Jesus Christ Show | Hour 2 [10/15]

Jesus Christ Show | Hour 2 [10/15]

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to KFI A six fortyon demand. Doug, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus,I'm doing all right good. My question
to you is whether or not Jesusactually paid taxes in the in the New
Testament, it there's a there's afew scriptures in there where describes. And

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the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, do you pay taxes? And he
tells them to take out a coin. He says, well, whose picture
is on there? Whose face ison there? Give to Caesar what is
Caesar's exactly? Render und to Caesarwhat is Caesar's? And render under God?
What is God? And yet,and yet the follow up question was
never addressed, which is what belongsto Caesar and what belongs to God?

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And therefore, did Jesus actually paytaxes? And the answer, are you
ready when a drum roll? Yes, yes, Matthew seventeen, Okay,
Matthew seventeen, And I'll read itto you Matthew seventeen, verse twenty four.
And they, when they had cometo Kapernaum, those who collected the

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two Drachma attacks, came to Peterand said, does your teacher not pay
the two drachma attacks. He saidyes, And when he came into the
house, Jesus spoke with him first, saying, what do you think,
Simon, from whom do you tothe kings of the earth collect customs or
poll tax from their sons or fromstrangers? And upon his saying from strangers,

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Jesus said to him consequently, thesons are exempt verse twenty seven.
But lest we give them offence,go to the sea and throw in a
hook and take out the first fishthat comes up, and when you open
its mouth you will find a staterthat would be the money. Take that
and give it to them for youand me. So yes, okay.

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So my follow up question than wouldbe when he was actually talking with the
scribes and the pharisees, why notjust come out and say yes, because
there's a lesson to be learned.The things of the world are. People
get caught up in the things ofthe world and think that they're the most
important thing. My whole purpose wasto point out that it's not as important

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that people would get They would getcaught up in the specifics of the law
and not understand the purpose of thelaw, which is what God's importance is.
And I'll give you an example.In the streets you're in Louisiana.
What's the what's the speed limit thereon the highways and the byways the interstate

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seventy okay for the most part.Okay, so seventy miles per hour.
And that's for this for the safetyof human beings. Right, It's to
preserve life. Yes, that's whatthe law is there for. So to
preserve life is more is more importantthan the law itself, because that's what
the laws are there for. Andin a lot of cases, if you

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have law enforcement or firefighters or anythinglike that, they're going to ignore the
law of speed if it means alife for death situation, because the law
is never more important than the purposeof the law. So a lot of
times the Pharisees and the Sadducees werecoming to me and trying to corner me,

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to get me to remark in somethingthat would cause a war or some
sort of outbreak of anger towards mebased on a particular law. They were
trying to paint in, paint meinto a corner and to keep from playing
their game, or more so,to play the game in a way that

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it showed the folly of their ownways. I would grant them a question
that would answer it, but alsomake them think about why they are making
the decisions or asking the questions they'reasking. So it was more important it
was multifold. And you'll find thatthroughout scripture there's oftentimes where I ask things
because that's the best way to learn. People learn when they're a part of

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it, not just being talked at, but being inquirried and talked to,
and instead of just gathering something fromrote saying memorize this, that in an
example that they could participate in,they started to understand better. So they

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start going okay, well yeah,who is on the coin? And well
it's not God, it's Caesar.So he was just saying, listen,
why are you even worried about money? Why are you lost in the things
of money? Why do you evencare that The Pharisees were trying to set
me up. The Pharisees were tryingto put me in a position where if
I said don't pay taxes, Iwould have been arrested. And if I

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said do pay taxes, then thepeople that were following me at the time
that hated taxes would have thought Iwould as a traitor towards their cause.
So really, rather than falling intoeither of those, I was explaining a
story by way of illustration that wouldexplain the reason why you can give taxes

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and be okay, and the reasonwhy you shouldn't feel bad for it,
but also to let the Pharisees knowthat their concern about taxes was not a
thing of God, so it servedmany different purposes, And that's the way
I taught. That was the wayto get people to understand fully and own
something. Mike, Welcome to theJesus Christ Show. Yes, I guess

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my question revolves around one of themain tenets of Christianity is is that the
central focus is that belief and acceptancein You as Messiah and Savior is required
to go to heaven. I guessI've always wondered about all the babies who
were born and died too young tocomprehend this or understand it. And on

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all the people on the world andisolated arrows areas esk and most tribes people
who have never heard of you.What happens to them since they can't accept
and believe something that they've never evenheard of or under understood. Sure,
legitimate. I will tell you somethinginteresting, Mike. No one ever asked
that question that hasn't already heard themselvesbecause you can't. So really have you

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come to a conclusion yourself as towhat you believe in what you don't?
Well, I can tell you Iwas raised in Indiana and I was actually
raised in the Midnight Faith, whicha part and I guess, I guess
I'm you're reading the Bible, thinkingabout things and hearing Oh I'm sorry,
Mike. Your your phone's coming inand out. You were saying that you
were from the Minnite Faith, growingup in the Minnite Faith. Unfortunately,

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the phone's probably not going to workon the air for right now is driving
through Nevada. It looks like,well, we're happy to have your call,
and I think it's a great call. The question is dealing with those
that haven't heard. And I willtell you this Scripture and the basis of
relationship between God and man is notbased on ignorance. It's based on rejection.

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You have to trust God to contactand connect with anybody. Scripture says
that the Second Coming won't take placetill everybody has had a chance to accept
or reject. It's not about ignorance. It's not well, oh they didn't
hear. Sorry, you know,your sheer out of luck. You won't
get to participate. That's not howit works. It's about rejection and rejecting

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the word of God. Now,Scripture says in Romans one that there is
this natural revelation, this general revelationthat people can see in nature, in
God's creation, and that that issufficient to be able to understand there is
a God and who that God is, and to come to the knowledge of
God. That's the imperative. Sopeople all over the place, and children

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dying too young can still be broughtinto the Kingdom by God without having any
point of rejection because they have neverreally truly rejected. If they're too young
to accept, they're too young tohave rejected. Christina, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. Hello, Jesus, hi hi, I have a question
for you. I have a sonthat has been dealing with drug addiction a
great deal of his life, andno matter how much he professes he wants
to get clean and gets very veryvery close, no matter how much prayer

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is offered up for him or what'sgoing on. He seems to not be
able to quite get there, getclear to sobriety and stay there. And
I'm wondering if there's something bigger andlarger, like generational sin or generational what

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would you call that generational? Wellin scripture when people ask if you remember,
there's times where people would ask meand say, you know, this
man is blind? Was it becauseof his sin or the sins of his
parents? And I said to neither. You know, there, that's that's
not People get caught up in thosethings, and I understand why, but

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it's it's there are things in generationspast that help become the you know,
atmosphere or surroundings that create a person, and those things get passed down,
yes, but really addiction is oneof those one of those rooms that is
locked from the inside. And there'sthere's obviously things and forces that and demons

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that that tie And I say demonsin the equochial sense, not in the
theological sense necessarily, but there arethings that that will weigh a person down
and become a a hindrance and hindertheir progress when it comes to addiction.
But he's the only individual that cando that, can do anything. I
mean, you can have people,therapists, you can have programs, all

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kinds of things, but he's gotto want to do it, and got
to unlock that door. And he'sthe one in the room. And there
can be many different things that prohibitthat, or at least in his mind,
but ultimately, even prayer, allthose things are going to be directed
towards him unlocking that door. Noone else, there's no It seems like

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he is screaming and pounding on thedoor and trying as hard as he can.
And the church that I go tokeeps wanting me to go to what's
called a healing center and do twodays of intensive prayer and a bunch of
stuff all well meaning that supposedly hasto do with cleaning up generational curse and

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generation send. That you say iswhat's poured down on him sort of like
a sieve down through a reverse mushroomtype situation sounds a little. It sounds
a little overly spiritualizing the circumstance.Now I say that people, and I
don't know, I'm going off ofwhat you've told me, so they're not

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here to defend their statements. SoI will say this that God puts you
on earth for a reason. You'rehere in the flesh on earth by Earth's
laws for a reason. And thespirit does interact with the physical, but
Christians can sometimes overly spiritualize something andnot see what's ahead of them. People

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do get out of addiction, evenvery difficult addiction, but it's going to
come down to them want it.It's the same as salvation. If you
look at a redemption in salvation inscripture, it really comes down to an
individual receiving that uh and uh andtaking that on themselves, receiving the gift.

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And when it comes to sobriety,it it's a it's a very long
process and people can want it andsay they want it, but to apply
that is completely different. If youtalk to people that are working a program,
it's a daily struggle and they saythat every day, keep coming back.
It really works one day at atime. These these sentences are not

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just sentences. They're there to toremind you that it's a daily struggle.
You're not going to be free ofit in a moment. That's a that's
a rarity does take place, butthat's a rarity. And there are people
that say they want things. Thereare people that say, oh, well,
I'm really looking for a job,and they're not really looking for a
job. They're sort of looking.They send resumes out, or they you

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know, and it looks like alot's going on, or there's there's people
that often outwardly look as if theywant something. And I don't doubt from
moment that he truly wants to befreed from this, But tackling the process
and getting involved and really really makingit happen is different. And he needs
to go to detos. He needsto go somewhere where it's forced upon him

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and he has to fight for thatwould be the best thing for him.
Chris, Welcome to the Jesus ChristShow. Hi Jesus than what's going on?
Well, I was wondering if thereis a place in the Bible I
can assist me in my situation.My situation is a person who works for

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me is a single mother with threechildren. But based on her performance,
I have no other choice than tofire her very soon. So I just
really don't know what my best optionhere is. Based on the business,

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I have to fire her, butshe's a single mother with three children,
and so I don't know what assistance? Why? Well, but why does
that fall on you? Well,I don't know if it should. That's
one of my other questions. Idon't even know if it should fall on
me. So you're a manager inthis situation, correct, right? Okay?
And you've been is it a companyyou own? Oh? No,

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I see what you're saying. No, it's not a company. So you've
been asked as a manager to docertain tasks, one of which is letting
go those that are not doing thetask they've promised to do. Correct.
Correct, Okay. So if youdon't do what is right, you risk
being, you know, being inbreach of your agreement with your employer.

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That's correct, to try and savesomebody, not with your money, but
with their money. Correct? Andhow do you think God would look at
that? I see what you're sayingher. So, really, what it
comes down to, Chris, peopledon't get fired. Now, people get
laid off, yes, but peopledon't get fired usually for things they didn't

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do. They get fired for ontheir own. They kind of fire themselves.
So all you're doing is acting uponwhat they're doing. I understand she's
a single mother. And if youwant to maybe look into a church or
somebody that might help her. That'sone thing, and you can, you

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know, but you're not addressing heras a single mother unless that's part of
the job, you know, unlessyou're only hiring single mothers and they need
to be single mothers and they don'taren't supposed to work or do anything.
You can't let that decide, becauseshe's making decisions and playing a part in
this too, And if you don'tallow her to have consequence to what she

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does, then she'll never learn andshe or better. Yet, there may
be a job that's better suited forher that you're keeping her from falsely.
And let's say worst case scenario,she actually makes a pretty major impact on
the job and you've got ten peopleworking there, of which she is one,

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and now she's caused the job tobe so damaged that other people are
laid off that were doing their jobbecause you're holding on to somebody who wasn't.
The scenario can go on and onand on. So that's why doing
the right thing should be doing theright thing based on the right thing,
not on the emotions of the situation. Emotionally, yes, absolutely, I

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understand what you're saying. That's sad, to do. But do you know
how many people I walked by twothousand years ago that were blind or sick,
that people are dead, That peoplejumped in front of me and said,
save this person. But it wasn'tabout that. It's not You're not
going to be able to save everybody. But what you can do is leave

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an opening for somebody who's aggressive andmaybe wants to look at the job differently,
and that may better the company andmake it grow, and then other
people will get hired. But ifit's not the right job for her and
she can't do it, it's itdoesn't help her to kind of patronize and
say they're there, you're a singlemother, will take care of you.

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That's not your job. Your jobis to manage, So manage and pray
over it and don't feel bad aboutit. That's what you're there for to
execute those things. Have compassion.But this is not something you did,
it's something you're reacting to. There'sa difference. David, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus.I have a question. I have my
own theory about this, but I'dlike to get your take on it.
I have a friend of mine that'sconstantly telling me that I get in the
situations. I have bad luck withwomen, I'm having a real hard time
with my job and all this stuff. And he's telling me is because I

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don't pray enough, I don't dothis stuff, I don't do that enough.
And I'm and I'm constantly telling him, well, I understand that a
lot of my situation is due tosome of the decisions that I've made.
And I mean, some of itis me, a lot of it is
me, most of it is me, and some of it is just circumstances.
And like you say, circumstances dochange. But I asked him,

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I said, well, if that'sthe case, then why do I mean?
I know, I'm suffering for reasonbecause of the stupid decisions I've made.
But what about people that are borninnocent children, for example, that
are born in war to one areassuch as you know, the Middle East,
they're starving to death in Central Africa, or you know, even go

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as far as born into highly dysfunctionalfamilies. If God is loving and just
how can that be? Oh boy? And of course I'm supposed to wrap
this up in a couple of minutes, right, Okay, let's say it's
a It's an excellent question and aprofound question, and I can see where

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trying to peel that onion can bevery difficult and also one that that tugs
on the heart strings. Now,this is a very bold program, and
I don't duck from things that arecontroversial because I don't care about controversy.
I care about the truth, SoI will. I will tell you that
there's when you're dealing with emotional questionslike you know, how come babies die

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or how come people suffer, peopletend to remove their brain and stop thinking
and just want to feel through thesituation. And that can be helpful at
times, but in a case likethis, it isn't helpful. So if
you look at the big picture conceptof God interacting with his creation, it's

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not always as clear cut, likewhile you didn't pray today, therefore bad
things are going to happen to you. Now. Do I think that you
have problems with women because of luck? No? I think you have David
problems right, And those are theissues at hand. There are people David
all over the globe that are datingright now, and there are some that

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are married, and there are youknow, some just starting relationships. There
are all kinds of things, examplesthat could be given. If you're not
in a relationship, it's because youdon't want to be in a relationship for
one reason or another, regardless ofwhat you tell yourself, whether it is
the places you're going or looking orany of those things. So the same

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thing can be applied to anything.Now, do children want to be starving,
No, of course not. Dopeople want to starve, no,
of course not. Are their inherentproblems in the structure of their government or
the way they the way they live, Yes, whether it's the regions that

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they live, the places they desireto live. But you're talking about sometimes
centuries of habits that have been placedinto a country or a region. And
so you said, rightly, soyou brought it back home and said,
in dysfunctional families, you can beborn into something that somebody brings you into

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a bad situation. Parents or theirparents brought them into it, and now
they bring you into it by notknowing or rejecting the truth and applying it
to their life in a negative way. Someone can say there's a lot of
people that won't want will not moveout of what is referred to as the
ghetto because they think it's selling out. There are entire populous populations that feel

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that if you of different minorities orgroups of people that feel that if they
were to do something that seemed toomuch like the white man, then they
were rejecting their culture. There areChristians that feel like if they do something
or move into this area, they'rerejecting their faith. And this goes along

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not only cultures and different colors anddifferent races, but also religion. Religion
plays a huge part different religion indifferent countries where people won't eat certain foods
or won't interact with certain types ofgrain or whatever it might be, and
they are, unfortunately in an areawhere that's not the healthiest way to live.

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They don't have the same amount ofavailability for different or different options.
But instead of progressing or changing orsome somehow looking for a new path,
people stay in what they know.The good that should come out of it
is that those that have should helpprovide for those that do not have,

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and to help teach. But nowyou have a country, even in the
United States, where if you goand teach other cultures how to jump over
certain hurdles, then you're perceived asdestroying a culture. And there's a lot
of politics that are involved in thisthat have nothing to do with God or

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religion, but have to do withpeople's kind of worshiping of culture. And
that's not to say that culture isn'tbeauty or beautiful and important. It's that,
unfortunately people don't understand that culture isbirthed out of necessity, nothing more.
These are the raw materials we hadwhen we were growing up. These

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are the raw foods we had growingup in This is how we made something
at them from them, and thisis our culture. But cultures, our
main are are designed to adapt andto grow. The ignorance comes in when
people say, oh, well,this culture can't grow because that would destroy
it. And then then the culturebecomes greater than the people that are living

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it, and then suffering can occurand problems can occur. You have sometimes
horrible dictators and these types of thingsthat are bigger picture than just how come
this person is starving or how comethis culture is not doing this or how
come this culture is not doing that. It's just not as simple. The
simple part is the basic steps thatwhen something's not working, one needs to

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look for change. Trey. Welcometo the Jesus Christ Show. Thank you
Jesus to take my call, mypleasure to tray what's going on. I've
been working really hard over the lastprobably twelve to eighteen months, just really
trying to understand a biblical worldview andreally just wanting to raise my daughter.

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She's three, going to be four, and I'm just concerned about how society
is. It just bombards us inevery aspect of our lives with every other
type of worldview, every other typeof ism, and just wanted to know
from you what's the best way tonot only establish and maintain, but just
to keep God relevant in every aspectof her life as she grows up.

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Well, there's an old analogy thatdeals with money counters and bankers that bankers
spend less time teaching their tellers howto recognize, you know, fake currency
or counterfeit money. They just makethem go in the back and count real
money all day. And the purposefor that is, rather than spending the

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time teaching people what's fake and allthose things that are out there, they
learn by experiencing the truth, byexperiencing real money passing through their fingers and
the smell of it and everything thatexperience that they have in there. The
moment a false one comes through justtheir fingertips, they know that it's false.

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And as as a parent, yourpurpose and privilege is to instill that
same kind of instinct into your children. And the only way to do that
is to allow them to be aroundthe true product. And that is the
way you live, the way youteach, the way you pass on information.

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Everything should be first focusing on thetruth. And and then your children
will see that and see that theyyou know that what you say is true,
and the way you live is oneof in a way of intety and
honesty, and that gives them thetools to discern for themselves, because you're

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never if you try in and logevery ism, as you say, every
single belief system, every faction ofso called Christianity, every type of belief
out there, Eastern Western Pantheism,panantheism, polytheism, monotheism, panotheism,

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all of these isms. Yeah,you're done. There's no way to do
it. But what you can dois teach truth and and give her a
a tool belt and a tool bagof information and ideas and guidelines and measuring
rods and all these things that she'llcontinue as she grows to take with her

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when when she moves out or whathave you. That will allow her the
ability to use her own discernment basedon the tool that you've handed down.
And that's really about showing the truth, not pointing out every single lie,
but getting her familiar with honesty andwith integrity and doing the right thing even

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when it's not comfortable or easy orconvenient. And those tools instill that,
you know, that moral compass andgives it true north based on what mommy
and daddy have taught. And thosethings are very important because that goes forever
that the rest is rote. Therest is having to memorize, Okay,

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this is not good, this isnot good, what have you. But
you teach a child how to eathealthy very early on, teach them that
they need certain types of food intheir meal, portion size should be a
certain amount, and they should goout and play. Then you know afterwards,
then there's a balance to life thatis becomes a habit and is passed

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on rather than going, Okay,this food is good for you, this
food is bad for you. Thisis it Just it becomes too cumbersome,
so it sounds I appreciate it.You're very welcome. It sounds like you
are on the right track. Brother. You just you keep showing the truth
and being a good example, andyou'd be surprised how how children retain that

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and then you know, take thaton with them as they grow in life.
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