You're listening to k I am sixty on demand. Marina, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello, I'm very very glad to talk to you,
pleasure. I'm pretty lonely, very good place to me. I'm eighty eight
years of age, actually a very young rady eight years of age. I'm
not complimenting myself, but I know I am compared with my friends that are
younger or in with possessions of me, But they do have one thing that
I do not have. I was born in the UK, and I came
over here and I divorced my husband and then remarried later, but I got
a job and I decided to stay here. I had a baby son,
and he's been very successful and he likes to live in Mexico. UM.
He also loves to live in Columbia, and I know he has a life.
But I'm late. I've had difficult health problems but not serious, but
difficult. I get pretty insecure on my own and I just ask it.
He's very hard. We don't get along. He's critical of me all the
time and is a you know, it's really hard, but to have the
security of him with me, it really makes me feel better. I will
get through this, but I'm giving some bad symptoms. Waking up in the
night par extric and you know, it's hard, but if the mornings of
the hardest, and then as the day progresses, I get better. My
friends are very kind to me and they talk to me, but they have
their own problems, you know, and it's just very difficult. I'm not
suicidal in any way, but I get scared. And then I called them
bine one one and I'm getting you know, I think they're getting a bit
fed up with me doing that. So I just, you know, I
don't know, just someone to talk to. And I'm sure there's an awful
lot of people that are in the same situation as I am. And you've
been talking about kindness this morning, and I do have some friends like that,
and I try to be kind because years ago, I had a client
that I worked in the beauty business and she was going through similar things and
I did take I'm not, you know, complimenting myself, but I took
a lot of time talking to her. She did eventually die. She a
bad problem, but I know I helped her. I told king, I'm
giving her, you know, some advice what to do and I used to
go and take her out. She's in a wheelchair. But it's hard.
So that's up my story. Well let's look at a few things. You
know, having children is a thing of beauty, but the biggest and most
difficult part of that is that your job as a parent is to grow them
so they can be on their own and don't do those things. It's you
know, that is the way the system. That's how it worked with you
as well. You moved up and on from your parents and started your own
family, and then your kids. In this case, your son moves up
and on and does his projects, and that's the cycle of life as far
as and this is not a medical show, of course, this is about
morality and truth and life and those things. But I would be curious if
you've talked to a doctor about anxiety and it sounds like maybe you're having panic
attacks and that's why you end up calling nine one. Not really for that.
But the doctor I have, he he doesn't he prescribes. I cannot
take drugs. And when they give me drugs for you know, anxiety and
whatever, you know, it's a fact. Actually it takes or four weeks
to work. I counts dound to be. The feeling was than I already
do. And I took one the other day and it really made me feel
terrible. It's a hard thing, you know. I think what I need
to do is to get out and get some kind of a job. If
it don't even mean just to get out and have something to do. I
keep my house very clean, and I have one lovely thing that I've always
I've got a cat and she readest thing in the world. And when I'm
really down, boy, she doesn't even leave my side, you know.
And if I didn't have her, I don't know what I do. But
my son, he's always saying, it's your fault, it's your fault you
didn't have more children, you know. He criticizes everything. But to have
him around for a while, I feel much more secure. But I can't
expect him to, you know, he's to give up and he's I've got
my problems too, you know, and it's it's pretty odd. I'm not
blaming him, but he's not very kind. I think it's worth actually when
he's here, because he gets at me and I just don't need that.
Yeah, it sounds like the dynamic there in the relationship becomes a burden,
and you make him feel guilty being you know, his age. I understand
that you fight against the medication, but I'm assuming your doctor gave you that
medication because you have anxiety, right, yes, a depression. I tried
that a tendency in my life at certain times. When I was married to
my first husband, I was very unhappy. It didn't work. He wasn't
bad to me. But as soon as I divorced him, I completely got
better, you know, I mean I got better, and I really added
a problem. He took the car, he left me the house we had
him a little bit of mortgage in it. I wasn't afraid anymore because I
I just got a job. I'm not going on it, and was very
very poor for a while. But I worked three three jobs, you know,
save money, and if I had any money given to me from my
mother used to worry because because it was right after the war and they couldn't
send any money. But she worried that I never asked for anything. But
I survived and did very well. My son did too. But this this
marine, this doesn't sound like this is. I understand that you've gone through
many things, and you know, we can't go through all of them today,
but we can focus on the one in which you called um. I
would say it's not even a job. I would go volunteer somewhere. You
need to, yeah, connection and interaction with with people if you want.
You could maybe get a roommate, which is a possibility. Somebody in similar
age that you could connect with would be a good idea. I will tell
you this, if you broke your leg and you were in pain, would
you take pills for it as long as it didn't affect my mind? Well
people say that, but your mind is a machine and it does have chemical
issues, and sometimes if those chemical issues aren't working, then you will be
in that state of anxiety. Not saying that's always the case or always the
solution, but I would very much, very much advise you to sit down
with your doctor and talk about the purpose of those Yes, if you're and
I'm not talking about something that you give once for anxiety, it sounds like
especially with depression. Again, this is not a medical show, but morally,
I think it's imperative for you to go and ask questions of your doctor
and find out what the chemical stuff is going on in your head, whether
you're not taking up the serantonin or what have you. And yes, it's
probably going to be about two weeks in most cases if you're having a regiment.
But to say, I don't take pills as a weird thing. If
there's a need to squelch pain or whatever it might be, there are needs,
and I think it's easier for people to look at a broken arm and
say, gosh, I need to have this fix. Then when something is
off in one's mind, they feel, well, I'm not crazy. It's
not not being crazy. It's about there is chemical issues the same if you
have chemical issues for diabetes, if you have chemical issues going on in your
body, then you have to do that. And I think that's going to
be imperative. Leaning on other people. All of that is not going to
be the key first because I have a feeling that as you talk about what's
going on in your life, that becomes a burden to other people. And
people can't always take other people's burdens on, including your own family, and
it could be difficult. And I think you're doing that rather than going to
the root of the problem. So I'm hoping you find that and talk to
your doctor and call back again. I'd love to see how things are going,
but it's definitely off, and it's it's not gonna solve itself anytime soon.
Dave, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Oh Jesus, Hi,
Dave, how can I help you? Well? I have a question here,
because the first question is I read I got. I purchased the Big
Bible with the Old Testament and the New Testament in it. So I've been
reading the New Testament just over and over again because I like that one.
Okay, yeah, and I'm fond of it as well. And I'm trying
to learn exactly more about Christianity where it came from. And I'm reading these
books on audible. Okay, we're listening to we're listening to them. Yes,
that's correct. So I got this like the Dead Feast Rolls, Okay,
the Books of Enoch, which I haven't started yet. But are those
books um good to read? Or are they dangerous? Or do they just
take you away from are they? I mean, are they lying? Well?
The key thing is, Dave, that you have to recognize that a
lot of these works are not canonized. They're not They're believed to be apocryphal
and in that case, you can't read them as scripture because they're not included.
But as far as learning, I want to say this because a lot
of people get caught up in it. First, Thessalonians five twenty one says,
examine everything, hold firmly to that which is good and true. So
if you're going to dabble in that, do the research as to why,
because there's so many of them out there, and kind of doing a blanket
thing here as to who they were written by or by who they believed to
have been written by, at what time and date were they written by,
and to study them from a biblical point of view as to why they were
not canonized or put into scripture. So if you do that, test all
things. Means, if you're going to read it, then test it,
don't just you know, glob it all together with scripture. It's fine to
read things, it's fine to test things, but you've got to still hold
firm to that which is true, that which is good. Talking about studying
other things, it really is imperative to take your time to study and to
learn and understand. God is not looking for an ignorant person. God is
not looking for a person that just goes okay, well this is what I
was brought up in, or any of these things. You are allowed to
question. What God doesn't want is you to you an excuse of searching or
finding to be a desire never to land. An open mind is good,
but an open mind is like that of an open mouth. Once it's fed
and knows it's nutrition, it should close and consume. Some people like to
say, well, I'm being open, not sure what's out there, and
that's just an excuse not to learn, not to focus, not to be
a part of anything you're accountable for, and that's not what God calls you
to. You should be able to test all things and hold fast to that
which is true. You should be able to be curious. Again, just
make sure that the curiosity is for purpose, that you're going towards an ending
and unders standing that is noble and good. You should compare things that people
say. Now, not everybody is going to be called to that or feels
that they have the need for that. There are those with very simple faith
and understanding, and they have they have come to a conclusion that this is
the belief, and if there is something that's going to come, it's their
way and show them something else then they would test it but have no need
to test it. And then there's people like my producer Neil who who's probably
overly aggressive when it comes to wanting to know and so studies as such,
getting down to the very word in its original language to see what might being
said is being said and to make sure that it jibes with the entirety of
scripture goes up against scripture because as you know, if you come across something
in scripture you're possibly confused about, it's probably a good, if not the
best, way to check other scripture against it. You want to interpret scripture
with scripture first above all things, and then get in the language and the
like. But apologetics or the defense of the faith is an important part.
Too many to have answers about what they believe that may not be you,
it may be you. And in that process, when learning and seeking,
you're still going towards a goal. You want to land somewhere. If you
want to do it, to do it, and you're doing it so you
don't have to land somewhere, that's when it's a problem. If you're looking
for accountability, that's wonderful. If you're looking for something so you don't have
to have accountability. It's like, well, I'm you know, I'm taking
my time to make sure I get it right. That's just so that you
don't have to truly be a part of something. That is your way of
kind of sneaking around the reality that if you're going to seek, truly seek
a faith, you're going to have to land sometime until something else maybe comes
your way and you go, okay, now I should study this and see.
But there is there is always the person that uses excuses. People ask
me about doubt. Is it okay to have doubt. Yes, it's okay
to have doubt as long as that doubt pushes you towards learning more, pushes
you towards an answer. Now, if you have doubt that pushes you away
from having to be accountable to anything you learn, then that's where it becomes
wrong. And many people do that, Oh well I'm searching for this,
Okay, Well, you're still accountable for what you do know. You're going
to learn more, but you're accountable for what you do know, and that's
what ends up being the most important part of it. Not getting lost in
your curiosity, but finding a plan you have to ultimately land somewhere. And
sorry, fellas, but it reminds me of the dancing around when it comes
to marriage, promise rights or any of these things that delay it. Well,
I want us to be financially better, that's all wonderful and noble,
But what are you doing to get to that place? Or are you using
it to drag something on? You see the difference, you know, the
difference when somebody is working towards something truly versus dragging their feet and delaying.
God doesn't want you to do that. If you are waiting to follow God
in faith, if you're waiting to read every book, listen to every book
on the planet about God, yeah, you're just going to push yourself away
from ever getting to know and connect with God. That's the reality. But
to check scripture, to read something and go, I wonder what that truly
means. I wonder what the words in their original language mean. I wonder
if there's any insight to this that helps me see it. Have you read
above it? Have you read below it? Have you really given the opportunity
to understand the verse? Or are you one of those that just get a
verse that sounds good and sounds like something you agree with and then you use
it all the time. Or are you genuinely looking for verses in their context
in a way that will shine the brightest of life, the brightest of lights
on what you're looking for, so that you can genuinely understand what God has
out for you. Dorsey, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hey,
good morning, happy indeed to you. Basically I was I was basically asking
it refers to Genesis six when it tells about the earth, the Book of
Enoch, and I was wondering why having scholars made more of an emphasis and
research and what happened before the flood so that we would not repeat the mistakes.
Also, this is just my own self interests and self reflection. The
rainbow, which was a sign that God, you know, had love for
man, was showing forgiveness to man and told the man that never again what
I flood the earth? Why is it that, I guess you could say,
Christian people, why do they allow that the rainbow to be perverse the
people? And I'm not saying lifestyles and all that, but I'm saying that
the rainbow is now mocking God because basically it represents sin now rather than being
forgiveness and grace and all those things. And why han't Christians spoke up about
that, because that also a rainbow is a symbol of God also, just
like the cross and anything else, that was a promised to mand that you
know, I would never punish you the way I did before. And when
certain groups use the rainbow as a symbol to I mean, promote their sin,
to boast about their sins, and I mean it doesn't have the sexual
It's just that men and women were created by God for a special purpose,
and by them perverting their purpose and perverting them to us a slap in God's
face. I mean that's just my opinion. Okay, well there's a lot
to unpack, so let's start with the first part. As far as the
Book of Enoch is concerned, it is not considered scripture, so to look
back or to use that now, there are parts. The problem with works
like this is that they are they are of a special class, so and
people confuse them for being the Word of God because they're written similarly and they
have similar styles. In this particular case, this falls into pseudopographer, which
is you can't directly find whether it was written by Enoch who would have known
these things or understood these things. So it doesn't mean that it won't have
some things that are true. They could be played age of rights from scripture
as well, but it also doesn't mean that it's something that you should be
taking the truths from. As far as the rainbow, and I know you
kind of danced around it a little there, but as far as the rainbow
being used by the gay community, it's in the United States. It's there's
to use. I think that there is a misconception about the United States being
a Christian nation, and it's not that there wasn't Christian founders. Some of
them were a little wonky, quite honestly. Some of them were deists at
best that believed there was a God, but not necessarily one in which you
dealt with on the daily. There are those that cut up the Bible basically
and put different things in there, and there were certainly Founding Fathers that would
not fall under Christianity entity. And it basically just means that socially most people
celebrate Christmas and Easter, but there doesn't mean that their faith is tied into
that. So as an American, even if you're a Christian believer, you
have to understand that you may be guided by the Bible, but as an
American, the country is guided by the Constitution. So the first things first
is that I think any American should be thrilled when there is freedom for people
that don't get freedom in other countries, sometimes even killed. And if that
is the attitude of people here in the United States, that becomes a huge
problem. And there are just like there are different religions, there are going
to be different people of their own understanding and their own lifestyles, and that
should be honored. The flag is not taken away from the promise. And
quite honestly, if Christians are going to be honest, it's not like they
were using it that way anyways. Very few people are putting up rainbow flags
for that reason. In Christianity, the focus on the LGBTQ plus part of
your community, by the way, not a separate community, but part of
your community. The focus is not of God, the treatment is not of
God. I think it's one of the most shameful parts of Christianity that has
been basically consumed by conservative thinking rather than what scripture has to say. And
I think many people don't understand the things the admonishments in scripture and where they
play and why they play out. There was an imperative part at the beginning
to reproduce, be fruitful, and multiply, but that's not the case today
planet has a lot of people. So to think that you're supposed to be
fruitful and multiply now as much as at the beginning, is not a proper
reading a scripture. So now you would be reading into it based on what
you think, which is isoget rather than an exeget when you're studying scripture,
I said, Jesus, is you know reading into you know exeget is getting
what is written there? And I think people just want an excuse to hate
others and come to some sort of well, that's not right, and scripture
says that right. That's not American, Sure it is. And to allow
others to celebrate who they are is no different than you hanging a flag.
You took as a Christian, took the sign of death, the cross and
the sign of execution, which was really something that the Romans brought in.
You took that and made it for good. So I could say the empty
tomb probably would have been better, but used it for good. And I
think there's this strange hate that comes from Christianity, and Christians more importantly towards
the LGBTQ plus part of your community that doesn't rectly come from scripture. K
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