WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.040 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:11.320 In the eighteen hundreds, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a short 3 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:17.199 tale with Great Insight. This tale was about two dishonest 4 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:21.440 weavers Maybe you remember it, I'm sure you do, claiming 5 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.399 to be creating this new suit made out of invisible 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.960 thread that was to be warned by the Emperor himself 7 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.759 it's going to be his new duds. These two weavers 8 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:37.560 informed the Emperor that the suit is designed so that 9 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:41.679 it would only look invisible or appear invisible to those 10 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.359 who were not fit for their position in life, where 11 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:52.119 they were lacking competence or just plain stupid. The two 12 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.640 weavers even went so far as to pretend to personally 13 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:01.799 dress the Emperor. They went through it all minding every 14 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:05.840 action of a real tailor as they went on their way. 15 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:15.079 Now I know you know the story. This point, everyone, 16 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:20.519 even the Emperor, pretended not to see the suit. I mean, 17 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.519 if they saw the suit, he'd have to admit that 18 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:24.799 maybe he was not in the right station at life, 19 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:32.359 or maybe he was stupid, maybe he lacked competence, so 20 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:39.239 he didn't say anything. So everyone pretended not to see 21 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:44.439 the suit, even though they could not just so they 22 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:51.840 would not appear to look incompetent or foolish. That's one 23 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.480 type of yes man. Yes man who doesn't want to 24 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:58.599 look silly or foolish or incompetent. That says yes or 25 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.239 concurs with everything, with the hopes of never never having 26 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:13.319 the light shined on them pointing out their flaws. But 27 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.319 ultimately there's going to be someone, let's hope, someone so 28 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:23.719 bold to stand up. And in the case of the 29 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.680 Hans Christian Andersen story, ultimately it took the raw honesty 30 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.400 of a child to stand up to yell out. The 31 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:39.560 emperor has no clothes, the man is naked. Nobody's seeing 32 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:51.840 that the man is naked. This lovely cautionary tale predates 33 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:57.719 Andersen's writings, actually with Spanish, Arab and Jewish versions of sorts. 34 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:04.879 Why well, because the concept of going with the flow 35 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.319 or lying to get ahead has been around since the 36 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:14.879 beginning of time. This is nothing new. 37 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:17.240 So in a. 38 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.879 Child's fairy tale and a short story, the moral continues 39 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.800 to bash you on the head to try and teach you. 40 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.960 Zach Zeips, an American retired professor of German at the 41 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.719 University of Minnesota, wrote about Hans Christian Andersen and The 42 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:39.439 Emperor's New Clothes, saying it was a tale of the 43 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:47.960 courage of one's conviction and that sight becomes insight, which 44 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:54.280 in turn prompts action. You gotta love that. I'm very 45 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.759 well put. Essentially, if you see something wrong, speak up 46 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.840 and change it. In other words, don't yeah, yes man. 47 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:13.599 The truth is that when people gain power by listening 48 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:20.879 to the honest criticisms of others, that's how they grow. 49 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:22.959 That is the part of the process. They are going 50 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:29.639 to gain power. You are going to get better, gain strength, authority, power, stability. 51 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:30.480 When you. 52 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:40.199 Listen to good, honest criticism. Scripture says that there is 53 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:45.120 wisdom in a multitude of counsel and if you're listening 54 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.120 to the right people, then you're getting good words and 55 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:56.439 good understanding. So the truth is that people gain power, 56 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.519 the very power most people think or seek, whether it's 57 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:08.959 hopefully to be used for good. So you gain this 58 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:15.160 power by listening to the honest criticisms of others. And 59 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.920 when you refuse to listen to those who really love 60 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.279 you enough to be honest with you, you're going to fail. 61 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:27.360 That's why gaining success is so much easier than keeping success. 62 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:33.079 When you're climbing, you take all the tips you can get, 63 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:38.319 But when you're standing on top of the mountain, it 64 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:42.680 seems that no one, no one, not even the closest 65 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:50.319 people to you, can tell you anything unless Heaven forbid, 66 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:57.720 they agree with you. So you ask other people as 67 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.240 you're trying to gain power or growing something, and you're 68 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.680 listening to everyone all their honest criticism, and that becomes productive. 69 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.680 But the minute you gain success, then you ignore everyone. 70 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.560 This is why gaining success is always easier than keeping success. 71 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.439 Don't ever get to that place where you're just looking 72 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.120 for people to agree with you. Scripture says in Proverbs 73 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:29.160 twelve twenty two, the Lord detests lying lips, but he 74 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:34.120 delights in men who are truthful. It is so important 75 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:36.639 that you are truthful with the people in your life, 76 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:42.199 especially the ones you love. There's just some bizarre things 77 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.279 that go on in relationships. I've never understood how a 78 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:50.160 true friend, a real true friend, would rather pretend they 79 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.240 don't see the spinach any other friend's teeth, of course, 80 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.759 leading them to the embarrassing situation of hearing it from 81 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:03.279 a stranger, then to step up and tell them, hey, 82 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:08.240 you have spinach in your teeth. How could that be wrong? 83 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.000 How could that be hard or difficult to point that 84 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.199 out when you know someone's going to and I know 85 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.319 that this example may be benign. But if you aren't 86 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.360 honest about the little things in life, you won't be 87 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.439 honest about the big things either. Scripture points this out 88 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.360 very clearly. Luke sixteen to ten says whoever can be 89 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.920 trusted with very little can also be trusted with very much, 90 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.759 And whoever is dishonest with very little will also be 91 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:44.920 dishonest with much. There's no line there that if you 92 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.720 can master this in the small things, if you're able 93 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.120 to do the small things in life and be righteous 94 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.240 on those things, then the larger things will not be 95 00:07:54.279 --> 00:08:01.079 as difficult. There's a lot of opportunity for you just to 96 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.560 just to tell somebody what they want to hear. But 97 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:10.519 to one end? Is this to benefit you? Is this 98 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.279 so you'll be liked? Or are you like some of 99 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.040 these klingons that seem in these stories are just people 100 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:18.759 who are trying to get material goods or get some 101 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.399 fame themselves. Maybe hopefully it'll rub off or all look 102 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:23.680 like I'm one of their confidants. 103 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:25.519 No, you don't look like one of their confidants. 104 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.920 You look like a yes man, someone who has no 105 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.759 backbone or thought of their own, just somebody who will 106 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.799 say whatever it takes to get a smile of the 107 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:43.799 person they're trying to manipulate. It's easy to get caught 108 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:49.039 up when you're having times of success and you're hitting 109 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.679 a good stride to want to surround yourself with the 110 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:56.039 people that you think are good partners, and often, unfortunately, 111 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.720 that means people that are just saying what you want 112 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:06.519 them to say. We've looked at the fact that Luke 113 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:10.080 sixteen ten says whoever can be trusted with very little 114 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.519 can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest 115 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.919 with very little will be dishonest with much. A good 116 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.919 rule to understand that a good person is going to 117 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.279 be a good person in the big times and heavy 118 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.399 times and the small times. But this all works both ways. 119 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.360 You should be honest with those around you, and you 120 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:37.080 should want to surround yourself with honest people as well. 121 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:43.120 Exodus eighteen twenty one says, but select capable men from 122 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.080 all the people, Men who fear God, trustworthy men who 123 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:54.600 hate dishonest gain in cases like that, The Bible is 124 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:56.919 clear when it warns you not to help the wicked 125 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.440 by lying for them. Exodus twenty three, do not spread 126 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.360 false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being 127 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:09.840 a malicious witness, essentially being you know, going on the 128 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:21.799 stand and defending someone whose actions are indefensible. Telling someone 129 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:27.720 the lies they want to hear while they are hurting themselves. Similarly, 130 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:33.039 is like taking a bribe to help the wicked, and 131 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:38.679 you end up being a part of that. You're either 132 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.679 their yes man or you are the type that are 133 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.279 welcoming yes men into your circle because it's much easier 134 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.799 than having a mirror held up and having to be accountable. 135 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:53.519 A key word that pops up on this program all 136 00:10:53.559 --> 00:11:01.039 the time, accountability. Deuteronomy sixteen, nighte teen and twenty says, 137 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:09.039 do not pervert justice or show partiality, meaning always the 138 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.360 straight line is the straight line is the straight line. 139 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.360 Don't try and justify something for your own gain. It 140 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.799 goes on to say, do not accept a bribe for 141 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.480 a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists 142 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:27.559 the words of the righteous. Follow justice and justice alone, 143 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.000 so that you may live and possess the land. The 144 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:34.679 Lord your God is giving you. So this is saying, listen, 145 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.000 I get that there's short gain or what seems like 146 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.000 short gain out there, that you can do things and 147 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:42.840 you got a bribe, or you get this here, you 148 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:43.159 get that. 149 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:44.240 There, you get the. 150 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:49.840 Love intention of people. But if you do this, then 151 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.840 even your good heart, even your good intentions, will start 152 00:11:52.840 --> 00:12:01.679 to blur like the blind eyes of the wise, because 153 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.720 now the words, the righteous words of the righteous man, 154 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.960 become twisted. And now there's an agenda. And you know, 155 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.799 when money's involved or things are involved, the agenda always 156 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:19.960 gets twisted, right, there's always this thick agenda no matter 157 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.279 what when money is involved. And it's sad because good 158 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:33.440 people are taken down and sick people are ignored. Worse 159 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.799 than all of this, bad people continue to do bad 160 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:46.159 things because no one speaks up. Yes, the truth can hurt, 161 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:53.480 but the sting of the truth lasts only a moment. However, 162 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:57.679 the lies of a so called friend can destroy you 163 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:08.399 for life. You have to remember that. Susan, Welcome to 164 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:09.279 the Jesus Christ Show. 165 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.360 Good morning, Jesus. How are you I am well? How 166 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.639 are you I'm great? My question is what is hell? 167 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.919 And where do we find reference to a description of 168 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:23.120 hell in the Bible. 169 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.000 Okay, there are many, and I do want to clarify 170 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.720 that this show does not promote the kind of universalism 171 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:34.559 everyone goes to heaven or there's like soul sleep or destruction, 172 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.720 anything other than scriptural, which is there will be those 173 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.600 that choose God and will go on with eternal life 174 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.639 with God, and those that reject God and will go 175 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.000 on with life in the rejection of God. 176 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.759 Yeah, I don't buy his whole story. 177 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.399 Is really kind of where it lands, and so that 178 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.720 it's becoming popular now. And the truth is people don't 179 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:01.960 want to be accountable. And the problem in a lot 180 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.039 of this is that think about it. If Hell is 181 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.320 so unbelievable and doesn't seem righteous, then heaven must seem 182 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:14.399 unbelievable and unrighteous, because no one deserves heaven. So if 183 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.600 no one deserves hell, then no one deserves heaven. And 184 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:25.480 the interesting use of the word here in Matthew twenty five, 185 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.240 verse twenty six, it says, and these will go away 186 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.600 into eternal punishment. It goes on to say, but the 187 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:36.840 righteous into eternal life. The word there for eternal in 188 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:41.320 both cases is aonious in the Greek, and it means eternal. 189 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.679 So if these people don't go away into eternal punishment, 190 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.879 then the righteous don't go to eternal life. But what 191 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.320 is the punishment, Well, the punishment really and as far 192 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.279 as the verses, and I'll give you some verses you 193 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:59.080 can look up. You've got Matthew eighteen to eight. Second 194 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:04.200 Thessalonians one, eight and nine that talks about the everlasting chains, 195 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.919 the eternal fire that people talk about Jude seven, the 196 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.919 outer darkness Matthew eight twelve, the wrath of God Romans 197 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.720 two five, the lake that burns with fire, and brimstone 198 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:23.000 Revelation twenty one to eight. A place prepared for Satan 199 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.399 and his angels Matthew twenty five forty one. So there 200 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.840 are many that are talked about, but I'll put it 201 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:32.440 to you this way. God is everywhere. So there are 202 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.840 a lot of theologians that debate back and forth Susan about, well, 203 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.600 so is God in hell? And there are those that 204 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.559 just emphatically say, no, God is not in hell. But 205 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:46.080 technically God would have to be everywhere. However, the salvation 206 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:49.840 of God is not in hell. And so imagine it 207 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.159 this way. There are a lot of people I know 208 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.679 that hate water. They can't stand it. They do not 209 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.720 like the taste of water, and they'll tell you right 210 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.159 out to your face they don'tdrink water, but they do. 211 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.720 They don't drink water in water form, they don't go 212 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.000 and get a glass of water, But in every juice, 213 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.720 every soda, every piece of fruit, everything that they do 214 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.440 eat or drink has some water in it. And so 215 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.960 they're getting the benefits of that water, thinking they're not 216 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.120 drinking any water. Likewise, there are people that walk this 217 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.440 earth that don't believe in God that get the benefit 218 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.960 of God even though they don't go to a church 219 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:33.039 or don't experience typical companionship with other Christians or any 220 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.360 of that. They get it through other believers coming by them, 221 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.679 or the way other believers run their life kind of 222 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.679 overflows under them. So likewise, like they're drinking all these 223 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.080 other liquids and they're saying they're not drinking water, they 224 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.919 really are. That even the atheist or the non believer 225 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.320 is reaping benefits of this world just by living in 226 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:55.440 this world where other Christians are. So imagine a place 227 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.559 where now those Christians are subtracted and God in the 228 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:05.039 sustinary sense is subtracted and now all you have is 229 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:10.359 that thirst and the absence of anything that can quench it. So, 230 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.440 staying with the analogy, if you imagine that person who 231 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.000 says they don't like water, but they get it and 232 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.960 everything else that they drink. Now they're in a desert 233 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.240 that has nothing, none of that, no water, and no 234 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.480 fruit and no you know, soda pop and none of that. 235 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.000 And now they're really feeling the power of what water 236 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:34.880 is in any form, yet they can't get it. Essentially, 237 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.359 that is hell. It's the absence of the salvation or 238 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:42.519 sustaining power of God. So that the Some argue that 239 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.440 it's literal fire and brimstone, and some argue that it's not. 240 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.559 Some argue the physical attributes of hell really don't matter. 241 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.279 The truth of the matter is that it is the 242 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:57.319 absence and unpleasant because it's the true realization. It's if 243 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:00.319 somebody picks up a gun, points it at someone else, 244 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.759 thinks that the gun is fake, squeezes the trigger, and 245 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.880 kills someone. They can't now understand the weight of the situation. 246 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.240 Go okay, I want I want a do over. I 247 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.880 want that bullet back in the gun, and that person alive. 248 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.079 Can't you would live with that forever. That action is 249 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:20.440 a one time action that will go on forever. If 250 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:25.000 you kill someone done, that action is forever. Well, imagine 251 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.440 rejecting God and now you've you've made the choice to 252 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.119 reject God for the sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred 253 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.640 measlely years you're on this planet. God won't force you 254 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:39.000 to love him for eternity, which is all eternity is 255 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.039 and heaven is. So he says, I'll let you go 256 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:44.960 somewhere where I'm not and you can be there. They 257 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.440 will realize the weight of it in its fullness, but 258 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.480 they've made the choice based on everything they could know, 259 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:54.440 the same choice everyone else did, and the weight of 260 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.319 the decision often is looked at as well, Gosh, it 261 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.440 seems so, it seems so, you know, like so heavy, 262 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.440 But so is heaven. Heaven is not, you know, not 263 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.680 something that a person should be able to receive any 264 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.559 more than Hell is. But it's done based on justice, 265 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:14.440 you know that, because certain things that you do, depending 266 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.200 on who you do them, have different consequences. So Susan, 267 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.599 for instance, if you were to hit a brother or sister, 268 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:24.920 that would be wrong. You slap them in the face. 269 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.279 That'd be wrong, but you're you know, parents might break 270 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:30.319 it up and say, okay, well they're young, they're just 271 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:35.240 being silly. If you were to slap your parent, same act, 272 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:41.720 different consequence, right, Okay, Now now you take that, Oh yeah, 273 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:43.920 I remember, that'd be a big consequence. Now you take 274 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.559 that and you do the same act and you slap 275 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:51.799 law enforcement, same act, different consequence. Right now you're looking 276 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:56.839 at possible jail time, same act, total different consequence. Now, 277 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:58.400 the same act that you did to your brother or 278 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:00.400 sister that might have just been broken up by mom 279 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:03.839 and dad, and then you hit your mom and that 280 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.200 becomes something different. Now you're punished by your dad or 281 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:10.039 vice versa, and then law enforcement comes in you slap them. 282 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.279 Now there's possible jail time. So what we've learned is 283 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:16.599 that the same act done upon different people can have 284 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:21.000 different consequences. So now think about slapping the face and 285 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:27.319 rejecting the Holy and righteous, true, eternal God. The punishment, 286 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:33.759 by definition susan has to be eternal. And so although 287 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:36.880 it doesn't seem fair, really, the more you look at it, 288 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:41.200 the more fair it is. And I never hear people saying, gosh, 289 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:42.759 it's so unfair that I get to go to heaven 290 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:48.279 because I believe no, And that's equally as unfair, but 291 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.079 it's based on justice. And the justice in this case 292 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:53.079 is that God so loved the world that he gave 293 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.440 his only begotten son and let him come and die, 294 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:00.559 that whoever would believe in him would have that price 295 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:06.119 paid for and have everlasting life. And those that reject 296 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.319 that God loves them enough to say, okay, I will 297 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:11.240 allow you to reject that. Imagine if you had a 298 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:13.359 child who didn't want to live with you, didn't want 299 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.640 to be with you, and it's freezing outside and there's 300 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:18.960 no food and there's no warmth, and you love them 301 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:20.920 and you're trying to you're trying to get them, but 302 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.920 you can't force them because that's no longer love. So 303 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.759 you let them go and they die outside. It's like 304 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:32.000 they That's what hell is. It's it's the ultimate act 305 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:36.759 of freedom on behalf of a human being that abolishes 306 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.400 all freedom. It just is someone who says, I don't 307 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:43.759 want it, I'm sorry, don't care, don't want it, don't 308 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:46.240 love God here, won't don't want to love him for eternity, 309 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.359 and he says, okay, not my will be done, but 310 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:50.319 I will apparently. 311 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:59.240 Thank you so much for explaining that so well. I've 312 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:06.079 heard you say, for the hell is an absence of God, yes, 313 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:10.799 and and I really wasn't getting what absence of God meant. 314 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.480 It's really more the absence of His salvation basically. Basically, 315 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.960 it's the absence of Me, the absence of Christ, and 316 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:21.079 the absence of the sustaining power of God, which is 317 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:25.680 the Holy Spirit, the interacting, the comforter all these things. 318 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:29.279 But God has to be everywhere. So God is, you know, 319 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.559 authoritative over all things. But God is not present in 320 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:35.839 the same way that he's present here on Earth. That's 321 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.759 why when people say, you know, earth is hell, No 322 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:42.599 it's not. There's still that's there. You're still getting water 323 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:46.079 out of the fruit punch. You know, there's still You're 324 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:50.000 still getting bits of God and the benefit of God 325 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:53.039 looking over this place. Even when things are horrible because 326 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.839 of choice as man has made, uh it, you know, 327 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:58.960 you're still getting those things there. And people forget that 328 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:03.119 and don't get it until it's all gone. And in 329 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.279 that absence that reality will be purer than ever. However, 330 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:09.519 there is enough of it there for people to make 331 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:13.680 the whole decision, just like picking up that gun. Well, 332 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.000 it might be fake, yeah, but it might not. It 333 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:19.440 has the weight, it has the shape, it has. 334 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:19.920 All those things. 335 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:22.279 You pull the trigger, you should expect to think that 336 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.839 it could kill, and that even people that work in 337 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.960 film and television that work with guns that have been 338 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:35.079 modified to use as blanks. You've used with blanks, treat 339 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:37.680 them like real weapons on the set if they're doing 340 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:41.920 it right, because you know, there's even actors that have 341 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.160 been killed by blanks. Because you should treat it as 342 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.559 if it's real, and if they don't, then it can 343 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.559 cause death. So you can't undo the decision. You have 344 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:55.240 all the information you need to make the proper decision. 345 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:57.920 It's not about ignorance. People don't go to hell because 346 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:00.000 oh I didn't know, I didn't hear about this. Jesus, 347 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.400 that sounds like a good, good deal that everybody will 348 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.720 get the same opportunity to accept or reject and basically say, 349 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:09.920 I rather go through door A or through the door B. 350 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.880 It's not just God doing some checklist because somebody annoys him. 351 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.160 And that's what some of these preachers try and convey 352 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:20.880 is that it's just God's mighty party list, and you 353 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.599 have to be on this exclusive list to get in, 354 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:24.720 and in that sense it makes it look ugly. But no, 355 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:28.759 the door opens and locks on the side of the person, 356 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.400 not on the side of God, and the individual chooses 357 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:33.160 where they want to go. 358 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:33.680 And why. 359 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.079 All right, my dear, thank you so much. 360 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:39.680 You have a blessed day, and give my love to 361 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:40.599 your old man Bob. 362 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:42.880 Alrighty, I will all right, bye. 363 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:49.759 Bye, don welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. 364 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.519 Thank you for taking my pleasure. 365 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:56.240 I have a question with regards to the disposal of 366 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:01.119 our physical remains once we die. The Bible talks quite 367 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:05.200 frequently about the physical aspect of what's going to the grave. Well, 368 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:08.359 our soul and spirit goes to heaven. For those of 369 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.200 us who have been saved. These days, so many people 370 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.559 are cremating their bodies and disposing of the ashes. The 371 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.160 Bible says that when you return, you'll bring our physical 372 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:23.400 bodies and our souls back together. And I'm curious as 373 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:26.480 to how that will occur if people are burning their 374 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:32.279 bodies and disposing of their ashes in all unlikely places. 375 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:37.519 You know an excellent question. You know the old scriptural 376 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.759 reference ashes to ashes. What to what dust to dust, okay, 377 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:46.480 and out of the dust of the earth man was 378 00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:50.559 made correct, correct, Okay. So if you think of it, 379 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:55.440 you're thinking it very anthropomorphic, pomorphically, you're thinking of it 380 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.319 very humanly. Well, you know, humans can't recreate a human 381 00:25:59.359 --> 00:25:59.799 who's this? 382 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:00.279 That? 383 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.799 And not to be too graphic, but down do you 384 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.880 know what takes place when you bury a body and 385 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:12.480 it's exposed to the elements oxygen, oxygen and like, yep, 386 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:19.079 and and quite quickly and and in its a decomposition, 387 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:24.440 it becomes essentially ash and dust. I mean, it will 388 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:30.400 break down to its most simplest and simplistic form. That's 389 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:34.319 going to happen regardless. All cremation is is speeding up 390 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:36.720 that process. And if you think for one second God's 391 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:39.599 going to come back in all his glory and then go, oh, 392 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:41.440 my goodness, I gotta put Okay, let's see the hip 393 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.000 bone connected to the thigh bone and thigh bone. No, 394 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.400 you're gonna be fine from ashes. You came from ashes. 395 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.799 You return and God can bring you back from any state. 396 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:53.880 There's not a technicality where God's going, well, Gosh, I 397 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:55.920 can raise people from the dead, but not in this state. 398 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.839 That's a mess. That's just not the case. There's nothing wrong. 399 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:04.240 Now our Jewish brothers and sisters feel differently about cremation, 400 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:10.359 but in the state of your Christianity and what you believe, uh, 401 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:16.440