WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Ernie, thank you for being 2 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.800 so patient. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning. My name 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:13.919 is Ernie and I from Los Angeles. Yesterday I experienced a get in the 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:18.640 family. My granddaddy passed away at one hundred and two. Now, throughout 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.679 the last four to five days, I was at the hospital comforting him and 6 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:29.719 making him feel as comfortable as I can. My question is the dying process 7 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:35.359 was very difficult for me because of him. His kidneys were going now and 8 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:41.200 his lungs were flaring out. Everything is just shutting down in his body. 9 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.679 My question is why did it takes so long for God to comfort him? 10 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:56.719 Well, I understand that question comes from a very emotional place and rightly so. 11 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:03.799 As you watch someone like that go through that process of decay and death, 12 00:01:03.599 --> 00:01:10.439 it's incredibly painful. But you have to look at the overall scheme of 13 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.400 things. Some people might ask, my goodness, he lived to one hundred 14 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:19.959 and two. There's a lot of living in there, and there's many people 15 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:26.079 that would love that extra twenty maybe thirty years than what they got. So 16 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.319 there's a lot of questions, But keep in mind that you are brought into 17 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.840 this world by the pain of someone else, and you'll leave this world in 18 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:42.599 your own pain. And both of these both of these truths are to be 19 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.480 seen in their proper context. And if you want some specific philosophical reason as 20 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:55.040 to why your one hundred and two year old grandfather suffered for twenty eight days 21 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:00.120 or so while in the hospital, I don't know that I'm going to be 22 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.079 able to give you one, or at least one that would satisfy you. 23 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:07.480 But I will tell you there is always a purpose and there's things to be 24 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:13.039 learned, whether it's the questions that you're asking now, whether it's the process 25 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:17.719 of understanding that life is temporal and there is pain involved. There is also 26 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:23.800 the understanding of pain and suffering and what kind of purpose it has not only 27 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.639 on the individual, but the people around them. If this is not the 28 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.759 first time your grandfather suffered, now, this may have been the last time, 29 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.280 but it wasn't the first time. People suffer throughout their lives, and 30 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:43.280 I guarantee a person of one hundred and two years of age has gone through 31 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.719 a lot of suffering in their life and seen a lot of things both worldwide 32 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.000 and in their own lives. So suffering is one of those things that people 33 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.639 kind of want to run from, and it really is part of the process. 34 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.360 I say throughout Scripture, and you're going to suffer. I suffered, 35 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.639 You're going to suffer. It's going to be a part of being human. 36 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.719 Now it makes more sense when you see someone kind of suffer and then go 37 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.960 on with their life and maybe grow from that suffering or understand it when it 38 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.520 comes at the end. It's a legitimate question. You look around Ernie and 39 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:20.560 you go, well, what can be learned of it? He's dying, 40 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.800 where is he taking that? And the best way to explain it is that 41 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.199 your life is a refining process. It is a path that God has you 42 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:37.919 on to refine you unto the moment of death for heaven. And whether there 43 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.840 was something more to be learned by your grandfather, something more to be learned 44 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:46.879 by you and the others around him, is for God to know and explain 45 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:54.560 when you stand before him. Because the entire process of refinement and the if 46 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:00.080 you look at and think of it as metal being refined, it's heated to 47 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:05.360 an intense degree to where all the dirt and imperfections come to the surface and 48 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:12.639 then the blacksmith will scrape the dross off the top and continue to heat it 49 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.920 up again and continue to do that until it's as pure as possible. And 50 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.279 life is the same way. And in that process, even unto death, 51 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:27.360 that process is going on, that process of refinement and understanding. And whether 52 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:32.040 your grandfather could say it or not, or was experiencing something, you don't 53 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:39.759 know. It's between him and his maker and the things that are going on, 54 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:46.279 and the learning process that is taking place goes on to this moment of 55 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.879 death, and it should not be assumed otherwise. Yet it's never going to 56 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:56.639 be easy to watch. It wasn't easy to watch when he would suffer in 57 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.360 life, let alone suffer in death. Correct, it's correct. Thank you 58 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.360 so much to help me understand a lot better. You're welcome, and you 59 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:08.000 go in peace with that, Ernie. I'm sorry for your loss. I 60 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.639 think that as a wonderful celebration of a life. One hundred and two years 61 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:19.120 is an amazing an amount of time, and to live and to touch countless 62 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:26.680 of lives yourself one hundred and two years, including the life of his grandson. 63 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.240 You, Ernie, who had to watch that, And I'm sorry for 64 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:36.680 that. Pain in the sense that I understand what it feels like and looks 65 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:44.839 like to be around it. However, the biggest, the biggest part of 66 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.560 the picture is that there's more to it than that pain, and that pain 67 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:54.839 is actually points to the preciousness of life and the importance of life and the 68 00:05:54.920 --> 00:06:00.360 vibrancy of life. Otherwise that pain wouldn't matter. It only matters because life 69 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.279 is precious and people are precious, and the time that you have here, 70 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:08.839 whether it's seventy eighty ninety or one hundred and two years, is precious. 71 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.600 And even in that suffering, I know the world is kind of trying to 72 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.000 go to this place where nobody should suffer. But I say in scripture, 73 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:24.079 you will suffer as I have suffered, And it has a purpose, all 74 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.519 of it, whether you know it or not, whether you learn it or 75 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.519 not. The purpose in this case might have been for your grandfather, might 76 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:38.079 have been for you, might have been for others. But all suffering has 77 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.879 a purpose. If for nothing else, then to understand that it will happen, 78 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:50.079 and that God said it will happen. Jessica, Welcome to the Jesus 79 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:57.360 Christ Show. Hello, Hi Jessica, Hi, how can I help you 80 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.600 this kind of question up guarding and my husband, we've been married for like 81 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:09.079 eleven years now and we have two children, and occasionally he will not occasionally, 82 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.879 it's been pretty often where he likes to he's an alcoholic and he likes 83 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.720 to drink. And it's getting to the point where I don't let him watch 84 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:21.439 each other while I'm at work anymore, and he kind of bullies them and 85 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:27.160 he's just a whole different person, and I just he's apologized many times, 86 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.399 but I'm just still set up that I don't know what to do because it's 87 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.560 just it's like black and white with him. He can be so normal and 88 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.319 then they could totally change him around. It's just, yeah, alcohol can 89 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:43.279 do that. This what's his what's his alcoholic choice by the way, beer? 90 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.240 Yeah, beer, okay? And how much would you say he drinks 91 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:55.720 on an average day? Well, recently it's just well sometimes it's once a 92 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.160 week, sometimes it's a couple of times a week or every other week. 93 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.279 And is it a six pack that he drinks? Is a twelve pack that 94 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:07.600 he drinks in one sitting? Maybe three or four? Take too much? 95 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.319 Okay? And has he ever been through a program? Has he ever been 96 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:20.920 to AA or anything like that. No, just through cool order. But 97 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.040 he didn't. He just went because you know he had to. Oh he's 98 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.000 been court ordered in the past. Yeah, and why did that come about? 99 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.080 Did he get a duy or what happened? Oh? Yeah, he 100 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:39.679 has several do you wuys? He just felt like he had to go. 101 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:45.159 Wow. So that puts uh, that puts you in a pretty horrible position. 102 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.600 What is your question for me this morning? Just your advice on whether 103 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.080 what to do because it's just like, I feel like he's almost another child 104 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:00.240 that I'm taken care of and he just takes up a lot of my energy. 105 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:07.039 And has he ever hit you or the children? Yes? You or 106 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:13.519 the children are both me, but like he tries to teach him how to 107 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.159 fight when he's strong, but it's just not safe. Oh wow, sure, 108 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:24.759 I understand. It's the most important thing is that you protect yourself and 109 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:31.320 those children. And if you feel it's an unsafe environment, or you feel 110 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.840 that he's violent or that he has a problem, you can give him the 111 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.200 ultimatum to take care of it or that you're gonna go. Yeah. You 112 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.720 you can't just sit there and wait till something happens. Ugly. If he's 113 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.320 a good man outside of that situation, then you need to do everything in 114 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.080 your power to get him outside of that situation. And that is whether it's 115 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.279 an ultimatum or what have you. If you think that an ultimatum would throw 116 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.360 him into rage, then you need to get out of that home. And 117 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.559 he has a severe problem, and it sounds like he knows he does, 118 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.360 and he's wrestling with it, and he needs to get somewhere where somebody can 119 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.440 help him go through the process. But don't put yourself and those children in 120 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.759 danger. Because you are the sober one. You have the ability to see 121 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.559 what's going on, and that makes you accountable to make sure it doesn't happen. 122 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.639 James, Welcome to the Jesus Christ. Yes, sir, The question 123 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:33.919 I have for you is a lot of churches teach that tiding as a requirement, 124 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.639 and a lot of people put their members under that system and tell them 125 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.000 it's a necessity. And of course, over time I run across a lot 126 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:45.080 of people they have trouble paying it, They can't afford to pay it, 127 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.440 they have a lot of troubles, and they feel like they can't move forward 128 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.759 in ministry because they cannot perform this financial obligation obligation exactly. And when I 129 00:10:54.759 --> 00:11:00.120 went to study the scriptures, I determined that this is something there's not a 130 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.399 requirement for today's New Testament Christian correct And so I want to kind of get 131 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.200 your thoughts on why so many churches teach this doctor in which if you really 132 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:16.080 read scripture, it says anybody that justifies themselves by the law actually becomes a 133 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.080 curse. Well in this particular, and that's a that's a whole different discussion 134 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.200 unto itself. I will I'll answer for the sake of time, looking at 135 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.399 tithing, this concept of a tenth in Hebrew, and you'll find in the 136 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:33.639 Old Testament was a command that was for the purpose of giving back that which 137 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.000 you receive and having and making sure that that you're giving back to the people 138 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.840 of God and the things of God. Yeah, in this particular case, 139 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.120 you can reference Psalm twenty four to one, and also Malachi three eight through 140 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:52.000 ten, But that does change. As a matter of fact, throughout scripture. 141 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.279 You'll see that there's no place where where I reference, you know, 142 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.320 tithing that it needs to be done. And I don't say that the disciples 143 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.840 have to do it. There's no record concerning any of the New Testament writers 144 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:11.159 saying that there's this Christian tithe or anything like that. The early Church practiced 145 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:18.879 sharing of material goods First Corinthians sixteen one, in two Ephesians four twenty eight, 146 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.480 that's kind of the model. Also, you're asked to be a living 147 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.919 sacrifice for God in Romans twelve one and two, and to give materially as 148 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:35.159 the Lord leads you to give tewod Corinthians eight one through five. If you 149 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.759 are in a church, and you are a member of a church, you 150 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.279 should be giving, just because if you're not, you're taking from that church. 151 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.159 You're going and you're receiving, whether it's air conditioned or not, or 152 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.200 any of these things, you're taking from that church, and you should be 153 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.200 giving back to that particular community, part of your community. As far as 154 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.200 giving the tie, the ten percent is, you know, a great way 155 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.519 for people to kind of get it in their head that this is a good 156 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.960 standard. I think that's mostly why churches still refer to it as a tithe 157 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.120 and still give the ten percent. If you want to do the mathematics of 158 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.799 it all, it really comes out to if you go through Scripture about twenty 159 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:18.519 one percent. But the purpose of tithing is just to get yourself in the 160 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.559 mindset that when you're receiving, you should be giving, and if you're partaking 161 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.279 in a church and you should be giving back. It's not that God needs 162 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.480 the money. God doesn't need your money. It's that the church does to 163 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.519 continue to work and to do good things, and to give to others and 164 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.480 all of those things. So don't take, don't steal from the church. 165 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.600 However, if if ten percent is what helps you do ten percent, but 166 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:48.679 if you could give more, Bible essentially says give till it hurts. We 167 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.840 have just a little bit of time. If you do have a question, 168 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:54.200 I don't know that we'll be able to get to it. So I won't 169 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.559 give the phone numbers. We'll deal with what we have on the board right 170 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:03.919 now. We were actually chatting with Jeff. He was asking about people that 171 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:09.240 die early. If life is about progressing, learning, understanding, then if 172 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:13.159 someone dies early, what does that mean? So you're back with us, 173 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.440 Jeff, I am, thank you. So the first one I shared with 174 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.720 you is one of the theories that the belief is. As I talked about 175 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.440 different people with physical ability going to a gym. There are some that are 176 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.559 are going to get built more quickly, and there's some that are going to 177 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.200 take longer. And there are those that theorize that someone that gets taken early 178 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.159 doesn't need as much time here, and then there's people that poo poo that, 179 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:45.919 And quite honestly, it is the belief of this program that it's about 180 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.799 being accountable for the time that you have, not having enough time to become 181 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:54.600 accountable. So if somebody gets taken early, it's about what they do with 182 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.279 that information of that time. Obviously, if they're very very young, they're 183 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.840 not conflicting with any of those but they're also not stepping in the same traps 184 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.360 that pull them away from God in the same way. In the same sense, 185 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:11.080 younger people are more adaptive and connected to God than people who become cynical 186 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:16.200 or go through different stages of their life as they get older. So in 187 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.159 that sense, I think is a big picture thing that there are those that 188 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.200 it's really about where you are being accountable for where you are in that moment, 189 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.679 rather than gosh, I finally had ten more days I could get this 190 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:37.120 right. That's not what you're being judged against. So everyone has the lessons 191 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.919 that they need to know or the things that they need to know, and 192 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.279 for however long you live, you're going to be going through different lessons. 193 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.960 But that doesn't mean if you have a shorter life, you're not getting lessons 194 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:52.759 or understanding or connecting with God in any way, shape or form. Okay, 195 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:58.200 well, it seems like there'd be a difference there because young people, 196 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.120 say, if they were eight years old, wouldn't be learning things that they 197 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:08.720 need to learn. And you would have to do that to have the perfection 198 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.639 that heaven is supposed to be our life here on earth. You would have 199 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.399 to have some sort of way of learning to be able to respond in a 200 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.559 different way. Or maybe I'm just not understanding what happened. No, an 201 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.240 eight year old doesn't have the conflict either. The eight year old is not 202 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:33.159 going up against all of the philosophical conflicts with the concept they believe. There's 203 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.519 a wonderful magician who was a friend of the show. He passed away, 204 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:42.159 and his name was Dean Dill, and he was a beautiful man and a 205 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:47.679 Christian, and he taught magic to all kinds of people, including people like 206 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:53.320 Johnny Carson and the like, and was believed to be a magician's magician and 207 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.320 did parties and all kinds of things like that. And he was asked to 208 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:03.320 do a party for a five year old one time, and in a conversation 209 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.559 with my producer Neil, he said that he turned it down. My producer 210 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.200 Neil asked him why, and he said, because at five everything's already magic. 211 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:18.000 The kids aren't surprised because everything's already magical. There hasn't been any cynicism, 212 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:22.160 There hasn't been anything that has pressed through their life to change that from 213 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.640 who they are, so they're already in that state. So the process of 214 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.680 learning on this earth is an important one, but it's also learning about love 215 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.279 and connectivity and things like that, and that comes in different stages, in 216 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.359 different ways for different people. And it doesn't mean that if you're here till 217 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:45.200 eighty years that there's still things you need to learn to get into heaven. 218 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.279 What it means is, as long as you're on this planet, you should 219 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:53.160 be learning. It's not like you graduate, you pass I know, we 220 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.240 talk about that. My producer Neil even used that term that someone graduates to 221 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:03.640 heaven. That's that next step. But it's not about fulfilling a number of 222 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.039 classes or things like that. That's not what it's about at all. It's 223 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.599 about however long you're here to continue to learn and connect with God throughout these 224 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.160 things. Heaven is going to be a different place in a different way. 225 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:21.480 But God, the belief is is if you are connecting with God in this 226 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.759 world with everything pulling you away, that you will get a clear picture and 227 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:32.400 a connection with God and when you're in heaven. But those things are individual 228 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:38.400 and different based on you know, the person that's going through them, So 229 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:44.480 it don't think of it as you know, a syllabus and a class and 230 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.359 you've got to check these certain things off. If you are alive at a 231 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.960 certain time in your life, yes you should be doing those things, but 232 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.640 you don't need them to be a whole person in any way, shape or 233 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.279 form. So somebody that passes away younger are still a whole person in an 234 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.799 in every way, shape or form, and have been tested in one way 235 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:10.480 or another to show their beliefs or their understanding. It's about Remember, it's 236 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:15.680 about acceptance or rejection. It's not about ignorance. So it's about being accountable 237 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:21.680 for what you do know, not for what you don't know, Pam, 238 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:23.960 Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi. How are you? I am 239 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:29.680 well? How are you well? I mean great? This question is bigger 240 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:34.240 than myself. I'll do my best to ask it. I'm a little naive 241 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:40.680 in the word, but I'm a big believer in you. So my question 242 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:48.720 is, how does the possibility of life in other galaxies working with the scripture 243 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:56.839 of God created the heavens and the earth. I mean, because there's science 244 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:03.119 and there God's word evolution. It just that whole area to kind of confuse 245 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.960 me, and it's interesting at the same time kind of get a sense of 246 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:15.119 what I'm asking. So you are about life on other planets or about well, 247 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:22.359 like, how does how does it figure into scripture and working with the 248 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:30.960 theory of evolution versus God creating the heavens and the earth? And he said 249 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:36.920 science is perfect, but scientists aren't. And I like the science idea of 250 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.680 evolution. Yeah, but I'm also in the beliefs that God created heavens in 251 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.799 the earth. Well, there's I want to explain, there's something else. 252 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.319 There's mishmash. Yeah, there's stuff that people tie together. There is something 253 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:56.240 called theistic evolution. This show doesn't focus a whole lot on that. My 254 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.480 producer, Neil is not a huge fan of it, because you have to 255 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:06.240 understand, there's that evolution is a theory, and I know that you'll get 256 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.839 some people now going, oh, yeah, but theoretically blah blah blah. 257 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:14.160 I say that because there is not one form of evolution. There's not an 258 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:18.480 agreement that scientists have come to. There are parts of it that they have 259 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.920 come to and that they believe took place, but there isn't one theory of 260 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.799 evolution, and most your average everyday person is ignorant of that. They use 261 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:33.000 the term and they don't usually even know what it means. There are many 262 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.960 theories as to what took place, how it took place, why it took 263 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:41.039 place, where it took place. So, and you're dealing with special and 264 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:51.279 general types of evolution, So don't get confused. Don't confused adaptation with evolution, 265 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:56.920 okay. Adaptation is that within its own kind, things can change. 266 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:02.440 For instance, if you put humans in a cave and they lived in the 267 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:08.960 darkness, they would adapt by modifying the ability of their skin, you know, 268 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.240 the skin. They would lose the melanin or it would go to very 269 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:21.599 small levels. Their eyes would probably glaze over, the muscles would weaken, 270 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.119 and they wouldn't use them or need them anymore. So there's things where you 271 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:30.599 know, you see this skin color, there's only one color of skin. 272 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.960 There's only one color of humanity, and that's melanin. And there are people 273 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.359 with more of it and people with less of it, but there's only one 274 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:44.920 color. There's only one true race, the human race. And any modifications 275 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:49.480 of nose, eyelids, hair, things like that are adaptations. They're not 276 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:57.680 evolutionary breaks. There's no group that's less than or better than evolutionarily in humanity. 277 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:03.759 There's adaptations within that great group. For areas, the Inuit people will 278 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:10.799 have a little more fatty tissue above their eyes to keep them warm in in 279 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:15.200 very cold environments. Things like that. That's adaptation. Evolution is if one 280 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:22.000 thing jumps a kind or a phylum and becomes something else, and that's a 281 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.319 whole different thing. So there's there's no Christian there shouldn't be that doesn't believe 282 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.079 in adaptation. That would be silly. People adapt all the time, but 283 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:41.440 within different phylums or jumping or branching from one place. You know, single 284 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:47.480 celled you know, amba jumping to becoming a fish, becoming a turtle, 285 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:53.680 becoming a lizard, becoming a human. That's a different concept. So it 286 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:57.799 depends where you land on that and what your belief is of that. As 287 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:06.400 I said, I think it's one every five years there is a a council 288 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:12.839 of sort where scientists get together to discuss the concept of evolution. So it's 289 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:17.880 not something that they have landed completely on. And this is like, this 290 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.480 is the model because it changes. The original model by Charles Darwin does not 291 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.799 exist. It never exists, never panned out. So there's different models that 292 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.160 are based on that throughout the years, and it depends what you land on 293 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:36.960 as to whether it would fit in scripture. Some of it fits absolutely, 294 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:44.640 But in Genesis when it talks about creation, it's talking about building or creating 295 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:51.960 animals unto their kind, which means they wouldn't cross violins, so that there's 296 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:57.119 a hard place to bring that into scripture. But there are other adaptations and 297 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.880 things like that that wouldn't conflict with apture any way, shape or form. 298 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:04.880 Okay, so life on other planets, if that were to be true. 299 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:08.599 Now life on other planets is a different story because now you get into the 300 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:15.960 problem of salvation. So because I came, and I even said I'm glad 301 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:22.759 that I came as a human and not as an angel, because I'm here 302 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:29.720 to redeem mankind. Right, So now you would have the problem if life 303 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:33.880 was on other planets. It is it human? If it's human, is 304 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.880 it sinful? If it's not sinful? Why if it is sinful, then 305 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.440 it needs to be redeemed. If it needs to be redeemed, now, 306 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.319 how is it going to be redeemed? Do I go to every planet and 307 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.519 become like them to redeem them and dine in across or somehow on every single 308 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:57.319 planet. Did my death on this planet cover other planets? It opens up 309 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:03.319 a lot of questions that are I think, highly problematic for Christianity. And 310 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:08.119 if they found life like humanity, not just well it looks like there's some 311 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:15.240 you know, watermarks on this planet, but real genuine life. Hello, 312 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.839 how are you take me to your leader life? There could be significant problems 313 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:23.160 with Christianity, and I know a lot of people don't want to face that, 314 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:26.720 and a lot of people that love our buddy George Nori and all that 315 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:37.400 might think differently. But that's that's the theological reality. I know that on 316 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.359 talk radio you hear all kinds of things throughout the week. They can bring 317 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:47.039 it down or be heavy stuff. But I hope this show is a respite, 318 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:53.160 a place where you can gather sanctuary for your thoughts and for ideas of 319 00:26:53.279 --> 00:27:02.079 growth and inspiration. I just ask one thing of you. I asked this 320 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.119 of you during this time of year, to focus in on each other. 321 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.200 And I don't mean just your immediate family, but your neighbors and the people 322 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:17.519 around you. And find that time that place of courtesy, like go above 323 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:22.480 and beyond to be courteous to each other, whether it's on the roads or 324 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:26.400 at the grocery store, whatever it is, do just a little bit extra 325 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:33.880 and show those lines of hope and those those opportunities to say, hey, 326 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.839 we're all in this together right as humans, you need to connect with one 327 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:45.960 another and to show that love to one another. God sees that. God 328 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.440 wants you to do it. God asks you to count all things joy, 329 00:27:51.599 --> 00:28:00.119 James One, to consider it pure joy whenever, whenever or you face trials. 330 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:07.960 I know you're going through things now. First Thessalonians five eighteen to give 331 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:15.119 thanks an all circumstance and to find that peace during the holiday season, no 332 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:22.559 matter which the holiday you may be celebrating, to find that peace to be 333 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:29.279 a conduit of joy and happiness and hope. And in that and in that 334 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:36.559 hope, it spreads. I assure you, like a wildfire, bringing people 335 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:41.799 peace, pointing them in a direction, helping them out somewhere, whatever it 336 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:48.400 may be, go the extra mile, push forward, doing things, and 337 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:55.519 that's what brings consistency and happiness, every single individual coming together and saying, 338 00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:56.880 hey, I'm going to look out for you, you look out for me. 339 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.759 I'm going to help you, you help me, and being there for 340 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.279 each other. It's as corny as it may seem. I know you hear 341 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.960 a lot of people yelling and screaming into this very microphone. But I will 342 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.640 tell you that what I'm telling you now is at the center of it all. 343 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:26.200 How you treat one another and how you produce and perpetuate hope. That's 344 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.200 the only thing that's going to help. Otherwise you can scream to your red 345 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.880 in the face, nothing's going to change. So do that. Find ways 346 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.599 to help people to do nice things, to be kind, to reassure people, 347 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.880 to be loving no matter who they are, agree or disagree any of 348 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:47.519 that stuff, and the world will be a better place, I assure you, 349 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:56.480 and remember these simple words. I am with you always. KFI AM 350 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.000 sixty on demand