Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six on demand. James, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, How can I help you?
Speaker 1: James?
Speaker 3: We in reference to a close friend that you would
Speaker 3: tell them if they had something in their teeth. It
Speaker 3: made me think of I have a close friend. In fact,
Speaker 3: she's my wife, and whenever I bring something up that
Speaker 3: you know she's doing that it's not acceptable in God's sight,
Speaker 3: like using God's name in vain. She gets defensive or
Speaker 3: excuse my French, that kind of stuff, and I just
Speaker 3: don't know how to handle it. It just makes me
Speaker 3: not want to even it shuts down our communication, is
Speaker 3: what it does.
Speaker 1: Well, if you know that that deep down that she
Speaker 1: do you feel that she's a good person and this
Speaker 1: is just one of those things that she's working through,
Speaker 1: or do you feel that she you know that maybe
Speaker 1: coming from you, she might be rejecting it, but she
Speaker 1: hears it, so on the outside she's rejecting it, but
Speaker 1: really it's something she's working on and wants to be
Speaker 1: left alone about it because there could be a difference.
Speaker 1: It's like if you know someone's telling you to take
Speaker 1: out the trash, take out the trash, take out the trash.
Speaker 1: It's human nature to not want to take out the
Speaker 1: trash until you know no one's around. You laugh because
Speaker 1: you're a man and you've done that. So it's like
Speaker 1: there's just there's that kind of you. There's two ways
Speaker 1: of doing that. It doesn't mean that she's not hearing
Speaker 1: it or that she doesn't agree with you. It just
Speaker 1: means maybe the way it's being presented to her might
Speaker 1: put her off, because do you really think that she
Speaker 1: wants to offend God?
Speaker 3: No, I really don't think she wants to turn guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, then it's something that she's probably working on and
Speaker 1: is aware of at this point, and so maybe it's
Speaker 1: something that you guys can slowly work on by way
Speaker 1: of You know, I love you, but every time I
Speaker 1: hear it makes me cringe. And I know that you
Speaker 1: that you love God and that you're not trying to
Speaker 1: offend God, and that's not my concern. I know you're
Speaker 1: not trying to do that, but it starts to offend
Speaker 1: me and then I hear it because I work it hard.
Speaker 1: I work hard not to say those things. So may
Speaker 1: I ask for you not to do it in front
Speaker 1: of me?
Speaker 4: Only?
Speaker 1: That's all I ask and that way it becomes different.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very hard to take correction, even the
Speaker 1: best correction is hard to take. And maybe she might
Speaker 1: come around and say eventually, you know, thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you for that. I just it's hard for me and
Speaker 1: I get embarrassed and when you point it out then
Speaker 1: it makes me feel less then and then I have
Speaker 1: all these insecurity issues that come up about whether you
Speaker 1: care about me or and all of these things that
Speaker 1: she's dealing with, and it becomes something that it's not.
Speaker 1: But really to break it down and kind of work
Speaker 1: through it and look at it a little different, so
Speaker 1: it's not a you know, I'm of this and you're that,
Speaker 1: or I'm a have you're a have not, or any
Speaker 1: of those things. You can simply ask her why why
Speaker 1: she does it, and that you're curious because you know
Speaker 1: how much she loves God or where her heart is
Speaker 1: and where it comes from. You know, my producer Neil
Speaker 1: has a mouth and a half on him, and eventually
Speaker 1: he steps in it with things he says and people
Speaker 1: point it out, and sometimes he reacts poorly, and sometimes
Speaker 1: he takes a deep breath and thinks, Okay, that was right,
Speaker 1: and I need to work on that. I think most
Speaker 1: people fall into that category. I find if somebody accepts
Speaker 1: it too soon, they probably didn't really hear it or
Speaker 1: consume it properly. And if somebody keeps pushing it off
Speaker 1: there dealing with some other issues there. But if you
Speaker 1: hit somewhere in the middle and they go, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work on. I'm gonna do a little couple of steps,
Speaker 1: and then you check yourself and make sure you don't
Speaker 1: do these things and make sure you're not putting her
Speaker 1: in a position to want to say those things, then
Speaker 1: I think everything and work out in the long run.
Speaker 1: Does that seem fair?
Speaker 3: Yes very much, so, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, and I pray that works out for you.
Speaker 1: Communication is, you know, coming from the word commune to
Speaker 1: come together, to fellowship, to spend time together is incredibly important.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately we learn words and we think and can
Speaker 1: build sentences and we think we know how to communicate, right, well,
Speaker 1: you don't. Communication is in addition to words and syntax
Speaker 1: and sentences and all of these things, it's about going
Speaker 1: on and speaking to somebody in a language that they understand.
Speaker 1: And movies, books, comedians, chefs, the ones that everybody thinks
Speaker 1: are so great are the ones that speak to the
Speaker 1: masses that for some ways, for some reason, they're gifted
Speaker 1: with ability as an artist, as a human being to
Speaker 1: do something with that medium that speaks to the most
Speaker 1: amount of people in the brightest and most vibrant ways.
Speaker 1: And that's a that's a gift. So when when you
Speaker 1: want to say something to someone, most of the time
Speaker 1: it's fairly benign. So it's you know, I need a pencil,
Speaker 1: or I need this, or pardon me, I need to
Speaker 1: get through here, whatever it is that you kind of
Speaker 1: just say it. But think about things that are important
Speaker 1: to you, are important to not that you're going to
Speaker 1: tell someone, are important enough for you to sit down
Speaker 1: kind of wade through them and see, Okay, how should
Speaker 1: I present this? Isn't it funny? How if your boss
Speaker 1: or someone said, you know, I need you to do
Speaker 1: a presentation, or I need you to pitch this to someone,
Speaker 1: or you're selling a car, or you're doing something, you
Speaker 1: will go to the ends of the earth to practice,
Speaker 1: to prepare, to research, to do notes, to do whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But the love of your life, your the people,
Speaker 1: your family, the people that are the closest to you,
Speaker 1: you just throw it out there like it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: partly because well, they love you and they're going to
Speaker 1: understand hopefully regardless.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to be persuasive, or if you're
Speaker 1: trying to be productive and you want to move something along,
Speaker 1: then you want to do your best to articulate the needs,
Speaker 1: the concerns, and how they're affecting the people in the family.
Speaker 1: But you have to make that person feel safe, because
Speaker 1: on the edge of every conversation in life is the
Speaker 1: enemy trying to tell everyone that they're unworthy of having
Speaker 1: any relationships at all, that they're going to be rejected
Speaker 1: should they not do this, or maybe if they do
Speaker 1: this thing, they'll appear to be different in the eyes
Speaker 1: of their loved one and they'll be rejected then too.
Speaker 1: There's all these ugly things that come, you know, swimming
Speaker 1: up to the surface looking for a way out, and
Speaker 1: people get freaked out. Plus, honest, who really likes to
Speaker 1: be told what to do? I have a wonderful book,
Speaker 1: wonderful book for you called the Bible. Maybe you've heard
Speaker 1: of it. It's over sixty five books written over a
Speaker 1: span of about fourteen hundred years by around forty authors,
Speaker 1: three different continents, three different language, is written in times
Speaker 1: of peace in times of war by kings and peasants alike,
Speaker 1: all pointing towards one thing. A beautiful love letter to
Speaker 1: tell you about the things that you should do and
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do, not because I'm some dictator in the sky,
Speaker 1: but because they are beneficial to you, and still you
Speaker 1: reject them at times. You know why, because people don't
Speaker 1: like being told what to do, even when it's right.
Speaker 1: Even when it's right. You can watch children and the
Speaker 1: only reason why children are so bold about it and
Speaker 1: adults aren't is because they're children and adults. But the
Speaker 1: adult still wants to do the exact same thing that
Speaker 1: the child does. My buddy Ron Pearson, whom some of
Speaker 1: you know, comedian Ron Pearson, who does shows with us
Speaker 1: from time to time, clean comedy shows, has a bit
Speaker 1: where he talks about his children saying I don't wanna,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna, and quite frankly, let's be honest, most
Speaker 1: adults want to do the same thing about whatever, whether
Speaker 1: it deals with work, whether it deals with going on
Speaker 1: vacation to a place they didn't want to go, taking
Speaker 1: out the trash, doing the dishes. Whatever. Parents would love,
Speaker 1: adults would love to drop to the floor kicking and screaming,
Speaker 1: saying I don't want to but if you don't do
Speaker 1: these things, and you don't learn these things, then we
Speaker 1: can't move forward. There's much to be learned, much to
Speaker 1: be gained, but also how to communicate it properly to
Speaker 1: the person that needs it. Pete, Welcome to the Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ Show. Hello, Hi, Pete, Hi, how can I help you?
Speaker 5: I hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 1: I am having a wonderful day. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I have a friend who believes in this doctrine that
Speaker 5: you must be that passed in the name of Jesus
Speaker 5: Christ rather than Father's son and holy Ghost. And my
Speaker 5: initial thoult was because I had many Messianic Jewish friends.
Speaker 5: His original name was just Shuah, which is Joshua. And
Speaker 5: my question is who changed it from Joshua to Jesus
Speaker 5: and why?
Speaker 1: Well, it's quite simple. I mean, it's a literary device,
Speaker 1: is really what it is. It's there are other Joshuas
Speaker 1: in scripture, and if it was left as is, you
Speaker 1: know how like when you see a movie or painting,
Speaker 1: they always portray me as blonde, you know, blonde, blue eyed,
Speaker 1: light skinned, all of those things. Well, that's that's not
Speaker 1: the it's not the truth. No, that's just your middle Yes.
Speaker 1: So when you look at movies, the purpose of them
Speaker 1: doing it in film is so that that we don't
Speaker 1: all blend, so that you know, you know, people will assume.
Speaker 1: You know, when you meet somebody, there's something powerful about
Speaker 1: looking into their eyes and you can see things about
Speaker 1: them in their eyes. So people that do film and
Speaker 1: painting and stuff, no, well that's going to be a
Speaker 1: powerful point, So let's do something about the eyes. And
Speaker 1: oftentimes one of the most striking types of eyes, or
Speaker 1: the lighter eyes, more rare, more striking, So they do
Speaker 1: things like that. Well, similarly for sake of understanding, just
Speaker 1: like you know, the original scripture, when you go through
Speaker 1: in the original language, it's not like there my words
Speaker 1: are in red. It's that's a that's a device to help.
Speaker 1: And there's also not chapter and verse in the same way,
Speaker 1: so that was broken down to make it easier to read.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Likewise, the name Yeshia, depending on the language, could be
Speaker 1: different things. Just like your name petros uh is Peter
Speaker 1: or pete and has many different same meaning, but many
Speaker 1: different usage. Petra petros can be used depending on what
Speaker 1: language it is. So there's a lot of times that
Speaker 1: even though your name is not an American English name,
Speaker 1: it has been anglicized to Peter. So likewise, in scripture,
Speaker 1: Peter's name isn't really Peter, but it's anglicized. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what they've done to my name as well. But instead
Speaker 1: of going to the normal sized version, which would be Joshua,
Speaker 1: they have to differentiate me from other Joshuas, and so
Speaker 1: they make it Jesus, which is based on you know,
Speaker 1: Greek renditions and Latin renditions of the name, bringing it
Speaker 1: to you know what you see to day Jesus. So
Speaker 1: that's why. And and when they say the name Pete,
Speaker 1: when they say to do it in the name of
Speaker 1: think of it more like the old film that says
Speaker 1: stop it in the name of the law. It's not
Speaker 1: about the consonants and vowel vowels of L A W.
Speaker 1: That's not what they're saying. They say stop in the
Speaker 1: name of the law, and then they go, oh, no,
Speaker 1: the kappas see, So it's not about dealing with the
Speaker 1: name L A w It's about the power and authority
Speaker 1: that's behind them, with the principalities or the government or
Speaker 1: whatever gave them the authority and the badge and the baton.
Speaker 1: So likewise, when you're when you're praying in the name
Speaker 1: of or in the power of or any of those things,
Speaker 1: it's not about the vowels and the consonants. It's the
Speaker 1: power and authority of Glenn. Welcome to the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm blessed, but I'm struggling with drug addiction and
Speaker 2: i was baptized in ninety six and I've been backsliding
Speaker 2: and veteran, I'm disabled, and.
Speaker 1: Wow, you got a host of stuff coming at you,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: Boy, Divorced, depression, and a lot of things that just
Speaker 2: kind of overwhelmed me and thought, maybe I want to say,
Speaker 2: I enjoy your show. I look forward to listening to it.
Speaker 2: I'm retired, I'm fifty six years old. I like to
Speaker 2: say to my mom, Beverly, and thank your for all
Speaker 2: are and encouragement and support in my issues and apologize
Speaker 2: for my selfishness with my addiction.
Speaker 1: Oh well, we send Beverly big hugs as well.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. The first thing you said, Glenn, the
Speaker 1: first thing you said is that you're struggling with Oh,
Speaker 1: praise God. That what a wonderful term, because that means
Speaker 1: you haven't lost, right. Yes, if you're still in the
Speaker 1: battle and you're still taking your licks, then you're still
Speaker 1: alive to do so, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: And that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is you know, you've been through war,
Speaker 1: as they say, you've seen so things, haven't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been through some things, and I've been very
Speaker 2: fortunate and blessed you in my life. And I have
Speaker 2: no complaints. I don't need no crying out, and I'm
Speaker 2: very grateful. I'm just going through some issues for the
Speaker 2: last ten years and I've just been struggling. I know
Speaker 2: that it's me walking away and moving away from God.
Speaker 2: I used to be on fire. I got a gift
Speaker 2: to gab. I'm not a real intelligent, but I got
Speaker 2: a little common sense.
Speaker 1: That's all you need, my friend, And those are all
Speaker 1: good traits. You say this in the past tense.
Speaker 2: Just you know what, I guess depression. I've let depression
Speaker 2: get him and Satan Elly, I call him Satan ellis
Speaker 2: kind of Assistan says, it looks like Satan's having a field,
Speaker 2: and I think I've made poor choices of using drugs
Speaker 2: and shame and you know, and a lot of those issues.
Speaker 2: I'm really really hungry to get back there. And I
Speaker 2: was gonna go this weekend. This is my first day
Speaker 2: being sober, and I'm going to commit to give it
Speaker 2: all to God. I was hoping, brother, that you might
Speaker 2: be able to help me with a couple verses or
Speaker 2: chapters in the Bible that might be encouraging her knowledgeable
Speaker 2: for me and help me with my future choices.
Speaker 1: And sure in my life. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you, and we give this out every once in
Speaker 1: a while, but to go to Ephesian six and to
Speaker 1: read through and to understand the armor of God is
Speaker 1: a good thing. To understand the armor of God and
Speaker 1: that you're putting these things on as a daily basis,
Speaker 1: from a daily basis is a good thing. And I
Speaker 1: start with that to go into this and one Corinthians
Speaker 1: sixteen thirteen says be on your guard. And as I
Speaker 1: give that to you, I'm thinking being on your guard,
Speaker 1: as you know, I see Ephesians and that ability to
Speaker 1: put on your breastplate of righteousness and all these things,
Speaker 1: and you're building yourself up to prepare. But it says,
Speaker 1: be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be
Speaker 1: men of courage, be strong. So essentially, being on your
Speaker 1: guard means you know what those things are. You know
Speaker 1: are the things that trip you up in life. You
Speaker 1: know the things that distract you and take your eyes
Speaker 1: and your gaze away from God. So be on your guard,
Speaker 1: stand firm in the faith. So make sure that you're
Speaker 1: checking to make sure what is of God, and be
Speaker 1: a man of courage and be strong. That's number one.
Speaker 1: The second one comes from First Chronicles twenty two thirteen,
Speaker 1: and I love this because it ties into standing firm
Speaker 1: in the faith that last verse. So now you look
Speaker 1: at then you will have success if you are careful
Speaker 1: to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave
Speaker 1: Moses for Israel, so referring to the ten commandments. So
Speaker 1: if you're observing the ten commandments, be strong and courageous,
Speaker 1: do not be afraid or discouraged. These two verses go
Speaker 1: well together because they're telling you to one, be on
Speaker 1: your guard. Second, stand firm of faith. What faith well?
Speaker 1: The faith based on the observance and the decrees of
Speaker 1: the laws that the Lord gave to Moses for Israel.
Speaker 1: Then it says again, be strong and courageous. So you
Speaker 1: put these together and they kind of have that same
Speaker 1: attitude of one find yourself in the word of God. Glenn,
Speaker 1: you've got to get yourself in the word of God.
Speaker 1: You've got to let that be your backbone. And you've
Speaker 1: got to get into a good church again. You know,
Speaker 1: opportunity to get into a place where you know you
Speaker 1: will be loved and taken care of. And you know
Speaker 1: that the enemy wants to plan fears. And you've played
Speaker 1: this in real life back when you were in the
Speaker 1: military and you're fighting for this country. The enemy that
Speaker 1: was underestimated was one that used the concept of fear
Speaker 1: very well to you know, really try to distract you
Speaker 1: and the other men and women that were fighting to
Speaker 1: get you into a state of fear. Fear is a
Speaker 1: is a great equalizer because that fear can can make
Speaker 1: you drop to your knees and not think straight. And
Speaker 1: terrorism does this. Everything does this. And the enemy is
Speaker 1: the greatest terrorist of all the devil, and he wants
Speaker 1: you to be fearful. And John One John four eighteen
Speaker 1: says there is no fear in love, but perfect love
Speaker 1: casts out fear. So the things that I want you
Speaker 1: to do and what I want you to leave with
Speaker 1: today is one to think about building the armor of
Speaker 1: God and putting that on every day. You know, and
Speaker 1: are you working a program at all?
Speaker 2: I completed a program and then I went out and
Speaker 2: made poor decisions and bachelated back into the drugs.
Speaker 1: It's time to get back in that.
Speaker 2: Veterans hospital.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's time to get back into a program. Have
Speaker 1: you ever worked with AA.
Speaker 2: I've been with AA and A with a couple of
Speaker 2: Kaiser graduated. But it seems like once I get out
Speaker 2: of there, my mind starts drifting away from what I
Speaker 2: know I should do. Because if my conscious tell me
Speaker 2: you're doing.
Speaker 1: Wrong, you're scrolling, Okay, well that's good. That's a start.
Speaker 1: And then and what the good thing about a program is,
Speaker 1: like a twelve step program or these things, is that
Speaker 1: they're good reminders. And that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I want to know direct you to Ephesians in the
Speaker 1: Armor of God is because I want you to have
Speaker 1: something each day when you get up, not late later.
Speaker 1: But the moment you get up is your mind. It
Speaker 1: takes on all of the water of the day and
Speaker 1: all the thoughts of yesterday, and everything comes rushing in
Speaker 1: that You control that a little bit by putting on
Speaker 1: and doing something regimented that reminds you of what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and going through the ten commandments and reminding you of
Speaker 1: the law of God, and footing yourself in these things,
Speaker 1: embracing yourself in these things prior to and deciding what
Speaker 1: you're going to do that day, having plans for what
Speaker 1: you're going to do, not leaving open opportunity, getting into
Speaker 1: a program where you're going to meet, where you're meeting
Speaker 1: others in similar situations, and focus on that healing because
Speaker 1: it is going to be a day by day thing,
Speaker 1: and you just got it. You just got to win today, Glenn.
Speaker 1: All I'm asking for you is not to drink today.
Speaker 1: I hear you, And then tomorrow I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you the same thing. Just don't drink then. And you
Speaker 1: got to start that day and not consume those things.
Speaker 1: And each day pushing yourself along a little bit at
Speaker 1: a time. And you've got to get surrounded by good people.
Speaker 1: We've talked countless times today about being surrounded by yes men.
Speaker 1: And when you have yes people around you that are
Speaker 1: just telling you what you want to hear when you
Speaker 1: want to hear it, just like those drugs, it'll pull
Speaker 1: you down. And you need to be around strong people
Speaker 1: and be around pure, good situations where you won't be
Speaker 1: tempted for now to get as strong underpinning as you
Speaker 1: can as you continue to build yourself up. But you've
Speaker 1: done this before, over and over again. You've built yourself up,
Speaker 1: strengthened yourself even for war, for your job, for whatever
Speaker 1: needs come your way. And now the need is you
Speaker 1: don't let yourself down.
Speaker 2: Need have learned how to love myself.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad start.
Speaker 2: God, God wants me to love myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It says in scripture that you are to love
Speaker 1: your neighbor as you love yourself, which means you first
Speaker 1: have to have an understanding of who you are. And
Speaker 1: I'm fascinating. And it's not about this weird creepy pop
Speaker 1: psychology self love or even self esteem. You know, serial
Speaker 1: murderers have some of the best self esteem. It's not
Speaker 1: just about that. What it is is a proper understanding
Speaker 1: that you are a child of God. And that God
Speaker 1: created you with a purpose in mind and has things
Speaker 1: that he wants to do with you, and that sin
Speaker 1: is merely missing that mark that He has set for you,
Speaker 1: and that He wants you to be on that path
Speaker 1: that He wants you to be on. And every time
Speaker 1: you get go astray, Glenn, he is yearning for you
Speaker 1: to come back. Today, you're back. There's no excuse today.
Speaker 1: You're on the right track. You were bold and you
Speaker 1: were brave, and you made the call. Now what you
Speaker 1: do from it at this point is up to you.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna go when. You're not gonna drink today,
Speaker 1: are you.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna drink. I'm gonna keep looking up and
Speaker 2: keep my feet.
Speaker 1: Firm, ground excellent, and you're gonna take those versus to heart.
Speaker 1: But I want to get you into a program, and
Speaker 1: I want you to work hard towards building those underpinnings.
Speaker 1: You know where the church is. You spoke of a church,
Speaker 1: a good, healthy church, and you need to get back there,
Speaker 1: and you need to find they may even have a
Speaker 1: program there. Get in that program and stick with it,
Speaker 1: and even if it only lasts a day more than
Speaker 1: the last one, you just got to keep doing it.
Speaker 1: It says in scripture that a righteous man is not
Speaker 1: a righteous man that doesn't fall, but a right time.
Speaker 1: This man falls seven times, and seven times gets up. Jeff,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was a helicopter pilot. I have one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty three kills officially to my name. I took
Speaker 4: all those souls. Am I going to hell?
Speaker 1: You you did something that was commanded of you during
Speaker 1: your service to the country that you pledged an oath
Speaker 1: to to defend. There is a difference in scripture between
Speaker 1: murder and killing. A lot of people translate in the
Speaker 1: Ten Commandments thou shalt not kill, and it's not true.
Speaker 1: The word is rotshaw, and it means to pull apart,
Speaker 1: to dice, to take apart the innocent. And when you're
Speaker 1: defending a country and a principle and an idea, sadly enough,
Speaker 1: there is a necessity for that. And there's times of
Speaker 1: war in scripture as well. And you love your family
Speaker 1: and if someone were to somehow either break in or
Speaker 1: try and do something to destroy your family or your
Speaker 1: well being or their well being, you would defend yourself,
Speaker 1: would you not?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And that's what you did for the country. Now that
Speaker 1: you had you had need to know information, and so
Speaker 1: you went in with the trust of your position to
Speaker 1: listen to the authority of those that were in charge,
Speaker 1: and you made those decisions to the best of your
Speaker 1: ability well in combat. And God understands all of those things.
Speaker 1: He does, indeed, and you are accountable for breaching that
Speaker 1: or for making decisions on your own that were you know,
Speaker 1: there are horrible stories of men and women in the
Speaker 1: military who have made decisions on their own to do
Speaker 1: things that were disgusting and that we're outside of the
Speaker 1: commands of their higher ups, and those are secondary. But
Speaker 1: if you are fighting under the desire to defend the ideas,
Speaker 1: the principles, and the very lives of the people in
Speaker 1: your country as military, that is what you're there to do.
Speaker 1: And there many times if you read in scripture, when
Speaker 1: John the Baptist is baptizing a soldier comes up to him,
Speaker 1: at no point as he baptized him and shared the
Speaker 1: truth of God, not at one point did he ever
Speaker 1: say you have to stop being a soldier. Never once
Speaker 1: in scripture, I myself tell those that followed me, I said,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a sword sell your cloak and
Speaker 1: purchase the sword, because there is a time for that.
Speaker 1: And there's times where I said, hey, if you live
Speaker 1: by the sword, you'll die by it, meaning that if
Speaker 1: the sword is the only thing you go to, Jeff,
Speaker 1: if it is the only thing that you use to
Speaker 1: make any decision or to communicate in life, you will
Speaker 1: die by it. And it's unrighteous. But if you pick
Speaker 1: it up to defend the ideas, the principles, the very
Speaker 1: lives of the people in your country, that is a
Speaker 1: noble act. You are not in the position to defend
Speaker 1: to define whether it's a righteous or unrighteous war. You
Speaker 1: have to trust in the powers of the peace, as scripture,
Speaker 1: and you did that, and you made decisions with the
Speaker 1: training that you were given to pursue that objective. As
Speaker 1: the goal was at hand to defend your country. You
Speaker 1: would go with God knowing that what you did was
Speaker 1: to defend.
Speaker 4: Or I am okay, You're okay, Jeff, Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, brother, thanks for calling. There is there is
Speaker 1: time and time again that we get calls from soldiers
Speaker 1: and those that fight, and people get on political high
Speaker 1: horses to defend their own politics or beliefs or as
Speaker 1: ugly it is always ugly, but there are times where
Speaker 1: it is righteous, and there is a time to defend,
Speaker 1: just like a law enforcement or anything like that. And
Speaker 1: the worst thing that can be done is to treat
Speaker 1: those those troops that would take and put their life.
Speaker 1: A scripture says, greatest is the love of one brother
Speaker 1: who would light his life down for another. And to
Speaker 1: treat them as lowly or someone who is just a
Speaker 1: murderous machine. You can see that those lives, even years later,
Speaker 1: stick with somebody, and you never forget those lives, and
Speaker 1: you never lessen or cheapen them. But you know there
Speaker 1: was a principal and a protection and a defense that
Speaker 1: was being upheld during that process. KFI AM six forty
Speaker 1: on demand