WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:05.759 You're listening to k IF I am six forty on demand. Christy, welcome 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:11.039 to the Jesus Christ Show. Tell Jesus Him. My question is, um, 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:16.879 what is your view on a young child dancing and a secular dance studio 4 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:22.960 where at times the attire can expose parts of their body and movements, maybe 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:31.480 of the buttocks that may appear sexual, but they that child love to dance 6 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:36.920 and love being at that particular studio. Well, there's nothing wrong with a 7 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.240 secular studio to say, well, this is secular. You shop at a 8 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.479 secular grocery store, you go to a secular mechanic, you go there's nothing 9 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:48.039 wrong with these types of things at all within reason. If you, you 10 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:53.159 know, went to a grocery store where they you know, constantly we're bombarding 11 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:58.359 you with religious stuff, that would be a problem. But it's really about 12 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:03.359 understanding a limit as a guideline for you. Um. The devil loves to 13 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:10.159 pervert that which God made beautiful, so the body, the form, sexuality, 14 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.599 all those things that God created. The devil loves to pervert so that 15 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.400 that the people of God don't like to do them anymore and run from them. 16 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:25.079 And if you look at things in life. Passion, Oh, that's 17 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.359 of God. That's wonderful. Lust is of the devil. It's a perversion 18 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.280 of passion. If you see those things, it's like anger, that's that's 19 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.840 of God, that's that's a just. Anger is a is a legitimate way 20 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.719 of expressing yourself. Rage is not. It's a perversion of anger. So 21 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.680 the devil does those things to confuse and to frustrate the believer into not participating 22 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.040 in the lovely things of God. Ecclesiastes three four says there's a time to 23 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.200 weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time 24 00:01:55.239 --> 00:02:00.159 to dance. Dancing is a beautiful and wonderful thing throughout scripture, throughout scripture. 25 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.959 So you have to gauge whether one this is something that is objectifying the 26 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:13.960 child or the individual, or if it's a celebration of movement and passion and 27 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:20.319 stories and insights and as far as being revealing, that's another thing that needs 28 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:24.759 to be age appropriate. And in the context of what's being done. The 29 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:30.199 expression of the physical form is wonderful. The body is beautiful. And that's 30 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.000 not to say that there isn't an importance in modesty. It's that there are 31 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:42.199 times where through art, the expression of both the male and female form is 32 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.599 important. So you can't make that ugly and perverted just because perverts make it 33 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:52.759 ugly and perverted, right, because part of the studio is it's just that's 34 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:57.080 part of dance, a particular dance that my daughter really loves his jazz, 35 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.599 and so it acquires movement as abotics to them, it's no different than moving 36 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:07.360 the legs than the arms examined. And so I've just had a dilemma without 37 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:09.879 a Christian say well, there are children, and you deherish them the ways 38 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.039 of the Lord, which is how I felt that. Then I've had other 39 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.759 people say it's just for the stage. Just tell her it's just for the 40 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:21.520 stage, and off stage, we don't dress like that and we don't act 41 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.360 like that. But yet at times the studio is modest, depending on the 42 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:30.039 songs they choose to dance to. Now, some of it can have lyrics 43 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.280 that are you know, you're so ugly Christian. Unfortunately we're right up against 44 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.639 the clock. But it sounds like you're working through it in the health. 45 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:44.280 Hello Jesus, h I had a question for you. Shoot, I have 46 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:53.680 if a person believes in the tea your teachings, and we'll try to live 47 00:03:53.719 --> 00:04:00.520 their life according to those teachings. But does not believe in the in the 48 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:08.560 resurrection. Would you consider that person to be a Christian? No, okay, 49 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.520 no, because you're not. Really, it's not even a completely honest 50 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.800 statement to say that you believe in my teachings because you believe in some of 51 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:24.319 them. Because John two nineteen I said, destroy this temple, and in 52 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:30.879 three days I will raise it up again. So you're kind of taking certain 53 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.519 things that you believe, and if anything, you'd probably categorize yourself, if 54 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:44.920 you must, into Deism. The Thomasonian Bible is considered as such a work 55 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.879 where it's taking just the messages of things like the everyday things that people tend 56 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.399 to like about what I said and putting them in a Bible, but taking 57 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:00.680 out all the miracles, so the resurrection being probably the king the miracle of 58 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:08.720 the miracles in scripture. It's it's a necessity to Christianity. Christian comes from 59 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.439 the word christ. Christ comes from the word Messiah. Messiah comes from the 60 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.800 word Meschia. So really that's dealing with the anointed one, and and so 61 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:23.040 it's followers of the anointed one in the context of Christianity. The power of 62 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:27.360 that and the way that it is verified deals with that resurrection. If you 63 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.480 remove the resurrection from the equation, you're just going, well, you know 64 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.240 what, there's you know, some really good writings out there of which Christ's 65 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:41.199 words were one and if that's the sense, if that you get, then 66 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.319 then that's what you believe. But that certainly wouldn't make you a Christian. 67 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:53.959 Okay, okay, thanks for thanks. It is was there is there some 68 00:05:54.199 --> 00:06:00.959 hang up about the resurrection? Uh? You know I could not well, 69 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:06.160 I I yes, I think there is. I think, without getting into 70 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.079 like a debate, I kind of view the You know, the Gospels were 71 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:17.120 written years after your death, and I know that most of our modern day 72 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:25.160 teachings deal with only a portion of the Gospels. So um, but most 73 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.000 history, you know that most history is written after the fact. And you're 74 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.600 looking at the Gospels within sixty to seventy years, which isn't too bad of 75 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:40.279 the actual actual occurrences for one, and still enough that you find the words 76 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.639 and read to be true as long as they are not dealing with my resurrection. 77 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.480 Why why do you find the other words so good? Well? I 78 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.720 guess I don't have enough a good answer. Okay, that's fair enough. 79 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:59.040 I'll no, that's fair enough. And I think that it's very brave of 80 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.000 you to call just the whole thought about the Christian and the well. I 81 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.639 like these words, but I don't like the others. Is you know, 82 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:09.759 the difference between a circle and a ball. Not every circle is a ball, 83 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.519 but every ball is a circle for the most part. So it's you 84 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.879 need more than just that two dimensional shape. And the words are part of 85 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:25.000 it. But those words only have value because of that death and resurrection. 86 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.120 See, if people die for things, you know, they die for beliefs, 87 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.759 false beliefs, all these kinds of things. But people don't die for 88 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.720 what they know to be false. They wouldn't. They would die for something 89 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.000 it's false if they believed it to be true. But they wouldn't die for 90 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.519 something that's false that they knew was false. And I did. And you 91 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.399 can't really call me a good person, a guru, a smart guy, 92 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.920 because I kept claiming to be God and then died for it, So that 93 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:54.279 would kind of negate. That's like saying Hitler's a really good dancer. It 94 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:59.199 really it's kind of just parsing the things that you want and leaving out the 95 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:03.240 other things, and that doesn't really benefit anyone. You're listening to kf I 96 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:09.480 am sixty on demand. Gary, Welcome to Jesus Christ shown. Thank you 97 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:16.240 Jesus. How you Gary? My question revolves basically for almost my entire adult 98 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.000 life. My mother was very religious, went to church, still does and 99 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:26.600 I've asked her several times. How does Darwinism an evolution play into a question 100 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:33.519 that I have? Is God made man in his likeness? What did man 101 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.080 look like back when God created man? Did he merely create them, create 102 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.639 us as we are today? Or have we evolved? Because I can't dispute 103 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.000 some scientific artifacts that are in the world that are tangible, Oh, go 104 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:54.799 ahead and dispute them. There are. The interpretation of those artifacts is what's 105 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.639 at hand, not the artifacts themselves. Correct. You can't. It's like 106 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.480 take somebody's experience away. You can't take their experience away because you weren't there 107 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.240 for it and you didn't experience it the way they did. But you can 108 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.120 interpret it based on other understandings. You know, if somebody tells me that 109 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.000 they were lying in bed and they had this experience where they were being held 110 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.120 down by a spirit or what have you. You can look back and scientifically 111 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:26.159 understand there's something called sleep paralysis that happens when somebody's in a state of lucidity 112 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.120 and they think that they're awake fully and they're not, and so their body 113 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.080 is not responding, but it's not somebody holding them down necessarily. So you 114 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.480 can look at those artifacts and say, yes, this is this is obviously 115 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.840 bones from X, Y, and Z, but it doesn't necessarily mean that 116 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:48.159 it evolved from something else. That's why they call the concept a missing link, 117 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:54.000 because they don't have those transitional fossils the way Darwin actually originally pothesized. 118 00:09:54.120 --> 00:10:00.399 So, having said that, I want to get to the core of your 119 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.960 question, which is about the image of God. When you deal with the 120 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.480 image of God, God is not a person in its original state, right 121 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:13.000 God any of those anthropomorphic terms. You know, God walking through the garden, 122 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.320 that's not God literally walking through the garden. Um That is so that 123 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:24.919 humans understand that God is moving through the garden in a way that they that 124 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.399 represents the way they think. So when you hear the term God made man 125 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.080 in his image or his likeness, it's not about physical, physical likeness, 126 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:39.120 the well the The group think on this would be that it is that man 127 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.399 has intellect, well, will and emotion, as God has intellect, will 128 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.399 and emotion. Um that God is a creator. Man desires to create. 129 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:52.240 That's why you have people that build things, and we want to desire. 130 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:54.440 You know. The devil wants to tear down. God wants to build up. 131 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.399 Another problem you get into when it comes to the evolutionary theory in Scripture, 132 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:11.240 because there is evolutionary theists or those that believe that God used evolution in 133 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.039 the process. The problem arises in Chapter one at the very beginning. In 134 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.120 Genesis, verse twenty one, it says, and God created the great sea 135 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.600 monster, speaking about those animals in the ocean, and every living creature that 136 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.679 moves with which waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged bird after 137 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.879 its kind. Go on to verse twenty four. Then God said, let 138 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.519 the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle and creepy things, 139 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.240 and beast of the earth after their kind. And truly that it talks about 140 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:48.039 after their own flesh. So it doesn't leave room. It leaves room for 141 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:54.480 adaptation different than evolution, the difference there being between the special theory of evolution 142 00:11:54.679 --> 00:12:00.679 that there was a great change in fixed kinds or the general of evolution, 143 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.080 which is amba to human. So as a Christian, there's no problem with 144 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.360 a special theory of evolution that there's great change possible in fixed kinds. But 145 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:13.519 keep in mind in Scripture there it says of their own kind, so not 146 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:18.120 breaking up the phylum to come from one place, but showing that it all 147 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:24.919 has the same creator, but different paths. You're listening to KF I am 148 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:31.840 sixty on demand. Lauren, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you 149 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.240 for taking my call. Jesus my pleasure. What's going on? I have 150 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.960 a silly question, at least I shall was kind of silly. I have 151 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.639 two children. I love him very much. One child is ten years old. 152 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.720 He goes to a Christian school. Another child is four, and we're 153 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.960 looking to enter her into school next year when she turns five. The problem 154 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.879 is my son's school in from the sixth grade, and there's a Catholic school 155 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.039 a block and a half away from where my husband and I work, and 156 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.799 I just wanted to know if that was a good choice, because I'm not 157 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.919 very familiar with Catholicism. And I just wanted to make sure it was still 158 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.679 Christian hearted. Well, there's there's a lot of debate that goes on between 159 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:22.320 Protestants and Catholics. They are both Christian. A lot of people referred Catholic 160 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:28.600 just means universal, so it's the stamp of saying we were the universal Church, 161 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:35.360 saying that they essentially that Protestants branched off of Catholicism, which isn't true. 162 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:41.399 What's true is that there was a split in the general Church and one 163 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.600 kept that moniker of Catholicism, the other took Protestant, which, slow it 164 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.360 down, just means Protestant. It's just someone who protested the church at the 165 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:56.559 time and broke off into a faction. So Christians fall into those two groups. 166 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:01.000 Now, Catholicism does have some distinct differences when it comes to traditions and 167 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:09.240 the way they revere Mary a little differently in the application the papal system and 168 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:16.440 the pope and those things. Uh, some will criticize the way they look 169 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:22.320 at the saints and their their appreciation for the saints. So there are differences 170 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.759 as far as the church is involved. Dealing with the church. Systems are 171 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.320 very different. In a lot of ways, depending on you know which group 172 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.679 of Protestants you land and if you're a Lutheran, it may not be as 173 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:43.360 different to some. If your Methodist may not be as different or Episcopalian, 174 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.840 these types of churches may not find it as much of a shock. The 175 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.320 main message is going to be the same, and really school is going to 176 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.039 be about schooling. Most of the time there is religion classes and in that 177 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.720 point there might be some confusion with your children versus what you teach them. 178 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.519 That would be my only concern is that mommy and daddy are teaching them one 179 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.080 thing and then they're going into the school that mommy and dad sent them, 180 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.919 and it's going to be different. But but I will tell you, Lauren, 181 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.080 that a lot of Jewish folks do the same thing. Put their children 182 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.320 school, sure, and it's because it's the quality of the education. And 183 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.200 so you've got you have to weigh all those things. But are they going 184 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.799 to be taught something you know, horrible or heinous? No, But it's 185 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.720 got to be based on your understanding that it's going to be different than what 186 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:41.759 you're teaching them as a Protestant. Joe, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show. 187 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.120 Hi, Jesus, how are you good, Joe? What do you know? 188 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:52.559 Well, I'm trying to find where it says or in the Bible about 189 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.519 the prehistoric man Hannah fits into before Adam and Eve or after Adam and Eve. 190 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.000 I just can't find out where it says anything about that. Yeah, 191 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:06.559 that's a that's a tough one, and that's one that that theologians and Christian 192 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:11.679 sociologists and the like struggle with at times. Let's look at a few of 193 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:18.440 the necessities of understanding for this particular topic. And that is, first, 194 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.120 if if you could imagine that that people tend to refer to cavemen, but 195 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.600 prehistoric man doesn't make sense. If it's prehistory, then you don't know. 196 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.720 And really it's forensics that you're using to kind of look backwards. Um. 197 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.720 The Bible is about history. It has a beginning, as a middle end, 198 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:38.000 it has an end. So you wouldn't find pre history in a book 199 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.600 of history. Doesn't make sense. So um, but is there a place 200 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:49.200 for it? Absolutely. It's been attributed to Albert Einstein the quote that I 201 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.519 don't know how World War three will be fought, but I know that World 202 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:59.399 War four will be fought with sticks and stones, implying that World War three 203 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.840 would be so devastating that it would knock man back to having to use simple 204 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.759 tools again. So imagine it this way. Essentially, what is attributed to 205 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:15.759 Einstein saying is that there is catastrophic possibilities in life that would knock man not 206 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:23.160 back to prehistoric levels, but to simple tools and simple means. So you 207 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:30.319 have to come from an already believed presupposition to think that cavemen were Neanderthals. 208 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.279 That is something that's been kind of put into the psyche but is not ever 209 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:45.000 truly explained or scientifically proven. You've got what are believed to be transitional fossils, 210 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.240 but you have to look at them as transitional fossils to get that. 211 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.240 Otherwise you can look at them and say, no, that's an ape, 212 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.480 and then you could see when they're a man, say no, that's definitely 213 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.400 a man. And so if you go in with a preconceived notion that there 214 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.039 were cavemen that were prehistoric, then you get at that outcome when you look 215 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.279 at the fossil record, if you look at it as distinct parts of particular 216 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:07.759 phylum, this is part of this group, and this is part of this 217 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.759 group, then you'll see that there are different types of ape and there were 218 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:15.759 different there were man. But if man, there's a difference between a prehistoric 219 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:22.359 caveman and someone who lived in a cave, not because of you know, 220 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:30.720 they were a primitive, but because they were without means or they were destitute. 221 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:37.599 So I don't think that that that quote by Albert Einstein was speaking about 222 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.519 that man would become primitive again in thinking or understanding, it would be that 223 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.720 all the things, all the technology, would be destroyed and they have to 224 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.839 start over. Don't you think it's fair to come to that conclusion based on 225 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:55.599 that statement. It's not like, yeah, it's not like the world was 226 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.759 going to start over again as humans. It's that they would start over again 227 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:04.160 with technology because it would have been destroyed. So there are catastrophic things that 228 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:10.480 took place in scripture. Many scientists would even back up that they that there 229 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.079 is not universal belief, but a great understanding in the scientific community that there 230 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:19.200 was a worldwide deluge, that the water, that the Earth was underwater at 231 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.759 one point, so and the scriptures back that up as well. So there's 232 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:30.960 also a possibility that this is the catastrophic instance that would have made the need 233 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.079 for people to live in caves and go back to that kind of what is 234 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:42.920 considered primitive living. Bill, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, 235 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:48.039 Jesus. I became a Christian in June of two thousand and eight. 236 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.319 Married. It's great. I've been married for twelve years. My wife and 237 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:56.799 I have been completely faithful to each other. Good. But I'm troubled as 238 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.319 I read scripture, and I certainly haven't read nearly as much as I need 239 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:06.000 to read. Troubled because I think of relations with other women and fantasize other 240 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:11.160 women almost on a daily basis. I ask for repentance for that, and 241 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.119 I pray on a daily basis, several times a day. But I'm really 242 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:19.960 bothered about the contradiction of the feelings I have. And certainly God gave us 243 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:25.599 this wonderful gift of sexual relations, So why why don't I have an under 244 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.519 control? Well, you know, Paul said it best when he said the 245 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:33.000 spirit is willing and the flesh is weak. You're going to be battling that. 246 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:37.039 You're going to consistently be battling with that. And that's why I explain 247 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.319 in scripture that it's not just about adultery. It's even thinking about it that's 248 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.680 committing the sin, because God is reading your heart and your head, not 249 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.039 just your actions. But having said that, it's better to have thought about 250 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:53.119 it and not done it. And it's about girting those thoughts. You're going 251 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.519 to have bad thoughts, you're going to have lustful thoughts. To keep them 252 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:00.799 in control and not act upon them. It's key. That's imperative also to 253 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:11.920 ask yourself beyond normalcy because people fantasy is always always brighter. M Paul Simon 254 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:17.440 in his song Quota Chrome says that reality is always in black and white, 255 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.559 that in a fantasy, it's just so vibrant, and you make up, 256 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.480 you make up the rules. You know, there's it's dream. There are 257 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:29.160 no rough edges. No one lands and dies in a dream, truly, 258 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:33.640 they always can wake from it. So in the fantasy, it's everything you 259 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.039 want and nothing you don't want, and all of those things, and of 260 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:42.319 course it's going to be attractive. Um it's when you've got to keep yourself 261 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:48.160 away from the arena of fantasizing too much. Don't connect too much with the 262 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:52.319 opposite sex, don't put yourself in a position where you connect with them because 263 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.599 that grows fantasies, and then fantasies can sometimes grow into actualities and that becomes 264 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:02.519 a problem. But is there's something that you feel that your marriage is lacking, 265 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:07.279 or you're embarrassed to ask sexually or with the intimacy you have with your 266 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.880 wife. There are problems in that area, and we've we've had counseling. 267 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.839 A fact, we're going to begin counseling with our church in a couple of 268 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.920 weeks. Excellent, Well, there have been issues with that. But I 269 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:26.359 think even in past relationships, and this is my first and only marriage, 270 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.920 hopefully, I had the same thoughts and I was bothered about them then because 271 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:36.640 there's anything wrong with the physical aspect of the relationship. But I well, 272 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.480 don't let the devil creep in and start, you know, beating you over 273 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.079 the head to the point where you're losing focus on the beauty of the relationship 274 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.920 you have. And because the devil'll sit there and whispering, you're in your 275 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.480 all day. You're disgusting, you're horrible, you don't even deserve her, 276 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.759 and that makes it worse. Hold on one second, as we take a 277 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.559 moment here, I want to talk to you so don't go anywhere. Bill, 278 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:04.599 you're listening to KFI on demand. We've been talking with Bill, um 279 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:11.400 that you're you're going through, uh through issues dealing with There's some would argue 280 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:17.400 normalcy, uh, fantasies and the like. Um, but you're wrestling with 281 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.880 where are they a sin? At what point they become a sin? And 282 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.799 how come you have them? Is that really the the issue of why are 283 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:27.400 they here? And you know, what do I do with them? Um? 284 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:33.119 Do you? Uh? Do you look at pornography at all? Occasionally 285 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.200 but not with any regularity. Sign in the barbershop and I may read a 286 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:41.880 Playboy or something like that, but typically not. Okay, keep in mind 287 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:48.680 that that that's that can be a fuel for the fire. And uh, 288 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:51.839 I realized that a lot of people find uh, you know, Playboy to 289 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:56.880 be quite tame uh and the sexuality part, and of course all men read 290 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:00.880 it for the articles, right so uh, but really that those are are 291 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:10.160 those plant seeds of fantasy because that's not real and you've got a lot of 292 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:15.680 digital airbrushing going on and placement and lighting and everything, and so that sets 293 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:22.200 standards to a place that's not realistic as well. If there's something going on 294 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.519 in your life with your wife sexually in a sense that and this happens with 295 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:32.160 guys a lot. Guys are beat up over and over again and told that 296 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.359 they're perverts and that they only think about one thing and they only want one 297 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:40.880 thing, and all of this to the point where even when a man is 298 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:45.680 in a wonderful relationship and is in love and wants to experience, you know, 299 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:51.319 his woman that way, that sometimes you'll hold back, or you won't 300 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:57.799 request things, or you won't explore or ask or articulate, you know why 301 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:03.559 a certain part of her body you respond to a certain waye Oh, I 302 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.680 really like this, or the way you look, or the lighting. I 303 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:08.440 know that you don't always feel comfortable, but when the lights are on, 304 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.480 I get to see you or whatever it is. And men feel so dirty 305 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:17.640 that a lot of times they have a hard time expressing these things, so 306 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:21.680 they start to do it in quiet. And that means sometimes with pornography, 307 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:26.000 and that means sometimes with just your thoughts. But all in all that your 308 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.160 thoughts are really just a way of you know, having to, you know, 309 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.920 to look at pornography that's not on the page or on a video screen. 310 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:38.680 It's just a way for you to fantasize and have an outlet that way. 311 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:42.440 And I'd like to funnel that back to the healthy part, which is 312 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:48.200 passion. The devil has an unhealthy part to every healthy part that God has. 313 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:55.759 So rage is unhealthy, anger is healthy, Passion is healthy. Lust 314 00:25:55.920 --> 00:26:03.319 is unhealthy. So finding the balance and unders standing your passion and applying that 315 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:07.920 to your to your wife and understanding her passion and what makes her feel good 316 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:12.720 or what makes her feel sexy or beautiful or lovely and um, you know, 317 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:18.079 feels womanly and wanting to be in that scenario with you is important. 318 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:22.319 But it starts with honesty. Bill. If you don't, if you don't 319 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.640 come from that place of honesty and explaining this is how I feel. And 320 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:32.079 trust. Sometimes when you get into a relationship is when you you know, 321 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:33.960 you lose that trust because you're going, oh, you know, they're going 322 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.319 to think this about me or think that about me. And I want you 323 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:45.559 to explore and God's will on the on the Counseling Julia, Welcome to the 324 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:55.079 Jesus Christ Show. Yes, hi, Hi, I'm concerned religislation and it's 325 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:00.400 worldwide and supported by the listeners and no no ads or anything like that. 326 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:07.640 And um. One of the main speakers on this program has been as saying 327 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:15.559 and preaching very hard about the end of UH the earth and UH and its 328 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:22.359 fiery demise and uh oh boy, mark your calendars. Oh thank you. 329 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.440 Well that that doesn't drive with scripture. Just so you know, Scripture is 330 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.759 very clear that no man shall know the day nor the hour. Yes, 331 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.440 people call in and tell him that very often. But he's got he's got 332 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:40.799 all of his mathematics worked out. Were I don't care about his mathematics. 333 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.599 I care about scripture. He can he can do. The beauty of mathematics 334 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.839 is that it depending on you know, where you go with them. You 335 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:53.000 can make a lot of things, uh look like they're going to equate, 336 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:57.640 but it depends on what they're using as uh, you know, a jumping 337 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.079 point to calculate. So if they're saying, well, this is because this 338 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.200 many characters are in scripture, and if you multiply them by this and that, 339 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:11.599 or if you look at these particular Julian calendars versus the Gregorian calendars. 340 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.480 US people get into all that and plus numerology on top of it, and 341 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:22.880 it's garbage. Oh thank you it's garbage. So I sure, all right, 342 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:30.000 Julia. That's something that's gone on since I left two thousand years ago. 343 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:34.319 Since I left two thousand years ago, people have proclaimed that the end 344 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:40.000 was nine and that it was going to happen sooner than later. I will 345 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.160 tell you, you're closer to the end than ever before, closer to the 346 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:47.519 end right now. You're even closer to the end right now, even another 347 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.319 minute, closer to the end right now. But this whole kind of waiting 348 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:57.519 end. And be prepared, how about that? Be prepared for my return. 349 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.640 Continue to work every day to purify yourself, to get to know me 350 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.920 better, to be in the word of God, to be with God's people, 351 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.079 to make your mark on earth, all of these things, and don't 352 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.960 worry about that. You know that the formal study of the end times and 353 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.440 those types of things is called eschatology. It essentially means the study of last 354 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:27.440 things. And I and my producer Neil often jokes that's why he studies it 355 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:33.720 last, because people get the cart before the horse, and they start worrying 356 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.680 about these things and lose focus on the things of God and the here and 357 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:42.200 now. And there's countless times in scripture where somebody was not in the moment, 358 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.200 and I'm saying no, be in the moment with me now, and 359 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:51.079 don't get lost in that other stuff. And remember, as all the nuttiness 360 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:53.160 surrounds you this week, as it always does, push it out of your 361 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:59.599 mind, and remember these words, I am with you always, k IF. 362 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:07.240 I am six forty on demand m