I Cheated and I'm Still Sacred #37

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I cheated and I'm still sacred. How can you cheat and still be sacred? [00:00:05] Speaker B: People cheat for a multitude of reasons, and sometimes it's they need healing or they need deliverance or usually both. [00:00:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:12] Speaker B: So, you know, what do you do when you fall short? Sacred is getting back up. Sacred is taking responsibility where you find where you fall short. Confessing that to the Lord and, you know, working towards renewing of the mind. [00:00:30] Speaker A: Sacred life. Sacred life. Block life. The sacred life. Living the life. Living the life. Living the life. The sacred. What up? What up? This your boy Twain, the owner of. [00:00:54] Speaker B: Sacred of Pearl and Anna Johnson, the owner of Overcoming Daily. [00:00:58] Speaker A: Welcome to the Sacred Life podcast, where we'll be discussing life, relationships, business, the. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Bible, and of course, how to live the sacred life. [00:01:08] Speaker A: We're back for another episode. Been gone a little while, but we're back. Try this again. All right, Try it again. So we would like you to subscribe, to share to like this. And hey, send it to somebody, you know, who you think would need these topics? They'd like to watch us. All right. Ms. Johnson, how you doing today? [00:01:26] Speaker B: I'm doing good. [00:01:26] Speaker A: All right. I'm laughing. Praise. Y' all got off to a little rocky stock this morning, but, hey, God is good. Today's topic is I cheated and I'm still sacred. Okay. Now, I know a couple times you. When I was starting this sinners are sacred thing, you had a little. A little iffy with it and quite. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Feeling like getting it. But this topic came to me. I cheated and I'm still sacred. And it's coming from the point of how we cheat on God. You know what I'm saying? And I mean, sin is sin. So even if you've cheated on a spouse or cheated on whatever way is I cheated and I'm still sacred. So the question is, how can you cheat and still be sacred? And it break down into different categories. Is in your faith, your sin and also neglecting God and His Word, you know what I'm saying? So we have a tendency to neglect God in a lot of ways. And when we neglect him or we do other things to put other things before him, that's pretty much us cheating on him because we're not keeping him first in the things that we do. But when we do that, does that make us less sacred? Does he not. Does he love us any less? Does he not want to deal with us any less because of situational things like that? No. I mean, he still loves us the same. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And we see that with the nation of Israel, despite Their idolatry, their disobedience. They're still his sacred people. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, he bless them. And like right after he bless them, here they go, oh, why you. So, so, so, you know what I'm saying? It's like instantly. So it's like we, I mean, it's. Look, our human nature. What did you say? [00:03:16] Speaker B: Well, sinful nature. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Our sinful nature. Yeah. So we have a tendency to do those things, but it's. How do we work through or get through those type of situations and things if we feel we've cheated on him, how do we feel like, well, perhaps. [00:03:32] Speaker B: Maybe we need to clarify, go a little bit broader in our description or expand on, you know, we're. What we're not saying, right? Because some people may be listening to them. They may hear that we're saying it's okay to cheat like it's your sacred. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Like, maybe we need to add a little more depth to what we're saying here. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Well, see what I'm saying? So it's like, yeah, we mess up, but after we mess up a screw up, it's like, okay, I need to get back. Right? I need to get back to this. I need to read my word more. Y' all, forgive me. So it's like you try to get back on the right track. Almost like if you cheated on your spouse and you're not going to be like, oh, well, I cheated, whatever, blase, blah. No, you're going to try to get back in their good grace. Like try to do the thing, the right things, because, you know, you've screwed up and you've messed up, you know, so you're going to try to read your word more, you're trying to pray more, get into more meditation with them and those sort of things. Do you agree? [00:04:28] Speaker B: Get healing if you need healing. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Yeah, if you need healing. So. But healing from. [00:04:33] Speaker B: If you need healing. Oh, yeah. I mean, people cheat for a multitude of reasons. And sometimes it's they need healing or they need deliverance or usually both. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:42] Speaker B: So. But the reality of it is is either you're a child of God or you're not a child of God. And if you're a child of God, that makes you sacred. And it's not your behavior that makes you sacred, it is who you belong to that makes you sacred. And just like we said, the nation of Israel, they were, they. They are a sacred people unto the Lord. And you know, we look at the disciples and they were imperfect in so many ways. Look at Peter. He denied. Yeshua, three times. He was and is a disciple of Yeshua. [00:05:19] Speaker A: So much stuff was built from him he sheath. [00:05:23] Speaker B: So I mean, yeah, where there's a little play on words about cheating, but the reality of it is, is that we all fall short. [00:05:28] Speaker A: We all do. [00:05:29] Speaker B: And nobody is, you know, nobody is without sin. To say that we are without sin is to call God a liar. So, you know, what do you do when you fall short? [00:05:39] Speaker A: Right? [00:05:40] Speaker B: Do you. And that's the question, like, do you say, okay, I'm not sacred anymore? [00:05:44] Speaker A: Right. [00:05:44] Speaker B: No, sacred is getting back up. Sacred is taking responsibility where you find where you fall short, confessing that to, to the Lord and you know, working towards renewing of the mind, which actually is an act of deliverance in some ways and healing. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:03] Speaker B: So that's what we're saying. We're not saying that you, you know, you cheated, David cheated. [00:06:11] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Yet he was still set apart. David was. David cheated and he was still set apart into our Lord and still one of his favorites. [00:06:20] Speaker A: One of his favorites. Yeah. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Okay, I'm not going to go there with you. But the point is he was a chosen one and is a chosen one. And you know, Messiah came from David's lineage. So, so what was that title again? [00:06:38] Speaker A: I cheated and I'm still sacred. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker A: So it's because of Yeshua's sacrifice for us that we're even given. [00:06:47] Speaker B: It is atoned, it is covered. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah. The opportunity to even be like this, you know what I'm saying? To be sacred again because his we're cleansed. Yeah. I mean his blood cleansed us. We've given another chance to get it right, you know what I'm saying? But we have to make that step towards you. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Right. And so what we're trying to do is to get all of you singing, some of you are maybe listening to this and feeling guilty, feeling like you're lost, saying, oh yeah, I want to live the sacred life, but I've fallen so far short. Remember, we live the sacred life because we're sacred. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Right. [00:07:20] Speaker B: And that sacredness is not a sacredness of our own. It is a sacredness that has been given to us in and through God. He's called us, he's chosen us and we are to co labor and, and align ourselves word of God and we do what it is that we need to do. But recognizing ultimately God is going to. There's going to have to be a move of the Holy Spirit in our minds to fully transform us. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Definitely. Definitely. [00:07:47] Speaker B: It's a journey. It's a journey. [00:07:48] Speaker A: It has to be something that we want to do as well. Because he's not going to force us to do it. Much as he loves us, he's not going to force us to have that relationship. He's not going to force us to spend time with. No matter how much we're cheating on him, he's not going to force it. Okay. We have to make that step to do it. [00:08:06] Speaker B: There will be consequences. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. There will be consequences and consequences. [00:08:09] Speaker B: When we hear consequences, we think bad, but there are good and bad consequences. [00:08:14] Speaker A: A lot of consequences are learning. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Learning opportunities. Yeah. You know, room for wisdom and growth to. Room for wisdom and growth and strength. And, you know, as long as we have breath, we have opportunity to repent. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Right. [00:08:29] Speaker B: To turn from our sins. And so if you are, if you've, you know, some of you right now, this may be a bit triggering because you've literally cheated. Yeah. You've literally cheated. So did this. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Why the title's catchy. I put, yeah, I've cheated is still sacred. Yeah. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:45] Speaker A: But it's coming from the point of either cheating on God or either you've just physically cheated or. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Any of you, Whatever it is. Yeah. Period. Yeah. [00:08:55] Speaker A: So it's like. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And to tr. To cheat on your partner is to cheat on God. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:00] Speaker A: So if we've sinned, whatever our sin is, we've cheated. So that's why. That's the point. I'm coming from with that. So. [00:09:07] Speaker B: But if you fall into the trap and the lie that, okay, I've cheated, therefore I'm not sacred, and that's what the enemy would love for you to believe, then you will not turn. You're less likely to turn from your wicked ways. You're less likely to empower. Walk in empowerment where like, wait a minute, I cheated, but I have the blood of Yeshua to cover that sin. Therefore, because I am sacred, I've got to turn from this thing. I've got to move forward. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:41] Speaker B: So my question would be, are you sacred or are you sacred? If God has called you and he has chosen you, you're going to fall short. So are you sacred or are you sacred? [00:09:51] Speaker A: Gotcha. Yeah. [00:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And we have to make up our mind about that. [00:09:56] Speaker A: But what are we going to be? What do you want to be? So, yeah, I say sinners are sacred, but that's not saying keep sinning. No, it's not saying because we sin. We are. Tap on my mic. We sin, we are going to sin. [00:10:09] Speaker B: We're going to fall short. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Our goal is for us to live a perfect life, live a life that's pleasing to him. To do what he's called us to do, to serve him right. So it's like yeah, we sin, but we don't want to sin. We. I messed up, I screwed up. [00:10:20] Speaker B: We should hate it, we should hate it. We need to work towards hatred. [00:10:23] Speaker A: So it's just trying to empower that. Yes, you are still sacred though. Don't get down in the slumps, in the dumps. [00:10:30] Speaker B: Don't get back up. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Get up, get up. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Change your mind, do the things you need to do. And remember that some of these things that with that repentance and living the sacred life is that it's going to require some uncomfortability like you're going to. You may need to go to a counselor, you may need to get a coach, you may need to join a small group, you may need deliverance. Whatever it is, just do the thing that you need to do. You may need to fast. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Speaking of being in a small group, check this out. Sexual society. What up? What up? Are you serious about taking your overcoming to the next level? Maybe you lack a place for community and fellowship. Maybe you're looking for a place you can go every morning to do your devotionals. I have the perfect place for you. Overcoming Daily has a group. A group where everyone comes together and they fellowship. Anna Overcomer Coach Anna releases a daily video every day. She gives you devotionals every day. 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[00:12:32] Speaker B: So you know, it's really important, the power of community and surrounding ourselves with people that are on that same path or have just come out of. They've come up out of that path, but they're tracking in the path and the level that you want to go to. We need to surround ourselves with a sacred society, a group of people that are determined to live the sacred life. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Right. Something you've been talking about a lot here lately is fellowship. You know, need the fellowship of being in the type of fellowship. [00:13:03] Speaker B: We need to be unified with the right people, matter of fact. And we have to wrestle for unification. We have to wrestle for unification, just like you and I were wrestling this morning for unification. You know, we had a disagreement about something and we had to wrestle. Yeah, it's not easy. [00:13:22] Speaker A: We wrestle till the stock. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Yes, it's not easy, but you have to wrestle for unification, for the highest good. And you know what the highest good is? That God would be magnified and that he would be glorified. And so if you find yourself and you've cheated, meaning you've sinned, you've fallen short, and you will fall short. You know, what are you wrestling for? Are you wrestling to feel better? Are you wrestling to obtain your own righteousness? Or are you wrestling to be at unity with God? That's the highest calling right. There is to be unified in him, with him, with him and in him. And so really working to be a part of a community and getting the healing so that you can be unified. And sometimes that's even in marriage, right, where you need healing because your wounding is, you know, causing a heart to be unified in God, or you need maturity because your behavior is causing vision in your household. Like, these are things that we need to. We need to be transformed. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Right. And this is all part of the journey. [00:14:32] Speaker B: And it's not an arrival, it's a journey, like you said. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a journey. [00:14:35] Speaker B: It's a journey. [00:14:36] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? It's all on that journey to be. To be sacred, you know, it's a journey. To be sacred, you know? [00:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And it will require overcoming. It's an overcoming. [00:14:46] Speaker A: I like that because, yeah, it's a journey. So it's like you're on this journey, you sin, you have to turn from that sin and go, you know, it's a journey. It's a journey, a learning journey. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, even though we sin, it's, you know, where we fall short. God looks at the finished and complete work of Yeshua in our lives, and really, it is a learning journey. It's an opportunity to grow and learn and to be better, and it doesn't change The Father's heart towards us, it doesn't change his love towards us. It doesn't change the sacrifice, but it does call and require something out of value. [00:15:29] Speaker A: How it calls. [00:15:30] Speaker B: I mean, so if you've messed up, which you probably have. We all have. You know, you take. It's time for us to take in. Take a knee before the Lord and say, you know what? There's only one that's good. And you are good. There's only. You are holy. Help me to be holy, for you are holy. [00:15:48] Speaker A: See, that's actually what I was about to say, the importance of repentance. I was saying repentance is important. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And repentance is more than saying, I'm sorry. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:15:57] Speaker B: It is literally a re. It's the renewing, the rewiring of the. The brain and the mind. And the mind is actually the soul part of us. [00:16:10] Speaker A: You teach that in your detox and reboot. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So the. The mind is, you know, it's our soul. It's our soul. And so some of that stuff needs renewal and. But it's also training the brain. So the mind is the soul, but the brain is the brain. Okay, so that's the organ. [00:16:28] Speaker A: Because I'm like, wait, what? [00:16:29] Speaker B: Yeah, so the soul. Our mind is our. Is our soul, but mind is not this. When I say mind, I'm not saying the same thing as brain. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:39] Speaker B: The brain is a brain is just an organ. I say just an organ. Forgive me, Father. It is one of the most important organs that our body uses. So we really. But all our mind impacts our body. It impacts the way our brain operates. So maybe you're cheating because there's something within your. Your mind that has trained your brain to gravitate in way. In places you don't want to grab. Right. Therefore, you need a detox. You need a cleansing of the mind and a rewiring of the brain, forming new habits that you can do that which you desire to do in and through the Lord. Yeah, that's co laboring. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:22] Speaker B: So we're not talking about making yourself righteous. We're talking about laboring for the sake of righteousness. [00:17:27] Speaker A: And that's actually being sacred because it called to be perfect. No, I mean it's called to be faithful. Yeah. Be faithful and we're forgiven because of God's grace. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:17:37] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? [00:17:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And you know, perfectionism, you know, a lot of times when we look at the English and we look at the word perfect, it means without blemish. It Means without flaw. But when we, you know, when you look little from a scriptural con. Context, sometimes that perfect means to be complete and whole doesn't mean without blemish. [00:18:00] Speaker A: Right. [00:18:01] Speaker B: So we just need to work on being faithful in that which the Lord has called us to and allow him to be the perfect in our life. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Right. [00:18:10] Speaker B: And a lot of times people strive for perfection, but that's what Satan. Satan thought he could be the perfect. So really, perfectionism, I think we should. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Look at being perfect in a different way. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Because it's like, okay, yeah, the word says for us to be perfect, but when you're perfect, it means you strive for something. So you do it. And you're not going to do it completely. Right. But you're going to try the effort. To try. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah. The effort is to be faithful, recognizing that there is only one perfect. And that perfect reigns in heaven and lives and resides within us. And so we have no perfection of our own. And it's really narcissistic to say, oh, I'm going to. That I can do this outside of God, there's no. [00:18:54] Speaker A: It's impossible. So, yeah, and so I got a couple of scriptures. One of the main. One of I got four scriptures, but I won't get all four. I got Isaiah 1:18, which says, Come now, let us read together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:19:19] Speaker A: So it's like they're showing like, we're cleansed, we're forgiven. So it's like, yeah, we're forgiven. So go ahead and build that relationship with him. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Build back. Yeah. You know, I feel like just like we just like this just needs to be said, like, okay, so you cheated. Now go and sin no more. Like, it's time to stop sitting in this spot of like, oh, I'm such this, you know, this terrible person, or this, this and that. That's not true. Repentance. True repentance says, yes, I fallen short, but God, you are able in and through Yeshua to make me whole and complete. [00:19:56] Speaker A: Yeah. A new creation. [00:19:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So get up and move forward. [00:20:01] Speaker A: And move forward. [00:20:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:02] Speaker A: They're saying that's the other scriptures, like 2 Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, and we'll end on this one. There's no kind of therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:20:22] Speaker A: So put it in the past. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Move forward into your new. [00:20:25] Speaker B: But take the lessons. Take the lessons. Take the lessons. Learn from them and move forward. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Because if you don't learn from them, it's in vain. [00:20:32] Speaker B: There's so much wisdom in our mistakes. Like, there's so much wisdom to be gleaned from it. And that's what Father does, is he teaches us. And matter of fact, when you look at the Bible, there are so many lessons that we see from generations of old of where they fell short. And, you know, they're in there for a reason. [00:20:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:53] Speaker B: But, you know, we can learn from other people's wins. Yeah. We can learn. Learn from people's failures and we can learn from their wins. Let's learn on both sides. [00:21:03] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. [00:21:04] Speaker B: And be victorious. You know, the other thing to keep in mind, that's the scripture I thought you were going to read. But there is no condemnation for those that are in Yeshua. Scripture says that though the righteous falleth. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Seven times, to get back up, I think it's seven. [00:21:19] Speaker B: You know, something like that. But so just keep that in mind, you know, on your sacred journey, you're. You're going to fall short. And you gotta be. I say okay with that. I don't mean okay like, oh, well, you know, we need to be sober and alert, but we have to make peace with the fact that we need a Savior. We've got to make peace with that. We need a Savior. And we can rejoice in the fact that we have a Savior. And our desire should be to walk with the Lord, be unified with the Lord. But knowing that he is. He's reconciled us. He is our Redeemer. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. [00:21:59] Speaker B: He is our Redeemer. So if you've cheated. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Yeah, if you cheated, you screwed up. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Your redeemer lives. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Yes. And you are still sacred. [00:22:10] Speaker B: All right, all right. [00:22:12] Speaker A: Turn around. Get back on that track. Keep running that race. All right. So till next time. Live life. Sacred Peace. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Shalom. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Living a life. The sacred. Sacred. Sacred.