June 3, 2026

DAY 47: Has Your Heart REALLY Changed?

DAY 47:  Has Your Heart REALLY Changed?

Day 47 - Has Your Heart Really Changed? Genesis 44 How do you know if someone has really changed? Not because they cried. Not because they felt bad. Not because enough time passed. You know when the same test comes back, the same door opens, and this time they choose a different path. Genesis 44 brings Joseph’s brothers face to face with the old wound. Benjamin is in danger. Judah steps forward. And the question becomes painfully clear: Is this regret, or is this real repentance? This episode...

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Day 47 - Has Your Heart Really Changed?

Genesis 44

How do you know if someone has really changed?

Not because they cried.

Not because they felt bad.

Not because enough time passed.

You know when the same test comes back, the same door opens, and this time they choose a different path.

Genesis 44 brings Joseph’s brothers face to face with the old wound. Benjamin is in danger. Judah steps forward. And the question becomes painfully clear:

Is this regret, or is this real repentance?

This episode is for anyone asking whether their heart has actually changed, and whether they’re ready to choose differently when the old pattern returns.

Question for your heart:

Where is God giving you another chance to choose differently than you did before?

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Good morning. So how do you know? I mean, it had it had to have happened in your life. At some point or another. It had to happen in your life where you had to know if somebody really changed. Or if they were just playing at it. How do you know if they really changed? Because they cried. They they made a big deal out of feeling bad. And they said all the right words. And you know what? Not because enough time has passed. How do you know? How do you know if someone has really changed? You know when the same kind of test comes back, the same kind of door opens, the same kind of temptation stands right there, right in front of you. And this time, they choose a different path. This time, you choose a different path. Genesis 44 brings us to one of the most powerful moments in Joseph's story. And let's be honest, his story is incredible. Joseph creates a test. He's so smart. Benjamin is placed in danger. The brothers face a challenge and a choice. Will they abandon Rachel's son again? Good morning, good morning. Will they? Will they abandon Rachel's son again? Again? Will they protect themselves again? Will they go home and let their father be crushed again? Or has something actually changed? Has something actually changed this time? I'm Dr. Sean. This is True Word Faith for Life. We are going through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. This is the series that we're in. Before we go any further, my book True Word Faith for Life is available at the store at TruewordFaithforLife.com. It was I wrote it to help you stop surviving on religious gameplay. Start walking in the truth of God's Word, the actual God's Word, with courage and clarity and faith for your real life. So here's here's the I guess the question, one of the questions I'm going to ask you more. Let's be honest. We know that I will. Let this resonate. I want to write it down. Where is God giving you? Right there. Another chance to choose differently than you did before. Where is God giving you another chance to choose differently than you did before? Good morning, all. Good morning, the live chat. Good morning to all of you listening all across all the platforms. On Rumble, True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, S-H-A-W-N. On YouTube, uh TrueWord Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, S H A W N. And all of the other locations we are streaming to live and then on Playback Podcast. If it's a podcast, I'm on it. If it's a platform, I'm on it. So if you listen to that, listen later. If not, TrueWordfaithforLife.com, you go there and you can search the episodes and boom, there's a recording right there. Audio only. Thank God you know. So Genesis 44. Oof. It follows the meal in Joseph's house. The brothers have eaten with Joseph. They still don't know who he is. Now, we don't know how he pulled this off. We don't know. But it's years have passed, by the way. They still don't know who he is. Benjamin has been honored. Like I have new glasses. Maybe, you know, they needed glasses and you know, in that one. I don't know. Thank you to the VA for taking such good care of me and Atlantic Vision. Uh wow, they're the best. So the the brothers have eaten, had a meal with Joseph. It just blows my mind. They don't. How do they not know? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, how do they not know? Benjamin has been honored. The brothers have received kindness and generosity. They've been treated with generosity all the way across the board. But the deeper question still hasn't been answered. Are these men different? Yes, they're his brothers, but they're also the same brothers. Threw them in a pit, sold them into slavery. Are they different? Or are they the same? Just dressing up their words. We all know people. Who run into this uh a lot with drug addiction, especially uh, you know, Ivy uh drug addiction is um poof brutal. And you hear you hear the lies a lot, you know, accountability, everything, everything runs down to accountability. And you know, so the thing is is we all know people like that. And maybe at a certain time in our life, maybe we we were like that. And people were wondering, did he really change? Does that guy really change? I see that guy on YouTube. This guy did a book signing. I know that guy. I know him from high school, I know him from Navy Days, I know him this, I know him that. I know him when. I know her when. You could be the one looking at someone and making that assessment, or you could be the one being doubted. And sometimes you're the one who's doubting yourself. So that's the wound underneath this chapter. Years earlier, they had a chance to protect Joseph, and they didn't. They didn't. They stripped him, they threw him in a pit, they sold him, they dipped his robe in blood, and they let their father drown in grief for years. Then they then they lived with this massive lie. Destroyed the house. By the way, in chat, uh, I see you there with your question. Uh, was Jesus black, white, or brown? I'm curious. Why do you ask? I think I know. This this massive lie. Pause one second. Why does everything have to come down to race? First of all, none of us, I don't think any of us think he's white. If you've listened to what I do for five minutes, there's a person in comments trying to drag me into some racial conversation about Jesus, just so they can say, well, well, he did say, if he's white, which he spelled white wrong, that's not my God. Well, if it all comes down to race like that, good lands, good luck. Hope you never have to have a white doctor. You know? Hope you're never in a crash and the trauma surgeon who's gonna save your life as a white guy. Come on, don't be a racist. What a way to live. What a way to live. It's weakness, it's living in weakness and perpetual aggrievement. It's sta it's just sad. Oh, I'm gonna ignore it altogether. It's just stupid. Stupid. Just how about listening and releasing yourself from your racism and just focus on the content. Learn. Learn and grow and mature. So they this is the thing. They they lived. The brothers lived in this household with their dad. And there was this massive lie, and it was destroying the house, every little bit of it. I can't imagine. Now, yet another son of Rachel is vulnerable. Right? Remember Benjamin. He's the other son of Rachel. Joseph is gone. I mean, this is crazy times. And this time it's Benjamin, Rachel's other son, and he's like, what? The favored son, the beloved son. The son Jacob cannot bear to lose. Joseph needs to know what's really in his brother's hearts. What's in their intent? Not what they say. Talk is cheap. Come on. Talk is cheap. That's just a bunch of lip smacking. Not what you say. Where's your heart? Where's your intent? Where is what you do? Really? And it doesn't even come down to not how afraid they are. They're not okay. So they're afraid of all kinds of things. We ought to feel a little bit of fear once in a while. Everybody ought to. Not how religious they sound, right? Lots of words. Lots of words. We say lots of words. How's the sound, by the way? I don't even I forgot to ask. Music too loud, music too low. Listen, it's easy to sound religious. It's easy to come up with a bunch of religious sounding words and tie them together. Postmodern Western evangelical Christianity has, man, it's a whole book of phrases and catchphrases and buzzwords and buzzphrases. Religiosity is easy to put on. Thank you, Nicole. Good morning. I know it's early, early morning. Four in the morning, she gets up. Unreal. God bless you. God bless you all. You know, I pray for all of you before, right before this. I pray for all of you. Thank you, Miss Colleen. It's easy to sound religious. Good morning, Miss Sharon. Good morning, good morning, good morning. People can talk about God. The talk, I guess you would say. It's not whether they can talk about God when life gets hard. What will they do when protecting Benjamin cost them? I mean really cost them. Potentially their lives. That's the test. It could cost them their household. They needed something. They needed something bad. It was called food. God bless you, David. Golden Eagle 61, 714 p.m. in the Philippines. Welcome. Welcome. Good to have you. So we know now what the tests are. Test for is it real? Some of the tests. I mean, maybe some of us. Look, I've been tested. People tested me. That guy's not for real. Come on. There's lots of instances in my life where is this the same guy? They'll do that with you. If you place your faith in Christ and you follow him, they're gonna do that with you. And many of them are probably your family, your friends, the people you're close with. So let's go to the text. Why not? Joseph commands his steward to fill his brother's sacks with food and return each man's money. Then he gives one more instruction. His silver cup is to be placed in Benjamin's sack. The brothers leave. Then Joseph sends the steward after them. The accusation comes. The search begins. The cup is found with Benjamin. And now the test has arrived. This Joseph is brilliant. This is the moment where everything slows down. The brothers, they could, at this point, they could abandon Benjamin because they knew death was coming. That you steal from the from the uh the household? Come on. Death was coming for them. They could have easily said, well, he did it. He stole it. Benjamin, we knew it all along. He was a thief. Dad, dad fooled. They could say that. They could distance themselves. They could back up off of him. They could protect themselves. They could go home without him. And then they could repeat the old pattern with a new brother. And what do you think would have happened if they'd have done that? The story wouldn't have shown that nothing had changed. Nothing really changed. But they don't do that. They don't do that. They tear their clothes and they return to the city. All of them, that phrase matters. What a difference. A little bit of time makes. Years earlier, Joseph was alone in the pit. He was all alone. But this time, Benjamin won't be left alone in Egypt. He won't be left alone. They're not leaving Benjamin alone. Not another brother. They're not doing it. Years earlier, Judah helped create a plan that sent Joseph away. Right? Wanted to kill him and they talked him down off that ledge and then threw him in a pit. Sent him off, took his robe, soaked it and killed an innocent goat, soaked it in the goat blood and took it home. Oh, he was younger. You know. All because they were jealous. Ever been jealous? Jealous of somebody else's wealth. Jealous of. Straight up. Hey Robbie. Hello, Saeed Nassim. Hello. So this is time that same guy. Remember, I told you I punched that guy in the face. Back then, I would have punched him right in his face if I'd have gotten the opportunity. He was just a bad, bad dude. But this time Judah steps forward to help Benjamin from being lost. This isn't some sort of small detail that doesn't really matter. This is evidence of transformation because he knows. He knows. He knows who he is and was. He knows. This is evidence of transformation and and the people around him. His brothers probably went, what? So Judah speaks to Joseph. He doesn't pretend everything is fine. That's what we do sometimes, right? We pretend stuff is fine when it's not fine. How are you doing? Fine. Really? Miss Colin yells at me all the time about that. Stop telling people you're fine when they ask you how you're doing. You're not fine. You're very, very much not fine. I'm working on that. Look, he he doesn't pretend, Judah doesn't pretend everything's fine. He doesn't act like they're innocent in some deeper sense. No, he he knows God's uncovered something, something deep in them. But then he tells the story. Then he tells the story. He speaks of their father. He speaks of Jacob's grief. He speaks of the bond between Jacob and Benjamin. He speaks of the pain that would crush his father if Benjamin doesn't return. And then Judah does something stunning. I feel bad now for wanting to punch the guy in the face. He did bad things, and that warranted consequences. Then he did something that absolutely, when I when I read it, I think that when I was old enough to know something, he offers himself in Benjamin's place. This is what the text says. Please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my Lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. This isn't the same Judah we we saw and wanted to punch in the face in Genesis 37. This isn't the man standing by while Joseph is sold. This is Judah willing to become a servant so that the beloved son can go free. What about your life? What about the life you're living right now? Right where you're sitting right now, this is where Genesis 44 cuts real deep. Because many people confuse regret with repentance. So I repent. No. Regret says, I hate what happened to me. Repentance says I hate what my sin did before God. Regret says, I'm sorry I got exposed. And repentance says, I want to walk in the light. Regret says, I don't want consequences. But repentance says I don't want to keep becoming this kind of person. Yeah, regret can cry and sound spiritual and make all kinds of promises. Regret can feel intense. There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. But repentance chooses differently when that old temptation returns. Anybody? Anyone there? Anyone dealing with that? Anybody dealing with temptation, that old thing, a thing that the enemy knows what your weakness is. And just when you've been strong, you've been doing well, just when that has happened, boom, there it is again. And the question is, repentance is what do you choose when how do you choose? Do you choose differently? When that old temptation, that old opportunity, when that you know, person that just see him, you get butterflies, you get nervous. What happens when that person that gets in front of you and what happens when that old situation rolls around? What happens then? That's when repentance is repentance. Regret. Yeah, it's a big show. See, that's the test. Can you choose differently when nobody's forcing you? Can you tell the truth when lying would still work? For now? Keep you out of the fire for now? Can you protect the person you once would have sacrificed at great cost to you? Would you do that? Can you take responsibility instead of blame shifting? Yeah, I I you know, yeah, okay, I did this, but the reason I did was I'm I'm responsible. I'm sorry. Well, but but but they but the reason why is because you know the reason I stole was because I'm poor, or the reason I I cheated is because I'm unhappy, or the reason I did drugs is because you know, no, no, no. No blame shifting. The reason I did this wrong thing to you. The reason I lied to you, the reason I I tricked you, the reason I manipulated you. No, no, no. No blame shifting. Can you take responsibility instead of shifting blame? Can you stay? That's a hard one. Can you stay when running away would have been easier? Can you stay? The heat is on. Be a lot easier to run away. Be a lot easier to run away. The question is, can you stay? And that's the tricky thing. Because you're facing facing the truth. Can you lose something? Tough one here. Some of you are there right now. Can you lose something that's so important to you? So that someone else can be made whole. And there'll be no big applause. There'll be no big crowd going, oh, you know, Sean has turned into this great magnanimous person. No, no crowd. This isn't cheap change. This is not cheap change. This is costly repentance. Some of us want to be called. We want to be called changed before we actually have surrendered. We want credit for emotion, right? Well, I felt bad. I cried in everything. We want credit for intention. Well, I wanted to do it. I I want to change. We want credit because we feel bad. We want people to move on quickly. Man, oh man, move on. Why do I have to hear about this over and over and over and over and over? Just move on. Yes, I did it. I did the bad thing. I've apologized. Move on. We want people to move on quickly because we're tired of hearing about what we did and facing up to what we did. We have very little patience when that bad thing is put in front of our face. We did it. We did it. But look, Genesis 44 won't let us make repentance that shallow. Real change shows up at the point of decision. The brothers once come home without Rachel's son. They did that. They did that. But now they choose to go home whole. They've refused to go home without Benjamin. That's change. It's not perfect change. It's not finished change. It's not polished change. It's but it's real change. So for you today, right where you are, right where you sit, what does faithfulness look like in Genesis 44 for you? First, identify the test that's come back around. Look, you know what your weakness is. Do you know what your weakness is? Could be food, could be sex, could be alcohol, substances. Could be any number of things. Lying, laziness, anger. Because that's what happens in this chapter. The brothers find themselves standing in front of the same kind of choice that destroyed them years before. And most of us do too. Right? The same anger, the same secret, the same temptation, the same avoidance, the same excuse, the same fear, the same need to control anybody? The same instinct to protect yourself at someone else's expense. God bless you, Miss Aaron. You're the nicest person I know. It is it's difficult when someone confides in me, swears me to secrecy, but I want to address the issue, but I haven't. But yet I've promised not to. I leave it with Yeshua and pray that I have the strength to walk away and trust. Amen. Boy, that's a super hard one. Oi. It's one of the greatest joys is looking back and seeing how this is what Nicole wrote. The smartest audience. It's one of the greatest joys. Looking back and seeing how God's transformed me helps me move forward. With strength and courage and stay focused on God refined in the fire. Amen. Amen. Oh man. How about the same, the same instinct to protect yourself at someone else's expense? It's a different day. Different circumstance, but it's the same door. It's the same door. Don't explain it away. Don't rename it. Don't soften it. Don't bury it under spiritual sounding churchy bumper sticker theology language. Call it what it is. Because you'll never stop walking through that door until you're honest about which door it is. Listen. You can't change what you don't acknowledge. It's a fact. It's a fact. Whatever that thing is, whatever that temptation is, you cannot change what you don't acknowledge. Don't be mad at me. I've been, I've been there. Where I had to face the door. What's the temptation? What's the weakness? What's the secret? And I'll be there again, I'm sure. Here's number two. There's a bunch of these, but here's number two. Do the opposite act of obedience. If you used to lie, tell the truth. In that moment where you're tempted to lie, tell the truth. If you used to run, if you're a runner, stay present. Stay in the batter's box. If you used to blame, if you used to shift, well, take responsibility. And if you used to hide, hiding is just as wrong, folks. If you used to hide, step into the light. Step into the light. If you used to protect yourself at someone else's expense, protect them even if it costs you. That's where visible repentance. That's where it happens. That's where repentance becomes visible. Not in the speech. Not in the speech. Not in the tears. That's where repentance becomes visible. It's not in the words. It's not even in the tears, and and it's not in the bazillions of promises we make. But but but this time. It's in the obedience. Here's number three. Stop demanding trust without fruit. Come on, y'all. Come on, y'all. We're better than that. We're smarter than that. Look, this matters. If you hurt someone, they may need to see consistent faithfulness over time. Come on, somebody. I don't, but I don't want to. I already said I was sorry. Sometimes if you really, really hurt someone, by sometimes I mean every time, they're gonna need to see consistent faithfulness over time, accountability. That's not persecution, that's not cruelty, that's not them being unforgiven. Unforgiving. That's wisdom. Judah doesn't just say, trust me, I'm different. Trust me. He acts differently when it costs them. He acts differently. He does differently. He obeys differently when it costs them something, potentially his life. That's what real repentance does. It stops demanding instant restoration and starts bearing faithful fruit. That's the hard part, isn't it? Fourth. Ask where God is inviting you into self-giving love. No, you're not the savior. Let's clear that up. You're not the savior. You haven't gone from you haven't gone from this to this. That's not you, it's not me. But if you belong to Yeshua, Jesus, you are called to lay down your life in real ways. Real ways. Your pride, your comfort, your excuse, your control, your image, your demand to be seen as the victim in every story. You're the perpetually aggrieved. Sometimes repentance looks like saying, let the cost fall on me so someone else doesn't have to keep carrying what I broke. That's hard. That's hard. Wearing the cost. I did this. That was me. I did it. Yeah, Robbie, I'd love to hear your story. You should send it to me at true wordfaith for life.com slash contact. It's up at the top, a little button. I'd love to hear it. I'd be honored if you'd share it with me. Look, that's that's hard. Look, I I I did this. I was wrong. Straight up. I gotta bear the cost here. Because I don't want those other people to have to carry all the brokenness that I that I caused. Well that's hard. But it's holy. How many of you've been in that place and you just couldn't make it happen. You knew you were wrong. You knew you were the cause. You knew it. And you just couldn't do it. You couldn't do it. You were you were on the edge of saying, I did this. This is me. And I can't let you I can't let you wear the pain the pain jacket one more day. I can't do it. I did it wrong. This was me. I did this. How many of you? Have any of you been in that place? It's gonna come down on me and I don't I don't know what to do. It's gonna come down on me and and and and it's gonna cost me. I mean, I know what to do. I know the right thing to do is to say, I did this. You're in that moment of decision. I can say, man, I don't know. I don't know if I can do it. My life has finally settled a little bit. It's it's it's finally it's finally chilled out, it's finally mellowed out, it's finally moved. I got, you know, I can afford to live and and all these different things. And then there are some of you. Some of us. I've been in these places, both of these. You're standing there and you're looking at the situation. You caused it, you know you did. You know what you need to do, and finally you do it. You humble yourself, you go to the people that you harmed and you say, Hey, I just I need to tell you this. Maybe they didn't even know. They didn't know it was you. That's hard, but it's holy. If you want your life to change, you have to stand in that space and you have to say, I am not going to turn away from that door this time. I'm not doing it. Judah's offer is one of the greatest moments in the entire book of Genesis. It's one of the greatest moments in Genesis. He offers himself in place of Benjamin. I will go instead of my brother. And he knows for sure he's gonna die if he does. And look, I don't want to paint Judah to be a prince just yet. He's still a sinner, so am I. Judah is still a man being changed by mercy, so am I. Judah is still part of a family story filled with wounds, so is mine. Judah is still part of a family story filled with deception, grief, and grace. So is mine. And yet, Yeshua, he's the greater Judah. Don't you see the connection here? Yeshua is the greater Judah. He doesn't merely offer himself for one brother. He doesn't just do that, although that is big, especially for Judah, let's be honest. We've been in that place. Which decision did we make? There's nothing easy about it. He doesn't merely, Yeshua Jesus Christ doesn't only offer himself for one brother. He gives himself for all of us sinners. He stands in the place of the guilty, me. He bears the cost, none of which he wrought on himself. He carries the judgment. He lays down his life so others can go free. Genesis 44 gives us the shadow. The cross gives us substance. Judah says, Let me remain instead of the boy. Yeshua says, I lay down my life for the sheep. Judah offers himself because Benjamin is in danger. Yeshua offers himself while we are still sinners. That, my friends, is love with a capital L. That's the love that breaks me down in worship, in tears, and puts me on my knees. That is mercy. Mercy I cannot comprehend. And that, my friends, is the heart of this gospel. I have for you today a challenge and a choice. The challenge today is this: stop measuring repentance by just how bad you feel. Stop measuring it by whether you obey a little bit. A tiny bit, or you want to, your intent. No, no, no. Start measuring it by whether you obey differently when the test returns. Don't ask. Oh, did I cry? Ask, did I tell the truth? Don't ask. Did I feel convicted? Am I bearing the fruit that matches repentance? Well, do you Am I bearing the fruit that matches repentance? Here's the choice. Well, you keep repeating the old pattern with new people. You lied over here and so you moved on over here. You destroyed over here, so you moved on over here, and you said, Look, when I go, God, if you give me a break, I'm I'm not. I'm not going to do that again. And then you do. Will you keep repeating the old pattern with new people? Or will you let God make you different at the point of decision? Come on. Will you protect yourself again? Or this time? For the first time? Will you take responsibility for your actions? Will you demand to be trusted? No, no, no. You gotta trust me. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of hearing about it, how bad I did, and this, that, and the other. And yes, if you're on the other side of it, you can't beat the person up. But you have every right to be fearful. You have every right to be afraid to trust. Accountability and all of those things. Those are all very real things. But if you're the person that did it, no. You have no right. No right. No right to to you you live you're the person that you have no right to demand to be trusted. No, you will trust me. Really? Because I trusted you with this, this, this, and this. And you destroyed me. You embarrassed me. You lied to me. Will you do that? Or will you bear the fruit of repentance? Humility? When are you gonna be humble? Today, you and God. Ask God this question. Where am I standing at the same door again? Here I am. I'm back at the same temptation. I'm back at the same weakness. I'm back at the same preference. I'm back at the same, I want, I want, I want, I want. I want that. I'm back at that same door that if I do this again, I'm gonna crush people. Ask God that question. Where am I standing at that same door again? Then choose differently. Sounds so pedantic to put it that way, but it's true. Choose differently. Tell the truth. Stay present. I hear this all the time on uh drug addiction, and I've dealt with a lot of drug addiction uh professionally, and I can tell you, I hear this all the time. I'm I I want I don't want to be, you know, getting high, but I can't help it. Addiction is strong, it's real. You don't want to go through the sickness, you don't want to go through the pain, you don't want to go through the craving, you don't want to go through the sweating and the severe, terrible flu, and you also don't you don't want to go through not having what you want. And it's that way with every addiction. Choose differently. Suffer the pain, tell the truth, stay present. Protect the vulnerable. Who might that vulnerable be? Who who who might that be? I'd be your your family. I'd be your family. Do you care about them? They were they were mean to me. They didn't talk nice to me all the time. Blame shifting. I don't want it now. You definitely tell the truth. When it's easy to lie again. Stay present. Don't run away again. Protect the vulnerable. Don't hurt them. Protect them. Take responsibility, bear the cost, walk in the light. That is repentance with skin on it. Prayer isn't asking for an easy journey. It's asking for a strong back. Pray with me. Father, show us where the old test has returned. Show us where we've confused regret with repentance. Make us people who choose differently because your mercy has changed us. Teach us to take responsibility without self-hatred. Teach us to bear fruit without performance. Teach us to stop demanding trust and start walking faithfully. Teach us to protect the vulnerable, to tell the truth and to walk in the light. Thank you for Yeshua. The greater Judah who stood in our place and gave himself for all of us in Yeshua's name. Amen. Maybe today you realize you need more than a behavioral change, a behavior adjustment, an attitude adjustment. You need a new heart. And this is where you come home. Yeshua stood in the place of sinners. He wasn't a sinner. He wasn't wrong. He did no wrong ever. But he died for us. He was buried and he rose again. He is the true substitute, the faithful King, and the Savior who can make you new. You don't have to clean yourself up first. You don't. Just come to him honestly. Come to Jesus honestly. If you're ready to turn from sin and trust him. Pray this from your heart. I mean it. Pray this from your heart. Father, I know I've sinned. And I need your mercy. I believe Jesus died for me. I believe he was buried and he rose again. Today I turn from my sin and I place my trust in him as my Lord and my King. Forgive me. Make me new and fill me with your spirit. From this day forward, I want to follow you. In Yeshua's name. Amen. If you prayed that prayer today, whatever day it is you may be listening on playback, and you prayed that prayer, you said, Man, it's time. Welcome to the family of God. You don't have to figure all this out by yourself. It's it's tricky stuff. Reach out to me at true wordfaithforlife.com slash contact. Hit the little button at the top or the little voice thing on the side. I will personally connect with you. I'll help you take your next step. You're not alone. Just reach out, take the step. I'll help you. Listen, in this chapter, the same door opened. The old pattern waited. The familiar escape was right there. But this time, that guy wanted to punch in his face in Genesis 37. Now all of a sudden, Genesis 44, all of a sudden, years passed. This time, Judah stayed. This time he stepped forward. This time he offered himself. And that is what mercy can do. Don't just, look, it doesn't just forgive the past. Forms a different future. If this helped you, send it to someone who's trying to walk in real repentance. Come on, send the episode to them. Share it. Just share the link. Maybe put it out on social media, on your social media reach. You never know. I'm telling you, you never know. I have people contact me all the time. Hey, I heard this or I heard that. It's not me. It's God. Believe me, it's not me. Tomorrow morning we're going to get after it, and it's going to be tricky. Don't say you weren't warned. Tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. Until then. May Alunai bless you and keep you. May Adunai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Alunai lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Shalom Bishem Yeshua, Vashalom Alaikum. This has been True Word Faith for Life with Dr. John. For more teachings, go to TrueWordfaith4Life.com. They're all free. Till tomorrow at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Shalom, shalom.