Iron Sharpens Iron #16: 7 Levels of Lust

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Welcome to Barine's Corner, the podcast where we go through books of the Bible chapter by chapter and verse by verse. Wherever you are in the world, thank you for joining. Grab a glass of water, a cup of coffee, a tea, and let's get into today's lesson. Alright, welcome back. And as always, thank you all for joining me. Thank you for joining me for another episode of No Not Through the Bible this time, but Iron Sharpens Iron. I am uh coming to you with this uh lesson today as just uh a few minutes ago I just finished mentoring and uh coaching, counseling, if you will, a a young man who was struggling uh with lust issues, and it got me to thinking of something that I actually read just a couple of days ago. Now it is it is funny how ways of the word of God comes to timing. Uh, I was reading an article about the these different levels of lust, seven levels of lust, if you will, and I was jotting down the different acts, and there were different scriptures that came to mind, and I thought, you know what, this is a very timely manner, and this is something that I would love to share with my people as I have struggled with this as well. Now, some of you may have, some of you may not. You know, we all have uh different sins, different issues that we struggle with that others don't struggle with. You know, some have issues with overconsumption of alcohol while some of us don't, some of us have issues with smoking cigarettes and some of us don't, some of us have issues with overeating and some of us don't, some of us have issues with lying and some of us don't. We all have different levels of sin that we deal with, but a very important uh level of sin is lust because lust is something that you actually use your body to do. So I want to go over these seven levels with you. There is gonna be some scripture reading as we uh go through these different levels. The first level is the glance. Now, the thing about the glance is it's exactly what it sounds like. Let's just say you're a guy, you are looking at something you shouldn't. It could be on your phone, it could be on your computer, it could be when you're out in public, you see a lady, you look at a lady, uh, and you take the glance. But it's not really the first glance that's the problem, it's the second glance. You pick up your phone, uh maybe you're not watching something, some type of video you shouldn't, but shouldn't, but maybe there's a picture that catches your eye on your phone, and you take a glance at it. You know it is something that you shouldn't keep your eyes on, but instead of you moving on, something leaves you there, and you take that second glance, and that's where these troubles begin. I'm gonna start out in uh the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 5 and verse 28. This is the Lord Jesus speaking. I say to you that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. What is the Lord Jesus talking about? Notice that he said that he has committed it. He didn't say that he might commit it, he's saying that it's already done. Because what Jesus is telling us is that this is where it begins. It begins with what is uh with uh with that looking, with that, with that lust uh you have already committed. In other words, you have already got the the wheels moving with that second glance of something that you don't want to be involved in, but you are definitely moving into that direction. Let me give you another uh example going back into the old testament. If you want to, if you want to follow along with me, if you uh if you don't and you want to just listen to me do all the reading, I'm okay with that as well. Let's go back to a famous story in 2 Samuel, where someone took a glance and didn't take their eyes off of things. 2 Samuel chapter 11. I am reading, I'm gonna at least read most of this, the story of David and Bathsheba. Then it happened in the spring. I'm starting at verse 1, then it happened in the spring at the time when kings go out to battle. That David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon the and besieged Rabbi, but David stayed in Jerusalem. Now, when evening came, David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. David sent and inquired about the woman, and one said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Now listen, David saw her, but the thing about it was David looked again. In other words, David didn't stop looking. You know, he he looked at her, he saw her taking a bath. He didn't go, Oh, you know, my bad, and turn his head. David kept looking. You know how we know it is because it said that he inquired of her. Verse 4 David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her, and when he had purified, excuse me, and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. So we know that David committed a great sin here, and we know what happened after that. She was pregnant by David the king. This is what happens, and how it starts with a glance, which moves us on to number two, which is the return. So, what does the return mean? Okay, we went through the glance. Now we're talking about the return. The return is when you go back that that next time. So give let's let's use this as an example. You see something that you said, you see someone that you shouldn't, or you see them in a certain place, and you have already had that that glance, that first, that second, that third glance, but now you make the return. So now you're going to turn yourself, uh, and and you're gonna angle yourself back so you can maybe get close to this person, so you can maybe be in the vicinity of this person. That is the return. Uh, I'm still let me say I'm let me stick in the old testament and go. If you if you want to follow along with me, go to the book of Job. I want to give you an example of what uh of this return and the things that we could and should be doing with our eyes. Job chapter 31. Let's see what Job said about what to do with the eyes. Job 31 and verse 1. I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze at a virgin? You hear what Job said. He said he made a covenant with his eyes. This is Job is not going to be a victim of the return because he's telling you that he made a covenant with his eyes. In other words, Job was saying that, you know, I'm going to keep my eyes on what is supposed to be on and not on what is not supposed to be on. Go to Proverbs 27. Proverbs 27. Notice verse 20. Sheo and Abaddon are never satisfied, nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied. Hell's is never satisfied, nor are the eyes of a man ever satisfied. That's what happens with the glance. Now we have to return. His eyes are never satisfied. See, you saw that thing, but now you want to put your eyes back on it. Why? Because you're not satisfied. It doesn't stop there. You're going to keep going, you're going to keep pursuing until we get to number three, which is the consumption. Let's uh I got two, I got two verses in the New Testament. Go back to Matthew chapter five, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. And let's think, let's talk about consumption. Matthew, I thought I had it. I do have it. Matthew chapter five, and uh let's look at verses 29 and 30. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you. For it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is better for you that one part of your body perish than for your whole body to go into hell. What is Jesus telling you? You know, this is what happens when you start getting into consumption. You have to do, you have to do what you have to do to get out of that. What did Jesus do? He said, Throw your eye out and throw and take your hand and cut it off. If that is what's causing you to stumble. In our day and age, that would be turn off those things. Turn off those things that are causing you to stumble. Don't reach for those things that are causing you to stumble. Because now you are getting into the consumption of it. Uh go to the writing your Bible to 1 Corinthians. And when you get there, I want chapter 6. 1 Corinthians chapter 6, notice verse 18. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. What did Paul say to do here when you're in that consumption? He said to flee. Who is he talking to? If you know that this is your weakness, he's talking to you. He's telling you to flee from it. He's not telling you to stroll from it. He's not telling you to, you know, say, you know what, I have the willpower. You don't flee from it. Sometimes you have to run from them things. You literally have to flee from them. Sometimes, if you're in your car, you need to get your foot and put your foot down on that gas and smash and get away from it and call out to the Lord so you don't get consumed in that consumption. Which brings us to number four, the pursuit. And the pursuit is exactly what it sounds like. Uh, I want to go back to Judges. Uh we're not gonna go through the whole chapters because this is everything about Samson. Uh if you read Judges, you know, starting at chapter uh 14 through uh uh chapter 16, you will see the pursuit. Samson. Samson, uh the things that happened to Samson were not on accident. Let's just let's just be honest with it. Samson was actually walking towards these things. The uh this was a weakness to Samson, and actually I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go to chapter 16 and talk about let's read some of Samson's weakness, and you will begin to see what I'm talking about here. Uh Judges chapter 16. Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there and went into her. When it was told to the Gazites, saying, Samson has come here, they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and they kept silent all night, saying, Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him. Now Samson lay until midnight, and that midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gates and the two posts, and pulled them up against with the bars. Then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain, which is opposite Hebron. After this it came about that he loved a woman in the valley of uh Surach, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Entice him and see where his great strength lies. I'm on I'm gonna stop right there. Do you see what Samson did? Back verse uh verse one of chapter 16. Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there and went into her. Dried back down to first four. And after this, after those things, he came about that he loved a woman in the valley of Sarah, whose name was Delilah. Listen, Samson was walking towards this, he was pursuing this. This didn't happen on accident. Samson was going towards it, and so it has been for some of us. Some of the situations that we found ourselves in, it didn't happen on accident. We we walked right towards it on purpose. Go to Proverbs chapter 7. You gotta forgive me. I am actually going through my actual Bible today and not using uh my Bible on my computer. So you are definitely gonna hear a lot of pages flipping. And I uh I do apologize for that. But you know, as you all know me, sometimes I like to really just you know keep my nose in in the actual book. I'm I'm still a book guy. Um, let's start reading some of Proverbs chapter 7, the wows of a harlot. My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live and my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablets of your heart, say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your intimate friend, that they may keep you from an adulteress from the foreigner who flatters with her words. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, and I saw among the naive, I discerned among the youth, a young man lacking sense, passing through the streets near her corner. This is the young I want to talk about, and he takes the way to her house in the twilight in the evening, in the middle of the night, and in the darkness. And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot, and cunning of heart. She is boisterous and rebellious. Her feet do not remain at home. She is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. So she seizes him and kisses him uh with a brazen face. She says to him, I was due to offer peace offerings today. I have paid my vows, therefore I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. So, what is happening here? That that's the pursuit. Did you did you hear what I said earlier about the young man? You know, uh, he passes through the streets near the corner, he is lacking sense. A young man lacking sense, he is after that pursuit, which brings us to number five, which is the act. Now, one through four could be looked at as like a foundation that you can't see, but now we are at act, uh, we are at number five, which is the act. Uh, right here, stay right here in the old testament and go to 2 Samuel. I know we looked at this earlier, but in 2 Samuel 11. And we talk about David and Bathsheba. So uh actually, without me even reading it, we'll just touch on it. 2 Samuel chapter 11. What happened? David, it started with a glance, then David went for the pursuit. Now we're at the act. He laid with Bathsheba, and we know what came of it. Uh David ends up uh having to cover up getting her pregnant by having her husband killed, so he commits adultery and murder. This is what happened happens with the act. Uh, while we you we are in 2 Samuel, I'm sorry, I'm telling I'm asking you to keep your finger there, and I didn't keep my finger there. Let's go to 2 Samuel chapter 12. Let's see what happens uh when uh after the act, 2 Samuel chapter 12, and this is about Nathan confronting Daniel. Excuse me, people. This is about Nathan confronting David. Then the Lord sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, There were two men in one city, the one uh rich and the other poor. The rich man had a great many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing except one little ew lamb, which he brought and nourished and grew it up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him. Now a traveler came to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take from his own flock of his own herd to prepare for the wayfare who had come to him. Rather, he took the poor man's ew lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. Now Nathan told David this story, because remember, David was a sheepherder. David's anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this, this man deserves death. And he must make restitution for the lamb, four foe, because he did this thing and had no compassion. Then Nathan said to David, and these are the four words that I want to get to, you are the man. So now the act that David has actually done has now been brought out in the open. Nathan is confronting David and letting him know it was you. That story that I told, it was about you. Let's look at something that Paul said. Turn uh to 1 Corinthians chapter 6. First Corinthians chapter 6, and I'm gonna look at verses 18 to 20. Flee immorality, every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body, or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not of your own. So, for you have been brought with a price, therefore, glorify God in your body. What's the point of the uh the of the act? When you you when you act that out, you are sinning against the Holy Spirit because your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. When you became saved, the Lord filled you with the Holy Spirit, and you are now using your body, all the members of your body, to commit the act of the sin of lust. Which brings us to number six it's the identity. This is when a person identifies with their sin. This is when they no longer uh make excuses and say, I slipped up here and there. They say, you know what, this is just who I am, and they fall in the identity of it. In the New Testament, we are going to look at Romans. So we want to go back to Romans chapter 1, Romans chapter 1, and I'm looking at verses 24 through 28. Therefore, God gave them over in lust of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the create the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desires towards one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper. Now, in other translations, it says a reprobate mind. God gave them up to a reprobate mind. What does that mean? It means that God will give you up to the things that you want to do. God will say, Okay, go ahead. You know, I've been trying to save you from that, but you want to uh relish in that lush, go ahead. But the thing about it is that that's not the end of the story. God may have given them up to a reprobate mind, but remember, he's a forgiving God, he's a just God, but he is also a forgiving God, and he will forgive you and bring you out of that. Um, I'm gonna go back to the old testament to the book of Hosea. Hosea chapter 4, and I'm gonna look at verse 11. Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. He is talking about what these things do, that harlotry, it takes a it takes away your understanding, it takes away from your mind, which is what makes people think that this is now their identity. Uh, if you are still, if you still kept your finger in the old testament, go back to 1 Corinthians and let's look at 1 Corinthians 6 again. 1 Corinthians, oh I thought I was there. 1 Corinthians chapter 6, and let's let's look at uh verse 11. And such were some of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the spirit of our body. Did you hear that? Such were some of you. So Paul is telling them, even though they were in the that was their identity, such were some as you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified. How? In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the spirit of our God. Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12 and verse 2. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Be not conformed to this world. You may go around and feel guilty thinking that's your identity. No, man, that's you being conformed to this world. Get that out of your mind and know that you can be renewed in the Lord. Because if you don't, we move to number seven, which is the stronghold. The stronghold is exactly what it sounds like. It's that thing that bogs you and it and it holds you down, it tries to keep you down. But there is deliverance. Go to 2 Corinthians. And when you get to 2 Corinthians, let me get let me get chapter 10. Sorry, I went right past it. 2 Corinthians chapter 10. I need verses 4 and 5. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Take those thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. Why? Because Christ is the one who can bring you out of this. Speaking of our Lord, go back to go back to Mark. I want to look at the man in the tomb and I want to show you how the Lord is a deliverer. Mark chapter 5. Okay, I'm there. So in Mark chapter 5, if you remember, there was a man in the tomb. A man who uh came running out of the tomb and he ran right towards Jesus. This man had uh so many demons on him that he didn't even remember his own name, he didn't even say what it what what his name was, he just uh he just said, I I am legion for for we are many because this man has so many deep demons on him. Uh let's start reading at verse one and we will get to this. We will get to it. And they came to the other side of the sea into the country of the uh Garasenes, and when he had come out of the boat, he being Christ, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him, and he had his dwelling among the tombs, and no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to seduce him. You hear that? No one was strong enough to seduce him constantly, night and day among the tombs, and in the mountains, he was crying out and gashing himself with stones. Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before him, crying out with a loud voice, he said, What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me. For he had been saying to him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit. And he was asking him, What is your name? And he said to him, My name is Legion, for we are many. That's how many demons was holding that. He this they had a stronghold on this man. And he began to entreat him earnestly not to send them out to the country. Now there was a big herd of swine feeding there on the mountain, and the demons entreated him, saying, Send us into the swine so that we may enter them. He gave them permission, and coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the sea, and the herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city, out and in the country, and the people came to see what had happened. And when they came, Jesus observed the man. Sorry I'm sorry, and they came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed, sitting down, clothed in his right mind. That's what happens when you reach out to Christ, and Christ is your stronghold. And then Luke actually has something to say about the same thing. If you want to turn with me to Luke chapter 8, and in Luke chapter 8, 35, you will see what he said. He said that the people went to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found a man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they became frightened. They became frightened because they're saying, We know this man, we know the demons that had a stronghold on this man. But see, Christ was there. He put his that man who was full of all those demons, he put his eyes on the right one, the one that could deliver him. And there is uh three prescriptions that I would like to point out for strongholds. Uh in the New Testament, go way to the right to the book of James. Go to the book of James, and I want to show you what James had to say about this. James chapter 5. James chapter 5 and verse 16. Therefore, this is the prescription. Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. So, what's part of the prescription? Uh, remember, we always say that this walk of being a Christian is not a solo walk, it's a community walk. It's the exposure. You pray for one another. You may not come right out and give everything to someone, but it is good to confess. It is good to get in a circle of believers and have people pray for you and pray with you. Sometimes you have to tell people, listen, man, I am struggling with lust. I'm struggling with it. I need your prayers and I want to be delivered from it. The next two are in the Old Testament. So go back to Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. I need to go back a little farther. So go back to the book of Ecclesiastes, and we are going to. When you get there, here we go. Ecclesiastes, I want chapter four. Let's look at another prescription. Ecclesiastes chapter four, and I'm looking at verses nine through twelve. Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion, but woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift them up. Furthermore, if two lie down together, they keep warm. But how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. Community. What I was just saying in James goes back to what we just read in Ecclesiastes. It's the community. A strand of three cords is not easily broke. You can easily break a one strand, but when you twist three of them together and you try to tear it apart, it's hard. That is where the that is where the community comes in. You want your community. You don't want to do this alone. Think about what it said. It said if one falls down, the other one will pick up his companion. But if you fall down on your own, there's no one to help you up. You need to have that community with your brothers and sisters in Christ. And then I want you to go to Ezekiel. And when you get there, I want Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36 and verse 26. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. This is when you want to be spirit-led. This is what I call spirit-led renewal. The Lord will give you a new heart. See, you had a heart of stone. That's why you kept staying in that sin, in that lust, and you didn't get out of it. But the Lord will replace it with a heart of flesh, which means you would have a heart that is more becoming to him. And then I want to end this with a uh with a couple of more uh scriptures that I came up with. Go back to the New Testament and go to John. John chapter 4, and I want to touch on the Samaritan woman. And I want to point out some things. John chapter 4, I'm starting at verse 7. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me a drink. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, How is it that you being a Jew asked me for a drink? Since I am a Samaritan, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritan. Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. She said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living water? Listen, she has no idea what he's talking about. You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us this well and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle. Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw. She don't get it just yet. He said to her, Go call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said, Well, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worship in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe in me, an hour is coming, when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you worship the Father. You shall worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for which for such people the Father seeks to be his worshippers. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When that one comes, he will desire, excuse me, declare all things to us. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. At this point, his disciples came and they marveled that he had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, What do you seek, or why do you speak with him? So the woman left her water pot and went into the city and said to the man, Come and see a man who told me all the things that I have done. I want to I wanna I want you to look at verse 28. Come and see a man who said all the things I have done. Let me back up. I uh I was reading 29 meant 28. This is what I really want to point out. So the woman left her water pot. Do you remember how this started? She came to this well with her water pot. She's going to fill it up. She's thirsty as for cooking or cleaning, not sure what she's doing, but she's going for something to be filled up. Instead, she walked right into the one who can fill you up, the Lord Christ Jesus. And he broke that strong on her so heavy that she left the pot and she went back and told everyone everything that she had just learned. And then we're going to end this in the book of Psalms. Go back to Psalms and get Psalm 42. And I want to uh look at greater desire. Psalm 42. And when I get there, I'm there. Psalm 42, and I'm looking at verses 1 through 2. This is the greater desire. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Did you hear that? My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. That's the desire that you want. That is how you break the strongholds. My soul pants for thee. My soul cries out to thee, O God. Those are the type of prayers that we need to pray and hold on to, Lord, to break those strongholds. All right. That brings me to the end of this lesson on these different levels of lust. Uh, I'm I'm glad that you joined me and thank you for joining me. As I mentioned, after uh talking with someone about this, this really uh uh hit my heart, and I said, you know what, let me uh get into these scriptures and let's look at this lust and break this chain together. And yes, I'm bringing this up because I am one who has struggled with that for a long time. Listen, I'm not perfect. Yes, I'm here bringing the word of God to you, but I am under no circumstances ever going to lead you to believe that I'm perfect or that I'm just always on a straight, narrow path. That's why when we're in our through the Bible podcast, what do I always say to you? Continue to pray for me that I stay on that straight, narrow path, and that I am never an embarrassment to my God and I am never an embarrassment to you. And if any of you are struggling with this, I am praying for you as well. I am praying that the Lord delivers you out of this. I pray that you ask the Lord to remove your heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. I pray that all the descriptures that we read through speak to you, and I pray for your deliverance. Listen, we can do it together. We're gonna pray for each other. You continue to pray for me, and I'm going to continue to pray for you. All right, that brings us to the end of this lesson. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for taking time out of your morning, your afternoon, your evening to go through the word of God with me. That is all for now. God bless. Thank you for listening to Berean's Corner. We appreciate you joining us as we dive into God's word and seek biblical truth together. If this episode encouraged or challenged you, be sure to subscribe, share, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. You can find Bereen's Corner on BuzzSprout, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon Music, and more. Let's stay connected. 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