1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,000 There is nothing new under the sun. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Everything we're experiencing right now we can find an answer 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,920 to in the Scriptures. We're a nation, America. 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:16,000 We're one nation under God. We know about God, but do we 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,960 worship Him? God makes a promise to us. 6 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,800 He says He hears from heaven and he heals our land. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,880 And I watched what happened during the elections. 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,720 Everybody's like, no, no, When we get this candidate and God's 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,800 like, when my people who are called by my name humble 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,640 themselves, turn from their wicked ways, seek my face, I 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:47,400 will hear and I will heal. If we know OK, this is because 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,440 people are not connected to God now. 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:50,920 What? Do we do? 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,440 Because it's tempting and our flesh should be like, no, you're 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,560 wrong And like, start debating. Yeah, but what's our position 16 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,520 then? To combat the folly we see. 17 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:11,390 Yeah, you know, hey, I've got exciting news. 18 00:01:11,390 --> 00:01:14,150 If you've been listening to the Fight for Female podcast, then 19 00:01:14,150 --> 00:01:18,470 you know that we are taking on some really big issues and 20 00:01:18,470 --> 00:01:23,350 equipping women to engage on the front lines with culture. 21 00:01:23,710 --> 00:01:25,950 We believe that we are just beginning. 22 00:01:25,950 --> 00:01:30,510 We want to expand this mission. That is why I'm inviting you to 23 00:01:30,510 --> 00:01:33,720 join the Fight Club. This is a community of 24 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:38,080 courageous women committed to spreading this message with both 25 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,520 truth and love. Here's what you're going to get. 26 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,320 You're going to get access to quarterly live events. 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,120 You're going to get exclusive Q&A's and an insider only 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,680 content. To learn more how you can be 29 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,000 part of this Fight Club or join today, click the link below in 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,120 the show description. Welcome to the fight for a 31 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:00,440 female. I'm Lisa Mivier. 32 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,120 I am joined by my darn law Christian, Christian Bevere, and 33 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,400 hey Christian. I feel like today is the day we 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,160 need to talk about what the heck is going on. 35 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,000 Like why our world has gone so crazy right now? 36 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,280 Because there is nothing new under the sun and there are 37 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:24,280 patterns that happen when people worship God, turn away from God, 38 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:26,880 worship self. Like all these different things 39 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,840 and everything we're experiencing right now, we can 40 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,880 find an answer to in the scriptures. 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,000 And so you're saying the Bible isn't dead? 42 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,160 It's not outdated. It's a lab. 43 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,440 It still. Speaks today, yes, you know, 44 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,080 and, and I think right now there's a lot of people saying, 45 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,800 what is going on, what is going on? 46 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,280 How did our world get so crazy? And, and I love that we can find 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,760 an answer in the scripture to actually what is going on. 48 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,120 And so I'm going to actually open up with Romans chapter one. 49 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,480 I'm going to talk from I'm just going to verse 19 and we're 50 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,200 going to talk about 3 separate part. 51 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,240 The first thing we're going to talk about is the reality of 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,560 God. So it says, but the basic 53 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,200 reality of God is plain enough. And I'm reading from the 54 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,720 message, open your eyes. And there it is. 55 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,880 By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, 56 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,280 people have always been able to see with their eyes as such. 57 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,880 Can't see eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of His 58 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:43,480 divine being. So nobody has a good excuse so. 59 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,200 It's daunting if you think about it. 60 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:52,360 Yeah, So what I what I read when I when I read that, I think when 61 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,600 I look at the stars, when I look at a baby, when I look at the 62 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,160 ocean, when I look at the mountains, everything in 63 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,920 creation says there is a crater. Everything that we see says 64 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,680 there is something more that we can see. 65 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,720 And it says that our eyes as such can't see, which is the 66 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,160 eternal power of the creator because you know, I, I, you 67 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,360 know, I get to fly in airplanes a lot and people are like, I 68 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,560 don't, I, I don't love a God who would condemn people that never 69 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,120 heard the gospel. And I'm like, well, right here 70 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:38,320 it says by taking a long and thoughtful look, if we can look 71 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:45,360 at creation, we will see the creator and we can cry out. 72 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,920 I want to know you and I, I, I don't know, I love that. 73 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,360 So it's not, it's not casual, it's a thoughtful look and and 74 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,040 what's going on in our culture right now. 75 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,560 Too much to name, unfortunately. Nobody takes long and thoughtful 76 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,800 looks. Well, I was going to say, what? 77 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,480 What do you think keeps that from being a simple verse? 78 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,800 Like why are we not able to see God? 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Is because we're seeing so many other things that we're 80 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,200 distracted. We're trying to convince 81 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,720 ourselves it's something else. We're making ourselves our own 82 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,440 God. I mean, what's the most 83 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:21,960 disheartening to you that you're seeing? 84 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,760 Well, I mean, I think about David. 85 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:30,720 David had a revelation of God in the wilderness before he ever 86 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:37,120 confronted Goliath, before he ever had any kind of He sat in 87 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,720 the wonder of God as his shepherd. 88 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,160 Mm, hmm. You know, boy. 89 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,680 And he was a yeah, a little boy. He had time to take a long and 90 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,960 thoughtful look. But right now we go from thing 91 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,680 to thing to thing. We don't pause. 92 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,280 We don't ponder and you know, even as you go through the 93 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,040 Scriptures, you, you know, you're reading through the 94 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,760 Psalms. It'll say say a lot. 95 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,280 What does that say? Pause and be in awe. 96 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,280 Think about this pause. We don't, we're like, oh, we got 97 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:05,840 to, we got to read all of our verses. 98 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,360 We don't, we don't interact with it. 99 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:13,160 We don't pause with it. But then it goes on to say like 100 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,440 again, in the answer of what? OK, wait a minute. 101 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,760 If, if, if we are missing something, is that why we're 102 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,920 crazy? And it says what happened was 103 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,360 this. People knew God perfectly well, 104 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:32,040 verse 21, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to 105 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,800 worship him, they trivialized themselves and to silliness and 106 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,600 confusion, so that there was neither sense nor direction left 107 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,400 in their lives. They pretended to know it all, 108 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,960 but they were illiterate regarding life. 109 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,560 So think about that. It says they knew God. 110 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,080 Like OK, like we're a nation America. 111 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,280 We're like, oh, we one nation under God. 112 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:01,400 We know about God, but do we worship him? 113 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:09,480 Because when we worship him, we surrender our will to his will. 114 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,960 When we worship him, we honor him above. 115 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:19,560 But it says not just that they didn't worship, it says refusing 116 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,560 to worship him. They trivialize themselves into 117 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,680 silliness and confusion. I feel like we have an epidemic 118 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,960 right now of silliness and confusion. 119 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,040 Which to me reads if you're not worshiping God and it's leading 120 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,280 to silliness, you're worshipping yourself or those very things. 121 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,120 Which makes sense why anything you say is offensive or 122 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,280 everything feels so near and dear and heightened and 123 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,560 heartbreaking. But it's like in reality, if God 124 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,000 is our focus and these other things can fall to the wayside, 125 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,480 Yeah, like we don't have to live so divisive. 126 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:09,640 No, but I mean, if you are disconnected from God, you are 127 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,800 disconnected from wisdom and insight. 128 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,720 There's silliness and confusion. I mean, there's so many things I 129 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,680 see right now. I'm like, OK, it's not going to 130 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,960 get any more stupid. It can't. 131 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,880 Everybody's going to be like, that's just dumb. 132 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,800 And next week, more silliness, more confusion. 133 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,840 Hey, I am so excited. The Fight for Female Reclaiming 134 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,600 our Divine Identity book is now available. 135 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,159 I am so excited that you can get your hands on this message. 136 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,480 It is filled with practical wisdom and conversation. 137 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,400 So many people are like, Lisa, thank you so much. 138 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,760 I didn't know how to say or what to say. 139 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,440 And so I'm hearing the reviews. Super exciting. 140 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,840 You can grab your copy today on Amazon. 141 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,720 And then it says they pretend to know it all but are illiterate 142 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,480 regarding life again, I'm thinking again about you doing 143 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,280 your gender reveal out here and somebody you, you have this cool 144 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,520 gender reveal. Blue smoke comes out and people 145 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,640 are like, educate yourself. I'm like, what? 146 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,920 There's no silliness or confusion. 147 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,680 They're like, that was a genital reveal. 148 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:23,400 No, it was adna reveal and. Let me ask you this. 149 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,960 You're a minister. If we know OK, this is because 150 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,520 people are not connected to God. What? 151 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,720 Do we do because it's tempting and our flesh should be like no, 152 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,960 you're wrong and like start debating. 153 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,840 But what's our position then to combat this, the folly we see? 154 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,040 Well, I mean, I love that while I'm having these conversations 155 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,040 for women to take back their femininity to understand it's 156 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,640 God-given God entrustment to me. That is a measure my femininity. 157 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,600 Embracing my femininity, my God creation is one of the ways of 158 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,920 worshipping God. Worshipping God not not silly, 159 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,320 being silly and confused about who I am or who he is. 160 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:13,240 I I love that John has been inviting people into the awe of 161 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,960 God, which is the worship of God that says you alone are holy. 162 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,960 You alone are wise. Your ways are higher than my 163 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,600 ways. I'm going to stop living in the 164 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,680 realm of silliness and confusion and I'm going to live in the 165 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:32,920 knowledge of God. So it you know, it just goes on 166 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:39,240 to just talk about it says they, they traded the glory of God who 167 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,560 holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines. 168 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,280 You can buy any roadside. Now here's here's the thing. 169 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:49,960 Back then they had statues. They're like, oh, this is my 170 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,920 household God. The statue of whatever I I 171 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,880 bought it on the roadside. This is my household God. 172 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,680 But we don't have household gods that are crafted by people. 173 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,240 We have iPhones that we hold in our hands. 174 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,440 We have things that we bow down to that we hold in our hands. 175 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,600 We think, oh, that's just silly that they worship statues. 176 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,800 Why? It's also silly that we worship 177 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,920 a world we can hold in our hands. 178 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,200 It's not a cheap figurine. It's an expensive iPhone or an 179 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Android or whatever. But it is still something that 180 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,320 is diminishing who we are and diminishing the worship of God. 181 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,200 You know, they're, they're saying more and more that 182 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:37,000 people's posture is changing, that their head down. 183 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,400 They're they're bowed over that they're like this. 184 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,480 And they're bowing to a world they can hold in their hands. 185 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,160 Yeah, but it's, it's, I mean, bowing to a world they can hold 186 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,000 in their hands rather than lift. I mean, we hear this all through 187 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,320 the Scripture. Lift up your head. 188 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:00,080 You know, he says to Abraham, walk outside, count the stars. 189 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:06,680 He's God is wanting to enlarge our vision of who he is and we 190 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:09,480 are shrinking the vision of who God is. 191 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,720 And when we do that we lose touch with who we are at the 192 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,200 same time. And then it says they traded the 193 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,080 glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap 194 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,920 figurines. You can buy any roadside. 195 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,880 So God said in effect, if that's what you want, that's what you 196 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,640 get. And it wasn't long before they 197 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,720 were living in a pig pen, smeared with filth, filthy 198 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:38,280 inside and out. And all this because they traded 199 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,240 the true God for a fake God and worship the God they made 200 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,040 instead of the God who made them. 201 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,880 The God we bless, the God who blesses us. 202 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,000 Oh yes. So there's an exchange, there's 203 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,920 a trade off. We're trading the God who made 204 00:12:54,920 --> 00:13:00,560 us for being our own gods and making our own gods. 205 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,200 And again, we've talked about this since the beginning of the 206 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,560 Fight for Female podcast, that we have a generation that the 207 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:12,680 enemy is saying you cannot trust God. 208 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,840 Remake yourself in your own image. 209 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,360 God made a mistake. Don't trust him with your 210 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,440 formation. You can't trust him. 211 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,240 Go ahead and remake yourself. And So what we have is 212 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,960 confusion. Then Romans 126 says worse 213 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,320 followed. I'm like, OK, refusing to know 214 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,480 God, that you and I both know religion is, is not what we're 215 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,920 being invited into. We're being invited to a 216 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:46,520 relationship with a living God. Refusing to know God, they soon 217 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,280 didn't know how to be human either. 218 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,680 Women didn't know how to be women and men didn't know how to 219 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:56,840 be men. Here we are. 220 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:04,080 When we disconnect from God, we lose our humanity. 221 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:10,960 We lose our ability to know what it means to be a woman or knows 222 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,840 what it means to be a man. I mean, did you? 223 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,680 Did you know it goes that much in detail in the book of Romans 224 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,600 tell? Me when you read it in light of 225 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,680 looking around questioning and then the answer is right there 226 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,880 and I believe that form of Noah is also yada where you're saying 227 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,600 it is relational. It's not enough to know there is 228 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,640 a God that exists and maybe the Bible says something on how I'm 229 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,720 formed. Like you have to know him deeply 230 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,840 to be able to combat like those temptations we face. 231 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,240 It's not that well God's good. So he tells me to be a woman, 232 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,280 and woman does this. Like you have to know him so you 233 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:54,560 can know yourself. You know, I I love how important 234 00:14:54,560 --> 00:15:03,880 identity is to God and when we know who He is, we discover who 235 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,960 we are. Most people are trying to figure 236 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,640 out who they are and they don't even know who He is. 237 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,560 But what I have learned is as I pursue Him, He reveals me. 238 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:22,760 So as I, as I pursue my creator, he reveals me the created. 239 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,920 And you know, if there's a lot of talk right now at Mago Day, 240 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,080 we're all image of God. And it's true, every single 241 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,640 human born is created in the image of God. 242 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,280 But this is an invitation to embrace the nature of God. 243 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,800 So we are not all children of God. 244 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,000 We're all image bearers. But when we get born again, we 245 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,920 become partakers of his divine nature in Christ Jesus. 246 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,640 And a lot of times we don't talk about that. 247 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:59,760 And so that that gets confusing. So when we refuse to worship, we 248 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,960 actually unwind ourselves. It becomes an unmaking of who we 249 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,040 really are. And then it goes on. 250 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,520 And this is again where it starts getting offensive. 251 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,400 It says sexually confused. They abused and defiled one 252 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,240 another. Women with women, men with men, 253 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,080 all lusts, no love. And then they paid for it. 254 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,320 Oh how they paid for it. Emptied of God and love, godless 255 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,760 and loveless wretches. Now people get mad about that, 256 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:34,560 but I didn't write it. It's just he's saying hey, when 257 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:41,960 we don't know what it means to be human, we get confused and we 258 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,080 become abusive and defiling of one another. 259 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,760 And then it goes on to say, since they didn't bother to 260 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:54,400 acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run 261 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,080 loose. Now, this is one of those things 262 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,480 where you look at what's happening in our culture right 263 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,160 now. I mean, I saw this little girl 264 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,480 screaming how she wanted to have 45 abortions that she loved 265 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,359 killing babies and just yelling. And you know, maybe some of that 266 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:15,680 was for attention, but the idea that anybody would ever say. 267 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,040 And then the craziness of the, the pro-choice movement that 268 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,000 says it's just not killing babies, just cells. 269 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,720 And then she's like, no, I love killing babies. 270 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,600 I love, I want 45 abortions, which is crazy. 271 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,800 It doesn't make sense. But the judgement of God is when 272 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:39,280 God actually says to a people, I'm taking my hand off, I'll 273 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,960 turn you over to be mastered by the greed, by whatever's in you. 274 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,160 And so it's not just about homosexuality. 275 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,680 It's not just about our sexuality. 276 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,280 It goes on, it says. Then all hell broke loose. 277 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:57,640 Rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious, backstabbing 278 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:03,800 life on hell, making life hell on earth with envy, wanton 279 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,560 killing, bickering, cheating, mean spirited, venomous fork 280 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,560 tongue, God bashers, bullies, swaggers, insufferable windbags. 281 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,880 They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. 282 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,000 They ditch their parents when they get in the way. 283 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,040 This is not my word. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold 284 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,640 blooded. And then it goes in verse 32. 285 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,000 And it's not as if they don't know better. 286 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,880 They know perfectly well they're spitting in God's face and they 287 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,240 don't care. Worse, they hand out prizes to 288 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,480 those who do the worst things best. 289 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,520 And that speaks to me in the, the thing we've seen a lot on of 290 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,880 people that are like, well, I'm believer, but I don't want to 291 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,440 offend anyone. You know what? 292 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,680 It's loving to be kind to people. 293 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,800 Love is love, how dangerous that is of handing out prizes, 294 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:56,600 affirming this wretchedness that is ungodly and I think it's no 295 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,600 coincidence this morning I was actually reading a John and it 296 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,520 said how when Jesus was being persecuted in the Pharisees like 297 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,920 we need to get him. We need to kill Lazarus too. 298 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,760 We need to kill anyone. Anything that gets in the way 299 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,240 and it says yet at the same time this is verse 42. 300 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,880 Yet at the same time, many, even among the leaders believed in 301 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,840 him, but because of the Pharisees, they would not openly 302 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,960 acknowledge their faith for fear that we put out of the 303 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,080 synagogue. For they loved human praise more 304 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:27,640 than praise from God. And my response to that is if I 305 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,640 let these things slide, if I just praise someone of Oh well, 306 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,800 you're so brave because you feel something, I'm affirming 307 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,680 something that is anti God. But that's. 308 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,680 Well, and it's anti human right? Like you don't want to be. 309 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,080 I don't want to be turned over to the most base things in my 310 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,920 life to have mastery over me. I don't want to be turned over 311 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:57,400 to be controlled by greed, backstabbing, sexual 312 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,760 proclivities, perversions. And this is the time for the 313 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,400 church to just read the scriptures out loud in the 314 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,360 church service. We don't even need to interpret 315 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,680 it. We just need to hit our faces 316 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:17,160 and say God I. God help us, help our nation and 317 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:22,080 and so we've got the reality of God worship, the reality of our 318 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,640 day. That's where we are right now. 319 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,680 I wish it isn't, but that is where we are right now. 320 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,680 But then we always stop there and we don't go to Romans 2 321 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:35,160 verse one where it says those people are in a dark spiral 322 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,600 downward. But if you think that leaves you 323 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,360 on the high ground where you can point your fingers at others, 324 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,880 think again. Every time you criticize 325 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,040 someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to no one. 326 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:53,240 Judgmental criticism of others is a well known way of escaping 327 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,120 detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors. 328 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,800 But God isn't so easily diverted. 329 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,880 He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to 330 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,320 what you've done. And then it says, you didn't 331 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,760 think, did you? That just by pointing your 332 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,680 finger at others you would distract God from seeing all 333 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,400 your misdoings and coming down on you hard? 334 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:22,080 Or did you think that because He is such a nice God, He'd let you 335 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,240 off the hook better? Think this one through from the 336 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:31,160 beginning. God is kind, but He is not soft 337 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,920 and kindness. He takes us firmly by the hand 338 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,960 and leads us into a radical life change. 339 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:48,200 And I just want to speak to the Christians out there that you 340 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,240 have. You're very quick to judge the 341 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,800 evil in the world. But sometimes I have to wonder, 342 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,120 is it because we haven't allowed God to take us firmly by the 343 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:05,080 hand and lead us into a radical life change? 344 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,360 Because when people think that Christianity is just an add on 345 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,040 so that you don't go to hell when you die and not a agent of 346 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,160 transformation where you are transformed from glory to glory 347 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,720 From people who live for self, that live for others, or people 348 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:27,520 who lie and flatter rather than speak truth and see people 349 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,640 rescued. When we do not personally as 350 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,120 Christians allow God to take us firmly by the hand. 351 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:37,560 Because you can't preach out of Romans 1 without Romans 2. 352 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,040 You have to have Romans 2 where God is saying, hey, hey, this is 353 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,560 a mess. This is a mess here, but you 354 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,720 know better. And are you thinking by saying, 355 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:54,440 well look how bad they are, that God isn't going to take you and 356 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,400 hold you accountable to what you have done? 357 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,240 See, when we don't know to do better, we can't do better. 358 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:09,880 But all I know is that when I got born again, Christian, God 359 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,680 took me firmly by the hand. When I got born again, 360 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,000 everything in my life came into focus and I understood 361 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,520 everything that I had looked for long for, that I realized that I 362 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,280 was looking for all the right things in the very, very wrong 363 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,240 spaces. And I had to let God take me 364 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,400 firmly by the hand because I would have continued down the 365 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,960 wrong path but saying Jesus was my Lord. 366 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,000 And there's a lot of people that are saying, no, God's just. 367 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,600 He's just kind. Yeah, he's just kind. 368 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,760 Well, I and I feel like CS Lewis wrestled with a lot of this 369 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,600 where he would say, hey, he's not tame. 370 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,960 Talking about Aslan. He's not tame. 371 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,800 OK. But I feel like right now that 372 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:04,680 we Christians need to ask God to take us firmly by the hand. 373 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,200 It goes on in Romans chapter 2, verse 5. 374 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,680 You're not getting away with anything. 375 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,680 Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. 376 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,360 The day is coming you guys. This New Testament, this is not 377 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:18,800 Old Testament. The day is coming when it's 378 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,440 going to blaze hot and high God's fiery righteous judgment. 379 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,120 Make no mistake, in the end you get what's coming, real life for 380 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:30,640 those who work on God's side. But to those who insist on 381 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,120 getting their own way and taking the path of least resistance, 382 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:36,840 there you go. Fire. 383 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,320 And the love that it says, that his rebuke, his correction is 384 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,680 his love. And we see so clearly in Romans 385 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,800 one, his silence is his is contempt. 386 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,840 I know for me when things get too quiet is actually when I'm 387 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,640 scared. I'm at the point where I'm not 388 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,280 scared when Holy Spirit's convicting me and saying don't 389 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,640 say that to your husband or don't think that of that person 390 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,200 When it gets quiet and I get comfortable as when I think, 391 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,400 have I not been in the word enough? 392 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,800 Have I not been asking God to come in and seek my heart and 393 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,360 what makes me nervous for my generation. 394 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,560 And again, I think pause here and say this is not Lisa saying 395 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,000 you wicked people, you wicked Christians or me saying my 396 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,600 generation's terrible, but I think that healthy fear of God 397 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,680 that all of God, as you were saying John's speaking on is 398 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,680 what we need. And so that's for anyone that's 399 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,200 like, I might turn out of this episode because it just feels 400 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,280 rude. No, like we're asking for this 401 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,560 as well. When my generation, I see 402 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,160 there's a lot of focus on God is love and and God is peace. 403 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,560 Well, well, I feel OK. I have peace about this. 404 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,040 Sometimes Arden and I will talk and we'll say, well, sometimes 405 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,120 it's good when we don't feel peace, it means God is speaking. 406 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,840 And I'm worried that there's just so much love and peace that 407 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,360 you're, as you're saying, we're not asking God for that hard 408 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,600 rebuke for the the turning away. What would you say for maybe the 409 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,480 younger generation watching this that wants that comfortable 410 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,720 Christianity or that's all they've been? 411 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,400 Told it's interesting, I actually was watching another 412 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:12,840 minister preach on just a little clip on Instagram and he said 413 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,440 some things that were not wrong and a lot of people are like no, 414 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,760 God doesn't hate anything. I'm going to tell you right now 415 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,560 the God who is love does hate because God hates everything 416 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,760 that unmakes those he loves. So God hates when evil is called 417 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,000 good God. God even says he hates divorce. 418 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:38,600 He he says that he says because it takes 2 and it tears tears 419 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,720 them. So there's things that God 420 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:46,720 hates, but everything that God hates is about protecting who he 421 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,120 loves. And, and going back to my 422 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,960 conversion, I wasn't perfect right away. 423 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:53,760 And, and here's what happened for me. 424 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,920 And here was my journey going back to my sorority. 425 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,760 I went back to my sorority. Everybody knew I was born again. 426 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,320 I told everybody, I'm born again. 427 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,840 I'm born again. I started praying for my 428 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,040 sorority sisters. I'd walk the halls at night 429 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,280 calling them out of a Kingdom of darkness into a Kingdom of 430 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,480 light. I, you know, prayed in the 431 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,440 spirit. I had young girls coming to my 432 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,280 room asking how to get born again. 433 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,280 They saw the transformation in my life because they'd heard who 434 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,080 I'd been. But you know, nobody really, 435 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,200 really actually knew I was a Christian until I made a 436 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,800 mistake. And for the very first time, 437 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:36,040 they saw me humble myself. And I think right now we 438 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,440 Christians, rather than attacking what we're seeing, 439 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,400 need to humble ourselves. Like, so for example, what 440 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,720 happened was I don't know why I decided to pick such a hard 441 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,600 major. I should have majored in 442 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,920 elementary Ed, but instead I was in international economics and I 443 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,200 was taking a stats and I was taking a financial accounting 444 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,120 course and I was taking another one. 445 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,480 I had three finals all in one day. 446 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,960 I don't know if the teachers are like, let's funk out, funk out 447 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,040 the week. And so I had stayed up all night 448 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,760 studying and I was at breakfast and one of my sortie sisters 449 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,480 comes in and she looks at me and the two other girls were all 450 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,160 studying together. And she was like, wow, you guys 451 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,080 look like you look awful. We're like thank you, thank you. 452 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,480 You just keep moving. And then she gets her breakfast 453 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,440 and sits down at her table and she says, Toscano, you look like 454 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,000 you've been run over by a car. And I just remember I said, why 455 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,640 are you such a beep in the morning? 456 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:43,560 And I mean, the whole breakfast room froze because the Born 457 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,280 Again had cussed. And they're all like, what do we 458 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,440 do with this? And she knew what to do with it. 459 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,360 She stood up and she called me out and she said I knew it 460 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,800 couldn't be true, that you were a Christian, you were just too 461 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,360 bad. And she stormed out of the room. 462 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,520 And I remember my roommate said I was just about to say the same 463 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,440 thing. You're like, oh. 464 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:11,600 I should have waited, no. But instead I stood up and I 465 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,840 looked at all of my sorority sisters that were in the room at 466 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,160 that time and I said I am completely out of line. 467 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,400 I owe all of you an apology. And they told me that was when 468 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,160 they knew I was a Christian for the first time. 469 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,600 Because before that I would have said yeah, you know, or I would 470 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,880 have said, yeah, get out of it, you know? 471 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:37,200 They said they had never seen me own my mistake or humble myself. 472 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,000 You did the hard thing. Exactly. 473 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,200 And and what I hear over and over and over in the scripture 474 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:49,360 is if my people who are called by my name, what does it say? 475 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:58,080 Humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their own 476 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,240 wicked ways. We're so busy trying to turn 477 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,720 everybody else from their wicked ways and God is like, just be in 478 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,640 charge of yourself. Turn from your own wicked ways. 479 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,040 Now. It doesn't mean we don't stand 480 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,640 up for those and we don't speak truth. 481 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,480 That doesn't mean we say, hey, you know, we shouldn't be 482 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,720 cutting up children. We don't bow down to the statue 483 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,360 in front of us. But we don't. 484 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,760 We do it in a way where it is not judgmental but protective. 485 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,520 And so when we humble ourselves, when we pray, when we seek God's 486 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,240 face, we turn from our own wicked ways. 487 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,800 God makes a promise to us. He says he hears from heaven and 488 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,200 he heals our land. And I watched what happened 489 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,680 during the elections. Everybody's like, no, no, when 490 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,160 we get this candidate and God's like when my people who are 491 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,760 called by my name humble themselves, turn from their 492 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:04,000 wicked ways, seek my face, pray I will hear and I will heal. 493 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:10,640 And right now, when I read Romans 1, Paul was talking about 494 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,080 the culture of his day, but the culture of his day is now the 495 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,960 culture of our day, and it's been the culture of days past. 496 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,560 I mean, this is a cycle that happens and it continues to 497 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,040 happen until God's people remember that they're priests, 498 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,280 that they can stand between the altar of God and the brokenness 499 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,680 of people and the sin of people and cry out for mercy, when 500 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,240 really what we deserve is judgement. 501 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,480 And right now I feel like we are. 502 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,440 Our nation is under the judgement of God because we are 503 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,440 calling evil good and good evil. And that's one of the signs of 504 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,000 the judgement of God. It isn't when fire falls, it's 505 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,120 when confusion reigns. It's when we are inhumane. 506 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,880 It's when children are not loved by their parents and parents are 507 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,040 not loved by their children. It's when greed is the 508 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,520 motivation. It is when the medical community 509 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,800 lies to people and and because of prophet when when prophet and 510 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,360 everything is the top thing. That is what's going on right 511 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,560 now and it will not shift until the people of God drop the 512 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,840 stones and hit their knees. And I'm just going to tell you 513 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,760 guys, I have very strong opinions on things, but God is 514 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,800 not interested in my opinions. He's interested in my 515 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,000 intercession and he's interested in me owning my own mistakes. 516 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,800 And so, you know, when I, when I share Romans one, I want you to 517 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,040 know this is God's word. This is not our judgement and 518 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,520 and it just locates a time, but then it goes on and it locates a 519 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,840 people that are God's people that can begin to see things 520 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,240 shift. So there's hope in the middle of 521 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,600 that, that mess because I can't control anybody else, but I can 522 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,360 be responsible for my own actions. 523 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,400 And the reality of us is we have not allowed God to take us from 524 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,920 me by the hand. We have preached weak, powerless 525 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:15,880 messages that do not offer transformation and do not say 526 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,280 that the God who is love is a consuming fire as well. 527 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,080 We don't, we don't do both sides. 528 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,320 We just do the one side. It's kind of like, you know, I 529 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,840 watched something you post the other day. 530 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,600 And Oh no. No, and I saw I saw Arden 531 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,400 swinging by his foot. You've got the protective mom, 532 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,840 but you've also got the dad that says, come on, don't be afraid. 533 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,120 Embrace the wild. And and God is the tent in the 534 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,040 tension of, of both the love and the hate. 535 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,600 And a lot of people think that hate is the opposite of love, 536 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,160 but that's not true. Hate is not the opposite of 537 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,800 love. Fear is the opposite of love. 538 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,520 And so we've got to stop being fearful people and start to love 539 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,160 people. I'm thinking of the woman 540 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,800 watching this thinking, yes, Lisa, thank you. 541 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,680 This is a wake up call and this is what I'm feeling, but I don't 542 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,400 know what to do. And I want to go back to what 543 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,639 you highlighted is you God's asking you to answer to what 544 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,400 he's called you to. And it reminds me of the verse 545 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,360 in Isaiah. And As for me in my home, we 546 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,960 will honor the Lord and they're so it's a great Bible verse to 547 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,880 put on Pinterest and in the things. 548 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,760 But there's so much power there. And I've seen how you and John 549 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,440 have done that and it has transformed you as an 550 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,880 individual, you as a couple, you as a family. 551 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,600 And the ripple effect that is so much more powerful than the here 552 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,920 and now and what we can see that does change the world. 553 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,920 That does turn a tide rather than what I'm hearing you saying 554 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,159 when I'm gleaning and trying to relate to the other women is 555 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,679 instead of feeling like we have to take a sword and fight 556 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,880 everything we see and and be scared for our children to to 557 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,720 raise them right now. It's how powerful and mighty is 558 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:05,320 it to say, but I will humble myself, but I will take a stand 559 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,760 for God. And I mean we named Azariah. 560 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,840 Some people don't know this. She's like, I love that name. 561 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:12,880 It's biblical. Where is it? 562 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,440 I'm like, well, actually Shadrach, Meshach and Bendigo, A 563 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,520 Bendigo, his Hebrew name was Azariah. 564 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:24,680 And I love that model of they didn't go around trying to cut 565 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,480 Nebuchadnezzar like with the sword and like tell it, tear 566 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,200 everyone down. They stood firm and they stood 567 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,120 up for God. And that is what led to a nation 568 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,560 in in a ruler that was so corrupt, seeing God. 569 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,840 And so there's power in your home. 570 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,080 There's power in your example and if you, I don't know if 571 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,240 you're ready to close, but at some point I would love for you 572 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,840 to pray over all of us watching and even those that might not 573 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,560 get to see this but might meet the people watching for eyes to 574 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,080 be open, hearts to be healed. I think that's that's what we 575 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,640 need. Yeah, you know, it's never too 576 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,520 late. It's never too late to ask God 577 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,560 to take you firmly by the hand. You know, all of us can go 578 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,520 through seasons where our hearts just get just hard, that our 579 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,520 hopes just get lost, that we feel jaded, that we look around 580 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,560 and we're, we're fed a constant stream of confusion and fear. 581 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,240 And you're like Lisa, you're not telling us anything like Romans 582 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,000 isn't helping. But here's the thing. 583 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,840 God is inviting us to 1st connect with him, to humble 584 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,480 ourselves and say, God, we've allowed fear to be a counselor. 585 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,000 We've allowed judgement to be a counselor. 586 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,680 God, we're inviting you right now to take us firmly by the 587 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,920 hand and lead us into a radical life change. 588 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,640 That's what you were made for. You were never made for a small 589 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,880 adjustment. You were made for a radical life 590 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,800 change. That is why millennials and Gen. 591 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,720 Z's, they've been moving away from the church in droves 592 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:07,200 because they know that they were made for something more. 593 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,480 They were made for a radical life change. 594 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,320 So I want to pray with you, Father, I just thank you that 595 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,760 each and every day is a day where we humble ourselves and we 596 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:26,720 say, God, less of us, more of you, that we pray that we seek 597 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,320 your face. And so, Father, we individually 598 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,480 and we collectively as women who are fighting for our family, are 599 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,560 fighting for what it means to be a female, we ask you to take us 600 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:44,480 firmly by the hand and lead us into a radical life change. 601 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:49,560 God, we do not want to be those that point fingers and let go of 602 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,400 your hand. Father, we want to be holding 603 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:57,320 onto your hand so tight that we are walking in your ways and we 604 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,320 are following your path. So Father, give us eyes to see 605 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,320 what you are doing in the Spirit. 606 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,200 Give us courage to have a heart to speak truth in love. 607 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:15,360 And Father, may us, may we walk in a a time of healing for our 608 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,280 nation because God, it is such a mess right now that the only 609 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,680 thing that will change our nation is the power of your 610 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,440 healing. That there would be a revival, 611 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,880 that there would be repentance, that there would be an 612 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,400 outpouring of your spirit, that you would be glorified and 613 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,840 worshipped in our nation. And let it begin with us, 614 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,160 personally, in Jesus name, Amen. 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