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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Competition,
just like any other aspect of life, can be either
healthy or unhealthy depending on the application. Make no mistake
about it, Competition is at the heart of the human experience.
(00:24):
That's a good thing. The desire to press on, to
push forward. That competitive spirit is definitely of God. But
as a Christian, it must be applied to your life
in a godly fashion. If not, it can take hold
of you. It can be become something altogether different in
(00:47):
your life, something that becomes problematic, even harmful. Competition is
certainly in the air today, and you can feel this
excitement as millions of Americans and people from all over
the world really gather around their TVs with this this
(01:10):
anticipation of their team securing the win. Now, the very
definition of competition means a contest in which a winner
is selected from among two or more entrants. So this
means by that definition that there will there'll be a winner,
(01:33):
and of course they'll be a loser. So in a
case like the Super Bowl, competition is that propellant. It
propels each member of the opposing team to train, to
work hard so that they may excel in their performance
(01:54):
for this particular big game or any game. This oftentimes.
I know that athletics can go down an unhealthy path
at times, but more often than not, this is a
healthy display of the competitive spirit, that spirit that does
push you, that does propel makes you want to be better,
(02:18):
not so you're better than the other person in some
sort of state of judgment that they're actually less than you,
but that competitive spirit, that ability to push on and
push forward and build your muscles stronger, make yourself quicker,
(02:40):
be able to be more accurate when throwing a ball,
when catching a ball, That all these things are about
training your body by way of discipline to do beneficial things.
So if you're involved in sports, and today's offbviously a
(03:00):
huge sports day, that many of you watching the Big
Game are really focused on the fact that this is
a place where athletes come together to push themselves beyond
normal limits to achieve a goal. That's the competitive spirit
(03:24):
in a healthy place. But there is an unhealthy side
to competition as well, one that drives people by way
of jealousy and envy that only leads to despair and destruction.
This is not the competitive spirit, but the spirit of pride,
(03:45):
and conceit. The Father certainly does not approve of this
kind of competition, James four to six says, but he
gives more grace. Therefore, it says, God opposes the p
but gives grace to the humble. Giving that grace to
(04:08):
the humble is showing that there there is a place
for you to be competitive, but to still be in
that that that place of humility, knowing that you're pushing
your limits, knowing that that as a creation of God,
(04:29):
that I designed you to desire to propel yourself and excel,
but to also be of a humble spirit. Because when
you latch onto pride, when you get to that place
of pride, you invite ugliness, that jealousy, that justice. It's
(04:50):
not even it's not even competition. It's just you wanting
to push others down to push yourself forward. It says,
if you would lie, cheater steel to get to that place,
it doesn't even matter how you get there. And to
the real athlete, to the real individual with the proper
(05:16):
competitive spirit, you want to do things right, you don't
do it the right way, it doesn't count. These two
different paths or patterns of competition can be seen throughout
all kinds of walks of life, not just in athletics.
(05:39):
But you can see where people tried to even apply
athletics in a positive way when there when even the
world itself was teetering from wars and arguments and ugliness.
The original Olympics were abolished in three ninety three a d.
(06:00):
But if you look and see the timeline, you'll see
that about fifteen hundred years later, in the eighteen nineties,
a young Frenchman actually set out to revive the Olympics,
and he used this pitch. Let us export our oarsmen,
our runners, our fencers into other lands. That is the
(06:24):
true free trade of the future, and the day it
is introduced into Europe, the cause of peace will have
received a new and strong ally. This young visionary saw
the importance of replacing the negative the inter country competition
of war with a new, healthy inter country competition centered
(06:46):
on athleticism, a tradition that continues with the Olympics even
to this day. This points to someone who desired a
healthy form of competition. Man saw that the competitive spirit
had moved from a place of learning, of discipline, of
(07:11):
growing in understanding, and had become this jealous or prideful
excuse for war. He thought, instead of countries actually fighting
against each other, tearing each other down, why not compete
(07:32):
in a healthy way, propelling one another by way of competition.
God wants you to have a healthy competitive heart, one
that pushes you to win, but also to win righteously,
(07:52):
to be in a place where you win at all costs,
and that it's really not about the challenge itself, but
it's more about putting yourself on a pedestal, making yourself
look better than someone else, putting someone else down. How
(08:14):
is God going to How is God going to bless that?
Why would God bless that? You hear stories of sportsmanship,
good healthy sportsmanship, and you hear stories of ugliness. There's
even penalties on the field in all in all types
(08:37):
of sports because of bad sportsmanship or not playing by
the rules. That's why the referees are there right to
look on the judge the movements on the field to
see who is winning fairly, because that's what should dictate
whether the win is worth anything. So you have this
(09:04):
competitive spirit you want God to bless. But if you
go about pursuing the things you want in life, pushing
yourself in a way that is healthy. God will be
there by your side the entirety of the way, coaching, instructing, encouraging. However,
(09:30):
if you push the rules aside, only being in that
place of pride, only desiring this so called win, that
is when it becomes an ungodly spirit of competition competition.
At first, as a believer, you might hear the word
(09:53):
competition and think, well, competition is bad thing, right, isn't
that when two people are fighting over the same thing.
No definition of competition means a contest, and yes, there
will be a winner selected from two or more entrants,
and of course that means there will be a loser.
But this can be used in a positive way to
(10:13):
propel you. Today is a big contest. You've got competition
in the air, as everyone is excited about this contest
of prowess and strength and ability, and really everyone sits
to watch. Knowing what it takes to win, knowing what
(10:38):
it takes to me win means that you know that
there are rules and there's things that you have to
work by and live by and obey, and it's going
to take great discipline. And that's why people appreciate big
sports competitions like the super Bowl, because what it takes
(10:59):
to act win is something to be proud of. But
what God doesn't want is that ugly spirit, that spirit
of jealousy and envy that comes from a place of pride,
that doesn't help anyone. It actually tears people down. God
(11:23):
wants you to have this a healthy competitive heart, one
that pushes you and makes you want to excel, but
to do it righteously. One Corinthians nine twenty four through
twenty seven says, do you not know that those who
run in a race all run, but only one receives
the prize. Run in such a way that you may win.
(11:47):
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self control in
all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath,
but we unimperishable. Therefore, I run in such a way
as to not without aim, as not without aim. I
box in such a way as not just beating the air.
(12:12):
But I discipline my body and make it my slaves,
so that after I have preached to others, I myself
will not be disqualified. Isn't that a concept of competition,
being disqualified, not playing by the rules, not having that
humble heart, not having that proper spirit of competition can
(12:32):
make you disqualified in the Kingdom of God. When you're
out as a Christian. You should use these things to
propel you, to excite you, to make you want to
be better, and to put yourself in that state of discipline,
that self control in all things, as it says in
one Corinthians nine. Not just winning at all costs. That's
(12:54):
not blessed by God. Lisa, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thank you. My question is should Christians tap to their bodies?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well? Should they? Or can they?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Should they? According to scriptures? Should they?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Should they? Is going to be an individual choice because
there's nothing in the Bible that says they cannot. There
is Leviticus nineteen goes through some religious laws that some
people get confused about. That says in verse twenty eight,
you shall not make any cuts in your body for
(13:34):
the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I
am the Lord. The verse there is actually talking about
a practice. As a matter of fact, most of these
in Leviticus are talking about a practice that the Pagans
were doing that our Jewish brothers and sisters didn't want
to be associated with and wanted us to look as
(13:55):
different as possible from them, and that this would fall
into the same category. Now people that have problems with
it would have problems with other parts of it too,
because just above it it says you shall not round
off the side growth of your head, nor harm the
edges of your beard. So if you shaved, you'd be
(14:17):
falling into the same category of tattoos. Then also, the
word used for cut would be the same that you'd
use for pierce. So any woman that pierces our ears
would now have problems. So any man that shaves, or
any woman that pierces her ears would now have a problem,
not just the tattooing. So really, when it's speaking about
(14:39):
tattooing here, it's not it's speaking about a process that
was done to the dead or for the dead by Pagans,
and that it should not be brought to pass by Christians.
But having a tattoo for a Christian is not inherently wrong.
It depends on the content, of course, but it's not
(14:59):
inherently wrong for a Christian to have a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
All right, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Howcome I got the impression that maybe that's not the answer?
She was looking for. Sometimes you just pick up on subtleties,
tiny little subtleties. That's kind of what I do here.
But the Bible is filled with many things, and the
best advice I can give you is to see that
(15:27):
the entirety of the Bible and understand that there's a
difference between prescription and description. These are two very important
principles I want you to hear, and I want you
to understand the difference between a difference between prescriptive language
and descriptive language. Descriptive language is Jesus woke walked up
(15:50):
a hill. Now if I walked up a hill, I
walked up a hill, there's nothing really to be done.
It's describing something that happened. If it's prescriptive, there's an admonishment,
there's a statement of understanding, this is what you should
(16:12):
or this is what you should not do. And with
the Christian it gets even more difficult because now you
are looking into what you refer to as the Old Testament,
and you're seeing things in there that are based on
context of things that were going into the lives of
our Jewish brothers and sisters, and they were trying to
(16:33):
abolish appearing to look like your average every day he
then who did whatever? There most certainly are rules to
live by, and scripture is filled with them, filled with plenty,
oh polenty. There's more than ten commandments. Let me assure you,
(16:56):
it's not just ten. There are over four hundred commandments
in scripture, and to hear those and to respond to
them is wonderful. However, don't get lost. Don't get lost
(17:16):
in some of the statements, some of the descriptions of
things going on, and assume them to be prescribed telling
you you must because there is a difference, and there's
some that have been pulled over through the entirety of scripture.
But context is going to be important in those places
as well. That's the key. Jack, Welcome to the Jesus Christia.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, hi, I just got a quick question about this
thing called lordship salvation and non lordship salvation. Where the
lordship salvation guys believe that genuine saving faith includes the
willness repent from one sin and submit to the lordship
of Christ. And then the non lordship guys say they
(18:11):
don't see repentance from sin and the willingness to submit
to Jesus's lordship is essential for salvation. And that I
got into a conversation with the guy and he said
that that by me telling someone, or by Christians telling
someone to repent from their sins and submit to the
lordship of Christ, that's adding works to the Gospel. So
(18:32):
I want to ask you what your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, it's not adding works to the Gospel. Here's the thing,
and a lot of people get confused based on what
happened versus what had to happen. For instance, people talk
about Judas. Should it be put on Judas? Here's this
major plan, this big plan, it's going to go down.
It's going to put me on the cross, It's going
(18:56):
to cover the sins of the world, and everything's going
to be taken care of. So why would people look
down on Judas? He just helped it along. Well, because
Judas as an individual, specifically decided to jump in and
to participate in a specific way, and it really belt,
you know, kind of whittled down to the fact that
he wanted things to be done sooner. So when it
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comes to things that are going to be done, there's
a difference between somebody who is trying to create fire
by flapping their wings versus the passing along of a torch.
And really, when you're going to spread the gospel or
share about any of that, you're just passing the torch.
(19:39):
But it's the flame of God always, and it's not
something it's not a work that you yourself can build upon.
You can't bring somebody to the salvation of Christ. You can't.
Right God does, and God will use you in that process.
So when it says that no man should boast, it
means there's there's no bedposts that you can put those
(20:01):
notches of how many people you've shared the gospel and
who've come to know the gospel through because they're not yours.
They're not yours, So there is no works in that context. Now,
the lordship salvation has, you know, some nooks and crannies.
In the basic line of things, it comes down to,
(20:22):
you're receiving God. It's not about you the things you've
done wrong. It's about how good God is. It's not
about anything that you've done. It's not even about what
the good you've done. It's about who God is. And
that's that's the simplicity of it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
When you talk about repentance, right, Yes, a lot of
people get confused. I get confused on it. But as
repentant is more like a change of a heart. It's
not really necessarily an act always. So like we're saved
when we get saved, we're saved from half sins, presences
and future sins. Is that right, yes, of course, But
(20:59):
so these lordships are the non lordship guys go, well,
it's impossible not to sin. Is you're gonna sin until
you get into heaven. But that doesn't give you a
license to sin. So there's like a fine line there
or or or do you understand what I'm trying to
get across?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Of course, they were arguing in the in this in
two Timothy, I mean it's it's not new. The whole
point is are you a good guy? You good guy? Jack?
And I don't mean in the biblical sense. I mean
you don't go out murdering and raping in any of
those things, right, No, Okay, So that's just not who
(21:37):
you are. So I come to you tomorrow and I say, hey,
I'm doing this thing. We're gonna shut down any any
access to law enforcement tomorrow in your area. There's gonna
be no video cameras, there's gonna be no way for
them to find out, and I just wanted you to know,
(21:58):
and you found that out. Are you gonna go out
raping and pillaging because you're not gonna get caught? No, no,
because it's not your nature. There's no such thing as
a as they get out of jail free card. The
whole point here is the assumption of the world is, oh,
you're you're gonna you've got this high life now and
you can do whatever you want, and God's gonna love you.
(22:19):
God's always loved everyone, right, That's always been the theme
that hasn't changed. Now the reconciliation is different. The reconciliation
knows that get to heaven is different. So those that
have this so called free they do whatever they want
just as long as they believe they wouldn't misuse it.
(22:39):
By the very definition of what it is. If a
kid goes out and gets a new car from his
family and every single time crashes it and goes, oh, well,
not only does that kid not appreciate that car, that
kid does not have any feelings for his family, right,
And that's different than just a family going you crash
the car, It's bound to happen. At least you're okay,
(23:02):
come on, let's take care of you and then we'll
talk about the car.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's a matter you've got either allegiance, which is going
to be bumpy allegiance because you're human. You're going to
stand versus rebellion, which is you specifically ignoring the Gospel,
ignoring the word of God, the will of God, and
doing whatever you want. And they're two different things, and
trust me, they have two different endings. You can't rebel
(23:26):
yourself away from the knowledge of God. You can ignore
what He has for you to the point of death.
There's a lot of ways to reject. But as a Christian,
it's not about you. It's about God, right, and not
(23:48):
how bad you are, but how good God is. Every
other religion, every one of them, Jack is always focused
on man. Oh, man is going to receive ris consciousness,
or man is gonna receive total consciousness, or man's gonna
be so high he's gonna these these are weird, wanna
be God things. Christianity is the only one that says, nah,
(24:12):
man man, even good man doesn't do it very well.
So God is going to send his son, and his
son's gonna step in and be the bridge.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So someone could be saved and still struggle with sin.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right of course, okay, of course what the perfection is
going to be in heaven when it's washed away finally,
But of course you're gonna have sin. There's not one preacher,
not uh, you know, one Bible thumper, one Bible reader.
There's not one that isn't struggling. And there isn't one
(24:48):
in the Bible either. These are the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Same guys that'll bring up Matthew seven to one. You
know about not judging, and I go, I told the guy, so, well,
you can judge actions, but we can't really judge the heart.
That's a correct statement.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well, yeah, it's a you know what you tell me
someone that is upset because you said they looked good, Hey,
you look really nice tonight. That's a judgment. Not one
person goes, don't judge me, They go, ah, thanks, judgment
is fine. Judgment. What what in scripture? The judgment that
(25:24):
they did not want was met with this newfound understanding
of who God was and how it interacted with their life.
They didn't want them running around saying I am better
than I am somehow closer to God than you, And
that was what was wrong. Trying to read men's hearts.
That's what was vulgart. That was the problem, not saying, hey,
that whole pipe you have in your mouth, yeah, the
(25:45):
one you're smoking crack with, that's bad. Don't judge me.
I will judge you plenty. Louis. Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I'm confused when I go to math and I listen
to the Apostle Greed where it indicates Jesus sends into Hell,
and I'm confused, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Understand that rightly. So it is a little confusing. And
really what it has to do is that there's many
words that are translated as hell, but they do mean
different things depending on how they're used, one of which
is siol. She Al simply means the place of the
dead or the place of the departed souls or spirits.
In the New Testament, it's well, in the New Testament,
(26:33):
the equivalent of shol is actually Hades, so Hades is
the place of the dead, and that's what's being spoken about,
not Hell's, but it often gets translated hell, so it
can be quite confusing to hear that and think that
that's where Jesus went. But that's not the case, he
(26:53):
went to Hades, which shall also refers to the place
of the dead. Other scriptures of the New Testament would
talk about the same thing and refer to shol or
Hades as a temporary place where souls are kept as
they wait for their final resurrection and judgment. You find
out more at Revelation twenty eleven fifteen. So it's really
(27:14):
one of those things that it's like heaven. If you
think of heaven, it often refers to the layers of heaven,
and the layers of heaven really are not layers of
heaven at all. It's different heavens. So they talk about
the first heaven. The first heaven is the sky that
you see. If you're standing on the Earth and you
look up and you see blue sky, it's the first heaven.
(27:35):
Second heaven would be space. You see space, that's when
the atmosphere drops and changes, the sun goes down, you
actually get to see the stars in the heavens. That's
the that's heaven's right, So that's number two. Number three
heaven is actually the domicile of God, and that's different.
So it depends how it's used as well, and sometimes
(27:56):
they have different references and people get confused based on
those because they're going, well, was he in heaven or
was he not in heaven? Where did he go? So, yes,
it can be confusing. It's because those words are often
mistranslated into hell. But if you get a good lexicon
and you want to do some word studies, you can
go back and forth and you can see which word
(28:17):
was used where, even for the word hell, which word
was used, how it was defined. Those types of things
that might give you some clarity and understanding that otherwise
might be lost. And that's not the first and only
time that happens. Things like that do get tossed in there.
It's not necessarily a bad translation, it's just a confusing
(28:39):
translation if you're not familiar with every other word that's
going on in conjunction with it. So if you're just
looking at that and you've kind of well, I know
what hell is and I know what heaven is, and
I've kind of put those into their own category, and
you keep going, sometimes you might miss exactly what's going on.
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Competition,
just like any other aspect of life, can be either
healthy or unhealthy depending on the application. Make no mistake
about it, Competition is at the heart of the human experience.
(00:24):
That's a good thing. The desire to press on, to
push forward. That competitive spirit is definitely of God. But
as a Christian, it must be applied to your life
in a godly fashion. If not, it can take hold
of you. It can be become something altogether different in
(00:47):
your life, something that becomes problematic, even harmful. Competition is
certainly in the air today, and you can feel this
excitement as millions of Americans and people from all over
the world really gather around their TVs with this this
(01:10):
anticipation of their team securing the win. Now, the very
definition of competition means a contest in which a winner
is selected from among two or more entrants. So this
means by that definition that there will there'll be a winner,
(01:33):
and of course they'll be a loser. So in a
case like the Super Bowl, competition is that propellant. It
propels each member of the opposing team to train, to
work hard so that they may excel in their performance
(01:54):
for this particular big game or any game. This oftentimes.
I know that athletics can go down an unhealthy path
at times, but more often than not, this is a
healthy display of the competitive spirit, that spirit that does
push you, that does propel makes you want to be better,
(02:18):
not so you're better than the other person in some
sort of state of judgment that they're actually less than you,
but that competitive spirit, that ability to push on and
push forward and build your muscles stronger, make yourself quicker,
(02:40):
be able to be more accurate when throwing a ball,
when catching a ball, That all these things are about
training your body by way of discipline to do beneficial things.
So if you're involved in sports, and today's offbviously a
(03:00):
huge sports day, that many of you watching the Big
Game are really focused on the fact that this is
a place where athletes come together to push themselves beyond
normal limits to achieve a goal. That's the competitive spirit
(03:24):
in a healthy place. But there is an unhealthy side
to competition as well, one that drives people by way
of jealousy and envy that only leads to despair and destruction.
This is not the competitive spirit, but the spirit of pride,
(03:45):
and conceit. The Father certainly does not approve of this
kind of competition, James four to six says, but he
gives more grace. Therefore, it says, God opposes the p
but gives grace to the humble. Giving that grace to
(04:08):
the humble is showing that there there is a place
for you to be competitive, but to still be in
that that that place of humility, knowing that you're pushing
your limits, knowing that that as a creation of God,
(04:29):
that I designed you to desire to propel yourself and excel,
but to also be of a humble spirit. Because when
you latch onto pride, when you get to that place
of pride, you invite ugliness, that jealousy, that justice. It's
(04:50):
not even it's not even competition. It's just you wanting
to push others down to push yourself forward. It says,
if you would lie, cheater steel to get to that place,
it doesn't even matter how you get there. And to
the real athlete, to the real individual with the proper
(05:16):
competitive spirit, you want to do things right, you don't
do it the right way, it doesn't count. These two
different paths or patterns of competition can be seen throughout
all kinds of walks of life, not just in athletics.
(05:39):
But you can see where people tried to even apply
athletics in a positive way when there when even the
world itself was teetering from wars and arguments and ugliness.
The original Olympics were abolished in three ninety three a d.
(06:00):
But if you look and see the timeline, you'll see
that about fifteen hundred years later, in the eighteen nineties,
a young Frenchman actually set out to revive the Olympics,
and he used this pitch. Let us export our oarsmen,
our runners, our fencers into other lands. That is the
(06:24):
true free trade of the future, and the day it
is introduced into Europe, the cause of peace will have
received a new and strong ally. This young visionary saw
the importance of replacing the negative the inter country competition
of war with a new, healthy inter country competition centered
(06:46):
on athleticism, a tradition that continues with the Olympics even
to this day. This points to someone who desired a
healthy form of competition. Man saw that the competitive spirit
had moved from a place of learning, of discipline, of
(07:11):
growing in understanding, and had become this jealous or prideful
excuse for war. He thought, instead of countries actually fighting
against each other, tearing each other down, why not compete
(07:32):
in a healthy way, propelling one another by way of competition.
God wants you to have a healthy competitive heart, one
that pushes you to win, but also to win righteously,
(07:52):
to be in a place where you win at all costs,
and that it's really not about the challenge itself, but
it's more about putting yourself on a pedestal, making yourself
look better than someone else, putting someone else down. How
(08:14):
is God going to How is God going to bless that?
Why would God bless that? You hear stories of sportsmanship,
good healthy sportsmanship, and you hear stories of ugliness. There's
even penalties on the field in all in all types
(08:37):
of sports because of bad sportsmanship or not playing by
the rules. That's why the referees are there right to
look on the judge the movements on the field to
see who is winning fairly, because that's what should dictate
whether the win is worth anything. So you have this
(09:04):
competitive spirit you want God to bless. But if you
go about pursuing the things you want in life, pushing
yourself in a way that is healthy. God will be
there by your side the entirety of the way, coaching, instructing, encouraging. However,
(09:30):
if you push the rules aside, only being in that
place of pride, only desiring this so called win, that
is when it becomes an ungodly spirit of competition competition.
At first, as a believer, you might hear the word
(09:53):
competition and think, well, competition is bad thing, right, isn't
that when two people are fighting over the same thing.
No definition of competition means a contest, and yes, there
will be a winner selected from two or more entrants,
and of course that means there will be a loser.
But this can be used in a positive way to
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propel you. Today is a big contest. You've got competition
in the air, as everyone is excited about this contest
of prowess and strength and ability, and really everyone sits
to watch. Knowing what it takes to win, knowing what
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it takes to me win means that you know that
there are rules and there's things that you have to
work by and live by and obey, and it's going
to take great discipline. And that's why people appreciate big
sports competitions like the super Bowl, because what it takes
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to act win is something to be proud of. But
what God doesn't want is that ugly spirit, that spirit
of jealousy and envy that comes from a place of pride,
that doesn't help anyone. It actually tears people down. God
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wants you to have this a healthy competitive heart, one
that pushes you and makes you want to excel, but
to do it righteously. One Corinthians nine twenty four through
twenty seven says, do you not know that those who
run in a race all run, but only one receives
the prize. Run in such a way that you may win.
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Everyone who competes in the games exercises self control in
all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath,
but we unimperishable. Therefore, I run in such a way
as to not without aim, as not without aim. I
box in such a way as not just beating the air.
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But I discipline my body and make it my slaves,
so that after I have preached to others, I myself
will not be disqualified. Isn't that a concept of competition,
being disqualified, not playing by the rules, not having that
humble heart, not having that proper spirit of competition can
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make you disqualified in the Kingdom of God. When you're
out as a Christian. You should use these things to
propel you, to excite you, to make you want to
be better, and to put yourself in that state of discipline,
that self control in all things, as it says in
one Corinthians nine. Not just winning at all costs. That's
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not blessed by God. Lisa, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thank you. My question is should Christians tap to their bodies?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well? Should they? Or can they?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Should they? According to scriptures? Should they?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Should they? Is going to be an individual choice because
there's nothing in the Bible that says they cannot. There
is Leviticus nineteen goes through some religious laws that some
people get confused about. That says in verse twenty eight,
you shall not make any cuts in your body for
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the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I
am the Lord. The verse there is actually talking about
a practice. As a matter of fact, most of these
in Leviticus are talking about a practice that the Pagans
were doing that our Jewish brothers and sisters didn't want
to be associated with and wanted us to look as
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different as possible from them, and that this would fall
into the same category. Now people that have problems with
it would have problems with other parts of it too,
because just above it it says you shall not round
off the side growth of your head, nor harm the
edges of your beard. So if you shaved, you'd be
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falling into the same category of tattoos. Then also, the
word used for cut would be the same that you'd
use for pierce. So any woman that pierces our ears
would now have problems. So any man that shaves, or
any woman that pierces her ears would now have a problem,
not just the tattooing. So really, when it's speaking about
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tattooing here, it's not it's speaking about a process that
was done to the dead or for the dead by Pagans,
and that it should not be brought to pass by Christians.
But having a tattoo for a Christian is not inherently wrong.
It depends on the content, of course, but it's not
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inherently wrong for a Christian to have a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
All right, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Howcome I got the impression that maybe that's not the answer?
She was looking for. Sometimes you just pick up on subtleties,
tiny little subtleties. That's kind of what I do here.
But the Bible is filled with many things, and the
best advice I can give you is to see that
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the entirety of the Bible and understand that there's a
difference between prescription and description. These are two very important
principles I want you to hear, and I want you
to understand the difference between a difference between prescriptive language
and descriptive language. Descriptive language is Jesus woke walked up
(15:50):
a hill. Now if I walked up a hill, I
walked up a hill, there's nothing really to be done.
It's describing something that happened. If it's prescriptive, there's an admonishment,
there's a statement of understanding, this is what you should
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or this is what you should not do. And with
the Christian it gets even more difficult because now you
are looking into what you refer to as the Old Testament,
and you're seeing things in there that are based on
context of things that were going into the lives of
our Jewish brothers and sisters, and they were trying to
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abolish appearing to look like your average every day he
then who did whatever? There most certainly are rules to
live by, and scripture is filled with them, filled with plenty,
oh polenty. There's more than ten commandments. Let me assure you,
(16:56):
it's not just ten. There are over four hundred commandments
in scripture, and to hear those and to respond to
them is wonderful. However, don't get lost. Don't get lost
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in some of the statements, some of the descriptions of
things going on, and assume them to be prescribed telling
you you must because there is a difference, and there's
some that have been pulled over through the entirety of scripture.
But context is going to be important in those places
as well. That's the key. Jack, Welcome to the Jesus Christia.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, hi, I just got a quick question about this
thing called lordship salvation and non lordship salvation. Where the
lordship salvation guys believe that genuine saving faith includes the
willness repent from one sin and submit to the lordship
of Christ. And then the non lordship guys say they
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don't see repentance from sin and the willingness to submit
to Jesus's lordship is essential for salvation. And that I
got into a conversation with the guy and he said
that that by me telling someone, or by Christians telling
someone to repent from their sins and submit to the
lordship of Christ, that's adding works to the Gospel. So
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I want to ask you what your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, it's not adding works to the Gospel. Here's the thing,
and a lot of people get confused based on what
happened versus what had to happen. For instance, people talk
about Judas. Should it be put on Judas? Here's this
major plan, this big plan, it's going to go down.
It's going to put me on the cross, It's going
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to cover the sins of the world, and everything's going
to be taken care of. So why would people look
down on Judas? He just helped it along. Well, because
Judas as an individual, specifically decided to jump in and
to participate in a specific way, and it really belt,
you know, kind of whittled down to the fact that
he wanted things to be done sooner. So when it
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comes to things that are going to be done, there's
a difference between somebody who is trying to create fire
by flapping their wings versus the passing along of a torch.
And really, when you're going to spread the gospel or
share about any of that, you're just passing the torch.
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But it's the flame of God always, and it's not
something it's not a work that you yourself can build upon.
You can't bring somebody to the salvation of Christ. You can't.
Right God does, and God will use you in that process.
So when it says that no man should boast, it
means there's there's no bedposts that you can put those
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notches of how many people you've shared the gospel and
who've come to know the gospel through because they're not yours.
They're not yours, So there is no works in that context. Now,
the lordship salvation has, you know, some nooks and crannies.
In the basic line of things, it comes down to,
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you're receiving God. It's not about you the things you've
done wrong. It's about how good God is. It's not
about anything that you've done. It's not even about what
the good you've done. It's about who God is. And
that's that's the simplicity of it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
When you talk about repentance, right, Yes, a lot of
people get confused. I get confused on it. But as
repentant is more like a change of a heart. It's
not really necessarily an act always. So like we're saved
when we get saved, we're saved from half sins, presences
and future sins. Is that right, yes, of course, But
(20:59):
so these lordships are the non lordship guys go, well,
it's impossible not to sin. Is you're gonna sin until
you get into heaven. But that doesn't give you a
license to sin. So there's like a fine line there
or or or do you understand what I'm trying to
get across?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Of course, they were arguing in the in this in
two Timothy, I mean it's it's not new. The whole
point is are you a good guy? You good guy? Jack?
And I don't mean in the biblical sense. I mean
you don't go out murdering and raping in any of
those things, right, No, Okay, So that's just not who
(21:37):
you are. So I come to you tomorrow and I say, hey,
I'm doing this thing. We're gonna shut down any any
access to law enforcement tomorrow in your area. There's gonna
be no video cameras, there's gonna be no way for
them to find out, and I just wanted you to know,
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and you found that out. Are you gonna go out
raping and pillaging because you're not gonna get caught? No, no,
because it's not your nature. There's no such thing as
a as they get out of jail free card. The
whole point here is the assumption of the world is, oh,
you're you're gonna you've got this high life now and
you can do whatever you want, and God's gonna love you.
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God's always loved everyone, right, That's always been the theme
that hasn't changed. Now the reconciliation is different. The reconciliation
knows that get to heaven is different. So those that
have this so called free they do whatever they want
just as long as they believe they wouldn't misuse it.
(22:39):
By the very definition of what it is. If a
kid goes out and gets a new car from his
family and every single time crashes it and goes, oh, well,
not only does that kid not appreciate that car, that
kid does not have any feelings for his family, right,
And that's different than just a family going you crash
the car, It's bound to happen. At least you're okay,
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come on, let's take care of you and then we'll
talk about the car.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's a matter you've got either allegiance, which is going
to be bumpy allegiance because you're human. You're going to
stand versus rebellion, which is you specifically ignoring the Gospel,
ignoring the word of God, the will of God, and
doing whatever you want. And they're two different things, and
trust me, they have two different endings. You can't rebel
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yourself away from the knowledge of God. You can ignore
what He has for you to the point of death.
There's a lot of ways to reject. But as a Christian,
it's not about you. It's about God, right, and not
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how bad you are, but how good God is. Every
other religion, every one of them, Jack is always focused
on man. Oh, man is going to receive ris consciousness,
or man is gonna receive total consciousness, or man's gonna
be so high he's gonna these these are weird, wanna
be God things. Christianity is the only one that says, nah,
(24:12):
man man, even good man doesn't do it very well.
So God is going to send his son, and his
son's gonna step in and be the bridge.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So someone could be saved and still struggle with sin.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right of course, okay, of course what the perfection is
going to be in heaven when it's washed away finally,
But of course you're gonna have sin. There's not one preacher,
not uh, you know, one Bible thumper, one Bible reader.
There's not one that isn't struggling. And there isn't one
(24:48):
in the Bible either. These are the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Same guys that'll bring up Matthew seven to one. You
know about not judging, and I go, I told the guy, so, well,
you can judge actions, but we can't really judge the heart.
That's a correct statement.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well, yeah, it's a you know what you tell me
someone that is upset because you said they looked good, Hey,
you look really nice tonight. That's a judgment. Not one
person goes, don't judge me, They go, ah, thanks, judgment
is fine. Judgment. What what in scripture? The judgment that
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they did not want was met with this newfound understanding
of who God was and how it interacted with their life.
They didn't want them running around saying I am better
than I am somehow closer to God than you, And
that was what was wrong. Trying to read men's hearts.
That's what was vulgart. That was the problem, not saying, hey,
that whole pipe you have in your mouth, yeah, the
(25:45):
one you're smoking crack with, that's bad. Don't judge me.
I will judge you plenty. Louis. Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I'm confused when I go to math and I listen
to the Apostle Greed where it indicates Jesus sends into Hell,
and I'm confused, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Understand that rightly. So it is a little confusing. And
really what it has to do is that there's many
words that are translated as hell, but they do mean
different things depending on how they're used, one of which
is siol. She Al simply means the place of the
dead or the place of the departed souls or spirits.
In the New Testament, it's well, in the New Testament,
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the equivalent of shol is actually Hades, so Hades is
the place of the dead, and that's what's being spoken about,
not Hell's, but it often gets translated hell, so it
can be quite confusing to hear that and think that
that's where Jesus went. But that's not the case, he
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went to Hades, which shall also refers to the place
of the dead. Other scriptures of the New Testament would
talk about the same thing and refer to shol or
Hades as a temporary place where souls are kept as
they wait for their final resurrection and judgment. You find
out more at Revelation twenty eleven fifteen. So it's really
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one of those things that it's like heaven. If you
think of heaven, it often refers to the layers of heaven,
and the layers of heaven really are not layers of
heaven at all. It's different heavens. So they talk about
the first heaven. The first heaven is the sky that
you see. If you're standing on the Earth and you
look up and you see blue sky, it's the first heaven.
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Second heaven would be space. You see space, that's when
the atmosphere drops and changes, the sun goes down, you
actually get to see the stars in the heavens. That's
the that's heaven's right, So that's number two. Number three
heaven is actually the domicile of God, and that's different.
So it depends how it's used as well, and sometimes
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they have different references and people get confused based on
those because they're going, well, was he in heaven or
was he not in heaven? Where did he go? So, yes,
it can be confusing. It's because those words are often
mistranslated into hell. But if you get a good lexicon
and you want to do some word studies, you can
go back and forth and you can see which word
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was used where, even for the word hell, which word
was used, how it was defined. Those types of things
that might give you some clarity and understanding that otherwise
might be lost. And that's not the first and only
time that happens. Things like that do get tossed in there.
It's not necessarily a bad translation, it's just a confusing
(28:39):
translation if you're not familiar with every other word that's
going on in conjunction with it. So if you're just
looking at that and you've kind of well, I know
what hell is and I know what heaven is, and
I've kind of put those into their own category, and
you keep going, sometimes you might miss exactly what's going on.
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