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from the Bible. The Bible is a powerful book. It's over two thousand
years old. It was written in its entirety over a span of about fourteen
hundred years around forty authors in three languages, on three different continents, in
times of peace, in times of war, by kings and peasants alike.
It's a powerful book. It's a book, regardless of your religious beliefs,
that people read all the time just for the historical content. Archaeologists use it
every single day. It is one of the single most utilized books of antiquity
used for archaeological study to this day. And yes, Hollywood even takes bits
and pieces of it and uses it because it works and it's good and it's
interesting. But does that mean that they're going to give credit to scripture?
Does that mean that they're pointing towards the Gospel, the good News? No,
because even when there are films that are made about religion, they usually
have a spin on them as if as if someone in Hollywood could put a
better spin on scripture than God himself, so would And the Bible have an
odd relationship it is. It is the breast from where everyone feeds, but
yet nobody gives credit. That's just the way it works. It's like television
and I Love Lucy. Watch an episode of I Love Lucy if you haven't
a long time, and you'll go, oh, my goodness. Every single
show that has been made since the time of I Love Lucy and now is
a direct ripoff of I Love Lucy. And the Bible has been a source
of creative inspiration for many, and I think people are compelled to go towards
and to read and to consume scripture. But there are those that refuse to
see it as the word of God, but also still see the brilliance in
it, and they battle with that, and it gets made into certain concepts
get placed into film, and every once in a while you'll go, oh,
Just like there's common phrases in modern speech that some know come from scripture
and some don't. Scapegoat some know come from scripture, some don't. Good
Samaritan some know comes from scripture, some don't. Prodigal Son again, over
and over all these concepts, and they many of them have been used in
film. But that's really about the state of humanity that humans like to pick
and choose. It's one of the scariest parts of about Christianity is to see
it as in its entirety and as a whole, to consume it a lot
of the modern type religions or as they would claim, non religions, or
really about just taking what you want, and it's all about you and how
you're going to achieve happiness, and you're going to achieve a level of christ
consciousness, and it's all about you and about the things you're going to receive.
Scripture is not about that. Scriptures about God and why you should have
a relationship with God because it's righteous, not because it's necessarily going to make
things work out even on earth. It's about doing it because it's true and
it's right. And having Hollywood consume that is not always that as easy as
it may sound. People want to reject things. People love law enforcement when
they come to protect them. People hate law enforcem when they come to correct
them. And it's the same way with scripture. People love it when it's
on their side. People love it when it's something they're already doing and they
could say, see this proves it. But if it is used to correct,
or to guide, or to teach. Is when people start to wrestle
with it and say, oh, you know what, that scripture it's too
oppressive, you know what, so embraces but they're oppressive for a reason,
to help guide back the crooked teeth into their proper spacing and placement. Freedom
is a wonderful, wonderful thing. The abuse of freedom is the most ugly
thing. And so the Bible will continue to be a resource for writers and
filmmakers who want inspiration because the concepts in it are timeless and ever teaching,
they're profound, and more importantly, they're true. But people don't want to
deal with religious things because oh, well, you know, organized religion and
all that, and so people run from it and they take concepts because the
Bible continues to be compelling, filled with what some may see as only stories
that others will see our life changing and inspiring and educational towards how to use
this body of yours like a love letter and an instruction manual all together rolled
up into one. But people will continue to quote things and misquote them and
even think that there's some things that are in scripture that are not or that
they've heard something so that they believe it to be true, and it goes
on and on. That is the cycle of this fantastic book that has inspired
many and continues to do so for those that actually pick it up and read
it, not just in bits and parts, but truly read it. Try
to understand the chronology and what took place when and why, and the history
and who these people were and why they mean something to the church, what
they had to go through or what they did to perpetuate this book, these
concepts, these ideas to help people understand, to help people see the truth.
Often people died just for proclaiming what is in this book that's true.
Sadly people still do today, not in the United States at least not very
often, but all over the world people are persecuted for what's in this book.
Hollywood, like everything else, will continue to come to it as if
it's a carcass for their picking. And there are those that will do justice
to it and those that will not, and those that will steal and put
it in a film that has nothing to do with God. Because the truth
is there and that it has good structure. But I fear not, God
sees all and In the end, the Bible has the most power in its
entirety. Mark, Welcome to Jesus Christia. Thanks for taking my calls.
Jesus, would you please give me some advice. I am one of your
servants and I do love you with all my heart. But I must be
honest to say that I'd been having a drug problem. And I know of
your healing power, and I know of your power of forgiveness, but I've
been struggling. I feel sober bad because I haven't been living up to my
true pretend to the question is, Jesus, what can you tell a person
like myself or any others that this to help them ready rid this problem and
live out, live out up up to my full potential. Well, people
do it, Mark, people do it all the time. What particular drug
is your fancy? Now, it's not the time to lie, absolutely honesty,
it's the best policy, okay. And how long have you been doing
crack off and off for like seven years? And have you ever tried to
work a program or go into a program that can help you and what happens?
What's your downfall? Basically just not being able to find an opinion and
just a weakness on my on my behalf. You say not being able to
find a companion, now's not the time for a companion. You're trying to
you're trying to polish yourself and remove this from your life so that your companion
worthy. You don't need somebody a companion for that. As a matter of
fact, I would scrape all of that off of your life and focus solely
on this concern, and that is that this is something you invited into your
life and you continue to invite in your life. And now there's you know,
addiction is involved in it, and that's going to take medical help as
well. But you have to take it incredibly serious and you have to,
you know, jump into it completely and wholeheartedly to make it happen. It's
not about forgiveness. There's nothing to be forgiven for yet because you're you're there's
no repentance, you're not having it removed from your life in any way,
shape or form. You're continuing doing it. Now. You can beat yourself
up over doing it, or you can get real help that removes you from
the process. It's not about companionship, it's not about any of those things.
Something drove you to this particular drug that's highly addictive, and you continue
to use it every day, And the key is to not use it every
day. That's the simple truth. Find new ways, whatever they may be,
each and every day mark to not use That's what you have to do.
And you're going to need help in doing that because doing it alone is
going to be too large of a task. Diane, Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show. Hi, Hi Diane. How can I help you? I'm
dealing with as how long ago was this? What if? Osternal souls with
your father? You have to trust that God has a way of working through
these things and that it's not for you to necessarily know, but you should
have peace that God works all things out to his glory. Well, why
didn't take my business? Do you know why your son took himself? Why
wasn't shop inspiritors? The holy spirits? There hep deal with? If you
even know what day it is? Most of the time, you remember when
I hate to last. My own wife is fractured. But how do you
think that that honors your son by not eating or not knowing what day it
is? How does that honor his life? Yeah, it seems like you're
giving reverence to his death, but not to his life. I just miss
him so much, of course you do. He was such a good boy,
who was such a good person. He loved everybody. He didn't have
any friends, he only had adopted brothers and sisters. Did he leave a
note? Did he leave a note? No? No, no, no
later, no email, nothing. So that that makes it that much more
difficult to not as to why he did what he did. I know he
was planning it for a long time. How do you know that? Because
he would go on hikes with his brother and they would find he would stop
at places and kind of look around and he'd say like, no, not
here, not there, and then he would find a place. Then he
would have a place that he decided to hang himself. And that's where he
finally stopped winning on hikes with his French and his brothers. So he would
talk about where he would hang himself when he would go on hikes. No,
he didn't say I'm going to hang myself. That it was like not
here, not here, not there, not no, let's let's go.
Did he have mental problems? I don't. I know, it's hard.
It's hard to say because he was thirty, so I couldn't like and have
him go see a counselor or be hospitalized or put on some kind of medication,
or he was too old. I see, but did you see any
signs of it? As a mother, I know, it's kind of difficult,
you know, hindsight being twenty twenty, I would say, yeah,
but I but no one knows why with no note, nothing left behind,
no one really knows why he did what he did. Yeah, you know,
I don't have any cruise about why he actually did what he did.
And now he's gone, and I can't even, you know, slap him
because I'm so mad at him for doing that. Oh, I'm sure,
you know. And I just I I can see now, you know.
I would do things like say he would sleep all day and I which is
usually a sign of depression. Yeah, And I would say, and I
would come home and I would or leave for work, and I would say,
if you could be up in the morning or up in the afternoon when
I get home from work, I'll take you down and get your license.
So I'll take you down and get the registration for your car. Or I'll
take you down and we can get insurance. And he keeps saying no,
Mom, No, Mom, because she didn't want me to spend the money
on things that he wasn't going to use. And I see that now.
Is there any drinking or drug use in the house by you or anyone else?
No, I'm little drinking. Maybe put no drugs and he didn't drink
at all, gotcha? But you do, I do a little bit.
You know, I haven't talked every time before you admit? Has that progressed
it all afterwards? No? Okay? Well, the pain of losing someone
in so called normal circumstances is bad enough. When you come across the situation
where someone takes their life and they especially don't leave any sort of closure.
People make the mistake of thinking that committing suicide ends the pain, and it
doesn't. It passes it on to your loved ones and those that are still
living, and so you are the recipient of that. But you can choose.
You can choose you are alive, Diana, and you can choose to
remember the loving person that he was and the things that he did, or
you can focus in on his death and the ugly way that he died,
and that can haunt you and that can rule your life and the things that
you do. Obviously it is now if it's keeping you from eating and you
don't know what day it is, and it's you know, the Sunday after
Thanksgiving, it's a fairly easy one to remember with her, to realize you
can't live this way, and that doesn't that doesn't do anything to honor his
life. It puts all of that on hold. It's like you've packed away
his entire life, only focusing on his death, and that's all anyone will
know or experience of him. And then sooner or later people don't want to
come around you or want to spend time with you because as much as they
would like to talk maybe about him, they certainly don't want to focus in
on the death. Okay, he lived for thirty years, that had nothing
to do with his death, and to wrap that up in one ball as
one ugly exit is not healthy for you and really adds nothing to him.
And you're his mom. You're the one that can teach people about the way
he laughed or the things that he did do that we're loving and kind and
human. And if all you, as the now curator of his museum,
if you're only focusing on the death, that's all anybody's going to know.
And that's all anybody's going to see on your face. Okay. And it's
not that you shouldn't mourn, you should, but there's a time for morning,
Scripture says, and there's a time for joy. And if you stay
in this state of mourning, all you're going to do is augur yourself.
You're going to spin out of control, and people are going to fear being
around you and trying to connect with you. And I don't think that this
would be the goal of your son, do you. No? He was
You would if you know him at all. He's had a good, kind,
general loving spirit. He loved everybody he had. Like I tell people
when I talked about him, he had no friends. She only had brothers
and sisters. And did he get along with his brothers and sisters? Not
his real brothers and sisters, but the one she adopted. His brothers and
sisters, his biological brothers and sisters very basically abandoned him and didn't do anything
for him or to help him. Why do you think that? Huh?
Why do you think that's the case? Because I know I was there,
No, But why do you think they would do such a thing? Oh,
they thought he was a He wouldn't get a job and they so they
berated him all the time. They never invited him for a dinner or stay
over, never sent him a birthday car or a Christmas card, So he
was ostracized quite a bit from the family. Could set apart and me,
he and I. They would go off for some big family dinner or something,
and he I wouldn't be invited. It would be just him and I
together. Why do you think they treated you that way? I because my
youngest daughter has hated me from day she was born. Well that's odd.
Yeah, no, no, I mean that's odd. That's for everything in
her life. She lost three babies, that was my fault. She couldn't
go to school when she turned five because there's no midterm. That was my
fault. She anything that happened bad to her was my fault. Always met,
she hates me? Where was dad? And all of this? Uh
kind of around but divorced? Now, why did you guys divorce? I
didn't want to live like that anymore? And what was living like that with
somebody who was cold or unemotional and involved with my kids? Controlling? Why
did you choose someone like that to be their parent. Why would you choose
someone like that to be your partner and their parent. I didn't know that
he would be turned out to be that way. When I first married him,
he wasn't that way, but he turned out to be his mother.
I see. Well, it sounds like there's a lot more to this on
as far as family dynamics. Sounds like there's kind of a mess there,
wouldn't you say? Oh yeah, stepmother, Matthew's death at her at her
feet? Why would you do such a thing? She beat him, she
made him into when she was he was there, she made him into like
a little slave out there waiting her vegetable patch and put him in the basement.
Now, why why would she spend time there? How come he wasn't
with you? Oh? I mean, I'm on an alternate weekend. Well,
there's there's there's something, Diane, There's something here that's outside of the
scope of the time that we have, that's for sure. But there's a
lot of a lot of knots in that rope. And there's so much more
than just the pain that he was going through and the pain that you're going
through. And there's a lot of pain obviously with his passing, but there's
other pain there too. There's remnants of other things that I'm not sure about
unless we talk for more. Unfortunately we don't have that kind of time,
but I would suggest that you find someone that does that. You find a
professional that can listen, a pastor if you have a church, a priest,
or someone that you can talk to, because there is a lot that
went into that particular death and all the surrounding things with you. And I'm
sorry that you're in pain, and I'm sorry for your loss, and you
need to trust that God has dealt with that. But you need to focus
on finding your life and your voice again without him here, so that you
can move on, because there's no glory or no gain by being in that
state of sadness to a point where you're ruining yourself. And I'm concerned about
the drinking, honestly, and I would look into those things and see what
are the demons that you need to deal with yourself. John, Welcome to
Jesus CHRISTO. Yes, I was wondering about the after life. Okay,
before life, well that would be this life before life. Oh after life
is this life? Well? No, after life would be after this life?
Oh, after this? See how that works? After life? That
would be after this physical life. I say there is no before this physical
life. No, there's some that believe that in the Christian traditional Christian theology.
No, not in that sense. The Plato postulated that there was pre
souls and pre incarnate souls and things like that, but most Christians don't believe.
How about him? Did you think there was an afterlife? Why would
you? As sir, well, I read it in a book. You
read it in a book? In which book was that? Let me see?
I got right here. It's called The Pleasures of Philosophy by William Durant.
Oh, I see well. As far as the comparisons between Plato and
Socrates, there are similarities, as there are with all teachers and students,
but there are differences as well. So is your curiosity just philosophical or is
it theological? A little bit of both. Does this pertain to you directly?
Are you concerned that there won't be an afterlife for you? No,
I'm not really concerned for myself. I don't really know. I'm an agnostic.
I don't really know. Okay, do you think that there's a way
to know it? All, or do you think it's just empty faith?
Well I did say it was empty faith? Is pace empty? Well?
It depends who you ask, really, Okay, But as far as you're
from your own standpoint, do you think that it's something that can be known
or you just won't know until you're there. I don't know how you could
know unless you have experience. Oh so you can only know things through your
own experience, well experience talents, of course it does. But you can't
experience everything yet. There are many things that you know that you take based
on faith that someone else experienced them. Well, I have I have an
axiom like one equals one. I believe that's kind of true. Yes,
one does indeed equal one. Okay, I might point my point being that
there are lots of things that you will come to learn or come to understand
in life that aren't from your own experiences but from other people's experiences. And
and that's a good thing as well. It kind of goes hands in hand
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