WWUTT 1980 Q&A Deadly False Teaching, Reformed Apps, Generational Curses, Power in Our Words

False Teachers Are Deadly Serious

Why is it so necessary to warn against false teachers? What is one book that I would recommend you read outside of the Bible? And can we issue generational curses? The answers to these questions and others when we Understand the Text.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. Okay, I adjusted that mic on you so that you would be louder, and now it's popping your P's. Oh. So, hang on. Make an adjustment. Adjustment. Adjustment. It's not an exact science.

Eh.

It's a give or take. Yeah. It's somewhat of an art form. It's somewhat luck. You know. However, I'm sitting, and I will readjust my sitting all night.

Yeah. Right. She's not always sitting in the same chair. The whole time I'm recording. I can sit right here, and I'm happy. No. I'm fine. But yeah, you're. I don't have as cozy of a chair, though. You don't.

So, you got that nice seat cushion. Yeah. I got it. I don't have a seat cushion. If I move in this thing, I just make all kinds of noise in this chair. Squeak, squeak. All right. Real quick, before we get to some questions here, I wanted to come back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Okay. Which I just finished this week. Mm-hmm. This was my third time teaching through it in as many years. Oh, wow. In 2020, I taught through it the first time. Did you really? Yep. And then it was two years ago, Tom and I taught through it together.

Oh, yeah. Okay. And then I just did it on the podcast. Yeah. So, three times through the Sermon on the Mount. And as I came to the conclusion of this, you have those warnings from Jesus about beware of false prophets.

So, Matthew 7, 15, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. And he says that you will know them by their fruit. Yeah. A good tree bears good fruit.

A bad tree bears bad fruit. And you've heard us talk about that many times if you've been a regular listener to this broadcast. Mm-hmm. Look for the fruit. Yes. You will know if they are a good teacher if they are producing what they're teaching.

If they're teaching godliness, they're producing godliness. That's what you're going to see in their lives. Right. But if what you see in their lives is ungodliness, if maybe there's something in the teaching you've missed, well, the conduct of their lives are going to point you to recognize, okay, there might be something bad in the teaching.

Right. Now, that's not always a one-to-one because you can have sound teachers who end up with some great sin in their lives. Right. And it doesn't mean that that sin is now revealing of the fact that they were teaching falsely.

It's revealing of the fact that they were not consistent. They were being hypocrites. They were saying one thing, but they were doing something else. Yeah. But regardless, you will recognize them by their fruit.

Will the way they live be consistent with what it is that they teach? If not, then they're a false prophet. They may even teach things that are true, but in their lives, not living out what it is that they are saying.

Yeah. So, anyway, this warning that is given to beware of false prophets. Come to you in sheep's clothing so they look like us, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. And whenever I teach on this, you know, I tend to be even keeled or have the same sort of tone as I teach on any kind of passage.

But I always come away from that wondering, could I have given a greater emphasis than I did? Yeah. I mean, do you not realize that false teaching is deadly serious?

Yeah. I mean, because isn't it like heaped on you, on teachers?

Well, you're thinking of maybe James 3 .1. I think I'm combining too many. Maybe you're thinking of James 3 .1. Not many of you should aspire to become teachers because you know that teachers will be judged with greater strictness.

Yes. So there is a greater weight, a greater responsibility on teachers. Yes. And a greater judgment on them for getting this wrong. Or leading astray. Leading astray. The blood of the people that you lead astray will be on your hands.

This is like Ezekiel 33, where God says to the watchman, if you see the sword coming against the land and you don't sound the alarm, then when the sword comes against the people, all of their blood is on your hands.

Right. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and sounds the alarm, and then there are people that don't take the warning and they die, well, the blood is not on the watchman's hands. He did exactly what he was supposed to do.

Right. So many preachers out there not warning people about the judgment that is to come. If they're not warning about judgment and that the way of salvation is through Jesus Christ, even in that, they're a false teacher.

Yeah. You have warnings about false teachers in every book of the New Testament except, I think, Philemon might be the only one. Oh, okay. That's interesting. There's a warning about false teachers in every one.

You think that might be something we would need to look out for. That's a pretty important thing.

Yeah. When Jesus addressed the churches at the beginning of Revelation, in Revelation 2 and 3, there's warning about false teachers there. Yeah. Christ is warning about false teachers. They look like you.

They will come in sheep's clothing. They will claim to be Christians. Yeah. But they will devour you and destroy you if you listen to their teaching and follow in their ways. This is just such a deadly serious thing.

Something else that I was thinking about, I think, after I gave the lessons that I gave on Tuesday and Wednesday, which were at the close of the Sermon on the Mount, even a couple of days after that, I'm thinking about that and I'm going, should I have given more oomph there?

Like giving more warning, giving more caution. Guys, false teaching will lead you to hell. And yet, this is one of those things that pastors will do, sound teachers of the word will do, warning about false teachers that often gets the most pushback from people in the congregation.

Yeah. Well, you got to be nice. Yeah, right. Why do we need to call them out? Just preach the gospel. We'll be good with that. Yeah. Jesus' love. Yeah. I mean, we also have to say who we're not aligned with.

Yeah. That's part of teaching soundly. Like those who teach the true gospel are on this way. Remember the narrow gate that we read about previously in Chapter 7. The narrow gate. And then all of these folks on the broad way that appeal to your flesh, that sound like the world, that are going to lead you to death if you follow after them.

Which is why, as a shepherd, we warn you. Yeah. Don't go that way. Don't go after that teaching.

Yeah. Because, I mean, you might hear the same thing that your preacher has told you from someone else, but then they go on to a totally different way. Different application. Yeah. And you just follow them down that way.

Because you don't know. You don't know. It's not familiar. If you're not telling them what not to know, I mean, what not to follow. Yes. Then you just, you're like, oh, well, this sounds good. You know, I like this.

And it tickles your ears and you go that way.

And it sounds like something my pastor has said. You know, something like that. And I've said this before with various congregations that I have preached to. I can tell you follow sound doctrine. Everybody nods their head.

Right. Yes, we should follow sound teaching. Yes. But then you name something. Stephen Furtick is not a sound teacher. You follow his teaching, it'll lead you to hell. And then suddenly everybody's like, whoa, wait, wait, wait.

I was on board with you. Until you said that. Until you said that. And I kind of like Furtick, you know. Yeah. Then it starts to offend people. Yeah. But that's necessary. It's necessary for us to call out false teachers.

Jesus is calling out the Pharisees while they're right there in front of the people. True. That's very true. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Sons of hell producing sons of hell that are twice as much sons of hell as yourselves.

Yeah. That's pretty huge. Yes. Yeah, wow. So we've got to be careful about the teachers that we listen to. And you hear these warnings from pastors who care about you because it's deadly. It's serious.

Yeah. There is a teaching that will lead you to hell. And there is a teaching that will lead you to everlasting life in Christ. Amen. So be on the narrow path, the way that leads to life, the way of Christ.

And be on guard. Be on guard against all the different lies, the different snares.

Yeah. Because, I mean, they're sneaky, some of them. Yeah. The schemes of the devil.

Yeah. Watch out for the way that he works. Exactly. He is like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour, as it says in 1 Peter 5. Yeah. And beware of those who say, well, you can bind Satan. No. See, they're not on guard against Satan's schemes if you think that you've got the power to bind Satan.

True. Anyway, I don't want to spend too much time on that, but that was just something else that I was thinking about coming to the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount and thinking, should I spend more time on the false teaching warnings, put a greater emphasis on some of those things?

But I hope you understand and you continue to hold fast to the true word of Christ. As warned about in 1 Timothy 6, those who go away from the sound words of Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing.

And he has a craving for controversy and quarrels about words which produce dissension, slanders, evil suspicions, and constant friction by those who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth. So, if you go away from the sound word of Christ, that's the result.

Yeah. It's going to divide people, break people up. There will not be unity. And even worse than this, it will lead to their own destruction. Yeah. 2 Peter 3 .16, there are the ignorant and unstable who twist the word to their own destruction like they do the rest of the scriptures.

Well, we're here to answer some of those questions when you hit those confusing parts and hope we're able to provide some clarity for you. This is the Friday edition of the broadcast when we take questions from the listeners and you can submit those questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

We've got a couple of false teachers to respond to here. Oh? This first one has been sent to me by several people. This happened just yesterday. Okay. And so, there were folks that were asking me, did you see this clip?

This is Russell Moore, who's the editor of Christianity Today, in an interview with Karen Swallow Pryor, who at the present is unemployed, but was previously a professor at Southeastern Theological Seminary in North Carolina.

Okay. So, they're talking here, and Karen Swallow Pryor tends to be one of those persons that is consulted about like her literary expertise. Okay. And Russell Moore likes to do book reports in his basement while the rest of us are losing our religious freedoms in the midst of a pandemic.

Huh. Yeah. That's kind of Moore's character. So, the two of them are sitting down and recently did an interview on Russell Moore's podcast, and they got to ripping on Pilgrim's Progress. What? Yes. Not even kidding.

Okay. So, listen to this.

Why Pilgrim's Progress Still Matters

That's interesting. I don't like John Bunyan. I like the person of John Bunyan. I like the life of John Bunyan, but Pilgrim's Progress leaves me cold, and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners even more so.

And I think because I've seen so many people who started reading some Puritan literature from that time period who became so morose and so introspective and believing there's no way they could really be a Christian, and all of the tests that they were giving to themselves that they would test whether or not they had the objectivity to go through the tests, you know, all of that.

That Puritan era, I think, brought some things that just really creep me out. But you talk about, in the book, just how significant Pilgrim's Progress really was in terms of shaping everything around us, which I don't think I'd ever thought about before.

I mean, I knew it was, at one point, the most popular book other than the Bible, but I didn't really think about how the story actually changed the way we see things.

I'm going to be completely honest here. I mean, the Pilgrim's Progress is kind of a drag to read. I mean, even teaching it, my students love to hate it, and I love to teach it to try to hate it with them and help them see it.

And I'm so glad, actually, that I came to it as a student of literature before more than a Christian. I mean, I was a Christian, but I approached it as literature.

Becky's eyes, like, right away when we opened that clip with Moore going, I don't like John Bunyan. Oh, man. Your eyes rolled all the way up there, I think. They went up the wall.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah. I'm tortured along with all of you.

The number one book I recommend when people ask me, what is one book you would recommend outside of the Bible? For decades, my number one answer has been Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Yeah. It's a good book.

That is the book you should read. And as I understand it, it is the most printed book other than the Bible in the history of the world. Wow. If you would ask me point blank, like, what do you think is the most printed book other than the Bible?

I would probably say the Book of Common Prayer or the Koran. I would assume it might be one of those two. All right. But my understanding is, I mean, you know, because it's been several centuries that Pilgrim's Progress has been around, that that is the most published book in the world outside of the Bible.

It has been translated in over 200 languages. And the Koran is never translated. I won't say never, but it's hardly ever translated to other languages because they believe that it has to be in the original language that it was written in to be a genuine Koran.

Anyway, that's a false book. But with Pilgrim's Progress, I mean, what a great book. I'm going through Pilgrim's Progress with the kids right now. And I was unaware of how well they knew it. Yeah. Because as we're going through it, they're like, is that this part?

And I'm like, how many times have I read this to you guys? And we've watched the movies. We've done the movies. Several versions of it. Yeah. There's the old cartoon that I remember watching when I was a kid.

There was the computer animated version that came out a few years ago. Right. We've watched that one. Becky and I have mentioned on this show before an app called the Monergism eBook Library. Oh, yeah.

Over 900 free books in this app. Okay? The Monergism eBook Library. Look that up on your iPhone or Android, download it, and you've got a library of books there. Now, one of the books that he mentioned that I had not read from John Bunyan when he was talking about books that he did not enjoy from John Bunyan, Moore said Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

I don't think I've read that one from Bunyan. Okay. So as soon as I heard him say it, I pulled up my Monergism eBook Library and I downloaded it and I'm reading it. Nice. And there's also, look at this, The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English.

Hey. Right here on that. That's helpful. Yep. It's right here on the app. So you don't even have to go buy a print copy, you just download this app.

And it's right there. And then I'll keep looking in the glossary for what's the meaning of this phrase and what's the meaning of this word.

Yeah, that's right. Since it's in modern English, you get past the King James language a little bit. A little more updated. So that's a great app. I would highly encourage you to download that app. And another one that I keep meaning to mention, the last few weeks I've forgotten about this one, but there is a Reformed app.

And I think that's just the name of it. I think it's the Reformed app. And it's got on there different Reformed confessions, like the Westminster Confession of Faith, the London Baptist Confession of Faith.

Oh, cool. I think both the First and Second Editions and the Heidelberg Catechism is on here. There's also several different catechisms that you can read. And I've been going through this with the kids in the evening.

There is an Easy Kids Catechism on here. And that's a question we get a lot. Yes. I love the Baptist Catechism. I love Keech's Catechism. But sometimes the questions can be a little advanced. Right. A little complicated, especially in their language, for kids to understand and memorize and recite and even get what the question and answer are supposed to be.

Right. But there's an Easy Kids Catechism on this app. You guys will love it. And it's like 150 questions or something like this. And it will even, like it will come up like this. I'm showing it to Becky here.

Uh-huh. But it comes up like this where it has the question and it won't show you the answer. See that? A blank space for the answer. Yeah. So the kids can use this. As like a test kind of thing? Yeah.

Nice. And so the very first question, who made you? And then you click Show Answer. God made me. Nice. And there's the different Bible references there. Oh. And you can click on the reference and it will even give you the scriptures right there.

Oh, that's awesome. So you don't have to go look it up. It's all right there. Let's see. Next question is, what else did God make? Okay. Answer, God made all things. And there's the scripture. That's a good way to summarize it.

There you go. But, you know, these are questions. The kids are memorizing the questions and the answers. Yeah. This is a big deal. It's a big deal to be teaching. That is awesome. Teaching these things to young kids that are, you know, four, five, six years old.

Yeah. They can learn that.

They can recite that. And trust me, they can work a phone. Yeah. Or a tablet. Or a tablet, yeah.

If you got a Mac, I guess you. Yep. You got apps on your Mac, too, right? You can. Becky's a Mac user. I'm a PC user. Yeah, you know. Can't all be perfect. And we still get along. That's right. Until she's got a computer problem.

That's true. And I have no idea. Like, babe, I don't know. That's not my problem here. So earlier this week, she had called me with a computer issue. Because she got that spinning wheel of death. Yes.

On the. And I couldn't get out of anything. Yeah. It wouldn't do anything. So I had to go into the office of the next pastor. Pastor Andrew. Yeah. Who is more. He was awesome. Is a Mac pro. And he knew exactly.

Yeah. He knew. He was like, yeah, that happens. You need to push this and push this and it'll get you out. Yeah. Thanks, Andrew. I would not have known what to do there. But there you go. All right. Next question here.

Oh, I've closed my questions now.

I closed out of all my apps. And now I don't have any questions. So we were done listening to the video? Yeah, that was it. That was all. Okay.

I was holding my breath there. I'm like. But it gave me yet another warning as to how these guys are completely untrustworthy. And then also a springboard to be able to recommend the ebook app from monergism.

And then the other reformed app. What did I say that was called again? Reformed app. Yeah. I think it's just called reformed app. That's what it's labeled as on my apps. Yeah. So I think it's reformed app.

I think I found it because I was looking for an app that was just the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. Okay. Because I have it in bookmarks in my web pages. Yeah. But I didn't actually have an app that had the 1689 in it.

To easily pull it out. Yeah. And be able to turn pages in it and stuff like that. Oh, I even have it as a book in my Kindle. But I was looking for something that was an app. Yeah. A quick little poke of the finger, you know, sort of a thing.

And I found that app. The reformed app. And I was like, well, that was even better than what I was looking for. I love it when that happens. It has the 1689 in it. But also I saw those kids' catechism questions.

I was like, oh, this is just awesome. So look for those. The Monergism eBook Library and then the reformed app. Okay. Now I'm pulling my questions back up here. There we go. This is from Matt. And by the way, this being the Friday edition of our broadcast, we take questions from the listeners.

Yeah. And you can submit those questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com. Matt says, hi, Pastor Gabe and Becky. I really appreciated the response that you gave over the weekend. This would have been last week.

Okay. To the gentleman who is attending separate churches from his Pentecostal wife. Yeah. I will oversimplify my circumstances by saying that in our home there are similar issues. One of the hard things that it might be necessary to add to your comments to that gentleman are that it may actually never get any better.

In fact, it may actually continue to get worse possibly every day. But also to remind him that his hope is not in things getting better but is ultimately in Christ. And someday it will be better. Oh, so much better.

Thanks again for all that you do. So true. And thank you for adding that bit of reality and clarity to the answer that I gave last week, Matt. That is indeed true. And it's something that I've said to many couples that I've counseled.

When they come to me with a problem, no matter how serious the problem, saying to them, this situation might get worse before it gets better. Yeah. And you just need to be in it for the long haul. You need to continue to draw near to Christ.

Both of you need to do that. Yeah. And as both of you draw near to Christ, you will draw closer to one another. And then the closeness that you experience is dependent upon not you. It's dependent upon Christ.

So, you know, common encouragement that I give to many couples that have gone through difficult trials. And it's going to get worse, but you've got to hold fast. You've got to continue to hold fast to Christ.

Yeah.

And even if your significant other is not holding fast to Christ and that's not their—.

Maybe not progressing like you're progressing. Right.

It's still—it's hard. And you might have to end up getting some extra counseling or something like that to help you through that hard time.

I mean, first folks to go to—we like it when we get questions from people. And there are some questions that Becky and I never read on the broadcast because it might be too personal. Right. Definitely.

And we don't want some of those details to come out and get somebody in trouble. You know, something to that effect. So the first place we tell you to go is your pastor. Very, very true. Yes. Hey, I appreciate that you trust us and you would ask us those kinds of questions.

And we're going to give you answers according to biblical wisdom. But you need people that know who you are. Yes. And they know your situation and your circumstance. And they're going to work with you through the trials that you have.

Not giving you like just a simple one-off answer. Yeah. Like, here you go. All right, go on. Yeah. Good luck. Take two of these. Call me in the morning. Yeah. No, it doesn't work that way. Yeah. But we'll actually labor with you through those things.

Yes. So now in this particular circumstance with the question that we answered last week and with Matt, you know, there's the difficulty of one person wants to attend this church and the other person wants to attend the other church.

So when you need that help, who do you go to? Yeah. Because one spouse won't go to the other spouse's pastor. You know, something like that. Right. And I've encountered that a lot, too. Yep. Where one spouse wants to come to me, but the other spouse is going, I don't really like him very much.

I wish we could go to this other person. I've been there as well. But continue to meet with somebody who knows who you are, even if your other spouse is not in agreement with that being the best pastor to go to.

Mm-hmm. If it's somebody who knows you, that's your church, they're biblical, they will pour the gospel into your life. Yeah. They will preach Christ. They'll tell you the truth. They'll call out your own sin.

Mm-hmm. And show you areas where you need to repent, things like that. Yes. Continue to meet with the person who shepherds you. Yes. And let them walk with you through this trial and doing that together.

Mm-hmm. Next question comes from GC, or I guess this is a comment. Dear Gabe and Babe, again, a great thank you for your podcast. I'm out working wildfires in Northern California. Oh, wow. I have a young Mormon firefighter and an investigating so-called Christian with me.

Mm-hmm. So one who's a Mormon and one who proclaims to be a Christian is what it sounds like. Mm-hmm. I was playing podcasts 1251 and 1252. Both firefighters sat up and started to ask questions about the gospel of Christ.

Thank you so much for the amazing work and help. I don't remember what episodes 1251 and 1252 were about. We'll have to look them up later. I know by the numbers, that was a Monday and a Tuesday. Nice.

So it was New Testament. Yeah, it would have been New Testament study. That's right. But I don't remember what I was in back in the 1250s. I will. I'll have to look those up now. I'm curious. But that's wonderful.

I'm glad to hear that. Love hearing the testimonies from some of you guys. We'll read the questions and answer the questions, but I love the testimonies, too, to hear how the podcast is ministered to you and even how it's ministered to other people around you.

Amen. Such a great thing. Thank you so much. And I'm amazed at Absolutely. I'm amazed at where we will go and people will be like, oh, yeah, listen to your podcast. That's true. I did not expect to meet somebody here that

You really sound like that. Yeah, that's right. You get that a lot. I get that one a lot. Wow, you really sound like that. Well, it is my voice. I don't know what else you were expecting there. Yeah, on the last what video that I did, or it was the one that I did on A Wrinkle in Time.

Okay, yeah. That book. There was somebody in the comments who was dogging on my information, and they said, just because you use an AI voice doesn't make it more credible or something like that. I'm going, I don't know whether to be insulted or complimented by that.

Sorry, AI can't imitate this voice, folks. This is one of a kind. All right, yeah. I love it. Spare me a little foolishness, as the Apostle Paul would say. All right. This next question is from Sarah in Texas.

Generational Curses and the Power of Words

She says, Pastor Gabe and Becky, my sister and brother-in-law are recent converts out of the charismatic Word of Faith movement. They are in the process of leaving their old church, where they served as leaders in multiple ministries and have been seeking to share the true gospel and Reformed theology, both with their fellow leaders and friends.

Oh, wonderful. Well, questions that have frequently been raised are the idea of blessing and cursing, whether we as Christians have the ability to bless and curse others, and the idea of generational curses.

Their Word of Faith counterparts draw upon the examples of the patriarchs blessing and cursing their descendants, Noah, Jacob, Joseph, and others, as well as God blessing and cursing. This is a video that one of her friends shared with her as biblical proof.

I'm going to play the video here in just a moment. And so she goes on to say, could you offer a true biblical perspective on these topics, as well as resources to research them further? Thank you so much for your ministry.

Now, I know Sarah, and Sarah, I've got something for you, which I'll mention here at the end of my answer. But first, let's play this video. This is the video that she linked to me. I'm guessing something circulating around on Facebook.

It has a TikTok format to it. So it might be on TikTok as well, and perhaps even Instagram. But here's the video that she shared.

You may not like this, but this is the truth. Parents, you might be frustrated with your children now. But what you don't know is what you're seeing is probably the result of the curse that you spoke over them yesterday.

They made several mistakes. And instead of you being patient, you would say things like, why do you never listen to anything anyone ever say to you? What you don't know is what you just did was use your spiritual authority through your words to invite the spirit of rebellion into their heart and for unclean spirit to lead them instead of God.

Remember.

OK, let's stop there for a second. What were you thinking? I'm thinking, OK, yes, our words are very important. Yes. And the Bible tells us they are important. Yes.

And we need to be. We should be gracious with our words. Right. Building each other up instead of tearing each other down. That's Ephesians 429.

Right. But I didn't realize that I am that significant that I can. You're a spiritual authority.

Yeah. He says there. Yeah. The scriptures never call us a spiritual authority. That's so wrong. The spiritual authorities are referred to as angels and demons. Right. And I'm neither. Right. And you cannot control angels and demons.

No. You do not have that kind of authority.

No. Now, it is true. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been scared of them. Like, the shepherds would not have been scared. Of the angels.

Yeah. Right. Right. Can you imagine the shepherds commanding the angels? Yeah. No. Get out of here. Hey, you guys are scaring us. You're scaring the sheep. Go away. Did not even think of that. That did not happen.

We don't have that kind of spiritual authority. Now, it is true that there is power in our words. For sure. To a certain extent. Yeah. If you're going to cut your children down.

You can totally tear them down with your words. That's going to have a serious effect.

Yeah. If everything you're speaking to your kids is constantly negative. Becky and I have talked about those kinds of things before. Yes. But the example that he gave was saying, why don't you ever listen to anything I say?

You never listen to me. That's just a foolish over-exaggeration. Right. But it's not speaking a curse into a child's life. No. And, I mean, it may be you are exaggerating, but there probably will be some truth to that.

Yep. I think we've said it. I believe a lot. Why don't you ever listen to me? Yeah. But he doesn't listen to me anymore. When it happens the 12th, 13th, 14th time in a row. Yes. That seems to be the pattern.

So, yes. There are occasions where saying such a thing is not going to eternally damage your child. No. And you need to qualify that. You need to show them what their error is and give them correction.

It's also raising awareness that they're doing wrong and not listening. Yeah.

They need to know that. You have to show them that they are doing wrong. Yes. Just like we were talking before about false teachers. Right. Exactly. You need to do more than say, don't follow false teachers.

You even need to say who those false teachers are. Right. So that people will not go after them.

And we're supposed to be asking specific forgiveness. Asking for forgiveness for specific. I can't spit this out. Specifically. Pacifica. For specific sins. Yes. There you go. Not just an overall, hey, Lord, I've sinned.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I'm sorry. But a true, honest, I really failed at this today. A genuine repentance. Yeah. And so, I don't know.

If I came to you, if I did something wrong and I offended you in some way, if I come to you and go, babe, I'm sorry. And then just, you know, whatever. I mean, are you going to accept that as a genuine apology if I just say I'm sorry?