WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.120 You're listening to KFIM on demand often and you'll hear about this in your neighborhood 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:12.000 as well. When a fire started, it's always so amazing two people how 3 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.839 they're started. Yes, there are deliberate arsonists out there that will ignite a 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.239 fire purposely, but regardless of what the intent is, and they're you know, 5 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:31.359 most fires litten accidentally, but regardless of the intent. They light very 6 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:37.560 similarly. They start with a spark or a small ignition, a small flame, 7 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:47.479 and it turns into a huge fire. Now, this analogy had has 8 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:53.200 been used over and over to describe many different things in life. And these 9 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.840 little things always start with a spark. And I think sometimes it's hard to 10 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:03.719 imagine as you open up your scripture and you read that even scripture was started 11 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:11.599 with a spark. Faith, ideas, all these things start at the very 12 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:19.079 beginning with a spark of some kind. And you play a part of that. 13 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.719 And how that that one little notion, that one idea to share your 14 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:34.400 faith, to share our ideas, to defend ideas, becomes that momentum, 15 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:41.319 that spark that propels the wind, that pushes that flame, and that jumps 16 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:49.359 obstacles inevitably in every fire season, you hear about a fire that is somehow 17 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:56.120 bordered, whether it be a road, some sort of bridge, something that 18 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:01.040 separates it from an extremely dangerous area. Let's say it's an area of homes 19 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:07.680 or animal refuge, whatever it might be that they want to keep this fire 20 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.360 away from. And the concern always is that it will jump, and it 21 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:21.639 seems like a barrier, and sometimes it seems very wide, and oftentimes it's 22 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:30.199 jumped. And that's in the physical world with a fire. In the spiritual 23 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.879 world, in the emotional world, there are times where a spark will start 24 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.360 and you will get excited about something, or you will feel it deep within 25 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:43.280 sight you and you'll want to share it, and you'll come across a barrier 26 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:47.280 and you yourself will say, no, it's impossible. I'll never get over 27 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:53.039 that barrier. That person will never ever respond properly, they'll never ever receive. 28 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:09.719 But I'm telling you that it's possible. It's possible to jump those barriers. 29 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:20.560 That initial spark, with the winds of faith, can create a fire, 30 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:31.400 a good fire dealing with goodness and insight and wisdom. But it does 31 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:47.879 start with you. Paul tells the colosh the Colossians Church in Chapter four, 32 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.360 verses five and six, to be wise in the way they act towards those 33 00:03:53.400 --> 00:04:03.039 around them, towards outsiders, says, conduct yourself with wisdom toward these outsiders, 34 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:10.159 making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, 35 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.000 seasoned as it were with salt, so that you may know how you 36 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:24.199 should respond to each person, and that be a part of your everyday interaction. 37 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.639 Having that wisdom on how to act around people is the way you handle 38 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:42.519 that spark. Making the most of every opportunity. Understanding when someone's emotional kindling 39 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.879 is dry and ready to receive. Being full of grace, seasoned as it 40 00:04:49.920 --> 00:05:00.879 were with salt, productive in your speech and attitude is what that points to. 41 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:08.680 And having an answer to give those when they ask a reoccurring theme in 42 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:18.839 scripture, and that is the spiritual, the emotional, the faithful spark that 43 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:24.000 can start a fire in someone's heart as to what they believe and why they 44 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:29.680 believe it. And you don't. Now, you can't always tell by the 45 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.279 way that the facades that people put up as to where they are in their 46 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:42.000 life and the phony smiles or everything's great or what have you. You can't 47 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.360 always tell by that, whether somebody's ready to receive or not, you have 48 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:55.399 to be intuitive and sensitive to the spirit, being ready, willing and able 49 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:00.800 to give that good word when needed to share that insight or thought or scripture 50 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:06.839 with someone who's in that place. But I assure you it doesn't take much. 51 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:15.600 And there are many times where you will share something with someone and you 52 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:21.720 won't get that immediate let's call it gratification, that immediate response where you think, 53 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.199 oh, that is going to be this, it is going to turn 54 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.519 into this. They are going to receive that and run with it. You 55 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:36.839 may not get that, you may never know. And as the ugliness of 56 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:46.879 a real fire, the ugliness of a forest fire where someone innocently pulls over 57 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:54.399 at the side of the road and their catalytic converter sparks or heats and they 58 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:03.199 drive off with no idea of the damage that will be left behind. In 59 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:08.160 the positive and the good and the spiritual sense, there are times when you 60 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.360 will spark a fire in someone's heart and may not even know about it. 61 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.600 You may not have even spent much time with them. They may not be 62 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:24.199 someone that you know very well, but just that little bit of time trusting 63 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.800 that God will bring the winds of faith to bring that person even closer into 64 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:35.360 more understanding about the importance of the Gospel. That that too, will will 65 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:45.399 start small, that tiny little spark, but erupt into a positive and beautiful 66 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:54.319 spiritual fire. Angel. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show him. I had 67 00:07:54.360 --> 00:08:01.240 a question to my son's baseball game. UM. Sorry, I'm a little 68 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.439 bit nervous. We always listened to the show on the way to baseball, 69 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.199 and he asked me, m, is it all right to play to pray 70 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:15.600 to see if we win baseball game? Well, the the the that's a 71 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.480 wonderful question. The desire to pray for things for blessings is not unheard of 72 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.000 in scripture. The Prayer of Jabez was a book that came out some years 73 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.120 ago that focused on the prayer of Jabez in Scripture, which was a prayer 74 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:35.960 to gain, to grow, and to to gain things. Um, and 75 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:41.720 there's nothing wrong with that, but a more productive prayer, and something they 76 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.840 think is healthier to pray for is a discernment and a strength and the ability 77 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:54.480 to remain focused and endure and to see those things that build a good athlete 78 00:08:54.879 --> 00:09:01.559 rather than just winning. Because it's it's it's more about the process of growing 79 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.320 and learning and strengthening that makes winning good, not just winning as the outcome. 80 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.120 Well, great, thank you so much for answering my question. You're 81 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.919 very very welcome. It's easy to think and this is kind of the mentality 82 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.240 that goes on. And I'm glad that Angel called because the mentality is kind 83 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.600 of the end result is what you're looking for now. The result is what 84 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.320 comes from a journey of studying, of working hard, of working out, 85 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:33.639 of building yourself up to be able to play or to compete. And that's 86 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.240 what it's about. It's not just winning. Winning is the byproduct. Winning 87 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.720 is that which comes after all those other things. So it's not that there's 88 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:50.840 something wrong with praying about wanting to win something. It's more along the lines 89 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.759 of wanting to do the right thing. To pray to God about wanting to 90 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:01.399 do the right thing that naturally would have the consequence of winning. Now, 91 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.840 it doesn't mean that you can do the right thing and not win. That's 92 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.840 a possibility as well, but you want to be in that right mindset and 93 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.600 build those strengths because that is what the winning concoction is. It really is 94 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.519 all of those things together, and I think, especially for a child, 95 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:26.240 it's best to not go into it thinking that winning is the soul product of 96 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:33.960 working out and trying hard and playing your best. That should be a consequence 97 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.799 to those things, but not always, and it shouldn't be the soul thing. 98 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.679 There's a mindset now with corporate America too. It used to be in 99 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.120 America you had a product and that product brought forth wealth because the product was 100 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.919 good and you could stand by it and it helps people, and it was 101 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.399 something that people wanted, so people went after it. There's this mindset in 102 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:01.360 corporate America now that making money is a product, and that's not true. 103 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.759 It's not true at all. And it's probably one of the biggest problems in 104 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.759 corporate America is that causes more financial product problems because money in itself is not 105 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.000 a product. It's the consequence or the outcome of having a good product and 106 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.879 good service and you know, treating customers well. And now the thing is 107 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:26.960 and this comes a lot with the Internet coming onto the scene, because the 108 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:31.080 Internet is kind of an intangible it's not really a widget or something that's made. 109 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:37.279 The software is and things like that. Programs are you know, widgets 110 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:43.399 and apps and all these little things that go bing. So you have these 111 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.759 things that people look at and they say, well, this is a product. 112 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.440 But it's now people are starting to look at ways just to make money. 113 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:56.639 And I know that sounds strange and a capitalist, capitalistic society, of 114 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.120 course, but you can't. It's not planting money and watching it grow. 115 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.200 The best model, and the model that has built the United States has always 116 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.600 been the product. Stand by a product or a service of great value, 117 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.080 and people will want it, and then you'll make money. The problem with 118 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.200 greed is the assumption is that that that model grows to a certain point and 119 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:28.759 then continues to grow consistently in life. When people get greedy and want it, 120 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.720 desire to want to go beyond that, and they want to outgrow. 121 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.360 You can only make a certain amount of widget today, so they try, 122 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.240 now if we put advertising on the widget, then we'll make a little extra 123 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.919 money, or we'll start, you know, start doing all these things to 124 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:48.200 make a little extra money, and then the product becomes secondary. And when 125 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.879 you have a child learning, you know, play baseball and all these things, 126 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.960 the last thing you want to do is make make the product the win, 127 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.000 when really it's about all of the blood, sweat and tears that go 128 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:07.720 into being a good athlete and being a winner. It's more about the journey 129 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:15.240 than it is that final destination. Derek, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. 130 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.440 Hello Jesus. My question was, I was watching special on television a 131 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:26.639 while about to go about the scrolls and how they found them and how they 132 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.799 found the Gospel of Genus case. I was considered that false scriptures and are 133 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:37.159 like from aft or something. Well, there's more to scripture than just stumbling 134 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.679 across it. I think that the biggest misconception, Derek is that if it's 135 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.720 old and you come across it somewhere and it's a rare find, then automatically 136 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.360 it's scripture. And that's not the case. As a matter of fact, 137 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:56.759 the term Dead Sea Scrolls kind of it gets misused sometimes and it confuses people, 138 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.240 but this is kind of a popular name for manuscripts that we're in. 139 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:05.200 Nineteen forty seven. They were found in caves just west of the Dead Sea, 140 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:11.200 hence the name there. The scrolls themselves are divided into four basic groups, 141 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.919 and we won't get into all of the specifics of everything, but they 142 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:22.480 have different purposes and don't they don't all tie into scripture, but there are 143 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:28.159 some that do. There are there are discoveries in that region that deal with 144 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:35.919 um certain books of the Old Testament and certain fragments of the New Testament. 145 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:41.159 But there's writings. In that particular case, you mentioned the Gospel of Judas, 146 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.679 and this is considered a Gnostic gospel. A Gnostics were a group of 147 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:54.799 people that felt that they had. The word gnostic it comes from nosis or 148 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:01.720 to know, have knowledge of secret, knowledge of specifically U. The Gnostics 149 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.480 believe that they had an attachment or a knowledge about God that others did not. 150 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:11.399 In some of their writings kind of focus upon those things. So this 151 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:18.720 particular Gospel of Judas is alleged to be a document that kind of focuses on 152 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:26.399 this conversation between Judas a scariot and Jesus Christ. So the whole purpose is 153 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.759 to say, well, this conversation took place between Judas and I, and 154 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:43.960 the document itself, this particular one is alleged to be dated around a d. 155 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.559 Two eighty, So you're looking at a document itself that is after the 156 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.919 fact to a certain degree, and that certain other parts of it may not 157 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:03.279 live up to the bibliographical tests that are used in scripture. To begin with, 158 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:12.159 although it's alleged that Judas Scariott wrote it, it's there's no actual way 159 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:18.000 of really pulling that from the scripture. The likelihood of Judas writing is slim 160 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:23.639 to none. So taking these things that if you were to imagine this, 161 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:29.879 imagine that you buried a bunch of writings now and you buried it with scripture, 162 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.720 and it was like a handwritten bible, and you and then you had 163 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.120 your diary next to it, and you had all kinds of things that if 164 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.480 they were dug up a thousand years from now, it doesn't mean that your 165 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.879 diary has the same weight as scripture. So there's going to be certain tests 166 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.519 that they do to go through it to see whether it holds that weight or 167 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:53.759 has that potency that scripture has. And there's a lot that goes into it. 168 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.960 I think the assumption is that a bunch of you know, old guy 169 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.559 I sat around and decided what's going to be in scripture and what's not. 170 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.039 And you couldn't do that anymore than you could go through and find a bunch 171 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.640 of works of Shakespeare attached to a bunch of works of someone else that was 172 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:18.440 a contemporary and say, oh, they're all from Shakespeare. There are things 173 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.119 that are going to stand out. There's a lot of things in the Gospel 174 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:32.200 of Judas that talk about certain principles of the religious community and things like that 175 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:40.000 that weren't and types of theology that didn't exist earlier on. So you can 176 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:41.680 date it and say, okay, well, the fact that it mentions these 177 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:51.079 things means that it's not as close to the time of my existence. Then 178 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:56.200 one would hope for a document of that kind. So the conspiracy thoughts that 179 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:02.440 while somebody buried this or got rid of it because it was controversial, no, 180 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:07.119 it just it doesn't jive. Can you can tell that it's not right? 181 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.880 The same way if you came across, you know, some Shakespearean writings 182 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:15.039 and they were ancient Shakespearean writings and they're talking about a guy walking around with 183 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.559 a wristwatch, you can go, okay, that that can't be because there 184 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:25.720 weren't wrist watches at that particular time. So this doesn't fit into that category. 185 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:33.559 That's an anomaly. But the conspiracy conspiracy theorists would go, maybe there 186 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:40.720 was watches, maybe there was an ancient watch wristwatch that people wore that has 187 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:45.880 been buried for centuries and nobody knows about it, and really it ends up 188 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:51.400 being over complicating a situation where there's no extra value. There's nothing that comes 189 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:53.599 from a lot of these works. Some of them are interesting in their own 190 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.319 right, but it doesn't mean that they are attached or should be attached to 191 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:07.039 Scripture, I'm sure is specific to the body of Christ, and the things 192 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.519 outside of it may be a value in their own right, just like the 193 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:18.079 instructions to build a cabinet have value, but it doesn't mean that it has 194 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:26.440 spiritual value. And the Scripture says in Jude three to contend earnestly for the 195 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.000 faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints. And I think 196 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:34.039 that once and for all part gets lost sometimes and people keep thinking that there's 197 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:40.079 going to be something secret that's going to be popped up. Well, scripture 198 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:44.519 says, no, once and for all delivered to the saints. Here's the 199 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.240 package here. It is to be understood in its wholeness, not in part, 200 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:55.000 but understood that in the harmony of the entirety of scripture, you can 201 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:02.480 see that God has a plan and a path learned and a path for you, 202 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:08.640 and that the historical footing that Scripture is set in is there for you 203 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:14.599 to have understanding of that path, the path that those have gone that have 204 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:18.799 gone before you have walked, and how that pertains to you and the value 205 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:23.720 of those things. Imagine if your your parents could write down throughout the entirety 206 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:29.880 of your childhood, and some parents are good at that, but write down 207 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:34.880 everything you've gone through or the things that are important to your progression, and 208 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:41.920 every lesson learned and the insights that you've had, and the stumbles you've made 209 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:48.920 and how you've overcome them. And if you look through that later on in 210 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.759 life, you'd be able to see that there's a legitimate pattern and benefits to 211 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.599 the things you've gone through. Well, Scripture has a lot of that in 212 00:20:55.640 --> 00:21:03.319 it. Scripture has a lot of the ebb and flow of humanity coming to 213 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.240 grips with the fact that they're created by God and that God wants to have 214 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:15.599 a relationship with them. So when you just find these works, everybody assumes 215 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.559 that if you dig something up and it's old, then it has value because 216 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:23.519 it's old. In logic, that's called the argument from antiquity. And it's 217 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.720 an informal logical fallacy. It can become a problem when you just say, 218 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:32.160 hey, because something's old, it's right. There's a lot of things that 219 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:37.920 are old that are not right. Murderer has been around for a long time 220 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:42.160 doesn't make it good because it's been around for a long time. There's a 221 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:48.279 lot of ugly things throughout history that just because they're aged, weathered and have 222 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:55.440 torn edges doesn't mean that they have value on the same part as scripture. 223 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.359 So there's more to it than just being a work of antiquity. There's more 224 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:03.240 to it than just coming across in a fanciful way. And you know, 225 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.240 unfortunately, you have to have the sense of an old cow and eat the 226 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:10.759 hay and leave the sticks. When it comes to these television shows, if 227 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:17.119 you watch some of these, you know notable kind of brands. When it 228 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:21.359 comes to the Bible, it seems that the sensational tends to sell. So 229 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:26.680 television tends to go towards the dun, dun, dun. Look, we 230 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:32.440 found this and it's different and it's going to change things. And although they 231 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.920 may say that, they do it in a way where it's like some may 232 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:41.680 say or some scholars say, or these types of things that kind of take 233 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.079 them off the hook. Some of it's not always that honest. Some of 234 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:51.720 it just is trying to get people to watch, and that means spinning things 235 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.319 around and mark my words, there's more shows about whether I even existed. 236 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:02.960 There's more shows about whether the crucifixion took place, or whether you know who 237 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:07.000 moved the stone away? And the passover plot that people came and grabbed me 238 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.400 and took me away and buried me somewhere else, and there's others where that 239 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.079 I actually just passed out on the cross. So just be you know, 240 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.799 have a raised eyebrow, and be a little leery of of of things. 241 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:22.119 And I hate to be the one to break it to you, but no, 242 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:27.720 not everything on television is true. Mike, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show. 243 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:33.160 Hello Jesus. Hi, Mike. My wife died two years ago, 244 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.039 and I'm wondering what do they do in heaven twenty four hours a day, 245 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:44.160 seven days a week. It's a pretty powerful concept to think of eternity on 246 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:52.160 its face and let alone doing your experience on Earth is always bound by the 247 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:57.480 time continuing. Everything you do, even the passing of your lovely wife is 248 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:03.880 on mark that time goes by, and that doesn't exist in heaven. That 249 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:11.440 doesn't there's not that presence or that weight of the clock constantly ticking. Every 250 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:17.079 experience you had, every lovely, wonderful experience you've had on earth so far 251 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:21.799 and have had with your wife. I bet you can can even go back 252 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:26.680 in your mind and remember that first kiss, that first embrace, those first 253 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:32.839 dates. Correct, Yes, well, imagine that every experience you had here 254 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:38.880 with your wife, without your wife, those first moments, those intense and 255 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:48.599 impressionable moments of great joy where time stopped. You weren't thinking about the clock 256 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:53.240 the first time you kissed. You were in the moment, purely in the 257 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:59.440 moment, and Heaven is outside of all of those pressures of that time and 258 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:04.119 that way, and it's essentially an eternal first kiss. It is. It 259 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:11.880 is being in union and communion with the Father and coming together. You're not 260 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.759 a human doing anymore doing these things. You're a human being. You are 261 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:19.279 being in the presence of God and being in the fullness of God's glory and 262 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:30.799 worshiping eternally. It's it's incomparable to anything you experience here, only glimpses and 263 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:37.920 moments that you wish would never end, would be the tiniest, tiniest understanding 264 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.720 of the purity of what heaven is. It's not about doing things. Your 265 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.079 life is about doing things. Your life is constantly run with what am I 266 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.319 doing now? Or what are we doing later? And when am I doing 267 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:49.960 this? And all those things? Have we you know, had a house 268 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:52.319 yet? Have we had a baby yet? Have we gotten this job? 269 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.279 Have I gotten rate? It's all about those doing and that that type of 270 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.720 progression. It's not about that. It's about the fullness of those things. 271 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:07.440 It's about the totality of every single one of those experiences that have helped to 272 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:15.319 bring you to an understanding. The word heaven actually might means to lift, 273 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.200 to heave, and it's it's if you can imagine to lift you from all 274 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:26.680 of this and to put you into the hands of God. Robert, Welcome 275 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.960 to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Hi. My question is, 276 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.640 can you tell me what is going to be the eternal fate of the many 277 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:41.680 people who were married and then divorced since they have broken the direct commandment of 278 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:47.640 what God has joined together, Let no man put asunder divorce is not a 279 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:53.160 sin. Divorce is not God's perfect will by any stretch. God hates divorce 280 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:59.519 scripture, but it's it's not a sin. It's not the best way to 281 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:02.920 do things. So if you're talking about well, you know, people who 282 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:10.400 divorce have problems on earth, they can absolutely divorce is not God's prime plan, 283 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:18.559 but God himself is as part of a divorce. In scripture, Jeremiah 284 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:26.720 three and Isaiah fifty talk about God divorcing Israel, so that would mean every 285 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.039 Israeli would go to Hell, which would be a problem for the early Church 286 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:37.519 and all kinds of things. So as far as whether they're you know, 287 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.079 people who divorce are damned, No, that doesn't make that doesn't make any 288 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:48.559 sense. Some people further that question Robert and ask, well, what about 289 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.279 the marriage and does the marriage exists in heaven. No, marriage is just 290 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:59.480 for earth. That's why it says to death, do your part, because 291 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:03.599 it's not a out heaven. Marriage is understanding, a bond, and all 292 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.039 of those things, but it's not about heaven because when you deal with when 293 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:14.319 you bring heaven into the equation. You can see that throughout scripture. In 294 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:19.240 the New Testament, it talks about the marriage between the people of God and 295 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:25.279 Christ. So you're married to me, not to your wife or your wife 296 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:29.559 to you. It's about being married to me and that the Church is my 297 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:34.599 bride, and that's the focus of it from Christian theology. And sometimes people 298 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:40.319 look into the divorce is a very ugly thing and an ugly situation, and 299 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.759 it seems to be that marriage is unfortunately Robert nowadays, are thought of as 300 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:52.119 disposable. And if you think for one second that the Christian divorce rate is 301 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.799 different than the rest of the public in the United States, you're wrong. 302 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:04.000 They tend to be neconnect So unfortunately it's Christians haven't gotten the hang of marriage 303 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:10.720 any better than anyone else. Sad truth to state, But no, divorce 304 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:15.920 is not a sin per se in the context of normal sins. It is 305 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:22.359 missing the mark of what God wants, but it's not a sin. You're 306 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.559 listening to kf I AM six forty on demand.