Latest / One Voice Many Conversations / Truth Be Told Ep #038 Why Forgiveness? Pt 4 Hosted by Mickey and Co-host Bethany
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- 0:02SPEAKER_00: Hello, everyone.
- 0:03SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another great episode of Truth Be Told.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: This is I'm Mickey.
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: I'm your host.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: And this is Bethany, my co-host, joining me today.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: But this is a podcast where we like to talk about the truth.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: That's how excited I got.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to just tell you about the Word of God and what we're doing on here today.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: Almost forgot to introduce ourselves, so forgive me for that.
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: But um we wanted to share with you the Word of God and how we do that is we like to get the Bible and we like to open it up and we like to just dive right in.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: And so um I'm gonna bring Bethany on so we can pray because we have a great message that we want to dive right into today.
- 0:35SPEAKER_00: We're kind of anxious, and so Bethany, welcome in and glad that you're here with us.
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: You want to um take off and get us going today?
- 0:45SPEAKER_01: Yes, great to be here.
- 0:46SPEAKER_01: Um, yes, it's um a continuation of what we've been talking about, um about why forgiveness.
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: And um, if you've missed any of the previous parts, I encourage you to after this go back and watch what you've missed.
- 1:15SPEAKER_01: And um, so this is a continuation of that.
- 1:20SPEAKER_01: Um today we'll be looking at John chapter 10.
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: But before we do that, let's go ahead and pray.
- 1:36SPEAKER_01: Dear Lord, I thank you so very much for how you meet with us.
- 1:47SPEAKER_01: Lord, even when we feel rushed, you're never rushed.
- 1:59SPEAKER_01: You are never hurried.
- 2:04SPEAKER_01: Lord, you always work in your timing and in your way.
- 2:13SPEAKER_01: Lord, I pray that this episode will be the same.
- 2:21SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that you know what each listener needs.
- 2:28SPEAKER_01: I thank you for the encouragement that this will bring.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: How can I be so confident?
- 2:40SPEAKER_01: Because it brings encouragement to myself.
- 2:46SPEAKER_01: And so I pray, Lord, that you would take this and use it for your honor.
- 2:55SPEAKER_01: Thank you for what you will do.
- 2:57SPEAKER_01: Thank you for those who are listening.
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name, amen.
- 3:03SPEAKER_02: Amen.
- 3:04SPEAKER_01: So, like like I mentioned, we will be in John chapter 10.
- 3:14SPEAKER_01: And that that chapter alone has so much in it, and yet we will be focusing on a portion of it chapter, starting in verse 22, going through verse 31, setting the context of the verses that I want to focus on that help us to understand just how much God forgives us.
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: You know, so that we understand that we don't have to give in to Satan.
- 4:11SPEAKER_01: We don't have to give in to his attacks that when he brings up sin that we've already confessed, when he brings up those thoughts that oh, you know, you're not forgiven, even though we did confess, and we've looked at a few verses already in previous episodes that have been encouragement, and so let's look at John chapter 10.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: Let's start in verse 22.
- 5:00SPEAKER_01: Verse 22, and it was at Jerusalem, the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
- 5:12SPEAKER_01: Verse 23, and Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
- 5:18SPEAKER_01: 24.
- 5:20SPEAKER_01: Then came the Jews round about him and said unto him, How long dost thou make us get out?
- 5:31SPEAKER_01: If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
- 5:37SPEAKER_01: And let me stop right here and say, we will go over this specifically in another episode, but again, I'm just reading these verses for context, but we will go over this in another episode, so you will want to be anticipating that.
- 6:09SPEAKER_01: Verse 25.
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not.
- 6:21SPEAKER_01: The words that I do in my father's name, they be where they bear witness of me.
- 6:30SPEAKER_01: Verse 26, but ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep.
- 6:43SPEAKER_01: As I said unto you, verse 27, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- 6:55SPEAKER_01: 28, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- 7:08SPEAKER_01: Verse 29, my father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to put them out of my father's hand.
- 7:23SPEAKER_01: Verse 30, I and my father are one.
- 7:30SPEAKER_01: And then verse 32 to verse 42, that's a whole nother passage that we could get into, we will get into at some point, because there's so much.
- 7:48SPEAKER_01: But noticing when it says in verse 28 and 29, when it talks about when Jesus talks about that no man is able to put them out of my hand or my father's hand, meaning Jesus or God, that to me at least, that is that should be one of the lunchpins, I believe, in understanding that when we confess sins to God, he removes them as far as the east is from the west, according to Psalm 103, verse 12.
- 8:59SPEAKER_01: He doesn't remember them according to Isaiah 43, 25.
- 9:05SPEAKER_01: And now we see that Jesus is telling his disciples and those that are there at that time, that no man is able to put them out of his hand or his father's hand.
- 9:26SPEAKER_01: What what more assurance do we need?
- 9:32SPEAKER_01: That again, confessed sin is not remembered, confessed sin is removed.
- 9:48SPEAKER_01: So if you're dealing with those things that Satan is trying to bring up, he's trying to get you to leave into those.
- 10:05SPEAKER_01: Please, please, please, please, write out Psalm 1012 and put it somewhere where you see it every day.
- 10:19SPEAKER_01: Write out Isaiah 43, verses 16 and verse 25.
- 10:29SPEAKER_01: And put it somewhere where you see it every day.
- 10:32SPEAKER_01: Write out John 10.
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: Verses specifically, um verses 28 and 29.
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: Write those verses out, put them somewhere you see every single day.
- 10:54SPEAKER_01: Because you know what?
- 10:59SPEAKER_01: Even though they're in the Bible, even though we have access online to various apps and that to the Bible.
- 11:25SPEAKER_01: In either form, what good does that do?
- 11:34SPEAKER_01: And so I encourage you.
- 12:12SPEAKER_01: Never ever again.
- 12:32SPEAKER_01: But especially those who bring up past things that you know you've confessed and you remember.
- 12:45SPEAKER_01: You know what?
- 12:48SPEAKER_01: God doesn't remember him anymore because I've confessed.
- 12:54SPEAKER_01: What an encouragement.
- 12:58SPEAKER_01: I know I'm I'm uplifted just by talking about it.
- 13:07SPEAKER_01: I want you to be as well.
- 13:13SPEAKER_01: If you were a Christian and you're struggling with dots, break those verses out, please.
- 13:32SPEAKER_01: Put them somewhere where you see them daily.
- 13:38SPEAKER_01: And allow the Lord to show you the truth.
- 13:44SPEAKER_01: Because remember, one of Satan's characteristics is that he is the father of lies.
- 13:57SPEAKER_01: He never tells the truth.
- 14:04SPEAKER_01: And so we are going to be noticing other verses in um other episodes here, but I I really wanted to take time to just focus on John 10.
- 14:30SPEAKER_01: And like I say, since there is so much in that portion of scripture, we will be taking future episodes to talk about those things.
- 14:46SPEAKER_01: But yes, for today, let's be encouraged, be strengthened, be uplifted again.
- 14:59SPEAKER_01: If you have confessed your sins, they're taken care of.
- 15:08SPEAKER_01: God does not remember them.
- 15:13SPEAKER_01: So why do we why do we do something that God doesn't even do?
- 15:24SPEAKER_01: And so Mickey, what are your thoughts on this?
- 15:32SPEAKER_00: This is the scripture is amazing.
- 15:34SPEAKER_00: There's a like you said, there's a lot to it, but there's a couple things that I want to point out today, and with today's episode, and with what we're talking about.
- 15:42SPEAKER_00: I love that it talks about my sheep hearing my voice, and this is Jesus talking.
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: This Jesus is talking in in this um situation in John.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: Um, and he's talking about his sheep.
- 15:54SPEAKER_00: Kind of like the 99, you know, Jesus left the 99 to find the one, um, which refers to any one of us.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: Any one of us.
- 16:04SPEAKER_00: And he will do that.
- 16:05SPEAKER_00: If we go astray, he's gonna come looking for us, he's gonna come after us.
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: If we are if we are true Christians and we have really prayed and asked Jesus into our heart, I love what it says.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: My sheep hear my voice.
- 16:19SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, Bethany, but I've talked to people so many times, and they're like, I don't hear anything, I don't hear nothing.
- 16:26SPEAKER_00: You're full of baloney, you're you know, and it's amazing how many times God has, you know, spoken to me.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: There's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity.
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: And Jesus is talking about his sheep.
- 16:45SPEAKER_00: Everyone that has accepted Jesus Christ as his savior are now his sheep.
- 16:50SPEAKER_00: That's who the sheep are.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: These are the sheep that he's referring to.
- 16:53SPEAKER_00: These are Christian people.
- 16:55SPEAKER_00: He's talking about my sheep has heard my voice.
- 17:00SPEAKER_00: Not everyone else's sheep, not the ones that have not already become Christians.
- 17:06SPEAKER_00: So he's speaking directly to Christians in this scripture.
- 17:12SPEAKER_00: And as Christians, he's also speaking to the sin that Christians do.
- 17:19SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we think as soon as we become Christians, we're no longer bound under the law of sin.
- 17:26SPEAKER_00: And we are, if we don't ask for repentance.
- 17:32SPEAKER_00: The repentance is what a lot of people miss on.
- 17:36SPEAKER_00: They focus so much on the punishment, not the reward.
- 17:42SPEAKER_00: The reward is the removal.
- 17:45SPEAKER_00: And it's not of us that's removed, it's the sin.
- 17:51SPEAKER_00: Because it says, My father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.
- 18:01SPEAKER_00: That means I can't I can't take you out of the father's hand and you can't take me.
- 18:08SPEAKER_00: No matter what I think about what you do in your life or what I do in my life, you know, as we encourage one another, we always try to encourage each other to you know walk like Jesus did, but it we're not perfect.
- 18:19SPEAKER_00: And if we mess up and we make mistakes, it's not for me to condemn, but it's for me to encourage you, hey, you might want to seek some repentance on that because you will answer to God.
- 18:31SPEAKER_00: We live in a world where I see so many kids not being taught about church or prayer or the Bible or morals or values or respect for your parents.
- 18:43SPEAKER_00: The kids are telling the parents what to do all day long.
- 18:46SPEAKER_00: The parents are getting up and doing it, they're robotic.
- 18:50SPEAKER_00: You know why?
- 18:52SPEAKER_00: They're not, they're not, they don't, they don't realize who they have to answer to for that behavior.
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: What they watch on TV, what they listen to, what they put in their hands, what they put into their little minds, what's developing your children, what's developing us?
- 19:09SPEAKER_00: What are we watching?
- 19:10SPEAKER_00: If we are fixated on on our phone, which mine is a Bible app, but that's what's on my phone.
- 19:16SPEAKER_00: But um, if we're fixated with it, um, it can consume us.
- 19:23SPEAKER_00: We need to be consumed with God, with the Holy Spirit, with the Son, because no one can take us away from God.
- 19:33SPEAKER_00: We can take ourselves away, but no man can take us away.
- 19:37SPEAKER_00: It's a choice.
- 19:38SPEAKER_00: I love that.
- 19:39SPEAKER_00: He says it's my Father, which gave me, gave them me, which is the sheep.
- 19:45SPEAKER_00: God gave Jesus all the sheep.
- 19:48SPEAKER_00: That's what he died for.
- 19:50SPEAKER_00: And if we sin, all we have to do is ask for forgiveness.
- 19:54SPEAKER_00: The sin gets removed.
- 19:56SPEAKER_00: Eternity does not.
- 19:59SPEAKER_00: We get to still be with God.
- 20:00SPEAKER_00: Nobody can take that from us, our salvation from us.
- 20:05SPEAKER_00: And I love that because, and and and I love that it says, I and the Father are one.
- 20:10SPEAKER_00: So when we're talking about the Father, we're talking about Jesus.
- 20:12SPEAKER_00: When we're talking about the Father, we're also talking about the Holy Spirit, you know, because we're led by the Spirit.
- 20:18SPEAKER_00: Makes me really sad though, when I read the scripture in 27 where it says, My voice or my sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me.
- 20:28SPEAKER_00: If you're not hearing the voice of Jesus, then you're listening to the wrong things.
- 20:36SPEAKER_00: You are too distracted by too many other things.
- 20:41SPEAKER_00: The noise is too much.
- 20:42SPEAKER_00: Need to unplug and turn off.
- 20:44SPEAKER_00: And a friend of mine told me one time that she came home and the house was quiet.
- 20:51SPEAKER_00: The kids were all at school, her husband was at work, and she came home and she wanted to do some Bible reading, but she kept hearing noise.
- 21:02SPEAKER_00: And the thought occurred to her, hmm, and she started unplugging things that were plugged in.
- 21:08SPEAKER_00: That could be unplugged, obviously, not things that needed to stay plugged in.
- 21:12SPEAKER_00: But and she said she couldn't believe that in the stillness of the quietness, she didn't realize how many things in her house that were plugged in unnecessarily.
- 21:23SPEAKER_00: She goes, There's a message in that.
- 21:26SPEAKER_00: Because we are plugged into things unnecessarily.
- 21:30SPEAKER_00: That don't that we don't even we forget to even unplug them.
- 21:33SPEAKER_00: How many times do you leave your charger in the wall, but you unplug the phone?
- 21:38SPEAKER_00: You're still running electricity in that cord.
- 21:42SPEAKER_00: There's still some transferring of electricity.
- 21:45SPEAKER_00: And all throughout the house, I have you know a lot of people in my house, so we have a lot of things plugged in.
- 21:50SPEAKER_00: And she said it was really interesting how when she unplugged things that that did not need to be plugged in, how it got quieter.
- 21:58SPEAKER_00: And she said, God's Showed her something in that moment because he gave her a peace and a stillness, because she really wanted to meditate on him without the distraction, but she kept hearing noise and she didn't know what it was.
- 22:12SPEAKER_00: Because we are accustomed to the noise.
- 22:15SPEAKER_00: We have got comfortable.
- 22:17SPEAKER_00: Some of us can't handle not having noise.
- 22:20SPEAKER_00: I have to sleep with the fan on at night and my TV to sleep.
- 22:24SPEAKER_00: If the fan's off and the TV's off, I hear every single thing outside.
- 22:29SPEAKER_00: Because we live right by the airport, so it's kind of loud.
- 22:32SPEAKER_00: But I mean, that kind of that's one of the reasons why I do that.
- 22:35SPEAKER_00: Because it I don't, you know, when you hear a great big jet flying over your head, you're gonna, you know, it can it can wake you up, especially when we first moved over this area.
- 22:45SPEAKER_00: But it was a distraction from that noise.
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: What are we turning on that's keeping us distracted from hearing the voice of Jesus?
- 22:55SPEAKER_00: And I love that this scripture it says that we do hear his voice.
- 23:00SPEAKER_00: And I've heard Christians say, I don't hear anything.
- 23:07SPEAKER_00: And that makes me super sad for them.
- 23:10SPEAKER_00: And I know we're talking about forgiveness and we're talking about repentance and why we need it.
- 23:18SPEAKER_00: One thing we need to repent of is not listening for the voice of Jesus.
- 23:26SPEAKER_00: We are missing it.
- 23:28SPEAKER_00: When I there's times God's talking to me, and I know clearly He's talking to me.
- 23:35SPEAKER_00: May not be audibly, but He's talking to me spiritually, spiritually.
- 23:39SPEAKER_00: Because when you're saved, Jesus lives within you, He's part of you.
- 23:43SPEAKER_00: You have the Holy Spirit within you, and something arises within you.
- 23:50SPEAKER_00: And if there's not a stirring going on somewhere as Christians, like this, like this word says, and you're not hearing, you might want to start doing some repenting.
- 24:00SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's something in the way.
- 24:02SPEAKER_00: A road, there's a roadblock.
- 24:04SPEAKER_00: But God loves you still, He will still go after you and leave the 99 waiting and go find you.
- 24:13SPEAKER_00: He will come and find you, He will go find the one.
- 24:18SPEAKER_00: So there's so much encouragement in the scripture.
- 24:23SPEAKER_00: He doesn't leave us.
- 24:25SPEAKER_00: We always want to talk about how bad God is and how how horrible of a God we have.
- 24:31SPEAKER_00: We don't stop and look at all the goodness of God.
- 24:35SPEAKER_00: There's so much in this scripture.
- 24:39SPEAKER_00: I mean, John 10 through 20, John 10, 22 through 30, there's there's a lot involved in that scripture that we can really dissect all of these verses right here and be here for you know a minute.
- 24:54SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna ask you guys, where are you at?
- 24:58SPEAKER_00: Are you listening for Jesus?
- 25:01SPEAKER_00: Are you blocking him out?
- 25:03SPEAKER_00: You have too much noise going on around you?
- 25:06SPEAKER_00: Are you distracted?
- 25:07SPEAKER_00: It's easy to let it happen.
- 25:10SPEAKER_00: It can happen very easily.
- 25:12SPEAKER_00: You got people pulling on you left and right, or you know, you you know, you're you're piling up too much stuff on your plate, whatever it is.
- 25:21SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you just gotta take the whole entire plate and set it aside and start over.
- 25:26SPEAKER_00: Just go sit at the feet of Jesus, see where you're at.
- 25:31SPEAKER_00: I know God when He speaks to me, it's pretty clear.
- 25:34SPEAKER_00: I don't always listen when He tells me, because sometimes I think, is that really God?
- 25:39SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I think is that really God talking to me.
- 25:42SPEAKER_00: But God puts things into weird perspective to where it can't be anything but God.
- 25:48SPEAKER_00: There's no other explanation.
- 25:50SPEAKER_00: People say, How are you so sure?
- 25:51SPEAKER_00: And I said, because I can't make I can't explain it.
- 25:55SPEAKER_00: If I can't explain it, you know, in a textbook or from a TV or it's God.
- 26:02SPEAKER_00: That's Holy Spirit, you know.
- 26:04SPEAKER_00: And I want to never be at a point where I never hear the voice of Jesus calling me.
- 26:11SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we go astray.
- 26:13SPEAKER_00: When your kid runs out to the road, what do you do?
- 26:15SPEAKER_00: You call your kid.
- 26:17SPEAKER_00: When they're getting ready to stick their hand on the stove, what do you do?
- 26:20SPEAKER_00: When they're getting ready to make a really poor decision, what do you do?
- 26:26SPEAKER_00: We call on, we call it out.
- 26:27SPEAKER_00: We call God calls us out.
- 26:30SPEAKER_00: A lot of the things that we get mad at God for, God has nothing to do with.
- 26:35SPEAKER_00: We bring it on ourselves, and we don't even take, you know, accountability for it.
- 26:40SPEAKER_00: So, with that being said, in the scripture, I mean, this scripture is very deep.
- 26:45SPEAKER_00: And like you said, Bethany, it's super encouraging.
- 26:48SPEAKER_00: And I I think it's important that we just meditate on it and include it with the other messages that we've already started with.
- 26:59SPEAKER_00: Um, and just read through it and think about it.
- 27:06SPEAKER_00: Think about where you're at.
- 27:09SPEAKER_00: And then ask yourself do you need to be forgiven for something?
- 27:15SPEAKER_00: Is there somebody you need to be forgiving?
- 27:20SPEAKER_00: Because, like we talked about in the past episodes on this topic, there's so much freedom in it and joy and happiness, you know, and and God, I don't know about you, Bethany, but God corrects me quite a bit.
- 27:37SPEAKER_00: He corrects me.
- 27:38SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh man, I can't do that.
- 27:40SPEAKER_00: That's bad.
- 27:40SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't do that.
- 27:41SPEAKER_00: You know, I gotta stop doing that.
- 27:42SPEAKER_00: That's not good, that's not a good idea.
- 27:44SPEAKER_00: And then I have to ask God to forgive me.
- 27:46SPEAKER_00: And if it comes to your mind consciously like that, and somebody's not pointing it out to you, that's God, by the way.
- 27:53SPEAKER_00: That's God.
- 27:55SPEAKER_00: He may not be shouting it from the mountaintop, telling you, hey, knock it off, but that's usually God.
- 28:03SPEAKER_00: So I just want to encourage you with that.
- 28:05SPEAKER_00: And before we close out, Bethany, what what would you like to add to that?
- 28:09SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just like I mentioned, I would strongly encourage you.
- 28:21SPEAKER_01: Write out the verses that we've shared.
- 28:26SPEAKER_01: Um it will help you, I guarantee you, because it's helped me so much, and the Lord will show you things, I do believe, and so yes, this allow the Lord to show you.
- 28:57SPEAKER_01: Like we say, don't take our word for it.
- 29:02SPEAKER_01: Read the verses for yourself, ask the Lord to show you what he has for you in the and then do not rush through study.
- 29:24SPEAKER_01: God has unlimited time for us.
- 29:28SPEAKER_01: We should have unlimited time for him.
- 29:31SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
- 29:33SPEAKER_01: We should not put him in any sort of time box.
- 29:42SPEAKER_01: And so, yes, this has been a great episode.
- 29:47SPEAKER_01: And um, Mickey, do you have last words?
- 29:53SPEAKER_00: Um, no, I I just think that we should um pause here before we go on, you know, and we'll go into another episode, but and just allow our listeners to, like I said in the beginning, get the word in your hand, open it up, and just sit and read through it and read through it and look it up and study it.
- 30:13SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we read the word, but we don't study it.
- 30:17SPEAKER_00: What is its meaning?
- 30:18SPEAKER_00: What what is what is Jesus talking about here?
- 30:22SPEAKER_00: You know, when he's talking about this, it's like, you know, this has to do with like Hanukkah and stuff, this this part of this chapter.
- 30:27SPEAKER_00: But as you're reading through it, study it and find out what the meaning is behind everything.
- 30:34SPEAKER_00: It's so powerful and it's so deep and it's so meaningful.
- 30:38SPEAKER_00: And you'll be so blessed when you do.
- 30:41SPEAKER_00: God blesses you.
- 30:43SPEAKER_00: God loves it when we're in his word.
- 30:45SPEAKER_00: He loves it when we read it, he loves it when we share it, and he loves it even more when we're obedient and we live it.
- 30:52SPEAKER_00: If we take it, it says to take thy word and hide it in your heart so that we will not sin against God.
- 30:59SPEAKER_00: We need to do that.
- 31:00SPEAKER_00: And the way we do that is by studying it and learning it and applying it to our life.
- 31:05SPEAKER_00: Not just read it and set it down and walk off.
- 31:10SPEAKER_00: You don't want to put a pot of boiling water on the stove and walk away and just leave it.
- 31:14SPEAKER_00: You know what happens?
- 31:15SPEAKER_00: You're gonna burn that pot up and probably half your house if you don't be careful.
- 31:20SPEAKER_00: We don't want that.
- 31:21SPEAKER_00: Those are some of the effects that that happen when we don't take God at face value.
- 31:28SPEAKER_00: So I encourage you guys today to do that.
- 31:30SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Bethany, for the scripture.
- 31:32SPEAKER_00: I know we have more scripture, but we'll get into that in the next episode.
- 31:35SPEAKER_00: Um, I know this was a short and a brief episode, but um we we really want to take time to not rush the scriptures.
- 31:45SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we will kind of dogpile of them, and sometimes we'll just give you a few to meditate on, and that's kind of what we've been doing with this topic because we just really want it to be um, we really want it to penetrate your heart so that it's effective.
- 32:02SPEAKER_00: And we just want to encourage you, we thank you for being here.
- 32:04SPEAKER_00: We love you guys.
- 32:05SPEAKER_00: Um, anything else you want to say in closing, Bethany?
- 32:08unknown: No.
- 32:09SPEAKER_00: So, all of you guys that are listening, if you guys need prayer for anything, you can reach out to Bethany or myself.
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- 32:22SPEAKER_00: Um, it encourages us um to want to, you know, get God's word out there more when we see people out there sharing it.
- 32:29SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
- 32:30SPEAKER_00: The Bible says we're supposed to share the gospel.
- 32:32SPEAKER_00: This is what we're doing.
- 32:34SPEAKER_00: This gives us an opportunity to share the gospel all over the world.
- 32:37SPEAKER_00: When we can't afford to drive to a different country, we can at least um share the truth of God in a different country.
- 32:44SPEAKER_00: But anyway, we thank you all for being here.
- 32:46SPEAKER_00: We hope you take care and um join us again for our next episode.
- 32:50SPEAKER_00: And we are going to continue on with talking about why forgiveness.
- 32:53SPEAKER_00: So ask yourself that question as we go into closing and just do some soul searching.
- 32:58SPEAKER_00: We love you and we just thank you so much for being here.
- 33:01SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you guys take care.