May 5, 2024 • 28 mins
Being in the background
Working hard and feelng not being noticed. Trust that God does
Husband always listens to music. satanic. Where in the bible says he can't listen.
Jesus is son of god. aren't we all children of God
Working hard and feelng not being noticed. Trust that God does
Husband always listens to music. satanic. Where in the bible says he can't listen.
Jesus is son of god. aren't we all children of God
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You're listening to KFI AM sixty ondemand. You know. I was watching
a program the other day with youknow, music and had a singer upfront,
singer, lead singer, you know, she was just not important to
the story, but a popular band, and as most bands do, there
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were backup singers. And I rememberthe way the camera as this was on
television, the way the camera setsitself. The background singers were kind of
out of focus, you know,they're blurred in the background, and the
focus is on the person in thefront ground and in the foreground rather singing
and as is going on. It'spretty music and it's nice to watch,
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but I just noticed how this personin the background are singing their heart out,
and that's gotta They gotta get thereon time. They have to be
pitch perk perfect, They need todo all the same things as the person
up front, but they don't havethe recognition as the person up front.
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Again, if you go to seea film, you go to the movies,
what ends up happening? You watcha movie, maybe it has a
handful of characters, a couple dozencharacters, maybe you know who the director
is, but at the end ofthe film, there seems to be what
feels like twenty minutes of credits.Why all those little names that are scrolling
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up at the bottom right at theend of the film, while those are
all the people that it took tomake the film, and you may not
know their names. You don't knowwhat a best boy is, you don't
know what a grip is, Youdon't know what any of these things are.
But they were important enough to beneeded for the film. They add
some great importance, some adiction.Yet they don't get the same kind of
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recognition as let's say, the actors, or even the director or the producer.
And this happens in just about everything, even in the world of cooking.
You've got the big piece of meatthat's sitting there that everybody's going to
eat, and all the spices andall the herbs that really bring it together
and make it wonderful. It's beensaid that if you can taste salt in
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a dish, you've over salted.Because of the nature of salt, it
interacts with everything else and brings outother flavors. So even spices and herbs
can sometimes be subtle in their ownright. You don't even know that they're
there. But they're there to makesomething else stand out. And in this
particular world, that's a hard thingto swallow. Not the food with spices
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and herbs, but the concept ofworking just as hard, or working very
hard, or doing something that's nobleor good or wonderful and not be noticed.
And sometimes as you do it,it becomes a burden, it becomes
a weight on your shoulder. Andnow you're thinking, well, you know,
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I'm doing all this and there's norecognition. I'm just like the backup
singer blurry in the background. I'mjust like the grip the best boy and
kind of relegated to my name atthe end of the film. But that's
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not true because in the cases ofdoing what's right, when you feel like
no one notices what you're doing,you have to trust that God does,
The Father sees what you do,and he will reward you. Matthew six
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' six says talking about prayer andthe fact that there were those that were
praying to be noticed by everyone aroundthem, forgetting that it's not about everyone
else, but it's about God.So this is about prayer, but it
ties in to the point that Iwant to get to you today and that
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is uh. Matthew six y sixsays, but when you pray, go
into your room, close the door, and pray to your father, who
is unseen. Then your father,who sees what is done in secret,
will reward you. God sees iswhat has done when no one else does.
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This world will tell you over andover and over again, what you
do is only important if other peoplesee it, and other people raise you
to some sort of level of stardom. That if they put you on a
pedestal. If the world looks atyou and puts you on a pedestal,
then what you're doing is okay.Then and only then are you truly recognized
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for your gifts and abilities. Andthat is not true. The Father sees
what is done in secret, seeswhat is done when no one else does.
When you feel you're alone, whenyou feel that no one's looking,
when you start to want to giveup and say, well, why does
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it matter. No one's gonna writethis down, no one's gonna give me
a trophy, no one's gonna rewardme for this. I'm not gonna get
my own reality show. That's okay, that's okay, because God sees what
you do. The Father looks downand he sees what you do, and
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the rewards will come. Also,the rewards will not be like those of
the world, either like that fameor for it's always pointing back towards a
relationship with God, always always pointingback to what is right and what is
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just, because it is right andbecause it is just. How many times
have you experienced something or done somethingthat you know to be right, you
know to be just, and there'sand it backfires or seems to doesn't make
life easier necessarily, it may evenlose you friends. But that's the wonderful
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thing about doing what's right. It'sit's not contingent upon anything. You do
what's right because it's right. Youdo what's just because it's just, and
the consequences aren't really of concern.So if you feel like if you feel
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like you are one of those peoplethat kind of blur into the background,
maybe it doesn't bother you at all. And if so, good If you
know that your reward is not alwayson the front page of a magazine,
that your reward is not doesn't alwayscome attached to money, doesn't always come
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attached to fame, that's a goodplace to be. But if you are
feeling discouraged, if you're at aplace today where you feel like the things
you do go unnoticed, I wantyou to do. I want you to
know this that they don't. Whatyou're doing does go noticed by God.
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Matthew six' two says, Sowhen you give to the needy, do
not announce it with trumpets, asthe hypocrites do in the synagogues and the
streets, to be honored by others. Only truly, I tell you they
have received their reward in full.The concept there with giving is that when
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the giving isn't just about doing itbecause it's right, because it's the right
thing to do. If you givebecause you're looking for some sort of response
so that people will think that you'rea good person or any of those things,
then it misses the point. Andif that's the reward you're looking for,
then that's all you're gonna get.So when you look at Matthew six
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six, when you look at Matthewsix two, and you see that one
God is looking at all that youdo. God is watching, as it
says in scripture, what's done insecret. He sees what's going on,
and he will reward you. However, if you want the world to see,
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if you just want the response ofthe world, then well take that
because that's all you're gonna get.And I'll tell you this that it goes
quickly. It is short lived.This attention from the world, and this
love from the world, it willcome and go. And those that will
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love you one moment, those thatwill herald your name, they can't wait
to see you, that throw kindwords at you when you walk by,
that will change. But the rewardof God is one of eternity. Greg,
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welcome to Jesus Christ show. Hi, thanks for taking my call,
my pleasure. Greg, How canI help you? Well, I had
a question about Matthew thirteen thirty.Okay, it says, first gather together
the tears and bind them, andthe bun to burn them. The gather
of the wheatn to my bon andI was curious how that came into the
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end times in the Rapture, withthe timing of that. Well, you
know that the Rapture is something that'smildly controversial with the different denominations. So
there are some that believe certain specificsof it. There are some and there
are many different interpretations as to wherethings land in the timeline and things like
that. The overall picture in Matthewthere greg what's being talked about in this
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parable is really about the separation ofthe good and the bad. It's you
know, using the illustration of wheatand essentially the farmer going out and planting
the wheat and someone coming in withmalice under the cloak of night and planting
weeds. And because of the waythey're so close to each other that if
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the farmer went in and tried toseparate the seeds, that it would cause
both to die and would lose theharvest as well. So the farmer has
to allow them both to grow andto come to adulthood and then separate them,
and then they'll separate the good fromthe bad. And really that could
be used. There are many peoplethat may look at that and say,
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okay, well, that's talking aboutthe end times. This is going to
take place here and there. Itdoesn't really say specifically about that. What
it does say is that there isgoing to be a separation between those who
did good and those who did getbad in the eyes of God. And
that's not just while this was agood person, they were you know,
a good family and whatever. It'sabout serving God and bringing God into their
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life and giving their life to God. And it's talking about the separation of
those things and kind of the illustrationmore of the world and why the earth
is the way it is now,but it's not always going to be like
that. Penny, Welcome to theJesus Christ Show. Hi, Hi,
Penny. Well, my question isabout music. I'm a Christian. My
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husband is not. And believe itor not, it seems that he's had
he has an obsession with music.It's constantly on. It's constantly the earphones
and the ears. It's at work, it's in the vehicle, it's when
we're together, and then when we'retogether for if for fighting over the music
because he has an obsession with it. And then it's what he listens to
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is the biggest thing. I lookeda couple of them up which it says
there that they're Titanic, and hetells me that he knows that it's wrong
to listen to it. He doesn'tlike the words, but he likes the
beat of the music, and hewon't stop listening to it. And it's
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it's put a wedgend between us alreadyto the point of divorce over music because
he said I'm trying to control himand tell him what to do, and
he wants to know where in theBible is there anything that says you can't
listen to a certain type of music? And I'm having a hard time backing
that up. Well, because that'sit's not really the right question to ask.
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There's I'd like to go a littledeeper on some of this because it's
silly to get a divorce over it, and it would not glorify God if
you got a divorce because of themusic he listened to, just so you
know, Yeah, and he wantsto divorce. We've tried. He likes
basically all kinds of music, SoI'm like, why can't we just come
to an agreement on a music thatwe like, Christian bluegrass? Well?
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Is this is this like when you'rein the car, or when you're at
home, or this is when we'rein the car. But when we're at
home, he's walking around the housesinging out loud, like not with the
music on, but he's singing itout loud, and the words just,
you know, crush me because thewords are so bad. I mean,
they're they're cussing, they're worshiping thedevil. It's it's disgusting. Okay,
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So let's look at a few thingsfirst. There's no such thing as satanic
music. Music doesn't have an allegianceto anything. Music is just notes.
There's no evil notes now. Lyrics, on the other hand, can be
vulgar and vile and hurtful. Yeah, that's what it is, lyric.
Yeah, and so so when you'relooking at the lyrics, I don't blame
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you that when there's and we usea lot of secular music on the show
on purpose. And quite frankly,what Tony does, who is the music
director and pulls music for the show, is finds things. Finds music that
relates to both sides, how peoplefeel about God, good and bad,
how people feel about life good andbad, because they're both legitimate as an
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aspect of how you go through life. And you can describe certain ugliness in
life and that's okay. So here'sthe major difference. There's a difference between
prescriptive language and descriptive language. Soif if something is describe being something that's
evil and ugly, that's one thing. If it's prescribing you to go out
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and do something evil and ugly.That's another thing, because I will tell
you this, penny, the mostvile, sexually perverted, and violent book
you can ever purchase is the HolyBible. There is more perverse behavior and
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ugliness in Scripture than there is inmost novels that Christians tried to have banned.
It talks about incest, it talksabout bestiality, It talks about some
of the most violent and vulgar waysto die. It talks about Judas hanging
rotting in the sun till his innerdsexplode and burst on the ground below.
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Now, if you're to just usethat as the standard, yeah, you
couldn't. There's no Christian that wouldbe allowed to see the Bible as a
movie if it was made accurately bytheir standards. So you have to kind
of balance things out and say,Okay, why does it bother you in
what context? So if it's prescriptive, if he's singing things that sound as
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if they're telling you to go outand do something, then yeah, I
could see where that would bother you, and you wouldn't want that around.
I'm surprised that you can't come toa conclusion. H you say, he's
not a Christian. No, I'llhe raised and the Christian goals and all
that he knows. Actually he's broughablysixty seventy more percent of the Bible than
I do. Okay, well,he's at a point where and if you
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know you want to go back andforth, yes, Scripture says that you
don't. That you are to keepcontrol of your mind and keep control of
the thoughts of your mind, andthat you don't want evil thoughts to enter.
But ultimately, yes, it talksabout in Ephesians and other places that
you have to gird your mind andkeep control of the thoughts and the ugliness
that come in and out of yourmind. So when it comes to to
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the music, I would like tosee you to come to a conclusion where
he just doesn't play certain things infront of you, but he still has
the right to play them most certainly, and he's not bound by your rules.
You're the Christian, he's not.So if you married him and he's
a Christian, or you're a Christianhe's not, then he's going to abide
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by his rules, which is whateverhe wants. Yeah, that's where that's
what I'm getting. Well, that'swhat you, that's what you're married to.
Yeah, so and and to.You don't really have the right to
divorce him if he's unless he's forcingyou to do something that's against your values.
And right now he's just kind ofnot being very nice about it,
But neither are you. In hisviews, you're kind of pushing him and
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he's pushing back. That's exactly said. So you know, it's better for
you to laugh at the cillina ofhim acting like a little boy and listening
to little boy music and and letit, let him be who he is,
and say, you know, allI ask is that you know,
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in certain contexts, don't play itaround me. I don't want to sit
in the car because now now I'ma prisoner to have to listen to it.
Is there something you say you loveall kinds of music, Well,
then then put something on that youlove and I love while we're in the
car. Please for me, Butdon't force him to listen to something in
particular. He doesn't he doesn't liveby the same values as you. But
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you can ask as his lover,as his partner, as his wife,
to say, honey, please,when I'm around, just don't it's I
find it vulgar and unappealing. Iappreciate that you like it. Let's find
something that we can agree on whilewe're together and leave it at that,
okay, and know that there isa difference. Sometimes he's going to be
listening to something that's describing ugliness inthe world, like poetry or anything else,
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or a movie that describes the ugliness, and then there's a difference if
it's saying yeah, I think that'swhat it is is I was raised more
old fashioned and he was raised morelike in the world. And I think
that's where we're buttonheads, because like, to me, it's bad, it's
something that's bad, you know,and to him it's what are you getting
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upset about? It's music. Ididn't write the lyrics. I just like,
I just liked the music. Okay. Well, you know, it's
not really true. He's not beinghonest. So I don't want to sound
like I'm just condoning everything he's doing, because I'm not. He's not being
honest. If what's his first name, ed Ed? If it was talking
about beating the pulp out of Edand how Ed is, you know,
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and it says vulgar things about whathe does sexually, and all these things
that he's not. He wouldn't likeit if you went around singing that.
He really wouldn't. He wouldn't likeif somebody if a song was bad mouthing
his mom by name. He wouldn'tlike any of those things. So he's
not really being honest, you know, true be told he'd be bothered by
certain lyrics as well. He's justkind of pretending and being the cool guy
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and saying, hey, it's justlyrics and relax about it. But you
can't. You can probably use ahealthy dose of relaxation and understanding that you're
living with somebody who lives by differentrules than you do. Oh yeah,
and that's your lot and and yourjob is to be a good wife to
him as he is to be agood husband to you. And you guys
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need to find some middle ground whereyou can allow him his interests but still
have your own piece too. It'snot about you being walked all over either,
and that you know, he shouldbe able to do whatever he wants.
That see, music kind of impedeson you too. It's your ears
and your sensibilities as well, Sohe has to do it in private or
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with the headphones on. Or todo it in a way that it doesn't
impede on you. Otherwise, youguys get into, you know, a
screaming match about it, or youend up blaring you know or something,
and he ends up blaring his musicand you guys are sitting there trying to
have a music off. And that'snot worth it either. And all he's
going to do is continue to rejectmore. But if you don't say much
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about it, it removes the propellant. And really he'll start walking around and
trust me, you've planted the seed. He's going to start hearing the lyrics
differently, and he's going to startsinging these lyrics as he walks down the
hall and going, oh my goodness, what did I just say? And
that's a little bizarre. But ifyou, especially men, you start pushing
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them and they just get rebellious andkick their heels in and you know,
say I'm going to do what I'mgoing to do, and then nobody wins.
Beverly, Welcome to the Jesus ChristShow. Good morning Jesus, Hi
Beverly, how can I help you? Well, it is my understanding that
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we are all the children of God. Being said, why do you refer
yourself as the only Son of God. Okay, the term in the Greek
is o monogenis eos, and thatmeans is translated the only begotten of God.
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And that's the one that you readin John three point sixteen. For
God so loved the world that hegave us only begotten son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish buthave eternal life. Well, the only
begotten there, it's not a mistranslation, it's accurate. The only problem is
that people don't quite understand what itmeans in context, only begotten. There.
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The word that is in the Greekhere is actually comprised of two words.
You have the word monos meaning onlyin genos meaning kind or race,
and combined it basically means unique.So quite honestly, the very statement is
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sets it apart. It says theone and only unique son of God.
Specifically, the uniqueness is pointing tothe fact that I wasn't created, that
I wasn't made, that I alwayswas from the beginning to the end,
no end, no beginning, alwayswas, and that it actually points to
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the fact that I am one witha Father, that I am God,
and that I am eternal now whenyou talk about other people, all of
humanity being children of God, itmeans that they were created by the hand
of God. And so there's adefinite specific difference between the two and therefore
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their reference differently. That's why I'mreferred to as the only Begotten or the
o monogenis Eos specifically talking about theonly Begotten Godden Kyle, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus,Hi, Kyle. Agree. I've always
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thought that it will be give meto forgive everybody. But did you forgive
Judas and be in heaven? Well? That did I forgive Judas and is
he in heaven? That The differencebetween forgiveness is that people get lost up
in your phone's a little noisy there. Someone put you on hold. When
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people think about forgiveness, they thinkthat's it. It says in scripture that
God forgives everyone, but only reconcileswith those that come to know God and
have a relationship with God. Sothere's a difference between forgiveness and reconciliation.
You can forgive someone and still notyou know, forgive them for doing something
to you, but still not wantthem in your life and not want them
in your home. Forgiveness is foryou. That's for you to release it
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so that it's not bound to you. But as far as redemption, no,
because Judas then killed himself, therewas no true repentance. There was
no opportunity for repentance. Did hefeel some shame, absolutely, you can
tell by the way he reacted withthe coins and with the suicide. However,
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there was no redemptive change of heart. In the same sense, there
was no reconnection with God. Itwas just kind of shame of being seen.
There's the difference between feeling bad forwhat you did and feeling bad that
you got caught, two different things. And so the common belief among theologians
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is no, Judas is not inheaven, and that there was not a
point of reconciliation, and that it'snot about just the forgiving, it's about
the reconciliation that come with it,and that's in everyday situations that you deal
with as well. There are timeswhen you will forgive somebody, but the
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reconciliation is a secondary and important partof that forgiveness, and that comes with
that comes with the changing of theheart completely, with turning away from something
that you were doing. Truly repentingfrom it and then asking for true forgiveness
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and all of those things, andnone of that happened. None of that
took place where there was that obviouschange of state for Judas. And keep
in mind, as many people sayphilosophically, oh well, but he was
only doing what God wanted to happenanyways, which was you Jesus going to
the cross. But he didn't haveto participate in it. That didn't need
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to happen. It was to happen, yes, and it would have happened,
but everyone who participated had to participateof their own free will. If
they didn't, then somehow God wouldhave been forcing that act upon them and
that would not have been righteous.So everyone had the opportunity. Hence we
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talk about alarms. That's why Ibring alarms up to you today. I
want you to get in that habitof listening to those alarms that you ignore
all the time, the car alarms, the alarms at the grocery store or
the department store. Well, they'resimilar to the alarms that go off in
your life every day that point youin new directions, that say don't come
in here, or run from here, whatever it is, to try and
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get you to get to a placementally, emotionally, spiritually, to understand
when places or things are dangerous andif you ignore alarms. And Judas had
many opportunities. Judas and I hadmany conversations, some that are recorded inscription
and some that are not that gavehim the opportunity to not participate. He
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ignored the alarms and did it anyways. Kf I AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty ondemand. You know. I was watching
a program the other day with youknow, music and had a singer upfront,
singer, lead singer, you know, she was just not important to
the story, but a popular band, and as most bands do, there
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were backup singers. And I rememberthe way the camera as this was on
television, the way the camera setsitself. The background singers were kind of
out of focus, you know,they're blurred in the background, and the
focus is on the person in thefront ground and in the foreground rather singing
and as is going on. It'spretty music and it's nice to watch,
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but I just noticed how this personin the background are singing their heart out,
and that's gotta They gotta get thereon time. They have to be
pitch perk perfect, They need todo all the same things as the person
up front, but they don't havethe recognition as the person up front.
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Again, if you go to seea film, you go to the movies,
what ends up happening? You watcha movie, maybe it has a
handful of characters, a couple dozencharacters, maybe you know who the director
is, but at the end ofthe film, there seems to be what
feels like twenty minutes of credits.Why all those little names that are scrolling
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up at the bottom right at theend of the film, while those are
all the people that it took tomake the film, and you may not
know their names. You don't knowwhat a best boy is, you don't
know what a grip is, Youdon't know what any of these things are.
But they were important enough to beneeded for the film. They add
some great importance, some adiction.Yet they don't get the same kind of
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recognition as let's say, the actors, or even the director or the producer.
And this happens in just about everything, even in the world of cooking.
You've got the big piece of meatthat's sitting there that everybody's going to
eat, and all the spices andall the herbs that really bring it together
and make it wonderful. It's beensaid that if you can taste salt in
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a dish, you've over salted.Because of the nature of salt, it
interacts with everything else and brings outother flavors. So even spices and herbs
can sometimes be subtle in their ownright. You don't even know that they're
there. But they're there to makesomething else stand out. And in this
particular world, that's a hard thingto swallow. Not the food with spices
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and herbs, but the concept ofworking just as hard, or working very
hard, or doing something that's nobleor good or wonderful and not be noticed.
And sometimes as you do it,it becomes a burden, it becomes
a weight on your shoulder. Andnow you're thinking, well, you know,
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I'm doing all this and there's norecognition. I'm just like the backup
singer blurry in the background. I'mjust like the grip the best boy and
kind of relegated to my name atthe end of the film. But that's
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not true because in the cases ofdoing what's right, when you feel like
no one notices what you're doing,you have to trust that God does,
The Father sees what you do,and he will reward you. Matthew six
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' six says talking about prayer andthe fact that there were those that were
praying to be noticed by everyone aroundthem, forgetting that it's not about everyone
else, but it's about God.So this is about prayer, but it
ties in to the point that Iwant to get to you today and that
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is uh. Matthew six y sixsays, but when you pray, go
into your room, close the door, and pray to your father, who
is unseen. Then your father,who sees what is done in secret,
will reward you. God sees iswhat has done when no one else does.
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This world will tell you over andover and over again, what you
do is only important if other peoplesee it, and other people raise you
to some sort of level of stardom. That if they put you on a
pedestal. If the world looks atyou and puts you on a pedestal,
then what you're doing is okay.Then and only then are you truly recognized
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for your gifts and abilities. Andthat is not true. The Father sees
what is done in secret, seeswhat is done when no one else does.
When you feel you're alone, whenyou feel that no one's looking,
when you start to want to giveup and say, well, why does
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it matter. No one's gonna writethis down, no one's gonna give me
a trophy, no one's gonna rewardme for this. I'm not gonna get
my own reality show. That's okay, that's okay, because God sees what
you do. The Father looks downand he sees what you do, and
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the rewards will come. Also,the rewards will not be like those of
the world, either like that fameor for it's always pointing back towards a
relationship with God, always always pointingback to what is right and what is
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just, because it is right andbecause it is just. How many times
have you experienced something or done somethingthat you know to be right, you
know to be just, and there'sand it backfires or seems to doesn't make
life easier necessarily, it may evenlose you friends. But that's the wonderful
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thing about doing what's right. It'sit's not contingent upon anything. You do
what's right because it's right. Youdo what's just because it's just, and
the consequences aren't really of concern.So if you feel like if you feel
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like you are one of those peoplethat kind of blur into the background,
maybe it doesn't bother you at all. And if so, good If you
know that your reward is not alwayson the front page of a magazine,
that your reward is not doesn't alwayscome attached to money, doesn't always come
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attached to fame, that's a goodplace to be. But if you are
feeling discouraged, if you're at aplace today where you feel like the things
you do go unnoticed, I wantyou to do. I want you to
know this that they don't. Whatyou're doing does go noticed by God.
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Matthew six' two says, Sowhen you give to the needy, do
not announce it with trumpets, asthe hypocrites do in the synagogues and the
streets, to be honored by others. Only truly, I tell you they
have received their reward in full.The concept there with giving is that when
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the giving isn't just about doing itbecause it's right, because it's the right
thing to do. If you givebecause you're looking for some sort of response
so that people will think that you'rea good person or any of those things,
then it misses the point. Andif that's the reward you're looking for,
then that's all you're gonna get.So when you look at Matthew six
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six, when you look at Matthewsix two, and you see that one
God is looking at all that youdo. God is watching, as it
says in scripture, what's done insecret. He sees what's going on,
and he will reward you. However, if you want the world to see,
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if you just want the response ofthe world, then well take that
because that's all you're gonna get.And I'll tell you this that it goes
quickly. It is short lived.This attention from the world, and this
love from the world, it willcome and go. And those that will
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love you one moment, those thatwill herald your name, they can't wait
to see you, that throw kindwords at you when you walk by,
that will change. But the rewardof God is one of eternity. Greg,
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welcome to Jesus Christ show. Hi, thanks for taking my call,
my pleasure. Greg, How canI help you? Well, I had
a question about Matthew thirteen thirty.Okay, it says, first gather together
the tears and bind them, andthe bun to burn them. The gather
of the wheatn to my bon andI was curious how that came into the
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end times in the Rapture, withthe timing of that. Well, you
know that the Rapture is something that'smildly controversial with the different denominations. So
there are some that believe certain specificsof it. There are some and there
are many different interpretations as to wherethings land in the timeline and things like
that. The overall picture in Matthewthere greg what's being talked about in this
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parable is really about the separation ofthe good and the bad. It's you
know, using the illustration of wheatand essentially the farmer going out and planting
the wheat and someone coming in withmalice under the cloak of night and planting
weeds. And because of the waythey're so close to each other that if
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the farmer went in and tried toseparate the seeds, that it would cause
both to die and would lose theharvest as well. So the farmer has
to allow them both to grow andto come to adulthood and then separate them,
and then they'll separate the good fromthe bad. And really that could
be used. There are many peoplethat may look at that and say,
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okay, well, that's talking aboutthe end times. This is going to
take place here and there. Itdoesn't really say specifically about that. What
it does say is that there isgoing to be a separation between those who
did good and those who did getbad in the eyes of God. And
that's not just while this was agood person, they were you know,
a good family and whatever. It'sabout serving God and bringing God into their
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life and giving their life to God. And it's talking about the separation of
those things and kind of the illustrationmore of the world and why the earth
is the way it is now,but it's not always going to be like
that. Penny, Welcome to theJesus Christ Show. Hi, Hi,
Penny. Well, my question isabout music. I'm a Christian. My
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husband is not. And believe itor not, it seems that he's had
he has an obsession with music.It's constantly on. It's constantly the earphones
and the ears. It's at work, it's in the vehicle, it's when
we're together, and then when we'retogether for if for fighting over the music
because he has an obsession with it. And then it's what he listens to
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is the biggest thing. I lookeda couple of them up which it says
there that they're Titanic, and hetells me that he knows that it's wrong
to listen to it. He doesn'tlike the words, but he likes the
beat of the music, and hewon't stop listening to it. And it's
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it's put a wedgend between us alreadyto the point of divorce over music because
he said I'm trying to control himand tell him what to do, and
he wants to know where in theBible is there anything that says you can't
listen to a certain type of music? And I'm having a hard time backing
that up. Well, because that'sit's not really the right question to ask.
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There's I'd like to go a littledeeper on some of this because it's
silly to get a divorce over it, and it would not glorify God if
you got a divorce because of themusic he listened to, just so you
know, Yeah, and he wantsto divorce. We've tried. He likes
basically all kinds of music, SoI'm like, why can't we just come
to an agreement on a music thatwe like, Christian bluegrass? Well?
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Is this is this like when you'rein the car, or when you're at
home, or this is when we'rein the car. But when we're at
home, he's walking around the housesinging out loud, like not with the
music on, but he's singing itout loud, and the words just,
you know, crush me because thewords are so bad. I mean,
they're they're cussing, they're worshiping thedevil. It's it's disgusting. Okay,
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So let's look at a few thingsfirst. There's no such thing as satanic
music. Music doesn't have an allegianceto anything. Music is just notes.
There's no evil notes now. Lyrics, on the other hand, can be
vulgar and vile and hurtful. Yeah, that's what it is, lyric.
Yeah, and so so when you'relooking at the lyrics, I don't blame
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you that when there's and we usea lot of secular music on the show
on purpose. And quite frankly,what Tony does, who is the music
director and pulls music for the show, is finds things. Finds music that
relates to both sides, how peoplefeel about God, good and bad,
how people feel about life good andbad, because they're both legitimate as an
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aspect of how you go through life. And you can describe certain ugliness in
life and that's okay. So here'sthe major difference. There's a difference between
prescriptive language and descriptive language. Soif if something is describe being something that's
evil and ugly, that's one thing. If it's prescribing you to go out
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and do something evil and ugly.That's another thing, because I will tell
you this, penny, the mostvile, sexually perverted, and violent book
you can ever purchase is the HolyBible. There is more perverse behavior and
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ugliness in Scripture than there is inmost novels that Christians tried to have banned.
It talks about incest, it talksabout bestiality, It talks about some
of the most violent and vulgar waysto die. It talks about Judas hanging
rotting in the sun till his innerdsexplode and burst on the ground below.
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Now, if you're to just usethat as the standard, yeah, you
couldn't. There's no Christian that wouldbe allowed to see the Bible as a
movie if it was made accurately bytheir standards. So you have to kind
of balance things out and say,Okay, why does it bother you in
what context? So if it's prescriptive, if he's singing things that sound as
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if they're telling you to go outand do something, then yeah, I
could see where that would bother you, and you wouldn't want that around.
I'm surprised that you can't come toa conclusion. H you say, he's
not a Christian. No, I'llhe raised and the Christian goals and all
that he knows. Actually he's broughablysixty seventy more percent of the Bible than
I do. Okay, well,he's at a point where and if you
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know you want to go back andforth, yes, Scripture says that you
don't. That you are to keepcontrol of your mind and keep control of
the thoughts of your mind, andthat you don't want evil thoughts to enter.
But ultimately, yes, it talksabout in Ephesians and other places that
you have to gird your mind andkeep control of the thoughts and the ugliness
that come in and out of yourmind. So when it comes to to
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the music, I would like tosee you to come to a conclusion where
he just doesn't play certain things infront of you, but he still has
the right to play them most certainly, and he's not bound by your rules.
You're the Christian, he's not.So if you married him and he's
a Christian, or you're a Christianhe's not, then he's going to abide
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by his rules, which is whateverhe wants. Yeah, that's where that's
what I'm getting. Well, that'swhat you, that's what you're married to.
Yeah, so and and to.You don't really have the right to
divorce him if he's unless he's forcingyou to do something that's against your values.
And right now he's just kind ofnot being very nice about it,
But neither are you. In hisviews, you're kind of pushing him and
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he's pushing back. That's exactly said. So you know, it's better for
you to laugh at the cillina ofhim acting like a little boy and listening
to little boy music and and letit, let him be who he is,
and say, you know, allI ask is that you know,
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in certain contexts, don't play itaround me. I don't want to sit
in the car because now now I'ma prisoner to have to listen to it.
Is there something you say you loveall kinds of music, Well,
then then put something on that youlove and I love while we're in the
car. Please for me, Butdon't force him to listen to something in
particular. He doesn't he doesn't liveby the same values as you. But
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you can ask as his lover,as his partner, as his wife,
to say, honey, please,when I'm around, just don't it's I
find it vulgar and unappealing. Iappreciate that you like it. Let's find
something that we can agree on whilewe're together and leave it at that,
okay, and know that there isa difference. Sometimes he's going to be
listening to something that's describing ugliness inthe world, like poetry or anything else,
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or a movie that describes the ugliness, and then there's a difference if
it's saying yeah, I think that'swhat it is is I was raised more
old fashioned and he was raised morelike in the world. And I think
that's where we're buttonheads, because like, to me, it's bad, it's
something that's bad, you know,and to him it's what are you getting
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upset about? It's music. Ididn't write the lyrics. I just like,
I just liked the music. Okay. Well, you know, it's
not really true. He's not beinghonest. So I don't want to sound
like I'm just condoning everything he's doing, because I'm not. He's not being
honest. If what's his first name, ed Ed? If it was talking
about beating the pulp out of Edand how Ed is, you know,
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and it says vulgar things about whathe does sexually, and all these things
that he's not. He wouldn't likeit if you went around singing that.
He really wouldn't. He wouldn't likeif somebody if a song was bad mouthing
his mom by name. He wouldn'tlike any of those things. So he's
not really being honest, you know, true be told he'd be bothered by
certain lyrics as well. He's justkind of pretending and being the cool guy
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and saying, hey, it's justlyrics and relax about it. But you
can't. You can probably use ahealthy dose of relaxation and understanding that you're
living with somebody who lives by differentrules than you do. Oh yeah,
and that's your lot and and yourjob is to be a good wife to
him as he is to be agood husband to you. And you guys
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need to find some middle ground whereyou can allow him his interests but still
have your own piece too. It'snot about you being walked all over either,
and that you know, he shouldbe able to do whatever he wants.
That see, music kind of impedeson you too. It's your ears
and your sensibilities as well, Sohe has to do it in private or
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with the headphones on. Or todo it in a way that it doesn't
impede on you. Otherwise, youguys get into, you know, a
screaming match about it, or youend up blaring you know or something,
and he ends up blaring his musicand you guys are sitting there trying to
have a music off. And that'snot worth it either. And all he's
going to do is continue to rejectmore. But if you don't say much
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about it, it removes the propellant. And really he'll start walking around and
trust me, you've planted the seed. He's going to start hearing the lyrics
differently, and he's going to startsinging these lyrics as he walks down the
hall and going, oh my goodness, what did I just say? And
that's a little bizarre. But ifyou, especially men, you start pushing
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them and they just get rebellious andkick their heels in and you know,
say I'm going to do what I'mgoing to do, and then nobody wins.
Beverly, Welcome to the Jesus ChristShow. Good morning Jesus, Hi
Beverly, how can I help you? Well, it is my understanding that
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we are all the children of God. Being said, why do you refer
yourself as the only Son of God. Okay, the term in the Greek
is o monogenis eos, and thatmeans is translated the only begotten of God.
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And that's the one that you readin John three point sixteen. For
God so loved the world that hegave us only begotten son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish buthave eternal life. Well, the only
begotten there, it's not a mistranslation, it's accurate. The only problem is
that people don't quite understand what itmeans in context, only begotten. There.
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The word that is in the Greekhere is actually comprised of two words.
You have the word monos meaning onlyin genos meaning kind or race,
and combined it basically means unique.So quite honestly, the very statement is
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sets it apart. It says theone and only unique son of God.
Specifically, the uniqueness is pointing tothe fact that I wasn't created, that
I wasn't made, that I alwayswas from the beginning to the end,
no end, no beginning, alwayswas, and that it actually points to
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the fact that I am one witha Father, that I am God,
and that I am eternal now whenyou talk about other people, all of
humanity being children of God, itmeans that they were created by the hand
of God. And so there's adefinite specific difference between the two and therefore
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their reference differently. That's why I'mreferred to as the only Begotten or the
o monogenis Eos specifically talking about theonly Begotten Godden Kyle, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus,Hi, Kyle. Agree. I've always
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thought that it will be give meto forgive everybody. But did you forgive
Judas and be in heaven? Well? That did I forgive Judas and is
he in heaven? That The differencebetween forgiveness is that people get lost up
in your phone's a little noisy there. Someone put you on hold. When
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people think about forgiveness, they thinkthat's it. It says in scripture that
God forgives everyone, but only reconcileswith those that come to know God and
have a relationship with God. Sothere's a difference between forgiveness and reconciliation.
You can forgive someone and still notyou know, forgive them for doing something
to you, but still not wantthem in your life and not want them
in your home. Forgiveness is foryou. That's for you to release it
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so that it's not bound to you. But as far as redemption, no,
because Judas then killed himself, therewas no true repentance. There was
no opportunity for repentance. Did hefeel some shame, absolutely, you can
tell by the way he reacted withthe coins and with the suicide. However,
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there was no redemptive change of heart. In the same sense, there
was no reconnection with God. Itwas just kind of shame of being seen.
There's the difference between feeling bad forwhat you did and feeling bad that
you got caught, two different things. And so the common belief among theologians
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is no, Judas is not inheaven, and that there was not a
point of reconciliation, and that it'snot about just the forgiving, it's about
the reconciliation that come with it,and that's in everyday situations that you deal
with as well. There are timeswhen you will forgive somebody, but the
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reconciliation is a secondary and important partof that forgiveness, and that comes with
that comes with the changing of theheart completely, with turning away from something
that you were doing. Truly repentingfrom it and then asking for true forgiveness
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and all of those things, andnone of that happened. None of that
took place where there was that obviouschange of state for Judas. And keep
in mind, as many people sayphilosophically, oh well, but he was
only doing what God wanted to happenanyways, which was you Jesus going to
the cross. But he didn't haveto participate in it. That didn't need
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to happen. It was to happen, yes, and it would have happened,
but everyone who participated had to participateof their own free will. If
they didn't, then somehow God wouldhave been forcing that act upon them and
that would not have been righteous.So everyone had the opportunity. Hence we
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talk about alarms. That's why Ibring alarms up to you today. I
want you to get in that habitof listening to those alarms that you ignore
all the time, the car alarms, the alarms at the grocery store or
the department store. Well, they'resimilar to the alarms that go off in
your life every day that point youin new directions, that say don't come
in here, or run from here, whatever it is, to try and
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get you to get to a placementally, emotionally, spiritually, to understand
when places or things are dangerous andif you ignore alarms. And Judas had
many opportunities. Judas and I hadmany conversations, some that are recorded inscription
and some that are not that gavehim the opportunity to not participate. He
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ignored the alarms and did it anyways. Kf I AM six forty on demand
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