Episode 5 – The BE-Attitudes: Living Your Best Life Part 3: Rejecting Destructive Behavior Enables Our Best Life

Kimberly Faith: Welcome to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. We seek to present God’s timeless truth through the lens of his remarkable love. Good morning, and welcome back to the Truth in Love podcast. We are on podcast number 5, which is part 3 of the Beatitude series and living your best life. And, I welcome back my regular guest now, my dad, John McLarty. Good morning. 

John McLarty: It’s great to be here. 

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. This is probably one of the most exciting things I think I’ve done in my entire life. 

John McLarty: I love doing this. 

Kimberly Faith: And we spent 5 hours just during the recording studio recording one of my granddaughter’s favorite songs. So I’ve got the raspy voice. You sound a little raspy too. 

John McLarty: I’ve got a little raspy. 

Kimberly Faith: So Yeah. So we’re just going to give it our best shot. So part 3 of this Beatitudes series is rejecting destructive behavior enables our best life. In the last podcast, we left everybody with this question, and it is, what is the one thing that keeps you from living your best life? And, Dad, what do you think people would identify as the one thing that keeps them from living their best life? Just from a secular standpoint.

John McLarty: Well, to me, there’s different manifestations of it, but it’s as I’ve thought about that, it boils down to selfishness, just pursuing self-fulfillment and lacking God, that’s the central part of that, it never fulfilled.

Kimberly Faith: You know, when I was thinking about that, I think you’re a 100% right. And I was thinking about just from my own experience and being a born again Christian, but not walking with Christ. And all the things that I kind of held up is if this thing would just change, then I would have my best life. Right? 

John McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: And if I didn’t have this particular problem in my life or this particular person in my life who is causing me to have this constant stumbling block or constantly, you know, terrorizing my peace, you know, then I could have my best life. But in today’s beatitude, we’re going to talk about what Jesus said keeps us from having our best life. Because this whole series is based on, you know, what is it and how do we have this abundant life, the life more abundantly that Jesus promised us in John chapter 10 verse 10. And so, the first beatitude, we talked about, the very first foundational truth is to live understanding our complete need to rely on Jesus Christ. Our complete dependence upon God. 

That attitude of complete dependence is a masterful foundation. Because all the other beatitudes we’re going to study are built on this. And, you know, we cannot experience the blessings that Jesus wants to give us if we’re basing our everything we do on our own strength, our own logic, you know, what we think resides inside of us. And so when we have this bankrupt view of our own strength and wisdom, the spirit of God actually produces a reaction in us that leads to this next beatitude, which is found out of Matthew chapter 5 verse 4. And Jesus says, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” 

Now I can share what my initial my reaction to this beatitude is. But, dad, what would be the typical reaction do you think of Jesus saying, “Oh, you’re blessed if you mourn”? 

John McLarty: To someone that’s very sad and due to a loss, and Jesus comes and comforts them would be my first reaction.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. You think about maybe if you’re having a good day, you think, well, that doesn’t really apply to me. Right.

In just further studying this, if you look at the ancient Greek about what this word mourn means, it’s an intense degree of mourning. This is not a casual sorrow because, you know, your deal fell through or you didn’t get apple pie for dessert. This is an intense mourning, and Jesus is talking about mourning over sin. I kind of had to take a step back and think about that. That is a natural reaction when we understand that everything that we are and we have and happens is because of Christ. And when we realize our spiritual bankruptcy without Christ, we also understand the great cost of our debt born by Christ. And then we become acutely aware of the high cost of our sin, not just to ourselves personally, but the eternal consequences for the entire human race.

John McLarty: Then that kind of ties in. I’m just thinking back to, what prevents us from being fulfilled is selfishness, and selfishness is sin. 

Kimberly Faith: It’s the opposite of love. 

John McLarty: It’s the opposite of love. And we’ve been told to love God and love others. Right. So selfishness is the lack of that. It’s loving self instead of others. And that does not bring fulfillment. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. Isn’t it interesting how we look at the bible, and the bible says that our glorious purpose is to bring glory to God. And I remember when I first learned that, I thought, well, God’s just egocentric. You know. But that was a very worldly view. A cultural view of looking at God. But the fact is, there’s no one or nothing that wasn’t created by him. So he does deserve all the glory because he’s the creator. It’s like what kind of person am I if I take credit for a Monet? I didn’t paint that picture.

Well, we didn’t make ourselves. God made us. He deserves our glory. So when he says, love me with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. He’s saying, I am love.

And if you do this, you enter into my love. And your worship of me brings you into love, which is what everybody wants, because I am love and it’s going to have free flow through you. 

John McLarty: And what’s great is so he wants us to glorify him, but not to His benefit. It’s to our benefit.

Kimberly Faith: Right. It’s kind of like telling your child don’t play in the street.

John McLarty: Right. And then we end up being comforted. Yes. We we’re blessed. We’re comforted. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. So let’s talk about that. You know sin is kind of a bad word, and when we talk to people and bring up sin, people get immediately defensive. Right? And, actually, in podcast 1, you talked about that in your it in your testimony. 

John McLarty: It made me mad to hear I was a sinner. 

Kimberly Faith: But the holy spirit revealed to you that that was in fact the truth. And we all need the truth to keep from driving off the cliff, right. 

John McLarty: And sin is manifest in different forms of selfishness. 

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. Exactly. And so, you know, when we think about the great consequences of sin, sin kills everything good. It has in the past. It still does. 

So when he’s saying mourn over sin, I like to equate this to mourning over the death of someone we love very much. You know, if, god forbid, one of my children died, I would be mourning. I don’t know that there will be any comfort except for God that anyone could give me. 

And Jesus is saying, this is the way you need to view sin. It has destroyed everything. You know, we just had this horrible flooding in Tennessee and North Carolina from hurricane Helene. People’s whole lives were lost. And the Bible talks about that—sin has wreaked havoc on this earth.

John McLarty: Yeah. It reminds me of a verse, you know, God created a perfect world. Sin came into the world. And just reminded me of, Romans chapter 8, verse 22 says, “for we know the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, the whole creation, but ourselves also for the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to it, the redemption of our body.” So not only do we yearn for a new body that’s free from this tendency of sin and selfishness. But the whole creation, right, has this curse. And so you have the hurricanes. You have the tragedies. You have the tornadoes. 

Kimberly Faith: And then you add to that all the atrocious, you know, the just the terrible things that are going on, even in the name of religion. 

John McLarty: Just human behaviors that are beyond awful. 

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. Again, studying this beatitude, has kind of put a phrase in my mind, and it’s this, sin terrorizes everything good. 

John McLarty: That’s true.

Kimberly Faith: Yes. It just does. And but let’s examine this idea of mourning. When we’re talking about mourning over sin, it should produce in us a complete desire to abhor sin, to turn away from it. Right? 

And, I mean, if your child died, you would not want to go through that again. We have to learn to understand what Jesus is saying, we need to view sin as if it’s something so terrible we never want to go there again. And I think about this idea that Paul presents in, 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 about godly repentance versus worldly repentance. And, I just want to read an excerpt from that. Paul says, “now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance, for you were made sorry in a godly manner that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death.”

This beatitude is kind of like the first beatitude. It’s kind of a double, there’s a double teaching here. One is repentance for salvation, which is necessary.

You mentioned this in the last the last podcast that you can’t just come to Jesus saying, “I want you as my lord and savior, but I’m going to hold back these things.” You have to come back saying, “I don’t want this anymore. I don’t want any of it. I want you to forgive it all. I’m not hanging on to any of my sins.” 

And it also is necessary for us as Christians to live with a strong abhorrence of sin. That’s godly repentance. 

John McLarty: That’s reminded me of a story, in our life. Lynn and I’s life stories. But when we first got saved, we wanted this, we just abhorred sin. We did a 180, and for a period of our life, we avoided a certain place, a street in Fayetteville, Dixon Street. And it’s where all the, you know, the bars were and sin. It was like the center of sin. We  would avoid it, we would go a couple of blocks around. 

Kimberly Faith: Interesting. 

John McLarty: Because we didn’t want to be reminded of that lifestyle. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: So it was an abhorrence of sin and that lifestyle and avoiding it, avoiding even thinking about it. 

Kimberly Faith: And you know what? It’s kind of like, because you were a new baby in Christ,  you were vulnerable. 

John McLarty: And I have to fast forward a little bit. Years later, I’m thinking 8 years later, after we’d had 8 years of Christian growth, the Lord gave us a restaurant right on Dixon Street. But we were there and we had grown for 8 years. Right. And that power of sin in that area had lost its hold. And we ministered to those people and handed out tracts, right, in that very area. 

Kimberly Faith: That is such a great example of what these beatitudes are supposed to do for us. You know? When we’re first born again, we are indwelt with the righteousness of Christ. Christ does not want to snuggle up to the sins that crucified him. 

No way. No. You know? And neither should we. It should produce such a changing, Paul, he said, “for observe this very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner. What diligence it produced in you? What clearing of yourself? What indignation? What fear? What vehement desire? What zeal? In all things, you proved yourself to be clear in this matter.” In other words, you didn’t want any part of what had, what had killed you.

John McLarty: Exactly. 

Kimberly Faith: And, you know, when we are kingdom citizens, this is what our life rep should be representing. You know, I think about a terrible situation in our community where a lady and her lover had tied up the lady’s 7 year old child to the bed until she starved to death. And she and the lady that was her lover, had gotten the older kids to keep her quiet by stuffing a sock in her mouth. And this little 

John McLarty: How terrible. 

Kimberly Faith: Oh, it was it was horrible. And I guarantee you, there was not one person in our community who thought that was okay. But, you know, that didn’t happen in a vacuum. That lady didn’t wake up one morning and say, “oh, I think I’ll starve my 7 year old child to death.” You know? 

Cancer starts with one cell, and we as, Christians, need to be distressed over the tiniest sin, just like we were when we were first born again, just like Jesus is now. I mean, he understands the nature of sin is so terrible. It produces such horrors. You know, Auschwitz didn’t happen overnight. The German people would probably tell you that lived in that time, it’s not like they woke up one morning and said they were living their best life with all their Jewish neighbors, and they said, let’s go put these people in a in a concentration camp. Right?

John McLarty: Well, as an example of that, a movie we watched recently was about Ackman and his capture. But he was convinced in his own mind he was only helping the trains run efficiently. But he knew

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: What the end result was. But his little task, right, was to get the trains to run right. It was a massive task.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: He didn’t consider that as a bad thing. 

Kimberly Faith: That’s such a good example. 

John McLarty: But the result was incredibly horrible. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 6,000,000 Jews. Yes. Yeah. And that is a really good example of every choice that we make, you know, needs to be within the righteousness and the will of God, of holy God. 

And we need to understand that every sin that we make that falls outside that is selfishness, that is in opposition to God’s word, it will have an effect and we won’t necessarily always see it. You know, me, personally, I have made some terrible decisions in my life that have caused just chaos and horrible consequences for so many people. I can’t change that. I can’t change the past. But what I can do is warn others and myself about the future by living a life that is transformed, through repentance. And repentance is not a one off thing. It is a daily attitude. It’s a BE-Attitude. Right. 

John McLarty: Well, and that goes back to selfishness. We’re in this body of flesh. The body wakes up, we wake up, and we just want to brush our teeth, and none of that is necessarily wrong, but we’re just so involved in self. 

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: So it is as we progress through the day, take care of some necessary things. We need to get into the word of God and change that 

Kimberly Faith: Transform ourselves. 

John McLarty: Transform ourselves by the renewing of our mind. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. And I want to talk about that a little more, but I  am also reminded of the prayer of David in Psalm 51. Where when he was caught by Nathan. Nathan, the prophet, came to him and told him this story. He told him the story. He said, there’s a guy in your kingdom who has a lot of sheep. And, there’s another guy who’s poor, and he only has one little sheep. And the rich man in your kingdom took and he went on to describe how the poor man just loved his little his little lamb, and it was like a member of his household. And the rich guy had somebody come visit him, and he went and took the poor man’s lamb, and he killed it for his guest. And Nathan, the prophet said to David, and I’m paraphrasing, of course. What do you think should happen to that rich man? And David was just he was just so angry. He said that guy should die. And Nathan, the prophet said, that’s you. 

John McLarty: Mhmm. 

Kimberly Faith: And you have taken 

John McLarty: It’s a powerful. It’s true story. 

Kimberly Faith: Absolutely. And you’ve taken Uriah’s only wife, killed him, made her yours, and you have sinned greatly. David’s reaction to that wasn’t to start, oh, let me, you know, do damage control. He was completely repentant. And in Psalm 51, why don’t you read verses 1 through 3 and maybe 10 through 12. 

John McLarty: Yeah. 1 through 3, just turned there. “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to the thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.” So he was confessing his sin. “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.” 

Kimberly Faith: So let’s stop at that real quick because he acknowledges his transgression. His sin is always before him. Yeah. He’s saying, look. I know myself, and we need to know ourselves.

We need to know that our tendency is to sin. It’s kind of like when you prepare, it’s like knowing the enemy. When you prepare for a battle, you want to know where your weaknesses lie. And we are in a spiritual battle, and we know that one of the enemies is our flesh. We sleep with the enemy. 

And I think David, he’s saying my sin is always before me. My tendency is there. And then what does he ask God to do? 

John McLarty: Well, it’s really interesting. After that mourning of his own sin, and this is “blessed are they that mourned.” He says, “purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice.” (Psalms 51:7-8) 

Kimberly Faith: Oh, wow.

John McLarty: Then he says, “Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me.” And then this is really great. “Restore unto me, (and I’m jumping a couple of verses). “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” (Psalms 51:12-13) 

Kimberly Faith: Wow.

John McLarty: I just really want to bring out that he didn’t stay in mourning, and then he was comforted. 

John McLarty: But then he replaced that with this idea, then will I teach transgressors that thy way. 

Kimberly Faith: That’s a great point. 

John McLarty: And we get we don’t just, oh, I’m avoiding sin. I’m avoiding sin. I’m avoiding my life is terrible, but I’m avoiding sin. The Lord leads us into this wonderful joy and comfort of serving others.

Kimberly Faith: And that goes back to the abundant life. 

John McLarty: And the fulfillment. 

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. So it’s not mourning your sin just so you can find this self-seeking comfort. The comfort is God’s presence. That’s where we find our comfort. Right. 

He is love. He is our comfort. Then God’s presence takes us into the abundant life, which is doing his work, which is taking the gospel to the whole world, discipling. Right. 

John McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: You know, and then we enjoy it. Like, I mean, we were just discussing before we started recording this podcast how much fun this is. 

John McLarty: Mhmm. 

Kimberly Faith: You know? Yeah. It’s early, and, we got ourselves out of bed and got ourselves ready, but we were looking forward to it. 

John McLarty: I’m kind of getting chills thinking about this because relating back to we mourned sin. We stayed away from Dixon Street, but we didn’t just go retire out into the mountains. I thought we could never see Dixon Street again. But we avoided it. 

We grew, we joined a great church, and God didn’t take us out to the mountains to live in a cave or a, you know, a log cabin way out in the middle of nowhere. He brought us right back to Dickens Street to minister.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah, that’s a great story. That’s a great story. And he said, he you know, because your morning turned you into people full of joy. Right. And then you are able… 

John McLarty: Comfort and joy. Comfort and then joy.

Kimberly Faith: Comfort produces joy. Right. And it shouldn’t produce stagnation. It shouldn’t produce more self-sufficiency. It shouldn’t produce any more, it shouldn’t produce more sinful behavior. 

John McLarty: Yeah. Isolation. Right. 

Kimberly Faith: And so, you know, again, when we have this attitude that we are completely, you know, that every sin and just, you know, for a minute, you said this earlier, and I think people need to understand, and I don’t think I understood this for years, that sin is just a violation of God’s love, really.

John McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: Because he says 

John McLarty: It is unloving. 

Kimberly Faith: His law is love. Right. He is love, and sin is just violating that. And when we look at sin that way, and there’s kind of two categories of sin. One is the sins of commission, right, which is doing what we ought not do, and the sense of omission is not doing what we know is right to do. 

And I I think, you know, some people struggle with maybe pornography, which is a sin of commission. Some people struggle with being lazy in their prayer life. That’s me. Which is a sin of omission. The they are their consequences may be different outwardly, but their consequence to our inward relationship with Christ is the same. 

It separates us from his presence, and, you know, that may be in varying degrees. Do you think that’s probably accurate? 

John McLarty: Yeah. That makes me think of the horrible tragedy you talked about in Missouri. Everyone would agree that was a horrible sin. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: It’s just same with, you know, Hitler. But we seem to dismiss these small sins 

Kimberly Faith: Mhmm.

John McLarty: That we commit or omit daily and put them in a different “well, that’s not that bad.” Right. Which there is this that is horrible and tragic, but we I think you pointed out that didn’t just happen 

Kimberly Faith: In a vaccuum 

John McLarty: she just decided, I’m going to commit this big, horrible sin. 

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: And the day before, she was this 

Kimberly Faith: Godly Christian.

John McLarty: Godly Christian.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Yeah. And it’s Jesus, the way he puts it as a mourning for sin is so critical for us to develop again, these are beatitudes. We need to have this attitude that is in our life, presently in our life throughout every aspect of our life when we go to work, when we get up in the morning and brush our teeth, when we you know? Hey, Lord, you need to cover down. Show me. Show me my behavior that I’m not doing that I ought to be doing, and show me if there’s something I am doing that is in violation of your word.” Because there are sense of ignorance. I mean, that’s not that’s a that goes without saying. 

We have to learn. You know? But the Holy Spirit, when we are completely submitted to God through understanding, number 1, that we are we’re nothing without him, he gives us that awareness because he fills us, and his righteousness reveals sin. 

John McLarty: That’s true. It’s making me think of somebody who wants to find virtue. Virtue is doing what you know is right. And as a Christian, you just start doing that. So it’s obviously to avoid whatever, you know, these destructive behaviors are.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: But you don’t necessarily know about prayer and quiet time and growth and learning how to share the gospel. But as you learn those things

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: Then virtue is stepping up to your new level of knowledge.

Kimberly Faith: Well, God throughout the bible uses physical examples to give us spiritual lessons. I think about, you know, a child, a baby.

John McLarty: Yes.

Kimberly Faith: And you know the baby doesn’t know not to touch a hot stove. You got to teach the baby that. They’re learning rudimentary things. Like, don’t walk off the porch without doing it carefully. Don’t play in the street, you know, don’t hit people.

 They’re learning all these, you know, things that you’re supposed to mostly not do, really. But then as they mature, the goal of all discipline is self-discipline. But then that self-discipline needs to morph into something that comes from the heart as opposed to just a self-discipline that produces a certain result. I think we’ve talked about this, but one of the great mistakes of religious organizations is not taking people from the self-discipline of following the rules into falling in love with Christ so that you, Jesus says, “if you love me, you’re going to keep my commandments.”

 We don’t follow the rules because they’re just the rules. We follow the rules because we know Jesus loves us and we love him back. And when a child grows to a point where they’re doing things out of love for their parents, It’s a different—it’s a game changer relationship.

 John McLarty: So just avoiding all of this Right. Be so busy doing this

 Kimberly Faith: Right.

 John McLarty: These things for God, and it’s

Kimberly Faith: And that’s the

John McLarty: self-fulfilling.

Kimberly Faith: That’s the abundant life. That’s what Jesus is talking about. Yeah. He he’s like, you know, oh, we didn’t get up this morning and say, oh, we got to do this podcast. You know?

It’s like, oh my gosh. We get to do this again. This is like, god, this is so fulfilling because you’re you’ve got us in the stream. You know? We’re not in a stagnant pond.

We’re in the stream, and this is going to flow out and hopefully be inspirational and set people on fire to live the abundant life because it’s so it’s so exhilarating.

John McLarty: To go, yeah, love God and love others.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly.

 John McLarty: And then that fulfills us. It’s this kind of a mystery. By seeking not just selfish fulfillment. Right. We love God and love others, and that is the fulfillment we all actually are seeking.

 Kimberly Faith: You know, you talk about the mystery. This morning, I was having my quiet time. And, one of the things that the Lord laid on my heart was it’s okay not to know the answers to everything, Kim. Someday, I’m going to show you everything. But right now, you couldn’t handle it.

 And I think that is such a that’s such a blessing to know that I don’t have to know all the answers because God knows them all. I just got to trust him. You know, just like just like a 2 year old doesn’t have to know that they’re going to get their next meal when they just know their parents are going to give it to them. Right.

 They don’t know where it’s going to come from. They don’t understand the job that had to be worked, the food that had to be picked, or whatever went into that. It’s a great place of peace to live knowing that when we’re in God’s will, when we hate sin so much that it takes us into the comfort of God’s presence that we are comforted, and then we, in turn, want to comfort others. We want you to know. The thing about love is when we talk about the fruits of the spirit, one of the first one being love, love is not something we get it’s (love) something we give. And if we’re not giving, then we’re not loving.

John McLarty: That’s really true. So mourning turns into comfort and then we can comfort others with that comfort.

Kimberly Faith: Right. And we enter into the stream or the cycle of God’s love, which is the only way to experience it. You cannot experience it just taking it in, you know, that is not what love is. It is in that stream of God’s giving it to me, I’m giving it to you. Wow. It’s coming back. It’s kind of like the cycle of moisture in our air. You know, rain falls out of the clouds—it waters the earth, and then it comes back up into the clouds, and it does it all over again, you know.

John McLarty: So that repentance doesn’t just leave us in this horrible, terrible state of continual mourning. Right. But it brings that comfort.

Kimberly Faith: It leads us out. When I and we’ll kind of wrap up with this, but when I help a lot of people who, you know, they’ve lost loved ones or they’re just in a in a state of mourning for some tragedy that’s happened in their life, and I see it in my office all the time. But one of the you know, if the Lord opens the door for me to talk with them and help them about this, one of the things that that I try to encourage them to do is to seek God in a really meaningful way because the mourning is part of the healing process. But like you just said, God does not intend for us to be stuck there, rather, we can use that morning to be comforted and then to use our experience with whatever evil has befallen us to have the abundant life through using our experience to Glorify god. “Look what God did. You know, look what God’s doing, and he could do this for you.” And without that without that incident, we would not have the great story and the great display of God’s glory to share. This is so exciting.

We’re going to wrap up. I love that. we wrap up a question. We’re kind of on a roll with these questions. So we’ve talked about developing complete dependence upon God. We’ve talked about mourning over our sin. And the question I want to leave for everybody for next week is this, “What is the best source of strength in order to have your best life?” So how in other words, how do we sustain this attitude of complete dependence upon God and a mourning that is a repentance for sin and abhorrence of sin? How do we sustain that in a world that tells us it’s constantly putting pressure on us?

“No. Your sin’s okay. You got this, girl. You know?”

So that question, what is the best source, is actually going to be answered in the next beatitude, which is “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5) So with that, we’re going to wrap up.  And thank you, dad. I appreciate your stories and your wisdom. 

John McLarty: Well, it’s great doing this, and I’m going to ponder that question, and the listeners can ponder it, and we’ll dig into it in the next podcast.

Kimberly Faith: Yes. Thank you all so much for joining us, for podcast number 5.  And we will look forward to podcast number 6 in these beatitudes, and discovering the real strength for the Christian life and living in an abundance that Jesus promised us.

You have been listening to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. To discover more answers to the big questions in life, visit us at gofaithstrong.com. Hallelujah. You rescued me.