Girls Gone Bible - Go and Sin No More| Girls Gone Bible

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

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all right have you seen this everywhere what is that well i'm back i i'm on instagram again and how was it going uh not well addicted gonna get off she watches uh her whole timeline is like ai is getting into like um uh like a hold on uh um like a twinkie bed that like melts and it's like which bed are you can i get it yeah i i my entire explore page is the weirdest stuff. It's AI 500 pound women jumping off and dive. You can't say that. Why? It's just what it is. You literally can't see that. I am not saying anything against them. I'm just saying that my time minus full of these women. You can't like you literally. You can't say that. Listen, no, my take please. Look at what she sends me. Like, this is not. Oh. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So this is what, this is what, this is what, this is what, this is what, this is on Angela's time line. Like, it's a pizza, like, I don't know, it's that, but it's also, he's very big women jumping. You can't. No, it's okay. I'm not saying it's best. He's very big women? Please.

I, it's going to make sense. It's these large women and men jumping off of a diving board into a pool and then the pool turns into like a tsunami and swallows all the peas. I don't know why my exs were pages full of these things. I need help. It's because you sit there. It's because I watch them. It's like an exorcism.

I can't get a hold of you when you watch these food making videos. I watched Jesus. They had Jesus surfing on a surfboard through the waves the other day. And I was so confused. And I don't know why my sports page is full of this stuff. Jesus. They had Jesus surfing. You didn't send me that one.

No, I didn't. You sent me just, like, the most, the sickest videos. Well, they're not sick, guys. You'll send me videos of like, I can't say it, never mind. No, I can't. No, we're going to start having fun on here, and we're not going to be weird. Say it. Like, like, a pregnancy test, and it says, you are mentally ill.

Yes. Yes, I do send you that. Or else it's ridiculous. Every day. Isanari memes all day. And it's just like, it's like a photo of a park and it goes, yes. Like there is something wrong with you. Yeah. What?

Like it'll be like, he's supposed to be like a pretty quote or something and it just says yes you're right there is something wrong with you yeah every day multiple i just remind her that i love her i miss my mom and dad i miss your mom and dad i've been missing them so much it's so sweet i miss you mom and dad i feel really homesick lately wow looks like we need to take a trip to boston hello please come to boston where the weather oh yeah let's break up hi guys i'm anne And I'm Ari. And this is...

Sorry. Oh, wait, what's your party trick today, Ange? What's your party trick? Okay, yeah. Hi, guys, I'm Ange. Come on. Do the intro. Hi, guys, I'm Ange.

And I'm Ari. And this is Chikas Ksevuelven Biblias. This is for all our Spanish brothers and sisters. That's really good. This is Chica... Can I get one real quick? Yes, this is Chikas Ksevuelven Biblias. Hi, I'm Ari.

And I'm Anj. Benavutte and Girls Gone Bible. Yes. Let me see. Benevente, I think. Benavente, I think. Benavutia, Girls, Gomba. So from my Italian brothers and sisters?

Yes. Do you guys know that? My family is from Sicily, and then I'm Dutch, German. My last name is very German. And then I'm also Irish. What language are you doing now, Ange? You're going to do Chinese? No, no.

Hi, guys, I'm Anj. And I'm Ari. Mirsevine in a bibli and vis-a-vis-ve-che-Gone. It was an obedient, but it doesn't, like, translate it, right? Okay. Ooh, let's do it in... Okay, one more than we have to get gone. Speak.

What did Jesus speak? Aramaic. They don't have their make on here, but... Okay, hang on. Okay, we've got to get going. We're so excited to be here with you today. Ari and I have been really excited to do an episode on this. We're going to talk today about this story in John, chapter 8.

It's the woman who's caught in adultery. We've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks, and I think we've been really excited. I think, you know, the story that we're going to read is literally the gospel encapsulated. It is a story of mercy, great. grace, a woman who is sinful, a Jesus who is sinless. And Jesus does not join the crowd that is shaming the woman. But he offers mercy and compassion, which is who he is. And I think this story means a lot to Ari and I, because it's so, like, it's just our story. It's our story of Jesus meeting two girls who were not living at the standard that they should have been, but never

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morning, he was back again at the temple. A crowd soon gathered and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. Teacher, they said to Jesus, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her, what do you say? And I think it's important to note that these Pharisees and teachers of the religious law were trying to catch Jesus in a lie, in a scam, in some sort of crime. so that they could imprison him. During this time, they were coming after Jesus

in whatever way, trying to slip him up, trying to manipulate him or get him to say something that would give them the authority to put him in jail. And I don't know if anyone knows, but Jesus is all knowing, all powerful, all intelligent. You can't trip our guy up. So they were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him.

But Jesus stooped down and rode in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer So he stood up again and said All right, but let the one Who has never sinned throw the first stone Then he stooped down again And rode in the dust When the accusers heard this

They slipped away one by one Beginning with the oldest Until only Jesus was left In the middle of the crowd with the woman Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman Where are your accusers Didn't even one of them condemn you.

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of the Rome, without the Romans set for them that they weren't allowed to carry out the death sentence. But if he didn't stone her, then he would be accused of being unsupportive of the religious law. So they basically put him in a situation that no matter what he did, they can put him in jail. And what else is interesting about this is the law, they altered the law a little bit because the law says both people who are involved in the act of adultery are meant to be charged and they only bring out the woman, which is so interesting. Oh, yeah, I know. I thought that too when I was reading this, I said, where's the man? You know what I love about this? I, well, first of all, if you, I just, I love this story so much because so,

many of us go through this. I loved, like, using my imagination to actually picture the story when the woman came out. Can you imagine how humiliated, afraid, embarrassed, ashamed she felt. I was picturing her coming out, like, they literally drag her out in the middle of getting caught in this act. She may have been naked, maybe wearing, like, a sheet. But can you imagine and being in a crowd of all these people, how humiliated she was. And I love, I just kept reading the part of when Jesus came out and he was looking down and he was writing in the sand.

And like no one, I tried to look up like what he would row and I couldn't, no one knows what he wrote. But as I like pictured this story, I just, I think it's so, it's so Jesus. It's so kind that he was looking down when she was in the middle, naked and afraid. He didn't want to look at her because he had so much respect. I don't know. When I think about even the times that I felt ashamed, like, and I was met with his love,

he was never looking at me with this condemning. Like, that's how I fell in love with him. He never made me feel ashamed. And I can only imagine when this woman was sitting there. naked, ashamed, Jesus was not looking at her. Yeah. He was just looking down like this, just drawn in the sand. I think that's so sweet.

It's so sweet. This is one of the most tender, precious, beautiful encounters in all of scripture. One of my favorite parts, he stands up and says, all right, let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone. And it's like this whole, it's the scripture that talks. about, be careful about thinking about the plank or the speck in somebody else's eye when there's a plank in your own eye. You cannot condemn somebody else's sin unless you are somebody who's never sin before. You might not have been caught in the act of adultery, but is there something else that you've done? Absolutely, because every single one of us.

So I love this picture so much of Jesus saying to a crowd of people setting the stage that in the kingdom of God, there is no room for. for condemnation from Jesus, he'll never condemn us, but we are not allowed to condemn each other either. And you never, ever, ever have the right to condemn somebody for their sin. Yeah. Even if they committed a sin that is way more heinous

than anything you would ever do. Because God doesn't look at sin like that. Yeah. You know, and that's not to say, obviously you give an allowance to sin, but I think as Christians, the easiest thing you can do is judge people. The easiest thing you can do, I've done it. Are you kidding me? You think I haven't looked at someone

and been like, I would never do that. Really? Of course. Are you sure? Be careful thinking of yourself so highly that you would never do. I have heard countless pastors say just like really be careful ever judging somebody for their mistakes or their falls because you don't know where you'll find yourself one day. And I love when Michael Culliano said, why am I going to look at your sin when I have so much sin of my own? Sir? And that goes for everyone. But these religious Pharisees are no different from all these people, all these Christians that right under, you know, Instagram, Instagram comments. And it's no different. And so you read this story and you read the story and you read the the way Jesus was, and that should make you think,

if we are a body of Christ where we are, we are the body, which means we are the example of Jesus Christ, which means we are the representation of who Jesus is, which means for an unbeliever to come, we should make them feel loved, safe, and not judged. Yes, yes, yes. So many, I'm just gonna say this because I can't, We come from the world.

Yeah. And I, myself, was so afraid to come to Christianity. I see, still, it makes me sick because I see, even on our photos, even on our videos, yes. No. I mean, we get more love than hate. And we have met the most incredible Christians, but there is this other side that is religion that is so judgmental. And it is embarrassing. It embarrasses us.

And it's, it makes people never want to come to Christianity. And so I love that you say that, that you say, I've been someone that judge because I have two. When I started cleaning up my act, I'm like, to my friends, I'm like, why are you acting that way? Oh, oh, yes. You know? Yeah, you let Jesus do a little work in you and then you fit. You forget where you came from, girl. You better relax telling people what to do.

I started thinking, I was like, I know. Seriously. And we say that in a funny spirit, too, because we want you to know, judging and condemning is, first of all, it's like, it's a sin, it's evil, it's not good, and it's incredibly normal. And so I don't, we don't want people to feel shame because judgment is something that we wrestle with on the daily. It is an active, I think Ari and I, within the past little while, have both gotten really serious about judgment. Because you can genuinely justify, not even gossiping, but judging people as, like, discernment and processing and, like, you're just trying to figure something out. And I decided recently, and I'm not saying I'm perfect at all, but this is, like, a genuine conviction of mine where I'm like, I'll find myself speaking about something and being like, do I, like, do I actually need to judge this situation like that? or do I maybe not have any idea what I'm talking about? Do I need to speculate and make assumptions about this person or this ministry or this whatever? Like, do I actually, or this church, like, that's where I found myself a lot. This is what Christians do too.

I'm one of them. I think maybe you too. I don't even judge, I don't judge non-Christians, right? Like, for the most part. But when it's another believer, I, you feel a little bit more entitled to be like, but you follow Jesus and you should be X, Y, and Z. So for unbelievers, we give so much grace to. But I even think, like, we need to be so careful with other Christians that, yes, we're meant to hold each other to higher standards, call each other out, call out sin you're absolutely meant to.

But you also are meant to give people grace, even when they follow Jesus, because none of us are perfect. Oh, I'll tell you who's definitely not perfect. and there's nothing more comforting than when I can call a friend and say my sin and they accept me with grace because that's what Jesus does and I hope we can all start to be like that

and even like just read the story and get checked when we start to feel a little bit judgmental and to like there's just I don't want to bring this up right now, but Okay, guys, real talk. We are not chefs.

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Hearts of more compassion, more mercy, more grace for people. People are really hurting and suffering. They really are. They're blind. They have blinders on. And we do so much in ignorance. And I know I did over and over again. Sometimes even when I did know.

Yeah. And so, yeah. And I think being aware that all of us have an inclination towards judgment, you just do. Like every single human has an inclination to be like look down on someone if they see them sin or this or that or make a mistake or act in a way that they wouldn't act. And I think don't shame yourself or be like, oh, I'm such a bad person because I know I'm judgmental. I know that I think this type of things about people. But what you can do is when the judgment comes up in your heart, when the thoughts of judgment and condemnation towards others, comes up, genuinely check yourself and be like, I'm going to choose to have compassion on that

person and be like, for me, what's really helped, because this has been an area that the Lord has like really brought to my attention of like, I want you to have so much compassion for people. And I feel like now what's really helped me is that any time that I feel myself get judgmental towards someone, I, I, because when I hear somebody else, I have people in my life who are so compassionate, and we're so compassionate, but you can even be more compassionate. I have people in my life who I hear the way that they talk about people. And if someone talks about someone or mentions that someone has a struggle or something or a sin or this, and I can see a person whose immediate reaction is like, that is so hard. That's so sad.

That makes me be like, I want to be that type of person who sees someone. struggle or sin or act or behave in whatever and be like oh man my heart is burdened for them yeah so for me going from a place of judgment because it's natural especially if if you have a standard of the way you live your life it's like it's natural to want to judge people but choosing to take that and be like oh man I'm burdened for them yeah that's that makes jesus sad yeah like they must be feeling that because X, Y, and Z, their childhood, they're this, they're that. Like, it makes sense why they would feel that way and act that way to choose to turn that judgment to compassion, I think is the most beneficial and pleasing thing to God. Like, I just imagine

he loves when we do that. Yeah, of course. I think something I do too is, I mean, yeah, I will think about myself. Yeah. I always go back to that moment on my floor in the shower and when I was just so I felt so rejected and gone and worthless and how much compassion Jesus gave me over and over and over and love and grace and mercy and love and grace and mercy my whole journey when I kept falling he was like picking me back up over and over again and so I just think about yeah the way he he forgives and loves and and gives so much grace. And I'm like, I don't know.

It just makes you want to be better. So when you remind yourself of that, the way he forgave us and the way he gives us grace, you want to give that same grace to somebody else. Jesus then says, so he says, all right, because they're demanding an answer. And he says that the first one who has never sin throw the first stone. And then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

And then when the accusers heard this, that if you've never sinned, then you can throw a stone. They slipped away one by one until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. By the way, that's a perfect picture of what happens when you let the Lord defend you, when you let Jesus have your back, when you give up a fence, when you give up the right to defend yourself,

you will see that one by one, every enemy, and I'm talking spiritually, I'm not talking people, but every adversary, every enemy, everything in your life, like you see it go one by one when you actually let Jesus fight your battles for you. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you?

Is there even one person that is sinless? Is there even one person? He's basically saying to all of us, is there even one person who is worthy of throwing a stone? And the answer is no. Just one. His name is Jesus. and he never throws the stone.

And then she says, no, Lord. And Jesus said, neither do I. Go ahead and sin no more. One of the most powerful lines in the entire Bible, go and sin no more. You see this moment where Jesus calls out all the hypocrites and says, unless you have never sinned, then you can throw a stone at this girl who has.

And nobody can do that. So basically he's defending her saying that, do not condemn, do not judge. So he's defending her, but he's not letting her off the hook because then he looks at her directly in the face and says, go and sin no more. So Jesus is always defending you and taking your shame. Jesus on the cross took our shame.

So you don't have to carry that shame. You don't have to live in that condemnation. However, at the same time, he's also saying, go and sin no more you're better than this you're higher than this i've called you to something completely different and i think something that i love about this so much is i talked about this on gb plus but like i come from an albanian culture which is a lot of like shame culture a lot of eastern european countries and foreign countries it's kind of like um like a shame culture like it's just the way it is like you carry shame you shame people into being better it's just shame it's just

a lot of shame so i've had to go on a long journey with shame and i'm still on a long journey because i find myself getting embarrassed a lot and like it's the one emotion that i don't want to feel anymore like embarrassed yeah things embarrass me and i see people who are truly um free of shame and like operating out of freedom and they don't don't get embarrassed. Like you can say something about them. You can bring up their past. You could bring up mistakes they've made. You could call out something in them that's not good. And they don't get embarrassed because they're like, yeah, it is what it is. I'm not going to have shame about it. And like, I'm not there. I still feel. And I've done a lot of work when it comes to shame.

But I find myself getting embarrassed a lot. And even like there's something specific where this is like Jesus, I love reading this story because God had a lot of grace for Ari and I when we first started Girls Gone Bible. He had a lot of grace with so many things about us where I want to maybe get a little embarrassed or maybe feel a little bit of shame.

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And that day that, click that link, start your free trial, and let's talk about it. We want to hear what you guys think. I always think about Jesus and how he wasn't embarrassed of me. Yeah. Like, isn't that crazy? I'm running around, representing. I am this broken vessel that is carrying the name of Jesus, running around, trying to represent him in a way that pleases him off, probably misrepresenting him, and he's not embarrassed. So when I think about this story, like, Jesus is in the middle of this situation with this woman, and these people are coming for him.

they're basically saying, like, if you don't take care of this, you're condoning this, you're okay with this, you're a part of this, and this is a reflection of you. And Jesus stands there in the middle and doesn't move, doesn't leave, he's not embarrassed, he's not ashamed, he loves her, and he honors her. And he stands up for her. He stands up for her. That's another thing we can do as Christians. Right.

Where we want to be quiet. He stood up for grace. He stood up for compassion. And we should do that with each other. Exactly. Exactly. And then he says the most beautiful thing and says, enough. What you're doing isn't working.

What you're doing isn't right. You're better. Now let's change. So I just love so much that he came onto earth full of grace, full of truth, both together. He does not let sin. He doesn't tolerate sin. He's not okay with it. He gives grace, but not to be abused.

and Jesus never leaves you in a situation to stay the same. He's with you in it and he's simultaneously calling you out of it. So it's this two-way thing. He's with you in it and he's calling you out of it. You have to be aware of both. We can't have a gospel where Jesus comes in and just sits with you in your sin and your destruction. He joins you in it and then he pulls you by the hand and takes you out of it. Yeah.

It's the perfect description of the gospel. The precious gospel. He literally is standing in the middle of the woman and the law as a mediator and where the law wants to condemn you, Jesus reaches out and releases you when you put your faith in Jesus Christ. And when he says, do not go and sin no more. He's not excusing her for her sin. But he's saying, I will release you from your sin when you, in your natural response

to grace, you do not sin anymore. Yes. And your natural response of loving Jesus, you want to change and live for him. Yeah. And that's why we're like intimacy, read the Bible, get to know him, understand who he is, because when you know him, you can't, there's no going back. Yeah. Yeah. It's our natural response to want to live for Jesus. To want to live for Jesus. And we fall. We're not perfect. We'll, always fall short. But we, repentance is the greatest gift that we have. The best gift. Let's talk about repentance. What do you think about repentance? I think that it's something that it's a gift that we're giving. I think conviction and repentance is the greatest gift. And we get to do it

every day. And I get to not every day. Like when I look at my old life, I thought I was so good and I thought I was this good, perfect, you know, I'm like, I'm such a nice girl. No, I was full of self. I was full of ego and I was full of pride. And now I get, have the gift of the opportunity to repent, to be better, to look more like Jesus. And to want to strive to do. Right. And it's such a gift. Such a gift to want to be like Jesus. That's helped me so much out of morality and into like a life of grace and empowerment from the Holy Spirit is realizing like my goal is not to do the right thing. Because that kept me in like a weird place for a long time. My goal is to be like Jesus, to respond like Jesus, to react like Jesus.

and to bear the fruit, like, truly. Like, I know it's like the Christian stuff, like gentleness, patience, kindness, peace, love, joy, faithfulness, self-control. Like, these are the things that I meant to carry, exhibit, and, like, operate out of. And I think it was something that kept me bound for a long time was this idea of, like, I'm a good person. I think it was, because that's, like, what the world says so much. like just I'm a good person whenever someone talks about religion or Christianity they always say

I don't like follow Christianity I'm just a good person and it's just such a like it's it's empty what does that even mean and to who's standard how good is subjective to who I'm sure there are like murders who thought they were good people you don't base like you've got to in life you've got to be able to measure things you have to be able to to measure good. And there is, God never calls us to be good. We talk about this. He calls us to be like his son. He calls us to behave, act, respond, react, love, and treat people like his son does. And so for me, it's been so helpful to get out of, because I, first of all, played the I'm a good person card for a long time. And it was able to, like, blind me. It was so prideful.

Who are you to decide you're a good person? Because I can name a couple of. None of us are good, by the way. Yeah, it's nobody, nobody. And so I was able to get away with living in sin for a long time because I played that. I said that so many times. I'm a good person. I don't have to follow the whole Bible because I'm a good person. And then I leave that sort of mentality.

And then I go into, I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. And then I get stuck in morality. And that is just lifeless, dead. and for most people, like, actually will make you sin more. Because when you think about not sinning the whole time, what are you going to do? You're going to sin.

The point is moving into, like, a grace-filled life where you realize that the Holy Spirit is already at work inside of you, doing a work, doing the work. He who began a good work is faithful to bring it to completion. Like, I have been so empowered to realize the truth that I, gave my life to Jesus, I received the Holy Spirit. I've since been baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in me and upon me, at work, doing what he came to do to turn me into the image of Jesus, to form me into Jesus, to make me like the Son. And so for me, that's been so empowering and it's gotten me out of morality where I've realized, like, my goal is not to just try to do

the right thing. My goal is to partner with the Holy Spirit, read about Jesus so I know what he's like, be aware of the fruit of the Spirit, so I know what I should be embodying, and then react, respond, and behave in a way that reflects the person of Jesus at all times. But it's the Holy Spirit doing the work in me. That's what got me out of morality, that I realized it's not about me just doing the right thing. I meant to love Jesus and let the Holy Spirit make me like him. You know? Wow. Yep. Yep. And keep reaching for grace. Yes.

Keep reaching for grace. I think one of the biggest things that we all go through is just the condemning voices in our head that tells us to turn away from Jesus to don't go to him when we start to, when we fall into sin or when we're just, I just want to, I'm going to say it again. These condemning thoughts are not Jesus. I want you to picture the story of him with this woman. Just picture him right now. He's bending down to this woman when she's just been caught in the act of adultery. And he's bending down to pick her up from it, saying, do any of these people condemn you? Neither do I go sin no more.

How beautiful is that? That's who he is. So if you're someone that's sitting here in shame and you're like, I'm too far gone or I'm not Christian enough. I'm not, he's bending down to you right now saying, get back up. It's my grace, it's my mercy. Grace in Jesus, that's who he is. They go together. He is grace.

He is mercy. And he also is just in truth. And that's why if we just had grace and mercy, then we'd always just do whatever we want. We have the gift that he's truth. And that's why we live right and we strive to be right because we want to please him. When you guys are feeling this, these condemning voices, I want you to, I want you to be reminded that Jesus will never condemn you. He's bending down to you saying, get back up and let's do this again. Yes.

And I'll add to that, that if you're in a situation, I think this is really important to tell you guys that Satan's number one way of getting into your life is by isolating you. When you're having these overbearing, condemning thoughts, when you're stuck in a cycle of shame and just condemning yourself and guilt and embarrassment, and I can't believe I did that and everybody's condemning, blah, blah, blah, you need people to pray for you. My biggest temptation, when I'm in a shame spiral, is to not talk to anyone, not tell anyone, not reach out, and rebuke those thoughts myself. I am not strong enough to do that on my own. I need people to speak into it. I need to tell somebody, hey, this is what I'm feeling.

This is what I'm thinking. I'm ashamed. I'm embarrassed. I don't want to say this. And I know we've said it a thousand times, but guess what? I need a reminder constantly of the truth. Because guess what? We forget the truth.

You could study it, live it, breathe it. And when your back is against the wall, you forget the basics that you've learned. You forget that you need to pick up the phone and confess and tell someone what you've been through, what you've done, what you're feeling, what you're experiencing, and it will immediately begin to lose power. But sitting in isolation and not telling anyone will absolutely destroy you. So this is a PSA for everyone who has not reached out to tell someone, I'm going through something really intense and I need help.

Isolation also, if you're someone that's struggling with lust and you don't know why and you're looking at other people and you're like, but they're not lost. Why am I? Isolation, being in the house, sitting doom scrolling on the phone. Yeah. These are things that are going to create you to feel so lustful. Right. And yeah, I just think isolation is the worst thing ever.

It's so good. Yeah. It's so true. Being by yourself, letting those thoughts feed on themselves get bigger and bigger and bigger. Reach out to someone. Stop it. We're going to pray for you right now. Jesus, for every single person that's watching and listening, Lord,

everybody who is facing condemning thoughts, guilt, shame, embarrassment. God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you would expel, rebuke, renounce, and reject every lie from Satan in their minds right now about who you are, about who they are, about what they've done, about how they're too far gone. Jesus, remove every lie, every condemning thought. I pray that you fill their minds with pleasing, beautiful, uplifting, encouraging thoughts. Father, I pray that you would be a true father and encourage them in their own minds. I pray that you'd fill their minds with encouragement.

I plead the blood of Jesus over their minds, their bodies, their spirits, over every thought that enters into their minds. I declare a hedge of protection around their minds. And I pray, Father, that anybody who is in a shame spiral or like a depressive spiral, Jesus, I pray that you would come in absolutely, break the doors open and have them let somebody else in, have them let you in,

and completely stop the chaos that's ensuing in Jesus' name. Beautiful. It is a lie from the devil. If you're feeling like you can't bring your sin, your shame, the lies of the devil that he keeps telling you that you're stuck, I want you to truly, I want you to picture Jesus bending down, picking you back up saying, let's go. Yeah. I do not condemn you. Neither do I do not do I can do. I want you to picture Jesus bending down saying I do not condemn you. I love you. Get back up. Go sin no more. Let's try

this again. I can't say it enough. I can't tell you how many times I've been in that situation where I let the thoughts. I started to believe the thoughts and I felt too far gone from Jesus. and I couldn't bring things to his feet. Confess it to one another. We're human beings. It's okay. And I just want you to, I don't know. I think I've done.

And like Ari said, repentance is key. Repentance is beautiful, turning away from sin, turning towards Jesus. It is the beginning, the basis, the crux of a life with Jesus. repentance is not something you just do the day you get saved repentance is something you do as many times as you need to for every sin and not in a weird religious way but like that's what true communion with the holy spirit is it's like a moment by moment conversation oh lord i didn't i repent that is i turn away from that and so yeah we just encourage you guys repenting just looks like this Jesus genuinely I like I acknowledge my sin I acknowledge the mistake I can like you have to be aware

like I acknowledge what is wrong why it's wrong and what you actually want from me yeah and I choose in this moment wholeheartedly to turn away from whatever that is whether it be a sin or even idolatry whether it's like and I have to say it like I think we should repent from anxiety I think we should repent of worry and control. I repent for control more often than you would probably imagine because I see it come up in me so much. I'm like, I didn't like that. What I just did, that was control that's based in fear. Like, bye, I repent from that. I don't want that in my life. And the reason why that's even a sin is because I've put that thing above Jesus. Jesus is in control. so you just moment by moment say oh i repent from that lord i don't like that i don't agree with that

i come out of agreement i surrender that and i turn towards you and the truth of what you say about whatever that is yeah you just talk to him about everything tell him tell him with your heart talk to him like he's your father yeah you know and in that in that place where you cry out and you talk to him about your weaknesses and your sins, you begin to feel the love of him. You begin to feel that comfort of your father. And then when you get into that place of crying out and feeling so loved, it's like you get into this communion with him where you're like, I don't even want that thing anymore.

Yeah, yeah. And I'll just say one more thing. He took two girls who, I'll speak for myself. I turned my back on him so many times. I used to laugh at people when they would tell me that they were impurity. I was so far away from Jesus. I was just, I was so, I couldn't be more further than from Jesus. And he took that girl and he, I'm sitting here right now.

And he's completely changed our lives. He's shaped our lives. He's put us on the right path. And you just, you guys just have no idea what, happens on the other side of a surrendered lifestyle. So personal relationship, he wants to know you personally. He just doesn't want religion like these Pharisees. He wants to know you. That's all he wants. He just wants to know you personally. Personal relationship. And it all starts sitting with him and being honest with him, not being perfect, but it's in the place of honesty with him.

He's not, he's not scared of, of anything that you're that you're going through right now. He can handle it all. He already knows. So bring it to him so he can heal it for you and walk through it with you. So good. We love you guys so much. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom, shalom. Love you.