Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Ron Woolsey
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00040C
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00:14 I just want to say thank you for even letting us
00:16 present this topic, because there is certain things 00:19 that I think that people don't want to talk about and 00:21 we don't want to look at. 00:22 I want to go back to where we were at the beginning of 00:25 the show, where we were in Romans in talking about, 00:28 what Paul wrote in Romans 8:1. 00:31 About "there is no condemnation for those who belong to 00:34 Christ Jesus, and because you belong to him the power of 00:36 life giving power of the Spirit has freed you from the 00:39 power that leads to death. " 00:41 So all your sins, you are freed from that because of 00:43 what God has poured into you. 00:45 But my favorite part of that whole Scripture just cracks 00:48 me up because before that, Paul is talking about his 00:51 struggle with sin and that is where I so relate. 00:53 And you know that I'm not just the best reader, so stay 00:55 with me on this as I read I think from Romans 7:11. 01:00 No I'm not going to go from there, I am going down to where 01:06 it says "and I know that nothing good lives in me, that 01:09 is in my sinful nature, I want to do what is right but 01:12 can't," I don't if you relate to that, but I can. 01:14 "I want to do what is good, but I don't. 01:17 I don't want to do what I've been doing, but I do it 01:19 anyway. " And he goes on to say, I'm struggling with 01:23 this and I know what Ron was saying I know that this is wrong 01:27 I'm even tried to get the word of God back of my life 01:29 and I'm trying to do all that kind of stuff. 01:31 I'm literally going to church. 01:32 We had a girl on not long ago on this season, she was a 01:36 stripper working in clubs and going to Sabbath school and all 01:39 that kind of junk, and I know it's wrong. 01:41 This is what Paul is saying over and over, it's like 01:43 I have this bad battle within me and I am trying 01:47 to do the right, I'm trying to stand up, 01:48 I'm trying to switch lifestyles. 01:50 I know, I know, and he is going back-and-forth in this 01:55 battle and finally he says, you know what, 01:56 who is going to save me? 01:57 This is wretched, I'm wretched I'm miserable, I'm 02:00 battling and you can just feel that all of a sudden 02:04 the Holy Spirit brings just brings peace into him. 02:06 He said, so, oh yeah, Jesus will save me. 02:10 I wanted to say that when you struggle, when you 02:12 stand up in your addictions, when you stand up and 02:14 realize that you're very lifestyle may be in question. 02:18 Don't be shamed, go back to Romans 8:1 where it says 02:22 there's no condemnation in Christ. 02:23 Go back to even when Paul says, I understand the 02:26 struggle in which you are dealing with and when you 02:29 step in to your relationship with God. 02:31 If you stumble and fall, I don't want to say so what because 02:34 I do not want to be just disrespectful, stand up again. 02:37 Stand up again, because we have a God that says, you 02:39 know what I know who you are outside of all this. 02:42 I know who you are created to be, it's fabulous, 02:44 absolutely fabulous. 02:46 I can stand as a woman of God in the presence of a holy 02:49 God just feeling so much joy belonging there 02:52 not because of my background, but because of who God is. 02:54 It is just the coolest thing. 02:56 So see you next time on Celebrating Life and Recovery. 02:59 And remember until then, always, always remember that 03:03 God is crazy about you and me too. 03:05 God bless! |
Revised 2014-12-17