You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. So Thursday has come and
gone, Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. And it's interesting how just prior
to Thanksgiving all that you see cooking shows, magazines or how to prepare turkey,
how to prepare your Thanksgiving meal? Right, that's all you could see.
Now it's after Thanksgiving and what seems to be popping up everywhere is how
to prepare your what your leftovers? Everywhere? How to prepare your leftover overs
this year? How to use your turkey and stews and soups, whatever it
might be. And that's a good thing. That's a practical thing. When
you're dealing with so much food, you have a feast of sorts. The
last thing you want to do is take the leftovers and toss them out.
Shows that you're good steward with your money, with your food, with your
time, very practical. So it's bound to be that type of the year
that leftover has become something very important. My producer Neil loves to cook,
loves to take things from the pantry that look like nothing and make them into
something. Loves the concept of taking leftovers and making something wonderful again out of
them. In that sense, it's good. That sense leftovers wonderful. However,
you wouldn't serve leftovers on Thanksgiving night. They're a byproduct, their byproduct
that you use, a resource that you use again. But serving them to
your guests originally at Thanksgiving might be considered tacky. The whole point is to
come together and bring those those great fruits of labor to the table. There's
a poem about leftovers dealing with God that I want you to hear. Source
is unknown, but it speaks truth. Leftovers are such humble things we would
not serve to a guest, and yet we serve them to our Lord,
who deserves the very best. We give to him left over time, stray
minutes here and there, leftover cash, we give to him such few coins
as we can spare. We give our youth unto the world to hatred,
lust and strife. Then, in declining years, we give to him the
remaining of our life. Not poem points to the way some of you might
treat God. It's very easy to get wrapped up in the world right now
during the holidays. It's very easy to get wrapped up in everything that goes
with the world now you've got to get gifts, and now you've got to
do dinners, and now you've got to get together, and all kinds of
hubbub. But really it's about the most simplest things. It's about breaking bread
with one another, about loving on one another and spending time with one another.
All the other stuff is gravy, as they say, But the leftovers
that God loves are the practical ones and not throwing out food, reusing it
and making sure you're a good steward of your money and your time. The
leftovers God hates are when you don't give God his due, and that God
gets your scraps, the little things that come after everything else, because you're
constantly focused on what the treasure's here, the things that you need here,
building your empire here, building up your treasures here. Matthew six nineteen through
twenty one says, do not store up for yourself's treasures on earth, where
moth and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, But store
up for yourself treasure's in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy,
and where the thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure
is there, Your heart will be. Also, it's so easy to get
caught up in the things of the world to think that you need more and
need to achieve more. And there's nothing wrong with achievement, there's nothing wrong
with growth, there's nothing wrong with hope or goals or any of those things.
All good, all godly. But is there balance in there? Is
there a timeline in there for God? Or does God get your leftovers?
Does God get your scraps, little things that they come at the end of
the meal. God is not your cosmic dog waiting at the end of your
bountiful table for you to finish the meal and then throw him a bone.
The Father wants to participate in life with you, wants to be invited to
do so. And I know that it gets very easy to get lost in
this life. But certain things should remind you. Holy days that you call
holidays now were originally there to do that, to re center you, to
refocus, to show appreciation to God, to keep certain days holy, not
because the date mattered or something like that, but because it was important to
stop. It was important to spend time with God, to be thankful for
the things in which you have in life. And the last thing you want
to do is take the remnants, the scraps from those things and throw them
to God. You're called to love God and to worship God and to praise
God with all that you are. That means all your talents, your gifts,
yes, even finances. All these things play a part in one form
or another. You don't need to give to your broke that's not being very
wise or practical with your money. You don't have to start a Christian band
because you like playing music. It's not the only way to do it.
But if you have gifts and abilities, you want to utilize them for God.
You want to take all those things that God gave you and give them
back in some way. That type of respect, that type of reverence and
appreciation of who God is in your life should should come to you easily.
It's good not to be wasteful with your food. Those kind of leftovers no
problem, but you wouldn't serve them to your guests on Thanksgiving. So being
in a mindset where you would serve your leftovers to God should be something that
stops. Now. The balance in this life is so key. There are
those that go off the spiritual handle want to give away everything and on the
surface, that doesn't sound bad, does it. However, I hear the
aftermath, the frustration, the feelings of abandonment when people give up all that
they have and then feel as if God has somehow left them. Because the
things that you have you should have to provide for you and your family.
But God should be a part of your family. It's not that you'd give
all your money to one child. That to be a balanced parent, a
balanced member of the family is to put into it in a way that's healthy
and beneficial for all involved, and not put yourself in a place where the
enemy can get a foothold and make you regret your decisions. If you are
good at music, it doesn't mean that it has to be a Christian band.
You can still praise God in many ways using those gifts and abilities.
The important thing is to use them and always use them to the glory of
God. Talking about leftovers, why, because everyone talks about leftovers after Thanksgiving.
You can't turn on the TV or look at a magazine or even in
the newspaper without seeing some story on how to use your leftovers. However,
although when it comes to food, leftovers are a good thing. You certainly
wouldn't serve them to your guests the first time out right, it's not what
Thanksgiving is about. However, that tends to be the meal that God gets
is your leftovers based on whatever you have, and really you're called to give
God, to give to God from every part of who you are and everything
that you have. Your talents, your money, your time, None of
these things should be your leftovers to God. Always seeking new ways to serve
and to glorify God should be the concern. In just a little bit,
we want to take your calls. As always, you are welcome to bring
your thoughts, your questions dealing with theology, God, religion, spirituality,
world views, or if you're going through something in life you want to talk
about it, you can call us as well. We'd love to hear from
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seven seven four sixty five nine four sixty seven. The disciples themselves use their
talents, and if you remember in scripture that I looked for people that had
certain abilities, you may have thought, well, that seems weird. Why
would you choose that, Why would you choose fishermen for example? Well,
fishermen were known to be people with work ethic. It's just not something you
could sit by and let happen. Now, there might be some women right
now saying, hey, woy, my husband fishes. Trust me, you
can sit around and just let it happen. But as fishermen, when you're
doing it for money, that really you had to be out there for long
periods of time, very dedicated and focused to that one task. You have
to add great, great patience. And if you remember in script sure I
said follow me, I will make you fishers of men, speaking to uh
Simon, Peter and Andrew his brother, and they left it all and followed
me. And this happened again, as there were others that we came across.
But for you know, the beginning of the art of fishing, this
produced a particular type of person. Could be very strenuous. Work had to
be a very coordinated effort, if you had partners, and you couldn't just
sit around being lazy and doing nothing. Now were fishermen did they tend to
be a little salty in their language and attitude? Yeah? Who. My
concern was to get those with that work ethic. And here are people in
scripture that use those gifts and abilities, those talents of being able to gather
fish with patience and technique and coordinated effort and use them to the glory of
God. And that's what I want to do with you. I want to
take your abilities and the things that you do well, and I want to
use them to the glory of God. Brent, welcome to the Jesus Christ
show. Yes, I have a small question. It's confusioning me slightly.
Okay, after Jesus pasted for forty days of forty nights, Satan walked up
to him and said, worship me and I will I will give you all
of this, and he was talking about the earth. My question is,
who is the ruler of the earth today? Is that Jesus or God Satan.
That's where I'm confused. I'm getting into some conversations with people, sure,
and it can become confusing based on understanding the stations of the individuals.
In this case, always God controls everything. However, for the non believer,
the God of this world is going to be Satan. Okay, So,
and scripture talks about that that the God of this world is really going
to be based on those that don't believe those that are wrapped up in in
unbelief, for the ones that are going to be bound by it. Second
Corinthians four to four. The God of this age is blinded the minds of
unbelievers, speaking of the devil lower case g so that so that they cannot
see the light of the Gospel, the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God. So the people that will be blinded by it and really
subjects to the devil will be the unbelievers, not the believers. So what
it essentially means is not that the that the devil has full authority. What
it means is that the devil this has become the playground of the enemy in
such a way because of the choices of the individuals with free will, that
he, in fact, it's like being voted there, he in fact becomes
the God of this world because people want the devil more than they want God.
Now, those aren't the believers, those are the non believers. So
as long as people are calling upon that kind of wickedness, or as the
Satanic Bible that has only one commandment, and that commandment is due as thou
wilt as the whole of the law. So as long as there are people
that just want to do what they want, then yes they're going to be
serving that particular God. But make no mistake that the Holy Father, God
in Heaven has power and dominion over everything and merely allows the enemy to have
his agenda on earth for this time, because in that process becomes a purification
that is necessary for humans to make their decisions, and to make a pure
decision for love. In order to do something good, you have to have
the option not to do something good to make it have any valuable, any
value. That's what makes that choice a moral one and not just a choice.
So in practicing and participating in that and choosing God, you have to
have the option not to choose God. And in not choosing God, you
choose the enemy. And that's what makes him powerful on this planet. But
he is not a god in that sense. He has power here as long
as people give him power here, but not to the believer. The believer
is separate and apart from and only brings the enemy into things when they choose
against the will of God. So being a follower of being a Christian,
then the ruler of as you stated earlier, than the ruler of the earth
is God always is the people's choice to let them determine who their ruler is
going to be. Yes, John twelve thirty one says, now is the
time for judgment on this world. Now the prince of this world speaking about
Satan will be driven out. But before that time, people will have a
choice to either serve the enemy. People say, oh, well, I'm
just not going to serve a God. I don't believe in God. You
are serving one or the other. That's the way this planet works. But
God allows that. God allows that because he also knows that there are those
that will choose against the enemy and choose good and go towards God always.
So that it's not that God is released full of thought. It's that the
enemy has so much authority in the filth and the pollution of this world,
and in that darkness and that ugliness that people bring upon this earth. The
enemy has power and strength in those places. Then that makes the enemy a
very powerful creature here on earth in that context, so much so that that
the enemy could offer me the greatest cities of the land as a temptation,
but only the things that are temple temporal, only the things that can rock,
only the things that will go away and never the things that are eternal.
And God is about eternity, not just about the temporal eighty ninety one
hundred years. You're on this planet, right, There's more to it than
that. So the enemy, by default, because of the way people choose
against God, then he gets the vote on earth, which gives him the
power and the authority on Earth that God allows with that particular agenda, knowing
that true love can only come from the option of not having to do it.
And so the enemy kind of capitalizes on that on this earth and becomes
powerful in that sense. But not always. As John twelve to thirty one
points out, there will be a judgment and he will fall during that judgment
as well. Thank you very much. You made it very clear. I
appreciate You're very welcome. I appreciate you taking the time to call. I
know that that can be a confusing one, especially when it comes to the
enemy and the way the enemy plays It seems as if, well, you
know, why would God allow this? Well, this is part of your
purification process too, and people have to have the right to choose against God,
and in doing so, they choose the devil. Mark welcome, to
the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning to you and the Lord. Bless you,
man, thank you, thank you. Hey, you know I'm reading
Job. I've read it a couple of times and and and you know,
I love the Lord and I know that you know, the Lord has you
know, knows everything, future, present, past, knows what's going to
go on and everything. And I just don't understand why, if if the
Lord knew or God knew, that Job wasn't in a budge from from him
and go with Satan, why did he put him to so much? I
mean, you know here on earth you got your children, and all his
children were killed. Everything was taken away from him. And it seems to
me just could like it was a bet from God to Satan that hey,
I'll bet you you can't do it. You know, I'm gonna allow you
to do this to him, but don't kill him. But if he knew,
Job wasn't in a budge, why would you put him do that?
And I don't understand it. Well, you sort of answer yourself when you
said that God knows, God knows the past, president and future, so
it wasn't for his knowledge. So you have to look at the fact of
well, whose knowledge could it be for? Could be for the devil,
and it could be for Job. That when scripture you noticed that even I,
when I walked this earth, would ask questions that you knew I knew
the answer to, but I asked them so that the person I was asking
could get the answer. When you look at different parts of Scripture when people
are called to really heavy things, the story of Job absolutely looks like it's
some sort of bar bet between the Father and the devil. And that's not
the case. And what's not known is how those things might have happened.
Regardless that those things could have happened in a normal course of life. People
do lose family members, things do happen, people do get ill. So
it's not about that that when someone gets ill, this is God and the
Devil making a bet. In this particular case, it was really a point
of showing the Devil and even Job, the intensity of Job's faith, not
about God coming to some understanding or even using him as a robot. God
tested Job within the realm of Job wanting to be tested. Job, it
says, was righteous man and somebody who's sought God and the things that he
did, but ultimately everything that you see Job go through, you can take
parts of it and look at your life and go wow. You know,
Job pushed through during this, even with bad counsel from friends, even all
the things that were going on in his life, he continued to stay focused,
and so are you. You're supposed to be focused on God through all
things. So there's a lot that's taught through this as well. Now there
are many that go into service to fight for this country, not because this
country is perfect and or everyone in it is perfect, but because the premise
or concept of this country is perfect in their eyes and one that's important to
defend. That doesn't mean that it's always going to be righteous. That doesn't
mean that they're not going to have blood on their hands. That doesn't mean
that they're not going to go through war, which is ugly. It means
for something greater they push forward. And that's the same with Job. It
didn't matter. See, humans tend to look at this world as the end
all beat all. This is it. This is the most important part of
all of it, and God sees it as reverse. This is not the
most important part. Heaven is, and this is just merely a purification process.
Prior to heaven. So what you value and you look at even family
are not the most valuable things to God. They're important as they teach you
about the family of God. They're important because they teach you how to be
selfless. All these things are important, but it's about what's what's understood about
that process of family and living is what's important for heaven. So when God
does certain things, it may look like, oh, wow, he's trashing
his own creation, something that if you did, would be a sin.
But for God to do it, it's not because what God's doing is purifying
his creation and testing it beyond measure so that you know the most important thing
is is that the person grows and continues to grow towards God. Job's a
heavy book, no doubt about it, and it's a one worth reading more
than once. But keep in mind that all these things are not like you
know, what was the movie Trading Places, where they're making a bet in
a bathroom for a dollar over you know, two people's life, seeing if
they can ruin one and make one better. That's not what it is.
It's God saying, hey, natural things are going to happen. People are
going to lose family, people are gonna, you know, get sick.
Things are going to happen, and and my man, Job is going to
hang tight and going to hang with me throughout the entirety of it. And
that's to prove to the enemy and also to prove to Job. Catherine,
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Jesus Hello. I'm a big
scheme of things. God, who always was and simply is, made us.
Why did he make us? We seem to be such a complicated mess?
Oh boy? I could ask you the same about children, couldn't I.
Yeah, Well, I just want to know why God made us,
because that's the simplest answer. Got up and well, what's the meaning?
God is a creator? By definition, there is no need for a meaning.
That's a very human t rate to go, well, why why are
we here? Or why did God create us? There is no need.
I had no need whatsoever. I didn't I wasn't lonely. I didn't go,
Gosh, it would really be nice if I had this. I just
did. That's simply it. Anybody, It's a complicated mess of a creation.
Oh but it's so beautiful. And really, the humans tend to be
stuck in the middle of things and never see the end of the story.
Could you imagine if you watched It's a Wonderful Life and you stopped, you
know, three quarters of the way through, it'd be a horrible film.
It'd be the status film on the planet. But if you watch it in
its entirety to the very end, you see that it is truly a wonderful
life. Alex, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hey Jesus, Yes,
listen. I have a question about why scripture, the themes of scripture
seem to become more popular than the actual words of scripture. Okay, for
example, Okay, for example, you see like horror movies and and action
films where you see angels or demons. You might even see like references to
not often visuals, but references to before horsemen, and it all seems to
be more it's more like the writer just taking those ideas, those names.
Well you mean, Hollywood's stealing ideas. Oh the heck, you say,
right, I know, yes, the Bible has been picked in pilfed and
all kinds of stories. I mean, even you know, wonderful and creative
films like The Matrix Really deals. Neo is a is a Jesus type character,
and that's throughout script throughout film, you'll find scripture in there and concepts
because the concepts are really quite masterful, and people try and reject them,
or they you know, kind of pick and poke what they like, and
in doing so they remove it and they pass it along to someone else,
not with it, not saying that it's with scripture. And there's many tons
of films. I mean, the Green Mile is about a character called John
Coffee JC who has the ability to miraculously heal people and was a prisoner,
and uh, you know, there's the concepts will continue be taken by by
Hollywood and writers and the like. Because the concepts are powerful, doesn't mean
people are accountable to them or that they want to dive in and see why
they're powerful. They just kind of use them as literary devices, I know,
but that's just it. I feel like I feel like that there should
be a certain a greater degree of appreciation there of reference. Sure I'm not,
I'm kind of agnostic. I'm not sure what I believe or how strongly,
but I know that there's power in the verses, and I feel like
the best way to do something is to get it accurately, and I'm often
turned off by the way people talk about things like how angels think like they
you know, they're they're actually kind of sad to be up in heaven all
the time, or board or something, and how you know what, Unfortunately
we're up against the clock because you're just getting to a place where I'd love
to poke more at. Maybe we'll have time. KF on demand