Kindness :: FruitFull (Part 2) (Amberly Bell)

so pastor mike has you guys started in a series called fruitful raise your hand if you're enjoying that series yeah it's I had the awesome opportunity to listen to it online since I'm not here on Sunday mornings and I mean he's just you guys have an incredible pastor really you guys have an incredible pastor annum he's home snuggling with a newborn baby and I don't blame him that's exactly where I would be too and so um he's doing awesome job though he's explaining to you just but fruits of the spirit and growing up in church I can remember like hearing about the fruits of the Spirit and it just sounded like a really Christianese term and it was one of those things that I was like that was for like the older people like they could operate in love and they could have peace and like they could have joy but like I was I was too cool to have those things and so but I'm learning as I grow and as I'm maturing my relationship with God how important those fruits truly are and I'm learning that those fruits are how people recognize me as a Christian and it's how people will recognize us as a Christian and how we will draw people into the kingdom of God because I'm you know it's really clear when you meet somebody who's not nice amen like how many of you know Christians that are jerks I mean it's really sad to say but it's like yeah I know Kristen who's a jerk and they suck like we all know those people that are like that and those are like if that's what Christianity looks like I don't want any part of it and that's what the world thinks too if they're gonna be hypocritical if they're gonna be judgmental if they're gonna be rude if they're gonna be disrespectful if they're gonna be unkind I don't want anything to do with their right and so we have to present and represent ourselves differently to the earth in order to draw people to him amen and walking in those fruits takes nothing but the holy spirit because there are days when we don't feel like being nice amen I mean when you wake up and you're tired and you had to go get gas in your car because you didn't put it in the night before and you didn't wake up on time to get your hair ready and your makeup on or your clothes picked out and you're running late and the dog needs to be let out and you don't have lunch this pack the last thing that you want to do is be nice to people right because you're already starting your day off on the wrong foot how many of you can relate to that but that's how people recognize us and how people know us and so Pastor Mike has been calling this series fruitful and when I look at that word fruitful I just the first thing I did was I went all the way back to the beginning where does that word start when was that word first used and I want all the way back to Genesis and in Genesis chapter 1 verses 27 and 28 it says this God created man in his own image male and female he created them God blessed them and then he said to them be fruitful and multiply turn to your neighbor and say Bri fruitful and multiply now in the church that I grew up in and in the home that I grew up in I always thought be fruitful and multiply men get to having some babies okay bright you people when you gonna start getting fruitful and multiply when you haven't you know the minute you get married everybody wants to know when you're pushing out kids I mean that's it's like the order you get the you get married to get the white picket fence you get the dog and then you start pushing out the kids and so everybody always says we're gonna start multiplying and having some babies and and that's great and I'm sure that that's part of it but then I have to step back and question that can't be all that it means because how do you explain to the barren woman who's not been able to get pregnant for 40 years why she can't have a baby and yet the Bible says to be fruitful and multiply or how do you explain to that to the woman who like myself I've had one natural child but I've lost three babies in the last three years and you're telling me to be fruitful and multiply but my body can't so obviously God means something different with that when he says be fruitful and multiply and what he genuinely means is exactly what Pastor Mike shared with each one of you last week and it's the Great Commission in Matthew 28 go into all the world and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and what that means when we say to be fruitful and multiply we are Rev locating ourselves in the earth we are duplicating who we are because we are made in the image of God Genesis 1:27 and 28 says we are created in the very image of God and we are to replicate and multiply ourselves but just like I said nobody wants a mean friend nobody wants a mean Christian I mean we we've got enough of those worldly people who are mean right so we don't need the church to be rude so this morning I have the pleasure of breaking down one of the attributes for you Pastor Mike asked me to take one and pick it and teach it to you and that's what I'm gonna get to do with you this morning Galatians 5:22 says this that the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control and I would love to say that I'm really holy and I have that memorized because I'm so holy but let me tell you why I haven't memorized because I have a toddler at home well she's 5 now so she's not so much a toddler and when we were going through the terrific twos and threes with her um I would become very very annoyed with her I mean let's just be real right kids can be can all the parents say Amen and if you don't have parent guess what you were annoying to your appearance so I don't I mean we love our children like I love my baby but um but I would get so frustrated with her and I didn't want to call her you know I didn't want to say to her how I really felt you know like how my flesh felt about her I didn't want to belittle her or crushed her spirit and so instead of saying you know you are the most annoying right now I'm like you have that fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace I just kind of said she was help control and she was like okay mom and I was like so I would just yell this to her over and over again because it was like I was gonna make her be lovely and I was gonna make her be kind I was gonna make her be peaceful and so now to this day she can say mom I have the fruit of the Spirit and it's left joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control bless her little heart but I've decided to put the word in her because I realized what I'm sewing into her is what she's also going to speak and the same is true in each one of our lives whatever we speak to ourselves is the thing that comes out of our lives amen the things that we speak around the people around us that's what comes out the things that we declare over our situations that's what takes place the power of life and death is in our time and so this morning I want to break down the attribute kindness and you know when we say the word kindness we automatically think oh that's such a nice word I'm so kind gives you these warm fuzzy feelings and a lot of times we even like think about kindness and we think that that makes a person weak when we think about the word kindness we think weak because that means you're getting walked on you're getting stomped on you're getting told what to do how to do it when to do it and where to do it but kindness is actually the complete opposite of weakness it's not weak it's being strong it's knowing when to shut your mouth when you need to shut your mouth it's knowing when to not show up when you don't need to show up it's knowing when to show up when you need to show up it's knowing when to be sensitive in a situation when you need to be sensitive and that takes nothing but the Holy Spirit only the Holy Spirit can create that fruit of kindness in us because it allows us to be sensitive to the situations and sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit so kindness if you and look at Matthew 7 16 it says that people will know us by our fruit and if you can't exhibit that simple fruit of kindness then how would you ever be able to say that there's a God who loves you and you need to come meet him if you're at your workplace and you're I know people in my sphere of influence right now but they are complete jerks at their job place like I've heard people tell me they are jerks at work and yet they come to church and they're Jesus hallelujah and they get to work and they're a complete and total jerk to their boss and to their employees and I'm thinking those two things can't come out of the same mouth there has to be a difference in what we say in how we act in the Bible does say that we will be known by our fruit and I think that sadly we live in a culture right now where we are more impressed with what people do than who people are and let me give you an example of what I mean when we start dating for those of us who've dated and been through all that whoo hot mess of dating when you date and you meet somebody and you go home and you tell mom and dad about that person or you tell your girlfriends or you tell your on to your uncle about that person you do not walk up and say oh my gosh he has so much goodness and kindness and she's so lovely no you're like he makes money he has a Jo B thank you Jesus okay that's what your mom is really concerned about is can he pay the bills and I think about you know whenever we meet each other when we're out in public in our culture when we introduce ourselves to each other what's the first question we ask each other what do you do it's just our culture to ask what do you do and so in our culture unfortunately we are more concerned with what the other one does then who we are on the inside what we're producing what kind of fruit we're growing like Pastor Mike said we have a choice whether to bear no fruit some fruit much fruit or be fruitful and I don't know about you but I desire to be fruitful kindness is a rare quality so much so that when it happens it makes the news today like how sad is that that when someone is kind or does a kind thing it's on the news now how many of you have been in a Starbucks uh brahms and McDonald's you've been through a drive-through and you've been the recipient of someone who's paid for your drink or your ice cream or whatever raise your hand okay awesome can you guys come park in front of me next time because I have not been the recipient of that but have been I've been able to bless the car behind me and what I find so interesting about kindness is it creates a ripple effect that usually it'll go on for a cute a few cars until car number you know the red Honda like is a jerk and decides he doesn't want to pay for the I mean I don't know how that I don't know how do you stop that thing but somewhere along the lines companies like mmm-hmm ain't doing it not today and so they decide not to pay for that person Starbucks but what I realize is kindness creates a ripple effect if one person does it then somebody else follows suit okay and that's how God created the spirits to operate in us is that when one of us does it then we kind of all follow in and do it together corporately and kindness is humbly giving of ourselves in love and mercy to others and the thing about kindness is we have to be willing to give kindness by the power of the holy spirit to those who may never even give us back anything in return we have to be willing to give of it knowing they may not return that favor at all we also have to be willing to do it to those who simply don't deserve it we have you willing to be kind to those people who are just jerks and we also have to be willing to be kind of those people who don't ever say thank you because there will be lots of people who will not say thank you a while back we had a lady that I knew and knew her really well and she was just me I mean I'm just gonna say it nicely she was such a jerk and everything about her was rude everything she did was rude she was rude to my face she was rude behind my back she was rude to everybody but specifically for me and like I mean I like made this woman million-dollar spaghetti and took it to her house and I'm thinking you should at least say thank you and repay me for the favor right no so her birthday came about and I knew it was her birthday and I was praying not about her cuz I don't pray for her but um you know praying for myself and y'all don't even don't even act like this fight y'all can be holy that's fine you got it you gotta stand perform too and so I was praying I was being really holy and I was praying and the Lord said to give this woman her birthday present I said huh a birthday present God said yeah I want you to bless her with the birthday presents her birthday I was like all right I know exactly what I'm gonna give her no kidding so I had in the closet now don't say anything till I get this out of my mouth because I know all y'all judgmental I had in the closet of old bottle unused old bottle a bath and Bodyworks like country apple lotion like from the 1990s you know those old-school sins come on now it was brand-new and never been used and I was like fine you want me to give her a birthday revolution you have some country Apple to put on that stank attitude she's gods [Applause] so the Lord and all his goodness said no you're to give her money now I'm huffing at God but are you really sure like she's such a jerk like I mean she's like number one jerk in the whole world are you sure he was like yeah I want you to be a blessing to her I want you to show her kindness and I want you to give her money for her birthday so go to the ATM got my ATM card out a pension in my coat and I was like gonna get her $20 I was like film reel holy I was like man I am being a blessing today girl gonna go get her some Brahms of Starbucks she got $20 right so I'm punchin in the code the Lord says $200 I said Jesus that's not you that is the devil I hear him rolling around like a lion seeking whom he may devour and I will take him out $200 you know how hard I've worked for $200 the Lord said yes you are to give her $200 obedience is better than sacrifice so $200 put it in my card put it in my gift bag put it in my tissue paper and I mean I'm like I mean this is gonna change her day like she's gonna be so nice to me we're never gonna have these problems ever again because I mean if I'm giving you $200 by God used to be nice to me right so I got my president wrapped up all pretty walk straight up to her take it to her hand it to her she takes it No thank you no see you later I mean Nessa I got nothing do you guys see I kept that under wraps nothing I got nothing from her nothing and I was so angry in that moment because I was like God how dare you embarrass me like this here I'm obedient to what you've told me to do and I've exhibited kindness to this woman who clearly did not deserve your kindness and now you're gonna ask me to give her my hard-earned money and then she's not even gonna say thank you you said yes I want that fruit to work in you and that's what kindness looks like sometimes unfortunately sometimes it will be repaid somebody will purchase your Starbucks somebody will buy your groceries at Walmart and sometimes they won't even say thank you but you have to choose no matter what they do that you will follow him that you will listen to his voice that you will be obedient no matter the cost literally no matter how much the $200 cost you I think about Jesus and the woman at the well in John and he's talking to this woman who he should have been talking to culturally anyways it was Jew and Samaritan and he basically calls out all of her goods but he doesn't in a perfect kind fashion he says there I I can give you the water that never runs dry I am the living water and she says you know he says to her you she's I'm gonna go home to my husband he's like he's not your husband you're basically living with him and you've been with five other guys that were your husband's and the one they were just checking up with now is not even your husband and he calls out all of her goods right there and yet he does it in such a loving way in such a kind way the way that he is and what that shows me is that in this world we're going to have the opportunity to talk to people about their issues I mean cuz we all got issues right I mean they sing songs about issues there's issues and we're gonna have those opportunities and it's how we respond to those issues and it's how we come at people about their issues it requires kindness it doesn't require blasting them on social media it doesn't require blasting them in front of everybody it just there's kind in Jesus's words there's kindness in the way that he goes to people so I want to share with you a few truths about kindness the first one is that kindness is always fashionable turn your neighbor and tell your neighbor kindness looks good on you and really all that word fashionable means is that like you're on fleek you know you're on point I mean you got your swag I mean whatever you want to call it like kindness is fashionable it's not uncool to be kind it's actually cool to be kind and the thing about kindness is it doesn't cost you a lot I mean now if God tells you to give $200 I'm sorry but it's in in essence it doesn't have to cost a lot because what I've learned is that the value of a spoken word in someone's life can literally make all the difference in their lives that some people just need a word of encouragement they need it you know about old school handwritten note like hey you're doing a really great job I really appreciate you type thing sometimes people just need to know that they're valued and that they're important and for you and I to instill that into somebody else costs us absolutely nothing and yet means life or death for them I was reading the story the other day about a boss who went into his office and he took time to go into every single cubicle and thanked each employee individual individually and he pointed out something positive about each one you know like I really like the way you stapled those papers like man that's a good staple job you know something like I don't really know what he said but he encouraged each and every single cubicle and then he the next day he comes back to work and there's a package a present sitting on his desk and it's wrapped very nice and he opens it up and he reads the card and he calls the gentleman in it was from one of the employees that he had and he opens it up and it's an Xbox and he was like what's the cool way to me an Xbox and he's like well I know your wife won't let you get one cuz you're like 43 and that's not cool for 43 year old men to have Xboxes but I wanted you to have an Xbox he's like man that's so cool thanks you know why'd you do this and he was like I'm gonna be really honest with you the day before you came into my cubicle and you told me how good of a job I was doing I had gone and bought a gun and I was planning to go home that night and shoot myself and kill myself and he said so instead I took the gun pawned it off got the money and bought you the Xbox instead because you saved my life and that's literally just the power of our words like we literally have the power of life and death on our tongue the book of Proverbs said and we speak life or death into a situation so it's always fashionable and it really truly in most instances costs you nothing to be kind it costs you nothing to walk up to a complete stranger and say look really nice today I'm gonna forget one time I was in Walmart and my daughter was having one of her terrific two meltdowns and you may have seen me I was at the Sand Springs Walmart and she was pleading those of those produce bags that you put the produce in the clear bags what do they called produce bags produce bags and she had one and she was playing with it over her head and I'm so bad and I didn't think anything of it because she was being quiet I mean she was still breathing I [Applause] feel like I feel like I should have rehearsed this story in my head so she was breathing she was happy she was contented she says you know the bag armed off her head right and like she was totally content and she wasn't crying anymore and she wasn't throwing a fit and I was like I'm a plus mom right and till some really rude hateful lady stopped me in Walmart and she was like oh my god did you know that your daughter could die like that and I was like an honest-to-god bat had never crossed my mind like that sounds like ruck not rocket science right like she could suffocate and die but I was like she's just enjoying herself and she's being quiet and didn't occur to me but in that moment I felt soomi's she made me feel like 2 inches tall and I was like okay and I was art I mean like wouldn't your daughter's already having a meltdown and you're in Walmart with people wearing unicorn pajama pants it's like you're already not in a good place right and so I might you know grocery shopping and I'm just like I'm a horrible mom guy I was trying to kill my dog I can't Nyree thinks I'm gonna go DHHS is gonna be called on me and in sight I mean I was in jail already in my mind okay cuz with me it's like one way or the other and so I'm like pushing her and I'm just you know and she's crying cuz I've taken the bag away from her she just want to put the bag over her head and so I'm pushing her and this woman walks out to me and she goes ma'am and I was thinking I know the back of suffocate and kill her like that's what I wanted to say and she goes ma'am can I just tell you're doing a really good job you're a really great mom I was like I like tears or even though my face but in that moment that was what I needed to hear and that cost that woman nothing nothing so imagine if every morning when we woke up if we set out in our mind to find one person two people five people ten people whatever and you said one genuinely kind thing to somebody what would that create what would that look like because we live in a culture right now or we don't even value people's lives like one week from tonight is when that shooting happened in Las Vegas and when that man or whatever conspiracy theory or whatever tragically took fifty nine people's lives so it's evident that we don't even value you the human race anymore so we need that kindness we need that love we need that compassion so that we can actually value the life of another human being so remember kindness is always fashionable in first Thessalonians 5:11 it says therefore encourage one another and build each other up without encouragement life will feel pointless and burdensome we can be overwhelmed by their very real pains of our lives and sometimes we just need people to come along and tell us struggles are worth it because think about all the things that you've been through in your own life if we all went through and we all made a list of everything that we've been through how helpful would it have been if you had somebody come along and say your struggles are worth it it doesn't make sense right now you may not understand what you're going through right now but it's worth it it's not meaningless it has value to it because see what I've learned in my life is 90% of what we go through in our lives have zero to do with us zero but yet as a selfish culture it's easy to think why me how me how could they do this to me why are they talking about me why they treat me like that why didn't he show up why didn't she show why didn't they do that it's so easy to say why me why me why me why me but when we get those fruits of the spirit inside of us and we let the Holy Ghost cultivate those things in us we began to see outside of ourselves and we begin to see the people that God has in our lives to equip and to reach amen the second thing that I want to share with you is about kindness is that our reaction to a situation literally has the power to change it like whatever the situation is that's happening to us are our attitude towards it the words that come out of our mouths the way we act towards that situation can change it and our reaction can either create a riot or it can create a revival I mean we've seen in our culture and in this and in this city alone that when things happen and people don't like it it creates a riot right well what upon the opposite and instead of retaliating against the things that we don't like and retaliating against the things that we don't believe in we instead decided to create a revival what if we changed our attitude towards the situation and up welled out of us that kind of spirit amen I want to show you the best way that I can visually show you how this looks is with these three situations right here so I have in case you can't see I've carrots I have an egg and then I have a cup of coffee and the same three things have happened to all three of these things sitting on this plate all three of them have endured boiling water I put the carrots in boiling water and I boiled the carrots I put the egg in boiling water and I boiled the egg and then the coffee beans were ground into coffee grains mixed with boiling water to make a cup of coffee are you processing so this is what happens to us when we encounter the boiling water the situation's the adversities the pain the trials the tests the tribulations the ugly people at work the ugly lady that I had to give my two hundred dollars to what if three things happens to us as people see on the outside this carrot looks like a normal carrot but because it's been a put in the boiling water it's been put into the fire what happens is when it's broken it becomes soft and not have zero strength to it it's unusable at that point and then some of us we're like the egg we look good on the outside everything looks perfect on the outside but then inside our heart is so hard a stony heart is what the Bible calls it that when conflict arises when people in our lives are mean to us or or disrespectful or they judge us or whatever the case may be on the outside we look fine but on the inside we've hardened our hearts to them and in the third situation is what happens to this coffee whenever the boiling water hits the grounds and hits the grains it creates an aroma a pleasing aroma for those of you who like coffee and that coffee becomes flavorful and it becomes aromatic and it's pleasurable to the senses and we have a choice as believers when we encounter these situations we can become like the carrot that once it's burned and boiled it loses all of its strength we can become like the egg that looks good on the outside but truly is hard all on the inside or we can we can release the illumination of the flavour of the holy spirit because you see we have the ability to talk like Jesus walk like Jesus act like Jesus smell like Jesus because you will smell where you've been I mean think about it when you've been to a bonfire what are your clothes smell like they smell like fire so if you've been in your prayer closet and you've been praying and you actually been spending time in the Word of God and you've actually been asking God give me love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control you're gonna smell like love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control but if you've been wallowing in yourself you're gonna come out smelling like yourself and let me tell you something it doesn't smell good his fragrance is what smells good his fragrance is what leads people to him we have that choice amen one of the things that kindness when I think about the word kindness other than it being just it seems like a really simple word but kindness really has to do with your heart it's a heart issue truly and one of the things that I think keeps us from being kind to one another is the issue of unforgiveness I think we we genuinely get so hurt and so offended by people that it affects our ability to be kind and I'm not just talking about to the person who's hurt you I'm talking about to everybody else because once you've been burned you naturally put up a wall towards everybody else because you don't want to feel that pain again amen can they may say I've been there before and so what happens whenever we when we choose to harbor this unforgiveness and instead of operating in that kindness is it basically creates a wedge and that's what this piece of wood is I'm just gonna use it to symbolize the wedge so work with me on this okay and when we hold this unforgiveness two things happen number one your hands are completely tied up and unable to bless anybody because they're full of this I have no open hand to extend to you to encourage to you to exhort you to build you up to lead you to Jesus to walk you into the doors of this church because my hands are tied there's a wedge in them the other thing the Bible says that if you do not forgive men their sins he cannot forgive you your sins so here's what happens we come to church and we think you know it's all good I'm working on love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control and we get into worship and we're asking God to move and do things and you're worshiping Jesus hallelujah and all the time this wedge is blocking God from you the whole time God can I need you to forgive me I need you to move I need you to heal and easier to bless my finances I need you to do this and all the time there's this wedge that that heart issue of unforgiveness has created and what happens is it blocks our ability to be kind to another person because we're afraid of that pain again it's real we remember what that feels like and it hurt I want to read to you out of the message version Luke chapter 6 and they're gonna have it on the screen for you Luke chapter 6 verse 29 says this to you who are ready for the truth I say this love your enemies let them bring out the best in you and not the worst when someone gives you a hard time respond with the energies of prayer for that person if someone slaps you in the face stand there and take it if someone grabs your shirt gift wrap your best coat or $200 and make a present of it if someone takes unfair advantage of you use the occasion to practice the servant life no more tit for tat stuff live generously and Luke 6:35 338 it says this I tell you this love your enemies help and give without expecting a return you'll never I promise regret it live out this God created identity the way our Father lives toward us generously and graciously even when we're at our worst our Father is kind so you be kind don't pick on people jump on their failures criticize their faults unless of course you want that same treatment don't condemn those who are down the hardness can boomerang be easy on pp-people and you'll find it a lot easier give away your life you'll find life given back but not merely given back given back with bonus and blessing giving and not getting is the way because generosity begets generosity and when I think about you know I when I share that story with you about having to give that a birthday present to that woman giving our kindness to other people like I said means we may not get anything back in return and Jesus is very clear and is worried about that that we may have to give without getting anything in return because he is easy to give to the people who are actually nice and bless us right those are the people that it's really easy to be nice to to give the compliments to to write the letters to to buy their lunch to pick up their tab those are the people it's easy to be nice to but those aren't the ones that are causing you to step out of that comfort zone those aren't the ones that are causing that that gift of the Holy Spirit to rise up in you to have to operate because that requires you to step out of yourself out of your flesh out of what you want and do what God wants and do what he's saying and that's hard to do sometimes the third thing that I want to share with you about kindness is that the thing that the Bible says in Romans 2:4 is that his kindness is what leads people to repentance it's not his harshness it's not his rudeness it's not his intimidation it's not his manipulation if you think about how you came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ it was because somebody told you or you read that he was a good loving kind God the best way that I can show you that is there's a story in the book of Hosea and when I think about this story it's probably one of my favorite Bible stories and for those of you who love reality television you know you love The Bachelor you love bachelor in paradise bachelor in China bachelor in Japan I mean wherever the bachelor goes he's got 15 girls going with him so you don't need me to go but there are some of us that really like that reality television so not judging if you like reality television but let me tell you if you want some reality open up the Bible because there's murder there's theft there's rape there's adultery there's cheating there's backstabbing there's prison I mean it's all in there you got it all and one of my favorite stories in the Bible is that book of Hosea and Gomer Hosea marries a prostitute named Gomer he knew she was a prostitute and God told her to marry God told him to marry her so he did and he married her and after being married and having three children she decided she wanted to go back into prostitution so she left him and went back into prostitution see I told you the Bible is really good it's like a reality TV show it's like The Bachelor really so he goes back she goes back into prostitution and the Lord tells Hosea go find Gomer and he said she's she's in a whorehouse like is that is that yes go find Gomer and bring her back and so I don't know what that looked like because the Bible doesn't give us a lot of details on how that looks but I'm envisioning in our modern day culture this poor man going from brothel to brothel to brothel looking for his wife not for a stranger but for his wife and he goes in and I think about you know the sex slave industry and I've seen the movies and I've seen where they depict you know what that looks like and I think about a woman standing on a pedestal naked and barren and chained and being bit off to the highest bidder and I wonder to myself did Hosea walk in and see Gomer on that pedestal chained and naked and watching other men bid on her and so when he sees his wife and he says that's her he tells the owner I want that woman and the owner says you must pay to have her Hosea says but she's mine she's already my wife he says if you bought if you want her you'll have to pay the price for her so Hosea says how much the man tells it how much any pace in order to get his wife he had to pay for something that was already his and to me this is a beautiful picture of how our relationship with Jesus is we are already his we were already his from the beginning of the world and yet he the Satan said to him you will have to pay a price if you want her you will have to pay the price if you want your bride back so he said how much and the man's venom he tells him you'll have to give your life so he says I'll send my son and he sends his son and his son dies on a cross for our sins and restores us back to righteousness and it's a beautiful picture of how his kindness because what husband would go into a brothel after brothel after brothel looking for his wife knowing that she slept with God knows who and scaring all kinds of whatever diseases to bring her back home to himself but it's what Jesus does with you and I his kindness is what leads us to repentance

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