100:00:00,000 –> 00:00:10,160God is saying to each of us, his children, to every person who is in Jesus Christ today,200:00:10,160 –> 00:00:16,799the word of God from Proverbs 23 and verse 26 is simply this.300:00:16,799 –> 00:00:18,799My son.400:00:18,799 –> 00:00:25,400My daughter, give me your heart.500:00:25,400 –> 00:00:29,360Welcome to Open the Bible with pastor Colin Smith, I’m David Pick.600:00:29,360 –> 00:00:31,420I’m glad you could be with us today.700:00:31,420 –> 00:00:33,619Colin, as we hear that verse from800:00:33,619 –> 00:00:37,240Proverbs 23, my son, my daughter, give me your heart,900:00:37,240 –> 00:00:40,480we may be thinking about that as being a verse for unbelievers,1000:00:40,480 –> 00:00:44,259but you’re saying no, it’s for anyone who does know Jesus.1100:00:44,259 –> 00:00:46,139My son, give me your heart.1200:00:46,139 –> 00:00:49,459Yeah, this is clearly a word that is spoken within the family.1300:00:49,459 –> 00:00:53,099And here’s God speaking to his own children.1400:00:53,099 –> 00:00:55,299This touches a real issue.1500:00:55,740 –> 00:00:59,860I mean, how often as a pastor has had the privilege of sitting with someone who1600:00:59,860 –> 00:01:03,880is one of the Lord’s own people and then they’re struggling with the fact that their own1700:01:03,880 –> 00:01:05,400heart has grown cold.1800:01:05,400 –> 00:01:09,599I mean you may know this experience yourself, as you listen to the programme today you say,1900:01:09,599 –> 00:01:15,199you know, I’m a Christian, yet there seems to be a hardness, a distance, a coldness in my heart.2000:01:15,199 –> 00:01:18,279There’s a lethargy that has come upon me.2100:01:18,279 –> 00:01:21,260I sometimes even wondered if I really am a Christian at all.2200:01:21,260 –> 00:01:23,500Now that’s a real conversation.2300:01:23,500 –> 00:01:28,320And it’s addressed right here by the Lord saying, My son, my daughter.2400:01:28,320 –> 00:01:33,800Now you are my child, but here you are in a place where your own heart has grown cold2500:01:33,800 –> 00:01:37,680and I want you today to place that heart back into my hands.2600:01:37,680 –> 00:01:43,379Well, this is a word that speaks to the reality of the Christian life when we get into a dry2700:01:43,379 –> 00:01:46,699place and a place where it’s not easy for us.2800:01:46,699 –> 00:01:51,339So my prayer for the programme today is that God would use this to touch your heart.2900:01:51,580 –> 00:01:53,419So again we’re in Proverbs 23.3000:01:53,419 –> 00:01:57,059As we begin a message, the heart set right.3100:01:57,059 –> 00:01:58,720Here is Pastor Colin.3200:01:58,720 –> 00:02:03,239If you would open your Bible at Proverbs chapter 23 that’s just been read.3300:02:03,239 –> 00:02:07,080We are especially going to look at the first part of verse 26 today.3400:02:07,080 –> 00:02:10,960We really began looking at these verses last week.3500:02:10,960 –> 00:02:17,020And we saw that these are the words of a wise and of a loving father, speaking to his son.3600:02:17,259 –> 00:02:24,779Now, we ended last time with a prayer of Solomon’s father, King David.3700:02:24,779 –> 00:02:28,380From Psalm 51, in verse 10 where David prayed,3800:02:28,380 –> 00:02:35,380Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit in me.3900:02:35,399 –> 00:02:41,160Now, that word create is very important.4000:02:41,380 –> 00:02:45,940Because it means and this is what David was praying,4100:02:45,940 –> 00:02:52,940Bring into existence, O Lord, something that was not in me before,4200:02:53,279 –> 00:02:58,660Create in me a clean heart, O God.4300:02:58,660 –> 00:03:04,679Now, there’s more here than David asking for forgiveness.4400:03:04,679 –> 00:03:07,940Remember in Psalm 51, he has already done that.4500:03:07,940 –> 00:03:10,440He says in Psalm 51 in verse 7,4600:03:10,440 –> 00:03:13,360Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.4700:03:13,360 –> 00:03:18,119Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.4800:03:18,119 –> 00:03:23,960David had already asked for forgiveness and he had received it.4900:03:23,960 –> 00:03:27,160But his prayer doesn’t end with the request for forgiveness.5000:03:27,160 –> 00:03:28,759His prayer moves on.5100:03:28,759 –> 00:03:32,679It’s as if he is saying after verse 7 of Psalm 51.5200:03:32,679 –> 00:03:36,139Lord, thank you for forgiveness,5300:03:36,139 –> 00:03:38,660Thank you for washing me,5400:03:38,759 –> 00:03:41,259Thank you for cleansing,5500:03:41,259 –> 00:03:44,679But now I need to ask you for something else.5600:03:44,679 –> 00:03:52,479See, I did what I did because my sinful heart was drawn to do it.5700:03:52,479 –> 00:03:58,380And if you forgive my sin, but leave my heart as it was before, unchanged,5800:03:58,380 –> 00:04:03,380it won’t be long before the same sinful heart takes me to do exactly the same thing5900:04:03,380 –> 00:04:04,380again.6000:04:04,380 –> 00:04:07,679And then I’ll just be locked in a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over6100:04:07,699 –> 00:04:08,820and over again.6200:04:08,820 –> 00:04:10,059That’s not what I want to be.6300:04:10,059 –> 00:04:14,740So, Lord, create within me something that has not been there before.6400:04:14,740 –> 00:04:17,579Create in me a clean heart, oh God.6500:04:17,579 –> 00:04:19,959I want you not only to forgive the sin.6600:04:19,959 –> 00:04:23,880I want you to change the impulse that actually made me do it.6700:04:23,880 –> 00:04:27,500That’s what he’s praying here.6800:04:27,500 –> 00:04:31,200Lord I need more than forgiveness.6900:04:31,600 –> 00:04:42,600Create in me a heart that loves you and loves you more than the sin I fell into.7000:04:42,600 –> 00:04:54,160Now, that’s what I want to take up the thread of this two part message today.7100:04:54,160 –> 00:04:57,600So where do you go from there?7200:04:57,660 –> 00:05:07,239So here you are today, you are a forgiven sinner, and you do have a new heart.7300:05:07,239 –> 00:05:15,540The truth about you is that you love the Lord and you trust the Lord and you want to live7400:05:15,540 –> 00:05:18,320in a way that honors the Lord.7500:05:18,320 –> 00:05:21,119Where do you go from here?7600:05:21,119 –> 00:05:27,239See, last week the message was very much, as we focused on the heart gone wrong, last7700:05:27,239 –> 00:05:33,079week the message was primarily to those who may be tempted to give up a faith that they7800:05:33,079 –> 00:05:34,100once professed.7900:05:34,100 –> 00:05:39,000That’s what Rehoboam did and that’s why Solomon was speaking to his son with such8000:05:39,000 –> 00:05:42,399intensity in these verses.8100:05:42,399 –> 00:05:50,239But today I want to speak to all of us who truly would say, as a forgiven person who8200:05:50,239 –> 00:05:55,519has a new heart who truly loves the Lord and wants to honor Him in your life, where do8300:05:55,519 –> 00:05:56,820we go from here?8400:05:57,000 –> 00:06:01,899And what is it that God says to us today?8500:06:01,899 –> 00:06:06,820And the answer to that question is in the first six words of verse 26 of Proverbs in8600:06:06,820 –> 00:06:15,200chapter 23, my son, give me your heart.8700:06:16,040 –> 00:06:27,799Or if we phrase it another way, my daughter, give me your heart.8800:06:27,799 –> 00:06:32,959Last week, we heard these words primarily as the words of a wise and loving father to8900:06:32,959 –> 00:06:38,000his son, Solomon speaking to Rehoboam and a father today speaking to a son today about9000:06:38,000 –> 00:06:41,440the path of wisdom and how not to go wrong.9100:06:42,339 –> 00:06:48,299Today, I want us to hear these words as the very words of God himself to us, which of9200:06:48,299 –> 00:06:51,019course, they are, they’re the words of Scripture.9300:06:51,019 –> 00:06:57,220God is saying to each of us, his children, to every person who is in Jesus Christ today,9400:06:57,220 –> 00:07:08,420the word of God from Proverbs 23 and verse 26 is simply this, my son, my daughter.9500:07:08,540 –> 00:07:12,279Give me your heart.9600:07:12,279 –> 00:07:17,679You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and a message called The Heart9700:07:17,679 –> 00:07:19,440Set Right.9800:07:19,440 –> 00:07:24,440That phrase, my son, my daughter, give me your heart…our first thought might be that9900:07:24,440 –> 00:07:29,399it’s a question for the unbeliever, someone who doesn’t know Christ, but as Pastor Colin10000:07:29,399 –> 00:07:35,160has been telling us today, it’s a question for each one of us as we follow Jesus.10100:07:35,760 –> 00:07:39,160We’ll be back very shortly with the second part of the message but if you ever miss one10200:07:39,160 –> 00:07:43,600of Pastor Colin’s messages or you have to leave early or you joined late, you can always10300:07:43,600 –> 00:07:50,799catch up or go back and listen again by coming to our website OpenTheBible.org.uk, or find10400:07:50,799 –> 00:07:56,720us as a podcast, all the main podcast sites carry it, it’s called Open the Bible UK, or10500:07:56,720 –> 00:07:58,959follow the link from our website.10600:07:58,959 –> 00:08:02,760Back to the message again, here again is Pastor Colin.10700:08:02,760 –> 00:08:13,279My son, my daughter, give me your heart.10800:08:13,279 –> 00:08:19,380I want in reflecting on these remarkable words to make very simply four observations today.10900:08:19,380 –> 00:08:23,859The first is, please note an established relationship.11000:08:23,859 –> 00:08:29,559My son, give me your heart.11100:08:29,559 –> 00:08:37,900In other words, the person who will give his or her heart to the Lord is not a stranger,11200:08:37,900 –> 00:08:43,799certainly not an enemy and not a slave.11300:08:43,799 –> 00:08:52,479The one who gives his or her heart to the Lord is a son, a daughter.11400:08:52,479 –> 00:08:59,679In other words, the giving of the heart flows from the knowledge of an established relationship,11500:08:59,679 –> 00:09:04,419my son, God says, give me your heart.11600:09:04,419 –> 00:09:06,539Now notice the way around that it is.11700:09:06,539 –> 00:09:13,640The point here is not that if you give God your heart, you will become His child.11800:09:13,640 –> 00:09:20,140The point is that if you are His child, you will give Him your heart.11900:09:20,219 –> 00:09:24,500My son, give me your heart.12000:09:24,619 –> 00:09:31,440Now, as most of you will know very well, our Lord told a marvelous story about a prodigal12100:09:31,440 –> 00:09:38,719son who wasted his life in wild and reckless living, but then came to his senses and returned12200:09:38,719 –> 00:09:39,900to his father.12300:09:39,900 –> 00:09:46,599And before he came back, he decided in his mind what he was going to say when he got12400:09:46,599 –> 00:09:47,599home.12500:09:47,659 –> 00:09:55,400When I get back, I’m going to say, Father, I am no longer worthy to be called your son.12600:09:55,400 –> 00:10:00,200So treat me as one of your hired servants.12700:10:00,200 –> 00:10:07,659Now, in the event, when the son got back, he actually only got through halfway through12800:10:07,659 –> 00:10:10,539the speech that he had planned.12900:10:11,140 –> 00:10:17,580Father, he said, I am no longer worthy to be called your son.13000:10:17,580 –> 00:10:19,739But at that point, the Father interrupted him.13100:10:19,739 –> 00:10:24,340He broke into the son’s prepared speech and said to the servants, now bring the fatted13200:10:24,340 –> 00:10:30,659calf and let us eat and celebrate for this my son was dead and is alive again.13300:10:30,659 –> 00:10:32,820He was lost and is found.13400:10:32,820 –> 00:10:37,320It’s as if the Father’s saying, what do you mean, you’re not worthy to be my son?13500:10:37,359 –> 00:10:46,000You are my son and you’re back and let’s celebrate.13600:10:46,000 –> 00:10:52,559But then you remember there was another son and he was the very opposite of reckless.13700:10:52,559 –> 00:10:56,479Oh, he was as dutiful as they come.13800:10:56,479 –> 00:11:02,880Everyday he went out into the fields and worked for the Father and did everything that the13900:11:02,880 –> 00:11:06,400Father told him to do.14000:11:06,479 –> 00:11:11,200And when he saw that his no-good brother had returned and there was such a lavish welcome14100:11:11,200 –> 00:11:14,440being laid on for him, you remember that he was not happy.14200:11:14,440 –> 00:11:17,719It all seemed very, very unfair to him.14300:11:17,719 –> 00:11:28,000And so he said to the Father, many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed14400:11:28,000 –> 00:11:31,020your command.14500:11:31,020 –> 00:11:41,200And the Father said to him, first word, Son, you are always with me and all that is mine14600:11:41,200 –> 00:11:42,200is yours.14700:11:42,200 –> 00:11:43,200Now think about this.14800:11:43,200 –> 00:11:54,659Here are two sons and both of them think of themselves as if they were only servants.14900:11:54,659 –> 00:12:03,159And if you think of yourself only as a servant of God, one of two things will happen.15000:12:03,159 –> 00:12:12,280Either, on the one hand, you will spend your whole life thinking I owe Him.15100:12:12,280 –> 00:12:19,760I messed up and I have to now work for the rest of my life to make up for my mess up.15200:12:19,799 –> 00:12:26,559So I blew the inheritance and so the rest of my life I’m just trying to make up to God15300:12:26,559 –> 00:12:28,799what I blew and what I did wrong.15400:12:28,799 –> 00:12:32,739And that’s why I’ve just gotta work my way through life and try and make up for all that15500:12:32,739 –> 00:12:35,380I’ve done in the past.15600:12:35,380 –> 00:12:41,239Or you will have the opposite problem, not of spending your whole life thinking that15700:12:41,239 –> 00:12:45,559you owe God, but that you spend your whole life like the elder brother thinking that15800:12:45,559 –> 00:12:48,239God owes you.15900:12:48,239 –> 00:12:56,799Huh, I’ve lived a good moral life, I’ve been a loyal husband or wife, I studied hard, I’ve16000:12:56,799 –> 00:13:05,479told the truth, I pursued a moral path and God owes me better than he’s given to me.16100:13:05,479 –> 00:13:10,520Think of yourself as only a servant, you will live your life in one of two places, either16200:13:10,520 –> 00:13:16,919I owe God, or God owes me and in neither case,16300:13:17,400 –> 00:13:22,080does the father have the son’s heart?16400:13:22,080 –> 00:13:27,619But friends, if you are in Jesus Christ, please try to take this in today, you are not a slave,16500:13:27,640 –> 00:13:31,159you are a son.16600:13:31,159 –> 00:13:40,460You are no longer a slave, but a son, Galatians 4 and verse 7 and if a son, then an heir.16700:13:40,460 –> 00:13:46,900Romans 8 and verse 15, you did not receive the spirit of slavery, but you have received16800:13:46,900 –> 00:13:53,780the spirit of adoption, the sons by which we cry out, Abba, Father.16900:13:53,780 –> 00:14:00,080And you know what, it is the knowledge of the relationship, a son, a daughter of God17000:14:00,080 –> 00:14:07,039that leads to the giving of the heart, otherwise you will spend your whole life either feeling17100:14:07,039 –> 00:14:10,460that you owe God or God owes you.17200:14:10,559 –> 00:14:17,820Father God, I wonder how I managed to exist without the knowledge of your parenthood and17300:14:17,820 –> 00:14:20,659your loving care.17400:14:20,659 –> 00:14:23,580But now, I am your child.17500:14:23,580 –> 00:14:31,299I am adopted in your family, and I can never be alone, For Father God, you are there beside17600:14:31,299 –> 00:14:32,299me.17700:14:32,299 –> 00:14:33,299You see the force of this?17800:14:33,299 –> 00:14:36,260My son!17900:14:36,260 –> 00:14:37,260Give me your heart.18000:14:37,260 –> 00:14:43,500The appeal of God to you is on the basis of a relationship established in Jesus Christ.18100:14:43,500 –> 00:14:47,219You are not a stranger.18200:14:47,219 –> 00:14:50,179You are not his enemy.18300:14:50,179 –> 00:14:53,000You are not his slave.18400:14:53,000 –> 00:14:56,340My son!18500:14:56,340 –> 00:14:58,539My daughter.18600:14:58,539 –> 00:15:04,539Give me your heart.18700:15:04,539 –> 00:15:06,820Second observation.18800:15:06,859 –> 00:15:09,460An essential priority.18900:15:09,460 –> 00:15:13,320Thought about sonship, lets think now together about the heart.19000:15:13,320 –> 00:15:18,539Give me your heart.19100:15:18,539 –> 00:15:22,140Now we looked together last week at why the heart is so important.19200:15:22,140 –> 00:15:25,679Let me give you a picture and for the boys and girls if you want to draw something, here’s19300:15:25,679 –> 00:15:27,099a picture.19400:15:27,099 –> 00:15:30,099Here’s a picture of the Christian’s heart.19500:15:30,099 –> 00:15:31,659The Christian’s heart.19600:15:31,659 –> 00:15:36,419A Christian’s heart is like a walled city.19700:15:36,479 –> 00:15:40,320So a city with a wall round the outside.19800:15:40,320 –> 00:15:46,280And on the outside of the wall there are many many enemies that want to get in.19900:15:46,280 –> 00:15:51,460That’s one part of the problem, a walled city with enemies on the outside.20000:15:51,460 –> 00:15:54,599But here’s the other part of the problem of the Christian hearts.20100:15:54,599 –> 00:15:59,880There are also traitors on the inside of the city.20200:15:59,880 –> 00:16:01,640Traitors on the inside of the city as well.20300:16:01,640 –> 00:16:03,559Now, this is our experience isn’t it?20400:16:03,559 –> 00:16:09,859We live in this world in which the temptations of the world and flesh and the devil outside20500:16:09,859 –> 00:16:17,520of us as it were are always being thrown at us and we need to keep the gates of the walled20600:16:17,520 –> 00:16:26,640city closed to anyone or anything that would lead us down a destructive path.20700:16:26,640 –> 00:16:31,719But when all is said and done about the many many evils that are on the outside of the20800:16:31,900 –> 00:16:37,799Christians heart the even greater problem is the traitors on the inside.20900:16:37,799 –> 00:16:42,320There is something, is there not, within all of us that is actually drawn to different21000:16:42,320 –> 00:16:47,239forms of sin, and so we need to guard not only against temptation on the outside but21100:16:47,239 –> 00:16:52,619against the traitors on the inside in our own hearts as well.21200:16:52,619 –> 00:16:56,880Now you will notice that this whole theme of contending with the many temptations and21300:16:57,320 –> 00:17:02,099lures that come to a Christian and come to the Christian heart are very prominent in21400:17:02,099 –> 00:17:08,119these verses that are before us in Proverbs for example if you look at verse 27 you will21500:17:08,119 –> 00:17:15,119see that it speaks very clearly there about the lure of sexual temptation and then verse21600:17:15,119 –> 00:17:23,95920 you have very clear reference to the temptations of drink and of gluttony and of laziness,21700:17:23,959 –> 00:17:29,119and I think with that in our culture today we could add the whole scene of the drug culture21800:17:29,119 –> 00:17:37,439that is such a temptation for so many today. Now here’s the question, how are you going21900:17:37,439 –> 00:17:45,459to guard your heart, especially a heart that has traitors within it, how are you going22000:17:45,479 –> 00:17:54,040to guard your heart against temptations like these? Now let me tell you another story from22100:17:54,040 –> 00:17:59,780the Bible, another familiar story that I think will make the point. The Bible tells us the22200:17:59,780 –> 00:18:06,640story of Joseph, a young man who you remember had been very badly treated and ended up living22300:18:06,640 –> 00:18:11,439in another country, away from his family and from his support network, a place where he22400:18:11,439 –> 00:18:20,500was away from everyone who knew him. He worked for a man by the name of Potiphar, and Potiphar’s22500:18:20,500 –> 00:18:31,280wife tempted him. Now Joseph said this, here’s how he responded. It’s Genesis 39 and verse22600:18:31,939 –> 00:18:45,5209 he says, how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? Notice what he says to22700:18:45,520 –> 00:18:56,260Potiphar’s wife, I couldn’t do this against God. That’s his defence. And these are the22800:18:56,319 –> 00:19:03,380words of a man who has given his heart to God. These are the words of a man who loves22900:19:03,380 –> 00:19:06,079the Lord with all his heart.23000:19:06,079 –> 00:19:10,359Now Joseph’s brothers would not have said a thing like that. They had been brought up23100:19:10,359 –> 00:19:13,339of course in the same home, they had been brought up with the same faith, but their23200:19:13,339 –> 00:19:22,339hearts were not given to the Lord. But Joseph had given his heart to the Lord. He truly23300:19:22,599 –> 00:19:29,599loved the Lord, and he lived in what the bible calls the fear of the Lord, which is a wonderful23400:19:30,219 –> 00:19:36,000expression of what it really means to love the Lord. That phrase as you may know occurs23500:19:36,000 –> 00:19:40,800often in the bible and especially in the book of Proverbs, and you’ll find it in our chapter23600:19:40,800 –> 00:19:47,479in verse 17, when it says let not your heart envy sinners but continue in the fear of the23700:19:47,920 –> 00:19:53,780Lord all the day long. Let me give you the simple definition of the fear of the Lord23800:19:53,780 –> 00:20:00,780that we’ve used before, I find it very helpful, the fear of the Lord is so to love God, that23900:20:01,060 –> 00:20:07,739His frown would be your greatest dread and His smile would be your greatest delight.24000:20:07,739 –> 00:20:14,739That’s what fearing God is, that’s what Joseph did. He so loved the Lord, that God’s frown24100:20:15,479 –> 00:20:22,479would be His greatest dread. How can I do this against God? And God’s smile would24200:20:26,420 –> 00:20:30,479be His greatest delight. That’s what it’s like when you have given24300:20:30,479 –> 00:20:37,479your heart to the Lord. You live in the fear of the Lord, His frown your greatest dread24400:20:38,400 –> 00:20:42,319His frown your greatest dread and His smile your greatest delight and you do it24500:20:42,319 –> 00:20:49,319all the day. Proverbs 23, verse 17. In other words what I’m saying to you is this, very24600:20:50,660 –> 00:20:55,319simply, that giving your heart to the Lord, what we’re being asked to do and called to24700:20:55,319 –> 00:21:01,099do today is your very best defence against sin.24800:21:01,099 –> 00:21:05,140You’ve been listening to Pastor Colin Smith on Open the Bible with a message called The24900:21:05,540 –> 00:21:09,599Heart Set Right, and a reminder there from Pastor Colin that giving your heart to the25000:21:09,599 –> 00:21:13,239lord is the very best defence against sin.25100:21:13,239 –> 00:21:17,800If you tuned in late or if you ever miss one of our messages you can catch up online at25200:21:17,800 –> 00:21:24,800our website openthebible.org.uk or you can find us as a podcast on all the main podcast25300:21:24,800 –> 00:21:31,400sites just search for Open the Bible UK or follow the link from our website.25400:21:31,560 –> 00:21:36,660Just on our website and available as a podcast you’ll find Open the Bible Daily, our series25500:21:36,660 –> 00:21:42,800of short 2-3 minute daily reflections based on Pastor Colin’s teaching and read in the25600:21:42,800 –> 00:21:47,920UK. There’s a new one everyday and many Christians start their day with Open the Bible Daily.25700:21:49,439 –> 00:21:54,380Many of us love reading but our busy lives don’t allow much time for that so we often25800:21:54,380 –> 00:22:00,800listen to audiobooks and podcasts maybe when we’re driving or out for a walk so we have25900:22:00,800 –> 00:22:05,319a new podcast starting this month and it’s called Hike Through the Bible.26000:22:05,319 –> 00:22:10,359Yeah and the Hike Through the Bible podcast will take you on a journey through the entire26100:22:10,359 –> 00:22:16,199Bible story giving you the option of listening or watching rather than reading. And in each26200:22:16,199 –> 00:22:20,800episode I’ll read a chapter of my book Hike Through the Bible and then I’ll discuss it26300:22:20,800 –> 00:22:22,119with some friends.26400:22:22,119 –> 00:22:28,219I hope you’ll join me in hiking through the Bible. You’ll grow in your faith. You’ll26500:22:28,439 –> 00:22:32,959deepen your grasp of Scripture and you’ll come to love Jesus more.26600:22:32,959 –> 00:22:38,000So that’s the Hike Through the Bible podcast and it’s not too late to get started. You’ll26700:22:38,000 –> 00:22:43,800find the Hike Through the Bible podcast wherever you get your podcasts and there’s a link26800:22:43,800 –> 00:22:50,800on our website at openthebible.org.uk. You’ll also find more information about the podcast.26900:22:52,040 –> 00:22:56,079Open the Bible is supported by our listeners, it’s you who keep us on the air and on the27000:22:56,439 –> 00:23:01,479Internet. But it’s not just Open the Bible programming you’re supporting. Here’s27100:23:01,479 –> 00:23:06,380Open the Bible’s Executive Director John Martin with a new Open the Bible initiative27200:23:06,380 –> 00:23:10,819taking the good news of Jesus Christ to prisoners in UK prisons.27300:23:10,819 –> 00:23:14,680Listeners might be interested to know where some of the donations to Open the Bible go.27400:23:14,680 –> 00:23:20,719Through a mutual friend I got to know Gaius Fillingham who is the CEO of Daylight Christian27500:23:51,420 –> 00:23:57,660of Heaven How I Got Here The Story of the Thief on the Cross. 150 DVDs were produced.27600:23:57,660 –> 00:24:02,239We did it as a prison edition whereby we had Open the Bible and Daylight’s logos on27700:24:02,239 –> 00:24:08,520there, and Colin recorded a bespoke little epilogue to address the prisoners, point them27800:24:08,520 –> 00:24:14,020to the prison chaplain, encouraged them to speak to their chaplains to get more literature.27900:24:14,020 –> 00:24:19,979We’ve heard from prison chaplains who said the video, the film, has been well received.28000:24:19,979 –> 00:24:25,339We printed a whole load of little booklets about how to get into heaven, how they can28100:24:25,359 –> 00:24:31,260respond themselves, and those again were distributed with the DVDs and there’s a whole load more28200:24:31,260 –> 00:24:36,959that can be requested for free. So, donations towards Open the Bible can be sent directly28300:24:36,959 –> 00:24:38,280in to that ministry.28400:24:38,280 –> 00:24:42,540If you’d like to support the work of Open the Bible generally, or our work in prison28500:24:42,540 –> 00:24:50,680ministry in association with daylight specifically, you can do that at our website openthebible.org.uk.28600:24:50,680 –> 00:24:54,099Use the donate button and enter your email address.28700:24:54,099 –> 00:24:59,500On the next page select between the general fund, our monthly free offer for new givers28800:24:59,500 –> 00:25:02,780or prison ministry in association with daylight.28900:25:02,780 –> 00:25:07,180Thanks so much in advance for your support of the work of Open the Bible.29000:25:07,199 –> 00:25:11,140For pastor Colin Smith and Open the Bible, I am David Picht and I hope you will join29100:25:11,140 –> 00:25:12,380us again next time.29200:25:23,140 –> 00:25:26,400How can you ever feel safe giving your heart to God?29300:25:26,400 –> 00:25:29,119Find out next time on Open The Bible.