WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.559 You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand down Welcome to the Jesus Christ 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:12.160 Show. Hi Jesus, thank you so much, my pleasure. And I'm 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.600 curious who chose the books to be included in the Bible and why the Book 4 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.239 of Enoch wasn't included, because from what I understand, the Book of Enoch 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.839 was found with the Dead Sea Scrolls and it mentions a lot about Jesus and 6 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.519 God. And I'm curious to what you have to say about this. Well, 7 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.519 there's a lot of books out there that make reference to Me, or 8 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:38.520 to the Father, or to Christianity that wouldn't necessarily be considered the canonized version 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.280 of scripture. So let's look over what the Book of Enoch is. First. 10 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.119 A lot of people don't know this, but the Book of Enoch doesn't 11 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:55.079 refer to one book. There's several what they call pseudipigrifual works that claim authorship 12 00:00:55.439 --> 00:01:00.520 is Enoch. Enoch is the son of Jared, obviously the grand father of 13 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.480 Noah, and so there's a lot of different works out there that say, 14 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:08.000 okay, this was written by Enoch. But most people, when they're referring 15 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:15.159 to the Book of Enoch, tend to be referring to first Enoch. Now, 16 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:23.719 this work in its entirety exists only originally in the Ethiopia language, so 17 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.200 it's interesting that there's already things that set it apart from the rest of scripture. 18 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:34.680 One verse that I want you to think about is in Jude. Jude 19 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.519 three says that the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints. 20 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.239 A lot of people look for hidden works, Yet by God's own word 21 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.319 it states that it's all been delivered. It is canonized before man ever recognizes 22 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:56.040 it. When you talk about ordaining somebody, one of the most beautiful ways 23 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.680 I've heard someone speak about being or Dan, they said, no, no, 24 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.840 no, I'm not being ordained by man. I was ordained by God 25 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.840 recognized by man. So scripture is ordained by God, it is canonized by 26 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:16.039 God. That canonization is recognized by man based on certain things. Things in 27 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:22.680 scripture that make it scripture have to do with is the authorship true? Is 28 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.080 the content in harmony with the rest of scripture and not some strange thing that 29 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.039 somehow now is promoting something else other than that which is scripture. That wouldn't 30 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:38.240 make sense if it's historical, If it dates back to the origins properly, 31 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:43.680 both in context and references that there's nothing that stands out in a way that 32 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.000 would show, hey, this doesn't make sense. That doesn't mean that the 33 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:51.400 book itself doesn't have value. It's just not to be put on the same 34 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.919 level as the Word of God. So canonization sometimes is a process. It's 35 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.280 a process of people recognizing it. But the majority of the works were recognized 36 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.439 very very early on. It's when people start adding these and thinking, oh, 37 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.759 there's some secret thing that wasn't told or we didn't learn about first is 38 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.400 when there's a problem. So some people go to one of the tools that 39 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:20.199 is used to judge the validity of a book of scripture and say, well, 40 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.719 you know, if it's talked about in scripture itself in other books by 41 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.759 different authors, than that gives it validity. And that is one of the 42 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.879 tools that is used for understanding the validity when it comes to the Book of 43 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:39.960 Enoch. Though, you've got a situation because Jude references Enoch and so Enoch 44 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:49.680 is referenced in scripture. However, yet it is still considered a non canonical 45 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.879 book. It's still considered to be outside of the canon of scripture, and 46 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.120 people get caught up in that saying, well, if it's referenced in scripture, 47 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.520 then how come it's not scripture. But that's not the case all the 48 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:12.080 time. As you might remember that Paul references Epimenides in Titus one twelve, 49 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:17.480 and that Epimenities is not Any of Epimend's writings dealing with philosophy and the like 50 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.920 were not considered scripture. So you take all of these different references, and 51 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:29.240 you take all of the the historical factors of the writings, and they just 52 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.800 don't add up to scripture. They weren't used by the early Church in that 53 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:39.079 way. They weren't seen as official documents early on, and so adding them 54 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:45.319 now would be to damage the integrity of scripture. Doesn't mean that you can't 55 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.800 read it, doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it or read it for what 56 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:54.319 it is, just don't put it on the level of a work of God 57 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.480 or the Word of God, because it's not seen that way. And this 58 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:04.240 whole attitude about adding things or things missing in scripture and that man took them 59 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:10.199 out is really silly. If you go back to the early Church church fathers 60 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.720 and you go back to their their writings and their teachings. Early on, 61 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:20.120 you couldn't restruct You can reconstruct almost the entirety of the New Testament just by 62 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:27.800 their teachings because it was used so much. Now that shows that it's it's 63 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:34.439 used and it's applied in the very early Church, which shows its validity and 64 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:42.399 its importance. It was believed to be the word of God prior to any 65 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.240 councils or any of these things, the Council of Hippo, any of these. 66 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:51.399 It's about, uh, it being seen and understood as the word of 67 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:57.360 God originally, and then all of the bibliographical tests to see that it's you 68 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.160 know, it's accurate and it's a historic, sensible and all of these things 69 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:09.399 will go into showing the validity of scripture and that it's canonized or canon canon 70 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:13.959 is like a measuring rate. It means that it is the the rule of 71 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.800 the law, so things can't be added to it or subtracted to it. 72 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:27.279 And this kind of more popular now, this attitude of you know, there's 73 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.279 mysteries, we have to know something new. And the silly thing is is 74 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.639 people aren't even reading and adapting the things that are already in front of them. 75 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:38.720 They want something new because people are looking for a loophole or a way 76 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:45.240 out. They're looking for something that will either change their accountability or somehow make 77 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:49.720 scripture not as demanding on them. And so they're looking for these ways out. 78 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.720 You know, people look for reincarnation. Oh well, reincarnation should be 79 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.399 in there. It was removed, must have been removed by the early Church, 80 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:03.920 which is silly. Incarnation never played a part in scripture. To be 81 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.839 absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. It is appointed 82 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:12.639 for man to die once and then the judgment. It's never been a part 83 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.959 of scripture. But people desire that. So they look for these hidden works 84 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:20.000 or these works that maybe ah, well maybe this will this will help, 85 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:26.240 or this was somehow hidden or you know. And I know that it's sexy 86 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.079 for people to think, oh wow, gosh, it's really there's there's got 87 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:31.879 to be all these hidden things, and that's that's the way it works and 88 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.879 works. And I'm going to come across this hidden work now I'm going to 89 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.759 have the knowledge that other people don't. And this gnosticism, this uh, 90 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.360 this kind of belief that you're going to be in a secret knowledge makes people, 91 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.360 you know, want to raise these books up higher than they should be 92 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:58.199 raised. And there's nothing in history that would give them that authenticity or veracity. 93 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.759 And just because they're found in a cave where they're found next to something 94 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.120 else, or any of these things, there's more to it than just that. 95 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.759 And I know it's interesting, and read them and have the sense of 96 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.360 an old cow, eat the hay and leave the sticks, and really take 97 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.319 from it that which is good, and leave what's garbage. But don't look 98 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.720 at it or read it. Certainly, do not read it as the word 99 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:30.680 of God. Annie, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Yes, Jesus 100 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:39.480 Hi, I have a question regarding autistic children. I have a grandchild who's 101 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:45.600 autistic, and my son and daughter in law asked me, why would God 102 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:52.600 do this to a child because it's very difficult twenty four to seven, emotionally 103 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.879 and financially, very burdensome to the family, and especially difficult for healthy siblings. 104 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.919 What would I say to them, Well, why would they assume that 105 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:05.919 God did it to that child? Well, this is what I said, 106 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.080 God would never do anything like that. But then I didn't know how to 107 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:16.639 explain further any Bible passages you would recommend to read. Oh, I don't 108 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.600 think there's going to be a Bible passage. It's going to make somebody think 109 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:24.159 differently about the pain that goes on every single day. You could ask them 110 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.799 why would they ask that question only when it pertained to them? How come 111 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.240 they weren't asking this before they had that child, when other people had autistic 112 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.000 children. Now they had never been exposed to this disease. I guess you 113 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:41.639 would call it. Didn't know anyone who had a child with that syndrome, 114 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.799 So now their focus is basically of why did this happen to us? I 115 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.799 think possibly yes. And they don't know what to do about it. They're 116 00:09:52.840 --> 00:10:00.080 taking him to therapy and classes and things, and there has been leaps and 117 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.559 bounds of understanding. And I'm glad that you called because a lot of people 118 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.279 don't understand autism, nor do they feel comfortable talking about it. And a 119 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.679 lot of parents are new to the experience and understanding, and they may not 120 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.960 talk about it. And it's important for people to understand. But to ask 121 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.279 the question about God, I don't know is a very fair one. When 122 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.480 we are going to go to a quick break here, but I want to 123 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.240 talk to you, I have some thoughts on this question of why did God 124 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:43.480 allow this to happen? In just a second, Anna you there, Thanks, 125 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:50.279 thanks for holding your grandson has autism. Family is coming to you asking 126 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.120 you why God would allow this to happen, and that puts you in a 127 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.600 position of trying to defend your faith in a way that might be awkward because 128 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.200 when you're dealing with a heart issue, you're dealing with people who are in 129 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.519 pain. They don't want an academic answer true, So it's they're they're asking 130 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:11.240 a you know, just two plus two equals four question, But really it's 131 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:16.559 a it's a it's a hard issue. You know. They they're they're in 132 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.440 pain right now and there's nothing that you're going to tell them that's going to 133 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.559 make them go Okay, that makes sense to me. But I want you 134 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.360 to know this is for you that I want you to know that at what 135 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:33.000 point what sickness? Do you want to remove all of them? And and 136 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.159 do you want to remove death and then there's no heaven or do you want 137 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:43.200 to just make a quick transition like a big escalator to heaven? Or is 138 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.600 should there be no pain? Well, that would imply that all pain is 139 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.399 is bad and that's not true. Pain can be be good and pain can 140 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.000 be bad, just as pleasure can be good and pleasure can be bad. 141 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.639 I think they just wanted to answer and and help in dealing with it. 142 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.360 The best part about dealing with it is understanding that this child is no more 143 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.200 valuable or less valuable because they have special needs blessing. Yes, exactly. 144 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.919 And you know what, Anny, The most beautiful thing I ever heard was 145 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:18.879 when someone with a special needs child said, God trusted me enough to put 146 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.799 this child in my life. Wow. And it's it's when somebody gives you 147 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:28.879 something of value that needs precious concern. If they left their their prize winning 148 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.559 dog with you, people would go, oh, my goodness, they really 149 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.039 trust me. God is saying I'm giving you a child that needs special attention 150 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:43.679 and special love, and that, to me is a statement of how God 151 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.360 feels about the family and the positive. Not that it's unlumping you with this 152 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.600 kid, No, that I trust you with this beautiful child. There is 153 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:05.399 something dealing with the concept of pain that I think rattles people or makes them 154 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.799 think differently. And I want to make this clear. It's something that comes 155 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:15.200 up quite a bit that pain isn't bad all the time. There are many 156 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.600 things that you do in life where pain shows that you're producing something. I 157 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.840 mean, childbirth is one of them. The pain of working out, the 158 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:30.639 pain of studying for a test. There's a lot of pain. The growth 159 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:37.559 in general causes pain. And I think when I think, when you go 160 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.759 through pain in life, you concern yourself on the outside with gosh, how 161 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.799 come this is happening to me? Really, it's more of a selfish concern 162 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.120 than anything else. It's more like how come has happened to me and not 163 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.399 someone else? Because when it's happening to someone else, you're not necessarily answering 164 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.679 the question. You get some people, well how come kids are starving over 165 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.639 here? And they ask that question, But really that's more about diverting an 166 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.000 answer, or they don't They don't want to hear an answer, and they 167 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.200 don't want it to be about them, because then you're gonna ask them, 168 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.360 well, how come they don't believe? Or how come they are experiencing God 169 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.960 in one way or the other. But pain is one of those things that 170 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:16.720 seems to stop people in their tracks when it comes to God. You may 171 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.159 you may think, wow, you know what if if there's a God that's 172 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.519 all loving and all powerful, there can't be this pain, there can't be 173 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.919 this ugliness, there can't be problems. And that's just not true. The 174 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.159 amount of things that you would have to that you even enjoy, that you 175 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:41.120 would have to remove from the equation to eradicate pain would not be a balanced 176 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:46.639 exchange the things that you would lose to try and rid yourself of pain. 177 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:56.000 Have you ever seen somebody on morphine, completely doped up on morphine, and 178 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:03.960 you ask them, how you feeling fine? Are you in pain? No? 179 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:11.519 But do you think they're aware of pleasure? Really? Either? Sometimes 180 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.879 when you dull the pain, it can cause more problems than you think. 181 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.679 The misconception about lepers is that they fall apart, like lepers are decaying, 182 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:26.519 and that's not necessarily true, although that does play a part in the illness. 183 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:31.799 But a lot of the problems that lepers have is that they're The way 184 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:39.159 they feel and sense things is different. Their nerves start to die, so 185 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.799 they don't know what's hot, they don't know what's heavy, they don't know 186 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.799 they don't experience things the same way. So leprosy starts to break down the 187 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.159 nervous system and the nerves and feeling, and so you'll you'll pick up something 188 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:58.200 hot, you'll pick up something too heavy that that will start to destroy the 189 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:04.759 workings of your body. That pain is a necessity, it's an important necessity 190 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:10.440 to life, to help you have balance, true balance, and understand things, 191 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.879 understand what's bad for you, what's good for you, and also knowing 192 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:18.080 that there's times when that pain is beneficial, and to learn that not all 193 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:23.879 pleasure is good. This attitude, this heateonistic kind of attitude that everything has 194 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:33.000 to feel good to be good is garbage, and you're being fed that day 195 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.080 in and day out. And it comes to the point where when in your 196 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.080 own home or your own family, or your own relationships, you can't even 197 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:45.799 connect anymore because the minute there's a fight, there's an argument, there's anything 198 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:52.559 slightly unpleasant, you want out. You don't want to experience that anymore. 199 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.679 And pain has that purpose, like the leper, if you don't have those 200 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:07.440 feelings, if you don't have those tiny senses, those nerve endings, you'll 201 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:15.440 grab the hot pan and burn right through your flesh. Pain is good, 202 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:22.160 It has a purpose. It's not always good, but it has a purpose, 203 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.720 and the purpose is good, the end result is good, either that 204 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:33.279 pain steers you into a path of righteousness or understanding it steers you away from 205 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:44.039 greater danger. It's this attitude, though, getting to this place where where 206 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:45.440 you don't want any of it in your life, where you almost want to 207 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:52.839 be numb to the realities of pain, put you in a position to not 208 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.960 be able to truly absorb the value of pleasure. The very things that you 209 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:08.920 love in life, that you cherish, nobility, courage, heroics, love, 210 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:21.519 all of these things mean nothing without adversity, hate, indifference. They 211 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:26.279 have to exist for you to find and to appreciate. That's the purpose of 212 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:34.319 this life. In a nutshell, the meaning of life is to utilize your 213 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:41.359 gifts and abilities along lines of excellence to the edification of others and to the 214 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:51.839 edification of yourself, to the glory of God. And that doesn't mean no 215 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:59.079 pain. And if that becomes your goal, if it becomes your goal solely 216 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.640 to rid yourself of pain, that's why people blow it up and eat so 217 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.519 much till they're going to pop. That is why people drown themselves in alcohol 218 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:19.200 and drugs and sex, because it's this desire to seek only pleasure, this 219 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.960 epicurean type attitude that you just are going to get to this place where all 220 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:33.319 all is pleasurable. It is not true. Even Heaven, which is arguably 221 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:40.359 the place where all is pleasurable, is pleasurable for those that seek and want 222 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.400 to know God. Which is why there's a hell, because there are people 223 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:47.920 that don't want to seek and don't want to know God. And I won't 224 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.839 force that, The Father won't force that. So out of God's love comes 225 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:59.559 this other place where God is not And why is it torture Because it's absent 226 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:11.440 of the true nature of the salvation power of God. So that absence is 227 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:18.480 what's felt. God is in your life through all the things you're experiencing. 228 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.000 And does that mean that God is causing pain in your life? No? 229 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:27.759 God allows these things. God allows them so that you can learn, so 230 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:36.400 that you have a life full of richness that is not some kind of Pollyanna 231 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:47.519 synthetic pink existence. Everything you experience in life, go through your memories today, 232 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:56.759 from weddings to you know, births, to birthdays, to any major 233 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:02.559 experience, and the thing that you will tell people about that experience is most 234 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:08.359 likely what went wrong not what went right. You're not going to believe this. 235 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:17.920 On my wedding day, my sister backed up into my mother in law's 236 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:26.240 car. They hadn't even met. That's what you'll tell people, because that's 237 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:32.920 what has meaning. The things that you love about your partner in life, 238 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.160 look into their eyes. The things that you find most endearing are the things 239 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.480 they hate about themselves. The imperfections that they don't like are the things that 240 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:52.039 to you are the uniqueness and their value because they're different. Gold diamonds, 241 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:57.799 These things aren't valuable because they're like everything else. They're valuable because they're different 242 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:08.359 goodness to granted. Granted, maybe looking over at gold goin that is ugly, 243 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:18.000 Like how different it looks coal sitting there staring at diamonds. Yeah, 244 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.559 apparently can't handle the heat and the pressure over here. Mm hmm. They 245 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:30.480 just go transparent. But that's the beauty. Does that mean I want you 246 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:34.119 to be in constant pain? No? But there is something there that is 247 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:41.000 beautiful and powerful. And as we've talked about many times on the air, 248 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:48.920 a lovely quote from C. S. Lewis that God whispers to you in 249 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:56.440 your pleasure. God speaks to you and your conscience, and God screams to 250 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.759 you in your pain. The pain is a way to wake up a morally 251 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:10.279 deaf world. And so when you're cursing God about the pain in your life 252 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.400 and going why me, and why now? And why this and why that? 253 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:18.160 Think about this that as those atheists or those non believers look around and 254 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:23.640 say pain and evil and trials point to the fact there is no God. 255 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:29.960 On the contrary, it points to the very existence of a God, a 256 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.240 God that shows you the difference between pain and pleasure, that makes you even 257 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:41.160 seek out pleasure, knowing that there's something better than just what's here. Pain 258 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:48.559 points to a loving God, not away from him. Sondra, Sondra, 259 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.640 Welcome to the Jesus Christia. Hi, Jesus Hi. I'd like to ask 260 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.759 a question that's come up many many times throughout my life, okay, and 261 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:03.799 that is the mysterious years of your youth. There's talk that you disappeared in 262 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.400 that there's no documentation of where you were, and I was always curious about 263 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:11.880 where you were. And please forgive me if I'm being out of line and 264 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:19.519 asking no, I was wondering where you went for what purpose? And is 265 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:25.680 it something we need to know about. It's a wonderful question. There's a 266 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:29.079 lot of so called mystery around this, and it's quite silly when you look 267 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.720 at it with in its context and you just go, okay, well, 268 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:40.519 what makes sense here and what is the most reasonable explanation? Have you ever 269 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.240 received or sent? During the holidays? Around Christmas time, people tend to 270 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:49.559 write those kind of newsletters about their family. Have you seen those? And 271 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:55.519 say such and such as graduating or so and so just got married. Do 272 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:00.400 they explain everything that took place over the year or only the mile markers, 273 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.200 the big things like weddings. They don't say so and so got up this 274 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:07.880 morning and he had juice with some toast, and then he went to the 275 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.920 restroom and then kind of laid around for a while watched a little bit of 276 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:18.799 TV. That that would be huge and voluminous as a as a note to 277 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.359 send to somebody, right, it would be huge. So they only take 278 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.960 the parts that pertain to the story in which they're telling. In this case, 279 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:29.440 it's mostly about what's going on, the big things that are going on 280 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.000 in their life. Well, the Bible is not different from that. The 281 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.160 Bible. Bible is similar in the sense that the Bible is looking at things 282 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:41.039 that pertain to your spirituality. That's why it doesn't say, you know, 283 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.480 if somebody's building a house, they should be using a biscuit joiner for the 284 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.880 joints rather than because it's not a it's not about carpentry, although there's carpentry 285 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:56.279 that's talked about in scripture. It's about your spirituality and it's about your relationship 286 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:00.400 with God. So only those things that pertain to that are important in scripture. 287 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:04.640 So you have my birth, which is important. You have up until 288 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:11.279 my age of twelve. At that age, you're looking at the first time 289 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:18.119 in public that I made the proclamation to my parents. If you remember, 290 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:22.200 they my mother and my foster father come looking for me, and they said, 291 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.039 where were you? And I was reading and I said, don't you 292 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:26.640 know, I'm to be about my father's business. It was the first time 293 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.880 that I had verbalized that in the context of dealing with my parents. That's 294 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.960 a big deal. So that's in scripture. Then you don't hear anything until 295 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:41.359 I'm thirty when I start my ministry. So you're looking at those things and 296 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:47.240 people say, well, what about those supposed last years in there? What 297 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.200 happened during those years. However, if you read scripture closely, you'll see 298 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:56.599 that it makes a statement for what takes place. It says, when I 299 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.640 start my ministry, what did they say? They didn't say, who is 300 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:03.839 this guy? They said, isn't that Jesus, the son of Joseph the 301 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:11.680 carpenter. If I had been gone for eighteen years, they wouldn't have recognized 302 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.279 me in any way, shape or form. They recognized me because I was 303 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:19.319 still in the community, still working, still working with my foster father Joseph, 304 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.880 and still working in the carpentry shop. I didn't go to Tibet to 305 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:29.839 learn how to levitate. I didn't go anywhere to learn reincarnation or any of 306 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.880 these things that people trying to espouse and say that it's somehow extracted from scripture. 307 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:38.039 None of that makes sense in context. What does make sense in context 308 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:42.680 is that I was there the whole time. I just was doing normal things. 309 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:48.920 It wasn't about my ministry. It wasn't until that first miracle at the 310 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:55.200 wedding at Cana where I turned the water into wine that they started recording that 311 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.279 or writing that because that was pertinent to the story. Whereas waking up up 312 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:04.920 building a table building a chair was not. But they recognized who I was. 313 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.880 They knew who I was. So it wasn't a matter of me being 314 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.079 gone and then coming back. It was that they they saw me there. 315 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:19.200 They that was actually a barrier between me being there. Christ they had a 316 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:25.680 harder time accepting that because they knew me. And so that plays into that. 317 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:32.440 Also understanding that even it said in scripture that all the things that I 318 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:37.000 did could add volumes. Now was that in ministry? So all the things 319 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.599 I did in three years was going to add volumes. No, everything without 320 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.839 throughout the entirety of my life. Thank you for joining me this Sunday. 321 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:48.240 I hope you join me every Sunday, more importantly than all the craziness. 322 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:55.839 Remember these words, I am with you always. KFI am six forty on demand