Fear of Man: What Is It?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Rogue Christian

Episode: Fear of Man: What Is It?

Host: Jeff Mesker
Date: July 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the concept known as “the fear of man”—sometimes called people-pleasing or, in psychological terms, codependency. Host Jeff Mesker explores what the fear of man means from a biblical perspective, how it manifests in daily life, the spiritual dangers it poses, and how believers can shift from seeking human approval to seeking the approval of God. Using personal stories, Scripture, and insights from Christian leaders like John Piper and Lou Priolo, Jeff challenges listeners to examine their own motivations and to pursue transformation through God’s truth.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Defining the Fear of Man

• People-Pleasing and Codependency

  • Jeff and a guest (“Pastor”) note that in the world, this is called codependency, enabling, or being a “yes man” ([02:27 - 02:41]).
  • Jeff: “You’ll do almost anything to get accepted by people.” ([02:50])

• Biblical Framing: The “Fear of Man”

  • “Fear of man” is used in Scripture to describe this approval-seeking tendency ([00:27], [02:22]).
  • It is “the snare of man’s approval...from people pleaser to God pleaser” ([02:22 - 02:24]).

2. The Personal Struggle and Testimony

• Jeff shares his own journey with fear of man in his ministry and personal life ([00:36 - 01:11]).
  • Seeking approval from management and coworkers, desiring acceptance in various roles ([00:54 - 01:06], [09:34 - 11:51]).
  • God’s process of breaking that pattern to re-center him on pleasing God, not people ([01:06], [11:42 - 11:51]).

3. Theological and Practical Insights

• John Piper’s Christian Hedonism

  • Piper believes “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him” ([03:37]).
  • The power to break fear of man is “the power of a superior pleasure” in God ([03:55]).
  • “We are bound to the fear of man because the approval and acceptance of people feel more satisfying, safe, and real than the promises of God.” ([03:58], [04:07])
  • The ultimate goal is God’s glory, and fearing man distracts from this highest calling ([04:32 - 05:12]).
  • Notable quote:

    “You need to go from the lesser to the greater. So stop thinking that the lesser is the greater.”
    — Jeff, summarizing Piper ([05:47 - 05:54])

• Lou Priolo: The Bondage of People Pleasing

  • Priolo describes people-pleasing as “practical and illogical bondage…slavery to the many” ([06:09 - 06:25]).
  • “Inordinate people pleasing…enslaves them to every man they desire to please.” ([06:25])
  • Christians must “perform on the stage of one…God is the sole audience” ([06:40]).
  • Notable quote:

    “Trying to please thousands of different people is an impossible, exhausting, and self-defeating task.”
    — Jeff, summarizing Priolo ([07:06 - 07:31])

4. The Scriptural Foundation

• Proverbs 29:25

  • “The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.” ([07:40])
  • Jeff explains a snare is a trap we set for ourselves by caring “what all of you think about me more than what God [thinks]” ([08:16 - 08:37]).

• The True Motivation: Who Are You Pleasing?

  • “If we’re striving to please man, we’re no longer following after Christ.” ([13:02 – 13:39], paraphrasing Galatians 1:10)
  • “The fear of man is idolatry.” ([12:37])
  • Choosing human approval over God’s is an act of self-worship ([12:23 - 12:32]).

• Romans 1:25

  • Warns against exchanging the truth for a lie and “worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator.” ([16:58 – 17:11])

5. Practical Application and Heart Posture

• Motivation Check

  • Are your actions aimed at being liked or accepted, or are you honoring God? ([13:56 - 14:33])
  • Jesus often avoided arguments when they weren’t fruitful, showing discernment in relationships ([14:33 - 14:56]).

• Pride and Blame

  • It’s easy to blame God or others for our discomfort instead of dealing with our own pride ([16:22 - 16:49]).
  • Genuine repentance and acceptance of God’s grace are essential ([17:11 - 18:21]).

• Identity in Christ

  • When you worry about others’ opinions, you “grant their opinion a status that belongs only to God: the power to define your identity, safety, or worth.” ([18:38 - 18:56])
  • “Let your value be found only in God...Only in Christ.” ([18:56 - 19:12])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We are bound to the fear of man because the approval and acceptance of people feel more satisfying, safe, and real than the promises of God.”
  — John Piper via Jeff ([03:58 - 04:07])

• “Trying to please thousands of different people is an impossible, exhausting, and self-defeating task.”
  — Lou Priolo via Jeff ([07:06 - 07:31])

• “You want to be accepted all the time. So you’ll do almost anything to get accepted by people.”
  — Jeff ([02:48 - 02:50])

• “The diagnosis: the fear of man is idolatry.”
  — Jeff ([12:37])

• “If we’re striving to please man, we’re no longer following after Christ.”
  — Jeff ([13:39])

• “When you worry about what others think, you are granting their opinion a status that belongs only to God: the power to define your identity, safety, or worth.”
  — Jeff ([18:38 - 18:56])

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Key Timestamps

• 00:27 — Introduction to the “fear of man” vs. codependency
• 00:36 – 01:11 — Jeff’s personal struggle with fear of man
• 03:09 – 05:12 — John Piper’s view on fear of man
• 06:02 – 07:38 — Lou Priolo’s perspective on people-pleasing as bondage
• 07:40 – 08:37 — Proverbs 29:25: The fear of man as a snare
• 12:37 – 13:39 — Diagnosis: fear of man is idolatry
• 13:56 – 14:33 — Checking your motivation: pleasing God or man
• 16:22 – 16:49 — The role of pride in blame and repentance
• 18:38 – 19:12 — Reflection: Whose opinion defines your worth?

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Conclusion & Reflection

Jeff closes by urging listeners to recognize the trap of seeking acceptance from others, to repent where needed, and to allow their value and identity to be rooted solely in God’s love and truth. The episode is both an exhortation and a practical guide to moving from people-pleasing and the fear of man to true spiritual freedom in Christ.

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Final Reflection Quote:

“Let your value be found only in God, guys. Only in Christ. As those who are filled with the Spirit, know who it is that fills you. It is the Spirit of God.” ([18:56 - 19:16])

Transcript

[Jeff]

Learn a little bit. Maybe, maybe not want to learn about this type of thing. We're going to talk about people pleasing fear of man, or if you really want to call it from the psychological

[Pastor]

perspective, you know, codependency. Okay. I mean, that's what most people probably would think of if we started talking about this, like on the street or something. They'll think of codependency and. But we're going with the biblical terms,

[Jeff]

which is fear of man. Okay, so how many of you guys

[Pastor]

know what the fear of man is? Okay. And who. You got it.

[Jeff]

Okay. You're like, it's Gene. Yeah. The fear of man is something that, that I struggled with for. For a fair. For a fair portion of my life, even when I started working at the mission, and probably only until maybe a couple years ago, maybe three or four, but still, it was something that I

[Pastor]

dealt with a lot. I wanted the approval of the people in management so that they would, you

[Jeff]

know, look at me in a certain way or think about me in a certain way. Now, I don't live for that stuff. Right.

[Pastor]

God.

[Jeff]

God broke that. Now do other times where things like

[Pastor]

that can come up? Absolutely.

[Jeff]

You know, you know, that's part of

[Pastor]

the frailty of humanity.

[Jeff]

You know, where we do still fall, even. Even as believers, right.

[Pastor]

We know that we can fail, but that's why when we do, we run

[Jeff]

to God instead of away from God.

[Pastor]

Okay?

[Jeff]

So it's how.

[Pastor]

So comes down to having the right view of God. Okay?

[Jeff]

So before we go any deeper, let's

[Pastor]

turn to the Lord and pray.

[Jeff]

Father, we just pray that we'd all lean into that transformation, into the sanctification,

[Pastor]

Lord, that the counselor, the great counselor, the Holy Spirit brings.

[Jeff]

And Lord, I pray in this time, this morning that you would reveal to us the things that you want us

[Pastor]

to learn, how you want to convict

[Jeff]

us and how you want to change

[Pastor]

us from maybe a wrong mindset to a right one. So, Lord, transform and renew our minds in these areas, Lord.

[Jeff]

Help us to confess any areas that we are, are holding on to and

[Pastor]

not wanting to repent of. Lord.

[Jeff]

And Father, I pray that you use me to speak this morning.

[Pastor]

Lord, Let the words be your words and not my own. Lord, rightly divided word of truth.

[Jeff]

I just thank you for this message

[Pastor]

and this devotion, time.

[Jeff]

Lord, we give all to you, Father,

[Pastor]

we pray these things in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen.

[Jeff]

All right, so the snare of man's

[Pastor]

approval from people pleaser to God pleaser.

[Jeff]

Okay, so people pleaser is the other

[Pastor]

simpler Term from the psychological understanding. Okay, so what is a people pleaser? Anybody know what is a codependent?

[Jeff]

Okay, a yes man enabler.

[Pastor]

Right.

[Jeff]

Always wanting to. Right, so somebody who's wanting to be accepted.

[Pastor]

Right? You want to be accepted all the time.

[Jeff]

So you'll do almost anything to get accepted by people. Okay, so before we jump into what I have here, I want to look at what, a couple of notable names. You don't have this paper.

[Pastor]

I didn't want to give you guys too much, but a couple notable names.

[Jeff]

Who's ever heard of John Piper?

[Pastor]

Okay, a few people.

[Jeff]

Okay, so John Piper is a pastor,

[Pastor]

an author, a theologian, okay.

[Jeff]

And he has this to say about

[Pastor]

the fear of man and people pleasing.

[Jeff]

Okay, so John Piper consistently addresses the

[Pastor]

fear of man within his theological framework of Christian hedonism. I'm not 100 sure what Christian hedonism is. Do you. Do you have an definition? Huh?

[Jeff]

Okay, good. I didn't have a chance to look it up. The belief that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. The power of a superior pleasure. Piper argues that the fear of man, like any other sin, is broken by

[Pastor]

the power of a superior pleasure in God.

[Jeff]

We are bound to the fear of man because the approval and acceptance of people fear feel more satisfying, safe and

[Pastor]

real than the promises of God. Can anybody resonate with that? Yeah.

[Jeff]

Right? Because it's here and now. You can. It's. It's tangible, Right? And you can see that person giving

[Pastor]

you approval or accepting you in some way. So, you know, you would be like,

[Jeff]

yeah, I want that because I like the now.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

Because we. We feel like we're not experiencing God in the now.

[Pastor]

Okay.

[Jeff]

He also says the goal is God's glory.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

That's the goal. For Piper, the ultimate problem with fearing man is that it distracts us from our highest calling, enjoying and glorifying God. The fear of man is a competing devotion that must be replaced by a greater desire for praise from God. Okay, so you're replacing the lesser with the greater, right, because the acceptance of people and the praise of people is lesser.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

We want God.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

We should want God.

[Pastor]

We should want to glorify God and

[Jeff]

for him to one day look at us and go, well done, good and faithful servant.

[Pastor]

Enter into my rest that I have prepared for you. Right?

[Jeff]

So we want God to be the one that we. We're receiving that.

[Pastor]

That from that acceptance from. Right?

[Jeff]

And it is in his grace through. Through faith in Christ that we can

[Pastor]

actually receive that acceptance. Right. Because when you're in Christ, you become an heir and child of God, right?

[Jeff]

Before that you're an image bearer of

[Pastor]

God, but you are not a child of.

[Jeff]

So John Piper, I mean he's, he's got a great understanding here, right?

[Pastor]

That you need to go from the

[Jeff]

lesser to the greater. So stop thinking that the lesser is the greater.

[Pastor]

And then,

[Jeff]

and one other guy, his name is Lou Priolo, he's a biblical counselor.

[Pastor]

He's.

[Jeff]

I believe he may have passed away recently, but he's.

[Pastor]

This is what it, what, what he's gotten.

[Jeff]

Okay, so Lou Priolo, another prominent biblical counselor and author, emphasizes the practicing the practical and illogical bondage that people pleasing creates.

[Pastor]

Right? It's a bondage. It's interesting to think, huh?

[Jeff]

Slavery to the many. Priollo highlights the sheer futility of sin, stating that inordinate people pleasing brings a person into bondage by enslaving them every. Enslaving them to every man they desire to please. Okay, so your desires are wrong. You have a desire problem in this, right? Okay, so the audience of one. Hey. He counsels that Christians must perform on the stage of one. God is the sole audience, right? God is the one that we are living for and who we are looking to in everything. At least that's how it's supposed to be.

[Pastor]

All right?

[Jeff]

But sin has distorted that. Hey, trying to please thousands of different people is an impossible, exhausting and self defeating task. You guys ever feel like that? Like, man, I'm trying so hard to be accepted and I am just tired, right? I'm like worn out because I've been working so hard to get these people to, to just love me and care for me.

[Pastor]

Oh.

[Jeff]

And it's just comes from a wrong and inordinate thinking of who God is beyond, right?

[Pastor]

You're looking at God is not sufficient.

[Jeff]

So in Proverbs 29, 25, okay? And in the ESV it says the fear of man lays a snare. But whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. Here in the legacy standard it says trembling before man brings a snare. But he who trusts in Yahweh will be set securely on high. So the fear of man is a snare, right? What's a snare? Right? It's a trap. It's a thing that gets set, set for like that people use to hunt and they'll trap their prey, right? And then they'll come and they'll take

[Pastor]

it and do whatever they're going to do with it.

[Jeff]

Okay, so we are laying a trap for Ourselves. Pretty interesting, right? To think that I'm laying a trap for myself and I'm going to willingly

[Pastor]

step right into it and be caught up in something that I shouldn't be caught up in. Right? Right.

[Jeff]

I'm going to be caught up in caring what all of you think about

[Pastor]

me more than what God. Right.

[Jeff]

We don't come up here to perform for you. Right. We're not like some monkey trying to gain. Gain something from you.

[Pastor]

That's not why we come up and do this.

[Jeff]

That's not why we work for, for a ministry.

[Pastor]

Right.

[Jeff]

We don't do it for accolades. We don't do it to look good to other people. Sure. People recognize you at times. They go, hey, wait a minute. I saw you in one of those, those Rescue Mission commercials or I saw you on, on YouTube or you were on like the, the Instagram for, hey, that the Mission's hiring and I saw your picture.

[Pastor]

It's like, cool. Do you want to come work today?

[Jeff]

You know, like, we don't do it for all those things. We don't work in the New Life program because we want to be accepted by other people. It's because God has called us into a ministry that we never thought we

[Pastor]

would probably be a part of. Right.

[Jeff]

When I was growing up, I thought I was going to be in youth ministry. I know there's several of you in here right now.

[Pastor]

You want to be in youth ministry.

[Jeff]

So that's what I pursued.

[Pastor]

Right.

[Jeff]

I gained schooling and stuff in that.

[Pastor]

Oh.

[Jeff]

And then never used it.

[Pastor]

Right. I did security for 13 years and worked at a church for 10 years,

[Jeff]

but on the facilities team.

[Pastor]

Okay.

[Jeff]

So, you know, it's like, like, okay, God, what are you doing? What are you doing with all this? Why am I working in, in this instead of that? It's like, because that wasn't the plan. It's great.

[Pastor]

You got, you got learned. You learned stuff in it, but that wasn't the plan.

[Jeff]

Like, you went ahead of me and you wanted to please the people at your church who were, were trying to tell you that you're going to do something in ministry. You wanted to please your wife. You wanted to do this, you wanted to do that. But it wasn't about glorifying me. It was about yourself. I was like, thank God we put

[Pastor]

the gloves back on, you know?

[Jeff]

And then I remember just when we decided that we were going to move to Idaho, going, man, what am I

[Pastor]

going to do there?

[Jeff]

I had no idea. For a month, a month I looked for a job. I applied at Hundreds of places. Only two called me back. One was a trailer place and one was the mission. Had no clue. No clue. I was like, ah, maybe the Lord's going to put me in some sort

[Pastor]

of ministry where I'm preaching to people

[Jeff]

and I'm getting to be up front and be the. Be a pastor somewhere, blah, blah.

[Pastor]

It ought to be great. But again, that came from a point of wanting to be accepted because people love pastors, right?

[Jeff]

They accept pastors.

[Pastor]

If you say, man, my name is Pastor Jeff. It's nice to meet you, automatically you're

[Jeff]

either on guard or you're like, oh, wow, that's cool.

[Pastor]

A pastor, huh?

[Jeff]

But again, that would be a wrong

[Pastor]

way of going about it, okay?

[Jeff]

I wasn't even a pastor at that point, right? I hadn't become ordained. I only had that youth ministry training, you know. So it's like, I come to the mission, I'm like, cool, I'm just going to work in the, in the facilities and I'm going to just clean up

[Pastor]

after people and make sure the buildings are ready for, for the day, you know, when people come in in the evening.

[Jeff]

That was great.

[Pastor]

But I was failing at the same time, right? Because I was pining for the acceptance of management,

[Jeff]

you know, and the acceptance of others around me. The guest, oh, guys that were in the nlp. I wanted to be liked, you know?

[Pastor]

It wasn't for several years that it finally was brought to light and God broke it. He said, we can't do this anymore. You need to be here because of me and to worship me and to glorify me.

[Jeff]

Not for them and not for yourself, right?

[Pastor]

Oh, so he.

[Jeff]

He showed me the snare and the

[Pastor]

trap that I had laid and how I kept just walking right into it. Bad place to be.

[Jeff]

And it's heartbreaking when you realize it, when God, like, goes, look at this.

[Pastor]

This is what you're doing. And if you're not heartbroken over it, then I would venture to say that you don't care what God is saying, right?

[Jeff]

And you still care more about worshiping

[Pastor]

the idol of self than you do anything else, right?

[Jeff]

Because that's ultimately what it comes down

[Pastor]

to, the fear of man, right?

[Jeff]

The wanting to be accepted, the wanting to be liked, the wanting to be

[Pastor]

loved and brought in and even worshiped. It's all about the God of Seth. So that's what it comes down to, right?

[Jeff]

So the diagnosis, the fear of man is idolatry. Look at Galatians 1, verse 10. All right, so Galatians 1, verse 10 for I am now. For am I now seeking the favor

[Pastor]

of men or of God?

[Jeff]

Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please

[Pastor]

men, I would not be a slave of Christ. Right.

[Jeff]

So if. If I start seeking to please men, he's telling us that you are no longer striving with the Lord.

[Pastor]

You are no longer walking with the Lord. In that moment, you have put the

[Jeff]

brakes on, said, nah, I'm good, and you've moved into a space that, that God never intended.

[Pastor]

Right. God never intended for us to be our own idols.

[Jeff]

He never wanted us to worship ourselves. It was always about him. So if we're striving to please man, we're no longer following after Christ.

[Pastor]

Right.

[Jeff]

And we're like. We're like, nah, Lord, I'm. I'm good.

[Pastor]

I'm good.

[Jeff]

I'm going to go do this.

[Pastor]

Oh, God.

[Jeff]

God will.

[Pastor]

God will pursue you and call you back to himself.

[Jeff]

And I'm kind of looking at it as.

[Pastor]

As here is saying, for am I now seeking the favor of man or of God?

[Jeff]

You know, the question there seems as

[Pastor]

though he's saying, is my motivation to please man? So I won't get in arguments, and I won't step into conflict because I want to be liked and accepted, or

[Jeff]

I don't want to engage in this conflict because I know it can cause

[Pastor]

strife and division, and I'd rather honor the Lord by not stepping into it. Right, right.

[Jeff]

So what's the motivation? And you have to think about what is the motivation? Am I doing it because I want

[Pastor]

to be accepted by this person, or am I doing it because I want to honor the Lord? That's the same example that, that, that Jesus gave us. Right.

[Jeff]

Because he knew people's hearts. He knew it's not worth having this.

[Pastor]

This conversation. So he would just shut down the

[Jeff]

conversation very simply, in a way that

[Pastor]

was still loving, surprisingly.

[Jeff]

You know, I mean, he did it to the Pharisees pretty often.

[Pastor]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

You know, he would just kind of

[Pastor]

ask the question in another way to

[Jeff]

them and they couldn't answer. So end the conversation.

[Pastor]

You know, Jesus was the master at doing this type of thing.

[Jeff]

The two things, pride and character development.

[Pastor]

Right, right.

[Jeff]

So again, the motivation.

[Pastor]

Right. Is the motivation, you and your being.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Pastor]

And needing to win and be accepted, or is it about glorifying God and telling the truth of what he says? Right, right.

[Jeff]

I mean, you could almost end everything right there.

[Pastor]

But I think it would be good for us to continue digging into this.

[Jeff]

Okay, so, Paul, so let's just real quick. I'm going to read through this statement here. Paul states that seeking man's approval is mutually exclusive with serving Christ.

[Pastor]

Okay.

[Jeff]

In your life, where does the desire to keep the peace, avoid conflict or gain praise stop you from following God's clear will?

[Pastor]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Speaking truth in love, setting boundaries, obeying a personal conviction. And that's a good question for ourselves, right? Where does

[Pastor]

stopped for me? Okay?

[Jeff]

And is God calling you to not stop in that area?

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

He's like, I want you to dig further. I want you to go further. Don't stop at just this portion, okay? Once, once you have the conviction on, on avoiding conflict or just keeping the peace, you know, repent of that and keep going. Don't just sit there, right? Because that's a problem. Sometimes we'll realize what the problem is and then we'll just sit, you know, and we'll keep.

[Pastor]

We'll keep being, getting, getting beaten up about it.

[Jeff]

We're like, like God's holding me down. God's holding me down. No, you're blaming God for your own problem, which is exactly what we do, right? That's what pride does. It blames God. Instead of recognizing that God is love, God is just love and that God is gracious, we'll look at him go,

[Pastor]

what's the woman you gave me?

[Jeff]

Blame him and we'll try to blame everybody else too.

[Pastor]

Well, it's not my problem, it's their problem. No, your problem. You need to go to God, repent

[Jeff]

and live into the grace that he has given. Okay? Don't be like what we're going to see here in Romans, chapter one, verse 25.

[Pastor]

I'm going to read it from the paper here.

[Jeff]

Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever.

[Pastor]

Amen. Right.

[Jeff]

Don't exchange the worship of others and the acceptance of others for the love and worship of God. Don't exchange it. And don't fall into the lie that you are somehow greater than what you.

[Pastor]

What you might.

[Jeff]

Might have ever known.

[Pastor]

Because you know we're not. We're not.

[Jeff]

You ain't that important. I'm not that important. None of us are that important. But you want to know one thing? God sees us and he says, you have worth and value enough that I'm willing to come in the flesh, die so that you can be saved and set free from all these things. But your pride will hold you back. So you're going to receive the grace. Are you going to exchange the truth for a lie and worship the creature rather than creator. You're going to make images of gold. Are you going to try to cover yourself? You're going to try to hide? Or are you going to go? God, you are so gracious and you are so loving. I am running to you and I will lay down everything because you told me to.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

He has done the work, so stop trying to fix it yourselves.

[Pastor]

Give it up.

[Jeff]

Give it up. Don't let your pride dictate everything. Lean into God because he's done the work and he wants to lead you in paths of righteousness.

[Pastor]

Right?

[Jeff]

Well, let's look at the reflection here real quick.

[Pastor]

And that'll be where we end and

[Jeff]

then we'll continue next week. So when you worry about what others think, you are granting their opinion. A status that belongs only to God. The power to define your identity, safety or worth. What creature? A spouse, a boss, a friend, a

[Pastor]

pastor, a church community. You name it.

[Jeff]

Have you allowed to define your value? Let your value be found only in God, guys. Only in Christ. As those who are filled with the spirit know who it is that fills you.

[Pastor]

It is the Spirit of God. The spirit of Christ now indwells you.

[Jeff]

You are a sacred place. God's grace has done amazing things so that we don't have to exchange the

[Pastor]

truth for a lie. But now we can lean into the truth. And the truth will set you free.

[Jeff]

Because the truth is Jesus. Amen. Okay, let me pray and then you

[Pastor]

guys can get moving.

[Jeff]

Father. Lord, we thank you so much for this morning and for what you've done here. Lord, I pray that if you there be anybody who is looking to the worship of men, the worship of things, Lord, who? Anybody who has exchanged the truth for a lie, Lord. Break it and may they freely give it to you. Repent of it. Confess and know that they are forgiven in Christ by your grace, Lord. Lord, we thank you and we praise you. Praise you in Jesus name, Amen.