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Evangelist Tiff Shuttlesworth joins me on this episode of the Jaime Luce Podcast to unravel the nuances of living a victorious Christian life amidst the constant battle against sin. With his vast experience in ministry, Tiff shares profound insights from his impactful teaching, “Four Ways Sin Seduces,” guiding us to stay vigilant and anchored in the Scriptures. We embark on a journey through biblical narratives to decode the progression of sin, drawing lessons from the story of Achan in the Old Testament to emphasize the importance of recognizing and confronting sin in its early stages.

Our exploration takes a deeper dive into the story of Achan, analyzing the sequence of temptation, desire, action, and the concealment of sin. Through references in biblical scriptures like Numbers 23 and James 1:15, we stress the pivotal role of repentance and forgiveness. As we navigate these spiritual and moral lessons, we underscore the dire consequences that hidden sins can bring, urging listeners to remain mindful of their actions and their eternal implications.

The conversation highlights personal responsibility and the significance of guarding our hearts and eyes against temptation, with social media as a modern-day adversary. Drawing parallels to stories like David and Bathsheba, we emphasize the need for early recognition and confession of sinful desires. In this spiritually enriching discussion, we remind everyone of God’s omniscience and mercy, encouraging us all to make decisions that align with eternal values, shaping our destiny beyond this life.

Where to dive in:

(0:00:00) – Victorious Christian Living and Sin’s Seduction (6 Minutes)

This chapter addresses the ongoing struggle against sin in the Christian life, emphasizing that salvation is the beginning of a new life with Christ but not an instant fix for human problems. I welcome Evangelist Tiff Shuttlesworth to the studio to share his insights on living a victorious Christian life, particularly in the face of sin’s seduction. We explore the importance of recognizing and confronting sin in its early stages to prevent it from growing into a formidable adversary. Drawing from his teachings, particularly his message titled “Four Ways Sin Seduces,” Tiff highlights the need for believers to remain vigilant and rooted in the Bible. As we embark on a new year, the focus is on understanding how to lead a holy life and maintain victory over sin.

(0:06:02) – The Sin of Achan (12 Minutes)

This chapter takes us on a journey from a pivotal moment at age 17 in a prayer room, where a calling to lead a million people to Jesus Christ was felt and quietly nurtured for decades. We explore the evolution of spreading the Gospel, from traditional methods of preaching to the vast reach of social media, as a single video garnered millions of views, surpassing years of physical outreach. The discussion highlights the balance between traditional preaching and digital evangelism, while emphasizing the importance of accurate biblical teaching. We confront misconceptions about the forgiveness of sins, stressing that forgiveness is contingent upon repentance, as supported by biblical scripture. Through it all, the message of mercy and grace remains central, offering hope and a new covenant with God to all who seek it.

(0:18:10) – Understanding the Progression of Sin (4 Minutes)

This chapter examines the story of Achan from the Old Testament, focusing on the progression and consequences of sin. We analyze the sequence of events described in Joshua 7:21, breaking it down into four stages: the initial temptation or “peak at sin,” the desire or “passion for sin,” the action or “participation in sin,” and the subsequent concealment or “pretense after sin.” We reflect on how hidden sins eventually become public, citing biblical references such as Numbers 23 and 2 Peter 3:9 to emphasize the importance of repentance and forgiveness. The conversation highlights the severe punishment faced by Achan and his family, underscoring the notion from James 1:15 that sin ultimately leads to death. We explore the lifecycle of sin, from its inception to its inevitable end, reinforcing the spiritual and moral lessons derived from these scriptures.

(0:22:27) – Guarding Your Eyes (10 Minutes)

This chapter focuses on the pattern of sin as illustrated in various biblical narratives, starting with the story of Achan and drawing parallels to Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Ananias and Sapphira. We explore the concept of sin beginning with what we see, emphasizing the importance of guarding our “eye gate” and the vigilance required to maintain our spiritual health. Social media is highlighted as a modern-day distraction that can open the door to temptation and waste valuable time, urging listeners to exercise self-control and remain focused on God’s calling. We also address the power of our words and the need to be cautious about what we share, as the enemy uses our expressed weaknesses against us. Finally, the chapter underlines that while Satan is a cunning adversary, he is a created being, not omniscient or omnipresent like God, and we must rely on spiritual wisdom to navigate our lives.

(0:32:23) – Responsibility and Victory Over Sin (15 Minutes)

This chapter emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in maintaining a life that aligns with spiritual and moral values. We explore the concept that our eyes act as a lens, imprinting images upon our hearts, which can lead to either righteous or sinful desires. Drawing on biblical examples, such as the story of David and Bathsheba, we illustrate how unchecked desires can lead to sin and its consequences. We stress the significance of early recognition and confession of sinful thoughts before they manifest into actions, underscoring the difference between genuine repentance and merely feeling sorry for getting caught. Ultimately, the chapter serves as a call to guard one’s heart and be vigilant about the influences we allow into our lives, as well as a reminder of the redemptive potential through faith and personal accountability.

(0:47:15) – Living in Victory Over Sin (11 Minutes)

This chapter emphasizes the continuous struggle Christians face with sin, likening it to a tug of war, as outlined by Paul in Romans. It underscores that no matter how devout one is, the flesh always has a propensity for sin. The conversation highlights the importance of making conscious choices to avoid living on the edge of temptation, as this proximity to sin increases the risk of falling. We explore the story of Akin, who made a grave mistake by prioritizing temporary gains over eternal values, leading to severe consequences. This narrative is contrasted with a personal account of forgoing a significant salary as the president of a Bible college, opting instead to invest in eternal treasures by supporting students. The chapter ultimately calls for a focus on eternal values and the significance of making decisions that align with a life of victory in Christ.

(0:57:48) – Eternal Decision and God’s Mercy (15 Minutes)

This chapter addresses the concept of God’s omniscience and the importance of acknowledging His presence in our lives. We explore the belief that God sees and knows everything, contrasting this with how some may think God is unaware of their actions. Biblical references, including Psalms and Proverbs, emphasize the need for confession and repentance to receive mercy. The discussion highlights the destructive nature of sin and the misconception of blaming external forces like the devil, rather than taking personal responsibility. A poignant story of a newly baptized woman who passed away underscores the urgency of being spiritually prepared for eternity. We are reminded of the transient nature of life and the importance of making decisions that align with eternal values, stressing that our choices on Earth determine our eternal destination.

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0:00:00 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
There is this continual tug of war in the Christian life where I don’t care how saved you are, I don’t care how much you pray or speak in tongues or sing or worship, or what kind of church you go to or how big your ministry is or how small your ministry is. You live in a body of flesh and if you live to be 100 years old, you still have a propensity for sin that lies in your flesh. Salvation is not a one and done uh, fix it all for human problems. It is a beginning, it is a new life, it is attaching yourself to Christ. There’s power in that. But you still have to wake up every day realizing the Bible said that sin lurks at the door and is looking for an opportunity if we’re not paying attention.

0:01:03 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jamie Luce Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today. It is my great pleasure to have in the studio with me Evangelist Tiff Shuttlesworth. I am a huge fan of his in fact of his entire family and if you don’t already know who he is, you would do yourself a great favor to go on YouTube. He has got so many videos of teaching hours and hours, probably hundreds of hours of teaching, that you really need in these last days to build yourself up in your most holy faith and be able to tackle these last days that we’re living in. And he had recently spoke on a subject that I saw some videos he had done on, and I just had to have him on the show and make sure that he has an opportunity to share that with you today. I wanted to give you a little bit of biography for him.

Tiff has been married to his wife, judy, for 43 years. They have two married children that’s actually how I found him from his son, jonathan Shuttlesworth, and he is the president and founder of Lost Lamb Association. For over four decades he’s been in ministry and has done evangelistic crusades in 56 countries of the world. He is inducted into Billy Graham’s notable names in evangelism in 1994. And as currently as 2022, he was voted in as the current president of North Point Bible College and Seminary near Boston, massachusetts. His YouTube channel has had over 20 million views in the last year and over 250,000 people view his social media Bible studies each month for over 100 nations around the world.

And I know that that’s us just skimming the surface. If there’s anything you’d like to add to that, I welcome brother and evangelist Tiff Shuttlesworth into the studio and I just if you have anything that you’d like to add to that. You’ve done so much and been in ministry so long. You know we could probably talk about a million subjects today and about what you’ve seen in the body of Christ, what you’ve noticed about the change in culture of the church.

But with this new year starting, my heart and my burden is for the people of God to really find how to live this Christian life victoriously. And to be able to do that, it is imperative that we know how to live a holy life, the way that God ordained for us to live, and to lead that life in victory over sin. So that’s really the subject for today. I’ll let you jump in at any time. You had done a. In fact, I’m going to link it in the show notes. I want people to go and listen to the full episode that you have recorded titled, and I’m going to read it from my notes to make sure I get it right the four seductions of sin. Is that correct?

0:04:17 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Yeah, I think it’s either that or four ways sin seduces.

0:04:20 – Jaime Luce
Four ways. Sin seduces. That’s right, and they can look that up and watch that entire episode, because there’s so much richness there to partake of. You’ve got your extra nuggets, not just the stuff that is inside the actual message that you’re giving forth, but I’ve got my Bible open, because you are famous for saying that we start in the Bible, we stay in the Bible and we finish in the Bible, and so I’m just going to kind of start by asking a question and I want you to go wherever you feel to go with that.

But in this new year, in order to conquer sin, one of the things that you said in that message was that if we don’t recognize the stages of sin and deal with sin in its infancy, then we’re going to end up battling the mature version of that sin, which is a warrior, the warrior of sin that we will have to battle that. By the time most people recognize that they’re dealing with sin, they’re already 75% in and committed to the sin in their life, and so I just wanted to ask you to kind of take us maybe on a journey about what that is to understand, seeing that first step of I saw, or and you can go into as much as you’d like about that, so take it away.

0:05:46 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Well, thank you, jamie. It’s a pleasure to actually talk to you as opposed to private message, and the world has completely changed with social media, especially in my particular calling in world missions and evangelism. For me, it all started at the age of 17 in a prayer room at the Bible College and Seminary that I’m currently president at. My mom and dad actually met on that campus in 1950. And, if the Lord tarries, we’re almost 100 years old. But I remember as a 17-year-old boy in that prayer room the Lord speaking to my heart. I didn’t hear an audible voice. It was actually stronger than an audible voice and I felt a goal from God to lead a million people to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I wrote it down on a piece of paper and I think the exact words that I wrote on the paper and tucked in my Bible was my goal is to win a million people to Jesus Christ. But then I hid that in my heart. I actually never told anybody for over 20 years. I think I was 38 the first time that I publicly even mentioned that, because I thought people will think you’ve got quite the ego if you say that you feel like your calling is to win a million people but, to be honest, with you preaching in excess of 250, 300 times a year for over 35 years, I sat down one day in this very office that we’re communicating from and I was trying to calculate how long did it take me to even speak to a million people, let alone win a million people to Christ. And even doing foreign crusades and stadiums and soccer stadiums of 25, 30, 35,000, larger stadiums with 70,000 plus, it took me over 35 years of my life just to speak to 1 million people. And then, in 2018, the Lord, in my January fast, began to speak to me about a verse in the Bible from the Apostle Paul that says using every means available so that we might reach some. I had almost bought into the philosophy that social media was for 25 and under and really didn’t realize the potential that was there, but, in obedience to the Lord, I began using social media more frequently. And then, to make a long story short, we had a single message from one of our lost lamb crusades in Arlington, texas, that had three point I think it’s somewhere around 3.5, 3.6 million views. And then it dawned on me that it took me 35 years to speak to a million people and it took one YouTube video that I didn’t even post. The church posted it on their YouTube channel and, with that said, it’s just amazing how the opportunity to reach people with the truth of the Bible has so radically changed.

As we’re going to discuss today with a particular passage, but quite honestly and I almost hesitate to say this, but I sometimes have internal discussions with the Lord Am I doing the kingdom a better service by continuing to travel, or would I be more effective in doing what you and I are doing now, staying in our ministry office here in the state of Maine and sitting in front of cameras? For example, the last video that I released just a few days ago has had over 160,000 views in just a handful of days. 160,000 views in just a handful of days. And I often think, even when I’m in large churches or mega churches, I’ll be in what many people would call a mega church in Texas in January. But you know, even if you’re speaking to several thousand people a night, you’re not going to speak to 165,000 people in a matter of days, not to mention the audiences from all over the world.

But, with that said, the message that you caught a clip of we have two people on staff in South Africa that exclusively take our content and make those brief clips that you see on YouTube and Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and so on, and you came across one that I had done, an entire message on the sin of Achan, because that’s where we actually receive a modern lesson that’s so desperately needed in the church. And I’m not legalistic. And I’m not legalistic and I’m not pharisaical and I’m not harsh. I’ve dedicated my life to showing mercy to sinners and I always say in our crusades if you’re the worst sinner within the sound of my voice today, I’m not your judge, I’m your best friend. I’m here to tell you that God loves you, that no matter what your past, what your sin, there’s a grace in God that can bring you into a new relationship and a new life and a new covenant. But there are so many people today that are involved in spreading this teaching.

You’ll often hear it phrased like this You’ll hear, and I’ve heard, notable ministries and I’ll not mention that’s between them and the Lord. I’ve heard notable ministries and I’ll not mention that’s between them and the Lord. God called five specific gifts to the church the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor and the teacher in Ephesians 4. He never called anybody to be his defense attorney. So I never make a practice of publicly attacking names, although I will attack bad doctrine.

But many, many times I’m sure you’ve heard people say, and either are aware of it or, subliminally, you’ve heard people say, all of our sins, past, present and future, are forgiven through the cross of Jesus Christ. Well, that sounds good, but it is not true and it is not biblical. Your past sins are forgiven provided you’ve repented of them and come to Christ and ask for his forgiveness. It’s not automatically applied because you have a warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart about God, or the existence of God, or perhaps that his son, jesus, was a great teacher, a prophet. And then what about our present sins? Well, the Bible said in 1 John, chapter 1 and verse 9, if we confess our sins and circle the word if, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So, even with present sin, there has to be a recognition on our part and a repentance before we receive the forgiveness.

And then, what about future sins? Well, I’ll not get into the theology of that because that would be an entire video or podcast, but there is a responsibility of identifying sin. And there’s a world of difference, jamie, between people who sin through falling and slipping and human frailty and carnal weaknesses and I’m not excusing those but there’s a world of difference between human frailty and the sin of human frailty and purposefully sinning right, purposefully living outside of marriage in a relationship that’s unholy and violates the scripture, and purposefully going to a nightclub dressed to the nines, hoping that the night ends in a local hotel, purposefully going to a bar and drinking and knowing that you’ve had too much and getting drunk, and we could go on and on and on. And again, I’m not trying to be harsh, but Jesus said in Matthew 7, the road that leads to heaven is straight and narrow, and few there be that find it.

And my fear is that there is so much modern teaching and preaching that has added to the clarity of the scripture on God’s command to live holy and to live in victory over sin that people feel no remorse for sin. And I’ve been in crusades where on Sunday morning people had their hands up in worship and the nightclub stamp was still on the back of their hand. They hadn’t even taken time to clean up from the club to the house of God and my concern is that there are many people who are living in some type of fallacy and false dogma, thinking that they can live any way they want to live and that God is just going to wink at it. And I think it’s important, and I do it in love, because those of your listeners that are listening to me I want you to make heaven, I want you to live in victory, I want you to walk in the covenant of God. God’s blessing, god’s favor is in holy living. Psalm 84, 11,. The Bible clearly says faith without works is dead. So I challenge people in these last days because I want people to live ready. I believe we’re living very close to the soon coming of Christ. I have no doubt.

If you follow my channels, you know that I spend the majority of my time preaching and teaching on eschatology and end time events and and answering the questions that are coming in from people that are being saved all over the world. And no question is is foolish to me. I did a study yesterday that I wouldn’t spend time teaching at the seminary on, but a lot of people were asking questions about a flat earth. And does the Bible teach a flat earth and you know a lot of theologians and a lot of scholars would just laugh and pass that off. So I never look at somebody’s question as being foolish or not worth answering. I do my best to answer those questions. But the passage that you’re talking about and I want to lead to that and I’ll take a breath here for you to guide us but is found in Joshua chapter 7, to guide us, but is found in joshua chapter 7 and it’s the sin of achan.

0:16:52 – Jaime Luce
And uh, let me just take a moment, uh, to read that as you said.

0:16:53 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
One of my famous uh quotes is uh, all ministrations start in the bible, stay in the bible and finish in the bible yeah in joshua, chapter 7 and verse 16,.

the Bible said so Joshua arose early in the morning and brought Israel near by tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. He brought the family of Judah near and he took the family of the Zerites. And he brought the family of the Zerites near man by man, and Zabdi was taken. He brought his household near man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah from the tribe of Judah, was taken. My son, I implore you, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give praise to him, and tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me. So Achan answered Joshua and said truly, I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I did. And I would encourage your listeners to highlight verse 21, because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of our discussion today. Okay, verse 21,. When I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle from Shinar and 200 shekels of silver and a bar of gold 50 shekels in weight then I coveted them and took them and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent and the silver underneath it. Now, this is an Old Testament passage, jamie. So we’re not dealing with New Testament covenant here. We’re dealing with the laws of Judaism. And Achan received his family and all that were involved the severest of punishments. They were executed by fire and all of the things that they had polluted with their disobedience were also burned with fire, which is harsh. But again, thank God we’re not living in an Old Testament covenant. Thank God that through the cross we have a different pathway to God.

But I want you to look at verse 21. I’m going to break those down into four. I call that, if you’re taking notes, the peak at sin. He went on to say I coveted the passion for sin and you don’t struggle with the passion for sin until you’ve tolerated the peak of sin. Then he said I took. That brings us to the participation in sin, and you never face the participation in sin and the great temptation at that level where you’re eye to eye, face to face, action to action, with the participation in sin, until you’ve tolerated the peak at sin and the passion for sin.

And then he said I hid, which represents the pretense after sin. When you take sin and you hide it from God. Hidden sin choice causes God’s reaction to be to make your sin public. The Bible says in Numbers 23, be sure your sin will find you out. So it’s a very dangerous thing when we hide our sin, because when we try to hide our sin and make it private, we then allow God to take the step that he does not want to take. He desires forgiveness, he desires purity. Second Peter, chapter three, verse nine. The Bible said he’s willing none should perish. He’s willing, none should perish, but all should come to repentance. He wants us to come to repentance, but it has to be our choice, it has to be our recognition, it has to be our humility, it has to be our confession. I like the fact that you added a fifth point to the outline of this teaching, when you talked about the punishment of sin, which I’ll probably steal from you and plagiarize extensively in the years to come.

0:21:25 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
which I’ll probably steal from you and plagiarize extensively in the years to come.

0:21:27 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
But, indeed it was a severe punishment, but that outlines the progress of sin. We have to remember James, chapter 1, verse 15, the Bible said sin when it is finished brings forth death. So the very fact and of course that’s a New Testament passage from the Greek sin when it is finished, that renders a lifespan. There’s a lifespan to sin. There’s a start to sin. There is an infancy in sin, there is a maturity of sin, there is the aging of sin and there is finally sin when it is finished. There’s an end. There is finally sin when it is finished. There’s an end to sin. Sin when it is finished brings forth death.

So, no matter what sin people are holding on to, they need to realize that it might be pleasurable in its infancy, but there’s a pathway and a progress to sin and it always leads to death. So for those that are taking notes, let’s start there by making sure you have the skeletal system of what we’re going to discuss out of verse 21. I saw the peak at sin, I coveted the passion for sin, I took the participation in sin and I hid it, the pretense after sin. And then you added a fifth, which we’ll use today because it’s your podcast and your social media and credit should go to whom credit is due, but the punishment after sin. So let me just pause right there and allow you to catch up on any questions that you might have before we break that apart.

0:23:07 – Jaime Luce
Okay, you know, I found it interesting that and you had mentioned this in the recording that you made but that we see this pattern not just in Achan’s life, but we see this throughout scripture. We saw it at the beginning with Adam and Eve. We saw it in David’s life with Bathsheba. We saw it. You can find interesting stories that, if you’re willing to look at them, it’s the exact same thing. But for Ananias and Sapphira, even though the story seems a little bit different, it’s the same thing. There’s something they see that they want, that they take, and then they hide it. You know, I started thinking of all the different analogies in scripture. Well, not analogies, they’re the true stories, these people that fell into the same pattern over and over again.

And it’s human nature to use this pattern. It’s not, it’s not our um, our God-given new nature, it’s not our reborn nature to do this. It is our sin nature that wants to do this, and we have to be those who are willing to face the fact that we still, as Christians, have to keep the flesh down. We have to live first by the spirit and then let the body and the thoughts, the soul, all that goes with the rest of the package of us has to follow the leading of the spirit, otherwise our spirit will take the back seat, our body will demand, our flesh will desire, our flesh will rise up if given the opportunity that. It’s a vigilance that we need to be taking.

And I really would like to kind of go into that first one, specifically the I saw, because it’s the gate, it’s the first opening. It’s that you gave some statistics of just the amount of time that people spend on social media and it’s crazy, the amount of hours that a young person spends, let alone adults who just without thinking, just start scrolling and waste hours of time throughout the day. And I’m like you, I don’t like to knock something that can be used so usefully for a great purpose. So it’s not that the entity itself is bad, but without any self-control, without us using what we have been given by the spirit and knowing, am I listening? Am I listening for the voice of the spirit to say you know, okay enough, you’ve spent enough time, you’ve had no focus, you’re not actually going to look for something that you’re studying or doing, you’re just wasting time. Uh, for me it’s it.

It leads to, it’s the snowball effect that in our Christian walk, not just in sin, but if I’m trying to accomplish for the Lord, if I’m wanting to do and be busy about growing the kingdom of God in whatever form he’s called me to do, that, I have to be vigilant about my time, not just what I’m doing. In that time I have to be focused on what has God called me to do, what’s the wise way to do that, what’s the way that God’s leading me to do that? And so, knowing that, the eye you know the Bible does call it the eye gate it’s a gate for a reason, and the minute it’s open it’s a picture into our soul. And so I just wanted to spend a moment on that, on maybe emphasizing the importance of what to do when we see, to catch that thing as early as possible, to recognize the subtlety like you said in your title, it’s a seduction the subtlety that the enemy uses to gain access to us and then affect our decisions that follow well, the enemy knows, uh, our weaknesses.

0:27:13 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Now I want to make something very clear and I have multiple studies on demonology on our YouTube channel for people that want to get into a depth of understanding this but Satan is a created being. He’s not God. He’s not like God. He is not a God. He is a created being. He is not the creator. I emphasize that because in doctrine, people need to understand that only God is omniscient, Only God is omnipresent. Only God has these unique attributes of knowing and seeing.

Without even a discussion, the Bible said there’s nothing in the heart that is hidden from the eyes of God. Satan doesn’t have one ounce of knowledge about us until we run our mouth, but sadly, social media has expedited most people. Their entire life is a window for the public to read, let alone for demons and for Satan. So the devil knows what our weaknesses are because we constantly talk about them. That’s why the Bible says the power of life and death is in our tongue. So knowing what our weaknesses are, this is very important. Satan and sin and your flesh will never seduce you with something that repulses you. Satan always puts something on the plate that we salivate over. He knows what we want. He knows our weakness, he knows our desires, he knows our hidden fantasies and so on, because we constantly run our mouth and it comes as no surprise that all the enemy would have to do to find the top 10 weaknesses of any believers just watch their social media page for 30 days. So it’s important to guard your mouth. But listen very carefully to this.

Matthew 6 and verse 22,. Jesus said your eyes are the window to your soul and he said if your eyes are healthy, your spirit man will be healthy. But if your eyes are sickly or your eyes are diseased, then your spirit will also be sickly and diseased will also be sickly and diseased. So people need to understand that all sin, all weakness, all failure, all left turns that take us off of the straight and narrow and right turns begin with an undisciplined eye. That’s why I tell people it matters what you see, it matters what you watch, it matters what you read. It matters what movies you attend. It matters what you watch. It matters what you read. It matters what movies you attend. It matters what you allow your eyes to focus on.

And, as you mentioned, social media is an incredible tool for good. It has allowed us to reach the world in ways I never thought possible possible. Somewhere between a quarter of a million and 350,000 people. We now have students that many students every month that study the Bible with us at least once a month. That’s almost surreal when you stop and think about it. I mean it’s drastically changed the ministry. We’ve gone in a short amount of time from five full-time and part-time staff to 16, just to keep up with the salvations and the discipleship and the commitments and the follow-up and the mailings, et cetera, to help people around the world that are beginning a walk with Christ. But if people don’t learn the importance of the eye because we’ve all done it, anybody that has social media needs to understand that we can get trapped where you just end up scrolling and all of a sudden it dawns, my goodness, five minutes went by. Why was I even lost in this trance of scanning or 10 minutes or 15 minutes or whatever it might be?

I think with some people it’s a good part of their waking life but, all sin begins with undisciplined eyes, and I’ll pause there before we go to that. That second step.

0:31:33 – Jaime Luce
Okay, and knowing too that we are, because I want to get to the understanding that most people don’t recognize till the third step, when they’re actually participating in sin, but that if we can be vigilant with our eyesight, with what we allow our eyes to look at, for how long we look at those things, whatever that is Even for myself, I know I can actually be watching really wonderful things, a bunch of teachings but I get to a certain point where the Lord says, okay, stop and take some notes, do some stuff with this, don’t just let it, because I’ll end up losing so much of what I gained that there’s a diligence about it, even when we’re doing good things, when we’re watching good things, but that we have to be. We are responsible. We are responsible for us. No one’s going to do it for us. You know, when we’re children, of course, we have our parents, who are being diligent to watch over us, who are being diligent to watch over us, to put boundaries on us. But it’s up to us as adults, and especially as Christian adults, who understand that there is a way that is pleasing to the Lord and there are ways that are not pleasing to the Lord. There are ways that lead to life and there are ways that lead to death that we need to be vigilant and take that responsibility, knowing our time is short I mean we really don’t have time to waste anymore we never did, but we have even less now and that, if we’re going to be those who are living in victory, those who are accomplishing our purpose, doing what God has called us to do and doing it well, it is the first step to all of those things. What are we doing with our eyes? What are we looking at? What do we gaze upon? What do we? Step two you will either desire or be, in essence, repulsed by you either turn towards or you turn away from what you look at. Your heart either goes that direction or it turns away. So maybe we’ll go ahead and use that and move into the number two that I. I wanted the passion for whatever. That is miraculous provision and I want to share it with you because it solves the problem we are all facing right now. The economy is going crazy, gas prices are soaring, there’s wars and rumors of wars. We’ve got everything hitting us all at once, with interest rates rising.

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0:34:57 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Godcom. This book is available today. Just kind of a summation of that. People need to remember that your eyes are like the lens of a camera and whatever you make a decision to focus upon engraves an image upon your heart, which is the seat of our spiritual life. You know Proverbs 4, above all else, guard your heart, which is the seat of our spiritual life. You know Proverbs 4, above all else, guard your heart, for out of it are the issues of life. So your eyes are like a lens. When you willingly focus upon something, it engraves that image upon your heart and that is not easily deleted.

And so very few people deal with sin at this stage. We’ll come to that in the third breakdown of Achan’s confession. But most people never deal with sin until they’re dealing with the participation stage of sin, and the tolerance for the peak at sin always leads towards the second confession of Achan which is I coveted which is the passion for sin. So your eyes allow the seed of sin that gets deposited into the heart, and once the seed is in the heart it blossoms into a passion for that sin, where now you’re not only seeing it, you’re beginning to think about it. You’re no longer just seeing it with your natural eyes, you’re seeing it with your imagination, you’re sitting in your mind, you’re going places, you’re doing things, etc. And the passion for sin begins to go from the natural eye into the spiritual heart. And still people don’t deal with it. They say well, you know, that’s just life. Everybody has human nature, everybody has weaknesses. And or, as I heard one preacher say, there’s nothing wrong with looking at the menu as long as you don’t place an order. But I couldn’t disagree, uh more, because I understand from the bible and as you mentioned earlier, which is perceptive, a lot of people don’t get that. But if you take this confession of aiken, you can apply it throughout the bible in all kinds of patterns of sin that are given to us in the lives of the heroes and the non-heroes of the scripture.

David was a man after God’s own heart, but he committed murder, he committed adultery, he had a baby outside a wedlock, he planned the assassination of his best friend and his loyal commander in military, a man that would have run through a brick wall for him and did so. It’s not that sin is final and failure is final, because it’s encouraging to know that even with David’s apparent flaws that were heinous. He still ended life by being called a man after god’s own heart. But you know, he did the same thing with Bathsheba. It started with being at a at an advantage from the beauty and the height of the castle and the temple and wherever it was that he was checking out Bathsheba from. It started with the eyes, but he obviously took that into his heart. His eyes allowed an image of Bathsheba to enter into his heart. Once it was in his heart and not dealt with, it then blossomed into a lustful passion and at first he was probably fantasizing and thinking and wondering, but he didn’t deal with it in that stage at all.

So people have to realize that you know, if you’re going to live in victory over sin, you have to know where it begins, because the sooner you detect it and the sooner you recognize it, the easier it is to live in victory over it, to confess it. Because, let’s face it, jamie, there’s a world of difference between I’m sorry, I got caught and repentance, and some people change their behavior only after they’re caught uh, change their behavior only after they’re caught, and in a courtroom or with family, depending on the severity of the, of the sin or the or the law they’ve violated. You know, they show incredible remorse only after they were caught.

Uh, there’s a world of difference between. I’m sorry, I got caught in repentance.

0:39:34 – Jaime Luce
Yeah, my mother used to work for the California Youth Authority years ago and she said that that was very common. You would see these, you know they were young men usually and she said they’d be in just tears, weeping and saying how sorry they were. But she said they were not sorry. They were sorry they got caught. There’s a big difference. You know and know and, and really that’s that’s Aiken. He didn’t voluntarily come and say I’m the guilty party, um, he, he waited until he was called out and said I word of knowledge, pointed you out yeah, a beautiful passage that deals with this out of Galatians, chapter 5.

0:40:13 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
The Bible says in Galatians, chapter 5, verses 19 through 21,. It says when you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear Sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling. Sorcery, hostility, quarreling, dissension, outbursts of anger, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of God. That’s important because again we have all of this modern liberal teaching that has complete tolerance of sin and unholy lives and impurities and sexual promiscuity and so on. But the Bible is very clear and Paul you know this is one of the Pauline epistles he’s writing to the church. He’s not addressing unsafe people, he’s writing to the church and he obviously is addressing some sinful behaviors that as an apostle he has witnessed in the lifestyle of those who call themselves followers of Christ in the church. And after he goes down the list of those fleshly issues, he concludes in that passage by saying anyone who lives in that manner cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

So it’s important that people understand that when you truly recognize your sin, repent of your sin and receive Jesus Christ. There’s a sanctification process that’s instantaneous the man is made holy from the inside out. But there is also a progressive sanctification process where we make a commitment as followers of Christ, to be obedient, as he said, be not only hearers but doers of the word that we’re going to carry out in obedience. And he gives us the power. Thank God for that. In the gospel of John, the Bible said as many as receive Christ, as many as believe on his name, he gives to them the power to become the sons and the daughters of God. So it’s not as if we’re trying to overcome sin through willpower, because the average person listening to us right now can’t go on a diet and lose five pounds.

They don’t have willpower and they don’t have discipline. Some people are short in discipline. You need to understand that the Christian life is not your effort, it’s being saved, it’s being sanctified, it’s being filled with the Holy Spirit, it is being given access to a power that is greater than your flesh. God wouldn’t ask you to live in victory if he were not going to give you the power to live in victory, and so people need to understand that. That God’s command is be holy, even as I am holy, and when you are saved.

There will be a recognizable change in behavior. If your behavior and your habits are the same now as they were before you claimed to be a Christian, you have experienced religion, but you have not experienced relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, because when you experience true recognition of sin, true repentance of sin, true receiving of Christ, you become a new creature in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5, 7. Old things pass away, all things become new. John 3, 30. He must increase, I must decrease. There is a change in behavior that is external and notable in the individual who begins to truly walk in the promises and the precepts of God.

0:44:16 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Amen.

0:44:16 – Jaime Luce
Amen, absolutely. Okay. Well, that takes us then into. I took the actual participation then in sin, which so many. You were so right about this. This is they, people, don’t? They don’t begin to acknowledge that there’s a problem until they’re already committing the sin. It’s, it’s the participation, whether, whether they have decided to do it, or whether it’s somebody who, like you said at the beginning, is someone who, in their natural man, has fallen into something. When they’re in it, it’s kind of like cold water in the face. You recognize there’s a line now that has been crossed at some point. And what you do then now for Achan, then he turned and he hid once he did For those who maybe have fallen into sin. They may then turn and cry out to God for mercy, if they’re, if they’re willing to, to acknowledge where, where they’re at. But regardless that, that wanting and that participation, it’s, it’s a, it’s a, it’s like a trigger point. It finally some light bulbs might go on. They may not, but they may go on.

At this point, and at this point, sin is big, he’s growing up. I loved that analogy of he becomes the warrior of sin that you’re having to battle versus an infant. If you have the picture of an infant baby, you have a brand new grandbaby who’s only a few weeks old, and they’re just so helpless and tiny versus a warrior. When I think of David having to face Goliath, well, there was a plenty of warriors out there who weren’t willing to face him. It took David who was willing, who was even younger than them, but it, you know, it’s it’s. This sin becomes really big, it becomes a very difficult thing to deal with when it’s mature, and so maybe we can we can talk about that for just a minute.

0:46:14 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Well, the first thing that I would say is everything that you said is true that sin begins as a seed and the conception begins with the eyes, and that lens of focus that peek at sin engraves upon the heart an image that’s not easily deleted, if that’s left unchecked, if that’s left unrepentant that’s why the Bible said let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight.

And that’s the reason why you know a lot of people continue on in the path. They don’t get before God on a daily basis and say Lord, let my hands be clean, let my mind be clean, let my heart be pure. If there’s anything in my life that displeases you, with the blood of Jesus Christ, cleanse me, wash me, make me holy. I depend upon your power to live as you want me to live. I confess I have no ability in and of my own strength. People need to realize that we live in a body of flesh and Paul wrote extensively in Romans and particularly in chapters 6 and 7 and 8, about what I call the tug of war. There is this continual tug of war in the Christian life where I don’t care how saved you are, I don’t care how much you pray or speak in tongues or sing or worship or what kind of church you go to, how big your ministry is or how small your ministry is. You live in a body of flesh and if you live to be a hundred years old, you still have a propensity for sin that lies in your flesh. Salvation is not a one and done, uh, fix it all right for human problems. It is a beginning, it is a new life, it is attaching yourself to christ. There is power in that. But you still have to wake up every day realizing the bible said that sin lurks at the door and is looking for an opportunity if we’re not paying attention. So then you get to, as we described, the participation incentive. He said I took at that point, through aiken’s confession, he confesses four things I saw, I coveted, I took, I hit. So by the time we get to I took, we’re 75 percent into the battle and it’s like standing on the edge of a cliff. You know, if you stand 10 feet away from a cliff and somebody were to bump you let’s just say at the Grand Canyon and people are taking pictures and you’re a good 10 feet back, you’re behind the fence and somebody bumps you, you might stumble, but because you’re an appropriate distance. And behind the fence you might stumble, but because you’re an appropriate distance and behind the fence, it’s not going to end your life. But when you start living on the edge of sin and you’re past the fence and you’re past the God warnings and you’ve bypassed the conviction and you’ve bypassed the pastor’s Sunday morning sermon that seemed like he was talking just to you, and God has gone out of his way to bring people in your life, even as this podcast and video might be doing for some of your listeners. Today, god has warned you You’re living on the edge.

The problem with living on the edge is you haven’t died living on the edge, but the next bump of temptation does not leave you room for recovery and too many Christians ask the question how far can I go and not be in sin?

That’s the wrong question, because now you’re asking how close to the edge can I live and not fall? It’s not a matter of how close can you live. It’s the risk evaluation of decisions that you’re making, because once you start tolerating the edges of sin, it’s not a matter of if you’re going to fall. It now becomes a matter of when you’re going to fall and sadly for a lot of people, because of the weak or the liberal theology that they surround themselves with, or they don’t have a man of God or a woman of God in their life that speaks truth, starts in the Bible, stays in the Bible and finishes in the Bible, like we’re doing today we’re literally reading a passage, exegeting it piece by piece, hopefully by the Holy Spirit being applied. People need to make life changes. They’re living too close to sin, they’re tolerating things and they need to make real decisions if they’re going to live in victory.

Akin decided that he was going to and, by the way, the totality of all Akin took would be, in modern day currency, depending on the country you live in, between a thousand and two thousand dollars. I mean, can you imagine selling your soul, selling your family, selling your wife, your children into brutal outcome and punishment for a thousand dollars?

And you know a thousand dollars is a lot of money for people that don’t have money, but in light of eternity, yeah, what a foolish choice, right? And a lot of people sell their soul for a lot less. They sell their soul for the cost of a bottle, they sell their soul for a bag of drugs, they sell their soul for a rendezvous at a hotel, and on and on and on. And people need to realize choices. All choices have consequences. Akin obviously was not thinking right. He was thinking about temporary stuff when he should have been thinking about eternal stuff. And isn’t that really the foundation of building a life in victory is keeping your life focused upon what’s eternal. I became president of the Bible college and seminary that has impacted our family just recently, but I told the board of trustees it was a very healthy salary and package that came with that. But I told the board I’m not going to take a penny and I’m not even going to allow you to reimburse me for any expenses incurred. And I sold a significant seed into the school and into the students and we’re getting ready to pass out scholarships for the first time in the history of the school to every single student, both international and domestic, and it’s not like we have the funds to do it. We’re in a position where we need miracles at the institution. But I told the Board of Trustees I’m not taking a penny because I wouldn’t even be alive if it weren’t for this ongoing vision.

My mom and dad met on the original campus under the founder in 1950. Our family is connected to this institution. I believe in treasures in heaven and one of the members of the board of trustees said I don’t think we could allow that. Brother Shuttlesworth, the office of the presidency has an honor to it and it would be a dishonor not to have salary and benefits with that office. I said well, you mistakenly thought I was asking for your permission. I’m not asking for your permission. I’m not taking a penny because I don’t live my life based on things temporary. I believe there’s treasures in heaven and I told them that I said I am doing this because the school needs help. I am doing this because of my desire to see young men and young women trained and equipped to fulfill the great commission with a Pentecostal passion and distinctive, and I have asked the Lord to allow this to count as treasure in heaven.

But there will not be one check written to me while I serve this institution and I don’t say that to pat myself on the back, I just give that as an example that if people are going to walk in the supernatural favor and blessing of God, you have to build the foundation of your life based upon how does this affect eternity? Not how does it affect my day or my tomorrow or my 401k, or you know, it’s not about us. You can’t serve the Lord and not be rewarded. God takes good care of all who walk faithfully, but there has to be that desire for holiness. Again, psalm 84, 11,.

No good thing will I withhold from them who walk uprightly. If you want to walk in supernatural favor, supernatural health, supernatural blessing, supernatural promotion, the key to that is not just your offerings and your seed zones. As you’d listen to many preachers, you’d think that determines everything. Not. If you’re not living in victory over sin, sin will short circuit, short circuit everything you do. No good thing Will I withhold from them who walk uprightly. The greatest key to prosperity and blessing and favor is holiness and that’s why what we’re talking about is so important on a very practical level, yes, amen.

0:55:30 – Jaime Luce
Well, as we move into that final phase of I HID, I want our viewers to, and listeners to, be prepared, if you’re wanting to get some things right that we are going to be praying, brother Tiff is going to lead whoever needs it into a prayer of salvation, and so I want you to be preparing your heart as we finish this broadcast up. But it’s amazing to me to think of this really is if people can get this, if they can understand this, everything you just said. It’s almost actually as if we take the first point, the I saw, and we shift our focus then in the spirit to say, instead of seeing things from a temporal eyesight, we’re seeing now with an eternal mindset of what do I need to be doing to make sure I’m affecting eternity and how does what I’m doing affect my eternity and those that I affect? Because no man is an island to himself. Our sin is going to affect anybody that we are connected to in any way, anybody we have influence over, anybody that our life touches. The sin that we would be participating in or the good eternal that we would be doing will affect those around us.

So, again, it takes us back to that very first understanding of what, the value and the importance of what we’re seeing with our eyes. You know, if I’m looking at the world through an eternal lens versus through this temporal lens, then it does enable me, it does help me to lay hold of the grace and the power that he’s given me, the strength he’s given me to make the right decisions and do the right thing, because I’m actually focused in the right place, versus looking right now at what feels good, what my senses are picking up on, so to remove myself from this natural body and take myself into the spirit and to be able to know that there is an eternity to gain and a hell to shun. So I will let you talk on that fourth point quickly, and then we will go ahead and pray.

0:57:48 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Yeah, I think people need to be reminded that God sees. I think a lot of people think well, there’s no way God can see and hear and know everybody. He certainly isn’t aware of the details of his life. But the Bible said he’s omniscient, he knows all. They tell me that Verizon processes over a billion phone calls every single month and has record of every conversation, et cetera, et cetera. So those are the skill sets of the creation. So we can’t underestimate the creator. I believe it’s in Psalm 10, verse 11.

The Bible says the wicked think God isn’t watching us. He has closed his eyes and won’t even see what we do. That’s how the average person thinks. They don’t think God watches, but he does watch. The Bible says that he keeps records, he keeps books. The Bible said that we’ll stand in judgment and give an account for every idle word. Heaven has a database far greater than anything man has ever created.

And the Bible says in Proverbs, chapter 28, verses 13 and 14, people who conceal their sins will never prosper. But if they confess them and turn from them, they will receive mercy. So people need to understand. I’m not trying to heap guilt. I’m trying to help you to understand that sin is a thief, the enemy comes to steal and kill and destroy. And many people that are listening to me right now, sin has been a thief. It steals. It’ll steal your health. It’ll steal your marriage. It’ll steal relationships. It’ll steal your peace. It’ll steal your ability to sleep. It’ll steal your finances. It’ll steal your future. It’s a thief the enemy comes to steal and kill and destroy. So I’m not attacking your listener, I’m attacking the thief and I’m asking them to wake up and to realize that there’s nothing worth going to hell over. There’s no sin worth going to hell over. There’s no amount of money worth selling your soul for. There’s no sin worth going to hell over. There’s no amount of money worth selling your soul for. There’s no relationship, there’s no pleasure worth going to hell over. And the Bible said if you conceal your sins, you’ll never prosper. The good news is is that God is a God of mercy. He said if you conceal your sins, you’ll never prosper, but if you renounce them and confess them, you will receive mercy. He said if you conceal your sins, you’ll never prosper, but if you renounce them and confess them, you will receive mercy. So it goes against human nature. Because of our ego and our pride, we don’t want people to see that we’re dirty. We don’t want people to see that we’re weak. We don’t want people to see that we’re unclean. But God said if you confess your sins, I am faithful and I am just to forgive you of your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

So, once the sin is committed, even if you failed the test, there may be times in life where you’re caught off guard. There may be times in life when you deliberately planned it out and you deserve everything that’s coming your way. But there is a God that you can run to, even in your sin, regardless of how it arrived in your life. Many times we want to blame the devil. The devil made me do it. 99% of our problems have nothing to do with the devil, have little to do with demons. They have to do with undisciplined flesh, and we would rather make ourselves out to be the victim. But God wants you to be a victor, and so let me close in prayer for your listeners. There’s three things that every person has to do, not according to me, not according to some denominational doctrine, but according to the Bible. There’s three things everybody has to do to have a right relationship with God. Wouldn’t you like to be able to lay your head to the pillow tonight and know if the Lord were to come tonight, I’m ready to go.

I received a text from my pastor yesterday. I was home this past Sunday and Judy and I went to our home church. We have a great home church. My pastor is actually a very dear friend and I was excited when I came into the auditorium because it was a water baptism and they were having a baptism of new believers and there were a number of people in our church that had recently been saved and they were giving their testimonies and they were baptizing the people. And at one point our pastor if a couple has been saved, he has them both get in the water baptismal tank together. And so he’s interviewing this husband and wife and they’re talking about how they recently came to know the Lord. And they’re not old, I think if I were to guess, I was sitting in a seat watching from a distance, but I would guess 40s, maybe 50s, maybe younger than that, yesterday that the woman who had just got saved gave her testimony, was baptized on Sunday morning, went to bed Sunday night and didn’t wake up on Monday morning. She passed away in her sleep and they’re still trying to figure out exactly what has happened. But all of us have an expiration date.

The Bible says in Hebrews chapter nine it is appointed unto men that word men in the original Greek is generic, it means male and female, or person. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment. Death is not the end of life. Death is not a period. Death is not an exclamation point. Period. Death is not an exclamation point. Death is a comma. It’s a brief transaction between life temporary and life eternal. And the Bible said, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. People need to constantly be reminded. We’re not just living for this temporary life. We have an eternal life and you will spend that eternity either in heaven or in hell. The Bible does not give us a neutral place for recovery or rehabilitation. The decision as to where you spend eternity is a decision you made this side of glory. You have to make that decision while you’re living, because five seconds after you die your address has already been sealed in eternal stone.

So here are the three things that I always tell people in our 43 years of traveling around the world. If you want to know you have peace with God, if you want to know that your sins, no matter what they, are forgiven for that person. That’s listening to me and you’re thinking, tiff. If you knew my past, as I’ve been listening to you, if you knew the stuff I’ve done, you would know that God could never forgive me. I have failed him over and over and over again. I’ve done this. I’ve done that. I want to tell you something and I want you to listen very carefully. Hell has forged no chains that heaven cannot break. There is no sin in your life greater than the grace of God. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness. And so the three things number one you have to recognize your sin. The Bible says all have sinned. Nobody can raise a hand in this audience and say I’ve never sinned, including me. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Number one you have to recognize that you’re a sinner and your sin separates you from a holy God. Number two you have to repent of your sin.

The word repent in the Bible is used repeatedly. Jesus said in Luke’s gospel unless we repent, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. It’s simply a word that means make a U-turn. You’re walking in your own direction, your own will, your own way, your own dream, your own aspiration. There has to be a time in your life when you bow in the presence of a holy God and say I’m going to make a U-turn. I want your way, I want your will, I want your forgiveness, I want your healing, I want a new life. And when you repent of sin and come to him with that humility God, I know I’ve sinned, I know I’ve fallen short of your glory. Today I recognize it and I repent of it.

Thirdly, you have to receive Jesus Christ. We’re not offering religion today. This is not a matter of being Protestant or being Catholic or Baptist or Presbyterian. There won’t be any denominations in heaven, only people who place their faith in the cross and in Christ. That’s why the Bible says in Acts, chapter 4 and verse 12, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

And so, if you’re listening right now, some of you perhaps have never truly recognized your sin, repented of your sin, received Jesus Christ. Whether you’re praying this for the first time, or you’re away from God and, like Aiken, you’ve made one or two or three or maybe all four of those fatal errors. Then you can come home today. Hosea 14.4 says I’ll love you freely and I’ll heal your backsliding. You can come home. And you can come home right now. And so if you’re listening and you need to pray and the Holy Spirit’s been speaking to your heart, just pray wherever you’re at, out loud with me, just say Heavenly Father, heavenly Father, today I recognize my sin.

1:07:52 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Today I recognize my sin. You know, everything, you know everything.

1:07:57 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
That I have ever done. That I have ever done. There is nothing in my life.

1:08:03 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
There is nothing in my life.

1:08:04 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Hidden from your eyes hidden from your eyes.

1:08:08 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Today, I repent.

1:08:20 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
In childlike faith, I turn my back on sin.

1:08:22 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
And I turn my heart to Jesus Christ. I trust in the cross and in the blood that was shed.

1:08:33 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Cleanse my mind.

1:08:36 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
My body and my spirit.

1:08:42 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Make me holy in your eyes Today.

1:08:45 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
I receive salvation. Make me holy in your eyes. Today I receive salvation. As the gift of God and I vow.

1:09:00 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
I will serve you.

1:09:01 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
All the days of my life In place of my weakness give me your strength. Fill me with the Holy Spirit and give me power to live in victory over sin and Over sin, and over self, and over self.

1:09:26 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
In.

1:09:26 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Jesus’ name In Jesus’ name.

1:09:29 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Today I’m saved.

1:09:31 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Today I’m saved.

1:09:32 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
And I’ll never be the same.

1:09:34 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
And I’ll never be the same. Amen and amen, amen, wow.

1:09:40 – Jaime Luce
Thank you so much for that. I know that that has meant so much to many today and if you are somebody listening today and you prayed that prayer of salvation, we would definitely love to hear from you. You can contact us at jamielucecom. Mail at jamielucecom. All contact information can be found there at the webpage page and we would be happy to correspond with you that way. Brother Tiff, if you wouldn’t mind just giving us some information, if people want to contact you, whether for the school or for your ministry for evangelism or whatever way that they’re wanting to contact you.

1:10:22 – Tiff Shuttlesworth
Yes, our ministry is Lost Lamb Association and our website is lostlamborg. Just enter that as one word, lostlamborg, and anything you need to know about the ministry can be found there on the website. Wonderful.

By the way, let me just spur of the moment, thought of this. Any of your listeners that would like a copy of this message we have available on CD. I can also send a link if people want it digitally. But any of your viewers that would like a copy of this, if they’ll write you and let you know and you correspond with me, we’ll. We’ll give those to them as a gift and since it’s December, I’ll say Merry Christmas.

1:11:10 – Jaime Luce
Okay, wonderful. Thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time to be with us today. It was truly a pleasure as well as a gift to us for our spirits and the growth and facing this new year. We can live in victory over sin and and live a life of that’s pleasing to the Lord and that brings great blessing to our lives and those around us. So thank you so much for joining me today. I actually hope that we get to do this again another time.

About another topic is, if you’ve ever got the opportunity to do that with me and to all the listeners listening today. You can find me on social media, at Jamie underscore loose. That’s for Facebook, that’s for Instagram and, again, all the even Twitter. Everything is located on my website, jamieloosecom. Go ahead and give us a like and a share, and if you are listening on podcasts, we encourage you to leave us a rating there as well. Thank you so much for joining us today. We love you, we appreciate you and we just pray that the Lord blesses you. Take this message to heart, make it yours, share it with somebody that you know who needs to hear it. God bless you. We’ll see you next time. Bye-bye.