You're listening to KFI amix on demand. When you hear the term ambassador,
what do you think of? Probably, you know politics and government and that
type of thing. But did you know that if you're a believer, that
you're called to be an ambassador of mine? Yep? That's what scripture says
in Second Corinthians, chapter five. It talks about being an ambassador. And
this morning, I want you to think about what that means. You're you're
a representative when you make a claim, when you make a statement and you
say, you know, I am a believer and I am a follower.
That doesn't mean that you're on the clock when you're in church or some Bible
study. It doesn't mean that you're on the clock only when you're praying means
you're an ambassador. It's very easy to get caught up in the big things
and think, well, you know, I practice what I preach in this
context or in this context, but sometimes, you know, the little things
I let that kind of slide. I want to tell you something. I
tell you this not to not to make you tense or hyper aware, but
so that you will know, and that is that people are watching you.
The entire world is watching you. Some are watching with curiosity because they want
to believe. Others are watching you because they hate what you stand for and
they want to watch you fail. There are those that are looking constantly for
excuses not to believe reasons, and they're hoping that you will be a bucketful
of excuses for them to run from any sort of faith. So you are
an ambassador. You are a card carrying every time you make a claim,
you put a bumper sticker on the back of your car, you let anybody
know that you're a Christian, you're a person of faith. Anytime you walk
out of a church, any time you make a proclamation about me at all,
you're an ambassador. And that that should be that should put you at
peace and be something of joy, not something of great weight. However,
I want you to understand the importance of it because it's kind of twofold.
It's not just about what you do, but it's about how you do it.
You know, a great chef is not somebody only who understands flavors,
but a great chef knows how to apply not only you know, flavors,
but also textures and color. In the culinary world, they refer to it
as plating when they take that meal, that wonderful meal, and put it
in such a such an organization that when it comes to your table it's beautiful
and fragrant in every way, not just the taste. And as an ambassador,
as someone who represents me, people are watching for all of that.
So not only the fact that you're doing something like the chef creating a meal,
but the way you present it is important as well. Your attitude on
the little things. We often refer to it as replacing the shopping cart.
These are the little things that you just go, oh well, I'll just
leave it here rather than where it's supposed to go, and people watch those
things. People look to see how you react to world events, not only
what you do, but the subtleties. Do you do it happily? Do
you do it begrudgedly? Every little subtlety matters. It's very easy to get
caught up in the in the large things and kind of go through your checklist
saying, wow, you know what, I did this, this, and
I went to Bible study and everything's taken care of. But how were you
in the process. Did you speed to Bible study? Did you ignore other
people on your way there. When you got there, how was your demeanor?
Did you put it on only for other Christians because you thought, oh,
well, this is the place where they're going to be judging me.
Nope. As a matter of fact, it's quite the opposite. Hopefully,
if things are running properly, the world is going to judge you. The
world's going to look at you and wonder. I wonder if they really really
live the way they say. Now, it's not that you're going to stop
sitting, but I'm telling you this. If you are so focused on the
little things, the big things will follow quite simply. But if you only
focus on the big things, quite often, you will miss the little things,
and in doing so, will leave just enough of an opening to be
pierced by those that don't want to believe or those that are desperately searching for
truth. And you have to get yourself in the mindset where the little things
do matter. In Philippians two fourteen, it says do all things without complaining
and disputing. Oh boy, living up to that would be quite difficult,
I know. But think about the beauty of it. Think about what that
says the people around you. When you not only do what is right or
you do what is good, but when you do it with that proper attitude,
attitude, when you're doing it without complaining, without disputing, meaning that
you are in the proper mindset and you understand. Have you ever seen a
kid that's told over and over to do something, go clean your room,
go clean your room, go clean your room, and the kid finally goes
ah, kicking and screaming the entire way. Well, that's how you look
sometimes. That's how you look when I call you to do something that you
know is right, And that's how you look sometimes when other people ask things
of you. And I want you to understand that these subtleties are more important
than you may think. That often all the things you do, the big
things that you tend to look at as being huge, are not as important
as you think when you kind of erase them with the small things. The
subtleties, your attitude, the way you interact with people around you, and
for all the things that you do, and all the things that you do
that are good and used to glorify God, I assure you the big ones
they are overshadowed by the tone and by the attitude in which you do them.
Marge, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. I think I have a
simple question, okay, it's about the Sabbath. I'm looking at Genesis twenty
eight through ten, and the blaring words that pop out to me from those
two verses are remember this Sabbath, and then on it you shall do shall
not do any work. And that brings to mind what day is the Sabbath?
Okay? And will I go to Hell if I don't keep it?
Well, that's a very legitimate question. The Sabbath is one of those things
that there tends to be a little confusion on because a lot of people think
that Christians celebrate or worship on the Sabbath, and they don't most Christians.
And I say most because there are some that do Seventh Day Adventist worship on
the Sabbath, which is Saturday, but most Christians observe the Lord's Day,
which is Sunday. And this deals with the resurrection day and the dealing with
new life. So the Sabbath is it comes from the Hebrew words sabbaf.
It means simply to rest from labor, to cease, if you will,
and that time having that period is imperative. The first time you see it,
yes, correct, is in Genesis, and that's talking about the the
rest of the Father after creating the world. So in the case of an
individual, no, you will not go to hell. The important thing is
that you keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath that you're keeping, is that you're
keeping a time to cease, a downtime, a time to go to church,
a time to worship, a time of prayer. And in the New
Testament, if you look and see many of the many of the churches that
were starting in the early days of Christianity, they worshiped all kinds of different
times, sometimes on Wednesdays, sometimes on Saturdays, sometimes on Sundays. The
important thing is that you do not forsake the gathering of the brethren, that
there's time to gather together in the church, that you do have downtime,
otherwise you'll implode. You know, you can only work so much, you
can only do so much, and you need time to recuperate and also to
understand the beauty of the Sabbath. When I was asked in scripture about the
Sabbath, what was my response, Marge, My response was, the Sabbath
was made was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, so it's
there for you. You're not here for the Sabbath. And understanding that is
important to to understand the difference and not get caught up in the law,
but understand the spirit of the law and the purpose of the law. Spirit
of the law and the purpose of the law was for you to have time
of rest, to have time with family, and to have time with those
whom you love, and to replenish yourself. And if you get focused on
that, you know, then then there's balance, Then there's understanding, and
there's time of meditation and introspection and all of those things, not in some
pipe pop psychology or some metaphys pysical way, but in a real way for
you to have time with God, downtime where you're spending time of worship and
love and peace and not constantly going I've got to do this, I've got
to do that, and I'm running at full speed all the time. That's
what I want you to keep away from. Mike, Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show. Good Morning, Lamb of God, good morning. I love
your show. I've been a follower since these very early days, and I've
had the luck to make one call before, so I'll get right to the
question. I don't have any doubts about really who you are and what you
did. I have a small identity question you. Your full true identity has
always been something I've I've questioned, and not in a bad way, but
only as as we were advised to do seek wisdom as a digging for buried
treasure, you know. And I've a I've doug a lot of holes happily
in the quest for whatever I need to have satisfied in my heart. And
there's always just been some questions raised by I've had. I've had Jehovah's witnesses
in my family that I've roved in respect deeply, and I think you know
the key difference they always hold and with the mainstream Christian thought, and you
know, some of the ideas have just gotten to me. And one thing
that's got to me most recently was and it's not new, I'm not unique,
but are you fully inligne with the Father with the powers meaning omniscience and
those things? You know? And I think of your journey in the desert
for forty days, When I think of your meditation and your deep prayer,
and I think of you know, it's been referred to before as the moment
of doubt and paying on the cross, when you stream out to the Father.
I just have this deep feeling that you know you're full in this Maybe
is places some sort of limits on your godliness. I just wonder if you
could please comment on that a little bit and help me out. Well,
yes and no, I mean that the power is there Matthew twenty eight eighteen,
and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth. There's no limitations in power. What
there is is submission, and being in submission to the Father well on earth
absolutely takes place there. It has to because of the limitations of flesh,
not the limitations of the spirit. So when you're dealing with the big fancy
theological term the hypostatic union between the flesh and you know, the humanity and
the deity, that's unique to me, you're battling with two things. You
have to ask every question twice. In the spirit you're gonna get one answer,
and in the flesh you're going to get another answer. Not because the
limitation of the spirit but the limitation of the body, you understand, I'll
put it this way. Can you ride a bicycle, yeah, okay.
Can you drive a car? Yeah? Can you ride a bicycle while you're
driving a car? Okay? But you wouldn't say because if I asked you,
can you ride a bicycle and you're in a car, you wouldn't say
no. Say well, when I'm not in a car, I can ride
the bicycle, but in a car, I can't ride the bicycle. So
likewise, in the flesh there are things that can't be done because of the
flesh. It's not a limitation of the spirit. So that Jeovah's witnesses would
want to limit the spirit and not the flesh, And that's where they're wrong.
The limitation is not in the spirit, which is identical to the Father
in that sense, in the power in all the Omni attributes, but it
is in the flesh that well, in the flesh, the limitation is in
the flesh, not the DNA. So they they would say, well,
you can't ride a bicycle ever, because you're in you know, you said
that you couldn't will you're in the car. But the differential is that well,
in the flesh the flesh is limited and limits certain those things can't be
everywhere at once, But in the spirit absolutely can be everywhere at once.
And that's where the confusion strikes, is that union between the two. So
Yes, in the flesh, there's limitations in the flesh, never limitations in
the spirit or the deity of Christ. Ever, Laura, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hello Jesus. Well, Hello, how can
I help you? Hi? I have a question for you that involves my
boyfriend. Okay, he's not a believer and he was raised in a basically
a family that has no religious face background at all. So I was raised
in Christian home and I've been trying to like bring him to church and talk
to him about God, and his questions are always, well, if God
is real, then why doesn't show himself to me? And I guess I've
asked him to, like, you know, ask God for something, but
then it's kind of ludicrous because then he asked God for like, Okay,
if God's real, then let him put a hundred bucks in my hand right
now, and then it doesn't happen, and he's like, see, God's
not real. So I guess the question that I'm asking is, how would
you approach someone who basically has no framework for understanding or for a faith in
Christ or oh boy, you're you're barking up a strange tree. This is
not how you start a relationship. You don't start it backwards. And I'm
telling you this, and I know that it stinks to hear, But Scripture
when it talks about this, this concept of being unequally yoked in Second Corinthians
six fourteen, it's talking about how you guys aren't going to ever have anything
in common for the most part. I mean, the very core of who
you are is going to be different from one another. So I want you
to know that if you're going to get into relationship with him, take him
as is, don't ever ever assume that he's going to become a Christian right
and know that there will be problems, and probably prefer that you don't have
children, because if you bring children into it, even though if he says
he doesn't care, all that will be is mommy saying one thing to the
child and then Daddy's saying something else. So keep these things in mind.
I know it's hard when you're in love and you're feeling all those wonderful feelings.
But when life becomes practical and isn't as flowery, it gets incredibly difficult.
So just know what you're signing up for. Having said that, there's
not going to be anything that you can give to him. You're not his
teacher. It just won't fall down that way. He doesn't see you in
that role. He doesn't respect your beliefs. Why would he respect your teaching.
So it's very difficult. The whole concept of of tempting your Lord God
is ludicrous. To sit there and go, well, put this in my
hand. There's a lot of things that he doesn't see that he believes in.
You can't You can't put wind into a petree dish to study it.
You don't see wind. You see the reaction to wind, which is the
leafs rustling, or these types of things are the grass blowing. So if
you really want to ask him something profound, I suppose you could ask him
how he knows he loves you. Because love, you can't see it doesn't
exist. There is. There's some scientists that will say, yes, certain
parts of your brain react chemically to somebody, but that's not really love.
That's a physiological response to something, whether it be touch or excitement or any
sort of contact or stimulation. So love can't be studied or understood or putting
a Petrie dish either. It's really nonsensical the concept of love. It's easier
just to divide biologically if you were created in such a way. And because
of the time, I'm going to ask you to hold on real tight because
I want to talk to you some more. Is that okay, Laura,
that's fine. Okay, let's hold on for just a second. When we
come back, I want to give you a couple more ideas that might help
you as you go down a path it's a little sketchy to begin with.
We were talking with Laura. Laura, you're still there. Yeah, thanks
for holding on. Okay. So it's it's a difficult situation, and I
really need you to know that. Actually, can I ask you one more
question that has to do with this? Sure? You know? Here's this
is the whole crux of the matter for me, is is there any hope
for people that aren't raised in Christian homes? Because now I'm beginning to wonder
if, well, how do people in general come to faith in Christ when
there is no background for it. There absolutely on the road to Damascus.
Like I always always Laura, always hope, that's not what I want you
to see. What I want you to see. And the frustration that comes
in relationships is the assumption that it's going to come through you. What what
what you do need? My producer Neil, who who loves me and has
his own issues, that's for sure, but he uh, he's married to
an atheist now, yet he serves this program and serves me in many different
ways. And you know, some people might think it was a really bad
choice. He would probably agree, although they they work through it. They
have a system that works for them now. So there's always hope in all
situations. Just God's standard is always going to be what's best. And if
you go into this with eyes kind of half closed, there's gonna be problems.
If you go into it thinking that there's going to be a happy ending,
there may not be. If you go into it thinking that there you
know that he's going to love when you go to church on Sunday, that's
that's not going to be the way it is. He may be fine at
first, but sooner or later he's gonna go You know what, I miss
having breakfast with you on Sundays or I miss this, and it's going to
become very difficult for you to have even your own faith. So that's why
I focus on that now. As far as is he capable, of course
he is. Sometimes it seems that the atheist or somebody who's you know,
raised in a humanist home is easier to show about the truth of salvation than
it is somebody who's raised in a counter belief system a religion, because the
atheist almost isn't holding on to something. Their hands almost open if you visualize
it, rather than closed around something, and it's a little easier to explain.
But that's not always the case. But they're always his hope. Your
goal and kind of position and roll in all of this is to be Laura,
is to serve God as Laura, to love God and be unwavering the
minute you waver. This is also makes it quite difficult is that you don't
have a partner that under stands when you backslide or when you're in doubt.
They capitalize on it, and so your strength is different. It's you don't
have the community. Plus if for a woman, it makes it even more
difficult because the leader of the house as far as the faith goes in scripture
is the man. So if the man's not leading that that spiritual is if
if he's not being you guys are partners in the household. But if he's
not being that spiritual leader in the household, it's difficult, and so these
things start to battle a little bit. But as far as it coming from
somewhere else, yeah, he'll probably see something, know something come to you
and ask questions at times, or maybe not. Sometimes men can believe it
or not get stubborn and and don't want to hear it from anyone. There's
all kinds of variables. It's just a matter of, you know, how
far if he really if he's just asking silly questions like how come God doesn't
make a hundred dollars pop into my hand, that's ridiculous, then he really
doesn't care and really doesn't want to know. He wants to play with your
faith, wants to make you feel stupid about your faith. But if he's
really asking intelligent questions and wanting to know how things happen or why they happen,
or any of this, then he's going to legitimately be searching and therefore
he will legitimately find an answer. Do you think I think he'd ever be
so bold as to call up here? Yeah, definitely have him call up,
Okay, get him to call up and if he has real questions,
we'll give him real answers. All right, Well, I will have him
do that, Okay. But they always have hope and always have faith.
Laura. It's it's not a loss, cause I just don't want to see
you to get into something that's built on a fantasy of love rather than responsible
you know, balance and love. M So just be strong. I appreciate
your perspective, and it's it's been to us. I mean we've been together
for about five years now, so yeah, it's you know, there's some
things that we be great at and then there's other things that we don't.
So you know, I guess it's a matter of priorities for me. So
yeah, it's just if you could imagine if you were both contractors and one
of you had a ruler with measurements on it and the other one didn't,
how difficult it would be to constantly try and build something because you're going,
no, this is a standard, and this is the standard by which you
use to build this, and he's going, I'm just gonna eye it and
kind of guess, and and there's there's no there's no structure between the two.
He may say it's science for him, but that's not true. Science
is observational, you know. I find though that he has like more based
Christian values than I do in certain ways, like for example, honesty and
like truth telling. He's very like I've ruggle with that more than I think
he has. And that's something that I don't know. I find just characteristics
in him that are stronger and sometimes than what I see in my Christian friends.
Absolutely, you've put your finger on it too. And and this is
something that's confusing to the Christian community and also to the non believing or humanist
community, because humanists are wonderful, Incredibly, the majority of them are wonderful
people with great ethos and structure to why they believe what they believe. It's
just it's the practice of it. It comes from numbwhere nowhere, So it's
it's they practice it because it's culturally right. And that will only take you
so far, you know, because culturally right in you know, Nazi Germany
was different than culturally right today. So there's differences that where it will break
down, but absolutely there are wonderful humanists out there that do great things and
are humanitarian and all of these things. It's not about that. There is
more to the truth than just the application of it, you know, kind
of as a shell or the outside shell. They don't necessarily know where that
comes from or what the purpose is. And as we've said on the show
many times before, the purpose of the law is more important than the law
itself, because the purpose of the law is what you're protecting. If there's
something to be protected, then that's more important than what you're doing to protect
it. And people get confused with those things, and it's it's a it's
a long path, and it's not one that I recommend, and I asked
that you go into it with a strong head and being reasonable and not just
caught up in the fantasy. But ultimately, the truth is you don't respect
his beliefs and he doesn't respect yours. That's what it comes down to.
And you both both might think see each other as being attractive, and you
both might see each other as being fun, but really that's going to you
know, fall apart. At some point, and you're gonna have to trust
each other's beliefs and you don't. You're gonna have to trust you know each
other's faith. And he has a faith in in the unknown on one sense
of things, and you have a faith in the unknown and another sense of
things. And it can get very, very cumbersome. So just keep those
things in mind, and if he's bold enough to call up, if he
really has questions, please have him call up and reference our conversation. Kfix on demand