The Sting of the Hidden Hornet [Part 1]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright there can be something that is really hurting you, but you don't want to let all we been trained her whole life to not let on to that inward pain. Instead, we we cover it up and we high that they will tell anybody about it until it is bad enough. Make sure you know how to get our special source right now to be yours for your donation this month to Helen right ministries that you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer.

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Now let's get started with today's teaching here. Alan writing listing of the hidden hornet and there's a reason why we call it the which will be share with you in just a moment we been learning about what shame is, we been learning about just how possible it is that grace the gospel and replace all the lives of shame. We've been learning about the power of confession and forgiveness and not letting any Bitterroot spring up in our heart that would defile many and I'm excited in the session that were going to be able to really dig in and give some visuals of how shame gets built and how it gets torn down I have with me my beautiful wonderful wife and and a welcome sitting next to me because I want to tell the story of of of of the hidden hornet. I want to tell the story, but I know you can tell it way better than I we had been in our church that we are serving our first church. It would been surveying and I wanted to be. You know I wanted to be the perfect pastor I wanted to I wanted to be there for everybody and I had drug you out once again to a funeral not of a member but of members brother and Was I so want to build a minister to this fellow. He had been kind of well you remember we had, distant light and he was a little bit of a porcupine and we gone to the we've gone to the cemetery, was a hot day and I wanted to jumpstart the story here to say that we been standing over the grave side.

I was in officiating. We just gone hot daypart a long way away stood next to the great side and I just prayed is hoping that I get a moment with this.

This parishioner was call him Sam and that's what get a moment was Sam just to be a pastor to him and this is his brother had died and we go over next to this Oaktree to stand under the shade and were standing there under the shade and for the first time Sam begins to open up with me a little bit and he says yeah that was my does the last of my brothers begin open up his heart and I look over at you and all I can say is that you had a very odd look on your face and you began to well you began to crouch and wince and I thought you had to go the bathroom and I was like, what am I dealing with here I finally get a breakthrough moment in my life is over here distracted and that's what I was seeing and you say that I might've given you, shaming look, but I was just I was just wanting this to go well and okay we got a tell it fast, pick up the story from their lives also committed.

We were young we started history as the senior pastor very small church announced pastor's wife ever support my husband said we were at the committal service was over 100° in unison to carry throughout the country and there's not a tree in sight for miles and miles and we were thinking we had we had gotten have to preface we had gotten up against the tent where the actual casket lies in the family and it was that rush of people to get in the shade of that week we couldn't quite reach a lot of people come for this service and said we should send that labor could also we can hear the little pastor and he is very quiet until we were listening and the people behind us and people around us.

When this thrall people we were leaning forward to listen. I could feel the sweat dripping down my back felt something on my legs and I managed to look again own and real straight days were scriptural a bit longer and had a slit up the straight skirt and heels and I was standing right on top of already and we were all rushed so weak we mean needs to do about this, and not enough that I felt sick. You were now as a way from the ranting.

So for the rest of the committal.

I just thought our pastor went on and on our ever turned to leave and Alan said look when you give me just a moment with this man, who is our congregation and his wife and said we went and we were.

We stood with him. From then and in both of them were flanking me and he will look at Alan he was across from me.

I was just thinking crawling all beer up the great pastor and tested in this went on for a couple minutes and thinking to feel very communicate as well as you know you can't meet with the luck that the couple were looking down I worked looking at me worse got worse and I realized that just for life and the pursuit of happiness whole what I thought was a colony of red ants that were setting himself up just reached back and grabbed hold of my skirt with a slit live hold it up to about waist just reached down and I just grabbed everything that I could get hold of it.

Just like allowing know how to make appropriate apology.

Even car about to let go. This thing is very car and I was so thankful I've never been this before we got in the car he was a little left out blue is a good thing in the area that is the story of the being of the hidden hornet you love sorry that I did not have more compassion on you that day when there really was something that was stinking you write will have more teaching from today's series to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of injection rolled her eyes. Last no more anxious feeling that you feel like the pressure is always on longing for life with no shame in paradise before sin came into the world tells us on this relationship notion ever since the fall has been riddled with shame you can't be truly stoppable and condescending, so I'll try to be perfect in order to meet others to decide who listens on the measure at them as lover.

Now the heart is pleasing shame and there's only the grace of God in Jesus Christ. We cleaned look for yourself yourself exposes the lies of shame. He leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom joy as you shall performance be spreading shame on you for good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself yourself. The gospel is shared when you get Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support.

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We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out.org please teaching your will is I don't think I gave her such a shaming look his body, how it is in life where you know if that's a that's a good picture how there can be something that is really hurting you, but you don't want to let all we been trained her whole life to not let on to that inward pain. Instead, we we cover it up, and we hide that pain. We don't tell anybody about it until just about enough and sometimes so the staying in the soul was just bad enough that we realize I can't keep covering this. My uncle Stanley who is in heaven now, but he was so wonderful. Pastor's whole life and and he was first one gave me the image of so many people. It's like they are in the water and they got all these beach balls are trying to keep them under the water. All of these problems, we don't want anybody to know about all of these circumstances, all of the term. All of us.

Whatever it might be and it's exhausting and want us to learn in this session about how the stronghold of shame can get built and how it can come down you notice in the opening part of Genesis that here God is made. Paradise is made, a man and woman in his own image is delighted in them and they are delighted in God likes perfect. There's no sin and wonder about Adam and Eve's relationship to his wonder what they do with their time. How long did they have before sin entered the world was time, even the same as it is always questions these things fascinate me, but I really wonder about their dear but was the relationship like what they say to each other how they talk to each other what was a relationship like what was marriage like in paradise and interestingly, as God would have it in his word. There's only one verse that tells us anything about the actual relationship.

It's Genesis chapter 2 and its verse 25 and it says the man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed.

Only thing that we know about our relationship in paradise is that there was no shame. It is a delicious thought and and if you've ever experienced a moment where there was just no shame maybe there was a moment in which you were absolutely percent loved and accepted. Nobody seem to be expecting anything of you it's I don't know. Maybe a moment like I think that the honeymoon and I love honeymoon I would because of your married love your life, and she loves me. I love her and go off on a honeymoon and and nobody's nobody expects you to do anything on him. You know that Isaac calls don't suspect you to call them back with your honeymoon. Get out the invites expecting anything of you and I thought this is delicious but when we're pulling it. I never stated a fancy hotel and tools will honeymoon and were pulling and I don't ever had valet parking is on any know how to hand off the keys to the guy right you know I'm him just like him at all and he looked down at menus like honeymooners and I felt ashamed that you know I wasn't more sophisticated and maybe even in the midst of all that, it seems like but if you could just get a moment where you you you taste of what it's like to be to be free, totally free of shame. If you've ever experienced that it is his heaven to be really really loved to be really really accepted it is. It's absolutely heavenly and that's what I when he'd had they had all the time. The only thing we know about a marriage in paradise is they were naked and the notion and then you know the story sooner. Sin enters into the world. What happens is that in verse eight of chapter 3.

They heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden of the cool of the day and the man his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among all the trees of the garden Lord God called Amanda said where are you wasn't because the sovereign omniscient Lord didn't know where they were. It was because he was highlighting through his question the fact the silliness of them trying to hide but they were hiding. I heard the sound of you. Adam said, and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself and he said, who told you you were naked.

Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, and the man said the woman you gave to be with me. She gave me fruit of the tree and I ate so the only thing we know about a relationship before sin entered the world, is it that they were naked and they knew no shame in the first thing we learned about a relationship after sin of the world is that they became ashamed. And with that, shame came fear and with that fear. They began to cover themselves up and then immediately Adam started becoming blaming and trying to shift all of the shame because you see if you if you become aware. If you suddenly become self-conscious and you feel exposed, then your instinct is to just cover up close up and and ole buddy see you left the story my friend and mentor Dudley. Paul has told about the old days, where sometimes there were churches that had that the baptismal pool like under the platform and they would just move pulp and stuff out of the way when it came time for the baptisms and then they open up the pool and they just stepped in there they would baptize people in the pool right under the platform and oftentimes they just have some curtains that were set up on the side of the platform were the baptismal candidates could go in they could change their clothes and come either close and put on a baptismal down and be baptized, but in one instance, one evening at this little little church. It came time moves woman was being baptized and while she was being baptized. It was a man he is behind the curtain he was changing his clothes and as the woman was getting out of the pool. She reached up and she grabbed hold of the of the pole, the curtain that was hanging on and when she did she pulled down the curtain accidentally and there and all his nakedness to this man who was ready to put on his gown to be baptized and all he could do was he saw there was a chair so just grab this chair and hid behind it like this was some wise deacon ran the back of the room, cut out lights so that was dark and they just left the lights out for what seemed to be an eternity, you know, to give the guy plenty of time to get out of there, get his gal argues close on or something finally went seem safely cut the light back on and there was the man still behind the chair.

I suppose it is never new when the light would come back on you know that if the chairs all you got a hold chair all that's that's when Adam and Eve they felt.

He suddenly felt like that. Winston came to into the world and the Lord is so gracious right there in the opening chapters of Genesis. When you begin to see is that though sin is, the world of though shame has come into the world was the Lord do does he say where you're just going to have to just stand there all of your nakedness and just feel the weight of the shame what he does instead. Instead the text says that the Lord makes make clothing out of skins for them.

They had make clothing for themselves out of some kind of leaves are somewhat, but the Lord in the first sacrifice the first blood offering the Lord let blood be shed so that clothing could be made so that their shame could be covered never forget this. The Lord has from the beginning intended through blood to cover Allen right today's teaching good news. The sting of the hidden hornet. It's from the series for yourself. Be yourself with a little help from his wife had Pastor Alan is coming up. You're just a moment in the studio with a parting good news thought on this. Stick with this perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of injection rolled her eyes in front of you. I love you less anxious feeling that you feel like the pressure is always on longing for life notion in paradise before sin came into the world's relationship notion since the fall has been camping to send out tiny perfect in order to meet to decide to measure at them as well.

Right now it is pleasing shame and there's only grace of God in Jesus Christ.

We cleaned look for yourself yourself exposes the shame he leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom joy as you shall performance-based rating shame a few from good life-changing full-length book from Allen right for yourself. The gospel is shared when you get Allen right ministries.

This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I banks from Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out.org Pastor Alan and what a delightful story and a great sermon illustration better but was well. We laugh and always let you know I think God brings things into our lives, just so will have a good sermon illustration later, but especially in life. My sweet wife. I do Daniel. You know already know their story.

After Lori of crazy and unusual things and exciting things in marbles and a plus.

She distills it better than everyone but I leave our listeners with this you may not have ever had a hornet of yours but have you ever felt an inward sting that you felt like you just didn't want to tell anybody about will maybe it's time to tell somebody. Maybe it's time to find somebody you really trust and say my soul has been strong and I feel ashamed and I need to talk to someone about it because I can't keep it hidden anymore. You don't have to wait until the pain is so bad you can do it now find somebody and somehow you trust who understands the grace of God and share with them. Pray together and watch the healing begin. We have in the past.

Daniel Beard messages on the radio that were from the original series that I preach. Originally called shame off you, but much more recently we put this into a conference format and just a setting that I love where we have maybe 30 people that are learning and growing through all these messages about healing from shame and a we just thought this would be fantastic teaching to error on the radio and share with all of our listeners is if you were in the room with us know the group with 30 or so people. What I would say is the most liberating truths I've ever discovered.

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