Live in the Fear of God and Remember His Mercy Always — Santosh Poonen

You pull that verse back up while we look at it that we were just looking at for this week for spear 411 or better yet turn in your Bible with me if you could please and Let's look at that verse. I don't plan to speak on it, but The more I speak in churches more I preach God's Word the more I'm afraid to do so or careful and by afraid.

I don't mean that I'm fearful but very careful because of this verse to speak as the utterances of God. I Believe he speak talking primarily about the church meetings, but I believe it's true about any Time you open your mouth.

Speaking as the Utterances of God

You speak to your wife. Imagine God himself saying those same words. I mean, this is a command is to do so as one you are commanded to do so husband wife parents speaking to our children when you play on the field and how you speak to somebody that you're playing with when you speak to your co-worker when you speak to the The Grocery store attendant speak as the utterances of God.

It's a very powerful word God says when you open your mouth because you're my child because I put my spirit in you. There's a way sense in which when you open your mouth make sure you recognize You're speaking as if you're speaking the utterances of God and especially you get up and preach God's Word.

Which is why we are careful with how much speaking we want to have in our meetings and It offends some people people have left this church over the fact that we don't allow visitors to speak and and Even the fact that we say two minutes.

It's offensive to some people but This is God's Word. I don't want to stand before God as an elder in this church and God say well. You made it easy for them to just say whatever they were thinking. And not keep first Peter 4 verse 11 in mind.

So that's part of the reason why we're very careful When we speak publicly when we speak in a way that's broadcast across the world as well. There must be a reverence a carefulness about what we say and but really in every aspect of our lives, so Let's keep that in mind this week think about it what a different marriage we would have different homes we would have is Husbands or wives right about as you're about to say that you say, okay, hold on my memory verse for this week.

And it's a long one. Be interesting to see how many of us actually make it through this but more than even whether you memorize it. Let's live it out this week. Lord, I want to speak if I open my mouth.

I want it to be as if you are speaking to my wife Jesus himself. This is a secret to a godly marriage. We have some powerful memory verses already and Sometimes I think if we really got the message of all the memory verses there would be no more need for anything additional to that.

Remembering the Cost of God’s Mercy

But that phrase in Romans 8 32 is often blessed me tremendously that he Didn't spare his own son. Oh. And even just sitting there and listening to it. I just like a fresh wave of recognition of God's mercy and What it cost God to show me mercy.

Have you thought about that what did it cost God to show mercy to you? It wasn't just oh, I'm rich in mercy so I can just give you mercy. God is rich in mercy. But I was such a horrible person That he couldn't just say I'll give you mercy out of my abundance he had to deliver his own son up for me.

That's how bad I was. That's how bad you are were. Because sometimes we can think well, yeah, God's rich in mercy. So of course, it's easy for him to forgive my sin. I can sin lightly. I can speak in a rude way.

I can be careless with my eyes and lust. I can have a bad mood. I can just kind of be careless with the way I live my life because God is rich in mercy. I can always just say please forgive me Lord. I slipped up again.

God is rich in mercy. But it's so easy for us to forget What it cost God for him to be rich in mercy for my sin. He who did not spare his own son, but freely Delivered him up for us that word delivered him up.

I got this picture some years ago when I was meditating on this verse of devil coming to God with his hand around my neck saying God I've got Santo. She's mine. But you can have him if you give up your son here's the devil holding my neck and going to God and saying I'll give you Santo if you give me Jesus.

That's exactly what happened. He delivered him up. Okay devil have Jesus. I want Santosh back and Today I'm his. But I never want to forget the exchange. That happened that day at Calvary when he delivered him up for my sake and Now he'll freely give me all things.

He says if God was willing to do that. Have you seen that picture? I'll tell you it was such a it was a life-changing moment for me now. You could get that picture. I hope it blesses you, but it's quite a different thing when you get it yourself and It changed the way I my attitude towards sin.

After I saw that picture in my mind with the devil with his hands around my throat. Dragging me into heaven and saying give me Jesus you can have Santosh back. I Say Lord now, I don't want to take sin lightly.

I would just be careless towards sin. Lackadaisical attitude. Live half for myself and half for you half for this world and half for the kingdom. Not taken up with the things of God not taken up with the kingdom of heaven.

Not interested in building his church. Not interested in investing in others not interested in going out and seeking that one sheep. That's still lost. Because yeah, I'm okay. And we forget what it costs God to win me.

Falling Away and the Warning of Second Peter

I'll talk about that some more today, but I'd like to turn to 2nd Peter chapter 2. I've been thinking recently. It's actually prompted by a conversation some I was having with some brothers some of you a few days ago and Around why is it that some people fall away?

You know, is it possible to fall away? Absolutely read your Bible carefully. It's possible to fall away. Don't believe the lie that exists in much of Western Christendom that you cannot fall away. The devil would like for you to think that but it is possible to fall away and is some verses here in 2nd Peter chapter 2 by the way, I think sometime we should do a study of Peter.

First and second Peter it's so rich. Ajay was speaking last week even from some verses here and I've been just reading randomly different verses here in the light of What Ajay reminded us of the way Peter fell and that reminder?

That Peter had and it's just when you see that this is the same Peter. You know. You tend to think of Peter writing to the churches as the Peter standing on the day of Pentecost. Full of authority full of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, that was true. But it was the same man who denied Jesus. After saying he wouldn't. And after saying everybody else will deny you Lord, but I won't and hours later He did exactly what he said he wouldn't do in that moment of temptation.

He fell. And then he at that time thought it was probably over. And when I decided to go back to being a fisher Fisherman. And God was not done with him and he's not done with you my dear brother and your sister and your child.

No matter where you are in your life. God is not done with you. If you are alive today, that means he's not done with you. That's the memory verse we had for this week. So some some people do fall away, you know, I've there have been people who have sat in this church.

I'm not thinking of anyone in particular. Who have gone so far away from the Lord in their walk? People have heard such richness of truth and fallen away and I I'm not thinking of anyone in particular.

I'm not even thinking about how bad they are. But I say Lord, I want to learn the lesson to make sure that I don't fall away. Because if others have fallen in a way if Judas Iscariot himself could fall away and betray Jesus Is it possible that I would do the same thing?

May ask you a very very simple question if you were the one of twelve one of the twelve disciples. Is it possible that you would be the Judas Iscariot if you think no, no, no, no. No, I may be a Matthew or even a Peter, but I won't be the Judas Iscariot.

Think again now I'm not saying that all of us will fall away, but let's take heed and The examples that we have given in Scripture are written for our instruction that we can learn from them. Peter says in 2nd Peter 2 Verse 19 that about people in the Christians who are once upon a time Christians.

2nd Peter 2 verse 19. They promise others freedom. They speak about freedom. They sing the song free at last free at last and all that but They themselves are slaves of corruption. Secretly they are slaves to sin, but in the church meetings, they'll sing loud.

They themselves are slaves of corruption. For by what a man is overcome. By this he is enslaved if sin is overcoming you. I'm going to tell you the Word of God right here in 2nd Peter 2 verse 19 You are enslaved to sin.

God doesn't want you to remain that way if you find that you're constantly speaking to your spouse in a particular way. And you just can't help it. I want to tell you you being overcome by sin. You're enslaved to it and you could go on and on with with all the sin that besets us and Then he goes on to say if after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

They've escaped the defilements of the world and they've come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but they are again Entangled in the old sins you went back to being that lustful person that angry person that Complaining person that person who speaks rudely and harshly and are overcome.

They're again entangled in them and are overcome. The last state has become worse for them than the first. It is if I understand this verse correctly and I don't believe I'm wrong in that. That this verse is saying it would have been better that you never gave your life to Jesus and were born again.

Having been born again to have a careless attitude towards sin and to go back Lightly Foolishly carelessly into the old sins. It's very serious words. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness Than having known it to turn away from the Holy Commandment handed on to them.

We won't hear these verses in a lot of churches, but they're here in God's Word and Then he says in verse 22 it has happened to them according to the true proverb a dog returns to its own vomit and a sow.

After washing returns to wallowing in the mire. So it's possible to fall away and my the thing I've been meditating on the last few days has been why is it that some fall? Away, how can I be sure that I don't fall away?

Taking Hold of Eternal Life

I Thought we could look at a few things before we do that first. Timothy chapter 6. If we have a careless attitude towards sin and towards the calling that we have then the devil will easily rob us of That which God has given us.

We will easily take for granted the mercy that God has shown on us. We'll easily take for granted the grace we have received. A lot of these things will take for granted we'll have a careless attitude towards life in general the life that we're called to live on this earth and One day wake up to a shock when we stand before God and Paul was mindful of this when he tells Timothy and by the way first Timothy.

If I understand correctly Paul Timothy was in his late 40s about my age not a not a very young man. He's in his late 40s when Paul is writing this to him. Timothy has been working with Paul for about 15 years or so from what we know.

So this isn't Paul telling new believer. Hey new convert lay hold of eternal life. We're gonna read first Timothy 6 verse 12 fight the good fight of fight take hold of the eternal life to which you were called.

Would you tell somebody who has been a believer for at least 15 years. Maybe more and has been working with the greatest apostle that ever lived. I believe Paul was his co-worker. In fact, not just any co-worker his best co-worker.

To the church in Philippi Paul says I don't have anybody like Timothy because they all care for their own interests. Timothy cares for your interests and the interests of Jesus Christ and To this man who's the best of his Apostles Paul says lay hold of eternal life.

You might think really what? Timothy's got it, right? Everything's good. No lay hold of eternal life Timothy. And so If you are the most spiritual person in this room, if you're the most spiritual person listening to this whoever that is.

We don't know who it is. God knows but even to such a person God's Word would say God himself would say lay hold of eternal life. Wherever you are in the Christian life lay a hold of it. Fight. See the the active words there.

It's not a hey sit back and and just kind of make coast through life fight. Get out your weapon get out your sword. Know the Word of God. Be a prayer warrior. Be active in your Christian life. Be active in helping others in building up the church.

Be active. Be active. Don't be passive. Otherwise you will fall away. Be active. Fight the good fight. Lay hold. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called. Now we know eternal life. Jesus defined it in John 17 verse 3 eternal life is this that they may know the the only true God and His son Jesus whom he has sent.

John 17 verse 3. So this is eternal life is to know God. And when you say laying hold of eternal life There are three aspects of knowing God you could probably think about a lot of different things. But I'd like to just focus on three Today and the first of that is when you see God when you really get to know him.

Knowing God’s Holiness

I Believe more and more as I've been thinking about this and seeking to know God I believe we will realize that his holiness is much higher than we realize. Holiness is not just okay. I didn't sin. I didn't lust with my eyes.

I didn't go get drunk. I didn't get angry at that person who cut me off or I was actually pretty nice to my wife this past month. That that's not holiness. Look, that's kind of putting a very low standard of holiness.

That's saying I didn't do bad things. The holiness of God is much much much higher than we realize and if You are not growing in Knowing God as holy. It's probably another God that you're knowing to God of your imagination.

The more we truly get to know God the more we realize holiness is a much higher standard than we realize. People sometimes write to us or complain about us that we preach to higher standard in this church and I'll tell you honestly, I feel like the standard that we preach is not high enough because I don't know God fully yet.

When I finally get to the place where I know him fully I will realize that his holiness was much much much much greater so and So the first area of knowing God is how do I make sure that I always That that I don't fall away is to always live in the fear of the Lord.

There's a lot of people that talk about the love of God and I believe God is love because the Bible says he is love. He can't not be love. He cannot. He's always love. He is love. He can't not be love.

Everything he does is full of love but There is a sense in which I believe that one of the things that's missing in Christendom today. Especially in Western Christendom is a lack of a foundation in the fear of God.

Proverbs 9 verse 10 says that the fear of the Lord is the ABC of wisdom. The beginning of wisdom and it's like reading a book about the love of God. But I don't know my ABC. So I've got this book that's the love of God.

But I'm just looking at it and imagining that the love of God is certain things. When it's not now if I couldn't read and I was just looking at this book and you said hey Can you read that from that page page 409 and I can't read.

I don't know my ABC. So I would just make up a bunch of stuff. I believe what's going on in a lot of Christendom today is there's a lot of people a lot of preachers who don't know the Fear of God that are speaking about the love of God and they don't have the first clue what they're speaking from the book of Love of the love of God because they don't know ABC.

And I'm thankful that I was raised in a church and in a home where I was taught the fear of the Lord. You know what? It says fathers we ought to do for our children. I think the NASB says bring them up in the discipline and the instruction of the Lord.

I think it's a King James that says bring them up in the fear of the Lord. My dear brothers and sisters fathers and mothers if you really want to change Train your children a right teach them the fear of God the fear of God.

It will save them in the long run. Yes, it's possible and you might immediately say well, they'll become legalistic. They'll be afraid of God and all this thing. Yes, that's true. But I tell you that unless we start with ABC and knowing the fear of the Lord.

We will imagine a love of God and a mercy of God that isn't based on the fear of God. Now what that actually looks like ask God to to show you Lord. I want to know what does it mean to fear you? Proverbs 23 verse 17 says live in the fear of the Lord all the day long all the day long 24 -7 it's one of those 24 -7 things that you don't hear about too often.

You hear about 24 -7 rejoicing first Thessalonians 5 24 -7 prayer 24 -7 giving thanks. Those are easy. What about 24 -7 living in the fear of the Lord? Proverbs 23 verse 17 live in the fear of the Lord all the day long always every moment Lord you're here.

You're walking alongside me. You're seeing you're in my thoughts. You see my attitudes. You see my motives and I tell you when we really live in the fear of the Lord all the day long. It will change the way we act and there's a lot of Christians that are trying to change their outward behavior how they speak or how they act or what they do or What they look with their eyes and all that but it's not started with the ABC of living in the fear of the Lord if you turn to Isaiah chapter 6 when when Isaiah saw God, you know speaking about knowing God.

This is what it means to lay hold of eternal life. It's important that we make sure that the God we're seeking to know is the true God and I don't know what knowledge of God Isaiah had before Isaiah chapter 6 the first five chapters.

Some knowledge of God. I mean he was speaking something's good. He was you know, you could look at his God saying I will reason with you first the Isaiah chapter 1. Though your sins are a scholar this is true.

This is the mercy of God, but Isaiah still had not seen God that happens in chapter 6. You know Isaiah 1 is your sins though they be read as why I read a scarlet they shall be white as snow and Though they are read like crimson.

They will be like wool if you Consent and obey you will eat the fruit the the best of the land, etc. That's chapter 1 but that is all coming from an Isaiah who hasn't yet seen God high and lifted up and Then his eyes are opened in chapter 6.

In chapter 6 we read in the year of King Uzziah's death. I saw the Lord sitting on a throne Lofty and exalted with the train of his robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood before him stood above him each having six wings.

With two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew. And one called up to another and said holy holy. Holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. So when Isaiah finally saw God high and lifted up high lofty.

The loftiness of God the exalted Aspect of God that Isaiah saw he didn't all of a sudden take love love love or mercy mercy mercy. Yes, God is all of these things but his the word he heard clearly was holy.

Holy holy when he saw God high and lifted up all of a sudden. He saw God is much holier Than he then I thought he was. Much holier than he thought he then then I thought he was. And even you know, it says even the seraphim they covered their faces.

Here's our seraphim these are sinless beings they've never sinned. Never sinned in their whole life. They they don't have the capability to sin. They don't have free will they're just angel. Maybe they do have free will.

I don't know but these seraphim that he's talking about were ones that have never sinned themselves. And they're not being tempted but Those seraphim who have never sinned when they saw the holiness of God they cover their face.

Let me ask you the more you've gotten to know God. Has it resulted in a wanting to cover your face and just say Lord? I can't even see your holiness. I can't. I can't gaze on your holiness as easily because I see you are even more holy and That's sin that I sort of tend to Neglect that attitude or that little bit of pride that's there in me.

I just sort of have a casual attitude towards. I've had a casual attitude towards it now I realize you're so holy and I want to just bury my face in my hands. That's what the seraphim did. And I believe that must be our response.

That will be our response when we've truly seen God want to bury our faces say Wow Lord I didn't realize you were that holy. I Because you're so holy and you know here we are thinking well my sin it's pretty bad and then God I see God is up there and The when when we get to know God and realize wow, he's even more holy.

I realize man. You mean you had to come from that distance down for my sake? You see how the holiness of God being raised in our Understanding causes us to repent. Causes us to live in the fear of the Lord all the way all the day long so that I don't continue to sin.

So that I don't go back to that vomit. So that I don't go back having been cleansed. I don't go back and wallow in that dirt anymore because I've seen God is higher. If God is no more holy to me today than he was six months ago.

I won't tell you you may fall away If God is not more holy in my eye in my sight Than he was six months ago or a year ago. I'm probably falling away. I'm just getting getting along in life. Just coasting along.

Oh, yeah, you love me so much. Thank you. Oh the love that sought me or the love that brought me and we sing these songs lightly. Psalm 36 is a wonderful verse here I'd like us to look at Psalm 36 verses 1 2 transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart or David was actually saying the literal translation is in my heart.

David's to read that correctly my understanding of the literal word here is transgression speaks to the ungodly within my heart. David is saying even though he's not living in just blatant sin. He's he's a man after God's own heart but I believe David saw God a little bit more as holy and it certainly ought to be true about me and Psalm 36 verse 1 ought to be true about my heart that I realize how ungodly I am as a saved redeemed sanctified Child of God how ungodly I am because of the that sin that casual attitude I have towards sin.

Does that sin speak to you in your heart before it came out? Before you spoke to your wife or spoke to your husband or spoke to your children or. Did that outward thing did the sin in your heart speak to you?

David had it in the Old Testament a man who was not filled with the Holy Spirit. And Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes he will convict you of sin convict you of righteousness and convict your judgment, but.

But there is no fear of God before his eyes. So even though this sinner this ungodly man is convicted in his heart and the sin is speaking to him he doesn't have the fear of God in his eyes and so It flatters him in his own eyes concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it.

He just feels like well, I haven't gotten caught. So I'm I'm okay. I managed to hide it so far I've been managed to keep it under wraps. I'll just continue that way. And you read the rest of that Psalm the outcome of that but the key there was that the reason this man was not.

It didn't really result in change in him was because there was no fear of God. Even though the sin was convicting him convicting him convicting him if the transgression was speaking to him in his heart.

Long before it came out and then it came out and he still wasn't convicted. This is the this is what happens when we don't have the fear of God. And one more verse in Proverbs chapter 8 We read here that the fear of God is the fear of the Lord is to hate evil.

But look at specifically what the writer of Proverbs believe it was Solomon says Proverbs 8 verse 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. And what especially what evil he says pride and arrogance. Pride and arrogance.

Hating Pride and Arrogance

I Believe this that if I haven't seen more pride in my life over the last year, let's say. If I think yeah, you know, I haven't seen I'm not proud if God hasn't shown me my pride more in this last year I'm probably on the on the way to being to falling away.

The the sure way to fall away is that I no longer see my pride. I think I'm pretty humble. Yeah, every now and then I rub people the wrong way and that sort of thing, but I'm not really that proud. I mean proud.

Yeah, you know I can think of people in the world those athletes and those politicians and all that but me. Yeah, that means that the humility of God the holiness of God's humility. You know holiness of God includes his humility that is not becoming.

I'm not seeing it as even higher. There is absolutely no pride at all in in Jesus. There's no pride at all in God. Nothing at all that's what caused the highest angel to become the devil and unless that Estimation of what the humility of Christ is isn't being raised up even higher I'm probably it's no wonder that I'm still just as proud as I was last year.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Especially pride and arrogance and so here for me is a very simple test that I really fear the Lord. What does it mean to truly fear the Lord? I hate pride if I see even a little bit of a proud attitude towards somebody else.

Then I hate it. I recognize that I'm on the way to be to falling away. You know, I thank God we have our spouses. I See that the way in which God shows me my pride the most is in my marriage now. Megan's not saying hey, you were proud or anything like that.

I'm seeing it. It's in my heart. And you might say well, what did you do? Are you are you being abusive to her? No, none of that's going on in our home, but I see pride in my interactions in the home more and more.

Oh this year I've seen so much and I hated brothers and sisters but I tell you I I take some comfort the fact that I see that God is. It's it's the standard is being raised even higher. I Say Lord, I want to continue on that way.

And I believe that the more you show me my pride the more you will set me free from it. But if I am I if I'm in denial about it. And I just imagine that there's no pride and God will let me be the fear of God is not there.

And I'll continue that path. So to avoid to make sure that we don't fall away. Let's always live in the fear of the Lord. Secondly, let's always remember God's mercy to us. If you think that God has been merciful to you, like I was just saying in the beginning.

Remembering Personal Purification and Former Sins

He's been a lot more merciful our verse. No, let's turn to 2nd Peter chapter 1 our verse for this week. Also, I'll talk about in a second said that really blessed me 2nd Peter 1 we read in verse 4, you know verse 4 through 8 you can say or 4 through 7 is this building up of You Know faith moral excellence knowledge self-control Perseverance godliness brotherly kindness love.

It's kind of like a building blocks to build up but he says that if verse 8 for 2nd Peter 1 verse 8 if these qualities are Yours and are increasing then you will be Useful and fruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That's how you're growing. Check yourselves brothers and sisters. Let's check ourselves. Am I really growing in these things? But what's the one way that he says that you will lack? These things. So there's two things one is he says make sure you're growing in these things because then you're fruitful.

So, how do I make sure that I'm growing in these things? He doesn't say well work hard read your Bible pray Do it better grit your teeth try harder. No, none of those things he says the very simple way to make sure you grow on these things is don't forget Your purification from your former sins.

It's a revelation, you know, it's really good. I was sitting there listening last week to brother RJ speaking on this and it was really blessed me that that The way to make sure that I'm growing because when I think growing, okay, you know when you say hey kids.

You need to grow eat your vegetables. Work out go, you know exercise all these things you say eat healthy or you know, that's the earthly way. The spiritual way to grow is don't forget how merciful God has been to you.

You see now how I and I'll tell you honestly as this week as I've been meditating on it. I realize Why there were times in my life and there are times that come to every now then where I don't not growing spiritually.

Why? Because I've gotten so far from The sheep that was out there wandering. We sang about it in the song I'm the 99 now in the in the fold and Jesus is out there fetching that one that is still out there.

You know We all know the loved ones that we pray for the ones that are rebellious the ones that are in sin. But I forgotten that that was me. Not that long ago, but it's I've gotten far from that I've been enjoying the comfort of the fold so much that I've forgotten That God was merciful to me forgotten the purification for my former sins and this the easiest way to stagnate.

Stagnate just means that I Just stop growing. You know what would happen if you stop growing physically and I'm not talking about a height because I've stopped growing in height a long Time ago, I'm getting shorter.

Actually, my spine is curving, but I'm talking just growing. You know what happened? I would die. Death comes in the moment you stop growing and I'll tell you Spiritual death will come in the moment. You forget your purification from your former sins.

It's a sure way to backslide to fall away. All of a sudden now you have complaints against others. Oh. This brother's like that this sister's like that or my wife's like this. My husband's like that. My children are like that.

My parents are like that. My friends are like that. My colleagues are like that my neighbors like that. Forgotten that you were that sheep that Jesus had to go and Forgotten what you know. Hebrews 12 verse 3 says consider him who has endured such hostility from others.

Think about that phrase for a moment. Consider. That means sit down and just meditate for a little bit how much hostility Jesus had to face. When's the last time you went to bed? I think that's a good place to consider a couple places I consider one is in the shower and the others when I'm falling asleep or if I wake up in the middle of the night.

And then often I'll consider as like Lord. I want you to show me exactly how much you suffered for me. How high was that mountain you had to cross to find me? How deep was that? Thorny Valley that you had to cross.

How wide was that Gulf you had to cross for me? For me we sang last week seeking for me seeking for me. Yeah, there it's possible to have this God so loved the world mentality that he gave his only son.

But the moment John 3 16 and Romans 8 32 becomes personal. For God so loved Santosh that he delivered up his son Jesus for me. Then all of a sudden I realized God you've been merciful to me. I tell you if you ever have a complaint against anybody.

If you ever have a complaint against anybody I can tell you. Quite frankly you have forgotten how merciful God has been to you. You have a complaint against your wife against your husband. Oh, he's like this.

She's like that. Complain against another brother. Oh, you know, they're not my type or he's got these quirks and you complained against. Somebody there have been people sitting in this church who have left with complaints.

Vocal complaints and text complaints and email complaints. They've forgotten how merciful God has been to them and I've fallen into that myself. I tell you I've had complaints in my life and I I hate it now.