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Christ Show. Hey, hello, Jesus, Hi you don I have a
question for you. This has really been bothering me for a long time.
It's in Mark fifteen thirty three. And since the Son of God knew that
he was coming tors to die for our sins, and he is like the
father, he knows all, then why did he say what he was on
the cross? My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?
Okay, there's a couple of things going on here. This takes place in
Matthew twenty seven, verse forty six, where I say eloi, eloi,
And that's quoting actually Psalm the Psalm twenty two one. So I'm quoting scripture
for a purpose. This is part of the fulfillment of the prophecies and my
messiah ship. But there's things that are going on that I think get lost
in the translation. Sometimes imagine, if you will, there are things that
you know that will take place, yet you still react to. They can
be as simple as paying your bills every month. You know you have to
pay your bills every month, but do you know roll your eyes or go
ah. Every time you write that check or send the money in. Also,
you know you're going to die. Yet countless times when people are on
their deathbed, they ask, why is this happening to me? Even with
full knowledge that it will happen. Everyone knows, you go the entirety of
your life knowing that will happen. In this particular case, Scripture talks about
many powerful things that are going on, and second Corinthians five twenty one it
says God made him who had no sin, to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. So this talks
about the fact that I had never had sin, been made without sin.
Now am going to take on all that sin and to fulfill that process of
salvation. In Isaiah fifty three four through five, it says, surely he
took upon our infirmities and carried our sorrows. Yet we considered him stricken by
God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our
transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace
was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. So you put
all of those things together and all those images, and what you get is
this process that is beyond simple understanding. But hopefully you can you can leave
today with an insight, and that is that I took on all the all
that ugliness, and for that time well, that sin was upon me.
It's not explained in detail, but it's alluded to that the Father had to
look away because that there's that that process of me taking on all of that
sin. The Father can't partake in that sin and being feeling the weight of
all that sin. I reacted in my humanity with the same way I reacted
to the nails in my flesh. They hurt, they hurt, and in
my flesh, even knowing they were going to pierce me, I felt that
pain and responded as such. Now in this spiritual pain, a pain that
I wasn't designed to feel, that I had never experienced before that in that
place, in the fulfillment of the scriptures, in all that I read you,
and in reciting Psalm twenty two one, I say, eloi, eloi
Lama Sabati, my God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?
And that is because at that moment, the experience, in the intensity of
that moment, is very real and being experienced. It's not why the misconception
is that as God, that I overruled the feeling in the flesh, that
I overruled that and therefore didn't feel it. And in that case, where's
the sacrifice there would be if there wasn't that the weight the pain of those,
yeah, all of those experiences, because all you needed for salvation is
to prick my finger. It doesn't take all that blood to do it.
You watch, you know, the movie depictions. You watch Mel Gibson's depiction
and the blood and the guts, and the Bible even describes that I didn't
even look like a man on the cross, that I had been beaten so
bad, and that's a very intense visual. But truly, any anything done
to me would have taken care of it, because I was righteous and clean
and pure, and so any of those things would have been would have been
part of the at But in this process to take on the totality of the
sins and the ugliness and the pain of the world was to respond as such,
And it's what you would expect. The complications theologically and thinking through all
of that stuff might be weighty for you to totally understand. But I think
that through those scriptures that I gave you, you can understand that something powerful
and intense that had never taken place before was taking place now. And in
that process, in that intense process of atonement, of taking on and paying
your debt, I was feeling and experiencing all of the pain and all of
the agony of all of that sin. Not just the sin of those that
were standing in front of me, not just the sins of those that were
crucified next to me, not just the sins of those that were alive,
then the sin of all mankind from the beginning of time to the end of
time, in that moment on the cross, and to take that on,
as it says in scripture, to take that on that God made me the
one who had no sin, to be literally sin, and to take on
that sin, that that process was going to be an intense one. So
the forsakend part was not about a separation in the trinity, which is not
possible. It's not about a true separation from God in in our deity.
It's not that there was partitions or pull apart. It was about the highlight
of my flesh at that moment and you'll see this throughout scripture in the New
Testament, You'll see that often you'll understand the content of something based on my
flesh or my deity. And it's not that they ever separate at any time.
One hundred percent man, one hundred percent God. But there is times
where you will see the importance of my humanity, being human and doing human
things, and the importance of my deity. Those miracles and the like were
to point the fingers back to my deity, to remind people of my purpose
and why I was here, and to reinforce those things. And then there's
times where my humanity was important, that it was important to see my humanity,
to see that I was the Messiah that was prophesied about in what Christians
referred to as the Old Testament. That all of those things were important for
the fullness of the image. And part of that was taking on the sins
of mankind, taking the brunt of that, feeling it and expressing it in
the way that you read in scripture, Mark, welcome to the Jesus Christ
show. I thank you Jesus for taking my call, my pleasure. How
can I help you? Um? I would go right into the question I'm
my girlfriend is a Seventh Day Adventist, and I am not checking this all
along. Her pastor will not marry us. I neither will her retired uncle
who's a pastor as well. I was just wondering what your opinion is on
people of different denominations or faiths. You know, she observes the Sabbath,
I don't being married. Is that something that Jesus approves of or it doesn't
matter at the end of the day. Well, I will tell you that
there is there is controversy with um Seventh day Adventis to some Protestants, I
understand. So there are some that have great concern with some of the teachings
and the Prophetess Ellen G. White right, and so uh, there is
you know, some differences in beliefs that are It can be quite large depending
on who you're talking to. And there are even those that have gone in
the forefront of Christianity Protestant Christianity and say say that they don't even believe that
Seventh Day Adventists are Christians. Now that's outside of the scope of what I
want to talk to you about. So I just want to address that because
I know people are thinking it what I want to address is when Second Corinthians
six fourteen talks about being unequally yoked. The concept of being unequally yoked is
an important one and often one that someone puts aside, even though in context
it's not necessarily speaking about marriage. So I'm going to ask you to hold
type for a second, Mark, so when come back we can talk more
about them. We were talking with Mark, Mark, ya, are you
still there? Thank you for holding on. I appreciate that. Okay,
So you're in love with a woman who is of a different faith than you.
Some would say, others would say a different denomination. Scripture talks about
being unequally yoked. And the reason why I bring this up is that a
lot of people mistakenly apply this to marriage when that's not the context of Second
Corinthians and the image there and being equally yoked is talking about the oxen in
the field and how the yoke is that wood and metal binding that goes on
both of their necks and that's where you tie and attach the plow to.
Now, if they're unequally yoked, meaning one's bigger than the other, or
they're they're different tile styles, shapes and whatnot, that they will not be
able to pull they hoe in a straight line, so they won't be able
to plow properly, and it will be crooked and it won't go straight.
The illustration that people use is trying to tie that in and say, hey,
listen, if you're unequally yoked in marriage, then you're you're not going
to be able to pull the plow straight. And there is there is some
legitimate use of that as an analogy. Absolutely, However, I want to
make it clear the context is not talking about that, and it is not
necessarily good to apply it to marriage because it implies there that marriage to somebody
of a different faith is somehow forbidden or a sin in scripture, and it
is not. So that would cause great problems. For instance, if it
was a sin, you'd be called to repent from it. Correct, correct,
Okay, Well, to repent from the sin of marrying somebody who's not
of the same faith or not a believer at all would mean you'd have to
divorce them. And in scripture, when I talk about divorce Matthew nineteen nine,
I state that there's only one reason, one ground for divorce, and
that's fornication. So I don't say fornication and or if you marry somebody of
a different faith, so that points to a problem theologically if it was in
fact a sin, so you're free to do it. Now. Does that
mean that it's a smart idea. No, I don't think it's a smart
idea, and you have to look at it very closely because it adds extra
tension to something that's already difficult, for instance, marriage. So I would
recommend that both of you study your beliefs and each other is to understand what
you believe and what the other beliefs before you were to move forward on it,
because you could be looking at you great a great deal of extra pressure
in a relationship. If you feel that you're capable of doing it, if
you feel that it's still the best thing for you for whatever reason, this
person brings something to your life that is so powerful that you want them in
your life, then that's a decision that you will have to make. Just
keep in mind that it does come with that extra baggage, and that extra
baggage has to be known prior. Don't get all lovey dovey and forget that
there's a reality base underneath it that you're going to have to, you know,
deal with every single day and every time you have decisions. I prefer
that you don't bring children into that relationship because one of the belief systems is
going to have to become dominant or at least agreed upon to raise the children
properly, and that just causes more confusion, more frustration, and more problems
in something that's already difficult. So go forward at least informed and educated.
Ken, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Oh hello, Jeus. Hey,
I have a father in law that's dying from cancer and he's raised Roman
Catholic and he doesn't want to tell a priest what Evidently you don't confess his
sins or whatever. It must be something really bad that in his mind.
And yeah, he's scared he's going to go to a held, so he
doesn't want to confess. He doesn't want to confess to a priest. And
I think I remember in the Bible that you don't actually have to if you
just go into a closet and pray and actually show remorse and ask for forgiveness,
he'll be given to you. Well, obviously Protestants and Catholics would debate
about this, but your recollection is good. On first John one nine says
if we confess, confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Obviously not clarifying that
it needs to be done to a priest in that instance. But what there's
something that he's holding back from and doesn't he's not even sharing it with you
obviously or other family as anybody. HM. So I don't know what it
is this one on in his life. All as I know is that he
feels that he's condemned to hell. There's only one unpardonable sin. The unpardonable
sin that is spoken about in scripture is talking about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Now, blasphemy the Holy Spirit is when you reject, when you reject
the wooing of the Holy Spirit to receive Christ into your heart. That's it.
So as far as Um doing there's any sin that he can do,
Um that seems that blittles God and the act on the Cross, it's that
that's like saying that's the equivalent of saying that you can do things that are
so bad that God can't even cover them with his blood. And to me,
that is a true misunderstanding of the the the atonement, and it puts
it kind of in a category that is, that puts you above God.
And that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, now, does it.
So I'm I'm curious as to why he thinks that he's done this sin that
is so great. But it looks like he's not telling anybody anytime soon.
No, No, he doesn't have too much time left. So I just
wanted to try to help him to have peace of mind, you know,
and know that God loves him. Well, yeah, he needs to know
that. Collossians too also talks about this, and in in verse thirteen and
fourteen talking about the cancel is canceling out of the certificate of debt, that
God does this and that those that have arguments against you or those that are
hostile against you. It talks about how this this uh certificate of debt is
nailed to the cross period done, and that if he's received me into his
heart, if he's received me into his life and has made me the lord
of his life, then one he should should release these things to God.
But two he should have no fear and and giving them to anybody, confessing
them to anybody, a priest or otherwise that is a believer, to release
them so that he's not holding on or harboring those things, because what ends
up happening when you harbor those things you act as if you're hiding them from
God. God already knows. Now, if he's fearful somehow that people will
think differently of him here on this earth, then maybe it's best that he
goes to a priest, someone who you know won't gossip or pass it along
or any of those things. Well, I think it's an element of shame
with his part, and that's why he's afraid to confess to a priest.
You know, he's one of thirteen children and he's always been kind of like
the go to guy. All the family comes to him to solve their problems
and whatever. And I think he doesn't want to diminish his brothers and sisters
thought of him, and whatever it is he's done, I don't know.
Well, that's that's pride. That's just him being caught up in his own
vanity and his own appearance, which isn't helping him anymore either. That's that's
what I'm feeling, but I'm just trying to, you know, getting something
where he could maybe put it together and have peace in mind. He's really
a good guy, and that's wonderful to hear. He has to know those
things, but he also has to know that he's making his God very small
in this process and whittling him down to you because God already knows there is
nothing you're hiding from God. If you remember, even Moses killed an Egyptian
and says that he looked left and right, it gives the impression the illustration
and scripture as if he's looking everywhere but up because he didn't want anybody else
to see. But God said, what are you doing? I'm right here.
God's seeing everything and knows everything that he's ever done. But he should
give that up if it if it's become a burden to him, because that's
it's not fair. Obviously he's letting a little bit out because you know that
there's something he's hiding. Well, not only did my father laws my friend
and uh, you know, I really sympathize and empathize with him on his
condition and what goes on in his life, and so he does open up
to me a little bit, but not much. But he doesn't feel comfortable
sharing that that one thing with you. Whatever it is, he doesn't want
to talk about it, and he doesn't want nobody to know. I don't
know. Maybe maybe he raped somebody. I don't know. You know,
I don't know. Maybe I know. It's it's hard. Your your mind
goes to the ugliest places, assuming and most of the most of the time
ken the people are their worst critics. And most of the time, when
somebody thinks something is so heinous and they won't be loved through it, it's
not as bad as they think they it weighs on them for other reasons.
And maybe because of that standard as you say that was set up by either
in his mind or by the family, that he's some sort of really good
guy and doesn't want to let everybody down. But ultimately that pride seeps in
and the enemy that the devil would love to capitalize on that as he does
all weakness and sits there and tells him, oh, you're going to be
so ashamed all of these things, and keeps him from releasing that before he
goes Now, is this a deal breaker or will he not get into heaven?
Or anything like that. No, there's nothing like that. That is
that's still belittling the power of the Cross. But but it's part of his
process, and a healthy one at that. To release that prior to him
graduating and moving on into heaven, it just seems like a strange thing to
hold on to here and now when you're facing that particular door. Well,
you've given me a couple of good things here I can look up and read
to it maybe and maybe it'll change his mind. He may not acknowledge it
to me, but he may go off in his own room and think about
it and make a decision from there. Yes, here, I can't make
that decision for it, absolutely not. You need to have him give it
to God. At the very least. Can I appreciate your call and the
fact that you are so attached to somebody who is family by marriage, and
that you are respecting his wishes and all of that, but also concerned in
your own right. Salvation is a very powerful thing. Salvation talks about that
protection of God, and it's one of those things that as a human you
have a hard time wrestling through. I understand because forgiveness on earth is often
conditional, there's a difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. God forgives everyone reconciles with
those that repent and come to the faith. Repent being a big fifty cent
theological type term that just means to turn away from, turn away from those
things that are ugly or evil or wrong or against the will of God,
and turned towards God. And that is what's what you're called to do to
rebuild this relationship with God. And that's the same thing you're called to do
in any broken relationship. Turn away from the things that have broken the relationship
and turned towards the relationship, making it a focus, make it important in
something that you're willing to work on and fight for. And that's what God
is calling you to. And there is a lot of the devil plays on
this. The devil loves it. He loves to sit there and put you
in a place of shame and sadness to that you continue to dig yourself.
Oh it's easy, you start it yourself. And all he does is just
sit there and shake his head and your heart. He just makes you feel
like he's inside you, but he's not. Because if I'm there, no
vacancy and at that point you have to be stronger than the situation and repel
those thoughts. Repel those things and give yourself to God. Continue to give
those things up. And that's why the confession in first John one nine is
so important. That confession of your sins is to remove them, to not
let the enemy have power over them. It's not because God's not going to
love you through them. No. Scripture says over and over that it's God
who cleanses you. The Father cleanses you. So it's not about that.
Confessing your sins is not so that God will forgive you. It's getting them
out of the way so the enemy won't use them against you, because now
they have power. A man on his deathbed has given power to his sins
on his deathbed at a place where you would think you are most likely to
look at those things and say, these aren't important anymore. And so that's
why it says if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just and
will forgive you your sins and purify you from all unrighteousness. You're releasing them
from the grip of the enemy's going to manipulate you with them and use them
against you, and make it so you feel horrible about yourself, because when
you feel bad about yourself with your faith and your understanding, you turn from
God. It's like owing God money. That guy that you owe money all
the time. Oh, I keep forgetting about that. I got to pay
him. So now you don't want to see him anymore, you don't want
to be around him. But if you just acknowledge that, then the relationship
is mended. Jim, Welcome to Jesus Christ show. Yeah, Jesus.
I was just wondering when you change to the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday,
because I know the original Sabbath was on Saturday, indeed, and the Sabbath
has not changed that. It's a very simple confusion because Christians, modern day
Christians and even early Christians and the early Christian Church started worshiping on the Lord's
Day, which is the first day of the week, not the last day
of the week. So the Sabbath is Saturday, the last day of the
week, and the Lord's Day is Sunday, first day of the week,
and it is to it represents and is to commemorate my resurrection. And you'll
see that as a reference. You can look at Romans Chapter fourteen, verses
four and five. It says, who are you to judge the servant and
the master? Oh? I actually, let me move on to five.
For the case of this discussion. One man regards one day above another,
another regards every day alike. Let each man be fully convinced in his own
mind. He who observes the day observes it for the Lord, and he
who eats does it for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God.
And he who eats not for the Lord he does not eat, and he
gives thanks to God. So this is talking about the differences that we're going
on and the liberty in the Christian Church. Kathleen, Welcome to Jesus Christ
Show. Hello Jesus, thank you for speaking with me, my pleasure.
What's going on? Well, I was Molissa. I'm a stepfather as a
child, and I took some consolation in knowing that he would God some day
to be judged. But my question is, if he's saved, will he
even have to answer for his sins? I know you'll stand between him and
God at judgment day, So will he have no shame, no remorse,
or will it just be erased? M In your statement. There you you
mentioned judgment day. Yes, does judgment sound like anybody gets off got free?
I hope not. I picture that he'll see even in your eyes.
He'll see that even though God may not know what he did, you will
have to stand between him and God. Therefore, as his attorney, for
example, you would have to know his sin. So, Kathleen, as
somebody who's experienced it. Molestation is one of the ugliest forms of sin on
earth, wouldn't you say? I would say yes, So imagine in all
of that ugliness, all of that blackness, all of that darkness. Not
only have you seen your way through to understand about the glory of God,
even an ugliness and sadness and in pain. But throughout all of that,
imagine the one thing that can cover those things, those ugly, ugly experiences
in life, those ugly sins in life, the hurtful things that others do
to one another. The only way was with the blood on the cross.
Yes, so you have this situation where things are ugly on this planet,
and there's good things as well. But if you remember in the garden of
Gessimite, I prayed before our father and I said, if this cup can
pass from me. But if not, they will be done. I meant,
if there was any way for the ugliness on the world to be covered
for people to get in union with God again without me dying on the cross,
then let's do that. If not, thy will be done. And
what happened to the cross. So the misconception is that okay, now somebody
can willing nillly just say okay, I believe in Christ, I believe in
God a follower, and therefore everything I've done is washed away. That's not
the same it is under the blood, absolutely, But judgment day there will
still be that experience of standing before God. I will be that attorney.
I will stand there and say, yes, my blood covered these ugly things.
But think about what it took to cover that. People keep asking,
acting like oh well, and then God just washes it away. It took
God coming in the flesh, being humiliated and executed publicly to cover for that
pain and that ugliness. There will be accountability, but the blood does cover
it. I appreciate that you take the time to join me on the show
every single Sunday. I hope that you continue to do so. Cath I
mean, I'm very proud of you for holding your head up and focusing on
the things that are bigger. I appreciate all of you and just ask that
you remember these words. I am with you Always, KF I am sixty
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