Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Jim, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2: Hello. Have a very hard question that I'm having a
Speaker 2: hard time getting answer out of some of my Christian brothers.
Speaker 2: I got out of public school teaching because of the
Speaker 2: hypocrisy and the troubles within the public school. And I
Speaker 2: know that's probably selfish, but I had seventeen years i'd
Speaker 2: have enough of the craziness. But now I'm start of
Speaker 2: three landscape business in South Texas. I've discovered you cannot
Speaker 2: run on these businesses without using cheap labor. And my
Speaker 2: question is someone who's redeemed, saved, born again, the question
Speaker 2: would be why do people use their legal labor. I
Speaker 2: think it's because it's cheaper, sure, and would someone who
Speaker 2: has saved use it for that reason? And our church
Speaker 2: was built partially by illegal labor, and I know it's
Speaker 2: because we could get it done cheaper. So that's the question,
Speaker 2: is that right? I understand taking care of my brothers.
Speaker 2: If I was from Mexico, I'd bring my family over
Speaker 2: here to you, no problem. I understand that.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: The American citizens that are now I understand why you
Speaker 2: left slavery in the Bible because it makes more sense
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Now, there are major problems with using illegal labor knowingly.
Speaker 1: Now in the state of affairs in the United States currently,
Speaker 1: it can be very difficult to every single time try
Speaker 1: to vet a company in your hopes or that they're
Speaker 1: vetting them and so on. But knowingly, So let's go
Speaker 1: with the knowingly part. Knowingly using illegal labor is wrong
Speaker 1: for a Christian. Absolutely, Scripturally you deal with the laws
Speaker 1: of man. It says that you're to follow the laws
Speaker 1: of man. And if the law says that they are
Speaker 1: in a state of legality, and that's not a pejorative,
Speaker 1: that is the actual legal term is that they are
Speaker 1: legal aliens. If they are legal aliens not here properly
Speaker 1: with the proper paperwork and all of that, then you
Speaker 1: are are trying to buck the system, and in doing that,
Speaker 1: you're breaking the law. And if you're breaking the law,
Speaker 1: that's ungodly. For one. For two, the process of using
Speaker 1: illegal labors is taking advantage of their situation, and it's
Speaker 1: not about them learning. Like let's say a younger person
Speaker 1: or someone new to a company, they're in the process
Speaker 1: of learning, so you may give them less money as
Speaker 1: they climb up the ladder. But this is different. Oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's seen as an opportunity to exploit these workers because
Speaker 1: they're i llegal and they can't tell or they can't
Speaker 1: defend themselves, which is equally as ugly. So both those
Speaker 1: things would be a problem scripturally. And if your church
Speaker 1: was using labor that they knew was not in the
Speaker 1: United States legally, shame on them. That doesn't bring glory
Speaker 1: to God. So there's going to be times where you
Speaker 1: can't know. There's been times where I've seen people that
Speaker 1: have met with you a company, have seen all their
Speaker 1: paperwork and made agreements, and then when the work starts,
Speaker 1: it seems that there's a whole new set of people
Speaker 1: that are doing the work. It gets very difficult to
Speaker 1: start trying to vet all of those things specifically, but
Speaker 1: it can be done to a certain degree, and you
Speaker 1: should do it within the best of your ability to
Speaker 1: make sure it's on the up and up, because all
Speaker 1: that happens is you've got these quixotes that are bringing
Speaker 1: people to across the border, that are using them for
Speaker 1: slave labor. You've got them gouging them for money, You've
Speaker 1: got them turning some of the people into prostitutes. You've
Speaker 1: got ugly things going on, because now the people have
Speaker 1: become a commodity, and coming to the United States has
Speaker 1: become a commodity, and it creates a bunch of ugliness.
Speaker 1: So that supply and demand is part of the problem
Speaker 1: and becomes ugliness. And at the core of it, human
Speaker 1: beings are treated like cattle. And so that has to
Speaker 1: be above all, above border issues, above any of those
Speaker 1: things and here legally illegally, and all those arguments going on.
Speaker 1: Above all humanity is involved. Human beings are involved and
Speaker 1: are being not seen as human beings. They're being seen
Speaker 1: as day laborers. And that's a problem as well, so
Speaker 1: on both. Just because somebody is doing something that is
Speaker 1: illegal on the books coming to the country of the
Speaker 1: United States doesn't mean that somebody who is a citizen
Speaker 1: of the United States is right for exploiting that. I
Speaker 1: don't think that that would be I don't think that
Speaker 1: that would be a healthy way for a Christian to
Speaker 1: express their faith. I know it's very difficult out there,
Speaker 1: and I know that a lot of general contractors and
Speaker 1: contractors of every ilk I have issues with this, and
Speaker 1: it becomes a problem. But if you want something done right,
Speaker 1: and you want a process to be a righteous process,
Speaker 1: then you've got to partake in it as well. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't every time somebody speeds past you on the
Speaker 1: freeways and you look at them and go, oh, what
Speaker 1: a jerk. Yet when you speed, oh, it's because while
Speaker 1: I really need to get somewhere and I was running
Speaker 1: a little late, and it's very important, And there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of excuses and reasons. You can't look at life
Speaker 1: that way. You can't look at the world that it's
Speaker 1: you know, everything you do is okay, but it's not
Speaker 1: okay when other people do it, and there's within reason.
Speaker 1: You know there's going to be times or opportunities where
Speaker 1: you don't know and it's inappropriate to ask, you know,
Speaker 1: a neighbor or something like that. You might feel inappropriate,
Speaker 1: but if there's a way, an honest way to check,
Speaker 1: you should, just like you would the license number of
Speaker 1: somebody of a contractor who says they're going to be
Speaker 1: working on something, you want to know. You want to
Speaker 1: make sure that they're licensed. You would no more walk
Speaker 1: into a situation with a company and pretend like you
Speaker 1: had a license, because it's too expensive to take the
Speaker 1: test or it's too expensive to get licensed every year
Speaker 1: or every two years, you know, and times are tough
Speaker 1: right now and I can't renew that or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. I don't think that that's a legitimate reason
Speaker 1: for a Christian to do anything. And abiding by the
Speaker 1: law is important for the believer. People are watching you
Speaker 1: if you claim to be Christian, people are watching you differently. Now.
Speaker 1: Some people may be obnoxious about it, and they may
Speaker 1: try and nitpick you. And if that's the case, you
Speaker 1: know what, move on, don't bother listening to them. But
Speaker 1: within those reasons and your ability to continue to hone
Speaker 1: who you are. You know, Christians often say I'm a
Speaker 1: work in progress. Of course you are. But through that
Speaker 1: process you should be doing things that benefit you and
Speaker 1: everyone else and that are productive and that are honest.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: This lies back to many different scriptures, including Proverbs, where
Speaker 1: it says that God hates a false weight, and that
Speaker 1: dealt with the merchants, the merchants that would load rocks
Speaker 1: in the scales or modify the scale so that you
Speaker 1: were you thought you were getting more, therefore you paid more,
Speaker 1: but they weren't. How is that any different? Because very
Speaker 1: rarely does that get passed passed along to the client.
Speaker 1: And so you got to keep those things in mind.
Speaker 1: How you're making the money and at what cost. You
Speaker 1: don't want to do it, participate in anything illegal, because
Speaker 1: then it's for not doesn't glorify God. So your only
Speaker 1: reward is that money at the end of the day. Jake,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 3: I have a two part questions for you here, sort
Speaker 3: of a response to Tom Okay who.
Speaker 1: Had called earlier in regards to UH forfeiting his pastoral
Speaker 1: stance by having an affair.
Speaker 3: Okay, what qualifies a person to be a pastor and
Speaker 3: how does one know when they are called?
Speaker 1: Well, I think you have, you know, an urgency in
Speaker 1: your heart and in your spirit to do the things
Speaker 1: of God first and foremost. They say that that man
Speaker 1: is ordained by God, and that's recognized by man. So
Speaker 1: it's not the other way around where people feel like, well,
Speaker 1: like a church has to say, Okay, you're led to
Speaker 1: do this, not the truth. If you feel moved to
Speaker 1: to preach or to teach in that context, the first
Speaker 1: you'd imagine, the first start would be of that particular
Speaker 1: path would be to study to go to school, to
Speaker 1: you know, audit classes, do it on your own, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, but to study and to show yourself approved
Speaker 1: in the knowledge first. The same way if you said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I really want to be a carpenter, well,
Speaker 1: first learn how to be a carpenter and study that.
Speaker 3: The reason I called to get your opinion on it
Speaker 3: is because I'm I'm very very conflicted about this. So well,
Speaker 3: how to put it. Let's see, I grew up in
Speaker 3: church in a fundamental you know, literal interpretation, not legalistic,
Speaker 3: but fundamentalist church, and so I believe the Bible as
Speaker 3: it is written, and I also believe that being behind
Speaker 3: the pulpit is Yes, it is a high calling, and
Speaker 3: it's an honor and a privilege and also carrious with
Speaker 3: it a great responsibility. As you were saying, you have
Speaker 3: to be beyond reproach.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So what's your concern.
Speaker 3: I am not beyond reproach. I mean, you know, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm married, you know, But.
Speaker 1: As far as have you had an affair? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well it's not it's they're specifics that it's talking about
Speaker 1: in that it's not just about it to be a
Speaker 1: beyond reproach doesn't mean stop being a human being being
Speaker 1: something superhuman. That wasn't my point with Tom either. My
Speaker 1: point was that Tom specifically, well, he was a pastor,
Speaker 1: had an affair on his wife, and you don't get
Speaker 1: to be a pastor anymore. But if you are saying
Speaker 1: that there are things that you need to work out
Speaker 1: in your life, will work them out, you know, make them,
Speaker 1: work through them, and and make yourself a whole as
Speaker 1: you stand before God. But it doesn't mean that everything
Speaker 1: you preach you're going to be excellent at. You're just
Speaker 1: you're not. You're dealing with the perfection in the Word
Speaker 1: of God. There was a specific situation though, about being
Speaker 1: the husband of one one wife and above reproach means
Speaker 1: within reason, an understandable reason, uh, in your life. And
Speaker 1: if you can't do that, then then no, it's probably
Speaker 1: not the best thing for you. Being called to ministry.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that are called the ministry
Speaker 1: and you hear all kinds of different stories. Oh, I
Speaker 1: had this this moment and it's like, well, how do
Speaker 1: you how I read these signs that in my life?
Speaker 1: What do they mean? Where does God want me? What
Speaker 1: would he have me do? Well? Scripture is very specific
Speaker 1: about being called to that particular part as overseer. It says,
Speaker 1: an overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of
Speaker 1: one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not
Speaker 1: addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentious, for from
Speaker 1: the love of money. He must be one who manages
Speaker 1: his own household well, keeping his children under control with
Speaker 1: all dignity. But all of these things point to part
Speaker 1: of that calling. And I know sometimes there's a certain
Speaker 1: glittery appeal to being in these positions of power. And
Speaker 1: sometimes people go, gosh, I want to be this, or
Speaker 1: I want to be an actor, I want to be
Speaker 1: a writer, I want to be this, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: Sometimes if there's a position of authority, it becomes it has,
Speaker 1: you know, a sex appeal to it, where where you're
Speaker 1: engaged by it just because of the position, and you
Speaker 1: have to kind of check that and vet that and
Speaker 1: make sure that that's not part of the equation. Well,
Speaker 1: I speak well, and I talk very good, and I
Speaker 1: do this, and I do all these things, and that
Speaker 1: may not matter to God. There's been times where there
Speaker 1: were people that did not speak well in scripture, and
Speaker 1: you know, Moses kept trying to push that off and say, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, you may be my brother because I
Speaker 1: don't speak so good and really don't have a way
Speaker 1: with people. And it's like no, I say you. So,
Speaker 1: it's not about that, not just about those things. It's
Speaker 1: about finding something that you're so compelled to do that
Speaker 1: it presses you to want to be better as a
Speaker 1: human being, and that that plays a part it. They're
Speaker 1: just you meet people that just are different, They just
Speaker 1: don't have those desires and check themselves a little differently
Speaker 1: than you do, and them being in a place of
Speaker 1: leadership makes the most sense. You don't want to put
Speaker 1: yourself in a position that you can't handle because it
Speaker 1: will end up swallowing you and taking down the faith
Speaker 1: with it, and that's not what I want. Gracie. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4: Yes, how you doing good?
Speaker 1: How can I help you? Gracy?
Speaker 4: Well, I wanted to ask question. Its something about marriaging. Okay,
Speaker 4: because I have a stepfather that sixty five years old.
Speaker 1: Okay, turned down your radio in the back there, Racy,
Speaker 1: will you turned down the radio on the back there,
Speaker 1: Dear Okay. I'm sure you've never heard anybody on the
Speaker 1: radio tell you that before, but I appreciate it now,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, he's sixty five, I'm fifty three.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Back in the eighties, by seventy nine till ninety nine,
Speaker 4: he was with my mother and he wasn't married to
Speaker 4: her or anything, but he was living with her. He
Speaker 4: took care of her. They lived together for twenty five years,
Speaker 4: I guess, and she passed away. So I haven't seen
Speaker 4: him for about five or six years until he decided
Speaker 4: to come back. He was living with my brother before.
Speaker 4: But now he's telling me that he's interested in me,
Speaker 4: he wants to make a.
Speaker 5: Life with me.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's I don't feel comfortable. She
Speaker 4: is my mother, she was my best friend, she's my love.
Speaker 4: She was everything to me. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's it. You don't feel comfortable with that, That's
Speaker 1: that's the biggest response you have to that.
Speaker 4: Yes, And I don't feel like it's right because I'm
Speaker 4: a Catholic. Well, I'm a spiritual Catholic, and I believe
Speaker 4: that if her spirit is floating around and she's with seven,
Speaker 4: she watches everything and everything that we do is say,
Speaker 4: you know, I just.
Speaker 1: Don't feel like what is what does spiritual Catholic mean.
Speaker 4: That her angel is watching over us and looking over us?
Speaker 4: And I feel that if I do something like that
Speaker 4: to my own mother that would make me she will punish, well,
Speaker 4: not her, but I feel like I would.
Speaker 1: Be punnished for doing first of all, But Catholics don't
Speaker 1: teach that people become angels. But having said that, let's
Speaker 1: let's look at at the response. You should be more
Speaker 1: flipped out about this than you are. Thanks you're going
Speaker 1: on doesn't sit right with me, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I might be punished. Are all the wrong answers, And
Speaker 1: you should be disgusted by this on its face, and
Speaker 1: and and and you actually told enough about the the
Speaker 1: circumstances leading up to this that shows you the type
Speaker 1: of man this is. And what's your what your mom
Speaker 1: brought into her home and into your life? Uh, this
Speaker 1: was a man who was noncommitted to begin with, who
Speaker 1: didn't want to commit and merely lived with your mom,
Speaker 1: and then you know, lived with your brother and now
Speaker 1: sniffing around your your part of town seeing if you're
Speaker 1: interested not a good person. Oh, I'm I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: be the one to have to tell you that, but.
Speaker 4: They wanted to hear the whole.
Speaker 1: But you should just be disgusted by it. We covered
Speaker 1: that if I.
Speaker 4: Do something like that, that would be my disgusting city
Speaker 4: that I would.
Speaker 1: Have insite me because it's disgusting. Now, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: there haven't been circumstances that happen in life that socially
Speaker 1: somebody might say is, oh, this is you know, unacceptable,
Speaker 1: but biblically, there's not a problem with it. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that your particular, your particular specific context that
Speaker 1: you told me about. I'm not sure why you're not
Speaker 1: more flipped out about it. I am more concerned.
Speaker 4: I am, but then I am I feel sorry for him,
Speaker 4: But then I don't feel like I should do anything
Speaker 4: like that with him.
Speaker 1: You should run, not walk, to the nearest exit. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't have this man in your life at all, and
Speaker 1: tell him that that he's made you feel uncomfortable if
Speaker 1: that is the case, and that that you don't wish
Speaker 1: to have any contact with him. Leave it at that, Okay, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: and say good night, Gracie, good night, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1: That the important thing there is to have the ability
Speaker 1: the discernmant to see when people are using you or
Speaker 1: being predatory. Now I this this man hasn't called in,
Speaker 1: so he's not here to defend himself. We're going strictly
Speaker 1: on the story, but on the on the story as
Speaker 1: it stands. I know that people fall in love with
Speaker 1: one another for different reasons, but in this case, it's
Speaker 1: obvious that you can look around and say, here is
Speaker 1: somebody who was with your mother for a long period time,
Speaker 1: didn't even marry her, and now he's coming around looking
Speaker 1: at you. That's odd. He should have the same feelings.
Speaker 1: I mean, there could be misplaced feelings. That's that's normal,
Speaker 1: misplaced feelings that you remind me of your mother. I
Speaker 1: was so in love with her. The way you laugh,
Speaker 1: your appearance, certain things about you, these types of things
Speaker 1: you too. To have those feelings normal, but to understand
Speaker 1: them in their context and to say this is not
Speaker 1: okay and not appropriate to pursue would be where you
Speaker 1: come in as an adult and say this is not okay.
Speaker 1: So on both sides, as the daughter and as the
Speaker 1: pretend husband, that it's not okay, and it brings a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of ugliness into the situation. That's
Speaker 1: I don't know why you wouldn't just cut that off
Speaker 1: and say no, I'm disgusted that you'd even ask me
Speaker 1: that or pursue me like that. I love and I
Speaker 1: miss my mother, and I know you meant something to her.
Speaker 1: You do not mean that to me, and I prefer
Speaker 1: that we don't have any contact. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: so difficult about that, that kind of running your toes
Speaker 1: in the sand, going well, maybe this or maybe that.
Speaker 1: And the guy's been gone for five or six years,
Speaker 1: so it's not like there was a relationship that was
Speaker 1: built up and now you're curious about exploring it. It's
Speaker 1: it had died and now it comes back and going hey, maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would just expected a whole different
Speaker 1: response out of that one. I expected a more upset, angry,
Speaker 1: frustrated response. Okay, Don, welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Savior.
Speaker 1: How are you, Don?
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good, Thank you.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm very much in love and in fact engaged
Speaker 5: to a Muslim girl. And my preacher tells me that
Speaker 5: in the Bible it says to yoke myself with a
Speaker 5: non believer. I have a friend in church that told
Speaker 5: me that he read and I can't remember where he said,
Speaker 5: but that it was okay. I'm just kind of paraphrasing
Speaker 5: this that it's okay as long as you're trying to
Speaker 5: lead her to Christ, lead her to you.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a and both of those conclusions I think
Speaker 1: are based on their own biased So I will tell
Speaker 1: you this. Yeah, scripture talks about being unequally yoked, but
Speaker 1: it's not talking about marriage. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people put that in there, but it's not specifically talking
Speaker 1: about marriage and relationships in context. Well, not necessarily, because
Speaker 1: there's more to it than that. And yes, you should
Speaker 1: be seeking the salvation of others by being a wonderful
Speaker 1: example and sharing your faith when asked about the hope
Speaker 1: that lies within you. Yes, but in addition to that,
Speaker 1: pragmatically both with your faith and with your life. To
Speaker 1: be involved with somebody of a differing faith can be
Speaker 1: a huge problem. Now, if you guys are more seasoned
Speaker 1: in your citizenry and you're not going to have children,
Speaker 1: it becomes less of a problem.
Speaker 5: Yes, well we're pastor. She has a daughter thirteen, but
Speaker 5: we don't have plans to have any children. And I'm
Speaker 5: I'm sixty three and she's forty four.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's not what you're seeking. There's a major
Speaker 1: age discrepancy. Why is there so much distance in the age?
Speaker 5: Pardon me?
Speaker 1: Why are you so much older than she?
Speaker 5: Well, we met in a nursing home that I was
Speaker 5: in for a short while, and we were attracted to
Speaker 5: each other and it's been we've been in a ongoing
Speaker 5: relationship for over two years now.
Speaker 1: Okay, So where do you connect? I mean, where is
Speaker 1: that part that you connect If it's not the age,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have the same references growing up.
Speaker 1: If it's not the faith, where are you connecting to her?
Speaker 1: To each other?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it just physical? You like the way she looks?
Speaker 1: She makes you laugh?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no no, It's much deeper than that.
Speaker 1: Okay, But in what context If it's not your faith
Speaker 1: and it's not your upbringing references because you're brought.
Speaker 5: Up, it's like we can almost read each other's minds.
Speaker 5: She's also somewhat of a caregiver to me. Not a lot.
Speaker 5: I don't require a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, but are you sure you haven't fallen in love?
Speaker 1: With that concept of somebody that's taking care of you.
Speaker 5: I've so searched about that very question.
Speaker 1: Well, that means that it's something of great importance.
Speaker 5: And I haven't been or I haven't felt closer and
Speaker 5: as much in love with anyone in my life as
Speaker 5: I am with her.
Speaker 1: Okay, But we started out this program with John seven
Speaker 1: twenty four, and that's stop judging by mere appearances and
Speaker 1: make the right judgment. So that's not necessarily on just
Speaker 1: the things you feel or see or think, well, this
Speaker 1: appears to be this way. I appear to have these feelings,
Speaker 1: and that's and I don't want to belittle them. I
Speaker 1: understand love is a wonderful thing and that it, but
Speaker 1: it makes it clouds people's judgment and vision. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: think that every case is unique and that as individuals
Speaker 1: you're not going to be having children. Then that leaves
Speaker 1: the child rearing out of the equation, and that's where
Speaker 1: it becomes the biggest problem. However, when you start having
Speaker 1: images of and worshiping of different faiths going on inside
Speaker 1: the house, that might be uncomfortable or one will win out.
Speaker 1: Usually there's kind of a wrestling match, whether it's obvious
Speaker 1: or not. So obvious and one can win out. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of problems that go with the with the
Speaker 1: mixed faith. So as far as getting a stamp of
Speaker 1: approval on it and saying, well, God's going to condone this, No,
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily. What's the way it's going to go down? However,
Speaker 1: you're not sinning necessarily by being with somebody of a
Speaker 1: different faith, nor are you sinning to marry someone of
Speaker 1: a different faith. The sinning comes, that's good to know.
Speaker 5: That's comforting.
Speaker 1: Well, it's only comforting in as much as you practice that.
Speaker 1: If it takes you away from your faith at all,
Speaker 1: if it distracts you from your faith, if it makes
Speaker 1: you veer away from any of your practices or understanding,
Speaker 1: then yes, it becomes sinning.
Speaker 5: No, I will tell you Jesus that just about the
Speaker 5: opposite has occurred. My faith has grown stronger because she
Speaker 5: has agreed to go with me to church.
Speaker 1: And are you going to go with her and pray
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 5: To her church?
Speaker 1: Not a church?
Speaker 5: But yes, her she doesn't attend.
Speaker 1: Okay, so she may not be someone of a particularly
Speaker 1: strong faith.
Speaker 5: No, but people just she's Indonesian, and it's just that's
Speaker 5: what she was brought up with.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, there's going to be different variables that are
Speaker 1: going to change this situation, and now we don't have
Speaker 1: time to go through every single one of them. So
Speaker 1: I want to give you kind of an outline, and
Speaker 1: the outline is to protect yourself and to protect your faith.
Speaker 1: That if you've fallen in love with somebody, and I
Speaker 1: hear these terms all the time about oh I've fallen
Speaker 1: in love or I've never had this experience, you can
Speaker 1: move forward. You have free will to move forward in
Speaker 1: any of those things as a Christian, as a human being,
Speaker 1: as an American. The thing you need to protect is
Speaker 1: your faith. People do change when they get married. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the faith can be bolstered by someone of the opposite
Speaker 1: faith reminds you of why you believe, and sometimes not.
Speaker 1: And she may not be that interested in her faith now,
Speaker 1: but maybe she will be later and it may become
Speaker 1: a problem. So you just need to know going into
Speaker 1: these things. I know a lot of people would it'd
Speaker 1: be easier if it was just a sin flat out,
Speaker 1: but really, when it's talking about being unequally yoked, it's
Speaker 1: talking about not intertwining. I know, on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: with people in a way that's going to drag you down,
Speaker 1: And you could absolutely apply that to marriage. But to
Speaker 1: say that marroring somebody of a different faith or something
Speaker 1: like that is a sin, you're not necessarily going to
Speaker 1: find that in scripture. People may twist things to say that,
Speaker 1: but it's not super productive. If you have children, it
Speaker 1: can be a horrible problem and it takes its toll.
Speaker 1: There's enough problems in marriage as it is, and enough
Speaker 1: difficulties that you have to figure your way around and
Speaker 1: negotiate that. To add this to the equation can just
Speaker 1: be more problems than you think it is once you're
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