Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, definitely for children of
Speaker 1: all ages. Welcome to another edition of Let's Get Biblical
Speaker 1: with your host, a man formerly in the world of
Speaker 1: entertainment and stand up comedy and now an evangelist for Christ.
Speaker 1: Here's your host, my host, our host kDa.
Speaker 2: Thank you mister movie Phone, thank.
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Speaker 3: all dedicated to the Good Lord above. And today we
Speaker 3: have a great show for you. We get into a
Speaker 3: book in the Bible that I absolutely love. It kind
Speaker 3: of reminds me of being on the mountaintop being knocked
Speaker 3: down in a man that gets completely restored. But we
Speaker 3: talk about some friends in the middle that really aren't
Speaker 3: really his friends. That's why we titled the episode who
Speaker 3: Needs Those Friends?
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 3: Maybe you have some friends in your life right now,
Speaker 3: you're like, I don't know about these guys. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm lonely as it is, but at least I have
Speaker 3: a couple people around. But if people are trying to
Speaker 3: drag you down and hold you as anchors from something
Speaker 3: or being something more, maybe they're not the friends should
Speaker 3: be around with. We'll talk about that in a little bit.
Speaker 3: And maybe this is your first time stumbling upon this
Speaker 3: podcast and you're like, listen, Katie, I'm an atheist, I'm
Speaker 3: a non believer, but you know, somebody gave me this podcast.
Speaker 3: They said you're a former stand up comedian.
Speaker 2: And then I'll check it out.
Speaker 3: And you sound like a little bit of a goofball.
Speaker 3: I like hip hop.
Speaker 2: I heard that music in the middle.
Speaker 3: Or maybe you're somebody that has some white hairs of
Speaker 3: wisdom all over your body. Maybe you've been in the
Speaker 3: church a little too long and you're sitting there going,
Speaker 3: what is this hippie hoppity nonsense. This is not like
Speaker 3: my grandpa's Bible thumping podcast. Well, first, they really didn't
Speaker 3: have podcasts back then. But I understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 3: This podcast is unique. I take testimony, wrap it around
Speaker 3: the good old Bible, the basic Instructions before leaving Earth Manual,
Speaker 3: and deliver those testimonies in a uke nique transformative way,
Speaker 3: and we hope for it to bring you some forms
Speaker 3: of transformation in your life and my life in the
Speaker 3: world around us. So welcome to let's get biblical right
Speaker 3: here with KD.
Speaker 2: And let's get started.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're a person out there like me. When I
Speaker 3: was in the world of stand up comedy and acting,
Speaker 3: I had a lot of people who I thought were
Speaker 3: my friends. And I'm putting air quotes right now in
Speaker 3: the background, like you can see me and I had
Speaker 3: friends like that, but I realized a lot of them
Speaker 3: were holding me back from something greater. Now I thought
Speaker 3: it was stand up comedy. I thought maybe it was
Speaker 3: me becoming an actor, maybe it was me becoming a
Speaker 3: better father.
Speaker 2: These people absolutely.
Speaker 3: Would hold me back from all of that, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of weird. The reason why people will hold on
Speaker 3: to you like that is because they're trying to claw
Speaker 3: out of something themselves. They're trying to get something out
Speaker 3: of you. They will ring you until you're dry. You've
Speaker 3: heard these phrases right well on the Book of Job. Yes,
Speaker 3: job job, not job, job Okay. In the Book of
Speaker 3: Job one of my first books I read, if not
Speaker 3: the first book I read when I was a new believer,
Speaker 3: you know, walking with Christ. The first couple of months
Speaker 3: and I read the Book of Job, which was weird
Speaker 3: because I was a former stand up comedian actor who
Speaker 3: had a lot to lose by just giving up the
Speaker 3: world for Christ.
Speaker 2: And I did.
Speaker 3: I was still doing stand up comedy and some acting,
Speaker 3: but the jobs would start to dwindle because my on
Speaker 3: stage stuff. I started talking a little bit more about
Speaker 3: God and bars and restaurants where God probably isn't spoken.
Speaker 3: I spoke of Jesus with the comedians around me and
Speaker 3: my friends, and they'd give me those looks and those
Speaker 3: glares like there's something wrong with his dude. He's on that,
Speaker 3: you know, mumbo jumbo, and I don't want to be
Speaker 3: a part of that. And I lost a lot of friends.
Speaker 3: So called air quotes again and I gained Christ. And
Speaker 3: when I was following Christ, I was reading the Book
Speaker 3: of Job. And the Book of Job loses everything. Job
Speaker 3: is a landowner who lived in the land of us
Speaker 3: u Z right now, that's about east of the Jordan.
Speaker 2: Overseas, of course.
Speaker 3: And he lived in this land where he was like
Speaker 3: the man. He worshiped God, loved God, you know, did
Speaker 3: sacrifices for God. And he was a good man of God.
Speaker 3: Now I wasn't at that time. I was a struggling
Speaker 3: baby Christian, right but I was doing my best. Job
Speaker 3: lost everything, lost, his home, lost his livestock, lost his money,
Speaker 3: lost his hair, started developing boils and disease on him.
Speaker 3: And he didn't know why God was doing this to him.
Speaker 3: He didn't know, and he would question God later on
Speaker 3: in the Book of Job, which it's okay to question God,
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, I want you to know that disciples
Speaker 3: question God. My man Peter in the Bible, man he
Speaker 3: questioned God a lot. His man Kad on the other
Speaker 3: end right here, questions a lot. Okay, absolutely a lot.
Speaker 3: He questions a lot. And we can do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Thou shalt not test the Lord, although sometimes people do
Speaker 3: test the Lord and comes out working in their favor.
Speaker 3: Another story, another time, my wife tested the Lord one
Speaker 3: night and she was a former atheist that came to
Speaker 3: Christ because she tested him. But today it's about the
Speaker 3: friends that Job had around. When Job lost his land,
Speaker 3: lost his livestock, lost his money, lost his wealth, lost
Speaker 3: his children, he lost everybody but his wife. His wife
Speaker 3: and friends were the ones saying, well, maybe it's something
Speaker 3: you did, maybe it's something that you need to change.
Speaker 3: But this man was such a strong man of God.
Speaker 3: He's like, I know it's not because of that, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to question my God because I need to
Speaker 3: know why God would you do this to me. We've
Speaker 3: said that right, Why God would you allow division in
Speaker 3: this world? Why God would you allow kids to be taken?
Speaker 2: Why? God?
Speaker 3: We always hear that. And you may not have done
Speaker 3: anything wrong. Maybe you are a Christ follower for so
Speaker 3: long and you lost something very good in your life
Speaker 3: and you're questioning right now. You may be a non
Speaker 3: believer that's constantly questioning and saying why God. Easy answer
Speaker 3: for you guys who don't know God, and you're asking
Speaker 3: that question.
Speaker 2: You haven't come to him. You haven't come to him.
Speaker 3: For the christ believer that has been walking and something
Speaker 3: bad happens in your life and you're like, why, God, why,
Speaker 3: Because you're strong enough to get through it, and your
Speaker 3: testimony is going to help others. This is the same
Speaker 3: thing with Job, a strong man of God that lost
Speaker 3: everything and was given back tenfold due to his dedication
Speaker 3: to God. But what about his friends in between? Now,
Speaker 3: he had three friends in between. They had some really
Speaker 3: cool names. You're not gonna hear these names ever again, Okay,
Speaker 3: because we got Billy, Bob, Joe, Jeremy, Jason. Nothing wrong
Speaker 3: with those names, KD. Nothing wrong with those But his
Speaker 3: friend's names were Eliphaz, Bill Dad so far. I want
Speaker 3: that name right there. So far kind of sounds like
Speaker 3: a pill. You take so far to keep away the devil.
Speaker 3: But by the way, when you take so far, you
Speaker 3: may develop sores, boils, losing of hair.
Speaker 2: All that good stuff right so far was.
Speaker 3: One and the quietness of them all ely you elyu
Speaker 3: e l i hu if you're keeping track at home,
Speaker 3: So these four friends would come to comfort, and I
Speaker 3: put up air quotes again in the podcast world for that.
Speaker 2: Comfort.
Speaker 3: And the first three friends that were sitting and talking
Speaker 3: with Job. And by the way, I am giving you
Speaker 3: the cliff Notes version of Job. Okay, all right, you guys,
Speaker 3: go in the Bible and go ahead and read the
Speaker 3: Book of Job. Read it slow because if you've never
Speaker 3: read it, sometimes it's like whoa.
Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of the.
Speaker 3: Maury Povid show back in the days. You have a
Speaker 3: friend on one side, you have Job on the other.
Speaker 3: This would be a very cool meme to make for
Speaker 3: o YouTube page, and we might do it. And you
Speaker 3: have one friend that starts out to be comforting, you
Speaker 3: know that friend. I'm so sorry this happened to you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, my brother. I hope you can get through it.
Speaker 3: Just know that God loves you, and I mean just
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 2: But what happened? What did you do?
Speaker 3: This is what his friends were doing to him. They
Speaker 3: were pointing blame, like he did something to dishonor God.
Speaker 3: One of his friends. I believe it was so far.
Speaker 2: So far went.
Speaker 3: As far as to say, well, you're the sins of
Speaker 3: your children were brought this upon you and your family
Speaker 3: whoa all their late nights of partying and just letting
Speaker 3: go of themselves and letting.
Speaker 2: Go of the Lord. Whoa, this guy is slaying in stones? Boy?
Speaker 3: I mean, so far the Great remember, kind of like
Speaker 3: a cartoon name. So far the Great was just throwing
Speaker 3: these stones, casting stones, instead of washing Job's feet and
Speaker 3: tending to him and caring for him. So far was
Speaker 3: just throwing these stones, boy. And this is what caused
Speaker 3: Job to be in a lot of pain and anguish
Speaker 3: because think about it. Have you ever been in a
Speaker 3: situation where you're talking to your friends. Maybe you just
Speaker 3: broke up with someone, you lost a job, you're down
Speaker 3: in life, and your friends come over to comfort you.
Speaker 3: Maybe those friends are not close friends, and they bring
Speaker 3: a six pack, or they bring something to kind of
Speaker 3: ease your mind. Maybe you'll have dinner, which is a
Speaker 3: nice thing. Someone will be like, I brought dinner. You know,
Speaker 3: let's watch a movie and let's talk. Then when you
Speaker 3: get deeper into the talk, some people are just sitting
Speaker 3: there going, well, you know the reason why Sarah left
Speaker 3: you is you haven't really brushed your teeth lately, you know,
Speaker 3: haven't brushed your hair. And you're like, whoa, whoa, why
Speaker 3: am I getting these stones thrown against me? Right now?
Speaker 3: This is not what I need? Then you have some
Speaker 3: friends that try to fix the situation you're not looking
Speaker 3: for a fix, and then you have some that are
Speaker 3: just so mean, like so far was, Oh, your sins
Speaker 3: of your children have brought pain upon God and pain
Speaker 3: upon yourself. Whoa first off, so far deuces Oo says
Speaker 3: you need to leave, but he didn't because Job still
Speaker 3: needed that comfort in the suffering he was going through.
Speaker 3: And then later on at the end of our story,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about a friend who is kind of like
Speaker 3: that coach, kind of like that coach that builds you
Speaker 3: back up, and we'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 3: But maybe you're in a situation today where you're just
Speaker 3: stuck in the rut. The story of is about perseverance
Speaker 3: and suffering. Jesus is every day with every single human
Speaker 3: in the world, we persevere. And I love what Paul
Speaker 3: says in the Bible. We suffer to build perseverance so
Speaker 3: we can endure the race. To me, it's more encouraging
Speaker 3: to look at it that way. For a moment, I
Speaker 3: will look and say, Lord, why am I going through this?
Speaker 3: And we can question again, don't forget, we can question.
Speaker 3: And when you're deep in prayer and meditation and worship
Speaker 3: with the Lord. That relationship develops, and you will hear
Speaker 3: that small, faint voice turned to you and say something.
Speaker 3: But when I question, I'll hear the Lord say something like, listen,
Speaker 3: I love you. I'm not going to harm you, not
Speaker 3: going to hurt you. The opposition wants that from you.
Speaker 3: He wants to maim, kill and destroy. As we seeing
Speaker 3: the Book of Job. At the very beginning book of Job,
Speaker 3: the devil asks for permission to God to do harm
Speaker 3: upon Job. And I know what you're thinking. You're like, whoa,
Speaker 3: why would God allow that pump the brakes? Because he
Speaker 3: knows you can get through it, and he knows when
Speaker 3: you get through that breakthrough on the other side, you're
Speaker 3: going to be so much stronger in life for someone else,
Speaker 3: but most of all for him. This is the problem
Speaker 3: that people have with our heavenly Father. Well that sounds
Speaker 3: very controlling. Yeah, he controls our lives. We're the ones
Speaker 3: that make it difficult, guys. We're the ones that decide
Speaker 3: to continue to latch on and we'll hold on to
Speaker 3: words like suffering and we'll suffer and we won't look
Speaker 3: at words like perseverance as a good thing when you
Speaker 3: go to the gym, you have to perseverere man that
Speaker 3: it was not English whatsoever, Ladies and gentlemen, I understand that,
Speaker 3: and I apologize to my brethren overseas. But when you
Speaker 3: hear the word like to preserve, to persevere when you
Speaker 3: go to the gym, you have to persevere and suffer
Speaker 3: to get that finished product that you want, the six
Speaker 3: pack abs as they would say, six pack abs, or
Speaker 3: maybe you're just trying to be in a diet. You
Speaker 3: have to persevere. We don't look at it as a
Speaker 3: good thing. But when we're going through something bad, nah,
Speaker 3: we look at it as a horrible thing. But just
Speaker 3: know the Lord wants you to come out on the
Speaker 3: other side a victor. And by the way, he does
Speaker 3: it because he knows you will be a victor. So
Speaker 3: think about that when you're in the midst of struggles.
Speaker 3: Why keep the company that job kept. Don't call upon
Speaker 3: those friends that are going to be negative nellies down
Speaker 3: in the dumps. You need to find a band of
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, maybe in your church community, maybe just
Speaker 3: that positive person that can sew life into you. The
Speaker 3: ultimate person that can sew life into you is Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: And you may not know Jesus Christ, but this is
Speaker 3: where you can build your personal relationship with him. And
Speaker 3: at the end of the show, we want to pray
Speaker 3: you out and we have something for you brought to
Speaker 3: you in part by the good old Lord above from
Speaker 3: the Lord. But think about it as we go into
Speaker 3: this break. Why do you keep the company that you keep?
Speaker 3: And when we come out of the break, I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you what I did. Sometimes we have to
Speaker 3: trim the fat in life, because when we trim the fat,
Speaker 3: that's when blue skies will start opening. Speaking of blue Skys,
Speaker 3: here's the music. If I needed this Dave, Yes, I
Speaker 3: needed this Dave.
Speaker 2: With blue Skies when we come back.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, why do you keep the company you keep?
Speaker 4: Jesus Shiny blues Guy, Blues Guy, Oh God on me
Speaker 4: blue Blues.
Speaker 5: I was so I wanted to die. So there's a
Speaker 5: man I can never cry. Shame in mid and prod
Speaker 5: in my eyes. Will you break the silence?
Speaker 6: You tear down the lines?
Speaker 5: Lordolphlo, please lead me back to the little Cross.
Speaker 6: Jesus, U need blues.
Speaker 2: Booz guys. Oh God, honey blues cow.
Speaker 1: Boozcu.
Speaker 5: Tom keeps slipping because lies and nothing. The world keep
Speaker 5: judging the worth of my life. They call me a failure,
Speaker 5: wasted past.
Speaker 4: For your grace is spoken, your love will last.
Speaker 6: My skin is the moartiest glass. I feel every fear
Speaker 6: of the mom's past for you.
Speaker 3: Oh my future, you hear my past.
Speaker 5: Your mercy reminds me that sts don't last.
Speaker 6: Jesus some running, running the seal.
Speaker 5: I feel all out play see me on the pathom
Speaker 5: braying with all I know.
Speaker 6: Minds are lifted high in my eyes.
Speaker 1: Are close me through the storm.
Speaker 2: I'm and show me blues.
Speaker 6: Guy, Oh God, please show me blues. Guys loose. I
Speaker 6: know the plan some me for you. Oh, oh future,
Speaker 6: My world is true. No one small sparrow alls from the.
Speaker 4: Scot without my cat, without my.
Speaker 2: I see you.
Speaker 6: I know you eat chir on your head before you
Speaker 6: had a name.
Speaker 4: You are my child.
Speaker 6: Don't be ashamed.
Speaker 2: Life. You can see.
Speaker 3: The music of I needed this, Dave. I needed this, Dave.
Speaker 3: Blue skies sometimes we need blue skies. And do you
Speaker 3: know when we look up to me, even in the
Speaker 3: midst of dark clouds, there's always a blue sky. That's
Speaker 3: because when you're a follower of Christ, you're just right there,
Speaker 3: you're just right there with him. And today we're talking
Speaker 3: about who needs friends like that? Who needs those friends?
Speaker 3: You may have heard your family members say that, why
Speaker 3: do you hang out with that, that group of hoodlums?
Speaker 2: Why do you hang out?
Speaker 3: They're just gonna bring you down, and they do. You See,
Speaker 3: when I was growing up, it's all about, Hey, I
Speaker 3: want to be cool man, I want to run with
Speaker 3: that cool crowd. Hey I see that guy drinking over there.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that. Oh as a stand up comedian, Yeah,
Speaker 3: give me a little of that drink over there, because
Speaker 3: I think it makes me funny on stage.
Speaker 2: It makes you a fool.
Speaker 3: The spirits enter your body, another story, another time, hence
Speaker 3: the name spirits. When we drink, spirits change you. I
Speaker 3: was two alter egos on stage when I would drink
Speaker 3: because of the company, I kept.
Speaker 2: Not saying that.
Speaker 3: Everybody that I came across was that way. There were
Speaker 3: positive people. Big shout out to Don Davis Womack in Virginia.
Speaker 3: She is a stand up comedian. Her and her husband
Speaker 3: have a YouTube channel and social media called The Funny Womax.
Speaker 3: You've got to check them out. But I'll never forget
Speaker 3: what she said to me when we were on tour
Speaker 3: for the King of King's Comedy tour, going into churches
Speaker 3: raise money and awareness and having some fun and some
Speaker 3: laughs with comedians that were walking with the Lord or
Speaker 3: positive people, things of that nature. She came up to
Speaker 3: me and says, you remind me of Peter. You remind
Speaker 3: me of Peter by the way you lead. You're very stern,
Speaker 3: but you love Jesus so much and you'll do anything
Speaker 3: for him. And this was before I really truly knew
Speaker 3: the purpose I have in life right now, and I'll
Speaker 3: never forget her for that. But you can see that
Speaker 3: company that I kept raised me to be closer to God.
Speaker 3: But before that, oh man, I was literally walking in darkness.
Speaker 3: I had to get rid of those friends. There was
Speaker 3: a time that when I started stand up comedy, before
Speaker 3: I became a follower of Christ, I had to cast
Speaker 3: out people in my life that didn't believe I could
Speaker 3: make it, friends, family, and say this is what I'm
Speaker 3: going to do. I'm not going to be here if
Speaker 3: you like it or not. Well, only the Lord knew
Speaker 3: many years later, I'm making the same decision again to
Speaker 3: certain people that I'm making a decision to walk with God,
Speaker 3: minister to others about the Lord, and you're either going
Speaker 3: to come with us or not. And I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: I'll always love you. But I have to trim the fat.
Speaker 3: I have to break the chains that are holding me
Speaker 3: from drawing closer to the Lord for his purpose. That
Speaker 3: is what we have to do, my friends. We have
Speaker 3: to make a decision. You may be somebody who only
Speaker 3: has a few friends. Say you have four friends, but
Speaker 3: three of them, man, are the ones.
Speaker 2: That hold you back. You're like Job.
Speaker 3: Job had somebody by the name of Elihu. Job had
Speaker 3: the name of a gentleman who defended God with honor.
Speaker 3: And I love Elai who he does not have a
Speaker 3: huge part in the Bible, and you probably have never
Speaker 3: heard of this guy before. Those are the ones the
Speaker 3: Don Davis Womax in my life, or the Eli who's
Speaker 3: in Job's life that's sew into him to change the
Speaker 3: trajectory of my life for God's purpose. A little bit
Speaker 3: about a lie who he was the fourth friend and
Speaker 3: he'd been listening to the other's debate, and they were
Speaker 3: when you read Job, Job used to be my favorite
Speaker 3: book in the Bible. It's hard for me to read Now,
Speaker 3: because they're constantly complaining in the negative thoughts that they're
Speaker 3: throwing toward Job. I mean, you want to reach out
Speaker 3: and be like you just want to shake them. I
Speaker 3: didn't want to say the word strangle, by the way,
Speaker 3: because that's not very Christian like parents, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. Sometimes we've seen Homer Simpson do it too,
Speaker 3: you know Bart Simpson many millions of times. But I
Speaker 3: feel this way when I read Job now, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's so heartbreaking in despicable of how they're treating Job. Well,
Speaker 3: this fourth friend, Eliyu, would hear the debate and right
Speaker 3: after Job was questioning God, he's questioning God. And he's
Speaker 3: still questioning God, and God's not answering by the way,
Speaker 3: God's letting him sulk. Oh wait, has that ever happened
Speaker 3: to you? I haven't heard from God. God is not
Speaker 3: answering me. Because in the quiet times and in the
Speaker 3: valleys is where we grow. Remember that the quiet times
Speaker 3: and prayer, when He'll come to us the quiet times
Speaker 3: in prayers. Sometimes we just need to cry out to
Speaker 3: him like King David did, like many others in the Bible.
Speaker 3: So we lie. You goes on and he's the youngest
Speaker 3: of the group. He's the young buck man. He just
Speaker 3: sat back and listened. He sits back and listened. But
Speaker 3: he couldn't stay quiet any longer. And he stood up,
Speaker 3: and I mean his voice roared like a lion. He
Speaker 3: claimed that Job was wrong in saying that God did
Speaker 3: not answer his complaints. God speaks through visions, dreams, pain,
Speaker 3: and even angels silent by emphasizing his power and his sovereignty.
Speaker 3: You may be sitting there today and you haven't got
Speaker 3: an answer, but you're feeling things. You may not have
Speaker 3: heard him audibly, but he'll give you signs like a song,
Speaker 3: a movie, a book quote, a literal sign when you're
Speaker 3: driving down the road. My wife gets thee sometimes saying
Speaker 3: I'm calling for you.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 3: I will not let you fall into a pit of
Speaker 3: hell because you honored me so much. This is what
Speaker 3: he did. God responds to Job mightily, says who created
Speaker 3: the heaven's moon and earth? He questions the creation of
Speaker 3: the world to Job. He challenges Job, and then after
Speaker 3: that God restores Job. Everything comes back tenfold to Job.
Speaker 3: Now we don't go through things to get things. God
Speaker 3: allowed this to happen so he can come out on
Speaker 3: the other end, the victor. You know this testimony has
Speaker 3: changed people's lives forever. Hasn't changed mind, Katie, Well, guess
Speaker 3: what the book of job hit me. I'm delivering through
Speaker 3: the form of a podcast in twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 3: now you're listening to it on the other end.
Speaker 2: Just remember that.
Speaker 3: The Bible, the words, and our Father in Heaven's power
Speaker 3: is so mighty that is carried on through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Remember the company you keep holds you down. You may
Speaker 3: be a non believer, you're still listening. Thank you for
Speaker 3: listening still, And you're like, I'm not too sure about this,
Speaker 3: but I do agree with you that the people I've
Speaker 3: been hanging out with have been causing me problems. The
Speaker 3: people I work with now, there's some hoodlums there. I've
Speaker 3: seen people do this and that and like almost got
Speaker 3: me in trouble, almost lost my job.
Speaker 2: The people my husband or my wife hangs out with.
Speaker 2: I don't like this.
Speaker 3: It's the company you keep. You need to be around
Speaker 3: like minded believers. If you or a Christ follower, you
Speaker 3: hang around like minded believers. But it's okay, it's a
Speaker 3: journey outside of that because what does it say in
Speaker 3: the Book of Acts. We want to carry the word
Speaker 3: to the ends of the earth. That's the ends of
Speaker 3: the earth. So what does the Bible say about the
Speaker 3: company you keep? Kad, there's stuff that says that, Yes,
Speaker 3: I love using Openbible dot info. Do it on the computer,
Speaker 3: you know, the little type of e tippity type any
Speaker 3: thing in front of you or your phone. You may
Speaker 3: be listening to download a good Bible app or just
Speaker 3: google U versus about the company you keep. There's twenty
Speaker 3: four Bible verses. We're not going to go through all them.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about that. But Proverbs thirteen twenty puts it best.
Speaker 3: Whoever walks with the whys becomes there you go, whys.
Speaker 3: But the commandion of fools will suffer harm, just like Job.
Speaker 3: Job's like, I'm not gonna hang with these fools, but
Speaker 3: he lie you. Thank you for picking me up, Thank
Speaker 3: you for telling me like it is. I have a
Speaker 3: few brothers in Christ right now that are like that.
Speaker 3: It will shake me when I need to be shaken,
Speaker 3: or I you know, a shoulder to cry on when
Speaker 3: I need it. You run into somebody that's walking with
Speaker 3: the Lord, that is like the friends that job had,
Speaker 3: other than the lie who pray for them, because they
Speaker 3: may be at a different walk in their life, and
Speaker 3: thou shall not judge. First Corinthians goes on in chapter fifteen,
Speaker 3: verse thirty three and says, do not be deceived. Bad
Speaker 3: company ruins good morals. Everybody can remember that. Oh, but
Speaker 3: I don't believe in the Bible, but you have morals.
Speaker 3: Where did morals come from? Had to come from somewhere
Speaker 3: the Bible. I want you to start thinking about that.
Speaker 3: First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, verse thirty three, do not be deceived.
Speaker 3: Bad company ruins good morals. And you may be sitting
Speaker 3: there right now, questioning your friends, questioning your life, questioning
Speaker 3: I can't do this negative Nelly's stuff no more. I
Speaker 3: need to turn it over to somebody. I just don't
Speaker 3: know what to do. Well, this is your opportunity. At
Speaker 3: the end of each show, God graces us with the
Speaker 3: opportunity to pray with you, not for you, with you.
Speaker 3: You may never have prayed before, but this is an
Speaker 3: opportunity to do so. It's easy, it's simple, it's so relaxing.
Speaker 3: If you don't feel like opening your hands to the Lord,
Speaker 3: you don't feel like close in your eyes. It's okay,
Speaker 3: but just repeat after me. There's no magic or no
Speaker 3: mumbo jumbo. But if you're ready to turn your life over,
Speaker 3: find that positivity, get through the hard times when the
Speaker 3: hard times come, because you'll still have hard times. This
Speaker 3: is not a force field, okay, but we can activate
Speaker 3: the love of God through prayer and through Come to
Speaker 3: him right now, Dear God, Repeat after me, Dear God,
Speaker 3: I come to you in the precious name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Dear Lord, thank you for this opportunity to hear your word.
Speaker 3: Dear God, I'm a sinner. I fall short of your
Speaker 3: glory daily. Dear Lord, I need to change my life.
Speaker 3: I want to give my life to you. Dear Lord,
Speaker 3: cleanse me of my sins, cleanse me of my soul.
Speaker 3: I believe you were real, that you were man, that
Speaker 3: you died, and that you raised on the third day
Speaker 3: from my victory and yours. Cast away my sins. Lord,
Speaker 3: cleanse me and make me new again. Allow me to
Speaker 3: follow you to the ends of my days. I love
Speaker 3: you and I thank you.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 3: That's simple. If you just said that prayer of faith,
Speaker 3: welcome to the new club. You are a VIP member
Speaker 3: into the Kingdom of Heaven. What's next? Read the Bible,
Speaker 3: start to pray. Start reading in the Book of Proverbs.
Speaker 3: First Proverbs is easiest. Okay, do Proverbs.
Speaker 2: For about thirty days.
Speaker 3: Then go into the Book of Matthew, Mark Luke, and
Speaker 3: John Right. The disciples who walked with Jesus. They know
Speaker 3: the relationship they had. Now develop yours through our dogs,
Speaker 3: our disciples of God. Guys, thank you for listening to
Speaker 3: another episode of Let's Get Biblical. Please make sure you
Speaker 3: follow us on YouTube as well. We love you, God,
Speaker 3: bless you, and welcome to the Kingdom.
Speaker 2: Take care