Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [01/07]

You're listening to KFI AM six on demand. So the holidays have passed. You're on the other side of that hill. And every year, it seems that just about this time, right after the holidays, so many people fall fall into a type of sadness, sometimes a very deep, deep sadness. This may describe you. Maybe you're just like that. Maybe you ramp up to the holidays and then fall off that emotional cliff at the very very end, feeling kind of left absent. And a lot of this comes from really

the energy of ramping up emotionally. You have all these these raised expectations. They are filled with the obligations that you have parties and gatherings and gifts and all these things. So you've got these obligations, unusual schedules, you're eating habits are strange. You're eating more, You're eating more foods that are fatty, or more sweets, and everything's kind of getting twisted and turned around, and it's easy for your body just to kind of rebel and spin you into

a case of these post holiday blues, some even deeper. Sometimes what starts as kind of this post holiday blues becomes a very deep and sometimes dark depression. That's not obviously what the holidays are about. I don't want you to be wrapped up in something in such a way that it puts you into a spin of sadness. For some the post holiday blues don't tend to last very long. They come and go as you get back into a regular schedule,

you have your regular habits. This cloud, this gray dark cloud, sometimes hard to even define. So many people I've talked with we'll say, well, well, I don't know. It's more it's sort of sad, or maybe I'm bummed the holidays are gone, but it's there, and this cloud tends to dissipate. But having this this feeling of sadness isn't just tied to

the holidays. It can be tied to many things. The holidays just happens to be one of those those times of great change and expectations and excitement because you're gathering around with others and you're happy about seeing family or connecting with people.

The general spirit of the time, seasons are sort of changing, and you're going into this time where it's kind of cozy and romantic, and through the entirety of that process, you can hear the clicking like on a roller coaster, clicking up that hill click click click click click click click click click, and then you go through the ride and at the end there's this this absence all those things you were so excited for, those expectations about those connections

and gifts, both giving receiving, and it's gone. Unfortunately, Sometimes during the holidays, the kind of postcard Norman Rockwell idea of family getting together isn't always matt That too could make you kind of look at your life situation of where you're standing and say, oh, well, I don't have this in my life, or I don't have a relationship right now, or I don't have this connection with my family, or my parents have passed on, whatever

it might be. Sometimes, by way of comparison, you stand looking at your life around the holidays and you start to compare or contrast, and that too can leave you sad. But during this time, as you come out of the holidays, it's time for newness as well. The new year is here. You're looking at maybe climbing emotional mountains or conquering things in your life, and so it can be a time of excitement as well, but some

trepidation too. And God knows that while while you're in this world, you're going to face times of sadness, not to tied to holidays, but tied to many things. You know, as often times your sadness is tied to these things, these circumstances that will change. You're hitching yourself emotionally to something that will come or go, will wax or wane, And it's easy to get distracted by the world and all these changes, and then you lose focus

on what is truly important. Of course God, so the world and all its shininess and all its bells and whistles comes cruising by capturing your attention, and for a while it's all you see and can think about. This can be tied to holidays, this can be tied to life situations, and in that distraction you lose sight of God. And that can leave this emptiness, this great emptiness in your heart. Well, and God knows this. God doesn't want you to get lost in all of the things that are in front

of you, all the things in life that distract you. He wants you to get lost in Him. John sixteen thirty three says, I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in this world, you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world. God knows you're going to get tripped up by the things in the world. God knows that you will wrestle with them, and that you will continually, throughout your life be dealing with times of sadness or frustration. But a common

cure for sadness is hope. We talk about hope all the time on the program because this is really at the core of the Gospel. The good News is that story of hope. It keeps you pressing on, moving forward, looking towards those things that God has for you in your life, not just the things that the world has for you. So hope is this amazing and wonderful thing. It can propel you, motivate you, guide you, even inspire you. But if your hope is rooted only in temporal things, as

we've said many times on the program, it will only be temporary. You root your hope, you attach your hope, you focus your hope on the temporal things, the temporary things, then likewise your hope will be temporary. So when you were approaching the holidays a few weeks ago, maybe you got excited in the hope of vacation. Maybe you got excited in the hope of seen friends. Maybe you got excited about the hope of seeing family, of

giving gifts, of receiving gifts. All of this is normal and it's really really wonderful. You should be hopeful in those things. But it's still all very temporal. So when the holidays pass, it's like water displacement. All of a sudden, there's this void, this emptiness that's there where all those crazy things where you're having longer days because maybe you're going to parties after work,

maybe work was having parties. All these things, You're going shopping, you're hearing music and people smiling, mostly going back and forth in the hustle of it all, and then all of a sudden it gets quiet. That day after Christmas, when you turn on the radio station that you've been listening to that played Chris miss music all season, and now it's back to its

regular playlist. The stores, the decorations have come down, you even take the decorations down at home, and you go through all of this right about now, and there's this void. So in that void, in this emptiness, what happens sadness starts to creep in because you feel that there's something that's missing, and really it's not missing at all. All those things can be

experienced all year round. It's more that the expectations and everything that comes with it, and the change of habits and all of that that comes with the holidays is now being redirected balanced out again. You've put your sight on all those things and maybe lost sight of the importance of just God, and now in the absence of the holidays, this void gets filled with simple every day

sadness. So every time of year about this time you've come through the holidays, you've gone up that hill of excitement and all of the fun with the expectations and parties and gathering with family and friends, and you have a wonderful time and you welcome in the new year, and all of that brings such

great excitement family, friends, good food, a change of weather. But as it leaves and you're looking at the newness of the new year, even in that context, sometimes you can get lost in the fact that those things have left that a lot of the holiday spirit or ideas or things with that you were enjoying are God. And so when that happens the holidays passed, there's this void sadness tends to creep in, and I want you to I want you to snap out of that. I want you to look towards God,

who doesn't change. Ever, this cycle has been around since the beginning, this sadness that will creep in during these times. Even the Psalmist wrestled with sadness, obviously not because of holidays necessarily, but sought comfort in the hope of God, not the hope of things. Psalm forty two five says, why my soul are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and

my God. The world and all the temporary distractions in it will compete for you tention no doubt daily day and day out, and often twists your emotions up into a ball, causing confusion, maybe loss of direction. You get turned around, and this is when you should submit totally and completely to God. Proverbs three five and six says trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways. Submit to

Him and He will make your path straight. See if you get caught up in the things of the world, things going on in life, you get turned around. You don't know which ways up, But with God you always do. God is God of hope. True hope can only come from God. This hope comes from the complete trust in God and his plan for you. Romans fifteen thirteen says, May the God of Hope fill you with all

joy and peace as you trust in him. Life situations will a weigh on you, pull you in different directions all the time, make you feel like you're going to burst. But always remember the greater is he who is living inside you than he who is in the world. Michael, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Jesus. Nice to talk to you. It is my pleasure. How are you good? Good? Good? Looking out the Pacific Ocean on a beautiful day here in your kingdom. It's not

really sweet. How can I help you? Yeah, I just I'm looking here in Matthew, and I'm in the scriptures daily, you know very many, I would say hours daily. And I've learned through your word and the Old Testament how to really in the imagination and the image, to really to be with you, and just how everything came about and fulfilling in you. And it's just such an amazing thing, these scriptures and how they live and

are alive, and it's just something. But you're in Matthew eleven and it's I'm sure you've been asked this before, where it starts with John's being Jesus Tribute to John and eleven, and it talks about a man dressed in soft clothing, behold those who are soft clothing, and anyway, it goes on down to fourteen and it says, and if you care to accept it, he himself is Elijah. Now this is after he states that the kingdom suffers violence and the profit of the law prophesied until John. And then if you

care to accept it, he himself is Elijah. And I'm just wondering how much if I've missed uff over the years he talks, if this is in fact reincarnation, I know, I don't see it in very many other scriptures where the physical body, you know, is again in flesh. But or is this really just a spirit thing where you know the spirit of Elijah comes through John and that I know that spirit went on a long time before you manifested into your flesh. So I'm just curious about that. Okay, a

couple of things. First, the full verse that you're referring to, and if you care to accept it, he himself is Elijah who was to come or is to come, depending on the translation. But so that's a qualifier that references that. Now if you cross reference that with Luke one seventeen. In Luke One's seventeen, there's a bit of a clarification that is important here. But to kind of interpret this verse. So one seventeen, I'm going

to read to you real quick. Yeah, okay, So in one seventeen you read this, and it is he who will go as a forerunner before him in the spirit and power of a Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers. So the comparison there is not about the physical, but about the spiritual and the message and the prophecy that was coming, both with Elijah and with John the Baptist. Now here's the clincher that it's not reincarnation. What do you know about Elijah? Yeah, he was, Well, let's see,

did he die? No, he didn't exactly, So there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation means reinfleshed or so the flesh is not gone, so there's no way to have reincarnation. Plus, Scripture has over and over again it makes claims that there isn't any reincarnation. It says it's appointed for man to die once and then the judgment in Hebrews, and then in Corinthians, Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

So there's no place the testiment that would have been. I'm just sure there would have been more examples of that, and and it really there's not. And I knew just deep down that the whole I mean, I didn't want it to be or you know, I was hoping, I just because I already think I really knew that it was the spirit. You. Oh, that's exactly the way you should study Scripture. You should ask those questions not about you know, like you said, not hoping for an outcome or trying

to squeeze an outcome in there. You're just letting it breathe and speak naturally. And in that case, it's very easy to look at that and think that it is at least leaning towards reincarnation. But once you start letting it, you know, unfold a little bit and explain itself. You start to see that there there's no real room for reincarnation there at all. Michael,

But a great question. I love the fact that you're thinking through those things and processing because a lot of people just kind of stare at scripture, and when you're actually studying it and wanting to poke at it and look and see what it has to say. I think it's a very powerful thing. So good for you for investigating Scripture. Of course says to test all things, and I love that you're testing those things. Steve, Welcome to the Jesus

Christ Show. Good morning Jesus. Hi Steve, how can I help you? Yeah, I have a life situation that I have been talking to God about and I just don't know what to do. I mean, sometimes I get an answer and other times I don't. Okay, I've been dating this girl for over a year now, and we've had our problems where we've talked

a little bit, then we don't talk. And you know, we just seen each other here about a couple of weeks ago and spent some time together and she told me she about me, and I had felt that I loved her, and I feel that God had put me in the place to be with her in the beginning, and now we're not really talking very much anymore. I mean, I try to communicate with her, but she doesn't communicate

back to me. Okay, I don't know what to do. I mean, I prayed to God and asked him, you know, hey, is she you know, telling me the truth that she's not getting my messages all the time. You know, I'm trying to get a hold of her during the day when I'm on my breaks at work and try to talk to it, but I never hear nothing back from her. Okay, don't know what to do. Well, let's let's strip the emotion from it and look at

this a little more reasonably. You go to the grocery store. Grocery store to shop, right, yes, okay, So you walk up and you go to check out at the counter, and you're in line, and the checker puts the little sign says this lane closed. What do you do? You go to another line? Exactly? If she's put out a sign of sorts where she is noncommunicative with you and has apparently no desire. People seek

out what they want and avoid what they don't want. Very basic, and if she's avoiding you or not connecting with you, then you need to move on. I know it stinks because you have investments of emotion and all those things, But that's the reality of the situation. And if if there's a misunderstanding, trust me, she will seek you out. But it sounds like there's some issues with the relationship to begin with. That's not how normal relationships

work. By the way, Yes, I understand that, and I've learned over my past with other relationships, you know, and I've just you know, tried to figure out and tried to think that, you know, should I really move on? Should I just you know, say, why wouldn't you move on? What? What are you hoping to gain by lingering? I don't know. That's what I've been able to figure out. Then move

on. There's there's uh, there is this weird kind of emotional loitering that takes place in some relationships when everything, every sign, every emotion, everything about the relationship says to move on. Yet people tend to do this kind of emotional loitering where they just they've got nothing else going on. But the thing about relationships is you won't ever have something else going on if you loiter

emotionally in another relationship, so there's nothing there. What you're describing is, you know, the relation that the relationship that people have with tech support for their computer not emotional, you know, real deep connection with somebody. You have somebody who's avoiding you by the sounds of things, and if somebody wants to get a hold of you, they'll get a hold of you. It's not about oh, I didn't get your text or this or that. That's

ridiculous. Who's going to would that stop you? You didn't hear from somebody and you really wanted to be connected with him. You know, look at you. You're not hearing from from her, yet you're still you're you're still trying to connect with her. You're going to the to the degree of calling a radio program to talk about it. That's because you care. If she

cared, she'd be doing that. But she doesn't seem to care, or there's something in her life that is distracting her that is more important at this point, and that's not your problem. Your issue is you and to be you know, I hate to use the corning term, but to be the best you you can be and to focus on yourself, getting yourself to a place of health, heal, so that you can be ready for somebody who comes into your life who's ready to be there with you, not somebody who's

looking for excuses not to be with you. That doesn't make sense nor does it help you at all. Okay, So I would cut ties. I would cut ties, and I would go on your merry way. And if there's some if there's a there there, it'll show up again in its in its own time. Don't try and force it or poke at it. Go do your thing, all right, I'm trying on. That does help me out, Jesus. I appreciate that. I hope. So I know.

I know it's not fun to hear, but I care about you. I want you to be healthy, and you have to sometimes walk away from things right, and really all the signs are there. I mean, people talk about well, Lord, I want to hear prayer. I want to hear answer to my prayer, but you are you just don't like the answer. So worry about yourself and do things that you enjoy, and you will come across people that enjoy those things too, that you'll have similarities with, and

that's how you connect and find somebody that you're going to mesh with. But if somebody is kind of that off and on, it's not worth it, Steve. It's a waste of your time. And the worst part of it, Steve, the very worst part of it is that every time you invest in somebody that's not good for you or is not connecting with you or sharing insights and hopes and desires with you, you're keeping yourself from being with somebody

that can do that very thing. So, you know, there's these you see these parents sometimes who aren't honest with their children, and let's say their child really stinks at baseball, and they keep pretending like their child doesn't stink at baseball. That's not helping anyone, because maybe the child might be really good at soccer or football or what are arts, you know, the arts,

or something else. And if you keep if you force people to do things, you don't allow them to naturally find the thing that they're good at. So if you try and stay, if you force yourself to try and stay in a bad relationship or one that is virtually non existent, then you're not available for a good one. And that's the worst part of that. And you have to get over that hump and know that you're you're of value, and that you have value to give someone and to connect with someone and

trust that it will come along. Jim, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you for taking a call. My pleasure. How can I help you. I'm an old guy getting ready to die. Wow, okay, you know, just I don't know if it's not imminent, but I'm thinking about it. So I'm thinking about the next life. Now I can understand

the tunnel, the white light, the feeling of good. After that, it gets a little hazy because let's say I get through the tunnel, I get through the white light, the feeling of love and compassion and everything. And there's a guy sitting there at the pearly gates with the book's got my name on it, and he's pointing out some things in there, and I'm saying, you know, I'm ashamed of that. You know, I got it knit. But over here there's another entry. Look at it. I

did something good here. So he gets out he's been Franklin Scales and we weighed out the good gets the bad, and he says, okay, I'm gonna let you in here. You did enough good things. You've done that. Now This is where I have the questions. I get through the gate, Now what happens? You give me a room, Do I have a place to sleep? Do I get a meal? If I got to go

to the bathroom. You know what happens at this point? If I get somebody assigns me something that shows me around and says, hey, here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna get the wash dishes because that's your skill set, you know. I mean, what exactly happens once you're through the Pearly gate. Interesting thing is that although the scripture of course does now your description

is more of a Hollywood description than it is a Biblical one. To begin with, it's not really dealing like with the scales of justice there about good and bad. Otherwise you're comparing yourself against humans, and that's not what heaven's about. It's not about comparing yourself against humans. It's comparing yourself against God. That's why the standard is so high. But as far as what heaven's like, there's not a lot of description. Of course, the apostle John

talks about certain heavenly things in Revelation. You can read about these things and the glory of God the city is filled with brilliance of costly stones, crystal clear jasper. These things are are man's way of trying to describe something that's that there's no way to describe. However, as far as the specif czivis that you're talking about, the interesting thing about heaven is that it's more of a place of no moors, like it talks about. There's no more tears,

no more pain, no more sorrow. There's not a necessity to eat, but it doesn't mean that you can't eat in heaven. It just wouldn't be out of necessity. There's no necessity to sleep, there's no necessity for those things. Those are very human things that you're attributing to heaven, but they're not necessary in heaven, nor do they have a place. As far as rooms, there is talk of mansions, there is talk of but again

that is a human way to describe things there. There are discussions in scripture about having the tree of life, there, about having the Paradise or the garden of Eden being restored, the river of water of life flowing freely through it, yielding fruit monthly, heal the nations. There's descriptions of things that are in about Heaven, but they're not. There are illustrations or some there's sketches, human sketches of things that help you understand a feeling or an attitude,

rather than a with specificity the details of heaven. When it talks about the streets are paved with gold, it's not about the streets literally being paved with gold. It's about that even the streets, the very lowly thing that you walk upon, are so precious they're like gold. So it's hard to find literal descriptions there because it's very different than earth. But it is a place of peace, and it is a place of worship of God. That's

the key and a connection and a regniting of you with your maker. Kfi Man