Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A M six on demand. Ozzie,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning? How can I help you? So?
Speaker 2: About a week ago, I saw a car accident and
Speaker 2: I ended up pulling over to see if there was
Speaker 2: anything I could do to help the guy inside. It
Speaker 2: was a it was a pretty bad accident. It was
Speaker 2: on a rainy day. I got out of the car.
Speaker 2: You know, there was four total for people too cars,
Speaker 2: two in each car. And the guy that was hit,
Speaker 2: he was he like he was unconscious of her. His
Speaker 2: wife was in there, and we managed to get the
Speaker 2: wife out and we try to help the help the
Speaker 2: older guy. You know, we were trying to give him CPR.
Speaker 2: We couldn't get any bottles from him, and then we
Speaker 2: finally got on other people in the other vehicle. I
Speaker 2: ended up opening the door and I smelled like just
Speaker 2: you know, alcohol and you know, marijuana. I did just
Speaker 2: smelled of it, and like I just have like just
Speaker 2: like sometimes I don't know how to control the anger
Speaker 2: that I have toward this guy. You know, you know,
Speaker 2: I just found out the guy that he ended up
Speaker 2: hitting actually passed away. And also I have anger towards
Speaker 2: myself because what if there was something else I could
Speaker 2: have done help him out? Like you know, I just
Speaker 2: I just feel like I didn't do enough to help
Speaker 2: the guy out. And it's like I don't know what
Speaker 2: to feel or how to act or anything.
Speaker 1: And if you really use the advice, well, well look
Speaker 1: at this in two different parts. First of all, whether
Speaker 1: you could have done more and the concept of anger,
Speaker 1: the productive kind of anger is is the anger that
Speaker 1: attacks problems, not people. And I know it'd be easy
Speaker 1: just to want to pull apart somebody and deal with them,
Speaker 1: someone who would be so cavalier towards humanity, so selfish
Speaker 1: and uncaring that they would consume so much alcohol or
Speaker 1: pot or whatever they were consuming to the degree where
Speaker 1: they couldn't control the vehicle. Yet they got behind that
Speaker 1: vehicle anyways and caused a massive accident. So it's very
Speaker 1: normal to want to respond to that physically, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't help or bring any glory to God in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, And it can put you in a
Speaker 1: bad situation when it comes to releasing and forgiving. Under
Speaker 1: circumstances like that, you're not forgiving the person because with
Speaker 1: that kind of forgiveness comes something called reconciliation, and you're
Speaker 1: not looking to be friends with them again. What you're
Speaker 1: looking to do is release this this ugliness, this garbage
Speaker 1: that festers in your heart, that weighs you down. And
Speaker 1: my biggest concern is you finding a way to place
Speaker 1: that on God's shoulders so that you're not bound by
Speaker 1: all that garbage as you go through life. Now, as
Speaker 1: far as the other aspect of things, did you do enough?
Speaker 1: What makes you think that you didn't do enough?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I was there trying to help them out.
Speaker 2: You know. The only thing I ever knew was just,
Speaker 2: you know, just do cprs, you know, if you're not breathing,
Speaker 2: you know, just do whatever you can't help out. You
Speaker 2: know something my mom told me, you know, you taught
Speaker 2: me as a little boy, you know, help out. And
Speaker 2: I just you know, I tried what I could. And
Speaker 2: it's just in my mind it's what if there was
Speaker 2: something else I could have done? You know, what if
Speaker 2: there was something I could have done you know too,
Speaker 2: you know, just to give them a better fighting chance
Speaker 2: to make it, you know, And it's just been on
Speaker 2: my mind, like could I have done anything else? You know,
Speaker 2: did I not do something right that he didn't make it.
Speaker 1: There is so much going on in a situation like that,
Speaker 1: and the fact that you even run to a situation
Speaker 1: to help out when many people don't care or run
Speaker 1: away from it is more than most. The fact that
Speaker 1: you assessed the situation and that you assessed that there
Speaker 1: was somebody who had been under the influence of maybe pot,
Speaker 1: maybe alcohol, means that you were really present and really
Speaker 1: there and looking for answers in that horrible accident. I
Speaker 1: don't think you did anything wrong. I think you need
Speaker 1: to be comfortable with the fact that you ran to
Speaker 1: help and you did what you could, and it's very overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It's different from academically being in the mindset okay, well,
Speaker 1: if something happens, I'm going to do X, Y, and Z,
Speaker 1: versus actually having to do it and to be there
Speaker 1: and to look at any carnage or anything like that
Speaker 1: or trauma to someone can be overwhelming. And it's sad
Speaker 1: that somebody, somebody lost their life that day, and it's
Speaker 1: sad to think that it may have been for no reason,
Speaker 1: just some selfishness. But just because that that's the truth
Speaker 1: of the situation doesn't mean that has to do anything
Speaker 1: with you, You're not the selfish one. Selfish one would
Speaker 1: be anyone who thought it was okay to drink or
Speaker 1: to smoke pot and then drive. So I think you
Speaker 1: did what you could what you could under the circumstances,
Speaker 1: and I think that's great. I think you're very brave,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a very human and communal thing
Speaker 1: to do, to be a part of things around you
Speaker 1: and do your best to make them work out in
Speaker 1: everybody's favor. But as far as this individual being angry
Speaker 1: at them isn't going to do anything, really, is just
Speaker 1: going to fester inside you and make you a pretty
Speaker 1: ugly person based on it. Do you have any contact
Speaker 1: with them?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't even know these people. You know. It
Speaker 2: was just something I saw on the side something, you know,
Speaker 2: something I try to do is just help out, and
Speaker 2: you know it's I don't even know these people.
Speaker 1: Well you didn't.
Speaker 2: I really wish I just wish I could keep it,
Speaker 2: you know, there would be certain ways I could be
Speaker 2: there for the wife, you know, you know, infinite. It
Speaker 2: was just saying, you know, like you know, just to
Speaker 2: send my condolence without.
Speaker 1: Her, Well, she's going through a lot right now, and
Speaker 1: in a circumstance like this, there's a lot of pain
Speaker 1: and a lot of confusion, and people are trying to
Speaker 1: sift through it. If that opportunity arises, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: will come your way. But right now, you focus on
Speaker 1: the fact that what you did, that your mama raised
Speaker 1: your right, and that what you did was the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. To get involved and to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody's okay, and to do whatever you can in any
Speaker 1: limitation to help out, and then leave it at that.
Speaker 1: It is sad that someone lost their life in that
Speaker 1: car accident, especially if it involves alcohol and pot and
Speaker 1: it's much less an accident than it was negligence. But
Speaker 1: don't second guess what you did. You did the best
Speaker 1: you could, and don't harbor anger because that hurts no
Speaker 1: one but you. So just keep those two things in mind. Rachel,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ. Hi, Jesus, Hello.
Speaker 3: Hi, I have a question for you. I was reading
Speaker 3: this morning numbers twenty two, and in eighteen Baalim flat
Speaker 3: out says to the Lord, let's see here. Oh, he says,
Speaker 3: I would be powerless to do anything against the will
Speaker 3: of the Lord. And in twenty God came to Baylim
Speaker 3: and said, since these men have come for you, get
Speaker 3: up and go with them, and he tells him to
Speaker 3: go with them and then drop down a little bit.
Speaker 3: In twenty two. God was furious that Balem was going.
Speaker 3: And this troubles me. I need to know that. It
Speaker 3: seems out of.
Speaker 1: It seems like a contradiction.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I don't. That's not the God that I know.
Speaker 1: No, it's like a sneaky God going go over here,
Speaker 1: and now you went over there. There's a lot going
Speaker 1: on here. And if this involves the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: and if you notice, the Angel of the Lord does
Speaker 1: not kill him.
Speaker 3: No he doesn't.
Speaker 1: No, he actually gives him a The concern here is
Speaker 1: about dealing with Balem's greed in his heart. He was
Speaker 1: tempted by the offers that were coming his way. You
Speaker 1: can read numbers, you know, twenty two to twelve. Also
Speaker 1: verse seventeen about the temptation, and the intent was not
Speaker 1: about to kill him. It was to remind him of
Speaker 1: what his original agreement was, because he kept getting tempted
Speaker 1: and his heart was clearly filled with greed. As you
Speaker 1: read on and understand that it wasn't a direct result
Speaker 1: of not in direct contradiction to God's word, but he
Speaker 1: was rejecting it in his heart. So his greed had
Speaker 1: kind of come up with a way. You can read
Speaker 1: about this in numbers thirty one sixteen come up with
Speaker 1: a way to help Israel's enemies will not directly disobeying
Speaker 1: the Lord's command to speak only the words that he
Speaker 1: would give him, but he found a way to kind
Speaker 1: of backdoor it to corrupt Israel by allowing women to
Speaker 1: marry men of Israel and lead them into idolatry. And
Speaker 1: you can read about that in two Peter two fifteen.
Speaker 1: I hope that that helps Donna. Welcome to the Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ Show.
Speaker 4: Hi, thank you for taking my call. Love your show?
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you my pleasure. How can I help you?
Speaker 4: Well, I do have a question. As an infant, I
Speaker 4: was baptized and went to religious schools and always had
Speaker 4: a very close personal relationship with Jesus. He is my
Speaker 4: savior and I always believe that throughout life, and now
Speaker 4: as an adult, I have friends who say that I
Speaker 4: must be baptized again in order to have salvation, which really,
Speaker 4: for me doesn't make too much sense because I've always
Speaker 4: had a personal relationship with Jesus since I could remember.
Speaker 4: And my question is, must I be baptized again? And
Speaker 4: if so, where would I even get baptized? Since my
Speaker 4: church does not do. I don't think they do second baptisms.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1: Now you still go to the same church, do Okay?
Speaker 1: Is it a Protestant or a Catholic church.
Speaker 4: It's a Catholic church.
Speaker 1: No, there is no need to be baptized again.
Speaker 4: And can you explain why?
Speaker 1: Well, because it's not one. It's not a mandate for
Speaker 1: salvation the way the other person is saying, Salvation comes
Speaker 1: from the blood on the cross, not from any act
Speaker 1: that you do. Although that there are things that will manifest.
Speaker 1: Now Catholics and Protestants believe differently here as well. But
Speaker 1: I will say this that if you are a believer
Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church and the structure of the Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: they're not the ones telling you to do it. It's
Speaker 1: an outside individual telling you to do it. Which is
Speaker 1: why I say, if you're still, you know, believing and
Speaker 1: attending in a part of the Catholic Church, then no,
Speaker 1: you're taking care of that is by their structure and
Speaker 1: their belief If for some reason you became a Protestant
Speaker 1: and at some point you wanted to be baptized as
Speaker 1: a Protestant because you're an adult and now it's your choice,
Speaker 1: or something like that, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm
Speaker 1: leery of groups that say, hey, we want to baptize
Speaker 1: you in our belief system. That to me can be
Speaker 1: signs of something a little screwy. If they know you're
Speaker 1: Catholic and they're saying, hey, but you know, if you
Speaker 1: come over here, we'll get you baptized and make things right.
Speaker 1: If they start saying things like that, I would raise
Speaker 1: an eyebrow. And I'm not sure if that's the path
Speaker 1: they're going down. It's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, Donna, if you were baptized in the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church as a child, and you're still in the Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: why spend the time getting baptized again. You haven't changed
Speaker 1: your belief system in any way, shape or form, and
Speaker 1: there's no reason to do that. You're not being asked
Speaker 1: by your own clergy to do it, and so it's
Speaker 1: really someone else's agenda who isn't here to explain what
Speaker 1: that is. Or why. They believe that baptism is a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful thing, and it is one thing in the family
Speaker 1: of Christians, both Catholics and Protestants where there is discussion.
Speaker 1: There are those that think that it should be infants
Speaker 1: like our Catholic brothers and sisters, and there are those
Speaker 1: that believe it should be adults. That there is a
Speaker 1: time of understanding when a human being goes no. I
Speaker 1: want to make this decision on my own and get
Speaker 1: it done. But these are in house discussions. But in
Speaker 1: your case, doesn't sound like they're any purpose whatsoever. Jeff,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2: Hello Jesus.
Speaker 1: Well, hello Jeff. How can I help you?
Speaker 5: How does one know they are shured of salvation?
Speaker 1: You're well, the question is a healthy one. But you know,
Speaker 1: the principles of salvation deal with, you know, giving your
Speaker 1: life to Christ. Have you exactly, Well, it means that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that drive your life, you know, sex, drugs,
Speaker 1: rock and roll, whatever it may be, and whoever's at
Speaker 1: the wheel is the one controlling it, whether that be
Speaker 1: you and self worship and that it's all about you,
Speaker 1: or whether the principles that are are in scripture and
Speaker 1: the things that are taught in the Judeo Christian precepts
Speaker 1: are part of your life. If they're not, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like you asking me right now, well, what does
Speaker 1: a relationship mean? Well, it's when you put somebody in
Speaker 1: a place of importance in your life. You exchange ideas,
Speaker 1: you propel yourself based on that relationship, protecting it and
Speaker 1: understanding it, ever deepening it. It's it's a process. It's
Speaker 1: not just one particular day. But as far as salvation,
Speaker 1: the word itself means security, safety. The purpose of it deliverance.
Speaker 1: The purpose of it is to understand that there is
Speaker 1: a God that loves you, that created you, that wants
Speaker 1: to have a relationship with you, and once to guide
Speaker 1: your life, wants you to understand his will because he's
Speaker 1: the maker and his will is what will help you
Speaker 1: to live efficiently in a way that is just and
Speaker 1: loving towards the rest of creation. And if you rebel
Speaker 1: against those ways and you continue to just do it
Speaker 1: however you want, then you're not in that place with God. However,
Speaker 1: if you put God first and you have given your
Speaker 1: life to God, truly to God, that is salvation. It's
Speaker 1: said in scripture that if you confess your sins and
Speaker 1: that God is faithful and just to forgive. That if
Speaker 1: you confess before man that God is your savior, if
Speaker 1: you believe. Some people talk about it as the sinner's prayer,
Speaker 1: and that's praying for God to be in your life. God,
Speaker 1: I give my life to you. You are the center
Speaker 1: of my life. I want you to direct my life
Speaker 1: for here on out. I will see myself as a Christian.
Speaker 1: Respond to those that ask that I am a Christian,
Speaker 1: not because they're looking for a label, but because the
Speaker 1: word means to be a follower of the anointed One,
Speaker 1: and that if you find yourself in a good Bible
Speaker 1: teaching church and you're reading God's Word, then you're in
Speaker 1: that relationship and your experience and receiving that salvation. That's
Speaker 1: what it means. Michael, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me my pleasure. What's going on?
Speaker 5: I just wanted to know, you know, we only have
Speaker 5: one Bible, and there's only one Jesus, and it seems
Speaker 5: like today there's so many different interpretations and understandings of
Speaker 5: the Gospel, and I'm just kind of curious to know
Speaker 5: or at what point did we get off track? And
Speaker 5: why is it that when you ask somebody what the
Speaker 5: gospel is, you get so many different variations of an answer.
Speaker 1: Well different Just because different people have different perceptions doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that there's different gospels, per se. I mean, you
Speaker 1: work right, Michael, You go to work correct, okay, and
Speaker 1: they see you one way, and maybe your family sees
Speaker 1: you another way. And when you were in high school
Speaker 1: and you come home with your friends, your friends would
Speaker 1: see you one way, your parents would see you another way.
Speaker 1: But you're still only one person, and there is only
Speaker 1: one truth. You just are, you know, a little different
Speaker 1: in this sense, a little different that sense, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's a you now the gospel. There's only
Speaker 1: one gospel, and it's simple. For God so loved the
Speaker 1: world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever
Speaker 1: believes in him shall have everlasting life. That's the gospel.
Speaker 1: Gospel just means good news. The good news is that
Speaker 1: life can be rough, and there can be things that
Speaker 1: go on here, but there is a payment, a way
Speaker 1: out for the sins that are that people are accountable
Speaker 1: for here on earth, and that's through the death on
Speaker 1: the cross and the resurrection. That doesn't change. If anybody
Speaker 1: tells you something different than that, then it's not the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Scripture. It's whatever they believe. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about the books the Gospels Matthew, Luke, and John,
Speaker 1: that you have what you are called the synoptic Gospels Matthew, Mark,
Speaker 1: and Luke, meaning that they're similar in what they're describing.
Speaker 1: They're looking at similar accounts and describing them, and then John,
Speaker 1: which is slightly different and coming from a slightly different perspective.
Speaker 1: The hope is that taking all of those into account,
Speaker 1: you see the best picture possible through the eyes of
Speaker 1: man as to what took place or what the important
Speaker 1: thing is about that good news.
Speaker 5: Right, I guess I understand. This seems kind of interesting
Speaker 5: because many people think that or feel like they have
Speaker 5: the needs to go and perfect themselves in the flesh
Speaker 5: and kind of follow the same commandments. And it's even
Speaker 5: you know, we see so many people in the church
Speaker 5: who are basically, you know, trying to perfect their body
Speaker 5: here and they're using Christ for this life, and it
Speaker 5: seems like they're not interested in Him for the next life.
Speaker 1: That's a really interesting observation. And I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say that that's not true. Of course, there are people
Speaker 1: who do that, but they're not mutually exclusive. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with here's the truth. You will not hit perfection
Speaker 1: in this world, but on the way, on that path
Speaker 1: to perfection, you can hit excellence. And there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. There's nothing wrong with allowing God to purify
Speaker 1: you while you're here, to be the best you you
Speaker 1: can while you're here. There's nothing wrong with that. You
Speaker 1: won't be perfect, of course not, but why not be
Speaker 1: a better you? Why not allow God to continue to
Speaker 1: cleanse you, to be a better you while you're here. Right,
Speaker 1: Ye're right, that's not something that it's beneficial to everyone
Speaker 1: around you. The Ten Commandments are there to keep you
Speaker 1: on that track. You should be checking yourself against them,
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're not getting to a place
Speaker 1: of being coveting people's whether it's their husbands, their wives,
Speaker 1: their cars, their home. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are good for you to keep in mind in the
Speaker 1: process of that cleansing. It says in scripture that God
Speaker 1: alone is the author and the finisher of your faith.
Speaker 1: So not only faith alone exists because of God, but
Speaker 1: also the purification process. The perfection of your faith comes
Speaker 1: from God as well, and part of that takes place
Speaker 1: while you're here on this earth. But if you get
Speaker 1: lost in church and it's just about well being the
Speaker 1: best you and you see all these kind of I
Speaker 1: know they're very popular when you come across television. Preachers
Speaker 1: are very famous, often selling lots of books. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of it has to tie into things that seem
Speaker 1: more like motivational speaking than it does about the Gospel, right,
Speaker 1: And I get that too. I know that it seems
Speaker 1: like it's missing the mark a little bit, but that's
Speaker 1: part of the process as well, getting people on board
Speaker 1: to understand that there is things to be learned and
Speaker 1: to be utilized and applied to your life here in
Speaker 1: the now. Otherwise God wouldn't put you here, Michael, you're here.
Speaker 1: Did He put you here just to wait to get
Speaker 1: to Heaven? No, there's stuff to do, and part of
Speaker 1: it is purification, right.
Speaker 5: I totally agree. This seems like a lot of people
Speaker 5: are wanting to justify themselves based on their works that
Speaker 5: they do here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's human nature. You're right, it does happen. Happens
Speaker 1: a lot people get lost in the works and looking
Speaker 1: at what people are doing and how they're doing it,
Speaker 1: and forget the entirety of the process. But fruit on
Speaker 1: a tree does play a part as well. You know,
Speaker 1: the scripture says that if you don't have, if the
Speaker 1: tree isn't bearing fruit, there's a problem. So there should
Speaker 1: be good works coming from somebody who believes. Now, they
Speaker 1: don't get to heaven based on them, but there should
Speaker 1: be good works, just like a healthy fruit tree should
Speaker 1: bear fruit.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, what are the like? Where are they
Speaker 5: good works that we should be seen coming from people
Speaker 5: who believe that Jesus Christ is as the author and
Speaker 5: finish of their faith. And you know, I believe the
Speaker 5: Bible says without faith it is impossible to please pract
Speaker 5: So you know, what are those fruits that we should
Speaker 5: be looking for.
Speaker 1: There should be the desire to purify yourself. There should
Speaker 1: be a desire to share your faith, and not in
Speaker 1: an overbearing way, but in a way, as one Peter
Speaker 1: three fifteen says, to be ready to first sanctify Jesus's
Speaker 1: Lord in your life. But moving forward, to be ready
Speaker 1: to give a defense or an answer to those who
Speaker 1: ask about the hope that lies within you. With meekness
Speaker 1: and reverence. That is to say that when people ask
Speaker 1: you about why you are different because of the things
Speaker 1: you do, whether you're helping those around you that need help,
Speaker 1: whether you are standing up for someone you don't know,
Speaker 1: whether you are not joining the hordes or the mobs
Speaker 1: or the masses that are going one way and you're
Speaker 1: going the other direct direction because you believe it to
Speaker 1: be the direction of God. That when you do those things,
Speaker 1: those works, people will ask you why are you different?
Speaker 1: Why at a funeral do you shed tears but still
Speaker 1: have hope? You know why when you are struggling through
Speaker 1: a process of learning something or knowing something, do you
Speaker 1: still believe that? All these things tend to push people
Speaker 1: back to you, asking well, why how come you're able
Speaker 1: to do this when others are not? And you can
Speaker 1: point them to the gospel, and through that process you
Speaker 1: are growing and purifying. Yet you're passing that along to
Speaker 1: others as well. You're being a good person. You're learning
Speaker 1: to do those things that glorify God and show that
Speaker 1: you care.
Speaker 5: That's great. Well, I appreciate taking my phone call.
Speaker 1: Of course, excellent question.
Speaker 5: And I appreciate you lifting up Jesus because it seems like,
Speaker 5: like you said earlier, a lot of these some of
Speaker 5: these preachers on TV are more like life pass now
Speaker 5: oftens don't even hear the name of Jesus but see
Speaker 5: them opening your Bible. So I appreciate what you're doing,
Speaker 5: and I appreciate you my question.
Speaker 1: Thanks Michael. And it's not to say that these preachers
Speaker 1: don't have a place there is there are things. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Paul talked about the unknown God and the altar
Speaker 1: to the Unknown God, and it wasn't about preaching Jesus
Speaker 1: in name, but it was about preaching me in concept
Speaker 1: to get people's attention. And sometimes there's so many distractions.
Speaker 1: That's some of these preachers use that as a tool
Speaker 1: to get people involved in hearing the truth before they
Speaker 1: can naturally reject it based on up they said, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I'm running the other direction. And that's that's fine. This
Speaker 1: is a whole different thing. All glory to God of course,
Speaker 1: in all of these scenarios, but this is a different
Speaker 1: type of thing. We too, you know, use our own
Speaker 1: way to get your attention on this program in hopes
Speaker 1: of you maybe hearing some truth and learning some things.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 1: I like to focus on the things that are of
Speaker 1: great importance. And if this allows this venue allows us
Speaker 1: the opportunity to talk about those in a comfortable manner,
Speaker 1: then praise God and all glory goes to him. There
Speaker 1: was an article that came out. I won't get into
Speaker 1: all the details of it because it's not It's one
Speaker 1: you've probably heard many times before. Each with each new
Speaker 1: generation or each new group, there an article comes out
Speaker 1: about how they're rejecting religion. Now I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: it is the norm. Every younger generation wrestles with the
Speaker 1: faith of their fathers, and I use that as just
Speaker 1: the term. It's gonna be the faith of their mothers
Speaker 1: as well. But in that process of growing and wanting
Speaker 1: to find themselves, there is a lot of pressure to
Speaker 1: adapt to what other people are doing as well. And
Speaker 1: if it looks to be just a thing for adults,
Speaker 1: if it looks to be something that doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: understand modern times, then by definition, the faith and the
Speaker 1: belief just becomes ancient. It looks ancient, it sounds ancient,
Speaker 1: It is ancient. I want no part of it because
Speaker 1: I'm modern, so says the young millennial. Now it is
Speaker 1: the age old problem of the adults and those that
Speaker 1: have practiced the faith to not want anything to change,
Speaker 1: and the youth that need the faith but don't want
Speaker 1: to practice it in the old ways want to see
Speaker 1: it modify and grow. And this happens in scripture. There's
Speaker 1: stories of the new temple being built, and all the
Speaker 1: old folks didn't like it because they remember the other
Speaker 1: way the temple used to be and that's what they loved.
Speaker 1: And then the new the younger generation, loved it because
Speaker 1: while it's more modern, it has all of these things.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. If religion does not grow,
Speaker 1: if it is not living, breathing, if faith is not
Speaker 1: something that, like a branch of a tree, continues to
Speaker 1: grow and change and be pruned and bring forth fruit,
Speaker 1: it will die. You may not understand the ways of
Speaker 1: the youth or the desires of the youth. You may
Speaker 1: not understand there once. But I will tell you this
Speaker 1: without it becoming some sort of a liberal belief. And
Speaker 1: I don't use that in the political sense, but in
Speaker 1: the sense that you just want to pull apart scripture
Speaker 1: to the point where it's wishy washy and it means nothing,
Speaker 1: and no one's accountable. Nobody wants that, and I would
Speaker 1: never call upon that. Surprisingly enough people that listen to
Speaker 1: the show think that it's going to be a mockery
Speaker 1: of faith and that are surprised at the hard line
Speaker 1: we do take on things that are important, but also
Speaker 1: hopefully on the flip side, you learn something, and when
Speaker 1: we talk about things like homosexuality and the laws and marriage,
Speaker 1: that you see things different well, and that you learn
Speaker 1: and that you're capable of growing and understanding that there's
Speaker 1: something different about being a Christian versus being an American
Speaker 1: and learning all of the variables in between, so that
Speaker 1: there's growth. And I tell you these things because you,
Speaker 1: if you are on the older spectrum, need to understand
Speaker 1: what the needs of the younger spectrum is and learn
Speaker 1: to adapt. And you on the younger spectrum need to
Speaker 1: know that if you water it down to where it
Speaker 1: has no backbone, it will have zero value to you
Speaker 1: now or in the future. And in the process of
Speaker 1: watering something down, it loses the entirety of its value.
Speaker 1: There's a point where if you put the old joke
Speaker 1: about going to Las Vegas and then watering down your drinks,
Speaker 1: that you put enough water in the beverage it's no
Speaker 1: longer an alcoholic beverage. It's not just water, and to
Speaker 1: do that is to remove all of the power of
Speaker 1: what scripture has. So may the balance be met by
Speaker 1: both of you. Until next week. I am with you Always,
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