Why People Suffer in Relationships & Family (or Lack Thereof) (Church, Jan. 15, '17)

Sunday, January 15, 2017 - http://rebuildingtheman.com/church Watch 5 1/2-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poItgwrC7cI Jesse asked a several people in the audience if they want to know God, why they want to know God, how they know that's what they want, and how serious they are about finding God. He described the way many people only want God when in trouble. Men get a feeling of "God" from their relationship with girlfriend or wife. Jesse counseled with a man who felt desperate to pray and know God after a bad breakup. But soon the man returned to the woman and forgot about God — Jesse hasn't heard from him since. Women suffer similarly in breakups. He asked people what the purpose is of returning to God.

People are abnormally suffering because they're blind. A longtime church member sent BOND an article from Washingtonian about former D.C. mayor Marion Barry (who was caught smoking crack cocaine and was incarcerated for it) and about Barry's son, Christopher. When a father fails, he sets up his children to fail. https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/08/the-tumultuous-life-and-lonely-death-of-marion-barrys-only-son-christopher/

Jesse counseled with another man whose father could not deal with life. One day, this man visited his father's house, and found his body hanging — he committed suicide. The man too has attempted suicide and is taking antidepressant medication, following in his father's footsteps.

Another man said his wife undermined him with his kids, particularly his daughter. Jesse told him that his wife turned his daughter against him, not in anything she said, but in what she did. She did not do what he asked her to do, but spoiled the kids.

Jesse often repeats that love comes from above, not below — your father represents Christ on earth, so he should give love, not look for love in women. Women look to men, but they suffer (cancer, anorexia, all kinds of things) because men are weak and look to women for love — and women hate weak men. Children suffer as a result of their father's sins too.

A woman watching live on YouTube asked how to get to God if she's not married, and if her father is not Christian. A woman in the audience said that some men pretend to be the leader, but they don't know God. Women can tell if a man is weak and pretending, and even may pretend along with the man, but she controls him.

If you as a man truly love God and the woman, you won't have sex outside marriage, or she will become your "god," and she will control you. Men are letting women down because their parents failed them and they don't get over it. It's silly to seek your "purpose" — the purpose of mankind is so that God can create love through us. Your gift will find you. God is not with you so that you can be weak all your life.

Another person asked how to forgive parents who have died — you cannot face and apologize to someone who died. Jesse said you forgive through self-knowledge. People don't know what self-knowledge is — it's a state of nonjudgmental attention. You don't have fear, doubt, worry, insecurity, but love.

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