Leaving Sorrow Behind

WEBVTT100:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.320At the end of the day,if we carry a load of guilt or200:00:04.360 --> 00:00:10.359sorrow with us from circumstances that wehave no control over, that stuff will300:00:10.400 --> 00:00:16.239weigh us down. I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours,400:00:16.679 --> 00:00:22.079and me, Lord, I amyours, I am yours. I'm500:00:22.120 --> 00:00:27.160welcome to the Gospel Center Pro LifePodcast, a podcast designed to equip,600:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.679encourage and challenge you in pro lifeministry, and always with a focus on700:00:31.719 --> 00:00:41.719the Gospel. Stay tuned. Ifelt show passish, touch your heart.800:00:42.880 --> 00:00:49.479Use He there. Welcome to theGospel centered pro life podcast. I'm Vicki900:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.640Cos yerk. I'm here with DanielParks. How's it going? So we're1000:00:53.679 --> 00:00:58.280here in Charlotte and, as always, hoping to encourage and equip you with1100:00:58.359 --> 00:01:06.599these weekly podcast this one was reallypretty interesting because three times this very week,1200:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.840three of our volunteers came to mewith basically the same question. Yeah,1300:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.040and that's the the crux of thisof this podcast. Okay, they1400:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.439they said, they all three,had seen some pretty awful things. We1500:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.359always see awful things on the sideback, but this was for them all pretty1600:01:23.359 --> 00:01:29.359particularly awful and sorrowful. And theysaid, how do you fully engage your1700:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.239heart, do what you need todo, feel the level of compassion,1800:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.719the the gravity of what you're facingwhile you're on the sidewalk and then,1900:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.120when your shift is up, disengageright and be able to leave all that2000:01:42.159 --> 00:01:48.719behind you go home and live yourlife without guilt and without sorrow. Yeah,2100:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.280that's basically the crux right, thecrux of their question. Yeah,2200:01:52.120 --> 00:01:53.280yeah, I mean I think there'sa sense in which, as we talked2300:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.680about this episode before we started recording, there's a sense in which you feel2400:01:57.680 --> 00:02:02.480guilty when you leave the sidewalk.You feel guilty for kind of going on2500:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.840with your life right, feel guilty. Okay, after you get done with2600:02:06.879 --> 00:02:08.319the sidewalk, if you're there inthe morning and you're hunger you go eat2700:02:08.400 --> 00:02:13.039lunch. Yeah, and like realizing, okay, I just left from a2800:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.400place, Hmmm, where babies weredying inside, and now here I am2900:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.199at chick fil a or nonmals orwhatever, eat lunch, enjoying life.3000:02:21.199 --> 00:02:23.960It's two babies died today, totell you the truth, that that did3100:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.840happen today and they're all going outfor lunch today to build to immunity.3200:02:27.919 --> 00:02:31.479And that's the disconnect that that iswhat these three counselor said. How,3300:02:31.479 --> 00:02:35.360how do we do this? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, and3400:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.240it's a very to me it's atelling question. It's these people understand the3500:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.759gravity of what they're doing exactly,and I think that's a good thing.3600:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.759It's a good thing that we don'tjust kind of we're not doing this to3700:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.879check a box, and I wouldsay the vast majority of people that are3800:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.520involved in this ministry are not justcheck in a box, right, right,3900:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.919doing it because their hearts are engaged. So I guess the crux of4000:02:55.960 --> 00:03:00.360the issue is, how do youhow do you keep your heart soft before4100:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.080the Lord without hardening your heart?How do you deal with the guilt of4200:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.280like, yeah, just left aplace that babies are dying and even sometimes4300:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.800no babies were saves? We don'tknow that allows or change yeah, and4400:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.039go home, for example, andplay with your own kids, like there's4500:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.879just this weightingess there that I thinkis a necessary weightingness, but it's also4600:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.360necessary that we deal with it and, like we've always said, we cannot4700:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.439be driven by guilt. I cannotbe driven by guilt. Now, does4800:03:30.520 --> 00:03:35.159God use guilt and can God useguilt in the lives of Christians to get4900:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.520them to do things that they're supposedto do. Yes, he can,5000:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.400God can use guilt. Guilt isnot a bad thing. It's not a5100:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.479bad thing as far as like aninitial motivator, but it's a horrible sustainer.5200:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.199Right, right, and so guiltmight get you on the sidewalk,5300:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.400but it's not going to sustain youthere. Yeah, what's going to sustain5400:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.479you there and keep you from goingbonkers, because that's what can happen,5500:03:57.759 --> 00:04:01.639is a love for Jesus and anacknowledgement of who Jesus is, right,5600:04:01.680 --> 00:04:08.840that he's the Lord over everything.Now, he's not controlling the abortionist forceps,5700:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.800he's not influencing the abortionist to killbabies. Right, God's against that5800:04:12.840 --> 00:04:17.240stuff. So God's not doing thewickedness, but he is Lord over everything5900:04:17.279 --> 00:04:21.600and he's going to right all thewrongs. It's not our charge to right6000:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.879all the wrongs. Yes, weshould, we should right the wrongs that6100:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.759are within our control. Hey,but what's within our control? Using our6200:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.560voice, HMM, being out there, reaching out, offering literature, speaking6300:04:34.600 --> 00:04:39.879the truth and love, proclaiming theGospel, like we can do those things.6400:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.120But what's not in our control isthe changing of a human heart.6500:04:44.199 --> 00:04:48.360Yeah, Paul, the this manof God who walked more closely with God6600:04:48.399 --> 00:04:55.279than probably anybody, said that basicallyall he's doing is planning seeds and watering6700:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.720seats. Yeah, and God givesthe increase. Even Paul, a man6800:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.759of faith and power who God usedto turn the world right side up,6900:05:02.000 --> 00:05:08.000realize that he couldn't do more thanjust plant seeds and water. Yeah.7000:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.079So, a matter of fact,that one point. He says, I'm7100:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.759going to butcher the scripture. It'sin First Corinthians, of believe, first7200:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.319couple of chapters. But he talksabout people who are rebellion against God and7300:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.480people who are receptive toward God.And he says to one we are the7400:05:18.519 --> 00:05:24.360fragrance of life unto life, andto other the fragrance of death leading to7500:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.800death. And then he says,who is sufficient for these things? The7600:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.560question is like a rhetorical question.We're not sufficient. Where the fragrance of7700:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.600life to life, death to death, like we're going to be received in7800:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.519some ways, we're going to berejected in some ways. WHO's sufficient?7900:05:36.600 --> 00:05:43.240Like who can do this work?Nobody can. The Lord the Holy Spirit,8000:05:43.279 --> 00:05:45.519he can do it through us,and so we've got to be yielded8100:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.800to him. And so I guesswhat I'm getting to is it's not our8200:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.240job to change hearts. We can'ttake ownership of the babies that were like8300:05:53.279 --> 00:05:56.319we said, we don't take ownershipof the victories. Are Glory and God8400:05:56.319 --> 00:06:00.000for the victories that are aught,but we can't take glory for those things8500:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.399things. It's God doing the work. Yeah, in the same way,8600:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.360we can't take ownership of the apparentdefeats, like fifty two babies dying.8700:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.519Yeah, those women, those menthat are associated with that, the abortionist,8800:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.639the abortion workers, all they're accountableto God. We warned them,8900:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.800we shared the truth and it's betweenthem and the Lord. We did what9000:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.319we were called to do. Weplanted seeds, we watered seeds. It's9100:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.720between them and the Lord if theincrease comes. Yeah, so once again9200:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.079we could probably step right here.Daniel has summarized in five minutes, but9300:06:28.959 --> 00:06:30.800my long article. But actually wedo have an article. Yeah, the9400:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.360company says, and what Daniel did, I think can what you always do9500:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.879so well, is kind of giveus summary of the issue. Yeah,9600:06:36.920 --> 00:06:43.439and and what I did in thisarticle was I really thought through how do9700:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.240I deal with it, because Iof course I have to deal with this.9800:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.519Anyone who's been out here for anylength of time has had to deal9900:06:48.560 --> 00:06:53.879with this, and I kind ofbroke it down into this steps of how10000:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.199I deal with it. Okay,I'm sure you'll have some stuff to add10100:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.319to that, but but well,I hope to be able to teach you10200:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.040guys something at the end. Hopefullywe'll have enough time. We'll try and10300:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.680leave teach you kind of like youknow, I've taught about putting on the10400:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.879armor of God and and that sortof thing, and just something the Lord's10500:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.399taught me over the years. Idon't think I'm great or anything, but10600:07:11.399 --> 00:07:15.680the Lord's been very gracious to teachme some things and just ways to pray.10700:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.199That helped me to process and unwandby mine and kind of, like10800:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.519the Bible says, cast my careson the Lord. Yeah, because we10900:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.439have to do that. So I'mgoing to teach you guys, maybe a11000:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.959little something from the gospel of Johnthat that I do on a regular basis.11100:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.800That really helps me and hopefully itwill help you guys. Okay,11200:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.040that would be a great way toend to end all this. But I11300:07:35.079 --> 00:07:41.000think the very first step is toacknowledge the horror. Don't deny it,11400:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.839don't intend it's not there. Itis there. This is a grievous,11500:07:44.920 --> 00:07:49.800unspeakable sin. Yeah, unbearable sin, knowing what really happens out there,11600:07:49.879 --> 00:07:54.759and I think to just kind ofgloss over that fact doesn't help us.11700:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.600I think we have to first acknowledge. Yes, what we are facing is11800:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.959absolute horror, right, and itgrieves the heart of God deeply and that's11900:08:03.000 --> 00:08:09.360part of why we're coming back out. We recognize the incredible depravity that that12000:08:09.399 --> 00:08:15.040we are seeing day after day.So, like in in all this isn't12100:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.120an illness. The question that they'reasking it's how to cope. But in12200:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.319anything that needs to be healed ina way they're asking, how do I12300:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.439heal from this? Well, thefirst step in any healing is acknowledge that12400:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.920that this is an assault, thisis this is horrible. I think that12500:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.200some point in this article I sayit's clear that there are mothers that are12600:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.879being wounded, babies are clearly beingworded. Yeah, but what we do12700:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.679need to recognize as so are we? So are we as we watching?12800:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.879Yes, and I think to oneof the kind of, I guess,12900:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.000perspective things that we need to understandis, yes, this is horrible to13000:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.679us, it grieves our hearts,but how much more does it grieve the13100:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.080heart of God? Right, God, God created these children in his image,13200:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.759he formed them in their mother's womb, and he's actually seeing, because13300:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.559the Bible says the eye the Lordis in every place. He's seeing the13400:09:05.559 --> 00:09:11.120the the graphic and the gruesome realitythat's happening. We're we're spared from seeing13500:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.720that, right, for the mostpart. Yeah, and we don't see13600:09:13.759 --> 00:09:18.320all the repercussions. We don't seeall the family members, all the society,13700:09:18.399 --> 00:09:20.919all of the all of the effectsthat God does. Yeah, and13800:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.759so if he grieves our her howmuch more the heart of God's wo just13900:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.799helps us to just know that theLord is in this grief with us.14000:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.919He is him. But we can'tstay there, we can't rest, we14100:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.120can't abide in that grief because we'llnever be effective. Yeah. So the14200:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.440second thing I think you touched onreally well was we need to recognize our14300:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.919role right in the in the faceof this grief. What is our role14400:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.919and what's God's real and you've alreadysaid that perfectly. Our role is to14500:09:46.919 --> 00:09:52.919show up, to speak, todo everything that we are biblically commanded to14600:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.039do and expressing truth, compassion,offering help, but we're not responsible for14700:09:58.240 --> 00:10:03.159the results. Those totally up toGod. And the third step really blends14800:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.639into that, which is look forGod. Yeah, and what I mean14900:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.120by that we've talked about that anotherpodcast. Looking for God, looking for15000:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.679his miracles. They are always there, even in the darkest of darkest place,15100:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.440God is always there and if youseek him, you will find him15200:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.279and you can see him moving,even if it's not a save to baby15300:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.720like. Think at about the littlethings, the fact that there's a friend15400:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.279next to you who may be acharm around you and notice it you tears.15500:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.080Yeah, knows that you're sad andit is is there to offer help.15600:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.440And Yeah, the fact that teammember show up at all, right,15700:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.360the fact that a mom ever stopsand takes her there to church,15800:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.480every one of those things are miracles. Yeah, and if you start to15900:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.559look at look for the miracles,I think it helps you to see past16000:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.000the darkness. I think so time. Yeah, we do kind of look16100:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.759at and certainly the wins, thebig wins, or when people come to16200:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.440the Lord, when babies are saved, right, those are those are big16300:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.919wins. But sometimes we miss sortof, I guess, the little wins,16400:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.480but they're kind of big wins.Yeah, so some of the things16500:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.559we get to see his churches gettingmobilized judges. I was in a church16600:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.480just a couple of nights ago.WAS ONE BIGGER CHURCH HERE IN CHARLOTTE,16700:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.639a church that about ten years ago, I would have said is never going16800:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.360to be involved there, that pastorsnever going to talk about abortion, he's16900:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.360never going to do with the issue. For Fourth, rightly, I was17000:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.480in a service the other night wherethe pastor was plainly from the pulpit calling17100:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.759abortion murder. Wow, and plainlysaying the church, we need to do17200:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.759something and step up. Yeah,open it up the whole service to talk17300:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.360about the issue of abortion. They'veadopted a week with love life. That's17400:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.799like a massive victory. Yeah,another victory. I just heard from my17500:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.000team in northern California and anyach thereand there's a guy who now is volunteering17600:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.919on the sidewalk. He's kind ofgetting trained up to volunteer on the sidewalk.17700:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.120He was driving by the local planparenthood and the Holy Spirit spoke to17800:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.039his heart and essence like what areyou doing? Where are you at when17900:12:03.039 --> 00:12:05.320this thing's happening? Where's my people? And so he saw, ended up18000:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.440seeing the team out there. GotActually came to a prayer wall, got18100:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.679plugged in at sidewalk out reaching.was broken over the fact that he's done18200:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.720nothing about abortion and now he's doingsomething. So those are victories. Like18300:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.320you're talking about people standing next toyou. God's building a team of people18400:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.600in your city, maybe slowly,but surely he's building that team, and18500:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.519that's something the glory in as well. So I'm going to share a scripture.18600:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.720Okay, let I think is helpfuland I hope I could find it18700:12:33.759 --> 00:12:41.039here in Philippians, and this isPaul the Apostle encouraging the church in Philippi18800:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.159to meditate on the things, tothink on the things that are good,18900:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.039because we can. I was Iwas just cheering with my family last night.19000:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.080We're going through the doing a scripturea day, just kind of talking19100:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.399through it. I'm kind of teachingmy family through it, and this is19200:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.120what it was. The scripture foryesterday, and just telling my kids.19300:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.000My wife like how our minds gravitatetoward the negative. Look at news,19400:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.519or all the news is negative becausethey know that's how they get ratings and19500:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.279stuff. As our mind's, ahuman mind, gravitates toward the negative.19600:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.240And so Paul says here. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,19700:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.639whatever things are noble, whatever thingsare just, whatever things are pure,19800:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.600whatever things are lovely, whatever thingsover or of good report, if there19900:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.480is any virtue, if there's AnythingPraiseworthy Worthy, meditate on these things in20000:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.799mad and so he's not just talkingabout kind of letting your mind just.20100:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.919You're freeing your mind now. Hesays, think about like what you're going20200:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.720to eat when you get home.He's saying, look right here at there20300:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.039is something lovely here. Focus onwhat that is, focus all meditate on.20400:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.120Yeah, think on the things thatare lovely, even on the sidewalk.20500:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.360Fifty two babies dying. Yeah,but are there are some things that20600:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.240we can meditate on that we couldhave a thankful heart toward God. They're20700:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.559happening. Yes, God is raisingup an army of people. Yeah,20800:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.919God's Word is going forth. Yeah, right, there's a you have a20900:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.759team that's with you in this thing. They're speaking truth, despite being taunted21000:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.799and ridiculed, they are speaking truth. How many people will do that?21100:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.320What amazing people we get to standalongside. Yeah, those are good and21200:14:16.399 --> 00:14:22.799worthy and noble things to think absolutelyand to dwell upon this. That feeds21300:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.440into the fourth thing that I cameup with. What I do, anyway,21400:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.320is trust by faith, not bysight. We are told the word21500:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.759of God never returns void. Weare planting seats, we are speaking the21600:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.399word of God. Very briefly,I come from the perspective of being an21700:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.679atheist, agnostic at best, andthere were so many people that witness to21800:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.320me early in my life and asa Nonbeliever, I remember making fun of21900:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.559them, taunting them, even sometimesto their face. I was downright nasty22000:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.320to some of them, but andsome of them I never knew. They22100:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.840were strangers. But as I lookback, once I came to the Lord,22200:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.519every one of them, God bringsthem to my mind. I remember22300:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.679those faces, I remember those thingsthey said that I made fun of,22400:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.720and I didn't even know their name, but God does, and they were22500:15:09.759 --> 00:15:18.159planting seeds that did come to fruitionmany years later. Trust that we are22600:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.440doing the same. Yeah, God'sword never returns for it. Amen.22700:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.480Yeah. I think a fifth thingis to keep an eternal perspective. I22800:15:26.519 --> 00:15:31.279think that is really important. Rememberwho wins, who wins? In the22900:15:31.360 --> 00:15:37.080end, everything will be made right, justice will be served, every wrong23000:15:37.279 --> 00:15:43.240righted. Everyone will basically give anaccounting for their life. And and Jesus23100:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.600has the victory. He's had thevictory. Hates had the victory ever since23200:15:46.639 --> 00:15:52.000he rose from the grave and overcamedeath, proved he was Lord. Satan23300:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.320was defeated at that moment. Sowe know that God has the victory and23400:15:56.320 --> 00:16:02.080we need to cling to that perspective. Yeah, yeah, some, some23500:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.159preachers have said, and I thinkit's good to say this, we are23600:16:04.240 --> 00:16:08.039battling from a place of victory.Yes, right, yes, we're already23700:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.720victorious. If you're in Christ,yeah, you get everything that he gets.23800:16:12.000 --> 00:16:18.039Yeah, and if you're in Christ, eternal victory is one right.23900:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.360You don't have to fight for yourown salvation, right, you don't have24000:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.759to fight for favor with God.You're already in. and Jesus has already24100:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.960won the battle between the devil isthe devil still live and doing his thing24200:16:30.960 --> 00:16:36.519currently, but he knows his timeis up very soon and we're on Jesus24300:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.639side. So we're winners, becauseJesus is the winner. We're victorious in24400:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.039him. Now that doesn't mean welay down our you know, and go24500:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.440eat chocolate cake and we are stillcalled to the battle until it has been24600:16:48.480 --> 00:16:53.120all played out. Yeah, butbating from a place of victory correct and24700:16:53.200 --> 00:16:56.720so and we know the ending,we know God wins. Thinks that we24800:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.519can think about. Did you showup? Did you speak his truth?24900:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.039Did you consuct yourself in a mathmanner worthy of the Lord? Are you25000:17:04.119 --> 00:17:11.880faithfully presenting Jesus as his ambassador?And if you've done those things, praise25100:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.519God. Those those are all keepingan intern eternal perspective. The last thing,25200:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.640and then we'll get into your littlescenario that you wanted to tell us,25300:17:19.880 --> 00:17:25.079is at when it's over, whenyou have finished with what you've been25400:17:25.119 --> 00:17:30.440doing on the sidewalk, brush offthe dust of that place and find something25500:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.720where you abide in and recharge inthe Lord. Yeah, that you love,25600:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.160something enjoyable. Maybe it's a you'rejust being with your family. For25700:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.839me, I've said this many times, it's it's being alone on the river25800:17:41.960 --> 00:17:49.240in my Kayak, but but dofind that thing that restores your your spirit,25900:17:49.279 --> 00:17:56.000your soul in God. Yeah,absolutely, so. So two things.26000:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.480Okay, that helped me and theytie into one another and I'll share26100:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.240this, these things with you,guys, and in my mind this is26200:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.799okay. The scenario is I'm leavingthe abortion center right I've just dealt with26300:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.799the heaviness of seeing sixty people gointo the abortion center. I remember years26400:18:11.839 --> 00:18:17.440back on a Saturday when I wasout there volunteering, they would be sixty,26500:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.440sometimes seventy five people. I rememberthose stays staring out on the street.26600:18:21.799 --> 00:18:23.720Parking lot was so full. Yeah, and that was heavy. And26700:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.319then on top of that, ofcourse, you have pro abortion people yelling26800:18:26.359 --> 00:18:32.680at you and all kinds of falseaccusations and you are I remember seeing scenarios26900:18:32.680 --> 00:18:34.960where I saw a young girl,she had to been twelve, thirteen years27000:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.160old, her, I guess itwas her mom or grandma, whoever,27100:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.240was driving her into the abortion centerand as she was pulling in, the27200:18:42.240 --> 00:18:47.799young lady got out of the backof the car and took off running and27300:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.000she obviously didn't want to have theabortion. And I've seen a couple of27400:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.920scenarios like that yeah, the grandmaof the Moma whatever, went after her27500:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.519in the car, got her inthe car. We called the police to27600:18:56.759 --> 00:19:02.240hey, this girl's being forced tohave an abortion. Police didn't do anything27700:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.000either. They couldn't do anything orwhatever. I was heavy. So stuff27800:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.640like that. You've gotten cussed outby someone. You just trying to offer27900:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.920him help and they're cussing you outand they're accusing you all these things.28000:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.400Again, the pro abortion people areaccusing you of all kinds of things,28100:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.559right, and that's stuff. Sometimesit'll kind of stick to you don't even28200:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.880realize it, it'll kind of stickto your psyche. Right, it'll start28300:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.759to if you're not careful, thesefalse accusations and the things that people say28400:19:27.799 --> 00:19:32.720about you. Um, you knowabout you, Ikey, Vicki, Vicki.28500:19:32.920 --> 00:19:37.440Yeah, they call me little Dchrhyind. You know, these people,28600:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.440these pro abortion people, are reallyjust bullies that when they were in28700:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.119school it wasn't really socially acceptable tobully people and now it is because we're28800:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.279in opposition to them. So they'rejust bullying people and all of that.28900:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.599And you think what doesn't really affectme, and for the most part,29000:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.839if you been out there for longenough, it really doesn't, because you've29100:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.599learned to kind of not take itpersonal and not, you know, kind29200:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.799of pray these things off of you. But still, these things can stick29300:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.000to you you don't realize and theystart to define you and they start you29400:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.680start to think, okay, amI actually like that? Am I actually29500:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.319harassing people? I don't think Iam. I'm not trying to harass you29600:20:11.599 --> 00:20:15.799know, these things will kind ofstick in your psyche, yeah, and29700:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.720start to weigh you down. Andso one of the things that I do,29800:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.519and I tried to be conscious aboutthis, especially if I've had some29900:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.799kind of heated thing happen at theabortion center, somebody yelling at in my30000:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.240face or threatened me or whatever itmight be, is what I'm leaving the30100:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.759abortion center. I do something calleddebriefing with Jesus, okay, and this30200:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.559is me praying back to the Lordthe things the Bible says again, the30300:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.000eye of the Lord is in everyplace. He sees everything. He knew30400:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.680it all, he knew it beforeit was going to take place. Right,30500:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.599but it does help you to getit out of your psyche, out30600:20:47.599 --> 00:20:49.480of your mind, out of yourheart and kind of cast your cares on30700:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.799the Lord to pray it back tothe Lord. Lord, you hear,30800:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.799you saw that person come at meand threaten me. You heard what they30900:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.720accused me of, Lord, andI just want to bring it before you31000:20:59.720 --> 00:21:03.400got so I'll just be kind ofrehearsing what happened, if especially if it's31100:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.799an intense situation, and just debriefit with the Lord. And even if31200:21:07.799 --> 00:21:10.559there's some things I need to repentof, because sometimes there are. The31300:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.599Devil can really get you on that. If you got in the flesh or31400:21:12.680 --> 00:21:17.480something. Listen, just because yougot in the flesh and you responded in31500:21:17.480 --> 00:21:21.039a way maybe you shouldn't have responded. Maybe you responded, you snapped back31600:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.839at somebody. That does not disqualifyyou for being on the sidewalk. Let31700:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.400me just say that. Okay,but you might need to repent before the31800:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.799Lord. Just just bring it tothe Lord and you can do that.31900:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.039And so that's one thing. Debriefingwith Jesus, that's a good one.32000:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.400Yeah, but this is kind oftaken it to the next step, to32100:21:38.480 --> 00:21:44.039the next level, I guess.And and this is really a powerful thing,32200:21:44.079 --> 00:21:49.319and I call it this is kindof how I encourage people asking Jesus32300:21:49.359 --> 00:21:53.880to wash your feet. HMM.And it comes out of John Chapter Thirteen,32400:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.640and I can there's a whole liketeaching I can do with this,32500:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.839but I won't go into all ofthat. But kind of the picture is32600:22:00.880 --> 00:22:07.160one of Barnacles. Ships. They'rein water, sea water. By virtue32700:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.839of the fact that they're in water, they get these barnacles on them and32800:22:10.880 --> 00:22:15.200these barnacles calls drag on the ship. Actually it costs us about fifty million32900:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.400dollars a year in the United Statesof America to deal with Barnacles and also33000:22:18.599 --> 00:22:25.240the fuel inefficiency on our navel shipsthat barnacles calls. So there's barnacles has33100:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.359to be removed so that that shipcan the glide through the water like it33200:22:27.400 --> 00:22:33.440needs to. Great symbolism lot that. Yeah, and so the barnacles need33300:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.279to be removed or they'll cause drag. They just not the chips not doing33400:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.799anything wrong. It's where it's supposedto be. It's in the water on33500:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.359the sidewalk. We're not doing anythingwrong. We're doing what God's called us33600:22:42.400 --> 00:22:47.279to just by virtue of the factthat we're on the sidewalk, just living33700:22:47.279 --> 00:22:49.319in a sinful world. It's goingto be barnacles that attach themselves to us.33800:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.880Yeah, I think Jesus gives theexample of dirty feet here in John33900:22:53.960 --> 00:22:57.759Chapter Thirteen. So, John ChapterThirteen, the disciples are in the upper34000:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.000room with Jesus. Jesus gets abasin and a towel and begins to wash34100:23:03.039 --> 00:23:04.799their feet. We all know thescenario, right. This is during the34200:23:04.799 --> 00:23:10.079the Last Supper here and John ChapterThirteen, and he comes to Peter and34300:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.359Peter says you're not going to washme right, you're not washing my feet34400:23:12.359 --> 00:23:15.599because after I should be washing yourfeet. That's kind of what what peters34500:23:15.640 --> 00:23:21.920implying here. And Jesus says andJohn Chapter Thirteen, verse eight, he34600:23:21.920 --> 00:23:23.559says, if I do not washyou, you have no part with me.34700:23:23.960 --> 00:23:26.759Well, Peter, in his zeal, says, okay, Lord,34800:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.240not my feet, then everything justokay. I want to have a part34900:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.519with you, like Lauren. Iwant to I'm going to serve you,35000:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.039want to follow you. Right.And he says in verse ten, he35100:23:34.039 --> 00:23:37.440says he was bathed, needs onlyto wash his feet, but it's completely35200:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.920clean. You're clean, but notall of you. And so he's talking.35300:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.880I want to shift gears too much. He's talking about his betrayer,35400:23:47.039 --> 00:23:51.319so about Judas is not clean.But he's saying in essence, guys,35500:23:51.359 --> 00:23:56.119you're clean because you're my disciples,like you're clean from the sin of the35600:23:56.119 --> 00:24:00.759world, like you've been washed.Hey, he's talking about ultimately, his35700:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.720sacrifice on the cross and what that'sgoing to do to take care of the35800:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.319problem of sin. But he's sayingwe don't need to be cleaned the whole35900:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.000of you. Listen, believer inJesus, follower of Jesus, under daughter36000:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.240of God, you're already clean.You're washed in the blood of Jesus because36100:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.480of your faith in him. Butsometimes you need to have your feet washed.36200:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.599Sometimes you need some maintenance to happen. Just like that ship. It36300:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.039needs some maintenance, needs to barnaclesremoved. Sometimes, just by virtue of36400:24:26.079 --> 00:24:30.799the fact that you're walking through adirty, dusty, sinful world, you36500:24:30.839 --> 00:24:33.079get stuff on your feet, right, that's the picture here. You can36600:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.240take a bath in those days andjust walking from the place where you took36700:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.000your bath to the house you're goingto get dirt on your feet because they36800:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.079didn't have paved roads and gravel andall that stuff. Right. So just36900:24:44.119 --> 00:24:47.480by virtue of the fact that you'rewalking in the world, just by virtue37000:24:47.480 --> 00:24:48.440of the fact that you're on thesidewalk, you're going to get barnacles,37100:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.279you're going to get dirt, sin, stuff's going to stick to you,37200:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.400stuff that other people say, stuffthat other people do. It's going to37300:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.799stick to you and and start totry to define you and weigh you down.37400:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.559And so what I've learned to dois to sit before the Lord and,37500:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.279just like Jesus, remember in thispassage Jesus not only washed John and37600:25:10.400 --> 00:25:14.799James and Peter's feet, but healso washed the feet of Judas. It37700:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.799is straight right. Yeah, ifhe would wash Judas feet, who betrayed37800:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.720him, how much more would hewash your feet, as you're serving him,37900:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.599as you're doing the best you canto love and serve Jesus and serve38000:25:26.640 --> 00:25:32.160people and Love Them? And sowhat I do is I get along and38100:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.880I sit in a chair and Ijust say, Lord, would you please38200:25:34.920 --> 00:25:38.319just wash my feet, and Imight I might voice some of those things38300:25:38.359 --> 00:25:41.039that, you know, kind ofstuck in my mind. I'll ask the38400:25:41.079 --> 00:25:45.200Lord, like Lord, bring anythingto my mind that I've let stick to38500:25:45.240 --> 00:25:51.920me that's defining me circumstances, people'sopinions, false ideas, these things.38600:25:51.920 --> 00:25:53.920Like bring anything to mine and I'lljust bring those things before the Lord in38700:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.279prayer and I'll just say, LordJesus, would you just come and would38800:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.680you wash my feet? Would youwash the stuff off of me? Lord,38900:26:02.720 --> 00:26:04.519if there's anything I need to repentof, Lord, I repent right39000:26:04.559 --> 00:26:07.920now. If he brings it tomy just repent of it. Be Specific,39100:26:08.200 --> 00:26:11.720but also if there's anything that's definedme, Lord, would you wash39200:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.480my feet, and I'd actually literallydo put my feet out in front of39300:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.720me and I just imagine. Godhas given us an imagination, air and39400:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.799not. I don't have the basementand and a towel. I let the39500:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.839Lord bring those things, okay,but I use my imagination. The imagination39600:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.319is a powerful thing and it's aGod given thing and we can imagine,39700:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.480Jesus, and I believe there's aspiritual sense, and let me not get39800:26:33.519 --> 00:26:37.519cooky and weird here, guys,but there's a spiritual sense in which the39900:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.400Lord does that, like he graciouslyremoves that stuff from my mind. Yeah,40000:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.359and I feel a weight lifted fromme. I feel like you know40100:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.480that ship, you can imagine thatship that's had the barnacle scraped off of40200:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.839it and now it's it's smoothly glidingthrough the water. Right, you're ready40300:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.119to go at it again the nextyeah, with that person has this build40400:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.240up of cake mud on their feetand they don't know what's dragging them down,40500:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.279but in reality it's like that's thatmud. Yeah, and the Lord40600:27:03.319 --> 00:27:07.160just comes and washes that stuff off. Yeah, and I believe the Lord40700:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.680will do that. So I don'tencourage all of you guys, if you've40800:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.000never done that. I want youto do that. I want encourage you.40900:27:14.079 --> 00:27:18.400Just get before the Lord in quietnessalone and just let the Lord bring41000:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.279those things to mind that may havestuck to you, and just bring it41100:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.000to your mind and just imagine Jesuswashing that thing off of your feet.41200:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.519Yeah, yeah, and then dothis on a regular basis, I would41300:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.559say. Even let me ask youbecause, as yours talking, I'm thinking41400:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.400so much of what these people expressedto me was it was sorrow. It41500:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.559wasn't so much the attack and thedirt, it was the sorrow. And41600:27:41.720 --> 00:27:47.240I was thinking when you said anger, I forget what you said. Will41700:27:47.279 --> 00:27:51.039never be a motivate or it willneither will sorrow. Right, sorrow will41800:27:51.079 --> 00:27:55.240not be what will motivate you tokeep coming back. Joy Will. Yeah,41900:27:55.359 --> 00:27:57.359joy in the Lord, and there'smany verses about joying the Lord.42000:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.640But would you do that in yourfeet washing thing would you say? Would42100:28:00.680 --> 00:28:06.960you say please wash away even thesorrow? Yeah, yeah, I mean42200:28:07.000 --> 00:28:10.960when I'm debriefing with the Lord orwhen I'm doing this before the Lord,42300:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.960I'll say things like God, yousaw that young lady walk in and her42400:28:14.960 --> 00:28:17.880heart was broken. Yeah, thefact that she was going to take the42500:28:17.920 --> 00:28:18.920life of her child and she thoughtthere was no hope. You know,42600:28:19.000 --> 00:28:23.079you saw this, you saw that, all of that stuff, anything that42700:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.200kind of wighs you down, itcould be sorrow of what other people are42800:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.400doing to themselves or they're doing toothers, what's been done to you.42900:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.000So, yeah, just not notjust stuff that's been done to you,43000:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.000but stuff that you've seen. It'slike, yeah, at the end of43100:28:36.039 --> 00:28:41.039the day, if we carry aload of guilt or sorrow with us from43200:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.519circumstances that we have no control over, that stuff will weigh us down.43300:28:45.680 --> 00:28:49.839Right, you don't have control overother people and what they do, and43400:28:49.920 --> 00:28:56.640so we've got to just bring thosethings to Jesus to wash off of us43500:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.519so that those things don't weigh usdown. That's the point. Yeah,43600:28:59.640 --> 00:29:06.640sorrow, shame, guilt, anger, failures, victories, all of that43700:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.200stuff. We've got to bring itto the Lord to ask him to wash43800:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.720us, and I believe you'll doit. Yeah, that's good, Daniel.43900:29:12.799 --> 00:29:17.160Yeah, Great. So, guys, hopefully this episode was a blessing44000:29:17.200 --> 00:29:18.799to you, guys, and weencourage you to share this episode with who44100:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.559are, whoever else you think itwould be a blessing to. We also44200:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.039encourage you to reach out to us. Maybe there's other subjects that you would44300:29:26.039 --> 00:29:27.759like for us to cover. We'dlove to cover those subjects. You can44400:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.599reach me, Daniel, at LoveLife Dot Org. You can reach her,44500:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.680Vicki, with a why I lovelife dot Org. Also leave us44600:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.200a review. If you're able todo that, that would be a tremendous44700:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.640blessing to us. But until nexttime, God bless God. That's you44800:29:40.720 --> 00:29:56.000all. Our love for love.Give me our love for gratitude. I44900:29:56.279 --> 00:30:06.119know it will cost me my love, if nothing's too precious. Since I45000:30:06.160 --> 00:30:08.319met you,