of them. Yeah. That's quite a bit of fish.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Pretty good. 100 fish boat.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

They uh they don't like usually they don't like seeing these Arkansas boys come down to Louisiana. They don't.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

That's right. Here comes trouble.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

Yeah. But really, we didn't have a whole lot of people that we have a reputation.

SPEAKER_04 2:36

I never talked to anyone who wasn't with us.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Didn't you?

SPEAKER_04 2:40

But anyway. Now, five years ago, you're right. If we showed up, they were ready to pour plugs. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

They say, well, are y'all with that church group?

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Well, I'm just glad y'all back fishing for men this week. That's right. That's right. Amen.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

That's right. Oh man, we had a good Sunday this past Sunday. Get our gospel hat back on there. That's right. We uh we started back this past Sunday just, Brother Dave. We're gonna talk a little bit about the suppressing the truth a little bit this morning. But uh what uh what what we got going on this week? I know we're getting close to spring break, which is next week. Uh we're gonna have midweek services this Wednesday night. This Sunday's just normal services, regular services.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Yep, we're a couple weeks away from Easter. Yep. So a few things leading up to that around here. Be there, be prepared. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

Teen's Wednesday night. What we got going on?

SPEAKER_04 3:37

Teen's Wednesday night. You know, I'm I'm hoping it warms up, but I promised them uh hang out outside for the week and have fun, whiffle ball, maybe cook, have a little cooking out there, and maybe possibly a bonfire if it's bonfire.

SPEAKER_05 3:53

Hopefully the wind won't be blowing 100 miles an hour. I know it. I know it. It did last time on us. It did.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

You may have to figure in the a message of yours in the near future and respect these kids respecting adults.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

Yeah. Come on with it, preacher. What you thinking? My daughter called me last night.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

I don't know what I'm gonna do. I don't know what I'm gonna do. She said, Would you go with me and Jack to the nursing home? Or she wanted to carry him somewhere. He got in trouble against school, disrespecting them. His teachers. You know, he just trying to be funny like most kids, but at the same time, it's just a lack of lack of respecting 16, 17, 18-year-olds. Yep. I just thought, you know, that was a good one. Let's see where I can draw that out of respecting your elders.

SPEAKER_04 4:39

That is uh that's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

Well, preacher, what's the Lord have in the life of David Jacks right now?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Hmm. You mean where am I at? Where are you? I'm really trying to get to the uh to the resurrection, but I know it's not until April the 5th. I'm trying my best to hope. Stay on track. Stay on track. Methodically. No, I think God got me methodically getting some of these sermons. And uh What do you say? Praise the Lord this week methodically.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

You don't know that word, but reverse that. Yeah, right? You don't know that word?

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Methodically. I haven't always been the best at you know, holding back, try to get it, try to push everything into one sermon. So I'm trying to be methodical. I agree with so a couple weeks ago I I talked about uh you know creation. God is our creator. And uh, you just people assume that, and uh everybody knows it. They might not but say it, you know, therefore they try to suppress it. But uh talked about Acts chapter 17. Anytime you want to find out how how am I supposed to present the gospel, is there a method to it? You know, Roman Road type stuff. Do you where do you start at? Well, some person's gotta know they're a sinner before they can be saved. Yeah. But you gotta you gotta start with the fact that you get them to understand there is a God, there is a creator, there is a designer to this whole thing. You know, everything's made for his honor and his glory, and then point out the fact that you are a sinner, because the Bible says it, and here's how that starts, and then you get to the propitiation. Can you say that one?

SPEAKER_04 6:16

Propitiation.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Propitiation. That's the King James word uses for uh sacrifice. He's our sacrifice. Yep. And uh that's gonna be this week. So I've been I've had that in my mind this whole time, and I've not said it, you know. But uh, I get to turn me loose this week. Unleashed. I'm excited about it. I might say this if uh just one more thing, uh somebody may be listening to this, I don't know where you're at, but uh you could uh go back and listen to those messages on our website, shadygbc.com. So you may become more familiar with what we're what we're talking about here, just because it seems to always come up.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Man, that was a professional shout-out. I like that preacher. Oh, yeah. Go back and listen to our website, shadygbc.com. I like that. It was good. He's getting used to it. He's getting used to it, yeah. Put a mic in front of him, boys. Live, live scoping, and everything else.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

What were you gonna say, is that while it goes I said, well, this past Sunday, man, that I don't know. You know, you know how you have a verse that just jumps out at you, you know, on the page at Romans chapter 1, verse 19. They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. To them. I was like, man. Yep, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Nobody can not deny.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Tell you where my mind goes when I read that verse, if I just single it out, you know, is a conversation of maybe somebody that is does not believe. Yeah, you know, that it's adamant, there's not a God. Atheist. You know. It's obvious, you know. Yeah, they just choose to suppress the truth. That's it. Yep. I mean there it there it is, right there. When you back up to 18, they just choose to not believe, they choose to suppress the truth and continue to indulge in their wickedness. That's the problem. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

That's why, and then God, the verse first part of verse 18, for the wrath of God is revealed. Yeah. Talks about God being wrathful God. And you hear this phrase a lot from people who you know, you talk about the love of God, God's the love of the world, he sends his only begotten son Jesus, and uh, they ask the question well, how could a loving God send anybody to hell? But that God doesn't send anybody to hell.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

You were already going there, brother.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

That's right. That's how this starts. You're a sinner to begin with. You're already doomed. He's trying to pull you out of here. That's the wrath of God, and he's a just God. So there's a penalty for sin. That's where Jesus comes in in chapter three, where he's that propitiation. He's the He's the blood that was sprinkled on the mercy seat, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

You might I wonder. But you can't deny it. I just want to know like what was going through God's mind whenever he heard about Eve taking that apple. It's like, oh my lord. You knew it.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

You knew it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

Exactly. It's obvious to you, and you still gonna do it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

Well, he let them. That's the whole thing. Yeah, you know. I mean, he created Adam and Eve, and he was there, obviously, an all-knowing God. And he knew the serpent, he knew the devil was tempting them. He also knew what they was gonna do. But it doesn't remove the fact that God thought, come on now. Yeah, you know, come on. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Look around you. I just give you one rule. Yeah. Just one. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

But yet they wanted to be God. I picture that as if that dad, you know, walking into your room after you've done messed up and sinned and said, Hey, where you at? Where you at, you know? Because that's what God was saying. Hey, Adam, you know. Yeah. And then he said, What you dressed, what you got that on for? You know, he knew everything that done took place, but he wanted to call it out on you. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 10:01

Oh, the whole time you're preaching Sunday, I'm like, man, this lines up with, because I'm going through the life of Moses, but what God did with the plagues and Pharaoh. And I've told these kids the three things that God's doing here is not only is he building up Moses to be one of the greatest leaders to ever lived, but he's getting his people out of Egypt. But he says in this word, in every plague, before he does the plague, he says, I want you to know, Pharaoh, that I am the Lord God Almighty. I want you to know. But yet he still hardens his heart. He still wants him to be prideful in what he's doing.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Well, you made an impact on my son Logan. He got in the truck last Wednesday night and he listed every one of them. Plagues. I'm pretty sure he listed 87 plagues. I ain't teaching 87 problem, but every bug that exists invaded Egypt, I promise you, in his mind.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Man, that's the thing. That's the thing. Oh, yeah. To get these kids to realize that these these things really happen. Like they would hear frogs and all these locuses and everything else. Oh, that's just a story. No, it really happened. These people had to go through this. That's the cool thing about it. But yeah, I thought about that. Getting Pharaoh to know that he is the true Lord God Almighty.

SPEAKER_04 11:19

Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back to that verse real quick, verse 19. And I may be totally wrong here.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Romans 1?

SPEAKER_04 11:28

Yeah, Romans 1. I may be totally wrong here. Tell me if I am. I've always thought of that verse as because you hear about the people say, well, what about people in Africa? What about people that are, you know, that don't have the sermons like the ability to hear. And you hear that verse, they know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and the sky through everything God made. It is clearly, or they can see clearly his visible qualities.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

You want me to?

SPEAKER_04 12:05

Yeah. As well a mask.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Go back to the beginning. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Therefore, he created mankind. And why? Why did God create all this? For one reason. To bring glory to himself. I'm the creator. And he deserves it. Therefore, he deserves all honor and thanksgiving and praise and worship and all that. So man, human beings were made to worship God. Therefore, it's nature, it's natural for us to worship. You talk about those people who maybe never heard about Jesus. You look in their civilizations and in their cultures and archaeology, they worship something. Yeah, they're made to worship. They build these big temples and they built these images, and you know, like Nebuchadnezzar, he built the big idol, you know, worship. We are made to worship. It's a natural thing. You're going to worship something. And if you aren't worshiping God, then you're worshiping celebrities, you're worshiping athletes, you can worship your own kids. You can worship money, you worship your job, you worship your spouse. And anything that comes between you and God that you put before God, that's sin. Make sense? So therefore, when it says that's everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. It's obvious. You know, and they're they would, if if they are honest, they would admit that there is a God because they know it. They've built that away. That's what he's saying. And so whenever you deny the existence of God, you're suppressing the truth. That makes sense. Yep. So for the people to say, well, what about those who never heard? Well, they know. They know.

SPEAKER_04 13:36

That was that's what I was getting at.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

They're worshiping something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

I see what you're saying. And that's the significance of the evangelism mission work.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

Well, so I go tell them that we have a responsibility. At the top of my, when we was preaching that, I guess it was last Sunday, I wrote up our we have no excuses.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Yeah, no excuses. No excuses. You are without excuse. That's the way it says verse 20. Clearly seen. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Evident, being understood by the things that are made, even the eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuses. Excuse. Because they knew God, they glorified him not as God. That's the problem. Nor were they thankful. That's a big deal, being thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise, so they became fools. So that was a whole deal with the tree of good and evil, the tree of knowledge that God said, All right, y'all can eat anything you want to, Adam and Eve, but don't eat this tree. But the reason they ate that tree is because they were they wanted to be God themselves. They wanted to knowledge, and that's what the liar, the devil, told them. You don't have to believe this mess. That's basically what they told them. They believed him. So whenever you believe the lie, then you're you're headed for destruction. Here comes the wrath of God. You brought it up a little bit Sunday. So something's got to satisfy the wrath of God.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

I think let me make sure I worded this right because this is how you word it Sunday. I know how you how you have worded it in the past. But if you want to play games with God, you want to try to make deals with God, God will take you out and He will handle you.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Sin unto death. Yeah. That's primarily talking about the child of God. Right. A person who is saved, a person who is placed their faith and trust Jesus Christ, but yet they continue to sin against and continue to be disobedient to God and rebel against God. And when you become more of a problem than you are, you know, an asset, I believe it. I think God will take you out. He'll remove you.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

I I here's a thought. You know, nowhere in Genesis when He created Adam and Eve did He look at them and say, Worship me. You know? But it was a natural thing that they were supposed to do. And they got away from that.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Of all the people that lived in in harmony with all the animals and everything, he put them here and I need you to take care of this. You know, this beautiful thing. The Garden of Eden. They couldn't deny it. That just it just didn't happen. It just didn't some big explosion, you know, big bang. There was a designer. I was watching. Everything has purpose.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

I was watching this video the other day. I can't take credit for it, but I thought it was a really cool, a really cool way to um, I guess, stand your ground against an atheist, you know. And um it's a conversation between Christian and atheist, and he's and Christian was talking to this atheist, and he said, Did you know in the Bible it says there is no God? And very it struck the atheist's opinion, you know, or it struck his mind, you know. You could tell he was in intrigued. He was like, Really, where is it at? You know, he says in Psalm 14. He said, Open it up and read it. And he in the Bible to the atheist, atheist opens up Psalm 14, but he didn't tell him the first part of it. It says, Only fools say in their heart, there is no God. What's good there? I was like, get him, boy. That's good. You just see all you see all the it's like it's like the atheist had a little hope, you know, in his eyes, you know.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

Then he said, You just call me a fool.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Yeah, yeah. It's a nice way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

He had that old look on his face, you know. He was slapped by a wet squirrel.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

He didn't he didn't call him a fool. He just handed in the Bible and said, Look, this I call it four. This is what it says right here. You know?

SPEAKER_00 17:39

It's only a fool that says there is no God.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

I just thought about that when you read verse 21 out there in Romans.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

And those individuals in chapter 2 of Romans professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. That's right. When they said there is no God.

SPEAKER_04 17:57

You know, I always go back to this, and me and LG Logan was talking about this Sunday morning. You can't you can't tell me that a man sit down and took the Bible, and I hope I make this make sense. From A to Z, and it never contradict itself. You know, no one can do that other than God. Make this possible.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:24

Yeah. How can how can someone take God's word and say, oh, this is just, you know, made up stuff? Are you crazy?

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Same way we take a science book that teaches evolution, say, this is crazy. The same way. If you think about it.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

Same way a scientist could take uh, I mean, some of the elements, you know, and think they can prove there is no God by science, and you can't do it. There's no way that these atoms and these protons and all that could exist without God. There had to be a creator, designer. Like a DNA. I don't know where do we figure that out? God allowed us to figure it out, but it's pretty obvious that everybody's as different. How is that possible? Billions of people, yet everybody's different. Every fingerprint's different. I'd about to say every fingerprint. That's only one way. Designer. Let's move on to that. And let's talk uh from that. We got that established. Right. I think everybody listening to us probably would agree. There is a God. Okay, we got that. Well, what about this? What happened? Adam and Eve? What why the spiral? Why did it start falling? Why did it start going down? Why do we get away from God? Seeing exactly. And it's that truth, it's at verse 18. They suppress the truth. Yep. Now I know that frontwards and backwards, but I want to hear y'all's take on that of how people I'll just give you the one example that I used this past week was a congressional hearing. There was a doctor, a lady doctor, who is obviously a very, very intelligent individual, and she gave in her opening remarks that every I'm here today to testify on behalf of whatever. And everything I say is based on fact and science. And she set that up. Well, Senator Hawley came along and said, I just got one question for you, ma'am. And I just need a yes or no answer, please. And he simply asked her, Can a man get pregnant? And she would not answer him. And do you think she know that she knew that? She knew the answer. Was the answer evident? Yeah. But yet she suppressed that answer. She kept dancing around it and dancing around it and dancing around it. For five minutes, they went on. He kept on. Can a man get pregnant? Can a man get pregnant? Can a man get pregnant? He may he embarrassed the lady, you know, but it's so obvious what she was doing. So whenever we talk about what happened, why did mankind go down? Why, why all the moral chaos? Why why did they why do we see homosexuality? Why would it why do we see this because they suppress the truth? They know it, they know it. That woman knew the answer to that question, she wouldn't say it. Same way with uh you take somebody who's living a homosexual lifestyle, they know it's not natural. It's not God's intent for two men to be the other or two women to be the other. They know they're just suppressing the truth.

SPEAKER_04 21:12

Well, it's been like that since day, you know, the day of the fall.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Thank you. You know, Eve knew the truth. Well, go through go through for our listeners, if y'all would think about it, and go through some different things. What are some different scenarios in life? Not just homosexuality. Sin, sin, whether homosexuality, murder, it doesn't matter, lying. But where what are some other areas where you see people suppressing the truth? What comes to y'all to mind? I'll I'll give you one. Let's say Sundays.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

Well, that's exactly where I was going. I had it in my mind. I'm gonna be quiet, let y'all talk. Well, I don't want to overstep or nothing, but uh preach Easter. Go ahead. The point of I mean, even sports and stuff, you know, people know. What is right. They know what is right. Now I've got to make a comment here, and I've thought about this, and maybe I've been a hypocrite in this. Because if a parent comes to me or someone comes to me and says, Hey, what do I need to do about my kid playing sports on Sunday? I'd be the first to tell you, Well, you know what the truth is. You know what you need to do. And they know. You know, it ain't right to miss church to go play baseball. They know it. You know it. Let's just get that out. Everybody knows it's not right. But I'm the first one to go home on a Sunday evening, eat lunch, and turn on football. Yeah. And turn on a basketball game or something like that. So why am I any different? I'm paying those guys to miss everything, miss church by watching them. You know, I'm supporting them, I guess what I'm trying to say. So I, in a way, God showed me that the other day. Now am I going to quit watching it on Sundays? That's a battle, you know, that I'm going to have.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

But Lilane, why don't you go uptown and eat on Sunday? Because I don't want to spend my money.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

That's the biggest thing. Somebody working to cook your food, were they able to go to church?

SPEAKER_03 23:15

But honestly, like, because I'm going to be honest, during high school, when I first started coming to church here, every Sunday, me and Sam, a bunch of us, we go uptown, we eat, we go to Walmart, and we go fishing, you know? Every single Sunday. Well, now, whenever I marry Jordan, we go eat as a family. And man, I ain't, I have loved that so much. Completely like when I first started dating Jordan, that was every Sunday deal. And it was the family time. It was the I look back on it and I'm like, man, that that's what I needed. That's what everybody needs. Yes, you might be going uptown eating lost tacos with your family, and that's fine. But man, going to spend in a good home cooked meal with your family and at the house and just fellowshiping one another. That's it.

SPEAKER_04 24:01

Well, you you know, I love, I love the good old days. We talk about the good old days. Used to wasn't nothing open on a Sunday.

SPEAKER_06 24:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:09

You know? It's just, yeah, you know, and it goes back to us suppressing the truth.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Yeah. And well, there's a law in this country. It's called the Blue Law.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Where Walmart could not open against the law for them to be open on Sunday. You believe that?

SPEAKER_04 24:23

Man, what would we do?

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Slowly, slowly that changed when convenience stores come along. Convenience stores ain't been around forever.

SPEAKER_04 24:30

So am I am I suppressing the truth or sending when I go, Lindsay's gonna do a Walmart pickup every Sunday night. We're gonna go up there. So am I promoting, all right, it's okay to be open home.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Well, how about shelf work? Don't be about to work on Sunday. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 24:48

This world would not survive nowadays if we didn't do something on Sundays.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

So where do you take a stand in that, like as far as you're gonna you're gonna have you have a lot of listeners that has to be personal conviction?

SPEAKER_02 25:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

And that's where you sin. Right. Whenever God reveals you the truth, I know what I need to be doing, but I don't do it. There you go. That's sin. That's right. For him to know what to do good and do it or not, it's to him is sin. That's what the Bible says. Therefore, you have to say that's what the Bible says.

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Do you think it's gonna be evident in their life?

SPEAKER_00 25:22

I think it'll definitely show up. I mean, there's consequences. Yeah. There's consequences of sin. God will forgive you. And Jesus covered our sin, no doubt about it, with the blood. But uh, yeah, there's consequences.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

So I've always had this question, we've talked about this multiple times. You take these professional athletes, college athletes, you know, these I just take college baseball. College baseball is starting up, they play on Sundays, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday series. Well, how did them boys the only way them boys were able to get to college, D1 college baseball, was to play travel ball on Sundays.

unknown 25:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:59

So where do they step in on? Well, this is I'm showing honor and glory to Christ. You know, you see these guys come up to the plate praying at the pitcher's mount or whatever, you know. So where do you decipher what's bad and what's good? You know, you still had to get there from playing on Sundays.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

It might not show up immediately, but I believe it will eventually show up, especially in the culture and in the country. You know, when we just gradually, this downward spiral, we gradually get away from the things that God intended. And uh the Bible's clear in Romans chapter 1 that God will let you do that. God will let you pursue the desires of your heart.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

Well, it's two things turn you over to a reprobate mind, is what it says. Two things come to my mind, and this is for the parents now. And I'm not saying I'm perfect, but you know, it it's just something on my mind is if you have conviction about it right now, you know, this ain't right, then don't suppress it. Thank you. Yeah. Don't say, well, it's only for a few years, it's only for a few months, it's only for a few weeks. No, if you're convicted about it, God's trying to tell you something.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

But it's also got to be based on truth.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

You can be convicted about things and it not be the truth. You know, so therefore you're following a lie again. So it's the importance of understanding and knowing the scriptures. And relying on the, you know, the illuminating power of the Holy Spirit of God to your mind to be able to see this is what God intends. This is what he meant. Like Romans 1. I mean, read that, and you just it's clear that here's going to be the byproduct, here are the results. You can read it. There it is. Verse 28. Even as they did not retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do the things which are not convenient, being filled with, and then they list them. All the different things. People ask the question well, why do we have such disobedient kids today? Well, what does it say in the very last part of verse 30? Read it.

SPEAKER_04 28:04

I'm in October. I was going to preach on something less.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

Undiscerning, untrustworthy, disobedient to parents. Disobedient to parents.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

Well, could the result of what we have in our current generation of where you got these disrespectful kids? You know, I mean, you go to Walmart or you go to a high school and walk down the hall, and the language and the actions of these kids, they could care less. And there is no discipline. And it's getting worse and worse and worse and worse. It was bad 40 years ago, 45 years ago when I was in school, no doubt about it. But today it's a completely different thing and it's steady going down. And we're going to continue on that downward spiral until we get to the place to where it is just complete chaos. You know. And we wonder why. Because we've suppressed the truth. That's why. Okay, I'm done. Now you go ahead, Watson. Where were you going? Youth and the preachers in.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Well, I don't know if it makes sense. But we was, you know, 90% of the 95% of the kids that are missing church due to sports or something to that nature. You know, only a certain few go to D1 or go any further. I don't know where I what I was trying to say. This verse came to my mind in 1 Timothy chapter 6. Because you talked about Lane, how are those kids ever going to make it bigger if they don't their mindset, I want to go D1. Or their parents' mindset. Yeah, exactly. But only a certain few go that far. Absolutely, yeah. And this thought came to my mind because I've been in it recently, and I think you preached it a couple Sunday nights ago. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Content.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

You know. Is it really, should we have that desire for our kids to go D1? You know?

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Yeah, they may have the ability, and uh but shouldn't we be leading them towards the Well here I'm gonna hold you right there. You gotta back up. Yeah, that's one thing to be content. But if you ain't got godliness with content, you ain't got nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Godliness with contentment is a great game. That's right. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

So when you contentment without godliness, when you placing something over God, you ain't got godliness, I can tell you. So whatever you're content in. Let's get off, let's get off this sports deal for a second, because I mean sports is just a very little deal. Oh, yeah, I agree. I hate we can go to that. All right, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

I don't really think the the root of the issue is for me, and it's just my opinion, yeah, is that we have allowed our kids to run our house. Uh thank you. Yep. Thank you. It's not about baseball, football, soccer, dance, cheerleading, whatever. It is about that we have said, Little Johnny, what do you want to do? That's right. Instead of little Johnny, no, you're gonna eat what I put on that supper table and you're gonna respect your elders, or I'm gonna whoop your butt. Now you need to get up, we're going to church on Sunday, we're not going to play that baseball trap. I I agree a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

You know, I've always said I've always said if the kid wakes up on Saturday morning and says, hey dad, are we going to church tomorrow or do I have a game?

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Tournament tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 31:23

That's when it's become an issue. Yeah. You know, or and and we say sports. It could be dad, are we are we going hunting tomorrow or are we going to church? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

You know, if they if there's a question there, have you failed, or I ain't, you know, I well, the immature parent will say, Well, what do you want to do? Yeah. I'll pull up, I'll pull up to the house and the church fan, and mama looked at the kid, y'all want to go to church tonight? Leave it up to them. Yeah. I mean, when you leave your 10-year-old up to make the decisions, what are you doing? You turn him over to the world. Mm-hmm. You don't leave, you don't let it's not his decision whether he's going to school or not. Why should it be their decision whether or not to go into church?

SPEAKER_04 32:07

That's right. Yeah, that's right. That's 100%.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

I mean, God give parents for reason. And he told kids to honor and obey their parents for a reason. Well, it ain't the kids' fault. It's the parents.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

You know, baseball is a very important thing. It's very small awesome and everything, but you know, at the end of the day, these kids are watching us. We see this all the time, we say it all the time. They're watching us, they're watching how you act, they're watching how you respond. If you're not saying, put laying the law down and saying it, as for me and my house, we're going to serve God. And you're showing that by, hey, bud, look, I know there's a two-day tournament, and I know y'all's team is good. I know y'all got a chance to win it all. And yes, it sucks. You know, we played a tournament all day on Saturday, but I'm sorry, bud. We're going to church tomorrow. We're going to go honor God. God created us. We're going to place him first, and we're going to make that very evident, you know, in our lives. Yep. And we're going to train up that child in that way because ultimately our number one goal is to make sure that our children make it to heaven instead of making it D1. Thank you very much. Dang. Not only my children, but all the other children.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

So that's great. To our listeners out here to prove that we're not innocent and that we're guilty and we have flaws as well. Absolutely. Uh I'm struggling in this matter as we're speaking, you know. Uh, opening day of turkey season youth hunt is also Arkansas Youth Conference, you know. And in my mind, I've always just said, you know, Taylor wants to go turkey hunt that morning. He needs to go. And Lindsay looked at me. I told him that the other day, and she looked at me and she said, So you're gonna let him miss our youth conference to go turkey hunting. And I was like, Well, that ain't that big of a deal. You know? So where am I at on all that?

SPEAKER_03 34:02

I think it goes back to what Brother David says, personal conviction.

SPEAKER_04 34:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

Yeah. I mean, you're not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together because that ain't the church. So I mean, that's completely for personal conviction, but I don't know, yeah. I see where you're at.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

I don't know what Zach was saying there. Uh when you were gonna leave that up to you why you're teaching that kid.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

I'm looking for an answer, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Well, when you're teaching that kid, you know, we're gonna go to church today, we're gonna honor and glorify God. You go one step further and say, Well, we made we made a commitment, you know, when we joined this church, we made a commitment to God. We entered into a covenant with uh other believers, like-minded believers. And what if everybody had the same thing, same what if everybody made the same decisions we make, then there would be nobody there. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's uh you you just teach them those things, you know. It's important to honor your commitments. Well, well, I I will say I'm committed to being on this baseball team. If I don't show up, they're not gonna have a catcher today.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

Where's your commitment lying then? I'll say this some of my best friends struggle with this. They do, they struggle with it. They've talked to me about it. And and uh I we as pastors don't take it lightly. We know where you're at. You know, it ain't like we're mad at you or anything, but we also don't want to suppress the truth here. And maybe this is a platform where we can say it, where everybody can hear it, but it's a struggle, no doubt. It's a struggle.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

And it's easy to fall into, you know. I mean, are you gonna go to I don't I don't I personally don't think you're gonna die and go to hell just because you went to a couple of Sundays on the baseball games. And that's where the idea creeps in your mind. You know, okay, well, yeah, my family. I've led my family, and we go to church just about every Sunday. All right, well, we only miss one or two a year. You know, well, that justify it. That's justify you try to justify it.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

Justifying that's when you get in dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

That's right. And that's where you're playing a dangerous game right there. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

Well, I had a man saying I had a man say the same thing to me when he had an affair with another woman on my wife. He tried to justify it because, well, my wife never would, you know, we couldn't have sex every day. You know, was his thought. And that in his mind he was justified going to find him another woman because of that. I mean, if you justify these little things, then it's okay for me to miss one or two Sundays a year. It ain't gonna be long, you're gonna justify a whole bunch of things in your mind. Yeah, yeah. Because you think you got away with it. But we serve a wrathful God, and there is consequence due to sin. And whenever you turn around two, three, five years later, and you've lost your family, okay. Whose fault was that? It just creeps in.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

Exactly. It creeps in with just a little bit just a little bit, you know. Just it starts somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 37:03

And what I want to go to on this is to the dads and to the mothers as well, but ultimately the dads, it's God's gonna hold us responsible for it. You know?

SPEAKER_03 37:13

Well, I was gonna say this. I've had this even ask to me. You know, you take I've had multiple kids come to the Saving Knowledge of Jesus Christ at six years old. And I've had multiple come at 10 years old, some at 12 years old. Well, why is why is one group coming at six and why is another group coming at twelve? Well, I want you to look what this six-year-old is being exposed to. They're here every time the door is open. At home, they are dedicated to getting in God's word. This 12-year-old, look where they're dedicated to. Look where their lives are. And I hate to call that out, but yet sometimes I'm not gonna suppress the truth in that. Yeah. And so if you're gonna deny God's ability to allow this six-year-old to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ because they're there every Sunday, because they're in the Word at home, because they're parents. Let me tell you something a six-year-old can be very, very smart, and I've seen it. I have seen it more times than none. But I don't know, that's just something that I've I've had to not necessarily deal with, but been asked before. What's the difference?

SPEAKER_00 38:19

Well, that's a very interesting point you make, but you said something that caught my attention. I hate you said it, I've heard Ryan say it, Zach said it, even I've said it. I hate to call it out. I hate to say it. I hate to share the truth. Why in the world are we in a position where we have to say that? We have to preference what we're fixing to say by saying I'm sorry. You apologize first.

SPEAKER_04 38:42

You don't want to hurt feelings.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

You apologize first and then you speak the truth.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

What in the world? Why do we what what has caused us to get to that point where we have to apologize for what we're fixing to say?

SPEAKER_04 38:52

That's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 38:54

I mean, that that's sad.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

We should not be there. But we are. That's just where we're at. That's right. Because we know that it's going to hurt, and we know it's going to offend. Truth hurts. Yep. Sin hurts. But the truth is what sets you free.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

All right, I I wanted to do a while ago, we got back on it. Let's get off this Sunday's deal.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

I mean, you're gonna apologize to somebody before you tell them, well, if you die without Christ, you're going to hell. You apologize. I hate to tell you this. But uh if you don't accept Jesus, you're you're gonna Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

You're gonna burn in hell.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

I hate to tell you this. But here it is, here's the truth.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

So many times, all right, let me get to this point. I've been well, I've been on the edge of my seat about this. So many times, though, do we say, well, we're just gonna let God handle it. Okay. We just let them do what they want to do. We're gonna be done with it. We're gonna waste breath with it, we're just gonna let God handle it. Is that what God really wants, though? As far as when it comes to the truth? When who does he have us in the position to be? Pastors, ministers, preachers of the gospel, disciples, disciples. Right? He has us to do this, and I think when we get into 2 Timothy, it's gonna show even more Paul telling Timothy. Amen. False teachers, liars. We keep saying, well, we're just gonna let God handle it. Spiritual warfare.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

Yeah, we we're all guilty of that, saying, Lord, you're gonna have to handle them.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Yeah, and look, God can do it by himself. But God wants us, he has put us in a position to come alongside.

SPEAKER_04 40:24

You gotta go back to that verse, you know, to leave the 99 to go get the one, you know.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

The reason that we feel like we need to apologize before we speak the truth, I hate to say this, but it's because we're human beings ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 40:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 40:43

And honestly, we're not. Who are we to judge?

SPEAKER_04 40:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

You know, we we can't. God is the judge. We're not the judge. Therefore, we're trying to say, look, I'm not, this isn't me talking, but this is the truth. Right. This is God. I know the Bible well enough to know, and I have responsibility to speak this truth to you.

SPEAKER_04 41:02

Well, even Paul.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Well, I know it's gonna hurt you.

SPEAKER_04 41:05

Even Paul admitted him, man, I'm the chief of all sinners. He had to get that out there because he felt like he was preaching to these people. Because they were all looking at him, and he wanted to say, look, I ain't got, you know, I'm I got some flaws in my life, and I've had a lot of flaws.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

But ultimately, he'd get to it, though. Yep. Maybe we're the same way.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

Well, and I think it goes back to this too. We're supposed to do this with love. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

And I'm gonna tell you, you walk right up to somebody that's been sinning, and it's been obvious that they're sinning, everybody knows it, and let's just say they're part of our church, and what does the Bible tell us to do? A brother go to that guy, go talk to him, you know. Well, walking up there and knocking on that front door, and as soon as he comes out there, and you just spit it right at him, has a way of coming off pretty edgy, you know.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

I mean who you think you are.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

Yeah, so we lay it down. Hey, look, I hate to tell you this, you know, but this is the way it is. This is what the Bible says, and this is I'm supposed to be here. I'm I'm here, I'm trying to level with you and reason with you and and and love on you right here, but this is what it says. You know.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

That's a good point. Because you you bring them the you bring them around to the love of it, through the love of it. That's right. You allow God to do what verse 18, but for the wrath is revealed to them. Allow God do the verse of the right.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

But if you look in the Bible, and I'm not contradicting what you're saying, but if you look in the Bible, the instances where people shared the gospel, like Acts chapter 17, where Paul walked up into Athens, all these intellectuals, he didn't start with the love of God. He didn't start with John 3.16. Neither does the book of Romans. The book of Romans starts with the wrath of God. Yeah, God's judgment. You don't get into love until chapter 5, really. I mean, that's that's just the way it works. And yet we tend to start with the love. Look, I love you. But here you go. God loves you, you know, but here you go. And maybe we need to take a hard look at that. Why don't we start with okay, I'm gonna ask you this question. Do you believe that God created the universe? Yes. Do you believe that God created you? Yes. Do you believe that God is a just God? Yes. God has to be righteous. Therefore, when unrighteousness exists, then the wrath of God comes out. And that's the sin. And whenever you suppress the truth, as all men do, it says, then here's going to be the consequence. So you are a sinner, you know that you're a sinner. And you know you're gonna pay the penalty of sin, which is death. The Bible tells you that. And God is the creator of the universe, He got He created you, He got a right to do whatever every breath you take, every time your heart beats, that's God. God gives you that. Don't you think that you need to find out whatever it takes to satisfy, to appease uh this wrath of God? And we know what that is a sacrifice. The only thing that's gonna satisfy God is sacrifice blood. And therefore you go into. The blood of Jesus. It was so difficult to me, Zach, after y'all sing all them songs about the blood. Nothing but the blood to reverse that and not go straight into that and say, look, we got to see this. We got to see that we're sinners.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

We need to run that set back one more time. You can't be.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

A person can't be saved unless they know they're a sinner.

SPEAKER_04 44:29

So if you take Jesus' teachings, the parables, just go through the parables when he stepped in front of people and started talking to crowds and teaching.

SPEAKER_06 44:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:39

You know? And he knew who was listening, because he knew his crowds. If he was around farmers or around fishermen, if he was a but must majority of his teachings, there were people listening, like the Pharisees. And he was direct to them. You know.

SPEAKER_03 44:55

Well, man, you take the woman at the wheel. What'd he do first with her at the wheel?

SPEAKER_04 44:58

Yeah, he called her out.

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

And uh so he didn't start by saying, I hate telling you.

SPEAKER_04 45:04

I hate telling you. Or hey, I love you, but no, he he was direct.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

He'd like to give me some water. I give you no water. Well, let me tell you what you done did. So somebody asked him a question and said, Well, let me put it this way.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

And then you start with a parable.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

Yeah. Well, even when he was flipping tables over, and I mean, he was direct with people, yeah, but it ultimately ended up in love. We seen that on the cross. Everybody that he told you're doing wrong, you ain't living right, they seen him on the cross. Yeah. And that was the demonstration of love.

SPEAKER_03 45:39

Well, you go back to what you're talking about. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. No, you go ahead. Well, I don't know if you talked about this before our podcast or not, but you're talking about these kids disobeying these parents, you know. Well, there's wrath at disobeying your parents. And these kids might not realize that, but there's wrath, there's judgment that comes at disobeying your parents. There's consequences coming, you know. Now, what that is, that's all completely up to God. But I think that's what you got to get these kids to realize. Hey, you don't rule this world. You might rule your household, but you don't rule this world, I can tell you.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

Yeah. You got to, I'm going to give you a scenario. All right. As a as a as a ministry, you get you have somebody come to you, a parent comes to you, says, Well, I need to talk to you about something and uh how I need to handle this. And my 15 or my 16-year-old is has come to me and told me that they they are attracted to to their same sex. That uh, you know, I I your your your teenage, 15, 16-year-old teenage son comes and says, Well, I like another boy. You know. And how are you gonna counsel that parent in handling that kid? Through the truth. Well, I mean, that's a realistic scenario, isn't it? Are you gonna say, well, you know, you you you need to they're they're young, you know, they're impressionable, and uh that that might be genuine, you know, the struggle that they're having. Uh but ultimately it's in. And uh we have a responsibility, you have a responsibility as a parent to not suppress the truth.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

That's what I was just gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

Do you So tell them the truth?

SPEAKER_04 47:26

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

You know. Do I carry them to a school counselor? Do I carry them to what what I do? But everywhere they go, everywhere they turn, you know, it's being presented to them, and they're struggling, genuinely struggling with these feelings that they think, well, I'm not the sports guy. I'm not, you know, I'm different. I know I'm different. And I know my kid is different. Do you think that God made them put that away? Did God put within it within them to have a desire for the opposite sex? Is that natural? Is it normal? You know, and even that parents said, Well, I've known since they were five or six years old, you know, that they were different. Maybe they were a little more feminine, you know. My little boy played with barber dolls, and everybody, all the other boys had BB guns. Yeah. You know, and now they're 15, 16, and you know, what what has happened? How far I hate to tell you this, but uh you have failed as a parent.

SPEAKER_04 48:26

Well, how far will you suppress the truth? Let's go back to the ball game just for a second.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

What's the danger in it? What's the danger in it?

SPEAKER_04 48:34

Well, you go back to because we are, we are all guilty of wanting to be our kids' friends. You know? As far as them coming to you and say, hey, are we playing this Sunday? Yes, son, if you want to, we can. Uh to, you know, you're suppressing the truth there all the way to him coming to you and say, Dad, I'm starting to have feelings for the same sex.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

You know?

SPEAKER_04 48:56

Would you suppress the truth there?

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Well, if you want to, son, that's okay.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

Yeah. But we're all guilty of not wanting to make our kids upset with us. You know, so if that's us, how far are we willing to go to suppress the truth?

SPEAKER_00 49:11

And then the kid says, Well, I don't I don't want to go to church anymore because I keep hearing, you know, pastors talking about the sin of homosexuality and da da da da da da, and I don't like it. His parents say, Well, we don't have to go no more. Or we'll go find us another church, false church, false teachers who support and suppress the church. Yeah. So I mean it it to tow that line in today's society is very difficult to do. But if you don't start, you know, at when they're five and six and seven, eight, nine years old, then whenever they get 16, 17, 18, and 19 years old, you know, you're gonna find yourself in a position to where I don't have a leg to stand on.

SPEAKER_04 49:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Because these this is what I've taught my this is how I've trained my kid to look at this. And I'm old enough and been around this long enough to see that that is the dire. That's generally the way it happens. You know, you train them up. I think Zach shared that very well, to train them up in the way they should go. You make the hard decisions now. You know, and then uh trust God for the results. And ultimately that's where you gotta get to. I I started that whole thing out with a scenario, all right. You got a you got a couple, a family, parents come to you, say, Well, what I I you need to help me here. How do I get about that? And you know, just just because you're you have that natural compassion as a pastor, as a shepherd, you know, to come alongside them and help them, and you see the struggle, and it's real and it's genuine. But you cannot, you cannot allow those things to get in the way of the truth. You have to speak the truth, even if it hurts. Well, I stand on that. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

Do you think you get to a point? You take what you said a while ago, and we brought it up before the podcast, but what it says there in Romans chapter 1, where God says he gave them over, he gave them up. Do you think you have to get to a point of, hey, ultimately, you might have to give them up because of the sin that they're living in, the sin that they're striving in. Jesus says, Shake the dust off your feet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:24

And God you may lose that family just because you told them the truth.

SPEAKER_03 51:27

God ultimately just said, hey, I'm giving you over. I'm giving you up for it. If you want to, you want to know all these things, you already know all these things, but yet you want to live and suppress the truth. I'm gonna give you up.

SPEAKER_00 51:40

I'm gonna give you up, but I'm not gonna give up. That's right. You know, I'm gonna keep treading on, I'm gonna keep speaking truth, you know, and trust God for the results. And if that offends you, I'm sorry. All right, there I go again. Apologize for the truth.

SPEAKER_04 51:59

Oh, I love it because that's what I'm sitting here thinking about. Everybody's at different levels as well. And what I mean is if you're a new babe in Christ, you know, God may be convicting you to give this up, give this up, give this up, follow me. You know, and I'm gonna talk about it uh Sunday night. Fleeing from. You got to flee from stuff. God's calling you out to flee from stuff. Well, when you flee from something, if you're running from something, you've got to be running towards something. Right. So if you're fleeing from, you're pursuing something. So here, if I can give you some encouragement this week, call out the things in your life that you need to flee from. And as you're fleeing from that, what are you pursuing?

SPEAKER_02 52:48

What are you running after? Identify those things.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

Identify the things that, all right, God, I have struggled here. I haven't been who you want me to be here. I'm calling them out. I need you to help me flee from them and pursue you. That makes sense. Confession.

SPEAKER_00 53:10

It's good for the soul. And if we'll confess it, he's faithful and just to forgive us. That's probably where we need to wrap this thing up. Because I mean, it's pretty you read Romans chapter one, I mean, it's pretty hard-hitting. Well, it clearly talks about I mean, some sins that we have in our culture today, but the bottom line is this we have a God who is merciful and compassionate and loving and forgiving, and ain't worried about the past. That's right. Worried about the future. And at any given time, you know, any person can can straighten their life up and renew themselves, renew their commitments, renew their minds. Praise the Lord for that. Amen.

SPEAKER_04 54:02

I want to go back to what I was saying. This flee and pursue deal. If you look at sin as dangerous, what we do when we get in danger, we run from it. We high uh haul tail getting away from it. Well, where are you running to? You're running towards safety. Right you know. So to get out of danger, we need to run towards safety. And that safety is in Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

Run to the cross.

SPEAKER_04 54:26

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 54:29

That cross is amazing. I mean, the forgiveness. And experiencing the forgiveness of God is just unbelievable. Well, you go back. You may think you sacrifice and you lose, and well, if I do this, then that means we're gonna we're gonna quit chasing all these things we're chasing, chasing this pleasure, these worldly things. But what you don't realize is what what God is going to replace in your life with that, which is all the fruits of the Spirit, which is happiness and contentment and satisfaction and peace. And the guilt just gets destroyed. I mean, ultimately that's where human beings want to be. We want to get to that place where we you let I go to sleep at night. You know, you you're not struggling because you you know that you're in line within the will of God, and then those those those things that only God can give you start showing up in your life, which you've been after you've been looking for the whole time. And I mean, I know I've you've seen it too many too many examples of people who did turn their life around and turn themselves over to God and start surrendering to the Lord and to His will instead of their own will. Put Him in where He needs to be. Worship Him. That's why He created you. Quit suppressing the truth and be obedient to the truth. Then it's then you start living a life that God intended for you to live all the time. And that's available to anybody, anywhere, anytime. God's door is always open.

SPEAKER_03 56:05

Final comments. We've all experienced it, haven't we?

SPEAKER_00 56:08

All of us. Oh, yeah. You run from God, you chase in the world things, and then you say, Well, you know what, I need to get serious here about this thing. And I and I need to I need to get my family going in the right direction. None of us here at the table would turn around. We wouldn't go the other direction. Surrender what we've experienced to go back and chase you know the things of of the world. Because there ain't nothing good in it.

SPEAKER_03 56:37

We winding down, boys. What you got, Lane? Man, I said. Yeah, well, and I I brought the verse up because I want to make sure I didn't misquote it. But uh, or the the song verse, we don't get something power in the blood. But you've heard from four different guys right here this morning. And you know, we like Brother David said, well, we want to say, well, I'm sorry I had to say this, or in love I want to say this. That's all fine and Danny, but listen, I think this is where we need to come to, and this is our passion. This is what we live for right here as pastors, as ministers. This is what we're trying to do. We're trying to bring you alongside Christ. And that song said at Sunday, you know, there's uh, would you be free from your passion and from pride? There's power in the blood, there's power in the blood. If you don't believe that there's power in that blood of Jesus Christ, that the Lamb of God shed for you on the cross to get rid of that passion and pride of outside of this world, you need to check yourself for sure.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

Yeah. Man. What we have through Christ. Amen. Exactly what you got.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Don't suppress the truth. I'm gonna kind of echo Ryan there. I was sitting here thinking, you know, you start out with confession, you know, if you're honest with yourself and you you suppress that truth, but you know the truth the whole time. You know, confess what you're doing wrong, lay lay your sins, your burdens down to feed the Father and come to him. Amen. And just follow him.

SPEAKER_03 58:05

What's the first verse of power in the blood? Would you be burdened? Uh how's it go? Would you be free from your burden and sin?

SPEAKER_04 58:13

There's power in the blood. I think all of ours is gonna wrap around to be the same thing. Mine is I'll go back to it. But I'm gonna change it a little bit. Flee from danger, the sin. Flee from danger and run towards safety. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:30

I'm gonna end with the scriptures. Romans 5, 6, for when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. Christ died for the ungodly. He didn't die for the godly, he died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one will one die. Yet, preaventure for a good man, some would even dare to die. Verse 8, but God commanded his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son. Much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

SPEAKER_03 59:14

Bring one more, read one more, praise. Read verse 11.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man sinned into the world, there it is, sin into the world by expressing the truth, and death by sin, and so death passed with all men all have sinned. I mean, it just goes on and on. I think you gotta remind everybody that we serve a risen savior. That's right. Dude's alive, man. That's right. Dude is alive, and he is with you. He's alive.

SPEAKER_02 59:52

He said, and I'll be with you.

SPEAKER_03 59:54

Always I'll be with you. You said that made me think about there's some guys that call the Hayden Alabama podcast, and uh they call him uh Brother Blink because he he doesn't blink. And he talked about he preached revival and during the springtime, turkeys are gobbling, all of a sudden he's preaching a uh sunrise service outside, and he's he hammers it. He's alive. Well every time he said it at some rate.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:23

He's alive!

SPEAKER_03 1:00:25

Oh man. Well, that's good stuff. We appreciate everybody joining in this week. We uh we hope to Lord willing be back next week. Be back tomorrow night. Is next week spring break? Yes. Yep. Y'all uh y'all gonna go sing your saints today, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:43

Corner Munro.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:44

Chinese pizza. A corner Sterlington.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:47

Same thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:48

I'm gonna miss that out, but y'all have fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:51

Won't be long, Lane.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

Won't be long. Oh, I know it.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:54

Yeah, pray for these parents. We gotta have babies.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:58

Let's all be praying. The Holy Spirit, that's the difference maker, right? Uses our words and our thoughts here, you know, to convict people, to bring them, draw them to God. And uh they'll be bold enough and brave enough to say that. You know, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna follow. For this from from this day forward, me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. Make that choice. The choices you make are gonna have tremendous influence and impact upon your future, yeah, especially your future of your children.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:31

Starts now.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

Brother David closes out for us.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:34

Father, we love you. Thank you, Lord, for the love you have for us. Thank you, Lord, for the truth of your word and the fact that Jesus died for the ungodly. Lord, we may be we may point out uh the difficulties that we face in this world and things that we struggle with. We are in war and it's spiritual warfare, Lord. But uh we have been victorious through Jesus Christ. We can be overcomers, we can overcome all this, Lord, but only as we trust and follow uh the leadership and the guidance of our gracious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord, for saving my sins. I ask God your blessing on everybody that's listening to this. Use us, Lord, for your honor and your glory in Jesus' name. Amen.