WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:08.960 You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand talking about controlling. It seemed 2 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:13.720 to be a little bit of a theme today, and I realize that it's 3 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:18.600 part of human nature to want to control and not have things get out of 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.359 control or get away from you in any way, shape or form. But 5 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:27.399 I want you to look at the model of God and the allowance of God 6 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:34.159 allowing humanity to have free will and to make decisions. And producer Neil often 7 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:39.719 jokes that God saw fit to give humanity free will, and the Church sees 8 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:45.640 fit to try and take it away. So there's a lot that church becomes 9 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.640 a point of control as well. We talked a little bit about controlling as 10 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:56.280 a parent, but the church ultimately is part of the parentship of humanity as 11 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:02.600 well, trying to guide and to point out and to equip and all these 12 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:07.280 things. But it can be misused as well, and I think that there 13 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:14.439 when you try and control too much, it is the equivalent of trying to 14 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:19.319 be God. We've talked about judgment in many ways, and the word God 15 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:25.120 actually means judge, so that concept, that term of the ultimate judge, 16 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.879 the ruler that looks over things, And I think that being in the state 17 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:34.920 of wanting to control things is being a mini God. You're trying to make 18 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:40.760 sure that everything conforms to something that to your comfort level. And the church 19 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.480 does that as well, and it's really not the place of the church. 20 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:49.959 The church's goal is to share the gospel to make sure everybody's heard it. 21 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.319 What that person does with the gospel is up to them, it's not the 22 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:59.040 churches. There's so many horror stories that I've heard over the years of people 23 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.920 forcing or tricking someone into saying the Sinner's prayer or something like that, and 24 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.199 there's not even the Sinner's prayer in scripture anywhere. But it makes somebody feel 25 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:13.360 better if they feel like they've tricked somebody into the kingdom, I suppose. 26 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:20.560 And that's just not how it's done. The purpose of the Gospel of scripture 27 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.719 and sharing these things and so that individuals can hear them and make the best 28 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:31.639 decision about their life or make uh use the best information to make the best 29 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.319 decision in their life, but they have the right not to. Does that 30 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:38.840 affect you, Yeah, sure it can affect you. There are people that 31 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.639 make bad decisions every day that affect people. There are people that drive drunk. 32 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.000 The question to people that are completely obeying the rules of the road and 33 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:58.360 are driving sober. People doing bad things will affect you. But the Gospel, 34 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.919 in Scripture and Christianity, it's not about getting everybody to do good things 35 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.719 so that your life is better. So it's just easier so that you don't 36 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.080 have to roll your eyes. I know that everybody Republican feels like, wow, 37 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.360 if everybody was a Republican, it would just make things easier. And 38 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:21.879 every liberal feels like if everybody was a Democrat, it would just make things 39 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.879 easier. It would just life would be better. And that's not the truth. 40 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.879 Now, you could argue if everybody was a Christian and adhere to the 41 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:37.759 laws of Christianity, the world would be better. It's obviously the show is 42 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.520 titled that Jesus Christ Show. Of course that's going to be our bent or 43 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:51.120 bias. But to look at God's example. God's example was to there is 44 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.599 punishment, and there is consequence, and there is these things, but there's 45 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.199 also that freedom. It wasn't about taking away the freedom. It was out 46 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:06.719 showing why that freedom should be used wisely. But the Church in its current 47 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:14.439 state is about using scripture to conform the masses to do what they want to 48 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.839 do, and that doesn't help anybody. As a matter of fact, that's 49 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:26.199 where perversion grows. Perversion grows from when you repress things, or when you 50 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.240 try and keep natural things down, then people find unnatural ways to do them. 51 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:39.879 There's horrible stories of people trying to control their children or trying to keep 52 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.279 them on a particular path, and the children outright rebelling, sometimes even killing 53 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:53.519 and taking the life of their own parents. It sounds unfathomable, I realize, 54 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.480 but it takes place. Now. I'm not saying that if you're controlling 55 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.240 or if you want good things for your child, it means they're going to 56 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.720 harm you in some way, or they're going to rebel to the point of 57 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.519 something vulgar like that. That's not my point. The point is it's human 58 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:15.319 nature to want to explore and move forward on their own freely. That's just 59 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:21.199 what humans will do. That's why I hear different political discussions about things like, 60 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:29.040 you know, undocumented workers and how well we need them for the economy 61 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:33.839 because they'll do menial jobs for small amounts of money, which is just the 62 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:41.560 most horribly racist comment. Because any human, no matter where they come from, 63 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.399 are going to want to progress. They're going to want to learn and 64 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:50.759 grow and become the best they can be. Nobody stays in any menial state. 65 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:54.759 They don't want to A child doesn't want to do it, an adult 66 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:59.920 doesn't want to do it, and people of faith don't want to do it. 67 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.360 People of faith want to grow and be curious and explore and learn and 68 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:12.519 know things and being able to touch them and ask questions and be curious, 69 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.800 not locked in some box with a cross on it that says this is where 70 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:21.439 this is where you stay. And I could hear the tone, the tenor 71 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:27.279 in people's voices under the guise of Christianity that don't want any change, that 72 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.240 don't want things to happen, and all hell is breaking loose, and God 73 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:31.839 has fallen off his throne. You can't let this happen. And these people 74 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.720 shouldn't be here, and this shouldn't happen, and these people shouldn't be allowed 75 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.800 to do this, and these people shouldn't be allowed to do that. And 76 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:44.920 I hear that, and I know that it doesn't come from God, and 77 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:51.800 it doesn't come from places stability and trust and true hope. It's the people 78 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.360 that want to control others the most, that I think have the weakest faith, 79 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:03.560 that love God the life least, that trust God the least, because 80 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:09.759 they are sitting there just like Judas and saying, if you're not going to 81 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.120 do it the way that I want you to do it, I'm going to 82 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.680 do it myself. God. If you're not going to come down and you're 83 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.839 not going to smite every single person and turn them into stone, turn them 84 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:25.240 into a pillar of assault, make it rain for forty days. If You're 85 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.279 not going to do these things, then I'm going to do it for you. 86 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.199 And a lot of people don't understand a lot of Christians don't even understand 87 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:43.759 the relationship and where it went south with Judas and me, and really where 88 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:53.040 it went south is Judith. Judas rather had expectations of me coming and being 89 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:58.120 a warrior and destroying the political parties and the things that he didn't like, 90 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:07.759 and I didn't. He betrayed me. And I think that that's happening in 91 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.399 the church today. I think the church is looking around and going God's not 92 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.920 doing enough. God is not making these people go away. God is not 93 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.000 damning them on this earth, and it's making me uncomfortable, and I'm going 94 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.519 to go out. I'm going to do it myself. I'm going to force 95 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.680 people to be Christians by way of laws. I'm going to force them to 96 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.040 do the things that it talks about in scripture, because that way it will 97 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:37.000 be done. And God's not in that at all. And in that you 98 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:43.559 become Judas and you lean in and you kiss me, and you say, 99 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:54.840 not thy will be done God, but My will be done. Michael. 100 00:08:54.919 --> 00:09:01.320 Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show, are you Michael? All right? Good 101 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:07.600 morning. Well I kind of have a question about the Old Testament teaches about 102 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:13.519 Methuselah and many of his contemporaries and people of that time living to extraordinarily long 103 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.919 times. I think Mathusa lived over nine hundred years, the steady progression of 104 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.960 the lifespan all the way down to I believe it was you that said in 105 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.919 the New Testament, but someone did that the life span of a man had 106 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.639 been allotted to one hundred and twenty years. Incredible come down from the time 107 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.440 of Methuselah. But we don't get one hundred and twenty years in our last 108 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.480 four or five years. Ten years are not very comfortable. We are in 109 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:45.159 incredible pain where incredible grief. It affects those around us, it affects our 110 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:52.480 lives. Why is this how we end up from I mean Mathusla must not 111 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.399 have had his first you know, high blood pressure till he was seven or 112 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.519 one hundred years of age. He must have been living the life of a 113 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.759 thirty year old when he was five hundred. Why are we in the position 114 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.480 that we're in now? And as the Bible said, why don't we get 115 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.480 our one hundred and twenty years? It's kind of bizarre to think about too, 116 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.840 I mean, just living that long. And when you think about all 117 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.639 the things you experience in the years that you're here, whether they be seventy 118 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.480 or ninety or one hundred more and more, I think you've noticed that people 119 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.879 are hitting that one hundred markt used to be a much more of a special 120 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.679 thing, and you'd hear about it, but now you're hearing people that are 121 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.679 living to one hundred and four, one hundred and five and things like that. 122 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.919 It's actually right now, strangely going in the other direction, and people 123 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:41.759 are getting older, and that's an attribute to science and modern medicine quite honestly, 124 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.279 and knowing more about what they eat and those types of things. However, 125 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.000 the theological question is a tough one. There are many different views on 126 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.320 what it is. Some will go to the language and say, well, 127 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.120 maybe it didn't mean nine hundred years, but there's not a whole lot of 128 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.840 room for that kind of interpretation. Others will look at things that have changed. 129 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.200 So is what changed in the Old Testament? And it happens rather rapidly. 130 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.840 It's not like it goes from nine hundred or there's different people that lived 131 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.279 hundreds of years, not necessarily all nine hundred, but that goes from Genesis, 132 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:26.919 and then quickly it changes quickly, it changes to people living much less. 133 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.440 So there are those that talk about certain things that have changed. When 134 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.639 you look at something like that, what would be the drastic change. Genesis 135 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:39.000 one, six and seven talks about the water above the expanse, and there 136 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.720 are those that believe that that water broke during the flood, and that that 137 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:48.320 water was something a canopy of sorts that protected the planet and gave perfect everything. 138 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.919 So the temperature was right, the radiation levels were different. You didn't 139 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:00.519 get the radiation because you were protected by this canopy, and that those things 140 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:07.559 changed that so when that was broken for the flood, then that went away 141 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.879 and there is no longer that protection. In addition to that, there's other 142 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.279 factors as well that tie in, one of which, if Adam and Eve 143 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.720 were created perfect, as scripture says, then you have perfection bringing forth perfection 144 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:28.320 and less genetic anomalies or problems or mutations, and that as the lineage gets 145 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.919 further down the line, you bring in sin, you bring in pollution, 146 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.440 you bring in all these other factors. Then that goes back down, down, 147 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:43.519 down. Adam, Welcome to the Jesus Christ show. I do this. 148 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.399 Thank you for taking my call. Please have a question as to whether 149 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:52.919 or not it was okay to translate the Bible into modern vernacular and slang. 150 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.480 Yes and no in the sense is it a sin. No, absolutely not. 151 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:03.039 Can it be misleading sometimes yes, because slang tends to change, even 152 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:09.519 modern lingo tends to change. So in the in the hands of somebody who 153 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.840 understands slang and modern lingo and the vernacular of the day, then it's not 154 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.639 going to be a problem. In the hands of someone else, it might 155 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:22.320 be confusing. So it's one of those things that I think that can be 156 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.720 helpful when reading just you know, doing plain reading. You know, maybe 157 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.440 for younger folks that enjoy I want to just sit down and read scripture and 158 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.000 the other translations are a little daunting. However, when you get into word 159 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:39.759 studies and actually doing you know, heavy studies in scripture, it can be 160 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:45.559 quite difficult to kind of mine meaning out of you know, these kind of 161 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.919 more hip or versions of scripture. But there it's not a sin or it's 162 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.200 not a you know, there's many different versions of scripture that are in kind 163 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.679 of casual language. Sometimes it softens the meaning a little bit, but it 164 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.120 never should remove the meaning. If it was so lacks that it removed the 165 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.000 meaning, and then yes, there'd be a problem, all right, because 166 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.639 you know, back in ancient times when they were choosing what to go into 167 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.200 the was going to go into the Bible, and they were to changing words 168 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.639 around, you know, they were changing the words of the prophets and what 169 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:22.639 God told them to write. And I'm doing that now. It seem to 170 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.320 be the same. How So you've seen it's very anecdotal what you're saying, 171 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.480 but it's a pretty heavy claim. Are you saying about the councils? The 172 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.559 different councils that took place, or are you having some sort of secret knowledge 173 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:43.360 as to people messing with scripture in its original form. No, no secret 174 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:50.480 knowledge, just like the councils it choosing what scripture was going to go into 175 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.720 the Bible and what words because they changed they did change the wording. No, 176 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.240 there was no changing of wordings. I know that. That's that's one 177 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.600 of those popular thought that kind of gets perpetuated with no evidence. People say, 178 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:07.320 well, you have twenty five thousand parts and whole manuscripts of the New 179 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.600 Testament alone, twenty five thousand more than any other work of antiquity. It 180 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:20.159 is very easy to see what was stated and what was meant in context without 181 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.399 any changing. They still exist. So it's not a matter of going, 182 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.399 well, the Council of Trent council and I see a Council of Chalcedon said 183 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.519 this, that or the other. Nothing is going to take away from the 184 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.200 fact that these manuscripts still exist, not to mention that you could destroy all 185 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:41.799 of the manuscripts for the New Testament and recreate it by speeches and teachings of 186 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:48.679 the early Church fathers. So it's not really it's one of those things that 187 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:54.759 people say and I've even heard teachers make that claim, but without any substance 188 00:15:54.840 --> 00:16:02.879 behind it. There wasn't words changed, there wasn't context change. There are 189 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:07.240 things that are have asterisks in front of them because they're not in all of 190 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:14.559 the manuscripts. There are books that were left out because they weren't consistent in 191 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.240 one way or another bibliographically, meaning that the authorship didn't seem to be who 192 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.600 it said it was, that the writing style didn't seem to suit the period, 193 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:29.480 that the statements were somehow contradictory to the rest of scripture. But as 194 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.440 far as you know, things like you know, people have said that reincarnation 195 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.879 was taught in the Bible and it was taken out. That's garbage. People 196 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:40.080 have said that there's been you know, things like this that were taught and 197 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.799 somehow the early Church cut them out, which really, if you're a church 198 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:48.840 father, a sinner, a human being, you're gonna you're gonna take reincarnation 199 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.559 out and leave things that say you can't have premarital sex, you can't eat 200 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:57.240 what you want when you want, necessarily in that context. Really, the 201 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:02.399 things that were oppressive in scripture are the things that are still in there by 202 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.240 human standards. Humans want to do what they want when they want. They're 203 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.119 not going to worry about theological things like reincarnation. They're going to worry about, 204 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.920 Hey, how come I can't have ten wives? You know, how 205 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:15.839 come I can't have a slave? Or how come I can't have this or 206 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:21.200 do that. That's what they're going to think about, not trying to theologically, 207 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.960 you know, tighten up some sort of belief system around the trinity or 208 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.039 something. That's just not how people think they want to preserve their right to 209 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:36.440 do wrong. And so when you look at scripture and you actually go through 210 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:41.559 Hermoneutics in the study of the harmony of Scripture and how all these books come 211 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.519 together, You've got sixty plus books written over a span of fourteen hundred years 212 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:52.240 by forty some odd authors on three different continents, in three different languages, 213 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.759 in times of peace and times of war, by peasants and kings alike, 214 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.799 and it all points to the same truth that's pretty powerful due to you know, 215 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.240 polishing, because people say, oh, well, you know, you're 216 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:08.519 talking about thousands of years people could have been polishing this up and refining it. 217 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:14.599 And the old concept of telephone playing the game telephone and if someone tells 218 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:15.519 it to someone else and then by the time it gets to the end of 219 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.680 the line, it's completely different. It doesn't really work because you can go 220 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.759 back to the original manuscripts. You can go back to writings that were within 221 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:29.079 sixty years of my death and life. And you know, you're saying that 222 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:36.480 to be sixty years removed, that if you removed all videotape options and recordings, 223 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.559 that you couldn't tell me who Martin Luther King was because it was sixty 224 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:47.920 years ago. These are pretty These are pretty authentic and verifiable works of history, 225 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.920 and they often get poo pooed because to be accountable to them is to 226 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.480 live a life. You know that is not always comfortable for people. But 227 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:03.440 you're talking about a work that is unlike any other work of antiquity, you 228 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.839 know, Caesar's Gaelic Wars. I think there's only ten copies in history of 229 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:14.079 the manuscript left currently, So you compare that against ten or twenty five thousand 230 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:18.920 hole in parts of the New Testament, it kind of kind of looks a 231 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.960 little weak done it. Yeah, So as far as the two questions kind 232 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:27.200 of pair out, one slang is not a bad thing. There is slang 233 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:32.000 used in scripture. There was modern slang used in scripture. I mean when 234 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:37.880 it says Stephen got stoned in scripture. Now you read that today and you'll 235 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:45.799 get kids going Stephen got stoned or you know, because it doesn't necessarily translate 236 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.599 into what they were thinking. Or there's some that say there will be no 237 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:53.039 bull in my house, and modern day thought of what that would mean could 238 00:19:53.079 --> 00:20:00.079 be vulgar. But in that context they're actually talking about a bull, you 239 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.079 know, or an ass or these types of things. So there is a 240 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.880 slang used in scripture. Paul uses slang or vernacular that was understood by the 241 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:14.160 people of his day as well. It's just as far as translations go, 242 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:18.960 the meaning can't be mutated, perverted, polluted, or modified in any way. 243 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.240 That's going to be the truth of the matter. So if you want 244 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:30.200 to encourage you know, young people or you know folks that want to read 245 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:37.240 scripture in a certain way and this motivates them, fine, I don't. 246 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.880 I'm not pleased with the neutering of Bible. People try and neuter the Bible 247 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.960 and make it kishi or they and make it kind of encompass everyone. When 248 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.000 that's not the way it was written, and you shouldn't see it as a 249 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:53.200 slight against men or women, because men and women have their place in scripture, 250 00:20:53.839 --> 00:21:00.640 both of great importance, both equal completely and utterly. But people trying 251 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:04.599 try and find some offense in scripture or trying to modify it and do the 252 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:11.160 very thing that they accused the forefathers of doing when the forefathers didn't do it. 253 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:17.279 There are things throughout the Church where the Church had not modified scripture per 254 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:22.400 se, but adopted certain beliefs or certain things that weren't in scripture that became 255 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:30.200 traditional and could be seen as problematic because of the traditions. But all in 256 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:36.400 all, scripture has remained as it is, even I quote the Old Testament 257 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:42.240 was referred to as the Old Testament in the New Testament, and those types 258 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:47.440 of things. So you can even find in scripture it quoting itself before anything 259 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:52.920 was ever canonized or or there was any counsels or anything like that. So 260 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:57.319 these things help point to the veracity of scripture and the importance of it being 261 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:03.640 as is. Translations notwithstanding, but making sure that the context is never left 262 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:14.759 out or somehow skewed. David, Welcome to the Jesus Christio close, sir, 263 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.279 pleasure speaking, will do? It's my pleasure? How many I help 264 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:25.160 you? I wanted to ask what recommendations for guidance you have for compulsive behaviors 265 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:32.599 and addictions. What kind of addictions are you talking about? True in particular 266 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:41.759 being gambling and love addictions. Okay, so sex, pornography, yes, 267 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:48.519 and also going from one relationship to another hoping to find true love when in 268 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:57.279 fact that is that does never happen. Okay, Well, they probably stem 269 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:02.319 from the same place. You're searching for something, a high, a feeling, 270 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:07.200 an emotional response to the change or excitement or thrill of something, or 271 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.400 what have you, and you continue to up the game. It's hard to 272 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.279 up the game in real life, but through pornography or jumping from one person 273 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.480 to the next, you can try and at least feel like you're upping the 274 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:23.599 game a little bit and changing the thrill, when in reality everything finds its 275 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:30.440 normalcy, and that you'll continue to thirst and try and find these things when 276 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.519 they will never be satiated. So you have to look as to why you 277 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:40.759 do this, and I think that's the first and foremost thing. So let's 278 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:47.319 start there. Why do you think you're so compulsive about these things. Well, 279 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.200 as far as you love, because I want to, I think it's 280 00:23:52.319 --> 00:24:00.079 the person to marry a woman who I would truly love, or so I 281 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.079 think, or so I perceive, and it's not really or maybe it's otherwise, 282 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:11.279 something something underneath that I don't I'm not aware of. And then the 283 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.799 as far as the gambling goes, I think, consciously I would I'm only 284 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:23.960 trying to win too, to get to get money with wish to shay other 285 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:33.319 expenses. But subliminally I'm guessing it's more just like every other addiction, trying 286 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.880 to get a fixed or a high, momentary high. Yeah, you're trying. 287 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.240 You're trying to get that win. You're trying to get to that place 288 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:44.720 and stand there in that. Even love you, you see, is gambling. 289 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:48.480 You're just gonna randomly find someone and it's gonna work. Do you like 290 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:55.640 yourself, David, not really, so it will be difficult for someone else 291 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:59.400 to and dare I say, it be very difficult for them to love you 292 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:06.000 if you don't. So there's a it's interesting scripture talks about loving your enemy 293 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:10.440 as you love yourself, and people kind of you know, look over that 294 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:12.680 and don't understand that you have to love yourself and know yourself, not be 295 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:18.680 egotistical, not be narcissistic, but you have to you have to love yourself 296 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:21.640 before you can love others. There's a lot of things going on here, 297 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:25.079 more than we can we can tackle. But I would tell you the basic 298 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.519 steps are to reverse the ones that you've taken to get there. So you 299 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:30.759 have to just like you, you know, how do you get home from 300 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.440 wherever you are? You go back the way you came or in a similar 301 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.440 direction. You need to reverse those steps and it's going to come through therapy 302 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.119 and really being accountable. You have to be accountable to somebody, not just 303 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.640 yourself, because you're not trustworthy in that sense for your own judgment. You're 304 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.720 looking for the payoff of things, and that's not what life is. Life 305 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:53.000 is absolutely as corny as it sounds, the journey. It's not where you 306 00:25:53.160 --> 00:26:00.039 arrive, because the final you know, destination is death, So it's not 307 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.839 about the arrival. It is truly about the journey. And then for those 308 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:08.319 of faith, of course, the final place is to be with the maker. 309 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:12.519 But in your case, David, I would say that all these things 310 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:18.119 stem from that desire to just have that win rather than the process of the 311 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:25.359 win when you earn money. And yes there are professional gamblers, different thing, 312 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.240 and there are people that just love the gaming and that's different. But 313 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:32.119 when you are looking for the win to make a difference in your life, 314 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.200 like you said, to pay off debts or do, it's a bad place 315 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.759 to be and now you end up going down and it becomes a perversion. 316 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:44.440 But I assure you sex, addiction, and gambling come from healthy places. 317 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:51.920 They have a healthy version of those things. Love and passion is the healthy 318 00:26:52.000 --> 00:27:00.960 version. Challenge and exploration and pushing yourself is the healthy point of gambling. 319 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.440 So all those things have a healthy brother or sister. You've just taken them 320 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:11.079 to a perversion because you're looking for the payoff rather than the process. So 321 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.799 you need to find somebody that can help you walk back through that process and 322 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.200 understand it more to start clearing these things away. And it will take some 323 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.240 time. It took you a while to get there, it'll take you a 324 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:26.519 while to get out. Remember these words. I Am with you Always, 325 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.440 KFI AM six forty on demand