Matthew - Part 2 — Zac Poonen

The Kingdom of Heaven and the Old Covenant Mindset

Let's continue our study in the Gospel of Matthew, which we saw yesterday, was a description of the Kingdom of Heaven, as opposed to the earthly kingdom that the Jews had for fifteen hundred years. And we saw that Matthew wrote especially to the Jews, and we could apply it like this to us, are we Jews?

And we say no. But, if you are a Christian, and your mind is set on earthly things, you are a Jew. I'm sorry to say that, but you are an old covenant person. The old covenant people, their mind was set on the land of Canaan, on property, on money, on healing, on prosperity, and any believer whose mind is set on these things is living under the old covenant.

For such people, the Gospel of Matthew is written. So let's not write it off saying, well, we're not Jews. Maybe you are more than you think. It's not a question of name. Romans 2, the last verses, a Jew is not one who is just outwardly in name.

We may say we are Christians by name. It doesn't make a difference. It's a question of where your mind is set. And that's very important. Conversion is a change of mind. Repentance means to change your mind.

Change your mind from what to what. Colossians 3, verse 2 says, set your mind on things that are above, and not on things that are on the earth. Second Corinthians 4 says, the things that are seen are temporary, the things that are unseen are eternal.

So Matthew is the first Gospel in the New Testament is seeking to lead us, introduce us to this new covenant life, which is heavenly. And that's why you have those laws that we saw in Matthew 5, which are all heavenly.

He says, when you were under the old covenant, you were told, this is good enough that you don't murder. But I say to you, that's not good enough. You've got to have purity in your heart. They said to you under the old covenant, it was good enough if you didn't commit adultery, I say to you in the kingdom of heaven, that was all right for the kingdom of earth.

But in the kingdom of heaven, you must have purity in your heart. So a Christian who lives just by the 10 commandments, I don't murder, I don't adultery, I don't commit adultery, I don't do all these external sins, is really a Jew under the old covenant.

Who is the one who has entered into the new covenant, who has understood the kingdom of heaven, the one who has taken what is written in Matthew 5 seriously, the one who fasts and prays to show other people is still under the old covenant.

So we could go on and on and on like that. So Matthew 10 is really Matthew, the gospel of Matthew is introducing us to the kingdom of heaven. Now I want you to turn to Matthew chapter 11 today. We read there about the John the Baptist in prison.

John the Baptist and the Difference Between Old and New Covenant Faith

Now remember that John the Baptist was the one who saw heavens open and Jesus being anointed with the dove descending on him and the voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son whom I'm well pleased.

Now one would think that if you and I had seen something like that once, we would never doubt again for the rest of our lives. But we see how much of an old covenant person John was. We read here that when he was in prison, verse 2, he heard of the works of Christ and he sent word by his disciples saying are you the expected one or the coming one or shall we look for someone else.

How did doubt come into the heart of the one whom Jesus said was the greatest man in Old Testament times? Because when he heard the wonderful things Jesus was doing about opening blind eyes and healing the sick, the thought that came into his mind was if that's the case, why am I still in prison?

Why doesn't he kill Herod and release me? And when a Christian gets into a difficulty and he begins to think why doesn't God kill this difficult person who's troubling me and deliver me from this, you are thinking exactly like an old covenant person.

You see, old covenant thinking is like that. There's no question of my being in prison. Whereas when Paul and Silas were in prison, they were praising the Lord. They didn't say Lord, are you really the one?

See, this is the difference between new covenant and old covenant. And that is why I have often said the vast majority of believers live under the old covenant. They live exactly like old covenant believers.

When they commit adultery, they say, oh David committed adultery. When they get depressed, they say, well Elijah got depressed. When they get angry and break something, they say Moses also broke the tablets of stone when he got angry.

There's justification for everything. But can they say Jesus got angry and broke something? Can they say Jesus got depressed and sat under a juniper tree? Can they say Jesus committed adultery? No, they are running the race looking unto Moses, not looking unto Jesus, looking unto David, looking unto Jeremiah.

So, there are many many ways in which I could prove to you that the vast majority of Christians live under the old covenant. They don't follow the outstanding examples of Moses selflessly praying for others or Elijah forsaking everything and living wholeheartedly before God's face.

They look for excuses for their sin in these few examples in the old covenant. Now if you are like that, you are taking the Bible to find an excuse for your sin when this book was actually written to deliver you from sin.

Don't ever go to the Bible to find an excuse for your sin saying David did that. I've seen great preachers who fall into adultery say that. No, don't ever go to the scriptures to find an excuse for your sin.

Don't go to the scriptures to find an excuse for your depression. If you go to the scriptures, the Bible says, the scriptures have been given to us to show us the glory of Jesus Christ. And if you can show me that Jesus was depressed and Jesus was defeated, then please follow that example.

But you will never find that. So I want to encourage all of you and help all of you to look at the scriptures in a completely different way from the way you have been taught perhaps for years to look at to find an excuse for sin in the examples of godly men who fell in the scripture.

Rather look at Jesus. This is the new covenant example. And the longer you comfort yourself by examples of people who fell in the Old Testament, the longer you are going to live as an old covenant Christian.

My desire is to lift all of you to this new covenant plane. So John doubted because he felt I am in prison. And if Jesus is almighty, shouldn't he deliver me? Don't you get questions like that? What did Jesus do?

Jesus could have called 72 ,000 angels to deliver John from prison immediately. He didn't do that. He said, go and tell John when the people came to him, verse four, that the blind received sight and so on.

And the poor have the gospel preached to them. That is the new covenant, the gospel. And the gospel does not include deliverance from prison or killing Herod or killing Caesar or killing the Pharisees.

It does not include that. What it does include is overcoming sin and living by faith, knowing that God knows what is best for me. If it is prison, prison. But we can't blame John the Baptist because John the Baptist was not under the new covenant.

He was under law. He was not under grace. He did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. But we can certainly blame Christians today who say they are baptized in the Holy Spirit and who say they are under the new covenant if they behave like that.

So Jesus went on to say, he said, don't criticize John the Baptist just because he asked a question like that. Do you know what he is? Did you go there to see a prophet? Verse nine, he's more than a prophet.

I told you yesterday how Jesus had no hesitation to express appreciation for people. And here is another example. Verse 11. Among those who are born of women, there has never arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist.

Up till that time, who was the greatest human being born up to the time of Jesus? It was not Mary, the mother of Jesus like many Christians think. No, it was John the Baptist. Jesus himself said John the Baptist was greater than Mary.

And I would say that to all those who adore Mary, you better adore John the Baptist too, if that's the case. He's greater than her. He, Jesus himself said he was the greatest. But he said, here's something wonderful.

The greatest person under the old covenant was John the Baptist, but the least person in the new covenant can rise higher than him. That means greater than him means when the least person in the new covenant is locked up in prison, he will not ask questions like, Lord, are you really the one which we are trusting in or should we look for another?

He will not have such questions. That is the difference in the new covenant. So that's why it says, if John the Baptist was the greatest and our calling is higher than that, then why do you look at Jeremiah, David, Moses to find excuses for your sin?

No. Who is our example today? None of these men. There are good qualities in Abraham, Moses, Elijah which we can follow, but don't follow their failures. Today our example is Jesus Christ. Another thing we see here in verse 12 onwards is that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and only those who are violent to possess it will possess it.

Not everyone can get into God's kingdom. What does it mean to be violent? Externally, Christians are men of peace, but inwardly they do violence to anything that stands in their way of following the Lord.

So externally people of peace and inwardly people of violence against Satan, violence against the lusts in my flesh, that's the only way to possess the kingdom. If you are half-hearted, you will not be able to take the kingdom of heaven.

You will remain an earthly person all your life. If you are going to please your parents and you are taken up with other things that divide your attention and you don't do violence to these things that prevent you from loving God with all your heart, anything that prevents you from loving God with all your heart, whether it's your job or your parents or the pursuit of money or anything, we have to do violence to them.

Violence means you have to kill it, kill those desires. Otherwise we will remain Jews all our life. We will never become Christians. We will never become disciples. We may become like the third-rate Christians who call themselves Christians all around us.

If you are happy with that, that's fine. They are actually Jews, not Christians, because their mind is set on earthly things. Here he is talking about the kingdom of heaven. And then we see further, the Lord in chapter 11 verse 25 says these words, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I praise Thee that Thou didst hide these things from the wise and the intelligent and revealed them to babes.

I mentioned this once before, that God has hidden many truths, most of these new covenant truths that I'm talking about. You will never be able to discover by study. You can read every commentary in the world, you won't discover it.

Because these things are hidden from the clever and the intelligent. They are revealed to babes, those who got a, first of all, a pure heart, not a clever head. It doesn't matter if they have a clever head or not clever head, it doesn't make a difference.

It's like whether your color of your skin is white or brown or black, it doesn't make a difference to God's kingdom. Intelligence also, whether it's high or medium or low, it doesn't make a difference.

Your heart must be pure. And that's what children have. And the other thing about children is that they are teachable. You know a little child, he doesn't know anything. And it admits that it doesn't know anything.

Everything it will ask daddy, daddy why are these white lines drawn on the road? He doesn't know. We know why those lines are drawn so the traffic goes this way and that way. You see, even a simple thing like that, a child does not know.

And little little things, you know how children ask. Ordinary things. Why is it like this? Jesus said, those who come to scripture like that, Lord, I don't know. What does this mean, Lord? Do you know there are very few believers who come like that?

They would rather consult what other people have written instead of going to God and saying, Lord, you wrote this book. Can't you tell me what it means? See, this is the privilege of being in the new covenant, to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to have the Holy Spirit teach us.

And even when we listen to men teaching us, Christ himself has appointed teachers in the church. Otherwise we wouldn't be having sessions like this. What's the use of sessions like this if you can just sit at home and listen to the Holy Spirit?

But the Bible says Christ has appointed teachers in the church. But even when you listen to those teachers, if you finish with, if you stop with the teacher, you'll never understand. I always tell people, please remember that everything you hear from me is second hand.

I got it from the Lord and you got it from me. Maybe it's true, but it's still second hand. You need to take the second hand stuff which you hear and take it before the Lord and say, Lord, make it first hand now.

Make it my own experience, what I heard now. And then it'll be yours forever. That'll be like taking the manna into the most holy place and keeping it there. It'll be fresh forever in God's presence. If you don't do that, even what you receive now will begin to stink like the manna that came from heaven.

You may say this came from heaven, right? But it'll stink by tomorrow. So we have to come with this teachable attitude and say, Lord, teach me. Verse 28, Jesus said, come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

This is the meaning of the Old Testament Sabbath. Today it's not a physical day of rest. It is this rest that Jesus gives to us. It comes by coming to him. It comes by acknowledging that we are weary and heavy laden.

Christ's Rest, Humility, and the Call to Discipleship

You know, I use this verse for people who want to, sometimes people come to our church and say, well, Brother Jack, I'd like to join your church. And I ask them, why do you want to join our church? And they think they will make me happy by saying, well, I belong to that church over there and I'm sick and tired of all the people over there.

And so I thought I'd join you. And he thinks he's going to get a warm welcome from me. I say, brother, if you were sick and tired of those people, you stay with us a few days, you'll get sick and tired of us also.

So don't join us. But because we are a bunch of people who are sick and tired of ourselves, not of other people. And if you're sick and tired of yourself, come and join us. We'll have wonderful fellowship.

But if you're sick and tired of this denomination or that denomination, you better stay there. You'll come here and become sick and tired of us. See, a lot of people are trying to grab other people from other churches.

Are you sick and tired of that denomination? They say, that's right. That's a terrible place. Come and join us. And they come here and cause trouble here. Jesus said, come to me, those who are sick and tired of themselves.

That's the meaning here. Are you sick and tired of yourself, of your defeated life, of your, the lack of victory in your life, the lack of victory in your family life, the lack of anointing in your ministry?

Are you sick and tired of that? The Lord says, come. But if you're sick and tired of other people and you're always looking at the faults of other people, wait. Don't come to Jesus because you don't qualify.

You're not ready to come. Don't think anybody can just walk into Jesus' presence. You've got to be weary and heavy-laden. That means you've got to be sick and tired of your own defeated, depressed, gloomy life and lack of anointing and freshness.

The Lord says, come to me. I'll give you rest. You know, it's not God's will that our life should be always agitated, irritated, upset. No, I believe God's will is that my heart should be at rest 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

That's God's will. At rest. Whatever may happen around me, but that can come if I acknowledge my defeated life and come to Jesus and say, Lord, give me this rest. Bring me into this Sabbath. And then Jesus said, take my yoke upon you and learn from me.

A disciple is a learner. A disciple comes to Jesus to learn, like a child that's teachable. Lord, teach me. And what do we have to learn from Jesus, first of all? Many people come to Jesus to learn many, many things.

We would like to learn how to preach. We'd like to learn how to do evangelism, how to do Bible teaching, how to prophesy. Jesus said, before all that, learn from me how to be gentle. We are all so hard and harsh.

And Jesus says, learn to be gentle and learn to be humble. Those are the first things we need to learn. And there are not many Christians running after Jesus to learn gentleness and humility. You look at some gifted servant of God and you wish that Jesus could make you like that.

That's the wrong thing to pursue. What you need to pursue is the character you see in that man, not his ministry. Do you know that many of you can envy a person's ministry and want a person's ministry more than his character?

And Jesus never encouraged that. He didn't say, come to me and I will teach you how to do this, that and the other. First of all, learn humility and gentleness. And then you will find rest for your souls.

And then I will make you fishers of men. That's what he said. He'll make us fishers of men. He'll make us teachers to the church. But first of all, we need to come to rest. Now, if I become a fisher of men and I'm not at rest in my own heart, or if I become a teacher in the church and I'm not at rest in my own heart, I'm going to have tremendous problems and cause problems for others too.

Sabbath Rest and Legalistic Religion

And then it's very significant that immediately after that comes this section on the Sabbath. Chapter 12 verses 1 to 13. He had spoken about rest and then he went around for the next two incidents mentioned there.

He went around demolishing the Jewish idea of the Sabbath. He allowed his disciples to pick the heads of grain on the Sabbath day and the Pharisees began to complain. The Pharisees' idea of Sabbath was, rest was, not what Jesus said in Matthew 11, 28 to 30.

Their idea of rest was, you don't do any work. You don't gather grain and eat it up on the Sabbath day. And you don't allow any person to be healed. These people were so selfish. Jesus said in verse 11 of Matthew 12, if one of your sheep falls into a pit, won't you pull it out on the Sabbath day or will you leave it there till Sunday morning or Saturday night?

No, even if it's on the Sabbath day, you'll pull it out immediately. He says, your fellows are so selfish and don't you think this man who's got a withered hand is much better than a sheep? So you find that legalistic people are very narrow-minded in their approach.

They are very, very selfish. They do things for themselves, but they'll never allow it for another person. Further, in verse chapter 12, verse 31 and 32, Jesus spoke about blasphemy. When they said that he was casting out demons, verse 27, by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, Jesus said, have you spoken against me?

Verse 32, it's forgiven. In the Old Testament, when Miriam spoke against Moses, she got leprosy. Who is greater, Moses or Jesus? Jesus. Now listen to this. Miriam said a small word against Moses. Why did you marry that wife?

She got leprosy. The Pharisees said such a strong word against Jesus. You are led by the prince of devils. What did they get? Forgiveness. Miriam got leprosy and the Pharisees got forgiveness. That is the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.

The blood of Abel cries out for judgment. The blood of Jesus cries out for mercy. If you wish that God will judge those who hurt you, you are still a Jew under the Old Covenant. If you desire that God will forgive those who hurt you, then you have become a Christian, a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Words, Judgment, and Justification by Faith and Works

Chapter 36 and 37, he speaks about the words that come out of our mouth. Every careless word that men shall speak, they shall give an account in the day of judgment. Now it is my firm conviction, after being a believer for more than 40 years and watching believers in many parts of the world, that more than 95 of believers that I have met do not believe that verse.

They do not believe that Jesus will have to give an account to God one day for every useless word that they ever spoke in their lives. How do I know that? Because they speak such a lot of useless words so carelessly.

They speak evil of others. They gossip. They backbite. They crack filthy jokes. They laugh at filthy jokes. They do so many things like this. They hurt other people. Sometimes humor is good. I believe in humor with all my heart.

But humor that hurts other people is never godly. You may get a reputation for humor by saying something that hurts other people, but it is not Christ-like. That is an idle word for which you will have to give an account in the day of judgment.

But I do not believe that most people believe that God has got a record of every word we have ever spoken. I believe it with all my heart. It is recorded in our memory. There is a videotape running in our memory all the time recording everything that has happened in my life from the day we were born.

It is like these memory chips in computers. Our computers are actually patterned after the human brain. And in the human brain is the original computer. And it can store a fantastic amount of information more than any computer on the earth.

And in that computer called the human brain is a memory which contains every single thing you ever did from the day you were born. Every word that you spoke. It is all stored there like in a computer.

In the day of judgment God just pulls out the screen and brings out everything from the day you were born. Every word that you ever spoke. Every human being is born with this computer. And when he is raised from the dead that computer will be back running in the day of judgment to reveal exactly what he said throughout his life.

And it is all there. Every word you spoke from the time you said mama is recorded in your computer brain. And it is all there. Be careful. If you believe God's word you will be careful with your speech.

And in that day this is an amazing verse. All of us know about justification by faith. If you are a balanced Christian you will also know about justification by works. Faith without works is dead. Romans 4 speaks about justification by faith which is scripture.

James chapter 2 speaks about justification by the works of faith which is also scripture. And Jesus in verse 37 spoke about justification by our words. Now if on the day of judgment the words you spoke are played back from the computer.

Would they justify you or condemn you? It is a very good question. In the new covenant we are to have a tongue of fire. You know on the day of Pentecost a tongue of fire came on people's heads. A tongue under the control of the Holy Spirit.

I am sorry to say that lot of people have mistaken that to only speaking in unknown tongues. No. I keep saying no. It is a tongue under the control of the Holy Spirit throughout the day. That is the tongue I want.

That is the tongues that I want to speak. In addition to other languages. That is a gift. But not just that. I don't want to speak in unknown tongues and not have a tongue under control of the Holy Spirit the whole day.

This is the tongue of fire. By your words. In the old covenant it was not there because they didn't have the Holy Spirit to control their tongue. God permitted a lot of things under the old covenant but not in the new.

Just like he permitted divorce and marrying ten wives in the old covenant but not today. It wasn't his will even in the old covenant but he permitted it. But today we have more light. Matthew chapter 12 verse 40.

It speaks about Jonah in the whale's belly. In the sea monster's belly for three days and three nights. In Saul verse 40. Son of man be in the heart of the earth. That means not in the grave. He was in the center of the earth.

Paradise was located in the center of the earth at that time. Today it is in heaven. Jesus went to the center of the earth with the dying thief, with the dead thief to paradise. He was there for three days and three nights.

It's my conviction that Jesus Christ died on a Thursday, not on a Friday. He died on Thursday afternoon at three o 'clock. Friday was the feast of unleavened bread, a special Sabbath as we read in John 19.

Saturday was the regular Sabbath of the weekly Sabbath. So there were two Sabbaths and that's why the women came on the Sunday morning to anoint him with spices and discovered that he had risen. He spent three days and three nights dead in the heart of the earth.

Exactly like Jonah was. There's no mistaking scripture. A lot of the traditions that Christianity has got are not based on scripture. For example that Christ died on a Friday. Chapter 13, we read of the seven parables that Jesus spoke here.

The Parables of the Kingdom and the Nature of the Church

One is the parable of the sower. We can look at it in another gospel. The other verse 24 to 30, these are parables of the kingdom of heaven. And notice here that Jesus speaks of the kingdom of heaven in its outward expression.

That means in the way that other people see the church. And that's why he said the kingdom of heaven, there are people with four types of ground. And then he said the kingdom of heaven is like seed sown in a field and there are tares also in that field.

And then he explained it later on and said to them that the field, verse 38, is the world. The field is not the church. You know there are some people who misquote this parable and say, well, Jesus said that in the church there will be wheat and tares and we should not separate them.

So naturally we have to sit in a church where there are unconverted people and converted people. That's because they haven't read the scriptures. The scripture does not say the field is the world, the church.

The scripture says in verse 38, the field is the world. In the world there will be believers and unbelievers, which is true. But in the church we have to make sure that the church, as far as we know, comprises of those who are born again by repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

The others are welcome to come and sit and listen to the meetings, but it must be made clear to them that you are not part of the local church till you are born again. Any person can come and sit in the meetings.

And by church I don't mean a building, I mean the body of Jesus Christ. So that's one thing I want to say about the tares. And the other thing is verse 31 to 32 about the mustard seed, small mustard seed that's planted that grows up and becomes the greatest of all plants.

That's not the way God intended the church to grow. God intended the church, local churches to be small little groups meeting here and there. But when people make it much bigger than God intended it to be, it gathers in.

What happens is you lower the standards and you gather in a whole lot of people who are not disciples. And when you increase your church without preaching discipleship, this thing which was meant to be a small tree becomes larger than everything else and then what happens?

It says in verse 32, the birds of the air which Jesus said in an earlier parable were the demons. The demons come and sit inside the church. Who caused that problem? You yourself. If you had preached discipleship, your church would not have been so big and you wouldn't have problems with those demons.

And that's the point here. Verse 33, he spoke about the outward expression, corruption, spreading. Again and again he speaks about that. Different types of ground, tears, the demons coming and sitting inside the church.

If only Christianity had paid attention to these parables, they would have been very careful to preach discipleship. And then the hidden treasure, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who found a field with treasure hidden and this is discipleship.

These two parables speak about discipleship. He sold everything that he had and he got that. He says, I want to pay the total price. I want to give up everything and follow Jesus. I want this kingdom.

They got it. The man who searched for goodly pearls, teaching the same lesson, he sold all that he had. Notice that expression, all that he had. No man of you can be my disciple unless he forsakes all that he has.

That means everything that he has, he has given to Jesus. Then you can get God's kingdom. Otherwise you will get that compromised version that you have seen before. Again in verse 47, he speaks about the kingdom having two types of fish.

They both come in, the good and the bad. And then at the end of the age, the angels would come and take out the wicked from the righteous. Verse 49. One last word, verse 52. That's a good word for those who are Bible students.

A scribe must become a disciple. A scribe is a scholar who studies, studies, studies, studies, studies, studies, studies, studies, studies, studies the scriptures. He says the scribe must become a disciple.

Then when he gets up to preach, from his treasure, he will bring out things, old things which are still fresh and new things which are fresh. But not if you are a disciple. If you remain a scribe, your ministry will be dead.

Faith That Looks to Jesus and Overcomes Sin

Chapter 14, we read in verses 29 to 31, a demonstration of faith. Peter walking on the water. Jesus walking on the water. Peter walking on the water. And I ask people this question, which is the greater miracle?

Jesus walking on the water or Peter walking on the water? It's Peter walking on the water. Jesus walking on the water is not a great miracle. But Peter walking on the water where everybody sinks, that's a real miracle.

Okay. What is this trying to teach us? What is it that prevents us from walking on water? The law of gravity that pulls us down. When you try to walk on water, the law of gravity pulls you down. The law of gravity pulled Jesus down also.

But by the power of God, he overcame it and he walked on water. And he told Peter, if you look at me and trust me, this law of gravity will not operate. It will be there. In fact, a few moments later, Peter discovered it was there because it pulled him down.

But as long as you look at me, you'll be able to overcome it. He's not destroying the law of gravity. He's overcoming it. As you look at Jesus, what is the spiritual message? Jesus overcame sin. There's a law like the law of gravity called the law of sin.

It keeps on pulling us down. It tried to pull Jesus too. Jesus was tempted, we read in Matthew 4. But he overcame it and he did not sink. And he says to you, like he said to Peter, you can overcome that law also.

But only if you look at me. If you look at my example, if you look at the example of Moses who got angry and Jeremiah who got depressed, you will not overcome. But if you look at me, you can overcome exactly like I overcame.

That's the message in Revelation 3 .21. Overcome as I overcame. Very clear. And then you can sit with me on my throne as I sat with my father on his throne. So the message here is you can overcome as I overcame if you look at me.

And if you look at me and my word and not look at other Christians and the substandard level at which they live. And as long as Peter looked at Jesus, that is faith. Faith is to look at Jesus. He walked.

He overcame. And you can overcome the law of sin by the supernatural power of God called grace. Sin shall not have dominion over you. But the moment he looked away, down. And when you go down, what should you do?

Don't wait till you hit the bottom of the sea. When did Peter say, Lord, save me? It says as soon as he was beginning to sink. I think even his feet had not gone fully down. He felt, hey, I'm sinking.

Lord, save me. And when you're sinking in temptation, you know what you should do? Cry out to Jesus and say, Lord, I'm falling now. I'm falling in lust. I'm falling in anger. I'm falling. Please save me.