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Today, I get to share my conversation with minister and author Kathryn Maack. Kathryn shares her seemingly accidental, but God-ordained road into vocational ministry. God began to reveal Himself to her in ways that helped her to process how we as Believers approach the Lord, and that there can be a segregation that happens within ourselves in how to we relate to the Lord or even are willing to learn about Him or worship Him. Whether that be disconnect between our head and heart, Spirit and the Truth, there is much that can be disrupted and disjointed due to pain, our experiences, or perhaps even half truths we've come to believe as the whole truth. She dives into this topic in the book she coauthored with ministry partner Aaron Williams Whole: The Life-Changing Power of Relating to God with All of Yourself. When the Lord made us, He did not make us in segmented pieces, but as a whole person. Kathryn and Aaron want to remind us that Jesus wants to make us holy and whole and He wants us to live out the identity He created us to have. if you are struggling in your own story because it is just… loud. Too much yelling, too much fighting, too many confusing narratives, I want you to hear me say that the Lord is with you. He is the God of peace, and a God of justice and mercy. He will not leave you here. If you are struggling in your story because it is just too quiet, and you feel like God is too far and you don't know what to make of what you see, feel or what you've seen, I want you to hear me say that the Lord is also with you. He has a history that suggests that even when it seems like He is absent, He is anything but. He never leaves us or forsakes us and rejoices over us with loud singing. He listens to lament, He can take our questions, and He will not leave you here. No matter you are, I hope you know that you matter, and your story matters. Thanks for hanging out with me and I'll see you next time.    Connecting with Kathryn: Kathryn and Aaron's book: Whole: The Life-Changing Power of Relating to God with All of Yourself Facebook Instagram  Website   Connecting with Dwellings: App Instagram Podcast Website   Sponsor for this Episode: Hopefuel Use the code 'SIMPLY15' for 15% off Instagram Website   References: Aaron Williams  Dwellings is a ministry that helps ordinary people cultivate kingdom communities, typically in small groups or house churches Jennie Allen IF Gathering Ancient Jewish perspective on the heart being one “Build My Life” Revival at Asbury University Peter Greig 24/7 The Great Awakening The Hebrides Revival  The Welsh Revival  “Walk Down This Mountain” - Bebo Norman The Jesus movement in the 60's-70's  “Jesus Revolution” movie  Barna study about Gen Z not being in the church  Men of Valor  “Reckless Love”- Cody Asbury “Rattle” - Elevation Worship “Sanctified”- Mercy Me - “We worship with the sound of broken shackles falling to the ground.” Priscilla Shirer- Armor of God study The power is in the name of Jesus   Scripture References:  Mark 12:30-31- Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul and strength John 4:23- true worshippers come to Jesus in Spirit and Truth  Jeremiah 17:9- The heart is deceitful above all else John 11:38-44 Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-18; John 2:13-22,Mark 3:5) Matthew 14:14; 15:32, Matthew 9:36,  Matthew 4:1-11,Mark 1:12-13,Luke 4:1-13, Hebrews 4:15- Jesus came and displayed emotions but never sinned Matthew 22:34-40-This is the first and greatest commandment  Galatians 5:22- The fruit of the spirit is joy  Psalm 34:8- Taste and see that the Lord is good  Ephesians 1:18- The Spirit enlivens the eyes of the heart John 5:39- You search the scriptures and you want to find Me, but you don't know Me Exodus 34:29-35-Moses shining with God glory's off the mountain  Exodus 32- Moses catching the people in a hot mess  Exodus 34- Moses comes back with the Law again  John 16:13- The Holy Spirit guides us into all Truth  John 16:8- The Holy Spirit convicts us  John 14:25-26, 1 Corinthians 2:9-14 -The Holy Spirit helps us discern scripture Psalm 28:7, Psalm 121- He is our help  Ezekiel 37:1-14- God calls the bones to life 2 Corinthians 3:17- There is Someone who wants you to be free  John 8:36, Galatians 5:1, Isaiah 28:16- Christ is the cornerstone  Ephesians 6:17-The sword of the Spirit is the word of God  Ephesians 6:12- We are not at war with flesh and blood 1 Thessalonians 5:23- Jesus wants to make us holy and whole and He wants us to live out the identity He created us to have.    JOIN OUR PATREON COMMUNITY!!!! I would be honored to have your support to keep the Simply Stories Podcast going. You can sign up for as little as $3 a month and each tier offers gifts that I hope will bless you in return.    Connecting with Emily and Simply Stories Podcast: Instagram (Em life // Podcast Life) Facebook Twitter Blog 

When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” Genesis 9:24-25 When Noah sobers up, he finds out what happens. Surprisingly, he doesn't curse his son. He curses his yet-to-be-born grandson, Canaan. Canaan would become Ham's most notorious child, as we will see next month. The curse of the father moves on to the children, as God will later reveal to Moses, “I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me” (Exodus 20:5). Canaan would be the ancestor of the nations that God would command the Israelites to exterminate from the Promised Land. The Israelites are the children of Shem. The Canaanites would be the servants of the Israelites. This curse would manifest itself in the multitude of abominations the Canaanites would make with their idols. They lived out the curse so that God would issue the command for their destruction. Destruction is the result of God's curse. Sin is cursed and will result in eternal condemnation if not covered by Christ's blood. Amen.

Get Your Priorities in Line - This podcast is all about God's place in your life. Establishing the correct priorities in our lives is vital for our success as Christians. *HINT - We must always be putting God first.When God gave the 10 Commandments, He said: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2-3).God does not want us to place anything before Him. His desire is that we worship Him and Him alone. He must come first in our lives.  As a Christian don't forget these priorities:God must come first.Develop godly, righteous character.Seek first the Kingdom of God.As a Married Christian God Showed me these priorities in my life:God FirstMy Wife Rachel My Marriage My KidsEverything else.... PERIODConnect with Ron:www.follow.cool

God is a Jealous God. He declared "Thou shall have no other gods before Me" Exodus 20:2 & Deut. 5:6 What about you? Do you place anything before God? Join the conversation.

THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIII - MONDAYLESSON: ROMANS 13:8‒10A lawyer stood up to put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And He said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.” Luke 10:25‒28I think that the Lord set out to teach this pious man a very elementary lesson. And yet, such treatment of such a fine man can hardly be right. Surely, He should have shown more consideration for this man! He puts him to shame before the whole world. How can this help the man? He shows this man, who had imagined that he had done everything, that he has really done nothing. He asks: “What shall I do?” When Jesus was finished with him, he certainly had enough and more than enough to do.A great deal of very necessary comment could easily be supplied on the two commandments which this man quotes for Jesus. They are the most significant and most important parts of Moses. As Jesus says, “On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:40).If we examine all the laws in Moses, we shall see that they all have reference to love. I cannot explain or interpret the commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3), as having any other meaning than “You shall love God alone.” This is how Moses himself explains it in Deuteronomy when he says, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:4‒5).SL 11:1538 (6‒8)PRAYER: Lord God, heavenly Father, guide us at all times by Your Holy Spirit to a full and correct understanding of Your holy Word, so that it achieves in us the purposes for which You have given it to us and receives its full meaning for us, in and through Jesus Christ. Amen.Editor's note: No American Edition (AE) equivalent for today's sermon excerpt exists at the time of this publication. For an alternate English translation of this sermon, see Lenker, Church Postil—Gospels, 5:17-35.

THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIII - MONDAYLESSON: ROMANS 13:8‒10A lawyer stood up to put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And He said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.” Luke 10:25‒28I think that the Lord set out to teach this pious man a very elementary lesson. And yet, such treatment of such a fine man can hardly be right. Surely, He should have shown more consideration for this man! He puts him to shame before the whole world. How can this help the man? He shows this man, who had imagined that he had done everything, that he has really done nothing. He asks: “What shall I do?” When Jesus was finished with him, he certainly had enough and more than enough to do.A great deal of very necessary comment could easily be supplied on the two commandments which this man quotes for Jesus. They are the most significant and most important parts of Moses. As Jesus says, “On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:40).If we examine all the laws in Moses, we shall see that they all have reference to love. I cannot explain or interpret the commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3), as having any other meaning than “You shall love God alone.” This is how Moses himself explains it in Deuteronomy when he says, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:4‒5).SL 11:1538 (6‒8)PRAYER: Lord God, heavenly Father, guide us at all times by Your Holy Spirit to a full and correct understanding of Your holy Word, so that it achieves in us the purposes for which You have given it to us and receives its full meaning for us, in and through Jesus Christ. Amen.Editor's note: No American Edition (AE) equivalent for today's sermon excerpt exists at the time of this publication. For an alternate English translation of this sermon, see Lenker, Church Postil—Gospels, 5:17-35.

Confession of SinsRomans 8:1 says this: Romans 8:1 (NKJV) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  Many Christians read the above passage and again they add in their mind, without even realizing, the following: “Yes, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus [as long as they don't have any unconfessed sins in their lives].” However, that is not true. As we will see from the Bible, confession of sins doesn't constitute the basis, or the condition of MAINTAINING salvation. Once believers are justified by faith, they have peace with God forever: Romans 5:1 (NKJV) 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  If maintaining justification or salvation depends on believers' confession of sins (either of all sins or even only the known sins), then the most loving thing that God, the Father, can do for believers is to take them to heaven immediately after they are saved. This way believers are not in danger of ever losing their salvation by missing even one unconfessed sin. When believers confess their sins, can they be sure they confessed everything? Do they have enough time to confess everything?  For Martin Luther, confession of sins was a daily discipline. Sometimes, he confessed for as long as six hours at a time! He took it to the highest extreme. Luther was asked on one occasion, “Do you love God?” to which he answered, “Do I love God? Sometimes I hate Him.” How could someone say such a thing? Only  someone tormented by his sin could come to such a conclusion. Luther confessed for hours. He would review regularly the Ten Commandments and the seven deadly sins and the greatest Scriptural fear he had was breaking the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). He would also review often the Sermon on the Mount and question whether he could faithfully live according to its principles. The scenes of judgment in the Book of Revelation haunted him as well. R.C. Sproul explains with more details what used to happen in those times in this way, “Confession was a regular part of the monastic life. The other brothers came regularly to their confessors and said, ‘Father, I have sinned. Last night I stayed up after ‘lights out' and read my Bible with a candle' or, ‘Yesterday at lunchtime I coveted Brother Philip's potato salad.' (How much trouble can a monk get into in a monastery?) The father Confessor would hear the confession, grant priestly absolution, and then assign a small penance to be performed. That was it! The whole process took only a few minutes. Not so with Brother Luther. He was not satisfied with a brief recitation of his sins. He wanted to make sure that no sin in his life was left unconfessed. He entered the confessional and stayed up for hours every day.” Luther's reason for confession was his fright about God's judgment. He thought God was offended by his sins, but God was not offended because of Christ's sacrifice. Luther lived in daily fear of the immediate judgment of God on his life. He said on one occasion, “If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.” That's how much he became distressed with the enormity of his own sins and his inability to satisfy a righteous God.  Luther confessed every sin. He hated his sin. In fact, because of his obsession with confession, Luther was even deemed crazy. Some monks believed he had deep sexual struggles, because only that kind of sins would bother a monk so much that he would confess as much as he did. The monks thought Luther was on the verge of a psychotic episode or breakdown. His heavy doses of confession caused even physical pain and suffering to him. He developed digestive difficulties (e.g., kidney stones and gallstones) due to the anxiety caused by his battle with sin. No particular sins distressed him. It was his overall corrupt nature –“What can I do to win a gracious God? Oh my sin, my sin, what shall I do with my sin?” Today, maybe Christians don't take confession of sins to such extremes like Luther, although they should, if they were really serious about it. However, they still go through a similar relative torment like Luther and always feel unworthy before God. The Israelites in the Old Testament had a Day of Atonement once a year when they would confess their sins and put them all on a goat - a scapegoat called Azazel - and then they would send that goat in the wilderness. Can anyone imagine a few million Jews taking the time to confess all their sins from that past year to the priests? The whole process would have taken a few years to end and the priests would be exhausted or die of exhaustion. Did the people confess their sins like believers do today? Of course not. Whenever people brought animals for sin offerings, would the priests examine the people of their sins, or the animal for sacrifice, which had to be spotless and without any defect? The animal, of course. The priest would examine the sacrifice and not the person bringing it, because the whole reason for why anyone would bring a sin offering was that they sinned. No need for further examination.  Similarly, when John the Baptist baptized people in water at the river Jordan, the Bible says that people would come to him and confess their sins. They would not start confessing every little sin to John in the water. In both of these two described cases, confession of sins meant acknowledging that they had sinned before God, and believing that He forgave or covered all their sins. This is what born-again believers do, once and for all, at the moment of their salvation. Think about the criminal on the cross, who had a multitude of sins, which he didn't confess. He just asked Jesus to remember him when He would go into His kingdom and Jesus promised him that He would take him to heaven. Why would God be interested in hearing about every dirty and filthy sin of ours? He knows and sees plenty of it, everything is open in His sight, He already knows everything, and He already paid for all sins through Jesus' sacrifice.  The truth is that, even if we think that we have a sincere and pertinent reason for confessing our sins, we actually do it because we cannot forgive ourselves and because of our self-righteousness. We are trying to show God that we are not that bad, that we can do something to fix the wrong and become again worthy before Him to receive His blessings, and to have Him move with power in our lives. Does confession of sins really help us in not sinning anymore? As you probably noticed in your own practice, most of the times, it doesn't. You confess the sin and then you do it again most of the times, because that confession in itself keeps you in the cycle of sinning, by making you focus on the sin and on your inability to overcome it, and not on Jesus.  Now, let's look at confession of sins from a different angle. When people do something wrong to us, should we expect them to ask for forgiveness first in order to forgive them? According to the Bible, no, not at all. We should forgive people no matter what they do, and even about 490 times a day. If God requires that of us, wouldn't He much more treat us the same way? Yes, He would. He has already removed all our sins, without waiting for our detailed confession of every sin. We confessed once that we were sinners and that we needed Jesus' sacrifice to cleanse us, and this was enough for Him. Apparently, the sacrifice of Jesus is not enough for us. We feel the need of crying and making penance for every sin repeatedly. An even more concerning question is this: What happens if a believer suddenly dies with unconfessed sins? Is he not saved anymore? Does he go to hell after living a lifetime with God? Sadly, many Christians and even leaders think that these believers would go to hell. In order to alleviate such a terrifying conclusion, they say that, in reality, not many believers will be in that situation, because God will ”orchestrate” their death in such a way that most Christians would die with all their sins confessed. Are you ready to believe something that doesn't even have a biblical support, rather than believing that all your sins have been removed and that, no matter when and how you die, you go to heaven? Such an assumption would mean that believers are saved completely and permanently only at the end of their lives, and even then, only if they confessed all sins. This conclusion is not biblical.  Now, if we look carefully in the New Testament, we can easily notice that Jesus, in all His life on earth, never mentioned confession of sins, not even when He initiated the Communion (or the Lord's Supper) in the upper room with His disciples. He didn't tell them to take a few minutes to examine themselves of their sins, make sure they confessed everything, and then partake of the bread and the wine, or not partake at all, if their sin is too heavy. Furthermore, we can see apostle Paul speaking in so much detail about salvation, justification, and sanctification in all of his doctrinal epistles (Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, 1 and 2 Timothy, etc.), but never mentioning anything about confessing sins. How could Paul forget altogether to mention such an “important” aspect of confession of sins as a condition to maintain salvation? Of course, he didn't forget. In fact, he didn't write anything about it intentionally. In his letter to the Corinthian Christians, many of whom were committing sins like visiting the prostitutes from idols' temples, he didn't tell them to confess their sins to get right with God, but rather he reminded them of who they were in Christ: 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NKJV) 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?  Our being “right with God” is not based on the imperfect confession of sins of an imperfect man, but on the riches of God's grace and on the perfect sacrifice of His Son. There are only two passages in the whole New Testament alluding specifically to confession of sins and neither one of them was written by Paul. In addition, none of those two passages mentions confession of sins as a condition for maintaining salvation. The two passages are found in James 5:14-16 in the context of physical healing, and in 1 John 1:9. Let's take a look at the first one.   James 5:14-16 James 5:14–16 (NKJV) 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  It's important to notice a few things in this passage. The context of this passage is physical healing of sickness and confession of trespasses (or mistakes) to one another, not to God. Only by looking at the context, we can conclude that this passage cannot be taken as a biblical support for confession of sins to God, the way Christians do it today. Verse 15 says clearly that if the sick person has committed sins, they will be automatically forgiven without any confession. More striking is that those sins will be forgiven after the person was healed and not before. Sometimes when I go to pray for someone sick, if the sickness doesn't go instantly and is stubborn, some leaders would say to me: “Ask the person if they have some unconfessed sin or hidden sin in their life.” What does that have to do with anything? Does unconfessed sin stop healing? No, not at all. While we were yet sinners, God took the initiative to send His Son to die for us, even before we were born without waiting for us to ask Him to do that. The passage clearly says that the sick will be healed first, irrespective of their sins, and if they committed sins, they will be forgiven without mentioning anything about confession of sins to God.  Verse 16 then talks about confessing our trespasses to one another. However, that doesn't make us more holy and worthy of healing before God, it doesn't bring us closer to God, and neither delivers us permanently from not committing those sins again. Confessing, crying, and taking the load off your chest doesn't really make you free of sin. Such freedom comes only by grace through faith, and not by confession to one another. Yes, it's true, that some sins like witchcraft and involvement in the occult can be the direct cause of certain diseases. Likewise, stress, unforgiveness or bitterness can cause some diseases, as well, and by simply confessing those sins to one another and bringing them to light, the sick person can be healed and delivered. However, confession in such instances is not a condition to make God heal the person, but rather an act to expose the demonic or to seek reconciliation in human relationships. This would be the first reason for confessing sins to one another. A second reason for confessing sins to one another, based on this passage, can be to receive help in prayer from other believers concerning a problem or sin, and to be strengthened for victory over those sinful behaviors. In fact, verse 16 encourages praying for one another. The third reason for confessing hidden sins to other people is your emotional relief and the therapeutical effect following the sharing of those things. Sinful behaviors or deeds steal your peace and keep condemning you continuously, so confession helps you forgive yourself and cleanse your conscience of that guilt easier and faster, especially in the case of repeated sins. However, that confession doesn't influence God and His relationship to you in any way. This aspect of bringing to light things hidden that tear a person apart inside is encouraged even by the secular world as being beneficial. However, it cannot be used to make atonement for your sins before God. 

Commandment #2: "You shall have no other gods before Me" Exodus 20 2-17

Main Points-1. -You shall have no other gods before Me- -Exodus 20-3-.-2. The wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God -James 1-19-20-.

Main Points-1. -You shall have no other gods before Me- -Exodus 20-3-.-2. The wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God -James 1-19-20-.

In our summary of Exodus we are reminded of God's care and protection, and His love of His people motivates them to love and trust in Him. Our verse is: "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2-3 NKJV). We will see His deliverance and His care for His people.

Questions God Asks - Why are You Crying Out to Me? Exodus 14:5-25

In Remembrance of Me - Exodus 12:43-51; Exodus 13:3-10; Luke 22:1-20

In Remembrance of Me - Exodus 12:43-51; Exodus 13:3-10; Luke 22:1-20

First in Series "Living Free”. This series is a study of the Ten Commandments. The focus will be on understanding more the character of God and His will for our lives and relationships -- and how these commandments point us to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The series is not going to pile on legalistic rules and burdens; rather, it will reveal the character of God, man's sinfulness, and the grace of our Savior. The intent is to see how the Ten Commandments are very applicable to our daily lives. Listen as Pastor Tommy Larson begins the series by looking at the first of the 10 Commandments: "You shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:3).

Episode #017 Don't ask, am I the right person for the job, ask, "Is God with Me?" Exodus 3

The Path to Freedom “No God but Me” Exodus 20:3, Psalm 19:7-9   A spirit of confusion is upon the church wherever and whenever the law is not taught and upheld.   The great sum of the law is covenant love. Matthew 22:37-40   Freedom: The power...