Honor your Parents — Walter Brubacker

I greet y 'all in the name of Jesus. Welcome, everyone. It's been a blessing to what we've been taught and I say amen to it and commence as well. It's kind of interesting. I picked out some verses that are gonna talk more about children or chapters.

And so we'll see what comes from that. Could we stand for prayer? Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time that you have given us to be together and that we can encourage one another and that we can bring you glory and we can serve you.

Just be with us and help us to just be able to comprehend some of these meanings of relationships and communication and long suffering and all these things it takes to make your kingdom function here on earth and teach us and be with us.

Bless each one here and bless all the brothers and sisters everywhere. We thank you for Jesus and his willingness to die and be faithful to that end, the terrible end. And we pray this in his name, amen.

Here in Sirach, it talks a lot about, I guess, relationships. I'll start reading in chapter three. Listen to me, your father, O children. Act accordingly that you may be kept in safety. For the Lord honors the father above his children and he confirms a mother's right over her children.

Those who honor their father atone for sins and those who respect their mothers are like those who lay up treasure. Those who honor their father will have joy in their own children and when they pray, they will be heard.

Those who respect their father will have long life and those who honor their mother, and those who honor their mother obey the Lord. They will serve their parents as their masters. Honor your father by word and deed that his blessings may come upon you.

For your father's blessings strengthens the houses of the children, but a mother's curse uproots their foundations. It gives these opposites here and I was puzzled a little bit about it. I don't know if somebody else has a good explanation for that, but I'm not sure it is an opposite.

I think like if a child is disobedient and ends up not being able to, or just ends up like the mother, it's a mother's curse. In the context of things, I think it would be saying that a child has been very bad and it's the foundations for that child are destroyed.

I guess in the world, I mean, I guess Robert would probably know more about that, but like parents cursing their children and just destroying them. I mean, I've heard those stories. I've not really experienced that myself at all.

My dad did not really have all that, a great relationship with us, I don't think, but he didn't, neither was he doing those kinds of things either. And it's something that I think I struggle with too and to be able to be a blessing for my children and for anybody for that matter and learn to communicate in ways, just things we have to work for and that we always have to and can improve and being humble.

I think further on, we'll even have more instruction about being humble. I just had this thought about a mother's curse and how it really destroys. Do not glorify yourself by dishonoring your father for your father's dishonor is no glory for you.

So we've heard this example of people putting, we try to put somebody down so that we're taller, but we actually haven't gained anything. If anything, we can be not lower ourselves, our standard can be lowered.

And so we haven't gained a thing by putting somebody down. We lose every time. So for a father, if children, if we put our fathers down, we're not really gaining anything for ourselves at all. The glory of one, do not glory yourself by dishonoring your father for your father's dishonor is no glory for you.

The glory of one's father is one's own glory and it is a disgrace for children not to respect their mother. My child, help your father in his old age and do not grieve him as long as he lives. Even if his mind fails, be patient with him.

People, I don't know, okay, I guess I have to, people do put people in homes. They don't wanna take care of their senile parents. So I guess that is a common thing, but hopefully that's not us. That we, in their time of deteriorating and passing away, that we dishonor them at that time, that's be very bad.

Do not grieve him as long. Even if his mind fails, be patient with him because you have all your faculties, do not despise him. Or just because you have great strength, do not. In your strength, I think one place you might say that if you have strength and glory and power and your father's failing, don't abuse that.

For kindness to your father will not be forgotten and you will be credited and we'll be credited to you against your sins. Isn't that pretty powerful? How can that ever be credited to sins, against our sins?

Just by being, something Lloyd said about, reminded me that, I'm not quite sure anymore, but I was thinking like God is above all of this and he's in charge of these things. He's not shorthanded that he doesn't know what's going on.

He knows each step of our way and children and all of us, I think, just varying degrees, I'm sure. You know, how often do we think when all of us have lost a hair this morning or two or three maybe, or maybe many more, who noticed?

Any of you remember losing a hair today? Says God does not allow one, remembers or sees when one hair, we lose one hair. So he's more watchful than we were today. None of us remember losing a hair. I think we did.

I may be assuming something here, but I think we did. So God is overall, there's no secrets. So when he institutes families and the structure of a family, I think Lloyd explained a lot of that. And this is, and that quote that Dwayne read, it's, our society is crumbling.

It is becoming weak and I think it's just a matter of time, but nevertheless, if it were so, that our sincere prayers to God for our country and our neighbors and sustain this, I think that must be good.

All that, God takes all that into account and he does what he pleases. But I know the early Christians kind of had that idea at different times that their prayers was what kept countries. And that just shows how strong we are, how much our prayers are worth.

I think maybe Jesus used this about the prayer of Elijah. He's just a man like, or we're men just like Elijah. And he prayed fervently that it wouldn't rain and for three and a half years, it didn't rain.

And I felt, I've kind of felt like that's really lifting us up, that we're like Elijah. If we trust God, if we don't trust God, when James talks about a man that is two-faced and God will not hear those prayers.

In the day of your distress, it will be remembered in your favor. This is still talking about, for kindness to a father will not be forgotten. It will be credited to you against your sins. In the day of your distress, it will be remembered in your favor.

Like frost in fair weather, your sins will melt away. Whoever forsakes a father is like a blasphemer and whoever angers a mother is cursed by the Lord. Again, it's a strong language about children. And I wouldn't like to put this on the children.

We as parents are responsible for teaching these things, but all of us can gain by striving together for these things. My child, perform your tasks with humility. Then you will be loved by those whom God accepts.

The greater you are, the more you must humble yourselves. So you will find favor in the sight of the Lord. For great is the might of the Lord, but by the humble, he is glorified. Satan seems like he wanted to be, to raise up and be like God.

This is opposite of being humble. And when he did that, I mean, we're told to be like God. So what's wrong with being like God? But he was exalting himself against God. And when we do that, we have the same, we end up having that same spirit as well.

And we as not just children, I mean, we as grownups, we're this way to God as well. We're under him. He has been kind and merciful to all of us here, way beyond what we deserve, or way beyond that what we could even think.

So we need to be, all of us need to be thankful for our father in heaven, who's watching over us all. I thought I had about the bulls. I would imagine the owner of the man sitting there maybe and saying, oh, this is gonna be dealt with.

He might even have a gun to deal with it if he needs to. And then I had the thought like, God, this great being watching down and watching us. We watch over the cattle, but he watches over us, as my little thought about that analogy.

God is watching over us. He's with eyes of fire. But it was, I got the point, I think. But that was my thought about that, how God is over us. And this is not only in, I've been wondering if, if especially I maybe think more about sin and instead of, what are we here for today?

Are we here for some self-gratification or are we here to encourage one another? Are we here for bringing glory to God? Are we here to make us a name? What are we here for? And this is just thoughts that I've been thinking, is there something we should, well, I thought of that song about worshiping the Lord and the beauty of holiness.

Like if we're holy, then God is being exalted. And if we're kind to our neighbors, then we do this to Jesus. If we give a cup to a child, this is unto Jesus. These things we're doing are unto Christ. I assume that maybe it's all a big combination of all these things.

We often cannot start separating. We can't really separate love or kindness or helpfulness or humility. If you take one away, it actually rips some of the other out too. So it's not worth nothing. And so the whole thing's worth nothing if we start ripping away.

So that we embrace them all. We have to embrace them all. We don't pick and choose. My child, perform your tasks with humility, and then you will be loved by those whom God accepts. Let's just thank this other, give a different, must be a different place.

The greater you are, the more you must humble yourselves, so you will find favor in the sight of the Lord for great is the might of the Lord. But by the humble, he is glorified. Well, by the humble, he's glorified.

This chest here. Neither seek what is too difficult for you, nor investigate what is beyond your power. I think this is something that should be maybe addressed. How often are we talking about things that are busybodies about things?

We're seeking and searching, and we're talking and arguing, and I think we're doing too much of that today. Maybe because of all the knowledge we have, it's become much worse. This is like 3 ,000 years ago, perhaps, when he said these things.

And today, we can just, never-ending branches. We can go all day long. We can go the next 10 years, unless things change, and be seeking out all these things. And I think we should think about this and put some reins on it.

Neither seek what is too difficult for you, nor investigate what is beyond your power. The problem is, who's gonna figure out who has the power? Who can figure things out, and who can't? But somewhere, humility comes in this picture, too, where we just can be humble about things.

Reflect upon what you have been commanded, for what is hidden is not your concern. Do not meddle in matters that are beyond you, for more than you can understand has been shown you, for their conceit has led many astray.

There's this whole picture behind this. When Lloyd first talked about a bull, I was thinking more like the evil. I'm not sure yet. Were you talking about God, or were you talking about evil? Yeah, I thought maybe, but my first thought would have been, might be the evil man watching us.

So I think I believe that all things have a reason. All the conspiracies and all these ideas that float around this earth, there's something behind them. And if God's not behind it, I don't wanna be with it.

I'm not sure how that all can be discerned, but we need to think about it. We need to consider it. It says here, for their conceit has led many astray. I think it's about, he's talking about these things that were hidden or things that we're seeking after and looking for.

This is not seeking after godliness. This is seeking after worldly wisdom or such like, or even just things to argue about. Yet, we do well to consider these things and put godliness there instead. Godly pursuits.

The world is gonna do what they do. I don't think we're gonna change them a whole lot. We're out there seeking souls if we can. I think that is our duty. We need to do that. And we need to pursue that.

But I don't think we're gonna change the society in any way informed by any of our thoughts and patterns. We can pray for them. God can do things that we cannot. But again, maybe be thankful for the governments we do have.

For their conceit has led many astray. And we're in that danger today. And wrong opinion, maybe that verse. And wrong opinion has impaired their judgment. Again, who can we say, how can we say, well, somebody's got a wrong opinion?

Who has authority to say that? Can't we all, don't we have freedom of speech? Can we not all just pick out what we wanna do? We can, but I think it's the world. Let us choose to pick out these things that God, or especially what Jesus taught us.

He goes on to say, without eyes, there is no light. Without knowledge, there is no wisdom. A stubborn mind will fare badly at the end. And whoever loves danger will perish in it. I dare you to do something.

I think this is part of this danger we enjoy. I don't think I hear that much around us, but when I grew up, we dare each other about things. They have this, I'm sure all the worldly young boys have done this, or I don't know if they did or didn't, but I know some of the Mennonites would have a dare thing with the cars, heading toward each other and see who's the first one to dodge.

And every once in a while, it costs life. This is a dare that is dangerous. Let's not dare each other. Let's, unless we're gonna dare to be a Daniel, but dare to be like Christ. Come to cost and be like Christ.

It was just interesting to me that he brought this out, that whoever loves danger will perish in it. There'll be many other examples in that, but I think there's something in us humans, maybe boys more than women, and maybe girls or women.

I'm not sure though, but there's something in us that wants to pursue and seek out things and test and try things. And I think there's maybe a good purpose behind that, but it has also dangers in that.

A stubborn mind will be burdened by troubles and the sinner adds sin to sin. When calamity befalls the proud, there is no healing for an evil plan has taken root in him. The mind of intelligent appreciates Proverbs.

He gives these directions too, like, do we appreciate Proverbs? Do we appreciate being told what the truth is? An attentive ear is the desire of the wise. So we think of somebody wise, we need to recognize he had an attentive ear.

He's willing to listen. As water extinguishes a blazing fire, so almsgivers atones for sin. Those who repay favors give thought to the future. When they fail, they will find support. Seems like almsgiving would be like giving just like giving, but then he says, those who repay favors give thought to the future.

I don't know if that's the same as the New Testament where it says that we should make friends with unrighteous mammon so that in the day of calamity we'll be picked up or something like that. It's interesting that we can use our money to help the poor, but it doesn't seem like when you make friends with the world, with it, if that's what it's saying, like maybe it just means being friendly with the neighbors and just being helpful.

And when things get tough, they'll help us out. I don't know what it all means. The next, I wasn't sure if, I guess it won't take that long. My child, do not cheat the poor of their living. And do not keep needy eyes waiting.

Do not grieve the hungry or anger one in need. A little example of this, I'm not talking about money, but somebody has some calamity or trouble and we kind of mock them a little bit in their trouble. I think this is part of this.

If we anger somebody in need, this is really bad. Children very easily do that. Maybe even grownups, we need to be in guard against that. I think mocking must be one of the cruelest things people can get into.

I can't find anything good for it in the Bible. If we mock others, I think God will mock us someday. It won't be good. Let's be very watchful in that. But here he's talking about maybe somebody that is in need and we anger them somehow.

Maybe we, actually, maybe we end up saying something that's not good to somebody in need. Do not add to the troubles of the despair. No. Do not add to the troubles of the desperate or delay giving to the needy.

Do not reject a supplement in distress. I think I got it wrong. Do not reject a suppliant in distress. I think maybe that's right. Or turn your face away from the poor. Do not avert your eye from the needy.

And give no one reason to curse you. For it is a bitterness of soul. But for if in bitterness of soul, some should curse you. Their creator will hear their prayer. That's a verse I thought about. I didn't realize it was right here.

Endear yourself to the congregation. Bow your head low to the great. Give a hearing to the poor and return their greeting politely. So this is like James, I think it's James, but not showing partiality.

I'm not sure. If somebody's rich and, oh, come sit here, you know, and then somebody poor, oh, you sit down there, the bottom, you're not supposed to do that. Give hearing to the poor and return their greeting politely.

We have, we see somebody that's stressed badly and poorly and we become impatient or angry or we have holy righteousness perhaps against that indignation, against that person. It's probably not holy. We need to be polite, not just to the rich, but to the poor and those in distress.

Rescue the oppressed from the oppressor and do not hesitate in giving a verdict. Be a father to orphans and be like a husband to their mother. You will then be like the son of the most high and he will love you more than does your mother.

Wisdom teaches her children and gives help to those who seek her. Whoever loves her loves life. Jesus' ways are just so opposite from what we're inclined to think. When he says, when we humble ourselves or if we wanna be great, we need to humble ourselves.

And if we wanna be first, we gotta be last. Just doesn't make any sense, but wisdom's the same way. If we love, if we, whoever loves her loves life. Like if we wanna, they're not to be separated really.

And those who seek her from early morning will be filled with joy. Whoever holds her fast inherits glory. And the Lord blesses the place she's entered, she enters. So if we allow wisdom to take us over, the Lord blesses us.

Those who serve her minister to the Holy One. The Lord loves those who love her. Those who obey her will judge the nations. And all who listen to her will live secure. If you remain faithful, they will inherit her.

Her descendants will also obtain her. For at first she will walk with them in torturous path. Now, when I saw this, I just listened to this. If we want wisdom and she wants to walk with us, we want her to walk with us.

For at first she will walk with them in torturous path. She will bring fear and dread upon them. Are we still willing to walk? Do we still want wisdom? Or is it getting too hard when God gets on us and he wants to purify us?

And we'll torment them by her discipline until what happens? What happens after this? She trusts them. How backwards? Shouldn't we be loving and kind and helpful? But we need to be tested. We need to be tried.

And I think this is what I see in this. And then if we're faithful, if we allow wisdom to get ahold of us, then wisdom will trust us. It's the way I take God will trust us. But first it takes some discipline.

I'll read it again. For at first she will walk with them in torturous path. She will bring fear and dread upon them and will torment them by her discipline. I thought maybe this had to do with undisciplined people, but they need to learn to be faithful and be just, be on time, be on jump to do something good if we can.

She'll discipline us until she trusts them. And she will test them with her ordinances. Then she will come straight back to them again and gladden them and will reveal her secrets to them. If they go astray, she will forsake them and hand them over to their ruin.

So after being tested and tried, there's joy again and there's wisdom. God will share something with us. But if they go astray, he will forsake them. She will forsake them and hand them over to their ruin.

Watch for the opportune time and beware of evil and do not be ashamed to be yourself. I'm not quite sure what that means. I guess I immediately go to this idea that we have today about I myself. I know God, I am something, I am this and I am that.

I'm this great person. God just loves me. That's what I went to my mind, I guess. So, but do not be ashamed to be yourself for there is a shame that leads to sin and there's a shame there that is glory and favor.

I guess I don't understand what he's talking about. If somebody does, feel free to share. Do not show partiality to your own harm or deference to your downfall. Do not refrain from speaking at the proper moment and do not hide your wisdom.

For wisdom becomes known through speech and education through the words of the tongue. Never speak against the truth, but be ashamed of your ignorance. Do not be ashamed to confess your sins and do not try to stop the current of a river.

Do not subject yourself to a fool or show partiality to a ruler. Fight to the death for truth and the Lord God will fight for you. Do not be reckless in your speech. Some of these things I don't confess to understand.

Fighting to death, I thought of Jesus said, you have not yet striven against sin unto blood. I guess I like this example again of, maybe it's a new revelation to me or whatever, but I mean, I knew the phrase for many years, but those people with Gideon, I forget who talked about it, but there's like 50 ,000 men and they were up against a bigger army than that.

Was it a hundred thousand double perhaps, maybe more, I forget. And then God said, whoever's afraid, go home. Just go home. And if I remember right, 40 ,000 left. Those 40 ,000 were not willing to give their life for the country or for the cost for God in that case.

Those 10 ,000 that were left, I think they had got a hold of something. That was, they had gotten a hold of that their life is not important in front of God. They were willing to lay down their life for God and go fight.

And I just think all these things about truth, we just cannot lay down. We need to lay, yeah, we need to lay down our life for the truth. Or we need to be reckless in doing what is just and right and holy, but not be reckless.

Like I said, do not be reckless in your speech. Let's not be reckless in our speech, but in a sense of trusting God, be reckless. Maybe that's not the right terminology to use reckless for something good.

I don't know. Do not be reckless in your speech or sluggish and remiss in your deeds. Do not be like a lion in your home or suspicious of your servants. Do not let your hand be stretched out to receive and close when it's time to give.

I think I'll leave off there on this part. There's the ending. If I don't forget it, I think I want to read the ending of 6 and later on. I thought there was so much about children in here. And I think he was talking about grownups, children of God and, and also children of, I mean, we're all children.

Some of us are older than others. All of us had a mother and a father for different lengths of time. Some had bad fathers, some didn't have their fathers with them all their life long. I don't know if anybody here had that, but there's many children that is true.

So I felt like reading a bit of Ephesians 5. Be subject, beginning in 21, be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. How often do we go across that? And we be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

What's a good explanation for that? Because we fear God. He goes on to explain, wives be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church and the body of which he is the savior.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be in everything to their husbands. Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her in order to make her holy by cleansing her with a washing of water by the word.

So as to present the church to himself in splendor without a spot of wrinkle or any of the kind, yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies.

If he who loves his wife loves himself. So if we don't love our wives, God is saying we don't love ourselves either. For no one ever hates his own body, but nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church.

So husband loves his wife. Like, and he's actually talking about the church, but he said, nevertheless, let each man, each of you however should love his wife as himself and a wife should respect her husband.

So Christ has the power over us or should have. If we submit to him, he will bring us into a well, a right place before God. And if a wife submits to her husband, they as a family can be in a right way before God.

Whereas Lloyd explained, if there's contention between the two in a different vision, there is, it just makes things not right. Makes things difficult, makes things hard. Whereas if we submit, the wife submits to the husband, like we do to Christ, isn't that the blessing?

Isn't this where we get life? Isn't that where we, who else can we go to? There's no one else. It's only Christ. And he's the one that, he's the one that wants us even more than we want to, he says. He wants to make us clean that we can be this bride that is, did I just read it or did I not read it?

So as to present the church to himself in splendor without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind. Yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish. This is Christ's desire for us. And this is desire that the husband has for the wife.

But if we don't submit to Christ and the things he's taught us, you think we'll have his blessing? I don't think so. This is a great challenge for us, to love our wives as Christ loves the church, as Christ loves us.

If we're of the church, it's as Christ loves us. And he's working to do that. And then the woman is supposed to, or the wife is supposed to, subject her to her husband. And again, like, it's not that a woman is of a lesser being than a man, but man was first and he's been given, God has given.

God backs us up that man is the head of the woman. And this is where things function in the best order. So both ways, the husband has to love the wife as himself. And then the woman, because of order, it's not that, I guess like broken relationships everywhere, like we can see it in the government.

Like there's this intense battle going on. They're just ruining themselves. This is what happens when we have battles between each other. Here, we just ruin ourselves. This is not a good thing. So if we want to function properly, like a government should, well, first of all, we understand that if the families are in order, then the government can function beautifully.

All the government in the world is not going to cure anything of disobedient children and disobedient men and women. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it just as Christ does for the church, because we are members of his body.

And then wisdom sometimes has some hard things for us. We got to deal with that too, because we will not make it through life without dealing with some hard things. And the more humble we walk, I think the quicker we're out of that.

The more stubborn we are, the more God has to deal with us. And I guess we need to thank him for that. Be thankful that God deals with us. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

This is a great mystery, and I'm applying it to Christ and the church. Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and your wife should respect her husband. I thought that was just a good, it seemed like this was for the children.

This is for older ones, man and wife specifically. But all of these things apply to everybody. None of these good things that Christ taught is just for Robert or just for somebody else. It's for all of us.

Sirach 6 .32. If you are willing, my child, you can be disciplined. And if you apply yourself, you will become clever. If you love to listen, you will gain knowledge. If you pay attention, you will become wise.

Stand in the company of the elders. Who is wise? Attach yourself to such a one. Be ready to listen to every godly discourse, and let no wise Proverbs escape you. Don't let good things get away from us.

They're too precious. They're like gold. More than gold. If you see an intelligent person, rise early to visit him. Let your foot wear out his doorstep. I don't know what kind of doorsteps they have, but if it were a rock one, you probably couldn't wear it out.

If it's wood, you'd have a hard time. Reflect. But I might add, though, this is not like trying to wear that person. This would be in learning from this intelligent person. Reflect on the statutes of the Lord and meditate at all times on his commandments.

It is he who will give insight to your mind, and your desire for wisdom will be granted. There's, I guess, many different phrases like that, about, I think, Solomon in, I'm not even sure I can repeat it right now, but fear God and keep his commandments.

That's all I can think of right now. And there's just many.

That's all I have. Feel free to share. Yeah, I just wanted to say amen. As a whole, I'm just really blessed to be here this morning, and it's just kind of the balm I needed. And, Walter, I was especially blessed with your thought that, oh, I guess maybe it seemed to me like you kind of meant it or said it in the context of all the things going on around us, and especially the political state of affairs in our country, and that if the Lord's not in it, you don't want to be for it.

And that just really rang true. It resonated with me in a good way. And also, one thing you talked about really stood out to me, and that was the not taking, I don't remember how it says it, but something about not taking joy in the calamity of others.

And that's one thing I really appreciate from my childhood. One of those examples, like Lloyd was talking earlier about being denied something as a young person, someone who's coming into being, they understand that they are having things withheld from them, and then later coming to appreciate that, you know, that that happens.

When I was pretty young, there was this show on television. We watched a lot of television that debuted in the early 90s. I mean, this would have been close to 30 years that it's been running. One of the first reality TV shows, and it was called Cops.

And I remember sitting in the living room and watching it with my dad, and before too long, he was like, we're not gonna watch this anymore as a family. And of course, I wanted to know why. And his answer was that like, it's a show designed to provide entertainment based on the misfortunes and mishaps of other people.

And as time went on, I just really saw that that was true. It was a television show that, you know, different police departments would have a camera for a time and follow them around on their missions of apprehending miscreants and public menaces.

And interestingly, you know, especially with this, it would have been running, I think, close to 30 years this year. I read a little bit about it recently. And the reason why I was even reading about it is that in the wake of all of the unrest here in the country, even society itself deemed this an unfit thing to be feeding to the public.

So after all this time of feeding the public, you know, this show set up to provide entertainment to people based on the calamities and misfortunes of others, they decided, society decided, secular people, that it is not beneficial or healthy, and they actually kind of handily give it credit for attributing to a lot of the stereotypes that surround ethnic minorities and creating a toxic environment.

And I just love it. I love it when society stumbles backward into biblical principles, and I just find that real refreshing. Amen, and thank you for the message.

There's one thing I wanted to say, Walter, about, it said that there's a shame that'll lead a person to sin, and then there's a shame that'll lead a person to glory, I think it said. My grandpa, he grew up Pentecostal, and he grew up serving the Lord.

And I talk to him nowadays, and he's like, man, I'm just so ashamed of myself. We're trampling through the blood, and it's like, he keeps on sinning. Or you could take someone like me, for example. I'm really ashamed of the things that I've done, but it's like, I wanna, you know, come to the Lord and say, Lord, what can I do for you?

You know, my life is for you. Or Judas, for an example. He was so ashamed of himself, he hung himself. And Peter, I think Peter repented, didn't he? Yeah, it's like the two different types of shame. So, thought I'd talk about that.

Yeah, I appreciate what was said, and appreciate what you said there, Darren. I thought of, I think there's a New Testament passage that fits in there, where I think it's in, probably in 2 Corinthians, where it talks about, there is a sorrow, a godly sorrow, that leads to repentance, not to be repented of.