You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand. Doug, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus, I'm doing all right good. My question
to you is whether or not Jesus actually paid taxes in the in the New
Testament, it there's a there's a few scriptures in there where describes. And
the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, do you pay taxes? And he
tells them to take out a coin. He says, well, whose picture
is on there? Whose face is on there? Give to Caesar what is
Caesar's exactly? Render und to Caesar what is Caesar's? And render under God?
What is God? And yet, and yet the follow up question was
never addressed, which is what belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God?
And therefore, did Jesus actually pay taxes? And the answer, are you
ready when a drum roll? Yes, yes, Matthew seventeen, Okay,
Matthew seventeen, And I'll read it to you Matthew seventeen, verse twenty four.
And they, when they had come to Kapernaum, those who collected the
two Drachma attacks, came to Peter and said, does your teacher not pay
the two drachma attacks. He said yes, And when he came into the
house, Jesus spoke with him first, saying, what do you think,
Simon, from whom do you to the kings of the earth collect customs or
poll tax from their sons or from strangers? And upon his saying from strangers,
Jesus said to him consequently, the sons are exempt verse twenty seven.
But lest we give them offence, go to the sea and throw in a
hook and take out the first fish that comes up, and when you open
its mouth you will find a stater that would be the money. Take that
and give it to them for you and me. So yes, okay.
So my follow up question than would be when he was actually talking with the
scribes and the pharisees, why not just come out and say yes, because
there's a lesson to be learned. The things of the world are. People
get caught up in the things of the world and think that they're the most
important thing. My whole purpose was to point out that it's not as important
that people would get They would get caught up in the specifics of the law
and not understand the purpose of the law, which is what God's importance is.
And I'll give you an example. In the streets you're in Louisiana.
What's the what's the speed limit there on the highways and the byways the interstate
seventy okay for the most part. Okay, so seventy miles per hour.
And that's for this for the safety of human beings. Right, It's to
preserve life. Yes, that's what the law is there for. So to
preserve life is more is more important than the law itself, because that's what
the laws are there for. And in a lot of cases, if you
have law enforcement or firefighters or anything like that, they're going to ignore the
law of speed if it means a life for death situation, because the law
is never more important than the purpose of the law. So a lot of
times the Pharisees and the Sadducees were coming to me and trying to corner me,
to get me to remark in something that would cause a war or some
sort of outbreak of anger towards me based on a particular law. They were
trying to paint in, paint me into a corner and to keep from playing
their game, or more so, to play the game in a way that
it showed the folly of their own ways. I would grant them a question
that would answer it, but also make them think about why they are making
the decisions or asking the questions they're asking. So it was more important it
was multifold. And you'll find that throughout scripture there's oftentimes where I ask things
because that's the best way to learn. People learn when they're a part of
it, not just being talked at, but being inquirried and talked to,
and instead of just gathering something from rote saying memorize this, that in an
example that they could participate in, they started to understand better. So they
start going okay, well yeah, who is on the coin? And well
it's not God, it's Caesar. So he was just saying, listen,
why are you even worried about money? Why are you lost in the things
of money? Why do you even care that The Pharisees were trying to set
me up. The Pharisees were trying to put me in a position where if
I said don't pay taxes, I would have been arrested. And if I
said do pay taxes, then the people that were following me at the time
that hated taxes would have thought I would as a traitor towards their cause.
So really, rather than falling into either of those, I was explaining a
story by way of illustration that would explain the reason why you can give taxes
and be okay, and the reason why you shouldn't feel bad for it,
but also to let the Pharisees know that their concern about taxes was not a
thing of God, so it served many different purposes, And that's the way
I taught. That was the way to get people to understand fully and own
something. Mike, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Yes, I guess
my question revolves around one of the main tenets of Christianity is is that the
central focus is that belief and acceptance in You as Messiah and Savior is required
to go to heaven. I guess I've always wondered about all the babies who
were born and died too young to comprehend this or understand it. And on
all the people on the world and isolated arrows areas esk and most tribes people
who have never heard of you. What happens to them since they can't accept
and believe something that they've never even heard of or under understood. Sure,
legitimate. I will tell you something interesting, Mike. No one ever asked
that question that hasn't already heard themselves because you can't. So really have you
come to a conclusion yourself as to what you believe in what you don't?
Well, I can tell you I was raised in Indiana and I was actually
raised in the Midnight Faith, which a part and I guess, I guess
I'm you're reading the Bible, thinking about things and hearing Oh I'm sorry,
Mike. Your your phone's coming in and out. You were saying that you
were from the Minnite Faith, growing up in the Minnite Faith. Unfortunately,
the phone's probably not going to work on the air for right now is driving
through Nevada. It looks like, well, we're happy to have your call,
and I think it's a great call. The question is dealing with those
that haven't heard. And I will tell you this Scripture and the basis of
relationship between God and man is not based on ignorance. It's based on rejection.
You have to trust God to contact and connect with anybody. Scripture says
that the Second Coming won't take place till everybody has had a chance to accept
or reject. It's not about ignorance. It's not well, oh they didn't
hear. Sorry, you know, your sheer out of luck. You won't
get to participate. That's not how it works. It's about rejection and rejecting
the word of God. Now, Scripture says in Romans one that there is
this natural revelation, this general revelation that people can see in nature, in
God's creation, and that that is sufficient to be able to understand there is
a God and who that God is, and to come to the knowledge of
God. That's the imperative. So people all over the place, and children
dying too young can still be brought into the Kingdom by God without having any
point of rejection because they have never really truly rejected. If they're too young
to accept, they're too young to have rejected. Christina, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Jesus, hi hi, I have a question
for you. I have a son that has been dealing with drug addiction a
great deal of his life, and no matter how much he professes he wants
to get clean and gets very very very close, no matter how much prayer
is offered up for him or what's going on. He seems to not be
able to quite get there, get clear to sobriety and stay there. And
I'm wondering if there's something bigger and larger, like generational sin or generational what
would you call that generational? Well in scripture when people ask if you remember,
there's times where people would ask me and say, you know, this
man is blind? Was it because of his sin or the sins of his
parents? And I said to neither. You know, there, that's that's
not People get caught up in those things, and I understand why, but
it's it's there are things in generations past that help become the you know,
atmosphere or surroundings that create a person, and those things get passed down,
yes, but really addiction is one of those one of those rooms that is
locked from the inside. And there's there's obviously things and forces that and demons
that that tie And I say demons in the equochial sense, not in the
theological sense necessarily, but there are things that that will weigh a person down
and become a a hindrance and hinder their progress when it comes to addiction.
But he's the only individual that can do that, can do anything. I
mean, you can have people, therapists, you can have programs, all
kinds of things, but he's got to want to do it, and got
to unlock that door. And he's the one in the room. And there
can be many different things that prohibit that, or at least in his mind,
but ultimately, even prayer, all those things are going to be directed
towards him unlocking that door. No one else, there's no It seems like
he is screaming and pounding on the door and trying as hard as he can.
And the church that I go to keeps wanting me to go to what's
called a healing center and do two days of intensive prayer and a bunch of
stuff all well meaning that supposedly has to do with cleaning up generational curse and
generation send. That you say is what's poured down on him sort of like
a sieve down through a reverse mushroom type situation sounds a little. It sounds
a little overly spiritualizing the circumstance. Now I say that people, and I
don't know, I'm going off of what you've told me, so they're not
here to defend their statements. So I will say this that God puts you
on earth for a reason. You're here in the flesh on earth by Earth's
laws for a reason. And the spirit does interact with the physical, but
Christians can sometimes overly spiritualize something and not see what's ahead of them. People
do get out of addiction, even very difficult addiction, but it's going to
come down to them want it. It's the same as salvation. If you
look at a redemption in salvation in scripture, it really comes down to an
individual receiving that uh and uh and taking that on themselves, receiving the gift.
And when it comes to sobriety, it it's a it's a very long
process and people can want it and say they want it, but to apply
that is completely different. If you talk to people that are working a program,
it's a daily struggle and they say that every day, keep coming back.
It really works one day at a time. These these sentences are not
just sentences. They're there to to remind you that it's a daily struggle.
You're not going to be free of it in a moment. That's a that's
a rarity does take place, but that's a rarity. And there are people
that say they want things. There are people that say, oh, well,
I'm really looking for a job, and they're not really looking for a
job. They're sort of looking. They send resumes out, or they you
know, and it looks like a lot's going on, or there's there's people
that often outwardly look as if they want something. And I don't doubt from
moment that he truly wants to be freed from this, But tackling the process
and getting involved and really really making it happen is different. And he needs
to go to detos. He needs to go somewhere where it's forced upon him
and he has to fight for that would be the best thing for him.
Chris, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus than what's going on?
Well, I was wondering if there is a place in the Bible I
can assist me in my situation. My situation is a person who works for
me is a single mother with three children. But based on her performance,
I have no other choice than to fire her very soon. So I just
really don't know what my best option here is. Based on the business,
I have to fire her, but she's a single mother with three children,
and so I don't know what assistance? Why? Well, but why does
that fall on you? Well, I don't know if it should. That's
one of my other questions. I don't even know if it should fall on
me. So you're a manager in this situation, correct, right? Okay?
And you've been is it a company you own? Oh? No,
I see what you're saying. No, it's not a company. So you've
been asked as a manager to do certain tasks, one of which is letting
go those that are not doing the task they've promised to do. Correct.
Correct, Okay. So if you don't do what is right, you risk
being, you know, being in breach of your agreement with your employer.
That's correct, to try and save somebody, not with your money, but
with their money. Correct? And how do you think God would look at
that? I see what you're saying her. So, really, what it
comes down to, Chris, people don't get fired. Now, people get
laid off, yes, but people don't get fired usually for things they didn't
do. They get fired for on their own. They kind of fire themselves.
So all you're doing is acting upon what they're doing. I understand she's
a single mother. And if you want to maybe look into a church or
somebody that might help her. That's one thing, and you can, you
know, but you're not addressing her as a single mother unless that's part of
the job, you know, unless you're only hiring single mothers and they need
to be single mothers and they don't aren't supposed to work or do anything.
You can't let that decide, because she's making decisions and playing a part in
this too, And if you don't allow her to have consequence to what she
does, then she'll never learn and she or better. Yet, there may
be a job that's better suited for her that you're keeping her from falsely.
And let's say worst case scenario, she actually makes a pretty major impact on
the job and you've got ten people working there, of which she is one,
and now she's caused the job to be so damaged that other people are
laid off that were doing their job because you're holding on to somebody who wasn't.
The scenario can go on and on and on. So that's why doing
the right thing should be doing the right thing based on the right thing,
not on the emotions of the situation. Emotionally, yes, absolutely, I
understand what you're saying. That's sad, to do. But do you know
how many people I walked by two thousand years ago that were blind or sick,
that people are dead, That people jumped in front of me and said,
save this person. But it wasn't about that. It's not You're not
going to be able to save everybody. But what you can do is leave
an opening for somebody who's aggressive and maybe wants to look at the job differently,
and that may better the company and make it grow, and then other
people will get hired. But if it's not the right job for her and
she can't do it, it's it doesn't help her to kind of patronize and
say they're there, you're a single mother, will take care of you.
That's not your job. Your job is to manage, So manage and pray
over it and don't feel bad about it. That's what you're there for to
execute those things. Have compassion. But this is not something you did,
it's something you're reacting to. There's a difference. David, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus. I have a question. I have my
own theory about this, but I'd like to get your take on it.
I have a friend of mine that's constantly telling me that I get in the
situations. I have bad luck with women, I'm having a real hard time
with my job and all this stuff. And he's telling me is because I
don't pray enough, I don't do this stuff, I don't do that enough.
And I'm and I'm constantly telling him, well, I understand that a
lot of my situation is due to some of the decisions that I've made.
And I mean, some of it is me, a lot of it is
me, most of it is me, and some of it is just circumstances.
And like you say, circumstances do change. But I asked him,
I said, well, if that's the case, then why do I mean?
I know, I'm suffering for reason because of the stupid decisions I've made.
But what about people that are born innocent children, for example, that
are born in war to one areas such as you know, the Middle East,
they're starving to death in Central Africa, or you know, even go
as far as born into highly dysfunctional families. If God is loving and just
how can that be? Oh boy? And of course I'm supposed to wrap
this up in a couple of minutes, right, Okay, let's say it's
a It's an excellent question and a profound question, and I can see where
trying to peel that onion can be very difficult and also one that that tugs
on the heart strings. Now, this is a very bold program, and
I don't duck from things that are controversial because I don't care about controversy.
I care about the truth, So I will. I will tell you that
there's when you're dealing with emotional questions like you know, how come babies die
or how come people suffer, people tend to remove their brain and stop thinking
and just want to feel through the situation. And that can be helpful at
times, but in a case like this, it isn't helpful. So if
you look at the big picture concept of God interacting with his creation, it's
not always as clear cut, like while you didn't pray today, therefore bad
things are going to happen to you. Now. Do I think that you
have problems with women because of luck? No? I think you have David
problems right, And those are the issues at hand. There are people David
all over the globe that are dating right now, and there are some that
are married, and there are you know, some just starting relationships. There
are all kinds of things, examples that could be given. If you're not
in a relationship, it's because you don't want to be in a relationship for
one reason or another, regardless of what you tell yourself, whether it is
the places you're going or looking or any of those things. So the same
thing can be applied to anything. Now, do children want to be starving,
No, of course not. Do people want to starve, no,
of course not. Are their inherent problems in the structure of their government or
the way they the way they live, Yes, whether it's the regions that
they live, the places they desire to live. But you're talking about sometimes
centuries of habits that have been placed into a country or a region. And
so you said, rightly, so you brought it back home and said,
in dysfunctional families, you can be born into something that somebody brings you into
a bad situation. Parents or their parents brought them into it, and now
they bring you into it by not knowing or rejecting the truth and applying it
to their life in a negative way. Someone can say there's a lot of
people that won't want will not move out of what is referred to as the
ghetto because they think it's selling out. There are entire populous populations that feel
that if you of different minorities or groups of people that feel that if they
were to do something that seemed too much like the white man, then they
were rejecting their culture. There are Christians that feel like if they do something
or move into this area, they're rejecting their faith. And this goes along
not only cultures and different colors and different races, but also religion. Religion
plays a huge part different religion in different countries where people won't eat certain foods
or won't interact with certain types of grain or whatever it might be, and
they are, unfortunately in an area where that's not the healthiest way to live.
They don't have the same amount of availability for different or different options.
But instead of progressing or changing or some somehow looking for a new path,
people stay in what they know. The good that should come out of it
is that those that have should help provide for those that do not have,
and to help teach. But now you have a country, even in the
United States, where if you go and teach other cultures how to jump over
certain hurdles, then you're perceived as destroying a culture. And there's a lot
of politics that are involved in this that have nothing to do with God or
religion, but have to do with people's kind of worshiping of culture. And
that's not to say that culture isn't beauty or beautiful and important. It's that,
unfortunately people don't understand that culture is birthed out of necessity, nothing more.
These are the raw materials we had when we were growing up. These
are the raw foods we had growing up in This is how we made something
at them from them, and this is our culture. But cultures, our
main are are designed to adapt and to grow. The ignorance comes in when
people say, oh, well, this culture can't grow because that would destroy
it. And then then the culture becomes greater than the people that are living
it, and then suffering can occur and problems can occur. You have sometimes
horrible dictators and these types of things that are bigger picture than just how come
this person is starving or how come this culture is not doing this or how
come this culture is not doing that. It's just not as simple. The
simple part is the basic steps that when something's not working, one needs to
look for change. Trey. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you
Jesus to take my call, my pleasure to tray what's going on. I've
been working really hard over the last probably twelve to eighteen months, just really
trying to understand a biblical worldview and really just wanting to raise my daughter.
She's three, going to be four, and I'm just concerned about how society
is. It just bombards us in every aspect of our lives with every other
type of worldview, every other type of ism, and just wanted to know
from you what's the best way to not only establish and maintain, but just
to keep God relevant in every aspect of her life as she grows up.
Well, there's an old analogy that deals with money counters and bankers that bankers
spend less time teaching their tellers how to recognize, you know, fake currency
or counterfeit money. They just make them go in the back and count real
money all day. And the purpose for that is, rather than spending the
time teaching people what's fake and all those things that are out there, they
learn by experiencing the truth, by experiencing real money passing through their fingers and
the smell of it and everything that experience that they have in there. The
moment a false one comes through just their fingertips, they know that it's false.
And as as a parent, your purpose and privilege is to instill that
same kind of instinct into your children. And the only way to do that
is to allow them to be around the true product. And that is the
way you live, the way you teach, the way you pass on information.
Everything should be first focusing on the truth. And and then your children
will see that and see that they you know that what you say is true,
and the way you live is one of in a way of intety and
honesty, and that gives them the tools to discern for themselves, because you're
never if you try in and log every ism, as you say, every
single belief system, every faction of so called Christianity, every type of belief
out there, Eastern Western Pantheism, panantheism, polytheism, monotheism, panotheism,
all of these isms. Yeah, you're done. There's no way to do
it. But what you can do is teach truth and and give her a
a tool belt and a tool bag of information and ideas and guidelines and measuring
rods and all these things that she'll continue as she grows to take with her
when when she moves out or what have you. That will allow her the
ability to use her own discernment based on the tool that you've handed down.
And that's really about showing the truth, not pointing out every single lie,
but getting her familiar with honesty and with integrity and doing the right thing even
when it's not comfortable or easy or convenient. And those tools instill that,
you know, that moral compass and gives it true north based on what mommy
and daddy have taught. And those things are very important because that goes forever
that the rest is rote. The rest is having to memorize, Okay,
this is not good, this is not good, what have you. But
you teach a child how to eat healthy very early on, teach them that
they need certain types of food in their meal, portion size should be a
certain amount, and they should go out and play. Then you know afterwards,
then there's a balance to life that is becomes a habit and is passed
on rather than going, Okay, this food is good for you, this
food is bad for you. This is it Just it becomes too cumbersome,
so it sounds I appreciate it. You're very welcome. It sounds like you
are on the right track. Brother. You just you keep showing the truth
and being a good example, and you'd be surprised how how children retain that
and then you know, take that on with them as they grow in life.
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