It's been stirring in me since, you know, the beginning of the
year around March time when we were reading this, and it just
stood out. Well, you know, I've read these
scriptures for 32 years all of my life, but that's what's so
good about our Heavenly Father. Things always will begin to jump
off the pages for you. Come on.
Because the Holy Spirit's always speaking.
And not only is He always speaking, not just what we need,
but preparing us for things to maybe to come that we don't even
know about, right? But then not only that, you
know, showing us that His word is living and active, that it
is, it is alive, that it is not dead.
When I pick up this word, it's alive.
That means it will jump up off the pages.
To me, over 30 years of reading the scriptures, there's
something else to be discovered. OK.
And so that's very important in where we're going with this.
And so it says, if any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
And he said unto them, take heed.
Say take heed what you hear, take heed what you hear.
With what measure you need it, it shall be measured to you and
unto you that hear shall more be given.
And we know Pastor was in the vein of faith and teaching out
of Romans because what faith comes by hearing and hearing
from the word of God? But then he also said anything
that we are doing and operating in comes through hearing,
period. It all comes through hearing.
So what are we giving our ears attention to?
Our ears? Why don't we say it like this?
Are your measuring cup OK? I should have brought my
measuring cup up here. Our ears are a measuring cup.
And what are we feeling that measuring cup up with?
Are we filling it up with hearing from the word of God?
Or are we filling it up with other voices?
And what are we talking about? Other voices, other things that
we listen to, right? As Pastor said, you may be
listening right now. My TV is on 24/7 news because
that's all my dad wants to listen to right now as I'm
taking care of him. So guess what?
He's feeding on the news. His cup is overflowing with the
news, right? The news, the news, the news.
Well, you may be a person that all you feed on is music.
Well, what kind of music are you feeding on, right?
You're filling your measuring cup up your ears.
Are your measuring cup OK? And so we know we should be
filling ourselves up with whatsoever things are pure,
holy, just, righteous. You know, the scripture tells us
and Peter, we should be meditating on these proper
things. And meditation has to do with
hearing as well. OK, But he's saying listen with
what measure you meet. But he lets us know, listen, you
need to take heed what you hear because again, we know there's
plenty of voices speaking. And we know that in the last
days, there's going to be, we've talked about this since last
year, seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
And not only that, there's going to be voices that are going to
try to perpetuate lies within your life to get you off.
OK. And we need to recognize he's
telling us here. We need to be taking heed what
we're hearing. That means I'm not going to be
listening to everything that everybody has to say.
I'm going to take heed because I'm not going to fill up my
measuring cup with things I shouldn't be hearing.
Isn't that what happened to Eve? She was seduced by what the
serpent said, which was the opposite of what God said.
And so seduction, or you know, those seducing voices can come
from right here in what you're filling your ears with.
And so This is why the Scripture warns us to take heed what you
hear. And we also know in Second
Corinthians, you know, that he tells us we're actually
literally supposed to take every thought captive.
So how does a thought come? A thought comes a lot of times
from what you've allowed in your ear.
And you'll take on that thought and then you'll begin to
meditate on it because you heard something right?
And so he's warning us, listen, we need to take heed what we
hear. So what does take heed mean?
What it means when we look it up in the Greek, it means this, to
beware, beware. So he's given us a warning.
Isn't that what beware means? Beware of what you're hearing,
beware of. To see.
This is interesting to see, to look, to discern.
So now my eyes are involved. But guess what?
It's not. It's my eyes of the Spirit.
Because this has to do with discernment and perception and
perceiving. So what I hear I can see by the
Spirit if I discern properly, and if I can see through the
Spirit and perceive is what I'm hearing from God or not.
And this is important. And so it goes.
It says to discern with your eye, to perceive by your senses,
and to see with the mind's eye. You see that with the mind's
eye, and to have the power of understanding, to discern
mentally, to observe, to discover, and to understand.
So he's telling us that we need to understand, discern, see,
perceive with our senses and beware of what we are hearing,
of what we're hearing. It also means to turn your
thoughts because what you hear again will turn into that
thought and meditation. So it means to turn the thought,
and in that what the devil did to Eve turn the thought through
deception because of what she heard him say.
So he turned the thought. It means to direct the mind to a
thing to consider, to contemplate, to look at, to
weigh, say, weigh. So when he tells me to take
heed, he's also saying you need to weigh this thing.
What are we going to weigh this thing towards?
Or another word is judge it. So he's telling us that what we
hear, we better weigh, we better discern, we better judge.
And what are we judging it to the word?
What are we weighing it to the word?
I don't know about that because I'm hearing something that I
don't think lines up with the word.
I've weighed it. I've I've actually weighed it
towards the word and it don't line up what you're saying.
So you know what? I'm going to take heed what I'm
hearing. I'm going to beware and I'm
going to eradicate that out of my ears.
I'm going to clean my ears out. Sometimes you need that deep
clean in your ears. You know, they pour that the
candle and all this stuff wax anyway.
So he's saying to carefully examine.
It also means so to weigh, to judge, to carefully examine.
This is what that word take heed means to what you're hearing and
it's a warning. It's saying listen, don't listen
to everything you're hearing. Don't take it.
I'd like to say hook, line and sinker, No, It needs to be
weighed. It needs to be examined.
It needs to be judged. And the thing that I'm going to
weigh it and judge it towards is the word of God, the word of
God. And if it don't line up with the
word, it ain't right and it ain't coming in my ears.
It's not coming in my ears, OK. And So what this means is a
person that will take heed is wide awake because you do not
want to be a person that is heedless.
That's heedless. That means you just listen to
whatever and you take no thought in anything that you're hearing.
And you just let your ears be open to everything and you take
no thought to it. Do you know there's people that
sit in the in the churches that hear the word because this is
what we're going to get to and put no thought towards it.
They're heedless. And you know why they put no
thought or how you know, they don't put thought to it is
because their actions, their behaviors don't line up to what
they're hearing. It don't line up to what they're
hearing. And so therefore they have been
heedless. They've not heeded the word of
God. They've not right.
They've not judged it. They've not looked and, and,
and, and put themselves towards it.
They've not gotten understanding to it.
They've not contemplated it. They've not considered it.
Plenty of people just sit and let it go in what it What's this
term in one ear? And that's a thoughtless,
heedless person. And he's letting us know we
better take heed to what we're hearing.
We better consider what we're hearing.
We better contemplate what we're hearing.
We better discern what we're hearing.
Why should we discern it? So that we can make the
adjustments that are necessary. And that's how we know that we
have taken heed. That means I take heed to what
the Word is that's being spoken and I'm going to align myself up
with it. You see that?
Because I'm going to be awake and I am going to be a person
that's going to discern what the Spirit is saying, and I'm not
going to allow myself to just be open to anything that I'm
hearing. That's why we have to be careful
and we're going to see later on, which I'll do that anyway.
So let's go over to, I won't go there right now.
Let's go to Mark 4. Let's look at this.
Mark 4 though. I want you to see that was in
context. Actually, Mark 4IN context is
talking about the parable of the sower, the seed of the seed of
the word that's being sown into the heart.
And you know there was different, you know, soils of
the heart that the seed was being sown in.
And so that's a whole nother lesson.
But what I want you to see here is when you go up to mark 11411
through 12, it says this. And he said unto them, unto you,
it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.
Here he was teaching the disciples about the parable of
the seed. And he's saying you've been
given the mystery. I'm allowing you to hear it,
perceive it, discern it, and grab hold of it.
I'm allowing you to do that because then he goes on and you
look, what does he say? He says, I'm giving you the
mystery of the Kingdom of God. It says, but unto them that are
without, all these things are done in parables, seeing that
they may see and not perceive, and hearing that they may not
hear and understand. Do you see what he's talking
about here? This is where he's talking about
being able to perceive, being able to discern, being taken
heed need of what is being said. And he's saying listen, lest
anytime they should be converted and their sins should be
forgiven. So he says and hearing, they may
hear, but he's saying listen. But you've been granted this
mystery. You've been granted the fact
that you get to discern what the Scripture is saying.
And do you know every one of us as a believer, because of the
Holy Ghost that's living on the inside of us now, get to discern
His Word when we hear it. And we get to be able to put it
in, in activation within our life.
If we will take heed to it, if we will see what the Scripture
is saying, if we'll ask for understanding and discernment,
all of these things, when we hear the Word, that should be
part of our participation and what it is that we're hearing,
because that means we're taking heed.
We're giving our ear, so to speak, to the Word.
We're taking heed. We're we're going to understand
it, we're going to perceive it, we're going to contemplate it.
We're going to spend time meditating on it.
We're going to receive it in our ear.
And you know what? We can put within our ears as
much word as we want. Nobody's stopping you.
So that goes back to that measure.
How much do you want? And this you're going to see is
important in a, in a few more scriptures that we read.
So this is what he's saying. A, a heedless person gives no
thought to what they're hearing. I don't ever want to sit in this
seat and sit up underneath God's word and give no thought to what
it is that he is saying through his word.
I don't want to be a heedless person.
We need to be honoring the word of God that's feeding our
spirit, right, so that we can walk in the things that He has
promised us to walk into. Now look at Luke 8 and 18 out of
the amplified. So here it is another word that
He lets us know about taking heed, He says.
So be careful how you listen. So now he's talking about how
you're listening, how your ears are being attentive to what is
being said. Do you know he cares about how
you're listening to His word? Are you listening to His word
to, you know, come against it like the Pharisees and the
religious people were? Are you listening to the word to
justify your behaviors? Are you listening to the word
because you want to grow, because you want to discern,
because you want to understand, because you want the word to,
you know, change your life. And so he says this.
So be careful how you listen for whoever has a what a teachable
heart. So your heart is connected to
your ears. So we could do the what's that
song? The hair bone, your ear bone?
What's that song? I don't know how it goes but
y'all know what I'm talking about.
So he's letting us know that our ears are connected here to what?
Our heart, because He's letting us know.
Be careful how you listen. For whoever has a teachable
heart to him, more understanding will come.
If you don't have a teachable heart, guess what?
He's not obligated to give you more.
If you're not teachable and you're not even hearing what
he's already said and doing what he's already said today, or not
today but every day to do in your life, then guess what?
He's not obligated to give you more.
He's not. And maybe you sit and you're
hearing the word and thinking, I've seen no change in my life.
Well, maybe you need to go back to the last word you actually
heard and submitted to because it has to do with being
teachable, has to do with being teachable.
But our ears are connected to our heart.
Our ears are connected to our heart.
It says to him, more understanding will be given.
And whoever does not have a listen to this.
A longing for the truth. Whoever does not have a longing
for the truth. A desire, a hunger.
Those who hunger and thirst, see there it goes back to this.
So it's also connected to your stomach, right?
Whoever's hungry for the word, whoever desires the word,
whoever longs for truth. Do you long for truth more than
you long for listening to the lies that the world perpetuates?
Because the devil is the God of this world and he is nothing but
a liar. So do you long for truth?
That ought to be the desire and the hunger and the passion that
we had. We want to be people that desire
and long for truth. Not for fables Scripture talks
about, not for foolish reasonings.
But do you long for truth? Truth in the midst of your
heart. And he goes on to say even what
he thinks he has will be taken away from him.
So if you don't desire the truth, guess what?
He's not going to give it to you.
And in what you do have can be taken away.
Isn't that what the scripture says?
I didn't say that. The scripture said it.
It can be taken away to where you get caught up into so many
lies in your life because you've actually rejected truth that you
can just buy the lies and get so caught up in lies of the enemy.
It be taken from you because you don't want truth, you don't long
for truth, you don't desire truth.
You've actually rejected truth. That's a that's, that's what's
so awesome about our God is he lets us know of the things that
we could fall into danger with. I'm glad there's a big danger
sign out here that says danger, take heed.
If you don't do these things as a believer, it's not guaranteed
that you can't fall into the lies.
And we know in the last days, many are going to fall away from
the truth. Fall away from the what?
The truth because they got caught up in the lives, they
rejected truth, they didn't hunger for it, they didn't
desire it any longer. And So what little bit of truth
they did had, it was taken away. And now they're completely
deceived. And this is how people are going
to fall away from the truth because they're going to get
caught up in the deceitfulness of lies.
Now look again, you know, in First Timothy chapter 4, this is
good guys. Y'all want me to laugh?
I don't know, tell a funny joke, You know, really, I don't have
anything funny to say. I actually feel like crying.
But at the anointing upon my life is what I walk by.
The anointing upon my life is what I walk by.
And I walk by faith. And I don't walk by sight.
And I live by faith and I don't live by how I feel and what come
on, what's going on in my life? Because I could give you a list,
but I would spare you. OK.
So anyway, in First Timothy chapter 4, that makes me laugh.
Hallelujah chapter 4 and verses one through 2 says this, but the
Holy Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in
the latter time some will turn away from the faith, paying
attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and
doctrines of demons misled by hypocrisy of liars.
Hypocrisy of liars who consciences are what seared as
with a branding iron, leaving them incapable of ethical what
functioning. I'm telling you, we need to take
heed what we're hearing in these days and in this hours that we
are living so that we are not going to be one that rejects
truth and walks away from it because we are caught up in
listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and
being led by hypocrisy of liars. And so he goes on to say, you
know, and pastor, you know, we, we use this scripture for the
past two year or the year before last about the reigning spirit.
And he came up out of this Scripture multiple times last
year. And so the reason why I bring
this up is because if you go on down to first Timothy chapter 4
and verse 16, let's go there, it says again in the King James
Version, take heed unto thyself. So here he's telling us, take
heed to what you hear in Mark 4. And now he's telling us, you
need to take heed to yourself. You need to take heed to
yourself here, and you need to says this and unto the doctrine.
So take heed to yourself, but then also unto the doctrine
which we know. He's talking to Timothy, who was
a minister, but obviously he's saying it to us as believers as
well. Take heed to ourselves and unto
the doctrine. Why is this doctrine so
important? Because this doctrine is truth
unto doctrine. When you say doctrine, it's
truth of God's word unto the truth.
Continue, Say, continue, continue in them.
That means that we cannot continue in the doctrine or in
the truth. Why?
Because we take heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons,
the hypocrisy of liars, that seducing spirit, that lying
spirit, and it will get us off. Just like it got Eve off of the
truth. She had the truth God himself
spoke right and she had it. So he's saying, listen, you need
to be you need to take heed yourself and you need to stay
with truth and you need to what? Continue in it, For in doing
this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear, then
thee that hear thee. See that it goes back to the
hearing. What is it that you are saying?
What are people hearing from your life of faith?
What's your doctrine that you're spreading?
See that saying, Listen, take heed to yourself, take heed to
the Word and you best continue in it so that you'll be saved
yourself and those who hear it, those who hear it now look over
in the amplified at this Scripture, First Timothy chapter
4 and verse 16. Here we see another word they
use in the amplified that continues to reiterate what this
word take heed means. Pay close attention to yourself.
You know, I thought I was only going to give have like 7
scriptures that I was seeing that talked about taking heed,
but I found 28. That's why we're going to do a
few more Wednesdays. There was 28 scriptures that
talked about taking heed. I thought only 7, but it was 28.
OK. So anyway, he says, listen, pay
out of the amplified, pay close attention to yourself.
Why are you worrying about everybody else and their and and
what's going on in their lives? You need to worry about
yourself. I mean, I had to tell my kids
that in school and growing up and and you know, people you
work with and I what you, I don't care what they're doing.
You shouldn't care what they're doing.
You better take care of your own self, mind your own business.
Take care of yourself. Pay attention to yourself.
What are you doing? Why you worrying about everybody
else? Pay attention to what you're
doing, pay attention to yourself and what are you doing in the
midst of all of these things? So he's saying, listen, you
better pay close attention to yourself.
Concentrate on your personal development.
I don't care where this persons at, I personally going to
develop in truth. I'm personally going to take
heed what I'm hearing. I'm personally going to be one
that is going to live this thing out.
I'm going to hear what the Spirit is saying.
I'm going to hear what the Word is saying.
I'm going to discern properly what's happening because I'm
actually going to take personal responsibility for my life.
I'm not responsible for everyone else, you see that?
I'm responsible to take heed what I'm hearing and then to
live it out properly. But I'm not to take on everybody
else and what they're doing and what they're not doing and blah,
blah, blah. Because I'm going to tell you,
you will be ran ragged worrying about everybody else and what
they're supposed to be doing and what they're not doing.
And why are they? Who cares?
Do you, right? Do you?
So he goes on for your own personal development and to your
teaching. Persevere in these things where
he says continue in them. He's saying, listen, you're
going to have to persevere in the truth in the word.
You're going to have to persevere in it, in these
things. You're going to have to be the
one to hold on to them. The things that you've heard,
the things that you've been taught, the truth of God's Word
that you've been built your life upon, because we're going to
talk about this, you need to hold on to Him.
It says, for as you do this, you will ensure salvation both for
yourself and for those who hear you.
Amen. So the Scripture clearly says,
listen, we are to take heed to ourselves.
Ephesians chapter 4/11/15 says this.
And he gave some apostles and prophets and evangelists and
pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints, for
the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of
Christ, until we all come to the unity of faith, the knowledge of
the Son of God. Unto what a perfect man This is
that development. This is you personally allowing
yourself to develop right to the measure and the stature of the
fullness of Christ that we henceforth.
This is why truth and the doctrine that you stand upon is
so important, that you will no longer be a child tossed to and
fro, carried about by every wave of doctrine right, every wind
and sleight of men. Listen to what it says and
cunning craftiness. This is that seducing lying
spirit, cunning trying to get you off.
It says whereby they lie to wait to deceive, trying to get you
off, waiting to just get to you so that he can deceive you, to
get you off of what you know. Truth is what you know.
The word of God says it's black and white.
There's no middle ground. You either see it and read it
and do it or you don't. There's no middle ground in
there. Very clear.
You know what's so good about AI that I found?
If you say AII did this, I have done this multiple times.
Now that I've learned this whole AI thing, tell me what Matthew
14 Seven means and it will clearly stay state exactly what
the scripture means. I have not found one time that
it has misrepresented what the word said straight up straight
on. You know why?
Because it only takes from the Scripture, not traditions of
men, not religious doctrines of men.
It only bases it strictly from what the word says.
Straight up black and white. When you read this chapter, this
is what it means for what it is for what's it saying?
You know, that's how I've always read the word black and white.
I see it in the word it says. I'm not supposed to do that.
Guess what? I'm not going to do it.
Oh, that's really easy. It's not difficult.
It's black and white.
Oh, the word says I should forgive.
We're going to see. I should take heed.
And being able to forgive people, oh, I'm going to forgive
them. Easy as that.
Black and white, very clear. You don't have to have a a
theological degree to figure that out.
You don't have to have all of your hermeneutics and hominetics
and the pathetics and all these things.
Seriously, you just read the word and do what it says and
guess what? You'll have life.
You'll live according to the word.
It's that easy and AI gets it. AI gets it.
We complicate it. We complicate it with our own
desires, with our own thinking, with our own reasoning.
We complicate it when it's straight up black and white and
easy. Hallelujah.
Thank God. Thank God that we do not have to
be deceived if we would just do what the Word says.
Look at verse 15. But speaking the truth in love
that you may grow up into all things, which is the head, even
Christ. So the goal is, is that we are
mature enough by growing and developing and taking heed to
what the word of God has said in truth so that we're not going to
get carried away by lies, by lies, by a lying spirit, a
seducing spirit. And you know what a seducing
spirit does? It always keeps it in ambiguity,
suspicious. You can never know how it just
you know it's how it is. So let's look on what he says
here. The next thing we read and then
we'll close. I know it's getting tight, but
it's right. First Corinthians who praise the
Lord chapter 3 verses 10. Now remember I, this has been
brewing since long time ago, OK, First Corinthians chapter 3 and
verse 10 says this. According to the grace of God,
which is given unto me as a wise master builder, I have laid the
foundation. What's the foundation?
The word of God, the doctrine, the things that we were talking
about, and another build is there on.
But let every man what? Take heed.
Now what is your responsibility as a man and a woman of God?
You are to take heed how He buildeth there upon.
You're to take heed of what you're allowing to be built
within your life. You're the master builder as
well. He's the master builder, but you
also are a master builder because you're up underneath the
master. And what is it that you're
building on in your life? What's your house built of?
Are you built on lies? Are you built on your truth?
Are you built on? Come on, your traditions?
Are you built on your religious experiences?
Or are you built on the word of God?
Are you built on your family DNA?
Come on. No, we are to be built upon the
word of God. That is got to be, has to be,
has to be our foundation. And it's so important that we
recognize this because we're seeing believers fall off their
rockers, OK, because they have not built properly.
They've not built property properly.
You know, when the Word of God comes, we've taught this before,
It's either going to form a new belief within your life or it's
going to strengthen a belief within your life.
OK, we've taught this before. So when the Word of God comes
and you actually take heed of it and begin to practice it and do
it, then you're building a foundation within your life,
right? You're building that in your
life. And so maybe you had never heard
that it's God's will for you to be healed, but you find out it
is absolutely God's will for healing to be a part of my life
in Christ, right? And so every time you hear a
healing scripture, guess what it's doing?
It's building another layer in the bedrock of your foundation,
right, Building upon the foundation.
Have you ever looked at the Grand Canyon and and you know
that's billions and billions if years old and you know, you can
see all the what is that called? Those lines, those layers, what
are they called? Anybody knows sediment?
That's but those lines are called something that you can
see and this is how they know how many years it is and how
old. Same with the tree trunk.
If you cut it, you can see the different rings in it tells you
how old it is. This is what's happening to us
as believers. It should be when we've been
sitting up underneath the word for years and we've actually
took it in and heated it. All those things that we've been
doing is building those layers upon layers upon layers.
So that why so that you have an arsenal of a belief system here
that when something comes, it's not going to rock your world,
It's not going to knock you off your foundation.
It's not going to knock you off your rocker, so to speak,
because your, your life has been built.
It's been built. And we know we can see that in
scripture because you know, he talked about that in Matthew
Chapter 7. Go over there.
Matthew Chapter 7 in verse 24 through 27 says this.
Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and do
with them, that's the key. Because just hearing alone, we
know what James says. What happens?
You deceive yourself. So many people sit and they
hear. They don't take heed, and He
lets us know this one that does. It will be likened unto Him, a
wise man which built his house upon a rock, and when the rain
descended and the floods came, because they will.
No one is exempt from the floods, the rain, the wind, and
the storms of life. No one, we all walk, are
supposed to walk through them and come out on the other side.
And so he says if your house has been built properly upon the
rock, that when these rains come and these floods come and the
winds blew and they build upon the house and it fell, what not?
Your house should not be falling apart.
Your marriage shouldn't be falling apart.
Your children shouldn't be falling apart.
Come on. Your finances shouldn't be
filling, falling apart. Listen, attacks are going to
come. Attacks are one thing.
But if you're living in that, you have not built the structure
properly. If you are living in it year
after year after year, you've deceived yourself.
And I'm afraid there's many that are deceived.
You've not been a doer of the word.
You have not been a person of faith.
And that's just reality. And we have to listen in these
last days. We have to take heed some of
these things. We have to take heed some of it
because I don't want to see people dropping like flies.
And so verse 25 says this. And everyone that hears these
sayings of mine and do with them not, will be likened unto a
foolish man. And you know what he says about
fools in the Scripture. We've been reading it time after
time, all year long through Proverbs.
Haven't we likened unto a foolish man where we at verse
426? And he said, And everyone that
here at these sayings of mine does not do them, shall be
likened to the foolish man which built his house upon the sand.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew
and beat upon the house, and it fell, and listened to how it
fell. It didn't just fall, great was
its fall, didn't just fall, it was a great fall.
You see that now? You know, I was thinking of, you
know, I live out off of A1A and I just read an article which I
drive by these houses every day. There's about 7 houses that have
been condemned now along A1A, going out towards marine land.
On the left hand side where the ocean is, there's seven houses
that you can't even get to anymore.
The old A1A used to run along there and they built the houses
there. Well, they built wrong, didn't
they? They're all condemned, just
standing there. Big, old, huge houses just
there, just rotten away because they didn't build wisely.
And we need to recognize, have we really built our lives
wisely, our lives wisely on the right foundation and the word of
God? And have we done it?
Or are we deceived that we think we've done it, but really we
haven't? We haven't.
Now look at here. We'll close with this one.
Luke 17334 I've given you 4 take Heeds so far.
So far, So far, so far, four. And how many did I say there
were? We're not going to go through
all 28, but I'm just saying there were 28.
But I've I've given you 4 tonight and we're going to close
with this one. Luke 17, three and four.
Take heed to yourselves. Once again take heed.
And what's it say if your brother trespasses against thee,
rebuke him, and if he repent, forgiving.
And if he trespasses against thee 7 times a day and seven
times a day, turn again and say I repent.
What should you do? You know, this is what we do
usually with our kids. I was home with mine and having
to raise them. I mean, you know, I could have
forgiven them like 15,000 times a day.
Well, didn't I tell you not to do that?
Yeah, OK, well, don't do it. And then they do it again and
you, what do you do? You basically are forgiving them
again and again and again and again and again and again and
again and again and again. And he's saying, listen, if if
they ask you to forgive them, forgive them.