Emmy Warren
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So their trunks are, I don't have anything next to me that's like the same color, but it's kind of like a red tone trunk and they're beautiful. They're like orange trunk trees. But the bark of the tree is super spongy. And I almost got, I almost went up there and got some just so I could bring some here and like show y'all visually. Maybe another day you can look it up on the internet. Okay.
But it has spongy bark and the bark prevents them or basically the bark is thick and spongy because it's fire resistant, which helps protect the tree from the wildfires. So these sequoia trees are like embedded with a fire resistant aspect about them.
And so when I was reading about the sequoia trees and the reason as to why God took me to the sequoia trees is because we have all these wildfires that happen in California. And these redwood trees, these sequoia trees, they stand up tall, right? When I tell you that we have had crazy fires over here and these sequoia trees are standing strong and they're doing just fine.
I began to wonder why, like why aren't these trees burning down? And it's because one, they have a bark that's like embedded to literally keep them safe from fire. And then a second attribute is that these cones that I was talking about, that's two to three inches wide. They contain these seeds. And so these cones are stored up in the tree.
But get this, the moment fire, there's a wildfire, fire goes through the branches of these trees, it sparks something inside of these cones to where it releases more seeds to then be sprouted out and put into the soil so it could reproduce more sequoia trees. And that really, really just caught my attention because you're telling me that this is a tree that is so massive.
It has fire restraining bark, but these cones can't be released unless if it's touched by fire. And so that really started to meditate in my spirit because I remember there's this one verse and it's Isaiah 43 too. It says, when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze.
And so the giant sequoia trees are one of the only forest trees that produce new life from a kindle of a flame. And I think sometimes we think fire is really harsh. whether if it's fire in our own lives, whether if it's a trial or a circumstance, but that fire from your circumstance before your trial might be the very thing that sparks new life inside and outside of you.
And so these trees were just kind of ministering to me physically, a physical revelation of a grace that's on fire of how, of how the grace we should extend out to others. What if it's a grace that, That's on fire, just like with these trees. A fire so powerful that it burns away bitterness and unforgiveness and resentment and the desire for revenge.
A fire that doesn't just consume, but it releases new life. And I believe that God today wants to give us fire of grace to spark new life into circumstances that are covered in a hard shell. And so I love how God can minister to us. I believe it's in Romans, but it says, you know, nature itself preaches the gospel. Like the existence of God is shown through what you already see in the natural.
And a grace that burns through the cones of forgiveness is the grace that God is calling us to have because there was new life released in a hard coned shell and it was only released by fire. I love Revelation 19, 12. It says his eyes are like a blazing fire. His eyes are of grace. It's the kind of grace that disarms judgment, restores dignity and changes everything.
And it's the kind of grace that would change the way we see those who have wronged us and And it's the grace that Jesus embodies. And so I bring this to a parallel to a very popular story in the gospels of the woman who was caught in adultery because this required a grace out of Jesus that we sometimes fail to understand because of the lack of compassion we have in our own hearts.
And I feel like there's two sides of the story that we tend to miss. And I think most of the times we empathize and victimize ourselves with the woman. But then there's also another aspect where there's this accusing and there's this self-righteousness of a Pharisee that we also need to address. And how those things come together and can cause some enmity and disagreements.
I'm going to read the story, which is found in John chapter 8, verses 1 through 11. I'm going to start, yeah, I'll start in verse 2. It says, Now what do you say? They were using this question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said, let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. Again, he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time. The older ones first until only Jesus was left with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you? No one, sir, she said. Then neither do I condemn you, Jesus declared. Now go and leave your life of sin. Let's set the scene really quickly so we know what's happening in this story. Because we see in the story that basically Jesus is teaching in the temple courts, right? Jesus was teaching publicly. This is what Jesus did all the time.
And so in the middle of Jesus teaching, the Pharisees bring in this woman because they wanted to make this as embarrassing as possible for Not just for Jesus, but also towards this woman. And immediately we can identify the characteristics of each party, of Jesus, of this woman, and of the Pharisees.
I first want to talk about the attitude of the Pharisees, because we see that whenever the Pharisees presented the woman before Jesus, they said that they had, one, that they interrupted this teaching, right? Two, they didn't have to bring this woman, but yet they did. And two, they stated as if she was caught in the very act.
The Pharisees, if you're not familiar with who the Pharisees were, the Pharisees was a prominent religious group known for their strict observance of the law and their influence on Jewish religious practices. And so the Pharisees had a thick animosity towards Jesus because of their religion. They didn't desire a relationship. They desired religion. They
They couldn't go outside of their own understanding. They could only remain inside of it. And so the story says, and I quote, that the woman that the Pharisees brought was caught in adultery. They made her stand before a crowd and they said that she was caught from their own lips, caught in the very act.
and that just makes me wonder how was this woman caught in the very act like were you standing outside of her door and having your ear up against the window or up against the wall to hear or to see or to catch somebody like how was this woman caught in the act like were you waiting
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