Break Up Your Fallow Ground — Shane Idleman

Break up your follow ground. The introduction just like farmers have to prepare the ground to bear fruit. We must prepare our hearts to receive from God you see the ground, right? That's followed ground.

The ground has been been broken up. It's ready to now receive and the Bible talks about I'm gonna read some verses about preparing our hearts. And the reason I wanted to this actually I wrote down the title of this message and the concept months ago.

Wanting just feeling a desire to break up because sometimes as Christians we forget we've got to prepare our heart to receive from God. We can't just sit here and and not receive from God and go home with the same attitudes the same Dispositions that we came here with we have to prepare our hearts for God and often I'm just throwing a blanket statement out there a lot of hearts are not prepared to receive from God.

There's not a worshiping heart going on. I often think of this and I'll share it with you. I'll be transparent if I came up here and said, you know what Brant just keep going on for the next hour. I'm not even gonna preach.

How many people say well, that's gonna be boring. I Mean if you're if you're if you're saying that's gonna be boring. There might be a worship disconnect there. There there there might be a problem that God's want.

How do I know because that was me? Back row as soon as the last song hear my quick message and I'm out of here. I did that for many years. That was my mo modus operandus, right? That's how I operated.

I got enough in of God. So I'm a good person, but I definitely I'm not gonna sit there and worship. You might as well just scratch fingernails on a chalkboard so just a heart check if there's. You got to look at our heart because we have to prepare the heart to receive from God.

You get the heart ready to receive. Imagine this for a minute water raining pouring in on that ground. It's ready to receive now parallel that with the parking lot. Concrete rain falling on that wet wet.

Where's that water going? It's not receiving why because of the hard concrete versus the fall of ground and God rains down and God brings his word and he wants to invest and change our hearts. But if it's concrete, you're not gonna receive it.

And I think we live in this mindset that I heard the word I'm at church. So I received it not necessarily. Not necessarily because there's a lot of people. They'll hear something and then they'll tune it out because the hearts not ready.

I Made a comment last night at Grace Fest and I think it a lot of people tuned me out right then but I felt Led to say it talking about arrogance and not standing for the national anthem. That's a height of arrogance that we're seeing you're paying you're being paid.

I'm not gonna beat up a dead horse, right? I did that last week. I have a history of bringing up topics again, but I could tell the people just tune me out, you know and and and that's that's okay because We need to hear some of these difficult things from time to time.

Here's what the Bible hub said about this expression of breaking up your fallow ground. Do not sow your seed among thorns break off all Evil habits clear your hearts of weeds in order that you may be prepared for the seed of righteousness.

Land was allowed to life follow that it might become more fruit fruitful. But in this condition, it soon became overgrown with thorns and weeds. It became comfortable if you leave that ground like that for a year.

Anyone even know what that's gonna look like in a year from now. You're not even gonna know that there's rose in there or it's just gonna be a mess. Just a field of weeds and and things have grown up.

So you have to prepare that fallow ground is what what the sermon is going to be based on. The cultivator of the soil was careful to break up his fallow ground to clear the field of weeds. Before sowing it so says the Prophet break off your evil ways repent of your sins and Cease to do evil no matter what we try to do.

We can't get away from that concept. Can we? It's everywhere. It's everywhere I just when I was preparing I'm like this word repentance and turning from our sins and stop doing evil is Everywhere throughout the Bible and then the good seed of the word will have room to grow and bear fruit.

Now at this point you might be saying Shane I have broken off those evil ways. I have repented. I'm ceasing to evil. I'm trying to follow hard after God and that's good. I'm gonna try to encourage you this morning, but I would also want to throw out just a word of caution.

That we can turn from many visible sins, but we can keep many sins of the heart unseen. Did you know I can hold jealousy in here and bitterness and resentment and animosity and judgmentalism? And you wouldn't even know.

Now technically you would know because it would come out of my preaching it would come out in the way I treat people but it's not a visible sin. It's a hidden sin of the heart. So that's really what the putting some of these scriptures in context.

They're talking about the heart getting the heart right plowing up that that that hard and stony ground. Here's the scripture references to. Actually, I found a third one for you. Jeremiah 4 3 break up your fallow ground.

Keep that in mind break up your fallow ground and do not sow among the thorns in other words. That would be a lazy farmer wouldn't it if it just weeds everywhere cuz I don't care. I'm gonna plant my corn now let the way it'll make it in there somewhere, but that's what we do.

We want we want this fruitful harvest from God, but there's weeds growing everywhere. So he's calling the people back to God saying prepare your heart break up your fallow ground do not sow among the thorn thorns circumcise yourself to the Lord.

That just means remove everything that's not of God and Focus on the Lord and take away the foreskins of your heart. There's a circumcision of the heart that takes place Hosea 10 12 so for yourself righteousness reap in mercy break up your fallow ground.

So he's saying as you break up that fallow ground you're sowing into it righteousness and you're reaping God's mercy. For it is time to seek the Lord till he comes and rains righteousness on you anytime you're going to seek the Lord you're going to have to break up that fallow ground.

A deeper seeking means a greater breaking. If I'm going to seek and you might say Shane you must seek the Lord really good like Billy Graham. No, just like all of you. Just we're all in the same boat.

It's a different calling but if I want to here's why if I wanted to seek God more fervently I would starve my flesh. That's why I talk about fasting often. I would starve that flesh. I would get on worship.

I would disconnect Facebook for the next two weeks. I would not care. What's going on with Isis and Iran and Trump and Hillary? I would just turn all of that off and I would seek God and I would remove these things.

We can clap just one more person can clap than that because that's the truth. See we can all seek God more fervently if we begin to remove these seeds and these weeds. Actually that are penetrate that are preventing that.

Now, of course, there's nothing wrong with knowing what's going on, but I have a feeling That we were a little bit more concerned with what's going on here than what's going on in the heart of God. How do you know you just listen to people talk?

You just listen to what the Facebook and you people are inundated by what's going on and I love this verse. I'd love to just do a sermon on this Joshua said to the people in Joshua 3 5 Sanctify yourself.

See see God God sanctifies us. We're right before God when we put our trust in Christ now, I can stand before God because of Christ righteousness. It's called imputed righteousness. His righteousness was given to me.

But this type of sanctification. Sanctify yourself for tomorrow. The Lord will do wonders among you. God will do wonders in the hearts of those people who sanctify themselves if This is a one good one-liner God.

God moves on a prepared people on it and on a prepared heart. God moves on a prepared people and a prepared heart. And I'll just share with you I you've already heard all this before. But for some reason God keeps bringing it up in my heart to share with you what I shared.

Last night if my people and really Luke came up with a good title if my people have five minutes. Because what we're at a crossroads you see and a lot of those people last night. They know it but nobody brings it to their attention.

Everything's fine, right go back to sleep. So I said we're at a crossroads. We are now a nation calling. We've crossed that line. We're calling good evil and evil good. The Prophet said woe be to that nation.

Woe be to that group of people who call evil good and good evil. We've crossed it. We're at a crossroads. There's something interesting going on and we're looking God help. You've got to do something God you have to move somehow and anytime anytime.

You'll see throughout church history throughout biblical history that any time God Changes and revise and restores and break down and renews. It's out of boldness. It's coming from boldness. What about the love of God?

Yes, but it's the love of God that compels me to be bold. That that's the whole point of boldness the boldness of the Holy Spirit. Confront sin doesn't run away from it. It confronts what's going on doesn't turn its back.

It's a loving Confrontation. Jesus did it throughout the Bible all you cities. You did not turn Bethesda. You did not turn when I preached to you you the five of the seven churches repent and turn to me you whitewashed tombs.

It was consistent boldness calling the people back out of their wicked ways. Now in this whole movement to be silent. To not talk about that drives me crazy because God gives us a hope does he not? He said when I send pestilence when I say it send famine when I send all these things.

Solomon tell the people if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and seek my face and pray and turn from their wicked ways if My people I have I've got to tell you up front. Hillary's not the answer.

Trump's not the answer. It's not found in Washington or Hollywood. It's not found in Lady Gaga or Katy Perry coming to repentance. It's if my people God says I just want you you you you you you probably you in the balcony if my people Humble themselves.

You see there's a humility that takes place and there are a lot of pastors there last night and Morgan said you might Stepped on some toes. I said that's okay. I don't care if you have 4 ,000 or 40 if you don't have humility, I don't want to hear from you.

Your pride must die in you. Andrew Murray. Andrew Murray said pride must die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you see that's a problem. And we don't even know it. I'm a good spotter prideful people.

Why? Because I look in the mirror often. But we forget this pride has to die in you. I don't care if you've been a Christian all of your life if you're proud and arrogant. Come to the foot of the cross and repent if my people that's the first step that we miss.

We're prideful. We're arrogant. We're judgmental and then we come see but I pray and I seek his face and I've turned for my wicked ways. Well wonderful for you. You've missed the first step of Humbly acknowledge see it's very hard to say I was wrong.

That's why we come up with excuses even husband's wife fighting excuses excuses excuses excuses. But it's very hard to say I was wrong. So God says if my people I'm assuming not everybody and not everybody in here is perfect that we come to God.

We say God. I'm a prideful man. I'm a prideful woman. I need you. That's the first step and then if you pray if you pray. This is not a quick little prayer. This isn't me coming up and just saying something.

This isn't driving home saying God bless our day and blesses food. This is a whole life of prioritizing prayer. Prayer becomes the priority not the afterthought. When was the last time let's be honest, but don't raise your hand.

When was the last time you prayed for over 30 minutes and actually maybe shed some tears over the condition of our nation? You don't have to tell me because I know it's not many and This is the most disheartening part about this topic of prayer for me as I talked to Parents all the time prayed for some last night for the prodigal son.

They don't know the Lord and they won't even spend 30 minutes praying. They won't fast. I've got to work. I've got schedule what? Folks. Prayer moves the hand of God. This is how you do warfare. You're not gonna send them little Facebook tweets and little scriptures all the time to convince them.

You need to grab down heaven and pull it down and say God save that child. I'm removing everything until I pray until I fast until I seek you if my people Humble themselves and pray and seek my face. Not my hand.

Not what how many of us are seeking his hand. Finances retirement. Lord open, you know, I said just seek my face. You parents, you know, how bad would you feel if you knew the only reason the kids loved you is because what you're giving them.

That would break my heart. I don't know about you and In the seeking you all know, but I explained it last night. It's like if they lost their child at Grace Fest and Who's gonna say well, I'll find him at 10 o 'clock when this is over when things calm down.

That they would stop everything they would go. That's what our life. That's a seeking God. We don't get this concept when you truly seek God and nothing else matters. Yes, I'll go to work. Yes, I'll do this.

I've got responsibilities, but if the primary purpose of my life is to seek God. See we're here's interesting thing. We're on this topic of Saturday service Sunday service if you want to seek God. You'll move everything around your schedule to fit church and to fit God.

I'm tired of God taking a back seat. Oh, no. No, no, let me get started. I'm just getting started. I'm tired of God. I didn't even shave today. I'm not upset. Or passion I should say right. But I'm so tired of hearing God get the back seat if I can fit him in with soccer and Baseball and this silly potluck and this birthday thing and this and this and this then I might squeeze him in and if the church Could offer services every night, so it's more convenient so I can just fit him in and whenever see the old saints used to say God is my priority and Everything else will fit in then when he's the priority then you're seeking that seeking God if you want to use Friendly message.

I can list about ten churches and they're closer. But it's time. I don't know. I came with a mission to get the church seeking God and first He's got to do this work in my heart before I can bring it to you.

And then of course, what's the last point the one we just actually let me just act like I forgot it and move on. Hmm. Where was I if my people humble themselves pray seek my face and turn from their wicked way.

Wickedness is anything that we talked about before anything that opposes God. So if there are things in our lives. Yeah, I could read statistics on what pornography is in the church now that it would alarm you.

Or maybe it wouldn't or all these other sins of the heart the the just turn you got these idolatry and Idols anything you place before God is an idol. And so God says you've got it. You've got to remove these things from your life if you humble pray seek and turn from these things.

You know to be wrong, then I'll hear from heaven and I will forgive your sins. The Bible says is not my hand short that I cannot save or my ear heavy that I cannot hear but your sins your iniquities. Have separated you from me now that might not apply to everybody.

I realize I realize there's some strong saints of God in here. But you've got a pride issue. You've conquered besetting sins, but you've got a pride issue. You've got pride of the heart and I can name many people.

And I can name myself. Those of us who have learned to conquer some things forget forget that pride is the worst of all sins. We'll look down on the drug addict who can't give up heroin. But we don't confess and repent of our prideful angry judgmental hearts.

Think about it. How prideful have we been judging even judging this church judging ourselves? About this or about that or about we're so prideful and arrogant. I don't know. I'll call it in what's old saying It's better to ask for forgiveness than a permission.

But I'm gonna open up for just a minute here. There are times where I feel God moving at the service. For example now, I don't know what comes over me sometimes 20 years ago. I would have been scared to death to even walk up here and I feel the worship is powerful.

Yeah, maybe a little too loud. Maybe it's not the songs we all want and I feel a powerful service me and my wife sometimes brought to tears. We love it. We can't get enough and then I start to hear this the little complaining and It breaks.

It's like what? Was were we not at the same service? But what am I missing? God's moving powerfully. Sure. We're sinners. We don't do everything perfectly. But there's so much complaining about the little things and and no wonder we're not experiencing revival.

You think God's gonna bring revival on those types of hearts? So we're we're so excited. We're built up and then we hear all the little grumbling and complaints like my god help us. And we need to hear what I'm saying right now.

So we stop it. That's the whole point of conviction and boldness is to say stop this little stuff and start focusing on what God is doing. Who in the right mind would see this and complain about what God is doing unless their heart is hard and Confession.

I've been going through valleys of this. Often we all do that's why it says humble yourself humble yourself and Maybe that's forget the whole rest of the message, but this we have to look at our hard hearts.

How can we experience a powerful worship service and leave here complaining and bickering? I can't believe they're stopping Saturday. I can't believe it's that far. I can't believe they did this or this or that or that.

It's like folks. Why even have church? If our hearts not changing. Yeah, it's difficult to hear but we need to hear it. Because we won't change will we until we hear it? Listen I've counseled enough marriage couples to know.

Unless the spouse says unless you change I'm leaving the person doesn't change often. They think everything's fine until they're confronted. Same thing happens when we look at the Word of God that it confronts us.

So back to this topic of preparing the hearts. To make something ready for use doctors are prepared teachers are prepared and parents try to be prepared. I know there's a lot of kids in the service. This morning some kids but keep this in mind what you don't like in your parents and what you don't like them doing.

They're actually preparing you for life. If they didn't care they just let you do whatever then they don't love you. The reason they love you is because they're preparing you. They're getting you ready for life and Christians need to prepare breaking sowing sanctifying.

This is interesting. I actually emailed a friend of mine who's a farmer in Washington on follow ground. He said this. We rely on follow ground for the land to rest and save moisture for an entire year.

It takes 14 inches of water to grow crop and follow ground. This Allows us to save that but then it must be tilled and prepared for the subsequent crop. It is usually hard and dry. See the this is interesting the land that was once useful and ready.

After a year, it's now hard and it's dry and I'm wondering how many of us have become hard and dry. Listen, the only reason I'm saying this is not tips. Well, maybe a little bit. I want to say a little bit but the point isn't to say yeah and beat you up the point.

So, yeah I've become hard and dry. God calls us from Genesis to Revelation to examine our heart has your heart become hard and cold and callous. It's very healthy. Paul says examine yourself. Do you not know yourself is Jesus Christ in you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God?

And do time he will exalt you you exalt yourself and he will abase you. It's all over Scripture. So, let me ask that question. Have you become hard and dry and callous repent of it this morning and He said then there's moisture about four inches down the tillage.

Breaks up the soil the follow ground and allows for the seed to be planted again and brings up the moisture. That's what I love about God the seeds that were planted years ago. If you become hard and cold and callous Plow up that hard ground and God can plant the new seed again, and he'll you'll thrive you'll read you'll there's nothing better than a sinner.

Repenting. I'm sorry a saint repenting. There's a good thing of a sinner, but but a saint of God. There's a wonderful thing that happens when we repent and get our lives back on track with God that hard is.

That hardness is softened up and we begin. God begins to plant that seed again. We want we if we want a deeper Relationship with God if we want to receive from God if we want to grow we must prepare the soil if We learn anything from the Old Testament if I've learned anything at all from reading the Old Testament over and over again it's this follow ground that is not broken up leads to disappointment and Delay by God.

God delayed certain things because of that. I just right now. I'm in that wonderful account. You know children of Israel God says here's the land. Here's the land. This is amazing. I stopped I put down my Bible said this is unbelievable now I'm not too critical because that could have been me I might have done the same thing, but God says here's your land.

I brought you to it's been 10 12 days 15 days. I don't know exactly here's your land go in and possess it the spies come back. Mm-hmm. We can't do that a God that just part of the Red Sea a God that's just been providing for them.

They've seen all these miracles. God says here's your land. They said no we can't do it. We're not able to take this land. Caleb Joshua. We are well able to take this land if God is with us and Their hearts need to be broken up, but what happened.

No no grumbling complaining so God says okay? You this whole generation is going to wander the next 40 years until you're all dead and Then I'm bringing your children into the promised land. This is this is still biblical.

This is still applicable today that certain things are delayed. When the ground is not if a grounds not ready He's not going to plant the good harvest is not going to come if the ground is not ready. The ground has to be positioned to receive.

This is interesting to. The ground does not the ground. The ground doesn't do anything on its own it merely submits to the hand of the farmer. The farmer will till it the farmer will get it ready. The farmer will remove the wheat same thing to us.

We have to submit to the hand of the father. Hey Lord, I'm submitting to you tear up this ground and a position me so a few points, and I'll be out of your way. I'm sure some of you are happy. And some of you are not but what a couple point.

I don't know I said that I just did. You have to remember. I don't say everything perfectly for an hour. It's tough you try it. Okay, here's what we need to do. What are you sowing? Let's look at what we're sowing like the farmer said the moisture received during the fallow period is stored for future use.

So the ground is like this and the rains and rains and they store 14 inches for a crop. So the the concept what God is saying is what are you sowing? What are you putting into that fallow ground? Galatians 6 7 do not be deceived.

God is not mocked for whatever a man sows he will reap. Here's the deceptiveness of sin even even little kids. You can hear this too. You can hear everything, but this is more specific. Specifically the deceitfulness and the deceptiveness of sin is that you will reap a very fruitful harvest.

Here's what sin says you can plant Terrible things weeds all these things you can continue in your sin. Don't worry. You're going to reap a bountiful harvest. See you don't see anything yet you're you're like, oh look at that little green thing.

That is that it's gonna be corn. We're gonna receive so much corn. See God doesn't this sin. I'm doing all the stuff I'm doing doesn't matter. I'm still gonna get a harvest and as that little green thing grows you're like, oh my lord I have a field full of terror.

I Have a field full of weeds. What happened? Because that what you sow you also reap see we don't commit a sin all the time. And then the consequences are right then. It's like touching a fire it's like we don't receive it's like a couple days couple weeks go by oh, maybe a couple months.

I Know pastors or God has given them years years to repent of certain things and. But the deceitfulness sin says come on in it's not that bad. And then you realize that the what you're now reaping is what you sowed months and months ago.

And many people go oh my goodness Shane guess what. God can pull up all of that. He can till that soil. He can remove those weeds and he can bring back the fruitful harvest if you what's a whole message of the sermon if you break up your follow ground.

That's that's the wonderful thing that God will do that. But be careful because sin never shows you the end result. He'll look at the flirtatious the flirtatious Atmosphere at work and all this person loves me.

They respect me. They understand me and your heart starts to see. Oh, this is nothing wrong with this. They're building me up. They're encouraging me and then three months later. You're at a hotel and Your marriage is gone.

What happened the deceitfulness of sin? It always works that way. Ask any alcoholic it started with the first drink. Ask any somebody addicted to painkillers that started with the first surgery. See it just the sin paints this picture and that's what the enemy does.

He waits he waits until an opportune time to drop the hammer and tries to destroy us. So that's why God says remove it now remove it now. That's what confession. That's why confession is so important.

Don't go around hiding and hoping and people think a certain way of me. Yeah, we already know. We're all sinners. So bring that to the light once you bring sin to the light it dies. You say I'm struggling with this.

I need help you you bring it to the light so be careful because when you sow sin Consistently you will eventually reap that harvest. That's the deceptiveness about it. Number two, we have to prepare to receive.

You have to get your heart like this to receive. What does that mean? It means digging up stirring and removing Ezra 10 7 10 for Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Lord. There's a preparing that has to take place which we've been talking about the last 20 minutes.

It's interesting the the farmer I talked to said you have to remove the weeds and you have to remove the rocks. Why the weeds are the things that compete for the nourishment of the ground? I didn't realize that.

It's not just weeds growing by the wheat. It's the weeds actually pulled out water and that nutrients from the ground that the the corn should be getting. So what it what is pulling? From us what is it that those things that should be directing us towards God that spiritual nourishment?

What is pulling and that's why I make fun of Facebook a lot, but it's true or the media. Is it not is really is the majority of the media really really pulling us up and building us up spiritually? Let's just be completely honest.

I don't even answer. I know it's not. It's not the prince of this world who has the airways right the majority of the time what we're focusing on is Not building up spiritually so ask yourself Is this building me up spiritually or is it pulling me down?

So you have to remove those things that are competing for God's attention and it'll start with your time and your calendar. Look at your calendar and look at your clock. How do you spend your time your money your calendar that will show you what is competing for your time?

Number three rain is complete immersion. Compare again, like I said the rain on concrete out front or rain on the soil. What's going to be received? The difference between those who leave here receiving from God and those who don't are the difference between Concrete and this type of ground when it rains the hearts not ready.

The hearts not going to receive. I Mean think about this. God is raining down daily. He's raining down righteousness daily. How many people how many people they they're not prepared. God's saying I'm raining down righteousness guess what's happening today NFL guess what?

I'm too busy. I have to go to Home Depot. I'm too busy I'm too busy and God's raining down righteousness. He wants to bring that water on that soil, but we're not preparing our hearts to receive. It's very important.

And I like the fourth point seek until he comes. For it's time to seek the Lord till he comes and rains righteousness on you. We just read that earlier. It's a season. Many people get frustrated because it's not happening right now.

Well, this is not they invented the microwave for food not for spiritual things. God I've learned and this is a challenge for me. Type a personality wants answers now wants to get things done. God's not in my time frame.

He's not on my clock. So you you've got it God no matter what happens I'm gonna seek you until you come. I don't feel like praying. So I'm gonna pray. I don't feel like reading your word. So I'm gonna read your word.

I don't see the difference right now God I'm still struggling. So I'm just gonna go back to that lifestyle. God says don't go back to that lifestyle. I'm working in the spiritual realm. I'm pulling down strongholds.

I'm preparing your heart. I'm showing you to trust me in the midst of the storm in the midst of the battle. Will you still hold on to the anchor when the the sea billows roll? I think there's a song about that.

Right will will you still trust me when that happens? I mean, this is a good reminder the guy who wrote that song Horatio Horatio Spafford something like that lost his daughters at sea. Their boat hit it hit something and collided and all of his daughters were drowned at in the ocean.

We have problems. All of them and he went over that same spot Where his daughters were and he wrote that famous hymn. It is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. I Mean that would have sent most people off the deep end.

There's no God. I hate God. There's no God now. He says seek me no matter what seek me no matter what? And that's we have to if you want righteousness to be poured down if you want. I still have an anger problem.

I still have a hard heart. I still got to still seek me. I'm breaking through. I'm breaking through. Do you do you break down a wall one brick at a time, right? Same things many times don't be discouraged be encouraged many strongholds.

Don't just fall down we come we pray God. I need brokenness. I need you to break this completely out and he doesn't sometimes it's one brick at a time and. That's why this point is so important. Seek him until he comes.

We'll make we'll wait months for a home to close escrow. Years for a dream vacation and a lifetime for retirement, but we're too busy to seek God. And the fifth point where we're closed is reap and mercy.

The Bible says that if you do this things you will reap and mercy. It's interesting God's mercy is available right now if you don't know him. His mercy is grace is available right now. But the only way to reap that mercy is to prepare the heart.

That's why the Bible says if you confess that Christ is Lord if you repent if you turn of your wicked ways. Acknowledge your dependency on God and say a lot God. I need you. You just prepared the heart to receive the mercy and the grace of God and I want to clarify those two things mercy is compassion.

Shown to somebody. Who it's within their punishment or it's within their power to punish you. It's almost like a sheriff seeing somebody get you're getting pulled over and you're going to jail for a while.

He says no, you need to get to church. I'm letting you go. That's mercy. Grace is the free and unmerited favor of God. So see when he saves us. I Didn't deserve it. I deserve hell as bad as I just hard as I try.

I'm still there's wickedness in there. Especially when we're unconverted right? There's just tremendous and we deserve we don't deserve God, but in his mercy He saves us and then it's because of his grace unmerited favor the blessings of God are poured out on us life.

So when we sing that song how deep the father's love for us how vast beyond all measure. That he should give his only son to make a wretch his treasure. What what wonderful who could write that but under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to write a song like that.

That is so true. He was that we were selling that song last week. I don't care if we sang it yesterday. My goodness, my goodness, we are spoiled as spoiled gets I Mean I shouldn't talk. I mean I shouldn't maybe I can't relate but I hit rewind on my youtube and rewind and rewind and rewind.

I need 20 -30 minutes before my heart begins to fill and penetrate the penetrating power of God. How deep the father's love for us a God that created all of universe is beyond measure that he should give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure.