WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:08.000 You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Keith, still there, Thanks, 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:14.279 thanks for holding on. Okay, so very passionately you described, even 3 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:20.000 as a Christian, how you look around and think about those of differing faiths 4 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:28.160 and how if they're left for not and only Christians get into Heaven it seems 5 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.600 unjust to you. Is that where you're coming from? Right? I was 6 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:36.719 always taught if people do not accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and confessor, 7 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:41.479 sins that you'll go to hell. And so these other faiths, to 8 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:47.280 my knowledge, do not profess Jesus Christ as their savior. And so I 9 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.079 asked my stepfather, I said, what happens to these people? Said, 10 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.920 they're just as passionate as I am. Do they go to Hell? Okay? 11 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.200 Well, when you put the different names on the different faiths and you 12 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:04.519 think about real people, it's hard not to become emotional, and you don't 13 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:10.239 want to say anything ugly about another person's faith. That's not fair, and 14 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:15.840 especially in the United States, it seems very it's just inappropriate the way people 15 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.719 are brought up in the United States. However, separate those things, put 16 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.560 aside the names and the faces for a moment. And think of it academically 17 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.519 to maybe help you get your mind wrapped around it, because that is the 18 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:34.959 view of Christianity. So let's understand that view a little bit. If when 19 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:40.920 you call nine to one one Heaven forbid, you have the need to your 20 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.599 number in your address, coincide they match up your phone number and your address 21 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.480 so that they can find you. Right. Yes, now, there's probably 22 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.519 dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands, of Keith's in your general 23 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:05.319 area where you live, right I suppose. Sure, it's a possibility at 24 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.039 least, and there might even be people in your area with the same last 25 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:14.120 name. You can even say that there is maybe even another Keith with the 26 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.960 same last name in the same general area as you. That's a possibility. 27 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:23.800 That is so all of those things could become convoluted and make for problems. 28 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:25.919 That's why you don't pick up the phone and say, hey, come to 29 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:35.800 Keith Smith's house and then hang out, because most likely they wouldn't find you 30 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.800 that way, or if they did, it would take a long time. 31 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.800 There is a specific address to get to you, Keith, and if you 32 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.520 don't take that address, I don't care how sweet you are, I don't 33 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:52.240 care how your intentions. There is sooner or later a point where you were 34 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:59.479 rejecting the path that would lead you there and accepting another alternative path. Now, 35 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.639 if that is wrong, even if you're sincere, because you can be 36 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:07.319 sincerely wrong, wouldn't you agree on anything, then there's going to be a 37 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:14.280 problem. So think of it more along the lines of one God. Now 38 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:22.639 everyone calls God something different, but that's that's that doesn't matter. The truth 39 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:27.039 is who is that God, the definition of that God. And if God 40 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.960 has a home, for the sake of discussion, Heaven, and you don't 41 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.599 go and you reject that path to that home, and you don't know who 42 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:43.560 lives at that home, you won't be invited into that home anymore than I 43 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.680 would be invited into your home if you didn't know me. Right, Keith, 44 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:51.000 you don't just let anybody and everybody in. You let those in who 45 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:57.960 know you and you know them. When it comes to this thought of well, 46 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.400 you know, God is rejecting people. It's it's not about that, 47 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:06.680 it's the people rejecting God. God says there is one way to come to 48 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:12.439 me, and man is the one that says, no, I don't want 49 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.719 that, I want this or I reject that way. I want this way, 50 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:20.759 and I don't believe in that. So the only way that you could 51 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:28.560 really make all of this work is that if all of the religions were true. 52 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.360 The problem there is that religions are contradictory. Their basic tenets and views 53 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.680 are different and contradictory to one another. Their definitions of a human being are 54 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.800 different. So it'd be like saying, well, if this person thought that 55 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.959 JFK was a you know, five foot ten Asian man, and this person 56 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:55.040 thought JFK was a six foot African American woman, and this put you know, 57 00:04:55.160 --> 00:05:00.000 it's they they they aren't all the same thing, and it's not the 58 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.160 same person. And so the definitions would be a problem, and you'd never 59 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.800 really understand who JFK was if you thought he was a woman, or if 60 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:14.360 you thought he was an Asian man, or you would never get to understand 61 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:20.160 him if you were going down those wrong paths because they don't lead to him. 62 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:26.879 And likewise, there are many different religions and many different belief systems. 63 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.480 Now you could say they could be right, but you can't say that all 64 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:36.240 of them are right because they contradict each other. So the Christian perspective is 65 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.959 this is the truth, this is the way, this is the light, 66 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.519 and that nobody gets to the Father but through Christ, as it says in 67 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.800 scripture. For a Christian, it makes it even more difficult to believe in 68 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:54.759 this kind of universalistic everyone gets in, or everybody's a okay, or you 69 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.519 can believe whatever you want and get in, because then you're calling me an 70 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:06.480 idiot because I came, I died on a cross and resurrected. That would 71 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:14.360 mean nothing if everybody gets in. As a matter of fact, the conversation 72 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:20.399 in gets simony where I'm praying to the Father and I say, if this 73 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.959 cup can pass from me, do you remember that? If this cup can 74 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.920 pass from me, and that's not my will, but I will be done. 75 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:34.240 That is saying God, if there is any other way to get to 76 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:39.160 you, if you can just be a good person by human standards, if 77 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.600 you can just be a nice guy, if you can just be spiritual, 78 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.279 if you can just believe in whatever you want and get into heaven, then 79 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.000 I don't want to go to the cross. But that's not what happened. 80 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.959 What happened is that I did go to the cross, and I did pay 81 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:05.680 for those sins, and only those who respect, understand and accept that will 82 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:14.959 get the benefits of that. But it's not about ignorance. People say, 83 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.279 well, these people believe this and they didn't know. Everyone will know. 84 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:24.160 Scripture says that every man, woman, and child of appropriate age will hear 85 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:30.040 the truth of God and either accept it or reject it. And if they 86 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.600 reject it, Keith the Father is not going to force them to accept it. 87 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:39.120 He's going to allow them to make their choice and to live by their 88 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:44.360 choice, whatever that may be, and the consequences that come with it. 89 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:53.600 I like that you're thinking, but understand that it's as kind as it seems. 90 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.040 To say, well, everybody kind of gets in and you can believe 91 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.920 what you want. Doesn't make sense. You wouldn't do that to children. 92 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:05.000 Unfortunately, some of the school systems do. It's like this method where you 93 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.959 know, when you're playing sports, everybody gets an award or it doesn't matter 94 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.120 if it's the right answer the wrong answer. It's about the creativity of the 95 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.639 end. No, that doesn't help anyone. That doesn't show people what it 96 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.519 means to be good at something or to be strong or strong, because if 97 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:24.360 they're not good at baseball. They might be good at soccer. They're not 98 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.079 good at soccer. They might be good at football, and they'll never know 99 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.200 if you constantly tell people that they're okay where they are. And the same 100 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.799 goes for religion. And you're not going to look at a paper and say 101 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:41.000 tuoplus two equals whatever you feel it equals as long as you're sincere. That 102 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:48.039 doesn't help anybody. And so it's not about you know, pointing fingers or 103 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.360 calling people names or telling them their religion stinks. It's not about that. 104 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.039 It's about people being honest with each other and saying, what is truth. 105 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.440 That's what you follow. You don't follow a religion, You follow truth. 106 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.840 Virginia, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus, Hi, Hi. 107 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.840 I appreciate the gift of life, and as sure as I'm alive, 108 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:18.480 I know I'm going to heaven and I can hardly wait to get there. 109 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.759 I'm so looking forward to it. Is that wrong? Well, yeah, 110 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:28.600 sort of, because it's like saying that in one sense and I and I 111 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.320 understand and that that that excitement and that desire it comes from a good place. 112 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:41.080 But it's it's like saying that God's wrong for putting you on this earth 113 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.440 and wanting you to be here. If the Father wanted you to be in 114 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.639 heaven, you be in heaven. And so to to want to skip the 115 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.879 plan is to say that the plan is bad. And that's to say that 116 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:00.639 God's plan is bad. And God's plan is for you to here on this 117 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:05.480 earth and that he has a purpose for you, and and these things have 118 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.399 to be experienced on earth, and that's why there is earth. And so 119 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:15.000 if you try and skip that, you ever see a child who's trying to 120 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.000 act so grown up, sometimes it's kind of humorous at first, and then 121 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.600 on the other flip side, if you thought, wow, is that actually 122 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.120 how they see the world, that's kind of sad because they're missing out on 123 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.799 their childhood. And that's always sad. If you see maybe the parents are 124 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.879 split, or the parents work all the time, and the kid kind of 125 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:37.320 grows up too fast and is a little too adultified. It's sad because they 126 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.519 missed this huge part. And if you want to skip the earth, you're 127 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.320 missing this huge gift that the Father gave to you that has purpose. And 128 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.960 I don't want you to miss out on those things. And so I have 129 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.720 gotten a lot out of my life, and I appreciate what He's done for 130 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.480 me. Is like giving me the breadline Breze. I love living, But 131 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.919 more than that, I love the fact that I know I'm going to be 132 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.879 in heaven. And that's really so much what I really want so bad. 133 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.759 But it has to be in its proper time. If it's if it's done 134 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.919 under false pretense, or it's not. And and this is not like you're 135 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.080 suicidal or anything. You're just excited about the concept of heaven, okay. 136 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:31.159 And and when it comes to those things, there everything in its time. 137 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.879 If you read the entirety of scripture, you see that it's it. It 138 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:39.080 lives and breathe. That's why it's considered the living word of God. And 139 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.200 it continues to grow. You see the patterns how God interacts with the world 140 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.799 and and and his creation, and those things are beautiful. And if you 141 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:54.159 cut that short or if you you miss that in this sense, it's not 142 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.360 like you're looking to die. But if you if you miss that by focusing 143 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.440 on heaven, then you missed the beauty of earth. And this is a 144 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.480 precursor, prerequisite. This shows you a lot of the attributes of God in 145 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.799 a way that will make more sense in heaven and will be a quite beautiful 146 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:18.759 experience, but you have to experience it here first, so don't rush things. 147 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:24.440 Everything has its proper time, and God knows that you love earth. 148 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.639 But there's an old saying, don't be so heavenly minded. You're no earthly 149 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:33.840 good. That if you get so caught up in the things of heaven that 150 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.559 you stop focusing on the things that are at hand and that are in front 151 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.279 of you, and that's a shame. This is a gift from God to 152 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.639 you. You should enjoy it and love it and breathe it in and experience 153 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.600 it because heaven will be different, and this is the time to appreciate those 154 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:58.720 things and to live your life for the now is important. Joe, Welcome 155 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.720 to the Jesus Christ. Hello Jesus, Hi Joe. What's going on. 156 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.519 I just give you a quick background, if you don't mind. I've just 157 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:13.440 over the last few months, I've just been having a lot of different issues 158 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.879 in my life, health related. And I've always been very healthy. My 159 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.240 whole life has never been health has never been an issue. I've never even 160 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:28.879 thought about it, and over the last few months, you know, I 161 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.279 guess this has been a culmination of things. But you know, I used 162 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:39.919 to be involved in the church, and I just have gotten away from church 163 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.960 and gotten away from my relationship with God. And I don't think I've been 164 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:50.120 setting the greatest example to my kids and my family. And just recently, 165 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.879 you know, I don't know whether God's humbling me because my attitude I think, 166 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.720 just towards you know, life or people in general, has been very 167 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:05.360 pathetic and very self serving, and that, you know, if anything's going 168 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.559 to be done, it's going to be because I'm getting it done for my 169 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.200 you know, I'm going to get ahead in life because of the things that 170 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:20.039 I do. And without really much of a thought to other people, I 171 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.639 said, I really have a lot of you know, apathy towards I think, 172 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.720 just a lot you know, other people in general, and that the 173 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:31.840 only thing that I'm concerned about is me and my family. And so then, 174 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.200 you know, over the last few months, I've just you know, 175 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:39.039 consistently been having health issues, and due to those health issues, of court, 176 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:45.000 and it's brought me back to reality and I've just been having constant anxiety 177 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.600 and I just cannot get rid of the constant anxiety and thinking about you know 178 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:56.240 that you know what a good life I have, and you know I want 179 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:00.279 to enjoy my life to the fullest, and I just really don't know how 180 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.960 to get rid of the anxiety, how to get back in touch, and 181 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:09.720 really what to do. M Well, as you know, this is not 182 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:18.840 a medical show, so we won't necessarily address the medical things that are going 183 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.120 on, but a lot of those things go hand in hand, especially anxiety, 184 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.919 and I would encourage you to be checked out to make sure that it's 185 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.480 not something more serious. And I say, based on that there's something physical 186 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:39.480 going on, whereas anxiety a lot of times can it really depends on you. 187 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:46.240 There are chemical reasons that are physiological and all those things, But a 188 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.679 lot of times this is something that you exacerbate by the way you think of 189 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:56.120 it, and you dwell on it and you create it bigger. Sometimes it 190 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:00.120 can be just that mouse with a flashlight, like in the cartoons. I 191 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.679 refer to the devil this way quite a bit, and the mouse puts the 192 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.559 flashlight behind them and at an angle and makes them their shadow look really huge 193 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.799 on the wall. But really they're just a mouse. And with anxiety, 194 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.320 a lot of times it's really about you creating it and making it worse, 195 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:22.039 and which can mean that there's things that need to be done, or that 196 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.559 you know things need to be done and you are not doing them, or 197 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.720 you're kind of turning away from the right way to do things, continue to 198 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:33.519 do the wrong things, and that anxiety can build up and can get incredibly 199 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:41.759 debilitating if left to its own. So the doctor can tell you different things 200 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.799 you can do, simple things to kind of get you refocused, because it's 201 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.039 about doing. If you sit, I know that your health is in question 202 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:55.480 right now as well, but this, if nothing else, is a time 203 00:16:55.679 --> 00:17:00.600 for you to get your priorities straight. That's for sure. Like that's what 204 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:07.079 you're hearing loud and clear. Yes, you've that kind of blind ambition, 205 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:17.200 that that it's been said that ambition, sheer ambition is birthed from failure quite 206 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:22.640 often that that usually people just jump into ambition when you when there's when they're 207 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.680 lacking substance. You know, you have you ever heard somebody just by, 208 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.400 you know, spit out, Oh, I'm going to make a movie or 209 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.400 I'm going to write a book, or I'm going to do and it's they 210 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.799 haven't done anything in the process of building upon that. They just spout off 211 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.640 the you know something and say this is what I'm going to do rather than 212 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.880 the process. The process is incredibly important. It's one of the reasons why 213 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.680 you're here on earth and you don't just go straight to heaven. The process 214 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:55.440 of learning and experiencing life in a you know, time continuum where you have 215 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.640 to build upon something and learn something is incredibly important. Now, are you 216 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.839 being punished by God? I don't like when people look at things that way, 217 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.359 But are there legitimate consequences to putting everything off and not thinking about other 218 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:12.720 people as we spoke about earlier. Absolutely, and are you experiencing some of 219 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:18.359 them? Yep, most definitely. And it's about getting your priorities straight and 220 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:25.920 getting back into focus and just taking care of business. You want to tackle 221 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.119 something. It's funny, you know, people who are ambitious are always trying 222 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:30.799 to tackle the things outside. Oh you know what I'm going to do. 223 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.519 I'm going to build my empire, I'm going to start this company. What 224 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:41.559 about your home? What about yourself? Your own health? Those things. 225 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:48.079 It's take that same kind of aggressive attitude and that desire to get things done 226 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.079 and put it on yourself, on your family, back on your health. 227 00:18:52.720 --> 00:19:00.880 What health issues are you struggling with besides anxiety? I you just had back 228 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:08.759 injury and just recently a very hard to cure infection, and you know those 229 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.640 it's the lack of you know, not being able to control these things that 230 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.079 you know might seem small, but that just that cause you know, nagging 231 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.039 in the back of your head that you dwell on because you have no control 232 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:27.759 over these things, which in turn causes you know, extreme anxiety thinking about 233 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.240 you know, why am I not healthy? Why am the way I used 234 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:40.599 to be? Okay? Well, as far as the as far as the 235 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:47.079 government in China is concerned, how often do you stay up at night worrying 236 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:52.559 about that? Well? Right now, every night you're worrying about the government 237 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.839 in China. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I thought you were 238 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.480 talking. I see you're saying as far as the government in China is concerned, 239 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:02.519 Now, I don't So then you sleep at all? How come? 240 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:14.240 Because there's nothing you can do about it? Right? You have no effect, 241 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:21.039 You can't even you have no voice, there nothing, It would be 242 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.839 a waste of your energy. Now to have worldly concerns is a noble thing 243 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:30.359 and to understand how the United States reaches out to others, and all those 244 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:37.319 things are fine, but you've gone through a lot of being very hands on 245 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.920 and very in control on everything that you've said, that you've mentioned to me, 246 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.880 and now you're being told by God that you're not in control and that 247 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.160 you don't have the power for those things. And the things that you do 248 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:57.640 have power over and things you do have authority over and can really make a 249 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.559 difference in where the things that you were ignoring and trying to apply everything only 250 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:11.599 to the success of your household sort of, but it wasn't the success of 251 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.519 the household, because that would be mining your health and everything else that goes 252 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:22.640 around and and being forward thinking as to what if something happens and having plans 253 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:29.599 that that's what builds stability. So I think it's it's fairly obvious that the 254 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.279 lesson to be learned here is that as you're as you're stopping and you know 255 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:38.599 you're you're forced to stop, is to is to take inventorious to the things 256 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:44.799 you can make change in and the things you can't that you need to trust 257 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.599 and and it's funny how people sometimes don't look at God until they're on the 258 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:56.920 back and then they're naturally looking up. But refocus yourself. Any success that 259 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:02.960 you had was based on what you've done. A big mistake in people that 260 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.880 are starting out or want to achieve something is they try and duplicate success. 261 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:12.480 Never try and duplicate success. Try and duplicate the path to success. Now, 262 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:15.920 your path to success started out simple, started out focused, started out 263 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:22.359 god based. But the more successful you became, the more you ignored how 264 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:27.799 you got there and now focused on the success. Do you see the difference. 265 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.559 It's like saying, well, to get to the top of the ladder, 266 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.000 you got to you have to stand on the top rung. But that 267 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:41.039 would be stupid if to kind of jump from the ground to the top rung 268 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.640 of the ladder doesn't make sense. You couldn't even walk that, You couldn't 269 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.559 stretch your leg enough to get it. Doesn't make sense. But that's what 270 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.200 people try and do every day. And rather than understanding every single rung of 271 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.359 that ladder and the purpose of that wrung that brought them there. So you 272 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:04.039 need to reverse your sites, not on moving forward that way, but learning 273 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:10.759 why you got to move where you did and what brought that success and duplicate 274 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:15.240 that, and that really is being more focused on your faith, being more 275 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.319 focused on your family. And as far as anxiety, there's all kinds of 276 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.799 things. Talk to your doctor, but I will tell you that breathing all 277 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:29.640 you need to do is break in most cases, is to break that bond 278 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.880 where it's really trying to pull you down. You're gonna have triggers things that 279 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.880 trigger it. Being going to bed at night is going to be one of 280 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:37.599 them, because your mind is spinning and everything like that. But learn to 281 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:44.319 breathe in your belly, Breathe in deep, let your belly expand, and 282 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.039 concentrate on that for ten minutes. Concentrate on breathing, making slowing down your 283 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.960 heart and breathing making your belly fill there. You just need to break that 284 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.400 cycle of dwelling because that dwelling is what causes you to spin out of control 285 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:06.039 and see a doctor. Roz Welcome to Jesus Christia, Hi, Hi, 286 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:11.480 Hi Jesus. I have a kind of a two part question. My husband 287 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:17.079 is Jewish, so he doesn't believe that you were the Messiah, but he 288 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:22.240 has a strong faith in God. He's a very good man. He doesn't 289 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:27.839 have one mean bone in his body. He has been told by many people 290 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:30.400 that if he doesn't believe in you, he's going to go to Hell. 291 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:37.720 My second question is about one hundred and forty four thousand that are saved in 292 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:45.519 the end times. From what I understand, they're Jewish. Okay, well, 293 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.720 that's a lot for especially for the amount of time that we're going to 294 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:53.240 have on this, So let's look at this as quickly as possible. There 295 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:59.319 are a lot of different beliefs when it comes to Judaism from the standpoint of 296 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:06.519 a Christian. Christianity is birthed from the very loins of Judaism, so they 297 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:11.279 are brothers and sisters. Indeed, in many, many ways there are differences. 298 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.039 Practicing jew does not believe that I Am the Messiah, the Mashikh that 299 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.960 was spoken about in the Old Testament. But obviously that's not the case across 300 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:33.119 the board because Christianity was birthed in Israel. So there's there were, obviously 301 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:38.920 and are obviously today Jews that believe I Am the Messiah. If he does 302 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:45.839 not, there are different factions within within the Church that believe differently. There 303 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:51.759 are some that believe that Jews are under the original or the First Covenant and 304 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:56.400 as long as they're practicing Jews and religious Jews, that they're under that Covenant. 305 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.119 And there are others that believe know that's not the case because of the 306 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:03.880 New Covenant. There are some that believe Jews being chosen in Scripture and by 307 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:10.400 God, that they're different and special and that God is dealing with them differently, 308 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:14.440 and there are others say that's absolutely false. So there's a lot here, 309 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.759 a lot of different avenues that one can go down when talking about this. 310 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:21.279 So I like to make it a little more broad. And then the 311 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:23.039 forty one hundred and forty four thousand fall into that category. Two, that 312 00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:30.559 there's a group of denominations and believers that would categorize that group as being Jews. 313 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:34.880 And then there's other, many, many other interpretations as well. I 314 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:41.000 will say this that it is reasonable to believe, taking Judaism away from this 315 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:47.279 and just making it an individual, it is reasonable to believe that if somebody 316 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:53.079 rejects God, it's not about ignorance, it's about rejection of God. If 317 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:56.680 I am the Messiah and I am the Son of God spoken about in Scripture 318 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:03.319 and I'm rejected, then I will reject them it doesn't. It's not as 319 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.480 mean as it sounds. Really, what happens is, if you don't want 320 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:15.000 to love me and be with me and consult in my will for the handful 321 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:18.759 of years that you're on this planet, then why would I force you to 322 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:25.759 do it? For eternity? There's not if he if he doesn't believe now, 323 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.799 if he doesn't want to believe, if he if he doesn't care to 324 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.279 believe now, then why would I force him to do that throughout the all 325 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:40.000 of eternity? That doesn't seem very loving or caring. So as far as 326 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:45.119 as far as your husband's concern, that's going to be individually decided by him 327 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:51.240 as to what his belief is and why. But it doesn't. It kind 328 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.799 of waters down the purpose of going to the cross. If if people just 329 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:59.079 get to decide what they want to believe in get in anyways, that doesn't 330 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:07.319 seem very reasonable either. K f I A M six forty on demand M