Speaker 1: You're listening to kfi Am six forty on demand. Being teachable.
Speaker 1: It may not be something that you think about often,
Speaker 1: but the man or woman who wants to grow in
Speaker 1: their faith, in their walk with God, if you want
Speaker 1: to be that person, you have to be teachable. To
Speaker 1: go through life in a stubborn fashion, shutting yourself off
Speaker 1: to any of the thoughts or ideas can be a problem.
Speaker 1: You lose out on much. And what I'm not saying
Speaker 1: is to go around with such an open mind that
Speaker 1: your brain falls out. You see it. An open mind
Speaker 1: is like that of an open mouth. It's open, it
Speaker 1: receives sustenance, it closes to digest. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the lack of conviction, not standing on a principal idea
Speaker 1: or understanding. What I'm saying is that if you go
Speaker 1: around thinking that your glass is full, you won't ever
Speaker 1: let anyone pour anything into it, and in doing so,
Speaker 1: you'll miss out on new knowledge, new ideas, new understandings.
Speaker 1: And this process is so important to your faith his faith.
Speaker 1: It is in conjunction with knowledge that if you shut
Speaker 1: yourself out to that kind of teachability being available for
Speaker 1: these new ideas, you lose out Scripture is even a
Speaker 1: little more fierce when it says in Proverbs twelve to
Speaker 1: one whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates
Speaker 1: reproof is stupid. You see, you have to be willing
Speaker 1: to hear truth. You have to be willing to know
Speaker 1: that you may not have the truth, the whole truth,
Speaker 1: and nothing but the truth. Being open to receiving that
Speaker 1: and learning those new things puts you on the path
Speaker 1: like an explorer of finding out this information. I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time, don't follow the person who says
Speaker 1: they know everything. Follow the person who's asking all the
Speaker 1: right questions, because the truth seeker asks questions. An old
Speaker 1: Chinese proverb that says that he who asks a question
Speaker 1: is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't ask
Speaker 1: the question is a fool for a lifetime. Now I
Speaker 1: realize there are people that you may think can't teach anything.
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln said that he learned something from every man
Speaker 1: he met. It was usually what not to do, but
Speaker 1: he learned something. Now in life, as you stroll along
Speaker 1: on your adventure exploring and learning, there are certain things, yes,
Speaker 1: that you may put into a pouch labeled certain, but
Speaker 1: there are always new ideas, new ways to look at things,
Speaker 1: new ways to perceive an old thing. And that comes
Speaker 1: from being open, That comes from being pliable and receptive
Speaker 1: to what's out there. There's oftentimes where I'm trying to
Speaker 1: teach you something or I want you to know something,
Speaker 1: and you refuse to receive it because you think you're
Speaker 1: better than the person trying to impart it to you.
Speaker 1: I want you to be open. I want you to
Speaker 1: get to a place where you thirst so much for
Speaker 1: truth that it doesn't matter where you get it. You've
Speaker 1: seen people so hungry that they respect food like you
Speaker 1: never have every morsel, they clean their plate, They are
Speaker 1: so appreciative for every last bite. When you're fat, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't need that last bed or or you know,
Speaker 1: I'll throw that away, or I'll give it to the dog,
Speaker 1: almost without the true appreciation for what's before you. And
Speaker 1: the same can work with knowledge. You may get to
Speaker 1: a place where you think you know so much that
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't respect, you don't hunger for knowledge.
Speaker 1: The same way. I see professors all the time go
Speaker 1: through change. Professors who were very learned, they had consumed
Speaker 1: much knowledge, and all of a sudden something came into
Speaker 1: their life and changed their perspective. They got to see
Speaker 1: things just a little differently, and the hunger, that fire,
Speaker 1: that desire burned again. Today. I want you to be
Speaker 1: in that same place today. I want you to thirst today.
Speaker 1: I want you to have that mindset that isn't listen
Speaker 1: to me, but I will listen to you. That place
Speaker 1: of security where you are listening, where you are wanting
Speaker 1: to receive. Being the student is the best seat to
Speaker 1: learn now. Teaching can be a great place of learning
Speaker 1: as well if you are open, if you remain like
Speaker 1: a sponge and check your vocabulary and the things you say.
Speaker 1: Do you often ask ask people's opinion on things? And
Speaker 1: do you ask it for real or do you ask
Speaker 1: it because you think you should or because you really
Speaker 1: want to receive what they have to say? Are you
Speaker 1: the type of person that just merely offers your opinion
Speaker 1: rather than receives before someone finishes a sentence? Are you
Speaker 1: building a response being teachable?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 1: I want you to ask yourself, am I self? I
Speaker 1: guess if you'd like to refer to yourself as self self?
Speaker 1: Am I teachable? And the importance of this question cannot
Speaker 1: be overstated, because this really is at the beginning of
Speaker 1: who you are, what you will know in life, how
Speaker 1: you will know it, and even how you'll be perceived
Speaker 1: by others, if they will see you as somebody who
Speaker 1: just rejects or someone who thinks there know it all.
Speaker 1: And having that platform as a seeker, having that platform
Speaker 1: as somebody who genuinely explores life and wants to learn,
Speaker 1: that is the best place to be. That is where
Speaker 1: you will get to know God. You'll get to know
Speaker 1: God through God's creation. I want you to know me
Speaker 1: and one of the best ways to know me is
Speaker 1: to know the family. Now, I don't want you living
Speaker 1: your spirituality through someone else, because people will let you down.
Speaker 1: But you will see, and you will know, and you
Speaker 1: will learn things from others. And getting in that mindset
Speaker 1: to love discipline, as it says Proverbs twelve to one,
Speaker 1: whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But he who hates reproof
Speaker 1: is stupid. Are you bothered when somebody comes to you
Speaker 1: and corrects you constructively? I realize that there are those
Speaker 1: that take on the tone and the attitude and they're
Speaker 1: ugly about it, and that it's hard to receive that.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But I also want you to get
Speaker 1: to that place where you have the sense of an
Speaker 1: old cow. You eat the hay and you leave the sticks.
Speaker 1: You can weed through these things and understand that there's
Speaker 1: a difference between someone's attitude and the truth and if
Speaker 1: what they're telling you is beneficial if you can learn
Speaker 1: from it. But how exciting has it been throughout your
Speaker 1: life those times where you've come you've had an epiphany,
Speaker 1: or you've learned something that has changed the way you
Speaker 1: do something. For men, it's when they finally look at
Speaker 1: the instructions after trying to put something together for the
Speaker 1: past twelve hours on their own. I say that with love. Men,
Speaker 1: But you may come across some sort of moment. You
Speaker 1: may remember throughout your life a good teacher, someone who
Speaker 1: took the time with you and spoke to you on
Speaker 1: your level, and how wonderful it was to take that knowledge.
Speaker 1: And I want you to get to that place today.
Speaker 1: I want you to remind yourself to be in that
Speaker 1: spirit every single day, being that explorer, being willing to
Speaker 1: learn new ways, not being stubborn or a pushy that
Speaker 1: everyone needs to see things your way. Oh, you'll play
Speaker 1: a part in cycle. You'll be teaching others too, but
Speaker 1: you have to be ready, willing, and able for that
Speaker 1: that reproof. It's not just ignoring reproof, it's not just
Speaker 1: being bothered by reproof. And Scripture it says you hate reproof,
Speaker 1: you can't stand when someone corrects you. You're always in
Speaker 1: that place where you refuse to be teachable, and today
Speaker 1: I want you to be teachable. It's okay to make mistakes.
Speaker 1: Scripture says that a righteous man is not someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't fall, but someone who falls seven times and seven
Speaker 1: times gets up. It's okay to make mistakes as long
Speaker 1: as you learn from them, as long as you are
Speaker 1: open to whatever reproof, whatever teaching moment. That is the
Speaker 1: world is getting to a place where you are looking
Speaker 1: with the internet, all the technology, where you can replay
Speaker 1: somebody's statement and thought over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: The world is loving to pounce upon those thoughts rather
Speaker 1: than showing reproof, wanting to solidify those as the only
Speaker 1: thought that person's ever had, that mistakes aren't actually made.
Speaker 1: Don't get to that place. Don't get to that place
Speaker 1: of hardening the heart towards somebody else or even with
Speaker 1: your own self. Towards others, you feel that they are
Speaker 1: not teachable, that they can't learn, that that's only who
Speaker 1: they are. And with yourself, thinking that you know everything,
Speaker 1: that you're so well learned that you don't need to
Speaker 1: consume anymore from anyone, and that becomes the hating of
Speaker 1: reproof and that's what makes you stupid. Jasmine, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Hi Jasmine, How can I
Speaker 1: help you?
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a question, it's severe question. Okay, what
Speaker 3: is the wager of sin in God's eyes? Like stealing
Speaker 3: a piece of candy compared to murderer?
Speaker 1: Well, the wages of sin is death. Period. Didn't say
Speaker 1: for this then or that sin? Now? Is there a
Speaker 1: difference in sins? Are they all completely equal? Well, it's
Speaker 1: different depending on how you're looking at it. In the
Speaker 1: eyes of God, every infraction that you do that is
Speaker 1: considered a sin. The word sin means to miss the mark.
Speaker 1: So God puts a mark out there for your life,
Speaker 1: both specifically and generally, meaning that there's certain things nobody
Speaker 1: should be doing, nobody should be murdering, and things like that.
Speaker 1: But there might be some sins that are specific to
Speaker 1: you that don't necessarily pertain to others, and God puts
Speaker 1: those in front of you and says that this is
Speaker 1: the way He wants you to be, that is his will.
Speaker 1: And if you reject them, there are different types of consequences.
Speaker 1: There are the consequences that go on the earth. You
Speaker 1: can do things that God will forgive you for, yet
Speaker 1: they'll be major consequences on earth for them as well.
Speaker 1: Even murder. You could be forgiven for murder, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you wouldn't have to go to prison. And
Speaker 1: so as far as the big or small sins, all
Speaker 1: sins are kind of rated by God, not by man.
Speaker 1: Man looks at certain sins and goes, well, that's not
Speaker 1: such a big deal. He stole some bubblegum. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like it's an armed robbery or something. But
Speaker 1: to God, they are all missing the mark, and so
Speaker 1: to the God they're equal in that sense, and the
Speaker 1: penalty was paid. They're all worthy of me going to
Speaker 1: that cross and dying on that cross. That's why God
Speaker 1: did it, why God saw fit to do it that way.
Speaker 1: So all sin, no matter how small you may think
Speaker 1: it is, is against a holy and righteous, eternal God.
Speaker 1: And so putting it. In that perspective, then everything that
Speaker 1: is done against God demands to be wholly injust and
Speaker 1: have an eternal punishment. And only by the payment on
Speaker 1: the cross. Is that eternal punishment not sidestep, but paid
Speaker 1: by God for those who believe. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: there's an old saying that if you break you got
Speaker 1: to look at the ten commandments as a mirror, and
Speaker 1: if you break part of the mirror, you break all
Speaker 1: of the mirror. The mirror is broken. And with sin,
Speaker 1: people try and see what they can get away with.
Speaker 1: And if you remember in scripture, I was always trying
Speaker 1: to tell people that it's much greater than even they think.
Speaker 1: Matthew five one through twenty eight. If you remember, I say,
Speaker 1: you have heard that it was said to those of
Speaker 1: old you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be
Speaker 1: liable to judgment. And I go on to say, but
Speaker 1: I say to you that everyone who is angry with
Speaker 1: his brother will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his
Speaker 1: brother will be liable. And goes on and on and
Speaker 1: on talking about making these you know, even thinking about
Speaker 1: the sin equal to the sin. Now, is it really no,
Speaker 1: there's different consequences. However, the point I was trying to
Speaker 1: get is the severity of sin is so deep that
Speaker 1: it goes beyond just the physical action. It goes to
Speaker 1: the point as much as you need to control your
Speaker 1: physical actions, this goes to controlling your your emotional actions,
Speaker 1: your intellectual actions that you weren't thinking out of turn
Speaker 1: or thinking things that are horrible, because God judges all
Speaker 1: of that. And then it starts to get really weighty,
Speaker 1: doesn't it, because now you start you know everything I
Speaker 1: think and all of this. And that wasn't to scare people.
Speaker 1: It was to put in perspective not the intensity of
Speaker 1: your sin, but the intensity of God's purity, and that
Speaker 1: God is so pure that even those things that you
Speaker 1: think is Ah who cares, are offensive to God because
Speaker 1: God is perfect and on earth, it's very easy for
Speaker 1: you guys to be standing next to each other and say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm better than this person, you know, and I'm better
Speaker 1: than this person, and you just think I'm judging myself
Speaker 1: against this guy, and I'm better than that guy. But
Speaker 1: that's not where the line of judgment is. The line
Speaker 1: of judgment ends at the throne of God. So it's
Speaker 1: no longer well, I'm pretty good, and you know I
Speaker 1: hold a pretty good candle next to this guy. No,
Speaker 1: now you're talking about dealing with God, and there are
Speaker 1: different sins that will have different consequences on earth as
Speaker 1: they would in heaven. But the key about heaven and
Speaker 1: the death on the cross and the shedding of my
Speaker 1: blood for as they take on your sins, was to
Speaker 1: pay for those things, because there was nothing else you
Speaker 1: could do. So many people in Scripture tried to work
Speaker 1: their way into the kingdom. And if you remember, I
Speaker 1: even said at one point, oh, you want to get
Speaker 1: to heaven, Okay, I'll tell you how to get to heaven.
Speaker 1: Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect, and
Speaker 1: you'll get it. Now. People hear that and they think, oh, okay, good,
Speaker 1: well that's how you do it. Now I got to
Speaker 1: be perfect. It's not going to happen. The very statement
Speaker 1: I'm making there in Matthew explaining that even your thoughts
Speaker 1: you're accountable to and accountable for, was to point out
Speaker 1: that it's impossible for man to work their way into
Speaker 1: the kingdom. People to this day run around saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I did this, or this person's surely going to
Speaker 1: heaven because X, Y, and Z, But it's not based
Speaker 1: on any of that. It's based on the love of
Speaker 1: God bringing his only begotten son to this planet, dying
Speaker 1: on the cross, after taking on all of your sins past, present,
Speaker 1: and future, and then resurrecting and overcoming death, hell, and
Speaker 1: the grave. There's no other magic potion or magic path.
Speaker 1: That's what needs to be done, but for anyone at
Speaker 1: any time. And that message gets lost quite a bit
Speaker 1: when people start weighing sins, because really that's a an
Speaker 1: earth bound system to weigh sins. In that sense, it
Speaker 1: works for the judicial system that they have to weigh
Speaker 1: certain things and balance them out because they're dealing with
Speaker 1: intent and you know, recklessness and if it was done
Speaker 1: maliciously and all these different things. But God knows your heart,
Speaker 1: and God knows that if you reject the will of God,
Speaker 1: if you just outright rebel against the things of God,
Speaker 1: doing whatever you want whenever you want, that that's a problem.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean that you won't make a mistake
Speaker 1: or there won't be problems in life. That just comes
Speaker 1: with the territory. That is part of what this planet
Speaker 1: is about. But above all of that is that you
Speaker 1: understand that. You know the difference between right and wrong.
Speaker 1: You do this all the time, know when you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing something, and you do it anyways, and you're
Speaker 1: accountable for that rebellion, just doing it because it's easier
Speaker 1: for you, it's convenient, you don't have to do the
Speaker 1: you know, X, Y and Z. It just seems like
Speaker 1: it's going to take too long. Always cutting corners. You
Speaker 1: see these people on the street that would rather make
Speaker 1: you stop and fifteen more cars behind you so that
Speaker 1: they can make an illegal turn or maneuver of some kind,
Speaker 1: so that they're not inconvenienced to have to drive out
Speaker 1: of the way to go to a place where they
Speaker 1: can make a U turner they can make that turn
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And you do those things in
Speaker 1: life all the time, spiritually, no matter who it effects
Speaker 1: or who it bothers. It's just a matter of it
Speaker 1: being easier for you, and you're you'll be accountable for
Speaker 1: those things. But on earth you rate them as you know,
Speaker 1: murders the worst and all of these things. But really,
Speaker 1: in the eyes of God, as heinous as murder is
Speaker 1: that there are other things that are done that are
Speaker 1: equally as heinous. That you may not think so, and
Speaker 1: the judicial system of the United States may not think so.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get arrested for blasphemy. But God
Speaker 1: certainly frowns upon that. Richard, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you?
Speaker 1: How can I help you?
Speaker 2: Uh? Your topic kid home today? And I was compelled
Speaker 2: to call uh. My son is involved with a lady
Speaker 2: that had made some very bad choices. She was on
Speaker 2: some heavy drugs. She's been clean now for a little
Speaker 2: bit over a year. Comes to comes to light he's
Speaker 2: going to AA, but she does have a serious liver
Speaker 2: disease because of it, and the thing still sort of
Speaker 2: progressed to the next level where you started, and strong feelings.
Speaker 2: She wasn't feeling well with her doctor, and come to
Speaker 2: find out she now has her purpies. And he's very confused.
Speaker 2: And I told him that because he had been always
Speaker 2: talking about getting married and having children. And I told
Speaker 2: him that where she can be forgiven, the consequences of
Speaker 2: her choice still have to be addressed.
Speaker 1: Sure that even though she's forgiven, and the herpes that
Speaker 1: came with it will be there for a lifetime and
Speaker 1: also can cause complications in childbirthen and all those things.
Speaker 1: So there are she even though she's bettering her life,
Speaker 1: there are remnants in the consequences most certainly and will.
Speaker 2: Be, yes, sir. And so that's where my problem comes in.
Speaker 2: He asked me for my advice, and I told him,
Speaker 2: you know what advice is, everybody has it. I mentioned
Speaker 2: to him that with everything that was stacked against this,
Speaker 2: as far as having normal children and the chances and
Speaker 2: having to walk the tightrope for the rest of his life,
Speaker 2: it's still at the stage where he should just maybe
Speaker 2: just try to remain friends, but as far as anything
Speaker 2: else on the relationship, he has to break it off.
Speaker 2: And anyway, that's where I'm at right now. And then
Speaker 2: on your program with you're talking about personal responsibilities, I
Speaker 2: was just it bothers me because I won't to know
Speaker 2: if I gave him the right advice.
Speaker 1: Well, it's tough. I think you gave him very wonderful advice.
Speaker 1: I think that the tough part is that when when
Speaker 1: someone makes mistakes in life and they get on a
Speaker 1: new path and they're working towards cleaning themselves up, it
Speaker 1: seems a shame that that others won't give them a
Speaker 1: chance they need a chance.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's the same with the the prison system of the
Speaker 1: United States. There are many people that go into prison
Speaker 1: and when they come out are treated so differently that
Speaker 1: it almost seems like, well, you might as well have
Speaker 1: just left them in there, because the world doesn't really
Speaker 1: give them a second chance. However, you have to protect
Speaker 1: yourself and make the best decisions you can. Life is
Speaker 1: difficult as it is, so the more of these parts
Speaker 1: of the equation you dump on yourself, the more difficult
Speaker 1: you're going to make it on yourself as well. So
Speaker 1: your son has to know the true consequences of his
Speaker 1: decision should he get mixed up with her, and that
Speaker 1: there's a good likelihood that she can relapse correct and
Speaker 1: there's also scars and the remaining consequences of things that
Speaker 1: she's done in the past. And doesn't mean that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't befriend her or be loving and kind to her,
Speaker 1: but it may not be the perfect partner for him,
Speaker 1: and he has to know that with all this comes consequences,
Speaker 1: and especially if there's herpes and things like that involved,
Speaker 1: that these aren't going away and they can affect him,
Speaker 1: and should he be married to her, they will affect him,
Speaker 1: and that he needs to know that all the love
Speaker 1: and the feelings that he has become less flowery and
Speaker 1: more practical later on down the line, and that's when
Speaker 1: you're going to go, oh my gosh, what did I do?
Speaker 1: So I guess at this point the best thing you
Speaker 1: can do, Richard, is give him the best advice and say,
Speaker 1: go into this with every bit of knowledge you can,
Speaker 1: and if you make that decision, so be it. But
Speaker 1: don't look at this from you know, the romantic, flowery standpoint,
Speaker 1: expecting everything to be grand and you to always have
Speaker 1: this feeling, because you know, feelings change and you're going
Speaker 1: to have to be practical and in this relationship for
Speaker 1: the long haul. And there is a lot of hurdles
Speaker 1: to get over. And I don't think it was unreasonable
Speaker 1: the information that you gave him. Oh but you can't direct.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to make his own choices. So
Speaker 1: the best thing you can do as a parent is
Speaker 1: to give the advice.
Speaker 2: You can.
Speaker 1: Treat this individual with love and kindness and prayerfully help
Speaker 1: them on their way to recovery. But it still means
Speaker 1: that there are consequences, and those consequences will become your
Speaker 1: son's consequences should he get involved with her. And that's
Speaker 1: just really what you need to know in life. There's
Speaker 1: consequences to everything that's done, even from years and years
Speaker 1: and years and years ago, and you bring those into
Speaker 1: your relationships now. The best thing to do is to
Speaker 1: be honest about them and let you know, and and
Speaker 1: in doing so, with everything out in the open, you
Speaker 1: become closer and you go into it with that knowledge
Speaker 1: and you make the decision I want to be in
Speaker 1: this relationship with X, Y and Z. But if you
Speaker 1: you know, just go, oh, well, I'm in love now
Speaker 1: and I like this person, and you don't really weigh
Speaker 1: those things, you end up ruining the relationship. And maybe
Speaker 1: there is someone better suited where some of these things
Speaker 1: may not matter in the same way, in the same sense,
Speaker 1: that could be a better partner to that person, and
Speaker 1: you have to allow that as well.
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