Simple Simmons Bible Study "Last Letter Before Hate Crime"

Biblical Warning of False Witness

0:02 Speaker 1: Before it floods.

0:04 Speaker 1: It rains Drop by drop.

0:07 Speaker 1: The clouds fill the thunder, billows and roars.

0:12 Speaker 1: The waters fall to suffocate the truth.

0:17 Speaker 1: Prosecutor Jason Simmons strikes like lightning.

0:21 Speaker 1: King County Courts smother the truth.

0:26 Speaker 1: Welcome to Judge Lori K Smith's courtroom.

0:30 Speaker 1: Before the storm was the last letter of Jezebel, a false witness who pours out lies and stirs up dissension.

0:39 Speaker 1: Proverbs 619.

0:42 Speaker 1: Proverbs 6.19 the Consider Podcast Examining today's wisdom, folly and madness wwwconsiderinfo.

Athena's Last Letter Introduction

1:04 Speaker 2: Last letter of Athena Dean Holtz Addressed to Timothy Williams.

1:09 Speaker 2: Athena Dean is married to Mr Holtz, her fourth marriage to ex-pastor Ron Holtz of the Summit Church of Enumclaw Washington.

1:21 Speaker 2: Last Letter of Athena Dean Holtz before multi-level marketing of hatred and lies, addressed to Timothy Williams.

1:32 Speaker 2: Fourth marriage to Pastor Ron Holtz of the Summit Church Redemption Press, enumclaw Washington.

1:42 Speaker 3: October 25, 2011.

1:44 Speaker 3: Dear Timothy, I cannot blame you for ignoring my calls, as I am no different than the boy who cried wolf, like Mike said last night.

1:53 Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.

1:55 Speaker 3: We've been here before and it never went anywhere.

1:58 Speaker 3: I am determined that this time will be different.

2:01 Speaker 3: On Sunday night, after Mike admonished me, I begged God to let me feel the pain I have caused you and Carla, malcolm, jan, mike and James, the tax oversight committee, not to mention Tim Noreen, whom I completely destroyed.

2:15 Speaker 3: He is answering that prayer and the pain that I have caused you to endure is horrible.

2:20 Speaker 3: I finally get the post you put on the boards about how nice I am, while stabbing you in the back.

Confession of Manipulation and Lies

2:28 Speaker 3: I am so easily flattered by those who write lovely words about me, but the truth is those people don't really know me.

2:34 Speaker 3: They don't live with me, so it's easy for them to have positive things to say about me.

2:39 Speaker 3: They've never crossed me, stood up to me or pointed out my sin.

2:44 Speaker 3: They've never crossed me, stood up to me or pointed out my sin, so, of course, all they see is my good side.

2:51 Speaker 3: The truth is, I've destroyed every close relationship I've ever had in my life because I'm a bully, a manipulator, a liar, a user and completely arrogant.

2:59 Speaker 3: No wonder I've always gravitated to business and excelled there, because I never have to get close enough to people for them to see the real me.

3:06 Speaker 3: I am truly no better than a man who calls himself a Christian and is well-respected by all, who secretly beats his wife and kids at home behind closed doors.

3:17 Speaker 3: You and Malcolm warned me when I shredded my journals that if I did not fill myself up with the Word and the Holy Spirit, then I'd have seven times the demons coming back to fill up the empty space in my heart.

Biblical References to Sin

3:30 Speaker 3: Instead of filling myself up with good, I filled myself with bitterness, resentment and arrogance, and I flattered myself too much to detect and hate my sin.

3:40 Speaker 3: Job 36.13.

3:42 Speaker 3: The godless in heart harbor resentment.

3:45 Speaker 3: Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

3:48 Speaker 3: Amos 5.7-10.

3:50 Speaker 3: You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

3:55 Speaker 3: He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land the Lord is his name.

4:07 Speaker 3: He flashes destruction on the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.

4:12 Speaker 3: You hate the one who reproves in court and despise him who tells the truth, instead of holding on to Jesus' commands and obeying them.

4:21 Speaker 3: I played the fool and have been overcome by these sins.

4:24 Speaker 3: Proverbs 3.11.

4:26 Speaker 3: My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent His rebuke.

4:32 Speaker 3: Ephesians 4.31.

4:33 Speaker 3: Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice, instead of obeying.

4:41 Speaker 3: Romans 11.20, and being afraid instead of arrogant.

4:43 Speaker 3: I became like Romans 1.28-32.

4:47 Speaker 3: Romans 1.28-31.

4:51 Speaker 3: Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done.

4:59 Speaker 3: They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.

5:05 Speaker 3: They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.

5:10 Speaker 3: They are gossips, slanderers, god-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful.

5:16 Speaker 3: They invent ways of doing evil.

5:19 Speaker 3: They disobey their parents.

5:21 Speaker 3: They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

5:25 Speaker 3: For months I have allowed my broken relationship with you and Carla, malcolm, jan, mike and James and the rest of the body persist.

Plea for Reconciliation

5:34 Speaker 3: So what is the point of my prayers If I will not obey, leave my gift at the altar and be reconciled with my brother?

5:42 Speaker 3: He will not hear my prayers for a job, a soft heart or an obedient spirit, as I am in rebellion.

5:49 Speaker 3: As I pray for an obedient heart, I have stabbed you in the back repeatedly.

5:53 Speaker 3: Every time you rebuke me, in my heart I grow more and more bitter and rage against the you, the Lord, proverbs 19.3.

6:03 Speaker 3: A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the Lord.

6:08 Speaker 3: This is my pattern and the way I avoid the pain of the cross.

6:11 Speaker 3: If I harden my heart and blame you for my condition, I won't have to feel the pain of all my rebellion, pride, bitterness, resentment, betrayal, lies and self-love.

6:23 Speaker 3: I do not want to stay this way.

6:24 Speaker 3: I must face up to the truth now or there is no hope for me and I do not expect to be able to fellowship with you and Carla, as it will take a long time to prove myself faithful and worthy of such fellowship.

6:36 Speaker 3: But I must make it right Somehow.

6:39 Speaker 3: I'm not sure how, but I must at least be restored to you as my father in the Lord.

6:45 Speaker 3: You were an answer to my prayers 12 years ago and instead of treating you as such, I have treated you as if you were a curse.

6:51 Speaker 3: I have hated you in my heart, the one and only earthly father in my life, who has loved me enough to stand up to me.

6:59 Speaker 3: Please accept my confession of my sins against you.

7:03 Speaker 3: I am deeply grieved over all the pain I've caused you and Carla.

7:06 Speaker 3: I intend for this sorrow that I feel to lead to true repentance.

7:10 Speaker 3: Athena.

Prosecutor Simmons and Injustice

7:13 Speaker 1: Simple Simmons Prosecutor Bible Study Lesson Seattle Washington, king County Courts no one calls for justice, no one pleads his case with integrity.

7:25 Speaker 1: They rely on empty arguments and speak lies.

7:29 Speaker 1: They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

7:34 Speaker 1: They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web.

7:38 Speaker 1: Their thoughts are evil thoughts.

7:41 Speaker 1: Ruin and destruction mark their ways.

7:45 Speaker 1: The way of peace they do not know there is no justice in their paths.

7:50 Speaker 1: They have turned them into crooked roads.

7:53 Speaker 1: All is darkness.

7:56 Speaker 1: We walk in deep shadows.

7:59 Speaker 1: Isaiah 59, 4-9.

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