WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:07.240 You're listening to KFI amix on demand. When you hear the term ambassador, 2 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:12.439 what do you think of? Probably, you know politics and government and that 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:19.480 type of thing. But did you know that if you're a believer, that 4 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:26.960 you're called to be an ambassador of mine? Yep? That's what scripture says 5 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:35.520 in Second Corinthians, chapter five. It talks about being an ambassador. And 6 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.280 this morning, I want you to think about what that means. You're you're 7 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:46.600 a representative when you make a claim, when you make a statement and you 8 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:52.159 say, you know, I am a believer and I am a follower. 9 00:00:54.759 --> 00:01:00.880 That doesn't mean that you're on the clock when you're in church or some Bible 10 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:10.920 study. It doesn't mean that you're on the clock only when you're praying means 11 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:17.400 you're an ambassador. It's very easy to get caught up in the big things 12 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.760 and think, well, you know, I practice what I preach in this 13 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.959 context or in this context, but sometimes, you know, the little things 14 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:33.319 I let that kind of slide. I want to tell you something. I 15 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:41.840 tell you this not to not to make you tense or hyper aware, but 16 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.040 so that you will know, and that is that people are watching you. 17 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:55.560 The entire world is watching you. Some are watching with curiosity because they want 18 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:02.719 to believe. Others are watching you because they hate what you stand for and 19 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:10.000 they want to watch you fail. There are those that are looking constantly for 20 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:15.000 excuses not to believe reasons, and they're hoping that you will be a bucketful 21 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:24.240 of excuses for them to run from any sort of faith. So you are 22 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:35.159 an ambassador. You are a card carrying every time you make a claim, 23 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.680 you put a bumper sticker on the back of your car, you let anybody 24 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:45.080 know that you're a Christian, you're a person of faith. Anytime you walk 25 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:50.240 out of a church, any time you make a proclamation about me at all, 26 00:02:53.360 --> 00:03:00.879 you're an ambassador. And that that should be that should put you at 27 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:07.000 peace and be something of joy, not something of great weight. However, 28 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:14.120 I want you to understand the importance of it because it's kind of twofold. 29 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.280 It's not just about what you do, but it's about how you do it. 30 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:30.120 You know, a great chef is not somebody only who understands flavors, 31 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:37.199 but a great chef knows how to apply not only you know, flavors, 32 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:43.280 but also textures and color. In the culinary world, they refer to it 33 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:49.080 as plating when they take that meal, that wonderful meal, and put it 34 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:58.719 in such a such an organization that when it comes to your table it's beautiful 35 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:05.719 and fragrant in every way, not just the taste. And as an ambassador, 36 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:14.400 as someone who represents me, people are watching for all of that. 37 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:19.319 So not only the fact that you're doing something like the chef creating a meal, 38 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:25.680 but the way you present it is important as well. Your attitude on 39 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:33.759 the little things. We often refer to it as replacing the shopping cart. 40 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:42.680 These are the little things that you just go, oh well, I'll just 41 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:49.160 leave it here rather than where it's supposed to go, and people watch those 42 00:04:49.160 --> 00:05:00.360 things. People look to see how you react to world events, not only 43 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:11.800 what you do, but the subtleties. Do you do it happily? Do 44 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:21.959 you do it begrudgedly? Every little subtlety matters. It's very easy to get 45 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.759 caught up in the in the large things and kind of go through your checklist 46 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.480 saying, wow, you know what, I did this, this, and 47 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:36.120 I went to Bible study and everything's taken care of. But how were you 48 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:46.639 in the process. Did you speed to Bible study? Did you ignore other 49 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:53.439 people on your way there. When you got there, how was your demeanor? 50 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.519 Did you put it on only for other Christians because you thought, oh, 51 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.079 well, this is the place where they're going to be judging me. 52 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.120 Nope. As a matter of fact, it's quite the opposite. Hopefully, 53 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:11.680 if things are running properly, the world is going to judge you. The 54 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:16.360 world's going to look at you and wonder. I wonder if they really really 55 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:23.399 live the way they say. Now, it's not that you're going to stop 56 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:31.480 sitting, but I'm telling you this. If you are so focused on the 57 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:41.920 little things, the big things will follow quite simply. But if you only 58 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.920 focus on the big things, quite often, you will miss the little things, 59 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:59.199 and in doing so, will leave just enough of an opening to be 60 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:05.240 pierced by those that don't want to believe or those that are desperately searching for 61 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:13.120 truth. And you have to get yourself in the mindset where the little things 62 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:19.839 do matter. In Philippians two fourteen, it says do all things without complaining 63 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:28.040 and disputing. Oh boy, living up to that would be quite difficult, 64 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.160 I know. But think about the beauty of it. Think about what that 65 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:39.560 says the people around you. When you not only do what is right or 66 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:44.600 you do what is good, but when you do it with that proper attitude, 67 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:50.160 attitude, when you're doing it without complaining, without disputing, meaning that 68 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:56.879 you are in the proper mindset and you understand. Have you ever seen a 69 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.639 kid that's told over and over to do something, go clean your room, 70 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.279 go clean your room, go clean your room, and the kid finally goes 71 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:16.759 ah, kicking and screaming the entire way. Well, that's how you look 72 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.439 sometimes. That's how you look when I call you to do something that you 73 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:28.040 know is right, And that's how you look sometimes when other people ask things 74 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:37.879 of you. And I want you to understand that these subtleties are more important 75 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:45.759 than you may think. That often all the things you do, the big 76 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:52.799 things that you tend to look at as being huge, are not as important 77 00:08:52.840 --> 00:09:00.960 as you think when you kind of erase them with the small things. The 78 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:07.600 subtleties, your attitude, the way you interact with people around you, and 79 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:13.279 for all the things that you do, and all the things that you do 80 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.039 that are good and used to glorify God, I assure you the big ones 81 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:31.120 they are overshadowed by the tone and by the attitude in which you do them. 82 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.279 Marge, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. I think I have a 83 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:43.559 simple question, okay, it's about the Sabbath. I'm looking at Genesis twenty 84 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.720 eight through ten, and the blaring words that pop out to me from those 85 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:56.919 two verses are remember this Sabbath, and then on it you shall do shall 86 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:03.480 not do any work. And that brings to mind what day is the Sabbath? 87 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.120 Okay? And will I go to Hell if I don't keep it? 88 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.840 Well, that's a very legitimate question. The Sabbath is one of those things 89 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.320 that there tends to be a little confusion on because a lot of people think 90 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:22.519 that Christians celebrate or worship on the Sabbath, and they don't most Christians. 91 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.679 And I say most because there are some that do Seventh Day Adventist worship on 92 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:33.320 the Sabbath, which is Saturday, but most Christians observe the Lord's Day, 93 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:39.440 which is Sunday. And this deals with the resurrection day and the dealing with 94 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:45.080 new life. So the Sabbath is it comes from the Hebrew words sabbaf. 95 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:50.519 It means simply to rest from labor, to cease, if you will, 96 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.080 and that time having that period is imperative. The first time you see it, 97 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.679 yes, correct, is in Genesis, and that's talking about the the 98 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.200 rest of the Father after creating the world. So in the case of an 99 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.399 individual, no, you will not go to hell. The important thing is 100 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.360 that you keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath that you're keeping, is that you're 101 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:18.519 keeping a time to cease, a downtime, a time to go to church, 102 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.799 a time to worship, a time of prayer. And in the New 103 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:31.399 Testament, if you look and see many of the many of the churches that 104 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.120 were starting in the early days of Christianity, they worshiped all kinds of different 105 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.639 times, sometimes on Wednesdays, sometimes on Saturdays, sometimes on Sundays. The 106 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.480 important thing is that you do not forsake the gathering of the brethren, that 107 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.519 there's time to gather together in the church, that you do have downtime, 108 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.679 otherwise you'll implode. You know, you can only work so much, you 109 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.960 can only do so much, and you need time to recuperate and also to 110 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:01.720 understand the beauty of the Sabbath. When I was asked in scripture about the 111 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.120 Sabbath, what was my response, Marge, My response was, the Sabbath 112 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:15.639 was made was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, so it's 113 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:22.039 there for you. You're not here for the Sabbath. And understanding that is 114 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:28.519 important to to understand the difference and not get caught up in the law, 115 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.559 but understand the spirit of the law and the purpose of the law. Spirit 116 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.440 of the law and the purpose of the law was for you to have time 117 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.639 of rest, to have time with family, and to have time with those 118 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:46.440 whom you love, and to replenish yourself. And if you get focused on 119 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.360 that, you know, then then there's balance, Then there's understanding, and 120 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:56.200 there's time of meditation and introspection and all of those things, not in some 121 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.320 pipe pop psychology or some metaphys pysical way, but in a real way for 122 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.960 you to have time with God, downtime where you're spending time of worship and 123 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.960 love and peace and not constantly going I've got to do this, I've got 124 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.639 to do that, and I'm running at full speed all the time. That's 125 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:24.960 what I want you to keep away from. Mike, Welcome to the Jesus 126 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:30.080 Christ Show. Good Morning, Lamb of God, good morning. I love 127 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:35.879 your show. I've been a follower since these very early days, and I've 128 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.679 had the luck to make one call before, so I'll get right to the 129 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:45.960 question. I don't have any doubts about really who you are and what you 130 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:52.200 did. I have a small identity question you. Your full true identity has 131 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.720 always been something I've I've questioned, and not in a bad way, but 132 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.000 only as as we were advised to do seek wisdom as a digging for buried 133 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.720 treasure, you know. And I've a I've doug a lot of holes happily 134 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.440 in the quest for whatever I need to have satisfied in my heart. And 135 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:15.679 there's always just been some questions raised by I've had. I've had Jehovah's witnesses 136 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.840 in my family that I've roved in respect deeply, and I think you know 137 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.480 the key difference they always hold and with the mainstream Christian thought, and you 138 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.879 know, some of the ideas have just gotten to me. And one thing 139 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.120 that's got to me most recently was and it's not new, I'm not unique, 140 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:39.440 but are you fully inligne with the Father with the powers meaning omniscience and 141 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.879 those things? You know? And I think of your journey in the desert 142 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.960 for forty days, When I think of your meditation and your deep prayer, 143 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.480 and I think of you know, it's been referred to before as the moment 144 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.600 of doubt and paying on the cross, when you stream out to the Father. 145 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:01.679 I just have this deep feeling that you know you're full in this Maybe 146 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.159 is places some sort of limits on your godliness. I just wonder if you 147 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.159 could please comment on that a little bit and help me out. Well, 148 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.200 yes and no, I mean that the power is there Matthew twenty eight eighteen, 149 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.799 and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all power is given 150 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:22.159 unto me in heaven and in earth. There's no limitations in power. What 151 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.559 there is is submission, and being in submission to the Father well on earth 152 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:35.600 absolutely takes place there. It has to because of the limitations of flesh, 153 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.519 not the limitations of the spirit. So when you're dealing with the big fancy 154 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:48.360 theological term the hypostatic union between the flesh and you know, the humanity and 155 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:54.279 the deity, that's unique to me, you're battling with two things. You 156 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.200 have to ask every question twice. In the spirit you're gonna get one answer, 157 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.679 and in the flesh you're going to get another answer. Not because the 158 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.279 limitation of the spirit but the limitation of the body, you understand, I'll 159 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:15.720 put it this way. Can you ride a bicycle, yeah, okay. 160 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.720 Can you drive a car? Yeah? Can you ride a bicycle while you're 161 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:25.559 driving a car? Okay? But you wouldn't say because if I asked you, 162 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:26.799 can you ride a bicycle and you're in a car, you wouldn't say 163 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:32.000 no. Say well, when I'm not in a car, I can ride 164 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:33.960 the bicycle, but in a car, I can't ride the bicycle. So 165 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:38.120 likewise, in the flesh there are things that can't be done because of the 166 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.960 flesh. It's not a limitation of the spirit. So that Jeovah's witnesses would 167 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.639 want to limit the spirit and not the flesh, And that's where they're wrong. 168 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.679 The limitation is not in the spirit, which is identical to the Father 169 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.960 in that sense, in the power in all the Omni attributes, but it 170 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.720 is in the flesh that well, in the flesh, the limitation is in 171 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:07.880 the flesh, not the DNA. So they they would say, well, 172 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.400 you can't ride a bicycle ever, because you're in you know, you said 173 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:17.599 that you couldn't will you're in the car. But the differential is that well, 174 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:22.160 in the flesh the flesh is limited and limits certain those things can't be 175 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.279 everywhere at once, But in the spirit absolutely can be everywhere at once. 176 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.640 And that's where the confusion strikes, is that union between the two. So 177 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.599 Yes, in the flesh, there's limitations in the flesh, never limitations in 178 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:41.240 the spirit or the deity of Christ. Ever, Laura, Welcome to the 179 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:44.759 Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hello Jesus. Well, Hello, how can 180 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.200 I help you? Hi? I have a question for you that involves my 181 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:53.480 boyfriend. Okay, he's not a believer and he was raised in a basically 182 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:59.880 a family that has no religious face background at all. So I was raised 183 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:04.000 in Christian home and I've been trying to like bring him to church and talk 184 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.440 to him about God, and his questions are always, well, if God 185 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.920 is real, then why doesn't show himself to me? And I guess I've 186 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.200 asked him to, like, you know, ask God for something, but 187 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:19.400 then it's kind of ludicrous because then he asked God for like, Okay, 188 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.720 if God's real, then let him put a hundred bucks in my hand right 189 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:23.839 now, and then it doesn't happen, and he's like, see, God's 190 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.799 not real. So I guess the question that I'm asking is, how would 191 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:36.160 you approach someone who basically has no framework for understanding or for a faith in 192 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:41.279 Christ or oh boy, you're you're barking up a strange tree. This is 193 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:48.480 not how you start a relationship. You don't start it backwards. And I'm 194 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.640 telling you this, and I know that it stinks to hear, But Scripture 195 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:56.759 when it talks about this, this concept of being unequally yoked in Second Corinthians 196 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:03.960 six fourteen, it's talking about how you guys aren't going to ever have anything 197 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.920 in common for the most part. I mean, the very core of who 198 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.240 you are is going to be different from one another. So I want you 199 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:11.880 to know that if you're going to get into relationship with him, take him 200 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.440 as is, don't ever ever assume that he's going to become a Christian right 201 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:21.039 and know that there will be problems, and probably prefer that you don't have 202 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.480 children, because if you bring children into it, even though if he says 203 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.359 he doesn't care, all that will be is mommy saying one thing to the 204 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:32.319 child and then Daddy's saying something else. So keep these things in mind. 205 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.319 I know it's hard when you're in love and you're feeling all those wonderful feelings. 206 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:41.079 But when life becomes practical and isn't as flowery, it gets incredibly difficult. 207 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:45.400 So just know what you're signing up for. Having said that, there's 208 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.559 not going to be anything that you can give to him. You're not his 209 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.319 teacher. It just won't fall down that way. He doesn't see you in 210 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.480 that role. He doesn't respect your beliefs. Why would he respect your teaching. 211 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.720 So it's very difficult. The whole concept of of tempting your Lord God 212 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:06.400 is ludicrous. To sit there and go, well, put this in my 213 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:07.799 hand. There's a lot of things that he doesn't see that he believes in. 214 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.000 You can't You can't put wind into a petree dish to study it. 215 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:15.200 You don't see wind. You see the reaction to wind, which is the 216 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.960 leafs rustling, or these types of things are the grass blowing. So if 217 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:29.960 you really want to ask him something profound, I suppose you could ask him 218 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.640 how he knows he loves you. Because love, you can't see it doesn't 219 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.079 exist. There is. There's some scientists that will say, yes, certain 220 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:42.640 parts of your brain react chemically to somebody, but that's not really love. 221 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:48.400 That's a physiological response to something, whether it be touch or excitement or any 222 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:55.680 sort of contact or stimulation. So love can't be studied or understood or putting 223 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:00.880 a Petrie dish either. It's really nonsensical the concept of love. It's easier 224 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:07.160 just to divide biologically if you were created in such a way. And because 225 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.240 of the time, I'm going to ask you to hold on real tight because 226 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:12.319 I want to talk to you some more. Is that okay, Laura, 227 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:15.119 that's fine. Okay, let's hold on for just a second. When we 228 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.400 come back, I want to give you a couple more ideas that might help 229 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.039 you as you go down a path it's a little sketchy to begin with. 230 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.880 We were talking with Laura. Laura, you're still there. Yeah, thanks 231 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:33.200 for holding on. Okay. So it's it's a difficult situation, and I 232 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:37.799 really need you to know that. Actually, can I ask you one more 233 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.319 question that has to do with this? Sure? You know? Here's this 234 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.400 is the whole crux of the matter for me, is is there any hope 235 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.599 for people that aren't raised in Christian homes? Because now I'm beginning to wonder 236 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.400 if, well, how do people in general come to faith in Christ when 237 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.440 there is no background for it. There absolutely on the road to Damascus. 238 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:00.240 Like I always always Laura, always hope, that's not what I want you 239 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.480 to see. What I want you to see. And the frustration that comes 240 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.200 in relationships is the assumption that it's going to come through you. What what 241 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:12.839 what you do need? My producer Neil, who who loves me and has 242 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:17.480 his own issues, that's for sure, but he uh, he's married to 243 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:22.960 an atheist now, yet he serves this program and serves me in many different 244 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.200 ways. And you know, some people might think it was a really bad 245 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.960 choice. He would probably agree, although they they work through it. They 246 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.680 have a system that works for them now. So there's always hope in all 247 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.880 situations. Just God's standard is always going to be what's best. And if 248 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.480 you go into this with eyes kind of half closed, there's gonna be problems. 249 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.119 If you go into it thinking that there's going to be a happy ending, 250 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.599 there may not be. If you go into it thinking that there you 251 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:53.640 know that he's going to love when you go to church on Sunday, that's 252 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.920 that's not going to be the way it is. He may be fine at 253 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.119 first, but sooner or later he's gonna go You know what, I miss 254 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.079 having breakfast with you on Sundays or I miss this, and it's going to 255 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:06.559 become very difficult for you to have even your own faith. So that's why 256 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:11.680 I focus on that now. As far as is he capable, of course 257 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.319 he is. Sometimes it seems that the atheist or somebody who's you know, 258 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:23.519 raised in a humanist home is easier to show about the truth of salvation than 259 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:30.920 it is somebody who's raised in a counter belief system a religion, because the 260 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.880 atheist almost isn't holding on to something. Their hands almost open if you visualize 261 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.759 it, rather than closed around something, and it's a little easier to explain. 262 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.960 But that's not always the case. But they're always his hope. Your 263 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:48.039 goal and kind of position and roll in all of this is to be Laura, 264 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.319 is to serve God as Laura, to love God and be unwavering the 265 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:57.680 minute you waver. This is also makes it quite difficult is that you don't 266 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:03.559 have a partner that under stands when you backslide or when you're in doubt. 267 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:11.480 They capitalize on it, and so your strength is different. It's you don't 268 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.440 have the community. Plus if for a woman, it makes it even more 269 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:19.640 difficult because the leader of the house as far as the faith goes in scripture 270 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:25.440 is the man. So if the man's not leading that that spiritual is if 271 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:27.880 if he's not being you guys are partners in the household. But if he's 272 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:33.960 not being that spiritual leader in the household, it's difficult, and so these 273 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.920 things start to battle a little bit. But as far as it coming from 274 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.799 somewhere else, yeah, he'll probably see something, know something come to you 275 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:48.680 and ask questions at times, or maybe not. Sometimes men can believe it 276 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.720 or not get stubborn and and don't want to hear it from anyone. There's 277 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.000 all kinds of variables. It's just a matter of, you know, how 278 00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:02.960 far if he really if he's just asking silly questions like how come God doesn't 279 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.079 make a hundred dollars pop into my hand, that's ridiculous, then he really 280 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:08.519 doesn't care and really doesn't want to know. He wants to play with your 281 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:15.519 faith, wants to make you feel stupid about your faith. But if he's 282 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:21.319 really asking intelligent questions and wanting to know how things happen or why they happen, 283 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.200 or any of this, then he's going to legitimately be searching and therefore 284 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.279 he will legitimately find an answer. Do you think I think he'd ever be 285 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.200 so bold as to call up here? Yeah, definitely have him call up, 286 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.119 Okay, get him to call up and if he has real questions, 287 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:42.759 we'll give him real answers. All right, Well, I will have him 288 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:47.079 do that, Okay. But they always have hope and always have faith. 289 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.240 Laura. It's it's not a loss, cause I just don't want to see 290 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:55.880 you to get into something that's built on a fantasy of love rather than responsible 291 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:02.440 you know, balance and love. M So just be strong. I appreciate 292 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.799 your perspective, and it's it's been to us. I mean we've been together 293 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:11.160 for about five years now, so yeah, it's you know, there's some 294 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.279 things that we be great at and then there's other things that we don't. 295 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:18.680 So you know, I guess it's a matter of priorities for me. So 296 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:25.440 yeah, it's just if you could imagine if you were both contractors and one 297 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:27.920 of you had a ruler with measurements on it and the other one didn't, 298 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:33.680 how difficult it would be to constantly try and build something because you're going, 299 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.359 no, this is a standard, and this is the standard by which you 300 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:37.799 use to build this, and he's going, I'm just gonna eye it and 301 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:42.920 kind of guess, and and there's there's no there's no structure between the two. 302 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.720 He may say it's science for him, but that's not true. Science 303 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.559 is observational, you know. I find though that he has like more based 304 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.839 Christian values than I do in certain ways, like for example, honesty and 305 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.319 like truth telling. He's very like I've ruggle with that more than I think 306 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:04.279 he has. And that's something that I don't know. I find just characteristics 307 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:08.920 in him that are stronger and sometimes than what I see in my Christian friends. 308 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:12.720 Absolutely, you've put your finger on it too. And and this is 309 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:18.839 something that's confusing to the Christian community and also to the non believing or humanist 310 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:23.759 community, because humanists are wonderful, Incredibly, the majority of them are wonderful 311 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:30.880 people with great ethos and structure to why they believe what they believe. It's 312 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:37.480 just it's the practice of it. It comes from numbwhere nowhere, So it's 313 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.839 it's they practice it because it's culturally right. And that will only take you 314 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.799 so far, you know, because culturally right in you know, Nazi Germany 315 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:53.119 was different than culturally right today. So there's differences that where it will break 316 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:57.759 down, but absolutely there are wonderful humanists out there that do great things and 317 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:02.759 are humanitarian and all of these things. It's not about that. There is 318 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:08.480 more to the truth than just the application of it, you know, kind 319 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:12.480 of as a shell or the outside shell. They don't necessarily know where that 320 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:17.680 comes from or what the purpose is. And as we've said on the show 321 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:21.119 many times before, the purpose of the law is more important than the law 322 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:25.279 itself, because the purpose of the law is what you're protecting. If there's 323 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:29.519 something to be protected, then that's more important than what you're doing to protect 324 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.480 it. And people get confused with those things, and it's it's a it's 325 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.039 a long path, and it's not one that I recommend, and I asked 326 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.839 that you go into it with a strong head and being reasonable and not just 327 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:47.160 caught up in the fantasy. But ultimately, the truth is you don't respect 328 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:51.200 his beliefs and he doesn't respect yours. That's what it comes down to. 329 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:55.160 And you both both might think see each other as being attractive, and you 330 00:28:55.240 --> 00:29:00.279 both might see each other as being fun, but really that's going to you 331 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.960 know, fall apart. At some point, and you're gonna have to trust 332 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:07.079 each other's beliefs and you don't. You're gonna have to trust you know each 333 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:12.640 other's faith. And he has a faith in in the unknown on one sense 334 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:15.720 of things, and you have a faith in the unknown and another sense of 335 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:21.599 things. And it can get very, very cumbersome. So just keep those 336 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.160 things in mind, and if he's bold enough to call up, if he 337 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:30.759 really has questions, please have him call up and reference our conversation. Kfix on demand