Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [02/25]

You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand, you know. Driving recently saw a bumper sticker. A bumper sticker said I can fix anything with the right hammer, and it got me thinking about how as people of faith, there are times when you want the confirmation of God. And listen to me that you want the confirmation of God even if you don't have the confirmation of

God, that you'll do anything to get that. You'll twist, you'll contort scripture, you will press push, yes, sometimes even get out that big hammer to get the job done. And the word of God is something yes, breathing, absolutely, But is it something that you are to twist or contort to your particular view to prove yourself right. Absolutely not. You are supposed to receive from scripture, not put your views into scripture. This mindset

will save you a lot of pain and anguish and frustration with God. I have met many a person's who have rejected truth, trying to pull from scripture something that they want because it's easier. And I don't want you to be there, not today, not any day. I don't want you to ever get to a place where you feel that it's okay for you to place your will into scripture rather letting. Rather than letting, Scripture breathe its will towards

you, and this bumper sticker off. I can fix anything with any hammer, with the right size hammer has that same mentality. That's not truly about fixing it. It's about banging into your will. And I don't want you to do that with scripture in the Bible. As Paul writes to Timothy, a young man going into leadership at the in the Ephesian Church, he writes

about scripture, he writes about care, he writes about scripture. Two Timothy two fifteen says, be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, first and foremost, setting yourself apart. Paul has talked about the difference in Scripture between being ashamed in front of man and being ashamed in front of God. Obviously being ashamed in front of God greater concern. And in some translations, I want you to hear the

words that are used. The sentiment is in every single one, but the verbiage is interesting. It says not to be ashamed. That goes on rightly dividing the word of truth, rightly dividing the Word of truth. Now this is not a phrase that shows up a lot in Scripture. Are those that go back and forth as to what this might mean, because it really translate. Rightly dividing translates into cutting straight the Word of God. And there are those that go back and forth as to you know what this might mean.

Many scholars believe that this this term to cut straight or rightly divide, that Paul had in mind the stonemasons that had to cut every stone precisely in order for the building to be erected properly, to stand properly, to have the fortress like qualities that you want in a structure. But think about that precision. Think about what that means. To divide rightly the Word of God.

That means to set apart when you sit and read scripture, to know that when you proceed with reading and learning and taking from Scripture, that you do it in a prayerful manner, in a manner which rightly divides the Word of Truth. That isn't just hammering your thoughts into it. That the words there imply specific division and a delicate touch, not the big hammer method. I'm reminded of that play school toy. It looks similar to a globe, but

it's a geometric shape that has two sides. It has handles. One side of it is red, one side blue. The handles are yellow. You pull it apart and all the shapes come out, and then you put the shapes back through each hole of the same shape. So you have hearts, you have moons, half moons, you have stars, circles, squares. Now, some kids that you give it to, they will look at the shape, the shape they hold in their hand, they will look at the

cutout and they'll put it in the proper location. There are other kids that will take the palm of their hand and push the circle through the square slot because their goal is merely to get it inside the container. And I see people do this with scripture. They'll take a verse and they will push, and they will push, and they will pull, and they'll yank, and they'll twist, and they'll try and cram it to mean what they want it

to mean. Do you do this? Do you try and get scripture to say to mean what you wanted to say or mean, or do you let it breathe and speak to you rightly? Dividing the meaning and the truth of the Word of God. It's interesting that this term is not used throughout scripture, that Paul used a specific way of saying to divide the truth the Word of God, that this imagery of a stonemason, or some say it might

even be a surgeon or something. But the importance here is that Paul saw the need to specifically use these words to rightly divide, to cut straight the word of truth. Sometimes I feel like there are those that go through Scripture with scissors, taking out what they want or don't want, and leaving what they do, sort of making their own version, kind of the Thomasonian Thomas Jefferson with his Jeffersonian. Rather, his Bible is a Bible of removal.

It's basically removing the things that Thomas Jefferson didn't want to deal with, leaving what he did what he referred to as the teachings of Christ. But my teachings were not just those. My teachings go throughout the tirety of Scripture. And so to segment or partition or take away, or to cram and twist

the Word of God is to lose the truth about Scripture. It is to lose the value because really, instead of you imposing your view on scripture, instead of you imposing your thoughts, your wants, your desires on scripture, on the contrary, scripture should be imposing its views on you. So interpretation scripture receiving from scripture what it has to teach you. The important thing is to use scripture itself to interpret itself so that you don't get lost in your

own interpretations or trying to squeeze out of scripture what you want. Continue to read everything in its context. There are times where to get a huge and important truth out quickly, you need to condense it. And I know that this is very common, and so is scripture memorization and uh, taking certain scripture and you know, putting them on notepads or a bumper sticker or a

T shirt. And there are definitely scriptures that are concise and to the point, and you will remove it and you'll go, okay, this really, you know, says what I'm trying to get across. But everything in scripture is seated in its context for reason, and where it sits is important to how you understand it when you dive into scripture, when you open it up, I know you want it to speak to you, well, hear it

out. Hear it out in its entirety, read and understand the context, what was taking place, and then it will speak to you truly, rather than you feeling the need to only cut a little peace out and say, okay, this is what I'm going to remember. Now, you may read an entire chapter and find that one verse in that chapter seems to sum it up. That's okay, but read it in its entirety. Know that scripture, those that you come across that are difficult, those verses to come across

that are difficult, should be interpreted by the rest of scripture. So you go through and you read, You see things in their proper context, and let them come to life. You can compare and contrast against other parts of scripture, and then you can know what God wants you to know. I see people take very difficult scriptures out by themselves and try and make something that contradicts the entirety of the Bible and tries to make some sort of doctrine a

belief out of it. You have to look at them and say, well, it's contorting or I hear people make comments, oftentimes antagonists against God or God's word, taking things complete completely out of context, and trying to make them say something ugly or awful without knowing what their purpose was to begin with. If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when you do it. Ed. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you, Hello Jesus. I want to tell you that I have never craved a bag of like

I am this morning. And whether it's onion or raisin, that's the dilemma. Cream cheese is just a given. Oh well, goodness, that's your only problem or dilemma today. You're doing all right, my friend. I wanted to ask you, you hear that argument will prove to me that God exists without using the Bible. Now, the Bible is the foundation of my belief in Christ. But can that be done well? The Bible is the foundation of the practice of your belief, but often there's something that precedes that.

Something has to precede it, otherwise you wouldn't have gotten to the Bible. So it's not like in some cases some people have the Bible put in their face as young kid and they just kind of okay, well, this is what I do. But as you know, children tend to grow up and become rebellious. And the simple truth is you either believe what your parents believe or you believe the exact opposite. I mean, that's usually where people

go. They usually rebel or accept. But outside of that, and I'll explain why the Bible is okay to use, even though I wouldn't always recommend it, but intellectually why it's okay to use. But outside of that, you have to start at the basics. You have to start at if there is a God at all, and before you get into the specifics of the nature of God, which is what the Bible kind of reveals and focuses on.

So there are certain things and arguments, and all of them break down in one form or another, but they do paint a picture that points to the necessity for transcendent being something that is outside of creation. And you can do that by saying by looking around. Some call it the law of contingency. If you look around, there is nothing in the universe, nothing that you can point to that doesn't have to point outside itself to explain its existence.

The tree has to point to the acorn, which points to the tree, which points to the acorn. You to your parents, to their parents to their parents and everything. You know, the table you're sitting at has to point back to the tree that it came from, which came from the

acorn. So if you see, everything has to point back somewhere. And the law of contingency would argue that if everything in the universe is contingent, then the universe itself is contingent, meaning that it's dependent upon something, and that points to that something being possibly a god. So it's the equivalent of saying, you know, if the legs of the chair are would, and the seat of the chair is would, and the back of the chair is

wood, then what's the chair made of? Ed? What exactly? So if everything in the universe is contingent, dependent upon something to prove its existence or to explain its existence, then the universe itself has to point outside itself to explain its existence. So that's one form. And all of these have fancy names, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the deontological argument, and things like that, but when it comes to these arguments, a lot

of them are just looking at logic and understanding. You can get into science, you can get into thermodynamics and how things are winding down and becoming simpler, which implies they were wound up and they're not getting greater, which points to evolution becoming more complex. Nothing in science gets more complex. It always gets simpler. Thermodynamics, things are breaking down. If you put an apple in the cupboard, it doesn't become a greater apple. It breaks down in

rocks. It gets simpler in nature, not greater in nature. You can point to design. You can point to the fact that there's nobody in their right mind that would be driving through the Dakotas and look at Mount Rushmore and saying say that, oh, look that is, you know, because of erosion and rain. Wouldn't that seems silly that someone would look at Mount Rushmore

and think that it came just out of happenstance because of erosion. Oh absolutely, that would be silly, because your mind knows that when it sees complexity, that it has design, and design comes from a designer. Yet when you look at humanity, people look at humanity and go, oh, well,

that's just an accident. I'm often floored by the the atheistic evolutionist who sits there and chuckles about the these guys believe in this magic guy named Jesus that came down and kind of threw his faery dust around, and now everybody gets lived for forever. Reductionism, you know, you can reduce it to sound silly, just like I could say that the evolutionist believes you come from

a magic bowl of soup. So if you look at the complexity of humanity, if you look at the complexity of the universe and the necessity of the universe, meaning every little star has a purpose and every grain of sand has a purpose and a balance to this life, that that shows design. That points to a designer and doesn't just point to randomness, and the actual mathematical laws that you'd have to use and skew mathematically to say that humanity just happened

out of chaos runs on the other side of impossible mathematically. So there's a lot of different areas you can run down and point to and use his arguments, but ultimately there's going to be a point of faith because you're dealing with a past singular like the creation of time and the universe and the world as you know it. And even the evolutionary scientist has to do the same thing because forensics is the only science you can use, which is the science of

basically looking backwards through that which is left. So no one could go back to that moment and create that moment and say, okay, this is how the world came to be, because the world's already here and you can't recreate it. Somewhere, there was some some years ago there was a scientists that created a simple and which is essentially like a life, and threw their arms up in the air and said, whoao, we created life. See, we did it. We finally in a Petri dish, we created life.

This is it. We've showed everybody that we can do it. And the theist looked up and said, let me get this straight. You did what well? We created life? I said, well, what kind of environment? Oh it was it was a specific environment a lab excellent, and who monitored well are greatest scientists. So you're saying that intelligence in a created environment brought forth life, which is what the theist has been saying since day one.

All that proves is that you need intelligence to create intelligence and science. The law is that the law of causing effects says that the effect is never going to be greater than the cause. If I can push something, it's because my strength leverage the viscosity of the ground that the item sitting on, whatever it is, is going to be in my favor. I'm stronger than whatever it is. If I can pick it up or throw it, I'm stronger. My cause is greater than the effect of the ball being thrown or

whatever I'm tossing. Right, Well, they have to kind of reverse that when it comes to creation and evolution, because in the evolutionary model, the effect evolution is greater than the cause because it's getting more complex. It's getting bigger, better, stronger, faster, smarter, and not smaller simpler. There's a lot of problems with it. And I know that a lot of folks will roll their eyes at this because they say, oh, well,

the cosmological has problems this way, the deontological has problems this way. Tellia, they start picking apart, and all arguments do break down in certain areas, but as a whole, you bring them to a place where you can look at it and say, wow, there actually is great argumentation. It's not illogical to believe in God. It's not just fantasy or faith. Faith is great and important, but ed faith is that which comes after that which you can know. I like that it's not illogical. No, absolutely not.

If you're going to serve a god. Do you want to serve a whacked out illogical God? No? And I find it silly. And you'll find that the cults or the occult at times other belief systems heretical systems. Within the Church, they're often very nonsensical and usually teetered towards manm uh, this is you know, you look at people and say, let me get this straight. You think we made up scripture. You think that I wrote a book telling me not to do the very things that is in my nature

to want to do, and that I'm going to live by it. Why? Well, because the early man did it so that they could build a structure of law and so people would abide. No, humans don't want to abide by anything, no matter who says it. People have been rebelling against me and the Father since day one. Written or unwritten, oral tradition or not oral tradition. Man wants to rebel, why would that same man write a book that he's going to rebel against. It's not a book that a

man would write if he could, or could write if he would. So there's many, many, many, many different ways of going about it. But lastly, Ed, I want to give you some comfort about scripture itself. Scripture is not one book. That's the mistake people always think it's one book. Scripture is over sixty five books, written by approximately forty authors on three different continents, in three different languages, by priests and peasants, at

times of peace at times of war. It's voluminous. It's not one book. Now, if I brought thirty books to somebody throughout the centuries that were written by different people that all pointed to the same thing, that's not circular reasoning or going back and arguing your point from your point. That's building a case. If you ask me, John, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Follow Jesus. Hi John, what's up? Jesus. I decided to

call you today because I'm having a lot of problems in my life. Aside from the fact that I'm going through a lot of financial difficulties, I've also recently found out that my wife has been having an extra amount affair. It's been about three months give or take since I've found out, and not by any admission but just my own general knowledge. Oh so you're saying that she

hasn't confessed to this in any way, shape or form. Well, she confessed after I presented her with the proof, So she got caught pretty much. Okay, Well, John, I'm going to ask you a hold on a second, as we're up against the clock. I want to talk to you more and hear more of the story. We've been married for seventeen years, find out, in addition to having financial woes right now, that your

wife is having an affair. When we come back, I want to talk to you a little bit more about that and see what scripture has to say. We were talking with John, been married for seventeen years, found out his wife was having an affair. Now, John, you called her on this right? Oh yes, okay, so you saw signs or whatever it was you finally called her. How did you respond to you calling her out on the carpet on that she was very upset, very upset, and come

to find doubt that it was a coworker of hers. And quite honestly, you know, I'm doing a little bit more research. I found that I confronted this person, okay, and you know I told them what my intentions were, and you know, he says there was just a strong friendship and so forth. But in reading emails and things of that nature, you know, there was I seemed like there was more more of a bond there between

them. Jesus, I know, I know you didn't quit on us when you were preaching your word the non believers, and I'm trying to follow that inspiration and not not trying to quit on my marriage. There are children involved, and I'm trying to be the better person, but it just seems so difficult. You know, sometimes you don't you wish for the response, a certain response, and you're not getting that certain response back, and all you

hear is any time I need time one day at a time. Is that is that the response that she's giving you or is this this you working through it? Uh? No, this is this is her responses. She needs time for what I I don't know because she won't reveal that to me personally. You know, there was you know, I was very naive. There

were a lot of text messagings and and things of that nature. Yeah, Technology unfortunately has made it even easier for someone to have an affair or to keep contact and kind of ruminate and build those emotions and about six months ago, you know, without knowing anything, I asked her, I said, you know, are you having an affair? Is there someone else? And she both denied it. Come to find out that this uh was going on for about a year or so. Wow, okay, well here's the rules.

This is what it means to you. Do you have you know, biblical right to save the marriage? Yes, of course you do. Yeah. This is a debate that goes on throughout Christendom. But the most Christians would believe that in context on you know, somebody who is unchased or in this say this case, an adulter, that you could save the marriage. However, that isn't that's not my standard. My standard and one Corinthians seventy

ten is really about reconciliation. Reconciliation should always be at the forefront. But these are the rules that I want you to know. One, John, you could only be fifty percent of the relationship. You can't go over and be her part as well. She has to participate in this. You have to give the ultimatum that this is where we're at. I would like to reconcile this relationship, but it's going to take work. None of this I'm not ready now now that if you're not in now, then you're not in.

If you're not going to be a part of the marriage now, then you're not going to be a part of the marriage, and we'll go our separate ways. That stinks because for the children, most importantly, you both should be together. However, in this particular case, if she's going to be bringing other men into the relationship in one way or another, or these

types of things, and that's equally if not worse for the children. So for the protection of the family or what's left of it, you have to put the ultimatum down on the table and say this is what I want, this is what I need. She has to be all in and you have to be all in. You can't continue to beat her over the head with it. She can't continue to make excuses or run around or be secretive.

You have to know where she is, know where you are. You guys have to have an equal amount of trust in this, and then from that point it can move forward. KFI A M six forty on demand M