Genesis 4:1-16 - ”Murder in the First” - Who Are We Series

good

morning our Old Testament reading this

morning is Genesis 4 verses 1-

Genesis 4:1–16

16 now Adam knew Eve his wife and she

conceived and bore Cain saying I have

gotten a man with the help of the Lord

and again she bore his brother Abel now

Abel was a keeper of sheep and Cain a

worker of the ground in the course of

time Cain brought brought to the Lord an

offering of the fruit of the ground and

Abel also brought of the firstborn of

his flock and of their fat portions and

the Lord had regard for Abel and his

offering but for Cain and his offering

he had no regard so Cain was very angry

and his face fell the Lord said to Cain

why are you angry and why has your face

Fallen if you do well will you not be

accepted accepted and if you do not do

well sin is crouching at the door its

desire is contrary to you but you must

rule over it Cain spoke to Abel his

brother and when they were in the field

Cain rose up against his brother Abel

and killed him then the Lord said to

Cain where is Abel your brother he said

I do not know am I My Brother's Keeper

and the Lord said what have you done the

voice of your brother's blood is crying

to me from the ground and now you are

cursed from the ground which has opened

its mouth to receive your brother's

blood from your hand when you work the

ground it shall no longer yield to you

its strength you shall be a fugitive and

a Wanderer on the earth Cain said to the

Lord my punishment is greater than I can

bear behold you have driven me today

away from the ground and from your face

I shall be hidden I shall be a fugitive

and a Wanderer on the earth and whoever

Finds Me will kill me then the Lord said

to him not so if anyone kills Cain

Vengeance shall be taken on him

Sevenfold and the Lord put a mark on

Cain lest any who found him should

attack him then Cain went away from the

present of the Lord and settled in the

Land of Nod East of

Eden our new testament reading from

Hebrews

11 veres

1-4 now Faith is the Assurance of things

hoped for the conviction of Things Not

Seen for by it the people of old

received their

Commendation by faith we understand that

the Universe was created by the word of

God so that what is seen was not made

out of things that are

visible by faith Abel offered to God a

more acceptable sacrifice than Cain

through which he was commanded as

righteous God commending him by

accepting his gifts and through his

faith though he died he still speaks

this is the word of the Lord thanks be

to

God I got one bad habit well I got more

than one

but I got one really bad habit I love

watching True Crime anybody else here

like watching True

Crime come on don't make me the own oh

thank you oh I got two Sinners with me

three

good and that means on Friday night what

gets turned on is dat line do you guys

know what date line is dat line follows

a situation where somebody usually gets

killed sometimes it's something else and

you learn pretty quickly that's

formulaic they always have the

spouse and then they create this other

person maybe the gardener who she had an

argument with it's always a spouse but

they try and create like this could be

these two things and then the whole

formula is how do they catch him and

then what does they do once they catch

them okay so that's basically the story

the plot of this show and I've learned a

couple things number one if you're

planning to kill someone don't buy life

insurance a month

before because apparently that's a big

sign of your

guilt right the other thing don't look

on your computer how do I ask

somebody yes I just saw an episode of

that the interesting thing though about

this

show is I always

ends with the guy or the girl who gets

caught almost 90% of the time blaming

the system blaming their upbringing

blaming something else going

on well today we're going to meet a guy

who could have been on a date line

episode and what does he do he

blames the craziest part is what God

does let's

pray Heavenly Father we thank you for

your amazing grace to us and we ask you

to be with us and fill us with your

spirit opening our eyes and our ears

amen now Adam knew Eve his wife yeah

that's what it means and she conceived

and bore Cain saying and here's your

first hint things aren't going well I

have gotten a man with the help of the

Lord remember how they fall they've

already fallen by saying I can be like

God now she's putting herself in a

Divine place that well God help but I

put this together and again she bore her

brother Abel breath that's not a good

sign Cain means to acquire breath means

Abel means breath it's not a sign and

names mattered now Abel was a keeper of

the sheep and Cain a worker of the

ground in the course of time Cain

brought to the Lord an offering of the

fruit of the ground and Abel also

brought the firstborn of his flock and

the fat portions and the Lord had regard

it says for Abel's offering but not for

Cain's we don't know why because if it's

according to the sacrificial system

they're the same later it's because one

brings it with

faith but for Cain his offering he had

no regard so here we go Cain was very

very

angry and his face

fell now this is the interesting part

we've got jealousy we've got motive as

they would tell

you and the Lord said to Cain why are

you angry why has your face Fallen he's

asking him he's trying to help them do

you see look at what's really going on

if you do well will you not be accepted

and if you do not do well sin is

crouching at the door this is a

fascinating picture this picture they

used to believe that there were these

things called door demons seems strange

but this is the exact language sin is

like a door demon waiting for you to

walk in the room so he can pounce on you

and control you it's fascinating in like

an animal sin is seen as the

ultimate Evil that wants to

destroy think of that in our world where

people celebrate

sin the biblical truth is it's out there

to get you it's out there to destroy

you so it's sitting there crouching at

the dark its desire is contrary to you

but you must rule over it you must can

not let this thing in your heart that's

you motive of he's already a murderer

isn't he cuz he's

angry what does Jesus say in Matthew

6 I don't say to you just not murder but

do not be

angry but he's already angry he's going

to do it Cain spoke with Abel his

brother probably luring him out into the

field and when they're in the field Cain

rose up against his brother Abel and he

kills him Abel's gone he's just done a

bit player in this whole story we know

nothing about him

and he killed him because he was jealous

because God said I honor this for

whatever reason we don't know why he

honored that

gift later on as we read in Hebrews 11

it's because it was given in faith not

just given to get I could do a whole

sermon a whole 10 sermons on why you

should never give because you think you

can get something out of it but I'm

going to tell you right now it's

interesting Cain's name is to

acquire so why did he

give I'll leave that with

you whatever Abel did he gave from his

heart and now he's dead because his

brother is jealous this is always about

him Cain spoke to Abel's brother and he

killed him and then we move on and then

the Lord said to Cain where is Abel your

brother and he says what he lies

remember when the Lord walked in and

they had just eaten the

Apple it's not an apple but from the

Tree of the good and wisdom what does he

see where are you the Lord's always

seeking us out isn't

he they tell the truth you can see the

increase in destruction because he lies

he says I do not know which is

fascinating because that fruit of tree

of good and evil or sorry of the wisdom

and the knowledge of Good and Evil right

they're supposed to know but what does

he say I don't know they have access to

it but they don't know how to use it and

I think that's why that's put in there I

do not

know because I've already tried to assur

you God I don't even know what good from

Evil is and thus I do

this I'm I My Brother's Keeper oh that

will go on for Generations won't it

right to our day and the Lord said what

have you done the voice of your

brother's blood blood is crying to me

from the

ground there's something we need to

understand about

God because I'm going to tell you the

world doesn't think of God this way God

hates when we destroy other

people hates it more than you or

I he absolutely hates when we mistreat

people especially people made in God's

image the fact that we have people

walking around saying oh Jesus is just

love and kindness

and he is love he's the kind of love of

a parent with children can you imagine

how angry you would be if one of your

children were

killed times it by 10 times it by a

thousand the voice of your brother's

blood is crying to me from the ground

now what what would the just thing to be

it actually says in Genesis 9 if this

event happens God gives a rule listen to

this rule whoever sheds the blood of Man

by man shall his blood be shed for God

has made man in his own image that's

God's standard that's God's standards

folks if it came down to Justice this is

what should

happen all

right but what actually

happens and now you are cursed from the

ground the ground has been cursed now

he's cursed remember Adam wasn't cursed

but the ground was cursed now Cain is

cursed which has opened its mouth to

receive your brother's blood from your

hand by doing this evil he has created a

world where he the world will not give

him what he would have liked of it when

you work the ground it shall no longer

yield to you its strength you shall be a

fugitive and a Wanderer on the Earth the

greatest punishment besides death and

Antiquity is exile back then you live

together for survival exiling him he

knew was the greatest but why does he

Exile him and why is it a a Biblical

Justice because biblical truth and

goodness Is Us in the presence of

God biblical goodness and Truth Is Us in

the presence of our community

but what does murder do to community and

to God separates

us he's just giving him a natural

consequence of what's going to

happen Cain said to the Lord my

punishment is greater than I bear I want

you to notice something about Cain Cain

never once says I shouldn't have done it

does he there's no

Contrition so don't get too

I don't know the

word anyways don't think of Cain too

highly Cain is not presented as anything

but a selfish person who does not want

to own what he did his only reason he's

upset is he's got caught and he has to

suffer the

punishment My Punishment is greater than

I can

bear behold you have driven me today

away from the ground and from your face

I shall hidden this is the greatest

judgment is in the ancient world and in

biblical theology is not just you do bad

things but you move yourself from the

face of God because that's who we were

created to be what's Paul's great

promise in Corinthians one day we will

see face to face amen whoever said that

you get a gold

star face to face the worst thing that

can happen to all of

us is to lose God's presence that my

friend is

hell that my friend is where everything

goes

off I shall be fugitive and a wander on

the earth and whoever Finds Me will kill

me now right away people are saying well

I thought he was like the first kid well

no it didn't work that way the Bible

doesn't seem to have any problem with

the idea that there were other humanoids

that were existing it's talking about

this one line and clearly there are

people that live out in the outer area

he is or they couldn't who would kill

him

right and he's genuinely concerned if he

goes out there he's going to be killed

because that's what you did with people

in

Exile and here's the incredible thing

remember you should be killed if you do

that I want you to remember that that's

the right thing to

do but listen to what the Lord says then

the Lord said to him not so if anyone

kills Cain Vengeance shall be taken on

him

Sevenfold now why that's so profound is

there was a rule in the ancient world

that if somebody killed somebody the

family could come okay and come and they

could kill the person who killed their

loved one so what he's saying is if some

this is what God's saying if someone

does something to Cain I will enact the

Vengeance what's he doing by doing that

he's saying I'm Cain's family

member because only a family member

could enact the

Justice do you know what you call that

folks have you figured it out

Mercy you see the funny thing about God

is here is a truth that Justice is needs

to be meted and he everyone who gets

really into fundamentalism loves it but

then they never remember that he's

actually driven by

Mercy even though Justice is deser

deserved he gives him

Mercy then Ken k Cain went away from the

presence of the Lord and he send it

settled in the Land of Nod East of

Eden simple reality is he's gone he's

killed he's done this and God has had

mercy upon him but thus Begins the great

destruction next week we're going to see

an increase of it and there's going to

be more and more till we get to Noah's

Ark where everybody just lives for hate

and violence vience and sexual

oppression this is just a beginning

family upon family but it leads to

murder because he's about himself

because he has given in to you can be

like God knowing good from Evil he made

his choice independent of God and when

God told him what to do when God gave

him

wisdom the Beast is standing at ad door

he rather went his way and he was going

to see his life destroyed you

see and that's the reality of

scripture I tell you that because this

is shocking to a lot of people in our

culture the idea that sin is bad I mean

what has happened to

sin right when's the last time you were

sitting there talking to someone about

Sin I'm sure you were talking about

disease maybe you were talking about

some sort of mental condition right

something

therapeutic right that's the way the

world

works but sin sin isn't something we

talk about because our world's bought

into the idea that humanity is good so

if it's good and we're not doing the

right thing we just need a little

therapy and we'll make him good

again that's

true why do you think you have

psychologists and counselors do you know

that the only reason those things took

off was because the church Church did

not promote sin and it waned the gospel

so they needed help they're still messed

up they're still

Sinners then you get the therapeutic

response Bill Maher a true atheist made

this

note everything that used to be a sin is

now a

disease right but here's the difference

between sin and disease disease is I

can't take any blame for it I'm just

born this way I just happen to have

something happen to me I have a disease

please treat me sin says you have every

responsibility so why do you think

people like

disease because they can say why blame

me

right but sin says it's crouching at

your door to destroy you your resp

responsible you have a

choice whether you like it or not to not

let it rule over

you unfortunately we have to blame the

church in

this the church for so many years and I

can tell you I could take you down the

road to some church somewhere where

they're going to tell you it's going to

be like a 20-minute Ted Talk on about

how you can have become a healthier

human

being it'll be a rock concert and a TED

talk I'm telling you this is the truth

and you're going to sit there and listen

to about how seven steps to being nicer

to your wife or your husband or some

other thing some therapeutic thing to

help yourself feel

better here's the problem with it number

one it's like Chinese food you're hungry

30 minutes

later number two it doesn't

work you can only pump somebody up with

positive thinking so

far you see what's happened is we lost

the gospel because the church wanted to

be more culturally

relevant they wanted to be accepted by

the culture they wanted more people in

the pews and they forgot that we are

supposed to preach about these things it

started heavily in 18th century German

by the mid 19th century you could go to

most churches and hear about nice things

about you and why Jesus is there for you

to be more

fulfilled well H reinold

neber and he got a lot of trouble for

this quote said that the church is this

a god without wrath brought human beings

without sin into a kingdom without

judgment through the ministrations of a

Christ without a

cross because it was all about

us there was no sin so there needed not

be a cross let alone Jesus Jesus

actually became a glorified

psychoanalysis

person am I in trouble for saying

this and we wondered why we had so many

people sitting in pews listening to this

but so few people living it in the

world because sin is always there and we

can't get rid of it through a TED

Talk motivational speech does not cure

this this thing that's deep within

us so now I'm going to sound like a 19th

century preacher so you're going to have

to hold

on I'm going to talk about the reality

of

sin I feel like I should put on like

those robes you know they had pound

it sin is really

bad sin that comes within us has one

goal to destroy

us sin sin has one goal and that is to

destroy who you are to take your

humanity and lessen it and lessen it and

lessen it until you are exiled from the

presence of God forever that's its

goal it's not a joke I remember my uncle

saying to me well I'd rather go to hell

with all my friends in the parties than

go to heaven and play a

harp well first of all just so you guys

know that's not the escaton you're not

going to be sitting in heaven playing a

harp with Philadelphia cream cheese that

is

paganism but see what he misunderstood

is all those friends he wanted to go and

party with what their lives were doing

was destroying their very

Soul Oswald Chambers remember what sin

is the fundamental independence of God

the thing in me that says I can do

without God God I don't need him and

then we make choices like

Cain we no longer listen to God who says

don't do it we no longer listen for our

own good because we're too smart for our

own good sexual proclivity I can do this

I'm born that

way and to God they

ignore anger

greed well like I can handle it and sin

sits there at the door and

destroys I knew a gentleman very well in

our neighborhood growing up and he had a

problem with gambling by the way I don't

think you guys realize how damaging the

addiction of gambling is we don't talk

about

it and here he was with his four kids

and he said and my dad actually said to

him at some point I don't know if you

should

Gamble but he kept gambling because he

knew

better and I watched as his house was

taken his kids were taken and he was

left stuck in an apartment and he

eventually committed

suicide sin is sitting there and it

wants us to destroy

us and sin comes in and I love this

analogy because man has been created in

God's image sin is not natural I want

you to understand that it's not natural

remember the first two chapters in

Genesis where we were made in God's

image to be a priest and King and all

those good things it comes in because we

welcome it

in and it's not natural sin is the def

de deformation of

man it is a cancer it is a sickness

under death which has inflicted

man it wants to destroy

you it's known not just that you have a

little bit of a

disease it's not just that you have a

little bit of something that oh that

darn part of me I'm Just Being Human no

it wasn't way you were created and it's

there to destroy

you and

me and I can tell you the

truth Genesis doesn't give us by the end

good news on

it the Old

Testament gives us hints of what God

might do but there's no

hope but I get to sit here and preach to

you about somebody who gave us

hope I want you to know without Jesus

Christ you will be destroyed and away

from God

forever because of sin all of you

including me I know some I'm not such a

bad person

H well I've studied humanity and you're

part of it do you remember how they

dealt with with the toilet paper about 5

years ago

H I read 60% of people would happily

have ratted on their neighbor for not

wearing a

mask you think we're

good

H I'm telling you something that these

young gentlemen had to figure out or

they wouldn't have been sitting

here I'm a piece of

garbage good news guys so am I

but there was somebody who played the

cost and this is the gospel until you

understand sin for what it is you'll

never understand the gospel if you think

it's just a disease then Jesus has no

real help for

you at the cross God wrapped his heart

in flesh and blood and let it be nailed

to the cross for our

Redemption sin is is that bad Sin wants

to destroy you sin wants to kill you and

the god of Heaven and Earth to deal with

it became human and though he didn't

have any of it he took that upon himself

for

us that's

incredible there is no other way to get

to God no motivational speaker no nice

thoughts no

psychoanalysis there is

only the way of the

cross the cross is the only way we deal

with the fact that this sin has

controlled us and it has controlled us

and he came and took it upon himself

that's the only reason and if you think

there's any other reason then you need

to go back and

repent because one of the things that

happens when you've been in church in a

while I know this cuz it's happened to

me is you start you know your first you

go oh praise the Lord I've been saved

God did all this and then you start

thinking wow I'm pretty

special I'm going to tell you you do and

you might even say boy God's lucky to

have

me he's

not here's the reality guys you're only

here because of his Mercy in the

cross I'm only

here you see the cross does something

something

incredible the cross shows us how deeply

this has affected us cuz we nailed them

to it didn't we do you ever see The

Passion of

Christ there's a scene where Jesus's

nails are going into his hands and I

found out later that they it was Mel

Gibson's hand they said why did you do

that you're a director of the movie and

he goes I wanted to show it was me who

put him on that cross

and that's the unbelievable thing about

the cross is it shows us exactly our

guilt how far we are like

Cain but it

also shows us the way

out it shows us in a stunning

way how we can live

again don't know if you guys can read

this so I'll read it am Bruner by the

way good friend of bonhoff and all those

great

Germans only only at the Cross of Christ

does man see fully what it is that

separates him from God yet it is here

alone that he perceives that he is no

longer separated from

God nowhere else does the inviable

Holiness of God the impossibility of

overlooking the guilt of man stand out

more

plainly but nowhere else does the

Limitless in mercy of God which utterly

transcends all human standards stand

stand out more clearly and

plainly I'm going to tell you something

Paul said to the Corinthians I claim to

know nothing but Christ

crucified why because that was

it that was the truth of his guilt and

his

forgiveness and it is for you and I as

well praise God

e that he did that for

us or we would be right down Cane's

alley but it doesn't end there does

it I have some good news and some bad

news you want which one do you want

first I'm going to give you the bad

news you're still going to

sin I'm telling you guys I got baptized

today you're not going to walk out of

here and Float 5T off the Earth for the

next 40 50 years of your

life that same Beast will continue to

creep we have been saved we have been

given the Holy Spirit but guess what my

friends and by the way if you don't

believe me ask the older people who've

journeyed in this Faith

longer they'll be the first to tell you

you're going to

sin and in fact the more you spend time

with

God the more that sin is going to bite

you because you're also going to know

what your life could be like

it doesn't mean you'll sin all the time

and you will have

Victory but it's going to be a

battle it's going to be a battle you

guys and here's the good news you ready

for this he saved us on that cross he

brought us back into his F into his

realm and then he gave us the greatest

gift of all the ability to confess

sin you see it's not a oneoff is

it we deal with sin on the cross he

dealt with that but now how do we deal

with it until we arrive he gave us this

great gift that if you confess your sins

you're

forgiven anybody else wake up and you've

had a particularly sinful go and you've

wondered does God love

me this is a tough crowd because I know

you're

lying has anyone else sat there I know I

have and said I don't even know if I'm a

Christian

yeah you know one of those days where

you get cut off in traffic

H I know you're all like perfect but I

can assure you there are moments and

days especially when you're with your

spouse and they're peeing you

off and you go to bed angry and you hear

that verse don't go to bed angry now

you're more

mad and you think if I don't go to bed

angry I'll be up for four weeks

we've all been

there and then there's a voice that says

confess your

sins you know when I start these

Services I do the confession why do we

do everything we do here by the way some

of it might be foreign to some of you

what we do is our liturgy we do here

whether it's prayer whether it's

confession whether it's the reading of

scripture is the Liturgy of your life 6

days a week what you're supposed to be

doing we just do it together once

and when we confess our sins together

I'm not a priest I don't have the power

but he has proclaimed that if we do it

we're

forgiven and I'm trying to say to you

guys good news when you're having that

day then the first thing you should do

is run towards them because it's going

to feel like it's the last thing you

should

do and I'll tell you something a friend

said to me as crazy emry when I confess

my sins after I've blown it I feel like

he's almost closer after

you feel that way because you feel the

distance and he's right

back I'm telling you right now you

should confess your sins every

day John's gospel if we say we have no

sin we deceive ourselves and the truth

is not in us so if you're around anyone

who says I'm perfect or you can be

perfect the truth isn't in

them okay I want you to hear that there

is no place you're going to arrive

outside of the Resurrection we will be

groaning until that

day but oh thank goodness for the

bud if we confess our sins to God he is

faithful and just to forgive us our

sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness that's something you can

take home to the bank that's something

you can say CU there are times where

you're saying I confessed my sins but

did God forgive me say this to yourself

he is just and faithful to cleanse us

from all unrighteousness that's his

promise I heard somebody say keep short

accounts it's the best thing you can

do unfortunately there are those who

think and we all been there that somehow

we're getting this Christianity thing

licked we've got it down especially when

you're in leadership and everyone's like

oh you a pastor

I've hung out with pastors too

long we're all Sinners guys and the

first thing we need to do is to tell

people that I am a sinner that's what

Paul said what did Paul say I am the

chief of Sinners that's what he

said think of that Paul if Paul can call

him the CH self the chief of Sinners I

pretty sure you're okay to say it too

Carl Bart did something very profound

Carl Bart during the time of the not

rise of the Nazis he would go to these

jails and preach to these inmates now

Carl Bart I love Carl Bart because he

could have been sitting in bond he was a

doctor he was the most famous Theologian

Bon Hofer he had taught he had done all

these things he could have done these

great things but he goes into these

places into right into the depths of the

jails the hardest

inmates and here's what he said

when I come before these men I do not

have to explain that we are all sinners

they have committed every sin there

is all I have to tell them is that I too

am a

sinner any preacher that gets up and

gives you the illusion that he's her is

above you should be kicked off this

stage let me tell you right now I too am

a

sinner when I'm preaching these sermons

I'm not preaching at you I'm preaching

to

me the first person that runs down when

the altar call is me I just do it before

you because I've already planned

it and that's what makes the gospel so

much that I keep doing this and I get

cited is it says that he died for my

sins and that Emory on his worst day

will never be thrown out because of what

he

did that he washed me and he will never

kick me out of his presence all I have

to do is admit it that's

it Cain didn't did

he all I have to do is say God yeah I

yelled at my wife and I'm sorry forgiven

God I fingered the guy while I was

driving who cut me off and you say emry

you would never do that well you're

you're right but I'm using some

examples

forgiven forgiven forgiven

forgiven start living that way and you

start becoming free because you're not

carrying the weights of the world and

then the Spirit can come alive and start

transforming you

inside yes I can do it because the

gospel frees us to confess our sins

without fear of condemnation we should

be the most honest human beings on the

planet because our sins have already

been paid for and the fact that we try

and put on errors should be one of the

biggest mistakes we

do because the truth is we're all

sinners

but there is some good news too my

friends he doesn't want to just leave us

there I'm not telling you that you're

going to have to do every sin that

challenge is still there to us sin is

crouching at the door you must fight

it and the good news though you'll sin

the more you walk with the Lord the more

you can fight it you can even begin to

rule over it but not because of

you because of the grace of our Lord

Jesus Christ and His holy

spirit so I'm going to say something to

you and I'm going to end on this and the

reason I want to end on this is because

I think it's so

important date line at the end

interviews the guy who got caught he's

already been charged he's going to jail

and almost every time he talks about how

he wish he hadn't got caught and why is

it his responsibility and blah blah blah

blah blah

but once in a

while the guy looks and says man did I

blow it I was living for myself and I

took a human life and there's nothing I

can

do I've noticed something in these

episodes that the ones who refuse to

confess and admit they never get

connected again with

Community that's the other thing cuz

they lie and there are Vic

victims and you don't own it

yourself no one can trust

you but the ones who own it and say I

did this I actually see forgiveness

happening that's crazy because I don't

know what I would

do but there's something about

confession that brings us back into

community and because of that we must

confess because confessing also makes us

real you see when you confess your sins

you're now saying to everyone in this

room I'm not better than

you I'm exactly like

you now we can be brothers

again I truly believe in confession and

that's why we do it

here I believe it should be a discipline

that we practice our whole

lives the discipline of confession

brings an end to

pretense God is calling into being a

church that can openly confess its frail

humanity and know the forgiving and

empowering Graces of

Christ so are you going to

confess I'm going to take a moment while

the band comes

up and I'm going to invite us not out

loud but if you got something heavy on

your

heart I want you to take that moment and

just confess it because he's here right

now let's

pray Heavenly Father we thank you for

your Amazing Grace we come now when we

lay before

you our

sins for

amen my

friends he is just and faithful to

forgive you you're

free you're

free go and live

it and the next time you feel it confess

right away cuz that's when you'll start

living Zoey Abundant

Life amen

understand