Before You Cut Your Hand Off for Jesus Watch THIS: The Mark Series pt 33 (
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Some people have sadly misunderstood the words of Jesus here and cut off parts of their bodies as a way of avoiding sin. Not only does this fail to keep you from sinning, it isn't what Jesus wants. Today I'll be teaching on what Jesus meant by "cut off your hand", "cut off your foot" and "gouge out your eye". His words, when understood rightly, are still extreme, they just aren't about causing physical harm. Another HUGE issue in this passage is Jesus trying to wake us up as to the eternal consequences of choosing sin over God. May we be woken up and may we follow his commands to be salt in this world.
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Here was my understanding. I was a singer, I had much pride when it came to my performance. When I came back to Christ last July, my brother asked me to join the worship team. I thought this was how God would have me serve him. Well I found myself being so prideful, and jealous, I was disgusted with myself before God. I stopped singing that day. I still sing in my private time of worship, and as part of a congregation, but I would rather not sing another note as a performer, then to stand before Jesus with that nasty sinful pride.
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
(For me, You were mocked and crucified;
For me, willingly You bled and died.
Lord, my life and love I willingly outpour
And will serve You evermore.)
2
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love;
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
3
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King;
Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
4
Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold;
Take my intellect, and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose.
5
Take my will, and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart; it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne.
6
Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.
-Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)
I think your being prideful to stop singing.
Bible is for singing and dancing in praise and worship.
If you have pride over singing you probably have pride in other things
So get over being competitive with others and enjoy praising g and worshipping the lord
Are you saved
Have you been born again
Spend more time in prayer and less time thinking about yourself
@Creeping Death
The bible is for singing and dancing during praise and worship
Jealousy may be in your heart when the singers are just worshipping the lord
and giving thanks to god for the talents they have
That would be like stop playing a sport because your good at it and your showing off.
If you are a jealous person you need to change
If my church has a good band and good singers that's great
They work hard and practice during the week
They also are under the direction of the pastor
My pastors are excellent singers also and they always pray before
singing
I'm just saying you can be judgmental on almost anything so be careful
@Creeping Death It appears Walter Romanoff is unaware of irony. 😉
Creeping Death I feel two ways about this...I feel how you feel most of the time, but I think sometimes God blesses one or two people with a knack for singing, and the beauty of their singing can also bless the congregation.
cutting off body parts is not going to get to the root of the issue. You can cut off your hand or gouge out your eye but still have lust or envy in your heart. This is a heart issue and there is no human cure for this. Only God can heal a heart
You can humble yourself and repent and hope God grants repentance and gives the knowledge of the truth.
@yellowleaf for me without hope and belief in Jesus, and doing what he says in belief, it was not possible. With God all things were possible;despite not knowing science , or deep theology. I simply hoped in Jesus and surrendered in humility admitting i dont understand. The greatest understanding to have is that you dont understand enough. To think you do tightens the rope on ignorance and pride. You may do well for a minute but the fall will be great.
Oh I see, so we should cut out our hearts, got it 👍 lol just kidding.
And while waiting for that healing, be willing to literally die, if need be, before indulging in that sin.
whew... was just about to cut off my hand, thanks Mike! 😂😂😂
That was close!
Whaat about your eyes
You never look at a female or get jealous if someone has a nice career house
We have to work at changing but we will never be perfect
That's where grace comes in
@@MikeWinger So, if we are to use the Bible to interpret the Bible we can search the Bible to understand what is meant by these body parts. There are many scriptures that calls people within the church "members" or "the body". Could Jesus have meant that if someone in your church causes you to stumble you should cast them out so they won't bring you down to hell along with them?
Ive literally been wanting to cut the reproductive essentials off because its lead me into sin because I allowed it to. Literally, was planning to. to become a celibate nothing in that sense. I hate my flesh. I know God gave these things to me for His purpose, but its been rough with all the sexual emphasis everywhere. And I cannot find a wife, and wont now at this point.
Salty Cheerios 1 Cor. 7:2,9 Paul talks about burning with passion (lusting). I struggle with it myself, as do so many Christians men. I urge you strongly not to make a decision you could regret down the road. I don’t know what the Lord has for you, I can’t say with certainty wether or not you’ll be married (I can’t do that for anyone), but making a decision that serious could have horrible ramifications if you DO find a wife. Keep fighting the good fight, know you aren’t alone in this, praying for you! :)
Wish I had seen this before I cut my hand off.. 🤦🏻♂️
Do you still have your feet ?
😂
Darn it! I wanted to comment this but I just found the channel a month ago.
How are you face palming?
You think you had it bad. It wasn't my hand that was worrying me...
Hey brothers and sisters. If you have a chance, can you please pray for me about my struggle with porn and lust? I've been wrestling with this for a while, but God is faithful and will deliver me from this. Thank you. God bless.
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
(For me, You were mocked and crucified;
For me, willingly You bled and died.
Lord, my life and love I willingly outpour
And will serve You evermore.)
2
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love;
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
3
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King;
Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
4
Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold;
Take my intellect, and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose.
5
Take my will, and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart; it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne.
6
Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.
-Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)
My best advice is reckon yourself dead to sin as Paul the apostle says. I know it sounds overly simple but it really is effective as I’ve learned in my experience! The idea of us being crucified and raised with Christ is very underrated.
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
Romans 6:4-7
Before we were saved we were in love with our sin and incompatible with God. Now it’s the opposite, we hate our sin, and we are compatible with God!!
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
here’s another thing I recommend: I like pray that God would remind me that I’m dead to sin and alive to Him. I also try to regularly ask Him to show me how much pain sin causes, so that I might overcome my temptations.
Hope this can encourage or help you in any way. Grace and peace! 💢✝️💢
Been there it can be a real tuff road. One thing that helped me was the Sabaoth ," remember the Sabaoth and keep it holy" if you just start to keep one day to change your focas. Remember its already a day set apart from other days, not that all days souldnt be kept holy ,but that the Sabaoth is blessed to be set apart as holy, if that makes sense to you. Anyhow went years got real stressed at times, didnt really keep the Saboath right as far as work, still dont got it figured out. But I did make the choice to atleast do my best to abstain from fleshly desire on the Sabaoth and that works. One thing also is that dont curse yourself by saying to yourself things like, im wicked, or a bad person, or belittle your self for curseing your self is even worse than pornography ,or tobbaco, or what ever it is that can get a hold of a person like a virious. Its a sickness you just need healing,you did not create the virious ,you just got exsposed to it , some get sick some dont. Another thing dont make provissions for the flesh( Get rid of what ever stuff ) I had to deleat my phone a few times. But the first and formost important is ask the holy Spirit for help ,dont try to hide it from God. Heb 12 : We are surounded by a cloud of witnesses ect.. One time I herd the Holy Spirit tell me stop , after I had asked for help. And I didnt ,I even think I said I no or I cant something to that effect. Later I felt so bad that I rejected the Holy Spirits help( THATS SCARY) . when you have a sickness you need healing ,medicine, nutrition ect... I know how bad it can be, DONT CURSE YOUR SELF !!! That is the opposite of medicine, nutrition ect.. the dog that gets fed wynns the fight,Chose to eat proper nurishment ( Daily Bread ) scripture.and acknowledge the goodness in you. And dont give up ,if you fall 6 times get up 7. HALALUYAH And I ask that you be blessed in the name of Jesus (Yahshua) that you be blessed and your loved ones and there's with wisdom,knowledge,and understanding,with peace and prosperity, and health and happyness, and deliverences if needs be and protection and even miricles signs and wonders acording to His riches and His Glory in His kingdom that by His will you are blessed and that His Love is acomplished in you and returns to Him magnified and fulfield in Blessing Our heavenly Father with Love becouse He first Loved us.
You are not alone, I'm also struggling with the same thing
I'm with you, I'll pray for you, please pray for me aswell.
I am a relatively new Christian and I never had trouble with that passage I always thought it to mean if something is a sin in your life get rid of it although it may hurt it will be beneficial to you in the long run and it may handicapped you trying to figure out how to live without that particular sin because you were so used to it that it takes a little time to figure out how to do something without that particular sin
Very motivating
We went under lockdown at midnight last night (Trinidad, in the Caribbean) so all the hustle and rush is over. I can now settle in and binge watch me some Brother Mike😁. I still have a backlog of work to do (at home seamstress) but I prop my phone up where I can hear you and get my Bible study in while I am sewing.
This is a time for FERVENT PRAYER!! We are in the Midst of a
WORLD WIDE Epidemic. More than EVER we need to PULL
TOGETHER. PRAY!!
You're a breath of fresh air. I hear so many hateful Christians preach and it grieves my spirit.
What do you mean hateful Christians?
@@daddada2984 Exactly. The satans world today likes to play with word definitions and labels. Example, truth IS hateful in this world.
@@jxslayz6663 it is part of the last days.. love will grow cold... & people will call light as dark...
We need to press on with truth & love... and let God work beyond our abilities.
I think the "hateful" preachers are the ones who are continually trying to "preach people into hell" all the time. And they are doing this to born-again Christians (The ones who are already saved). They are saying, "Don't play cards (Old Maid), Don't play board games or basketball. (These things are sinful and will always send you to hell no matter what) Also women should always wear dark colored, long dresses or they will be sinful and go to hell. What about the men? They can look like they just came out of a salon. Women---Don't forget your head-covering---etc; etc; etc..I know about this stuff because I went through a lot of it. Some of these GUY preachers are on 📺 TV. I could name names (but I won't)
The above post was meant for: @Dad Da Da.....
Hi Mike,
I just have to tell you that you have the most soothing voice. Been listening to the Mark series as I take my evening walks. 👍
Greetings from the Åland Islands, Finland. 🇦🇽
I love your teaching, and your sense of humor.
Bible study time 🖤😊 and I get to watch live
This is one of my favorite videos. Thank you for following Christ and building up the body and sharing the gospel to believers and nonbelievers
Mr. Winger, I am really happy to be able to go to this live meet; I have been wanting to join one for a long time, but haven't been able to set the exact time, or date in alignment with your feed! However, tonight is different! Reminder is set!
This is an excellent teaching. Thank you Mike! I agree with all of this. I have had to cut out sin from my life. It was like cutting off a limb. It hurt and it was life changing. Following Jesus is taking the hard road. It is not the easy path. Jesus tells us that few people find that narrow path. I hope I am on it.
You are.......
Taking it literally, there is still the IF at the beginning of these statements. "If your hand causes you to stumble" -- does your hand actually do that? Does your hand have causal agency? No, your heart, your mind, your will, tells the hand what to do. My hand does not cause me to stumble because it doesn't cause me to do anything.
I actually believe that the passage is literal, but, as you said, those are not the things that cause you to stumble, it's something in your heart.
@@XeenMusic - What you said was interesting ,, I am curious , what makes you believe the passage is literal ? I have always thought it to be at best an analogy , but more likely metaphorical . I would really like to know how you came to a literal understanding of that verse . God Bless
@@XeenMusic If that was literal, we would ALL be going around blind, with no hands or feet. "For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3;23) I think Jesus was using a figure of speech. I don't think anyone is foolish enough to actually try or do this. If anyone is thinking about gouging your eyes out or cutting off your hands and feet, please 📞 call 9-1-1
@@caroleimani9754 It is literal. The problem is, that your eyes and hands and feet never cause you to sin. They are not independent agents. It's your heart.
Thanks for your comment. I was wrestling with this verse after it came up in the Sunday sermon.
There's only one way to cut out our sin nature and that's to replace our inheritance in Adam with a new inheritance in Jesus Christ.
I'm just waiting around for the economy to turn back on so I can lift and shower at the gym and find a career with a good company, for Jesus.
Huh, I haven't been following these, but part of my morning Bible study has become in sync with your study of Mark. The Holy Spirit is up to something!
No accidents in God!
At the 56:37 God again answered a question I have been praying about recently.. Jesus is amazing
This video is amazing. I don't know what else to say. Thank you. Worthy is the Lamb.
YES 21:00 minute mark so solid, though yes we are brother and need to help each other, but we have a great advocate within us that is leading us to LIFE
I am truly grateful and blessed to have found your channel. Thank you for the teachings
Hi mike I'm Ross from Ontario ca first time on livestream due to quarantine been watching your videos for about 2years love your teachings bless you brother look forward to more videos in the future ps I downloaded your app it works great
well I did fall asleep as it was 3am. But I have just listened to this now. Thank you so much for these much needed teachings.
Mike's differentiation between lust of the flesh versus lust of the eyes made me think of Abu in Aladdin. When they're in the cave of wonders and Abu sees the big red ruby and lusts after it. Ultimately it is that lust that leads to the destruction of the cave.
Thank you! The Bible unfolds itself at your hand.
Wish I could hit the like button twice or even more, because this was soooooo good for my soul, meditating and thinking through the scripture like this, thank you so much for your effort!
Great teaching, thanks, Mike!! It was pretty ironic that I just happened to slice the tip of my thumb while chopping veg as I was listening! It had to be during THIS sermon! :)
Oooh
I needed this clarification. Jesus has been overwhelming for me with what he says it causes me great internal anguish. Thank you Mike
Edit: This is genuine, not sarcastic. A lot of confusion and turmoil is being resolved through your teachings, thanks
The holy spirit really just spoke to me trough you. God bless you Mike and strengthen you further as a christian and as a pastor. Blessings from Austria!
This was so good! Thank you! 👏
I definitely needed to hear this. Thanks Mike
One of your best, Mike. One if your very best. Thank you.
Zec 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Are you talking about Mike Winger as the "shepherd?"
You make me feel so calm.
Wow Sir. As always, Well done.
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So good! God bless you Mike Winger
Thank you Mike for doing the Good work. Much appreciated sermon.
I just want to say that this teaching is exceptional.
Mike,
Thanks for this series. It has been profoundly helpful as I read various commentaries, watch videos, read, and pray. Thanks for the help in Mark 9 verse 49
There is so much in this sermon that blew my mind and deepened understanding!! Thanks Mike; may the Lord continue to bless your ministry and use it mightily for the Kingdom!
Pastor Mike, your an amazing teacher
Thanks 🙏
great sermon Pastor Mike!
love these constant uploads
😁
Thank you sir
Great Bible study brother! May God continue to bless you.
Thank you Mike. I found this message encouraging and dearly love your ability to laugh at some of the silly ways we can interpret scripture. May the Lord keep you and your wife safe during this season. :)
Good teaching. Thank you Pastor Mike.
Wow, this was a super excellent teaching! I'm going to share this with all my friends. God bless you and your family, Mike!
Good teaching tonight.
Great video!
I love your stuff Mike!!
The problem with wealth is that the lust for more and more of it can dictate how we treat those who are poor or who are less fortunate. The more one has the less important the poor become in many cases.
In that Colossians verse when Paul says consider the members of your body as dead to that list of sins, I believe what he means is: a born again Christian is already dead to sin, because we have been raised to newness of life through Christ, and it is our job to reckon ourselves dead to it because we already are, as there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
Our mens group has been going through the book of Mark and you have been my constant companion and teacher the whole way. Your verse by verse through Mark has been such a blessing. But not just the book of Mark there is SO MUCH other wonderful content on your CZcams channel, thank you so much!!! Thank you Mike Winger my brother in Christ for ALL you do because you want to lift up God's Word and our savior. I'll be looking for you in heaven after I ask Jesus a few questions of course. 😇
Thank you.
Beautiful 🙏🏼
thanks men!
Thanks
So basically, it’s anything that could hold us back or influence us in the wrong way? Brilliant translation of this text!
Thank you so much for you, God is definitely using you. You don’t even know. But maybe one day you will. I wish I knew I could get in touch with you. One day.
Thanks once again Pastor, love this series and enjoy all your videos. I have told some friends about this study. One asked " what's his teaching style?" I had to think about it and I knew this friend was a Paul Washer fan, so I said " All the in your face facts of Paul Washer but with humor"
Best bible channel on CZcams
Good insight & reviews of the bible
Dear Mike , I was just now sharpening my axe and thought I would check to see if I really should cut off my hand and I saw you had this video... LOL... love you brother always enjoy your content...smart ellick in every crowd... PEACE TO YOU !!!
Hey Mike,
I wish I had a youth pastor like you when I was growing up. Another great resource for indepth learning are the books and teaching from Ken Johnson.
Even God appointed missions can turn into lust of the flesh. Part time christian, full time teacher. Unexpected problem I had to learn for myself
that's helpful
As someone that has watched a lot of your videos, I really liked how you interacted in the live chat to the prerecorded message. I laughed when you mentioned having mad skills to listen and engage in chat also, haha. Maybe your are listening and trying to critic yourself at the same time, lol. At 1st I wasn't able to do this but I am getting better at it. I find that I miss good Q's and A's from participants in the chat if I'm not paying attention. The nice thing about the recorded video is that I can go back and rewind as often as I need to 🙂 Hope to see you doing more of this in future videos I watch.
Powerful!
It's scary that their needs to be a one hour teaching on this.
I tend to keep my belief systems to myself. Until other people back me into a corner. Then they've only got themselves to blame.
Hey Mike, love your teaching, verse by verse. I know you probably wont see this but I pray the spirit will do with it as He wills. I seem to have a deeper understanding of Gods word as you would expect after clumsily walking in the Spirit. I say that because I have loved the word of God, memorized some large portions like Roman's, 67 &8, Ephesians 12&3 Matt: 5,6, AND 7 sermon on the mount, Prov 12&3, psalms 1,3,8,139, 51,103, I mention the things I've memorized, not in boasting cause it is quite clear to me that came from God, the love he gave me for His word, enabling me to have the meaning revealed by the eyes of my understanding being enlightened by the Spirit. I humbly recognize that and know the danger of being built up in pride in this area of my life, when I clearly know it is from God and need to do nothing more than take a quick self examination. To know that He called me and I was drawn to Him because of the great love He had for me as expressed in scripture. It would be a much better world if that happened to every one, but it does not. I never understood reformed theology until recently, is reformed theology what is known as calvinism. I hope not just because of the obvious abuses between both sides. Any way I see the bible more clearly than i ever had and have more questions than i could imagine. But they are all good queries. I never saw the division that exists between election and predestination, and have talked to others who understand the rub, or who hear both sides but see the truth in there, even if I have to at some point allow God to be God. It doesn't seem to be that ouf of the ordinary to see 2 parallel truths at work here, and doesn't surprise me that I may not be able to articulate it, or explain it in a meaningful manner. Why should it be so hard for man to understand that he may not understand the things in the mind of God, I find that comforting that I must trust God with things I dont quite understand. I thank God for teachers such as yourself that can articulate some things that are hard to understand as Peter said about Paul. Thanks Mike, or I should say Pastor Mike, because I have lost my church due to Coronavirus, I dont see a local church in the near future, though there may be. Keep up the good work in Christ. Thanks
God's literal eyes are everywhere. Just like there is a being He created that had eyes all over its body.
This whole time I thought worm was an older English synonym for spirit haha
I love Ephesians 2:8 also!!
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!!
I remember hearing about a woman in Dallas in the 60's who plucked out her eye...and was rushed to the hospital. I always associated it with these verses.
Mike I was wondering if u can do a video for proof of hell...i listen to a lot of your messages and really enjoy them
Mike, Our classic car club, like most no all classic clubs put on car shows during the year that money raised 100% goes to charity including local churches. last year your club raised over $60,000 for charity. "Go Drifters" ...
26:30 Yes. 100% yes this is true.
I belive the hand is people that are close to you or always around you..people youre with everyday just like your hands are with you everyday and theyre important to our everyday lives..just like a close friend or maybe even a cellphone or book that may be your guide to everyday life, but if it causes you to sin, cut it off and remove it for your everyday life...
Classic Cars, really Mike
Well said. Taking some of the verses you described literally are how some cults are formed. They can be very deceiving because it's in the Bible.
@Calm Warrior yes
That passage in Judith, from the Apocrypha, certainly gives some insight on that Isaiah passage, at least in terms of how Jews before Jesus' time understood it. Another Apocryphal book, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), says this in 7:17:
"Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.”
This is good. Worms and fire don't go together so we go to the picture of Isaiah and what happens to the people... They are corpses. It is an intense, horrible end. Amen.
I think this boils down more to "don't cut your hand off for your peers".
Or to fit in.
Mike, you clearly have been taught by the Holy Spirit. How do I know that? Because he taught me his word as well in line with the scripture. Thank you for all your Videos, Mike. God bless you!
I remember studying in my old bible study class and everyone in their had such bad sin issues it was the young adult ministry aka the singles group. I was certain God gave me revelations that we were being told to cut off the members in the group (members in the “body of Christ” 1st corinthians) that was causing others to sin. Idk if I was wrong or not 😅
Great message. Thank you so much. I would sum it up into God expecting you not to be a moron when he's talking to you through His word.
The body parts can also refer to members of the local congregation. Paul tells us to cast a chronic problem out of the church, 'cut them off''.
Inspired! Hope i meet you when Jesus comes 🙂 Be strong! Love in fullnes
There go my weekend plans
Hi mike!
i have been following your channel for some time now. Thank you so much for you videos.
i was looking of your video about heaven tourist but i cant find it. can i please the link? thank you so very much. God bless you always
So how do you know you’ve repented enough? I’m repenting of sin several times a day- mostly words I say that are critical, accusing, fearful or speaking of someone behind their back. Then I’m not praying enough or sharing the gospel the way I should. How can I ever be satisfied with my Christian walk? But I do love studying the word of God and thank you for your message.
I would just suggest: Don't "guilt trip" yourself. God is forgiving, loving ❤ and merciful.......
@@caroleimani9754 yes. And He makes a way.
Jesus meant cutting body parts off literally, that was the attitude and commitment required of one who tries to keep the Law. The purpose of doing so was to convict man of his complete inability to keep the old covenant so that they would see a need for a new one. Under the Gospel a believer's sins are already dealt with and therefore this merciless approach to stopping sin was no longer necessary, because believers are now alive in Christ and forever righteous.
Whenever Jesus sees self-righteousness, any trust in man's efforts and ability to produce righteousness, he always reveals the pristine standard of the law by raising it to impossible standards. This is so that Man comes to the end of himself and nobody can try to justify himself with his efforts. Any person who desires to be under the Law to try and keep it must be ready to fulfil the standard of commitment that Christ himself suggested.
I thought that Gehenna was a valley just outside Jerusalem that was used as a trash dump. They often burned the trash dump & smoke was always coming from the dumpsite. So what Jesus was saying was that after the "Day of the Lord" the saved would live in New Jerusalem and the unsaved would be in Gehenna.
Quitting porn made me go through a mental crisis of actually wanting to stab my hand. I liked the intimacy but I know it's false and it's difficult for me to find some friends who I 100% trust would be by my side. I do feel the holy spirit is right beside me in the sence that if I do have urges it doesn't last long as beforehand (only a few seconds minimum to about 2 minutes max, compared to on average about half an hour everyday). I still feel guilty for looking for a few seconds even though my urges got out of control.
You cant become unsalty. We cant avoid anything down here.
Hi Mike, thank you for being a blessing.
Do you, by any chance, have an outline for this series which you can share with us ?
Thanks.
Does it just end here? I was enjoying this study SO much! Are there any more lessons?
It’s a rabbinical teaching style…the extreme examples. Jewish Idiom.
God bless