Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [10/15]

Jesus Christ Show | Hour 1 [10/15]

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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Can you hear it somewhere
outside? Probably an alarm going offsomewhere. There's always an alarm going off
somewhere. Do you listen to themanymore? Or do they just become kind

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of ear fodder and just noise inthe background that you push out and ignore.
A couple days ago, I wasat the grocery store, and often
at the entrance and exit of thegrocery store, they have these gizmos that

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we'll read certain chips or certain tagsthat are put into food items or clothing
or what have you. You've seenthem, and what happens is if you
walk out with something that's attached tothem, knowingly or unknowingly, the alarm
will sound. And it did.A woman walks out five paces in front

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of me, and they go off, and not one person turned, not
one person looked. A couple ofthe cashiers kind of glanced up and then
looked back to what they were doing, and they moved on. Now,
a couple of weeks ago, Iwas hanging out with my producer Neil at

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his place and carl alarm went offand he got up and I followed went
to look outside. Not one person. And I know this might sound strange

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at first. Why would someone ignorean alarm? Yet you ignore alarms every
single day in your life. Thereare those that scream during times of pain
and trial and yell at me fornot being there, for not giving you

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an out, to not giving youa heads up. But I assure you
there are alarms in your life.Everywhere you go. There are alarms in
your life. What happens is youignore them so much you get to the
place where you don't hear them anymore, or you feel someone else will take

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care of it. Ah, that'snot my problem, that's that's not my
job. Someone else will tend tothat alarm. Yet when your car is
stolen, or when food prices,clothing prices go up because of loss measures,

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it affects you. And that's justin the everyday world. That's just
in commerce, that's just in life. But what about spiritually? Spiritually,
there is so much going on inyour life every single day, and there
are things that I want you tostay away from, and there are things
I want you to yearn for.And I set off alarms and they come

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in many shapes and sizes, butthe only thing that makes an alarm valuable
is attention to it. You see, as people get more concerned about travel
and safety, that new fangled gadgetspop up, and this one does this

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and scans this, and this onecan see through this, and this one
will go bang when this happens,and this one will go off when that
happens. And they mean nothing unlesssomeone stands by, on the ready,
on the guard to act. Ifyou don't act upon the alarms in your

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life, if you don't act reactto them in the necessary fashion, they
mean nothing. They might as welljust be really bad music. They're there
for a reason. If you don'tyield to an alarm, if you don't
at least take note and think aboutwhat it might mean. With your health,

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with your relationship, with your spirituality, with your job, with everything
in your life, you will continuallybe on the wrong end of that alarm.
In Matthew, chapter twenty seven,you start reading about just prior to

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my trial. It's basically my exchangeswith Pilot. Pilot not a good guy.
I know some try to depict himas a good guy throughout history,
but not a good guy, notin scripture and not after scripture and the
history that he laid down afterwards.But Pilot was wrestling with what to do.

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And he is a strong man,but a little wimpy. He was
the type of leader who all hewanted to do was please those above him.
So it's not like he made thebest decisions on his own. He
waffled a lot, waited for something, some reason, someone to push him
over the edge in a decision sothat he felt confident about it and wanted

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to make sure that those in Romenodded and were pleased. But interestingly,
in Matthew chapter twenty seven, versenineteen, it says this, and while
he was sitting on the judgment seathis wife, referring to ponscious Pilot's wife,

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his wife sent him sent to himsaying, have nothing to do with
that righteous man, for last nightsuffered greatly in a dream because of him.
There's a lot going on here,and there has been different interpretations throughout
the centuries. There are those theologiansthat look at this and say, the

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devil was speaking to her in adream and didn't want for the plan to
go through. Didn't want me togo to the cross, so knowing the
power that would ensue, so thedevil must have given her the dream.
And then there are those that arguein the theologian circles that say, no,

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this was a dream from God,obviously, something that takes place in
scripture many many times, a dreamfrom God, a warning. Why would
God warn against this death on thecross that God planned to begin with?
Well, this place into Judas andeverybody else who partook in this in their

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actions. I had to die onthe cross, but these people did not
have to help that happen. There'sa major difference here, and I know
theologically people get caught up in itand they go, well, what does
that mean? Well, did Judasdo a bad thing because he ratted you

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out? Yes, because he didnot have to. And it's the same
here with ponscious Pilot. Poncious Pilotdid not have to put me to death.
And here his wife was being analarm saying I don't feel good about
this. I believe this man tobe righteous, and I believe you need

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to think about this. No,he didn't listen to her, and you
can't just say, oh, well, he kind of blew her off and
said, ah, she's not important, because at the time ponscious pilot traveled
a lot. He didn't sit inone place, as he oversaw locations in
Judea. So the fact that hiswife was there with him meant that they

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were close, they had a relationship. The fact that she would feel comfortable
sending a letter for him, sendinginformation to him at a time of great
stress and job focus, meant thathe respected her. So it's not like
he blew her off. Oh there'smy wife nagging about something. No,
he respected her, he loved her, He brought her with him. She

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loved him because she could have stayedin much better grounds and comforts then was
in this particular location. So there'sa lot that said about who they are
in each other's life. And nowshe was in alarm. She was trying

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to let him know something was wrong, and sometimes, like you, he
didn't listen. Gloria, Welcome tothe Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus,
thanks for taking my calls. Ihave a ninety five year old relative with
whom I spend quite a bit oftime with and he's relatively healthy. However,

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we have had the conversation that hasto do with if he wants to
be resuscitated in case of a healthemergency. I do know that if for
whatever reason he's in the hospital anywayand he you know, flatlines or something,
I think that that might be easyfor me to just let him go

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and not ask for a resuscitation.Now you say that the DNA that they
do not resuscitate, He's already signedit do not resuscitate. Yes, okay,
and he's made it real clear tome in his advanced directives. Now
my question is this. I visithim almost every day, and I can

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imagine one day walking into his houseand he is maybe laying on the couch
and it's obvious to me that youknow through color change that he might be
going, he might be dying.And I know that if I call the
paramedics, they would do what theycan to resuscitate him. Well, not

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if he has his does he havepaperwork? Not only at the high build
it, but does he have paperworkat you know, at that advanced age,
people are very aware that says donot resuscitate. Yeah, he does.
And so why would you think thatthat an EMT unit would try and
resuscitate him. Well, because inthe store, the local store that I

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shop in, grocery shop, I'lloftentimes see our local fire department paramedics and
I've asked him. I've said,you know, I've asked, if my
uncle goes into this, would youguys come and just keep him comfortable?
And he said no, he said, if we're there too, you know,

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to resuscitate, bring him to theer, they would do a full
code or whatever they call it.And so my question is this, if
I have the strength not to call, if I see him changing cover color,
uh, and it looks like he'sdying to me, if I have

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the strength to let him go,what do you say do I I mean,
I don't want to feel guilty aboutthat, and I guess I just
want to know what you can sayto that. No, people die,
and they will die. They're thequestions that you have to ask. And
I know this gets political and peopleget wrapped up in oh I believe this,

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and I believe that, and theydon't think as to what they're saying.
There's a great difference between saving alife and prolonging death right. And
so you're this not being a medicalshow. We're not going to go into
the medical or biological specifics of whatgoes and breaks down at the time of

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death, So you not being aprofessional necessarily in that category, you'd be
going from the gut as well.You'd be going, like you said,
the examples you gave while the colorchanges or what have you. I think
that it's always best in a caselike that to call medical professionals, just
because if nothing else, someone's goingto have to call time of death and

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things of that nature. So it'snot about doing something heroic, it's about
doing something reasonable and make it clearand have those papers available. Are the
best thing to do to say,hey, no heroic measures. This person
is ninety five years old and arevery aware that they've lived along in full

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life and don't want anything that's goingto prolong their death. And those are
the two different things, because peopleget caught up in oh, you're saving
a life, and really oftentimes they'renot. It's not like you're going to
bring that person back or revive theminto a normal state of living. They're

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just merely putting them on machines thatmake it look as if they're living.
Now. That's not the same forlike feeding tubes and things like that,
because no one can live without beingfed. I don't find that to be
heroic to feed somebody. But ina case like this, it's it would
be a hard decision for you tohave to make. You can do your

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best, take pulse to do thosethings, and at that point you're going
to have to call in medical peopleanyways, And as long as they know
that the person is signed the thedo not resuscitate and that that is their
wishes, they should follow by thosewishes. And I wouldn't think that it
would go past that. If that'swhere you know where things land, I

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think that's where it will go.I know that it gets difficult for people
of faith as they look at theseat these things and you think, well
what should I do? You shouldalways go by the normal procedures of things.
If it would be normal to callthe EMT or to call nine to
one one, then you do so. And to do anything that might look

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hinky later on, as if youwere trying to force the hand or something
like that may put you in asituation that's not productive or helpful for anyone.
Houston, Welcome to the Jesus ChristShow. Oh thank you Jesus.
You know this may not be atheological question, but it it just bothered

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me so bad I just lost.I just lost my best friend or dog
just been with us. He justseemed like he was a human being,
and I had to do so muchwith him to take care of him.
And just Friday morning he passed away. Up my wife and now we were
in the family room, and Iput my sleeping bag down and I laid

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the alongside of him and tried topass the time and be with him and
everything. And then I fell offto sleep. And when I went before
I fell off to sleep, hewas breathing. When I woke up,
I prayed to God, please takehim away from here, because he's in
pain. I don't want to takehim up there and have him put to
sleep, but I couldn't deal withit. So when I woke up,

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he had passed away, and helooked so peaceful. But it's just hard
for me to deal with him.I've never felt this way about no animal
or anything before in my life,other than my wife and everything. But
sure, it's just been so hardon me every time I think about him.
It's just been a couple of daysnow Friday morning, and it's still

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hard for me. I just keepcrying all the time. And I just
called you to see what you cansay about this. You just you just
in a place of needing comfort,aren't you. I don't know what I
need. This is hard for meto I've always been a strong person and
it's just I don't know this.This is just changing my life the way

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I feel right now. And hisname was Ripple. You named your dog
Ripple? That's my yeah, wheremy wife he was a little puppy.
That's a lovely name. Oh,he was a lovely dog. Came out
on our on our front porch outthere on the door with some flowers around
it, and uh, everywhere Igo in this house, it just reminds

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me so much of him. Andit's sure, and it's just so hard
for me to deal with this rightnow. And Houston, what was what?
What did Ripple do that that thatmade him unique to you? What
did he do with the what?Yeah, that made him unique to you?
Did he walk a certain way?Did he play a certain way?
Did he bark a certain way?He just he was just a humble dog.

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He played. He just he followedmy wife around most and everything.
I mean, he stayed so closeto her, and but I, uh,
as he got older in life,I took good care of him.
I've always taken good care of him. He always took him to the doctor
as soon as something was wrong withhim. I've we used to walk him
and I've had to beat off andfight dogs to protect him and everything and

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to offend him. And then Ifound out here, well, I don't
know, a couple of months ago, he had a tumor in his track
and the doctor said the bench wasgoing to get large and it's going to
shut off his digestive system. Andhe started throwing up and quit eating.
And those are the signs that thatthat was coming. And when I found
out that he had a tumor,because I just got over prostate cancer.

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Right now, bring it forward myself. Well, see, Houston, you
are you are in a state,brother, And let me just tell you
that that loss, loss is okay, and it's okay to cry, and
it's okay to be sad. Don'tdon't fight it or try and rush through
it. Right now, just enjoythe time that you had and remember remember
Ripple and and talk to others abouthim. That's that's the only thing you

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can do right now. Just listeningto what a what a lovely man,
Houston calling about his beloved dog,Ripple, and you can only imagine how
much delight a dog by the nameof Ripple can bring to a household.

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And it brings to mind Proverbs twelvethat talks about a righteous man cares about
his animals. And you hear thedescription Houston gives of lying next to Ripple
and seeing that he's not feeling goodand taking him to the vet. The
way he described that he made sureevery time the dog was not feeling well

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that that dog was taken care of. And really, that's such a great
example of love. Now, ofcourse, Houston was quick to point out
that tis his wife is his truelove. But this animal comes into your
family, and there's nothing worse thanwhen people get animals as affectations, like

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a status symbol or something, andthey just, you know, it's just
about having the animal and not reallysharing with the animal. It's nothing worse
than that. And the animals arecooped up and they never really loved on
and it's just it's just the absolutelywrong way to commune with an animal.

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And in this case, you hearsuch a lovely story and with a sad
ending in its current state, butthings are temporal and things do come and
go, and grieving is is awonderfully legitimate and cleansing process. And the
most important thing to remember when grievingis that it does have a time where

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you have to let it go.It doesn't it doesn't end per se because
you continue to wait, you continueto weigh your heart with the loss of
someone or man's best friend like Reppele. But you you have to move on
to life. That's the reason why, the reason why you're crying, because

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the loss of life, So thatmeans that life has value, inherent value,
and that means you need to continueon. And this can mean with
any loss in your life that yougrieve. And you don't always just grieve
the loss of a human life orin this case a family pet. You

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grieve all kinds of things in life, if the loss of a job,
or a change in circumstances, surroundings, whatever it might be. And grieving
is part of that process where yourbody adapts to having the loss of that
thing in which you enjoy, youlove, you connect with and it goes
from a normal and healthy to abnormaland unhealthy when you don't let that go

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at some point And when I saylet that go. It doesn't mean that
you forget or don't feel those things. It's that you move towards continuing your
life because that's what's precious, that'swhat has value. And so when you're
sad, oh, and you're feelingit, and in the depths of that,
feel it, absolutely feel it.That doesn't mean that all your friends

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and family are going to want tohear about it every ten seconds, but
feel it, feel it. Findthose people that our givers. That way,
there are people that are designed justto be wonderful listeners and to hear
and to take in those things andto love on you and embrace you and
make you comforted during these times.And how sweet it is that Houston calls

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and even when I meant mentioned comforthe said, well, I don't know
why I'm calling necessarily, And howsweet is that that it's just about almost
giving honor to a part of thefamily, or just saying his name and
just crying and just wanting to acknowledgeit is to make sure that that life

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doesn't go unnoticed. But there's there'sways to do that in the future as
well that don't necessarily involve tears orsadness. But to commemorate and as if
they've done at the house there andmemorialize. It just means to to have
a place of memories, to notforget and to say, well, they're

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they're no longer here with us,therefore they're not important. And how wonderful
that is to be so so intouch with how to love properly and and
I want to, you know,take that and point that same light of
love towards humans with humans and interactingand relationships, because that is exactly what

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I was talking about, that selfless, h type of unselfish commitment to someone.
And this sad thing is that oftentimespeople can do that and connect more
easily and more readily with an animalor a family pet than they can with
other human beings and to take thetime to really because another human being you

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tend to always think they have anagenda or they have their other you know,
they just want what they want,and you don't find the simplicity of
the relationship that you can have witha pet. And interestingly enough, the
reason why is because in that relationship, the master, for lack of a

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better term today, the master ofthe animal tends to already assume that they're
going to be serving the animal.They're going to bring it food, they're
going to bring it water, they'regoing to make sure it's warm, that
it's walked, that it goes bathroom. Really, you are not the master,
but the servant of the animal.And by being the servant of the

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animal, the relationship is struck ona note that really is incredibly honest.
And now the animal has nothing buttime to love on you. Unless you
know some some people that aren't catpeople would say no, no, Still,
the cat walks around doing what itwants, doesn't give a rip about
you. But and in this case, I want you to see how the

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way you would treat an animal.Stay with me on this is the way
you should be treating one another.Do I want you to treat people like
dogs? No, But go inwith that servant attitude. That attitude says,
I want to make sure that you'retaken care of, that your needs
are meant, that whatever you want, whatever you need, that you have.

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And if you go in with thatattitude, then you will receive that
attitude in a proper and healthy relationshipof somebody that's trying to serve you.
When you get in this tug ofwar of wants and needs, and you
start saying, well, this iswhat I want and this is what I
need. And you start going andsaying well I'm just going to get it
myself, or I'm going to takecare of it myself, you start to

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separate. I just thought that thatHouston was such a lovely example of a
servant's heart, and that's why hisrelationship with old Ripple was so deep because
of that, because of that desireto serve, and the relationship was struck
and understood. A lot of managementtypes and corporate types use the term managed

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expectations, and it's one of thoseterms that comes up that means, you
know, if you tell everybody what'sgoing to happen or what's going to take
place, or what the limits areany particular thing, that you manage their
expectations. And it's actually a veryhealthy thing to do in any relationship because
when the mind wanders or expects,or it starts to go through its own

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list of demands and saying feed me, feed me, in a very very
selfish state, understanding the needs ofa relationship and the give and take of
a relationship is what makes it healthy. If you get in to a relationship,
and you now have a partner,a true partner in life. It
doesn't always land fifty to fifty.Really, it comes down to one hundred

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percent of both parties. And wantsyou to think about love in a very
real and tangible way, and thinkabout love not as a feeling, not
just as a simple action, butas a series of actions constantly, every
single day, sacrificing yourself in away that is healthy, to give of

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yourself to take care of that otherperson. It's not always going to be
convenient. It's never convenient to helpsomeone move. It's never convenience to take
someone to the airport. It's neverconvenient to put down the things that you're
working on to do something for someoneelse. But yet you expect it,
Oh boy, you expect it.You want you know. And men,

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you can be the worst offenders ofthis, the double standard that you can
do certain things a certain way,but if your wife does it those same
things a certain way, it's notacceptable. And that's not the way it
should be. It should be alwayswith that servant's heart. I came as

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the son of God to this worldand was a servant, all right.
I fed people I spent time withpeople, healed as a servant, washed
the feet of people as a servant, and that by finding that attitude,

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by treating your loved ones like youwould an animal, taking care of them,
feeding them, bathing them, lovingon them, that the response and
the health of the relationship will bemuch better than you could possibly ever imagine.

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Andrea, Welcome to the Jesus ChristShow. Oh thank you Jesus.
I have a question for you.I'm been in the church for quite a
bit of years and I really takeit seriously now. But my biggest problem
is I'm forty one years old andmy friends keep on even once in church,
different churches, bugging me about becauseI made the pleasure that I won't

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have sex before I'm married. You'reforty one years of age, yes,
and you have not had sex yet. No, I have had Okay,
so you're kind of recommitted, right, Okay, So you are kind of
taking a vow of abstinence until youget married, right, Okay. That
seems to be a big problem rightnow, not just a big discussion we

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keep on having and they think I'mbeing silly, and there's like, well,
if you look in the Bible,there's concubines, there's more than one
wife. Well, somebody is havingsex without marriage in these and I just
want to know what your thoughts onthat. Okay, well that's a you
know, it's I get people situsing that all the time, saying,

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hey, look it says this inscripture, that this person's doing this and
this person's doing that. And welike to explain on the program that there
is a major difference between prescriptive anddescriptive language in the Bible. Sometimes the
Bible describes what's going on, andsometimes it prescribes what should be going on
or what you should do or shouldnot do. So there's a difference there.
Your friends are pulling out descriptive thingsin the Bible, things that took

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place. Judas committed suicide. Nowyou're going to take that scripture out of
context and say that it's okay tocommit suicide. No, it merely just
described that it took place in scripture, took place in history, and so
understanding it in the context is important. Scripture is very clear. Now you're

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not going to find a word thattranslates into premarital merit or premarital sex in
scripture, but you will find theconcept. Most certainly you hear in Paul
stating in First Corinthian it says,since there is so much immorality, each
man should have his own wife andeach woman her own husband. So this

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is really looking Paul's taking the timeto look at this and explain kind of
in the reverse there that if ifyou look at that act of getting married
being in this case a cure forthat sexual immorality, then it's implying that
the sexual immorality has to deal withnot being married. So it most certainly

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says that in scripture. I willalso point you to Hebrews thirteen four Verst.
Thessalonians or three Jude seven as someother options to read on your own
time to look at that. Butit's not about depriving you from a wonderful
thing. Sex is wonderful in itsproper context. It's amazing created by God

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for that purpose, and the Churchsometimes gets to a point where they become
prudes rather than understanding the proper applicationof sex, which does come in marriage.
So you're absolutely right in saving yourselfand your friends that are looking for,

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you know, places to you know, say, oh, well,
there's all kinds of sexual immorality goingon in scripture, and these were men
of God in some cases, thenhow come you can't do it? But
really it's about protecting you. It'snot keeping you from fun. And I
don't want you to make sex abad thing. I don't like when the
church does that sex is not abad thing. That's like saying that God

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created something bad and that's not true. But it's a powerful thing that taken
out of context can be very bad. And context is important. A gun
in the hand of law enforcement orthe military can keep the peace. In
the hand of a murderous individual ora burglar can destroy peace. So in

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this it's the same with sex.Sex in context can be beautiful. So
it's not that I want anyone tomake sex bad or ugly or shameful.
It's that I want them to makeit appropriate and it's in the place where
it comes to its fullness in thebest way, and it's the most beautiful
in that context. And I justwant you to experience that rather than all

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the garbage that goes with sex outof context and all the scary stuff that
can go at with it. That'snot about making you fearful of it.
It's it's making you respect it sothat you that you give it. It's
a do so it's healthy to bein a state where you appreciate the power

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of sex and not fear it orrun from it like it's something ugly or
dirty or of the devil. Youknow, I take that to heart.
I created it. I know thatit's beautiful when appropriate, and so people

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attributing it to the devil or makingit a bad thing, it always frustrates
me because of that, the missingof the beauty of this relationship and that
communion that was created by God.Your friends are going to think that you're
a little nutty at the age offorty one doing it, So let them
think you're nutty. If they thinkyou're weird, that's probably not a bad

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thing. You look at the seconddefinition of the word weird, and it
is of strange or extraordinary character.So that's not necessarily a bad thing to
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