September 28, 2025 • 29 mins
Is all anger bad
special needs son getting first communion
modern music at church services
special needs son getting first communion
modern music at church services
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You look around, whether you're in the car, whether you're
out and about during the day, whatever it is that
you're doing at work, it seems there is an intense
amount of anger out there. It's not just with others.
You're dealing with it as well. You battle with this
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all the time. Anger is something that permeates every part
of your life in one form or another. And in
Scripture there's two Greek words and in the New Testament
that are used as the English word anger. One focuses
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on a means passion and energy, and the other means
agitated and boiling. And what I don't want you to
walk away with today is that all anger is bad.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's not. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When you have passion and energy and it provokes you
and promotes and instigates you to want to do something good,
then that's positive. But if you sit and you become agitated,
and you sit there boiling with the anger, it's of
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no glory to God. It produces nothing, and it's something
that continues to sit and fester. It's easy when you
deal with people when you're in that mental state where
everything you've got is important, and everything everyone else has
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to do or is a part of, is not important.
That selfishness is what breathes. It's a lot of the
negative or unpositive or sinful anger because that kind of
pride and attitude, that selfishness that says, well, I'm more important,
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I have things to do, this person's in my way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's what happens on the road.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The reason why you have a road rage is because
in your head, you're more important than the people around you,
and so if someone cuts you off, the first thought is, well,
don't they know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Who I am?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I've got places to be, I've got things to do,
or they think they're more important than me. It seems
silly but true. I mean, how many times have you
been on the road and you feel someone to the
side of you. Maybe you're on the highways the byways
and there's someone coming up next to you and they're
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going a little faster. You don't want them to pass you,
and you speed up for no real reason except some
sort of false competitiveness. But it's not just on the road,
it's in every part of your life. There are things
that trigger your anger, that frustrates you and that aren't
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productive they just agitate. They just make you get in
a mindset where you don't want to deal with anybody
except out of anger when someone asks you a question.
And I see this of people that are in a
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business where they're called to answer questions, whether they work
at a grocery store, whether they work at a hardware store,
whatever it might be, and they're there to answer questions,
and still when you ask a question, they respond negatively,
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and then it just piles on, piles on, and continues
to spin out of control as everyone gets angry. Proverbs
fifteen to one says a gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. That there's ways
to respond to people, even if you're not happy about
the question, even if you think it's a stupid question,
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there's still ways to answer to not accelerate or make
things worse, because you play a part in other people's
anger as well. And if you stir that up and
their anger becomes that which is classified as sin, then
you play a part of that as well. And you
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don't want to get caught up in those types of
personal prideful arguments two Timothy two, twenty three and twenty
four don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments,
because you know they pretty quarrels. And the lord's servant
must not quarrel. Instead, he must be kind to everyone,
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able to teach, not resentful. A what a pattern to
follow there, don't stir up an argument for the sake
of stirring up an argument. You may even do this
in my name, sometimes supposedly for my sake. You may
stir up an argument thinking that you're helping, when actually
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you're hurting it. It doesn't mean that there isn't a
legitimate place for an argument or a discussion, even one
that's filled with passion. But be careful the words you
use and how you participate in a discussion that you're
moving it forward, not escalating it hotter, bringing it to
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a to a boil, because you don't want to get
caught up in a quarrel for the sake of a quarrel.
You do want to be kind to everyone. Find it
interesting that if you read this, it says be kind
to everyone comma able to teach, comma not resentful. So
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by being kind to people you're able to teach, you're
in that you have that ability to pass along information.
If you're in a state where you're just in anger,
then you're pushing against everything you don't want to receive.
You're not in the state of receiving. You just want
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people to feel your wrath. You don't hear a thing
they're saying. Your compassion is gone, and it's just that agitated,
boiling anger. Now that the God given anger, this righteous indignation,
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is productive. It's there to help you deal with the
things at hand, problem solving, troubleshooting something. It propels you,
it pushes you, It excites you with passion and energy,
but doesn't make you sit and fester. And there's examples
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throughout Scripture of people confronting one another that are upset,
that are filled with this energy and this passion, but
not that ugly, agitated, festering, boiling anger. Not all anger
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is a sin. It's when it gets to that place
that it becomes rage. It gets to that place where
there's nothing propelling you forward, learning, teaching, experiencing. It's just
about venting full throttle anger, rage, not listening, and that
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has no place in the kingdom. That serves no purpose
and helps no one, you included. And when you get
in that state of anger, you get blind to truth
and it's just about you. Check that next time, next
time you're angry. See how it's so much about you
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and no one else. How it's all about how you
feel and what you're going through, or what you need
or what you want it or whatever it is, And
yet you push aside everyone else around you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Anger.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There seems to be a lot of anger. And it's
not that all anger is bad or that all anger
is sin. As you know, sin means to miss the mark,
and there is anger that misses the mark. There's anger
that is caught up in just being angry, just being annoyed,
just being agitated, rather than something that propels you, that
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moves you forward, that makes you want to solve problems.
And the key to anger is you will notice that
anger really becomes sin when it's focused just on you,
When it's selfish in nature and the purpose, the goal
is completely shifted and no longer in focus, and it's
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just about the anger. So if you think of it
this way, that your anger should attack a problem, not
a person. If your anger attacks a problem, not a person,
then it's productive. Then you're looking to solve something. Then
you're looking to eradicate a problem, but not just attack
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a person. And in scripture, and this happens so much.
This kind has come up on the show over and
over again, that there are times where you don't go
to a person and you feel that they've wronged you
or something's happened. You don't go to them to talk
to them. You don't confront them face to face, which
is the biblical way. You look for, you know, some reason,
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just to smear their name or to be ugly. That
doesn't that doesn't help. Galatians two eleven through fourteen deals
with this very thing. When you're opposing someone, you oppose
them to their face. If you feel someone's in the wrong,
then you express that to them in a way that
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is helpful and propels you forward. But the anger that
I see right now, the anger that maybe you're experiencing yourself,
whether you be the recipient of it or you'd be
the person sending it out, is that it's only focused
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on the individual. It's only about you and what you
need to do. Don't they know I need to do X,
Y and Z. Don't they know that I have to
do this or that I'm this? And usually that type
of anger stems from people in general not listening. If
you're not attentive, if someone yells at you, in all likelihood,
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they don't feel they're being heard. They feel that something
you're doing is hurting them or might hurt them, or
is going to hurt them, and that makes them nervous
or scared, and it manifests in screaming and anger. Some
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of the most angry people in life are the most meek,
are the ones that are so fearful of someone hurting
them that they get loud. And maybe you do this,
You get loud in hopes of people either backing off
or running away or not coming too close to hurt
you anymore. That type of anger doesn't help. So to
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biblically deal with anger, you have to first focus and
see and admit that your anger comes from a selfish
place and learn to turn that around to where you
are attacking that problem and not attacking a person. Aurora,
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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Today is a very special day for my son. He's
gonna take Body of Cry for the first time.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yes, he's extremely excited. He has been asking for it,
and uh, I gotta tell you it's a special need kid.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, And how so he is autistic?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He is, he actually has celebra policy and the brain damage.
But contrail Hold, the prediction is a very He's able
to walk, and you know, it's very good in school.
And he's a very happy child, extremely happy and very emotional.
So we go to church every Sunday and during communion
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he is always always cry get emotional. I said that
he's happy. Oh and uh so we talk with a priest.
We got some preparation and today is a day and
he has great expectation.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay, how so what is expectations?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, and that's what I will try to understand. Say
that it's gonna take the body of Christ today and
then it's going to feel better.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh so he thinks that it's going to be there's
gonna be healing properties too.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't know. I'm afraid that he has some expectation
about that, you know, spiritual part of it. And then
maybe it's me. I'm not understanding him correctly, but I'm
afraid that he's suspecting something. And if so, I don't
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know what to say after, you know, what to tell them,
because we talk every day about it. And what I
told him, I said, yes, you're going to be feeling
good inside. You're gonna be feeling great inside. You're going
to be feeling in all love and and you know,
and I just you know, because it's working very hard
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on correctingness. Is problem, is physical problem, and it's learning
out with it. So many surgery and finally he's walking,
you know, with his feet on the ground, no more
on his toes and you know, so it's working very
hard in order to walk to the altar, because you
want to walk to the altar and I want to
be in a wheelchair and he want to be you know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So he sounds wonderful just his spirit, his desire to
me better good And that's a good way to see
it as well as the gift of having a special
needs child is first knowing that God trusts you enough
to oversee and care for somebody so special is a
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pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now, is he's seven or eight years old?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh, it's actually he's a longer, so.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He's he's older for the process.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So he's he's going to be taking in some of
this information a little differently as well as he's a.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Little bit older. Was there a purpose for waiting was
his special needs.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Part of that decision, well, honest to do, it was
more me than him. I was afraid that he was
not going to understand.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, Well, it's a tough thing to understand at at
any age. I mean, there's there's a lot of adults,
I would say most adults that don't understand truly what's
going on. And even in the Church, you have differences
between Catholics and Protestants. Uh, you know, Catholics and Lutherans
celebrate this particular ceremony and look at and and truly
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believe that Christ that I Am present truly in the
Eucharist now, although they see things slightly differently in there,
whereas Protestant a lot of other Protestant denominations believe that
it's a practice to be adhered to because I said
so that it was something to do and memorial and
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in memory of And so there's differing views in this
as it stands across the board, which makes it difficult
for even adults to comprehend. I would say that managed
expectations is a good term for you to know in
this case, and that is it's not about being a
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wet blanket or showering any hopes with so much reality
that they because the balance between understanding God and how
God moves in this world and the trials in life
and as they happen is a difficult one for adults
as well, let alone a child. So the balance here
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is to say, is to really make sure that he
explains what's going on, and during the before the first communion,
there's time with the priest. Correct, yeah, okay, and the
priest has explained and he's gone to Catechism and all
of those things to understand. So there's going to be
some knowledge that comes prior to this, but also to
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be reinforced by you, the understanding it's not magic. It's
not about magic, and it's not about that it's like
a it's not medicine like that.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's not going to fix it, no it And.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's not that that God doesn't have the power to
fix things, uh, or to fix what we think is broken,
because oftentimes God says it's not broken. You think it's
broken because you want it to do X, Y and.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Z, and you know, honest with you, it is probably
maybe more my inspectition.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you say that that that you are putting the weight,
the false expectation on this.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Uh No, it's I mean, you know, waiting for the
magic day. You know that one day you wake up
and everything is gone, you know, and maybe maybe it's me.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, you know what the magic day is. The magic
day is understanding that this, that this is life, and
that God is in uh perfection and imperfection by way
of healing. Now, it doesn't mean a full physical healing.
That means spiritual healing for most. If you remember, Paul
even had the thorn in the flesh what's referred to
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as a thorn in the flesh in scripture, and he
asked three times to have it removed, and three times
God said no. And yet Paul had to see the
blessing in that the understanding that those those privations or
the lack of something that everyone else seemed to have
really made Paul who he was. And that's part of
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the process. And so the managing of expectations for both
you and I love that you're being honest, both you
and your boy, is to understand what's going on. One
the first and foremost the reason why you take communion
is because I said so in scripture. That's first and foremost,
because God said it, it's in scripture, therefore you do it.
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That the obedience is important. And secondly, to understand that
there is something very beautiful despite all the disagreement that
goes on in the different denominations as to what's going on,
and if it actually becomes the blood and the body
and all of these things, those are inter body discussions.
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That the body of Christ discusses those things and argues
those things, and that's fine. But most importantly is that
it was you're told to do it, and that it
is in remembrance, and that it does have power. There
is something quite beautiful and connective towards that moment. I
was constantly breaking bread and connecting with people, and this
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is one of those moments that cannot be denied. And
you don't know what will take place. Neither of you,
regardless of expectations, know what will take place. But most importantly,
what is guaranteed to take place is the fulfillment of
a commitment towards God. And that is going to take place.
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So whether you know anything else is going to or
not going to, that the fulfillment of a commitment towards God.
That's what's exciting that that he is stepping forward, he
is wheeling forward, he is limping forward, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He is moving forward before God and man in his
commitment towards God.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
You know, you look at his faith and he laid
up when you go in church. If he has and
had that's our priests say you have in him, and
you know he feels that. And he has a totally
different emotion and you know, and he has his own
reason and he has his own belief and and maybe
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it's different. It's different for me as an adult than him,
you know, with the way we expressed. But I know
that I appreciate that, I appreciate about the Christ, and
I get closer to you after I got my He's
making me better and you know, and all this emotion
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that he's having, him having it with him, and it's
an amazing feeling. It's amazing. It's I don't know, I
don't know how to explain that. You know, somebody told
me why you go to church every Sunday? That church
doesn't do anything for me. And and the best way
that I was able to express, I say, I feel
like I'm home. I had this big warm huk again.
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You know, around me this, I feel like I'm home.
That's my best feeling. And I believe markets feel the
same way. I'm not sure, but they love that. And
he is happy, and you know, and and now you
know it's going to have his body of Christ today
and yesterday was telling me, Mommy, then I'm gonna have
every Sunday and every Sunday I can have my body
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of Christ. You know, it's it's beautiful. And you know
how many other people are so skeptical about that, and
how they are no.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Understanding, oh, their skepticism in all things Aurora, and the
church has been a focus of that. I've been a
focus of that for a long time. But I want
you to really deeply enjoy today and take it in
for all the ceremony and love and fun of it,
as well as the deep spiritual meaning that goes along
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with it. And sharing that with your boy and experiencing
that is going to be a very powerful thing. Keep
in mind, keep in mind that that faith and understanding
and a relationship with God is it not about being
perfect in this world. It's about understanding and conquering imperfection
with the understanding of who God is, and that there is.
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It's not only about this world, but about the world
to come. But have the most blessed day, and I
hope that you'll share with us. How today went on
a future broadcast, Brian, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I was discussing with a new friend. She is a
Christian and I am a believer as well, and I
was mentioning that the church that I'm going to is
planning on starting a contemporary style worship service. And she said,
do you have a piano in your church? And I said, well, sure,
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I said, we have a couple. We have one upstairs
and we have one downstairs. And she said, uh, she says,
we don't have any instruments in our church. I said, oh,
that's kind of curious. Do you mind if I asked why?
And she said.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
She said that the New Testament church, or or the
New the New dispensation is that, you know, know, instruments
in church. And I said, but there's lots of references
where instruments were used to assist in praising God. When
David broughtup the arc into the Temple of Meeting, and
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you know oh sure, there's musicians and Ryan.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
There are times in scripture where priests and musicians are referenced,
but only the musicians are referenced by name. There's there's
great importance to music, make a joyful noise. There are
many references to the importance of music and h and
even dancing at times as well.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Ultimately that it came down to the term dispensation. I
don't know what that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Is, Okay, the term dispensation. Think of it this way
because there's this gets into different theological understandings of dispensationalism.
But I want you to think of it this way
for the sake of your call. I think this will
be helpful. Think of it as time periods, management of
time periods, and how God manages those time periods, those
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different dispensations. So think of it this way as and
I prefer people to think of it this way anyways.
But if you go through scripture, think of scripture in
humanity as a child that's being born and being raised
by God. Not just individual men and women, but think
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of all men and women, the planet as a whole,
as a child being raised by God. So if you
look at the beginning and the middle and the ending
of scripture, you will see that God interacts with the
world a little differently. And people say, you know, what,
how come the God of the Old Testament seems so angry?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And then you know, and how come the God of
the New Testament seems so flowery? And they try putting
these things together. Well, a dispensation is sectioning of scripture
or time periods and the way God interact interacted. So,
for instance, if you look at the Old Testament, it
does seem like God is angry all the time, but
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that's not true.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Really.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
What it is is, if you think of the world
as a baby, you may interact with a child an
infant differently. They're crying, they're needy. You might even pat
the bottom of a child, but you wouldn't of an
eighteen year old. It wouldn't make sense. So as they grow,
you interact with your children differently.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Correct, Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So dispensationalism, in a very loose sense is how God
is interacting with humanity during different times and periods throughout history,
not only scripturally but now currently. So, which is a
wonderful way to look at scripture and to understand scripture.
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The problem comes when people use this as a way
of defining God or defining Christianity or Salvation based on
these time periods. Some people separate the scripture and do
about seven different dispensations or different times periods where God
is interacting with his creation. But what I want you
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to see is that none of those define God or
Salvation or man correctly. You have to see them in
their totality to understand what's going on. And sometimes people
get lost in certain That's why you'll hear people say, oh,
that's not for today, right, Oh, that's the Old Testament.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
That's not for that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
No, that's ridiculous. God put it in there. It's there
for today, and it's important. And that's like removing the
grace out of the Old Testament or removing the law
out of the New Testament. They both have a place
and a purpose in both of those chapters of the
Christian faith by way of Judaism. So you get lost
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if you say, well, it's not for today, which is
essentially what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now do they use microphones at all?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Y Oh, you know, I didn't. I've heard you say
that on the show before. I did not ask that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm always humored by that that they that uh that
uh using that's not an instrument or what have you. Usually,
when you get to that point, the church has some unhealthy,
some unhealthy parts to it. Now, I don't know this church,
and I don't know how they're using this term, and
it's coming to me secondhand. But I will tell you this, Brian,
that if that's a that's a bad sign to me
about the health of a particular church.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You look around, whether you're in the car, whether you're
out and about during the day, whatever it is that
you're doing at work, it seems there is an intense
amount of anger out there. It's not just with others.
You're dealing with it as well. You battle with this
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all the time. Anger is something that permeates every part
of your life in one form or another. And in
Scripture there's two Greek words and in the New Testament
that are used as the English word anger. One focuses
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on a means passion and energy, and the other means
agitated and boiling. And what I don't want you to
walk away with today is that all anger is bad.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's not. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When you have passion and energy and it provokes you
and promotes and instigates you to want to do something good,
then that's positive. But if you sit and you become agitated,
and you sit there boiling with the anger, it's of
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no glory to God. It produces nothing, and it's something
that continues to sit and fester. It's easy when you
deal with people when you're in that mental state where
everything you've got is important, and everything everyone else has
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to do or is a part of, is not important.
That selfishness is what breathes. It's a lot of the
negative or unpositive or sinful anger because that kind of
pride and attitude, that selfishness that says, well, I'm more important,
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I have things to do, this person's in my way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's what happens on the road.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The reason why you have a road rage is because
in your head, you're more important than the people around you,
and so if someone cuts you off, the first thought is, well,
don't they know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Who I am?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I've got places to be, I've got things to do,
or they think they're more important than me. It seems
silly but true. I mean, how many times have you
been on the road and you feel someone to the
side of you. Maybe you're on the highways the byways
and there's someone coming up next to you and they're
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going a little faster. You don't want them to pass you,
and you speed up for no real reason except some
sort of false competitiveness. But it's not just on the road,
it's in every part of your life. There are things
that trigger your anger, that frustrates you and that aren't
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productive they just agitate. They just make you get in
a mindset where you don't want to deal with anybody
except out of anger when someone asks you a question.
And I see this of people that are in a
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business where they're called to answer questions, whether they work
at a grocery store, whether they work at a hardware store,
whatever it might be, and they're there to answer questions,
and still when you ask a question, they respond negatively,
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and then it just piles on, piles on, and continues
to spin out of control as everyone gets angry. Proverbs
fifteen to one says a gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. That there's ways
to respond to people, even if you're not happy about
the question, even if you think it's a stupid question,
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there's still ways to answer to not accelerate or make
things worse, because you play a part in other people's
anger as well. And if you stir that up and
their anger becomes that which is classified as sin, then
you play a part of that as well. And you
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don't want to get caught up in those types of
personal prideful arguments two Timothy two, twenty three and twenty
four don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments,
because you know they pretty quarrels. And the lord's servant
must not quarrel. Instead, he must be kind to everyone,
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able to teach, not resentful. A what a pattern to
follow there, don't stir up an argument for the sake
of stirring up an argument. You may even do this
in my name, sometimes supposedly for my sake. You may
stir up an argument thinking that you're helping, when actually
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you're hurting it. It doesn't mean that there isn't a
legitimate place for an argument or a discussion, even one
that's filled with passion. But be careful the words you
use and how you participate in a discussion that you're
moving it forward, not escalating it hotter, bringing it to
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a to a boil, because you don't want to get
caught up in a quarrel for the sake of a quarrel.
You do want to be kind to everyone. Find it
interesting that if you read this, it says be kind
to everyone comma able to teach, comma not resentful. So
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by being kind to people you're able to teach, you're
in that you have that ability to pass along information.
If you're in a state where you're just in anger,
then you're pushing against everything you don't want to receive.
You're not in the state of receiving. You just want
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people to feel your wrath. You don't hear a thing
they're saying. Your compassion is gone, and it's just that agitated,
boiling anger. Now that the God given anger, this righteous indignation,
(07:04):
is productive. It's there to help you deal with the
things at hand, problem solving, troubleshooting something. It propels you,
it pushes you, It excites you with passion and energy,
but doesn't make you sit and fester. And there's examples
(07:27):
throughout Scripture of people confronting one another that are upset,
that are filled with this energy and this passion, but
not that ugly, agitated, festering, boiling anger. Not all anger
(07:51):
is a sin. It's when it gets to that place
that it becomes rage. It gets to that place where
there's nothing propelling you forward, learning, teaching, experiencing. It's just
about venting full throttle anger, rage, not listening, and that
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has no place in the kingdom. That serves no purpose
and helps no one, you included. And when you get
in that state of anger, you get blind to truth
and it's just about you. Check that next time, next
time you're angry. See how it's so much about you
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and no one else. How it's all about how you
feel and what you're going through, or what you need
or what you want it or whatever it is, And
yet you push aside everyone else around you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Anger.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There seems to be a lot of anger. And it's
not that all anger is bad or that all anger
is sin. As you know, sin means to miss the mark,
and there is anger that misses the mark. There's anger
that is caught up in just being angry, just being annoyed,
just being agitated, rather than something that propels you, that
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moves you forward, that makes you want to solve problems.
And the key to anger is you will notice that
anger really becomes sin when it's focused just on you,
When it's selfish in nature and the purpose, the goal
is completely shifted and no longer in focus, and it's
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just about the anger. So if you think of it
this way, that your anger should attack a problem, not
a person. If your anger attacks a problem, not a person,
then it's productive. Then you're looking to solve something. Then
you're looking to eradicate a problem, but not just attack
(10:10):
a person. And in scripture, and this happens so much.
This kind has come up on the show over and
over again, that there are times where you don't go
to a person and you feel that they've wronged you
or something's happened. You don't go to them to talk
to them. You don't confront them face to face, which
is the biblical way. You look for, you know, some reason,
(10:35):
just to smear their name or to be ugly. That
doesn't that doesn't help. Galatians two eleven through fourteen deals
with this very thing. When you're opposing someone, you oppose
them to their face. If you feel someone's in the wrong,
then you express that to them in a way that
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is helpful and propels you forward. But the anger that
I see right now, the anger that maybe you're experiencing yourself,
whether you be the recipient of it or you'd be
the person sending it out, is that it's only focused
(11:20):
on the individual. It's only about you and what you
need to do. Don't they know I need to do X,
Y and Z. Don't they know that I have to
do this or that I'm this? And usually that type
of anger stems from people in general not listening. If
you're not attentive, if someone yells at you, in all likelihood,
(11:40):
they don't feel they're being heard. They feel that something
you're doing is hurting them or might hurt them, or
is going to hurt them, and that makes them nervous
or scared, and it manifests in screaming and anger. Some
(12:02):
of the most angry people in life are the most meek,
are the ones that are so fearful of someone hurting
them that they get loud. And maybe you do this,
You get loud in hopes of people either backing off
or running away or not coming too close to hurt
you anymore. That type of anger doesn't help. So to
(12:32):
biblically deal with anger, you have to first focus and
see and admit that your anger comes from a selfish
place and learn to turn that around to where you
are attacking that problem and not attacking a person. Aurora,
(12:56):
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Today is a very special day for my son. He's
gonna take Body of Cry for the first time.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yes, he's extremely excited. He has been asking for it,
and uh, I gotta tell you it's a special need kid.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, And how so he is autistic?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He is, he actually has celebra policy and the brain damage.
But contrail Hold, the prediction is a very He's able
to walk, and you know, it's very good in school.
And he's a very happy child, extremely happy and very emotional.
So we go to church every Sunday and during communion
(13:40):
he is always always cry get emotional. I said that
he's happy. Oh and uh so we talk with a priest.
We got some preparation and today is a day and
he has great expectation.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay, how so what is expectations?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, and that's what I will try to understand. Say
that it's gonna take the body of Christ today and
then it's going to feel better.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh so he thinks that it's going to be there's
gonna be healing properties too.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't know. I'm afraid that he has some expectation
about that, you know, spiritual part of it. And then
maybe it's me. I'm not understanding him correctly, but I'm
afraid that he's suspecting something. And if so, I don't
(14:31):
know what to say after, you know, what to tell them,
because we talk every day about it. And what I
told him, I said, yes, you're going to be feeling
good inside. You're gonna be feeling great inside. You're going
to be feeling in all love and and you know,
and I just you know, because it's working very hard
(14:52):
on correctingness. Is problem, is physical problem, and it's learning
out with it. So many surgery and finally he's walking,
you know, with his feet on the ground, no more
on his toes and you know, so it's working very
hard in order to walk to the altar, because you
want to walk to the altar and I want to
be in a wheelchair and he want to be you know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So he sounds wonderful just his spirit, his desire to
me better good And that's a good way to see
it as well as the gift of having a special
needs child is first knowing that God trusts you enough
to oversee and care for somebody so special is a
(15:38):
pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now, is he's seven or eight years old?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh, it's actually he's a longer, so.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He's he's older for the process.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So he's he's going to be taking in some of
this information a little differently as well as he's a.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Little bit older. Was there a purpose for waiting was
his special needs.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Part of that decision, well, honest to do, it was
more me than him. I was afraid that he was
not going to understand.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, Well, it's a tough thing to understand at at
any age. I mean, there's there's a lot of adults,
I would say most adults that don't understand truly what's
going on. And even in the Church, you have differences
between Catholics and Protestants. Uh, you know, Catholics and Lutherans
celebrate this particular ceremony and look at and and truly
(16:35):
believe that Christ that I Am present truly in the
Eucharist now, although they see things slightly differently in there,
whereas Protestant a lot of other Protestant denominations believe that
it's a practice to be adhered to because I said
so that it was something to do and memorial and
(16:55):
in memory of And so there's differing views in this
as it stands across the board, which makes it difficult
for even adults to comprehend. I would say that managed
expectations is a good term for you to know in
this case, and that is it's not about being a
(17:15):
wet blanket or showering any hopes with so much reality
that they because the balance between understanding God and how
God moves in this world and the trials in life
and as they happen is a difficult one for adults
as well, let alone a child. So the balance here
(17:36):
is to say, is to really make sure that he
explains what's going on, and during the before the first communion,
there's time with the priest. Correct, yeah, okay, and the
priest has explained and he's gone to Catechism and all
of those things to understand. So there's going to be
some knowledge that comes prior to this, but also to
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be reinforced by you, the understanding it's not magic. It's
not about magic, and it's not about that it's like
a it's not medicine like that.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's not going to fix it, no it And.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's not that that God doesn't have the power to
fix things, uh, or to fix what we think is broken,
because oftentimes God says it's not broken. You think it's
broken because you want it to do X, Y and.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Z, and you know, honest with you, it is probably
maybe more my inspectition.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you say that that that you are putting the weight,
the false expectation on this.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Uh No, it's I mean, you know, waiting for the
magic day. You know that one day you wake up
and everything is gone, you know, and maybe maybe it's me.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, you know what the magic day is. The magic
day is understanding that this, that this is life, and
that God is in uh perfection and imperfection by way
of healing. Now, it doesn't mean a full physical healing.
That means spiritual healing for most. If you remember, Paul
even had the thorn in the flesh what's referred to
(19:07):
as a thorn in the flesh in scripture, and he
asked three times to have it removed, and three times
God said no. And yet Paul had to see the
blessing in that the understanding that those those privations or
the lack of something that everyone else seemed to have
really made Paul who he was. And that's part of
(19:31):
the process. And so the managing of expectations for both
you and I love that you're being honest, both you
and your boy, is to understand what's going on. One
the first and foremost the reason why you take communion
is because I said so in scripture. That's first and foremost,
because God said it, it's in scripture, therefore you do it.
(19:53):
That the obedience is important. And secondly, to understand that
there is something very beautiful despite all the disagreement that
goes on in the different denominations as to what's going on,
and if it actually becomes the blood and the body
and all of these things, those are inter body discussions.
(20:13):
That the body of Christ discusses those things and argues
those things, and that's fine. But most importantly is that
it was you're told to do it, and that it
is in remembrance, and that it does have power. There
is something quite beautiful and connective towards that moment. I
was constantly breaking bread and connecting with people, and this
(20:36):
is one of those moments that cannot be denied. And
you don't know what will take place. Neither of you,
regardless of expectations, know what will take place. But most importantly,
what is guaranteed to take place is the fulfillment of
a commitment towards God. And that is going to take place.
(20:57):
So whether you know anything else is going to or
not going to, that the fulfillment of a commitment towards God.
That's what's exciting that that he is stepping forward, he
is wheeling forward, he is limping forward, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He is moving forward before God and man in his
commitment towards God.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
You know, you look at his faith and he laid
up when you go in church. If he has and
had that's our priests say you have in him, and
you know he feels that. And he has a totally
different emotion and you know, and he has his own
reason and he has his own belief and and maybe
(21:42):
it's different. It's different for me as an adult than him,
you know, with the way we expressed. But I know
that I appreciate that, I appreciate about the Christ, and
I get closer to you after I got my He's
making me better and you know, and all this emotion
(22:06):
that he's having, him having it with him, and it's
an amazing feeling. It's amazing. It's I don't know, I
don't know how to explain that. You know, somebody told
me why you go to church every Sunday? That church
doesn't do anything for me. And and the best way
that I was able to express, I say, I feel
like I'm home. I had this big warm huk again.
(22:26):
You know, around me this, I feel like I'm home.
That's my best feeling. And I believe markets feel the
same way. I'm not sure, but they love that. And
he is happy, and you know, and and now you
know it's going to have his body of Christ today
and yesterday was telling me, Mommy, then I'm gonna have
every Sunday and every Sunday I can have my body
(22:49):
of Christ. You know, it's it's beautiful. And you know
how many other people are so skeptical about that, and
how they are no.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Understanding, oh, their skepticism in all things Aurora, and the
church has been a focus of that. I've been a
focus of that for a long time. But I want
you to really deeply enjoy today and take it in
for all the ceremony and love and fun of it,
as well as the deep spiritual meaning that goes along
(23:21):
with it. And sharing that with your boy and experiencing
that is going to be a very powerful thing. Keep
in mind, keep in mind that that faith and understanding
and a relationship with God is it not about being
perfect in this world. It's about understanding and conquering imperfection
with the understanding of who God is, and that there is.
(23:44):
It's not only about this world, but about the world
to come. But have the most blessed day, and I
hope that you'll share with us. How today went on
a future broadcast, Brian, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I was discussing with a new friend. She is a
Christian and I am a believer as well, and I
was mentioning that the church that I'm going to is
planning on starting a contemporary style worship service. And she said,
do you have a piano in your church? And I said, well, sure,
(24:30):
I said, we have a couple. We have one upstairs
and we have one downstairs. And she said, uh, she says,
we don't have any instruments in our church. I said, oh,
that's kind of curious. Do you mind if I asked why?
And she said.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
She said that the New Testament church, or or the
New the New dispensation is that, you know, know, instruments
in church. And I said, but there's lots of references
where instruments were used to assist in praising God. When
David broughtup the arc into the Temple of Meeting, and
(25:14):
you know oh sure, there's musicians and Ryan.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
There are times in scripture where priests and musicians are referenced,
but only the musicians are referenced by name. There's there's
great importance to music, make a joyful noise. There are
many references to the importance of music and h and
even dancing at times as well.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Ultimately that it came down to the term dispensation. I
don't know what that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Is, Okay, the term dispensation. Think of it this way
because there's this gets into different theological understandings of dispensationalism.
But I want you to think of it this way
for the sake of your call. I think this will
be helpful. Think of it as time periods, management of
time periods, and how God manages those time periods, those
(26:07):
different dispensations. So think of it this way as and
I prefer people to think of it this way anyways.
But if you go through scripture, think of scripture in
humanity as a child that's being born and being raised
by God. Not just individual men and women, but think
(26:27):
of all men and women, the planet as a whole,
as a child being raised by God. So if you
look at the beginning and the middle and the ending
of scripture, you will see that God interacts with the
world a little differently. And people say, you know, what,
how come the God of the Old Testament seems so angry?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And then you know, and how come the God of
the New Testament seems so flowery? And they try putting
these things together. Well, a dispensation is sectioning of scripture
or time periods and the way God interact interacted. So,
for instance, if you look at the Old Testament, it
does seem like God is angry all the time, but
(27:06):
that's not true.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Really.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
What it is is, if you think of the world
as a baby, you may interact with a child an
infant differently. They're crying, they're needy. You might even pat
the bottom of a child, but you wouldn't of an
eighteen year old. It wouldn't make sense. So as they grow,
you interact with your children differently.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Correct, Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So dispensationalism, in a very loose sense is how God
is interacting with humanity during different times and periods throughout history,
not only scripturally but now currently. So, which is a
wonderful way to look at scripture and to understand scripture.
(27:48):
The problem comes when people use this as a way
of defining God or defining Christianity or Salvation based on
these time periods. Some people separate the scripture and do
about seven different dispensations or different times periods where God
is interacting with his creation. But what I want you
(28:09):
to see is that none of those define God or
Salvation or man correctly. You have to see them in
their totality to understand what's going on. And sometimes people
get lost in certain That's why you'll hear people say, oh,
that's not for today, right, Oh, that's the Old Testament.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
That's not for that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
No, that's ridiculous. God put it in there. It's there
for today, and it's important. And that's like removing the
grace out of the Old Testament or removing the law
out of the New Testament. They both have a place
and a purpose in both of those chapters of the
Christian faith by way of Judaism. So you get lost
(28:49):
if you say, well, it's not for today, which is
essentially what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now do they use microphones at all?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Y Oh, you know, I didn't. I've heard you say
that on the show before. I did not ask that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm always humored by that that they that uh that
uh using that's not an instrument or what have you. Usually,
when you get to that point, the church has some unhealthy,
some unhealthy parts to it. Now, I don't know this church,
and I don't know how they're using this term, and
it's coming to me secondhand. But I will tell you this, Brian,
that if that's a that's a bad sign to me
about the health of a particular church.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
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