It seems to me that you don't often hear from many pastors or preachers about their own failures, at least not in such specific ways or called out with such clarity. And with a genuine sense of true sorrow and contrition. Paul may struggle with pride or selfishness but the fact that he can openly admit those things shows a level of humility that somehow greatly encourages me. Sometimes it feels like we're the only ones who have these struggles and discouragements, and in that isolated place we can be deceived into self-condemnation and lose so much hope. But Paul said his greatest encouragement is God's grace, and that really cannot be overstated. I am so thankful to God for His grace. Oh, how little we deserve it, and how wonderful God is. I desire to understand His grace more fully.
1 Peter 5:8-11 [8] Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: [9] Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. [10] But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. [11] To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Such a humble man of God that I love to listen . Every time I hear his message , that’s nothing but a strong wake up call to examine myself . In these last days where preachers are more like self motivational coaches who simply like to entertain masses, Brother Paul’s focus on being more like Christ is truly amazing and all glory to God for keeping such preachers in our midst. It’s equally sad to see how some of the people take this extract out of context and call him a hypocrite/ failure ..
Thank you Mr. Washer for being so open and honest. I am in the same situation and God in His providence has now sent this to me to encourage me that i'm not alone and convict me also.
When he added the part of going to a seminary that lied, that was edifying words. I was just thinking about last night when they had me teach a class at church on the flood and the sufficiency of Scripture. I’ve been sorrowful ever since then as I saw that some Christians did not believe God’s word was sufficient and believe we need outside evidence to prove God’s word. But when Brother Paul said those words, I remembered, there’s a reason God placed me in this church and there’s a reason why He gave me the platform to speak on the sufficiency of His word. May God bless Paul Washer greater for his edifying of brothers and sisters in Christ. May God always be praised. All glory to Him alone.
2:00 And I’m not to rank myself, because if I say there are other men higher than me, you know what I’m actually saying? There are also other men lower than me 3:01 The closer they get to you, the harder they are to love
I discourage myself daily. My anger and resentment brings me down so much. I pray/I repent/I read the Bible daily/I spend time talking to God.....some days I wake up angry against people that bother me. I hate sin so much yet sin often lives within me. The more I seek God the more it seems the devil attacks me. Oh God wrap me in your loving Grace.
Wow, I really identify with this. Anger and resentment are my big ones, and I've been praying and pleading for God's help since I turned to him a few years ago. It's super frustrating. So sorry you deal with it too.
@@How.To.Get.Saved. things seem to have got better then today was a really rough one. All we can do is continue forward because we love Christ. Hang in there friend. God bless you in Jesus name.
Paul is right! The hardest place to practice Christianity is in your inner circle. Get that going and the rest will fall into place. Fail and you will stumble!
This is very easy to theorize sometimes, but when some situations come or some experiences we go through, we begin to question ourselves if indeed God is working and orchestrating things or am I just on my own in this world exposed to random chances.
Very understandable! It does help me not worry whenever any emergency comes up because God has proven to meet every need. As for wants and desires, we have to wait for our seeds of giving and kindness to harvest back to us in divine perfect timing.
Yes I am! the most important thing that has ever come from heaven , it's Jésus-Christ. If You've got Jesus, you've got everything because he's all in all. Christ is enough for me!
So how do we know when to be content, and when we need to move ahead, and take initiative? Should a desire be pursued and acted upon with the assumption that it's a good, righteous, desire? Can it be presumed that it's a God given desire that should be acted on? Or should we just rest complacently in the state that we are in until the lord reveals clear specific instructions? I don't want to be charging ahead full speed trying to take matters into my own hands if it's not the will of the lord for my life, but neither do I want to miss out or lag behind because I'm trying to be content.
Paul Washer says having to learn the same lesson over and over again is "pathetic". Brought to mind Paul writing in Romans chapter 7... "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" well we know Who! A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. (Proverbs 16:9)
I'd love to have the opportunity and blessing to love a wife ... but that hasn't been the Lord's will for me, despite all my longing, praying, enduring, and hoping. So my struggle assuredly is to be content with the affliction of unwanted singleness.
What can I do I am a backsliding Christian sick of sin sick in health mentally sick where my own mind thoughts is killing my body flesh. Sometimes I think I am too hard on my self because of Sin and how much of a loser failure I am in my Christian walk and then other times I think I am not Christian because of these big headed Calvinist full of Pride no love for the lost what can I do?
In the book of Hosea, the Lord tells the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitue, Gomer, to create a depiction of how Israel had been to God with all of their idolatry, adultey, wickedness. Hosea marries Gomer and they have 3 children. However, Gomer continued to live a life of whoredom, and Hosea sitll loved her and wanted her to return to him. Ultimately Gomer goes so low that she is being sold, and her own husband, Hosea comes and buys his own wife back in front of everyone. You would do well to read the book of Hosea. I have been such a failure as a Christian before, even more than you I want to say. I've felt like I am the chief of sinners, while supposedly believing to be a child of God. By God's grace I remembered that the Lord Jesus is ready and willing to forgive. Heres something to think about for the rest of your life: Christ is sufficient! You and I have played the whore and utterly betrayed God, and yet still, Christ is sufficient. He is waiting to redeem us. Read the word of God. The simple reading of the Bible is so much more profitable to your understanding of the truth than you know. Meditate on the truth. When you are tempted to sin, again ask yourself: Am I going to do what the Lord says? (The Lord that is the creator of the universe, our Father in heaven, our redeemer, whose undestanding is unsearchable, the founder of truth) or am I going to do what I feel like doing? The truth will set you free. Don't underestimate Christ's ability to save and redeem. Contrition is a good thing. We should all be sorrowful over our sin, because we offend the LORD. But look at your sins and then look at Christ who took on all your filthiness and gave himself so you could be reconciled to God. The more I think about Christ and all that is true, the more you will see victory over sin. It is the same for everyone. Nobody can live a life of abiding in Christ through their own strength.
Run To the personhood of Jesus Christ! Seek Him With ALL your heart! Ask Him to take ALL your filth and give you a clean heart! Continue to do this until you find Him to be the ONLY love of your heart, mind, soul, and body! If you seek after Him, His righteousness soon follows!
DH says right. Brother I've been there too. Just put Christ before you exalted. Delete everything else from your mind. Run towards Him in all ways. I did that, now I know I'm free I'm able to forgive. I got battles right but I know He is my only focus. Do it dear Christian. Your restlessness is a proof that the Holy Spirit is urging you to change the focus
Striving to be like Jesus is eating from the wrong tree. Adam and Eve fell because they wanted to "be like God" through the knowledge of good and evil. Jesus is God. To strive to be like Him is the deception that started it all. We are called to rest in His finished work. Allowing Him to live in us, not us trying to be like Him through what we do.
Why is such a long time follower and preacher [of God] such a sinner? Why is his testimony of being in Christ, that of him being a failing sinner, as though he is yet enslaved to sin?? Christ died to free us from the law of sin and death, and gives his followers his Spirit; in whom IF we walk, we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh; we are made free from slavery to sin, and become servants of righteousness! 🤷♀️ Are we free in Christ or are we not free? If we are servants to Christ, HOW are we also still slaves to sin? We ought NOT be! How then shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?? .... lest we be deemed lukewarm. This man talks of what a failure he is; as far as overcoming sin goes, as far as loving his wife goes, as far as being Christ-like, he affirms himself to be a failure. He confesses that he has a LACK of love. A LACK of LOVE. 1JOHN 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. For the length of time this man has been following God and preaching to masses of people, I'd hoped he would have attained something of the nature of Jesus Christ by now. What I'm witnessing by his testimony, is a man who professes to be of Christ, but has evidently, by his own admission, been denying the power of the Holy Spirit!
@@DH-vy8hw "You mean "chief" of sinners. He acknowledged that he WAS the worst of sinners, but was made head over sinners to bring them under the teachings and obedience of Christ. Apostle Paul didn't talk of himself being such a failing sinner, but instead instructed the people he was teaching to follow him, as he followed Jesus. Apostle Paul was a staunch preacher of righteousness, and was no hypocrite.
@@MoonPhaze5 read romans 7. Paul after years of being saved still talks about the struggle he has with sin. we will struggle with our sinful tendencies to evil for the rest of our lifes. i feel very much the same as Paul Washer abt my inability to do any good (by myself), and this makes me completely dependent on God and it makes me to understand/see more about the love & grace of Christ. if we wouldnt see our inability and our failure we could fall in the sin of pride where we think we have strength in ourselves. Through our weaknesses, His strength is revealed! (2 cor 12:9-10)
@@annecodejonge4506 Apostle Paul's teaching in Romans 7 is a contrast and comparison of that which is carnal and that which is spiritual. Paul, by God's grace, through faith, grew to know this by his own experince in Christ. Only when coming through the woods and out the other side can one describe the entire journey. The teaching to the Romans concerning the tendencies of the flesh verses the new life in the Spirit does not begin in chapter 7, but in chapter 5:21, and does not end at the end of the chapter 7, but continues through chapter 8. If you want to focus on Paul's teaching of the battle between the flesh and the Spirit, you must include his entire teaching; but for the point in focus we can examine how Paul describes that battle from a personal learning experience in chapter 7, but then, continue on to his turning point of victory over the flesh, which we see in: ROMANS 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. It would do you all much good to read the rest of chapter 8, and to pay careful attention to how Paul's teaching shows that he is now wise and able to relay to us, the progression we experience by grace, having the Holy Spirit; through faith, being in Christ, having been born of the Spirit; walking in the Spirit. In Jesus, we are a NEW creature; a NEW creation. And that is God's will for us, which is found in: ROMANS 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, the he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
You could not possibly be more wrong about Paul Washer! Only a righteous and humble man (as compared to most men) can be troubled by sins that aren't even on the radar of most Christians. He did NOT say that he doesn't love his wife at all. He said that he doesn't love his wife enough, meaning that he doesn't love his wife PERFECTLY. I know that this is what he means because I have watched, and cherished, so many of his sermons. He often says that he doesn't love God perfectly. No human, except Jesus, has ever loved God perfectly. Then after saying that he doesn't love God perfectly, Paul will say that he doesn't love his wife as much as he should. NO ONE loves their spouse as much as they should! I certainly have never known, or heard of, anyone who ALWAYS (24/7) puts their spouses needs and desires before their own, ALWAYS speaks to their spouse in a loving manner, ALWAYS encourages and builds up their spouse, etc. etc. etc. Please listen to the "heart" of what Paul Washer said, and try not to make snap judgments about people that you don't know anything about, especially your brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless you. I am praying for you.
“If you rank someone higher than you, that’s saying you also rank someone lower than you.” Truth well spoken.
"Dead men dont get discouraged."
That's changin my life right there.
It seems to me that you don't often hear from many pastors or preachers about their own failures, at least not in such specific ways or called out with such clarity. And with a genuine sense of true sorrow and contrition. Paul may struggle with pride or selfishness but the fact that he can openly admit those things shows a level of humility that somehow greatly encourages me. Sometimes it feels like we're the only ones who have these struggles and discouragements, and in that isolated place we can be deceived into self-condemnation and lose so much hope. But Paul said his greatest encouragement is God's grace, and that really cannot be overstated. I am so thankful to God for His grace. Oh, how little we deserve it, and how wonderful God is. I desire to understand His grace more fully.
Amen
Amen
1 Peter 5:8-11
[8] Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: [9] Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. [10] But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. [11] To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Praise God for His grace.
Such a humble man of God that I love to listen . Every time I hear his message , that’s nothing but a strong wake up call to examine myself . In these last days where preachers are more like self motivational coaches who simply like to entertain masses, Brother Paul’s focus on being more like Christ is truly amazing and all glory to God for keeping such preachers in our midst. It’s equally sad to see how some of the people take this extract out of context and call him a hypocrite/ failure ..
Extraordinarily encouraging.
Much wisdom, clearly spoken.
Thank you Mr. Washer for being so open and honest. I am in the same situation and God in His providence has now sent this to me to encourage me that i'm not alone and convict me also.
Thank you! Such convicting truth and encouraging also!
When he added the part of going to a seminary that lied, that was edifying words. I was just thinking about last night when they had me teach a class at church on the flood and the sufficiency of Scripture. I’ve been sorrowful ever since then as I saw that some Christians did not believe God’s word was sufficient and believe we need outside evidence to prove God’s word. But when Brother Paul said those words, I remembered, there’s a reason God placed me in this church and there’s a reason why He gave me the platform to speak on the sufficiency of His word. May God bless Paul Washer greater for his edifying of brothers and sisters in Christ. May God always be praised. All glory to Him alone.
2:00 And I’m not to rank myself, because if I say there are other men higher than me, you know what I’m actually saying? There are also other men lower than me
3:01 The closer they get to you, the harder they are to love
I discourage myself daily. My anger and resentment brings me down so much. I pray/I repent/I read the Bible daily/I spend time talking to God.....some days I wake up angry against people that bother me. I hate sin so much yet sin often lives within me. The more I seek God the more it seems the devil attacks me. Oh God wrap me in your loving Grace.
Wow, I really identify with this. Anger and resentment are my big ones, and I've been praying and pleading for God's help since I turned to him a few years ago. It's super frustrating. So sorry you deal with it too.
@@How.To.Get.Saved. things seem to have got better then today was a really rough one. All we can do is continue forward because we love Christ. Hang in there friend. God bless you in Jesus name.
Paul is right! The hardest place to practice Christianity is in your inner circle. Get that going and the rest will fall into place. Fail and you will stumble!
beautiful and well said.
Thank you for this encouragement I needed to hear this!
This is very easy to theorize sometimes, but when some situations come or some experiences we go through, we begin to question ourselves if indeed God is working and orchestrating things or am I just on my own in this world exposed to random chances.
Very understandable! It does help me not worry whenever any emergency comes up because God has proven to meet every need. As for wants and desires, we have to wait for our seeds of giving and kindness to harvest back to us in divine perfect timing.
I can identify with this.
ONLY JESUS CHRIST SAVES,………..AMEN TO THAT ❤
Yes I am! the most important thing that has ever come from heaven , it's Jésus-Christ. If You've got Jesus, you've got everything because he's all in all.
Christ is enough for me!
Amen
Wow. Amen.
amen amen
So how do we know when to be content, and when we need to move ahead, and take initiative? Should a desire be pursued and acted upon with the assumption that it's a good, righteous, desire? Can it be presumed that it's a God given desire that should be acted on? Or should we just rest complacently in the state that we are in until the lord reveals clear specific instructions? I don't want to be charging ahead full speed trying to take matters into my own hands if it's not the will of the lord for my life, but neither do I want to miss out or lag behind because I'm trying to be content.
Paul Washer says having to learn the same lesson over and over again is "pathetic".
Brought to mind Paul writing in Romans chapter 7... "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
well we know Who!
A man’s heart plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.
(Proverbs 16:9)
'It's my own sin'🥺🥺🥺
Stop focusing on your sin and start focusing on your righteousness in Christ.
It is not either or...it is both. The clip ends with Paul saying how the grace of Christ is a great encouragement to him.
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How do we refrain from sin by abiding in christ
I'm Brazilian guy, my English is not Good, could you translate for PT-BR?
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I'd love to have the opportunity and blessing to love a wife ... but that hasn't been the Lord's will for me, despite all my longing, praying, enduring, and hoping. So my struggle assuredly is to be content with the affliction of unwanted singleness.
What can I do I am a backsliding Christian sick of sin sick in health mentally sick where my own mind thoughts is killing my body flesh. Sometimes I think I am too hard on my self because of Sin and how much of a loser failure I am in my Christian walk and then other times I think I am not Christian because of these big headed Calvinist full of Pride no love for the lost what can I do?
In the book of Hosea, the Lord tells the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitue, Gomer, to create a depiction of how Israel had been to God with all of their idolatry, adultey, wickedness. Hosea marries Gomer and they have 3 children. However, Gomer continued to live a life of whoredom, and Hosea sitll loved her and wanted her to return to him. Ultimately Gomer goes so low that she is being sold, and her own husband, Hosea comes and buys his own wife back in front of everyone. You would do well to read the book of Hosea.
I have been such a failure as a Christian before, even more than you I want to say. I've felt like I am the chief of sinners, while supposedly believing to be a child of God. By God's grace I remembered that the Lord Jesus is ready and willing to forgive. Heres something to think about for the rest of your life: Christ is sufficient! You and I have played the whore and utterly betrayed God, and yet still, Christ is sufficient. He is waiting to redeem us.
Read the word of God. The simple reading of the Bible is so much more profitable to your understanding of the truth than you know. Meditate on the truth. When you are tempted to sin, again ask yourself: Am I going to do what the Lord says? (The Lord that is the creator of the universe, our Father in heaven, our redeemer, whose undestanding is unsearchable, the founder of truth) or am I going to do what I feel like doing? The truth will set you free. Don't underestimate Christ's ability to save and redeem.
Contrition is a good thing. We should all be sorrowful over our sin, because we offend the LORD. But look at your sins and then look at Christ who took on all your filthiness and gave himself so you could be reconciled to God. The more I think about Christ and all that is true, the more you will see victory over sin. It is the same for everyone. Nobody can live a life of abiding in Christ through their own strength.
Run To the personhood of Jesus Christ! Seek Him With ALL your heart! Ask Him to take ALL your filth and give you a clean heart! Continue to do this until you find Him to be the ONLY love of your heart, mind, soul, and body! If you seek after Him, His righteousness soon follows!
DH says right. Brother I've been there too. Just put Christ before you exalted. Delete everything else from your mind. Run towards Him in all ways. I did that, now I know I'm free I'm able to forgive. I got battles right but I know He is my only focus. Do it dear Christian. Your restlessness is a proof that the Holy Spirit is urging you to change the focus
Striving to be like Jesus is eating from the wrong tree. Adam and Eve fell because they wanted to "be like God" through the knowledge of good and evil. Jesus is God. To strive to be like Him is the deception that started it all. We are called to rest in His finished work. Allowing Him to live in us, not us trying to be like Him through what we do.
◄ 1 Corinthians 11:1 ►
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ
Tell johnny Mac..he whined for two years about the covid restrictions.
Why is such a long time follower and preacher [of God] such a sinner? Why is his testimony of being in Christ, that of him being a failing sinner, as though he is yet enslaved to sin??
Christ died to free us from the law of sin and death, and gives his followers his Spirit; in whom IF we walk, we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh; we are made free from slavery to sin, and become servants of righteousness!
🤷♀️ Are we free in Christ or are we not free? If we are servants to Christ, HOW are we also still slaves to sin? We ought NOT be!
How then shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?? .... lest we be deemed lukewarm.
This man talks of what a failure he is; as far as overcoming sin goes, as far as loving his wife goes, as far as being Christ-like, he affirms himself to be a failure. He confesses that he has a LACK of love. A LACK of LOVE.
1JOHN 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
For the length of time this man has been following God and preaching to masses of people, I'd hoped he would have attained something of the nature of Jesus Christ by now.
What I'm witnessing by his testimony, is a man who professes to be of Christ, but has evidently, by his own admission, been denying the power of the Holy Spirit!
I guess you can say that about Apostle Paul too, the one who wrote on being free from the yoke of slavery, yet called himself the chiefest of sinners.
@@DH-vy8hw "You mean "chief" of sinners. He acknowledged that he WAS the worst of sinners, but was made head over sinners to bring them under the teachings and obedience of Christ.
Apostle Paul didn't talk of himself being such a failing sinner, but instead instructed the people he was teaching to follow him, as he followed Jesus. Apostle Paul was a staunch preacher of righteousness, and was no hypocrite.
@@MoonPhaze5 read romans 7. Paul after years of being saved still talks about the struggle he has with sin. we will struggle with our sinful tendencies to evil for the rest of our lifes. i feel very much the same as Paul Washer abt my inability to do any good (by myself), and this makes me completely dependent on God and it makes me to understand/see more about the love & grace of Christ.
if we wouldnt see our inability and our failure we could fall in the sin of pride where we think we have strength in ourselves. Through our weaknesses, His strength is revealed! (2 cor 12:9-10)
@@annecodejonge4506 Apostle Paul's teaching in Romans 7 is a contrast and comparison of that which is carnal and that which is spiritual. Paul, by God's grace, through faith, grew to know this by his own experince in Christ.
Only when coming through the woods and out the other side can one describe the entire journey.
The teaching to the Romans concerning the tendencies of the flesh verses the new life in the Spirit does not begin in chapter 7, but in chapter 5:21, and does not end at the end of the chapter 7, but continues through chapter 8.
If you want to focus on Paul's teaching of the battle between the flesh and the Spirit, you must include his entire teaching; but for the point in focus we can examine how Paul describes that battle from a personal learning experience in chapter 7, but then, continue on to his turning point of victory over the flesh, which we see in:
ROMANS 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.
It would do you all much good to read the rest of chapter 8, and to pay careful attention to how Paul's teaching shows that he is now wise and able to relay to us, the progression we experience by grace, having the Holy Spirit; through faith, being in Christ, having been born of the Spirit; walking in the Spirit.
In Jesus, we are a NEW creature; a NEW creation. And that is God's will for us, which is found in:
ROMANS 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, the he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
You could not possibly be more wrong about Paul Washer! Only a righteous and humble man (as compared to most men) can be troubled by sins that aren't even on the radar of most Christians. He did NOT say that he doesn't love his wife at all. He said that he doesn't love his wife enough, meaning that he doesn't love his wife PERFECTLY. I know that this is what he means because I have watched, and cherished, so many of his sermons. He often says that he doesn't love God perfectly. No human, except Jesus, has ever loved God perfectly. Then after saying that he doesn't love God perfectly, Paul will say that he doesn't love his wife as much as he should. NO ONE loves their spouse as much as they should! I certainly have never known, or heard of, anyone who ALWAYS (24/7) puts their spouses needs and desires before their own, ALWAYS speaks to their spouse in a loving manner, ALWAYS encourages and builds up their spouse, etc. etc. etc. Please listen to the "heart" of what Paul Washer said, and try not to make snap judgments about people that you don't know anything about, especially your brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless you. I am praying for you.