Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [11/26]

You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. So Thursday has come and gone, Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. And it's interesting how just prior to Thanksgiving all that you see cooking shows, magazines or how to prepare turkey, how to prepare your Thanksgiving meal? Right, that's all you could see. Now it's after Thanksgiving and what seems to be popping up everywhere is how to prepare your what your leftovers? Everywhere? How to prepare your leftover overs

this year? How to use your turkey and stews and soups, whatever it might be. And that's a good thing. That's a practical thing. When you're dealing with so much food, you have a feast of sorts. The last thing you want to do is take the leftovers and toss them out. Shows that you're good steward with your money, with your food, with your time, very practical. So it's bound to be that type of the year

that leftover has become something very important. My producer Neil loves to cook, loves to take things from the pantry that look like nothing and make them into something. Loves the concept of taking leftovers and making something wonderful again out of them. In that sense, it's good. That sense leftovers wonderful. However, you wouldn't serve leftovers on Thanksgiving night. They're a byproduct, their byproduct that you use, a resource that you use again. But serving them to

your guests originally at Thanksgiving might be considered tacky. The whole point is to come together and bring those those great fruits of labor to the table. There's a poem about leftovers dealing with God that I want you to hear. Source is unknown, but it speaks truth. Leftovers are such humble things we would not serve to a guest, and yet we serve them to our Lord,

who deserves the very best. We give to him left over time, stray minutes here and there, leftover cash, we give to him such few coins as we can spare. We give our youth unto the world to hatred, lust and strife. Then, in declining years, we give to him the remaining of our life. Not poem points to the way some of you might treat God. It's very easy to get wrapped up in the world right now

during the holidays. It's very easy to get wrapped up in everything that goes with the world now you've got to get gifts, and now you've got to do dinners, and now you've got to get together, and all kinds of hubbub. But really it's about the most simplest things. It's about breaking bread with one another, about loving on one another and spending time with one another.

All the other stuff is gravy, as they say, But the leftovers that God loves are the practical ones and not throwing out food, reusing it and making sure you're a good steward of your money and your time. The leftovers God hates are when you don't give God his due, and that God gets your scraps, the little things that come after everything else, because you're constantly focused on what the treasure's here, the things that you need here,

building your empire here, building up your treasures here. Matthew six nineteen through twenty one says, do not store up for yourself's treasures on earth, where moth and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, But store up for yourself treasure's in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where the thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure

is there, Your heart will be. Also, it's so easy to get caught up in the things of the world to think that you need more and need to achieve more. And there's nothing wrong with achievement, there's nothing wrong with growth, there's nothing wrong with hope or goals or any of those things. All good, all godly. But is there balance in there? Is there a timeline in there for God? Or does God get your leftovers? Does God get your scraps, little things that they come at the end of

the meal. God is not your cosmic dog waiting at the end of your bountiful table for you to finish the meal and then throw him a bone. The Father wants to participate in life with you, wants to be invited to do so. And I know that it gets very easy to get lost in

this life. But certain things should remind you. Holy days that you call holidays now were originally there to do that, to re center you, to refocus, to show appreciation to God, to keep certain days holy, not because the date mattered or something like that, but because it was important to stop. It was important to spend time with God, to be thankful for the things in which you have in life. And the last thing you want to do is take the remnants, the scraps from those things and throw them

to God. You're called to love God and to worship God and to praise God with all that you are. That means all your talents, your gifts, yes, even finances. All these things play a part in one form or another. You don't need to give to your broke that's not being very wise or practical with your money. You don't have to start a Christian band because you like playing music. It's not the only way to do it. But if you have gifts and abilities, you want to utilize them for God.

You want to take all those things that God gave you and give them back in some way. That type of respect, that type of reverence and appreciation of who God is in your life should should come to you easily. It's good not to be wasteful with your food. Those kind of leftovers no problem, but you wouldn't serve them to your guests on Thanksgiving. So being in a mindset where you would serve your leftovers to God should be something that

stops. Now. The balance in this life is so key. There are those that go off the spiritual handle want to give away everything and on the surface, that doesn't sound bad, does it. However, I hear the aftermath, the frustration, the feelings of abandonment when people give up all that they have and then feel as if God has somehow left them. Because the things that you have you should have to provide for you and your family. But God should be a part of your family. It's not that you'd give

all your money to one child. That to be a balanced parent, a balanced member of the family is to put into it in a way that's healthy and beneficial for all involved, and not put yourself in a place where the enemy can get a foothold and make you regret your decisions. If you are good at music, it doesn't mean that it has to be a Christian band. You can still praise God in many ways using those gifts and abilities. The important thing is to use them and always use them to the glory of

God. Talking about leftovers, why, because everyone talks about leftovers after Thanksgiving. You can't turn on the TV or look at a magazine or even in the newspaper without seeing some story on how to use your leftovers. However, although when it comes to food, leftovers are a good thing. You certainly wouldn't serve them to your guests the first time out right, it's not what

Thanksgiving is about. However, that tends to be the meal that God gets is your leftovers based on whatever you have, and really you're called to give God, to give to God from every part of who you are and everything that you have. Your talents, your money, your time, None of these things should be your leftovers to God. Always seeking new ways to serve and to glorify God should be the concern. In just a little bit,

we want to take your calls. As always, you are welcome to bring your thoughts, your questions dealing with theology, God, religion, spirituality, world views, or if you're going through something in life you want to talk about it, you can call us as well. We'd love to hear from you anywhere in the us of a dial eight seven seven Holy Host numerically eight

seven seven four sixty five nine four sixty seven. The disciples themselves use their talents, and if you remember in scripture that I looked for people that had certain abilities, you may have thought, well, that seems weird. Why would you choose that, Why would you choose fishermen for example? Well, fishermen were known to be people with work ethic. It's just not something you could sit by and let happen. Now, there might be some women right

now saying, hey, woy, my husband fishes. Trust me, you can sit around and just let it happen. But as fishermen, when you're doing it for money, that really you had to be out there for long periods of time, very dedicated and focused to that one task. You have to add great, great patience. And if you remember in script sure I said follow me, I will make you fishers of men, speaking to uh Simon, Peter and Andrew his brother, and they left it all and followed

me. And this happened again, as there were others that we came across. But for you know, the beginning of the art of fishing, this produced a particular type of person. Could be very strenuous. Work had to be a very coordinated effort, if you had partners, and you couldn't just sit around being lazy and doing nothing. Now were fishermen did they tend to be a little salty in their language and attitude? Yeah? Who. My

concern was to get those with that work ethic. And here are people in scripture that use those gifts and abilities, those talents of being able to gather fish with patience and technique and coordinated effort and use them to the glory of God. And that's what I want to do with you. I want to take your abilities and the things that you do well, and I want to use them to the glory of God. Brent, welcome to the Jesus Christ show. Yes, I have a small question. It's confusioning me slightly.

Okay, after Jesus pasted for forty days of forty nights, Satan walked up to him and said, worship me and I will I will give you all of this, and he was talking about the earth. My question is, who is the ruler of the earth today? Is that Jesus or God Satan. That's where I'm confused. I'm getting into some conversations with people, sure, and it can become confusing based on understanding the stations of the individuals. In this case, always God controls everything. However, for the non believer,

the God of this world is going to be Satan. Okay, So, and scripture talks about that that the God of this world is really going to be based on those that don't believe those that are wrapped up in in unbelief, for the ones that are going to be bound by it. Second Corinthians four to four. The God of this age is blinded the minds of unbelievers, speaking of the devil lower case g so that so that they cannot see the light of the Gospel, the glory of Christ, who is the

image of God. So the people that will be blinded by it and really subjects to the devil will be the unbelievers, not the believers. So what

it essentially means is not that the that the devil has full authority. What it means is that the devil this has become the playground of the enemy in such a way because of the choices of the individuals with free will, that he, in fact, it's like being voted there, he in fact becomes the God of this world because people want the devil more than they want God.

Now, those aren't the believers, those are the non believers. So as long as people are calling upon that kind of wickedness, or as the Satanic Bible that has only one commandment, and that commandment is due as thou wilt as the whole of the law. So as long as there are people that just want to do what they want, then yes they're going to be

serving that particular God. But make no mistake that the Holy Father, God in Heaven has power and dominion over everything and merely allows the enemy to have his agenda on earth for this time, because in that process becomes a purification that is necessary for humans to make their decisions, and to make a pure decision for love. In order to do something good, you have to have the option not to do something good to make it have any valuable, any

value. That's what makes that choice a moral one and not just a choice. So in practicing and participating in that and choosing God, you have to have the option not to choose God. And in not choosing God, you choose the enemy. And that's what makes him powerful on this planet. But he is not a god in that sense. He has power here as long as people give him power here, but not to the believer. The believer is separate and apart from and only brings the enemy into things when they choose

against the will of God. So being a follower of being a Christian, then the ruler of as you stated earlier, than the ruler of the earth is God always is the people's choice to let them determine who their ruler is going to be. Yes, John twelve thirty one says, now is the time for judgment on this world. Now the prince of this world speaking about Satan will be driven out. But before that time, people will have a choice to either serve the enemy. People say, oh, well, I'm

just not going to serve a God. I don't believe in God. You are serving one or the other. That's the way this planet works. But God allows that. God allows that because he also knows that there are those that will choose against the enemy and choose good and go towards God always. So that it's not that God is released full of thought. It's that the enemy has so much authority in the filth and the pollution of this world,

and in that darkness and that ugliness that people bring upon this earth. The enemy has power and strength in those places. Then that makes the enemy a very powerful creature here on earth in that context, so much so that that the enemy could offer me the greatest cities of the land as a temptation, but only the things that are temple temporal, only the things that can rock, only the things that will go away and never the things that are eternal.

And God is about eternity, not just about the temporal eighty ninety one hundred years. You're on this planet, right, There's more to it than that. So the enemy, by default, because of the way people choose against God, then he gets the vote on earth, which gives him the power and the authority on Earth that God allows with that particular agenda, knowing that true love can only come from the option of not having to do it. And so the enemy kind of capitalizes on that on this earth and becomes

powerful in that sense. But not always. As John twelve to thirty one points out, there will be a judgment and he will fall during that judgment as well. Thank you very much. You made it very clear. I appreciate You're very welcome. I appreciate you taking the time to call. I know that that can be a confusing one, especially when it comes to the enemy and the way the enemy plays It seems as if, well, you

know, why would God allow this? Well, this is part of your purification process too, and people have to have the right to choose against God, and in doing so, they choose the devil. Mark welcome, to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning to you and the Lord. Bless you, man, thank you, thank you. Hey, you know I'm reading

Job. I've read it a couple of times and and and you know, I love the Lord and I know that you know, the Lord has you know, knows everything, future, present, past, knows what's going to go on and everything. And I just don't understand why, if if the Lord knew or God knew, that Job wasn't in a budge from from him and go with Satan, why did he put him to so much? I mean, you know here on earth you got your children, and all his

children were killed. Everything was taken away from him. And it seems to me just could like it was a bet from God to Satan that hey, I'll bet you you can't do it. You know, I'm gonna allow you to do this to him, but don't kill him. But if he knew, Job wasn't in a budge, why would you put him do that? And I don't understand it. Well, you sort of answer yourself when you said that God knows, God knows the past, president and future, so

it wasn't for his knowledge. So you have to look at the fact of well, whose knowledge could it be for? Could be for the devil, and it could be for Job. That when scripture you noticed that even I, when I walked this earth, would ask questions that you knew I knew the answer to, but I asked them so that the person I was asking could get the answer. When you look at different parts of Scripture when people are called to really heavy things, the story of Job absolutely looks like it's

some sort of bar bet between the Father and the devil. And that's not the case. And what's not known is how those things might have happened. Regardless that those things could have happened in a normal course of life. People do lose family members, things do happen, people do get ill. So it's not about that that when someone gets ill, this is God and the Devil making a bet. In this particular case, it was really a point of showing the Devil and even Job, the intensity of Job's faith, not

about God coming to some understanding or even using him as a robot. God tested Job within the realm of Job wanting to be tested. Job, it says, was righteous man and somebody who's sought God and the things that he did, but ultimately everything that you see Job go through, you can take parts of it and look at your life and go wow. You know, Job pushed through during this, even with bad counsel from friends, even all the things that were going on in his life, he continued to stay focused,

and so are you. You're supposed to be focused on God through all things. So there's a lot that's taught through this as well. Now there are many that go into service to fight for this country, not because this country is perfect and or everyone in it is perfect, but because the premise or concept of this country is perfect in their eyes and one that's important to defend. That doesn't mean that it's always going to be righteous. That doesn't

mean that they're not going to have blood on their hands. That doesn't mean that they're not going to go through war, which is ugly. It means for something greater they push forward. And that's the same with Job. It didn't matter. See, humans tend to look at this world as the end all beat all. This is it. This is the most important part of all of it, and God sees it as reverse. This is not the most important part. Heaven is, and this is just merely a purification process.

Prior to heaven. So what you value and you look at even family are not the most valuable things to God. They're important as they teach you about the family of God. They're important because they teach you how to be selfless. All these things are important, but it's about what's what's understood about

that process of family and living is what's important for heaven. So when God does certain things, it may look like, oh, wow, he's trashing his own creation, something that if you did, would be a sin. But for God to do it, it's not because what God's doing is purifying his creation and testing it beyond measure so that you know the most important thing is is that the person grows and continues to grow towards God. Job's a heavy book, no doubt about it, and it's a one worth reading more

than once. But keep in mind that all these things are not like you know, what was the movie Trading Places, where they're making a bet in a bathroom for a dollar over you know, two people's life, seeing if they can ruin one and make one better. That's not what it is. It's God saying, hey, natural things are going to happen. People are going to lose family, people are gonna, you know, get sick. Things are going to happen, and and my man, Job is going to

hang tight and going to hang with me throughout the entirety of it. And that's to prove to the enemy and also to prove to Job. Catherine, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Jesus Hello. I'm a big scheme of things. God, who always was and simply is, made us. Why did he make us? We seem to be such a complicated mess? Oh boy? I could ask you the same about children, couldn't I. Yeah, Well, I just want to know why God made us,

because that's the simplest answer. Got up and well, what's the meaning? God is a creator? By definition, there is no need for a meaning. That's a very human t rate to go, well, why why are we here? Or why did God create us? There is no need. I had no need whatsoever. I didn't I wasn't lonely. I didn't go, Gosh, it would really be nice if I had this. I just did. That's simply it. Anybody, It's a complicated mess of a creation.

Oh but it's so beautiful. And really, the humans tend to be stuck in the middle of things and never see the end of the story. Could you imagine if you watched It's a Wonderful Life and you stopped, you know, three quarters of the way through, it'd be a horrible film. It'd be the status film on the planet. But if you watch it in its entirety to the very end, you see that it is truly a wonderful life. Alex, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hey Jesus, Yes,

listen. I have a question about why scripture, the themes of scripture seem to become more popular than the actual words of scripture. Okay, for example, Okay, for example, you see like horror movies and and action films where you see angels or demons. You might even see like references to not often visuals, but references to before horsemen, and it all seems to be more it's more like the writer just taking those ideas, those names.

Well you mean, Hollywood's stealing ideas. Oh the heck, you say, right, I know, yes, the Bible has been picked in pilfed and all kinds of stories. I mean, even you know, wonderful and creative

films like The Matrix Really deals. Neo is a is a Jesus type character, and that's throughout script throughout film, you'll find scripture in there and concepts because the concepts are really quite masterful, and people try and reject them, or they you know, kind of pick and poke what they like, and in doing so they remove it and they pass it along to someone else, not with it, not saying that it's with scripture. And there's many tons

of films. I mean, the Green Mile is about a character called John Coffee JC who has the ability to miraculously heal people and was a prisoner, and uh, you know, there's the concepts will continue be taken by by Hollywood and writers and the like. Because the concepts are powerful, doesn't mean people are accountable to them or that they want to dive in and see why they're powerful. They just kind of use them as literary devices, I know,

but that's just it. I feel like I feel like that there should be a certain a greater degree of appreciation there of reference. Sure I'm not,

I'm kind of agnostic. I'm not sure what I believe or how strongly, but I know that there's power in the verses, and I feel like the best way to do something is to get it accurately, and I'm often turned off by the way people talk about things like how angels think like they you know, they're they're actually kind of sad to be up in heaven all the time, or board or something, and how you know what, Unfortunately we're up against the clock because you're just getting to a place where I'd love

to poke more at. Maybe we'll have time. KF on demand