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Any of you guys who are able to come to the men's retreat this weekend, don't cop out. Come to the men's retreat this weekend. It's just Friday to Saturday, we're leaving. We're going up after work on Friday. We're coming back Saturday afternoon. So it sounds like a long retreat. You know, when I was growing up, it's so awesome to live in the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ. Right? Do you I hope you understand. If you feel guilty this morning, that's not God. I hope you know that. If you feel guilty this morning, that's not God. That's not how he works. If you feel conviction, that's God. Right. That's how God works. He's a good parent. He's the best parent. And he, like any loving parent is careful, the Bible says to discipline those that he loves. So when you're screwing up, right, or when you're involved in something, or doing something, or there's something going on in your life, for me, I talked about this all the time, you know, three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, the hours of self loathing, you know what I mean? When I'm awake and veg, and I'm a terrible husband, I'm a terrible Father, you know, and all the things that and, and, and, and all of these things that come up, because it's godly conviction, there's always more that I could be doing, there's always more probably, that I ought to be doing. And there's plenty of things that they ought not to be doing, right. We all know this about ourselves. The Bible says that Satan is the accuser, who accuses the brethren, the people of God before the throne of God day and night. He is the accuser. He is the one that makes accusations and he loves to throw accusations at you. He loves to throw shade your way he wants to discourage you. godly conviction is that thing that happens within your heart when God is speaking to you about something in your life. And from the standpoint of I want to encourage you to do the right thing. I want to encourage you to stop doing the thing that is detrimental to your life that is detrimental to your faith that is detrimental to your family, that is detrimental to most importantly, your walk with Christ. And that's how God speaks to us. And that's how God comes alongside us. But make no mistake, make no mistake, he wants us to immediately acknowledge that he's speaking to our hearts, acknowledged that the things that he says are in our lives are wrong are wrong. The things that he says in our lives that are right are right, that he is always right. The Bible says let God be true, right and every man a liar. And I hate to break this to some of you, but that includes you. Right? You're standing with yourself in the mirror and go. Liar. Right? Have you ever lied to yourself? Hello, right? We lie to ourselves. We make agreements with ourselves, it's okay to do a little list because there's a little and listen, we have this superstitious nature. I don't know if it's our culture. I don't know where it comes from. But we have the superstitious nature, that if I'm always with my sin, if I'm if I allow God to fully expose every aspect of rebellion and sin in my life, whether I know about it, or I don't know about it, that therefore I'm going to be condemned before him and God's going to be done with me, God's not going to speak to me, bad things are going to come my way. That's not how God works.
God wants you to be completely open and honest for you. That's what God when Jesus says, unless you humble yourself and become like a child, you will in no ways enter the kingdom of heaven. What he was talking about is the fact that a little child does not have that Guile within them. That flattering tongue if you look ugly, your candle say you look ugly. If you look fat, your kids will say you look fat, right? And and that's just an eight. Now, don't say those things to God,
