You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand. So we move forward into the
new year, and I know that you kind of pad your day and the
newness of it all with resolutions and all these things, but you can't help
looking back at your reminisce about both the good and the bad. There's even
programs right around the end of the year. You probably saw some of them,
news clips, even some of the pop channels will look at the trends
or the music, and people get caught up in that. It's very easy
for you to look back and just say, oh, gosh, this is
what took place. The thing that I want you to move from. And
this happens all the time, is that it becomes too easy to forget about
any wonderful thing that happened, or any good thing that God has done in
your life and simply focus on the bad things that may have happened during the
last year as well. And Scripture covers some of this. In Deuteronomy chapter
eleven. Moses points out how new generations often forget from where they came,
and that some need reminders of God's past miracles or things that have gone on,
and this is very common to go through a year and only mark down
those bad things that took place. And I realize when you talk about finances,
when you talk about personal instances and circumstances that changed that it's hard to
see God's face in those things. But even when God is present, even
when God does miracles, it seems the reaction is quite the same. Sooner
or later they wear off. Sooner or later you get caught up in the
circumstances and those things lose their luster. And Moses knew this, but he
also knew the truth. In Deuteronomy eleven, verse twelve, as he speaks
to the Israelites and the end he's reminding them that, hey, your children
may not know. Your children may not remember because they weren't there or they
were too young, but you know you've seen things. And verse twelve says,
a land for which the Lord your God cares. The eyes of the
Lord your God are always on it from the beginning even to the end of
the year, showing that God, if your focus is God, if your
focus truly is God in the things of God, and God will be watching
throughout the entirety of the year. It's not like he takes time off.
Starting now in verse one. Deuteronomy eleven, Verse one, it says,
you shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep his charge,
his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments. Know this day that I
am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen
the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm, and his signs, and his works, which he
did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, and
to all his land, And what he did to Egypt's army, to its
horses, to its chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea
to engulf them will they were pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyed them,
and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this
place, Moving on to verse seven. But your own eyes have seen all
the great work of the Lord which he did. You shall therefore keep every
commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and
go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross, to
possess it, so that you may prolong your days on the land which the
Lord swore to your fathers. To give to them and to their descendants,
a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land into which you are
entering to possess it is not like the land of Egypt from which you came,
where you used to sow your seed and water it from your foot like
a vegetable garden. But the land into which you are about to cross to
possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain
of heaven. Now how beautiful this statement is God reminding through Moses realize to
remember what they've seen, to remind them that God watches over if they focus
on God, if they keep the commandments, his ordinance, his statutes,
his charges. Focusing on the things of God brings God into the picture.
In verse twelve, it says that God will watch from the beginning of the
year to the end of the year in constant communication, constant observation of what's
going on in your life, making God first. And it's very easy to
forget. It's very easy to look at just the bad things, the negative
things. And I will tell you that those negative things have a purpose,
Those negative things can become benefits. But only focusing on those things that were
ugly or frustrat rating or saddening during the last year or the last ten years
won't help. As a person of faith, you should always move forward into
the future, trusting God, not the circumstances. We say on the program.
Quite often its circumstances change, and they do, but it's become kind
of the norm to complain. And what you see in the United States right
now is the entirety of the nation being less hopeful, if nothing else.
If nothing else, the United States has always been a country of hope in
times of war, in times of peace, regardless of the administration, didn't
matter who in that always the individuals that made up the whole of the country
were hopeful. And that's where the strength lies. And now, as you
are still in that kind of straddling stage of looking back at all the things
that have taken place, focus not on just the old for the purpose of
the reminiscing, but those propellants that move you forward, those things that help
you learn and say, Okay, I'm not going to make this same mistake.
Now. I have a clean slate, if not in reality, at
least mentally, this clean slate of starting over, beginning again scripture is nothing
if it's not about beginnings. And with this new year, you can actually
see the hope. My desire for you is to is to propel you into
that place of hope where you are not only going, okay, I'm looking
forward, but you're actually seeing goals, desires, things that you want to
do. Don't wait for them to happen to you. The interesting thing about
the economy and the things that go on financially with people is a lot of
times people just wait, and you've probably heard that a lot. Well,
I'm just gonna wait to see how this goes, or wait to see how
that goes. Move with waiting, not much comes. And as you move
forward using the past, the past should always be like a rearview mirror.
You look into it to see what's behind you, to help you move forward,
to change lanes, make better decisions. But you never drive staring in
the rearview mirror, you'd crash. Moving into the future, moving in and
forward, a lot of you are saying thank Heaven. But as you look
back, my desire for you is to as you reminisce about the good and
bad is don't have that selective memory and you know those people in your life
that seem to only remember the bad things. They have selective memory. Nothing
good seems to be retained in their memory. And then you have to kind
of poke at it a little bit and go, oh no, but don't
you remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was good. But
they'll also see kind of the negative in that. Don't be that way.
And there were those that would see my very miracles, would see things in
front of their eyes and then all of a sudden it goes away and Moses
dealt with that. You know, didn't you just see what the Father did?
And now, well, we kinda would like some quail would be nice.
I know there's you know, heavenly bread coming out of the skies,
but you know, quail would be nice. And it's very easy to get
lost in the negative or the bad things that took place and forget, forget
all the good godly things, and just because they feel bad, or just
because it seems negative, doesn't mean that it is negative. Do you see
how the circumstances sometimes are there to allow you to see a greater picture the
beauty in a circumstance or situation. And I don't want you to get lost
in the negative memories should propel you forward, not keep you shackled to the
past. Christopher, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus, Hi
Christopher, How can I help you? As is known as Israel, and
their pastor, Peter is known as Time Minute Time. Are you also known
as another name, perhaps a Michael the arch Angel. No, No,
that's a belief. There's a group and often they come to the doors,
come to your door on a weekend looking to talk to you about me and
about God. But really their vision of me is is not correct, and
they talk about me being in three different forms. Really there's a Premi,
or there is a Michael previous to birth, and there's then I'm Jesus when
I'm on earth, and then I become Michael again after the resurrection. And
it's really quite convoluted as to what lengths they'll go to to kind of remove
me from the equation of being God, although they'll use the term God with
a little g at times that honestly, Christopher, they are trying to skirt
the reality in scripture that I claim to be God. The interesting thing is
is that in Jude nine, Michael the art arch Angel says that he wouldn't
even rebuke the devil. He says, I don't rebuke you, but the
Lord does. Yet I do. And many times in Scripture, including Luke
four, So not there isn't the continuity of being one and the same.
Also in Hebrews, it talks about me not being an angel, talks about
that I'm glad that I didn't come as an angel. So it really doesn't
jive scripturally with you know, truly with the truth of Scripture. But there
are groups like that that will come to your door and are pitching a particular
idea or thought in really their counterfeits. They may use similar language, they
may speak similar things, and you go, oh, well, this sounds
like Christianity, but it is not. And so the important thing is to
have discernment and not to treat them poorly or ugly or anything like that,
because I've heard people treating them very poorly, and it's not about that,
but lovingly and show them correction to the best of your ability. But many
of them are so caught up in the process of learning that their particular churches
and or groups do that it's hard for them to break from them. And
it's not just pointing out a particular scripture. Hopefully you plant the seed.
But it gets very difficult, and they're going in looking at you differently as
if you can't interpret scripture to begin with, and you can't know certain things.
So it's quite difficult to really get into it with them because you know
sometimes you're going to go back and forth, and they're incredibly well trained.
But no, was not am not will never be Michael the archangel, nor
an angel at all. That would fly in the face of what you know
about me and scripture. Bill. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi.
Bill. Let you know how much I truly appreciate your show and the
work that you do. Thank you, Jesus. I overcame when I accepted
you into my heart. I overcame an addiction that was terrifying to me in
the twinkling of an eye, and I'm so grateful for that. It's been
three and a half months now and I don't even think about it anymore.
But now it's the new year, and i'd like to overcome another addiction,
and that cigarette smoking. And I am more afraid of it overcoming this one
than I was overcoming the other addiction. I was wondering if you had any
advice for me. Well, the addictions are going to be similar as far
as the emotional aspects. The physical aspects can be different depending on how they
interact with your body, so the needs may be very different. The fact
that you're just getting over one addiction in three months, I'm all four you
clipping these things out of your life as they are anchors or weights and keeping
you from doing things that you want to do. But that seems like a
very quick transition to go from one and then jump into another. So I'm
hopeful that you've kind of looked weight at everything and said, okay, this
is the time, so that it doesn't become so burdensome that you throw up
your hands and go, okay, see I couldn't do it. Now they're
both back. But I've seen so much evidence in my life over the last
six months and particularly the last three and a half months that just you know,
by a concerted effort on my part, I can handle it. But
excellent. But cigarette smoking bothers me because you know, it seems like such
a temptation to pick it up again, and you know I have already lost
so far. Well, there's and I'm not saying that you can't do it.
I believe you can. What I don't want you to get to is
a place of discouragement because it's you know, there's so many outside elements as
it is, and the enemy loves to sit there and tell you how much
you can't do. And so going in, moving forward and going into it,
I want you to look at it realistically and say, okay, well
this is what I want to do. I want to if you want to
cut it off completely, that's a pretty difficult thing to do, and sometimes
to slowly weed it out of your life because you've got a lot going on
with that type of addiction. When you're talking about smoking, you have a
physical addiction and a chemical addiction that's attached to the physical habitual addiction. So
you sit there and this is not a show about you know, medical procedures
or medicine in any way, shape or form, but even spiritually in your
life, you'll see how if you make something a habit, that habit becomes
difficult to break. Creating a new habit now is just going to be leveled,
consistent. It's a matter of one breaking that that physical desire, and
that's something that you may want to talk to your physician about. And then
the the habit, the actual physical habit of picking something up and putting it
in your mouth, or taking the time out of the work day or whatever
you might be doing to go outside to smoke, becomes part of your habit.
So depending on how you used it and how many cigarettes, would you
say you smoked about a pack and a half day. Okay, that's quite
a bit of cigarettes, yeah it is. So that's a lot of your
day that is separated by those little cigarettes. Like they they come. They
they're a vision of sorts that you're used to and that absence. A lot
of people this sounds strange, but will feel a loneliness when they're not smoking
because it's almost like they have a visitor that comes every so often, once
an hour, once every couple hours, whatever it might be. So really
you're tackling it in parts and you're going to have to find something to accommodate
that physical need to hold something or and a lot of people that's why a
lot of people get heavy when they're not smoking, because they start eating and
that kind of fills that first part. But it's a matter of doing the
exact same thing you did with the other addiction, that is applying it to
your life, just doing it, and we can get one Jesus with the
other addiction. I literally just put it down and I've never picked it up
again, and it's just gone from my heart. Now. I hear stories
like that every day, and a lot of people say it's not possible,
but it can be done. And as we talked about earlier, being with
you always, and if you put me first and seek the things of God,
I'm going to be with you throughout the entirety. It's not just on
you. But then I'll lean on you when I need a cigarette. How
about that? That's always a good thing to do. It's just a matter
of understanding the process and knowing that every moment you stop, or every moment
you're not doing it is a moment closer to your body accepting that new habit.
You created this habit. It's not like you went to a pack and
a half a day immediately you would have coughed and hacked and vomited. It
was a process that you taught your body to accept and to consume and to
enjoy. And now you're gonna have to rethink this, and this goes for
all kinds of things, and people get caught up in addictions saying, oh,
well, how can I do this? But you've trained your body into
accepting these things that are foreign. How much how much more difficult do you
think that is? Have you ever tried to feed a child something that they
don't want to eat. You're training your body to accept something that repulses it.
You can train it to give those things up and know your limitations.
There is nothing wrong with saying hey, I need help. I'm with you
through the totality of it. And if you are one of those people that
are designed in such a way that you can put something down and say I'm
done with it, then amen, do it and pass that glory along to
God and make sure that people know in a in a humble way. But
I know you can do it, Bill, and you've already proved to yourself
that you can. Pauline, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi,
good morning, Jesus. How are you? I am? Well? Thank
you very good. You know I just accepted you and was baptized this past
summer. All right, that's wonderful news, A lot of it because of
your show that used to listen to when I couldn't get radio reception on my
long dress on Fundaine warnings. Oh, that's wonderful news. I have a
coworker who makes it very difficult for me to My new year's resolution has been
to try to deal with her in a more christ Like loving manner. She
makes it very difficult, though, And my coworker and I, my other
coworker and I were looking for guidance in Ephesions four and five. Can you
give us any advice as far as unity. We both just want to be
able to love her, and she makes it difficult to love her and to
love her as a sister in Christ. Okay, well, well, Chapter
four of Ephesians, verse four is that where you were looking. Yeah,
okay, where it talks about it talks about unity. As a matter of
fact, Chapter four is a wonderful chapter dealing with unity in the body,
and it starts there saying there is one body and one spirit, just as
also you were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over
and all, through all and in all. And that kind of sets you
up for going okay. And this is how a lot of people get out
of it simply is by saying, well, I love all my brothers and
sisters in Christ, but I don't necessarily like them all. And when it
comes to someone that you're working with, understand that you're not in church necessarily
unless you work at a church. If it's a work situation, there's going
to be different work etiquette then would be the same as at church. So
what kind of things manifest this person? What what do they do that rubs
you the wrong way or makes it difficult to love on them? She deliberately
starts conflict. She goes and talks to one person and then goes and talks
to another person behind in their back, and then walks up to you and
gives you a hug while she's telling somebody else something else you know about you
five minutes earlier, and she just she deliberately starts conflict. And why do
you why do you think that she does such a thing. Honestly, we
think she's a little mentally unstable. Okay, that's a possibility. Well,
the best thing to do, especially if you see these things going on and
understand what they're going on, is first, don't ever let her speak ill
of someone to you. I don't, okay, So to head that off
at the past, and if all of those believers, all the Christians that
are working with her do that, it will limit her contact or her ability
to do those things. By saying, Okay, you know what, if
it doesn't pertain directly to me, or it's not helpful or it's not constructive,
I really don't want to get into it. I'd love to talk to
you about this or about that, or about anything else, but I don't
want to talk to you about this other person because I'm not them. If
they're if they're doing something wrong, it's probably best to speak to them directly.
If they continue, excellent because that kind of eliminates the openings or opportunities
for these things. And then secondly, Scripture says that if you have an
issue with a brother or sister in christ you're to go to them. You're
to go to them and say, hey, I have an issue with you.
This is the issue, and one be ready for reprove yourself in case
you're wrong, but if not, to hopefully propel them into an understanding that
they're that they're doing something wrong. And also that lead them to correcting the
situation. If they don't, then you kind of have to be done with
them and find a way around it at work, whether it's changing positions or
moving your position or whatever it might be. But you don't have to deal
with somebody who's a pain or is difficult, or is causing havoc or hostility
in your workplace just because they claim to be a Christian. That doesn't make
sense. Brenda, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello, jes Hi,
Brenda, I would like to hear the Ten Commandments? Please sure the
decalogue that is the big fancy word for the Ten Commandments. Now, the
Ten Commandments are They can be found in a couple places in scripture, but
primarily when people reference or quote them, they're looking at Exodus twenty, verses
two through seventeen. So that's what we'll look at today. Is there a
particular reason you want to hear the Ten Commandments? I just no, you
just want to hear them? Yes, okay, Well they're broken down differently
depending on the group. The Jewish breakdown of the ten the Anglican, Orthodox,
Catholic, Lutheran, they tend to break them off differently, So I'm
just going to go down them for you so that you can hear them.
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself
an idol. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
Don't take God's name in vain. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
Honor your father and mother. You shall not murder, you shall not
commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against
your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not cover
it, covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. So, depending on how
you break them up, some people will combine some of those or separate other
parts of them and make them into the ten. So sometimes you might read
if you read the Ten Commandments in a Catholic Bible, it would be different
from other Christian Bibles. So those types of things can get mixed up.
But really it's not about the labeling them as ten, because that's not how
it's not how it comes out. I know a lot of you get caught
up in scripture now and you see the chapters and verses and you say,
oh, well, they labeled it differently, but really there was no chapter
in verse, not in that context, not in the same way, in
the same sense. It was more about getting the entirety of scripture out and
the purpose of scripture. So the truth is, regardless of how you label
them one through ten, or if you don't label them one through ten,
that the importance lies in not having any other gods before God, not having
any idols, honoring your father and mother, not murdering, not committing adultery.
These things are what's important. Steve, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Hello, Jesus, how are you doing this morning? I am well,
how can I help you? A little background? I'm fifty eight.
I had my daughter had her first grandchild about ten months ago and they and
up until that point my church life, I've really never attended church, you
know, as far as just never attended church when I was a child.
Maybe a little bit, but not really good continuity as far as being in
church. Anyways, I've been going to church with my son in law and
my daughter, and you know, I reading through the Bible, and like
say, Matthew, Matthew Ford, it says then Jesus was led by the
spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. And the doubt,
the doubt I have is what you know, Jesus is God, and so
why would why would he be tempted? Well, you keep in mind,
I'm one hundred percent God and one hundred percent man. People assume it's like
fifty to fifty or something like that, and the only way for that to
be legitimate, the man part would need to be tested and tempted. If
you put a murderer in jail with no other people, he doesn't murder,
but that doesn't make him morally better because he doesn't have the option. There
is no one for him to murder. Therefore there is no murder. But
it doesn't mean that his heart is changed or his heart has a dedication to
to the cause and the moral cause. So in this case, if I'm
not tempted at all in the flesh, then there then there then I'm not
refraining from anything, and then there's no moral judgment there. The key has
to be the moral judgment, and the moral judgment comes from being tempted,
having those things put in front of me, dealing with pride and the desires
of the eyes and lust and these types of things and saying no, kf
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