You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Catherine, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Jesus Hi, I have a question. Actually, now
I have two, and I'm wondering if I could switch. Well, we're
very very very short on time, so why don't you trade the first one
first? But I'm glad that the show is making you think. Huh,
I'm glad that the show is making you think. That's a good thing.
It is. The first one was is God? If Jesus is the Son
of God and God Jesus also see iss to be God in flesh? How
is that? How's that possible? Well? One is the title that is
used not only prophetically saying you know that the Son of God will come,
but throughout throughout scripture you'll see that term used for me specifically as the unique
Son of God, not just sons of God or daughters of God, which
is every believer, but specifically talking about the Son of God. Matthew twenty
six sixty three. Yes, it is, as you say, I reply,
as talking to the high priests that are asking me, they're charging me
under oath by the Living God, say, are you the Christ, the
Son of God? And I say, yes, it is as you say.
But I say to all of you, in the future you will see
the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming
into the clouds. Son of Man, son of God, interchangeable in this
context. But it's talking about me having the nature of God and being God.
And that's why if you read on in Matthew twenty six sixty five through
sixty six, also John nineteen seven, that you will see that the law
that it talks about there that I have broken is the law of blasphemy because
I'm claiming to be God by using that term being the son of God.
It's not the same type of son and daughter that you'd think about in the
human sense. It's not that, oh, well, you know, God
met Mary and Mary and God had a relationship and had a child. That's
not what it's about. It's about the unique nature of God is in me
his son, and we are one and the same, and that gets into
the trinity. I realize, which complicates matters some more. But for the
sake of time, to understand that that term being used is a term claiming
that I am God, not just the son of God, but that I'm
one exactly with his nature. Stephen. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning Jesus. Hi Stephen, what's going on? Hey? I have
a theology question. My wife suffers from multiple sclerosses. And a friend of
mine who is a varied about Christian as I you know, am as Well,
told me and perhaps it's, you know, something generational. And I
didn't quite understand what he meant. And his wife elaborated a little more on
it, and she she mentioned how she was sick one time, very sick.
A couple of her elders prayed over her and realized that through their prayer
they said that they're her ancestors. Shimmed and that's because she's the reason why
she's sick. And I don't believe that, because I believe, you know,
this is what God ordained me for us to have. But you know,
there is some scripture that goes along with it. I suppose that I
wanted to get your take on it so you can help me clarify this.
Now, this seems to be something that is reoccurring, Stephen, that is
that that people often look for outside reasons. I mean, this is nothing
new in John chapter nine, first one, and you probably remember a story,
and I'll read it to you. It says, and as he passed
by, he saw a man blind from birth, and his disciples asked him,
saying, Rabbi, who's sinned this man or his parents that he should
be born blind? Jesus answered, it was neither that this man sin nor
his parents, but it was in order that the works of God might be
displayed in him. So there's a lot of infirmity in scripture that Paul,
for instance, with a thorn in the flesh that doesn't get taken away,
that isn't pointing to a particular sin. Now, you could argue that all
sickness comes from sin, because that's not the way humans were designed. But
and yes, it's generational in the sense that it's passed down that sick genetics,
illnesses, things like that come from the pollution of the human body and
cause things that weren't supposed to be there before. That's why they're mutations.
But so in the big sense, yes, all things come from sin in
that sense. But to say that it's some sort of family curse or something
generational that's passed down through sin, no, it's not fair. To say
that that's an excuse not to participate in your well being, not to figure
out, you know, how to get healthier, or if there is a
lifelong illness or heaven forbid, a life threatening illness, that you can understand
the weight of it in its context rather than overly spiritualizing it. That doesn't
mean that there aren't oppressions, spiritual oppressions and demonic oppressions, not possessions,
but oppressions that weigh people down or things like that that can be prayed over
and removed. But really that that's a separate issue from day to day illnesses
that people get, and sometimes people overly spiritualize them and they think that they're
doing that to glorify God. A lot of times people do that to glorify
themselves, to be a part of it and saying no, we don't have
to bow to this, and I can get you through this, and that
ends up twisting down a whole different other path. But really, you've got
to trust God and see God's glory in the good and the bad. I
don't know why people assume that only the good things glorify God. Even illness
points to the glory of God. Obviously, I said so, and John
that I just read to you. There's that context of saying, no,
God is glorified in these things too. There's other scriptures that say that you
should rejoice in your trials and tribulations because God is seen in those. So
it's one of those things that I think sometimes Christians can get overly spiritualized on.
It's not that sin doesn't pass along through the butt bloodline. It's not
that sin isn't something that becomes generational and has passed down because it is.
I mean, there's just the way things you teach your children and all of
these things. But in the sense of thinking of it more like a curse
is to belittle the power of the Blood of Christ in the first place,
and to say that, you know, everyone's going to go through these things.
It's all under the blood. And it's never about the flesh or being
healthy in that sense, because I say specifically, I fear not he who
can kill the flesh, but he who can kill the spirit. So it's
always about the spiritual health of the individual. And I'm so sorry to hear
about the illness to begin with. But God can be seen and can be
glorified in all those things and that should you should never lose sight of that
and know that God is present even in the sickness, and that it's not
always about curing everything, because not everyone gets cured. Hello Jesus him thirty
five years old and I was raised Roman Catholic, my baptism, Communion,
Confirmation, my mom actually taught Catechism for seventeen years. But I also consider
myself homosexual. But I seem to have lost my way with the Roman Catholic
Church, and I was just seeing if there was any possible way, guess,
to get back into the Roman Catholic Church, even you know, based
on I guess just what I just told you. Well, this program,
we do our part not to speak for any particular church, but you know,
no, no, no, don't be but to focus on the broader
truths in scripture. And I will tell you this, I want you back
in the church now. If you choose that to be the Catholic Church or
Protestant Church, that's up to you. But do I want to have a
relationship with you. Absolutely. And unfortunately, the church in many different forms,
both Protestant and Catholicism, has been heinous to the gay community and the
way that they have reached out and or not reached out, or wait,
they have treated the gay community is abhorrent to God. And in that sense,
it's absolutely important that you go and you listen, but you keep this
in mind. I get these attitudes from people all over the place, and
not just the gay community, but every community you can think of that wants
to go into the church with their arms crossed saying, God, I want
you to be the way I want you to be. And that's not fair
either. So as much as you are absolutely welcomed and I want you to
be in the church, go in with that openness and that desire to hear
what God has to say for you and to learn from that and to grow
with that, and not go in there with a particular set or an agenda
as to what you want out of God, but what God wants out of
you. But I think that's the biggest part of being in a church is
sometimes you go in with that expectation of Okay, God, what are you
going to do for me? And I don't want it to be that kind
of relationship. It's it should be what do you have to teach me?
What can I learn? And those things become incredibly important. And if you
go in there with an attitude or kind of this is you know, this
is what I want from you God, I think that that all is lost
at that point. I've had people call me on the program with questions and
say, what does the Bible say about this? And you can just hear
in the tone of their voice that it that they're not going to listen to
it. So the natural question is, well, if it says that you
shouldn't do something, or it says that you should do something, would you
adhere to it? And if you say no, then don't bother with it
on any part of your life. But if you want to go and receive
God, if you want to go and strengthen your relationship with God, absolutely,
But on the note of homosexuality, on the note of the way that
the church treat has treated the gay community, there are some asinine statements that
are made on behalf of me and in my name that are absolutely absolutely from
the pit of hell, and the way that the gay community has been treated
and ostracized and treated differently and set apart and not welcomed, not in all
churches. I know that there's one wonderful churches. And it's not about being
a super duper liberal church where you know, anything goes and there's no theology
structure. Not about that. It's about the peace and love that comes from
scripture, that is real and that is honest, and that is receiving of
people from from all kinds of walks, in all kinds of situations. And
it's always disappointing when I get emails of how somebody was treated in the church
for any reason, and that sheds poor light upon the love of God and
the purpose of the death and the Cross and the resurrection and what all that
speaks. Leonard, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Now let me get
out of the wind here. Sorry about that, No problem. Another question.
And I make eighty percent of monu income from playing poker, my goodness.
Uh huh and uh. I came in contact with a lot of good
maning Christian people and they say it's evil and going to hell, and oh
wow. I'll usually bring up you know, it's I mean, you'll play
monopoly because that's the game of chance too, and they kind of well,
that's different, you know, I mean, you want to you want to
hear a mind blowing fact, the apostles cast lots to determine the replacement for
Judas in scripture. So there's there's the lottery is used in uh. They
cast lots in levit a kiss to choose between a sacrificial goat and escapegoat.
Joshua cast lots to determine, uh, you know, the size of land
for various tribes. It does show its face in scripture, and there's nothing
that says, uh, implicitly in scripture that it's wrong. Now, I
will tell you, Leonard that there are some things that would make it wrong.
Now you said you're a poker player, right, I mean if I
if I see somebody that's you know, I mean obviously having problems, I
try to go to a different table, you know. I'm trying not to
take advantage, you know. But poker is a skill. It's not as
much a game of chance as if you were sitting there playing the slots machine.
Slot machine. Okay, So there's a couple of differences. Poker is
going to be one of the few times where where you could see that as
a job. It's a game of skill. It takes practice and insight and
ability. So in that case it would be very, very different from other
types of gambling. If you're just trying to make a buck, If you're
actually making a living, edit that shows that you're pretty good. If you're
doing it in an honest way, then that's fine as well. That the
concern comes in places like Proverbs thirteen eleven that says dishonest money dwindles away,
but he gathers money little by little makes it grow. Getting in that kind
of get rich quick mentality is absolutely wrong. But if you are are going
and you're you're an honest poker player, that's not to say that, you
know, the part of the playing is is bluffing and the like, but
that's understood by all the other players. So yeah, it's not considered lying
or fabricating it in a different sense because everybody goes into it knowing that's part
of the game. So but if you're honest in what you do, you're
not cheating, and you're not doing it just to stay out of work,
you're doing it because this is your job, then you're fine. It's only
when it becomes something that controls your life or an addiction, or you're doing
it to just try and skirt the system to you know, make a you
know, quick buck or things like that. That's when gambling would become a
problem, and that's when I would say that you need to run from it.
Robert, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello, how are you?
I am? Well? How can I help you? Robert? I
had a question how does a married couple get past adultery? And is there
any scripture that can actually help us in moving forward in our lives? Well,
of course there's a scripture, but first I'd like to get a little
bit more understanding. Are you're going through this yourself right now? Yes,
sir? And what happened? I committed adultery myself and it would eat me
alive and I ended up telling my wife about it, and now we're in
a situation that we're trying to get over. Okay, Aaron, was it
a long period of time? Was it a one time thing? Was it
was? It was more so a one time thing. More so so you're
saying it happened more than once. It happened once. Okay, Yeah,
that would be exactly a one time thing. So it happened, Okay,
So it happened one time, and you you brought it up to your wife
and you told her about your discretion, your indiscretion rather, and she she's
responding and being hurt, right, very hurt, very hurt over, very
non trusting. Said, I mean she cries all the time. You know,
it's it's rough. Is was this someone she knew as well? No,
okay, with somebody at work? Or was it was somebody it was
something like that? Yeah? Okay? Uh you weren't. Did you feel
that you put yourself in in this situation knowingly and you just kind of went
with you went with a rolled with it all and just said, Okay,
I'm going to give in. Yeah I did. I did. I gave
into the temptation that that surrounds us every day. Well, there's forgiveness all
throughout scripture, it's a running theme obviously, But the there's two things that
go with forgiveness. There's open forgiveness, and that's that's for your wife that
she's to forgive, to release it so that she doesn't have it. But
that's not necessarily for you. Reconciliation is something different. Reconciliation comes with work
and intent and focus and all these things. Like God loves and forgives everyone,
but only reconciles truly with those that receive him and repent turn away so
one. You can't do it anymore. You can't do anything obviously that even
remotely appears to look like that. And you have to find out why this
was so important to you, to find out what about it was worth the
possible loss of your wife and your family, and why that one time,
you know what part of you yearns for that kind of attention that would make
you do something counter to who you are. I mean, yeah, you're
not a bad guy, are you? All you and you don't want this
in your life, yet you welcomed it. You brought it in your life,
right, and you see what damage it it? Yeah? I mean
you couldn't even live with it. Yeah, you told on yourself. It's
not like you even got caught, right exactly. The worst thing you can
do is try and make things go back to normal quickly. It makes it
will appear to your wife that you're just trying to cover it up and that
it doesn't matter and that you don't care about our feelings. You need to
get to a third party. You need to have somebody, a pastor somebody
that you guys can talk in front of and work through this and and get
through it to a place where you can start building that trust. But it's
going to take a lot of work, and there's going to be a lot
of cants. There's a lot of things that you can't do anymore, and
you shut that door off. There's going to be things that you think are
normal or casual to go out and see friends or do whatever that you want,
an't going to get to do anymore. And you you better realize that
and know that that's part of what you sacrificed. You sacrifice something on your
wife's end, her trust and her love and all that she gave you,
and now you're sacrificing much of your freedom to reinstill faith in your family and
in who in the character of who you are. There's there's much of scripture
or just up against a clock. When I come back, I'll give you
some scripture that you can read. But there's much a scripture that talks about
forgiveness. I was talking with Robert about his infidelity, and you could hear
how obviously he's not happy with himself and his situation. People will make mistakes,
and there are there's a great distance, a vast differences between those who
are repeat offenders who it's a lifestyle. They go out and they commit adultery
over and over again, versus somebody who puts themselves in a very stupid situation
and makes a mistake. So I want to give you a few things.
He asked for scripture about forgiveness and things like that, and I want to
give that. But I also want to give you a guideline. If you
want to protect yourself, well, the best way to protect yourself is to
build boundaries between that which you want to protect in the outside world. Right,
if you want to protect that part of your life, then both men
and you two women have to understand that there are boundaries that you have to
push beyond, even outside of the normal boundaries, to keep you from falling
into that circumstance. The old saying that you get too close to the creek,
you slip in. It's just the way creeks are built. The slides,
the sides are slippery, and you get distracted by the beauty of the
whole thing and you're in the drink. Likewise, when it comes to your
emotions and your sexuality and your intimacy levels, you have to keep yourself from
being intimate and that has nothing to do with clothes being off. You can't
connect with people. This today's program has been about communing and connecting with people,
and you can't do that with someone of the opposite sex in the same
way at the same time. You can't you don't do that anymore. Doesn't
mean that you aren't human, and it doesn't mean that you don't connect on
other levels, but you can't have those moments of intimacies. You don't share
secrets with the opposite sex that you you know, keep from your spouse,
things like that, because then you build a bond with somebody else that can
grow into that intimacy that can become a problem. And as the old saying
goes, if you're not if you're not supposed to go into Idaho, don't
go into the United States, and then you're guaranteed never to step foot in
Idaho. The point being that if is set your boundaries so wide that you're
not going to worry about the possibility of slipping in, and that's just don't
put yourself in those positions. As far as scriptures go, Robert, I
want you to know that first John one nine is very clear. If we
confess our sins. He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness. It's a process, and it's where the
process you're in right now, and one that you need to allow to happen
to you and your wife will be doing the same healing from that. And
finally, Matthew twenty one through twenty three is what I want you to read
about forgiving, forgiving yourself as well. Ernest, Welcome to the Jesus Christ
Show. Good morning, Hello, How can I help you? Yes,
Jesus, I want to know why we keep Sunday as the Sabbath. I've
been reading the Bible as of late and little articles in different magazines, and
I can't find any work where it says to change the Sabbath to Sunday,
Sunday being the first day of the week. Yes, absolutely that Okay,
Sunday is not the Sabbath. Christians do not celebrate on the Sabbath. Christians
tend to celebrate on what they refer to as the Lord's Day, which is
to represent the erection which took place on Sunday. Now you find this in
the Book of Acts as well. Acts twenty verse seven talks about them gathering
around to break read on the first day of the week, and this shows
that the celebration takes place on a different day. And there's other colautions to
verse sixteen and seventeen. But the Lord's Day, the term Lord's Day only
appears once in the New Testament, that's Revelation one, verse ten. But
don't confuse the concept or the Lord's Day with what is the Sabbath, which
is the seventh day of the week. That's Saturday. It's the day of
rest, and that doesn't change Sunday being the first day of the week,
is the day that I rose from the dead, and that's the day that
is celebrated by most Christians. So New Testament Christians did not believe Saturday should
be observed by worship and rest necessarily Romans fourteen five and six, Galatians four,
verse eight through eleven. But they had a lot of modern Christians,
and the early Christians regarded the Sabbath as part of the ceremonial law of Israel
and not necessarily applicable to the Church as it stands today. So keep in
mind there there's not just ten commandments, there's over four hundred commandments in scripture,
So this is one of those that many Christians think that it's not about
the day. If you remember, I was asked about the Sabbath, and
I said the Sabbath was made for man, not man. For the Sabbath
to show people that they had it kind of backwards. It was about taking
the time to rest, taking the time to spend with God, focusing on
God and the things of God. And that should be done regardless. I
don't care what day that's done on. But it's imperative that you rest.
It's imperative. Scripture says, be still and know that I'm God. It's
imperative that you have that downtime to sit before God and to relax and receive.
Those are the things that are important. It's imperative that in a work,
in a physical work sense, that you have time of rest as well,
that you stop from your labor, that you literally put your tools down
and take that time to relax. Otherwise you're going to burn yourself out and
you're not going to be of any value to anyone, including God. Because
when you get really, really super tired, you're susceptible to a lot of
things. Physically, spiritually, emotionally, and you receive differently, and so
it's important to take that time to have that rest. But what happens is
if you make it about the Sabbath, then that becomes about the Law again,
and then the law supersedes God. And it's not about that. The
Law was to train you about the things of God, to understand the purpose
of structure and consistency and the things of God, not about trying to be
perfect or obtaining Godhood in any way, shape or form. So in this
particular case, when it comes to the Sabbath, the modern day Christians and
even New Testament Christians felt that it wasn't about the Sabbath anymore. It was
about the purpose of the Sabbath, that is to take time to rest and
to worship God and also to celebrate God. And that's done with most Christians.
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