Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 🥰 💥 💖 Join me today as I recount the horrifying and harrowing account, when I was leaving out of my domestic violence marriage. I got into that discussion when I was teaching on "Hearing from Jesus!" This tragic story poured out of my soul when I was talking about obeying all of Jesus' commandments, and I was highlighting when Jesus was talking about marriage and divorce, and what He said would be the only way for us to divorce in the eyes of God is, "except it be for fornication." But before that, I was exhorting and expounding on the Parable of the Sower and that how Jesus was saying that the reason why He taught in parables, was because outsiders could not understand nor hear what He was saying and doing. He was relating to the fact that because they can't hear from Him, then they won't be able to understand His commandments, ipso facto, if they not hearing from Jesus, then they are not going to hear that they need to REPENT and BELIEVE for the Kingdom of God is at hand! And so, by not hearing the message of Jesus Christ, they won't turn to Him for the forgiveness of their sins. And while I was getting into that lesson, which by the way, I never finished, LOL, and then it just led into the tragic story of when I was leaving, which is the most dangerous time to leave, my violent marriage at the hands of my abusive husband. So in summary of the lesson that I never finished LOL... A man's reception of God's Word is determined by the condition of his heart. If our heart is still dark, and our minds are still deluded, and if we are still in willful sin, we are NOT going to hear from Jesus. AND since we don't hear from Him, we are NOT going to obey what He says, because we're NOT tuning in and reading and studying what He has said in His Word about sin! And therefore, we will die and our sins, if we don't REPENT, BELIEVE that He died for our sins and turn back to God! Today is the day of salvation! We must be able to hear from Jesus in order to obey Jesus!