WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.240 You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand. Doug, Welcome to the 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:13.640 Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus, I'm doing all right good. My question 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:19.559 to you is whether or not Jesus actually paid taxes in the in the New 4 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:25.559 Testament, it there's a there's a few scriptures in there where describes. And 5 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.719 the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, do you pay taxes? And he 6 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.559 tells them to take out a coin. He says, well, whose picture 7 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.439 is on there? Whose face is on there? Give to Caesar what is 8 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:38.280 Caesar's exactly? Render und to Caesar what is Caesar's? And render under God? 9 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.719 What is God? And yet, and yet the follow up question was 10 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:46.200 never addressed, which is what belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God? 11 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.520 And therefore, did Jesus actually pay taxes? And the answer, are you 12 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:59.200 ready when a drum roll? Yes, yes, Matthew seventeen, Okay, 13 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.759 Matthew seventeen, And I'll read it to you Matthew seventeen, verse twenty four. 14 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.040 And they, when they had come to Kapernaum, those who collected the 15 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:12.760 two Drachma attacks, came to Peter and said, does your teacher not pay 16 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:18.040 the two drachma attacks. He said yes, And when he came into the 17 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.400 house, Jesus spoke with him first, saying, what do you think, 18 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:26.280 Simon, from whom do you to the kings of the earth collect customs or 19 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:33.120 poll tax from their sons or from strangers? And upon his saying from strangers, 20 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:38.359 Jesus said to him consequently, the sons are exempt verse twenty seven. 21 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.640 But lest we give them offence, go to the sea and throw in a 22 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.439 hook and take out the first fish that comes up, and when you open 23 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:52.159 its mouth you will find a stater that would be the money. Take that 24 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:57.959 and give it to them for you and me. So yes, okay. 25 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.920 So my follow up question than would be when he was actually talking with the 26 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.959 scribes and the pharisees, why not just come out and say yes, because 27 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.439 there's a lesson to be learned. The things of the world are. People 28 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.479 get caught up in the things of the world and think that they're the most 29 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.520 important thing. My whole purpose was to point out that it's not as important 30 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.159 that people would get They would get caught up in the specifics of the law 31 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:27.800 and not understand the purpose of the law, which is what God's importance is. 32 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:32.680 And I'll give you an example. In the streets you're in Louisiana. 33 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:40.719 What's the what's the speed limit there on the highways and the byways the interstate 34 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.800 seventy okay for the most part. Okay, so seventy miles per hour. 35 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:49.840 And that's for this for the safety of human beings. Right, It's to 36 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.439 preserve life. Yes, that's what the law is there for. So to 37 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.560 preserve life is more is more important than the law itself, because that's what 38 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.919 the laws are there for. And in a lot of cases, if you 39 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.639 have law enforcement or firefighters or anything like that, they're going to ignore the 40 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:13.000 law of speed if it means a life for death situation, because the law 41 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.080 is never more important than the purpose of the law. So a lot of 42 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:21.080 times the Pharisees and the Sadducees were coming to me and trying to corner me, 43 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:25.240 to get me to remark in something that would cause a war or some 44 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:31.439 sort of outbreak of anger towards me based on a particular law. They were 45 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:38.680 trying to paint in, paint me into a corner and to keep from playing 46 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.159 their game, or more so, to play the game in a way that 47 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.719 it showed the folly of their own ways. I would grant them a question 48 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:52.919 that would answer it, but also make them think about why they are making 49 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.919 the decisions or asking the questions they're asking. So it was more important it 50 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.479 was multifold. And you'll find that throughout scripture there's oftentimes where I ask things 51 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:08.240 because that's the best way to learn. People learn when they're a part of 52 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:14.240 it, not just being talked at, but being inquirried and talked to, 53 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:21.800 and instead of just gathering something from rote saying memorize this, that in an 54 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:28.560 example that they could participate in, they started to understand better. So they 55 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.120 start going okay, well yeah, who is on the coin? And well 56 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:36.560 it's not God, it's Caesar. So he was just saying, listen, 57 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:41.199 why are you even worried about money? Why are you lost in the things 58 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:45.279 of money? Why do you even care that The Pharisees were trying to set 59 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.240 me up. The Pharisees were trying to put me in a position where if 60 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:49.839 I said don't pay taxes, I would have been arrested. And if I 61 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:56.839 said do pay taxes, then the people that were following me at the time 62 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.319 that hated taxes would have thought I would as a traitor towards their cause. 63 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.680 So really, rather than falling into either of those, I was explaining a 64 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:11.639 story by way of illustration that would explain the reason why you can give taxes 65 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.920 and be okay, and the reason why you shouldn't feel bad for it, 66 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:18.120 but also to let the Pharisees know that their concern about taxes was not a 67 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:24.680 thing of God, so it served many different purposes, And that's the way 68 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:28.959 I taught. That was the way to get people to understand fully and own 69 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:36.000 something. Mike, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Yes, I guess 70 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:44.279 my question revolves around one of the main tenets of Christianity is is that the 71 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:49.959 central focus is that belief and acceptance in You as Messiah and Savior is required 72 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:54.560 to go to heaven. I guess I've always wondered about all the babies who 73 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.720 were born and died too young to comprehend this or understand it. And on 74 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.800 all the people on the world and isolated arrows areas esk and most tribes people 75 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:08.839 who have never heard of you. What happens to them since they can't accept 76 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.519 and believe something that they've never even heard of or under understood. Sure, 77 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.000 legitimate. I will tell you something interesting, Mike. No one ever asked 78 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:23.600 that question that hasn't already heard themselves because you can't. So really have you 79 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.600 come to a conclusion yourself as to what you believe in what you don't? 80 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.160 Well, I can tell you I was raised in Indiana and I was actually 81 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.480 raised in the Midnight Faith, which a part and I guess, I guess 82 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:40.759 I'm you're reading the Bible, thinking about things and hearing Oh I'm sorry, 83 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.439 Mike. Your your phone's coming in and out. You were saying that you 84 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:49.319 were from the Minnite Faith, growing up in the Minnite Faith. Unfortunately, 85 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:54.000 the phone's probably not going to work on the air for right now is driving 86 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.040 through Nevada. It looks like, well, we're happy to have your call, 87 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.759 and I think it's a great call. The question is dealing with those 88 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:05.399 that haven't heard. And I will tell you this Scripture and the basis of 89 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.800 relationship between God and man is not based on ignorance. It's based on rejection. 90 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:19.040 You have to trust God to contact and connect with anybody. Scripture says 91 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.519 that the Second Coming won't take place till everybody has had a chance to accept 92 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.639 or reject. It's not about ignorance. It's not well, oh they didn't 93 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:32.000 hear. Sorry, you know, your sheer out of luck. You won't 94 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.959 get to participate. That's not how it works. It's about rejection and rejecting 95 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:42.040 the word of God. Now, Scripture says in Romans one that there is 96 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.319 this natural revelation, this general revelation that people can see in nature, in 97 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.720 God's creation, and that that is sufficient to be able to understand there is 98 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.519 a God and who that God is, and to come to the knowledge of 99 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:59.560 God. That's the imperative. So people all over the place, and children 100 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:07.240 dying too young can still be brought into the Kingdom by God without having any 101 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.160 point of rejection because they have never really truly rejected. If they're too young 102 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:20.079 to accept, they're too young to have rejected. Christina, Welcome to the 103 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.959 Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Jesus, hi hi, I have a question 104 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.800 for you. I have a son that has been dealing with drug addiction a 105 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.320 great deal of his life, and no matter how much he professes he wants 106 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.519 to get clean and gets very very very close, no matter how much prayer 107 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.720 is offered up for him or what's going on. He seems to not be 108 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.960 able to quite get there, get clear to sobriety and stay there. And 109 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:03.480 I'm wondering if there's something bigger and larger, like generational sin or generational what 110 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:09.080 would you call that generational? Well in scripture when people ask if you remember, 111 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.720 there's times where people would ask me and say, you know, this 112 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.720 man is blind? Was it because of his sin or the sins of his 113 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.759 parents? And I said to neither. You know, there, that's that's 114 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.240 not People get caught up in those things, and I understand why, but 115 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:31.320 it's it's there are things in generations past that help become the you know, 116 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.720 atmosphere or surroundings that create a person, and those things get passed down, 117 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:41.080 yes, but really addiction is one of those one of those rooms that is 118 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:48.639 locked from the inside. And there's there's obviously things and forces that and demons 119 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.039 that that tie And I say demons in the equochial sense, not in the 120 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:58.039 theological sense necessarily, but there are things that that will weigh a person down 121 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:03.679 and become a a hindrance and hinder their progress when it comes to addiction. 122 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.559 But he's the only individual that can do that, can do anything. I 123 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.799 mean, you can have people, therapists, you can have programs, all 124 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.679 kinds of things, but he's got to want to do it, and got 125 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.879 to unlock that door. And he's the one in the room. And there 126 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.080 can be many different things that prohibit that, or at least in his mind, 127 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.240 but ultimately, even prayer, all those things are going to be directed 128 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.399 towards him unlocking that door. No one else, there's no It seems like 129 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.799 he is screaming and pounding on the door and trying as hard as he can. 130 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:45.440 And the church that I go to keeps wanting me to go to what's 131 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:52.559 called a healing center and do two days of intensive prayer and a bunch of 132 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:58.399 stuff all well meaning that supposedly has to do with cleaning up generational curse and 133 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:05.399 generation send. That you say is what's poured down on him sort of like 134 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:11.120 a sieve down through a reverse mushroom type situation sounds a little. It sounds 135 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:18.240 a little overly spiritualizing the circumstance. Now I say that people, and I 136 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.919 don't know, I'm going off of what you've told me, so they're not 137 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:28.519 here to defend their statements. So I will say this that God puts you 138 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.360 on earth for a reason. You're here in the flesh on earth by Earth's 139 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:37.000 laws for a reason. And the spirit does interact with the physical, but 140 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:45.960 Christians can sometimes overly spiritualize something and not see what's ahead of them. People 141 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.320 do get out of addiction, even very difficult addiction, but it's going to 142 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.759 come down to them want it. It's the same as salvation. If you 143 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.639 look at a redemption in salvation in scripture, it really comes down to an 144 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:07.399 individual receiving that uh and uh and taking that on themselves, receiving the gift. 145 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.080 And when it comes to sobriety, it it's a it's a very long 146 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.440 process and people can want it and say they want it, but to apply 147 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.440 that is completely different. If you talk to people that are working a program, 148 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:26.000 it's a daily struggle and they say that every day, keep coming back. 149 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:31.679 It really works one day at a time. These these sentences are not 150 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:35.559 just sentences. They're there to to remind you that it's a daily struggle. 151 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:37.679 You're not going to be free of it in a moment. That's a that's 152 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.759 a rarity does take place, but that's a rarity. And there are people 153 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.519 that say they want things. There are people that say, oh, well, 154 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:48.120 I'm really looking for a job, and they're not really looking for a 155 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.600 job. They're sort of looking. They send resumes out, or they you 156 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.399 know, and it looks like a lot's going on, or there's there's people 157 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:00.000 that often outwardly look as if they want something. And I don't doubt from 158 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:05.840 moment that he truly wants to be freed from this, But tackling the process 159 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.399 and getting involved and really really making it happen is different. And he needs 160 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.960 to go to detos. He needs to go somewhere where it's forced upon him 161 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:22.519 and he has to fight for that would be the best thing for him. 162 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.159 Chris, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus than what's going on? 163 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.879 Well, I was wondering if there is a place in the Bible I 164 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:39.639 can assist me in my situation. My situation is a person who works for 165 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:46.360 me is a single mother with three children. But based on her performance, 166 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:56.440 I have no other choice than to fire her very soon. So I just 167 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.879 really don't know what my best option here is. Based on the business, 168 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.840 I have to fire her, but she's a single mother with three children, 169 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.679 and so I don't know what assistance? Why? Well, but why does 170 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:15.080 that fall on you? Well, I don't know if it should. That's 171 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:16.440 one of my other questions. I don't even know if it should fall on 172 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.159 me. So you're a manager in this situation, correct, right? Okay? 173 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.159 And you've been is it a company you own? Oh? No, 174 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.600 I see what you're saying. No, it's not a company. So you've 175 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.399 been asked as a manager to do certain tasks, one of which is letting 176 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.559 go those that are not doing the task they've promised to do. Correct. 177 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:41.559 Correct, Okay. So if you don't do what is right, you risk 178 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.480 being, you know, being in breach of your agreement with your employer. 179 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.879 That's correct, to try and save somebody, not with your money, but 180 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.559 with their money. Correct? And how do you think God would look at 181 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.840 that? I see what you're saying her. So, really, what it 182 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.320 comes down to, Chris, people don't get fired. Now, people get 183 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.639 laid off, yes, but people don't get fired usually for things they didn't 184 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.519 do. They get fired for on their own. They kind of fire themselves. 185 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:28.000 So all you're doing is acting upon what they're doing. I understand she's 186 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.279 a single mother. And if you want to maybe look into a church or 187 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.960 somebody that might help her. That's one thing, and you can, you 188 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.480 know, but you're not addressing her as a single mother unless that's part of 189 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.879 the job, you know, unless you're only hiring single mothers and they need 190 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.120 to be single mothers and they don't aren't supposed to work or do anything. 191 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.799 You can't let that decide, because she's making decisions and playing a part in 192 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.279 this too, And if you don't allow her to have consequence to what she 193 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:08.480 does, then she'll never learn and she or better. Yet, there may 194 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:15.000 be a job that's better suited for her that you're keeping her from falsely. 195 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.600 And let's say worst case scenario, she actually makes a pretty major impact on 196 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.320 the job and you've got ten people working there, of which she is one, 197 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.879 and now she's caused the job to be so damaged that other people are 198 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:33.919 laid off that were doing their job because you're holding on to somebody who wasn't. 199 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.080 The scenario can go on and on and on. So that's why doing 200 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.240 the right thing should be doing the right thing based on the right thing, 201 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.200 not on the emotions of the situation. Emotionally, yes, absolutely, I 202 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.399 understand what you're saying. That's sad, to do. But do you know 203 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:53.159 how many people I walked by two thousand years ago that were blind or sick, 204 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.840 that people are dead, That people jumped in front of me and said, 205 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:02.080 save this person. But it wasn't about that. It's not You're not 206 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.000 going to be able to save everybody. But what you can do is leave 207 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:11.759 an opening for somebody who's aggressive and maybe wants to look at the job differently, 208 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.079 and that may better the company and make it grow, and then other 209 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:19.839 people will get hired. But if it's not the right job for her and 210 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.920 she can't do it, it's it doesn't help her to kind of patronize and 211 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.720 say they're there, you're a single mother, will take care of you. 212 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.200 That's not your job. Your job is to manage, So manage and pray 213 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.119 over it and don't feel bad about it. That's what you're there for to 214 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.440 execute those things. Have compassion. But this is not something you did, 215 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:51.359 it's something you're reacting to. There's a difference. David, Welcome to the 216 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.039 Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus. I have a question. I have my 217 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.880 own theory about this, but I'd like to get your take on it. 218 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.279 I have a friend of mine that's constantly telling me that I get in the 219 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.319 situations. I have bad luck with women, I'm having a real hard time 220 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.599 with my job and all this stuff. And he's telling me is because I 221 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.240 don't pray enough, I don't do this stuff, I don't do that enough. 222 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.440 And I'm and I'm constantly telling him, well, I understand that a 223 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.039 lot of my situation is due to some of the decisions that I've made. 224 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.160 And I mean, some of it is me, a lot of it is 225 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.200 me, most of it is me, and some of it is just circumstances. 226 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.599 And like you say, circumstances do change. But I asked him, 227 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.240 I said, well, if that's the case, then why do I mean? 228 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.920 I know, I'm suffering for reason because of the stupid decisions I've made. 229 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:48.240 But what about people that are born innocent children, for example, that 230 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.720 are born in war to one areas such as you know, the Middle East, 231 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.240 they're starving to death in Central Africa, or you know, even go 232 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:04.480 as far as born into highly dysfunctional families. If God is loving and just 233 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:11.799 how can that be? Oh boy? And of course I'm supposed to wrap 234 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.599 this up in a couple of minutes, right, Okay, let's say it's 235 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:21.319 a It's an excellent question and a profound question, and I can see where 236 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:29.079 trying to peel that onion can be very difficult and also one that that tugs 237 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.240 on the heart strings. Now, this is a very bold program, and 238 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.400 I don't duck from things that are controversial because I don't care about controversy. 239 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.960 I care about the truth, So I will. I will tell you that 240 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.680 there's when you're dealing with emotional questions like you know, how come babies die 241 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:52.799 or how come people suffer, people tend to remove their brain and stop thinking 242 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.559 and just want to feel through the situation. And that can be helpful at 243 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.880 times, but in a case like this, it isn't helpful. So if 244 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:08.119 you look at the big picture concept of God interacting with his creation, it's 245 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:12.000 not always as clear cut, like while you didn't pray today, therefore bad 246 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.960 things are going to happen to you. Now. Do I think that you 247 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.000 have problems with women because of luck? No? I think you have David 248 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:25.000 problems right, And those are the issues at hand. There are people David 249 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:30.359 all over the globe that are dating right now, and there are some that 250 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.200 are married, and there are you know, some just starting relationships. There 251 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.880 are all kinds of things, examples that could be given. If you're not 252 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.920 in a relationship, it's because you don't want to be in a relationship for 253 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:47.119 one reason or another, regardless of what you tell yourself, whether it is 254 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.079 the places you're going or looking or any of those things. So the same 255 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:56.519 thing can be applied to anything. Now, do children want to be starving, 256 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:00.759 No, of course not. Do people want to starve, no, 257 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.680 of course not. Are their inherent problems in the structure of their government or 258 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:14.279 the way they the way they live, Yes, whether it's the regions that 259 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:21.759 they live, the places they desire to live. But you're talking about sometimes 260 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:29.920 centuries of habits that have been placed into a country or a region. And 261 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.039 so you said, rightly, so you brought it back home and said, 262 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:40.240 in dysfunctional families, you can be born into something that somebody brings you into 263 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:42.880 a bad situation. Parents or their parents brought them into it, and now 264 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:48.759 they bring you into it by not knowing or rejecting the truth and applying it 265 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.319 to their life in a negative way. Someone can say there's a lot of 266 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:57.160 people that won't want will not move out of what is referred to as the 267 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:04.480 ghetto because they think it's selling out. There are entire populous populations that feel 268 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:10.200 that if you of different minorities or groups of people that feel that if they 269 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:17.559 were to do something that seemed too much like the white man, then they 270 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:22.519 were rejecting their culture. There are Christians that feel like if they do something 271 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:25.799 or move into this area, they're rejecting their faith. And this goes along 272 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:32.119 not only cultures and different colors and different races, but also religion. Religion 273 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:36.480 plays a huge part different religion in different countries where people won't eat certain foods 274 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:41.039 or won't interact with certain types of grain or whatever it might be, and 275 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:48.160 they are, unfortunately in an area where that's not the healthiest way to live. 276 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:53.079 They don't have the same amount of availability for different or different options. 277 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:02.400 But instead of progressing or changing or some somehow looking for a new path, 278 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:07.559 people stay in what they know. The good that should come out of it 279 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.880 is that those that have should help provide for those that do not have, 280 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:17.599 and to help teach. But now you have a country, even in the 281 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.960 United States, where if you go and teach other cultures how to jump over 282 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.440 certain hurdles, then you're perceived as destroying a culture. And there's a lot 283 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:33.400 of politics that are involved in this that have nothing to do with God or 284 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:41.960 religion, but have to do with people's kind of worshiping of culture. And 285 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.000 that's not to say that culture isn't beauty or beautiful and important. It's that, 286 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:53.039 unfortunately people don't understand that culture is birthed out of necessity, nothing more. 287 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.920 These are the raw materials we had when we were growing up. These 288 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:00.039 are the raw foods we had growing up in This is how we made something 289 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:06.319 at them from them, and this is our culture. But cultures, our 290 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.400 main are are designed to adapt and to grow. The ignorance comes in when 291 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.720 people say, oh, well, this culture can't grow because that would destroy 292 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:21.920 it. And then then the culture becomes greater than the people that are living 293 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:26.519 it, and then suffering can occur and problems can occur. You have sometimes 294 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:32.279 horrible dictators and these types of things that are bigger picture than just how come 295 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.039 this person is starving or how come this culture is not doing this or how 296 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.920 come this culture is not doing that. It's just not as simple. The 297 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:45.279 simple part is the basic steps that when something's not working, one needs to 298 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:52.559 look for change. Trey. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you 299 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.480 Jesus to take my call, my pleasure to tray what's going on. I've 300 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:02.480 been working really hard over the last probably twelve to eighteen months, just really 301 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:07.640 trying to understand a biblical worldview and really just wanting to raise my daughter. 302 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.160 She's three, going to be four, and I'm just concerned about how society 303 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:17.839 is. It just bombards us in every aspect of our lives with every other 304 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:22.000 type of worldview, every other type of ism, and just wanted to know 305 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:26.920 from you what's the best way to not only establish and maintain, but just 306 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:30.160 to keep God relevant in every aspect of her life as she grows up. 307 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:37.400 Well, there's an old analogy that deals with money counters and bankers that bankers 308 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:45.279 spend less time teaching their tellers how to recognize, you know, fake currency 309 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:49.119 or counterfeit money. They just make them go in the back and count real 310 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:55.119 money all day. And the purpose for that is, rather than spending the 311 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:59.319 time teaching people what's fake and all those things that are out there, they 312 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:06.799 learn by experiencing the truth, by experiencing real money passing through their fingers and 313 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:12.319 the smell of it and everything that experience that they have in there. The 314 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:18.000 moment a false one comes through just their fingertips, they know that it's false. 315 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:26.759 And as as a parent, your purpose and privilege is to instill that 316 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:32.119 same kind of instinct into your children. And the only way to do that 317 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:37.720 is to allow them to be around the true product. And that is the 318 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.720 way you live, the way you teach, the way you pass on information. 319 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:48.680 Everything should be first focusing on the truth. And and then your children 320 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:55.960 will see that and see that they you know that what you say is true, 321 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.759 and the way you live is one of in a way of intety and 322 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.519 honesty, and that gives them the tools to discern for themselves, because you're 323 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:10.880 never if you try in and log every ism, as you say, every 324 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:17.599 single belief system, every faction of so called Christianity, every type of belief 325 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:25.599 out there, Eastern Western Pantheism, panantheism, polytheism, monotheism, panotheism, 326 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:30.839 all of these isms. Yeah, you're done. There's no way to do 327 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:37.359 it. But what you can do is teach truth and and give her a 328 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:44.720 a tool belt and a tool bag of information and ideas and guidelines and measuring 329 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:49.160 rods and all these things that she'll continue as she grows to take with her 330 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:55.799 when when she moves out or what have you. That will allow her the 331 00:27:55.839 --> 00:28:00.640 ability to use her own discernment based on the tool that you've handed down. 332 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:07.359 And that's really about showing the truth, not pointing out every single lie, 333 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:15.400 but getting her familiar with honesty and with integrity and doing the right thing even 334 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:22.079 when it's not comfortable or easy or convenient. And those tools instill that, 335 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:27.880 you know, that moral compass and gives it true north based on what mommy 336 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:33.680 and daddy have taught. And those things are very important because that goes forever 337 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.039 that the rest is rote. The rest is having to memorize, Okay, 338 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.359 this is not good, this is not good, what have you. But 339 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:45.400 you teach a child how to eat healthy very early on, teach them that 340 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.160 they need certain types of food in their meal, portion size should be a 341 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:53.160 certain amount, and they should go out and play. Then you know afterwards, 342 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:57.519 then there's a balance to life that is becomes a habit and is passed 343 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:00.680 on rather than going, Okay, this food is good for you, this 344 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.519 food is bad for you. This is it Just it becomes too cumbersome, 345 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.079 so it sounds I appreciate it. You're very welcome. It sounds like you 346 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.680 are on the right track. Brother. You just you keep showing the truth 347 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:17.839 and being a good example, and you'd be surprised how how children retain that 348 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.599 and then you know, take that on with them as they grow in life. 349 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:26.319 Kf I am six forty on demand.