Bible, Women & Bathrobes Episode 9

Sermon on the Mount part 5

Summary

Tamara and Amy discussed Jesus' teachings on fulfilling the law in Matthew 5:17-22, emphasizing that He didn't destroy the law but rather fulfilled its true purpose. They also explored the fulfillment of the Law of Moses in Jesus Christ and the importance of living and teaching the commandments by how we behave as outlined in the Sermon on the Mount. Later, they discussed the impact of words on individuals and society, emphasizing the biblical concept of 'Raka' and how words can build up or tear down. They also shared ways to manage anger through faith, encouraging listeners to approach God with their anger and replace it with peace and clear thinking.

Main Takeaways

• From Amy, “Do I destroy? Or do I build? What am I doing that builds when I leave?... When I leave, do I leave someone better? When I get up off my knees, I am always better, because he's a builder. He's not a destroyer.”
• From Tamara, “We can emulate the commandments when we have Jesus by our side. .. Me plus Jesus can be kind. Me plus Jesus can curb anger, me plus Jesus, and can be that Peacemaker. Alone? Not so much. And to give ourselves that grace, that with him, we can do those things and become a better person. And it's just little tiny steps every day.”

Today’s Podcast Hosts & Guests

Tamara K. Anderson

Tamara, founder of Women Warriors of Light, is a dynamic speaker, award winning author, and a podcaster. She is driven by her Christian faith to inspire faith in Jesus Christ. Alongside her husband, Justin, she navigates the joys and challenges of parenting four children with autism, ADHD, and mental health hurdles. You can find out more about Tamara on her website: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/

Amy Johnson

Amy is a member of our Women Warriors of Light Advisory Board. She is a leader of women, a homemaker, and a licensed cosmetologist. Amy enjoys nurturing women through betrayal trauma to becoming a beacon of support and inspiration.

Keywords

#SermonontheMount #JesusChrist #Jesusteaching, #bible, #higherlaw  #God, #Jesuscomestofulfill # commandments #anger #mosaic law

Transcript

Amy Johnson  0:01 

What does Jesus mean when he says that he does not come to destroy, but to fulfill and then ends up talking about this higher law that he is giving us? We're going to talk about those verses today that we probably tend to skip over in the Sermon on the Mount, and see if we can't find a few golden nuggets that we can draw out for ourselves today.

Tamara Anderson  0:28 

Welcome to Bible, Women and Bathrobes the podcast where faith meets comfort. Join us Tuesday and Thursday morning. As the gals from Women Warriors of Light and their guests, don bathrobes and dive into the inspiring stories of women in the Bible, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. From Esther's bravery to the Sermon on the Mount. We explore it all with warmth, laughter, sisterhood, and maybe even a few sleepy eyed moments. Tune in live or at your leisure as we learn lessons from scripture which empower women today.

Tamara Anderson  1:09 

Welcome the Bible, Women and Bathrobes. I'm Tamara K Anderson, one of your hosts and I am so pleased to have Amy Johnson on with me. And let me tell you a little bit about Amy. Amy is a member of our Women Warriors of Light advisory board. She is a leader of women, a homemaker and a licensed cosmetologist, Amy enjoys nurturing women through betrayal, trauma, and helping them become beacons of light. And she is a beacon of light and support and inspiration to all who know her. So Amy, thank you for coming on this morning to the podcast.

Amy Johnson  1:49 

Thank you for having me. Welcome. Good Morning.

Tamara Anderson  1:54 

Good Morning, exactly. Its Early, and we're recording this. So it's awesome. So we have we're going to talk today a little bit about Matthew chapter five, and we are on verses 17. And we'll probably get through 20. But we'll see.

Amy Johnson  2:10 

Okay.

Tamara Anderson  2:12 

So let's start with verse 17. So Jesus has kind of just finished talking about the Blessed are ye. And here's what will happen. If you're a peacemaker. Here's what will happen if you're meek and all that stuff. And we just talked about salt and light. And now we're to this part where if you pause and think about the people in his day, they are living a Mosaic Law. And so what he's teaching them is probably different than they have heard up to this point. And they're probably thinking, why is he teaching us this new stuff? And so this is where we kind of are at the beginning of this Sermon on the Mount.

Tamara Anderson  2:55 

And here's what he says, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." And so I thought we'd kind of kick it off. And and and I'll just ask you, Amy, what do you think Jesus means by what he is saying right here?

Amy Johnson  3:17 

I think for think this is really like you said, I think we skipped over a lot of this stuff. And I really think he is looking at this. We talked about this a lot my family actually, that my children, that he was considered a radical. And, and and I think about the contrast from the world we live in now and the world he was living in then. And the leaders then were really the ones who were forcing the law. They were forcing that Mosaic law describes the Pharisees, they were the ones who were the Sanhedrin they were forcing that law.

Amy Johnson  4:00 

And and I'm not saying they lived it, but they were pretending to live it at least and enforcing it. Right. Yeah. And I'm not saying that none of them were living just they were the ones they were kind of the enforcers. And so he comes in and he's not enforcing this law, the way they would have seen it. They would have seen this very letter of the law. This is the way things must be done. And it must have looked so different. When you think about the love that he expresses as he's teaching, when you think about the way he's teaching, he's not. He's not teaching it the way they've seen it.

Amy Johnson  4:50 

And so for him to come in and say it must have looked like he was taking the law and In essence, casting pearls before swine, right?

Tamara Anderson  4:50 

Yeah,

Amy Johnson  4:51 

To quote him, right. I really think it must have looked like he was being blasphemous he was being because they had this law that was designed to prepare them to see him and know him. And they missed it.

Tamara Anderson  5:24 

Yeah,

Amy Johnson  5:24 

They didn't they didn't see him in the law. They just they'd lost it. And so he comes in, and it looks like he's literally tromping on what they held sacred. But those who did hold it sacred did see him.

Tamara Anderson  5:44 

Yes.

Amy Johnson  5:45 

And did and were prepared for him. And those who really, truly held the law sacred, weren't using it as a whipping tool.

Tamara Anderson  5:51 

Yeah,

Amy Johnson  5:51 

Or whatever, truly did see him.

Tamara Anderson  5:55 

Yeah. Yeah, and I was reading up on the Law of Moses, as I was preparing for this, you know, just trying to understand, because they did have a lot of the things that we consider gospel, you know, they had, they, the Old Testament talks about faith and repentance, and baptism, and that kind of thing. But, and then there was that reconciliation that the law of Moses pointed towards, you know, they would have certain ordinances where, you know, the blood was used to atone for the sins of the nation. And they would literally have a scapegoat that they would write symbolically put their sins on and, and, and it symbolically was able to cleanse them.

Tamara Anderson  6:41 

But all this pointed toward the Savior. And what was interesting is that by New Testament times, I was reading up on this, and here's what it says that some of the, the traditions had become a little skewed. And they had these innovations that were called "the traditions of the elders." And so they had kind of added all these things. When when the law was given, it was simple. And here's what you do, and this points to the Savior coming. And so some of these things that we'll see, as we study the teachings of Jesus Christ in this podcast is, Jesus might is going to rebuke the Sadducees and Pharisees because they are they lost the meaning of that Mosaic Law.

Tamara Anderson  7:27 

And so it's interesting, he says that he's not come to destroy, but to fulfill. And so he is the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, all of those things pointed to the Savior coming, and being the key piece in all of this. That all the prophets before had testified of Jesus Christ, you know, from Adam, to Moses, to Noah, to all the previous prophets testified that Jesus would come. And that is why we have that linage you know, he's prophesied to come and David's linage, and all that. So all those things were fulfilled.

Tamara Anderson  8:06 

And, and so here's where we kind of start diving in and seeing him saying, Okay, let's take those basic laws that you were given in the Law of Moses, Say, like the 10 commandments,

Amy Johnson  8:19 

right?

Tamara Anderson  8:20 

So here's where you were, and I want to raise you to a higher level, you know, don't do the minimum, let's kind of boost you up a little bit.

Amy Johnson  8:29 

Right.

Tamara Anderson  8:30 

And let's, let's take a step closer to God. So He's Trying to raise them up and saying, Yes, this is where you have been. But let's let's take a step closer to who you can become, if you just up up it a little bit, you know?

Amy Johnson  8:47 

And don't you just love that? Because I think what we do in our own lives, too, is if we will let Him guide us, He does the exact same thing. I was talking to my husband about this yesterday, where we that's a whole story, but we're not going to do that. He we were talking about life and how and I said, you know I am, I feel like we're at a point now where both of us, our main focus is just to do the will of the Lord. We just want to do what he wants us to do.

Amy Johnson  9:19 

And, and for a husband or wife to come to that point together. I think is pretty awesome. And I don't know that I ever really foresaw that happening years ago. Because of being married to a recovered addict. And so now I said, I feel like that's where he's at. We've come to that point. But now I feel like the Lord is saying, Now I want you. I know you will ask me and you'll do what I say, to the best of your ability. But now I want to teach you how to move the mountains with your faith.

Amy Johnson  9:53 

And that's what I feel like he's moving us to do and so I actually get really excited I did about this, when I read about him saying, this is the law, I'm not destroying it, I'm moving you to a higher level, as you just talked about. I feel like sometimes we forget, he is the living water. Which means he, he has this big pitcher over here, to me this what it means to me. But he's always moving us to a better place, like water moves, whatever is necessary along its path, to nourish all the vegetation on the side, all the animals on the sides. I feel like that's what he does with us. And he is the living water. And so I have to always trust that he could do anything at any time. I can't put God in a box.

Tamara Anderson  10:54 

True, true. True. Right,

Amy Johnson  10:56 

We try and do that. Because we do have a finite vision down here.

Tamara Anderson  11:01 

Yeah.

Amy Johnson  11:02 

So this is I think what they were trying to do, they were saying, no, no, no, this is not the box. You no, no, no, this is not what we do. Also, there was a lot of other stuff going on. And he has he's started gathering people, right? And he's got he's a God of gathering. So he gathered people, and that even in our society, how many likes do you have? How many people follow you? How many? Right? That's a big deal in our world, and so that it was a huge deal for them. And so now he's a God of gathering and he's gathering as he goes. And he's like, Well, they're like, wait, wait wait. First of all, get in our box. And I like that.

Tamara Anderson  11:49 

Yeah, yeah, no, that's, that's a really good insight. I love that. So let's build on that and and and say, okay, he says that, verse 18, he basically says that everything will be fulfilled in him, which we see, you know, he does, he is the ultimate sacrifice.

Tamara Anderson  12:09 

And then it's interesting in verse 19, he kind of teaches us what he's hoping that we glean from the Sermon on the Mount. And this is what he says, he says, "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." So what he's kind of saying here is, what's more important Is that is, are you applying the commandments to your life? Are you teaching them by doing them? And I think this is kind of a little bit of a dig to those Pharisees and Sadducees.

Tamara Anderson  12:57 

You know, like, You guys aren't keeping these laws that I originally gave in the 10 commandments, you know. Saying, he says, and I think because of their position of authority in Israel at that time, he was kind of saying, I need you guys to be the examples and teach these commandments by example, but you're so focused on this other parts that you've added to it, that you're not being an example. Let's go back to the basics. Let's go into those 10 commandments and and say, Okay, are you keeping these? And set it by example, kind of the humble leader that Jesus Christ was from the beginning.

Tamara Anderson  13:41 

And so he's he's teaching us here that he wants us to do and teach them. So to lead by example. And I think that's always a challenge, because none of us are going to do perfectly, right? And so I think, especially as women, we kind of get on ourselves and think, Oh, well, I can never do and teach because I'm always going to fall short.

Amy Johnson  14:05 

Right?

Tamara Anderson  14:06 

Don't you think? Amy?

Amy Johnson  14:07 

I do think in fact, I said to my mom, yesterday, we were having this conversation and and it's it's mom, right? So there's very few people that I will really get emotional with. But it's mom.

Tamara Anderson  14:21 

Yeah.

Amy Johnson  14:21 

Right. And I was talking to her about some struggles that I'm dealing with right now. And I said, the thing is, I'm so tired, and I I'm happy to give grace there to them and to them and to them. And she goes right, you're happy to give grace to everyone? And I said, Yeah, except myself. And I think that's that's exactly what you're talking about is that we think we're not good enough. But again, my mom and maybe this is really an important lesson for all of us. But it for me it was. I was raising five teenagers. And I was pretty much raising them alone because my husband traveled 20 days he was gone 20 days, home for 10. And so when he came home, all the focus became about him. And so I but those 20 days I was mom, like, there, I was mom.

Amy Johnson  15:13 

And fortunately, I didn't have to provide an income. He was doing that. So, but I was having a really tough time with two of my children. And I remember my mom, I actually called her and said, I think I'm going to have to find a place for one of these to go live. I don't I think I'm failing this child. And she is five foot four and awesome. And she said, Don't ever talk like that, Amy. Now I'm five, eight. And I tower over my mother, it feels like but she's a powerhouse. She's just, she just said, Don't ever talk like that, and I. And then she said, You are the perfect mom for that child. God doesn't make mistakes. And he will learn why he needs to learn in this life because of you.

Amy Johnson  16:05 

And I think when we look at this, when we say I'm not adequate to teach, we need to remember that you are exactly where God wanted you to be. Or knew you would be. It's probably a better way to say it. And you got this, because he's got you, as you reach to him. He's got you. And so you just by virtue of living, I think sometimes we also get so caught up and this is how I think the Pharisees and the Sadducees ended up, we get so caught up in, I have to teach it that we forget about the living part. And then when we teach it our words ring hollow. I think we really need to just focus on living it.

Tamara Anderson  16:53 

Yeah.

Amy Johnson  16:53 

And as we focus on living it, we will teach it. Yeah, those Pharisees weren't living it. So they were just the enforcers of this law. They weren't really living. And so but but God has got us as we live, what he wants us to live, he's got us.

Tamara Anderson  17:11 

I love that. And I think I think you've hit on one of those key principles here that he is going to help us and I think probably perhaps one of the greatest principles we can teach is the principle of repentance and how we need Jesus in our lives. And I think I remember being a young mom and, and you know, when you're when you've got little kids all day, and you're kind of going crazy. I remember my husband coming home. And as I was having a discussion with my oldest, who was then two. And he's like, Tamara, you're literally arguing with a two year old. Like, who else have I talked to all day?

Tamara Anderson  17:58 

But but his point was, it's okay. You don't, You're right. And he's still learning and, and I had to learn to apologize to a two year old, which some swallowing down of my pride and I had to go to him afterwards and say, Hey, I'm sorry. I love you. And please forgive me. And of course, little kids are great. You know, they just give you a hug, and they love you. And I and I thought back and I thought this is what we need to be mirroring. This is what we need teaching is that I am not perfect.

Amy Johnson  18:31 

Right?

Tamara Anderson  18:32 

And I need Jesus and I need that grace, just as much as you will in your life. So am I going to be perfect at keeping the commandments? No, no, but I can be perfect with Jesus, that He can make up for my deficiencies if I turn to him. So I think maybe that's probably his biggest point here is--Be humble.

Amy Johnson  18:55 

Absolutely. And and I really think that's why everywhere he went to he also said, come on to me. I've really been thinking about at our launch for those who missed it, Tiffany Fletcher spoke, and she shared how someone talked about that. It's not about I going to misquote this, but I use the phrase muscling through a lot because I muscle through a lot.

Amy Johnson  19:24 

And so she talked about how it's not about muscling through until we're kind enough and muscling through till we have enough charity and muscling through until we have enough faith. It's about coming to Jesus. And He brings us to the point of kindness and the point of charity and the point of faith. We instead of muscling through and thinking if I do this I'll get to be by Jesus.

Amy Johnson  19:47 

And I've that has been just running through my head since we launched Women Warriors of Light. Because I think this is exactly the problem. And that's why this law became so convoluted And so, because it became a counterfeit of the law.

Amy Johnson  20:07 

It became, no, this is what I think we should. Here's another thing: we, we my husband was talking about this. We are created in the image of God. But sometimes we twist that and try and create God in our image. And so instead of them instead of them saying, Hey, you have, this is who we are, this is the law we are supposed to live. They were saying, Well, this is the law. This is how we're going to get to Jesus. And they started creating these new laws and creating God and their own image and putting him in a box and all the things that we talked about.

Tamara Anderson  20:50 

Yeah, yeah, no, I think I think I think you've you've explained it in a way that hopefully we can understand it, in nowadays terms, right. And, and so and we can see here in verse 20. This is where he kind of dives in and says, "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case, enter into the kingdom of heaven." You know, like, oh, so he had I mean.

Tamara Anderson  21:18 

And he does this, because he is trying to help them see that your leaders aren't exactly modeling the commandments by example. And I'm sure that the people knew that. Do you know what I mean?

Amy Johnson  21:35 

Yeah,

Tamara Anderson  21:35 

I'm sure they knew that these people. You know, they're, they're prideful. They think it's their way or the highway. And if you're not living up to this standard, then you, you are the least in the kingdom of heaven. And Jesus is teaching them No, you're the least in the kingdom of heaven if you are teaching the things but not teaching by example. You know, and he says, what I want you to do, he says, I want you to do the commandments. I want you to live with them.

Amy Johnson  22:06 

Yeah.

Tamara Anderson  22:07 

And, and so should we move on? I'd love to dive into maybe at least this first principle. Are you okay with this?

Tamara Anderson  22:17 

 I'm great, yeah, go ahead.

Tamara Anderson  22:19 

In verse 21, He kind of dives into at least one of the the 10 commandments. He says, "Ye have heard that it was said by them of all time, Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of judgment." So that's one of the 10 commandments, right? And here's his I'm raising it up a level. He says, "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say unto his brother Raca shall be in danger of council. But whosoever shall say, Thou fool shall be in danger of hellfire." And so he's saying, before you've been taught don't kill, he said, Here, I'm raising it up a bit and saying, don't be angry. Ooh, you know that, that that is harder. We get angry.

Amy Johnson  23:16 

Much harder. And, and, and what's what's interesting, too, is I don't know, we, we take words and we make them mean what we want them to mean sometimes. Right? And so, but I keep what's interesting is I keep having this word destroy at the very beginning of what we've discussed, come back in my brain and I, I think this is kind of an interesting culmination in verse 21, that he says, I'm not a destroyer. I'm not a killer. I'm not angry. I'm not. I am a builder. I'm an uplifter. I'm an Enlightener. I'm an empowerer. I am all these things. I literally, my goal is to bring everyone to a higher level. Every word I speak is designed to lift.

Amy Johnson  24:18 

And that's where I think this 22 comes really into culmination here.

Tamara Anderson  24:23 

Oh, yeah.

Amy Johnson  24:24 

Because he not only says if you're angry, but then he says, Whosoever shall say just say Raca. This is really interesting, because I've been thinking a lot about words and how much they matter lately, and I had a woman Tell me about a study that was done where they learned that every word has a vibration. And that that that those vibrations when they and I haven't read the book that she talked about yet. But she talked about how they they put them in something in test tubes and they Cut it. But the vibration you could see when they froze it, it became either a beautiful crystal like, beautiful, or ugly,

Tamara Anderson  25:09 

really?

Amy Johnson  25:10 

and chaotic. And again, I haven't read the book. So I'm just going off what somebody else told me. But, but I'm really interested in this because I have watched, I have watched a person say to me in a beautiful tone, what if someone was overhearing they may not pick up on, but use words that were designed to cut. And I find this interesting. And so he's literally saying, Whosoever shall say to his brother Raka. And we don't we don't know what that really means. But years ago, a woman I was at a class and she said, Can't we just leave the language of Satan in the gutter Where it is from?

Amy Johnson  25:59 

And I've really been thinking about that. Like, maybe why why does the Lord talk about why does he pull out a word Raka? Which to us? We don't necessarily know what that means. If I was a scriptorium, and a historian, maybe I would really know what Raca meant to them back then. But we have our words like that, too.

Tamara Anderson  26:19 

Oh, yeah.

Amy Johnson  26:20 

And they're designed to cut and hurt and to offend. And not only offend people, but offend the Spirit. That's what they're designed to do. And I think in all of this, he literally is saying, I, I have given you the law to prepare you to recognize me. And now he's saying, I am now going to give a higher law that will prepare you to recognize and be on my side with me when I come again. So what are we doing with this now? What am I doing with this higher law?

Tamara Anderson  27:04 

Right,

Amy Johnson  27:04 

And am I choosing to avoid contention? Am I banishing contention from my life? Am I choosing to be a peacemaker? Am I saying hey, I, I will not battle with any one that I love, on purpose. And that that is that is what he's I believe that's what he's saying. Is it pains me when you contend. Please stop contending.

Tamara Anderson  27:35 

Yeah,

Amy Johnson  27:36 

Never make an excuse to contend.

Tamara Anderson  27:38 

Yeah, no. Yeah. And and what I love about this is that at least when I apply it to my own life, is that there's no way I'm going to do this on my own. I can only be not be angry or have my anger curbed when I invite Jesus in, and there's been times when I have felt super angry inside and I've had to take a mommy timeout.

Amy Johnson  28:05 

Absolutely.

Tamara Anderson  28:07 

Timeout from somebody else. It's an adult in my life. That's right. And, and I've had to just go to God in prayer and say, I feel so angry right now. And I don't want to feel this way. I want to feel love, I want to feel the peace that comes from God. Right? And, and so I almost have to take that anger and lay it at his feet and say, I don't want to feel this way. And I know you can help me change. I know you can help me change this anger. And help me see this problem from a point where I'm not approaching it from anger. That I approach it maybe as you would, Jesus, and helped me to see these people as you would.

Tamara Anderson  28:53 

And I'm not saying that if you've been abused or anything like that, you you, you know that you forget any of those things. It's important to have boundaries. But that that we can take our anger and lay it at the feet of the Savior and say, Take it, take it from me. And I've had that happen. But we have to be willing to approach him and say, take it I don't want this I don't want this feeling I don't want this group This intense feeling of anger, I need you to take it because I can't get rid of it wholly and completely on my own. You know, time will help you calm down.

Tamara Anderson  29:36 

But I don't know what it is about us women but we kind of tend to stew and replay that conversation in our mind and we get all worked up again. And and really he's the one that can help us calm down, solve the problem, and replace that anger with peace and probably with more clear thinking of, here's how I can approach this person who's angry, but they're angry because they're hurting. They say hurt people hurt people, right? So

Amy Johnson  30:10 

For sure. And And honestly, to with that Tamara, I think it's really important to acknowledge that he, I really love that he went further and said, Don't say things in anger. Because I think from someone who has stuffed their feelings, pretty adeptly for years, that's a really dangerous place to be because then your body starts to break down. And so I think what I really love that you said is do you have to take the anger. And to me, that means acknowledge it, feel it, go ahead and feel it. Yeah. But then take it to him and say, Now what?

Tamara Anderson  30:48 

Yeah,

Amy Johnson  30:48 

I've got this, but I don't want to call my person in my life, Raka.

Tamara Anderson  30:55 

Yeah.

Amy Johnson  30:56 

So what now what? And that's where he is so awesome. But I think we do have to take it, we have to feel it.

Tamara Anderson  31:05 

Yes,

Amy Johnson  31:06 

Because otherwise we do damage.

Tamara Anderson  31:08 

Yeah.

Amy Johnson  31:09 

If we, if we don't take it, it's our way of trying to protect our own heart. And when we protect our own heart, it becomes hard. But he's very good at protecting our heart and keeping it soft. And I think that's an I've had experience with that. And so I know that. Yeah. So I really love that. And we but we really need to take it and then take it to Him.

Tamara Anderson  31:33 

Yeah, absolutely. He's the one that can help us raise ourselves to the next higher level.

Amy Johnson  31:38 

That's Right.

Tamara Anderson  31:39 

And he can really help our anger. I've had some angry prayers, that God believe me.

Amy Johnson  31:43 

That's absolutely. And he's okay with that. Yeah. Yeah.

Tamara Anderson  31:46 

So you can take your anger to God and give it to him. You know, and, and, and he can help us get it out, and then move forward.

Amy Johnson  31:56 

His view is a lot bigger, and he sees the pain that's caused by us being here.

Tamara Anderson  32:00 

Yeah. Awesome. All right. Quick, 30 second biggest takeaway from today's discussion, Amy.

Amy Johnson  32:08 

I think for me, it really is about do I destroy? Or do I build? Yeah. For me, it really is. Do I destroy? Or do I build? What am I doing that builds when I leave? And we've heard this probably many times, at least I have in my life. When I leave, do I leave someone better? When I get up off my knees, I am always better, because he's a builder. He's not a destroyer.

Tamara Anderson  32:44 

Yeah, I love that. And I think my biggest takeaway, honestly, is we can emulate the commandments when we have Jesus by our side. Kind of like you were saying about what Tiffany taught us that me plus Jesus can be kind. Me plus Jesus can curb anger, me plus Jesus, and canbe that Peacemaker. Alone? Not so much. And to give ourselves that grace, that with him, we can do those things and become a better person. And it's just little tiny steps every day.

Tamara Anderson  33:27 

So nice. Awesome. Well, thank you for joining me this morning, you and thank you to all of our listeners for joining us this morning. We hope that you can find some peace and and encouragement as we dive through these teachings of Jesus Christ to help you take one step closer to Jesus, and that you can feel his peace today. So thanks for joining us.

Tamara Anderson  33:53 

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