Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [09/24]

You're listening to KFI amix on demand. When you hear the term ambassador, what do you think of? Probably, you know politics and government and that type of thing. But did you know that if you're a believer, that you're called to be an ambassador of mine? Yep? That's what scripture says in Second Corinthians, chapter five. It talks about being an ambassador. And

this morning, I want you to think about what that means. You're you're a representative when you make a claim, when you make a statement and you say, you know, I am a believer and I am a follower. That doesn't mean that you're on the clock when you're in church or some Bible study. It doesn't mean that you're on the clock only when you're praying means

you're an ambassador. It's very easy to get caught up in the big things and think, well, you know, I practice what I preach in this context or in this context, but sometimes, you know, the little things I let that kind of slide. I want to tell you something. I tell you this not to not to make you tense or hyper aware, but so that you will know, and that is that people are watching you. The entire world is watching you. Some are watching with curiosity because they want

to believe. Others are watching you because they hate what you stand for and they want to watch you fail. There are those that are looking constantly for excuses not to believe reasons, and they're hoping that you will be a bucketful of excuses for them to run from any sort of faith. So you are an ambassador. You are a card carrying every time you make a claim, you put a bumper sticker on the back of your car, you let anybody

know that you're a Christian, you're a person of faith. Anytime you walk out of a church, any time you make a proclamation about me at all, you're an ambassador. And that that should be that should put you at peace and be something of joy, not something of great weight. However, I want you to understand the importance of it because it's kind of twofold. It's not just about what you do, but it's about how you do it.

You know, a great chef is not somebody only who understands flavors, but a great chef knows how to apply not only you know, flavors, but also textures and color. In the culinary world, they refer to it as plating when they take that meal, that wonderful meal, and put it in such a such an organization that when it comes to your table it's beautiful and fragrant in every way, not just the taste. And as an ambassador, as someone who represents me, people are watching for all of that.

So not only the fact that you're doing something like the chef creating a meal, but the way you present it is important as well. Your attitude on the little things. We often refer to it as replacing the shopping cart. These are the little things that you just go, oh well, I'll just leave it here rather than where it's supposed to go, and people watch those things. People look to see how you react to world events, not only what you do, but the subtleties. Do you do it happily? Do

you do it begrudgedly? Every little subtlety matters. It's very easy to get caught up in the in the large things and kind of go through your checklist saying, wow, you know what, I did this, this, and I went to Bible study and everything's taken care of. But how were you in the process. Did you speed to Bible study? Did you ignore other people on your way there. When you got there, how was your demeanor?

Did you put it on only for other Christians because you thought, oh, well, this is the place where they're going to be judging me. Nope. As a matter of fact, it's quite the opposite. Hopefully, if things are running properly, the world is going to judge you. The world's going to look at you and wonder. I wonder if they really really live the way they say. Now, it's not that you're going to stop sitting, but I'm telling you this. If you are so focused on the

little things, the big things will follow quite simply. But if you only focus on the big things, quite often, you will miss the little things, and in doing so, will leave just enough of an opening to be pierced by those that don't want to believe or those that are desperately searching for truth. And you have to get yourself in the mindset where the little things do matter. In Philippians two fourteen, it says do all things without complaining

and disputing. Oh boy, living up to that would be quite difficult, I know. But think about the beauty of it. Think about what that says the people around you. When you not only do what is right or you do what is good, but when you do it with that proper attitude, attitude, when you're doing it without complaining, without disputing, meaning that

you are in the proper mindset and you understand. Have you ever seen a kid that's told over and over to do something, go clean your room, go clean your room, go clean your room, and the kid finally goes ah, kicking and screaming the entire way. Well, that's how you look sometimes. That's how you look when I call you to do something that you know is right, And that's how you look sometimes when other people ask things of you. And I want you to understand that these subtleties are more important

than you may think. That often all the things you do, the big things that you tend to look at as being huge, are not as important as you think when you kind of erase them with the small things. The subtleties, your attitude, the way you interact with people around you, and for all the things that you do, and all the things that you do that are good and used to glorify God, I assure you the big ones they are overshadowed by the tone and by the attitude in which you do them.

Marge, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. I think I have a simple question, okay, it's about the Sabbath. I'm looking at Genesis twenty eight through ten, and the blaring words that pop out to me from those two verses are remember this Sabbath, and then on it you shall do shall not do any work. And that brings to mind what day is the Sabbath? Okay? And will I go to Hell if I don't keep it?

Well, that's a very legitimate question. The Sabbath is one of those things that there tends to be a little confusion on because a lot of people think that Christians celebrate or worship on the Sabbath, and they don't most Christians. And I say most because there are some that do Seventh Day Adventist worship on the Sabbath, which is Saturday, but most Christians observe the Lord's Day, which is Sunday. And this deals with the resurrection day and the dealing with

new life. So the Sabbath is it comes from the Hebrew words sabbaf. It means simply to rest from labor, to cease, if you will, and that time having that period is imperative. The first time you see it, yes, correct, is in Genesis, and that's talking about the the rest of the Father after creating the world. So in the case of an individual, no, you will not go to hell. The important thing is

that you keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath that you're keeping, is that you're keeping a time to cease, a downtime, a time to go to church, a time to worship, a time of prayer. And in the New Testament, if you look and see many of the many of the churches that were starting in the early days of Christianity, they worshiped all kinds of different

times, sometimes on Wednesdays, sometimes on Saturdays, sometimes on Sundays. The important thing is that you do not forsake the gathering of the brethren, that there's time to gather together in the church, that you do have downtime,

otherwise you'll implode. You know, you can only work so much, you can only do so much, and you need time to recuperate and also to understand the beauty of the Sabbath. When I was asked in scripture about the Sabbath, what was my response, Marge, My response was, the Sabbath was made was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, so it's there for you. You're not here for the Sabbath. And understanding that is important to to understand the difference and not get caught up in the law,

but understand the spirit of the law and the purpose of the law. Spirit of the law and the purpose of the law was for you to have time of rest, to have time with family, and to have time with those

whom you love, and to replenish yourself. And if you get focused on that, you know, then then there's balance, Then there's understanding, and there's time of meditation and introspection and all of those things, not in some pipe pop psychology or some metaphys pysical way, but in a real way for you to have time with God, downtime where you're spending time of worship and love and peace and not constantly going I've got to do this, I've got

to do that, and I'm running at full speed all the time. That's what I want you to keep away from. Mike, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good Morning, Lamb of God, good morning. I love your show. I've been a follower since these very early days, and I've had the luck to make one call before, so I'll get right to the question. I don't have any doubts about really who you are and what you

did. I have a small identity question you. Your full true identity has always been something I've I've questioned, and not in a bad way, but only as as we were advised to do seek wisdom as a digging for buried treasure, you know. And I've a I've doug a lot of holes happily in the quest for whatever I need to have satisfied in my heart. And

there's always just been some questions raised by I've had. I've had Jehovah's witnesses in my family that I've roved in respect deeply, and I think you know the key difference they always hold and with the mainstream Christian thought, and you know, some of the ideas have just gotten to me. And one thing that's got to me most recently was and it's not new, I'm not unique, but are you fully inligne with the Father with the powers meaning omniscience and

those things? You know? And I think of your journey in the desert for forty days, When I think of your meditation and your deep prayer, and I think of you know, it's been referred to before as the moment of doubt and paying on the cross, when you stream out to the Father. I just have this deep feeling that you know you're full in this Maybe is places some sort of limits on your godliness. I just wonder if you

could please comment on that a little bit and help me out. Well, yes and no, I mean that the power is there Matthew twenty eight eighteen, and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. There's no limitations in power. What there is is submission, and being in submission to the Father well on earth absolutely takes place there. It has to because of the limitations of flesh,

not the limitations of the spirit. So when you're dealing with the big fancy theological term the hypostatic union between the flesh and you know, the humanity and the deity, that's unique to me, you're battling with two things. You have to ask every question twice. In the spirit you're gonna get one answer, and in the flesh you're going to get another answer. Not because the limitation of the spirit but the limitation of the body, you understand, I'll

put it this way. Can you ride a bicycle, yeah, okay. Can you drive a car? Yeah? Can you ride a bicycle while you're driving a car? Okay? But you wouldn't say because if I asked you, can you ride a bicycle and you're in a car, you wouldn't say no. Say well, when I'm not in a car, I can ride the bicycle, but in a car, I can't ride the bicycle. So likewise, in the flesh there are things that can't be done because of the

flesh. It's not a limitation of the spirit. So that Jeovah's witnesses would want to limit the spirit and not the flesh, And that's where they're wrong. The limitation is not in the spirit, which is identical to the Father in that sense, in the power in all the Omni attributes, but it is in the flesh that well, in the flesh, the limitation is in the flesh, not the DNA. So they they would say, well, you can't ride a bicycle ever, because you're in you know, you said

that you couldn't will you're in the car. But the differential is that well, in the flesh the flesh is limited and limits certain those things can't be everywhere at once, But in the spirit absolutely can be everywhere at once. And that's where the confusion strikes, is that union between the two. So Yes, in the flesh, there's limitations in the flesh, never limitations in the spirit or the deity of Christ. Ever, Laura, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hello Jesus. Well, Hello, how can

I help you? Hi? I have a question for you that involves my boyfriend. Okay, he's not a believer and he was raised in a basically a family that has no religious face background at all. So I was raised in Christian home and I've been trying to like bring him to church and talk to him about God, and his questions are always, well, if God

is real, then why doesn't show himself to me? And I guess I've asked him to, like, you know, ask God for something, but then it's kind of ludicrous because then he asked God for like, Okay, if God's real, then let him put a hundred bucks in my hand right now, and then it doesn't happen, and he's like, see, God's not real. So I guess the question that I'm asking is, how would you approach someone who basically has no framework for understanding or for a faith in

Christ or oh boy, you're you're barking up a strange tree. This is not how you start a relationship. You don't start it backwards. And I'm telling you this, and I know that it stinks to hear, But Scripture when it talks about this, this concept of being unequally yoked in Second Corinthians six fourteen, it's talking about how you guys aren't going to ever have anything in common for the most part. I mean, the very core of who

you are is going to be different from one another. So I want you to know that if you're going to get into relationship with him, take him as is, don't ever ever assume that he's going to become a Christian right and know that there will be problems, and probably prefer that you don't have children, because if you bring children into it, even though if he says he doesn't care, all that will be is mommy saying one thing to the

child and then Daddy's saying something else. So keep these things in mind. I know it's hard when you're in love and you're feeling all those wonderful feelings. But when life becomes practical and isn't as flowery, it gets incredibly difficult. So just know what you're signing up for. Having said that, there's not going to be anything that you can give to him. You're not his teacher. It just won't fall down that way. He doesn't see you in

that role. He doesn't respect your beliefs. Why would he respect your teaching. So it's very difficult. The whole concept of of tempting your Lord God is ludicrous. To sit there and go, well, put this in my hand. There's a lot of things that he doesn't see that he believes in. You can't You can't put wind into a petree dish to study it. You don't see wind. You see the reaction to wind, which is the

leafs rustling, or these types of things are the grass blowing. So if you really want to ask him something profound, I suppose you could ask him how he knows he loves you. Because love, you can't see it doesn't exist. There is. There's some scientists that will say, yes, certain parts of your brain react chemically to somebody, but that's not really love. That's a physiological response to something, whether it be touch or excitement or any

sort of contact or stimulation. So love can't be studied or understood or putting a Petrie dish either. It's really nonsensical the concept of love. It's easier just to divide biologically if you were created in such a way. And because of the time, I'm going to ask you to hold on real tight because I want to talk to you some more. Is that okay, Laura,

that's fine. Okay, let's hold on for just a second. When we come back, I want to give you a couple more ideas that might help you as you go down a path it's a little sketchy to begin with. We were talking with Laura. Laura, you're still there. Yeah, thanks for holding on. Okay. So it's it's a difficult situation, and I really need you to know that. Actually, can I ask you one more

question that has to do with this? Sure? You know? Here's this is the whole crux of the matter for me, is is there any hope for people that aren't raised in Christian homes? Because now I'm beginning to wonder if, well, how do people in general come to faith in Christ when there is no background for it. There absolutely on the road to Damascus. Like I always always Laura, always hope, that's not what I want you to see. What I want you to see. And the frustration that comes

in relationships is the assumption that it's going to come through you. What what what you do need? My producer Neil, who who loves me and has his own issues, that's for sure, but he uh, he's married to an atheist now, yet he serves this program and serves me in many different ways. And you know, some people might think it was a really bad choice. He would probably agree, although they they work through it. They have a system that works for them now. So there's always hope in all

situations. Just God's standard is always going to be what's best. And if you go into this with eyes kind of half closed, there's gonna be problems. If you go into it thinking that there's going to be a happy ending, there may not be. If you go into it thinking that there you know that he's going to love when you go to church on Sunday, that's

that's not going to be the way it is. He may be fine at first, but sooner or later he's gonna go You know what, I miss having breakfast with you on Sundays or I miss this, and it's going to become very difficult for you to have even your own faith. So that's why I focus on that now. As far as is he capable, of course

he is. Sometimes it seems that the atheist or somebody who's you know, raised in a humanist home is easier to show about the truth of salvation than it is somebody who's raised in a counter belief system a religion, because the atheist almost isn't holding on to something. Their hands almost open if you visualize it, rather than closed around something, and it's a little easier to explain.

But that's not always the case. But they're always his hope. Your goal and kind of position and roll in all of this is to be Laura, is to serve God as Laura, to love God and be unwavering the minute you waver. This is also makes it quite difficult is that you don't have a partner that under stands when you backslide or when you're in doubt. They capitalize on it, and so your strength is different. It's you don't

have the community. Plus if for a woman, it makes it even more difficult because the leader of the house as far as the faith goes in scripture is the man. So if the man's not leading that that spiritual is if if he's not being you guys are partners in the household. But if he's not being that spiritual leader in the household, it's difficult, and so these

things start to battle a little bit. But as far as it coming from somewhere else, yeah, he'll probably see something, know something come to you and ask questions at times, or maybe not. Sometimes men can believe it or not get stubborn and and don't want to hear it from anyone. There's

all kinds of variables. It's just a matter of, you know, how far if he really if he's just asking silly questions like how come God doesn't make a hundred dollars pop into my hand, that's ridiculous, then he really doesn't care and really doesn't want to know. He wants to play with your

faith, wants to make you feel stupid about your faith. But if he's really asking intelligent questions and wanting to know how things happen or why they happen, or any of this, then he's going to legitimately be searching and therefore he will legitimately find an answer. Do you think I think he'd ever be so bold as to call up here? Yeah, definitely have him call up, Okay, get him to call up and if he has real questions, we'll give him real answers. All right, Well, I will have him

do that, Okay. But they always have hope and always have faith. Laura. It's it's not a loss, cause I just don't want to see you to get into something that's built on a fantasy of love rather than responsible you know, balance and love. M So just be strong. I appreciate your perspective, and it's it's been to us. I mean we've been together for about five years now, so yeah, it's you know, there's some things that we be great at and then there's other things that we don't.

So you know, I guess it's a matter of priorities for me. So yeah, it's just if you could imagine if you were both contractors and one of you had a ruler with measurements on it and the other one didn't, how difficult it would be to constantly try and build something because you're going, no, this is a standard, and this is the standard by which you use to build this, and he's going, I'm just gonna eye it and kind of guess, and and there's there's no there's no structure between the two.

He may say it's science for him, but that's not true. Science is observational, you know. I find though that he has like more based Christian values than I do in certain ways, like for example, honesty and like truth telling. He's very like I've ruggle with that more than I think he has. And that's something that I don't know. I find just characteristics in him that are stronger and sometimes than what I see in my Christian friends.

Absolutely, you've put your finger on it too. And and this is something that's confusing to the Christian community and also to the non believing or humanist community, because humanists are wonderful, Incredibly, the majority of them are wonderful people with great ethos and structure to why they believe what they believe. It's just it's the practice of it. It comes from numbwhere nowhere, So it's

it's they practice it because it's culturally right. And that will only take you so far, you know, because culturally right in you know, Nazi Germany was different than culturally right today. So there's differences that where it will break down, but absolutely there are wonderful humanists out there that do great things and are humanitarian and all of these things. It's not about that. There is more to the truth than just the application of it, you know, kind

of as a shell or the outside shell. They don't necessarily know where that comes from or what the purpose is. And as we've said on the show many times before, the purpose of the law is more important than the law itself, because the purpose of the law is what you're protecting. If there's something to be protected, then that's more important than what you're doing to protect

it. And people get confused with those things, and it's it's a it's a long path, and it's not one that I recommend, and I asked that you go into it with a strong head and being reasonable and not just caught up in the fantasy. But ultimately, the truth is you don't respect his beliefs and he doesn't respect yours. That's what it comes down to. And you both both might think see each other as being attractive, and you both might see each other as being fun, but really that's going to you

know, fall apart. At some point, and you're gonna have to trust each other's beliefs and you don't. You're gonna have to trust you know each other's faith. And he has a faith in in the unknown on one sense of things, and you have a faith in the unknown and another sense of things. And it can get very, very cumbersome. So just keep those things in mind, and if he's bold enough to call up, if he really has questions, please have him call up and reference our conversation. Kfix on demand