Thank you Isaac. Good morning everyone. It’s great to be with you. While we’re continuing our study in the Sermon on the Mount, we’ve been working our way through Jesus’s quintessential message. Some would see it as the core essence of his teaching about the kingdom, of what it means to be in his kingdom and a member of the kingdom of heaven. And last week, Colby walked us through how he was helping us understand what the true essence or the true meaning is of one of the Ten Commandments. And today we’ll be looking at another. And as I thought about today’s message, I thought of a situation my parents faced not long ago. You may have encountered something like this in your home in one of their bedrooms. They had a long one wall. They kept having this appearance of the ants along the wall. And these weren’t just your normal, you know, yard ants. These were like ants on steroids. These were big black ants that they’ve been hitting the gym. You see them across the room, they look at you, waiting for you to leave. They these were the kind that show up. And they kept showing up. So they kept spraying to try to get rid of them. We got to get rid of these ants. We got an ant problem and they sprayed. They’d be gone a few days and they’d be back. They kept coming back. And so they realized what we’re doing isn’t working. We’re dealing with whatever’s on the surface. But we got to go a little deeper to find out where are these ants coming from? And they peel back the drywall and lo and behold, a window that they had repaired not long before that had been it wasn’t sealed properly and it was leaking into the wall. And so now you had moisture in the wall, you had mold in the wall. And those ants were attracted to that, and they were come to that. Once they got all that cleaned out, sealed back up, repaired, the ants went away. Now the issue was you could keep spraying the whole rest of your life. You could spray atomic fluid on those ants. They weren’t going away. They’re going to keep coming back until you quit dealing with just the surface issue. And you went deeper. And as we look at the sermon on the mountain, what Jesus is talking about when he talks to them about the laws that they were already familiar with, he wants to make sure they know. And by the way, we’re not just talking about how it looks on the surface. We gotta go deeper into the heart. And so we’re going to be looking in Matthew chapter five today. If you have a Bible, turn there. If you have a church Bible, I think that’s around page 769. If you don’t have a Bible, we have them out in the lobby. We’d love to give you one. It’s yours to keep. We want you turning in God’s Word, reading in God’s Word on your own. The more you’re in God’s Word, the more His Word gets into you, changes your heart, it changes your life. And if you would stand as I read the passage for today, Matthew chapter five, we’ll be reading verses 27 through 30. Matthew 5:27. You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away, for it is better that you lose one of your members, than that your whole body go into hell. Go ahead and have a seat. We’ll talk about now what this passage means. So Jesus is jumped into this pattern. We’re going to see it six times. You have heard that it was said, I say to you six times now he is unpacking what he set up in Matthew 5:17 through 20, where he said, I didn’t come to abolish the law. I didn’t come to get rid of the law. I came to fulfill it, came to amplify it. I came to help you understand what it was meant to mean. In fact, your righteousness has to be greater than that of the Pharisees. What does all that mean? He’s giving them six examples from familiar teaching. These are things you have heard. Let me help you understand what it means. And so last week, like I said, Colby talked about murder. And the core issue with murder was not just, hey, I never killed anybody. I’m good. No, but what about your heart? Where does murder start? It starts in the heart. It starts with anger. You got to deal with that. Don’t just think I’m good. I never kill anybody. And yet you’re a raging maniac in your heart, full of anger. Deal with that as well. And now he turns to the issue of adultery. You have heard that it was said. Now that’s a great place to start. He starts with this phrase. You have heard that it was said a key word, there being the word heard. In fact, this sets up our first point, the main idea we’re unpacking today. How do we really pursue purity of the heart, not just outward external purity? We have the appearance of being a good person, pure on the outside. But how do we pursue purity of the heart? Here’s the first step. Number one make sure that what you heard is what is true. Make sure that what you heard is what is true. So Jesus says to them, you’ve heard that it was said, of course, what he’s commenting on by saying that is that most people at that time receive their biblical teaching through others, by others teaching them the language that the Bible was written in the Old Testament scriptures was Hebrew, and that wasn’t most people’s first language. Their first language would have been Aramaic, which the Babylonian Assyrian Empire had established as the main language throughout that whole empire. That’s what most people in Israel at the time spoke. Second language might have been Greek, because that was kind of the main trade language. Hebrew would have been important to them as well, but most people didn’t read it, speak it. So you had to depend on the local rabbi to read it to you, to tell you what it meant, so that you can understand. You had heard that it was said. The challenge, though, that Jesus is addressing here with the Pharisees. And we saw it in Matthew chapter 23. Woe to you hypocrites, you blind guides. The problem was that the teachers, the ones who were supposed to be the most spiritual, were the ones that were now taking the law and making it mean what they wanted to serve their own purposes. They weren’t stewarding it well. So you’ve heard that it was said, do not commit adultery. But I’m going to tell you that there’s more to it than just keeping that surface level law. In fact, what Jesus is pressing at to is that everyone and this has been a challenge in the history of the church in general. Everyone needs to be in God’s Word on your own. You can’t only depend on what others say. Martin Luther addressed this when he started the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, opposing the Catholic Church at the time, that was just only about– they were the ones who were in control. They knew the Bible. No one else did. In fact, they took the Hebrew. Greek. That’s what the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, the Old Testament, Greek, the New Testament. They had it all translated into Latin, which no one knew at the time. No one spoke. All the services were in Latin. No one understood it. The Bible was in Latin. Therefore they have to depend on us to tell you what it means. And Martin Luther said, no, no, we gotta have the Bible in the language of the people. They’ve got to be able to read it on their own, understand it on their own. That’s why when people ask me, you know, what Bible translation should I read? Whatever one you will read, pick it up and read it. There is no perfect Bible translation. Every translation has its benefits and its challenges. So pick up whatever one you will read. We’ve got to be in God’s Word. That’s why we emphasize that over and over here in so many ways. We have a Bible reading plan. We want you reading God’s Word. We want you reading through the whole Bible. We do that once every three years. Then we make sure this year we’re focused on New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. Next year will slow it down a bit. Just Gospels, Acts, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs or Psalms and Proverbs. The key is to be in God’s Word. That’s why we talk about Scripture memory. You gotta hide God’s Word in your heart. You gotta be in His Word. And if your only interaction with God’s Word is here on Sunday morning, I hope I’m being faithful with God’s Word. I’m hope I’m passing it along to you in a way that you can trust. But what I want everyone to be is like the Bereans I’ve listed Acts 17 in your notes. The Bereans, they were called more noble than some of the other cities around them, because when Paul came to teach them, it said they were testing what he said daily against the scriptures. Okay, Paul, we hear what you’re saying. We’re going to go see if that matches up with what God’s Word says. If you’re only just saying well, my pastor said, or this pastor online said, it must be true and I hope it is, take it back to God’s Word. You gotta be in God’s Word. You gotta know. You gotta make sure that what you heard is what is true. Because you could be. I’m keeping exactly what they said and they could be wrong. So be in God’s Word. Let God’s Word be in your heart. That’s the first step. Second here is to focus on the spirit over the letter. Focus on the spirit of the law over the letter. And I use that word over real importantly, because we’re not saying instead of the law instead of the letter. In fact, Jesus said, I did not come to abolish the law. I didn’t come to get rid of it. If he was doing that when he said, you have heard that it was said, do not commit adultery, then you would expect him to say, but I say to you, go ahead. But that’s not what he said. I’m not coming to abolish the law. In fact, there’s this real interesting copy of the King James 1631. There was back in the history of Bible publication, there was a fierce battle over the right to publish and sell the King James when it first came out in the 1600s, because it was big business, it was big money. In fact, people would sabotage other Bible publishers so that my Bibles will sell and not theirs. And so there was this one Bible that came out, and it’s been nicknamed the Wicked Bible. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this or not. I’m going to put it on screen so you can see why it was called the Wicked Bible. I don’t know how they didn’t the editors didn’t catch this. Go ahead and put that image on the screen. I’ll just point this out. Thou shalt not kill. That shalt commit adultery. Someone left out the word not. You think the editor would at least if you’re last second checking publication, let’s check the Ten Commandments just to make sure those are good. Somehow that got missed. A thousand copies were printed before they figured it out, and so the the King even got involved. We got to get all these and destroy them. There’s only about ten copies that remain today. That’s not what Jesus was doing. He was not saying, okay, you you’ve heard that it was said, here’s the Ten Commandments. Just disregard those now. No, don’t ignore the letter. But let’s also make sure that we’re driving to the spirit. Look at what he says in verse 28. You’ve heard that it was said, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. That phrase in his heart, in your heart, that’s the phrase he’s making very explicit up until this point. It may not have been that crystal clear, but Jesus is concerned about your heart. Not just the surface, not just the appearance, not just the outward action. He’s wondering, man, we gotta work on what’s in here as well. In fact, there’s a couple of phrases here that are important towards this end. He says, I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent, many find that word look to have behind it more of this active, ongoing sense looks and keeps on looking. Maybe like this idea of intense stare, gaze, plot. I didn’t just notice that someone was attractive, but my gaze became fixated on them to the point now where I’m letting my thoughts go places they shouldn’t. Also notice, he makes it clear, looks at a woman with lustful intent. That phrase lustful intent. It sounds like the original word behind it is just one word. It sounds like our word scandalized. The Greek word sounds just like that. And it. Matthew uses that word a bunch. He uses it more than any other writer. In fact, probably half the New Testament uses show up in Matthew. And here’s why this is important. He, by using that word, is driving to. I’m not just talking about a momentary temptation. I’m not just talking about one moment in your life where you slip into the sin of lust, or even a pattern where you struggle. By using this phrase, this scandalize, this intent, lustful intent. He’s speaking to a deeper issue that I’m going to get to when we get into the third point, this phrase can also be translated, oddly enough, it can also be translated differently. It can be translated like looking to someone with the intent of causing them to sin. You can translate it both ways, looking to them with the intent of causing them to sin again. So all this is pointing to I’m not. I didn’t just have a glancing, fleeting thought. I am on a mission. I’ve got sin in my heart and I’m going to carry it through. And I’m looking at this person in a way that they know there’s more. There’s more that I want. I intend more here. All of this points back to the heart issue that Jesus is talking about. We gotta press into the heart because ultimately we can appear to have it all together on the outside, and the heart still be very distant from God. We can go through the motions and say the right things and still be very distant. Every parent has experienced this. When you’re trying to teach your kid how to apologize to a sibling, okay, now’s the time for you to say sorry to your brother. I’m sorry. No you’re not, you’re not. And everybody knows it. And you know it, too. You’re making clear I’m not really sorry, but I’ll say the words to satisfy you. But what you want is. I am so sorry that I did that to you. It hurts me at my very core that I could act that way. Will you forgive me? I never want to do that again. And adults, we need that as well, don’t we? There’s plenty of adults. Maybe they say the word sorry, but they don’t mean it. I’ve been there as well. Jesus is pressed into the heart of the issue, not just the letter. And by the way, let me give a caveat. The letter is still important. You might hear someone say, hey, Jesus said if you committed adultery in your heart, you’ve already committed adultery, so I might as well go ahead, see the thing through. No, that’s not the point. The letter of the law is still important. Do not commit adultery. Yes, all sin equally separates us from God. But not all sin has the same consequences in life. And adultery is devastating. The fallout of that will carry on for years. I’ve got a friend. It’s probably been ten years ago since he committed adultery, and one of his children still will just barely speak to him. It’s affected him, his children, his ex-wife, probably whatever relationship she’s gone into, his new wife’s ex husband, their children. The trickle effect ripples out far beyond what you can imagine. And you. He has to ask himself, was it worth it? No. So don’t misconstrue this and somehow twist it to fit your own evil desires. How do we pursue purity of heart? Also know about the spirit of the law. Focus in on the heart. And then number three, the third one here that we’re going to press into. Number three, do whatever it takes to cut, remove lust from your life. Do whatever it takes. This is what this next two verses are driving at. If your right eye causes you to sin– that’s actually that word scandalize, not the previous phrase I mentioned. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It’s better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go to hell. Okay, this is shocking. This is pretty strong language. Tear out your eye and cut off your hand. What do you do with that? Jesus often spoke in this kind of language to get people’s attention. He said, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you can’t be part of me. And a lot of the disciples said, this is too much. We can’t handle that. And they left him. Jesus spoke in a way often to shock people, to get their attention, to cause them to really take into account what he’s saying. So is that what he’s doing here, or does he mean this literally? Some in the history of the church have taken this literally. In fact, here’s a picture we’ll put on the screen of an early church. Father, this isn’t Gandalf. Don’t worry. I’m sure Gandalf was a Christian, but this is a guy named Origen. He was an early– in fact, many consider him to be one of the most brilliant early theologians of the church. But he was also very tortured with his temptations, and he was so overwhelmed by lust, he came to the point of going, I got to do whatever it takes to get rid of this temptation in my life. First he said, let me just roll around on a bed of thorns naked and see if that takes care of it. I don’t know where he got that. That’s not in the Bible that I know, and I’m not having seen that, it didn’t work, so don’t try. It didn’t work for him. What can I do next? He read Matthew 19 where it says some have become eunuchs. Some have been made eunuchs by themselves for the kingdom of heaven. And so he ultimately decided to castrate himself. Taking this quite literally. Is that what is recommended here? Is that what Jesus is saying? Cut off body parts to avoid sin? Well, let’s talk about a few of the phrases here to try to get at what he is driving at. What is he really driving at? I mentioned the phrase caused a sin. Sounds like scandalized. That’s showed up in Matthew 13. It shows up in a number of different places, and it often is attached to a more final distancing yourself from God. He speaks to the Pharisees this way. The Pharisees, it says of them that they were offended by what Jesus had to say. They had fallen away because what Jesus had to say cause to sin. It’s the same word, the same phrase translated differently in the parable of the soils in Matthew chapter 13, it speaks of those who fell away. They were– shot up for a little bit and they fell away, meaning they didn’t stay with him. They didn’t continue to pursue him. Peter uses the phrase in in chapter 26 when he says, even though everyone else will leave you, I will never fall away. And then he turns around and denies him. See, it’s speaking to not just this isn’t just a fleeting sin. This isn’t just a momentary struggle. This is where I say I am separating myself. I am rejecting God. It’s dealing to a much deeper issue of the heart. It’s not just a sin once. So let me cut off my hand. Now let’s also talk about those two situations. Right eye. Right hand. What? Why would he pick the right eye and the right hand? Do you have a left eye and a left hand as well? Just cut those off. But problem is, that doesn’t work. Take out your right eye. You still have your left eye. You still have the ability to carry out the sin of visual lust. So what is he talking about? Turn in your Bibles to First Samuel and I put the, should be, the page number should be in your notes. First Samuel chapter 11, because there’s a specific instance here related to the cutting out of the right eye that helps us get to the understanding of what Jesus is meaning when he says, cut out your right eye, tear out your right eye, cut off your left hand. First Samuel 11. We’ll just read verses one through 2 or 3 here. This is when Saul was king. He had just been named king. But of course they still have people around them trying to overtake them, attack them. Verse 11. Then Nahash, the Ammonite, went up and besieged Jabez Gilead. And all the men of Jabez said to Nahash, make a treaty with us, and we’ll serve you. Okay? You obviously are stronger than us. Let’s make a treaty. Let’s make an agreement. What do you need from us? We’ll serve you. We’ll be good. Here were his conditions. Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes and thus bring disgrace on all Israel. The elders said, give us several days. We may send messengers. Let us think about it. Let’s see if we can get somebody to come and help us fight you. Josephus, an ancient historian– in fact, he was about a contemporary of Jesus. He came just after Jesus’ life. He was a Jew. He captured a lot of the Jewish history, a lot of Jewish history that we know today. He recorded, he said this commenting on these specific verses, this he did that when their left eyes were covered by their shields. They might be wholly useless in war. Now, I hope you’re following. Does that make sense? He’s saying the reason why they cut out their right eye is because in battle, when you held your shield with your left arm. Because your right arm held the sword, oftentimes you also had your left eye covered. If you’re right eye is gone, you’re useless. Cut out your strength, your power, your self sufficiency. The right hand was often seen as the stronger hand. It was the hand used in business agreements. We’re going to shake on it. We’re going to swap sandals. Whatever they did, it was seen as your means to conduct business in society. And so Jesus is saying here, by talking about your right eye and your right hand, he’s ultimately saying, all of you. We can’t just deal with the surface issues. We got to get to the heart. Maybe it’s like our phrase, throw it all in. Plus the kitchen sink. Nobody really wants the kitchen sink. What you mean is everything. All of you. I want your heart. You gotta go deep. It can’t just be. Yeah. No, I’ve never. I’ve never cheated on my significant other. Never have. So I’m good. I am the perfect spouse as a result. No. Look, press in to the heart and do whatever it takes. Be willing to do whatever it takes to cut sin, lust, out of your life. Too often we love to compartmentalize our life and compromise with sin. I can keep this sin in my life and it’s going to be okay. I can manage it. I can keep it over here, and I can act this way on Sunday morning or when I’m around the church people; I can act this way when every other time I want, and it’s okay. But Jesus is saying, I want to go to the very essence of who you are, the very core of your being, and deal with that. Here’s what I want to do. I want to give you five applications to take from this. How do we do that? How do we cut sin out of our life? How do we cut lust out of our life? How do we do whatever it takes to cut these things out of our life? I’m going to give you just five quick, quick applications to address these. To dive into these first number one, work on your mental game. Work on your mental game. Work on the imagery that you allow into your mind. Colossians three, two through three is in your notes. Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. Set your mind. Set it on things that are above. I’ve heard John Piper when he talks about battling lust. He said, whenever I am tempted to have an image of something I shouldn’t in my mind, I immediately try to fixate my mind on an image of Jesus on the cross. You can’t keep two images in your mind at the same time. And if I’m focusing on Jesus on the cross, my mind can’t be filled up with images that shouldn’t be. Be disciplined to choose a different image in your mind. If you’re tempted to have an image in your mind of someone that you’re lusting after, that you shouldn’t imagine them differently. Imagine them worshiping Jesus. Imagine them before the throne of Jesus. Imagine them loving on their family or serving their family instead of imagining them for your own evil gain. So that’s the first one. Work on your mental game. Work on your mental imagery. Be intentional to choose a different image. Number two renew your mind with Scripture. Renew your mind with Scripture. I talked a few weeks ago about the importance of memorizing God’s Word to battle any sin, so I chose after that Ephesians 4:22-24. Verse 23 especially is focus on renewed being renewed in the spirit of your mind and the way you do that is through God’s Word. Hebrews 4:12 says that the Word of God is living and active. And so if you get God’s Word in your heart, it’s alive. It’s going to change you. It’s going to work in your life. Friend of mine shared recently with me, and he’s a pastor and he shared with me John, there was a season early in my ministry where I struggled with looking at pornography, and it was a huge struggle and I didn’t want to stay there. And he said, so I committed Psalm 51, the whole psalm to mind. And he said, there were so many times that I had to get up from my desk, get up from my computer, and walk around my desk. Quoting Psalm 51 created me a clean heart. O God, renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence. Take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore in me, restore in me the joy of salvation, but create in me a clean heart. He said. Sometimes I would walk around quoting that till I felt like the temptation had passed. I’d sit back down and 90s later I’d have to get back up and do it again. Get God’s Word in your heart. Find the Scripture that you need to memorize to battle lust. Number three change your environment. If you find yourself continually facing a certain temptation over and over again, it could be tied to your environment. And so change your environment. There’s a there’s a story. I heard Tommy Nelson say he was a pastor in Texas. He used to speak a lot at some of the student conferences we went to, and he shared this story of a couple he was doing premarital counseling with. And they said, you know what? We keep finding ourselves facing temptation. We’ll be at her parent’s house. No one else will be home, we’ll be there late at night, we’ll be in the basement on the couch watching a movie, and we’ll be half naked and we’ll find ourselves tempted. And he said, who wouldn’t? Who wouldn’t be tempted in that situation? You got to back up a few steps from that and not, first of all, be in that environment. Change your environment, get people around you that can help you navigate that, that you can call and say, hey, I’m in this environment. I know I’ll face temptation. Will you be praying for me? I had a friend when he was trying to come out of alcoholism. He had a sponsor and he would call him like every hour. Man, I want to go drink right now. Would you would you pray for me? Would you help me not drink? And the guy stuck with him. Would you be okay with one of your friends calling you every hour in their battle against lust? Would you call someone? Change your environment, get people around you. And then number four. Keep looking deeper. Keep looking deeper. Press deeper into the heart. If your car after you leave church today doesn’t start, you don’t just go, well, my keys don’t work and throw them away. The keys clearly have quit working. No, no, no, you ask probably. I guess there’s a challenge with my battery. And then if it’s not that you keep working your way down, maybe it’s the alternator. If it’s not that, maybe it’s the wiring, maybe it’s the starter. And then ultimately you go, it was the engine, but you work your way down deeper and you ask why. If you’re struggling with lust, especially in a continued regular situation, keep asking why? Why do I find myself continually drawn into this situation? Why over and over again? Until you get there and figure out why? And it may take a long time, but don’t just keep it on the surface. And then number five, ultimately, it’s may be required that you change your technology. I’ve told the story before, so I won’t give all the details, but there was a worship pastor. His name was Chris Beal, and he had been carrying on multiple affairs behind the scenes, even fathered a child with one of the affairs and no one in his church, no one in his family knew about it. He moved cities to try to get a fresh start, start a new church, ended up confessing it all to his pastor, to his family, and they took him through a restoration process. And part of it was, you need to find a job where you have no access to a computer and no access to a phone, and we’re going to get rid of your cell phone, because so much of what he had done had been through chat rooms and through keeping things secret. You may need to change your technology. This was a hard one when I can’t tell you how many people I’ve mentioned this to. You know, I find most of the time I they’ll tell me. I find most of the time when I’m looking at porn, I’m doing it on my phone at home, late at night, alone. Well, get rid of your phone. I can’t do that. Cut out your right eye. Cut off your hand. You can’t get rid of your phone. You really can’t find a way. I don’t want to. I don’t want to be inconvenienced. And I could preach about this the whole rest of the month. Okay, so I won’t keep going on and on about that. But here’s the issue. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to cut the sin out of your life, or do you want to keep nurturing it and you want to keep managing it? What do you want? This isn’t a game. Which do you want? Do you want purity of heart or not? Are you willing to do whatever it takes, even if it means being inconvenienced? Even if people go, that’s the dumbest looking phone I’ve ever seen. I know, I know, but I’m pure. What do you want? What is it worth? Create in me a clean heart Oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. Be willing to do whatever it takes. I’d love to talk with you about that. I’d love to pray with you. Ultimately, the only thing that’s going to change your heart it’s the gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s not us just trying harder. It’s Jesus transforming your heart. Is Jesus making alive in you what was dead? And I’d love to talk with you about what it means to come to know him, to confess your sin, to trust in him, to depend on him. That’s ultimately the only thing that’s going to change you. Today may be the day for that, for you. If so, I’d love to talk with you. After, I’m going to close us in prayer, and then I’m going to mention a couple of other things to wrap up our financial year as a church. And after that, I would love to visit with you and talk about following Christ, knowing him, walking with him. Let’s pray. God, we thank you for today. We thank you for your word. We thank you that your Word is driving us to deal with the heart issue and not just appearances. I think most of our temptations is to make sure we appear to have it all together. And you want to deal with the heart, not just the surface, not just the outside of the cup, but you want us to clean the inside. That only comes by your Spirit working in us. I pray your Spirit would move here today. If there is anyone that has been harboring secret sin. In fact, I know that God has prompted some today. He’s dealing with you. Some of us have immediately thought of that, that sin we’re managing. Would you bring conviction right now? In fact, I just want to ask you, I’m not going to point you out. I’m not going to ask you to raise your hand or stand. What I want to ask you to do right now, if that’s where you are, is just to pray. Just simply pray where you are. God, would you give me the courage to deal with this sin? Just pray that right now you may not know how you’re going to get through it. You may not have any idea, but pray. Would you give me the courage to deal with this sin? I don’t want to stay stuck in the sin anymore. Thank you that your Spirit gives us the power to have victory over sin. Would you guide us? Jesus, we love you. Amen.