Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand. John,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me on. I'd like to talk
Speaker 2: about rank apocrisy in.
Speaker 1: The church or outside of the church.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what it's everywhere. It's not just the church,
Speaker 2: it's our government, it's our cities, it's our whole world.
Speaker 2: And it's almost comedic in some senses. When you think
Speaker 2: about it, you know, it's just absolutely sad.
Speaker 1: Well, hypocrisy is not new the word or the problem for.
Speaker 2: The American life. There are differences that you can most
Speaker 2: assuredly put your finger on. We had what we can
Speaker 2: call honest leaders back in the fifties and sixties, and
Speaker 2: it seems like these days acubular the total of whether
Speaker 2: it's a Republican or Democratic party has been trillion dollars
Speaker 2: of debt on our children's shoulders.
Speaker 1: John, John, do you really really think you had honest
Speaker 1: leaders in the fifties and sixties?
Speaker 2: Well, I would say that more so than today, they
Speaker 2: weren't perfectly okay?
Speaker 1: Now? Is that is that because that the systems that
Speaker 1: exist today, for instance, the Internet and the type of
Speaker 1: reporting that goes on, it's probably a little more gutsy
Speaker 1: in some sense, has not just uncovered more. Nowadays, it's
Speaker 1: easier to find things out, or it's harder to hide
Speaker 1: them in the reverse than it was in the fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties.
Speaker 2: Well, I would say that there's no doubt that in
Speaker 2: the fifties and even in the sixties, there were good
Speaker 2: conservative politicians who were willing to sacrifice up to fifty
Speaker 2: seventy five, sometimes even ninety percent of their income to
Speaker 2: prove their belief and not burdening their children and paying
Speaker 2: their bills and not putting it off onto their children's shoulders.
Speaker 1: I see. So you're saying that the core of the
Speaker 1: individual is different, that you've got people getting into politics
Speaker 1: who are getting into politics for wrongs.
Speaker 2: Who have a millionaires, calling themselves Republican and even calling
Speaker 2: themselves Christians, when you know, Jesus didn't go around with
Speaker 2: a chest of gold and gold crops.
Speaker 1: Okay, but there's John there's a difference. That wasn't my purpose. However,
Speaker 1: I did say that if you go into a town
Speaker 1: and they don't feed you, and they don't you know,
Speaker 1: clothe you and put you up and all of this,
Speaker 1: that you're to kick the sand off your sandals and
Speaker 1: never go back there again. I did say that there
Speaker 1: if that there were things that people needed to travel
Speaker 1: with most certainly there's. Money is not evil. The Bible
Speaker 1: does not say that money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 1: It says that the love of money is the root
Speaker 1: of all kinds of evil.
Speaker 2: A rich man I'm trying to get through heaven and
Speaker 2: into God's good graces is like a camel going through
Speaker 2: the eye of a needle.
Speaker 1: Why does everyone difficult? Difficult? Not impossible? Are you saying
Speaker 1: that Solomon is not in.
Speaker 2: Heaven what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: No. But you want to make a broad brush concept, John,
Speaker 1: which is not fair. Money is only a tool. It's
Speaker 1: when people see it as the end all that it
Speaker 1: becomes a problem. But money is just a tool, and
Speaker 1: it can do great things. You would agree with that,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you, John.
Speaker 2: Sure, But give me evidence of it to day.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, there's all kinds of charities that are doing
Speaker 1: wonderful things with money.
Speaker 2: Money can't denying that the trillion dollars of debt hanging
Speaker 2: over our.
Speaker 1: That doesn't have to do with money. That has to
Speaker 1: do with the use of money. The improper use of
Speaker 1: money debt.
Speaker 2: For century reality. John, There our politicians are as corrupt
Speaker 2: as our churches.
Speaker 1: Okay, John, I know the entire world is going to
Speaker 1: hell on a greased poll. I get it. But it's
Speaker 1: no different than it was. It's no different than it
Speaker 1: was two thousand years ago. I know that that that
Speaker 1: frustrates people. I know it's easier for you to say
Speaker 1: in my day it was better. But that's not the truth, John,
Speaker 1: that's not.
Speaker 2: It's a society of parasites. Why so, John, Because everything
Speaker 2: is geared towards maximum leveraged profitability. These days, we will
Speaker 2: go to China to get cheap labor.
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is, John? Do you know
Speaker 1: what that comes from? It comes from success. No, it
Speaker 1: comes it comes from success because people get soft when
Speaker 1: there's success. Success is always the downfall of anything. It
Speaker 1: was the debt fall of the Roman Empire, all that
Speaker 1: and lead in the water, but it's the downfall of
Speaker 1: any corporation. Corporations stop producing a product and start managing
Speaker 1: a piggy bank and they and it folds a country.
Speaker 1: Uh starts with freedoms, focusing on the freedoms John, and liberties,
Speaker 1: and then gets focused on what those how much money
Speaker 1: you can make from those liberties, and then seeing seizing
Speaker 1: on those liberties and that can You know, liberty can
Speaker 1: can kill as well. But you do it because it's right,
Speaker 1: not because people abuse it or don't abuse it. Liberty
Speaker 1: is something that is God given and should be enforced,
Speaker 1: should be allowed and enjoyed. However, it can be misused,
Speaker 1: just like money. So what you're telling me is not
Speaker 1: the use of or the existence of, it's the misuse of.
Speaker 1: It's taking something that is good. For instance, an knife
Speaker 1: in the hand of a surgeon can heal, in the
Speaker 1: hand of a mugger can take a life. But you
Speaker 1: can't just all those things you're saying have existed forever, John,
Speaker 1: You can hear, I mean, complain about them in scripture
Speaker 1: when I turn over the tables of the money changers
Speaker 1: in the temple and I say, you are making my
Speaker 1: father's house out to be this den of money exchanging
Speaker 1: and a marketplace two thousand years ago, John, you could
Speaker 1: read writings from Socrates talking about the way children are
Speaker 1: in his day. You can read all kinds of things
Speaker 1: throughout history people complained about the same thing. What were
Speaker 1: they complaining about in scripture two thousand years ago tax collectors.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change, because in order for it to change,
Speaker 1: a heart needs to change. I was tongue firmly planted
Speaker 1: in cheek when I said that it is easier for
Speaker 1: a camel to go through an eye of a needle
Speaker 1: than it is for a rich man to get into heaven.
Speaker 1: I was telling people that it is difficult, but it's
Speaker 1: not impossible. It's difficult because a rich man that only
Speaker 1: cares about money has a hard time taking his eyes
Speaker 1: and his gaze off anything but money. And the only
Speaker 1: way to get in heaven is to know God. And
Speaker 1: the only way to know God is to give God
Speaker 1: your attention. But make no mistake, John, if you think
Speaker 1: things were better back in the day, it was just
Speaker 1: that it was harder to find out when people were
Speaker 1: doing wrong. Unfortunately, what you're seeing now is although a
Speaker 1: gross exaggeration through reality shows and the like, because they're
Speaker 1: cutting out every you know, they're editing it for the
Speaker 1: most vulgar interactions in life, because that's what causes people
Speaker 1: to be interested in watching it. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you this, people have always done these things. The Ten
Speaker 1: Commandments weren't written just in case people start murdering just
Speaker 1: in case people start coveting, just in case people start
Speaker 1: doing adultery. It's because people were doing it then, thousands
Speaker 1: of thousands of years ago. And the best thing to
Speaker 1: do is not worry about everyone else, but to worry
Speaker 1: about John. To start with yourself and where your heart is,
Speaker 1: and not to live that way, and not to be
Speaker 1: that person, and not to think that way, and then
Speaker 1: try and make it as contagious as possible. Ryan, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 3: Hi, how are you sorry? I'm supposed to ask that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's okay, I am fine. How can I help you?
Speaker 3: I was born in Huntington Park, California, in nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: On my seventh birthday, my dad and I were in
Speaker 3: the house all alone, and my mother had walked on
Speaker 3: my dad again. Last thing my dad said to me
Speaker 3: is happy birthday, sport. And I heard deafening roar. My
Speaker 3: dad shot himself and killed himself right there in front
Speaker 3: of me. I ended up the boys Home in adel Georgia,
Speaker 3: and they told me that, you know, I had blaspheen
Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit and I was going to hell. I'm
Speaker 3: only marching my marking my time, so I went in
Speaker 3: the Marine Corps, spent two years and there, and then
Speaker 3: I went in the Seals because I found that I
Speaker 3: could be just as derogator. I figured, if I'm going
Speaker 3: to go to hell, then I'm gonna pay the way.
Speaker 3: It's already been written down. So I did that, and
Speaker 3: just seems that all in my life I ran in
Speaker 3: the people that were just they wouldn't they based everything
Speaker 3: off of a one time talking to you. I was
Speaker 3: when I was in Iraq. I had a bad brain
Speaker 3: injury and I've got shrapping off through my legs when
Speaker 3: I was in Fallujah, and you know, I called your
Speaker 3: show here a couple of weeks ago because I was
Speaker 3: really wondering, you know, if I if I had some
Speaker 3: way to repent and maybe get into heaven. Of course,
Speaker 3: the screener told me that I was drunk, and then
Speaker 3: again today she hung up on me, and they just you.
Speaker 1: Know, well, you know what, there's a there's a policy
Speaker 1: on the program. And this isn't personal against you, but
Speaker 1: there's a policy on the program because people do time
Speaker 1: of day that we are alive and things like that
Speaker 1: that people do from time to time called drunk, and
Speaker 1: and that there you know from dealing with people that
Speaker 1: are drunk from time to time that there's not a
Speaker 1: whole lot you can do for them when they're in
Speaker 1: that state. No, So so that does happen from time
Speaker 1: to time. But more importantly, you're on now, and I
Speaker 1: want to tell you that blasphemy the Holy Spirit, the
Speaker 1: only unpardonable sin uh is a continual sin. And you
Speaker 1: you can't be doing it right now. You wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be calling or questioning if you were in that state.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't care.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what I wonder is because it says
Speaker 3: in the battle you shall not commit murder. Well, that
Speaker 3: was with my job. I mean, it wouldn't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You call it murder, Morris, You didn't murder, you killed.
Speaker 1: There's a difference. There really is a deal.
Speaker 3: So I beg the different with you a few times.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 1: For that you will be accountable.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm just wondering. I mean that, shall
Speaker 3: I'm not commit murder? Now? Shall I not? Thank the
Speaker 3: Lawd's name in a vain And it says anyone who
Speaker 3: takes away from this book or whatever you know in
Speaker 3: revelations and then comes down answer real specific anyone who
Speaker 3: speaks a word against the Sun of Man will be forgiven,
Speaker 3: and against God will be forgiven. But whoever speaks a
Speaker 3: way against the Holy Spirit won't be forgiven in this
Speaker 3: age or the age come something. It's real clear there.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I don't, okay, But now I need to
Speaker 1: explain to you why, because you know time goes by quickly.
Speaker 1: So imagine if you were driving in a car and
Speaker 1: you're driving down a road and there's a cliff at
Speaker 1: the end of the road, and your family and friends
Speaker 1: are lined on that road and they're telling you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: there is a cliff at the end of the road.
Speaker 1: And you roll up the windows of the car and
Speaker 1: they start screaming, Ryan, there's a cliff at the end
Speaker 1: of the road. You go off it, you'll die. And
Speaker 1: you turn up the music and they start screaming and screaming, Ryan,
Speaker 1: there is a cliff at the end of the road.
Speaker 1: You have to stop. If you don't stop, you'll go
Speaker 1: off the cliff and you will die. And you ignore
Speaker 1: them and go off the cliff, you die, right, So
Speaker 1: blasphemy the Holy Spirit is every time the Spirit woos you,
Speaker 1: touches your heart, tries to get you to come to
Speaker 1: me that takes you to the Father. So if you
Speaker 1: don't go through that process, if you don't go you
Speaker 1: don't accept the Holy Spirit that brings you to Christ,
Speaker 1: that brings you to the Father, then you've rejected that.
Speaker 1: Unto death. The moment you die, you can't go back
Speaker 1: the same way. Ryan, you know this that if a
Speaker 1: bullet leaves the gun and enters a body and kills
Speaker 1: that person, you can't say, oh no, now I see
Speaker 1: the consequences. I would like to take that back. You can't.
Speaker 1: And it's the same with God. Unto death. When you die,
Speaker 1: your decision is final. That's what blasphem me and the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is. That's the finality of it. Clara, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 5: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: My pleasure. How can I help you?
Speaker 5: I cheated on my husband. We were married four or
Speaker 5: thirty years. I'm recovering alcoholic and probably drank over. Maybe
Speaker 5: we drifted apart years ago. We were young. I was
Speaker 5: in tenth grade and he was the ninth and we
Speaker 5: would have been married thirty years. But now I'm in
Speaker 5: a relationship almost me and a half years. He has
Speaker 5: a girlfriend and I feel sod of what I did.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry that I did it, but I didn't love
Speaker 5: him the way a man should I woman should love
Speaker 5: a man.
Speaker 1: And no, well wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, this
Speaker 1: is You're in a relationship now for three years and
Speaker 1: you said something a girlfriend.
Speaker 5: He has a girlfriend. Now we're divorced with been divorced.
Speaker 1: Okay, So your ex husband.
Speaker 5: And the man that i'm now with asked me to
Speaker 5: marry him. And first I want to know if I'll
Speaker 5: be forgiven for what I did.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, yes, you're You're forgiven. But God forgives those
Speaker 1: who reckon who truly repent and turn from the that
Speaker 1: which they were a participant in.
Speaker 5: And I made my amends to him, you know. And
Speaker 5: he wanted to work out the marriage. He wanted a chance,
Speaker 5: and I didn't. I didn't want to go to counsel,
Speaker 5: and I just why I didn't want to go back
Speaker 5: for when I was afraid I would dream again. Like
Speaker 5: I said, I'm a recovering alcoholic.
Speaker 1: But what does that have to do with your Was
Speaker 1: your ex husband a drinker?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: They all do, Yeah, the family all drinks and everything,
Speaker 5: But is he.
Speaker 1: Is he an alcoholic?
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think he is, and
Speaker 5: then he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Like he wouldn't have given it up for you and
Speaker 1: just not had it around the house.
Speaker 5: I don't think. So they still drink now, you know.
Speaker 5: I'm friends with him and talk to him, but I
Speaker 5: didn't love him the same. I didn't have that love.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, Clara, that's that's really it's garbage.
Speaker 1: I hear that all the time, and it's garbage. You're
Speaker 1: gonna the next guy. You're gonna wake up and he's
Speaker 1: gonna have bad breath in the morning too, and he's
Speaker 1: going to that. That whole falling in and out of
Speaker 1: love thing is not real. It's just it's it's people
Speaker 1: not wanting to work towards the relationship anymore.
Speaker 5: Maybe that wasn't.
Speaker 4: Maybe, well, that.
Speaker 1: Can happen with anyone. And if you can't work it there,
Speaker 1: then I don't think you deserve another one. The whole
Speaker 1: point is is if it's not disposable, it's this concept
Speaker 1: of you know, breaking the china and going, well, yes,
Speaker 1: but that's because I didn't want that plate, but I
Speaker 1: want a new piece of china, and I'm gonna eat
Speaker 1: off of this one. And it's gonna I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: it cleaning. No, it's people. If you don't respect the
Speaker 1: relationship for what it is, and that is good and bad,
Speaker 1: for better, for worse and sickness and in health and
Speaker 1: working towards it and giving the opportunity. God's always going
Speaker 1: to want you to reconcile, always unless they're beating you
Speaker 1: or there's uh, there's any kind of abuse physical emotional.
Speaker 5: We did have that that it could have been for
Speaker 5: a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, there's all kinds. But it depends if you
Speaker 1: are a participant in it. If you're a participant in
Speaker 1: it and you and you're drinking and the like or
Speaker 1: bringing that in.
Speaker 5: Okay, just that's the past. Though, what can I do?
Speaker 5: You know, I can't change it.
Speaker 1: Well, but I don't want you to relive it. I
Speaker 1: realize that that that can't change. But you have to.
Speaker 1: So you're in a different place now.
Speaker 5: Right, So do I marry again?
Speaker 1: But you bring the old you know, you bring the
Speaker 1: stuff into it. The marrying again is is your choice because.
Speaker 5: If I'm living in sin. You know, we went to church,
Speaker 5: we try to go to church together. We're both spiritual,
Speaker 5: and they frown, you know, they said, if you're living together,
Speaker 5: we'll find out, and so we didn't. Never went back,
Speaker 5: you know, because we're living together. So what do you know?
Speaker 1: So you haven't really changed?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Well, you're kind of doing things the way you want
Speaker 1: to do them because it's convenient.
Speaker 5: I prayed about it. I pray about it.
Speaker 1: I pray you pray about living together.
Speaker 5: No, I pray about making the right choices.
Speaker 1: Okay, while you're making the wrong choices. So which would
Speaker 1: if you were? Have you been in the program at all?
Speaker 5: A yes?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay. Are you going to sit there and tell them
Speaker 1: that you're you're praying about it while you're drinking? No, okay,
Speaker 1: but you're you're doing something, You're living a situation that
Speaker 1: doesn't glorify God, and then you're telling me you're praying
Speaker 1: about it. My concern is this, and it's not the situations.
Speaker 1: They will change. We talk about that all the time.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you that the old relationship is gone.
Speaker 1: But all you're doing is bringing the same stink into
Speaker 1: a new relationship. You need to work on you, not
Speaker 1: a relationship.
Speaker 5: I think God. Okay, in my I think God brought
Speaker 5: us together. We've been together three and a half years.
Speaker 1: And there's people that think that God calls them to
Speaker 1: kill other people. In this particular case, you're saying that
Speaker 1: God brought you together. That may very well be, and
Speaker 1: then you abuse it by living together and going against
Speaker 1: God's desire for your relationship.
Speaker 5: So we definitely don't have his.
Speaker 1: Blessings, not in its current state. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I don't love you, or doesn't mean that I don't
Speaker 1: want the best for you and that this can't work out.
Speaker 1: None of that's true. Of course, it can work out.
Speaker 1: It means it means that you're doing it your own way,
Speaker 1: and you didn't do it right the first time, and
Speaker 1: it won't change this time. You and I will just
Speaker 1: be talking in a couple of years.
Speaker 5: From now and the current situation that I'm in, and
Speaker 5: am I to leave them? I love them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Love them separately? Or get married. Why don't you
Speaker 1: guys get married?
Speaker 5: That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, but in that context, why is it taken
Speaker 1: three years? Why did you move in first?
Speaker 5: I shouldn't have if I made a mistake.
Speaker 1: Okay, but but this is what I want to know, honey.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that The situation can come and go,
Speaker 1: the guys can come and go. I care about you,
Speaker 1: and you keep taking the same luggage with you and
Speaker 1: wondering why, wondering why every room you go to has
Speaker 1: bed bugs. I'm saying they're in your luggage. You're bringing
Speaker 1: them to every room.
Speaker 5: And haven't been with many men. My husband was the
Speaker 5: first and this is the second. But I just want
Speaker 5: to I know I did it wrong.
Speaker 1: How long were you How long were you separated from
Speaker 1: your ex husband?
Speaker 5: Well, I went to Solber Living, so we were so
Speaker 5: worrited about two years.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you did you come across the uh, your
Speaker 1: new bo and so.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 1: And they tend to frown upon that, don't they.
Speaker 5: It was suggested not to get in a relationship.
Speaker 1: It was suggested very strong. It was oh boy, that
Speaker 1: seems to be a running theme now, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It does?
Speaker 1: Okay, So why why do you not follow directions? Everyone is.
Speaker 5: I just made wrong decisions? You know, I made wrong decisions,
Speaker 5: and I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't impact time, I know, but those But I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the past. I'm worried about the present
Speaker 1: and the future. And if you continue down this path,
Speaker 1: You're going to continue to make bad decisions and they're
Speaker 1: going to bite you in the fanny. And that's what
Speaker 1: I don't want. There's ways around this, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean people make these false dilemmas that it's either loneliness
Speaker 1: forever and ever and ever or make bad choices. That's
Speaker 1: just not right. That's, you know, like the thief who says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, ripping people off is all I know how
Speaker 1: to do. Are you? Are you kidding me? You're smarter
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just, you know, I just so bad about it.
Speaker 1: But I don't want you to feel bad. I don't
Speaker 1: want you to feel shame. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: feel anything that that that the you know, traditional church
Speaker 1: or attitude is going to make you feel. That's not
Speaker 1: my purpose. My purpose is for you to look at
Speaker 1: a decision pattern that you make that is against the
Speaker 1: will of God, the very God that you say that
Speaker 1: you love and you and that you worship and you
Speaker 1: want to guide you, and then you ignore how he
Speaker 1: guides you. And I'm saying, if you do that, will.
Speaker 5: You know I read on self when I make wrong
Speaker 5: choices and when I say I pray to him, I'm
Speaker 5: praying to him. But I'm not listen my guy.
Speaker 1: Nope, And you know right from wrong. You absolutely do.
Speaker 1: I can hear it in your voice. You're no dumby,
Speaker 1: and you call in and the very things you're saying
Speaker 1: you know are wrong as you're saying them, and you
Speaker 1: don't even need this is This is not new information.
Speaker 1: This is confirmation of things you knew when you called.
Speaker 1: So I'm not telling you anything new.
Speaker 5: No, you're not. Yep, you're not. So the right thing
Speaker 5: to do is to get married.
Speaker 1: Well, if this is, if this, if you're called to
Speaker 1: be with this man, nothing's going to keep you from
Speaker 1: this man, then at least do it right, marry him
Speaker 1: and be committed to one another. But you should decide
Speaker 1: these things beforehand. And people aren't gonna spiral into hell
Speaker 1: because they live together. It's not about that. And it's
Speaker 1: not just trying to be this big wet blanket in
Speaker 1: the sky telling you don't don't do things that you
Speaker 1: want to do. It's not what I'm trying to get across.
Speaker 1: It's that you sell yourself short on things. You sell
Speaker 1: yourself short on those first moments, first time you guys
Speaker 1: wake up together in the same bed, the first time
Speaker 1: you have breakfast together, the first time you make love
Speaker 1: in that bed, in that home, and those things, all
Speaker 1: those things you cheat yourself. You've already spent them, and
Speaker 1: now you get married and it's like, oh, well, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1: Of course, nothing's changed. It's the same old, same ole,
Speaker 1: and you sell yourself short. And that's that's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get across. Elliott, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi,
Speaker 1: I am well, how can I help you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I would like to say that share your message you
Speaker 4: know about spiritual growth and strength is very very good message.
Speaker 4: For a very long time for myself, I was going
Speaker 4: through a lot of those things and I'm slowly coming
Speaker 4: out of that situation where just the lack of education
Speaker 4: and the long term job that I had also went
Speaker 4: under me. So when you're in a position where you
Speaker 4: can't afford the fancy cars and the big house and
Speaker 4: not able to put out for your kids anymore, people
Speaker 4: do want to look upon down on you. But I
Speaker 4: also feel that the spiritual growth that I have have
Speaker 4: gotten from just being off about it, not trying to
Speaker 4: hide it. And that's where I agree on your point
Speaker 4: of view that you.
Speaker 1: Know, what's interesting, Elliott, is that you pointed out the
Speaker 1: difference between there are a lot of people that are
Speaker 1: accountable to the world and what the world thinks of
Speaker 1: them about the cars and the luxury and the things
Speaker 1: that they own, rather than being accountable just to their family,
Speaker 1: or being accountable to that which is true and good,
Speaker 1: making an honest living, rather than thinking, oh, well, this
Speaker 1: is what I have to do. And there is a
Speaker 1: major major difference between the two, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, And some of the things that I was lacking,
Speaker 4: I'm actually I'm starting to gather those type of tools
Speaker 4: such as education and some of the things that I
Speaker 4: want to pursue now that will put me in a
Speaker 4: better position.
Speaker 1: So definitely, Well, excellent, what's going on today? Did you
Speaker 1: have a question?
Speaker 4: No, I don't. That was pretty much it. I think
Speaker 4: everybody needs to really kind hear your message that you
Speaker 4: have because it's a very special thing. People need to know.
Speaker 4: Other scripture that talk about, you know, the stature of
Speaker 4: a person when they're going through a lot, and I
Speaker 4: think it's.
Speaker 1: Not well, I'm so glad that you called. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that it hits home with It's important that you know,
Speaker 1: whenever we bring something up. We don't do sermons really
Speaker 1: or any of that type of thing on the show.
Speaker 1: It's just not who we are. But there are a
Speaker 1: lot of truths that are in scripture that sometimes people
Speaker 1: don't know how to mine out or see. And often
Speaker 1: it's confirmation. You know, you feel a certain way, or
Speaker 1: you hear certain things or and you're not sure. And
Speaker 1: my hope is that on the program, when you hear
Speaker 1: them here, that it solidifies what you're going through and
Speaker 1: helps explain certain things and emboldens you to the truth
Speaker 1: because you can feel alone a lot of times when
Speaker 1: you're doing those things and you're kind of feeling like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, is this the right path or is it's
Speaker 1: not about not having things, are not working hard or
Speaker 1: any of that. Of course, God calls you to work hard.
Speaker 1: But the art of accountability is so wonderful because it's
Speaker 1: in every part of your life. It's so funny how
Speaker 1: how many people know how to be accountable in the workplace,
Speaker 1: the task at hand, it's in front of you at
Speaker 1: the time you're supposed to be there, what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. So it's a matter of oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is what I do, this is the task at hand,
Speaker 1: and I'll be accountable to that. But on every day,
Speaker 1: on the everyday level, when you have to interact with
Speaker 1: God and the people around you, is when people get
Speaker 1: wishy washy, and it's very easy to try and be
Speaker 1: accountable to the world for the concepts of the world, money, fame, power,
Speaker 1: all these things, and forget about the bigger picture of accountability,
Speaker 1: that accountability is towards God and towards God's people and
Speaker 1: to the things of God. This world today is an
Speaker 1: interesting one when you'll send your kids off to play
Speaker 1: soccer or baseball or Little League, any of these things,
Speaker 1: and everyone gets a trophy and no one really keeps score,
Speaker 1: and therefore there's no accountability. The frustration is that on
Speaker 1: one side you've got a bureaucracy or a very wishy
Speaker 1: washy concept of well, every kid just for showing up
Speaker 1: gets an award. Now I get that, if you want
Speaker 1: to acknowledge everyone for playing during over a season is
Speaker 1: one thing. But there will be a team that is
Speaker 1: better than the other team. There will be a player
Speaker 1: that is better than other players. And if you don't
Speaker 1: acknowledge that, if you aren't accountable to them as they
Speaker 1: are accountable to the rules of the game, no one
Speaker 1: learns and no one gets better, and so you end
Speaker 1: up pumping out a class of child that doesn't know
Speaker 1: whether they're good or bad at something and doesn't care,
Speaker 1: and therefore there's no accountability, not even to the simple
Speaker 1: rules of a game. And then when that child grows up,
Speaker 1: then you just get an adult who's not accountable. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it that way. Or you
Speaker 1: see people jumping from job to job and not ever
Speaker 1: wanting to learn or to truly grow, that comes exactly
Speaker 1: from this concept of not being accountable. And so I
Speaker 1: was thinking over and praying over what I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to you about today. I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that it wasn't just some sort of religious accountability, because
Speaker 1: it's more than that. It plays a part in every
Speaker 1: nook and cranny of your life, your relationships. A lot
Speaker 1: of relationships break down because of accountability. Focus on the
Speaker 1: act of accountability in every part, every walk of your life.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me this Sunday, joining me next Sunday,
Speaker 1: And remember, more importantly than all the nuttiness in this world,
Speaker 1: I am with you always KFI AM six forty on
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