Dr. Michael Youssef offering tough words to begin this leading the way audio episode.

You cannot be unfaithful to the Lord.

You cannot lower your own spiritual temperature without affecting your family.

You cannot be unfaithful to the Lord.

You cannot lower your own spiritual temperature without affecting the whole

body of Christ. Throughout the entire Old Testament, Israel rebelled, God judged, Israel repented,

followed by God's grace and redemption. Then, lather, rinse, repeat. It all happens again. But what about today?

Nothing has changed much, has it? Man continually rebels. God repeatedly offers his amazing grace.

And no matter the situation, God brings hope and forgiveness in times of judgment.

Up next, Dr. Yussef continues his encouraging series called

Hope and Forgiveness in Times of Judgment on Leading the Way.

Listen with me.

There's a man by the name of R.A. Tori, a great man of God of Yasta years.

But when Tori was a young man, he had no faith in God,

he had no faith in the word of God. As a matter of fact, he was hostile to the gospel.

As a young man, his mother who was a godly woman, who prayed for him on a regular basis, tried as gently as possible to witness to him.

But finally he got tired of his mother's prayer and his mother's witness.

And he said to her, he said, I'm sick and tired of hearing about my sins and your prayers.

I'm out of here so that I can't be bothered anymore with this God of yours anymore.

With tear-filled eyes and a broken heart that only a mother can understand.

The mother followed him to the gate and she pleaded with him to change his mind.

She pleaded with him to come, return back home.

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