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A Story of A Wives Tale · Deep Waters

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, this is Kenya, Podcast Preacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to my podcast Deep Waters.
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  SPEAKER_00: This podcast is brought to you by Five Strengths Ministry, where we believe working together in our strengths is the effect of working out the will and calling of God and into our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open up in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you for today and for the opportunity to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray that you would give us the revelation within this message that you intend on us receiving with the understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The title of this message is A Story of Lives Tale.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is likely we will post the end-time world definition messages every other message, as I am being inundated with other messages.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could post two messages today for several years if I tried to keep up with God, but he already told me to slow down, so here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if I haven't lost you already at the title of this message, then stick with me as we take a look at three scenarios, looking at three different couples who have had the same problem but work to solve them differently, in three very different ways, which resulted in three very different outcomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there truth in this novel of a story?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's leave that assessment to the hearer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pan in on a couple living in a small but delightful home in the mountains, where the wife and husband were happily married and enjoying life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as time went on, a sinister spirit had been allowed to move into the house unaware due to a type of spiritual window-opening behavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they lived doing daily things people do as they go from one day to another, the Sinister Spirit began his dismembering work.
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  SPEAKER_00: A little background on Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sinister Spirit is that he has a very intentional purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: John 1010 states in part, the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The journey between this couple looked something like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as the husband met the expectations of the wife, peace ruled the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: But because Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sinister did not like peace because there is no peace in him, he focused on his destruction and destruction purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: His strategy looked something like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the husband did not meet the wife's expectations, she would become unglued and lose her mind, asking him, what was wrong with him?
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  SPEAKER_00: And ten other wide questions that really had nothing to do with the offending event, but were asked in the mayday of emotional outbursts anyways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now but after they retired off to bed and awoke in the morning, the husband lacking any reps from the thrashing which took place the day prior, he took notice that the wife would awake and behave as if she had never committed any such infraction.
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  SPEAKER_00: The husband quipped the thoughts of his mind, as he dared not commit another offending error, adding heaps upon heaps of trouble, assessing that she must have amnesia, and so this went on as a consistent pattern in their relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, the husband noticed with his own self that peace had left their home, and he himself had noticed a great disconnection from one another.
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  SPEAKER_00: For him, honor and trust left with peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we go across the mountain and drop in on another couple and find that they too had a similar beginning, all peaches and roses.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as time went on, the same Mr Sinister spirit had also been invited into the home unaware.
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  SPEAKER_00: That spirit noticed that peace ruled the couple's home, and immediately he went to work, same as in the first couple's home, and began an emotional ransacking of which the husband became the recipient.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as a husband met his wife's expectation, all was well, but if he did not, she verbally stripped him of all dignity and self worth, possibly even in ignorance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Knowledge is a funny thing, you see.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we get understanding along with that knowledge, then ignorance is no longer an excuse to crack down in a moment of fear and rage, or when your expectations are not met.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, as normal people do, they turned into bed and same as the first couple.
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  SPEAKER_00: He spent the night in great soul and spiritual pain and agony, losing any opportunity for rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now but she, unlike the first wife, woke up sad and convicted and apologized up one side and down the other, even going so far as to ask for forgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the confession and promise of repentance, the husband regained his confidence, and the wounds immediately mended.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as time marched on, whenever he did not meet his wife's expectations, her response was exactly the same, and he began to take notice.
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  SPEAKER_00: She would once again strip him down with a verbal lashing until his spirit left him in total defeat.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wondered why, every time he missed the mark, that she would precisely behave the same way that she had in the first lashing, and then profusely apologize, but never had really changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was quite the pattern to be reckoned with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace had packed up and left, along with dignity and honor, as if they were never invited to stay in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_00: As time went on, a third couple moved on the mountain, and as in the first two couples start, love overflowed and peace rested on their home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as time went on, the husband had not met his wife's expectations regarding something, and as in the first two homes, she responded with a spiritual strip down of her husband, asking ten irrelevant why questions in her rage and anger is fit.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this moment, it would be a good idea to share that irrelevant questions are the norm when responding while your emotions are running you into a wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asking questions once calmed down, in order to understand and to be helpful is a recommended form of communication.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so back to the third couple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, as we have discovered, sleepy time fell on this couple as well, and so off the bed they went.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the morning, as you can expect, the husband had tossed and turned, as if he was tumbling down a mountain straight away all night long.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wife had awakened, and she took a different approach to what she had done the previous day.
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  SPEAKER_00: She apologized and asked him to forgive her for her out of mind emotional response to his perceived indiscretion, same as the second couple's wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now as you can imagine, mister Sinister Spirit doesn't like failure, hates forgiveness, and but actually doesn't mind if forgiveness is actually spoken or asked, as much as when it is spoken and then taken action on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it reached into his bag of tricks and pulled out another strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now as time went on, the husband took notice that when he missed meeting his wife's expectations, her responses became less and less toxic, and in time her behavior had changed altogether.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace continued to rule the home, even though Mr Sinister's spirit remained, trying everything he knew to gain a foothold of this home, as he had done in the two previous homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in our assessment of the three homes, some common themes appear, even though the outcomes were vastly different.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first observation is that all of them were professing Christians, and now but I did not say practicing Christians, but professing.
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  SPEAKER_00: They all read their Bibles and even went to the same church Sunday after Sunday, but only the third house had retained the spirit of peace, which was due in part because both the man and his wife had gone through considerable growth and maturity.
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  SPEAKER_00: As time marched on, they rarely had any evidence of emotional breakdowns.
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  SPEAKER_00: The husband became very successful as a result of his wife's daily growth because she had replaced anger with becoming a great encourager.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the first two homes, Mr Sinister's spirit had moved impermanently without ever being served an eviction notice.
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  SPEAKER_00: The result was that the first couple eventually divorced, and as you can surmise, it was the husband's fault, and he was to blame because of his repeated failures.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the wife's parting words, she belted out to him, It is all your fault that I am having to address your every shortcoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you would only have changed, this would have never happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is your fault that I am now an emotional wreck.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a final spurt of venom she stated, See ya wouldn't want to be ya, and off she went with mister Sinister Spirit following close behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the second home the couple did manage to stay together, partly because each time the wife lost her ever loving mind, the following day she would promise to change, apologizing profusely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the husband had come to believe that the wife might not ever change, but at least her words the following day would bring a temporary reprieve to his pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: They, like all the rest of the couples, continued to read the Bible and attend church.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Three different couples, three very different outcomes, even though they were all professing Christians, reading their Bibles and going to church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now before we continue, I assure you that no wives were harmed in the telling of this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so but do these scenarios actually exist in real life?
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now as always, let's see what the Bible says about the relationships and see if we can spot the reasons why the first two couples lived lives as if they were never spiritually converted or showed no evidence that they had been made new creations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians five seventeen Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Behold all things have become new.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been crucified with Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Galatians five sixteen through seventeen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lust against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so those scriptures sound very helpful and preventative if followed, understood, and applied in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So does the Bible address the result of bad behavior with wives?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now wives stay with me because if you get the gist of this message, it could save your relationship or equip you for your next relationship, eliminating the negative repeating habits and outcomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty one nine better to dwell in the corner of a house top than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty one nineteen better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty seven fifteen, a continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs nineteen thirteen, a foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty five twenty four.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there's no need to pile up those scriptures, but in this case it was important to know and to understand that bad behavior or unmitigated bad emotional behavior has negative consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because each of these scriptures uses a term contentious, we should define that term to gain a richer understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word contentious in the Old Testament is primarily translated from the Hebrew word Madon, or its plural form, meaning strife, discord, or a disposition for heated arguments.
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  SPEAKER_00: The meaning and origin literal definition Madon comes from a root meaning to stoke or engage in a heated quarrel, legal dispute, or physical slash verbal discord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Character It describes an open outbreak of self assertive conflict that shatters community or family peace, rather than a calm difference of opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It implies a combatitive attitude that actively hunts for a fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see this mostly in people who fight to be right at all costs.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have taught couples that if you give up your right to be right, then you will usually find some common ground and understanding, and maintain peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another related term, Mara is another Hebrew root sometimes translated as contentious or rebellious, literally meaning to be a bitter, disobedient or contentious against authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our story's case, it is talking about being disobedient to both the husband and to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It truly is a sin issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Biblical usage Proverbs twenty one nine it is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, Idenem describes a nagging, brawling, or constantly dissenting person whose hostility ruins the home environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen nineteen a contentious brother is harder to win than a strong city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle citadel, showing how contention builds thick emotional walls between people, and I would add that this behavior outcome usually results in divorce.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well let's not leave it there so as to avoid looking like we are doing nothing more than playing the blame game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now do we have any leads as to how we can avoid emotional train wrecks?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible presents spiritual growth as an essential, expected part of the believer's life, commanded directly by God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some key scriptures are Secret three eighteen, the command to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Believers are explicitly told grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians one nine walking in a manner pleasing to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul prays that believers increase in the knowledge of God and bear fruit in every good work, which directly fulfills God's expectation for maturity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians four fifteen maturing into Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Believers are instructed to grow up in every way, into Him who is the head, that is into Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: The writer criticizes believers who remain immature, stating that solid food is for the mature, whose faculties have been trained by practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christians are urged to crave the pure spiritual milk of God's word so that they can grow up in their salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Philippians, God's active expectation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul expresses confidence that God, who began a good work in the believer, will carry it on to completion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebrews six one, therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us go on to perfection, not lying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as you can see these helpful scriptures apply to both people and the relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now but because we are simply setting out to help the Christian woman, we will continue to focus on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are two other scriptures that explain why we can lose our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the mister Sinister Spirit shows up at your door and show up he will, because he has a purpose to kill, still and destroy all that is humanity ten.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matthew twelve thirty six through thirty seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the day of judgment, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we expand on this scripture's meaning, we get the following The Context Jesus speaks to the Pharisees after they falsely accuse him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He explains that the words people speak show the true condition of their inner hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anger, accusation, and dishonor show what in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: Careless words.
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  SPEAKER_00: The original Greek word translates as careless or idle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Argos meaning useless, unworking, or unproductive words that bring no benefit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other passages, the theme of personal accountability to God appears elsewhere, such as in Romans fourteen twelve, which says so then each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this is somewhat painful to hear, then it is more than equally helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen twenty one Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dive, dive, dive, captain.
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  SPEAKER_00: This vertex that spoken words carry real moral weight and consequence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Words can heal, encourage, and bring life, or they can destroy, tear down, and bring death, and people ultimately live with the results, eat its fruit of what they say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the third couple had a very different result, and we can agree because of the fruit or outcome that the husband had a thorough understanding of the following scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nope, I changed my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are going to look at a whole bunch of the helpful scriptures in part to see that it is important that we do what these say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also when God repeats himself, he is telling us that it is a very important point, so we ought to pay attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible talks about forgiving others in several key passages across both the Old and New Testaments, most notably in the gospels and the letters of Paul.
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  SPEAKER_00: The key verses Matthew six, fourteen through fifteen, Jesus says that if you forgive others when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you refuse to forgive others, God will not forgive your sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now keep in mind we're not necessarily talking about sin when a husband misses it, but your response could lead you into sin or help you to build up your husband.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians three thirteen Believers are told to make allowance for each other's faults and to forgive anyone who offends them, remembering that Christ forgave them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians four thirty two.
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  SPEAKER_00: This verse encourages people to be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other just as God forgave them through Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matthew eighteen twenty one twenty two.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive his brother, suggesting up to seven times, Jesus replied not seven times, but seventy seven times, meaning without limit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mark eleven twenty five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus advises that when you stand praying, you should first forgive anyone you hold a grudge against, so that God in heaven may forgive your sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luke seventeen three four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus explains that if a person sins against you seven times in a day and turns back each time to say that they are sorry, you must forgive them.
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  SPEAKER_00: This little fable is in no way intended to be an all encompassing relationship message.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take it for what it is and examine your own life to see if you might fit into one of these homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The story could be reversed, and the roles and behaviors switched to the husband, but again we are mostly trying to help the wife's side of relationships in this message.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah, and what are the issues between the couples?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did we really find the reason for the discrepancies between the couples?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the core reason, meaning what allowed these behaviors in the first place being that they were Bible reading, church going believers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's mention just one more reason for the sake of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nope, I was reminded that there is another Bible story that will be most helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: James three eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: But no man can tame the tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's do how we do and see if we can understand the Brother of Jesus just a bit deeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: James three expands James' earlier point that people who are truly religious will keep a tight reign on their tongues.
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  SPEAKER_00: twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_00: The chapter opens by warning would be teachers, because teachers have a greater influence, that they will be held more accountable.
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  SPEAKER_00: James then uses bits, rudders, and sparks as three small things that have disproportionately large effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Similarly, the tongue, though a small part of the body, can corrupt the whole body, verse six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since no human can tame it, James might be implying that human beings, by their own resources, cannot tame the tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: A task so difficult requires divine help, and we can get that through the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also exposes a specific incongruity of blessing God while cursing other people, who were made in his image.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, to curse a human being is to show contempt for God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This chapter closes by contrasting two kinds of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: True biblical wisdom manifests itself in virtues that foster peace rather than division.
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  SPEAKER_00: Practically, learning to use words wisely comes from focusing more on the inner life than on the tongue itself, more on the source than its outflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's also just get to the end so that we can leave time for activating these improvements right away.
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  SPEAKER_00: James one twenty two but be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah but now it looks small enough, but us deep divers want some helps, so that we can truly understand what James is saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: The command but be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mirror illustration a person only hears the word, without acting is like someone who looks at their face in a mirror, walking away and immediately forgets what they look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: The promise the person who continues looking into God's Word and actually does the work will be blessed in what he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Related teachings Jesus' parable in Matthew seven, twenty four through twenty seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus compares someone who hears his words and puts them into practice to a wise builder who builds a house on solid rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Active love three eighteen urges believers not to love with just words or speech, but indeed and in truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's narrow down the discussion in James before closing this message.
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  SPEAKER_00: James one opens a letter by stating three key themes one, two through eleven trials in the Christian life, wisdom and riches in poverty, then relating them in chapter one verses twelve through twenty seven, running through them all is a letter central.
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  SPEAKER_00: James urges believers to meet trials with joy because trials are the arena in which and the process through which something good develops.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust in the reliability and the goodness of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This requires wisdom, which gives people the capacity to understand the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: In light of God's word and purposes, believers need it to rejoice in trials.
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  SPEAKER_00: Temptation is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: It comes not from God, but from within each person who, until their body is redeemed, has a bent towards evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Far from enticing people to evil, God showers blessings on his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, James insists that hearing God's word is not enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: To hear and not to take action is to lie to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: True religion means caring for widows and orphans, who in most ancient cultures had neither direct means of support nor automatically dependable legal defenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wonder what of the three houses James would have lived in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in our final scripture, we finish with none other than the wisdom of James.
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  SPEAKER_00: The phrase, faith without works is dead, comes from the New Testament book of James, chapter 2, specifically verses 17 and 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scripture, thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: James 2.17.
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  SPEAKER_00: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so is faith without works, is dead also.
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  SPEAKER_00: James 2.26.
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  SPEAKER_00: What they mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Action is proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: True religious belief is not just an intellectual idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: It must be shown through helpful actions, like feeding the hungry or helping the needy, or maintaining emotional control when the pressure is on.
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  SPEAKER_00: The body analogy, just as a physical body is lifeless, without breath, that is spirit, a professed belief is useless and empty if it never leads to good deeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Evidence, not earning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most Christian teachers explain that works do not earn salvation, but rather serve as a natural proof that a person truly believes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we really close with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: If alcohol or drugs are being used, then deliverance from those spiritual doorways must occur if you stand any chance of victory in your relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can go straight to God to get your freedom, as I did, or if you are not just there yet, use the medical community to get you started on the road to recovery.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: Well that's it for today.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, it's not what you find wrong or disagree with regarding these messages, but what you can take away from it.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Together we can do more to impact the kingdom than if we work alone.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's flip the script and steal, kill, and destroy the works of the enemy and create space for the light of light to shine through into people's lives.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: Plant a seed and click on the like and subscribe button.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Repost on your social media platforms and help us make disciples.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Link this message out or teach from it in your Bible study or your Life for Sale group, and yes, even in your church.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: You can be assured it comes on one call to teach, and though imperfect, you have the Word of God to use to test everything I say.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's build this ministry together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks and see you next time at Deep Waters.