NO ONE can talk Christ out of loving YOU!

Christ consistently demonstrated radical acceptance, refusing to be influenced by human judgment about who should be included or excluded in his ministry. His own disciples required correction and guidance when they tried to derail his mission.

• The disciples represent our own humanity—jealous, exclusionary, cynical, and doubting despite witnessing miracles
• Modern religious gatekeepers often chase people away who don't meet their standards, just as they did in biblical times
• Your salvation doesn't depend on human approval or acceptance—others have no power to remove it
• Jesus specifically came for those who recognize their need for him, not those who consider themselves perfect
• Christ offers belonging to those feeling spiritually homeless, confused, or manipulated by religious judgment
• The journey of faith involves rising above condemnation, exclusion, and gossip to discover biblical truth
• True discipleship means pressing on until we fully grasp what it means to dwell in Christ's presence

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's really talk about how we can unwind and
separate human judgment, humanlimitations, human stereotypes,
from what Christ was clearlydemonstrating, where he was

(00:21):
never thrown off by what humanswere saying that he should do or
shouldn't do, or here's who heshould accept or not accept.
People were doing that all thetime.
I don't know if people realizethat.
I don't know if anyone's eversaid that to you directly.
Do you know I mean this isbiblical to you directly?

(00:48):
Do you know I mean this isbiblical?
People were always trying toderail Christ from His mission.
So, yeah, even people close toHim, like even the disciples,
right In their varying ways—wewon't get into those details in
this video—but in their variousways, they required some

(01:11):
management, they required somepushback.
Jesus had to say, hey, man,like back off that, or hey, I'm
not here for that, or that's notfulfilling what God, the Father
, has sent me to do.
So, like, even like thedisciples, like people we look
up to and think of as surelythey're sinless and are always

(01:36):
on God's page and like, no, theyweren't.
They weren't sinless, theyweren't always on God's page.
The power of the narrative ofhaving the disciples there is
that the disciples are reallyjust representatives of us.
You had disciples that werejealous.

(01:59):
You had disciples that wantedto exclude people.
You had disciples that werecynical and doubting everything.
You had disciples that reallyjust seemed to be weak on faith
in general, even though theywere watching all these miracles
come to pass.
So, like this is—we are thosepeople, we are the disciples.

(02:23):
The discipleship continues.
But unfortunately for peoplelike you and I, because Christ
isn't literally here talking inour ear, fighting our battles

(02:46):
for us, just like in a literal,physical sense, it's easy for
people to circle the wagons andchase us out of town, and
millions and millions of peoplehave been run out of town by
people that don't understand thegospel or never read the gospel

(03:10):
, or feel like they're supposedto judge who belongs like in the
Christian family, or here areall the steps you need to take,
or all that's there.
But, believe me, that was allthere in the Bible too.
But the whole point of that isit doesn't matter what they say.

(03:31):
You're not trying to pleasethem.
Your salvation doesn't rest onwhat they think of you.
I mean, they could pray for youor against you or curse you, it
makes no difference.
Humans like to think they havemore power than they do.
They really don't have anypower to remove your salvation

(03:56):
or somehow cast you out into thedarkness.
So the good news I have for youtoday is so.

(04:21):
The good news I have for youtoday is you're living in this
mental or emotional or spiritualplace where you're homeless,
where you're just kind ofdrifting shelter to shelter,
where you feel vulnerable andconfused and nobody you trust is
reaching out their hand to you.
Or maybe people are reachingout their hand to somehow
manipulate you or abuse you ortake advantage of your whatever

(04:44):
you don't know, or your guilt.
So we're going to just we'regoing to put an end to that man.
We are going to put an end tothat man.
We are going to just continueto chop that off at the root.
And as we walk through thisprocess, you and I, we're both

(05:14):
going to feel more accepted byGod, more included, more
empowered, more defended, moresupported.
We're going to come from beinglow on the totem pole, the runt

(05:38):
of the litter.
We're going to rise up through,we're going to rise up out of
that the mud and muck of guiltand condemnation and cynicism
and exclusion.
People talking bad about us andgossip.
Conclusion people talking badabout us and gossip.

(05:58):
And, yeah, we're going toactually rise up out of that to
discover a greater truth, andnot just a truth like we pulled
out of our ass.
We're going to look at abiblical truth and understand
that.
Wow, this isn't my imagination.

(06:19):
Jesus was already demonstratingthis.
Jesus came for people like me.
You know, when people wouldconfront Jesus about things like
that, he would be like hey, youknow, if you don't need me,
fine, I'm coming for the peoplethat need me.

(06:39):
Why are you with the sinners?
Why are you with the—becausethey need me?
Okay, if you're, you know,perfected and sinless and
blameless, and all that greatyou don't need me then blameless
, and all that great you don'tneed me then.

(07:00):
So, even in this modern day, Ibelieve that Christ is following
through on that mission wherehe's coming to people like me,
jimmy, like you, and saying, hey, I'm here for you, but God, I

(07:26):
suck at this, or I don't belongin this, or I haven't.
But hey, man, I'm here for you.
That's the whole thing.
I am here for you.
I know you need my help.
I know you need to belong.
I know the way that I've foryou.
I know you need my help.
I know you need to belong.
I know the way that I'veconstructed you, I know what
your needs are and I believeChrist is encouraging us to

(07:51):
never give up but to just keeppressing on until we really take
hold of what it means to dwellin His presence and dwell in the
Spirit and have that blessedassurance that that perhaps

(08:17):
we've never experienced fromother human beings over the
course of our entire lives.
So you know how we do.
It's Jimmy James Johnson,guilt-free faith in your corner,
no matter what.
Let me know what's happeningand how I can help.