South Side Baptist Church

#PrayerAndTheWord

“There's a spiritual warfare going on every time we encounter God's word. Every time we share God's word, there's a spiritual battle going on because the devil does not want us to hear God's word and take it into our hearts and make changes. If we are going to understand what God has to say to us, we've got to pray.”

#BuiltOnChrist

“Jesus is not merely a a a helpful addition to our lives. Friends, he is the foundation upon which everything should be built. He is the foundation, friends. He is the appointed foundation for our lives. He is he is what each individual life is to be built on if we wanna be in a right relationship with God. he is also the foundation that every rightful church is to be built upon as well.”

#WordTransformsLife

“Friends, because the more we get into God's word, the more God's word gets into us. Can I say that again? The more we get into God's word, the more God's word gets into us. And the more God's word gets into us and into our mind, friends, the more it begins to shape and inform our thinking. And the more God's word begins to shape our thinking, the more it begins to correct our behavior. The more it corrects our behavior, the more it strengthens our faith, and more it shapes our character as a whole. And thus, it changes your life.”

#HolinessAsGodsChildren

“Holiness is something we do on the back end, not the front end. Let me explain what I mean by that. Holiness is... We don't pursue holiness in order to become god's children. This can be very easily misunderstood. Okay? Well, okay, we're supposed to be holy. And if I become holy enough, then God will accept me. That's not it. God's grace is available to all who will come to him and and turn from their sin into him. Amen? And so we don't pursue holiness to become god's children. We pursue holiness because we are god's children.”

#JesusSaves

“That because we are separated from him by our sin, he sent his son Jesus, the second person of the trinity, to die on the cross, to pay the penalty for our sin, and he rose from the grave on the third day to prove that he was who he said he was and that... To prove that he could give us new life. Amen? So that if we will respond in faith and we'll believe that he has done that for us, our name may be written in the book of life. We may be born again by the spirit of God, and we may have a living hope and an eternal inheritance that God keeps us for in heaven. Amen?”

#JesusIsEnough

“they give us and allow us, excuse me, to bring glory to God. Our lives can bring glory to god by the work that god's doing in them. God's making us from what we used to be to be like Christ. And that will give him glory. Friends, we don't need health, wealth, prosperity, success to have unspeakable joy. You know what we need? Jesus. That's right. We need Jesus. That's all we need, friends. He is enough.”

#EternalPerspective

“friends, here's a misconception that most people have. In fact, let me just say, I believe, yeah, most people. I'm not gonna put a percentage on it. I believe most people have this misconception. Most people believe and think that we're in the land of the living going to the land of the dying. That's the way most people live. You know? They do anything, pay anything, at any cost just to keep their life here on this earth. But the truth of the matter is, if you're really thinking about it, we are not in the land of the living going to the land of the dying. We are in the land of the dying. Everything here dies. Everything. We're in the land of the dying going to the land of the living.”

#ForgivenAndClean

“Listen. Anytime the devil does that to you and he comes and reminds you of your sin, if you trusted Christ as your savior, then just if you haven't already confessed it to him, acknowledge it to him, repent of it, and then think of that sin as being paid in full, friends, because it is. covered under the blood. And so, that, you can then live with a pure heart and a clean conscience before God. Friends, because that is what Jesus has made available to you. Amen? Continual cleansing from and covering of your sin.”

#BeHisWitness

“Who are his witnesses in the world? We are. Okay? His followers are his witnesses. We are the ones that are gonna tell others about him. And so you may be thinking, well, pastor, why should, you know, why should I do that? Well, you know, I think most of the time when we think about sharing the gospel, we think about those who we really care about. Right? Our family, maybe our extended family, our friends, those we work with. And we should share the gospel with all of them. Okay? But here's what we need to remember is, every single person who doesn't know Jesus as their personal lord and savior is gonna spend eternity separated from him in hell. That's what the Bible teaches.”

#GodKeepsPromises

“Friends, what's the point here? The point is that God keeps his promises. God preserved the lineage of David. Why? Because they all were faithful and they were great men. No, not at all. But because God had a bigger, better plan for us friends, and that is to send his sign, the second person of the trinity, to step out of heaven, to come through a very human woman by the name of Mary as a virgin. To live a sinless life, to offer himself as the sacrifice for our sins so that you and I could be saved.”

#NewLifeThroughChrist

“And so here's the point I'm trying to make friends is new life in Christ is not possible unless you let God blow up the old stuff. He's already defeated sin and Satan, friends. And that offer of salvation and a right relationship with him is available to you today. And so if you've never put your faith and trust in him, if you've never let him blow that old life up, cover your sin with the blood of Christ, and surrender your heart and life to him. I wanna plead with you. Would you do that today?”

#JesusPaidItAll

“``Friends, fable is, in essence, what God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, has done for us. The second person of the godhead, our Lord Jesus Christ, has stepped out of heaven to take the punishment that we deserve. And so, friends, when you breathe your last breath and step into eternity, there there is basically one of two ways it can go. Either can take the take your chances, if you will, and take the lashes, the punishment for your sin upon yourself, and spend eternity separated from god in eternal, everlasting hell. you can let him cover you like that king with the wonderful love of the lord Jesus Christ. You can let your sin be paid on the cross by turning from your sin and putting your faith and trust in him. God offers that free gift to all who will turn and believe.”

#GodCenteredPrayer

“What I do want you to see in here in that in that simple prayer that Jesus shares with us and and gives us an example of is just how it's it's all focused on god. How we should acknowledge god, how we should yield to him, how we should surrender to him, and how we should trust in him. It's it's all about god, right? It's all about surrendering, yielding, acknowledging to him. God's the center of our prayers. It's not us.”

#SovereignSavior

“``Friends, the truth is that god's ultimate purpose and plan and what he will bring to pass in the lord Jesus Christ and through faith in him is to gather some from all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues to salvation in him. Is god the sovereign ruler overall? Yes. He is. And every single person who's ever lived on the face of the planet is accountable to him. Is god the final judge overall? Yes. The Bible says that what? That that we will stand before him in judgement, right? It is appointed for man to die once and after this, the judgment. But friends, here's what I'm here to tell you is, he is also the blessed savior of all who will put their faith and trust in his son, Jesus Christ.”

#MercyOverJudgment

“``Friends, God is saying, group whatever pain you are experiencing, listen, that is miniscule in compared to what I am experiencing. God's anger is soaked in tears. He didn't wanna have to destroy the Israelites. In fact, one of the reasons God is so long suffering he was long suffering with them, and he's so long suffering with us. I started to bring in this several verses in the book of Isaiah, of course, we have in second Peter also, and I think I referred to this past week, that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. In other words, God is not quick to judge because he doesn't want to bring destruction and judgment on any on his people or us. He wants to forgive. He is much much more wants us to repent and turn back to him so that he can forgive us.”

#GraceThroughWarning

“``Isn't god gracious? Isn't god gracious? Now, some of you may be saying, wait a minute, pastor. This was you just read a bunch of verses about judgment, about consequences for their sin. How can you call that gracious? How does god pronouncing judgment? How is that gracious? Friends, it's gracious because it was a warning to them. Even friends in his pronouncements of judgments, god is gracious because those pronouncements of judgment are a warning to us. God warns us for what reason? To give us an opportunity repent.”

#AddToYourFaith

“Verse five says, add to your faith. The word add refers to giving in abundance in generously. And also in the crew in in the Greek, culture, the word was used in the reference to a choir director who was responsible for providing everything necessary for the choir. He never referred to giving with meanness, but in great abundance to guarantee an excellent performance. And, also, you need we need to remember that god has given us faith in all the necessary graces in plenty way so we can live, so we can add those things to our lives, to our Christian's life.”

#AdoptionIsPrivilege

“But I would argue adoption that's the second thing god did for us. In this passage, he says he has adopted us. God adopted us. Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers. Justification, higher even than justification. Maybe your eyebrow raises and you go, what do you I don't know about that. Isn't justification the whole point? Justification is the core of the gospel. It's the heart of Christianity. But the highest privilege is that god what did he do in justification? He took our sin. He put it on his son and gave the punishment to him instead of us and made us righteous, in his sight so that we could be forgiven of all our sins by simply putting our faith in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross and in his resurrection, we could be forgiven and clean. That would have been enough.”

#NewCreationFreedom

“``It's not a do over. It's not turning over a new leaf. It's not a New Year's resolution, friend. It's a killing of the old man and the birth of the new, and that's what happens to you. Jesus said this way, most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. You, my friend, when you were made righteous with God, you became a new creation. You're free. You're free. to not sin. You're free to not bow down to the false gods of this world.”

#GodlyMenNeeded

“Friends, but what's needed are not just good men, but godly men who fully follow the Lord and put him first in their lives, make him supreme in their families, and seek to lead others to do so as well. Amen? That's what's needed. We don't need just good men, we need godly men. You see what was missing in Judah in chapters forty and forty one really was the same thing that was missing in Judah for quite some time, friends, and that is what is truly needed is God.”

#GraceForBelievers

“I say this often. It's we would bust hell wide open on our best day. K? So we deserve God's judgment, and when we stand before him. But now we come to number two, because praise the Lord, the story doesn't end there. Amen? Here's the other thing that we can learn and take away from this chapter and that's this friends, that yes, judgment will certainly come, but God's grace falls on all who will trust in him. Amen.”

#NoPlayingGamesWithGod

“Friends, in other words, God basically is saying here, don't play games with me. Don't think that you can that you can make some half hearted oath and then try to appear all pious and righteous, like you are all of a sudden trying to follow me, yet your heart is far from me, which is evident by your turning away from your oath and your lack of obedience to what I say.”

#TrustGodWithYourFuture

“Friends, our God's performance is more impeccable than that. Why would I pick Tom Brady? Because past performance is a predictor of future God's past is perfect. All of his promises he fulfills. We can trust him. We can lean on him. We can rely on him. We can put our future in his hands. And if you've never ever done that before, I wanna encourage you to do that today. Would you trust him with your life? Would you trust him with your future? Maybe you're here today and you've you've trusted Jesus as your savior, but there's a lot of stuff going on in your life. Would you give it over to him? Would you say, Lord Jesus, I trust you. Lord Jesus, I'm gonna put it all into your hands today. Would you do that now? Let's pray.”

#PromiseOfRestoration

“So the question comes back to why did God have Jeremiah by that field? Friends, he had him by that field as a sign and as a promise. A promise that fields will be bought and sold in that land again. That the land, the promised land will be possessed again by the Israelites and by his people. Amen? And they will prosper in the land.”

#FaithOverGrit

“It sounds almost laughable. But isn't this what we do every day? Isn't this what we're always tempted to do? To do our Christian life by our own strength, by our own flesh, to think I'll if I just work harder, I just I just white knuckle it, I just bear down, and I'll get it. We are tempted to do that. Just hold on tighter. Just grit your teeth. You'll get there eventually, but that's not the way of Jesus. That's not the way we reach the goal.”

#HeartTransformation

“Having the law written on our hearts, on our inmost being is not speaking about having intellectual knowledge or actual verses that God places in our hearts. What it's speaking of is a transformed heart, a transformed attitude, and transformed behavior. Not superficial outward, oh, behavioral modification, friends, but this is talking about transformation from within. It is speaking of an obedience to God that doesn't is not just on the outside, but that comes on the inside.”

#ResurrectionByDesign

“And and and because they got upset and killed him that then he decided that rising from the dead was what he would do next. That would no friends. This was the plan from the beginning. It that he would be home on a cross as a payment for our sin, that he would die and endure the wrath of God against sin himself, and that he would remain in the grave for three days, and then he would rise from the dead to prove that he was who he said he was, that he has power over death, and to give us new life. Amen?”

#JustifiedByFaith

“We are justified by faith alone. What is justified? That is that word means declared righteous. The the, word that Paul wrote down in the Greek is, it's a legal courtroom term. Like when you go to court for parking tickets and you can prove that your car wasn't actually there and so they don't apply to you and the judge declares you righteous. You're declared innocent. You're acquitted. That's what this word has to do with. Justification, declared righteous. How are we declared righteous? How are we justified? Not by works.”

#LatterDaysJudgment

“These verses, friends, unequivocally proclaim the judgment of the Lord upon the wicked and upon all those who sin against him, specifically when? In the latter days. It's very clear there, in the latter days. It this is no doubt rather harsh and jarring. Amen? But that is what sin deserves. Sin brings the wrath of God. And listen friends, we cannot say self righteously say, yeah, God, let them have it. Let all those sinners go to hell. We can't say it friends because we are they.”

#SentToYourBabylon

“I'm gonna tell you something this morning. Each person here, whether you're here in person, whether you're watching online, each one of you who has trusted in Jesus as their Lord and their savior has been placed by the Lord into a unique situation. You've been put exactly where you are by God. You have been sent, get this, into your own unique Babylon.”

#AnchoredInChrist

“I turn on the news. It's so depressing. I can't even stand it. People protesting, storming the streets. Our government seems like it's in disarray. My friend, I don't know about you, but I want an anchor. I want sure and steadfast. And it's not in this life, but it's in his. Amen to that. It's a certainty. An anchor, something that holds me fast and secure even when the winds are strong and the waves are high. His election, his choosing of you, you are his now and have always been his. And that, my friend, should give you certainty and hope.”

#DivineProvidence

“Friends, but my God is so powerful and so great that he can allow sinful men and women to have free will and sometimes, maybe oftentimes make bad sinful choices and decisions and even selfish, immoral, and ungodly ones as well, and still orchestrate all of the variables of time and space to bring about his goodwill and plan both now and for eternity. That's my God. So friends, we can trust in him. Amen? Amen. We can trust in him. We can trust in his rule over all kings, all kingdoms, all nations.”

#ChooseObedience

“Have you ever experienced that? Friends, that's why I believe we need to predetermine that we are going to obey God's word. Here's some predestination for you. Predetermine what that you're gonna obey God's word. That you are going to listen to what God's word has to say. That even when you don't agree with it, you're gonna trust that God's word is best, and you're gonna obey what it says.”

#IgnoredGodsWarnings

“So despite the fact that God sent prophet after prophet to warn them and to tell them that what they were doing was sin against him and that it was wrong, and that by not worshiping him and him alone, they were committing idolatry, and that they needed to repent of their sin and turn from their evil and back to him, which they should have already known. Amen? Despite all those warnings, time after time, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, they did not repent, They did not stop their wickedness. They didn't stop their immorality. They didn't stop their sexual perversions involved in that. They did not stop their child sacrifices to their false gods or any of those wicked things or the wicked actions that they were doing. Instead, they ignored God's warnings.”

#RepentAndBelieve

“He sent his son Jesus to pay the penalty for your sin so that you can be forgiven for all that you've ever done wrong. And that you can be a part of his family and child and you can live for him. And God will even give you his spirit to lead you and guide you. Friends, so if you're here, if you're watching online and you've never turned from your sin, repented and turned from that and trusted Jesus Christ as your savior, today is the wonderful day to do that. I encourage you to do that today.”

#RepentanceNotProsperity

“``Many say, God loves you just the way you are. If you sow your seed, God will bless you. You can speak your own reality. God wants you to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous. All these false teachings, friends, and those things are listen, you can think as positively as you want. You can speak blessing over your life as much as you want, friends, but if you don't turn from your sin and to the Lord Jesus Christ, you are not right with God and you're gonna end up in hell.”

#DontFeedSin

“``And one of the things I believe the devil wants us to believe is that if if I give in to this temptation just this once, just this once because it's, you know, whether whether it's that anger or or or whether whatever it is, friends, if I give in to it just this once, then that desire will be satisfied and it'll go away and I won't have any more trouble with it. That's not true, is it? Not true at all. It's not true at all, friends, because that is not the nature of sin. The nature of sin is that when you entertain or give in to those sinful desires, friends, you are feeding the sinful nature within you. Sin is by its very nature addictive. And so giving in once, what are you doing? You're feeding the war going on in your soul. You're creating torture for your soul.”

#OnePerfectKing

“``here's the message. I'm gonna give it to you upfront. It's the title of the sermon today, and here's the message, I believe, in our text today, and that is this, friends, that there is no good perfect king except for one. There's no good perfect king except for one. We as human beings want to find somebody to lead us and rule us just like the Israelites. We want a human king because we think that's gonna be a status thing or whatever whatever the reason is, but there's no good human king, but there is one king. Amen?”

#MercyThroughChrist

“``Friends, in that despite our sin, he offers us a way out. He offers us a way of faith through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen? Amen. He sent his son Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins so that we wouldn't have to and to rise again to give us new life. Friends, we must simply either accept his wonderful mercy and grace poured out on the cross for us by professing him as savior and lord of our life, or we get what we deserve. That's more than fair if you ask me. Because here's the deal, and many people think, well, you know, I I I've been a pretty good person. I I don't think I really sin that much. Friends, your sin will find you out. You will get what you deserve. You cannot hide from God.”

#ButGod

“``He says, God had set me apart from a mother's womb, and he called me through his grace. This but signals a significant message. It's like in Ephesians two where he says, you are all apart from Christ like you are all children of wrath, but God. It's like the other team scores a touchdown, but there was a flag on the play. I got in a car wreck, but no one was hurt. I got hit in the face with the ball, but nothing's broken. You have cancer, but it can be treated. This but, that's the kind of but we see here. But God.”

#IncarnationIsEverything

“We sang about grace appearing, about God stepping into history, about light breaking into darkness. We rejoiced that God did not wait for us to climb our way up to him, but that he came down to us in the person of Jesus Christ, his son. But almost as soon as Christmas ends, there's a quiet temptation that creeps in. We begin to treat the incarnation as the starting point rather than the whole point. Christ came, but now it's up to us to finish the work. Grace opens the door, but our effort gets us through and keeps us there.”

#SilentSacrifice

“Friends, so even though he was God and could have at any moment spoken the word and gotten out of this horrible situation, friends, he didn't. He willingly went through all this terrible mocking and taunting and jeering and beating and scourging and whipping and pain and suffering and even death for us. And he didn't say a word.”

#SeekWhileHeIsNear

“``He's revealed himself to us. And so we, instead of saying, well, you know what, God, I'm just not ready yet. God, I'm not sure if you are who you say you are. I'm not sure I believe. When God is speaking to your heart, when the Holy Spirit is convicting you of your sin, friends, that is the time to respond. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Seek, he says, kind of repeats himself here. Call upon him while he is near.”

#OneIn100Quadrillion

“``You cover the State Of Texas Two Feet Deep In Silver Dollars Is How Many That Number Is Okay100 100 Quadrillion Silver Dollars Would Cover The State Of Texas Two Feet Deep And We Drop You In Over Texas And You There's One Red One In There Somewhere The Odds That You Would Find That Red One This Is What It IsAnd So It's Statistically Impossible”

#EnlistInFaith

“``Friends, Christianity is not something that we select, that we pick out. It's not something that we just choose to make a part of our lives. Friends, it's something that we become a part of. It is something in which, it's an army in which we enlist. It's a kingdom in which we join. It's a cause in which we get behind. It is a rescue mission for the souls of men and women that we put our hand in the pile for. Amen? That's what this thing is about. So there's more to following Christ than just signing up.”

#BurningFireWithin

“You know, sometimes I believe we have this mindset as Christians that read the word that the men who wrote the Bible, the people in the Bible, never had problems. That they never had struggles. Friends, yes, they did. That's exactly, Jeremiah here is struggling with what God has called him to do and what it means for his life. Jeremiah struggled. Friends, Moses struggled. David struggled. They all struggled. Amen? So when you struggle in your Christian walk, get this, you're not alone.”

#DivineRescueGrace

“The big idea of our time together this morning is I want us to see the true gospel is a divine rescue that gives us grace, peace, and freedom, all for God's glory. And my hope for all of us this morning is that we will rest in the unchanging gospel of grace, a gospel that frees us from self-reliance and fills us with worship.”

#ChooseRepentance

“In the economy of God, our response to God and what he's doing in our life, whether he's pointing out something we're doing wrong or whether he's saying, listen, I'm choosing you for something, our response to that will affect his response.”

#ChooseWhomToServe

“Which will you decide? Which will you set your heart on? What will you do? I love Joshua chapter 24, verse 15. Look at this. Joshua says in one of his closing statements, if you will, to the people of Israel, he says, if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, if it seems wrong to serve the Lord, what are you going to do? He says, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. Whether the gods which your father served that were on the other side of the river, the gods of the Amorites, we could go on. The gods of the land, the gods of this day, the gods of humanity, whatever. He says, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Amen. We will serve the Lord.”

#GodKnowsAndWillRescue

“The visual worked. They saw Jeremiah's life. They said, Jeremiah, what are you doing all of this for? Gave Jeremiah an opportunity to explain to them, listen, here's why I'm doing this because these are the things that are going to come upon you if you don't repent because of your sin and your idolatry and all of that.”

#CitizenshipBeyondEarth

“``I want you to remember where we belong, because our citizenship is in heaven. To remember that. To remember that as much as we might take pride in being an American, there is something much higher that you have been called to. A citizen of heaven. Heaven, the dwelling place of God himself. A place that's always been and will forever be great. Because right now, we have to make a sharp distinction to this unsaved world that we find ourselves in.”

#BuildingGodsTemple

“Some people might say that calling out false teachers is mean and that causes division. Paul says it's the ones teaching contrary things are the ones causing division that those who are calling out the falseness, the falsehood and clinging to the truth are. We are the ones fighting for unity. It is not anti biblical or unchristian or mean spirited to call out false things when we see them and hear them. It is seeking truth and seeking. We also need to be aware. We. We need to not call it out just because we want to be right and win an argument, but for the sake of unity, for the sake of the spiritual life of those who are being affected by these things.”

#JesusFulfillsTheLaw

“Jesus takes what we think and shows us the real way again, the true way, the right way. And he knows that we're going to twist things up, we're going to mess things up, we're going to get things out of order, we're going to get our priorities mixed up and forget about things that we shouldn't. And that's why he says he's not abolishing the law or what the prophet said. He said, I'm fulfilling them. I'm coming here to live and to fulfill them. I'm not relaxing any of these commandments, and you shouldn't either. And actually, really through this, Jesus ends up raising the bar for the standard of righteousness in our lives.”

#KnowGodThroughPrayer

“If you're a believer and you're praying for somebody's salvation or you're praying for God to do this, or you're praying for something, keep praying. All right. And God will answer your prayer, or maybe he'll change your heart to realize that you're praying in a way that is not what you shouldn't be. God does that sometimes too. Right.”

#TurnedOverToSin

“If we continually reject God and don't want God in our lives, then he's going to eventually give us exactly what we want. And while I think this situation is fairly rare, I do believe it is possible to reach a point of unrepentant sin and rebellion against God, where God just finally lets a person have their own way and turns them over, as Romans chapter one says, is what I believe we see here in Jeremiah chapter 14, to a reprobate or a debased mind. So what does that say for us? Beware. Beware. Beware. Don't play games with God. Beware lest you think you have plenty of time. You may not have as much time as you think.”

#LukewarmDeception

“``If you think you can maintain a good relationship with God by being lukewarm in your faith, you're deceived. If you think you can maintain a good relationship with God by just giving him lip service, you're deceived. If you think you can maintain a good relationship with God by being half-hearted about spiritual things, by letting other things take precedence over your relationship with God, friends, then you're going to be rolling backwards before you know it.”

#GraceBreaksJudgment

“Judgment was real. It was deserved. It was undeniable. Yet in that moment, grace broke through like light piercing into a prison cell, offering freedom, grace, and goodness, where before only judgment stood.”

#ForgivenessTakesTime

“Now, as Christians, we know that we're supposed to forgive, right? We're supposed to turn the other cheek. We're supposed to forgive. As Christ has forgiven us, so are we also to forgive others. That is what we're supposed to do. But can we be honest? That's not usually our first reaction when somebody else hurts us, is it? That's not usually how we feel at first. In fact, it may take us a while to get there.”

#HeartDeceitfulness

“Our hearts do not lead us into doing what's right. Most of the time they lead us into doing what's wrong. That's why, you know what we need to follow? Not our heart, but God's word and his spirit. In fact, a few chapters later in Jeremiah, Jeremiah chapter 17, verse nine, Jeremiah writes, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? Friends, you can't tame your own heart.”

#WeNeedGodsHelp

“``How in the world do you come back from that? Here's the secret. You don't on your own. They couldn't on their own. Friends, that's what's so hard about our response to hardship. We cannot come back as we need to from hardship on our own. Friends, we need the Lord. Amen? No matter what has happened, no matter how hard it is, whether it's personal or family or health or job-related or like Judah, some national tragedy or difficulty, or even if it's something else, friends, the only way we can come back from it is with the Lord's help. It is by responding humbly and in a godly manner, turning to him.”