Did Jesus Desire Mercy or Sacrifice? | Church 8/16/26
Everybody’s fighting, asleep in thought. Divorce the world. Drop anger; don’t argue; forgive parents; stop thinking at night: Crazy! Immigration stories. Jesus wanted mercy, not sacrifice. Respect?
Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, August 16, 2026
📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
Matthew 9:13: “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Matthew 12:7: “But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.”
📖 NEW BQ: Why is it OK to discriminate against men but not women?
📝 Assignment for Men: Don’t get angry or argue with anyone, especially your wife.
🗓️ Women's Forum third Thur, Aug 20th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events
|| See clips, links, and notes below.
TIMESTAMPS
(0:00:00) Small talk with Georgia couple (off-mic); Welcome
(0:01:58) JLP: Fighting. Asleep in thoughts. Divorce the world.
(0:31:20) Feedback: Devil’s ideas. Go thru hell. Love.
(0:44:40) Lady: Drop your anger? Face your fears?
(0:59:57) Pregnant by man who wants to fight with me
(1:05:12) Man went through a breakup yesterday
(1:10:20) "I talk to myself." Her childhood story: family separation
(1:27:37) BQ: Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
(1:36:55) Mimi "struggling" w/ sacrifice, admittedly "crazy"
(1:45:40) Mother left him in Mexico. "Guantanamera" 🎶 Custody?
(1:54:17) Mercy, not sacrifice. Matt 12: 7 and 9: 13
(1:57:59) Idea of sacrifice? "Respect" & correcting "disrespect"
(2:08:19) Closing, New BQ: Discrimination? Assignment
CLIPS
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CHURCH NOTES 8/16/26
📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
NEW BQ: Why is it OK to discriminate against men but not women?
📝 Assignment for Men's History Month: Don't get angry or argue with anyone, especially your woman.
🗓️ Women's Forum third Thur, Aug 20th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events
JLP NOTES WEEK 8/10-8/14/26
You go into a dark room to make decisions, stuck in the darkness of "belief." (JLP Fri 8/14/26)
Admit you're evil. Divorce yourself from the world. (JLP Fri 8/14/26)
Darkness covers the earth. (JLP Thu 8/13/26)
Why do people take vacations? They can't be happy at home, alone. (JLP Thu 8/13/26)
Give up your treasures. Less is more, and more is less. Live from within. (JLP Wed 8/12/26)
Noise is a weapon. Loud voices in your head drown out the truth. (JLP Tue 8/11/26)
God's laws change you, not his words. (JLP Mon 8/10/26)
00 - Welcome
(0:00:00) Stream start, small talk with the Georgia couple (0:00:51) Intro (0:01:14) Jesse still talking about Savannah (spelling?), GA (0:01:24) Good morning!
01 - Everybody fighting, asleep in thoughts, taught wrong
(0:01:50) A friend sent videos of people fighting. Everybody fighting. Nobody gets along. e.g., Immigration fight and gov't not caring...
(0:02:08) (9-sec delay from live to stamp)
(0:05:33) They’re like F you. F word and bitch words everywhere!
(0:06:26) (There goes Hake.) each thinks they’re right.
1B - Asleep in thoughts, moving to & fro
(0:07:12) If you're asleep, how are you supposed to know you're asleep? Story of a friend moving here on advice from the Devil. Everywhere they go, they're gonna be there, bringing your same problems because you're gonna be there. All thoughts are truly all lies, all the time, about anything. It's amazing what the thoughts will make you think.
(0:09:22) I have a bunch of friends. Another friend can't find comfort anywhere, living in the most beautiful areas, moving… even onto trains
(0:10:03) A spiritual battle. No you or me to make any decision about anything. Always making decisions, every decision wrong. Wall of thoughts.
(0:11:48) Devil laughing telling you to move to and fro
(0:12:24) Less is more, and more is less. You start not wanting so much, living in imagination, letting go. People will start, and stop the Silent Prayer. Won't do it! How will it help you if you won't stay in the Light? You prefer darkness to light, but cry about your pain.
1C - No settling down, taught wrong
(0:13:07) Caller recently wanted to "settle down," moved from L.A. (or CA) to NC or somewhere.
(0:14:39) To the caller, you fight in marriage! If you can't settle down as one, you wont settle down as two. Everything we've been taught has been wrong.
1D - Divorce the world. The life you have is the life you want.
(0:16:01) Divorce the world, have perfect peace
(0:17:08) They love their god. Anger, Jesus was angry, they say. Anger, emotions, overreactions — their god, they love it more than money. Loneliness, misery, fighting, arguing, being angry. Don’t wanna be free. God allows you to live the life you want.
1E - Parents, trans adult children,
(0:19:13) Leave the drag queens alone! Why it bother you? God doesn’t judge or try to change them!
(0:20:02) Counseled with several parents of adult transgender children.
(0:20:44) My son did not like me. Everything I liked he hated. JLP story. Basketball 🏀and cussing. Black mamas curse you out. But it didn’t bother me.
At 18 I left and never looked back. (0:23:17) Hitchhiking to college. Loved Law class. Got a girl LACC for a white girl.
(0:24:10) Forgive, don’t judge. Light of the world. Responsible for self. Drop all anger, love God, love enemy. All troubles disappear.
1F - Stillness is wisdom. Noise your enemy, weapon of darkness. No you. Real fun.
(0:25:33) By being still so long, stillness is wisdom. Noise is your enemy. A woman’s beauty disappeared with her loud mouth. The darkness uses noise as a weapon, to distract you.
(0:28:39) There is no you. You have to see it. Real fun. Working on yourself. True fun. Stay with it. Nothing/no one will cause you to stop. Devil defeated. Tell you you have fear, you act it out. Stop acting it out and see it’s not real.
(0:30:06) Stay with it. Devil doesn’t want you still. He wants you reacting, on the run, afraid.
In hell.
02 - Feedback: Devil’s ideas, go thru hell
(0:31:16) Any questions? Shayan: Devil uses positive and negative to get you react. Oh start a business now you’re ready!
(0:32:36) JLP: never reach heaven unless you go thru hell first. Shayan speaks more on pain
(0:33:52) JLP: Anybody else have that pain? Thoughts bring emotions. You think it’s you. It’s just a thought! You think you’re your body.
Shayan: a what da moment.
Another Q on realization
(0:35:03) JLP: when I first woke up it came fast. Now it’s light you find yourself living without thinking. Say you wanna buy a boat or train. Nothing to think about. It’s when you stop thinking. When wisdom comes you’re not thinking anymore.
Shayan: I was looking for a feeling or thrill. “Something is missing.” Always looking for a thrill at work.
JLP: we’re not supposed to (0:36:52) hold onto anything or anyone. Wife wanna leave? Quick or after decades. OK bye! So many gf’s sitting by the dock of the bay, crazy but didn’t know.
Shayan: Devil when you let go, boring!
(0:38:31) JLP: Boring life is the life you’re letting go of, the real life is the one you think is boring. You call misery fun.
(0:38:59) Shayan: People at work never stop trying to get reaction.
(0:39:54) JLP: Lady called show saying she was good. (A good mother.) just thrills that made her feel good. Human beings are wicked. Forgive and change the heart.
(0:41:43) Shayan, why don’t you drop your anger? Neighbors won’t say hello.
(0:43:31) Feels like a force field a protective bubble. JLP: Let it happen. The greater the pain, sooner you go thru hell. You don’t know how to drop your anger?
03 - Lady: Drop your anger? Face your fears?
(0:44:34) Young lady, tell him how to drop your anger: I probly need to work on that.
What is a person? (0:46:02) You don’t know what a person is? A living being on the earth? A human? YOU said that!
(0:46:47) Why are you nervous? Are you doing public speaking? Being on mic? Wanna come up here? Why not? What would happen if you faced your fears?
3A - Lady: Forgive parents? Love misery?
(0:49:03) Like 2nd time. Sarah has listens for years. She told me how to forgive. Believed her. I will do it. Slowly getting to that point. Where is the place? Forgive my parents. How long ago. Couple years. Slow walker!
3B - You love the Devil! You are the Devil!
(0:52:19) JLP: You love the Devil! Sarah, you see she loves the Devil? She still has fear. Terrified, rip bandaid off.
(0:54:01) Do you see you are the devil? But don’t judge her. Stop playing God. Satan will always be your gos. Want me to go with you? “Really?”
3C - Thoughts about health keep me up at night
(0:55:36) JLP: Live in your misery. Any Q’s? Thoughts. Hard time sleeping, how do you not have so many thoughts? Health is very important. Why?
(0:57:07) JLP: Forgive. Spirit of Light. Thoughts are dark thoughts. Unconscious while sleeping as awake. Light will separate you from the darkness. Dreams will disappear.
Thoughts are from Satan using your voice. Forgive. Inviting God to take over. Admit in your heart you’re wrong for judging. Makes sense? Silent prayer.
(0:58:51) No Silent Prayer morning and night? Do it. Health will be importantly but no SOOOO important. Long amazing life.
04 - Pregnant by Man Who Wants to Fight with Me
(0:59:49) Sarah? Appreciation. Pregnant by father not working on himself.
(1:01:32) Attacks bounce off you. React he feels alive.
(1:04:23) JLP: Everybody same problem
05 - Man broke up last night. Do the Silent Prayer.
(1:05:06) Any Q's? Nigel, first timer, Glendale(?) (in FL?) Went through a breakup yesterday.
(1:08:58) Philippines. Are you black? You look Mexican, black. You look tough. No, man! Filipino, raised in the U.S.
Do the Silent Prayer.
06 - "I talk to myself." Her childhood story: family separation.
(1:10:13) Young lady had a Q.
(1:12:12) I was 9, unforeseen circumstances, my father went with bros to US. I stayed with mother and little ones. Oldest bro car accident. Grandparents sent him back home to Mexico.
(1:15:11) Why don't you...
(1:15:52) You talk to yourself? Are you crazy? "Yes." Christian? "Of Catholic origin." When you talk to yourself, who are you? "A 9yo little girl. That's the time I was most confused.... Much older than 9.... A good Q I can answer in the future." Where is the future? How are you planning and waiting for the future and it doesn't exist?
(1:17:49) How'd you find us? Anita. Friend Mario. A mother, an individual. A grandmother.
(1:19:50) Never talk to the Devil again
(1:20:40) JLP: just like your mother. Wanna be like her? Your mother's anything but love. …
(1:21:15) Ask your daddy. She was tough to deal with. “My dad was hard to deal with.” … “I would like to be like my mother.”
6B - Friend/work associate didn't tell her about the Silent Prayer
(1:23:08) Gotta drop your anger, stop communicating with the Devil. Did he tell you about the Silent Prayer? What kind of friend you have? How long you been friends? 20 years, says Mario. Are you surprised he never told you? "No…. He saw my need and he reached out…. That’s how you translate things? Wow, incredible, OK.”
(1:24:18) Mario: We just work together.
(1:26:16) Have I said anything you disagree with? "Not really." Start working on your spiritual life. Stop communicating with the Devil, and communicate with God by being still and wanting for nothing. He will meet your every need. Do your little pope prayer, Hail Mary, etc. Then be still and know God.
07 - BQ: Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
(1:27:29) Miss Georgia. The Biblical Question: Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
(1:28:43) Anther lady on BQ: idk but, both?
(1:29:22) A third lady: Jesus desires for us to change our hearts.
(1:29:41) Man: Sacrifice. He gave us mercy for our inability to sacrifice. He sacrificed and gave his mercy to us.
(1:30:44) Pull up Matt 9: 13, Matt 12: 7… Y’all don’t wanna respond, right?
(1:31:16) No pressure. Andrew: Mercy.
(1:31:50) Kurt: Sacrifice. No greater love than to lay down life for friends. Would you? “If I had friends…” JLP: You crazy, jock loco but
(1:32:34) Sam: Truth, and mercy would be effect. Idk either.
(1:33:00) Doug: At first I thought, sacrifice; and He has mercy on us. Why?
(1:34:03) Man: No idea. I thought Sarah was your sister. (1:34:46) JLP: Jews look like white people.
(1:35:07) Man from the Philippines on sacrifice for daughter, etc.
(1:36:24) My daughter if I had one, Alyssa: idk, we also have to forgive
7B - Mimi, BQ: Struggling with sacrifice… and mercy?
(1:36:48) Mimi: what I struggle with, inability to sacrifice this so-called self of mine; but mercy’s involved too… JLP: Still struggling? “Decisions,” quote-unquote, says Mimi: I do. JLP: You were a MESS… a REAL mess!
(1:40:14) JLP: You know you’re crazy right?
(1:42:17) JLP: you need to stop it. Shock the Devil. Instead of going with it.
(1:42:57) I ain’t gone come close to you, Devil! I need the cross for you! A long pipe cross!
(1:43:38) Another man, first time? See Mimi is crazy? Silent Prayer, why did you stop?
7C - Another child left in Mexico by his mother. "Guantanamera." Lawyer, custody
(1:45:34) Another: You forgave your parents, right? I think I did, but I still hear that voice from the Devil saying you need to go back. Both in the kitchen. Left us behind in Mexico. Are you related to her? The opportunities so enticing they leave their families behind. 3-4 years old. … Talks about his father in Paso Robles. His music reading
(1:50:28) Jesse sings Guantanamera
(1:51:34) When daughter's with you, be the Light. Mother the darkness, she will see the difference, and love the Light.
(1:53:27) JLP: Did you know you were not the only one not sleeping at night?
7D - Mercy, not sacrifice. Matt 12: 7, Matt 9: 13
(1:54:17) BQ: Man quotes Matt 12: 7, JLP: I rest my case. Matt 9: 13, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, said Jesus.
Matthew 9:13, New King James Version: 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Matthew 12:7, New King James Version: 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
(1:57:04) JLP: We've been so lied to. Why all of us are suffering. Religion and government, they're the Devil!
7E - Stopped being mad at folks? "Respect."
(1:57:52) Jason, you're a Christian! Where did that come from? Sacrifice…?
(1:59:47) "Almost there," stop being mad at folks? "Respect"
7D - Feedback: Idea of sacrifice. Correcting "disrespect"?
(2:03:08) Mimi: Where did we get the idea of sacrifice? “Denying your flesh”
(2:03:38) JLP: Thoughts and emotions. There is no you. The Devil talking to you, making you believe that what you thought and felt was you. When you reject the thoughts, you do deny it.
(2:04:33) Man on disrespect and correcting others whom he finds disrespectful… the females will say, How you boys doing? I correct that…
(2:06:40) You call your husband babe? Georgia couple
08 - Closing, Mimi on phone, new BQ, Assignment
(2:08:12) 👋
(2:09:01) Flying out.
(2:09:34) Mimi
(2:10:32) New BQ
(2:10:34) 🧐
(2:11:45) 📞
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Matthew 9:13, New King James Version: 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Matthew 12:7, New King James Version: 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Did Jesus desire mercy or sacrifice?
NEW BQ: Why is it OK to discriminate against men but not women?
📝 Assignment for Men's History Month: Don't get angry or argue with anyone, especially your woman.
🗓️ Women's Forum third Thur, Aug 20th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events
REMINDERS / Assignments…
- 2026 Theme: Endurance (since Church 1/4/26)
- 2026 Assignment: Be a doormat. (since Church 12/28/25)
- Rise to the 3rd, 30th, 50th or 100th floor, out of the basement (Church 2/15/26)
- Don't get angry or argue. (Men's History, JLP Mon 8/3/26)
- Catch the waves of pain. (Church 8/2/26)
- Be a thought watcher. (JLP Mon 4-20-26)
- Resist anger. (Church 3/29/26, Church 4/5/26)
- Don't think about you at all this week. (Church 3/8/26)
- Keep your mind where your body is, for one week. (After Church 3/1/26)
- Next time you cry, check yourself. (Church 3/1/26)
- Watch the Devil in you. (Church 2/1/26)
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