Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? I hope you're having a great day.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: Today, and I hope you are excited.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Today because today is the day the Lord hath made. We will be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement. Be thankful, be happy. Continually give God that sacrifice. Praise. Praise him and thank him and be joyful.
So yesterday I got into kind of.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: A tiff with somebody we work with.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: It was a contractor. And I kind of freaked out. And I might be wrong. We'll see what happens. But I might be wrong. So I'm going through this thing over and over and over in my head about the way that I blew up, you know, I mean, the way I treated people. And again, it's so nice to know that you are, you know, you're righteous before God. But that godly grief, it will change. It'll work in you. It'll change you. And when these kind of things happen, you gotta be okay and accept the fact that you can be wrong, very wrong. You know, we'll see. I don't know about this yet, but it's just been weighing on my heart this morning and just knowing that if I am wrong, I'm going to apologize. And the thing is, is that. That. That godly grief worketh a change in your moral position. And you can have that same relationship with God when you do wrong and you feel bad about it and it's irking you and just eating your soul to have the relationship with God, knowing that you are his son. Nothing can change that. But you can also apologize. That's. I mean, you got to build the relationship with God. That's what he is there for. Knowing that he's going to immediately obviously forgive. But yeah, man, you're stuck with the consequences of it. And I just keep thinking about that verse, about the difference between that godly grief that worketh a change in your moral position, that godly sorrow, but opposed to, you know, being wrong. When you walk wrong in the law and just crushing yourself and be like, God's going to punish me. That's not how it goes. Man might look at you differently than God looks at you. God looks at you through the prism of love. And yes, you might chastise, and yes, you might get spanked a little bit, but it's always for growth and spiritual growth to get to the point where you're believing and you have that strong faith. So again, if you're Going through it. Keep on pounding. I was reading this morning. In Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 13, it says, but we are bound or under obligation to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to safety and salvation through sanctification. And that's to be set in a state corresponding to God's nature of the Holy Spirit and belief of the truth. Now, there's a lot of. There's a lot in that. But you have to understand that you have safety and preservation by God setting you in a place that corresponds to his nature, that spiritual state which you have, which you are. He put you there, which brings you into safety. So as you walk in this world, you got to stay away from the carnal and walk in the spiritual. It'll keep you from feeling that anxious. Anxious thought, really. Verse 14. Unto which he called you by our Gospel to the obtaining or acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Again, you have acquired and obtained the glory that rests in Christ Jesus. You have that now, and it's just so loving that he did that without having us do all these things. You're not required to do much. Believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love your brethren. Those are the two new commandments. When you pray, you pray to God, not to Jesus Christ. And you thank him for taking care of you. You also believe that he's going to do the things that he says he's going to do. And when you start to hear the words, you start to put those in your mind. You start to change your mind to what the Word says about you. Verse 16 or verse 15. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by our Word or by the Word or our Epistle. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, which loved us and gave us an everlasting consolation and everlasting calling and good hope through grace. Comfort. Use your hearts. Now, this is one of my favorite parts in the Word. Comfort your hearts. Comfort means to speak to or to pacify your hearts. He speaks directly to your heart, but are you listening? And this heart is the seat of your distinctive character. Again, the things that you think about make you you. He speaks to you.
And if you start to dwell on the Word and think about this stuff, it changes who you are as a person.
And if you want to change, and if you want to stop thinking about this, the things that are negative in life or the things that bring you anxiety, you have to choose to do it. And you have to continually work on it until it starts to go away. And the mechanism for that. You know, you could go to a therapist and talk to a therapist about all that stuff and that's fine. Whatever. This is what's going to change it. This is what's going to change your mind. This is what's going to change your heart. This is what's going to cleanse and purify your thoughts. Because you start to think on what God wants you to start to think on.
It's not even start to think on what God wants you to think on and to think about.
Again. Verse 17. Well, I'll do 16 and then this is it. Now. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, which hath loved us and gave us an everlasting consolation, an everlasting calling and good help through grace, comfort, or speak to your hearts and set fast, or establish you in every good work and word. He's going to establish you through his Word. He's going to establish you by the by putting this stuff in your heart to help you walk in this life, to make you stand.
Stand in the liberty where with Christ has made you free. Stand in the Word, set your mind on the things that matter in life and stand. Stop thinking and stop working on those things that don't matter.
It's not right to live your life in anxiety. And it's not about condemnation. It's about what you choose to think about. What are you thinking about? What do you think on? And who do you rely on in times of trouble? It's God. God Almighty, all the time, every time. Pray the big prayers today. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. Again. When you pray, you pray to God, never to Jesus Christ. You pray to God. You lift it up in the name of Jesus Christ. It's biblical. Have a beautiful day. God bless you and your family. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: Well, Heavenly Father, thank you for everything.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: That you do for us.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: I thank you for your word and how much of a blessing it is and just how much you, I guess, affirm that you're with us. I pray for my brother again and his eyesight and just the sickness and all that stuff. I pray that you just continually provide comfort in that situation. I also pray for that thing that's been dwelling on my heart, that you just remove that and you just conquer that situation. I thank you again for my family and the people you've surrounded me with, for my friends. And I just ask that you take care of your believers and that you show them how much you love them. Father and I thank you for your son and what he did for us. And I lift up a great day to you in the name of my Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.
