Participants: Karen Tsigonoff, Richard O'Ffill, Kathy Matthews
Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000172
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00:30 Welcome to Thinking About Home.
00:32 I am Kathy Matthews, 00:33 and I'm glad you join us again. 00:35 We're going to continue our series Dick, aren't me. 00:39 It's series about the Christian home, 00:41 the Christian family living in the last days. 00:44 And I want to say more than just Dick 00:46 for those who don't know who you are. 00:48 This is Pastor Richard O'Ffill from the 00:51 Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventist, 00:53 and a dear friend of mine and like a daughter 00:56 Karen Tsigonoff who has been on our program 00:58 before and welcome back Karen. 00:59 Thank you. I'm glad you are here. 01:01 Me too. We're gonna talk about 01:02 some interesting things and so, we thought maybe, 01:05 maybe to have the some of the inputs 01:07 from somebody that's maybe less than 30 01:09 or almost 30 or gonna be 30 some day 01:12 would be helpful to us Karen, 01:13 She won't look like that, does she? 01:15 No. You know, we used to be that age one time. 01:17 You told her age. No you didn't tell her age. 01:19 No, I just said she will be 30 some day. 01:21 Oh, I see that helps. 01:23 Thank you. Well, we've had, 01:28 what Kathy and I are trying to do in this series 01:31 is impress upon our hearts as Christian families. 01:34 The importance of being really 01:36 alert in the last days because Jesus himself said 01:40 if there would be deceptions and these deceptions 01:43 would be so well crafted 01:45 that they would deceive even the... 01:48 it says the very elect but I put in the vernacular 01:50 even the good guys. 01:51 Even the good guys would just about fall for it. 01:54 And sometimes as we've seen the last day events, 01:58 we tend to see them Karen in terms of prosecutions, 02:02 you know, they gonna prosecute me. 02:03 they gonna take me to prison. 02:04 But I really feel that before that happens 02:08 and some day it will happen according to scripture 02:12 that the devil goes after our brains. 02:14 So he wants our brains. 02:16 That's what I was gonna say even the very elect 02:18 could be said even the most conscientious ones, 02:21 Well, if they are not careful. 02:24 Now we would hope that the most conscientious, 02:27 maybe the well intentioned but I think that 02:29 we're trying to say that if we'll be alert 02:33 then we can avoid being deceived. 02:35 And of course we're gonna do this through the scripture. 02:40 Then there is these components 02:42 that are around us in the last days 02:44 and for example the culture. 02:46 The culture pushes on us now. 02:47 We don't all live the same culture. 02:49 Right. Even 3ABN now is 02:52 a worldwide television ministry, 02:54 so people are watching this program 02:56 in different cultures. 02:57 So we don't think that everybody 03:00 ought to have the American culture, 03:01 if we eat with chopsticks or with your figures 03:03 or you dress, however you dress. 03:05 But we believe that the Christian family 03:07 whether they are in South America, 03:09 or they are in Asia, or they are in Africa 03:11 is not going to want to just absorb all the local culture. 03:16 They gonna want to go 03:17 with the good parts of the culture 03:19 and with the parts that don't match 03:20 the Ten Commandments, the parts that don't match 03:22 Sermon on the Mount and Philippians 4:8 03:25 they gonna want leave that out. 03:27 Another thing that Christian families 03:29 that are living in the last days they gonna want to be 03:31 real sensitive of as this matter having 03:33 to do with debt. 03:35 Because what the temptations and what the 03:37 pressures of culture, you see the culture is trying 03:40 I can't eat supper. 03:42 It wants to get us as we say in Spanish compromise. 03:44 It wants to get us so involved like a spider web. 03:48 Well, I think she has experienced some of that. 03:50 Yes, I have. Absolutely. 03:51 The problems of debt. 03:52 Oh, yeah the wreckage of the past 03:54 and coming to Christ and having 03:56 this baggage that hangs with you... 03:58 Well eating you up is what I'm saying. 03:59 Yeah, it tends to, it can really 04:02 cause you to loose focus. 04:06 And of course, and of course in this sense 04:08 we are saying that the debt is the way 04:11 that the devil gets hooks in us. 04:13 Because once we don't, we're not in charge 04:16 of our own lives anymore, then we're pretty well 04:19 at the mercy of the culture, of the environment. 04:22 And then instead of being able to 04:24 order our own affairs, we're pretty well marching to, 04:27 poor choice, yeah of another drama. 04:31 In this program, we want to talk about 04:34 another component of which we Christian families 04:38 must be acutely aware in the last days 04:41 and we entitled the program Familiarity Breeds Contempt. 04:46 And Kathy I feel in my heart that this civilization 04:53 is intent on making everything the same. 04:58 In other words... All around the world 04:59 you said civilization, you don't mean just the state. 05:02 When I say civilization, 05:03 I'm obviously talking about our culture. 05:05 Now, I don't know what it's like in, you know, 05:07 in other places. But I know, but I... 05:10 and I would see probably our culture 05:11 would be the worst for it 05:12 because we're talking about respect, 05:14 we're talking about hierarchies. 05:17 You know, I have here, 05:18 you know, you gonna think, 05:19 look at that, look at that lot of money. 05:21 Look at that money. Look at that lot of money. 05:22 I have here... I'm glad 05:23 I'm sitting so close to you. But I don't think, 05:27 you know, if you check this in. 05:28 Just information count out already. 05:30 This is from another country and its 172,000 05:34 whatever they are called. 05:36 And I don't know that you can get a nickel for this. 05:39 And see some times we think in cases of money 05:42 the more money you have, 05:43 you know, the richer you are. 05:45 But that depends on what you are trying to buy. 05:48 I can remember in my lifetime Kathy when well... 05:54 I think my dad's first house that we owned as a family 05:59 I think he paid $10,000 for it. 06:02 I can remember when houses were at 15,000. 06:04 Ten to 15,000. Now you can hardly buy a car 06:07 Karen for that. Can you imagine a house. 06:11 Not even, not even a small economy car brand new. 06:14 Yeah, it's incredible. Most of them we can't. 06:15 I guess the point is that I want to make 06:19 is that if car is, lets say it's a same car 06:24 and you keep having to spend 06:26 more and more money to buy it. 06:28 That means then that money is becoming 06:31 worth less and less. Of course. 06:34 We call that inflation. Inflation. 06:36 I remember do I look like I've been millionaire when we... 06:41 Well. Now, you aren't supposed to answer. 06:44 Okay, this is one of those no answers. 06:46 When we move to South America, 06:47 Karen that the salary the month before 06:51 I got there was 4,000 of their units there were call escudos. 06:55 So my first pay that was 8,000 escudos 07:00 and when I left five years later the equivalent 07:04 that I would be getting paid monthly was 15 million. 07:07 But you see it really in other words I still couldn't buy 07:10 any more bread with 15 million. With it. 07:13 Because everything was being kind dumb down 07:15 to were where the money was worth nothing anymore. 07:18 Right, okay. I can remember when inflation 07:21 got to be 100 percent a month. 07:25 I remember one year the first year 07:27 we were there in that country inflation was... 07:28 100 percent a month? 07:29 100 percent it was 1200, 1200 percent. 07:31 I think it went worse than that 07:33 when I was out of country in other country. 07:36 In other country. Yes, more than 100 percent a month. 07:39 Can it be a 100 percent a month? 07:40 Can it be more than 100 percent a month? 07:42 It can be worse than that Like 2000. 07:44 It can be worse than that. What you know, 07:47 they can call wheel bear money where it gets so bad. 07:49 In other words, I think the point is that 07:52 we need to be aware that in the last days 07:55 things are used to be valuable, 07:57 can loose value and we have to be aware 08:00 and that we must not Karen let the culture determine 08:04 what our values are. Because there has got to be 08:08 some things that are always valuable to. 08:11 We're not just talking about money. 08:13 We're not even talking about it, 08:14 that was just, that was just an excuse. 08:15 I know, I know 08:17 I've asked Karen to get the Bible there Karen 08:19 and read a text of scripture. 08:22 Let's see which one is it, 08:23 its Isaiah 5:20. Isaiah 5:20. 08:26 Read that for us. Isaiah 5:20 reads 08:29 "Woe unto them that call evil good, 08:31 and good evil: that put darkness for light, 08:34 and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, 08:37 and sweet for bitter! 08:40 I guess what we're saying Kathy is that 08:43 in the last days the Christian family has got to be aware 08:47 of the fact that things are gonna be dumb down 08:50 to the same level where good will be called evil, 08:54 evil will be called good. 08:56 The sacred and the profane are all blended together. 08:59 Now, you got thought. 09:00 Oh it reminds me of as a teenager in high school 09:04 or even now they are classes of kids 09:07 that I remember saying oh that's bad. 09:10 And my mother what do you mean? 09:12 Oh mom that means good, oh that's bad that means good. 09:15 Okay, this is, okay, we could use that. 09:18 Now we'll do that in another program 09:19 because I think in another program 09:21 we're gonna talk about this, you know, 09:23 the way in the last days the languages have change around. 09:27 But what you are saying is that like from the text 09:29 we're beginning to call bad good, good bad... 09:32 Just literally. Literally. 09:33 Everything is the same, and this first of all 09:37 has impacted the way we relate to God. 09:43 Because I really believe and I don't know 09:45 how you ladies feel about it. 09:48 I think life looses meaning if it doesn't have hierarchy. 09:53 In other words if there is something above me. 09:57 If every thing is like this, you know, 09:59 as I may have said earlier when a $100 bill and a penny 10:02 are all worth the same then nothing is worth anything... 10:05 Okay, now you trying, 10:07 I mean it sounds as if you are trying to topple something 10:12 that someone has been trying to setup for many years now 10:17 making everybody and everything the same. 10:20 Well, I think first of all... 10:22 Because when you talk about hierarchy, 10:23 then we're talking about even in the families, 10:28 parents have lost that position. 10:33 And so therefore we have to be the same 10:36 at same level of our children. 10:38 But this isn't coming from the Lord. 10:43 I say it's not coming from the Lord 10:44 to be able to do that. 10:46 But our society has tried to do this. 10:48 And you are talking about loosing hierarchy 10:50 or rather we need to have it. 10:52 We need to have hierarchy and I think 10:55 for life to be meaningful and I think 10:56 let's discuss this late in the program. 10:58 Let's discuss how we're gonna relate to family hierarchy. 11:02 But first of all let's discuss whose God, 11:04 because God ultimately in the hierarchy 11:07 is got to be supreme. 11:09 But there is even a trend out there Karen, 11:13 I don't know if you have ever heard of that expression 11:16 where they talked about that God is the man upstairs... 11:19 Did you heard that. Oh, yes yeah I've heard it. 11:21 The man upstairs, the big man you know... 11:23 Yeah. And. 11:25 That's a certain culture within our culture 11:27 that talks like lots of time. 11:29 But now I'm gonna, you know, 11:31 I have to apologies to our viewers because 11:33 please don't misunderstand what I'm about to say next. 11:37 Because I don't mean if you misunderstand me 11:39 it's not what I meant. 11:43 My kind of Kathy how was that. I don't know. 11:46 Anyway these days we are putting huge emphasis 11:52 on the fact that God is our friend, 11:54 Jesus is our friend. And He is. 11:56 And He is the best friend we've ever had. 12:00 We tend to then... However He is... 12:03 I've heard He is not our buddy gang banger 12:09 who can relate to us with the hat on backwards, 12:12 you know, who lots of people want to try 12:16 to receive innocent children in the gang bangers, 12:18 and the drug addicts, and the prostitutes. 12:20 My saying but He understands He is right were you are 12:24 and He is right here next to you and He is not. 12:27 We're putting Him on the same level. 12:29 Yes that's it, gives us nothing to look up to. 12:33 I heard what the one bless our hearts, 12:35 a movie star was to give a heart to the Lord 12:38 and she said man Jesus is a cool guy. 12:42 You know, again we'll talk about this 12:44 in other program about the way we use the language. 12:47 Okay, sorry. 12:48 That you know, I really feel and maybe 12:51 Karen I can understand it better 12:53 when I think of my own dad. 12:56 My dad is my friend, but he is more than the friend. 13:00 Absolutely! He is my dad. 13:01 So just as, you know, 13:04 you see because really friends are equals, aren't we? 13:06 And when we talk about friendship, 13:07 are we talking about equals. 13:09 I mean this is the way I see it. 13:10 All right, if that's all you are talking about. 13:12 When person has friend we're not talking about 13:14 this kind of friendship. 13:16 Real friendship is kind of like this, isn't it? 13:18 And so if I'm gonna get the idea in my head 13:21 that God is only my friend then guess what? 13:25 Okay, but there was the key word, 13:26 He is only my friend. 13:28 He is got to be more than a friend. 13:29 More than friend. 13:31 Let me tell you little story I made up about Bill Gates. 13:33 Have you heard of Bill Gates? Yes. 13:34 Bill Gates is really rich. 13:35 In fact they say he is the richest man in the world. 13:38 I understand Bill Gates has two children. 13:41 I think the eldest is a girl, 13:43 and so I kind of made the story, 13:45 but I didn't ask Bill Gates, you know, 13:46 I just made this up about Bill Gates. 13:47 Okay, okay. 13:49 So, this way I understand him. 13:50 Yeah, okay. 13:51 When Bill Gates takes his little girl to the office 13:55 that little girl is gonna inherit. 13:57 In other words this girl is gonna be rich doing nothing. 14:00 She is gonna inherit because she is the daughter of Bill. 14:04 Now when she walks in there, she has no authority 14:07 though she could...her daddy owns the place. Right. 14:09 She can't go to Vice President tell him what to do. 14:11 And so Bill has people who worked for him Karen, 14:14 who the Bible would call who are his servants, 14:17 well paid how be it. Right. 14:18 These servants do business and they can move 14:22 millions of dollars around 14:24 but there not gonna inherit anything, 14:26 they are servants. 14:27 Now the little girl she is gonna inherit everything, 14:30 but she can't do business. 14:31 The servants can move big money around the employees... 14:35 And even make decisions, big decisions. 14:36 Big decisions but they are not gonna inherit anything. 14:39 Then in my imagination I made the story up, 14:41 Bill must play golf maybe he does it. 14:44 So Bill is out on the golf cart 14:45 with a buddy with a friend. 14:46 And so he says to his buddy, you know, 14:49 well John I'm thinking about taking over the world. 14:51 That's what they say he is trying to do. 14:54 I'm thinking of buying some businesses, 14:55 what do you think? 14:56 And so his buddy will say, you know, 14:59 I think that's a good idea, that's a bad idea. 15:02 Now his way I look at, who does Bill have in is life? 15:05 He has children, he has servants, employees. 15:08 Yes. And he has friends. 15:10 Now his child is gonna inherit everything. Yes. 15:13 His servants serve him and then the friend with whom he 15:17 convince isn't gonna get anything, 15:19 but a golf game, maybe free golf game. Okay. 15:22 And so you see the Bible teaches that 15:24 we have these three relationships with God. 15:28 We're His sons and daughters, 15:31 we're His servants. Paul says ever so many times. 15:35 How happy he was to be a servant of God. 15:37 And then Jesus adds a relationship. 15:39 My Friend! He says no longer 15:41 do I call you servants, I call you friends. 15:43 Now if someone would ask me which would you rather be, 15:46 a Bill Gate's son, his employee or his friend. 15:52 I will go for the son. Son every time. 15:55 And then if I'm gonna left with the two, 15:59 I think I will be one of his Vice Presidents, 16:01 you know, and then it will be great to be his friend. 16:04 And that's the way I think this results. 16:06 So becoming a friend certainly doesn't negate 16:09 that you are also in the position 16:11 of a servant or a child. 16:15 That's the way I see in our relationship with God. 16:17 In other words when we suddenly talk 16:19 about Jesus as our friend. 16:20 This doesn't knock out that we're 16:23 sons and daughters of God. 16:24 It doesn't diminish it or make it less important. 16:27 It doesn't diminish or make it less important 16:29 that we're His servants. 16:30 So, I think we can talk about God as our friend. 16:34 Jesus is our best friend 16:36 without breaking the hierarchy. 16:37 And sometimes I say Karen, you know, 16:39 be careful when you talk about Jesus 16:42 just being your friend, 16:44 you don't worship your friends. 16:46 Right. You don't worship your friend. 16:48 Not usually. 16:49 That's what happening to so many kids. 16:53 People are... they are forgetting, 16:55 they are relating to them and I've met many kids 17:00 who are relating to Jesus as their friend, 17:03 but they are forgetting that He is also a Father 17:05 and they need to obey Him. Right. 17:07 You don't obey your friend. 17:09 That's good that was good. Was profound God. 17:11 Don't you. You don't obey your friends, 17:13 it's not, that's true. 17:14 She hit it right on it, you don't worship your friend. 17:16 Unless they are more than a friend. 17:18 They are more than... they got authority. 17:19 Let's go find him. 17:21 You girls are just coming around 17:22 with all of these deep theological thing. 17:25 All right, you relate it. 17:27 And so the point is in the last days 17:30 the devil is gonna try to deceive us by blurring 17:34 the difference between the sacred and the profane 17:36 by breaking hierarchy. 17:38 Now that we've, you know, 17:39 I think we kind of understand amongst ourselves 17:42 and I hope that our viewers have understood 17:43 what we're trying to say in our relationship with God. 17:48 Then this brings up how we gonna relate to each other. 17:52 And wasn't you that was telling me 17:55 or was it you Karen that there is... 17:56 that there are people their children who want to call 17:59 their parents by the first name. 18:00 I was talking about it while ago. 18:02 Years ago remember there was a program 18:05 on television called Eddie's Father. 18:08 Do you remember that? 18:09 It was a big thing I don't know if you remember it. 18:12 That was the big thing that time 18:15 that he is my best friend, and but he was his father. 18:20 But he didn't relate to him as much as a father 18:23 as he did with friend. 18:25 And this was little five or six year old 18:27 that called his father. You know, 18:30 this was Eddie's Father who was his friend 18:32 but the point was, is that he was 18:35 more a friend than a father. Than a father. 18:37 Right, and to call a father by his first name, 18:42 so it renounced, I mean it just kind of 18:46 removed the fact that 18:48 he was authoritative figure in their life. 18:50 I can relate to that. 18:53 Ten years ago I left high school. 18:56 I was behind several credits 18:57 and I went to an alternative school. 18:58 And I can remember in high school, 19:00 in a state high school you called everyone 19:02 Mrs. the teachers and Mr. 19:04 And when we went to the alternative school 19:07 you called every teacher by their first name 19:09 and I can remember it distinctly like it was 19:12 yesterday they were not as authoritarian 19:15 as they needed to be as teachers. 19:16 Authoritative here. 19:18 Authoritative and I lost a lot of respect 19:20 or the necessary respect 19:22 that you have for a teacher figure. 19:24 It just happens. 19:25 They were just friends, they were just... 19:29 I'm not going to, you know, confess I'm not see 19:31 I don't know want tell the whole world that I'm 61. 19:34 Well, you don't. 19:35 Oh, it might have slipped out. 19:36 But, anyway do you know I have uncles, 19:39 uncles in their 80s obviously? 19:41 Yes, you should. 19:42 I still call them Uncle John 19:44 because that's the way we learned it. 19:46 See this was uncle and aunt 19:49 and call our parents by their first name, 19:52 this would be ridicules. 19:54 In fact, I remember when they got in that column, 19:57 you are calling your dad the old man. 19:59 Yes. The old man, the old lady. 20:01 Very disrespectful. Yes. 20:03 So, I think that in the last days that if life 20:07 is going to be meaningful if it's going to be valuable. 20:10 Then we need to. 20:11 We need to maintain the hierarchy of relationships. 20:14 Yes. I don't want to confess, 20:17 you know, too much here 20:18 but I had to go to court for a traffic offense 20:20 by the way he was very kind to me. Good. 20:23 I had, I didn't stop into the intersection 20:26 as soon I should have and he was very, 20:28 he was very forgiving. That mean you ran at him. 20:30 No, no I, no because even the policeman said that 20:33 I stopped but I stopped past the line. 20:35 No he didn't say I didn't stop, 20:37 I didn't stop far enough back. 20:39 Anyway they were very nice to me, 20:40 but I went into traffic court, 20:42 I had been into, you know, in that situation. 20:44 I'm sure Karen that the judge's name 20:46 might have been Robert, Todd or Kenneth or something. 20:50 But when you get in that traffic court 20:52 you don't say hey Ken, hey Kenny hey man. 20:58 He sits down everybody rise... 21:00 Oh! Listen everybody rise and he is your honor 21:03 and but there something real important. About that. 21:06 To maintain society you have to have a built-in hierarchy. 21:10 And if you don't what do you called you are in. 21:14 Contempt. A contempt of court. 21:16 See I didn't know when she ask so its hard questions 21:18 Karen I don't know whether I'm gonna come up with 21:20 the right answer or not. 21:21 But, you know, this brings up something else. 21:23 You know, lets talk for a minute 21:25 and not so much about the hierarchy we respect, 21:27 I think we've establish that. 21:29 But you know there is question because 21:31 the program is Familiarity Breeds Contempt. 21:34 You see, I'm wondering 21:36 that even among friends if it's possible to be 21:40 too familiar with each other 21:42 and I don't mean inappropriately. 21:45 I'm not talking about that kind familiarity. 21:47 Is it possible that I could know so much about somebody 21:51 that I don't respect them like I should? 21:54 I was asking, well, I was talking about that up, 21:57 when we were discussing it earlier. 22:00 Is what do you mean by this Familiarity Breeds Contempt, 22:05 and we were discussing it. 22:07 Is it that I can know so much about someone 22:11 that I can no longer tolerate them 22:14 or I have contempt for them? 22:17 I don't think we mean contempt like. 22:20 Again let use the word respect. Okay. 22:22 In other words, and I'm gonna use 22:24 a very personal illustration. 22:28 My wife and I've lived together these many years, 22:32 you know, I respect my wife 22:35 by not asking her everything I could. 22:38 In other words, I guess the point I'm trying 22:40 to say is I don't think we ought 22:43 to try to get in each others heads I compare it... 22:46 To the greatest depth. To the greatest depth. 22:48 I use the sanctuary as an illustration. 22:52 The sanctuary has a outer court, 22:54 it as the Holy and the most Holy. 22:57 I think in our relationship to each other 23:00 that we can go into the outer court with people 23:02 we don't know or we can go 23:04 into the Holy place with people we know. 23:07 But I really feel Kathy that there is a most 23:11 Holy place in every life that belongs to own... 23:15 The sacred. 23:16 That belongs to just me and Jesus. 23:17 Kind of sacred ground. Now I know that this... 23:20 Or just private ground. 23:21 This society is into vulnerable, 23:24 let it all hang up. 23:25 This society will tell anybody anything about everything. 23:30 But when it's all done and said do we have 23:34 more respect for the sacred or less. 23:37 Well, what does society showing us, it appears to be? 23:41 Is less or nothing sacred. 23:42 Nothing where we're getting so desensitized. 23:46 There doesn't seem to be any mystery to anything 23:50 everything is just so open 23:51 and there is nothing more to know. Yeah. 23:54 And I think that there is something that enriches 23:58 my relationship with Betty, and the Betty has a mystery. 24:01 All of our marriage, there is something special 24:03 about Betty that would want me to respect her. Yes. 24:07 You know, even as a pastor I'll say Kathy, 24:09 you know, people will come to you 24:10 with real burdens on their hearts. Yes. 24:12 And they wanna tell you everything. 24:16 And you know, I heard a story... 24:17 That makes me think of yours. 24:18 This is a story that they said that they were. 24:21 Now this is story of our ministers, 24:22 it could be on anybody. 24:23 These three ministers were playing golf one day 24:25 and there were talking about vices 24:27 and one minister said well he says I suppose if there is, 24:31 you know, if you have advice, 24:33 I put little money on the lottery, 24:35 you know, every week you know, 24:36 $2 or $3 but that's all I do... 24:38 Little confession. 24:39 Yeah see, in other words 24:40 they are confessing their vices. 24:42 And so the second person says well, 24:44 you know, if we're gonna confess our vices 24:46 I like little cup of wine, you know, once in while. 24:49 But I don't drink much more than that. 24:51 But I suppose that's my vice. 24:53 And the third guy said well if we're gonna talk about vices 24:56 my vice is gospel, I can't even think of it. 24:59 So I can tell others to tell their vices. 25:01 And so I really think there is something to that. 25:04 We don't need to know everything about everybody. 25:08 There needs to be that point where somebody. 25:11 In fact I do this with people somebody starts talking to me 25:15 and I feel if they are telling to, 25:16 you know, being too vulnerable, 25:19 I don't encourage that. 25:20 Now I don't try to be rude but I don't want to know 25:24 everything about everybody. 25:25 If you see we can't even trust ourselves sometime. 25:29 I think this is the nice thing about Jesus care. 25:31 In other words, you don't need to tell 25:33 your husband all of the secrets 25:35 that are in your heart, all your temptations. 25:36 You don't need to tell you pastor that. 25:38 Because of the down fall it may cause... 25:39 But tell Jesus everything you know... Amen. 25:42 The scripture says you can tell Jesus everything 25:44 and He won't say well you said that last time, 25:47 why don't you get your act together or, 25:49 you know, you are just unstable. 25:51 He says He unbraid if not, He doesn't put you down. 25:55 Because He is not, and well I was gonna say 25:58 He is not in the same position we are 25:59 because He is in higher loftier position, 26:02 while He is our brother, He is our king. 26:04 And He is our judge. 26:05 And He is our judge, and He is also our advocate. 26:09 That's true. Amen. 26:10 He is more able to bear our burdens where even sinful man, 26:14 I can bring all my burdens to my brother or my husband 26:18 and I might tend to drag him down with me. 26:21 You see, this is the danger. 26:22 That's exactely right. 26:23 In fact I heard someone say that if we will, 26:26 we use even human models or human role models. 26:29 We will easier imitate their weakness than their strengths. 26:32 We identify more with the person's weakness 26:35 than we do with our strength. Right. 26:37 And so that's the problem we have 26:39 when we begin to share problems it kind of, 26:43 it doesn't often times it doesn't move us 26:45 on to higher ground. 26:46 Right, and Christ, and Christ can bring us up 26:48 to high around because that's who He is. 26:50 And so, that's why this scripture says 26:53 cast all your cares on me. 26:55 Now we're to bear to each others burdens. 26:57 I think we confess our false to each other. 26:59 But I don't think we are to be confessing 27:01 our sins to each other. I really don't think so. 27:04 So this is something I think we need to be sensitive 27:06 about in the last days that the devils 27:08 gonna try to make every thing same. 27:11 Well, you've done good job of making it showing us 27:14 that devaluing things and we need not do that. 27:20 We need to keep Christ in is place. 27:23 We need to keep us where we're supposed to be 27:25 and remember respect for those two places. 27:28 Amen. Don't you think? 27:29 You said it well. 27:30 Why don't we have prayer before we close out? 27:32 And I thank you for joining us on Thinking About Home. 27:35 Pray with us, while we pray. 27:37 Heavenly Father, we're thankful 27:39 that you are our best friend, but you are king, 27:42 our judge and you are creator everything to us. 27:45 Oh Lord give us higher ideal for you, 27:49 higher respect not only for you, 27:51 but Lord that we might respect each other. 27:54 That we might bear each others burdens, 27:56 but then we don't try to get into to each others heads. |
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