The Disease of Sin

Repentance is not about works, but about obedience. Shame and feeling inadequate stem from unforgiveness towards ourselves. Repentance involves forgiving ourselves, which leads to freedom from shame and sin. Forgiving others is also essential, as God requires us to forgive in order to receive forgiveness. Sin is a disease that mutates and affects us if we allow it to. Jesus is the Great Physician, bringing healing from sin. We, as Apostolics, should study sin in detail and understand its effects. Jesus wants mercy, not sacrifice. He reaches out to sinners and offers hope and a way out. We may have hidden physical diseases without knowing it, just as we can have hidden sin. We have the cure for sin and are meant to share it. Continuing in sin leads to a carnal man, someone who has repented but still allows sin in their life. If this process continues, it leads to a reprobate man, which we should avoid. It is repentance. It is repentance. Repentance is not works. Repentance is obedience. Obedience. Obedience. Yes? Yes. Yes. I understand your question. I've got an eager person back there wanting to answer it. What do you got? Exactly. And so the base of all of that is the fact that I haven't forgiven myself for whatever. That's the basis for shame. Shame is a grudge I hold against myself. I am lesser than whatever or I just don't measure up so I feel bad about myself and I'm just not good enough type of a thing. Those types of feelings. The basis for all of that is unforgiveness against ourself. And so as far as repentance goes, in that case, repentance would be I need to forgive myself. And once we forgive ourselves, the shame goes away. And when the shame is gone, then we don't keep sinning based on what that shame was producing in us. So does that answer your question? Okay. That's the way that goes. And so that's the, not only are we required to forgive others, and there is so much evidence, not evidence, but there is such a huge requirement of us forgiving others that God makes it a sin for us not to forgive others, but not only that, He requires us to forgive others and He bases our own forgiveness on the fact that we are forgiving others. Remember the Lord's Prayer? The Lord's Prayer? In the Lord's Prayer, the Lord says that I will forgive you to the extent that you are willing to forgive somebody else. And if we're not willing to forgive somebody else, their trespasses, the Bible says that God will not forgive us our trespasses after we have the blood of Jesus applied. Is it possible to be unforgiven with the blood of Jesus applied to us? If we haven't forgiven somebody else, yes it is. So we have a surprisingly shallow understanding. I'm talking about people in general. We have a surprisingly shallow understanding of this disease inside of us called sin. We don't really understand everything about it like we should. Now from the medical term, from the medical standpoint, when scientists are trying to study a disease to come up with a cure, they study that thing down to the nth detail and now they can do all of the DNA stuff because the human genome has been sequenced. And so they can look at that thing down to the strands that are connecting the DNA into the virus or into whatever disease process. They've got that thing down to where they can study that disease down to the minutest details because the human genome has been cracked. And they study that disease and the effects of that disease, whatever it is they're studying, as much as they possibly can in as much detail as they possibly can to come up with a cure. And they've come up with lots of cures. A lot of them have been accidental. What do you think the chances are of them discovering penicillin when it was a watermelon seed? Watermelon spore? Mold spore came floating through the window and landed in the Petri dish that was sitting on the desk. It was a huge random active chance, so to speak, as I've ever heard of for the discovery of penicillin. Penicillin, which was the first real antibiotic, was not discovered on purpose. It was a complete accident. In my opinion, it was a miracle. Because now antibiotics are here and we can fight off all kinds of infections that people used to die from. But in every single disease in the medical community, that thing is studied down to the nth detail. And you and I, as epistolics, I think we need to do the same thing with this disease called sin. We have been set free from it. We are dead from it, yet it still affects us if we allow it. Sin mutates more than any cancer or any virus ever thought of mutating inside of us. Now, here's what the Lord wants to get across to us today. Jesus is known by us as the Great Physician. Is he not? He is. We know that Jesus, we call him the Great Physician, and we usually use that title when somebody needs to be healed to remind people of what he's capable of. And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Jesus is the Great Physician. But remember in Hosea, when we read that Jesus wants mercy and not sacrifice. Let's see if I can find where I put this. Here it is. Turn to Matthew chapter 9, if you would please. Matthew chapter 9. Matthew chapter 9. Starting in verse 10. Verse 10. Pause there for a second. He didn't have to go chasing them down and inviting them to the event. They came and found him, which I found interesting. Verse 11. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, probably with their noses in the air, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go and learn what that meaneth. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. He quoted Hosea. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. What was Jesus doing there while he was eating with those publicans and sinners? And they all came flocking to him. What was he doing? Just eating? Uh-huh. He was talking to those folks. He was reaching out to them and he was telling them about the problem they had. You guys are doing wrong. You guys are sinning. There's a way out. He was the great physician bringing a cure and a light and a hope to those people that had no light and had no hope. He was called not to the righteous. He was called to bring sinners to what? Don't go and do that anymore. You're doing this. Don't do it anymore. He was bringing that knowledge and that message to the sinners of his day, eating and drinking with them. The Pharisees wouldn't touch one of those sinners with a ten-foot pole because their uncleanness might rub off on me. So I'm not going to go near to them. I'm not going to talk to them. I'm not going to touch them. I'm not going to have anything to do with them because I'm pure and I'm holy and I'm not going to mess with any of that unclean stuff. And so they criticized Jesus for doing exactly what they would never do. They criticized him. Your master is eating with publicans and sinners. They thought that was a bad thing. They thought that was a bad thing. Jesus reminded them that based on the Old Testament Scripture that you guys are supposed to be aware of, Mr. Pharisee, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. He was trying to cure the sin condition in the publicans and the sinners. That's what he was doing. He was being the great physician. Not in the area of physical healing. In the area of healing from sin. Healing from sin. Healing from sin. There's a lot of people walking around, and I know this because I am in the medical imaging field. There's a lot of people walking around with all kinds of things wrong with them that they don't have a clue about. I cannot tell you the number of times I have done CAT scans on people and discovered major things wrong with them for the first time that have been going on for a long time. There was one particular guy at the VA. Every time he would come in, for years and years and years, he would always find me and search me out and thank me for finding his kidney cancer. We found it just incidentally on a scan we did one day. He came in for something else, and he had a spot on his kidney. It was probably about that big or so of kidney cancer. And they took out just that section of the diseased kidney, and he came back year after year after year after year. He'd be doing either follow-up scans, or sometimes he'd just be walking down the hallway and he'd see me. And every time he saw me, it's like, thank you for finding that. I'm so grateful you did this. You saved my life. I'm hearing these things. I took his pictures. All I did was take his pictures. But he had that going on in his body for quite some time and never knew it. And we can have things disease-wise, physical disease-wise, that are going on with us that are affecting us that we don't know about. Infections are famous for this. And if I went in and had this problem, I'm just so tired, I'm just drunk all the time, and they discovered I had an infection in my body someplace and gave me the script for antibiotics, at that point, I'd be a fool not to take them because I've got the answer right in my hand. I don't know. I don't want those things. Continue being tired. Get drunk all worse. Let it get worse and worse and worse as it progresses. Or take the little pills and you're back to normal, whatever normal is. We have a new nature inside of us that the world does not know about. And if Jesus is the Great Physician, he has passed along the cure to us. Guess what we're supposed to do with it? Hide it. Just use it for ourselves. Obviously not. Here's the problem, and this is why we're not supposed to continue in sin, is because once we are saved, it can go two ways. It can go two ways. And most of us vacillate between these two things. We only let ourselves get so far before we go, I don't know. I've got to fix this. I've got to get back to God. And then it goes back the other direction again. But very quickly with the call chosen and faithful, it just brings this up by word picture so very well. The carnal man is somebody that has been baptized, filled with the Holy Ghost, they've repented of their sins, but they have allowed sins to come back into their life after they've repented. And that old tree that was cut down, from the stump of that old tree, the limbs start to grow up again. And that is called a carnal man. Somebody who has the Holy Ghost, but hasn't quit sinning in his life, either because he doesn't think so he has to, or just doesn't want to. And so without using the power of the Holy Ghost inside of us, the old stuff tends to creep back. And if we allow that process to continue, it goes to reprobate man. And that is someplace we do not want to get to. Because with the reprobate man, the Holy Ghost inside of us dies out, so to speak, as far as we feel it's influenced less and less and less. We have the Holy Ghost, but it can't really help us because we're not able to tap into it, don't really want to, the sins have come back, and we'd rather do that. You can't have the working of the Holy Ghost in our life and the working of sin in your life at the same time. The Bible says that the spirit lusts against the flesh, and the flesh lusts against the spirit. And those two are opposites of each other. And if you are going with the flesh, you will not be able to benefit from the Spirit of God inside of you. You won't be able to benefit. The power of God won't be there to help you if you are giving in and you are letting the flesh have its way. And that is the result. The Bible says that if a saved person goes back into sin, the punishment for them is going to be worse than if they had never been saved in the first place. And that's a path we don't want to go down. But it is one of the two paths that can be done by anybody once they have been set free of their sins, if they allow sin back into their life. This is why we read in Romans 6 where it says, should any man continue in sin that grace might abound, God forbid. That is why it says God forbid. There is a process that happens in the medical side of things with antibiotics. How many of you have ever had to take antibiotics for anything? Raise your hand if you've ever had to. I've had to too. Why do they tell you you need to finish the whole bottle? That's it. If you don't finish the entire course of antibiotics that the doctor gave you, not only does it not kill off the infection all of the way, but viruses are very smart and they mutate. And when they mutate, they mutate to become resistant to what was just fighting them. And so now not only do you still have the infection, but you've got an infection that is resistant to what the doctor just gave you to fight it off. And that antibiotic won't work anymore. And the reason why they've had to, I don't know, just for fun sometime, just do a little history on the development of antibiotics. Because, I mean if you're bored one night. The reason why they keep having to invent new and better and stronger and more powerful antibiotics is because of what I just talked about. If everybody throughout history that has ever been given antibiotics had finished the course from start to finish, all of those bugs would have been dead and none of them would have mutated to be resistant to that antibiotic. But because people don't listen and they take the pills until they start feeling better and then they stop, that infection now is breeding in those people and it gets passed on to somebody else and when they prescribe the penicillin, so just pulling one out of the air, it doesn't work for that one. Because that one became mutated because that person didn't finish their antibiotics and so that virus now has to have a different antibiotic to work on it. And they've got some antibiotics now, they've gotten so powerful with them that they literally will, if they like drop on your skin, will burn you. Not good. Well, sin is like that. This is why it says, God forbid that we should sin after we have God's grace upon us. Because when the sin comes back, when the sin comes back, the Holy Ghost inside of us, if we're in the sin, we're not dealing with the Holy Ghost and the sin becomes stronger and stronger and stronger when it comes back again. And the end result of that, of course, is back to this. With the Holy Ghost inside of us, dead, for all intents and purposes. That's the way it can go for the one thing. This is a person, reprobate man is a person who once was saved and now is lost again. This is the other way it can go and should go. The stump underneath us with the Holy Ghost, we keep cutting off the sins when they keep trying to come back, resisting the temptation, get rid of the temptation, living our life of repentance that we said we were going to do when we came to God. I am not going to do that anymore. We keep cutting off the stuff that tries to keep coming back because I'm not going to do that anymore. And when that process is finished and we keep cutting it off, we allow the Holy Ghost inside of us to grow and the Holy Ghost eventually becomes the size of the old tree and becomes stronger and stronger and stronger and sin has a tougher and tougher time getting a hold of us. Satan tries to feed us a line of goods, of course, of all kinds of things, but one of those things is regarding temptation. Temptation. Sometimes when temptations come to us, it takes a tremendous amount of willpower, so to speak, to not give in and commit the sin, particularly when we're under pressure. That's when we tend to give in the most. But every time you overcome a temptation, every time you overcome it, even in seemingly the smallest little area of your life, every time you overcome that, you are chopping off one of those branches and you are allowing the Holy Ghost to develop and to grow in you. That's what you're doing. The ramifications of it are far-reaching. They go far beyond what that little temptation is at the time, seemingly little. Whether it's, you know, if I was tempted to go back to my alcohol or whatever and had one beer. Well, that's just a small thing, I guess. I haven't done that, by the way. But if that sort of a thing, because it can happen with anybody that's had a vice, Satan is ultimately going to try to bring that back into your life somehow. Every time you chop off that temptation, every time you walk away from the whatever and you go, not doing that. It may have been a small thing right at that point, but you took one of those branches that was trying to come back from the old man and said, no, not doing it. And every little thing, every big thing in life is made up of a million little things. And so it is in the spiritual. Every time you say, not doing that, you are setting yourself on the course to become, from overcoming man to a spiritual man, spiritual person. Somebody that has a command in the Spirit. Somebody that can not give into temptation so much, because when they try, they're having to overcome this Holy Ghost inside of you that is so overwhelming and so powerful that the temptation is easily just flicked away. And this process and the blood of Jesus are not opposite of each other. This process and the blood of Jesus work together. They work together. It's not one or the other. They work together. Jesus cleanses us because of the blood of Jesus. We cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. And the two work together to produce that spiritual man. Amen. Let's raise our hands for a minute and just worship the Lord. Let's raise our hands and thank God for what He has done for us. And the power He has given us. He has given us the cure for sin. He has given us the cure for temptations. He has given us the cure. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. He has given us the cure, the cleansing from sin. And He has given us the power to overcome it when Satan tries to bring it back. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. You think about it. You have escaped the most awful, the most powerful disease that mankind has ever faced. And you sit here cleansed, forgiven, set free from the most horrible disease that has ever faced mankind. Sin is way worse a disease than cancer ever thought of being. Sin is worse than any infection that has ever infected a human body. Amen. It is worse than diabetes. It is worse than anything. It is literally worse than anything. It's worse than vessel disease where you don't have any blood flow. It is worse than back pain. Amen. It is worse than every other thing because of the negative consequences that come from sin. Amen. And the worst consequence of sin of all of them is the fact that it separates us from God. We do not want to be around God if we have sin in our life. They work opposite of each other. Amen. And so people have a disease inside of them that naturally makes them want to run from God. Everybody does. Everybody does. Haven't you wondered, haven't you ever wondered we start or somebody starts talking about God and the whole room gets uncomfortable? What you are seeing is the effect of the disease of sin that is inside of them. They don't want to hear about God. They're in sin. They're committing sin. They've become comfortable committing sin. They don't want to hear about God. It's like Adam and Eve. They're trying to run and hide from God just like Adam and Eve did because of the consequence of sin. Now, you don't have to raise your hand on this one, but I know all the hands would go up. How many of you have ever sinned since you came to God? Uh-huh. Right. All of us have. More horribly than we want to let on. It's there. Okay. When you were in the middle of all of that, did you want to pray? No. Didn't really feel like coming to church either, did you? All the spiritual stuff goes by the wayside when we're struggling with something from our past. Maybe a new thing. Maybe the devil slipped something new. Whatever the sin is, we don't want to be around God. We don't want to pray. We certainly don't want to be in God's presence because we know what's coming. Conviction. We know what's coming. And if we're in the middle of all of that, we really don't want to hear about it. That consequence lives in the saved and the unsaved. You and I have been given the cure for sin. That now makes us a great physician because we can present this to the lost. And we can tell them there is a cure for what is inside of you. There is a cure for what is inside of you. Every time you witness, every time you respond to a divine appointment and you talk to somebody, you are in the process of giving them God's cure for their sinful condition. It is no different than a doctor handing a sick person with an infection a bottle of antibiotics. He said, here, if you will just take these and see it all the way through, your condition will be taken care of. It will be healed. Jesus wants mercy and not sacrifice. He wants the world to simply obey and do what he has asked instead of coming back and saying, well, messed up, I'm sorry, messed up, I'm sorry, messed up, I'm sorry, messed up, I'm sorry. Those things are legitimate, but he would rather have us going through life and not sinning and not committing the sin. And he has given us the tools to do so. This world does not know there can be any difference than what they're living. This world does not understand. Most of the unsaved world, if they think of God at all, they think of him as the ultimate judge. They certainly don't think of him as a friend. They've heard that God is loving, but they really don't want anything to do with that. No thanks anyway. I'm fine. And he, the Lord, has given us the cure for the worst disease in human history. Because Jesus wants everybody to display mercy and not sacrifice. That's what he was doing when he was at meet and the publicans and the sinners came to him. They sensed something about him that was different from anybody else. It was certainly different from the Pharisees. He was willing to talk to them. And he was willing to help them. And he was willing to reach out. And they sensed that. And they knew that. And he had the cure for what their problem was. Amen. It makes you and I responsible. We've got the bottle of antibiotics. And this person walking by us is very infected. What are we willing to do for them? What are we willing to do for them? Amen. What are we willing to do? Verse Timothy, chapter 1, verse 15, says, This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. That means everybody needs to accept this statement. This is a true statement that the Lord wants everybody to accept. That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. That was the Apostle Paul writing. The Apostle Paul was writing that. And the Apostle Paul did not consider himself, well, I'm an apostle. I'm not that anymore. He counted himself not only as still one of the sinners, but as the chief one. If anybody offended, he felt like he offended more. If anybody sinned, he felt like he was worse than all of them. As an apostle. This is one of the things, when it comes to certain diseases, they can come back. They can come back. After you've had treatment, after you've been declared healthy and healed, some of them can come back. And so, with some of those diseases, you need to be ever vigilant and always sensitive to what is going on because you know there's a possibility this could come back and begin to affect me again. And sin is one of those diseases. Sin is a disease like that. Sin can come back. It's been cured. It's gone. The blood of Jesus still applies, but all of those branches keep trying to come up out of that stump. Come up out of the stump. Come up out of the stump. Come up out of the stump. And on our side of things, the cure for sin, you see, sin is not ultimately cured until we get to heaven. The glorified body that we're going to receive is the only body that is immune to sin, that cannot sin. Even Jesus, when he was on earth, the Bible says, was tempted in all points like as we are. He was tempted to sin. He just didn't do it. But he was tempted to. He felt the pull of that same thing that you and I face every single day. He was tempted in all points. In other words, you and I are never going to face a temptation that Jesus didn't already conquer in the flesh. That's impressive. That's impressive. And so he felt the pull of all of that himself and didn't give in. But you and I, until we get our glorified body, are going to still feel the pull of all of that. Satan is very active, he's very clever, and he knows which buttons to push in us, and he is trying to reinfect us. Amen. The blood of Jesus is there, but we're not ultimately cured from it until we get our glorified body and cannot sin any longer. That is what is going to make paradise, paradise. Before Adam and Eve sinned, was it possible? Before the snake came and introduced and got tempted and stuff, if that had never happened, they were going to live an entire lifetime and never die of purity and innocence. That's the way God created them. He created them literally as innocent as newborn babies and full adults. We can't conceive of that. We just can't. We don't know what that's like. There's no way for me to imagine what that's like. The closest probably I'll ever come is looking down at any one of my brand new babies, laying there, just innocent, never done anything wrong, never did or said anything sinful, never said a bad word, they couldn't even do anything but cry at that point, and they're just lying there so innocent and pure and you just want to grab them and hug them, which I did all the time. Sometimes I would be doing that and I'd have one of my children when they were just little and I would try to imagine what that condition would be if I could have that. And I was having a hard time. I was having a hard time because I understood that's what Adam and Eve had. They actually never thought any bad thing. They never stubbed their toe. Nothing happened. They never had to watch anything die because nothing had. And the whole world was literally as pure as like a new fallen snow, even purer. And that is what eternity is going to be again. And it is going to be that because we're all going to have glorified bodies that cannot sin. That cannot sin. We won't even be subject to any temptation if it was possible at that point because of the glorified body that we're going to have. But until we get our glorified body, we need to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. We need to cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen. To simply lean on the blood of Jesus and say I am cleansed and I am cleansed forever because of the blood of Jesus totally negates your responsibility and the scriptures that indicate your responsibility for keeping yourself pure and holy and godly because God has a part and you have a part. And they're both clearly laid out in scripture and both of them work together. It's not a one or the other situation. Amen. Amen. Amen. This condition of sin inside of us, this condition of sin inside of us, we have the cure. We know how to deal with it. We know how to take it out. We know what to do so it doesn't come back. Amen. We forgive God. We forgive others. We forgive ourselves. And we use the power of the Holy Ghost then after that for all of the external temptations which come. Amen. The power of the Holy Ghost inside of us. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's noon and I feel to quit today but next week I am going to do part two of this and that part two is going to cover the shame side of why we do what we do. I want to take the time. I could talk about it now but we're done for today. But Brother Mark was spot on when he brought that up earlier because we hear about the power of the Holy Ghost. We have the Holy Ghost inside of us. We can talk in tongues and yet there's still something inside of us which makes us keep doing this one thing or these couple of things and we can't seem to get away from it. The Lord wants to help us with that and I'm going to dedicate next Sunday for that because when we do forgive ourselves for offenses, perceived wrongs, our own shortcomings or what we think our own shortcomings when we can truly let that go that releases the Holy Ghost inside of us to do its work. Amen. And at that point the Holy Ghost can be that power inside of us which helps us to walk away from sin and walk away from temptation. It's a real thing. It's a real thing. When I harbor bitterness against myself when I consider myself as a failure of some kind in my own mind in some area that leaves me vulnerable to temptation even with the blood of Jesus even with my own willpower. I don't want to do this. I don't want to keep doing this. I want to get away from this and yet we do it over and over and over again. Even the Apostle Paul experienced that. That is a shame-based thing and shame is an open door in your spirit to demonic influence. That's why it seems like well, this whole thing isn't working for me. Well, I think after next Sunday it will. In the meantime between now and next Sunday what I want you to do and you can spend as much or as little time with it as you think you need to but I want you to do a little self-evaluation between now and next Sunday and try to identify the areas in your life which you consider yourself a failure or not as good as or whatever. You've fallen short somehow and you hold that against yourself. Identify those areas throughout this week knowing that it's going to be taken care of next Sunday. You're identifying the problem areas so that the Lord can fix those things. That's what's going on because those things sometimes need deliverance. That's what deliverance is for. Shame is a deliverance ministry. Casting out devils is a deliverance ministry. The deliverance ministry is based... it's nothing fancy. All it is is a deliverance comes when we're doing our best but we're failing in some areas and the Lord sees, well, he's doing his best but he's failing in some areas so I'm going to deliver him that so he can do what his heart wants to do. Amen. Sometimes we need some supernatural help to just walk with God like we should and that's what the deliverance ministry is for and that is what next Sunday is going to be all about. Today was just kind of a prerequisite I guess and next week is going to be that. Don't worry. You do not have to confess one single thing openly. I used to worry about this when I was sitting there. I don't want to hear your dirty laundry and I'm not going to show you mine. And none of that is necessary. The Lord is going to help us. He's going to help us and you can be set free. You don't have to hold the stuff against yourself that you currently are. Shame is a recurring type of a thing. I describe it many times as like peeling an onion. It just goes by layers and sometimes we just need to peel back the next layer so the Lord can use us more or we can just simply live for God like we want to. Every time there is deliverance from shame we are better able to walk with God and we discover power and love that we had not felt before. Amen. And so be thinking about those things between now and next Sunday and we'll come back and the Lord is going to do some fantastic things. Amen. So I'll stand today. Just worship God one more time. Let's raise our hands. And love Him. He has given us so many tools at our disposal to not just live for Him ourselves but to share this gospel with somebody else. This world needs to understand that these things are available not just for us but for them as well. They can walk out of that life that they're bound by so many things and they don't have to be. In Jesus' name we have the control, Lord God. We have the cure that You have given us. We can control what we do. We can control these things in us with Your help. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Help us to identify the problem areas, Lord God. Help us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Help us, Lord God, that the blood of Jesus Christ will be active and powerful in our life and we'll be aware of it, Lord God. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Praise God. Praise God. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Very good. Well, I will see you all Wednesday, I guess. And we do have prayer next Saturday as well. We didn't have prayer yesterday because it's every two weeks. And so we'll see you Wednesday and then we'll have prayer the following Saturday and then church on Sunday and we'll continue on. Yep. Your spiritual plan for the week is laid out.