Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, Slow to Anger
First B Jackson
2022-03-29

Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record.

----
I'd like to hear your voice. It sounded so beautiful. Seriously. Hello, church family. I'm glad we are here worshiping the Lord.

Amen? Amen. Mark, whatever you do there, it works fine. Will you please stand and let's worship the Lord?

And I

really mean that. Let's actually, I I I would like to encourage you. If you wanna sing, sing out loud. But if you don't wanna sing, just look at the lyrics and have a beautiful conversation with with Jesus. Amen?

Amen. Praise the Lord. Gannon, would you please pray for us? Amen. Amen.

Praise the Lord. I love this song very, very much. Savior, he can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save. He is mighty to save.

Not only he can save you spiritually, I mean, giving you salvation, but no matter what you're going through right now, no matter what's going on in your life right now, if you if in sincerity you ask for his help, he will be there for you. He promised that he would always be there in our daily life, in our circumstances. Amen? Mighty to save. My God is mighty to save he's mighty Oh, praise the Lord.

Lord, we praise you. We give you thank thanks for giving us the privilege to be here to worship you, Lord. I pray with all my heart that in tonight you would reach our hearts through your word, through the songs. Lord, who knows the heart of men better than you? Who knows the thoughts of men better than you?

Lord, would you please help us to understand your will in our lives? And may we follow you, Lord, day by day, maybe one day at a time. However but, Lord, give us the strength through the power of the Holy Spirit to understand what is it that you want from us. What is it that you would want from us? And I know the the whisper the Holy Spirit says, walk with me.

Amen. Tonight, this is what I feel that Jesus says. Just walk with me. Mhmm. And let's let's go together in this beautiful journey on this planet Earth.

And we know that one day, Lord, we will spend eternity with you. But as for now, give us the strength, the desire, and help us to keep our eyes and focus on you, Lord. Teach our hearts. Touch our hearts, Lord. In your precious name, pray.

Amen. Amen. Let's sing one more song.

Sing it the way you wanna sing it. You sure?

Okay. Yeah. Sing it the way

you want. Okay. Don't don't try.

My sins and my sorrows My favorite verse. When we there and sunned in glory, Amen. Please, Nick. Invite Nick.

I'm gonna mess your settings up here. Hope that's okay. Yeah. Hello, everyone. Can we give it up to the Pearsons real quick for making that lovely meal tonight?

So good. That's really much better than I've ever made. So thank you so much, and you're welcome back anytime. If anybody wants to sign up, we're always looking for people to sign up for the Monday night meals and the connect hour. You can sign up right up on the board right here.

And a little shout out to my buddy, Mark, who's doing a fantastic job. That is such a stressful position. My job here is technology and communications director, and that terrifies me. I lose about two hours of sleep every Sunday morning. It it's true.

I did. And and, and so it's it's a lot of it's he's so great to be helping us out with that. You you laugh, but it it it wrecks me. So, anyway, we're so so thankful to be here. Pastor Carl will be back in two weeks after spring break.

Hopefully, he's really enjoying it, and thank you for, you know, being a part of our spring break here. It's really special. I just asked to be able to continue on James. Rather than try to be creative and think of my own something to speak of, I actually really like the continuation of just preaching through the Bible. And, also, it was remarkable as I was studying through this how much I needed to hear this.

So when I was trying to apply something else myself and force it, this is so much better. So we're gonna start, by just reading, what today's readings are. And what's neat about James is this they keep saying it's the gospel in work clothes. It's like, as you become a Christian, this is the these are the next steps. This is how we shape our lives and our attitudes and how we reflect on things, and it's it's, like, really mature stuff.

So I recommend if you get a chance to read the whole book of James, it doesn't take long to read the whole thing because a lot of this stuff keeps coming back. When they're writing the book, he just he'll mention something, and then he'll come back to it a little bit later, and it deepens it and kinda lets it sink in, which is it's kinda cool. So we'll read through it real quick. Oh, you know, I'm in charge of this, and I broke no. Okay.

There it is. Okay. My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak Slow to speak. That's a little joke right there.

And slow to become angry because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourself. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

But whoever, looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard but doing it, they will be blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves religious, yet you didn't do not keep a tight rein on their tongue, deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. It's a pretty heavy thing to say. Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world. That's a lot of good stuff.

I'm gonna pray real quick so we can get right. Lord God, thank you so much for your word and for letting us know what you expect of us. And I pray, lord, that our hearts would open, that we could see your word in a new way, exactly what it says today, lord, and help me to be able to to preach through this as rehearsed and to be able to to be listening to what you have to say, lord. But open up our and help us to to be able to receive it, Lord. In your holy name.

Amen. Okay. So we're gonna start out at the beginning here. My dear my dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Is anybody good at this? No. Okay. Got a couple smiles, couple shaking their heads. This is really hard, and I think especially as Americans, we struggle with this because we're supposed to have an answer right away.

Every opinion counts. Every opinion is just as important as everybody else's no matter how unfounded it may be. And then because of that, we can, become angry, and that anger allows us to speak and we get in these, like, cycles of speaking and then driving us to anger. By golly, I'm an American. I'm right, and I'm angry.

And we're kind of fed that. We're kind of fed more fire to be angry. Like, every day, there's another thing on the news that we're supposed to be angry about. And and I know even from the short time of working here, people come in all the time that just want us to be angry with them about something. And it's like, we're and you know what?

I I hope they were gonna be quick to listen on that. And I think how many times in our relationships would we have been better off to be quick to listen? Always. And if you don't think so, you're probably doing it wrong. Right?

Yeah. If you go straight to anger, you're probably really bringing up a situation when you could be calming it down. We have a lot to learn from each other when we spend time to really learn and slow down and slow down on the anger. And I think there's a lot of good Bible verses about anger in the Bible. We're gonna touch on a couple of them because I I think especially as American Christians, we're also driven to to be righteously angry about so many things.

Well, somebody offended me. It's my God given right to lash back out at them. And that's not really biblical to to let our anger draw us to lashing out or finding revenge. And here's some verses that kind of flesh this out a little bit. First Thessalonians five fifteen, make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Could you imagine not paying somebody back for something they did wrong to you? I mean, that would be really the right thing to do it right. We talk a lot about here about the pendulum swinging back and forth. You know, like, somebody starts an argument and then somebody counters with and raises the stakes on their side a little higher, so this person swings it a little higher their way, and it just keeps building on itself until you're taking revenge on each other. What it says here is, Jude, just stop.

Do what's good for that other person. And there's some more to help keep this flushing this out. Leviticus nineteen eighteen, do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. You're not even allowed to bear the grudge.

You know, crossing your arms, well, I didn't do anything, but I'm I'm never gonna talk to them again. You know? Like, that kind of thing. You you're not allowed to do that. Don't seek revenge against anyone, but love them.

We're supposed to pray for our enemies. That's part of Christianity. That's part of who we're supposed to be and what we're doing. That's, like, gospel and work clothes kind of stuff. That's a sobering moment to think that we need to love our enemies because at one time, we were enemies of God, and he forgave us.

And we're supposed to give that over to everybody else. Proverbs Proverbs twenty twenty twenty two says, do not say, I will pay you back for this wrong, but wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you. Could you imagine that? There's a lot of waiting in the Bible too. Like, you're like, oh God, here's the moment.

Strike them down. Here's the they did it. You could see it, boldface, and he doesn't do anything right away. God works slowly sometimes to work in you, to help refine you, to be able to learn how to forget, and to give them time. That's it's of one those beautiful things when as you get older, you start seeing people who maybe may not know the Lord until the last moment of their lives, and then you can rejoice.

God's working through all of that. Let him do the work while we continue to learn how to love and forgive. Romans, twelve nineteen says, do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, it is mine to avenge, I will repay, says the Lord. Again, it takes it out of our control.

We can give it up to God. And don't sit there the whole time and be like, oh, God's gonna get him. That's I don't think that's what his I don't think that's what this this whole meeting is for. It's for it's freedom for us. You don't have to hold on to it any any more.

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. That's kind of the conclusion of that first little the first little part. So we're gonna keep moving on. Therefore, since we're slow to speak and we're listening and all that, therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourself.

Do what it says. You all probably have something different that comes to mind when you think of moral filth. And a lot of us like to hold on to that little something that just you know, it's it's this one's gonna be okay. But really, like, when we can release that too, it's not gonna drive those other sins. Like, we're gonna we're gonna give that that stuff up to up to God, and we're not gonna be holding on to our anger and stuff anymore.

We have to, therefore, get rid of that moral filth that's prevalent. And then humbly, which is hard, realizing that none of us deserve this thing, humbly come to him and say, I need your help, and then accept that word. And we have to listen to that word and put it into action. Do what it says. This is hard.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. You can't sit on the sidelines and just be like, you know, wave your little flag. Can't wait for that team. You're on the field. That's that's the game.

Like, you have to apply that to yourself. There are no no bystanders. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone looking at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. Well, think of mirrors. It gives you the true reflection of who you really are.

Right? That's that's what you see in the mirror when you're standing in front of it is that true reflection, that honest look. And God has designed the Bible. This is one of the reasons why I'm I'm I'm a Christian is actually because I see that God has designed us to be in this way, and we operate better when we operate that way. Like, I'm a better person.

I feel better about myself. My relationships are better when I operate how God wants me to. Like, the mechanics work. It's it's your it's your handbook for that. So when I when I take that in, when I'm really looking at who I am, I'm supposed to carry that with me, not turn away, and then instantly sin.

And I'm totally guilty of that. I have literally read my Bible, stood up, and sinned. And it's just like, that didn't take very long. I'm guilty of this too. Like, this this is an ongoing process.

Right? But but but accept who you are, that honest reflection that we're sinners and that God has died for us and that we we need to accept that, that we're on the team, they're on the field, and then and then put it to action and not forget who we are. And Florian likes when I I bring little photos, so here's one that applies. He likes when I add something. Normally, it's a puppy and a kitten, and I also have a puppy and a kitten.

They're there. They're just there. They are there. It's to wake everybody back up, and welcome back to the sermon, and there are ducks too, just in case. Just that's a little something Flora Flori.

He's taught me a like that thing. Something leaven up, but don't forget don't forget your mirror, the monkey in the mirror. That's you guys. We're gonna keep going. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard but doing it, they will be blessed in what they do.

So look at this. Not only do we do we look into the law, but it's also we're gonna blessing for doing that. And I and I like that it says freedom because you're thinking, oh, the law. It's all these rules, all these expectations on us. I don't have any kids, but I was a school bus driver.

And so I know more about parenting than anybody, but no. Not really. Not really. But there but I kids operate well under rules. Right?

If you draw a boundary for them and they know where to play, they they know they're safe, they know how to grow, they can know how to expand. That's the kind of the same way for the law. Right? It gives us freedom because we know what God expects of us. It's not like he's some distant alien creature just staring at us, waiting us for make a mistake without telling us what to do.

He tells us what to do. He gives us a hint because it's also good for us, and it's pleasing to him. We know what to expect. We should look into that. We should shape our lives according to that.

And then guess what? He'll bless us for that. Doesn't say what that blessing is, but I'll tell you in my heart, it's just a a blessing to know that I'm connected to the Lord, that that's a part of of of who I am inherently. And here's here's that last little part. Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongue a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.

Religion, religion that God our father accepts is pure and faultless as this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. So, again, the this this part up here about, tongues, who do not keep a tight ring on their tongues deceive themselves. I'm sure all of us can think of evangelists or somebody we've seen on TV or somebody on the news claiming to be a Christian or even me who has not kept a tight, leash on their tongue, and it says their their religion is worthless. You can babble as much as you want to. It doesn't mean anything.

But I like that there's another gear here. It tells us what to expect. Right? What what God accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look orphans and widows, which, by the way, look after here, Carl helped me look it up. It actually, says to visit.

To visit is what it says. But in in this translation, it says look after, but in other places where it's used, it's to visit. So it's it's kind of an interesting little comparison there. To look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world. I don't know about you, but in Jackson, I can look around and see a lot of orphans.

Right? We're not a lot of us aren't technical orphans. Like, some of us still have our parents around, but there's people here who need you, people pouring in in here that need, you know, family, father, sons, you know, all that kind of stuff. They need somebody to gather around them. And there's a lot of great widows in this church and in this community that some of my favorite people, Jeanne Damarsh, if you're out there watching, Joni, your mom is one of my favorite people in the whole world.

Like, there's a lot of people you can just feed into right here, and that's doing God's work. And then you also have to keep yourself from being polluted by the world. So I'm a school bus. I was a school bus driver. I still have my license.

And one of the things they teach you when you're a school bus driver, if it's you're on an icy road and there's, you know, banks of snow on either side and there's obstacles all along the way, what you should do is pick an immovable object way out in the distance where you want to go, so like a mountain, and up at a specific place in that mountain, look at it far away and steer at that. Because when you hit the ice and you start to swerve, you're looking at the object you wanna steer towards, and you should steer towards it instinctively. Some people will say, you know, steer into the into the the curve or something like that. Don't do that. That's bad.

That's how you end up in the ditch. But look if if you're looking way out there and you steer it where you want to go, you will go there, and it's really spooky. Like, they put us on a track, and it was amazing how often that worked. But if you drive where you're only looking three feet ahead of you or four feet ahead of you, you're only gonna see an obstacle. You're gonna panic, and you're gonna swerve, you're gonna end up in that ditch immediately.

It's kind of the same way with with our walk with the Lord. If we're or even in in faith in general, if we're just always looking three feet ahead of us and not looking at Christ, if we're just looking every obstacle, we're gonna swerve and go into the ditch. We're gonna swerve and go into the ditch, and we're gonna live in those ditches. But if we're looking at God out in the distance, we can steer clearly and and faithfully towards that that immovable object to to God himself to know where he wants us to go. And there's a a dear friend of mine, somebody I really care a lot about, actually really likes these verses in in in James about orphans and widows and and brought to my attention Isaiah 58.

So we're gonna read through this real quick to try to give us a little bit more flushing out of this, but shouted aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. For day after day, they seek me out, and they seem eager to know my ways. I think this is interesting.

He the people do seek him out in this. Okay? This isn't a fake thing. Day after day, they seek me out, and they seem eager to know my ways as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken, the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near to them.

Why have we fasted, they say? And why have you not seen it? So they're looking for attention. It's like, God, you you you see these good things we're doing. Right?

These are the right things. I'm on I'm there on Sunday. I'm doing these things. I'm not eating. I'm I'm fasting.

We have humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed. Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit your workers. Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife and is striking each other with wicked fists against there's some anger in there. Right? We can see that.

You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Right? Is this the kind of is this the kind of fasting I have chosen? Only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?

Is that why you call a fast a day acceptable to the Lord? Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen? So here's here's the opposite. Okay? This is what he wants.

Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen? To loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter? We see a lot of those around here. And when you see the naked, you to clothe them and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood.

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly quickly appear. And then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, the Lord will answer, and you will cry for help, and he will say, here am I. Pretty great promises, by the way. I'm, like, super thrilled about these promises.

If you do away with the yoke of oppression and the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in darkness and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always and you will satisfy your needs in the sunscorched land, and you will strengthen your frame. You'll be well like a well watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Pretty amazing promises here that the Lord offers to us. Right?

I'm just gonna back up to that last one in case anybody wants to read anymore. But if we do away with the anger and the religiosity and the the little catchphrases and we do the work of God and we allow the word of God to shape who we are, like, it doesn't say in here, you know, feed someone until they unless they have a forty hour a week job and then they don't need your help anymore or any of that kind of stuff. There's no qualifiers. It just says do it. And that's hard.

I especially as an American, that literally is my job at First Baptist Church, by the way, is to to help give away some of the money from the benevolence fund. And it's hard, but, like, through some of our our our guidelines and verses like this, it's like, open those hands up. Help somebody. If somebody needs to be towed out of a snowbank, tow them out of the snowbank. If somebody needs something, just do it.

Like, be there for them. And that's different than our me centric Christianity of The United States, right, where I should come first, where my my hot button, you know, issues, if they don't get raised on Sunday, like, event you know? No. No. It's like be doing the work.

Be put those gospel work clothes on, quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. It's a lot, but it's really beautiful. We see God's promises for blessings to us. If we get off of the sidelines, if we join the team and say, I'm in. I want a part of this.

I wanna be part of God's work. We're gonna, get a little bit more of this next week. I highly recommend reading the book of James if you get the opportunity because he these themes keep coming back more and more. And I think if you revisit Isaiah 58 too, when you mix that in there, you're gonna see a lot of the melding, a lot of the ways they kind of fit together. But I'm gonna pray real quick.

If anybody wants to talk, always come in. You're always welcome. If you're online, feel free to call from wherever you're at. And I just want you to know that we we wanna do what we can to help you and to help you open up your hands. And please do that with me too.

Help me to to be able to open up my hands as we work together for the Lord. Lord God, thank you so much for who you are and that you operate differently than we do, lord, because our ways don't work. Lord, would you would you help us to to see who we're supposed to be? Would you reflect back to us the image that we should hold on to today? Lord, if if we're holding on to some kind of moral filth that we shouldn't be to, if if we're lusting after somebody, if we're greedy or or whatever the sin would be might be, lord, help us to untangle that and help us to see our neighbors who need help, lord, the less the the least of these, lord, the the orphans and widows that we need to be helping out, lord.

Would you help us to have the time to do that and the wherewithal? Would you help us to be connected with the people who need that, Lord? Help us to open up our bedrooms that are extra that's sitting around so that all the people who need a place to live might have a place to live. Whatever it is, Lord God, help us to get off of the grandstands and onto the field to be active participants with your kingdom, lord. Thank you so much for your salvation and for letting us know what you expect of us, lord, and help us to be good stewards of that in your holy name.

Amen. Amen. Thanks, gang. We'll see you next week.

The question is more? The question is

more. Check. Yeah. Does anybody wanna say anything? I'm sorry.

We normally have a gospel conversation where if something struck you or was even inspired by if God's just speaking to you and it doesn't have anything to do with what we said today, feel free to raise your hand. Sorry, I'm new at this part. So if anybody wants to speak, yeah, feel free to share.

I would just say something that kind of stood out to me and something I would say was, yeah, I guess you could say convicted of. And something I've been convicted of, I think, recently is just the anger portion. And I forget the exact verse in the wording, but just the, you know, the the anger. Because there's been a couple things in my life where I've just couple relationships, couple dynamics where I've just been, like, becoming jaded, kinda bitter, cynical, and just angry. And I was talking to some friends about it recently, and was even like driving back from, you know, like where it was happening, and I was like, man, this this doesn't feel good, and this doesn't feel right.

Just I I don't think this is not I haven't necessarily, like, acted out, like, out of anger or sinned against anyone yet, but I was just like, this is definitely not my thoughts and my attitudes are not honoring to God. They're not they're not Christ like. So that's something I've had to, I guess, just kind of released to God recently and something I'm kind of I've noticed I'm struggling with more these days. I don't know. I'm not sure why exactly, but yeah, this the anger is definitely like that.

It's a good reminder. You're being slow to anger, quick to listen. Also, I think I've struggled with that too sometimes as well. So, just a good reminder. Yeah,

good reminders. Anybody else? Okay, Pastor Rick.

The the time between the time between when we think God should act and the time that he does is seems to come up a lot. And it it it was coming up the slow to speak, slow to become angry, quick to listen. So listening out for what God is saying, I think, is important. But listening to what the other person is saying is really important too. You don't know where they are until you hear their point of view.

And you can't really have a meaningful conversation unless you know where they're coming from. A bridge between is you need to know where you're trying to Right? You need need need to know that. But what came up when you were speaking, like everything you said was fantastic. I love loved everything that you said.

I love James. It's so practical and so helpful and it nails us every time that we really take it seriously from the first chapter all the way through. And what I what I was thinking of from Peter is that the Lord is not slack concerning his promise. He's he is not slack. He knows and he acts accordingly.

And so when he's not acting yet, we have to find ourselves as there's a there's a place where David prayed and he said, will not my lord do what is right? And if we have confidence in God and in his absolute power and his absolute understanding and he knows what is best. If we have that kind of confidence in him, we can get through the point when we think he ought to act. We can we can have the attitude of will not my lord do what is right and your ways are above our ways and we trust you. So, one thing my mother used to quote pretty regularly to me and I think I've said it on a Sunday morning but it's Psalm one nineteen one sixty five and it'll be a paraphrase, not exact translation but great peace have those that love your law, oh Lord, such that nothing shall be able to offend them.

Think about that. We we want to carry an offense all the time But if we really have extreme confidence in an extreme God, we can relax and let him deal with it. Let him deal with the evil and draw evil people to himself. And if we would be less angry and quicker to listen and slower to speak, then we we might actually be more appealing to people. So anyway, another one, Blake's not here to speak for himself and hasn't called in as far as I know.

But the first Sunday that Blake came to this church, that was the sermon. That was the the week and he said, I had all, I'm gonna speak for him. He said, I always felt like I talked too much and that I didn't need to do that and that was a sermon and he said it was like God was speaking directly to me and it made a profound difference in his life that he took that verse seriously and tried to put it into practice and you could start small. You know, you don't have to do everything all at once immediately. But if God's touching your heart with a particular verse that says, you need to listen to this.

Listen to that. Put it into action. And it's amazing where he will where he'll he'll take you. You know, the journey that Florine was talking about. The other one that I scribbled down was Micah six eight.

I have told you, oh mortal, what is required of you. Just to live justly and walk humbly with the Lord your God. It's beautiful. That's all I got. Anybody else?

Thank you, Nick, for taking the time to prepare and preach. So beautiful. Thank you. It's very good. The Lord spoke to me, honestly.

Not too long ago, I had a long conversation with my brother. Forty minutes, maybe more of your little, and it was fire. Fire this way, fire coming back on the phone. No. You did this.

No. You did this. No. You're supposed to do this. It took so much energy out of me.

I I was I have to drain. Drain. Drain so bad. And in the end, Vioretta looked at me and said, woah. I never heard you talking that loud.

And I said, only on the phone because he's not present. But then I was thinking, Lord, how what how am I supposed to act like a Christian? I can't get him to the place to to think as I want him to think. I want to, but it's impossible, at least for now. But I said, how am I supposed to walk?

And I and I went for a walk praying. I said, Lord, like I said, I said too many things, and if you would be next to me, probably I wouldn't say that. But the problem is, how come I was not aware that you was literally next to me? Amen. And thank you.

Thank you for preaching so good. The Lord touched my heart.

Amen. The one other thing that you said, is the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Like, you can't get them there by being angry. You Yes. You're not you can't do it.

That's what I'm can't saying. Anger someone into the kingdom. You can. You you can love them. Yeah.

And you can win them over by your service. I mean, it says that an unbelieving husband, the best chance he has is the quiet witness of a loving wife. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah.

You can love a man.

Let's sing nothing but the blood. It's a perfect song after this sermon. And this the blood that is available for us, it's it's available for all other people that do not agree with us or we don't see the we don't have the same view. So let's sing with all our heart, and let's be thankful for the all precious is the flow. Amen?

Nothing but the blind of Jesus. May the Lord bless you. May you have a great week with Jesus. Amen. Amen.