You're listening to k I am sixty on demand. Catherine, Welcome to Jesus
Christ Show. How Jesus? Hi? I have a question, I say,
Now I have two and I'm wondering if I could switch. Well,
we're very very very short on time, so why don't you trade the first
one first? But I'm glad that the show is making you think. I'm
glad that the show is making you think. That's a good thing. It
is. The first one was if is God, if Jesus, If Jesus
is the Son of God and God Jesus office is to be God in flesh.
How is that? How's that possible? Well? One is the title
that is used not only prophetically saying you know that the Son of God will
come, but throughout throughout scripture you'll see that term used for me specifically as
the unique Son of God, not just sons of God or daughters of God,
which is every believer, but specifically talking about the Son of God.
Matthew twenty six sixty three. Yes, it is, as you say,
I reply, as talking to the high priests that are asking me, they're
charging me under oath by the Living God, say, are you the Christ,
the Son of God, and I say, yes, it is as
you say. But I say to all of you, in the future you
will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One
and coming into the clouds. Son of Man, son of God, interchangeable
in this context. But it's talking about me having the nature of God and
being God. And that's why if you read are On in Matthew twenty six
sixty five through sixty six, also John nineteen seven, that you will see
that the law that it talks about there that I've broken as the law of
blasphemy because I'm claiming to be God by using that term being the son of
God. It's not the same type of son and daughter that you'd think about
in the human ends. It's not that, oh, well, you know,
God met Mary and Mary and God had a relationship and had a child.
That's not what it's about. It's about the unique nature of God is
in me his son, and we are one and the same. That gets
into the trinity. I realize, which complicates matters some more. But for
the sake of time, to understand that that term being used is a term
claiming that I am God, not just the son of God, but that
I am one exactly with his nature. Stephen. Welcome to the Jesus Christ
Show. Good morning Jesus, Hi, Stephen, what's going on? I
have a theologic question. My wife suffers from multiple class and a farn of
mine who is a very debout Christian as I you know, am as well.
He told me perhaps it's, you know, something generational, and I
didn't quite understand what he meant, and his wife elaborated a little more on
it, and she she mentioned how she was sick one time, very sick.
A couple of her elders prayed over her and realized that through their prayer
they said that they're her ancestors. Shimmed and that's because she's the reason why
she's sick. And I don't believe that, because I believe, you know,
this is what God ordained me for us to have. But you know,
there is some scripture that goes along with it, I suppose, but
I wanted to get your take on it so you can help me clarify this.
No, this seems to be something that is reoccurring, Stephen. That
is that that people often look for outside reasons. I mean, this is
nothing new. In John chapter nine, verse one, and you probably remember
the story, and I'll read it to you. It says, and as
he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth, and his disciples
asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents that
he should be born blind? Jesus answered, it was neither that this man's
sin nor his parents, but it was in order that the works of God
might be displayed in him. So there's a lot of infirmity in scripture that
Paul, for instance, with a thorn in the flesh that doesn't get taken
away, that isn't pointing to a particular sin. Now you could you could
argue that all sickness comes from sin, because that's not the way humans were
designed. But and yes, it's generational in the sense that it's passed down.
That's sickness. Genetic illnesses things like that come from the pollution of the
human body and cause things that weren't supposed to be there before. That's why
they're mutations. But so in the big sense, yeah, all things come
from sin in that sense. But to say that it's some sort of family
curse or something generational that's passed down through sin, no it's it's not fair
to say that that's an excuse not to participate and your well being not to
figure out, you know, how to get healthier, or if there is
a lifelong illness or heaven forbid, a life threatening illness, that you can
understand the weight of it in its context rather than overly spiritualizing it. That
doesn't mean that there aren't oppressions, spiritual oppressions and demonic oppressions, not possessions,
but oppressions that weigh people down or things like that that can be prayed
over and removed. But really that that's a separate issue from day to day
illnesses that people get, and sometimes people overly spiritualize them and they think that
they're doing that to glorify God. A lot of times people do that to
glorify themselves, to be a part of it and saying no, we don't
have to bow to this, and I can get you through this, and
that ends up twisting down a whole different other path. But really, you've
got to trust God and see God's glory in the good and the bad.
I don't know why people assume that only the good things glorify God. Even
illness points to the glory of God. Obviously I said so, and John
that I just read to you. There's that context of saying, no,
God is glorified in these things too. There's other scriptures that say that you
should rejoice in your trials and tribulations because God is seen in those. So
it's one of those things that I think sometimes Christians can get overly spiritualized on.
It's not that sin doesn't pass along through the butt bloodline. It's not
that sin isn't something that becomes generational and has passed down because it is.
I mean, there's just the way things you teach your children and all of
these things. But in the sense of thinking of it more like a curse
is to belittle the power of the Blood of Christ in the first place,
and to say that, you know, everyone's going to go through these things.
It's all under the blood. And it's never about the flesh or being
healthy in that sense, because I say specifically, I fear not he who
can kill the flesh, but he who can kill the spirit. So it's
always about the spiritual health of the individual. And I'm so sorry to hear
about the illness to begin with. But God can be seen and can be
glorified in all those things, and that should ye should never lose sight of
that and know that God is present even in the sickness, and that it's
not always about curing everything, because not everyone gets cured. You're listening to
k I AM six on demand. NOI welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Hello Jesus Hi. I'm thirty five years old and I was raised Roman Catholic,
my baptism, communion, confirmation, my mom actually my mom actually taught
Catechism for seventeen years. But I also consider myself homosexual. But I seem
to have lost my way with the Roman Catholic Church, and I was just
seeing if there was any possible way, I guess, to get back into
the Roman Catholic Church even you know, based on I guess just what I
just told you. Well, this program, we do our part not to
speak for any particular church, but but to you know, no, no,
no, don't be but to focus on the broader truth in scripture.
And I will tell you this. I want you back in the church now.
If you choose that to be the Catholic Church or Protestant Church, that's
up to you. But do I want to have a relationship with you.
Absolutely, and unfortunately, the church, in many different forms, both Protestant
and Catholicism, has been heinous to the gay community, and the way that
they have reached out and or not reached out, or wait, they have
treated the gay community is abhorrent to God. And in that sense, it's
it's absolutely important that you go and you listen, but you keep this in
mind. I get these attitudes from people all over the place, and not
just the gay community, but every community you can think of that wants to
go into the church with their arms crossed saying, God, I want you
to be the way I want you to be. And that's not fair either.
So as much as you are absolutely welcomed and I want you to be
in the church, go in with that openness and that desire to hear what
God has to say for you and to learn from that and to grow with
that, and not go in there with a particular set or an agenda as
to what you want out of God, but what God wants out of you.
But I think that's the biggest part of being in a church is sometimes
you go in with that expectation of Okay, God, what are you going
to do for me, and I don't want it to be that kind of
relationship. It's it should be what do you have to teach me? What
can I learn? And those things become incredibly important. And if you go
in there with an attitude or kind of this is you know, this is
what I want from you God, I think that that all is lost at
that point. I've had people call me on the program with questions and say,
what does the Bible say about this? And you could just hear in
the tone of their voice that they're not going to listen to it. So
the natural question is, well, if if it says that you shouldn't do
something, or it says that you should do something, would you adhere to
it? And if you say no, then don't bother with it on any
part of your life. But if you want to go and receive God,
if you want to go and strengthen your relationship with God. Absolutely, But
on the note of homosexuality, on the note of the way that the church
treat has treated the gay community, there are some asinine statements that are made
on behalf of me and in my name that are absolutely absolutely from the pit
of hell. And the way that the gay community has been treated and ostracized
and treated differently and set apart and not welcomed. Not in all churches.
I know that there's wonderful churches. And it's not about being a super duper
liberal church where you know, anything goes and there's no theology structure. Not
about that. It's about the peace and love that comes from scripture that is
real and that is honest, and that is receiving of people from from all
kinds of walks in all kinds of situations. And it's always disappointing when I
get emails of how somebody was treated in the church for any reason, and
that sheds poor light upon the love of God and the purpose of the death
and la Cross and the resurrection and what all that speaks. You're listening to
kfimix on demand, Leonard. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Now let
me get out of the wind here. Sorry about that, no problem.
I had a question. U. I make eighty percent of them income from
playing poker, my goodness, Uh huh and uh. I just wanting to
know of came in contact with a lot of good man in Christian people and
they say it's evil and going to hell and oh wow. Actually I usually
bring up you know, it's I mean, y'all play monopoly because that's the
game of chance too, and they kind of well that's different, you know.
I mean you want to you want to hear a mind blowing fact.
The apostles cast lots to determine the replacement for Judas in scripture. So there's
there's the lottery is used in Uh. They cast lots in leviticiss to choose
between a sacrificial goat and escapegoat. Joshua cast lots to determine, uh,
you know, the size of land for various tribes. It does show its
face in scripture, and there's nothing that says implicitly in scripture that it's wrong.
Now, I will tell you, Leonard, that there are some things
that would make it wrong. Now you said you're a poker player, right,
I mean, if if I see somebody that's you know, I mean
honestly having problems, I try to go to a different table. You know,
I'm trying not to take advantage, you know, But poker is a
skill. It's not as much a game of chance as if you were sitting
there playing the slots machine. Slot machine Okay, so there's a couple of
differences. Poker is going to be one of the few times where where you
can see that as a job. It's a game of skill. It takes
practice and insight and ability. So in that case it would be very,
very different from other types of gambling if you're just trying to make a buck.
If you're actually making a living at it, that shows that you're pretty
good. If you're doing it in an honest way, then that's fine as
well. That the concern comes in places like Proverbs thirteen eleven says dishonest money
dwindles way, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Getting in that kind of get rich quick mentality is absolutely wrong. But if
you are are going and you're you're an honest poker player. That's not to
say that, you know, the part of the playing is bluffing and the
like, but that's understood by all the other players. So yeah, it's
not considered lying or fabricating it in a different sense because everybody goes into it
knowing that's part of the game. So but if you're honest in what you
do, you're not cheating and you're not doing it just to stay out of
work. You're doing it because this is your job, then you're fine.
It's only when it becomes something that controls your life, or an addiction,
or you're doing it to just try and skirt the system to you know,
make a you know, quick buck or things like that. That's when gambling
would become a problem. And that's when I would say that you need to
run from it. Robert, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello,
how are you? I am? Well? How can I help you?
Robert? Um? I had a question, um, how does a marry
couple get past adultery? And is there any scripture that can actually help us
in moving forward in our lives? Well, of course there's scripture, but
first I'd like to get a little bit more understanding. Or you're going through
this yourself right now? Yes, sir? And what happened. I committed
adultery myself and it would eat me alive and I ended up telling my wife
about it, and now we're in a situation that we're trying to get over.
Okay, Aaron, was it a long period of time? Was it
a one time thing? Was it was? It was more so a one
time thing. More so. So you're saying it happened more than once.
No, it happened once. Okay, Yeah, that would be exactly a
one time thing. So it happened exactly on time. Okay. So it
happened one time, and you you brought up to your wife and you told
her um about your discretion, your indiscretion rather and she she's responding and being
hurt, right, very hurt, very hurting, O, very non trusting,
sad. I mean she cried all the time. You know, it's
it's rough. Is was this someone she knew as well? No, okay,
with somebody at work or um it was it was somebody It was something
like that. Yeah, okay, Um, you weren't. Did you feel
that you put yourself in in this situation knowingly and you just kind of went
with you went with a rolled with it all and just said, okay,
I'm just gonna give in. Yeah I did. I did. I gave
into the temptation that that surrounds us every day. Well, there's forgiveness all
throughout scripture. It's a running theme obviously, but there's two things that go
with forgiveness. There's open forgiveness, and that's that's for your wife, that's
she's to forgive, to release it so that she doesn't have it. But
that's not necessarily for you. Reconciliation is something different. Reconciliation comes with work
and intent and focus and all these things. It's it's like God loves and
forgives everyone, but only reconciles truly with those that receive him and repent turn
away. So one you can't do it anymore. You can't do anything obviously
that even remotely appears to look like that. And you have to find out
why this was so important to you, find out what about it was worth
the possible loss of your wife and your family, and why that one time.
You know what part of you yearns for that kind of attention that would
make you do something counter to who you are. I mean, you're not
a bad guy, are you? And you and you you don't want this
in your life, yet you welcomed it. You brought it in your life,
right and you see what damage it? I mean you couldn't even live
with it. Yeah, you told on yourself. It's not like you even
got caught, right, um, exactly. The worst thing you can do
is try and make things go back to normal. Quickly. Um it makes
it will appear to your wife that you're just trying to cover it up and
that it doesn't matter and that you don't care about her feelings. You need
to get to a third party. You need to have somebody, a pastor
somebody that you guys can talk in front of and work through this um and
and get through it to a place where, um, you can start building
that trust. But it's going to take a lot of work, and there's
going to be a lot of cants. There's a lot of things that you
can't do anymore, and you shut that we're off. There's going to be
things that you think are normal or or casual to go out and see friends
or do whatever, that you aren't going to get to do anymore. And
you you better realize that and note that that's part of what you sacrificed.
You sacrifice something on your wife's end, her trust and her love and all
that she gave you, and now you're sacrificing much of your freedom to reinstill
faith in your family and who in the character of who you are. There's
there's much of scripture or just up, he gets a clock. When I
come back, I'll give you some scripture that you can read, but there's
much a scripture that talks about forgiveness. You're listening to kf I am sixty
on demand. I was talking with Robert about his infidelity and you could hear
how obviously he's not happy with himself and his situation. People will make mistakes,
and there are there's a great distance, a vast difference between those who
are repeat offenders, who it's a it's a lifestyle. They go out and
they commit adultery over and over again, versus somebody who puts themselves in a
very stupid situation and makes a mistake. So I want to give you a
few things. He asked for scripture about forgiveness and things like that, and
I want to give that. But I also want to give you a guideline.
If you want to protect yourself, well, the best way to protect
yourself is to build boundaries between that which you want to protect and the outside
world. Right, if you want to protect that part of your life,
then both men and you two women have to understand that there are boundaries that
you have to push beyond, even outside of the normal boundaries, to keep
you from falling into that circumstance. The old saying that you get too close
to the creek, you slip in. It's just a way creeks are built.
The slides are the sides are slippery, and you get distracted by the
beauty of the whole thing and you're in the drink. Likewise, when it
comes to your emotions and your sexuality and your intimacy levels, you have to
keep yourself from being intimate. And that has nothing to do with clothes being
off. You can't connect with people. Today's program has been about communing and
connecting with people, and you can't do that with someone of the opposite sex
in the same way at the same time. You can't You don't do that
anymore. Doesn't mean that you aren't human, and it doesn't mean that you
don't connect on other levels. But you can't have those moments of intimacies.
You don't share secrets with the opposite sex that you keep from your spouse,
things like that, because then you build a bond with somebody else that can
grow into that intimacy level that can become a problem. And as the old
saying goes, if you're if you're not supposed to go into Idaho don't go
into the United States, and then you're guaranteed never to step foot in Idaho.
The point being that if is set your boundaries so wide that you're not
going to worry about the possibility of slipping in, and that's just don't put
yourself in those positions. As far as scriptures go, Robert, I want
you to know that first John one nine is very clear if we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify
us from all in righteousness. That's a process, and it's where the process
you're in right now, and one that you need to allow to happen to
you and your your wife will be doing the same healing from that. And
finally, Matthew twenty one through twenty three is what I want you to read
about forgiving, forgiving yourself as well. Ernest, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning, Hello sir. How can I help you? Yes,
Sir, Jesus, I wander north. Why we keep Sunday as the Sabbath.
I've been reading the Bible as of late and little articles in different magazines,
and I can't find any work where it says to change the Sabbath to
Sunday, some being the first day of the week. Yes, absolutely not
that pity on that. Okay, Sunday is not the Sabbath. Christians do
not celebrate on the Sabbath. Christians tend to sell clebrate on what they referred
to as the Lord's Day, which is to represent the resurrection, which took
place on Sunday. Now you find this in the Book of Acts as well.
Acts twenty verse seven talks about them gathering around to break bread on the
first day of the week, and this shows that there the celebration takes place
on a different day, and there's other Collausians two, verse sixteen and seventeen.
But the Lord's Day, the term Lord's Day only appears once in the
New Testament, that's Revelation one, verse ten. But don't confuse the concept
or the Lord's Day with what is the Sabbath, which is the seventh day
of the week. That's Saturday. It's the day of rest, and that
doesn't change. Sunday being the first day of the week, is the day
that I rose from the dead, and that's the day that is celebrated by
most Christians. So New Testament Christians did not believe Saturday should be observed by
worship and rest necessarily Romans fourteen five and six Galatians four, verse eight through
eleven. But they had a lot of modern Christians and the early Christians regarded
the Sabbath as part of the ceremonial law of Israel, and that not necessarily
applicable to the Church as it stands today. So keep in mind there there's
not just ten commandments. There's over four hundred commandments in scripture. So this
is one of those that that many Christians think that it's not about the day.
If you remember, I was asked about the Sabbath, and I said
the Sabbath was made for man, not man. For the Sabbath to show
people that they had it kind of backwards. It was about taking the time
to rest, taking the time to spend with God, focusing on God and
the things of God, and that should be done regardless. I don't care
what day that's done on. But it's imperative that you rest. It's imperative.
Scripture says, be still and know that I'm God. It's imperative that
you have that downtime to sit before God and to relax and receive those are
the things that are important. It's it's imperative that in a work, in
a physical work sense, that you have time of rest as well, that
you stop from your labor, that you literally put your tools down and take
that time to relax. Otherwise you're going to burn yourself out and you're not
going to be of any value to anyone, including God, because when you
get really, really super tired, you're susceptible to a lot of things physically,
spiritually, emotionally, and you receive differently, and so it's important to
take that time. I'm going to have that rest. But what happens is
if you make it about the Sabbath, then that becomes about the law again
and then the laws who preceedes God, And it's not about that. The
law was to train you about the things of God, to understand the purpose
of structure and consistency and the things of God, not about trying to be
perfect or obtaining Godhood in any way, shape or form. So in this
particular case, when it comes to the Sabbath, the modern day Christians and
even New Testament Christians felt that it wasn't about the Sabbath anymore. It was
about the purpose of the Sabbath, that is to take time to rest and
to worship God and also to celebrate God. And that's done with most Christians
on Sunday, the first day of the week. K i AM six on demand