1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,800 In the name of the Glorious Trinity. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:03,900 Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. 3 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:06,800 Amen. Glory be to the Everlasting 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,200 mercies which sent you to us. Oh, Christ the light of the 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,000 world and the life of all give us wisdom by a law and Enlighten 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,900 our impulses, by your knowledge sanctify, our souls by your 7 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,800 truth and Grant that we may be obedient to your words and may 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,800 fulfill your Commandments at every hour. 9 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:29,000 Oh, you who enlightens the rationale with the knowledge of 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,900 your greatness do in light or my Lord are thoughts that we made? 11 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,200 Meditate upon your holy and divine scriptures at all times 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,400 O, Lord of all Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. 13 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:13,700 If we search in Google for the definition of Shame you'll get 14 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:18,200 the result that states a painful feeling of humiliation or 15 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,300 distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or 16 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:26,800 foolish Behavior. And the painful feeling of 17 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,400 humiliation. And this stress causes at times 18 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:37,400 self-isolation, or quarantine again defined by Google as a 19 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:43,100 state or period of remaining apart from others. which means 20 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:45,600 that when you're ashamed of doing something and seeing 21 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:52,200 something that you cut ties with family relatives friends, even 22 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:58,000 Church community, Now, as severe as that may seem or sound, it's 23 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,300 not all that bad. It actually may be the best 24 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,800 thing to do. Since people are cruel, ruthless 25 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:10,900 heartless, ignorant merciless arrogant and the list goes on. 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,100 However, there is a great danger in when we cut ties with God. 27 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,800 That is our relationship and communication with God because 28 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:29,500 of our shamefulness. And this is enticed by Satan, 29 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,700 through our conscience. Telling us that we are worthless 30 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:39,100 shame on us and we do not deserve or are not deserving of 31 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:43,900 God. Now the danger there is that we 32 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:48,700 deprive ourselves from prayer. That is entering the presence of 33 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:55,000 God communicating with God. Attending church to receive 34 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,800 forgiveness and Absolution which is honoring and celebrating 35 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,400 Christ in the Eucharist. And in many people, when I ask, 36 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,500 why are you not attending church? 37 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:09,800 Their justification. Is that I'm not worthy. 38 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:15,900 I'm a sinner and that is why I deprive myself from coming to 39 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:18,700 church. Well, you know, that's that's a 40 00:03:18,708 --> 00:03:23,800 little silly respectfully speaking because The church is a 41 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,000 spiritual hospital where those who are spiritually, sick or 42 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,500 ashamed of their circumstance and their situation. 43 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,900 They come to the physician, the greatest physician who heals 44 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:37,300 without medicine? That's Jesus Christ. 45 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,400 The danger is that we may be depriving ourselves from 46 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:47,300 speaking to our Parish priest. Or a spiritual counselor and 47 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:49,900 being put on the right path of forgiveness. 48 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:56,600 Reconciliation and restoration. The priest prays during the 49 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,000 kneading of the bread or the do and making the host for the 50 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,000 Hollywood Urbana, the Holy Eucharist. 51 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:09,100 And this is how the him or the prayer is chanted. 52 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:15,400 The mess Medicine of repentance gave the Lord to the renowned 53 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,800 Physicians, who are the priests of the church whosoever has been 54 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,200 stricken by Satan and being put to shame. 55 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:28,700 Same may come and show his wounds to the Disciples of the 56 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:31,700 wise physician that is Jesus Christ. 57 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:36,600 Praise be to his name and he cries shall wash him with a 58 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,800 spiritual medicine. So the danger of Shame de prize 59 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,900 deprives us from this blessed gift. 60 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:51,200 That Christ has instilled in his church to be imparted on her 61 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,000 children will also deprive ourselves of confessing our 62 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,100 faults. Not our sins, our faults to our 63 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:03,200 Christian brothers and sisters in order to be corrected and 64 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:09,200 encouraged in our faith. I emphasized not our sins 65 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,700 because our sins are to be confessed to a priest to the 66 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:19,500 church, and the church can bestow the gift of absolution of 67 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:21,600 forgiveness. And we're not going to go too 68 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,600 much into that. And this is all because of being 69 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:33,600 ashamed of where you are, who you are, what you have done when 70 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,400 it comes to a relationship with God. 71 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,900 So, how do we overcome this shame? 72 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,900 But learn from it and avoid it at all costs. 73 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:53,500 Number one, beloved take heart. You know, we forget who we are, 74 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:59,600 we forget, who we worship. We forget who has purchased Us 75 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:02,900 by his blood, through his baptism. 76 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 To God, the Father, the creator of Heaven and Earth. 77 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:13,500 Take heart be courageous, get Jade up by the mission of Jesus 78 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,200 Christ himself. Who states that in Luke chapter 79 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,300 5 verse 32. This is Christ's Mission. 80 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:27,200 I have not come that I may call the righteous, but Sinners to 81 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:32,900 repentance. Now if there was a book and 82 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:37,900 custody to say a book, a satanic book, this verse would read, I 83 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:44,200 have not come to call the Sinners but the righteous to 84 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:50,700 immorality Christ. Came to reverse that and he 85 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,400 promises and he instructs that I have not come that I made called 86 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,000 it righteous. The righteous are mine but the 87 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Sinners those who are as Ashamed those who are depriving 88 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,500 themselves again through Satan's trickeries from out, with 89 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:08,700 through our conscience, depriving themselves of the 90 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:12,600 greatest gift of forgiveness and the provisions of God. 91 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:17,400 Christ has come to call the Sinners to repentance. 92 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,200 On a side note, Sinners are described in 1 Corinthians 93 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:30,800 chapter 6 as these people and many more fornicators those who 94 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:38,400 are engaging sexual activities outside of marriage. with their 95 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,400 Partners, their girlfriends or boyfriends their fiance's or 96 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,800 fiancée these De facto relationship. 97 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,200 These are classified as fornicators. 98 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,400 Neither worshippers of Idols Faith. 99 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:02,200 Sorry, Fame wealth, glamour honor or in maybe statutes. 100 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:09,200 Neither adulterous those cheating husbands and wives. 101 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,500 While the husband is at work, or the wife is at work, while 102 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:18,900 you're on a business trip, while you're on the road and you visit 103 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:23,100 the mistress, while you are married and you're Aging and 104 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:26,300 other sexual activities. These are from the scriptures 105 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,900 don't be ashamed. You know, let's be ashamed if we 106 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:31,500 are engaging engaging. In these acts, let's not be 107 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:33,400 ashamed to speak about these things. 108 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,000 The scriptures are very vocal adulterers, neither sexual 109 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,100 molesters, pedophiles child molesters rapists. 110 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:46,700 Neither males, lying down with males homosexuals. 111 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,700 Very clear, isn't it? Neither frauds, nor thieves 112 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,600 neither drunkards nor the insolent. 113 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,700 That is that impudent the the rude people neither 114 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:05,200 extortionist. These do not enter the kingdom 115 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,700 of God. He's being very serious Saint 116 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:12,500 Paul. So these are the Sinners, and if 117 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,000 we are engaged in these activities, we should be 118 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 ashamed. We should be ashamed. 119 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:22,100 But that shame should bring us to repentance not-too-distant us 120 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:26,300 from God. Take heart from the gracious 121 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:32,300 invitations extending extended by a lord God in second 122 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:37,300 chronicles 7:14. The second book of Chronicles, 123 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:42,800 listen to what God is telling you and I those who maybe are in 124 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:48,300 this situation and again I will reiterate deprived themselves 125 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:52,900 from the grace and mercy and the love of God who's constantly 126 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:54,700 waiting to receive his one more. Time. 127 00:09:55,700 --> 00:10:00,600 God, says, and my people upon whom my name is called, we are 128 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,200 Christians because we've believed in Christ, the son of 129 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,400 God accepted him as the Son of God, the Savior, the Lord of 130 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,600 lords, the King of Kings, we have that name Christians shall 131 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:20,400 be broken. That means crumbled, humbled 132 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:26,800 contrite and they will pray and they will beg from before me and 133 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,400 they will return from their evil ways. 134 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:33,900 Also, here is his promise, I shall hear from heaven and I 135 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:38,600 shall forgive their sins and I shall heal their land. 136 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:45,000 Our hearts, So if you're ashamed and you've distance yourself 137 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,700 from God, don't allow that to happen. 138 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,100 Satan is using that as a tool as a weapon as an armor. 139 00:10:54,400 --> 00:11:01,800 Get up, be encouraged. No, actually kneel before God 140 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 come to church. Receive the Absolution receive 141 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,200 forgiveness and pray to the Lord. 142 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:15,900 Beloved How do we overcome The Shame by taking heed to paying 143 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:20,100 attention to the gracious instructions given by God in the 144 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:23,700 Holy scriptures through the Epistle of st. 145 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:29,500 James Christ's relative James 5:16, confess your faults again, 146 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:34,600 your faults, one to another and pray for one another that you 147 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:40,100 may be healed for great is the effectiveness of Prayer, which I 148 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,300 righteous person or righteous man prays. 149 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:47,800 These are instructions. Instructions of grace of love of 150 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,000 mercy of reconciliation. In the book of Zephaniah chapter 151 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,300 3 verse 11 take heart be couraged. 152 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:02,200 This is a promise from God in that day, you shall not be 153 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:07,200 ashamed of all your schemes that you did wickedly against me. 154 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:11,500 Because when we sin, we sin against God, our creator. 155 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,800 When we sin, we defile our image and likeness that we have been 156 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,000 made. In of God, when we Sin. 157 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,100 We've defiled a garment of baptism that we have been 158 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:29,100 clothed with in that day. You shall not be ashamed of all 159 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:31,500 your schemes that you did wickedly against me. 160 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,400 And then I shall remove from you. 161 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,200 The strength of your pride and you shall magnify yourself 162 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:38,800 against the mountain of my Holiness. 163 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:39,800 No! More. 164 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,700 Which day in that day. Where you again? 165 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,400 Get up dust yourself off kneel before the Lord and ask for 166 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,300 forgiveness. And I'm going to give A very 167 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:55,200 short prayer of what you can, how you can start your prayer 168 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,400 and your, your road your way to reconciliation again, to 169 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,800 removing the shame and Christ can remove that shame. 170 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,500 How do we overcome by taking courage from those in the 171 00:13:09,508 --> 00:13:14,700 scriptures who possessed, Deeds of Shame and yet still 172 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:19,600 approached Christ and were not in any way put to shame, neither 173 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,900 rebuked harshly or rejected mercilessly. 174 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:30,700 Mark 2:15. And it was that as he reclined 175 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:34,400 at supper in his that is, Matthew's house. 176 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:37,300 There's one person of encouraging result of st. 177 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:40,300 Matthew was a tax collector despised by all. 178 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:42,300 It was a thief. Probably. 179 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:46,900 An extortionist. And in Mark chapter 2 verse 15, 180 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:51,200 we see Jesus in his house. There were many tax collectors 181 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,100 and sinners reclining at supper, with Jesus, and we're his 182 00:13:56,100 --> 00:14:00,500 disciples for many had come and they were following him. 183 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:03,900 They must have been put to shame when they looked in those 184 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:08,700 amazing glorious gar Eyes Of God, incarnate, Jesus Christ, 185 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:12,200 the son of God, they must have been put to shame but they 186 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,800 weren't discouraged, the reclining. 187 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,000 For supper with him. If that doesn't give you any 188 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,800 encouragement, I'm sorry. I can't give you more words of 189 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,900 encouragement and they're not even mine. 190 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,400 I have no words to give you about the scriptures and the 191 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,600 words of Jesus Christ himself. What about the prostitutes 192 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:36,900 beloved, The harlots the whores week, all right? 193 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,400 The working ladies, the mistresses. 194 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,000 B male or female. Actually, Luke chapter 7 verses 195 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:50,200 36 to 37, but one of the Pharisees came asking him to eat 196 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,400 with him and he entered the Pharisees house and there, he 197 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,000 reclined. Now, listen to this and a sinner 198 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,400 that is a harlot. And a sinner woman who was in 199 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:06,100 the city, where she knew that he was staying in the Pharisees 200 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:09,900 house. She took an alabaster vows and 201 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:11,500 ointment. It of ointment. 202 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:16,200 I'm sorry she didn't stay at home and felt sorry for herself 203 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:23,300 and I'm sorry maybe even found excuses and justify her 204 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,400 lifestyle that was totally disappears. 205 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,500 Easing to God, sometimes we use these as an excuse not to pray, 206 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,400 not to read the scriptures. Not to come to church. 207 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,300 I'm a sinner. Well let me tell you if he 208 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,700 confess you're a sinner here on Earth. 209 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:40,700 Well God will then see that confession and he will recover. 210 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,500 Pest the recompense us reward us. 211 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:47,400 According to our confession, that is come from our mouths, 212 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,700 Every Idle Word that word that comes out of your mouth you will 213 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:57,500 be held accountable. But this prostitute this Harlot 214 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,900 and would have been easy for her to have made her way to the feet 215 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:05,300 of Christ. She probably was spat at. 216 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:10,000 She probably was ridiculed and Tall to get away from me. 217 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,700 What are you doing? Here, she had to negotiate 218 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:19,700 herself through that crowd to get to the feet of Jesus Christ. 219 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:27,600 And you know where Jesus Christ is dining everyday in your 220 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,600 heart, in your scriptures in your prayers. 221 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Most importantly, every first day of the week every Sunday had 222 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:39,000 the shaba Jesus is dining at your Parish by Parish. 223 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:46,900 At your church, your Parish during the service of the Divine 224 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:49,900 Liturgy. Don't worry about what people 225 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:53,300 will say. Don't let your shame deter you 226 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:55,900 from getting up and taking courage from the promises of 227 00:16:55,900 --> 00:17:00,600 Christ and coming to Jesus Christ and falling at his feet. 228 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,599 Take courage. Beloved that not only did the 229 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:09,000 tax collectors and prostitutes come to Christ. 230 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,900 But rather Jesus said that they superseded the chief priests and 231 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,700 the Pharisees to the kingdom of God. 232 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,700 Matthew chapter 21 verse 31, Take courage. 233 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:27,500 There are a murderer or an accessor to murder. 234 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,400 And persecutions of the people of the way we read in Acts 235 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,500 chapter 9 verses 12 to about Saul, who was then later called 236 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,300 Paul, listen to what he says. Now, Saul still breathing 237 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:43,900 threats and murder against the Disciples of the Lord, not just 238 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:45,800 the 12 disciples were those who believed in. 239 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,400 Jesus Christ, went to the high priest and asked for letters 240 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,700 from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found 241 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,600 any belonging to the way, you know, there was no Christianity 242 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,500 when And Christ after Christ, ascended. 243 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:03,500 And, and, and the faith started to go, they were still 244 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:07,700 practicing Judaism. But through Jesus Christ, they 245 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:12,000 were still worshipping the one God of Abraham, and Isaac, and 246 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,700 of Israel. But through Jesus Christ. 247 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:18,100 Now through the New Covenant, the spiritual Covenant. 248 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,300 That's why you don't see the word Christians. 249 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:25,700 And since Saint Saint, Luke writes in the book of Acts 250 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,600 belonging to the way. And who is the way glory be to 251 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,200 his name? John, 14:16, I am the way. 252 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:40,000 I am the truth, I am life. So he was on his way to bring 253 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,100 the people who are of the way both men and women. 254 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:48,100 He might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 255 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:51,800 So saw was on his way on his route, to capturing the people 256 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:56,200 of the way. AKA Believers, AKA Christians to 257 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,900 bring them to their death but yet in Acts 9:15 when Christ 258 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:09,800 appeared to him claims him to be a chosen vessel vessel God in 259 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:17,500 Cana God himself Christ Jesus. Our lord tells Hannah or analyze 260 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:21,400 that he is a chosen vessel. This is an Axe Murderer, a 261 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,600 chosen vessel an instrument, a rusty tool in my hand. 262 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:30,000 And in verse 16 we read that Jesus says he will suffer for 263 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:39,500 Christ's name for his name. So be careful now not being 264 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:42,300 ashamed. Is not discouraged by any means. 265 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:45,600 Yeah, we should be ashamed of of displeasing. 266 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,500 Our Lord. We should be ashamed. 267 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:53,000 We should be discouraged. We should have a broken heart 268 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,600 and a contrite spirit. Saint Paul writes in Romans 269 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:04,600 chapter 6 verses 2223 for when you became Servants of sin, you 270 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,000 became free from righteousness, is and there's no righteousness. 271 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:13,100 When you are in sin, there's a righteousness, your servant of 272 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,900 sin. And what fruit did you have? 273 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:18,300 Then of which today, you are ashamed of? 274 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,100 Yes. Sometimes we look back in our 275 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:26,100 lives and we think, if I could only turn back time that a Dada. 276 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:30,100 If I could, That's What If I Could Turn Back Time. 277 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,200 Oh, I wouldn't do many things that I did because I am ashamed. 278 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:38,600 There's this great. For its result is death, same 279 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:44,600 pulses. Of being servants to sin. but, 280 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:52,100 But let us let it not overcome us, but we should overcome shame 281 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,000 when we have displeased God through our words, deeds and 282 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,800 actions. We must be ashamed. 283 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,700 We must be humiliated embarrassed. 284 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:09,700 However, when we want to return, to God, in penitence and a 285 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:15,300 contrite spirit, and to appease him and be reconciled with him, 286 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,900 we must Not allow shame to deter us. 287 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Let me give you one one example of a prayer. 288 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,100 Open your scriptures to Psalm chapter 31 verse 17. 289 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,300 Oh, Lord God! I shall not be ashamed that I 290 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:35,300 called you. The wicked shall be ashamed and 291 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:40,600 they shall descend into sheol. In my foolishness, my 292 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,500 wickedness, in my sinfulness, I will call unto You O. 293 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:48,200 Lord God and I will not be ashamed. 294 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,500 Because I do not want to end in Show. 295 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,400 And take heart. Beloved, this is the promise of 296 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,400 Jesus Christ. Matthew 11:21? 297 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:03,100 Come on. To me, there's an invitation all 298 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:10,200 of you who labor All of you who are ashamed of sin and the labor 299 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:15,300 of sin is heavy, come on to me all of you who labor and are 300 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:22,300 forced to Bear burdens and I shall give you rest, praise and 301 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:25,700 glory be to His holy name now that all times and forever. 302 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,500 One last thing. 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