Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. Why do dogs return to their vomit and why does a washed pig run back to the mud?

Because their nature hasn't changed. You can clean them up on the outside, but they're still the same inside.

Today, Francis explains that we can't be satisfied with the temporary emotional outward responses.

We need the miracle of new birth, hearts completely transformed by God to know both His

Holiness and His Love. I'd like to start this service a little different.

I would like to pray because sometimes, I know as a pastor, if the first service went well,

the second service went well, then you just expect to do the same thing again.

But we always have to be dependent on God. Nothing will happen unless God moves right now.

I could give the same sermon. I could do everything exactly the same and nothing changes.

Everything depends on him.

And I need to remind myself of that.

And that's why Pastor Peter and I was, when I was sharing with the pastors yesterday,

I had to remind the pastors, look, even though we have decades in ministry, we have to be,

we have to stay like little children.

We have to be completely dependent because so many people in the Bible started well and they

depended on God, but once they had some success, they start depending on

themselves, their resources, their abilities. And that's when they get destroyed. And so I do not

want that to happen in my life, in Pastor Peter's life. I don't even want to happen in this service.

If we just rely on the momentum of the last two services

and assume God will move right now,

nothing will happen.

So let's come before his throne in heaven

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