Jesus Christ Show | Hour 2 [11/26]

You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. The concept of of pilfing from the Bible. The Bible is a powerful book. It's over two thousand years old. It was written in its entirety over a span of about fourteen hundred years around forty authors in three languages, on three different continents, in times of peace, in times of war, by kings and peasants alike. It's a powerful book. It's a book, regardless of your religious beliefs,

that people read all the time just for the historical content. Archaeologists use it every single day. It is one of the single most utilized books of antiquity used for archaeological study to this day. And yes, Hollywood even takes bits and pieces of it and uses it because it works and it's good and it's interesting. But does that mean that they're going to give credit to scripture?

Does that mean that they're pointing towards the Gospel, the good News? No, because even when there are films that are made about religion, they usually have a spin on them as if as if someone in Hollywood could put a better spin on scripture than God himself, so would And the Bible have an odd relationship it is. It is the breast from where everyone feeds, but yet nobody gives credit. That's just the way it works. It's like television

and I Love Lucy. Watch an episode of I Love Lucy if you haven't a long time, and you'll go, oh, my goodness. Every single show that has been made since the time of I Love Lucy and now is a direct ripoff of I Love Lucy. And the Bible has been a source of creative inspiration for many, and I think people are compelled to go towards

and to read and to consume scripture. But there are those that refuse to see it as the word of God, but also still see the brilliance in it, and they battle with that, and it gets made into certain concepts get placed into film, and every once in a while you'll go, oh, Just like there's common phrases in modern speech that some know come from scripture and some don't. Scapegoat some know come from scripture, some don't. Good

Samaritan some know comes from scripture, some don't. Prodigal Son again, over and over all these concepts, and they many of them have been used in film. But that's really about the state of humanity that humans like to pick

and choose. It's one of the scariest parts of about Christianity is to see it as in its entirety and as a whole, to consume it a lot of the modern type religions or as they would claim, non religions, or really about just taking what you want, and it's all about you and how you're going to achieve happiness, and you're going to achieve a level of christ consciousness, and it's all about you and about the things you're going to receive.

Scripture is not about that. Scriptures about God and why you should have a relationship with God because it's righteous, not because it's necessarily going to make things work out even on earth. It's about doing it because it's true and it's right. And having Hollywood consume that is not always that as easy as it may sound. People want to reject things. People love law enforcement when they come to protect them. People hate law enforcem when they come to correct

them. And it's the same way with scripture. People love it when it's on their side. People love it when it's something they're already doing and they could say, see this proves it. But if it is used to correct, or to guide, or to teach. Is when people start to wrestle with it and say, oh, you know what, that scripture it's too oppressive, you know what, so embraces but they're oppressive for a reason, to help guide back the crooked teeth into their proper spacing and placement. Freedom

is a wonderful, wonderful thing. The abuse of freedom is the most ugly thing. And so the Bible will continue to be a resource for writers and filmmakers who want inspiration because the concepts in it are timeless and ever teaching,

they're profound, and more importantly, they're true. But people don't want to deal with religious things because oh, well, you know, organized religion and all that, and so people run from it and they take concepts because the Bible continues to be compelling, filled with what some may see as only stories that others will see our life changing and inspiring and educational towards how to use this body of yours like a love letter and an instruction manual all together rolled

up into one. But people will continue to quote things and misquote them and even think that there's some things that are in scripture that are not or that they've heard something so that they believe it to be true, and it goes on and on. That is the cycle of this fantastic book that has inspired many and continues to do so for those that actually pick it up and read

it, not just in bits and parts, but truly read it. Try to understand the chronology and what took place when and why, and the history and who these people were and why they mean something to the church, what they had to go through or what they did to perpetuate this book, these concepts, these ideas to help people understand, to help people see the truth. Often people died just for proclaiming what is in this book that's true.

Sadly people still do today, not in the United States at least not very often, but all over the world people are persecuted for what's in this book. Hollywood, like everything else, will continue to come to it as if it's a carcass for their picking. And there are those that will do justice to it and those that will not, and those that will steal and put it in a film that has nothing to do with God. Because the truth

is there and that it has good structure. But I fear not, God sees all and In the end, the Bible has the most power in its entirety. Mark, Welcome to Jesus Christia. Thanks for taking my calls. Jesus, would you please give me some advice. I am one of your servants and I do love you with all my heart. But I must be honest to say that I'd been having a drug problem. And I know of your healing power, and I know of your power of forgiveness, but I've

been struggling. I feel sober bad because I haven't been living up to my true pretend to the question is, Jesus, what can you tell a person like myself or any others that this to help them ready rid this problem and live out, live out up up to my full potential. Well, people do it, Mark, people do it all the time. What particular drug is your fancy? Now, it's not the time to lie, absolutely honesty, it's the best policy, okay. And how long have you been doing

crack off and off for like seven years? And have you ever tried to work a program or go into a program that can help you and what happens? What's your downfall? Basically just not being able to find an opinion and just a weakness on my on my behalf. You say not being able to find a companion, now's not the time for a companion. You're trying to you're trying to polish yourself and remove this from your life so that your companion

worthy. You don't need somebody a companion for that. As a matter of fact, I would scrape all of that off of your life and focus solely on this concern, and that is that this is something you invited into your life and you continue to invite in your life. And now there's you know, addiction is involved in it, and that's going to take medical help as well. But you have to take it incredibly serious and you have to, you know, jump into it completely and wholeheartedly to make it happen. It's

not about forgiveness. There's nothing to be forgiven for yet because you're you're there's no repentance, you're not having it removed from your life in any way, shape or form. You're continuing doing it. Now. You can beat yourself up over doing it, or you can get real help that removes you from the process. It's not about companionship, it's not about any of those things.

Something drove you to this particular drug that's highly addictive, and you continue to use it every day, And the key is to not use it every day. That's the simple truth. Find new ways, whatever they may be, each and every day mark to not use That's what you have to do. And you're going to need help in doing that because doing it alone is going to be too large of a task. Diane, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hi Diane. How can I help you? I'm

dealing with as how long ago was this? What if? Osternal souls with your father? You have to trust that God has a way of working through these things and that it's not for you to necessarily know, but you should have peace that God works all things out to his glory. Well, why didn't take my business? Do you know why your son took himself? Why wasn't shop inspiritors? The holy spirits? There hep deal with? If you even know what day it is? Most of the time, you remember when

I hate to last. My own wife is fractured. But how do you think that that honors your son by not eating or not knowing what day it is? How does that honor his life? Yeah, it seems like you're giving reverence to his death, but not to his life. I just miss him so much, of course you do. He was such a good boy, who was such a good person. He loved everybody. He didn't have any friends, he only had adopted brothers and sisters. Did he leave a note? Did he leave a note? No? No, no, no

later, no email, nothing. So that that makes it that much more difficult to not as to why he did what he did. I know he was planning it for a long time. How do you know that? Because he would go on hikes with his brother and they would find he would stop at places and kind of look around and he'd say like, no, not here, not there, and then he would find a place. Then he would have a place that he decided to hang himself. And that's where he

finally stopped winning on hikes with his French and his brothers. So he would talk about where he would hang himself when he would go on hikes. No, he didn't say I'm going to hang myself. That it was like not here, not here, not there, not no, let's let's go. Did he have mental problems? I don't. I know, it's hard. It's hard to say because he was thirty, so I couldn't like and have him go see a counselor or be hospitalized or put on some kind of medication,

or he was too old. I see, but did you see any signs of it? As a mother, I know, it's kind of difficult, you know, hindsight being twenty twenty, I would say, yeah, but I but no one knows why with no note, nothing left behind, no one really knows why he did what he did. Yeah, you know, I don't have any cruise about why he actually did what he did. And now he's gone, and I can't even, you know, slap him because I'm so mad at him for doing that. Oh, I'm sure,

you know. And I just I I can see now, you know. I would do things like say he would sleep all day and I which is usually a sign of depression. Yeah, And I would say, and I would come home and I would or leave for work, and I would say, if you could be up in the morning or up in the afternoon when I get home from work, I'll take you down and get your license. So I'll take you down and get the registration for your car. Or I'll

take you down and we can get insurance. And he keeps saying no, Mom, No, Mom, because she didn't want me to spend the money on things that he wasn't going to use. And I see that now. Is there any drinking or drug use in the house by you or anyone else? No, I'm little drinking. Maybe put no drugs and he didn't drink at all, gotcha? But you do, I do a little bit. You know, I haven't talked every time before you admit? Has that progressed

it all afterwards? No? Okay? Well, the pain of losing someone in so called normal circumstances is bad enough. When you come across the situation where someone takes their life and they especially don't leave any sort of closure. People make the mistake of thinking that committing suicide ends the pain, and it doesn't. It passes it on to your loved ones and those that are still living, and so you are the recipient of that. But you can choose.

You can choose you are alive, Diana, and you can choose to remember the loving person that he was and the things that he did, or you can focus in on his death and the ugly way that he died, and that can haunt you and that can rule your life and the things that

you do. Obviously it is now if it's keeping you from eating and you don't know what day it is, and it's you know, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, it's a fairly easy one to remember with her, to realize you can't live this way, and that doesn't that doesn't do anything to honor his life. It puts all of that on hold. It's like you've packed away his entire life, only focusing on his death, and that's all anyone will

know or experience of him. And then sooner or later people don't want to come around you or want to spend time with you because as much as they would like to talk maybe about him, they certainly don't want to focus in on the death. Okay, he lived for thirty years, that had nothing to do with his death, and to wrap that up in one ball as one ugly exit is not healthy for you and really adds nothing to him.

And you're his mom. You're the one that can teach people about the way he laughed or the things that he did do that we're loving and kind and human. And if all you, as the now curator of his museum, if you're only focusing on the death, that's all anybody's going to know. And that's all anybody's going to see on your face. Okay. And it's not that you shouldn't mourn, you should, but there's a time for morning,

Scripture says, and there's a time for joy. And if you stay in this state of mourning, all you're going to do is augur yourself. You're going to spin out of control, and people are going to fear being around you and trying to connect with you. And I don't think that this would be the goal of your son, do you. No? He was You would if you know him at all. He's had a good, kind, general loving spirit. He loved everybody he had. Like I tell people

when I talked about him, he had no friends. She only had brothers and sisters. And did he get along with his brothers and sisters? Not his real brothers and sisters, but the one she adopted. His brothers and sisters, his biological brothers and sisters very basically abandoned him and didn't do anything for him or to help him. Why do you think that? Huh? Why do you think that's the case? Because I know I was there,

No, But why do you think they would do such a thing? Oh, they thought he was a He wouldn't get a job and they so they berated him all the time. They never invited him for a dinner or stay over, never sent him a birthday car or a Christmas card, So he was ostracized quite a bit from the family. Could set apart and me, he and I. They would go off for some big family dinner or something, and he I wouldn't be invited. It would be just him and I

together. Why do you think they treated you that way? I because my youngest daughter has hated me from day she was born. Well that's odd. Yeah, no, no, I mean that's odd. That's for everything in her life. She lost three babies, that was my fault. She couldn't go to school when she turned five because there's no midterm. That was my fault. She anything that happened bad to her was my fault. Always met, she hates me? Where was dad? And all of this? Uh

kind of around but divorced? Now, why did you guys divorce? I didn't want to live like that anymore? And what was living like that with somebody who was cold or unemotional and involved with my kids? Controlling? Why did you choose someone like that to be their parent. Why would you choose someone like that to be your partner and their parent. I didn't know that he would be turned out to be that way. When I first married him, he wasn't that way, but he turned out to be his mother.

I see. Well, it sounds like there's a lot more to this on as far as family dynamics. Sounds like there's kind of a mess there, wouldn't you say? Oh yeah, stepmother, Matthew's death at her at her feet? Why would you do such a thing? She beat him, she made him into when she was he was there, she made him into like a little slave out there waiting her vegetable patch and put him in the basement. Now, why why would she spend time there? How come he wasn't

with you? Oh? I mean, I'm on an alternate weekend. Well, there's there's there's something, Diane, There's something here that's outside of the scope of the time that we have, that's for sure. But there's a lot of a lot of knots in that rope. And there's so much more than just the pain that he was going through and the pain that you're going through. And there's a lot of pain obviously with his passing, but there's other pain there too. There's remnants of other things that I'm not sure about

unless we talk for more. Unfortunately we don't have that kind of time, but I would suggest that you find someone that does that. You find a professional that can listen, a pastor if you have a church, a priest, or someone that you can talk to, because there is a lot that went into that particular death and all the surrounding things with you. And I'm sorry that you're in pain, and I'm sorry for your loss, and you

need to trust that God has dealt with that. But you need to focus on finding your life and your voice again without him here, so that you can move on, because there's no glory or no gain by being in that state of sadness to a point where you're ruining yourself. And I'm concerned about the drinking, honestly, and I would look into those things and see what are the demons that you need to deal with yourself. John, Welcome to Jesus CHRISTO. Yes, I was wondering about the after life. Okay,

before life, well that would be this life before life. Oh after life is this life? Well? No, after life would be after this life? Oh, after this? See how that works? After life? That would be after this physical life. I say there is no before this physical life. No, there's some that believe that in the Christian traditional Christian theology. No, not in that sense. The Plato postulated that there was pre souls and pre incarnate souls and things like that, but most Christians don't believe.

How about him? Did you think there was an afterlife? Why would you? As sir, well, I read it in a book. You read it in a book? In which book was that? Let me see? I got right here. It's called The Pleasures of Philosophy by William Durant. Oh, I see well. As far as the comparisons between Plato and Socrates, there are similarities, as there are with all teachers and students, but there are differences as well. So is your curiosity just philosophical or is

it theological? A little bit of both. Does this pertain to you directly? Are you concerned that there won't be an afterlife for you? No, I'm not really concerned for myself. I don't really know. I'm an agnostic. I don't really know. Okay, do you think that there's a way to know it? All, or do you think it's just empty faith? Well I did say it was empty faith? Is pace empty? Well?

It depends who you ask, really, Okay, But as far as you're from your own standpoint, do you think that it's something that can be known or you just won't know until you're there. I don't know how you could know unless you have experience. Oh so you can only know things through your own experience, well experience talents, of course it does. But you can't experience everything yet. There are many things that you know that you take based

on faith that someone else experienced them. Well, I have I have an axiom like one equals one. I believe that's kind of true. Yes, one does indeed equal one. Okay, I might point my point being that there are lots of things that you will come to learn or come to understand in life that aren't from your own experiences but from other people's experiences. And and that's a good thing as well. It kind of goes hands in hand in hand. There kfi AM on demand