Convicting Verses For Sidewalk Ministry

0:00 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours, and me, Lord, I am yours. Welcome to the Gospel Center prolife podcast. The Bible is the foundation of everything we do as believers. In this episode we talked about some convicting verses that we use on the sidewalks to reach MOMS and dad's stay with us. I felt show passish, touch your heart, use me. Welcome to the Gospel Center pray life podcast. Appreciate you guys, listening as always, and we encourage you to share this podcast with other people.

0:44 This is a gospel centered podcast. This is a biblical podcast, right. Yes, Gospel centered, yeah, not focused centered. That's right. It's focused on the Gospel, but in particular it's called the Gospel centered pro life podcast. I've got that now. And we believe, as a Gospel Centered Podcast, part of a Gospel Centered Ministry Love Life, that the principles that we that we share and that we base our ministry on, come from the book. That's right, the Bible, the word of God's matter of fact, have my Bible right here, and what does it say on the Front? Vicki Holy Bible. That's right, it's a holy it's a Holy Bible. Right. Amen. Amen. One time, I believe was my brother was talking to a young she's a young Christian and as a girl that we went to churchious and asked her he was trying to get at what version of the Bible she was reading. Okay, because she wasn't exactly understanding scripture.

1:46 So he's like, so, what Bibe are you reading? She's like the Holy Bible, okay, the holy one. Well, well, we believe, but she knew the most important thing, that most important part the word of God is holy. Yes, word of God is important. It's important in the principles that we that we glean from the word of God and that we apply in ministry, but also in the midst of ministry it's important that we use the word of God. If you guys listened to my podcast about putting on the armor of God, there is a piece of that armor that the Bible names, yeah, basically itself, right, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Right. And so, and I encourage you guys bring Your Bible out to the sidewalk with you.

2:30 Don't I mean listen people's perceptions or what they are, and I could care less what their perceptions are if, as long as what I'm doing is is biblical, and I believe having the word of God with you is Biblical. This is our weapon. It's alway. It is our weapon out there. Now, I know you might just want to say, even though you might think I don't want to appear to be like a Bible thumber or whatever, just don't thump it. Just have it with you. Ain't got a thump it right, have it with you to read. Yeah, I think it's powerful personally. Yeah, that if you can open up your Bible and show somebody in the scripture what the Bible says, open it up to some one thirty nine versus thirteen and fourteen and show them, here's what God says for you, form my inward parts. Yep, rather than okay, I don't want to discount this, but I personally, this is a personal conviction of mine, but I can't stand when I see someone sharing from their iphone.

3:24 Yeah, I don't like it, like like your friend Vicki over here, like my friend Vicki. Or I'll tell you what I hate even worse. I maybe hates hates, a strong word. Okay, I don't hate the people. Right, you hate this. Just an old fashioned guy, I guess. I like just have a Bible. What I see someone preach from their phone. I've seen people do that, street preachers preaching from their phone. Yeah, or even like counselors on the sidewalk. Please, guys, if you're listen, don't take this as like criticism. For me, it's probably a just a personal issue I need to deal with. Read from your phone, that's fine, but just know while you're reading from your phone, I'm judging you for it. Yeah, exactly. Well. So to that point, I will share a story that happened on the sidewalk. Okay, where I was out there? I think it was this pest. Well, two Fridays to go, and one of the pro abortion people claim to be a pastor. She was do I never seen her before and I was shocked and said, well, what do you do with the verse? Why do you call me Lord Lord and not do what I say, which was an actually word for word, perfect recitation of that verse. But she said what verse is that? And I didn't know off the top of my head.

4:32 I mean I knew it, I had recited it correctly, but I didn't know the reference. I'm terrible at at memorizing the references, and then she said, where's your Bible, because I pull out my phone. I said, I'll find you the verse, I can get you the reference. Said No, get your Bible. Where's Your Bible? I'm afraid that was I was ashamed. That was convicting for me. I but today I stood and bring my Bible out there. I have, I have valid reasons. I feel they're my Bible is small. That's all I can carry out there with all the other stuff I carry. Okay, and the print is small and I don't see it. Yeah, so what am I going to do? I mean, I could wear my reading glasses, use your giant print Bible and have it in a backpack. On expect though. Oh yeah, I would, or maybe just like have a little wheelbarrow with all my supplies that I drag around the hire me well, but you make it dislike this podcast is not necessarily about that. Okay, that's again. That's a little side track. Think it's the head. I think it's good to have your Bible with you and I have a smaller Bible than I kind of can slip in my in my bag and whatever else. Yeah, I don't carry a man purse, but I guess I could, you could, or you could have their they make all kinds of suff suzs of bibles you can slip in belly packs and all that stuff. But that's not the point of this podcast.

5:49 The point of this podcast is whether you read it from your phone or whether you have it printed out, like Vicki does. She has several scriptures printed out right, whether you have it memorized or whether you have your physical Bible there. We need to be using scripture and in particular we're going to talk about some convicting verses right, because there are certainly comforting verses and versus, like I shared some one hundred and thirty nine that are really powerful verses that need to be shared, but there are also some convicting verses that need to be shared, like we can share John Sixteen. Great, okay, for God, so love the world can probably I'll quote that one. That's an awesome passage and now I think it's very appropriate at an abortion center. But there's also some convicting versus that we need to share, where Jesus talks about loving your neighbor as yourself and he talks about why do you call me Lord, Lord and not do what I say? Yeah, and pin people down with the scripture, because you get them to agree to John Sixteen. Yeah, and which they've agreed to John Sixteen, you could ask the question, would you believe the whole Bible? Yeah, okay. Well, let's go into Luke. Was it six six hundred and forty six I will be never forget that reference. Now let's see what Luke, six hundred and forty six I says. Yeah, and so, anyway, we want to talk about some of these convicting verses. So we're going to share them with you as yeah, maybe you as right these verse references down. Yeah, put these on a sheet carried in your belly back like Vicky does. Yeah, or

7:23 put them to memory, if you can, holight them in your Bible. But they're convicting versus that, I think, can bring the conviction the Holy Spirit, because God uses his word to bring conviction. The Holy Spirit, coupled with the word of God, brings conviction and God can open these people's eyes to the fact that what they're doing is not right in God's sight. Yeah, turn their hearts right. So here's some convicting verses. We're going to share them with you and then we're going to kind of talk around them, how they apply, how you can apply them on the sidewalk and share them with the women going into the abortion center and the oneonone conversations with the men also going into the abortion center. There's one on one conversations when they might be appropriate. Yeah, you said, because I just in general, they're not what I lead with. Right. I actually just if I were to characterize how I tend to counsel, I tend to lead with a positive message. Not that these are not positive, but they're they're more the warnings there are. I guess that's what these are. More these verses, I think the convicting verses in general have warnings in them and that's not where I lead. I start with just the kind of the inspiration for good behavior, following and trusting in God. And if that gentle answer or that gentle beginning is not sufficient for helping to change their heart, then I moved you for the de Jugular. Then I go for the Jugguler. I you know what to put a little context behind that biblically, if you think about Elijah when

8:58 he runs from Jezebel and he's hiding out or reads, he's on the mound. I forget where he ends up, but but he's just ready to give it a give everything up. He's in such despair. And when God appears to him, that progression of God was not in the storm. God was not in the heavy wind, God was not in the whatever the next progression was, I can't remember. But then there was a gentle breeze. Yeah, and yeah, and that's when he first heard God. And and so I was thinking God came to him in his despair, not as a storm but as a still quiet get with gentleness. Yeah, and and I think God would have moved into all those other things had and that does happen.

9:50 God does do that throughout the Bible, where it gets worse and worse and worse for you if you're not listening to that still small voice. But if we can get them with that still small voice, that's probably best. Yeah, yeah, you don't have to go for the juggular. Enlist absolutely absolutely need to. Yeah, right, I mean basically, at the end of the day, you can try anything and everything to get to a person's heart, to soften their heart, to bring conviction and there's only so far we can go right. It's got to be the Holy Spirit convicting them and they've got to open their hearts to the word of God, and so I think it is good for us to kind of throw it through. Everything we can Adam give them with the Bible says about comfort, about his love for them and for their baby. Do think that's where we start, but then get into the conviction of the Holy Spirit as far as they're sin, the rebellion against God. You know that that actually played out for me just probably Saturday before last, where I was talking to a young lady and started out very kind of like, I guess, comforting in the sense that God's with her, with, you know, her and her baby. God has a love for her and her baby. But her heart was just hard and she was trying to justify herself, and so I went into some convicting Scriptures and convicting realities and really broke down for her. You know, if you believe that God loved you, because I kind of went in that whole you know my fail proof probablife argument that, you know, Does God love you? When

11:22 did he begin to love you? Before I was born. And I pin her down, doesn't he also loved this baby, and I kind of really got into the idea that, you know, because she said, well, God gives us all free will, so what you're using is you're using the free will that God has given you as a justification to take someone else's free will away from them. Yeah, and and the word of God will not stand with that, like God's God's not okay with that and you're going to stand accountable before him for what you're doing. Justifying yourself about God's love for you and then saying basically, God's love for this baby is not the same, to use some other convicting verses and things. Yeah, yeah, but, yeah, I kind of went from, I guess, comforting to convicting.

12:07 Yeah, because I thought that was appropriate in that situation. And I think to your point, ultimately, every single person you have the opportunity for any kind of extended discussion, you can't ignore the convicting verses of God, because the reason that they're there for an abortion is in all likelihood, they are leading a life of sin. Yeah, and and unless they are convicted that not only is abortion wrong, but so many of the choices that have led them to that place need to be addressed and ultimately they need to submit their lives to the Lord, and you're not going to get there if they're not convicted of their sin, which is a heart truth. So, but we don't always have that opportunity in those few minutes be in front of an abortion center, but I do think we usually, at least I usually do, have the opportunity to introduce some of these convicting verses, even if I can't go into the full gospel presentation or anything like that. Right, but some of these were some of my favorite, okay, favorites that that I found that I've used, okay, frequently. Yeah, and so read a few of them. I kind of talk random holy apply yeah, and how, you guess, can use them out there on the sidewalk. So this the first one. You have here. A second Peter to Twenty three, twenty one, and it says for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Save Your Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning, for it would have been better for them not to

13:39 have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. That's pretty powerful statement. It's yeah, yeah, because that is what's happening out there, isn't it? Yeah. Well, you encounter so many of these people that go into the abortion centers, that claim to be Christians, that claim to love God. Yeah, in this verse speaks just to that. When you've okay, you claim to be to haven't had some kind of encounter with the Lord, have some kind of relationship with Jesus, you ask Jesus into your heart or something like that, and by that you've escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus, then you're entangling yourself again into sin. Yeah, like you bring yourself under greater condemnation and judgment. Now you can get into all the theological implications of that, and there's debates out there about once saved, always saved and all these other things. That's not really what you're getting to in front of the abortion center. You're just bringing to bear the word of God.

14:35 What, what do you believe about this? Because the Bible says if you've escaped the blutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus and you're going to go back into that stuff, back into unrighteousness. You murdering your own child. Yeah, then it would be better have do you have not even really connected yourself with Jesus? Yeah, claim to be connected with Jesus and being rebellion to him. Yes, your judgment is going to be worse. Well, that part that you just said about righteousness, that you're, you know, piggyback in off of that phrase. It would be better not to have known the way of righteousness. Went. Before I introduce this first, I'll I'll often say, do you believe this is a human being? Yes.

15:20 Do you believe it a living human being? Yes. Do you believe that we should not murder innocent living human beings? Yes, and then you say so. And does God say anything about that? Well, yes, the sixth commandment that shall not murder. Yeah. Is that the way of righteousness? Well, yes, what would you make of this verse? And then, because they do know, they know the way of righteousness. Sure, yeah, if they, if they and if they claim to and have any knowledge of Jesus Christ, they know the way of righteousness. You can't ignore them. What that verse is saying. Yeah, absolutely so I think it's powerful if you build on one of the things that I think you do well and and I think it's really important, is to take a passage and break it down and pull out the different pieces one at a time and build to you agree with this, you agree with this, you agree with this.

16:18 Well, what do you say with Russa? Then? Yeah, you can't, and one of the points I'll try to get to with people. You can't affirm portions of the word of God that you agree with and reject other portions that you disagree with. Right, if you believe that John Sixteen is true, then you also need to believe that Second Peter to Twenty three, twenty one is true. And if not, why do you decide? Why do you reject one and accept the other? I'll sometimes ask that and there's no real good answer, sure for that. Yeah, another verse is He Brews Ten, twenty six through absolutely one of my very favorites. I quote, I have this one memorized, which is hard for me to do, but this one was so important in sharing the Gospel. I actually do use this verse when I share the Gospel because I think the danger of this verse is to take it before you actually dwell on and know this verse after Hearing The Gospel, is to just think, well, I'm saved, I ask forgiveness, Jesus forgives me so I can go in and have the abortion, because I know that Jesus will forgive me and I want to get rid of that misconception right away. Right. Yeah, yeah, so Hebrews Ten, twenty six through twenty seven, for if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, they're long no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the

17:48 adversaries. Wow, that's heavy. I will often say when I finish this that's a pretty frightening verse, isn't it? Yeah, and just let it sit with them. I don't even need to really explain it because it says. It says if we after we receive the knowledge, tooth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. That's heavy. Yeah, that is they're no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, and I'm one of the reasons I don't explain it is because I have a hard time explaining it to myself. Yeah, but if a heart has become so hardened that they are willfully continuing down a path that God has clearly told them not to go, then is any repentance sincere? Right? Yeah, maybe that's what it's saying. Whatever it's saying, it's scary. Yeah, well, it is scary and I could try to get into it and break it down hermonoustically and exogetically and every other way. It's big, weird. Ill, I won't try to do that because I think we'd have to get into the larger context of the entire book of Hebrews, especially in particular. I mean the context of the ten chapter of Hebrews. I won't get into that, but I think just kind of let it be out there at face value. And, like you said, don't you believe that's a scary verse? And if anybody reads that verse and doesn't think it's kind of a scary verse, ends with the fiery judgment

19:22 it speaks, you know that the last part of it is and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries, the adversaries of the Lord. Yeah, right, that's pretty that's how pretty good? That's it. That's definitely describing hell of and if you willfully continue in sin, that's what's going to be awaiting you. And what does it mean to willfully continue in sin? Well, you got to have knowledge. They do have knowledge. They will. They have expressed that, usually in a conversation where at when I come to this verse, they have expressed an understanding. They have knowledge that what they're about to do is s in. Many of them have continued that. That that's an important part of it. Having, you know, while willfully, if we go on sending my version, I think says continue in sin. So if you're continuing and sin willfully, and for many of these women this is the third, fourth, Fifth Abortion Shun, that to me is a wilful continuation, continuing and sin. So so if you start talking with them about that and then what God says awaits them and just let them ponder, is what you're about to do worth this? Right? Yeah, yeah, without again, without getting into the theological implications of it. And you know, what could that mean for the Christian and what does it mean to continue willfully own and sin? Fact is there's a stern warning here, right, there is judgment and you don't want to risk it. Yeah, right, yeah,

20:57 and so, to be specific, I would I will often use this, like I said, after sharing the Gospel, but also if someone says, well, God is a forgiving God, and so I've already said I'm sorry. Sometimes I'll say that more I'm just going to go in there and do this, but it's the last time and then I'll then I'll repent. Then I'll tell him I'm sorry. That's a that's a good time for trotting out this verse, in my opinion. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, well, another verse that thinks, a powerful verse, maybe even one of the most powerful verses to share, and you share this often, even in just breaking down the Gospel. Yeah, and sharing about the Lordship of Jesus, because we're sharing the gospel. We're not saying just just ask Jesus into your heart and going your life, going with your life right. We're yeah, we want them them ask Jesus into their life as Lord Right now. We do just so you guys know, we do try to pin them down with really surrendering their life to Jesus right then and there. We're not doing the you know whole says, say the sinner's prayer thing, necessarily kind of want them to articulate a prayer themselves. Yep, we shared the Gospel along the lines of what Ray Comfort does, sharing the law and then the grace of God in light of the law and our guilt before him. But to some, some, what I'm trying to say is we talk about Lordship. We talked about Jesus becoming not just your savior, right, but your Lord.

22:21 And Yeah, what does that mean? What does that mean? And they can't answer that. And I'm not sure Ray Comfort goes heavily into Lordship in the he may, but in the the Youtube presentations that I've watched, I don't think he does so much. I do because I have found in all the years being out there sharing the Gospel, it is a huge issue. Yeah for it, because so many people, they're on the virtual and their baby, claim Jesus is their Lord and they really have no idea what young chip means. So lukendred and forty six says, but why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say? Yeah, and the word Lord Means Master. Yeah, it's what a servant calls his master. So Jesus is saying, why do you call Me Lord?

23:12 Why do you say that you're my servant when you're not doing what I say. Yeah, and in the context of the abortion center, of course, when you've kind of pinned them down with the truth that's a baby that they carry, that their struggles are real, yes, but their baby doesn't deserve to die. And yet they claim to be a Christian. What does Jesus say? So why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do the things which I say? You can get a woman to agree that abortion is wrong, you can get them to agree that their baby is loved by God, that it to abort their child is sin. But it's not just the agreement, it's the doing right, and that's what Jesus is talking about here. Yeah, and after that first the next one that that we wrote down, and maybe you could read that, is the Matthew Seven Twenty hundred twenty three, because it piggybacks off of that. It takes it even a step further, which is obvious when you read it. Yeah, sure, and this is a scary verse here. It is, yes, because it speaks of judgment, it speaks of, you know, Jesus being fed up with with people hypocritically proclaiming him to be Lord and so this is Matthew Seven, twenty one through twenty three, right says. Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and done many mighty are many wonders in your name?

24:38 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness, depart from me. I never knew you. Here they are, they're doing these apparent miracles and they are certainly calling him Lord, but he's saying I never knew you, depart from me. That is that's a huge warning to people saying Jesus as Lord. Yeah, and being if I'm sharing the scripture with someone out in front of the abortion center, sharing it with a mom or with a dad breaking this down, I'll ask them pointedly, are you one of those people that are calling Jesus Lord Lord, and yet you're not willing to obey him? That's hypocrisy.

25:22 Yeah, just because you, and I'll use the term talk is cheap. God's not after just your words, God's not after you, just saying he's Lord. God is after you. You actually letting him be Lord in your life, right, but if you continue to do what you want to do in contrast to what he wants you to do, he's not the Lord of your life. You are the Lord of your own life's guess what that's going to lead you, exactly, and look where it has let you, where it has led you, look where it's going to continue to lead you. It's ultimately going to lead you to hell. Yeah, yeah. The one I think thing to be careful, excuse me of with with these verses, is I have had people say, well, it's by fair faith, not works, that that you're saved, and and so here Jesus is saying, but your works will reflect your faith. Yeah, exactly, and to make that distinction clear. Yeah, absolutely. It's not the works that save you, right, but the works are the outflow of the fact that you are saved. Right, that's that's the evidence. That's like the fruit does not what makes the tree what it is, but it is the evidence of what kind of truth that it is. Yeah, right, and he could not make it any clearer. Don't call me Lord unless you're doing what I say. Yeah, or I am not your Lord. Yeah, you're the Lord of your life. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, very good verse.

26:48 So another verse. This is John, the gospel of John, Chapter Fourteen, Verses Twenty three through twenty four, says Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the fathers who sent me. So this is Jesus talking about his word, talking about his commands. If anyone loves me, he's going to keep my word. And you know, I think this is appropriate to share as well. Out there on the sidewalk or whatever context, you're counseling a woman WHO's trying to justify her abortion by saying that God loves her and she loves God and all this. But Jesus this is saying, if you love me, you're going to keep my word.

27:36 Yeah, and Boarding your child is not keeping Jesus word. Right. And and a way to introduce this verse might be to say do you love God? Yeah, I asked that a lot out on the side. Wrek. Do you love God? They almost always say yes. And then this would be a great verse to say at that point. Yeah, because if again, God is very clear. Okay, if you love him, keep his word. And what is his word say about killing innocent people? That shall not murder? His whird is clear. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So another verse. It actually the whole book of First John Is Powerful. Let me just tell you. First John is probably one of my favorite books outside of Hebrews. I really like Hebrews as well. Keep who's a lot too, but first John is really practical, really kind of pins people down, because we do have this kind of false notion that that almost got owes us something and that the way we live is kind of irrelevant to God and that our words are actually what's important. Well, John's cutting through that garbage. It's not just your words, yes, it's not. Let's not love or his he says this. And First John, let's not love our brethren only in word, but also in word. And indeed, so here's what he says in this first John. Three, three, right, yeah, versus four through six, and then I think you kind of broken it up in verses eight through ten here. Yeah, so i's going to read. It says everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is

29:08 lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has seen him or knows him. The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil as sinned from the beginning. The son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. No one who was born of God practices sin, because his seat abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By this, the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. Wow, that is chock full, yeah, of convicting. Yeah, and I'll just be be really candid, convicting for me as well. Yeah, not just for the people I'm ministering tight right now again. I've let me there's one point in there. It says he who is born of God or who who no one who is born of God practices sin, because he sees, abides in him and he cannot sin.

30:12 Wow, no one who sees him, I'm sorry, no one who sins has seen him or knows you. Wow, have you sinned? Not In the past five minutes. Okay, I mean I would say this is a verse where conviction should be there and we need to examine our own hearts first. Yeah, I do think, though, if you share this verse, the question is going to be asked. Well, if this is true, then then we're all doomed, right, because I've sinned, and then they'll ask you, have you sinned also, which they do, by the way. This happens all the time. That is the response exactly. Yeah, I get when I read this verse. Yeah, and so what is your what is your reply? Well, it's an opportunity, then, to share the Gospel, the truth of the Gospel, that that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and there is a penalty for sin, but there is also an answer. Yeah, and and then go on to share the full Gospel as well, as well as I can, but I will focus on taking the heat off of me. Yeah, since I'm not about to kill a baby right then and there, and they are so at the moment, that is the more pressing issue, and then when I go home I can deal with my own my own issues. But but I'll focus on things like the one who practices sin is of the devil. Yeah, and no one who is born of God practices sin, and that the those who are the children of God and the children of the devil. They're obvious.

31:41 than ask them. which do you think, looking here at this abortion center and your choice is before you? which is the choice that shows you are a child of God and which shows you the Cho Voice, or which choice shows you that you are a child of God or of Satan? Yeah, and the answer is obvious, just like this first says. It is obvious. So at least I think what we're kind of trying to get them to is a point of acknowledging, right, that what they're about to do is a grievous sin, yeah, against God, and that there are going to be SEF severe constantly. Yes. So we're not sharing this verse from a perspective of we're not sinners, you are right. This is not like condemning them and showing them how much better we are than they are. Right, but this is showing them that sends a big deal to God. Yes, and then it incurs wrath and judgment from God and we need to examine our own hearts. Now I'll just say generally what's being conveyed in this scripture is the pattern of our life. If the pattern of your life is one of sin and rebellion to God, don't pretend to be his child. If the pattern of your life is righteousness and you seek to please God, then you're his child. Right. That's that's evident. So at that point where says he cannot sin, obviously we know that we can. And their scripture versus. It tells even John Himself. John's not saying a Christian can never sin. He's saying that it should not be the pattern of her life.

33:14 And if you go back in the first chapter of First John where he talks about this, he says I write you these things, little children. I think it's actually in the second chapter. Write these these things you little children, so that you will so that you would not sin. But if you do sin, you have an advocate with the father. So he's saying I don't want you to sin, but if you do, and so he's not refuting himself in his same letter. Right he's he is saying that Christians, yes, they do sin, but it's not the pattern of their life. And I think laying that out and helping helping a person at the abortions that are to understand that what he's talking about. Now you don't always have time to lay all that out. I think the most important thing is like what you mentioned, that contrast between lights and darkness. Yeah, between the Devil and the Lord. Yeah, whose side are you? All Right? That's the most helpful thing. Things. First, I probably wouldn't go to the part about the advocate, that we have an advocate, he who sins, because again, they're just waiting to grasp it. Anything you offer that allows them to justify what they're about to do. And if you're in if they're thinking, oh well, I've got an advocate and when I do sin, then and then it's fine for me, for me to go sind. So so the contrast is really critical because even they see it, and I've rarely had someone that will say that they have not had a pattern of sin.

34:36 Yeah, and that that is what has led them there. Very few of them will say, well, I'm I'm really mostly good. This is like the only really bad thing I've ever done. Right, most of them, see, there's been a progression of bad, sinful choices that have led them to now this really serious yeah, sinful choice now t takes the life of an innocent human being. Yeah, and I think sometimes we can get into the mount the mindset and sharing these scriptures that we somehow have to explain them all thoroughly and there's going to be questions, like you said, and you share this scripture, there's questions. Or what about this? It says he cannot say in it all. Okay, there's can be questions, but certainly the Holy Spirit needs to do a work in their hearts and just to share the words. And if they ask me a question, and I don't want to get in depth and try to explain some theological exegetical breakdown with that scripture means, I'll just say think about that verse, think about where you stand in light of that verse and let the Lord speak it to your heart.

35:37 And I even pray over them and that that sort of thing. Ultimately, I'm trust in the word of God to do it's work. Yeah, and so these are just some scriptures and we're actually going to put an article out right and I think we'll have all of the scriptures. We get in touch on all of them, but there's there's quite a few more and I'm sure you guys know many more verses that you can share. But I think at the end of the day the point of this podcast episode is that, guys, you need to use the word of God. Use The word of God to bring comfort and use the word of God to bring conviction, that God use his word right to pierce hearts and you can't do it if you don't know the word of God. So obviously the first thing is no, the word of God and take the time to to organize your Bible with, I don't know, mark or something where you can pull this scripture up quickly when you need it. But you can't pull it up if you don't know it's there. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, all right, guess we appreciate you tuning in and, as always, we appreciate if you guys would share this podcast leave us a review. If you have issues subjects you like for us to cover, we love to cover those in future episodes. So you can shoot me an email danuite love life dot org. You can shoot Vicki an email at Vicky at love life dot Org. Would love to hear from you, but until next time, God, bless God. Bless our love for love. Give me our love for gratitude. I know it will cost me

37:14 my life. Nothing's too precious in some you