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Today's program looks at Psalm 2 - The Wrath of the Son: What kindles the anger of Jesus?

Welcome to our 2nd episode although I must confess this was my very first recording. I now have way better equipment so the recording itself is not the best but this conversation is just too powerful not to share. I hope you'll appreciate the heart of this episode and forgive the less-than-perfect recording. This guest heals from being an overworked mom and breaks the cycle of her angry mother mistreating her while learning how to better communicate with her family through the Destiny cards, Enneagram and personal hypnotherapy healing while in meditation. You will be touched and healed from her beautiful story. If you'd like to enjoy Erin's weekly offerings, please subscribe here:   YouTube meditations: https://www.youtube.com/eringaray Weekly Love Letter,: https://www.lovehealthrive.com/ Facebook,: https://www.facebook.com/LoveHealThrive/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovehealthrive/ InsightTimer: https://insighttimer.com/eringaray   3:00- Deciding to break the cycle of the overworked angry mother she experienced as a child.  Our guest vows to never become unconscious again.  Powerful, emotional, and amazing. 4:55- Acknowledging generational patterns and learning to break the cycle. Before we enter this life, we all have a checklist of things our soul needs to complete.   7:17- Destiny card introduction.  The monthly calendar is based on the Destiny card.  Every suit has similar characteristics and every card has similar characteristics. 8:00- 8 of hearts is the most popular girl in the room and has an abundant of feelings.  Advice always come through stories and parables. Mundane spread found here: www.LoveHealThrive.com/podcast-links 9:38- This is how we operate in the world.  10:20- The energy connection found in the chart is the reason why when you meet someone they feel like they could be your best friend. 11:26- Six of Diamonds- Husband and daughter are both 6 of diamonds. Always ask them “Where is the value in this for you?  Why does this matter?” Watch what a difference this will make with this simple communication switch. 13:16- Mars relationships can be passionate. When you're looking the same direction, you can make miracles happen.  Although it is the God of War so there are two sides there. Some people long for that kind of passion but with it can come fighting. Mars can cause competition. My love for you surpasses this Mars energy. Daughter and husband have this past life energy. 15:42- 2 of clubs- Son is two of clubs- ask him “What do you think? “ Intelligent and loves facts. Both are mercury and moon relationship. 16:55- With 8 of hearts, recognizing that you have this abundance of love and when we try to control too much that it comes from this lack of trust that we can be loved in the way we want to loved and if we can let go and recognize they love us and we can allow them in and be vulnerable, we are healed. 18:20- Be careful not to overdump on your moon relationships. Because it is your son, have conscious awareness whether or not you are oversharing on him because he is your moon. 19:00- Guest is coming at him from the heart place and he's coming from this head space. 19:50-  Ask him “What do you think?” Recognize the mercury/moon relationship and be sure not to overshare.  I overheart on him all the time! I connect in the way I want to connect, not the way he wants to connect.  Can you share a fact of the day?  Two of clubs loves to share facts.   21:40-  2's are built for partnership. 2's love partnership. He wants logical intellectual partnership.   22:25- 6 of diamonds experience a lot of karma in this lifetime.  Plant good seeds because it will come back exponentially.  Make sure your daughter learns good financial planning early on.   24:05- 6 equals 2 3s. Either creating a plan or worrying about a plan. When you worry, create.   24:55- Joint partnership work – guest prefers the heart work   27:23: Bumping around in the world. As a heart, you feel your way into the world and with people.   27:48-  Be the mana-blog Be the mana blog: https://www.lovehealthrive.com/weeklyloveletter/2019/8/19/how-will-your-mana-change-the-world?rq=mana 29:10- Aura discussion on the guest's extra large aura. Be sure to ground every morning so that you draw in your aura. Childhood trauma can create larger auras.   30:00- Childhood trauma can cause larger aura.  As a child, we throw out our energy field to determine whether or not the room is safe for us. If our childhood is traumatic, we leave our aura out.  If we never draw it in, we absorb everyone's energies. 30:50-  Came to US as political refugees, only had my senses because I didn't speak the language.  What does their body language tell me? Always get overwhelmed in a crowd.   32:12-  First time to connect the dots on all of this energy sensitivity. Let your little girl be proud of holding this space for family and allowing her to feel safe and hold her little self.  Have you and your little self play.  Hand your parents a tutor or a book on energy. As we change the timeline, the energy shifts in the present day.   33:52- Sister had selective mutism and was put into the same grade as client so client had to protect her sister too. Guest is hyper- aware of their surroundings.  Is it possible to reach a level of trust in the Universe that your soul knew to experience what it needed to do? Gary Zukav , Seat of the Soul   35:45- Allowing the little girl to play and relax.  Build a suit around herself.  Stand up to the people who wronged her with a superhero or stand in superwoman pose.  Allowing little girl to feel strength and empowerment and allowing little girl to release the responsibility of their parents. It's my job to be a little girl right now. Give your sister a caregiver.  As you do this in mediation, it shifts the energetic timeline. You are responding as this responsible and burdened and tough little girl.  Acknowledge the amazingness you brought to your family.  It's time to have fun with your own family now but you can only do that once you've let that little girl let go. Let it feel easy, joyous, and fun. 39:39- I want you to know you can do this yourself and you can do this in bite-sized meditations every day. 40:39- 7 generations you are changing when you break a cycle.  No pressure!  It happens in the perfect way in the perfect time.  Think of this as bite-sized fun.  Give her a break. This is how you are feeling every day right now. “I need a break” There is something more happening here. This burdened little girl makes you feel exhausted everyday.   41:48- Ennegram- Guest is 3x2, Hubby 2x3, daughter 2w3, son is a 4. Hubby and daughter are both 6 of diamonds and 2w3. 41:42:- 2,3,4 are all dealing with value and shame is their collective challenge. Understanding where your value comes from in your life. 2- bring value by being the most loving.  Nobody loves people as well as I love people. Gives to get.  I'm going to get my value because I love the most.   3- being the most achiever- win the most awards.  You quit but not me.. I'm gonna be valuable because I going to work to the bone. Lack in feeling that you have value to begin with. We have inherent value without any achievement. We are born with inherent value. That was their lack of capacity to love you in the way you deserved. Thinking you're only valuable because you achieve.  Creates a mask that I am achiever. Pull the mask off and know I have value beyond the roles I play. I have value because I am Divine.  4- Wants its value by being the most unique- I am the only who paints like this or dresses like this. Creates their attention through their uniqueness. Feeling ashamed if I'm not unique enough, or achieving enough or giving enough 47:45- as 3w2- achievement and you want to help. As a 2, are you giving to get? We can feel proud but is our value determined by the pride and achievement.  As we lean into 4 to create greater balance as we lean on both sides and shows more vulnerability. Natural leaning into the 4 of the son, everyone is special without achieving and the only one in this space.   Hubby is 2w3- his weight is   50:33- Each number has its own sin - 2 is pride- it must look a certain way. As a 3w2- there could be a lot of pride around helping.  Help without expecting in return.   51:26-  Dark side of 3 is feeling like a loser.  Should get another degree, another certification. Love up on that 3 she is whole and complete without the extra degrees.   52:15-  3s are so important. They get the job done! They push us! 52:44- The pace of the 3 is incredible-  This is why I'm so exhausted- I lead with my heart, I have this huge aura and I'm always going bananas. I always need to get more done. 53:22- Meditation is so important.  You are light and love.  You are mana. 54:00- As a 3, enough is enough. I can be whole and I can be complete right here and now. Anything extra is bonus.  It doesn't create more value and it doesn't take away value from you. 54:45- Only give from overflow. 55:05- Sin of 3 is deceit- shows up as the false mask- thinking I'm fooling people because I don't have all these degrees. Enough is enough. 55:55- All struggle with “Where's my family come from? I am valuable because I am here- family practice.  I don't have to be or do to be valuable. When we settle in and get center, we accomplish all these things from a different place.  All of these accomplishments will happen even easier rather than forcing them to happen. When we allow balance, we attract all the things that bless us.   57:30- We attract all the things that bless us rather than forcing them to happen. Comes from a place of magnetizing rather than forcing and you won't be so tired.   58:14- Your son, 4, does not have to be the most unique to be loved.  His sin is envy and to realize the grass is not greener. Family gratitude practice.   59:38- Son- What do you think your gratitude is from today? Daughter- What valuable things happened to you? What mattered to you today? Language matters.  You're speaking to their soul. 60:00- Guest is a heart- feeling your way through the world- How do you feel? Husband and daughter- Where is the matter and value in this to you? Son- What do you think? 61 :03- Love was not modeled to guest's dad so could not love her in the way she wanted. Forgiveness changes your heart. 69:00- Our children entrain to the mother.  Follow along like little duckies.

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Our lectionary readings today bring us two fairly complex and curious passages with which to wrestle.  The first testament reading from Numbers may be totally unfamiliar.  If you suffer from Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), you might find it especially disturbing!  Our Gospel reading, on the other hand, is likely to be familiar to all.  It contains perhaps the best known and often repeated line of Christian scripture that’s out there…“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son…” What is the connection between these passages? The post Lifted Up appeared first on Pacific Beach United Methodist Church - PB UMC - PBUMC.

All things are echoes of the Voice for God. No one can judge on partial evidence. That is not judgment. It is merely an opinion based on ignorance and doubt. Its seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of all the doubting underneath. You do not seem to doubt the world you see. You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed! Why would you trust them so implicitly? Why but because of underlying doubt, which you would hide with show of certainty? How can you judge? Your judgment rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. Yet witness never falser was than this. But how else do you judge the world you see? You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself. Can this be judgment? You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. You cannot judge. You merely can believe the ego's judgments, all of which are false. It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. It is itself alone that it condemns. It is within itself it sees the guilt. It is its own despair it sees in you. Hear not its voice. The witnesses it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with certainty of what they do not know. Your faith in them is blind because you would not share the doubts their lord can not completely vanquish. You believe to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself. Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body's mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers' touch reports of him. He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God's Son. He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego's dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds. Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before Its face. Christ cannot doubt Himself. The Voice for God can only honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys of sin; unheeding of the body's witnesses before the rapture of Christ's holy face. And thus He judges you. Accept His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation, and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. What can the body mean to Him Who knows the glory of the Father and the Son? What whispers of the ego can He hear? What could convince Him that your sins are real? Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain. He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven's blessing on the world. Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. It stands beyond the body and the world, past every witness for unholiness, within the Holy, holy as Itself. In everyone and everything His Voice would speak to you of nothing but your Self and your Creator, Who is one with Him. So will you see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's Voice.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 151

Happy Friday! I'm getting started on the pod late tonight, so I must cut out a lot of the normal banter, and funny jokes you normally hear in this space. That was actually my funny joke for the day, as I know my other jokes aren't actually that funny. Our Bible readings today are Leviticus 21, Psalms 26 and 27, Ecclesiastes 4 and 1 Timothy 6. Our focus question comes from Psalms 27, and in this passage David discusses how he will not give into fear, because God is his stronghold. As we have talked about before, I suspect fear around the world is at its highest level in my lifetime, so our Big Bible question is all about how to NOT be afraid. Let me caution you upfront, so that I am not the spiritual equivalent of a used car salesman. I do believe that the Bible gives us multiple way to overcome fear, but because we are human, there is no permanent cure for fear in the sense that you take it once and poof! you are cured forever. In the same way that people need daily food to live on, Christians need daily bread from God to live on. Part of that provision is the Word of God to help us overcome sin, to resist temptation, and to walk in faith, rather than fear. Here is my experience and testimony: I have not had a life that has been characterized by fearfulness, but I have had many extended times in my life where fear and anxiety have taken hold, and enveloped me in some sort of spiritual wrestling match where I was pinned to the mat far more often than I overcame. In those times of trial, fear, and anxiety, I have been humbled, and my courage has often trickled away like water out of a leaky bucket. My only hope in those times - the only antidote to fear and anxiety that I could find, was a constant and persistent clinging to the Word of God and prayer. Seeking God and immersing myself in His Word has always overcome fear in my life, but - to be very frank - it usually comes back, and one serving of God's Word and abiding in Him is not adequate medicine to eradicate the virus of fear from my soul. The reason for this is not a fault in the medicine of God's Word and Abiding through prayer, but the reason is a fault and weakness in my own soul + the Divine purpose and wisdom of our Creator. God did NOT create man and give him the ability to overcome every obstacle by his own power. God created man to be incapable of overcoming apart from ABIDING in His Creator, and the greater the battle that comes against us, the greater the abiding in God and His Word needs to be. So - I say this to you who are battling anxiety, depression, weariness, fear, sorrow, and hopelessness right now: In Christ, you face a winnable battle, and here is your promise to rest on: 9 Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. Galatians 6:9 Cling to the Cross. Believe the gospel and read it in the Word every day. Remind yourself frequently that Jesus died to pay the price for your sins, and that 'because He lives, you will live too.' Consume the Word. Pray constantly. Trust God. When your eyes stray from Him and fall on something that makes you fear, tear your eyes away from that and fix your eyes on Jesus. Looking to Him will enable you to overcome, even when you are weary and fainthearted, so says Hebrews 12:1-3. So - in a spiritual war with fear, whether it is constant in your life, or only occasional, how do we overcome? Step one is making sure the 'anchor' of your life - your faith and trust - is in Jesus. I'm not merely being spiritual here. Ask yourself when you are afraid what you are hoping in. Maybe you're afraid of the coronavirus...what is your deepest hope? Is it that science will discover a cure? That politicians will make the right decisions? That you will be protected by your excessive prudence and hygiene practices? All of those things are good, but none of them are our anchor. Our anchor is Jesus. Step one in overcoming fear is looking to Jesus. Some have already been doing that, but even if you haven't already been doing that, then there is still time to hold fast to the anchor of Jesus. I love Tim Keller's message on Psalms 27, so I want to briefly tag him in here to talk about how the Lord is our stronghold, and we overcome fear by looking to Him: Somebody may ask, “What part of David’s life would this have been part of? When was this? When did this happen?” The answer is it could have been anytime because David is continually in trouble. If you read his life, he is always struggling. He is always wrestling. When he is a young man before he becomes king, what is he doing? He is out in the wilderness running for his life. He is on the lam. As soon as he becomes king, when he is a young king, where do we see him? When he becomes king, his enemies come in, and they decide they’re going to attack him before he gets established. The next thing you know, he has to flee the capital. He is out in the wilderness running for his life. Then he is an old man. It’s different now. He is an old king. What do we see? We see his son Absalom doing a coup d’état. There is David, out in the wilderness running for his life. I mean, he is just like us. He is always in trouble. He is always struggling. It’s so amazingly realistic... It doesn’t say, “He will keep me safe from the day of trouble.” It doesn’t say that. It says, “He will keep me safe in the day of trouble.” It assumes there’s trouble... Here it says, “God will keep me safe so when my enemies are all around me, when the trouble is all around me, in the day of trouble … not from the day of trouble … in the midst of my enemies …” Even Psalm 23 says that. “He prepares a table before me …” Where? Not after he has made those stupid enemies run off. He has whacked them. They’re on the run. No, it’s in the presence of my enemies. Have you ever thought about that? There is no promise in Psalm 23 that he will take those enemies and run them away. The promise is he will prepare a table for you in the presence of the enemies. He doesn’t promise the absence of enemies. Even if you go to Romans 8, in Romans 8:28, it says, “… all things work together for good to them that love God …” You say, “Well, that means nothing really bad can happen to me.” You see, Romans 8:29 , immediately after Romans 8:28, says, “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son …” What that means is here’s the promise. Nothing will come into your life but that which realizes the greatness and the nearness and the likeness of Jesus Christ in your life. It doesn’t say nothing will come into your life that’s really bad. It says nothing will come into your life but that which will realize the greatness, the likeness, and the nearness of Jesus Christ. The reason why we shouldn’t be surprised, we shouldn’t say, “What?” is because there was a Person who lived on earth who was very, very great and who loved God with all his heart, soul, strength, and mind, and who was very used by God, and God brought things that were really, really, really, really bad. He never had any friends who understood him. He never got married and had children. He was beaten. He was tortured. He was destroyed. He was killed. He was rejected. Those are really, really bad things. That was the end of his life. Jesus says a servant is not above his master. Safety does not mean safety from trouble; it means safety in trouble. It means that this is the promise. In the midst of your trouble, all the important parts of you will be utterly safe. All the greatest joys, all the important things, all the things you really care about, all of your highest interests, all of the things that are the most valuable to you will be absolutely safe. Nothing can be touched in any of the vicissitudes of life but those things which are secondary, those things which are not of the essence of your joy or who you are. That’s the promise. If that’s the promise, what that means is it still comes back to the same thing. It means there is a condition you can be in so you can move out into the world, trusting God and being absolutely fearless. Absolutely fearless! Total courage. Not afraid of what happens. Not afraid of what’s about to happen. Not afraid … “If an army comes and besieges me, I will not fear.” See, that’s the promise. The promise is you can live in that condition. See, most of us think when you read that, “Ah! The promise, therefore, is if I trust God, I really won’t have to suffer.” That’s not it. If I trust God, I will become a great heart. My heart will be strong. I will be afraid of nothing. My head will be exalted above my enemies who are surrounding me. That’s what it promises. Why does this work? I’ll tell you why. God does not promise that you will not suffer, but he does promise one thing. There is only one thing he will never take from you. He will never take himself from you. He will never turn his back on you. He will never say, “Oops! You finally sinned one time too many. How many times have you done that? That’s it! How many times have you promised me? That’s that.” No, he will never ever do it. Do you know why he’ll never do it? Do you know why you can be confident that whether you feel him today or you don’t feel him, even though you’re seeking him, that he will never cast you off, that he will receive you, that he will not turn his face from you? Because Jesus lost the one thing. Do you realize that? Jesus lost the one thing. Jesus wanted only one thing in his life, because he was a perfect Man of God. He only wanted one thing. On the cross, even in the garden of Gethsemane, he turned, and he said, “I seek your face.” What did he get? He got the back of God’s hand. He is the only person who this has ever happened to, and it never will happen again. Somebody said, “I seek your face,” and God gave him the back of his hand. Why? So when we seek his face, we’ll never get the back of his hand, even though we fall down, even though we fail. That’s the reason why you can say, “Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear.” Because I know I have the one thing. I’ll have the one thing. I’m getting the one thing that will never be taken from me. Because Jesus lost it, you got it. Let’s pray. Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013). Let me assure you: Because of the mercy of our God, we will get through this coronavirus storm. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but the people of God will not all be sunk in this storm. When we do - let me encourage you to turn to the anchor of your soul and hold fast to Him BEFORE the next storm comes. There will be another storm, and another after that. Those who overcome those storms best will be those who already have the ship of their lives secured by the anchor of Jesus. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. 20 Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, Hebrews 6:19-20 See! There are two vessels yonder, and a storm is coming on. I see a great hurrying and scurrying on the deck of one. What are they at? They have a great anchor, and they are throwing it out. The storm is coming, and they want to get a good hold, for fear lest they should be driven on the shore. But on the deck of the other vessel, I see no bustle at all. There is the watch pacing up and down as leisurely as possible. Why are they not in a panic? “Ahoy there! Ahoy! What makes you so calm and assured? Have you got out your anchor? See you! Your comrades in the other vessel, how busy they are!” “Oh!” says the watch, “but we had our anchor out a long while ago, before the storm came on, and therefore we have no need to trouble now, and hurry to throw it out. Now, you who are full of doubts, and fears, and troubles, you know the way to be safe is to throw out the anchor of faith, but it would be better still if you had the anchor of faith out already, so that you could trust in God, and not be afraid at all. C. H. Spurgeon, “Fearing and Trusting—Trusting and Not Fearing,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 59 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1913), 333.

Happy Friday! I'm getting started on the pod late tonight, so I must cut out a lot of the normal banter, and funny jokes you normally hear in this space. That was actually my funny joke for the day, as I know my other jokes aren't actually that funny. Our Bible readings today are Leviticus 21, Psalms 26 and 27, Ecclesiastes 4 and 1 Timothy 6. Our focus question comes from Psalms 27, and in this passage David discusses how he will not give into fear, because God is his stronghold. As we have talked about before, I suspect fear around the world is at its highest level in my lifetime, so our Big Bible question is all about how to NOT be afraid. Let me caution you upfront, so that I am not the spiritual equivalent of a used car salesman. I do believe that the Bible gives us multiple way to overcome fear, but because we are human, there is no permanent cure for fear in the sense that you take it once and poof! you are cured forever. In the same way that people need daily food to live on, Christians need daily bread from God to live on. Part of that provision is the Word of God to help us overcome sin, to resist temptation, and to walk in faith, rather than fear. Here is my experience and testimony: I have not had a life that has been characterized by fearfulness, but I have had many extended times in my life where fear and anxiety have taken hold, and enveloped me in some sort of spiritual wrestling match where I was pinned to the mat far more often than I overcame. In those times of trial, fear, and anxiety, I have been humbled, and my courage has often trickled away like water out of a leaky bucket. My only hope in those times - the only antidote to fear and anxiety that I could find, was a constant and persistent clinging to the Word of God and prayer. Seeking God and immersing myself in His Word has always overcome fear in my life, but - to be very frank - it usually comes back, and one serving of God's Word and abiding in Him is not adequate medicine to eradicate the virus of fear from my soul. The reason for this is not a fault in the medicine of God's Word and Abiding through prayer, but the reason is a fault and weakness in my own soul + the Divine purpose and wisdom of our Creator. God did NOT create man and give him the ability to overcome every obstacle by his own power. God created man to be incapable of overcoming apart from ABIDING in His Creator, and the greater the battle that comes against us, the greater the abiding in God and His Word needs to be. So - I say this to you who are battling anxiety, depression, weariness, fear, sorrow, and hopelessness right now: In Christ, you face a winnable battle, and here is your promise to rest on: 9 Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. Galatians 6:9 Cling to the Cross. Believe the gospel and read it in the Word every day. Remind yourself frequently that Jesus died to pay the price for your sins, and that 'because He lives, you will live too.' Consume the Word. Pray constantly. Trust God. When your eyes stray from Him and fall on something that makes you fear, tear your eyes away from that and fix your eyes on Jesus. Looking to Him will enable you to overcome, even when you are weary and fainthearted, so says Hebrews 12:1-3. So - in a spiritual war with fear, whether it is constant in your life, or only occasional, how do we overcome? Step one is making sure the 'anchor' of your life - your faith and trust - is in Jesus. I'm not merely being spiritual here. Ask yourself when you are afraid what you are hoping in. Maybe you're afraid of the coronavirus...what is your deepest hope? Is it that science will discover a cure? That politicians will make the right decisions? That you will be protected by your excessive prudence and hygiene practices? All of those things are good, but none of them are our anchor. Our anchor is Jesus. Step one in overcoming fear is looking to Jesus. Some have already been doing that, but even if you haven't already been doing that, then there is still time to hold fast to the anchor of Jesus. I love Tim Keller's message on Psalms 27, so I want to briefly tag him in here to talk about how the Lord is our stronghold, and we overcome fear by looking to Him: Somebody may ask, “What part of David’s life would this have been part of? When was this? When did this happen?” The answer is it could have been anytime because David is continually in trouble. If you read his life, he is always struggling. He is always wrestling. When he is a young man before he becomes king, what is he doing? He is out in the wilderness running for his life. He is on the lam. As soon as he becomes king, when he is a young king, where do we see him? When he becomes king, his enemies come in, and they decide they’re going to attack him before he gets established. The next thing you know, he has to flee the capital. He is out in the wilderness running for his life. Then he is an old man. It’s different now. He is an old king. What do we see? We see his son Absalom doing a coup d’état. There is David, out in the wilderness running for his life. I mean, he is just like us. He is always in trouble. He is always struggling. It’s so amazingly realistic... It doesn’t say, “He will keep me safe from the day of trouble.” It doesn’t say that. It says, “He will keep me safe in the day of trouble.” It assumes there’s trouble... Here it says, “God will keep me safe so when my enemies are all around me, when the trouble is all around me, in the day of trouble … not from the day of trouble … in the midst of my enemies …” Even Psalm 23 says that. “He prepares a table before me …” Where? Not after he has made those stupid enemies run off. He has whacked them. They’re on the run. No, it’s in the presence of my enemies. Have you ever thought about that? There is no promise in Psalm 23 that he will take those enemies and run them away. The promise is he will prepare a table for you in the presence of the enemies. He doesn’t promise the absence of enemies. Even if you go to Romans 8, in Romans 8:28, it says, “… all things work together for good to them that love God …” You say, “Well, that means nothing really bad can happen to me.” You see, Romans 8:29 , immediately after Romans 8:28, says, “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son …” What that means is here’s the promise. Nothing will come into your life but that which realizes the greatness and the nearness and the likeness of Jesus Christ in your life. It doesn’t say nothing will come into your life that’s really bad. It says nothing will come into your life but that which will realize the greatness, the likeness, and the nearness of Jesus Christ. The reason why we shouldn’t be surprised, we shouldn’t say, “What?” is because there was a Person who lived on earth who was very, very great and who loved God with all his heart, soul, strength, and mind, and who was very used by God, and God brought things that were really, really, really, really bad. He never had any friends who understood him. He never got married and had children. He was beaten. He was tortured. He was destroyed. He was killed. He was rejected. Those are really, really bad things. That was the end of his life. Jesus says a servant is not above his master. Safety does not mean safety from trouble; it means safety in trouble. It means that this is the promise. In the midst of your trouble, all the important parts of you will be utterly safe. All the greatest joys, all the important things, all the things you really care about, all of your highest interests, all of the things that are the most valuable to you will be absolutely safe. Nothing can be touched in any of the vicissitudes of life but those things which are secondary, those things which are not of the essence of your joy or who you are. That’s the promise. If that’s the promise, what that means is it still comes back to the same thing. It means there is a condition you can be in so you can move out into the world, trusting God and being absolutely fearless. Absolutely fearless! Total courage. Not afraid of what happens. Not afraid of what’s about to happen. Not afraid … “If an army comes and besieges me, I will not fear.” See, that’s the promise. The promise is you can live in that condition. See, most of us think when you read that, “Ah! The promise, therefore, is if I trust God, I really won’t have to suffer.” That’s not it. If I trust God, I will become a great heart. My heart will be strong. I will be afraid of nothing. My head will be exalted above my enemies who are surrounding me. That’s what it promises. Why does this work? I’ll tell you why. God does not promise that you will not suffer, but he does promise one thing. There is only one thing he will never take from you. He will never take himself from you. He will never turn his back on you. He will never say, “Oops! You finally sinned one time too many. How many times have you done that? That’s it! How many times have you promised me? That’s that.” No, he will never ever do it. Do you know why he’ll never do it? Do you know why you can be confident that whether you feel him today or you don’t feel him, even though you’re seeking him, that he will never cast you off, that he will receive you, that he will not turn his face from you? Because Jesus lost the one thing. Do you realize that? Jesus lost the one thing. Jesus wanted only one thing in his life, because he was a perfect Man of God. He only wanted one thing. On the cross, even in the garden of Gethsemane, he turned, and he said, “I seek your face.” What did he get? He got the back of God’s hand. He is the only person who this has ever happened to, and it never will happen again. Somebody said, “I seek your face,” and God gave him the back of his hand. Why? So when we seek his face, we’ll never get the back of his hand, even though we fall down, even though we fail. That’s the reason why you can say, “Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear.” Because I know I have the one thing. I’ll have the one thing. I’m getting the one thing that will never be taken from me. Because Jesus lost it, you got it. Let’s pray. Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013). Let me assure you: Because of the mercy of our God, we will get through this coronavirus storm. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but the people of God will not all be sunk in this storm. When we do - let me encourage you to turn to the anchor of your soul and hold fast to Him BEFORE the next storm comes. There will be another storm, and another after that. Those who overcome those storms best will be those who already have the ship of their lives secured by the anchor of Jesus. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. 20 Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, Hebrews 6:19-20 See! There are two vessels yonder, and a storm is coming on. I see a great hurrying and scurrying on the deck of one. What are they at? They have a great anchor, and they are throwing it out. The storm is coming, and they want to get a good hold, for fear lest they should be driven on the shore. But on the deck of the other vessel, I see no bustle at all. There is the watch pacing up and down as leisurely as possible. Why are they not in a panic? “Ahoy there! Ahoy! What makes you so calm and assured? Have you got out your anchor? See you! Your comrades in the other vessel, how busy they are!” “Oh!” says the watch, “but we had our anchor out a long while ago, before the storm came on, and therefore we have no need to trouble now, and hurry to throw it out. Now, you who are full of doubts, and fears, and troubles, you know the way to be safe is to throw out the anchor of faith, but it would be better still if you had the anchor of faith out already, so that you could trust in God, and not be afraid at all. C. H. Spurgeon, “Fearing and Trusting—Trusting and Not Fearing,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 59 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1913), 333.

I had a tubal ligation, have repented, and have been absolved, but I still feel guilt. Can you give me any guidance? Was the Crucifixion God the Father taking out his wrath on God the Son? What advice can you give to someone who is struggling with pornography and masturbation? What about someone in a relationship with such a person? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute Director Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body. Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute? Become a Patron (https://community.theologyofthebody.com)! Q1: My husband and I have 5 children. After 4 C-Sections and tremendous pressure from medics, I agreed to tubal ligation. I prayed about it all through my last pregnancy and decided to have the procedure. I have been left with very debilitating conditions following my c sections and another pregnancy and section would have been extremely risky. I have felt shame and guilt. I've spoken to several priests and I've asked and received forgiveness in the sacrament of reconciliation. Now I'm at a loss. Priests assure me that I'm not committing sin when my husband and I embrace but now having read your book "TOB for Beginners", I'm once again heartbroken. My husband does not believe in the teachings on contraception but he was loving and supportive when we used NFP. I'm 45. I adore my husband and now Im scared that we are committing terrible sin. I'm also a Eucharistic minister and lector and I just don't know where to go from here. Q2: Just wondered if I could get the book reference that Christopher made in the Atomic Pumpkin episode from Pope Benedict, regarding not getting off track about the crucifixion on "paying the price"? I was just talking to a friend about the difference between Eastern and Western soteriology (Christus Victor vs. penal substitionary atonement models) and personally think the best approach is our Catholic "both/and". I'd LOVE to read more about what Pope Benedict had to say on this matter! Thanks-- I'm a 38, current theology student at Franciscan University, recent convert to Catholicism (three years), HUGE ToB fangirl, and lifelong lover of Jesus! Love you guys, so thankful for you--I pray for your ministry and family regularly! Q3: What advice would you give to someone who is struggling with pornography and masturbation, but wouldn't consider himself addicted? And, what advice would you give to someone on the other end of that relationship? Where is the line between being compassionate/understanding and knowing when it's time to walk away? Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com (http://www.askchristopherwest.com). Resources mentioned this week: Introduction to Christianity (https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Christianity-2nd-Communio-Books/dp/1586170295) by Joseph Ratzinger Christopher references the 1990 edition, pages 172, 214, 222 Fill These Hearts (https://shop.corproject.com/products/fill-these-hearts) by Christopher West TOB Pilgrimage to the Holy Land - February 15-25, 2020 (http://corproject.pages.ontraport.net/tobpilgrimages) Find Christopher West on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cwestofficial) and Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/cwestofficial). Discover the Theology of the Body Institute (http://www.tobinstitute.org). If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-christopher-west/id1448699486). Thanks for listening! Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hIV5v0vJVxMFuaKyAtDreWwv_5218Rqw/view?usp=sharing). Featuring music by Mike Mangione (https://www.mikemangione.com/). Produced by Sounder and Key (http://www.sounderandkey.com).

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? How about this: Who came first, God the Father or God the Son? What does it really mean to be "begotten"? Join the discussion in the Knowing God With Heart and Mind Facebook group.  

Sermon Notes1. The Glory of the Greater Moses, 27–312. The Gaffe of an Overwhelmed Disciple, 32–343. The Greatness of God the Son, 34–36Reflection questions1. Phil Ryken writes: “Jesus prays before each new phase of ministry (e.g., Luke 3:21; 6:12; 11:1) ... this is most necessary when we are about to take up a new calling, such as school, work, ministry, marriage, parenthood, or retirement.” (Luke, I:470, emphasis added) What upcoming transitions should you be praying about?2. Peter wanted the glorious presence of Christ to remain, and in his excitement, he also put Christ on a level with Moses and Elijah (cf v.33). How are we tempted to make the same errors: Desiring victory and glory before suffering (cf vv.23–27 from last week), or thinking too little of Christ? (Is 59:1, 16ff)3. How have you been tempted this week to “listen” (v.35) to someone other than God’s Son? What steps could you take to focus more on Christ’s Word? See Psalm 1:2–3.

Sermon Slides + Application Questions Read John 5:19-29. If Jesus, who is God, only did what he sees the Father doing, what implications does that have for us in our daily lives? What is a prerequisite for doing the will of the Father? Read verses 22-24. Contrast Jesus’ description of himself with the way our culture likes to think of Jesus. What does it mean to “honor the Son”? What are some specific ways God would have you honor the Son in your own life?

WCSK series six is an expositional verse-by-verse study of the book of Romans. In this episode, Reverend Sadaphal begins explaining the gospel in the same way the apostle Paul did: by telling us who the gospel is about, the Son of God. What does Jesus being the Son of God mean, and what is the precise definition of being the "only-begotten" Son? What is the doctrine of the Trinity, why is it important, and if the word "Trinity" does not appear in the Bible, then why does orthodox Christianity uphold this truth as foundational? Our Scripture focus will be Romans 1:3.

All things are echoes of the Voice for God. No one can judge on partial evidence. That is not judgment. It is merely an opinion based on ignorance and doubt. Its seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of all the doubting underneath. You do not seem to doubt the world you see. You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed! Why would you trust them so implicitly? Why but because of underlying doubt, which you would hide with show of certainty? How can you judge? Your judgment rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. Yet witness never falser was than this. But how else do you judge the world you see? You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself. Can this be judgment? You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. You cannot judge. You merely can believe the ego's judgments, all of which are false. It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. It is itself alone that it condemns. It is within itself it sees the guilt. It is its own despair it sees in you. Hear not its voice. The witnesses it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with certainty of what they do not know. Your faith in them is blind because you would not share the doubts their lord can not completely vanquish. You believe to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself. Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body's mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers' touch reports of him. He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God's Son. He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego's dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds. Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before Its face. Christ cannot doubt Himself. The Voice for God can only honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys of sin; unheeding of the body's witnesses before the rapture of Christ's holy face. And thus He judges you. Accept His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation, and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. What can the body mean to Him Who knows the glory of the Father and the Son? What whispers of the ego can He hear? What could convince Him that your sins are real? Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain. He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven's blessing on the world. Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. It stands beyond the body and the world, past every witness for unholiness, within the Holy, holy as Itself. In everyone and everything His Voice would speak to you of nothing but your Self and your Creator, Who is one with Him. So will you see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's Voice. We practice wordlessly today, except at the beginning of the time we spend with God. We introduce these times with but a single, slow repeating of the thought with which the day begins. And then we watch our thoughts, appealing silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the Will of God. Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind Which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All the threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere. Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake, and gladly give another fifteen more before you go to sleep. Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified. So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity. No one can fail to listen, when you hear the Voice for God give honor to God's Son. And everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your mind. Such is your Eastertide. And so you lay the gift of snow-white lilies on the world, replacing witnesses to sin and death. Through your transfiguration is the world redeemed, and joyfully released from guilt. Now do we lift our resurrected minds in gladness and in gratitude to Him Who has restored our sanity to us. And we will hourly remember Him Who is salvation and deliverance. As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 151

Continuing on our journey through the book of Proverbs, we are staying with the topic of how wisdom, understanding and knowledge relate to keeping covenant with the Almighty. In the last episode Rabbi Steve Berkson took us down a “Rabbi Trail” to look at the words “discretion” and “wormwood”. In this episode he continues looking at the references of “wormwood” to discover the relevance for you today. Who are these “evil shepherds” Jeremiah spoke of? (Jeremiah 23:1-2) What does Yahweh consider to be “horrible”? What is the last great exodus? Related Teachings can be found here, http://mtoi.org/learn_with_us/learn_with_us.shtm - Beware False Prophets - Do You Know the Father and the Son? - What is Worship? - Master Teach Us - CC101: Are You Saved? - INfocus: Messi-Mutt - The Heart of the Matter - INfocus: The Three Voices Don't miss out on new teachings every week. You are welcome to post your comments and please click on the "LIKE" button if this teaching has been a blessing to you. For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website at http://www.mtoi.org and our Official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide.

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