You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Quickly, before we get
back into calls, I'd like to make a note that a dear friend of
the program and producer, Neil Sevadra of this very program, passed away last
Thursday, and many of you may know him. His name is and was
Ian Punnett. You've heard his voice on radio through Coast to Coast AM and
other radio stations, and he was a faithful believer who dedicated his life to
thinking and learning everything he could about God and passing those things on to others.
He is survived by his lovely wife and his children. It was due
to a very short illness, and he was a man of many strengths and
abilities, but his love of God pushed him through his studies. He became
a deacon, and he continued to be a professor, teaching people many things
that he had learned along the way. And although the spirit of Ian will
live on through reruns on Coast to Coast and those that listen online, that
he will be sorely missed by those who knew him, and for those of
you who are in the prayer warrior camp to lift up his family and his
children, his wife, the people that knew him to find strength. To
lose someone this close to the holidays adds just that little extra kick to the
gut. But they believe that he is with his Maker, which was his
goal ultimately after his time was done here. So this program today is dedicated
to deacon Ian Punnett and all the joy and information and the contagious curiosity that
he brought to everyone. Dean, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi
Jesus, how are you? I am well Dean, what's going on?
Well? I have a weird situation. So I have a son with a
girl who they both lived with me in my grandparents' house. They are both
gone. We're not together anymore. We broke up before he was born,
so we lived together for my son's sake, and it's been really hard.
We live together for a year now and we don't get along. We sleep
in such a separate bedrooms, we don't talk to each other unless it has
to do with my son. And it's been a very very stressful situation on
me. There's a lot of things that have been prior to this that have
really made me question my faith. And I'm just and we're still together,
and she's been you know, she's almost left my family, her family.
We don't like each other, and it's just a very toxic situation. And
the only thing I could think that you to give through it is to become
a better person, become a better man, because I was not prior to
all this, and I'm just really really wondering if I should keep going like
this and we should just leave each other and live separate houses. But she
doesn't want to do it because of our son, because she doesn't want to
separate his mom and dad. And so the only thing, again I could
think to do is to become a better man and just keep trying to make
things better as best I can, as we can. And again, so
I guess my question is, you know, it's God putting me to the
test because I've been a person of faith my whole life. And again I
said before, I was not a good person prior to this. I had
a lot of problems. I'm doing much better than I was before now and
I just keep telling myself, keep going, just keep being a better person
for my son, better person for a situation. And yeah, again,
so I'm just wondering, should is this a test, you know, is
God putting me to the test or is it just something that should just throw
away and give up? Giving up is not really something that God's going to
put in your way, per se. There are wounds that you amputate,
yes, and there are wounds that you mandage. You will have to decide
that point in your life if there is a toxicity that's going to read that's
going to penetrate everything, so like something that becomes gangrenous, a wound that
becomes so bad that it's going to go through the rest of the body and
destroy the body. Yes, you amputate, but in this particular case you
have to pull apart a few things. Does God want you to be a
better person? Absolutely, but that's everybody. Is this a situation that's been
put in your path by God? No, I'll tell you exactly who did
this, Dean there is. God is not the cosmic killjoy that people think.
So the Father isn't running around going Gosh, what do people want?
And let me say no to it. When God talks about marriage, when
God talks about connecting with your partner, when God talks about two people coming
together and to each other, they will cleave and leave their families to build
a new one. The imperative there is that bond because if you are bringing
other people into the relationship by way of children and into the world, that's
heavy. That's a huge thing for the child, for the parents, for
the community, for the world. These children may grow up to be good,
bad, and will have ripple effects throughout the entirety of the world based
on those things, depending on the people they meet and the connections they have.
So when you make decisions to do that out of that commitment, out
of testing a relationship with multiple years of connecting, dating, seeing each other
at the best of the best and the worst of the worst, meeting families,
connecting with the families, knowing that those families come attached to the relationship.
When you don't take the time to see people during holidays, during layoff
firings, any of these things, you don't take the proper time to do
that, each thing you remove from that equation puts you more at risk.
You drive a car with bald tires, not a good idea, but you
drive a car with bald tires and the oil light on, the engine light
on, You don't put on your seat belt you have no mirrors because it
broke off. Each of these things add to the consequences that will come with
that decision. So d and these aren't some spiritual things put in a pot
as a concoction for God to teach you something. This is a world you
built not only for you, but for your girlfriend and your child. And
this is merely the consequences of those decisions. So some people think, gosh,
to take the time get to know somebody on those things. But I'm
feeling the love and the connection you want to hasten that, Well, you
pay for it on one end or the other. If you want it more
quickly and easier on the front, then it's going to be more difficult,
most likely on the back end and reverse. So you either do the homework
at front end of things, or the homework and the troubleshooting and the catching
up on the back end. And unfortunately for you, you're at the place
where you're at the back end of this having to make decisions based or deal
with the consequences based on the decisions you made. Will you learn and be
a better person from it, Well, that's up to you. Life is
genuinely ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.
We had a question ask about AI artificial intelligence and whether the discussion going
on in Revelation thirteen is talking about artificial intelligence, an image coming to life
and these things. Well, there have been many different technologies throughout the centuries
that people have looked at, and Christians, the people of faith, have
said, this is of the devil, and it goes with everything. It
goes for telephones, the home phone, and it goes to radio, it
goes to television, it goes to credit cards. Many different things have raised
the eyebrow of believers, even the printing press. Things that may seem benign
to you now were not to those that saw the technology and its infancy.
As that's the concern, right, the Antichrist is coming, the devil's going
to try and trick you, and the devil will the devil's been trying to
trick you forever and doesn't need technology to do it. Social media was seen
as that platform the same that it was seen like the Tower of Babbel,
because now you can bring all languages together, you can translate them, you
can do all of these things and connect globally in you're with an instrument in
your hand. But I assure you, although technology needs to be understood so
that it can be utilized properly, but the tech itself is without morality mankind.
Human kind are the ones that make something either good or bad by using
it for something that is moral or immoral. However, it's easier for humankind
to look at these things and say, oh, this is good or bad,
that technology is good or bad, rather than pointing the finger back at
themselves and saying, I am the one that makes this good or bad.
So you have an immoral inanimate object, and humans point to that as the
problem, rather than looking at themselves as the one that puts the more twist
on something. And as you combine it with whatever you may be doing,
therein lies what defines something, not that thing itself. It's always easier to
blame something else than to take on the courage of knowing that you controlling the
item are the one that is doing good or doing evil. Paul, Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning. I'm calling you from Cincinnati,
Ohio and reading in my day's Bible. It's a King James aversion and in
Genesis one he alludes that God said to Adam, go forth and replenish the
earth. And he's elluding that there of society or a civilization on earth before
Adam and Eve, and it was destroyed by Lucifer's flood. And there's a
controversy that the word replenished in the Hebrew may mean fill the earth instead of
replenish. And I was wanting you to comment on that, if you would
please. Sure, well, there's more than just that as well, Paul.
There are some that make the argument when it comes to scripture that in
Genesis that they also use a plural. They are speaking in plural in scripture
in Genesis as well, So some people assume that there's more. It says
in Genesis one twenty six through twenty eight, let us make man in our
image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish and the
sea and the birds. So there's the views here come into different beliefs,
one of which in Genesis, the belief is these pre atom characters, so
they call it pre atomite or pre atomism, is the belief that there was
this time where that in Genesis one and two. Basically, Genesis one is
articulating the original creation for lack of a better term, and then it was
destroyed. Some say that there were perversions, that the devil played perversions in
it. Some even say that that was the time that the devil messed with
DNA and dinosaurs came about, and then God had to wipe it all off
and start again. And that's why it looks like you have Genesis two,
another creation. So there are those that believe that that takes place. This
has something to do with something called the gap theory, and in this or
a ruin reconstruction theory. These are theories that there was this gap and something
took place, and then God had to create again. So the word replenish
simply occurs seven times in the King James version and both times in the imperative
that something needs to take place now five times three major profits in the passive
forms, and it means to It can really mean refill in some cases,
but before getting into the Hebrew, you have to ask yourself why the translators
used that particular verb replenish. The word can be used to mean fill,
and it can be used not only to refill or replenish, but just to
fill. It can mean to provide to supply, to be made full.
So in the context it gives that there's really no need for it to be
refill. It could mean satiate, in habit, occupy the whole of So
in the context, you have to use that to define as to what's being
said and how it's being used. So, Paul, there isn't in the
context. You would need something great, not just one word. You would
need something greater to explain why that would be refill. And if you look
at it in the context, there's no reason for there to have been a
gap or belief that there was a second creation. Essentially, what it is
is a headline and then the full story. So the headline in Genesis one
is the basics of what is going on in the creation. Genesis two is
more of an elaboration and pulling the camera back to see a bigger view of
what was taking place. So in that case, that sets that word into
the context and doesn't really give it the ability to say, oh, in
this particular context, it means refill or replenish in that sense. And the
reason this is is that ancient Hebrew is limited. A lot of words mean
different things depending on their context. That has to be understood. There's no
reason to put that there and say, okay, well it must mean this,
because it could mean that, but in the context, it just doesn't.
There is nothing there. There's nothing that says, hey, here is
a second creation, or explaining this was destroyed, or going back and saying
there's this gap here that needs to be explained or accounted for. There's just
not You have to you have to look further, or you have to actually
create the need for that word to be there in its context. And once
you do all that, once you get into having to create seating that word
or a necessity of that word, that's when you start cramming thoughts into scripture.
Rather the letting scripture breathe forth the truth that's in it, and that's
you know, done. A lot a lot of people will try put their
views into scripture, whether it's political, whether it's theological, whatever it might
be, try to cram it in scripture. I will tell you this,
the King, Jimmy, there is not the best translation, and there are
better translations out there. The one used by the production of this show,
my producer Neil and the like is the new American standard that has been his
focus and study Bible for quite some time, and although there are other really
wonderful translations, that just happens to be his particular favorite. As a study
Bible, he finds it to be sound, the translation to be solid and
in not only the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but also the guidance of
great scholars that took the time to hash these things out understand them in the
context in which they were were seated. So those things are really what is
key when it comes to translating or understanding scripture is the context, because in
that particular case, you're really having to force it to get that gap theory
or to get a second creation. George, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning. I have a life situation question for you. Okay,
I'm in a situation. I've been married for quite a few years and my
wife left me. She is a Christian, and I'm kind of debating what
I need to do about that. I read in one Corinthians seven thirteen that
it says if a believer leaves, let them go. But I'm sorry,
if an unbeliever leaves, let them go. My question is, what do
you do if it's a believer well, if she abandoned the marriage, that's
on her, not you. So in this particular case, has she gone
forward with the legalities of it and decided to divorce you? Well, papers
have been filed, but no actions have been taken for quite a while.
Well have you You haven't signed anything? Have you signed papers? No?
No? Okay, legally we're still still married. But you know, I'm
not concerned as much legally as I am spiritual, of course, But this
is someone abandoning you. There's nothing you can do about that unless there is
a way for you to reconcile, which would always be my goal and desires
to see people reconcile and work together towards these things, especially believers who have
made a commitment before God. That doesn't mean that they don't fall apart.
It doesn't mean that there aren't divorces. You can go back to Jeremiah three
and you can see that even God hands a certificate of divorce to Israel.
So did she give reason as to why she was leaving you? Uh?
Not really, I mean probably a whole host of things. You know.
I'm not I'm not angry with her, I'm not you know, upset with
her, just for questions now is what do I do about it? You
know, do I let linger on forever? Or do I force the paperwork
through? And you know, I just want to do what God wants me
to do. And there's no indication she wants to come back. Okay,
Well, without understanding as to why she left, it's hard to see how
it could come back. Is is there another person? Did you have an
affair? Did she have an affair? To my knowledge? Okay, so
she just said I can't be with you anymore? Pretty much? Yes?
And you say she gave you a nice solid list as to why No,
No, just I mean it's it's, you know, other than just my
own thoughts about what she must feel that she's never really communicated to me.
Why just I don't want to live like this anymore? Okay? Well,
what was living like this? What was this? Well, how would you
know? From your point of view, she's not here? What would what
would you say it was that caused the division? Well, I would say
we were both a little too selfish. I wasn't giving her what she thought
she should get out of a marriage, and I think U, you know,
she was being selfish, thinking that everything ought to be the way she'd
like it to be. You know, it's not like we argued. We
didn't argue a lot just to kind of grew apart. You know, lived
in the same house. We didn't talk a whole lot. Well, yeah,
you become roommates. And when there's no passion for each other, and
I don't mean just physical passion, but when there's no passion to connect,
to learn from, to teach one another, to do things that inspire or
find out what someone's goals are and these basic things, we kind of can
fall into those areas of where there is no love. But love Love came
from nothing the first time. You have to learn somebody and find out about
them and be curious about them and you know, connect with them, and
that's how love forms. You know. One of the program directors of our
flagship station KFI that it helped come up with the idea of this very program
used to say his name was David G. Holl And he used to say
that love was understanding and although that's not the totality of it, there's power
in that is to whittle down the connection by saying, you know what,
I know all these things about you and still want to be around you is
kind of like that. And if that fire can go out, as long
as two people are alive and communicative, that fire can be lit again.
But selfishness is the absolute oxygen sucker of the flame of a relationship. So
if that is gone, you have to reintroduce that. And the only way
to do that is for humility, is to be able to walk up to
your partner or the other person in the relationship and say, I can only
do my part. This is where I think I failed. This is where
I think I can do better. We were in love once. I've thought
about those days, I've looked at pictures, I've thought about what I love
about you. This is the list of what I love about you. Of
course, if it's completely dead, then you know I can't love for you.
I can only love for me. But I think I can do this.
I think that we can find our way back. And if the response
is I don't think so, or then you have to prove by living in
a way, not for small amount of time, but by living in a
way that shows the reality of your feelings. Remember, it's not what you
say, it's not how you act, it's how you react to a situation
that truly shows who you are in life, and you reacting to this can
show her how much you care. Maybe she wants that, maybe she doesn't.
You know, Help me find what you need in your life. Help
me find the path that brings you joy. And if you really say that
it's over and there is no peace, there is no joy left. We
can't find that spark again, then let's sign the paperwork and end it.
But if there's a tiny bit of a possibility, I'd like to do my
part to be better, to be a better partner, to focus on you.
And the hope is she focuses on you as well, and then everybody's
taken care of by each other. That's the key to the relationship. KFI
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