"What Are You Worth?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
We are worth what someone is willing to pay. What was the price God paid to buy us back from the brink of destruction?
We are not the determiners of our own value because we were created and authorized by God to carry His Own image and likeness.
The Enemy is constantly demeaning us by condemning us for our failures and our sins.
He is continually asking us to answer the question of our worth, imposing his words and thoughts onto our hearts and minds to make us feel unworthy.
He is slick and relentless in projecting his hatred onto us to drown out the voice of Our Father Who is forever saying, “I love you and would die for you.”
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:28 - The War for Your Soul
02:30 - What Are You Worth?
07:36 - The Value of Life
09:01 - Understanding Our Identity
13:00 - The Role of Parents
14:18 - The Tragedy of Loss
15:04 - Performance and Worth
16:18 - The Crisis of Identity
20:07 - Psalm 139: Our Creation
23:56 - The Nature of Testing
26:14 - Despair and Hope
30:50 - The Temporary Nature of Life
32:44 - The Price of Redemption
34:13 - God's Blessing Upon Us
36:06 - Empowerment Through the Spirit
0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Lord God, indeed. A war that is going on that's already been won. Father God, you are faithful to complete the work you have begun in us, even in allowing us, creating us, establishing us, bringing us to this place.
0:42 Lord, you are faithful to deliver us safe back to our eternal home. And so I thank you for this day, this ministry. I thank you for the message of your love and truth. I thank you now that you will open our eyes and hearts to receive. Give us ears to hear. Lord God, you said that many times. If you have ears to hear, then hear. Hear what I'm saying. And so, Lord, may these things sink down into our understanding, into our true understanding that our spirits will connect with you and understand and prevail against the fear that promotes and provokes our souls, Father. And I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross. I thank you that you paid that price, shared your love, but shed your blood, all your blood. It had to be done.
1:24 There was no good deeds. There was no good works. There was no perfect life that could accomplish or break the curse of sin and death in our lives. It was your shed blood and your love and your innocence that actually brought us to innocence. So I thank you for being faithful to the Father, being obedient to Him, suffering unto death. I thank you for us realizing and appreciating and realizing that the only thing we need to do is accept that perfect gift, that final payment for our sins. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us now wisdom. And you said, if any man lacks wisdom, let us ask of God. So each one, for those hearing, listening, be encouraged today. Remove the spirits of fear and bondage and sickness and pain and demonic judgments and afflictions upon them, Father God. And we ask that no weapon that's been formed against us will prevail, Father God. You give us grace.
2:14 You said you'll never test this above that you're able to keep us, but with every temptation to fear, to fail, you provide a way of escape. Give us the courage to use that, that way of to escape, Father God, in Jesus' name. And be blessed. Amen. Amen. Well, I have a question for everyone here today. Okay. What are you worth? What are we worth? What are we worth? What does God say we're worth? What do people say we're worth? What do we say we're worth? Well, yeah. You know, we assign value. In the world, we assign value to various things. You know, if we're listing a house for sale, we assign a certain value for it.
2:54 We have a list price and so forth. And then there's certain things in the world that are determined, the value of them are determined by supply and demand. Now, if there's fewer of things people want, there's more demand and there's a higher price to pay. And so if something is very rare or a one-of-a-kind item, then there's more value to it. There's more value assigned to it. And basically, it gets down to, Margie, what something is worth is what's worth to someone. Who's willing to pay. What is someone willing to pay determines what that worth is.
3:37 Now, I was reading a while back that Bob Dylan, the legendary Bob Dylan. Wrote a song many years ago called Like a Rolling Stone. It was just a tremendous hit, you know, still today. But the original copy of when he wrote that song he wrote it on hotel stationery in a hotel room in New York City and that original copy that he wrote of that song the lyrics, recently sold for $2.2 million. What a waste. And it's like, really? So there's really no value in it. Would anybody even give $2.2 million for you, for me, for our souls, for our ransom?
4:21 It's like we're like paper plates that have been thrown away. And we have, you know, society sees us as only fodder or commodities that can make them money or opportunities to make money. But you're right. We're worth what people are willing to pay. Yeah, and that piece of stationery was, you know, worth a few cents, maybe not even hardly a penny back then. But someone thought that was so valuable because they valued, they valued. Having, owning. That piece of paper. You know, because they had such an esteem. Right. For the legendary Bob Dylan. Well, what about for us now? I mean, if you think of our bodies as what we're worth, chemically, the minerals in your body are worth about a dollar. Really?
5:15 Is that inflationary? Well, it could be a little bit more with inflation. Two dollars back in the day? I heard back in the day it was worth a dollar, and now they're still saying it's about a dollar or so. Well, they can say whatever they want. but that means that when you're all distilled down, the raw materials in your body would bring about a buck. Now, this is incredibly, you know, this doesn't make any sense because we're fearfully and wonderfully made. And I guess it's a greater attribute to the miracle working of God that He can use mud and clay and elements and minerals and trace minerals and more water, throwing it together, to make this mud baby that is worth, to Him, the blood of His Son, but to us many times it's worthless and you know it's getting to be more and more appalling shit and a shattering of our, human morality to see how little we value life.
6:09 It's like we throw lives away in war. We throw lives away in abortion. We throw young people's lives away that haven't even got a chance to start their lives because we have more power than they do in that position. But what individually, individually, this all comes down to not only what are you worth, Jerry, but where are you going to end up and you're going to have to give an accountability for the gift God has given you in giving you human life. Yeah. Jesus said, you know, what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Exactly. You know, and we have toâ Well, what are men giving in exchange for their souls? A lot of people are selling out cheap. They're selling out, you know, for another sexual relationship. They're selling out for another hit of meth.
6:57 But there are also a lot of people are selling out for a lot of money. Oh, yeah. They're making gobs and gobs, billions of dollars, millions of dollars in their bank accounts because they've betrayed human life. They've betrayed human beings. They've betrayed human dignity. They've just rejected the counsel of God and His Word. And so they are actually selling out their souls for a spot in hell, really. I mean, you know, Jesus, remember the story He told about Lazarus and the rich man? You know, that's not really a story. That was not really a parable. That was a real thing. And there was, you know, he told it as if it were a man. But this is, and Jesus is telling the story. So he knows the ultimate outcome of our situation and where we're going to end up.
7:41 And how we use our lives and how we see our lives. Yeah, how we see our lives. I mean, do you see your life as valuable? And, you know, we tend to, in our experiences, tend to determine how we view ourselves. Bottom line, we find this in working with people. And that people come to the place and say, you know, I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy of good things. It's a bottom line thing. I am not worthy. I'm not worthy of what? What would it take for you to be worthy? The blood of Jesus makes me worthy. He is my righteousness. But the thing is, we have to understand this only makes sense in the context of spiritual warfare.
8:25 And Satan has removed, obscured from us our identity. Your identity comes from your origin, and our origin comes from God. So when we get here, Satan obscures that, and he rewrites or redefines us in the snake pit according to behavior and according to how well we're doing or what we do or how much money we've got or how we've succeeded in this or that. So really, this all is entangled in the gospel, too, because the gospel, according to Jesus Christ, is a gospel of grace and good news. And he's saying, you're worth it. I was willing to die for you. You're precious to me. you're irreplaceable there's no other one like you i want you for myself i want us to be together i love you and this is so incomprehensible to us because we all see everything is based on conditions and merit you've got to earn it you've got to deserve it you've got to be born in the right position you've got to have connections you've got to have be willing to sell your soul and and do sexual favors for example to get to your position of where you want to be etc etc.
9:31 So we are selling ourselves really, really short, and we don't realize how precious we are. And the other part of that is that we have been taught by the enemy, the counterfeit gospel, which is all about get rid of your sin, which always highlights our failure, our shortcomings, our transgressions, the lies we believed. And so people are taking up this be good, get rid of your sin gospel, which also implies I've got to do something, to be something. I got to do good to be good. Does that make sense? Yeah, that's a mentality. And another thing, too, is that we can be so self-focused.
10:12 The thing is, we are valuable people. But if we're so focused on ourselves. Or entitlement. Entitlement. Or what's in it for me. That's the other side of the coin. Yeah, that's the flip side of that. So the other side of the identity coin, so you can either feel you're worthless. But you see, most people that feel really worthless, they have already been defrauded of their right to be who they are. They've already lost their identity because they've compromised their lives, their self, their worth, their truth, their value, to give it away to other people. so that they can have peace or that they can have favor or protection. So a lot of times when kids are growing up, for example, they shut down.
10:52 They won't let you see who they are. They'll be quiet. They're hidden because it's not safe to come out. It's not okay to be who I am because they've been raised in a limited, constricted place where I have to be good. I have to be quiet. I can't be seen. I have to heal. I have to be perfect so my mom and dad don't get divorced, blah, blah, blah. And so this is why a lot of people don't know who they are, because they've been programmed from child on and shaped to be quiet, to be compliant. And then that turns into complacency, because if you don't feel like you're worth anything, then why bother? Yeah, I mean, it's basically up to mothers and fathers to instill, introduce their children to their worth.
11:35 Now, sometimes people just worship their kids. You know, we're not here to worship our kids. And on the other hand. On the other hand, kids are just being just trashed. Destroyed. Or they don't even have a chance at life. They're aborted. They're caught up. Or they're caught up in their parents. Before they have a chance. They're caught up in their parents' transgressions and torment. They're caught up in their parents' torment is what it really looks like. And so, people see themselves as basically, you know, worthless. You know, it's like, everything sucks, so why should I even try to do anything? And a lot of times, you know, what happens is children are victims of their parents.
12:20 They really are. They're victims of their parents. If you've grown to adulthood, somehow you've survived your parents. And that doesn't mean all parents are bad. Please don't think that way. But there's plenty, plenty of very bad, irresponsible, checked out, drugged and demonized and sedated and seduced parents that are giving birth to these children. And then on the other side of the coin, parents who want children so desperately don't get them. This is also a demonic spiritual attack against people because many people would be great parents. They'd be wonderful. They'd love their children. And there are many that are. But there are many people that have children that they don't care. They don't want them. They're a burden.
13:02 They're a bother. And it seems like Satan lets those kids, those be born. Because he has another chance to kill those children. whereas the children that would be born to the righteous, he tries to stop that through infertility, etc., etc., to break the hearts of the parents themselves. They want children. They want offspring. I've just had several of those just recently where they're past childbearing now and they never got to have their children. And how do you live with that? All you can do with something like that is just surrender. Many times bad things have happened to us. We've lost our husbands. We've lost our wives. Divorce. Children dead. said, what do you do with these kinds of things? And this is kind of off the subject, but offshoot, because what do you do with these terrible tragedies that you're going through in your life?
13:49 You have the opportunity to use that, allow that tragedy that Satan has brought into your life that God has permitted for whatever reason, but God always has a plan to bring it to better, to bring it to beauty. So the best thing you can do, if it's beyond your control, whatever it is, is surrender it to Jesus and say, here, this is my sacrifice to you. This is my offering to you. I will trust you, Lord God. I will surrender this loss to you. But see, on the other side of it, why is this happening? Because people don't know they're valuable. Because people don't cherish the truth. They don't cherish the salvation that Jesus brought us. They don't know who they are. Right, and so when you understand your true value, It's not, you know, I mean, obviously, if you figure in a workplace, if someone is a high performer, they're of more value to the company than a poor performer, that sort of thing.
14:48 But, you know, so, you know, performance is, there's a factor there that's significant as well. But it's not, your value is basically because of who you are. Your performance will be dependent on how you see yourself. How you see yourself, you know. But the thing is, too, we're not called to be in the place where we have to perform to prove our worth. You know, to just say, okay, I'm valuable because I'm the highest producing salesman on the team, or I'm the best athlete on the team. But what about next year? What about when you get older? What about when you can't do that anymore? We have people who they don't want to retire because that's their identity.
15:30 But you have to realize I have to be worth more than what I do because what about people who are stricken or bound to wheelchairs? What about people who can't run that fast? This is not God's criteria for us to be valuable to Him. We're valuable to Him because we are made in His image and likeness. He relates to us as His sons and daughters. You know, you can have pets. We're not a pet to God. We're a child. We're His son or His daughter. And whether you were born stricken and bound and deformed or whether you were born beautiful and bright and fully equipped, worth the same thing to God. Why?
16:13 Because ultimately, the body carries the soul, and the soul as an eternal destiny. We will live forever, either in heaven or hell. People need to understand that we're in a very critical, critical crisis. It's the last act, third act of this movie, the crisis, the grand finale, when every stop of Satan is being pulled out to traumatize, terrify, kill, destroy. Just look at the weather and you'll see how even creation is groaning and travailing. We are in the birth process right now to bring forth the Lord. The return of Jesus. Yeah, the return of Jesus. We're bringing forth it.
16:55 But you know what a person is in that labor process. The contractions get closer and closer and more and more intense until the baby is brought forth. And so the baby would be the return of Jesus Christ. And people kind of know this, and they're kind of like scurrying around and looking for what's going on. What's happening, yeah. But you gotta start with the basics. And the basics are that you need to know that you are, well, actually we don't need to know it. We already do know. God put it in your spirit to know the truth, to know the light. He says he lights every man that comes into the world. That light is put in your spirit, not in your soul, not necessarily in your environment, you know, where you can see and understand it immediately, but it's put into our spirit so that when the truth comes by, our spirit grasps onto it and knows it.
17:43 However, the problem is, you know, talking about value and understanding who we are, we do not understand how this thing started. And if you don't know how it started, you won't know what's going on. In the beginning, when the fallen angels fell and they took the human women for their wives, the second thing they did was teach the secrets to the women. And Samjaza, for example, in the book of Enoch, was the one who created enchantments and sorcery, woodcutting. So people are born woke. They're not born alive. They're not born awake. They're not born knowing the snake pit. They're not born knowing Jesus died for them. They're not born knowing anything. They're born in this woke, sedated state.
18:28 And then the enemy proceeds to try to get them to add to that sedation and seduction by doing root cuttings or drugs. And so drugs, witchcraft, pharmakia. Pharmakia means drugs and witchcraft and poison. And so Satan wants to sedate you. So a lot of people out there that are woke, for example, are not awake. That's why we call them woke, because they're unawakened, and so they're still in that first state of stupor, and that's what the gospel does, brings the light, wakes you up, shakes you. It's like you've been sleeping, and someone comes and shakes you awake or arouses you with that.
19:11 It's time to get up. So Jesus Christ is the one who basically releases to us our true identity. Absolutely. You know, we find our true identity in Jesus Christ. And this is really it. We talk about identity confusion, you know, physically. Am I male? Am I female? Should I switch? Whatever, back and forth, whatever. So there's an identity confusion. Confusion is from hell. There's an identity crisis. We really don't know who are we. Are we the product of evolution? Are we just a chance being? Are we just trash? Are we an accident? But, you know, I'm thinking about David, you know, when he really, when we get a sense, oh, let me just read this.
20:01 Psalm 139 and verses 13 through 16. For you formed, now David's writing, he's talking to the Lord. He says, for you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. He's saying I am just, the way you put me together is just absolutely amazing. Marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well. He's saying that I am one of your works, right? So he's really looking at his identity there. My frame was not hidden from you. My skeleton, my whatever, was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. In other words, in my mother's womb.
20:54 That secret place. You wove me together. You knit me together, yeah. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. You know, when I was just there, I'm just themselves coming together, being yet unformed. In your book, they were all written. In other wordsâ You're already written. You're already written, and God's bookâ. All who, you see, our wholeâ When as yet, none of them wereâI wasn't even here formed. My substance wasn't all even put together. And I was in the book. But yet, it's written in your book. Well, he says in Ephesians, from the foundation of the world, we were known. Before the foundation of the world.
21:35 Yeah, exactly. So we are eternal in that, not eternal like God, that we have no beginning. We do have a beginning. It was with him in hisâhe conceived us in the concept of making us. But we're now, in the practical state, we're given a body when we are born, conceived, and come into this world born. And so, you know, before that, we were in the Spirit somewhere, but now we're here. We were in the Spirit. We were in God. But now we have our opportunity. See, what it is, I believe, is I believe God creates everything. And God gives everything an opportunity to reject what God has called them to do or be. For example, the angels rejected Lucifer, rejected his call to be the anointed cherub, the covering cherub. He didn't want that job.
22:22 He didn't want to be an angel. He wanted to be God. And many of the angels, they didn't want to be angels. They wanted to be men. And so that's why they took the human women and they thought, if I can make myself a family, then I'll be human and I'll be man. Because they saw that mankind made in the image of God was the highest of all the creation. And so that they would end up as angels being babysitters to us, and they didn't want to do that. But the thing is, we doâso Satan always comes with the sameâ, words to every human being, you're not good enough. You're not worth it. Prove yourself. Yeah. But the thing is, what he's really saying is, God is not happy with you unless you prove yourself, unless you're perfect, unless you perform.
23:08 You do something different. So he's always twisting our concept of God to be one of God is just waiting to see how you're going to do. Got the big baseball bat, and he's going to judge you. He's going to test you. And truly, it is not God testing us. If you look at the last words in the book of Job, God is saying basically to Job, pray for your friends because I didn't start this. I didn't, you know, they haven't spoke that, which is right concerning me, because they were saying God was the reason why Job was suffering. God was not the reason. Satan was the reason. And we see the same actual things going on today. That's why God gave us the book of Job, to understand that God didn't do this. But yet, Satan twists it around. So if my love, my work, my everything is conditional, then God must be a conditional, you know, being, and so therefore we have to perform to meet the conditions.
23:56 And this crisis causes panic, makes you feel alone, makes you feel abandoned, makes you feel worthless, makes you feel like giving up. And, you know, and because we see such cheap, you know, life is worth so little, we still, the way bloodshed is just so common. I mean, you know, The devil needs blood to keep his machinery running, and that's why he calls for death, and he calls for blood, and he calls for all these things. You say, well, where's God in all of this? Where was God when those hundred people were drowned in that terrible rapid flood, that flash flood? Where was God when the flood was coming the first time in the deluge?
24:39 God is seated on the throne. God is not, you know, panicky or freaked out. God's not standing and saying, oh, what's going on down there? God has, called for order. God is called for peace. God will bring things into their right place, and he wants you to know your right place, that you are his, always his. Doesn't matter. You know, if you have done something bad, then you need to do this. You need to say, God, I did something. I believed a lie. I bit the hook. I bought into the trick, and I ask you to forgive me for believing the lie. You ask God to forgive you for not being perfect, for not being all-knowing, for not being all whatever, because that's not what you're called to be.
25:23 You're called to be his son or daughter and to follow Jesus. So ask God. Now, there's many of you out there that do need to forgive yourself for believing the lie that I'm not good. I'm not good enough. It doesn't matter. I'll throw away my life. I don't count you. And then the other side of that is people have gotten to the place where they believe that they are the evil they hate. Because if I hate when we're built by God to hate evil. So if I see myself doing evil, then the devil says, well, look at you, you're bad. And so ultimately, when we get to that place where we're feeling so ultimately bad and evil, the only solution is to kill yourself. If I'm the evil I hate, then to get rid of the evil I hate, I've got to get rid of myself. And that's why a lot of people are desperate and cornered and committing suicide because they're entrapped and they don't know that they're worth anything. And other people around them don't know how to help them or don't even know they need to help them or don't see them needing help. Yeah, and they feel like there's no hope.
26:10 There's just no hope for me. What's the use? Everything is so crazy. And in this world, you know, you look around in this world, all the crazy evil things that are going on. But the Bible says, think and what sort of things are purely honest, just and have good reports. So don't listen to too much of the news. Right. And spend more time in the Word of God. And just even looking at the physical factor of our bodies, you know, we're body, soul, and spirit. And David, he said, I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. So, the thing is, too, and it does not bring us into a place of pride. It gives us to a place of humility when we realize how great God is and how He has designed us and how valuable that we are.
26:55 Now, it's interesting. He says here, remember in Psalm 139, he says, verse 17, How precious also are your God's thoughts towards me. Oh, God. So, God, how about that? He's thinking about you. He's loving you, looking at you, longing. You're suffering from cancer, you're suffering from a divorce, you're suffering from children abandoning you or going wayward, whatever. You're suffering, and yet God looks at you and sees you as precious. He sees them as precious. And I believe God is not willing that any should perish, although... People do perish. God does not get everything he wants, so don't even think that. You and I mess up God's perfect will for us constantly by acting in our free will or allowing Satan to manifest and act through us, and we don't even know it's the devil.
27:42 We think all the bad behavior, all of the freakouts, all of the breakdowns, all of the profanity, everything that comes out of our mouth is us. It is not us, but it looks like us because it's coming through our body systems, but it's really the enemy of manifesting as us to ourselves to believe that I am the evil. I hate to get me to believe that or to get other people to believe, you know, I can't work with you. You're irreconcilable. We got to depart and break up this relationship, whatever. But the thing is, if we would understand that this is a very subtle trick and you say, well, you know what? That doesn't make any sense. I'm supposed to take responsibility for my behavior. Well, you take responsibility for your behavior by number one, humbling yourself and confessing the fact that this is not your behavior, that this is not who you were created to be.
28:26 This is not how you're supposed to behave, and you don't want to behave like this. And so whoever in there is behaving, as Paul said, if I'm doing what I do not want to do, it's not me doing it. It is the sin that dwells in me. And so you take responsibility by kicking out these invaders and saying, you know what? You spirit of rage, you spirit of fear, you spirit of panic, you spirit of hatred of self, self-hatred, self-rejection, get out of here, and then forgive yourself. Let God be the judge of you. Paul says, I don't even judge myself. So, we're worth and we're invaluable, we're precious, but Satan can diminish my value to the point where I want to get rid of myself. And Paul says that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We're the dwelling, our bodies.
29:07 Our holy, when we're trusting Jesus, our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. And just even going back to what David said about fearfully and wonderfully made, you know, a lot of stuff he didn't even know because, you know, there wasn't the medical. DNA, yeah, they didn't know anything. About DNA and all the things that we know now medically and physically about our bodies. You know, scientists tell us that we have, in our physical bodies, we have about 60,000 miles of blood cells. Not blood cells, blood vessels. That's a lot. 60,000 miles.
29:49 All packed into this little 5'6", 125-pound body. And we have about 46 miles of nerves in our bodies, in the average human body. So no wonder things go wrong. We can get neurotic. We can get panicky. You know, interruptions, disruptions, breakdowns. Right. Static interference. And our heart beats an average of 100,000 times a day. Oh, great. That's awesome. No wonder I'm tired. No, really, we're not. You see, all of these things, all they do is point to the amazing people.
30:29 Incomprehensible power, goodness, love of God, that God is the God of the impossible. So whatever little problem, big problem, terrifying thing, situation, brokenhearted, loss of life, everything that you're enduring and going through right now, whether it's good or bad, you know what? God is in control. God can fix it. God can get you through it. God will get you through it because he loves you. And this time down here on this planet is temporary, and that is, Thank you, Jesus. We don't have to be here for 120 years like the old patriarchs had to be. You know, we're here. This is a short duration. This is a time of choosing and testing. Whose report are you going to believe? Bottom line, this is the bottom line. Okay, do you want to serve me? Do you want to love me? Now, when God says serve me, he doesn't mean serve me like, okay, we're his slaves.
31:15 We're his sons and daughters. His slaves were his under-shepherds. We're all kinds of things. We have many roles to play. But when God wants us to serve him, he's saying, what you're doing is you're choosing to follow the truth, and then you're immune to the devil's lies and his enslaving you. So whose report, who do you choose to serve? What matters about us is what we're worth to God. How valuable are we to God? And he says in 1 Peter 1, verses 18 and 19, knowing that you are not redeemed, you're not set free by the price that was paid with corruptible things like silver or gold. So it wasn't, you know, our worth is not determined by money or cryptocurrency or whatever.
31:57 From your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers. But you were redeemed, you were set free through the price that was paid. The price that was paid for us is the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish or without spot. He was the lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. He was the last lamb. Jesus was the last. So we're worth. God assigned value to us. If you think of, okay, what am I worth? To God. What are you worth to God, the creator of the universe? We're worth the very lifeblood of his only begotten son. That's right.
32:40 And the reason he had to die is because there's no other way to do this. When Satan knew that he had got us to sin, he had gotten everybody. We had all been captured in the net, and there was no one left to save us, and God said, I will do it for you. I will do it in your place. And that's exactly what he did. I don't think Satan ever saw that coming, because he thought, I've got them. They're mine. They sin the soul that sins shall die. That's the word of God, and it's good, and so I'm going to hold God to it. But God says, the soul that sins shall die, but the soul that repents, who's up, Whosoever believes and accepts that free gift of salvation. And again, going back to understanding the gospel for just a second, the gospel is not about getting rid of your sin.
33:23 The gospel is what did you do with the Son of God. And here's the final blessing in Numbers chapter 6, how God loves us so much. If you would know how much you are loved by God and would stay on that rock, solid rock, and Jesus Christ is your righteousness and you just live and abide there, your life would be way more powerful and peaceful and productive in God. Even though the devil is going to try to shoot arrows at you. Missiles over you, and attack you, God is faithful to keep us. He is, because he said he would. And here he says in Numbers chapter 6, verse 22, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel.
34:07 Say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them. So God is putting his name on us, and this is amazing because we are God's representatives. We're God's. Handiwork were God's instruments on the earth. We're part of the remnant that Jesus Christ is using to be part of his kingdom. He's called us to such a time as this. He's called us to allow his spirit to move in us because we are worthy, because we're made in his image. So, Father God, we thank you.
34:50 Let us know this. Remove the blinders. Remove the blocks. Remove the lies. Remove the devil's gate, the gatekeepers who try to keep us from knowing who we are. and let us look into the perfect law of liberty, into your word and rightly divide it and not to see all of this stuff that Satan wants to point out, but let us read the whole thing as it is written. Heads and tails of the truth, Father God, and may the love of Jesus Christ right now reach into the heart of the one who's been, the heart's been broken, ripped to shreds. You're weeping and crying and don't know what you're gonna do next. You don't even, you're sort of like paralyzed. You don't even know what you're gonna do once you get up off that couch. You don't even know you're so shattered. And I pray right now today that that person or persons who are in that place of paralysis and shattering will be empowered.
35:38 Your spirit would pour into them new life, new hope, new revelation, new joy, new strength, and the revelation, the vision of Jesus Christ, that they will get up off that place where they've been beaten down, and they will stand in having done all. They will stand. They will prevail. fail, they will take up the cross that Jesus has set before them, and they will be victorious because Jesus Christ is walking with us and in us and through us, and He sent His Holy Spirit to live in us. So be encouraged today. Rebuke the spirit of discouragement, rebuke, name them, I command the spirit of despair, I command the spirit of desolation, I command the spirit of divorce, I command whatever. In the name of Jesus Christ, go back to where you belong, go back to the pit, and then release the love, the revelation, and the peace, and the grace of God.
36:23 Yeah, that's how we got to do this. Yeah, and then you have a book called Doing Relationships God's Way, and isn't there a chapter there about your relationship with yourself? Yes, absolutely. And there's a little checklist in that chapter, too, about how we form our concept of ourselves, and how the things that happen to us are very strategic in making those, changing and forming those, just like a little vessel on the potter's wheel. You know, that potter has got his hand on that little lump of clay and he's shaping it this way and that way. And then every little thing that happens is part of what is used to create that vessel. And so God is shaping us, creating us in his image and keeping us.
37:06 So again, yes, Doing Relationships God's Way. You can get it on Amazon.com or you can get it on our website. We also have a series of MP3s on Doing Relationships God's Way as well available in the bookstore on liferecovery.com. So go forward. Be excited. God is good. Music.
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