March 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Being Teachable
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kfi Am six forty on demand. Being teachable.
It may not be something that you think about often,
but the man or woman who wants to grow in
their faith, in their walk with God, if you want
(00:22):
to be that person, you have to be teachable. To
go through life in a stubborn fashion, shutting yourself off
to any of the thoughts or ideas can be a problem.
You lose out on much. And what I'm not saying
(00:43):
is to go around with such an open mind that
your brain falls out. You see it. An open mind
is like that of an open mouth. It's open, it
receives sustenance, it closes to digest. I'm not talking about
(01:05):
the lack of conviction, not standing on a principal idea
or understanding. What I'm saying is that if you go
around thinking that your glass is full, you won't ever
let anyone pour anything into it, and in doing so,
you'll miss out on new knowledge, new ideas, new understandings.
(01:33):
And this process is so important to your faith his faith.
It is in conjunction with knowledge that if you shut
yourself out to that kind of teachability being available for
(01:55):
these new ideas, you lose out Scripture is even a
little more fierce when it says in Proverbs twelve to
one whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates
reproof is stupid. You see, you have to be willing
(02:19):
to hear truth. You have to be willing to know
that you may not have the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. Being open to receiving that
and learning those new things puts you on the path
like an explorer of finding out this information. I tell
(02:42):
people all the time, don't follow the person who says
they know everything. Follow the person who's asking all the
right questions, because the truth seeker asks questions. An old
Chinese proverb that says that he who asks a question
(03:06):
is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't ask
the question is a fool for a lifetime. Now I
realize there are people that you may think can't teach anything.
Abraham Lincoln said that he learned something from every man
he met. It was usually what not to do, but
he learned something. Now in life, as you stroll along
(03:33):
on your adventure exploring and learning, there are certain things, yes,
that you may put into a pouch labeled certain, but
there are always new ideas, new ways to look at things,
(03:53):
new ways to perceive an old thing. And that comes
from being open, That comes from being pliable and receptive
to what's out there. There's oftentimes where I'm trying to
teach you something or I want you to know something,
and you refuse to receive it because you think you're
(04:14):
better than the person trying to impart it to you.
I want you to be open. I want you to
get to a place where you thirst so much for
truth that it doesn't matter where you get it. You've
(04:35):
seen people so hungry that they respect food like you
never have every morsel, they clean their plate, They are
so appreciative for every last bite. When you're fat, you're like, well,
(04:58):
I don't need that last bed or or you know,
I'll throw that away, or I'll give it to the dog,
almost without the true appreciation for what's before you. And
the same can work with knowledge. You may get to
a place where you think you know so much that
you don't. You don't respect, you don't hunger for knowledge.
(05:23):
The same way. I see professors all the time go
through change. Professors who were very learned, they had consumed
much knowledge, and all of a sudden something came into
their life and changed their perspective. They got to see
(05:46):
things just a little differently, and the hunger, that fire,
that desire burned again. Today. I want you to be
in that same place today. I want you to thirst today.
I want you to have that mindset that isn't listen
(06:06):
to me, but I will listen to you. That place
of security where you are listening, where you are wanting
to receive. Being the student is the best seat to
(06:29):
learn now. Teaching can be a great place of learning
as well if you are open, if you remain like
a sponge and check your vocabulary and the things you say.
(06:50):
Do you often ask ask people's opinion on things? And
do you ask it for real or do you ask
it because you think you should or because you really
want to receive what they have to say? Are you
the type of person that just merely offers your opinion
(07:11):
rather than receives before someone finishes a sentence? Are you
building a response being teachable?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Today?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I want you to ask yourself, am I self? I
guess if you'd like to refer to yourself as self self?
Am I teachable? And the importance of this question cannot
be overstated, because this really is at the beginning of
who you are, what you will know in life, how
(07:56):
you will know it, and even how you'll be perceived
by others, if they will see you as somebody who
just rejects or someone who thinks there know it all.
And having that platform as a seeker, having that platform
as somebody who genuinely explores life and wants to learn,
(08:17):
that is the best place to be. That is where
you will get to know God. You'll get to know
God through God's creation. I want you to know me
and one of the best ways to know me is
to know the family. Now, I don't want you living
your spirituality through someone else, because people will let you down.
(08:42):
But you will see, and you will know, and you
will learn things from others. And getting in that mindset
to love discipline, as it says Proverbs twelve to one,
whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But he who hates reproof
is stupid. Are you bothered when somebody comes to you
(09:04):
and corrects you constructively? I realize that there are those
that take on the tone and the attitude and they're
ugly about it, and that it's hard to receive that.
I understand that. But I also want you to get
to that place where you have the sense of an
old cow. You eat the hay and you leave the sticks.
You can weed through these things and understand that there's
(09:28):
a difference between someone's attitude and the truth and if
what they're telling you is beneficial if you can learn
from it. But how exciting has it been throughout your
life those times where you've come you've had an epiphany,
or you've learned something that has changed the way you
(09:51):
do something. For men, it's when they finally look at
the instructions after trying to put something together for the
past twelve hours on their own. I say that with love. Men,
But you may come across some sort of moment. You
(10:14):
may remember throughout your life a good teacher, someone who
took the time with you and spoke to you on
your level, and how wonderful it was to take that knowledge.
And I want you to get to that place today.
I want you to remind yourself to be in that
spirit every single day, being that explorer, being willing to
(10:43):
learn new ways, not being stubborn or a pushy that
everyone needs to see things your way. Oh, you'll play
a part in cycle. You'll be teaching others too, but
you have to be ready, willing, and able for that
that reproof. It's not just ignoring reproof, it's not just
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being bothered by reproof. And Scripture it says you hate reproof,
you can't stand when someone corrects you. You're always in
that place where you refuse to be teachable, and today
I want you to be teachable. It's okay to make mistakes.
Scripture says that a righteous man is not someone who
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doesn't fall, but someone who falls seven times and seven
times gets up. It's okay to make mistakes as long
as you learn from them, as long as you are
open to whatever reproof, whatever teaching moment. That is the
world is getting to a place where you are looking
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with the internet, all the technology, where you can replay
somebody's statement and thought over and over and over again.
The world is loving to pounce upon those thoughts rather
than showing reproof, wanting to solidify those as the only
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thought that person's ever had, that mistakes aren't actually made.
Don't get to that place. Don't get to that place
of hardening the heart towards somebody else or even with
your own self. Towards others, you feel that they are
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not teachable, that they can't learn, that that's only who
they are. And with yourself, thinking that you know everything,
that you're so well learned that you don't need to
consume anymore from anyone, and that becomes the hating of
reproof and that's what makes you stupid. Jasmine, Welcome to
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the Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Hi Jasmine, How can I
help you?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yes, I have a question, it's severe question. Okay, what
is the wager of sin in God's eyes? Like stealing
a piece of candy compared to murderer?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well, the wages of sin is death. Period. Didn't say
for this then or that sin? Now? Is there a
difference in sins? Are they all completely equal? Well, it's
different depending on how you're looking at it. In the
eyes of God, every infraction that you do that is
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considered a sin. The word sin means to miss the mark.
So God puts a mark out there for your life,
both specifically and generally, meaning that there's certain things nobody
should be doing, nobody should be murdering, and things like that.
But there might be some sins that are specific to
you that don't necessarily pertain to others, and God puts
those in front of you and says that this is
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the way He wants you to be, that is his will.
And if you reject them, there are different types of consequences.
There are the consequences that go on the earth. You
can do things that God will forgive you for, yet
they'll be major consequences on earth for them as well.
Even murder. You could be forgiven for murder, but it
doesn't mean you wouldn't have to go to prison. And
(14:29):
so as far as the big or small sins, all
sins are kind of rated by God, not by man.
Man looks at certain sins and goes, well, that's not
such a big deal. He stole some bubblegum. It's you know,
it's not like it's an armed robbery or something. But
to God, they are all missing the mark, and so
to the God they're equal in that sense, and the
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penalty was paid. They're all worthy of me going to
that cross and dying on that cross. That's why God
did it, why God saw fit to do it that way.
So all sin, no matter how small you may think
it is, is against a holy and righteous, eternal God.
And so putting it. In that perspective, then everything that
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is done against God demands to be wholly injust and
have an eternal punishment. And only by the payment on
the cross. Is that eternal punishment not sidestep, but paid
by God for those who believe. Yeah, so you know,
there's an old saying that if you break you got
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to look at the ten commandments as a mirror, and
if you break part of the mirror, you break all
of the mirror. The mirror is broken. And with sin,
people try and see what they can get away with.
And if you remember in scripture, I was always trying
to tell people that it's much greater than even they think.
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Matthew five one through twenty eight. If you remember, I say,
you have heard that it was said to those of
old you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be
liable to judgment. And I go on to say, but
I say to you that everyone who is angry with
his brother will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his
brother will be liable. And goes on and on and
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on talking about making these you know, even thinking about
the sin equal to the sin. Now, is it really no,
there's different consequences. However, the point I was trying to
get is the severity of sin is so deep that
it goes beyond just the physical action. It goes to
the point as much as you need to control your
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physical actions, this goes to controlling your your emotional actions,
your intellectual actions that you weren't thinking out of turn
or thinking things that are horrible, because God judges all
of that. And then it starts to get really weighty,
doesn't it, because now you start you know everything I
think and all of this. And that wasn't to scare people.
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It was to put in perspective not the intensity of
your sin, but the intensity of God's purity, and that
God is so pure that even those things that you
think is Ah who cares, are offensive to God because
God is perfect and on earth, it's very easy for
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you guys to be standing next to each other and say, well,
I'm better than this person, you know, and I'm better
than this person, and you just think I'm judging myself
against this guy, and I'm better than that guy. But
that's not where the line of judgment is. The line
of judgment ends at the throne of God. So it's
no longer well, I'm pretty good, and you know I
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hold a pretty good candle next to this guy. No,
now you're talking about dealing with God, and there are
different sins that will have different consequences on earth as
they would in heaven. But the key about heaven and
the death on the cross and the shedding of my
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blood for as they take on your sins, was to
pay for those things, because there was nothing else you
could do. So many people in Scripture tried to work
their way into the kingdom. And if you remember, I
even said at one point, oh, you want to get
to heaven, Okay, I'll tell you how to get to heaven.
Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect, and
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you'll get it. Now. People hear that and they think, oh, okay, good,
well that's how you do it. Now I got to
be perfect. It's not going to happen. The very statement
I'm making there in Matthew explaining that even your thoughts
you're accountable to and accountable for, was to point out
that it's impossible for man to work their way into
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the kingdom. People to this day run around saying, oh, yeah,
but I did this, or this person's surely going to
heaven because X, Y, and Z, But it's not based
on any of that. It's based on the love of
God bringing his only begotten son to this planet, dying
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on the cross, after taking on all of your sins past, present,
and future, and then resurrecting and overcoming death, hell, and
the grave. There's no other magic potion or magic path.
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That's what needs to be done, but for anyone at
any time. And that message gets lost quite a bit
when people start weighing sins, because really that's a an
earth bound system to weigh sins. In that sense, it
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works for the judicial system that they have to weigh
certain things and balance them out because they're dealing with
intent and you know, recklessness and if it was done
maliciously and all these different things. But God knows your heart,
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and God knows that if you reject the will of God,
if you just outright rebel against the things of God,
doing whatever you want whenever you want, that that's a problem.
And it doesn't mean that you won't make a mistake
or there won't be problems in life. That just comes
with the territory. That is part of what this planet
is about. But above all of that is that you
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understand that. You know the difference between right and wrong.
You do this all the time, know when you shouldn't
be doing something, and you do it anyways, and you're
accountable for that rebellion, just doing it because it's easier
for you, it's convenient, you don't have to do the
you know, X, Y and Z. It just seems like
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it's going to take too long. Always cutting corners. You
see these people on the street that would rather make
you stop and fifteen more cars behind you so that
they can make an illegal turn or maneuver of some kind,
so that they're not inconvenienced to have to drive out
of the way to go to a place where they
can make a U turner they can make that turn
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or whatever it is. And you do those things in
life all the time, spiritually, no matter who it effects
or who it bothers. It's just a matter of it
being easier for you, and you're you'll be accountable for
those things. But on earth you rate them as you know,
murders the worst and all of these things. But really,
in the eyes of God, as heinous as murder is
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that there are other things that are done that are
equally as heinous. That you may not think so, and
the judicial system of the United States may not think so.
You're not going to get arrested for blasphemy. But God
certainly frowns upon that. Richard, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Uh? Your topic kid home today? And I was compelled
to call uh. My son is involved with a lady
that had made some very bad choices. She was on
some heavy drugs. She's been clean now for a little
bit over a year. Comes to comes to light he's
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going to AA, but she does have a serious liver
disease because of it, and the thing still sort of
progressed to the next level where you started, and strong feelings.
She wasn't feeling well with her doctor, and come to
find out she now has her purpies. And he's very confused.
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And I told him that because he had been always
talking about getting married and having children. And I told
him that where she can be forgiven, the consequences of
her choice still have to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Sure that even though she's forgiven, and the herpes that
came with it will be there for a lifetime and
also can cause complications in childbirthen and all those things.
So there are she even though she's bettering her life,
there are remnants in the consequences most certainly and will.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Be, yes, sir. And so that's where my problem comes in.
He asked me for my advice, and I told him,
you know what advice is, everybody has it. I mentioned
to him that with everything that was stacked against this,
as far as having normal children and the chances and
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having to walk the tightrope for the rest of his life,
it's still at the stage where he should just maybe
just try to remain friends, but as far as anything
else on the relationship, he has to break it off.
And anyway, that's where I'm at right now. And then
on your program with you're talking about personal responsibilities, I
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was just it bothers me because I won't to know
if I gave him the right advice.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, it's tough. I think you gave him very wonderful advice.
I think that the tough part is that when when
someone makes mistakes in life and they get on a
new path and they're working towards cleaning themselves up, it
seems a shame that that others won't give them a
chance they need a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's the same with the the prison system of the
United States. There are many people that go into prison
and when they come out are treated so differently that
it almost seems like, well, you might as well have
just left them in there, because the world doesn't really
give them a second chance. However, you have to protect
yourself and make the best decisions you can. Life is
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difficult as it is, so the more of these parts
of the equation you dump on yourself, the more difficult
you're going to make it on yourself as well. So
your son has to know the true consequences of his
decision should he get mixed up with her, and that
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there's a good likelihood that she can relapse correct and
there's also scars and the remaining consequences of things that
she's done in the past. And doesn't mean that he
shouldn't befriend her or be loving and kind to her,
but it may not be the perfect partner for him,
and he has to know that with all this comes consequences,
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and especially if there's herpes and things like that involved,
that these aren't going away and they can affect him,
and should he be married to her, they will affect him,
and that he needs to know that all the love
and the feelings that he has become less flowery and
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more practical later on down the line, and that's when
you're going to go, oh my gosh, what did I do?
So I guess at this point the best thing you
can do, Richard, is give him the best advice and say,
go into this with every bit of knowledge you can,
and if you make that decision, so be it. But
don't look at this from you know, the romantic, flowery standpoint,
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expecting everything to be grand and you to always have
this feeling, because you know, feelings change and you're going
to have to be practical and in this relationship for
the long haul. And there is a lot of hurdles
to get over. And I don't think it was unreasonable
the information that you gave him. Oh but you can't direct.
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I mean, he's going to make his own choices. So
the best thing you can do as a parent is
to give the advice.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You can.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Treat this individual with love and kindness and prayerfully help
them on their way to recovery. But it still means
that there are consequences, and those consequences will become your
son's consequences should he get involved with her. And that's
just really what you need to know in life. There's
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consequences to everything that's done, even from years and years
and years and years ago, and you bring those into
your relationships now. The best thing to do is to
be honest about them and let you know, and and
in doing so, with everything out in the open, you
become closer and you go into it with that knowledge
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and you make the decision I want to be in
this relationship with X, Y and Z. But if you
you know, just go, oh, well, I'm in love now
and I like this person, and you don't really weigh
those things, you end up ruining the relationship. And maybe
there is someone better suited where some of these things
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may not matter in the same way, in the same sense,
that could be a better partner to that person, and
you have to allow that as well.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Kfi AM six forty on demand
You're listening to kfi Am six forty on demand. Being teachable.
It may not be something that you think about often,
but the man or woman who wants to grow in
their faith, in their walk with God, if you want
(00:22):
to be that person, you have to be teachable. To
go through life in a stubborn fashion, shutting yourself off
to any of the thoughts or ideas can be a problem.
You lose out on much. And what I'm not saying
(00:43):
is to go around with such an open mind that
your brain falls out. You see it. An open mind
is like that of an open mouth. It's open, it
receives sustenance, it closes to digest. I'm not talking about
(01:05):
the lack of conviction, not standing on a principal idea
or understanding. What I'm saying is that if you go
around thinking that your glass is full, you won't ever
let anyone pour anything into it, and in doing so,
you'll miss out on new knowledge, new ideas, new understandings.
(01:33):
And this process is so important to your faith his faith.
It is in conjunction with knowledge that if you shut
yourself out to that kind of teachability being available for
(01:55):
these new ideas, you lose out Scripture is even a
little more fierce when it says in Proverbs twelve to
one whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates
reproof is stupid. You see, you have to be willing
(02:19):
to hear truth. You have to be willing to know
that you may not have the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. Being open to receiving that
and learning those new things puts you on the path
like an explorer of finding out this information. I tell
(02:42):
people all the time, don't follow the person who says
they know everything. Follow the person who's asking all the
right questions, because the truth seeker asks questions. An old
Chinese proverb that says that he who asks a question
(03:06):
is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't ask
the question is a fool for a lifetime. Now I
realize there are people that you may think can't teach anything.
Abraham Lincoln said that he learned something from every man
he met. It was usually what not to do, but
he learned something. Now in life, as you stroll along
(03:33):
on your adventure exploring and learning, there are certain things, yes,
that you may put into a pouch labeled certain, but
there are always new ideas, new ways to look at things,
(03:53):
new ways to perceive an old thing. And that comes
from being open, That comes from being pliable and receptive
to what's out there. There's oftentimes where I'm trying to
teach you something or I want you to know something,
and you refuse to receive it because you think you're
(04:14):
better than the person trying to impart it to you.
I want you to be open. I want you to
get to a place where you thirst so much for
truth that it doesn't matter where you get it. You've
(04:35):
seen people so hungry that they respect food like you
never have every morsel, they clean their plate, They are
so appreciative for every last bite. When you're fat, you're like, well,
(04:58):
I don't need that last bed or or you know,
I'll throw that away, or I'll give it to the dog,
almost without the true appreciation for what's before you. And
the same can work with knowledge. You may get to
a place where you think you know so much that
you don't. You don't respect, you don't hunger for knowledge.
(05:23):
The same way. I see professors all the time go
through change. Professors who were very learned, they had consumed
much knowledge, and all of a sudden something came into
their life and changed their perspective. They got to see
(05:46):
things just a little differently, and the hunger, that fire,
that desire burned again. Today. I want you to be
in that same place today. I want you to thirst today.
I want you to have that mindset that isn't listen
(06:06):
to me, but I will listen to you. That place
of security where you are listening, where you are wanting
to receive. Being the student is the best seat to
(06:29):
learn now. Teaching can be a great place of learning
as well if you are open, if you remain like
a sponge and check your vocabulary and the things you say.
(06:50):
Do you often ask ask people's opinion on things? And
do you ask it for real or do you ask
it because you think you should or because you really
want to receive what they have to say? Are you
the type of person that just merely offers your opinion
(07:11):
rather than receives before someone finishes a sentence? Are you
building a response being teachable?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Today?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I want you to ask yourself, am I self? I
guess if you'd like to refer to yourself as self self?
Am I teachable? And the importance of this question cannot
be overstated, because this really is at the beginning of
who you are, what you will know in life, how
(07:56):
you will know it, and even how you'll be perceived
by others, if they will see you as somebody who
just rejects or someone who thinks there know it all.
And having that platform as a seeker, having that platform
as somebody who genuinely explores life and wants to learn,
(08:17):
that is the best place to be. That is where
you will get to know God. You'll get to know
God through God's creation. I want you to know me
and one of the best ways to know me is
to know the family. Now, I don't want you living
your spirituality through someone else, because people will let you down.
(08:42):
But you will see, and you will know, and you
will learn things from others. And getting in that mindset
to love discipline, as it says Proverbs twelve to one,
whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But he who hates reproof
is stupid. Are you bothered when somebody comes to you
(09:04):
and corrects you constructively? I realize that there are those
that take on the tone and the attitude and they're
ugly about it, and that it's hard to receive that.
I understand that. But I also want you to get
to that place where you have the sense of an
old cow. You eat the hay and you leave the sticks.
You can weed through these things and understand that there's
(09:28):
a difference between someone's attitude and the truth and if
what they're telling you is beneficial if you can learn
from it. But how exciting has it been throughout your
life those times where you've come you've had an epiphany,
or you've learned something that has changed the way you
(09:51):
do something. For men, it's when they finally look at
the instructions after trying to put something together for the
past twelve hours on their own. I say that with love. Men,
But you may come across some sort of moment. You
(10:14):
may remember throughout your life a good teacher, someone who
took the time with you and spoke to you on
your level, and how wonderful it was to take that knowledge.
And I want you to get to that place today.
I want you to remind yourself to be in that
spirit every single day, being that explorer, being willing to
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learn new ways, not being stubborn or a pushy that
everyone needs to see things your way. Oh, you'll play
a part in cycle. You'll be teaching others too, but
you have to be ready, willing, and able for that
that reproof. It's not just ignoring reproof, it's not just
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being bothered by reproof. And Scripture it says you hate reproof,
you can't stand when someone corrects you. You're always in
that place where you refuse to be teachable, and today
I want you to be teachable. It's okay to make mistakes.
Scripture says that a righteous man is not someone who
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doesn't fall, but someone who falls seven times and seven
times gets up. It's okay to make mistakes as long
as you learn from them, as long as you are
open to whatever reproof, whatever teaching moment. That is the
world is getting to a place where you are looking
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with the internet, all the technology, where you can replay
somebody's statement and thought over and over and over again.
The world is loving to pounce upon those thoughts rather
than showing reproof, wanting to solidify those as the only
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thought that person's ever had, that mistakes aren't actually made.
Don't get to that place. Don't get to that place
of hardening the heart towards somebody else or even with
your own self. Towards others, you feel that they are
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not teachable, that they can't learn, that that's only who
they are. And with yourself, thinking that you know everything,
that you're so well learned that you don't need to
consume anymore from anyone, and that becomes the hating of
reproof and that's what makes you stupid. Jasmine, Welcome to
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the Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Hi Jasmine, How can I
help you?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yes, I have a question, it's severe question. Okay, what
is the wager of sin in God's eyes? Like stealing
a piece of candy compared to murderer?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well, the wages of sin is death. Period. Didn't say
for this then or that sin? Now? Is there a
difference in sins? Are they all completely equal? Well, it's
different depending on how you're looking at it. In the
eyes of God, every infraction that you do that is
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considered a sin. The word sin means to miss the mark.
So God puts a mark out there for your life,
both specifically and generally, meaning that there's certain things nobody
should be doing, nobody should be murdering, and things like that.
But there might be some sins that are specific to
you that don't necessarily pertain to others, and God puts
those in front of you and says that this is
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the way He wants you to be, that is his will.
And if you reject them, there are different types of consequences.
There are the consequences that go on the earth. You
can do things that God will forgive you for, yet
they'll be major consequences on earth for them as well.
Even murder. You could be forgiven for murder, but it
doesn't mean you wouldn't have to go to prison. And
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so as far as the big or small sins, all
sins are kind of rated by God, not by man.
Man looks at certain sins and goes, well, that's not
such a big deal. He stole some bubblegum. It's you know,
it's not like it's an armed robbery or something. But
to God, they are all missing the mark, and so
to the God they're equal in that sense, and the
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penalty was paid. They're all worthy of me going to
that cross and dying on that cross. That's why God
did it, why God saw fit to do it that way.
So all sin, no matter how small you may think
it is, is against a holy and righteous, eternal God.
And so putting it. In that perspective, then everything that
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is done against God demands to be wholly injust and
have an eternal punishment. And only by the payment on
the cross. Is that eternal punishment not sidestep, but paid
by God for those who believe. Yeah, so you know,
there's an old saying that if you break you got
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to look at the ten commandments as a mirror, and
if you break part of the mirror, you break all
of the mirror. The mirror is broken. And with sin,
people try and see what they can get away with.
And if you remember in scripture, I was always trying
to tell people that it's much greater than even they think.
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Matthew five one through twenty eight. If you remember, I say,
you have heard that it was said to those of
old you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be
liable to judgment. And I go on to say, but
I say to you that everyone who is angry with
his brother will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his
brother will be liable. And goes on and on and
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on talking about making these you know, even thinking about
the sin equal to the sin. Now, is it really no,
there's different consequences. However, the point I was trying to
get is the severity of sin is so deep that
it goes beyond just the physical action. It goes to
the point as much as you need to control your
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physical actions, this goes to controlling your your emotional actions,
your intellectual actions that you weren't thinking out of turn
or thinking things that are horrible, because God judges all
of that. And then it starts to get really weighty,
doesn't it, because now you start you know everything I
think and all of this. And that wasn't to scare people.
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It was to put in perspective not the intensity of
your sin, but the intensity of God's purity, and that
God is so pure that even those things that you
think is Ah who cares, are offensive to God because
God is perfect and on earth, it's very easy for
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you guys to be standing next to each other and say, well,
I'm better than this person, you know, and I'm better
than this person, and you just think I'm judging myself
against this guy, and I'm better than that guy. But
that's not where the line of judgment is. The line
of judgment ends at the throne of God. So it's
no longer well, I'm pretty good, and you know I
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hold a pretty good candle next to this guy. No,
now you're talking about dealing with God, and there are
different sins that will have different consequences on earth as
they would in heaven. But the key about heaven and
the death on the cross and the shedding of my
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blood for as they take on your sins, was to
pay for those things, because there was nothing else you
could do. So many people in Scripture tried to work
their way into the kingdom. And if you remember, I
even said at one point, oh, you want to get
to heaven, Okay, I'll tell you how to get to heaven.
Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect, and
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you'll get it. Now. People hear that and they think, oh, okay, good,
well that's how you do it. Now I got to
be perfect. It's not going to happen. The very statement
I'm making there in Matthew explaining that even your thoughts
you're accountable to and accountable for, was to point out
that it's impossible for man to work their way into
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the kingdom. People to this day run around saying, oh, yeah,
but I did this, or this person's surely going to
heaven because X, Y, and Z, But it's not based
on any of that. It's based on the love of
God bringing his only begotten son to this planet, dying
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on the cross, after taking on all of your sins past, present,
and future, and then resurrecting and overcoming death, hell, and
the grave. There's no other magic potion or magic path.
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That's what needs to be done, but for anyone at
any time. And that message gets lost quite a bit
when people start weighing sins, because really that's a an
earth bound system to weigh sins. In that sense, it
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works for the judicial system that they have to weigh
certain things and balance them out because they're dealing with
intent and you know, recklessness and if it was done
maliciously and all these different things. But God knows your heart,
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and God knows that if you reject the will of God,
if you just outright rebel against the things of God,
doing whatever you want whenever you want, that that's a problem.
And it doesn't mean that you won't make a mistake
or there won't be problems in life. That just comes
with the territory. That is part of what this planet
is about. But above all of that is that you
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understand that. You know the difference between right and wrong.
You do this all the time, know when you shouldn't
be doing something, and you do it anyways, and you're
accountable for that rebellion, just doing it because it's easier
for you, it's convenient, you don't have to do the
you know, X, Y and Z. It just seems like
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it's going to take too long. Always cutting corners. You
see these people on the street that would rather make
you stop and fifteen more cars behind you so that
they can make an illegal turn or maneuver of some kind,
so that they're not inconvenienced to have to drive out
of the way to go to a place where they
can make a U turner they can make that turn
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or whatever it is. And you do those things in
life all the time, spiritually, no matter who it effects
or who it bothers. It's just a matter of it
being easier for you, and you're you'll be accountable for
those things. But on earth you rate them as you know,
murders the worst and all of these things. But really,
in the eyes of God, as heinous as murder is
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that there are other things that are done that are
equally as heinous. That you may not think so, and
the judicial system of the United States may not think so.
You're not going to get arrested for blasphemy. But God
certainly frowns upon that. Richard, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Uh? Your topic kid home today? And I was compelled
to call uh. My son is involved with a lady
that had made some very bad choices. She was on
some heavy drugs. She's been clean now for a little
bit over a year. Comes to comes to light he's
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going to AA, but she does have a serious liver
disease because of it, and the thing still sort of
progressed to the next level where you started, and strong feelings.
She wasn't feeling well with her doctor, and come to
find out she now has her purpies. And he's very confused.
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And I told him that because he had been always
talking about getting married and having children. And I told
him that where she can be forgiven, the consequences of
her choice still have to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Sure that even though she's forgiven, and the herpes that
came with it will be there for a lifetime and
also can cause complications in childbirthen and all those things.
So there are she even though she's bettering her life,
there are remnants in the consequences most certainly and will.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Be, yes, sir. And so that's where my problem comes in.
He asked me for my advice, and I told him,
you know what advice is, everybody has it. I mentioned
to him that with everything that was stacked against this,
as far as having normal children and the chances and
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having to walk the tightrope for the rest of his life,
it's still at the stage where he should just maybe
just try to remain friends, but as far as anything
else on the relationship, he has to break it off.
And anyway, that's where I'm at right now. And then
on your program with you're talking about personal responsibilities, I
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was just it bothers me because I won't to know
if I gave him the right advice.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, it's tough. I think you gave him very wonderful advice.
I think that the tough part is that when when
someone makes mistakes in life and they get on a
new path and they're working towards cleaning themselves up, it
seems a shame that that others won't give them a
chance they need a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's the same with the the prison system of the
United States. There are many people that go into prison
and when they come out are treated so differently that
it almost seems like, well, you might as well have
just left them in there, because the world doesn't really
give them a second chance. However, you have to protect
yourself and make the best decisions you can. Life is
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difficult as it is, so the more of these parts
of the equation you dump on yourself, the more difficult
you're going to make it on yourself as well. So
your son has to know the true consequences of his
decision should he get mixed up with her, and that
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there's a good likelihood that she can relapse correct and
there's also scars and the remaining consequences of things that
she's done in the past. And doesn't mean that he
shouldn't befriend her or be loving and kind to her,
but it may not be the perfect partner for him,
and he has to know that with all this comes consequences,
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and especially if there's herpes and things like that involved,
that these aren't going away and they can affect him,
and should he be married to her, they will affect him,
and that he needs to know that all the love
and the feelings that he has become less flowery and
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more practical later on down the line, and that's when
you're going to go, oh my gosh, what did I do?
So I guess at this point the best thing you
can do, Richard, is give him the best advice and say,
go into this with every bit of knowledge you can,
and if you make that decision, so be it. But
don't look at this from you know, the romantic, flowery standpoint,
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expecting everything to be grand and you to always have
this feeling, because you know, feelings change and you're going
to have to be practical and in this relationship for
the long haul. And there is a lot of hurdles
to get over. And I don't think it was unreasonable
the information that you gave him. Oh but you can't direct.
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I mean, he's going to make his own choices. So
the best thing you can do as a parent is
to give the advice.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You can.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Treat this individual with love and kindness and prayerfully help
them on their way to recovery. But it still means
that there are consequences, and those consequences will become your
son's consequences should he get involved with her. And that's
just really what you need to know in life. There's
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consequences to everything that's done, even from years and years
and years and years ago, and you bring those into
your relationships now. The best thing to do is to
be honest about them and let you know, and and
in doing so, with everything out in the open, you
become closer and you go into it with that knowledge
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and you make the decision I want to be in
this relationship with X, Y and Z. But if you
you know, just go, oh, well, I'm in love now
and I like this person, and you don't really weigh
those things, you end up ruining the relationship. And maybe
there is someone better suited where some of these things
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may not matter in the same way, in the same sense,
that could be a better partner to that person, and
you have to allow that as well.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
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