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Disciple Up # 216 The State of the American Church & Me! By Louie Marsh, 6-23-2021   “1“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2“ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 3I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. 4But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'” (Revelation 2:1–7, ESV)   I listened to a podcast today on Christianity Today website called, The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill, you can click the link below to check it out and can subscribe to this podcast on all the usual places.   https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/who-killed-mars-hill-church-mark-driscoll-rise-fall.html   Necessity of judging (check out my sermon on Judging Like Jesus Judged if that bothers you: http://riverchurchparker.com/sermons/08-the-gospel-of-john-1-7-judge-like-jesus-judges/ ) our spiritual state.   My own growth and health My family's (if I have one) My small group or ministry (if I have one) My church's health.   “1“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. 6“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” (Matthew 7:1–6, ESV)   “12Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 15But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 16Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 17For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” 19Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.” (1 Peter 4:12–19, ESV)  

The Gospel of John 1-7: Part 8: Judge Like Jesus Judges By Louie Marsh, 6-6-2021     1) Judge PROPERLY   Not SUPERFICIALLY   “24Do not judge by appearances… (John 7:24a, ESV)   Appearance (ὄψιν). Primarily, seeing or sight. In 11:44; Apoc. 1:16, face, and hence external appearance. The word occurs only in the three passages cited.   “1“Judge not, that you be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1, ESV)   Use a TRUE STANDARD of judgement.   …but judge with right judgment.”” (John 7:24b, ESV)   . 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. (Matthew 7:2, ESV)   EXAMINE yourself first, then others   3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3, ESV)   APPLY it to yourself before giving others advice or criticism   4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? (Matthew 7:4, ESV)   2) To do otherwise is HYPOCRISY   5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:5, ESV)   Without judgement there is no…   TRUTH “57“And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? 58As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.” (Luke 12:57–58, ESV)   JUSTICE   “15“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.” (Leviticus 19:15, ESV)   PEACE   “13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” (Romans 15:13, ESV)   ASSURANCE   “12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” (1 John 5:12–13, ESV)   3) To follow Jesus you must JUDGE.   Otherwise I can't DISCERN good from evil.   6“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” (Matthew 7:6, ESV)   I can't OBEY Scripture without proper judgement.   “1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,” (1 John 4:1–2, ESV)  

Do You Have A Plank In Your Eye That Isn’t Allowing You To Love Like Jesus? Matthew 7:1 - 5 1“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Sane PerceptionI. The Need to StudyAll learning involves attention and study at some level. 2This course is a mind-training course. 3Good students assign study periods for themselves. 4However, since this obvious step may not have occurred to you and since we are cooperating in this, I urge you to make the obvious assignment now.1 5You may understand the need to study this course yet still not realize that many of the problems you keep being faced with may already have been solved here. 6Perhaps you do not think of the course in this way at all. 7Or perhaps you do from time to time, but then think the answer is probably in here and do not look it up. 8You vaguely know that the course is intended for some sort of preparation. 9But are you prepared?2 Mental retardation is a defense which, like the others (with the exception of the Atonement), can be used on behalf of error or truth, as elected.2 2When it occurs in the literal sense, it is a temporary device, agreed on beforehand, to check the miscreative activities of a strong but misdirected will. 3The lesson involves not only the individual himself but also his parents, siblings, and all of those who come in close relations with him. 4The person himself is a poor learner by definition, but only as a step toward changing from a bad to a good one.3 Mental retardation can also be used, however, as a maladaptive defense, if the wrong (or attack) side is employed. 2This produces the “pseudo-retardation syndrome,” which is justly classified as a psychiatric (or disturbed-level) symptom.3 3You may well be using this defense as you read this course. 4This represents a joint attack on both yourself and me, because it renders your mind weak and mine incompetent.4 5Remember, this puts you in a truly fearful position. 6If you cannot understand either your own mind or mine, you do not know what is really willed. 7It is thus impossible to avoid behavior-will conflict (as defined before), because even if you acted according to will, you wouldn’t know it.54 The next part of this course rests too heavily on the earlier part not to require its study.6 2Without this, you will become much too fearful when the unexpected does occur to make constructive use of it.7 3However, as you study the earlier part, you will see some of the obvious implications, unless you still persist in misusing the defense of mental retardation. 4Please remember that its constructive use, described above, is hardly a real part of your own real equipment. 5It is a particularly inappropriate defense as you use it, and I can only urge you to avoid it.5 The reason why a solid foundation is necessary at this point is because of the highly likely confusion of “fearful” and “awesome,” which most people do make. 2You will remember that we said once before that awe is inappropriate in connection with the Sons of God, because you should not experience awe in the presence of your own equals.8 3But it was emphasized that awe is a proper reaction of the Son in the presence of his Creator.96 So far, this course has had only indirect recourse to God and rarely even refers to Him directly. 2I have emphasized that awe is not appropriate in connection with me, because of our inherent equality.10 3I have been careful to clarify my own role in the Atonement, without either over- or understating it.11 4I have tried to do exactly the same thing in connection with yours.12 5The next step, however, does involve the direct approach to God Himself. 6It would be most unwise to start on this step at all without very careful preparation, or awe will surely be confused with fear, and the experience will be more traumatic than beatific.7 Healing is of God in the end. 2The means are carefully explained in this course. 3Revelation may occasionally show you the end, but to reach it the means are needed.13

Third Sunday of Easter The Collect: O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. First Lesson: Acts 3:12-19 12When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, ‘You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 13The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. 14But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 15and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 16And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. 17 ‘And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 19Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, Psalm: Psalm 4 1 Answer me when I call, O God, defender of my cause; *        you set me free when I am hard-pressed;        have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 2 “You mortals, how long will you dishonor my glory; *        how long will you worship dumb idols        and run after false gods?” 3 Know that the Lord does wonders for the faithful; *        when I call upon the Lord, he will hear me. 4 Tremble, then, and do not sin; *        speak to your heart in silence upon your bed. 5 Offer the appointed sacrifices *        and put your trust in the Lord. 6 Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see better times!” *        Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord. 7 You have put gladness in my heart, *        more than when grain and wine and oil increase. 8 I lie down in peace; at once I fall asleep; *        for only you, Lord, make me dwell in safety. Epistle: 1 John 3:1-7 1See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. 3And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. 4 Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.5You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. 7Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. Gospel: Luke 24:36b-48 36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.' 37They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. 38He said to them, ‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.' 40And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?' 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate in their presence. 44 Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.' 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things.

Psalm 8:1-9 1Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.9Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Adoration For God! Is He Who You Adore Exodus 20:4 - 6 4“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

XI. The Basic ConflictYou are willing to accept primarily what does not change your mind too much, and leaves you free to leave it quite unguarded most of the time. 2You persist in believing that when you do not consciously watch your mind, it is unmindful. 3It is time to consider the whole world of the unconscious, or unwatched mind. 4This will frighten you because it is the source of fright. 5You may look at it as a new theory of basic conflict if you wish, which will not be entirely an intellectual approach, because I doubt if the truth will escape you entirely.1282 The unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious which lies above the miracle level.129 2All psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution to the truth in this connection, but none of them has seen it in its true entirety.3 Jung’s best contribution was an awareness of individual versus collective unconscious levels. 2He also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. 3His archetypes were also meaningful concepts. 4But his major error lay in regarding the deepest level of the unconscious as shared in terms of content.1304 The deepest level of the unconscious is shared as an ability.131 2As miracle-mindedness, the content—or the particular miracles which an individual happens to perform—does not matter at all. 3They will, in fact, be entirely different, since I direct them, because I make a point of avoiding redundancy. 4Unless a miracle actually heals, it is not a miracle at all.132 5The content of the miracle level is not recorded in the individual’s unconscious because if it were, the miracle would not be automatic or involuntary, which we have said repeatedly that it should be.133 6However, the content is a matter for the record, which is not within the individual himself.5 All psychoanalysts made one common error, in that they attempted to uncover unconscious content. 2You cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms, because “content” is applicable only to the more superficial unconscious levels to which the individual himself contributes. 3This is the level at which he can readily introduce fear, and usually does.6 Freud was right in calling this level “preconscious,” and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between preconscious and conscious material.134 2He was also right in regarding the censor as an agent for the protection of consciousness from fear.135 3His major error lay in his insistence that the preconscious is necessary at all in the psychic structure. 4If the psyche contains fearful levels from which it cannot escape without splitting, its integration is permanently threatened. 5It is essential not to control the fearful but to eliminate it.7 Here, Rank’s concept of the will was particularly good, except that he preferred to ally it only with humanity’s own truly creative ability, but did not extend it to its proper union with God’s.136 2His “birth trauma,” another valid idea, was also too limited, in that it did not refer to the separation, which was really a false idea of birth.137 3Physical birth is not a trauma in itself. 4It can, however, remind the individual of the separation, which was a very real cause of fear.8 The idea of “will therapy” was potentially a very powerful one,138 but Rank did not see its real potential because he himself used his mind partly to create a theory of the mind, but also partly to attack Freud. 2His reactions to Freud stemmed from his own unfortunate acceptance of the deprivation fallacy, which itself arose from the separation. 3This led him to believe that his own mind’s creation could stand only if the creation of another’s fell. 4In consequence, his theory emphasized rather than minimized the two-edged nature of defenses. 5This is an outstanding characteristic of his concepts, because it was outstandingly true of him. 6He also misinterpreted the birth trauma in a way that made it inevitable for him to attempt a therapy whose goal was to abolish fear.139 7This is characteristic of all later theorists, who do not attempt, as Freud did in his own form of therapy, to split off the fear.9 No one as yet has fully recognized either the therapeutic value of fear or the only way in which it can truly be ended. 2When you miscreate, you are in pain. 3The cause and effect principle here is temporarily a real expeditor. 4Actually, Cause is a term properly belonging to God, and Effect, which should also be capitalized, is His Sonship. 5This entails a set of cause and effect relationships which are totally different from those which humanity introduced into the miscreation.10 The fundamental opponents in the real basic conflict are creation and miscreation. 2All fear is implicit in the second, just as all love is inherent in the first. 3Because of this difference, the basic conflict is one between love and fear.11 So much, then, for the true nature of the major opponents in the basic conflict. 2Since all such theories lead to a form of therapy in which redistribution of psychic energy results, it is necessary to consider our concept of psychic energy next.140 3In this respect, Freud was more accurate than his followers, who were essentially more wishful. 4Energy can emanate from both creation and miscreation, and the particular ratio between them which prevails at a given point in time does determine the behavior at that time. 5If miscreation did not engender energy in its own right, it would be unable to produce destructive behavior, which it very patently does.12 Everything that you make has energy because, like the creations of God, it comes from energy and is endowed by its maker with the power to make. 2Miscreation is still a genuine creative act in terms of the underlying impulse, but not in terms of the content of what is made. 3This does not deprive what is made of its own creative power. 4It does, however, guarantee that the power will be misused, or used fearfully.13 To deny this is merely the previously mentioned fallacy of depreciation.141 2Although Freud made a number of fallacies of his own, he did avoid this one in connection with psychic energy. 3The later theorists denied the split-energy concept, not by attempting to heal it, but by reinterpreting it instead of redistributing it.142 4This placed them in the illogical position of assuming that the split which their therapies were intended to heal had not occurred. 5The result of this approach is essentially a form of hypnosis.143 6This is quite different from Freud’s approach, which merely ended in a deadlock.14414 A similar deadlock occurs when both the power of creation and of miscreation coexist. 2This is experienced as conflict only because the individual feels as if both were occurring at the same level. 3He believes in what he has miscreated in his own unconscious, and he naturally believes it is real because he has made it. 4He thus places himself in a position where the fearful becomes real. 5Nothing but level confusion can result as long as this belief is held in any form.15 Inappropriate denial and equally inappropriate identification of the real factors in the basic conflict will not solve the problem itself. 2The conflict cannot disappear until it is fully recognized that miscreation is not real, and therefore there is no conflict. 3This entails a full realization of the basic fact that, although you have miscreated in a very genuine sense, you need neither continue to do so nor to suffer from your past errors in this respect.16 A redistribution of psychic energy, then, is not the solution. 2Both the idea that both kinds must exist and the belief that one kind is amenable for use or misuse are real distortions. 3The only way out is to stop miscreating now, and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past. 4Only this can reestablish true single-mindedness.14517 The structure of the psyche follows along the lines of the particular libido concept the theorist employs.146 2Freud’s psyche was essentially a good and evil picture, with very heavy weight given to the evil. 3This is because every time I mentioned the Atonement to him, which was quite often, he responded by defending his theory more and more against it. 4This resulted in his increasingly strong attempts to make the illogical sound more and more logical. 5I was very sorry about this, because his was a singularly good mind, and it was a shame to waste it.18 However, the major purpose of his incarnation was not neglected. 2He did succeed in forcing recognition of the unconscious into humanity’s calculations about itself, a step in the right direction which should not be minimized. 3Freud was one of the most religious men I have known recently. 4Unfortunately, he was so afraid of religion that the only way he could deal with it was to regard it (not himself) as sick.147 5This naturally prevented healing.19 Freud’s superego is a particularly interesting example of the real power of miscreation. 2It is noteworthy throughout the whole development of his theories that the superego never allied itself with freedom. 3The most it could do in this direction was to work out a painful truce in which both opponents lost.148 4This perception could not fail to force him to emphasize discontent in his view of civilization.14920 The Freudian id is really only the more superficial level of the unconscious and not the deepest level at all.150 2This, too, was inevitable, because Freud could not divorce miracles from magic. 3It was therefore his constant endeavor (even preoccupation) to keep on thrusting more and more material between consciousness and the real deeper level of the unconscious, so that the latter became increasingly obscured. 4The result was a kind of bedlam, in which there was no order, no control, and no sense. 5This was exactly how he felt about it.

IX. The Correction of FearYou believe that being afraid is involuntary. 2But I have told you many times that only constructive acts should be involuntary.105 3I said that Christ-control can take over everything that doesn’t matter, and Christ-guidance can direct everything that does, if you so will.1062 Fear cannot be Christ-controlled, but it can be self-controlled. 2Fear is always associated with what does not matter, and prevents me from controlling it. 3The correction is therefore a matter of your will, because its presence shows that you have raised the unimportant to a higher level than it warrants. 4You have thus brought it under your will, where it does not belong. 5This means you feel responsible for it. 6The level confusion here is perfectly obvious. 7The reason that I cannot control fear for you is that you are attempting to raise to the mind level the proper content of lower-order “reality.”107 8I do not foster level confusion, but you can will to correct it.3 You would not tolerate insane behavior on your part, and would hardly advance the excuse that you could not help it. 2Why should you tolerate insane thinking? 3There is a fallacy here you would do well to look at clearly. 4You believe that you are responsible for what you do but not for what you think. 5The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. 6What you do comes from what you think. 7You cannot separate the two by giving autonomy to your behavior. 8Behavior is controlled by me automatically as soon as you place what you think under my guidance.4 Whenever you are afraid, it is a sure sign that you have allowed your mind to miscreate; that is, you have not allowed me to guide it. 2It is pointless to believe that controlling the outcome of misthought can result in real healing. 3When you are fearful, you have willed wrongly. 4This is why you feel you are responsible for it. 5You must change your mind, not your behavior, and this is a matter of will. 6You do not need guidance except at the mind level. 7Correction belongs only at the level where causation is possible. 8The term does not really mean anything at the symptom level, where it cannot work.5 The correction of fear is your responsibility. 2When you ask for release from fear, you are implying that it isn’t. 3You should ask, instead, for help in the conditions which have brought the fear about. 4This always entails a willingness on the part of your separated mind. 5At this level, you can help it. 6You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, thus tacitly condoning your mind’s miscreations. 7The particular result never matters, but this fundamental error does. 8The fundamental correction is always the same. 9Before you will to do anything, ask me if your will is in accord with mine. 10If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear.6 Fear is always a sign of strain, which arises whenever the will to do conflicts with what you do. 2This situation arises in two major ways:1. 3You can will to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively.108 4This produces conflicting behavior, which would be tolerable to the self (though not necessarily to others) except for the fact that the part of the will that wants something else is outraged.2. 5You can behave as you think you should, without entirely willing to do so. 6This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain within the self.7 If you think about it, you will realize that in both cases the will and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do not will. 2This arouses a sense of coercion, which usually produces rage. 3The anger then invades the mind, and projection in the wrong sense becomes likely.109 4Depression or anxiety is virtually certain.8 Remember that whenever there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind. 2Your will is split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic. 3Correcting at the behavioral level can shift the error from the first type to the second, but will not obliterate the fear. 4It is possible to reach a state in which you bring your will under my guidance without much conscious effort, but this implies the kind of habit pattern which you have not developed dependably as yet.9 Although people say that God will never ask you to do more than you can, they do not understand it themselves. 2God cannot ask more than you will. 3The strength to do comes from your own undivided will to do.110 4There is no strain in doing God’s will as soon as it is also your own.10 The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be overlooked. 2I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen. 3Only your mind can produce fear. 4It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wills, thus producing inevitable strain because willing and doing become discordant.111 5This cannot be corrected by better doing. 6But it can be corrected by higher willing.11 The first corrective step is knowing it is fear. 2After taking this step, you might benefit temporarily by adding another step before going on with the corrective process: Try saying to yourself that you must have willed not to love somehow or somewhere, or the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have happened. 3Then follow the previous instructions.11212 If you consider what the process really means, it is nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. 2From this viewpoint, the steps can be reworded as follows:1. 3Know first this is fear.2. 4Fear arises from lack of love.3. 5The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.4. 6Perfect love is the Atonement.7The final procedural step is inherent in the last statement.113 8We have emphasized that the miracle, or the expression of Atonement, is always a sign of real respect from the worthy to the worthy.114 9This worth is reestablished by the Atonement.13 It is obvious, then, that when you are afraid, you have placed yourself in a position where you need Atonement because you have done something loveless, having willed without love. 2This is precisely the situation for which the Atonement was offered. 3The need for the remedy inspired its establishment. 4As long as you recognize only the need for the remedy, you will remain fearful. 5However, as soon as you use the remedy, you have also abolished the fear. 6This is how true healing occurs.14 It may help if you say this prayer to me:2I would like to pray that my will be united with thine, recognizing that thy perfect love will suffice (or correct) for my imperfect love.3I pray that I may accept the Atonement with conviction, recognizing its inestimable worth, and my own divine worth as part of this identification with thine.4I pray that my fear be replaced by an active sense of thy love, and thy continual willingness to help me overcome the split or divided will which is responsible for my difficulty with this.5I accept the divinity of the messages I have received,115 and affirm my will in both accepting and acting upon the Atonement principle.6Here I am.15 The major problem that you have is the continuing split will, which naturally interferes with your true identification. 2To the extent that you hold onto this split, it will take longer to get through and will markedly interfere with your own integration efforts. 3Reliance has to be placed on me, which is sufficient once you do this without distantiation or division in loyalties. 4This will be strengthened through a continual affirmation of the goal you want to achieve and an awareness of its inevitability. 5In this way, you will perceive and know your true worth, and the importance of maintaining a complete identification.

This week's sermon is on the Old Testament Reading from Exodus chapter 20: Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. 8 Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9For six days you shall labour and do all your work. 10But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. 12 Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 13 You shall not murder. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You shall not steal. 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. 17 You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour. [NRSV]

VII. The Miracle as the Means of HealingThe new emphasis will now be on healing. 2The miracle is the means, the Atonement the principle, and the healing is the result. 3Those who speak of “the miracle of healing” are combining two orders of reality inappropriately. 4Healing is not a miracle. 5The Atonement, or the final miracle, is purely a means, while any type of healing is a result.2 Atonement is the remedy. 2The degree of error to which it is applied is irrelevant. 3Essentially, all healing is the release from fear. 4But to undertake this you cannot be fearful yourself. 5You do not understand healing because of your own fear. 6I have been hinting throughout that you must heal others.89 7The reason is that their healing merely witnesses to yours.3 A major step in the Atonement plan is to undo error at all levels. 2Illness, which is really “not-right-mindedness,” is the result of level confusion in the sense that it always entails the belief that what is amiss in one level can adversely affect another. 3We have constantly referred to miracles as the means of correcting level confusion.90 4In reality, all mistakes must be corrected at the level at which they occur.4 Only the mind is capable of error. 2The body can act erroneously, but this is only because it has responded to misthought. 3The body cannot create, and to believe that it can, a fundamental error responsible for most of the fallacies already referred to, produces all physical symptoms.5 All physical illness represents a belief in magic. 2The whole distortion which made magic rested on the belief that there is a creative ability in matter, which can control the mind. 3This fallacy can work either way; that is, it can be believed either that the mind can miscreate in the body or that the body can miscreate in the mind. 4If it can be made clear that the mind, which is the only level of causation, cannot generate effects beyond itself, then neither confusion need occur.6 The reason why only the mind can make or create is more obvious than may be immediately apparent. 2Spirit has been created. 3The body is a learning device for the mind. 4Learning devices are not lessons in themselves. 5Their purpose is merely to facilitate the thinking of the learner. 6The most that a faulty use of a learning device can do is to fail to facilitate learning. 7It does not have the power in itself to introduce actual learning errors.91 8The body, if properly understood, shares the invulnerability of the Atonement to two-edged application. 9This is not because the body is a miracle, but because it is not inherently open to misinterpretation.7 The body is merely a fact in this world. 2Its abilities can be, and frequently are, overevaluated. 3However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world. 4Those who do are engaging in a particularly unworthy form of denial. 5The use of the word “unworthy” here implies simply that it is not necessary to protect the mind by denying the unmindful. 6There is little doubt that the mind can miscreate. 7If one denies this unfortunate aspect of its power, one is also denying the power itself.928 All material means which you accept as remedies for bodily ills are simply restatements of magic principles. 2It was the first level of the error to believe that the body created its own illness. 3Thereafter, it is a second misstep to attempt to heal it through noncreative agents. 4It does not follow, however, that the application of these very weak corrective devices is evil. 5Sometimes the illness has sufficiently great a hold over an individual’s mind to render him inaccessible to Atonement. 6In this case, one may be wise to utilize a compromise approach to mind and body, in which something from the outside is temporarily given healing belief.9 This is because the last thing that can help the non-right-minded (or the sick) is an increase in fear. 2They are already in a fear-weakened state. 3If they are inappropriately exposed to a straight and undiluted miracle, they may be precipitated into panic. 4This is particularly likely to occur when upside-down perception has induced the belief that miracles are frightening.10 The value of the Atonement does not lie in the manner in which it is expressed. 2In fact, if it is truly used it will inevitably be expressed in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver, not the giver. 3This means that a miracle, to attain its full efficacy, must be expressed in a language which the recipient can understand without fear. 4It does not follow by any means that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable. 5But it does mean that it is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now. 6The whole aim of the miracle is to raise the level of communication, not to impose regression (in the improper sense) upon it.11 Before it is safe to let miracle workers loose in this world, it is essential that they understand fully the fear of release. 2Otherwise, they may unwittingly foster the belief that release is imprisonment, which is very prevalent. 3This misperception arose from the attempted protection device (or misused defense) that harm can be limited to the body. 4This was because of the much greater fear (which this one counteracts) that the mind can hurt itself.93 5Neither error is really meaningful, because the miscreations of the mind do not really exist. 6That recognition is a far better protection device than any form of level confusion, because of the advantages of introducing correction at the level of the error.12 It is essential that the remembrance remain with you that only mind can make or create. 2Implicit in this is the corollary that correction belongs at the thought level and not at either level to which correction is inapplicable. 3To repeat an earlier statement, and also to extend it somewhat, spirit is already perfect and therefore does not require correction. 4The body does not really exist, except as a learning device for the mind. 5This learning device is not subject to errors of its own, because it was made but does not make.94 6It should be obvious, then, that correcting the maker (or inducing it to give up miscreation) is the only application of creative power which is inherently meaningful at all.13 We said before that magic is essentially mindless, or the destructive (miscreative) use of mind.95 2Physical medicines are a form of “spells.” 3In one way, they are a more benign form, in that they do not entail the possession fallacy, which does enter when a mind believes that it can possess another. 4Since this is considerably less dangerous, though still incorrect, it has its advantages.96 5It is particularly helpful to the therapist who really wants to heal, but is still fearful himself. 6By using physical means to do so, he is not engaging in any form of enslavement, even though he is not applying the Atonement. 7This means that his mind is dulled by fear, but is not actively engaged in distortion.14 Those who are afraid of using the mind to heal are right in avoiding it, because the very fact that they are afraid has made them vulnerable to miscreation. 2They are therefore likely to misunderstand any healing they might induce and, because egocentricity and fear usually occur together, may be unable to accept the real Source of the healing. 3Under these conditions, it is safer for them to rely temporarily on physical healing devices, because they cannot misperceive them as their own creations. 4As long as their own vulnerability persists, it is essential to preserve them from even attempting miracles.

III. The Proper Use of Denial48When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. 2Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also.49 3This means that you believe in what you value. 4If you are afraid, you are valuing wrongly. 5Human understanding will inevitably value wrongly, and by endowing all human thoughts with equal power will inevitably destroy peace. 6That is why the Bible speaks of the peace of God which passeth (human) understanding.50 7This peace is totally incapable of being shaken by human errors of any kind. 8It denies the ability of anything which is not of God to affect you in any way.2 This is the proper use of denial. 2It is not used to hide anything, but it is used to correct error. 3It brings all error into the light, and since error and darkness are the same, it abolishes error automatically. 4True denial is a very powerful protective device. 5You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. 6This kind of denial is not a concealment device but a correction device. 7The right mind of the mentally healthy depends on it.3 You can do anything I ask. 2I have asked you to perform miracles, and have made it very clear that these are natural, corrective, healing, and universal.51 3There is nothing good they cannot do. 4But they cannot be performed in the spirit of doubt. 5You have asked yourself why you cannot really incorporate my words. 6But remember my own question before you ask yours: “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?”524 The idea of cannibalism in connection with the Sacrament is a reflection of a distorted view of sharing.53 2I told you before that the word “thirst” in connection with the Spirit was used because of the limited understanding of those to whom I spoke. 3I also told you not to use it.54 4The same holds for expressions like “feeding on.” 5Symbiosis is misunderstood by the mentally ill, who do use it in that way.555 But I also told you that you must recognize your total dependence on God, a statement which you may not have liked.56 2God and the Sons He created are symbiotically related. 3They are completely dependent on each other. 4The creation of the Son himself has already been perfectly accomplished, but the creation by Sons has not. 5God created Sons so He could depend on them because He created them perfectly. 6He gave them His peace so they would not be shaken and would be unable to be deceived.6 Whenever you are afraid, you are deceived. 2Your mind is not serving your soul. 3This literally starves the soul by denying its daily bread.57 4In this connection, there is a poem about the Holy Family that says:5Where tricks of words are never said,And Mercy is as plain as bread.587 God offers only mercy. 2Your own words should always reflect only mercy, because that is what you have received and that is what you should give. 3Justice is a temporary expedient, or an attempt to teach you the meaning of mercy. 4Its judgmental side arises only because you are capable of injustice if that is what your mind makes.8 You are afraid of God’s will because you have used your own will, which He created in the likeness of His Own, to miscreate.59 2What you do not realize is that the mind can miscreate only when it is not free. 3An imprisoned mind is not free by definition. 4It is possessed, or held back, by itself. 5Its will is therefore limited, and not free to assert itself.9 It is all right to remember the past, provided you also remember that anything you suffer is because of your own errors. 2As an analogy, imagine a very young child who falls down the stairs when an adult has her arms open in welcome at the bottom of the stairs, and who then develops a totally unwarranted fear of that adult. 3The misstep which causes the child’s fall has nothing at all to do with the adult, just as your own missteps have nothing at all to do with me.10 Denial of error is a very powerful defense of truth. 2We have slowly been shifting the emphasis from the negative to the positive use of denial. 3Remember, we have already stated that denial is not a purely negative device; it results in positive miscreation.60 4That is the way the mentally ill do employ it. 5But remember this thought: Never underestimate the power of denial. 6In the service of the right mind, the denial of error frees the mind and reestablishes the freedom of the will. 7When the will is really free it cannot miscreate because it recognizes only truth.11 False projection arises out of false denial, not out of its proper use. 2My own role in the Atonement is one of true projection; that is, I can “project” (or extend) to you the affirmation of truth. 3If you project error to me (or to yourself) you are interfering with the process. 4My use of projection, which can also be yours, is not based on faulty denial. 5But it does involve the very powerful use of the denial of error.12 The miracle worker is one who accepts my kind of denial and projection, unites his own inherent abilities to deny and project with mine, and imposes them back on himself and others. 2This establishes the total lack of threat anywhere. 3Together we can then work for the real time of peace, which is eternal.

The LORD Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. 1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.a 3He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousnessb for his name’s sake. 4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,c I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6Surelyd goodness and mercye shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwellf in the house of the LORD forever.g

Matthew 7:1-6 (NASB95) 1Judge not, that you be not judged.2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?4Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is the log in your own eye?5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." 6Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you."

1 Peter:1:3You have a living hope; it has been raised up with Jesus. 1 Peter 1:4You have a precious hope; it is a heavenly inheritance that’s waiting for you. 1 Peter 1:5You have a certain hope; it is salvation, guaranteed. John 10:27-30Colossians 3:3 Romans 8:24-25 How should we be living differently now since we know … Continue reading 1 Peter 1:3-5 Living Hope, Precious and Certain →

Isaiah 64 64Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,that the mountains might quake at your presence2as when fire kindles brushwoodand the fire causes water to boilto make your name known to your adversaries,and that the nations might tremble at your presence!3When you did awesome things that we did not look for,you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.4From of old no one has heardor perceived by the ear,no eye has seen a God besides you,who acts for those who wait for him.5You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,those who remember you in your ways.Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?6We have all become like one who is unclean,and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.We all fade like a leaf,and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.7There is no one who calls upon your name,who rouses himself to take hold of you;for you have hidden your face from us,and have made us melt inthe hand of our iniquities. 8But now, OLord, you are our Father;we are the clay, and you are our potter;we are all the work of your hand.9Be not so terribly angry, OLord,and remember not iniquity forever.Behold, please look, we are all your people.10Your holy cities have become a wilderness;Zion has become a wilderness,Jerusalem a desolation.11Our holy and beautifulhouse,where our fathers praised you,has been burned by fire,and all our pleasant places have become ruins.12Will you restrain yourself at these things, OLord?Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

Quote (Nov. 16/17, 2020): "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." (Chinese Proverb) 1 Thess. 5:1-6, 8The day of the LORD will come like a thief in the night. 3While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. Heb. 12:2Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the JOY set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Tammie Jo was told ‘girls don’t fly’ before defying the odds to become one of the first female pilots in the US Navy, going on to save 148 lives when she landed a plane after an engine exploded cracking a window, and sucking one passenger half way out. In this gripping conversation, Tammie Jo tells Annie about the many doors slammed in her face by the army and the navy and how with her dogged persistence and self belief, she eventually triumphed as a fighter pilot and went on to be a trailblazer for women in aviation in the US. We hear how she dealt with anxiety as a child and how she learnt to fight off bullies from a young age for her sister and how when she piloted Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 on that fateful day in April 2018, her childhood experiences helped her to remain calm in the face of panic all around her. Tammie tells Annie why, despite her experience that day, which sadly ended with one fatality, she is still in love with flying and how she now uses her flying skills to help people in need by volunteering for the nonprofit organisation, Angel Flight. Tammie is a beacon of change! Such a calm and humble woman and this is a must-listen if you need to feel inspired! You can buy a copy of her book here: Nerves Of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challengehttps://www.amazon.com/Nerves-Steel-Followed-Greatest-Challenge/dp/0785228314/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=nerves+of+steel&qid=1554931659&s=gateway&sr=8-5You can follow Tammie Jo on instagram and twitter @captainshultsWarning: This episode discusses in detail the events of part of a plane exploding mid flight and a passenger losing their life which could be sensitive for some listeners. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Disciple Up #180 Shepherding: Feeding & Defending the Flock By Louie Marsh, 10-7-2020   Intro. An e-mail poured in! Disagreement on what I said about Witness Lee and the Local Church. Episode 73-74.   So what is the duty of teachers and shepherds when it comes to dealing with doctrinal error and, sometimes, out right heresy? Let's take a look!   Everyone – Leaders Included – Must Watch Their Mouth!   Yes, I am very well aware that we'll be judged for every careless word we speak. I'll go even further we are also commanded not to lie and not to condemn our brothers when we disagree with them   “34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 36I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, 37for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”” (Matthew 12:34–37, ESV)   “4Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.” (Romans 14:4, ESV)   “6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.” (Romans 14:6–8, ESV)   “1“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.” (Matthew 7:1–5, ESV)   TEACHERS AND SHEPHERDS HAVE DUTIES FROM GOD   FEED AND LEAD:   When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. (Jn 21:15–17).   However, pastors and teachers aren't just commanded to teach and lead the flock. We are also called upon to defend it when necessary. James says teachers are under a stricter judgement and this tension between not being judgmental but being discerning and defending your flock from harm, is part of the weight of that judgement.   Ezekiel tells us that if the watchman doesn't warn those under his care he will be condemned. So yes, I am very aware of this and living with the weight of this greater judgement is something I agreed to take on when I became a teacher and pastor.   WATCHMEN – PROTECTING THE FLOCK   “1The word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, 3and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.” (Ezekiel 33:1–6, ESV)   “3Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” (Jude 3–4, ESV)   “5And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' 8You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”” (Mark 7:5–8, ESV)   Should We Name Names?   “11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.” (Galatians 2:11–12, ESV)   “19holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, 20among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.” (1 Timothy 1:19–20, ESV)   “16But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.” (2 Timothy 2:16–18, ESV)   If the people involved are public figures – like I am – the answer is yes!   THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP:   “1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.” (James 3:1–2, ESV)   God's judgement is based on what you know.   “20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20, ESV)   That's the only way His judgements can be just. He can't condemn or justify you if you didn't something was right or wrong.   “47And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 48But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.” (Luke 12:47–48, ESV)   “12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:12–15, ESV)  

After building our first web monetized page and making 0.12 cents, we were curious to hear more about the future and ecosystem of this new world. Sabine, who wrote the tutorial we followed in episode 1, is a R&D software engineer from Coil - a subscription service for viewing web monetized content. She tells us more about the new directions web monetization is taking, some web history and we banter about the general philosophy of a non-spying digital world! Following are links to things mentioned in the episode -- Web Monetization web page: https://webmonetization.org/Interledger web page: https://interledger.org/Interledger forum: https://forum.interledger.org/Interledger slack: https://interledger.slack.com/Interledger community call recordings / podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interledger/id1521476300Coil developer docs: https://docs.coil.com/Sabine's blog: https://coil.com/u/sabinebertramBen's work on probabilistic revenue sharing: https://coil.com/u/sharafianThe forum thread on referral links is here: https://forum.interledger.org/t/web-monetized-referral-links/829/5You can support Hot New Tech by becoming a member on our Patreon PageSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/hotnewtech)

Today's Bible Translation Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 5 NASB, Ch. 6 GNT Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts You’ve heard it before, right? Someone is doing something that is patently wrong, and when they’re called on it, they drag out the “Judge not that ye be not judged” line. Or someone fails to take a stand on an immoral issue or person because they think it’s not up to them to judge. Well, after hearing from Paul today, what do you say? Sounds pretty clear to me that Paul encouraged the people of the church at Corinth to get the sinning person out of their fellowship. I thing that would be classified as judging.  So then, what did Jesus mean when he told us not to judge? As is usually the case, it is helpful to look at context. The scripture is found in Matthew 7:1-5. Let me read it to you: 1"Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.”  So what Jesus was really talking about was hypocrisy, not judgement. As you know, He wasn’t very keen on hypocrites. That’s something even non-religious people have in common with our Lord. No one likes a hypocrite. But to look at evil and call it evil is something that we are called to do often in Scripture. To call someone on their sin is right, if it is done with love and a goal to restore them to right living and fellowship. We want to bring them to repentance. James 5:20 says, “…let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” So the bottom line is this: Keep your account with God clear. As much as is humanly possible live your life in such a way that you will not be in danger of hypocrisy when you are called to confront sin. How else can we be salt and light in a lost and dying world?

Beth Young guides us through Psalm 23.ScripturePsalm 231The Lord is my shepherd,I shall not want.2He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.3He restores my soul;He guides me in the paths of righteousnessFor His name’s sake.4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I fear no evil, for You are with me;Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You have anointed my head with oil;My cup overflows.6Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

A prayer of Moses the man of God. 1Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. 2Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3You turn men back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, O sons of men.” 4For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning— 6though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered. 7We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. 8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. 10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. 11Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you. 12Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 13Relent, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. 14Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. 16May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. 17May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.

God and JudgementWe first need to understand the types of judgement that exist:Behavioral JudgementSatan being kicked out of HeavenAdam / Eve kicked out of Heaven along with a curse placed over mankind as well as SatanThe great floodEternal JudgementDaniel 12:2Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to disgrace and eternal contempt. -- Daniel 12:2Psalms 9:5You have rebuked the nations: You have destroyed the wicked; you have erased their name forever and ever. -- Psalms 9:5Psalm 81:1515 Those who hate the Lord would cower to him; their doom would last forever. -- Psalms 81:15John 12:4848 The one who rejects me and doesn’t receive my sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day. -- John 12:48Romans 14:1010 But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. -- Romans 14:10Jude 1:6-76 and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. 7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. -- Jude 1:6-7Revelation 20:1515 And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire -- Revelation 20:15The wrath of Jesus for the unrepentant on His coming2nd Peter 3:10-1210 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed. 11 Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, it is clear what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness 12 as you wait for the day of God and hasten its coming. Because of that day, the heavens will be dissolved with fire and the elements will melt with heat. -- 2 Peter 3:10-122 Thessalonians 1:7-117 and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels, 8 when he takes vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious strength 10 on that day when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed. 11 -- 2 Thessalonians 1:7-11Revelation 22:12-1312“Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to repay each person according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. -- Revelation 22:12-13Revelation 19:11-1611 Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and with justice he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on his head. He had a name written that no one knows except himself. 13 He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 14 The armies that were in heaven followed him on white horses, wearing pure white linen. 15 A sharp sword came from his mouth, so that he might strike the nations with it. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty. 16 And he has a name written on his robe and on his thigh: King of Kings and Lord of Lords. -- Revelation 19:11-16Judgement of AbandonmentRevelation 22:10-1510 Then he said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near. 11 Let the unrighteous go on in unrighteousness; let the filthy still be filthy; let the righteous go on in righteousness; let the holy still be holy.”12“Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to repay each person according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.14“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. -- Revelation 22:10-15Romans 1:2424 Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. -- Romans 1:24Romans 1:2626 For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions.....-- Romans 1:26Romans 1:2828 And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. -- Romans 1:28Why would God bring wrath upon the righteous?Genesis 18:24-2624 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it? 25 You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ” 26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” -- Genesis 18:24-26Romans 6:15-1915 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey ​— ​either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, 18 and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 1 -- Romans 6:15-19The earth is fallen and it's our faultThe grief we experience in this world isn't because of God; it is because of us.Contact truth@upnorthkingdom.com | Follow on twitter.com/upnorthkingdom.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the power goes out in LA, it's time for the survivors to scrounge up supplies for survival.This is a narrative of a campaign from Outbreak Undead, the role playing game about the zombie apocalypse.If you'd like to see a visualization of this episode, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB1BuxpuNVI&list=PLE27g8yycE_GB_AAXAoH3Rr0od6S-IPjC&index=5You can learn more about Outbreak Undead here: https://www.huntersentertainment.com/outbreakundeadYou can visit our website here: https://bandwagongames.com/

Yolanda Kennerly loves everything Online Marketing!Yolanda helps Network Marketers and Affiliate Marketers to grow a thriving online business increasing their influence through the power of live video.She is often seen doing Facebook Lives with her very sweet tea-cup Pomeranian fur baby named Osita.She has a free Facebook group the Magnetic Marketers Academy where she helps business owners with mindset and marketing so they can get results in their business.You can find her online here: http://www.yolandakennerly.com/You can find Yolanda on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yolanda.kennerly.5You can check out her Facebook Group-Magnetic Marketers Academy here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/MagneticMarketersAcademy/Please join me over on Facebook in the Authority Marketing Hacks for Entrepreneurs community for strategies to position yourself as an authority with other like-minded entrepreneurs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AMHACKS/

It's so easy to focus on what is not right, what's not working, or what bothers us, that we forget to allow ourselves to honour and value what we have. With the Love tours we are showing appreciation and gratitude. It is also a way of becoming aware what all we have in our life and how we feel about it.You'll find the show notes at https://connygraf.com/podcast/5You can register for the Ask Conny Call here https://connygraf.com/askConny

Yolanda Kennerly loves everything Online Marketing!Yolanda helps Network Marketers and Affiliate Marketers to grow a thriving online business increasing their influence through the power of live video.She has a free Facebook group the Magnetic Marketers Academy where she helps business owners with mindset and marketing so they can get results in their business.You can find her online here: http://www.yolandakennerly.com/You can find Yolanda on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yolanda.kennerly.5You can check out her Facebook Group-Magnetic Marketers Academy here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/MagneticMarketersAcademy/

Championship Wrestling presented by Pro Shingle is proud to announce our first LIVE television taping in Memphis, TN The Championship Wrestling Birthday BASH will be live at AutoZone Park Saturday, April 25, 2020. The one year anniversary celebration will be taped as a network special airing on WLMT-TV/CW30.    The Birthday BASH will feature legends of Memphis Wrestling, stars from All Elite Wrestling, National Wrestling Alliance, and the best of Saturday morning pro wrestling. Tickets are available at championshipwrestlingmemphis.com, including general admission ticket and an hour-long VIP meet & greet ticket allowing you to interact with all of your favorites.  We feel there are opportunities from both sides, even if a company were to purchase tickets and donate to kids groups, schools, etc.  All of the promotion includes leading up to our Birthday BASH! Promotion at the live event + more promotion when the footage airs on CW30 Memphis (in May or June) - so the exposure would be before, during and after the event!  Plus, baseball will take place after our wrestling event, including fireworks - which always draws a huge crowd.Tickets are listed as such VIP $50 includes VIP meet & greet + ringside seat GA $15 Kids 12 and under only $5You can watch Championship Wrestling presented by Pro Shingle every Saturday at 12PM on CW30. Stay up to date on everything Championship Wrestling by following us on social media @CW30Wrestling and championshipwrestlingmemphis.comLearn more:  https://www.facebook.com/dustin5starr

#005: This is an extra special episode. Today, I’m bringing you the same exciting masterclass I taught to live audiences when I launched my digital course, Conservation Photography 101. I had a fantastic time teaching this material because I got to see how engaged the audience was, recognizing the limiting beliefs that are keeping them stuck, and how energized they were to blow past them and find success. It wasn’t enough for me to teach the masterclass a handful of times and leave it at that. This stuff is too powerful.So, today we’re tackling five limiting beliefs that keep too many talented photographers stuck in place, not moving forward with the stories they could do such an amazing job photographing… and publishing!And even if you have published stories under your belt, I’m willing to bet you have limiting beliefs that make it tough for you to get to the next level in your work. If that’s the case, please listen in because you’ll pick up some tips and inspiration for tackling any limiting belief holding you back.It’s all about mindset, and this episode will help you get on the right track!I created an extra awesome freebie to go with this episode. Grab The Photographer's Successful Mindset Workbook at JaymiH.com/5You'll LearnThe 5 most common limiting beliefs I see among emerging conservation photographersThe one next step to take to tackle that limiting belief to the groundThe most effective way to be published as a conservation photographer this yearThe roadmap that will help you find and photograph a photo storyResources & Links MentionedConservation Photography 101Conservation Photojournalism 7-Day IntensivesClay Bolt

I Am Actually Making Money On People Per HourAs you know, I talk about Fiverr a lot. But it's nice to have income from other sources. Recently, I have been getting more and more work from People Per Hour. This is a UK site that is set up similar to Fiverr and Upwork combined. If you would like to join, check out the link here: https://www.peopleperhour.com/site/register?rfrd=3205833.5You can post an offer (gig) as well as send proposals. The site also allows you to promote your offer and get more business-like running an add - Similar to Amazon. So this site has taken the best features of Upwork, Amazon, and Fiverr and put them together for us to use. I won't lie, it takes some time to figure out how to use everything, and I made a lot of mistakes. But, I am pleased to say that I am making money on the site and it has been deposited into my bank account more than once. ve a great community of voice actors that share content and information about becoming a better voice-over artist at - https://www.facebook.com/groups/avosjourney/Check out voice-over courses, groups, and learn more about how to work with me at - https://www.avosjourney.com Social Links:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anthony_pica_vo/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AVOsJOURNEYFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/avosjourney/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonypicavo/ Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/groups/avosjourney/)

Wonderfully Made, Psalm 139 | Home Album Series | August 11, 2019Psalm 139:1 - 61You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.GOD MADE MY HIGH PLACES vs. 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: GOD MADE MY HELLISH PLACES vs. 8if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.“Make My Bed” – (Hebrew: yatsa'; to strew as a surface, to spread it out.)“Hell” – (Hebrew: she'owl; hades or the world of the dead - grave, pit.) Sin Always Causes Pain. Pain Always Seeks Pleasure.Pain Makes Truth Seem Irrelevant. GOD MADE MY HIDDEN PLACES vss. 9-10 [Hidden Brick Story]9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. You’re Only As Sick As Your Secrets. [Learned To Hide Things, Jen Testimony]“Wings” - means the edge or the extremity. “Uttermost” means the last or the end.“Lead” – Hebrew: nachah; to guide; by implication it means to transport (into exile, or as colonists).“Right Hand” – Speaks of the place of favor.“Hold” – Hebrew: achaz; to seize or hold in possession.Psalm 139: 13-16 13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.aWonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15Nothing about me is hidden from you! I was secretly woven togetherout of human sight, 16but with your own eyes you saw my body being formed. Even before I was born, you had written in your bookeverything about me.

HOME | Home Album Series | August 4, 2019Jerry Mercer - The Homeless Mayor Of Columbus. My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Isaiah 32:18 I Can Know A Lot About Someone And Even Know Them Extremely Well; But, I Don’t Really Know Them Until I Know What They Call Home. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 The Lens Through Which We View Home:The Performance-Oriented HomeThe Passive (Distant) HomeThe Absentee HomeThe Authoritarian HomeThe Abusive HomeThe Good Home(Illus. Orphan Adoption Story.)What Is A Good Home?Receiving Unconditional Expressed Love.Feeling Secure And Comforted.Being Praised and Affirmed.The need for purpose, a sense of value.The Home Doesn’t Make The People, The People Make The Home.Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19Psalm 23 (Uncle Story After Aunt Died)The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. 6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.(Illus. Farm Boy In Iowa.) (Illus. Dog Re-Homed) (Broke Down RiverStory) (Girl left home - Dad No Work With)Heaven Is My “Real” Home John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.John 14:18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” (Illus. Train Station)

娱乐圈太复杂，前几天，国民女神结婚！刚教完大家结婚祝福的英语。昨天，景甜和张继科分手了。来！我们学学分手的英语吧。6月9日9点29分，如此吉利的时间点，景甜却在微博发布了这一消息。当然，两人分手可能已经有一段时间了，估计是考虑到高考期间，引起话题占用热搜不好。像那些有离婚打算的夫妻一样，为了孩子，硬撑到高考结束。一个是乒乓球世界冠军、运动男神，另一个则是京城四美，国民女神。两个人的结合就像童话。去年3月28日，张继科的一条微博，公开了和景甜的恋情，晒出两人牵手照，还写道：KT，并艾特女友景甜。时过境迁，曾经的甜蜜化为了短短的一句话：感恩曾经相遇，愿今后一切安好。 真是让人唏嘘不已。当一段感情走到尽头的时候，兴许最终的终局就是分手。歪果仁们在结束一段感情的时候，通常会怎么说呢？让我们来一起看看。1Let's break up since it is meaningless to continue.再这样很没意思，分手吧。 (真是直接的不能在直接……)2We should never see each other again.以后不要再见了。(太动摇了……)3You're not the cup of my tea.你不是我的那杯茶。(额，这样说，莫非对方有外遇了？)4Since it's so heartbreaking to be together,why don't we just break up?一起也只有辛苦，不如早点放手。(真是经典，长痛不如短痛)5You've changed.你变了。(呵呵哒，是的，你也变了……)6I don't think we're right for each other，maybe we're a bad match?你不觉得咱们不合适吗?(真是随便，不合适...早干嘛不说？)7I don't have feelings for you anymore，Don't contact me again.我对你已经没有感觉，别再烦我。(好恶毒的说法，呜呜呜)8You will find someone better for you.你会找到更好的。（看起来老好人的说法，其实暴露了渣的本性。）9My sister said she dislikes you, so let's break up.我姐姐说她不喜欢你，咱们分手吧。（我是要娶你，还是娶你姐姐？）

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Just like a puzzle, our life has pieces that fit together as well. Today I want to share a message with you that I spoke at our church, One Church, regarding being in different seasons of life and that every piece counts no matter what season of life you are in. Scripture Mentioned:2 Timothy 4:10-11Colossians 1:15-20Isaiah 43:19Hebrews 13:5You can subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-QxE-upg6RvW_Q29kv4KAHappily Even After is available NOW on Kindle and paperback: https://t.co/FeggSbsyCCSubscribe to my emails: http://eepurl.com/bRFyhXGo like my Facebook Page so we can stay connected throughout your week: https://www.facebook.com/crystalspark...Help me spread the word! If this spoke to your heart; do me a favor and share it on Facebook or Twitter!

Listen To The Podcast Below Podcast Description: In this episode Will talks about how suffering from a chronic illness led him into the wig business! Important Links & Notes: Register Here For The Ultimate Marketer Event Get The Lace Wig Training System 2.0 Here Website: https://www.aphroditepostiche.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willcampbell88/ Scripture Of The Day: 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1-5 Spread The Word, Leave A Review, And Subscribe! Subscribe to our email list Subscribe on iTunes Ask a question via Voicemail Leave a review on iTunes. Be blessed,

When it was evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because they feared the Jews. Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. So the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.” After saying this, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.John 20:19-221. WE HAVE BEEN SENT BY GOD TO THE WORLD“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”Matthew 28:19-20But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”Acts 1:82. BEING SENT MEANS BEING THE LIGHT TO THE WORLDWe must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. John 9:4-5You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.Matthew 5:14-163. BEING SENT REQUIRES BEING FILLED BY THE HOLY SPIRITHe also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day, and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.” Luke 24:46-49And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand for healing, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly. Acts 4:29-31

Give Thanks? Hemmed In Psalm 139:5-13 What is Prevenient Grace? God the Father, through Jesus Christ, is working on our behalf to draw us to himself before we can turn to God on our own. Genesis 1:27 - Image of God Genesis 2:16-17 - Death Romans 5:6-9 - Justified by his Blood. 2 Corinthians 5:19 - Reconciled in Christ. Colossians 1:23 - Freedom of Choice Psalm 139:5-13 5You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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God Is Good - Sunday, January 28, 2018 - Steve MillerWhat is good? The word "good" can have kind of a vague meaning. How do we define this word? Are these things good?· This dog is good. (obedient, friendly)· Pecan pie a la mode (using Bryers ice cream) is good. (desirable)· Adam Vinatieri's Super Bowl XXXVI game-winning field goal against the Rams was good. (accurate, successful) And like me, you probably feel that was definitely NOT good!· Captain America is good. (moral, virtuous, powerful)· Mozart was good. (talented)So what does it mean when we say that God is good?Mark 10:17-18Psalm 119:65-68Every week we say this truth about God's character: "God is good -- all the time! All the time -- God is good!" But what does it mean in our lives? Do we really know Him this way, as good?Bill Johnson - "Whenever God reveals something about His nature, it always comes with the invitation to know Him in that way. Never does the understanding of His nature come to us just to make us more theologically sound. That's important, but it is secondary. What's important is to know Him in that way, to encounter Him. So when He says, 'I'm your provider,' I don't want to walk away from that revelation without provision. When He says, 'I am your holiness,' I don't want to walk away the same way that I came in. I want to leave changed because I have encountered Him, and now relationally I come to know Him in that way."In both the Old Testament and New Testament, God revealed Himself to us as our Good Shepherd. Let's look at what His goodness is as He describes Himself in that role in our lives. At the same time, we want to pay attention to what that says about who we are in Christ.John 10:11-15 - 11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.What makes Him good is His being willing to lay down His life for us.Because He has already demonstrated His goodness to us in this way, we can trust Him for all other matters in our lives:Romans 8:32Psalm 23 is one of the greatest descriptions of the goodness of God toward us. Let's look at it.Psalm 23:1-6 - 1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2He makes me lie down in green pastures.· Sheep that lie down are well fed and satisfied. The word used for "green" denotes new, fresh, or tender grass. He leads me beside still waters.· It's a place of peace, sustenance, and rest for His sheep.· Psalm 36:7-93He restores my soul.· Many things we encounter in life wound, damage, or discourage our souls. Our own sins cause damage, and the sins of others take their toll. He provides healing and restoration from both. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.· In so many situations and areas of life, we have no clue what is the best way to go or right choice to make.· Proverbs 3:5-6· Psalm 119:684Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;· Palestine is known for its gloomy and treacherous ravines. There is no denying that we will walk through dangerous and discouraging situations as we go through life. The encouragement and confidence we have is in knowing that He is with us and that He is good: capable, powerful, wise, righteous, desirable, and committed our best interests.· John 16:33your rod and your staff, they comfort me.· His rod comforts us in defending us against peril from enemies that may attack.· The old cartoon character Pogo famously said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"The Lord's staff comforts us from our own tendency to wander off the path and away from His guidance, provision, and protection. He is committed to keep pulling us back to His path and presence.5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;· This shows victory over the devil and the world, protection from attacks, overcoming persecution for Christ's name, loving your enemies, rejoicing in the midst of trials.· Romans 8:28· Story of Dimitri's Heart Song from The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken.you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.· We think of David, anointed king of Israel by Samuel many years before, waiting on the Lord while Saul was still alive and hunting David down to kill him. Yet God was with David and blessing him. Anointing with oil represents God's calling for us to minister, pouring out His Holy Spirit on us, and filling us with joy and gladness.· 1 Samuel 16:13· Isaiah 61:1-36Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,· The Hebrew word for "follow" here means to pursue or chase after, like a predator chases down the prey. Imagine - no matter what circumstances you go through - God always causes goodness and mercy to continually chase you down, no matter what difficulties or discouragement or fearful things you may encounter!and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.· We couldn't hope to dwell in God's house forever if He did not desire it.Ezekiel 34So since the Lord is our Good Shepherd, what does that say about who we are in Him?· He wants us to utterly depend on Him for all things in life.· He desires us to trust in Him, because He is good. Know He will not fail us nor abandon us.· We must feed on His rich Word and His presence, so that we will remain strong and grow.· We can face any difficulty with confidence and peace, knowing His goodness.· We must follow His leading on right paths. Even when we tend to stray, He knows how to pull us back on His way.· The anointing and blessing He provides for us should overflow to those around us. His goodness and mercy will follow us throughout our lives, even in the sense that those in our wake are blessed by His goodness as well.

Psalm 139   1O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. 5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. 13For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. 17How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end—I am still with you. Our text today from the book of Psalms, Israel’s own ancient hymnbook, is one of my favorites, primarily because it offers us a vision of God that is profoundly intimate, one in which God sees us and knows us, in all of our complexity, in all of our goodness and badness, so to speak.  I often suggest using this text during a funeral or memorial service because verse 18 reminds us that God is with us, until the end, a reminder, surely that God was present the moment we are born and still with us, even at the end of life on this side of the veil. I’ve even included this text as one that will be used at my funeral service, all of which is written down in a detailed email about I’ve sent to Douglas, and which he has hopefully saved in his email program.  But I do sometimes wonder whether or not we are actually as welcoming to that truth, the truth of being known fully and completely by God, as we think we are.  Friedrich Nietzsche, the great atheist and German thinker of the 19th century, once complained that he found the idea of God knowing us, the idea of an omniscient God, an all knowing God, as revolting and an affront to human dignity– I mean, who wants a god who is a voyeur, meddling, and knowing all of us, including the things we don’t want to be known, by either human or the divine?  Is there no zone of privacy for us humans, a place where we can truly keep our own counsel, guard our own right to human aloneness?   I don’t think Nietzsche was trying to hide any especially awful secrets from us or God, or at least no more than any of us want to hide some things we’re not proud of from each other. But maybe he was pointing to the truth that we actually sometimes don’t want to be seen completely for who we are in total, because there are parts of that sum of us, the total of us, that aren’t pretty or easy to look at, by us or by others.   The quote from Martin Luther King’s book The Strength to Love hints at perhaps the reason why we humans don’t always want to be known – because to be known is to be shown and ultimately known to be imperfect, sometimes profoundly so.  King talks about the bridge between what we say and what we do, our profession and our practice, our noble ideas and the failure to actually live out those ideals.  “This strange dichotomy,” he writes, “this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man’s earthly pilgrimage.”  As Paul writes in Romans, chapter 7, “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”  I have ideals, I have beliefs that I and others should act and be a certain way, and yet we just fail those ideals, we fail to act and be a certain way, over and over again – indeed, as both Paul and King write, it is a part of the human condition, this elemental hypocrisy that all of us share with each other, across all of humanity.  All of us are hypocrites, even our many of our heroes, including Martin Luther King, Jr, all of us fail our own words and our own ideals, and to be known by God is to have someone, something, some other, know that truth about us completely – this God not only knows the goodness we often practice before each other and that we practice before no human eyes, and that God also knows the badness we often practice before each other and that we also practice before no human eyes.   There is a story about a small-town prosecuting attorney that brings the point home to us, a judge who was calling his first witness to the stand in a trial, a grandmotherly, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?”   She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a young boy. And frankly, you’ve been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you’re a rising big shot when you haven’t the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.” The lawyer was, of course, stunned. Not knowing what else to do he pointed across the room and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?”  She again replied, “Why, yes I do. I’ve known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. I used to baby-sit him for his parents. And he, too, has been a real disappointment to me. He’s lazy, bigoted, he has a drinking problem. The man can’t build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the shoddiest in the entire state. Yes, I know him.”   And you can imagine the laughter at this point, so the, the judge rapped the courtroom to silence with his gavel and called both lawyers to the bench. In a very quiet voice, he said with menace, “If either of you asks her if she knows me, you’ll be jailed for contempt!”   Funny as that story is, and how frightful it may for many to know that God knowsus, I still want to make a case that this knowledge of us is a good thing, despite the hypocrisy it exposes in us. The psalmist, the writer of this text, really believes that we are known from the inside out, that the days of our lives are stretched out before God like a great map, where from the moment of sunrise to sunset, God knows what we will do before we even do it.  Our words, our getting up and our lying down, our everyday moments at the post office, the book we will read tomorrow, the television show we turned off years ago because it bored us to tears, the kiss and hug we will share with a loved one hours from now, on this particular day—each of those is known by God. One can argue the theological and philosophical problems with this kind of knowledge and over the God who knows our future before it actually happens, but that is what the psalmist arguing – that everything is known, including that which has not yet happened. This is a God who knows the present, the past, and the future, according to this ancient writer.  And the reason why we are so known, so intimately known is because the One who knows us is the One who created us, who formed us in our wombs, who loved us before even our parents did, who amidst the great work of scattering the stars, of molding the galaxies of the universe, of putting the song in the sparrow, also stopped to attend to your creation, to my creation—it seems to have mattered to the creator of our galaxy, of our universe, that you and I were worth paying attention to, when we were in our mother’s womb.  It is a level of intimacy, of particularity that is sometimes heart-stopping, really, and maybe even a little uncomfortable, to be known so deeply and so completely.    But I have to ask something, something that has been weighing on me since I’ve been sitting and mediating with this passage: do we REALLY believe it, that we are known, that God really does know us intimately, that nothing passes by the Divine gaze without God being acutely aware of it.  I ask that question because I think many of us spend our lives doing a lot of hiding—we spend our lives hiding from others, emotionally, sometimes even spiritually, or we spend our times hiding our beliefs and opinions about this or that issue.  We pretend to be people we are not, or to care when we do really do not care OR to not care when we deeply care about what is done to us or said about us.  We put on masks to hid ourselves, our opinions, our emotions, our hearts, sometimes even our joy, so that we will NOT be known by our friends, our family, strangers even.  And the reason why I think this is a spiritual matter is because some of us even think we can put on a mask before God, and that somehow we will fool the One who created both the mask and the one who wears the mask.  I’ve often said that salvation is the moment when we realize that God really does love us, and has been deeply in love with us even before we were a twinkle in our parent’s eyes.  But the problem is that we don’t live like we are loved by our creator, and so we don’t love as deeply and intimately and freely as the One who created us, who first loved us.  So too I think we often talk as if we believed that God knows us, but we don’t live that way—we moan and groan about being misunderstood, we think no one knows our pain, our struggles, even our joys—we live life as if we were alone, and no one gets us, understands us, believes in us.  In the end, we humans can only know each other so much, at least on this side of eternity, there are limits to how deeply we can make a home in each other’s hearts, but there is no limit, no mask, no moment that you and I are not completely understood, that we are not embraced, shadows and all—there is not a moment when we are not known, even to the core of those places we’ve hidden away from the world for years    And maybe that is what we are so scared of, why we put on the masks, and pretend to be people we think other people want us to be—that if God and others really knew our secret sins, our deepest shadows, that we would not be lovable anymore, by either our loved ones or even God.  We believe that lie because we really don’t believe that anyone could love us if they knew who we really were.  And yet, for most of us, we are not as bad, or sinful as we think we are, but, on the other hand, we are also not as good as we often credit ourselves as being.  We are really a mixture of shadow and light, maybe a reflection of the creation, the universe, the galaxies, the dust from which we were created.  Still, there are those difficult people who challenge us, to be honest, because their souls seem mostly shadow, if not completely shrouded in deep night.  My friend Patricia in Seattle is an officer who once worked in a prison that only dealt with people who were prosecuted for the worst of sexual crimes, people like serial rapists and habitual child molesters.  Now she works as a parole office with the same type of folks, but it hasn’t gotten to her over the years, working with this population.  So many times these men, and sometimes women, had themselves been preyed upon as children, and thus the cycle never ceases, the sins of the past being visited upon the present, the sins of the father being visited upon the children.  But here is the question: does God also know THESE men?   Does God see beyond the masks of these folks, who often manipulate the light in others to ultimately betray them?   Is there any light to draw out of hearts so shadowed with night?  I think the answer is that I can’t imagine that there isn’t, some light within them, even if I cannot see it, or we cannot see it, especially if we are to believe our psalmist this morning.  And if God can look at those hearts and souls so corrupted by sin and meanness and ruthlessness, and still love them, I suspect we too are loved by the same God who has looked into our less than perfect lives, and loved us, right where we are at.  When I was younger, I used to think that I wanted to be loved by someone who knew me, who knew me like I knew myself, maybe even more than I knew myself, when I was good in my better moments, and not so good in my worst—and who would still stick around despite my many imperfections, as I would do likewise with them.  I still think that is a good measure of love, of loving someone in their beauty and ugliness, of remaining present when they are not as good as they ought to be, and celebrating the moments in our lives when they are better than we ever thought imaginable.  But now I realize that I have always been loved that way, even before I found someone in my life who has taught me much about love and loyalty, I have always been known as deeply as I had wanted to be known—and I had been accepted and embraced and loved.  Now, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t want you or me to work on our shadows, to seek paths in our lives that bring in more light to our souls and more light into the world, but in the journey towards bringing that light into our lives, God never gives up on us, and we probably ought not to give up on each other.  You know, this is a God who knows all of our business, as Mrs. Jones did with the prosecuting and the defense attorneys and is still madly in love with us.  Our passage actually ends with the psalmist being in wonder of this God who knows us so deeply, this God who thoughts are like grains of sand—uncountable.  With all that knowledge, with all that deep intimate knowledge of us, the good stuff and the bad stuff, we are still loved, and not despite the fact we are known by God, but actually because we actually are known by this God, for real.  That truth, that powerful pervasive truth can change our lives, because maybe then we can get a hint of how God sees us, the whole of us, and then maybe we will see what God sees, that we are worth loving, and that each of us is worth gambling on, because of the One who knew the long odds with us, and still thought it was worth being with us, right to the end, on the cross, with us until our dying breath.  “I try to count them,” these thoughts of us, and of God, the psalmist writes, “they are more than the sand.  I come to the end—I am still with you.”  Amen.      

May and Jay are joined by their friend Mitch (before he goes to Africa for a month) as they finally dive head first into Digital Monster X Evolution after over two years of dreading. Jay is sad that he had to watch this movie again, Mitch comes up with a coma theory, and May is apologetic and then tries to come up with metaphors.Hosts ratingsMay: 2/5Jay: 0/5Mitch: Sausage dog/5You can find our weekly poll here: https://lostintranslationmon.com/2017/07/22/episode-112-weekly-poll/Linkdump: http://lostintranslationmon.co.vu/post/163265812802/ep112Screenshots of the WeekMay: Andromon (http://lostintranslationmon.co.vu/post/163067138237/true-horror-is-andromons-face-in-digital-monsters)Jay: This child is dead! (http://lostintranslationmon.co.vu/post/163091844587/man-angemon-evolutions-in-digimon-dont-have-a)Mitch: he teeth too big for he got damn mouth (http://lostintranslationmon.co.vu/post/163107796707/aww-tokomon-is-so-c-nevermind)Weekly WondersMay: Achievemint (http://tinyurl.com/ybraok2y) and Splatoon (http://splatoon.nintendo.com/)Jay: Mob Psycho 100 (http://www.crunchyroll.com/mob-psycho-100) and Game of Thrones (http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones)Segments:- Intro: 0.00.00-0.03.56- Movie Synopsis: 0.03.57-0.34.19- Highs and Lows: 0.34.20-38.23- Characters: 38.24-41.58- Misc Thoughts and Overall Opinions: 41.59-50.43- DigiNews/Lost in Newslatelymon: 50.44-52.56- Postmon Pat: 52.57-1.10.48- Outro: 1.10.49-1.19.52Check out our Redbubble!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/airdra/works/26210445-a-dracomon-and-a-lopmon-ride-on-a-culumon-enchiladasThank you to our supporters on Patreon; Sam Krieger (who hosts a Digimon and Pokemon podcast called ’The Moncast’), Stevie who is SteviePatamon on Tumblr and takes commissions, Wuqinglong (twitch.tv/wuqinglong), MetalMamemon, Joe, PenguinMage, AnimeGuyKurosaki1 (Youtube using the same name), Chakmon, Ishpaul Bhamber, Hiro Alato (@HiroAlato on twitter, Jason Morosky, Ryuichi (frostmrajick on Archive of Our Own), Steven Reeves (@WildWing64 on Twitter), Kaida Washi, Mac, Noam, Riku, Chisai (Who you can follow on tumblr at chisai236), Corey, Kyle, DaLadyBugMan (you can read his blog about anime on baguburagu.wordpress.com), SmileWolfy (SmileWolfy on Tapastic), Tom, GlitchGoat, Azrael McCool, Nicholas, genehackmon, Matthew, Anthony (antoclassic on twitter), Lizmet, Sithobi, Elyvorg (Elyvorg on tumblr) and Sporky McForkinspoon! Become a Patreon supporter for as little as a dollar per month and we’ll love you forever! https://www.patreon.com/LostInTranslationmonYou can also donate to the production of this podcast using PayPal here: https://www.paypal.me/AirdramonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN-_lpot2vexKON1MPPINNAGmail: LostinTranslationmon@Gmail.comReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/6or933/digimon_podcast_digital_monsters_xevolution/Tumblr: http://lostintranslationmon.co.vu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/translationmonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LostInTranslationmonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostintranslationmon/With the Will: http://withthewill.net/threads/14837Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lostintranslationmon/iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/lost-in-translationmon/id991593581Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/lost-in-translatiomon/lost-in-translationmon

E ae!Welcome to Deep Space Podcast! Thanks for listening.Today we have a wonderful guestmix by Alunic Sounds (Johannesburg, South Africa) in the 2nd hour.Check more info to Alunic Sounds in the links below:skyhighhour.podomatic.comwww.facebook.com/aluwani.khashane.5You can watch the video recording from the 1st hour of this show mixed by Marcelo Tavares in the link below:youtu.be/86uulqdsl4gEnjoy the week213!--Playlist:Artist - Track Name - [Label]1st hour mixed by Marcelo Tavares1) Andras - POETS Day (Original Mix) - [House Of Dad]2) Euphorian Orchestra - Euphoria - [Strictly Jaz Unit Muzic]3) David Marques - Faces (Original Mix) - [LAD]4) Baldo - Be Memorable - [Let's Play House]5) Stijn van Wijk - Specter - [Guangzhou Underground]6) YancityGurl - Colorado's Dream - [Opal Tapes]7) AfroMove feat. Ndogo Gee - GLLTGTMWEM (Secret Souls Remix) - [Afromove Music]8) Huerco S. - On The Embankment - [Proibito]9) B12 - Symbiotic Form - [De:tuned]10) Bruno Pronsato - She's Left The Party - [foom.]11) Vandal M - Midnight Run (Original Ambient Mix) - [Paunchy Cat]2nd hour exclusive guestmix by Alunic Sounds (Johannesburg, South Africa)1) Arnold Tempo - Why Do U Keep Tormenting Me - [Black Error]2) Comfort Fit - Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Atjazz Remix) - [R2]3) Sello - Sky Is The Limit (Original Mix) - [Neovinyl]4) Laurence Guy - Knotweed - [Church]5) Carlo - Aliquindoi (Original Mix) - [Neovinyl]6) Zoe Xenia - Something In The Air - [Plastic City]7) Baldo - Funk You (Original Mix) - [Neovinyl]8) Rhode & Brown - Tunnel Woman - [Toy Tonics]9) Fred Everything - Someone Like You (Original Mix) - [Lazy Dayz]10) Black Loops - Sex - [Toy Tonics]

*June 21, 2021 - Bible readings and Commentaries* *1st reading: Gn 12:1-9* 12  Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.” q 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5And Abram took Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6Abram passed through the land to the place at She'chem, to the Oak of Mo'reh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. “7Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. 8Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. 9And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Neg'eb. *Gospel: Mt 7:1-5* 7  "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers eye. Show notes download link: ** http://bit.ly/June21Commentaries Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WeAreTrulyRich