WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.120 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Christy, Welcome to the 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:13.359 Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus Hi. My question is what is your view 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:20.160 on a young child dancing and a secular dance studio where at times the attire 4 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.719 can expose parts of their body and movements, maybe of the buttocks that may 5 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:34.439 appear sexual, but they that child loves to dance and love being at that 6 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:40.039 particular studio. Well, there's nothing wrong with a secular studio to say, 7 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.679 well, this is secular. You shop at a secular grocery store, you 8 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.920 go to a secular mechanic, you go there's nothing wrong with these types of 9 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.039 things at all within reason. If you, you know, went to a 10 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:55.439 grocery store where they, you know, constantly were bombarding you with religious stuff, 11 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:00.359 that would be a problem. But it's really about unders standing a limit 12 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:07.439 as a guideline for you. The devil loves to pervert that which God made 13 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.439 beautiful, so the body, the form, sexuality, all those things that 14 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:19.040 God created. The devil loves to pervert so that that the people of God 15 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.159 don't like to do them anymore and run from them. And if you look 16 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.799 at things in life, passion. Oh, that's of God. That's wonderful. 17 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:32.079 Lust is of the devil. It's a perversion of passion. If you 18 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.439 see those things, it's like anger, that's that's of God, that's that's 19 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.680 a just. Anger is a is a legitimate way of expressing yourself. Rage 20 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:44.359 is not. It's a perversion of anger. So the devil does those things 21 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.799 to to confuse and frustrate the believer into not participating in the lovely things of 22 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.040 God. Ecclesiastes three fources. There's a time to weep, and a time 23 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.920 to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance. Dancing 24 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.400 is a beautiful and wonderful thing out scripture, throughout scripture. So you have 25 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:09.719 to gauge whether one this is something that is objectifying the child or the individual, 26 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:16.759 or if it's a celebration of movement and passion and stories and insights and 27 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:22.000 as far as being revealing, that's another thing that's that needs to be age 28 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:28.240 appropriate and in the context of what's being done. The expression of the physical 29 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.039 form is wonderful. The body is beautiful. And that's not to say that 30 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:38.560 there isn't an importance in modesty. It's that there are times where through art 31 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:44.800 the expression of the of both the male and female form is important. So 32 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:49.840 you can't make that ugly and perverted just because perverts make it ugly and perverted. 33 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.960 Well right, because part of the studios it's just that's part of dance, 34 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:59.319 a particular dance that my daughter really loves as jazz, and so it 35 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.919 requires movement as the botics, and to them it's no different than moving the 36 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.240 legs in the arms, exact mind. And so I've just had a dilemma 37 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.840 with other Christian say, well, there are children and you nurture them the 38 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.000 ways of the Lord, which is how I felt. But then I've had 39 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.840 other people say it's just for the stage. Just tell her it's just for 40 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.360 the stage, and off stage, we don't dress like that and we don't 41 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.520 act like that. But yet at times the studio is modest, depending all 42 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:30.680 the songs they choose to dance to. Now, some of it can have 43 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.000 lyrics that are you know, you're so ugly, Christie. Unfortunately we're right 44 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.560 up against the clock. But it sounds like you're working through it in a 45 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:46.120 healthy way, just continuing down that path. Remember I am with you always. 46 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:51.360 Bill. Welcome to the Jesus Christ show Hello Jesus. Uh huh Hi. 47 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.680 I had a question for you. Shoot, I have If a person 48 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:02.479 believes in the teach your teachings and will try to live their life according to 49 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:10.719 those teachings, but does not believe in the resurrection, would you consider that 50 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.199 person to be a Christian? No, okay, no, because you're not. 51 00:04:15.279 --> 00:04:20.240 Really it's not even a completely honest statement to say that you believe in 52 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:27.000 my teachings because you believe in some of them. Because John two nineteen I 53 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.759 said, destroy this temple in three days, I will raise it up again. 54 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.839 So you're kind of taking certain things that you believe, and if anything, 55 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:44.959 you'd probably categorize yourself, if you must, into Deism. The Thomasonian 56 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.800 Bible is considered such a work where it's taking just the messages, the things 57 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:55.199 like the everyday things that people tend to like about what I said and putting 58 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.560 them in a Bible, but taking out all the miracles, so the resurrection 59 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.680 being probably the king miracle of of the miracles in scripture. It's it's a 60 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:11.519 necessity to Christianity. Christian comes from the word christ. Christ comes from the 61 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.199 word Messiah. Messiah comes from the word Mashiah. So really that's dealing with 62 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.399 the anointed One, and and so it's followers of the Anointed One. In 63 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.920 the context of Christianity, the power of that and the way that it is 64 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:30.360 verified deals with that resurrection. If you remove the resurrection from the equation, 65 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.000 you're just going, well, you know what, there's you know, some 66 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:40.519 really good writings out there of which Christ's words were one and if that's the 67 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.879 sense, if that you get, then then that's what you believe. But 68 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:50.160 that certainly wouldn't make you a Christian. Okay, okay, thanks for thanks. 69 00:05:51.079 --> 00:06:00.279 Thanks. Was there is there some hang up about the resurrection? You 70 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:05.240 know? I could well, yes, I think there is. I think, 71 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:11.399 without getting into like a debate, I kind of view the You know, 72 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.360 the Gospels were written years after your death, and I know that most 73 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:24.480 of our modern day teachings deal with only a portion of the Gospels. So 74 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.600 but most history, you know that most history is written after the fact, 75 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.920 And you're looking at the Gospels within sixty to seventy years, which isn't too 76 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:40.920 bad of the actual actual occurrences for one, and still enough that you find 77 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:45.519 the words in red to be true as long as they are not dealing with 78 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:51.879 my resurrection. Why do you find the other words so good? Well, 79 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.959 I guess I don't have a good answer. Okay, that's fair enough. 80 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.560 No, that's fair enough. And I think that it's very of you to 81 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.879 call just the whole thought about the Christian and the well I like these words, 82 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.720 but I don't like the others. Is you know, the difference between 83 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.439 a circle and a ball. Not every circle is a ball, but every 84 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:16.480 ball is a circle for the most part, So it's you need more than 85 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.360 just that two dimensional shape. And the words are part of it. But 86 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:27.639 those words only have value because of that death and resurrection. See, if 87 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.040 people die for things, you know, they die for beliefs, false beliefs, 88 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.560 all these kinds of things. But people don't die for what they know 89 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.600 to be false. They wouldn't. They would die for something that's false if 90 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.160 they believed it to be true, but they wouldn't die for something that's false 91 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.439 that they knew was false. And I did. And you can't really call 92 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.800 me a good person, a guru, a smart guy because I kept claiming 93 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.120 to be God and then died for it. So that would kind of negate. 94 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:56.839 That's like saying Hitler is a really good dancer. It really it's kind 95 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.959 of just parsing the things that you want and leave out the other things, 96 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:07.920 and that doesn't really benefit anyone. Gary, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. 97 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:16.519 Thank you Jesus. Hi you Gary. My question revolves basically for almost 98 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.639 my entire adult life. My mother was very religious when to church, still 99 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.399 does and I've asked her several times, how does Darwinism and evolution play into 100 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:33.279 a question that I have? Is God made man in his likeness? What 101 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.600 did man look like back when God created man? Did he merely create him, 102 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.159 create us as we are today? Or have we evolved? Because I 103 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.159 can't dispute some scientific artifacts that are in the world that are tangible. Oh, 104 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:54.200 go ahead and dispute them. There are there. The interpretation of those 105 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.200 artifacts is what's at hand, not the artifacts themselves. Correct. You can't. 106 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.360 It's taking somebody's experience away. You can't take their experience away because you 107 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.279 weren't there for it and you didn't experience it the way they did. But 108 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.200 you can interpret it based on other understandings. You know, if somebody tells 109 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.879 me that they were lying in bed and they had this experience where they were 110 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.799 being held down by a spirit or what have you. You can look back 111 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.840 and scientifically understand there's something called sleep paralysis that happens when somebody's in a state 112 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:30.039 of lucidity and they think that they're awake fully and they're not, and so 113 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.879 their body is not responding, but it's not somebody holding them down necessarily. 114 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.159 So you can look at those artifacts and say, yes, this is this 115 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.960 is obviously bones from X, Y, and Z, but it doesn't necessarily 116 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.879 mean that it evolved from something else. That's why they call the concept of 117 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:54.559 missing link, because they don't have those transitional fossils the way Darwin actually originally 118 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:00.360 pothesized. So, having said that, I want to get to the the 119 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.360 core of your question, which is about the image of God. When you 120 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.279 deal with the image of God, God is not a person in its original 121 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:13.639 state, right God any of those anthropomorphic terms, you know, God walking 122 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.320 through the garden, that's not God literally walking through the garden. That is 123 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:24.120 so that humans understand that God is moving through the garden in a way that 124 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.000 they that represents the way they think. So when you hear the term God 125 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.600 made man in his image or his likeness, it's not about physical physical likeness 126 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:39.559 the well the the group think on this would be that it is that man 127 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:45.279 has intellect, will and emotion, as God has intellect, will and emotion. 128 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.440 That God is a creator. Man desires to create. That's why you 129 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.879 have people that build things, and we want to desire. You know. 130 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:58.519 The devil wants to tear down God wants to build up. Another problem you 131 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.320 you get into when it comes to the evolutionary theory in Scripture, because there 132 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:11.320 is evolutionary theists or those that believe that God used evolution in the process. 133 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.879 The problem arises in chapter one at the very beginning. In Genesis, verse 134 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.799 twenty one, it says in God created the great sea monster, speaking about 135 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:24.600 those animals in the ocean, and every living creature that moves with which waters 136 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:31.159 swarm, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. Go 137 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.720 on to verse twenty four. Then God said, let the earth bring forth 138 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.080 living creatures after their kind, cattle and creepy things, and beast of the 139 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:46.159 earth after their kind. And truly that it talks about after their own flesh. 140 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.080 So it doesn't leave room. It leaves room for adaptation different than evolution, 141 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.960 the difference there being between the special theory of evolution that there was a 142 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.440 great change in fixed kinds, or the general theory of evolution, which is 143 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.480 a me but to human. So as a Christian, there's no problem with 144 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.799 the special theory of evolution that there's great change possible in fixed kinds. But 145 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:13.919 keep in mind in Scripture there it says of their own kind, so not 146 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:18.519 breaking up the phylum to come from one place, but showing that it all 147 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:28.080 has the same creator, but different paths. Lauren, welcome to the Jesus 148 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.039 Christ Show. Thank you for taking my call. Jesus my pleasure. What's 149 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.759 going on? I have a silly question relief, I still was kind of 150 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.960 silly. I have two children. I love him very much. One child 151 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.600 is ten years old. He goes to a Christian school. Another child is 152 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.399 four, and we're looking to enter her into school next year when she turns 153 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.360 five. The problem is, my son's school ends in the sixth grade, 154 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.799 and there's a Catholic school a block and a half away from where my husband 155 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.080 and I work, and I just wanted to know if that was a good 156 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:07.000 choice because I'm not very familiar with Catholicism, and I just wanted to make 157 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:13.759 sure it was still well, there's a lot of debate that goes on between 158 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:20.039 Protestants and Catholics. They are both Christian. A lot of people referred to 159 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:26.720 Catholic just means universal, so it's the stamp of saying were the universal Church, 160 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.480 saying that they essentially that Protestants branched off of Catholicism, which isn't true. 161 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:39.519 What's true is that there was a split in the general Church and one 162 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.720 kept that moniker of Catholicism, the other took Protestant, which, slow it 163 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.440 down, just means Protestant. It's just someone who protested the church at the 164 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.639 time and broke off into a faction. So Christians fall into those two groups. 165 00:13:54.120 --> 00:14:00.080 Now, Catholicism does have some distinct differences when it comes to traditions and 166 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:07.279 the way they revere marry a little differently in the application the papal system and 167 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:13.720 the pope and those things. Some will criticize the way they look at the 168 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:22.799 saints and their their appreciation for the saints. So there are differences as far 169 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.919 as the church is involved. Dealing with the church systems are very different in 170 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.519 a lot of ways, depending on you know which group of Protestants you land 171 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.200 and if you're a Lutheran, it may not be as different to some. 172 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:43.120 If you're a Methodist may not be as different. Or Episcopalian, these types 173 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:48.720 of churches may not find it as much of a shock. The main message 174 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.840 is going to be the same, and really school is going to be about 175 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.080 schooling. Most of the time there is religion classes and in that point there 176 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.360 might be some confusion with your children versus what you tea them. That would 177 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.799 be My only concern is that mommy and daddy are teaching them one thing, 178 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.679 and then they're going into the school that mommy and dad sent them, and 179 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.039 it's going to be different. But but I will tell you, Lauren, 180 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:16.159 that a lot of Jewish folks do the same thing. Put their children, 181 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:22.720 sure, and it's because it's the quality of the education. And so you've 182 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:24.519 got you have to weigh all those things. But are they going to be 183 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.159 taught something you know, horrible or heinous? No, but it's got to 184 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.399 be based on your understanding that it's going to be different than what you're teaching 185 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:41.120 them as a Protestant. Joe, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi 186 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.759 Jesus, how are you good? Joe? What do you know? Well, 187 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:50.639 I'm trying to find where it says or in the Bible about the prehistoric 188 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.600 man and how that fits into before Adam and Eve or after Adam and Eve. 189 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.080 I just can't find that where it says anything about that. Yeah, 190 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:04.960 that's a that's a tough one, and that's one that theologians and Christian sociologists 191 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:11.360 and the like struggle with at times. Let's look at a few of the 192 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:18.039 necessities of understanding for this particular topic, and that is, first, if 193 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.480 you can imagine that people tend to refer to cavemen, but prehistoric men doesn't 194 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.320 make sense. If it's prehistory, then you don't know. And really it's 195 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.360 forensics that you're using to kind of look backwards. The Bible is about history. 196 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.480 It has a beginning, as a middle, and it has an end. 197 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.159 So you wouldn't find pre history in a book of history. Doesn't make 198 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:44.279 sense. So but is there a place for it? Absolutely. It's been 199 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.039 attributed to Albert Einstein the quote that I don't know how World War three will 200 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.519 be fought, but I know that World War four will be fought with sticks 201 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:59.200 and stones, implying that World War three would be so devastating that it would 202 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.160 knock man and back to having to use simple tools again. So imagine it 203 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:08.720 this way. Essentially, what is attributed to Einstein saying is that there is 204 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:17.559 catastrophic possibilities in life that would knock man not back to prehistoric levels, but 205 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:25.400 to simple tools and simple means. So you have to come from an already 206 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:30.680 believed presupposition to think that cavemen were Neanderthals. That is something that's been kind 207 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.319 of put into the psyche but is not ever truly explained or scientifically proven. 208 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:44.400 You've got what are believed to be transitional fossils, but you have to look 209 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.319 at them as transitional fossils to get that. Otherwise you can look at them 210 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.599 and say, no, that's an ape, and then you could see when 211 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.599 they're a man and say no, that's definitely a man. And so if 212 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.400 you go in with a preconceived notion that there were cavemen that were prehistoric, 213 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.559 then you get that outcome when you look at the fossil record. If you 214 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.720 look at it as distinct parts of particular phylum, that this is part of 215 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.039 this group, and this is part of this group, then you'll see it. 216 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.880 There are different types of ape, and they were different they were man. 217 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:17.519 But if man, there's a difference between a prehistoric caveman and someone who 218 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.279 lived in a cave, not because of you know, they were primitive, 219 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:30.759 but because they were without means or they were destitute. So I don't think 220 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:37.279 that that that quote by Albert Einstein was speaking about that man would become primitive 221 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:42.000 again. In thinking or understanding, it would be that all the things, 222 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:47.079 all the technology, would be destroyed and they have to start over. Don't 223 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:48.720 you think that's fair to come to that conclusion based on that statement. It's 224 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:53.440 not like, yeah, it's not like the world was going to start over 225 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.839 again as humans. It's that they would start over again with technology because it 226 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.319 would have been destroyed. So there are catastrophic things that took place in scripture. 227 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:11.119 Many scientists would even back up that. They that there's not universal belief, 228 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.440 but a great understanding in the scientific community that there was a worldwide deluge, 229 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.279 that the that the Earth was underwater at one point. So then the 230 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.920 scriptures back that up as well. So there's also a possibility that this is 231 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:30.240 the catastrophic instance that would have made the need for people to live in caves 232 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:38.240 and go back to that kind of what is considered primitive living. Bill, 233 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.079 Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Jesus, Hi Bill. 234 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.720 I became a Christian in June of two thousand and eight. Well, praise 235 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.680 be married. I've been married for twelve years. My wife and I have 236 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:55.279 been completely faithful to each other. Good. But I'm troubled as I read 237 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.839 scripture, and I certainly haven't read nearly as much as I need to read. 238 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.400 Trouble because as I think of relations with other women and fantasize other women 239 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:08.519 almost on a daily basis, I ask for repentance for that, and I 240 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:12.680 pray on a daily basis, several times a day. But I'm really bothered 241 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:18.240 about the contradiction of the feelings I have. And certainly God gave us this 242 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:23.079 wonderful gift of sexual relations, So why don't I have an under control? 243 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:27.559 Well, Paul said it best when he said the spirit is willing and the 244 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:33.759 flesh is weak. You're going to be battling that. You're going to consistently 245 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.119 be battling with that. And that's why I explain in scripture that it's not 246 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.480 just about adultery, it's even thinking about it that's committing the sin. Because 247 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.920 God is reading your heart and your head, not just your actions. But 248 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.039 having said that, it's better to have thought about it and not done it. 249 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.240 And it's about girding those thoughts. You're going to have bad thoughts, 250 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.839 you're going to have lustful thoughts, to keep them in control and not act 251 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.240 upon them. It's key. That's imperative also to yourself beyond normalcy, because 252 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:12.839 people fantasy is always always brighter. Paul Simon in his song Codochrome says that 253 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:18.079 reality is always in black and white, that in a fantasy, it's just 254 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.359 so vibrant, and you make you make it the rules. You know, 255 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.240 it's dream. There are no rough edges, No one lands and dies in 256 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:29.400 a dream. Truly, they always can wake from it. So in the 257 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.720 fantasy, it's everything you want and nothing you don't want, and all of 258 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:40.559 those things. And of course it's going to be attractive. It's when you've 259 00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:45.359 got to keep yourself away from the arena of fantasizing too much. Don't connect 260 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.039 too much with the opposite sex, don't put yourself in a position where you 261 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:52.640 connect with them, because that grows fantasies, and then fantasies can sometimes grow 262 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:59.039 into actualities. And that becomes a problem. But is there something that you 263 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:04.680 feel that you're just lacking or you're embarrassed to ask sexually or with the intimacy 264 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.880 you have with your wife. There are problems in that area, and we've 265 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.640 we've had counseling. Fact we're going to begin counseling with our church in a 266 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:17.640 couple of weeks. Excellent. There there have been issues with that. But 267 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:23.279 I think even in past relationships, and this is my first and only marriage, 268 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.599 hopefully, I had the same thoughts and I was bothered about them then 269 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.000 because there's anything wrong with the with the physical aspect of the relationship. But 270 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:36.799 I well, don't let the devil creep in and start, you know, 271 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.440 beating you over the head to the point where you're losing focus on the beauty 272 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.640 of the relationship you have. And because the devil will sit there and whispering, 273 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:48.400 you're here all day, you're discussing you're horrible, you don't even deserve 274 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.480 her, and that makes it worse. Hold on one second, as we 275 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:55.039 take a moment here, I want to talk to you, So don't go 276 00:22:55.039 --> 00:23:03.680 anywhere. Bill. You know we've been talking with Bill that you're you're going 277 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:11.000 through. Uh, through issues dealing with There's some would argue normalcy, uh, 278 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:15.519 fantasies and the like, but you're wrestling with where are they a sin? 279 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.960 At what point they become a sin? And how come you have them? 280 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:22.960 Is that really the issue of why are they here? And you know, 281 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:27.680 what do I do with them? Do you? Uh? Do you 282 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:33.680 look at pornography at all? Occasionally but not with any regularity. I'm in 283 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:38.000 the barbershop and I may read a Playboy or something like that, but typically 284 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:44.039 not. Okay, keep in mind that that's that can be a fuel for 285 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:48.640 the fire. And I realized that a lot of people find uh, you 286 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.039 know, Playboy to be quite tame uh in the sexuality part, and of 287 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:57.559 course all men read it for the articles, right, so but really that 288 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:07.200 those are are those plant seeds of fantasy because that's not real and you've got 289 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.720 a lot of digital air brushing going on and placement and lighting and everything, 290 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:18.559 and so that sets standards to a place that's not realistic as well. If 291 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:23.160 there's something going on in your life with your wife sexually in a sense that 292 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.200 and this happens with guys a lot guys are beat up over and over again 293 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:32.960 and told that they're perverts, and that they only think about one thing and 294 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:37.720 they only want one thing, and all of this to the point where even 295 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.160 when a man is in a wonderful relationship and is in love and wants to 296 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:48.240 experience, you know, his woman that way, that sometimes you'll hold back, 297 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:53.759 or you won't request things, or you won't explore or ask or articulate, 298 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:00.279 you know why a certain part of her body you respond to a certain 299 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.680 way and say, oh, I really like this or the way you look 300 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:04.960 or the lighting. I know that you don't always feel comfortable, but when 301 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.200 the lights are on, I get to see you or whatever it is. 302 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:12.799 And men feel so dirty that a lot of times they have a hard time 303 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.640 expressing these things, so they start to do it in quiet. And that 304 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:22.200 means sometimes with pornography, and that means sometimes with just your thoughts. But 305 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:26.519 all in all, your thoughts are really just a way of you know, 306 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.839 having to, you know, to look at pornography that's not on the page 307 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:34.759 or on a video screen. It's just a way for you to fantasize and 308 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:38.279 have an outlet that way. And I'd like to funnel that back to the 309 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:44.440 healthy part, which is passion. The devil has an unhealthy part to every 310 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.839 healthy part that God has. So rage is unhealthy, anger is healthy, 311 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:57.039 Passion is healthy. Lust is unhealthy. So finding the balance and understanding your 312 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:04.359 passion and applying that to your to your wife and understanding her passion and what 313 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:10.039 makes her feel good or what makes her feel sexy or beautiful or lovely and 314 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.000 you know, feels womanly and wanting to be in that scenario with you is 315 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.359 important. But it starts with honesty. Bill. If you don't, if 316 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:25.000 you don't come from that place of honesty and explaining this is how I feel. 317 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:29.599 And trust Sometimes when you get into a relationship is when you you know, 318 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.440 you lose that trust because you're going, oh, you know they're going 319 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:33.759 to think this about me or think that about me. And I want you 320 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:44.000 to explore and God's will on the on the Counseling Julia, Welcome to the 321 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:52.279 Jesus Christ Show. Yes, hi, Hi, I'm concerned about religiousation and 322 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:57.000 it's worldwide and supported by the listeners and no no ads or anything like that. 323 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:07.480 And one of the main speakers on this program has been saying and preaching 324 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:15.000 very hard about the uh the earth and its fiery demise in oh boy mark 325 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:22.359 your calendars. Oh, thank you. Well that that doesn't jive with scripture. 326 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.440 Just so you know, Scripture is very clear that no man shall know 327 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.759 the day nor the hour. Yes, people call in and tell him that 328 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.920 very often. But he's got he's got all of his mathematics worked out where 329 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:41.640 I don't care about his mathematics. I care about scripture. H he can, 330 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.880 he can do. The beauty of mathematics is that it depending on you 331 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:48.519 know, where you go with them. You can make a lot of things 332 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.160 look like they're going to equate, but it depends on what they're using, 333 00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:57.279 as you know, a jumping point to calculate. So if they're saying, 334 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:00.759 well, this is because this many characters are in scripture, and if you 335 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:07.559 multiply them by this and that, or if you look at these particular Julian 336 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.720 calendars versus the Gregorian calendars, people get into all that and plus numerology on 337 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.839 top of it, and it's garbage. Oh thank you, it's garbage, 338 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:26.960 so iright, Julia. That's something that's gone on since I left two thousand 339 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:32.319 years ago. Since I left two thousand years ago, people have proclaimed that 340 00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:37.200 the end was nigh and that it was going to happen sooner than later. 341 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.480 I will tell you you're closer to the end than ever before, closer to 342 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.680 the end right now. You're even closer to the end right now, given 343 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.359 another minute, closer to the end right now. But this whole kind of 344 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:56.000 waiting. And be prepared, how about that, be prepared for my return. 345 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.119 Continue to work every day to purify yourself, to get to know me 346 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:03.400 better, to be in the word of God, to be with God's people, 347 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.599 to make your mark on earth, all of these things, and don't 348 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:14.480 worry about that. You know that the formal study of the end times and 349 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.279 those types of things is called eschatology, essentially means the study of last things. 350 00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:26.599 And my producer Neil often jokes that's why he studies it last, because 351 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:32.079 people get the cart before the horse, and they start worrying about these things 352 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.440 and lose focus on the things of God and the here and now. And 353 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:41.440 there's countless times in scripture where somebody was not in the moment, and I'm 354 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.119 saying, no, be in the moment with me now, and don't get 355 00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:48.079 lost in that other stuff. And remember, as all the nuttiness surrounds you 356 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.960 this week, as it always does, push it out of your mind and 357 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:59.559 remember these words. I Am with you always. KFI A six on demand