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The Charlie Kirk Show
Dennis Prager: America Is No Longer a Beacon of Light and Liberty
"So I found that a synagogue in Los Angeles, and I teach the Bible there every Saturday, and it's a very great source of my strength. We could talk about the Sabbath. If you feel like Charlie, and we say a prayer for America every week, we have for decades. And one of the lines is, oh, God bless the United States of America, a Beacon of light and freedom in the world. And it was maybe the hardest column I ever wrote that I have suggested to the board of my city dog. That we changed the wording. It is no longer a Beacon of light. And liberty in the world. In fact, America is the greatest exporter of toxic ideas on earth today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dennis Prager Shares the Most Important Verses in the Bible
"Why I say that most important verse, in my opinion, everyone has their own choice. In the Bible is genesis one one in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. If you don't accept that, it's not really worth going to genesis one too. What's the second most important verse, genesis one two? And it was all tohu wavo, which is untranslatable. Let's say null and void, it really means chaos. If you don't accept one one, you will accept one, two. That is the left. The left is one two. You, Christian meju, were one one. They're one two. In an it took me a lifetime to figure this out because it's very complex. How does somebody really say men give birth? How do you get to the point where people say what it's not just a lie, but is an absurdity, it's as true as two and two is 6. That men give birth. It means that they live the chaos of genesis one two. And it is done by these by obliterating distinctions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Special Conversation Between Charlie and Dennis Prager
"Dennis, there's so many important things we could talk about, but I do want to focus on your remarkable work on the first 5 books of the Bible, the pentateuch, the books and Moses, the Torah, which I think you understand better than almost any living person on the planet today and how it applies to today's time, which is honestly the most important. But one of the things you talk about that I think can frame this discussion is something I have repeated is the first 11 books of genesis in particular layout distinctions. You were talking about this earlier, which is God created a world where distinctions matter. And since the 1970s, the left has done everything they can to destroy distinctions. Talk about what distinctions God set up in creation and why does it matter? I wrote this first in the 1980s, so this is not new, and I knew then how dangerous the left was the left is the anti Bible. That's what they are. It is the antithesis of the Bible. And I like to share with you, I know you've heard you've heard me and you've read me on this. I'm very flattered. What did God do after creating the world? What did God do the other 6 days? And whether you take day literally or not is of no interest to me, I happen to think it means era because yom in Hebrew means era just as it does in English. If you say in our day, you don't mean today. But it doesn't matter if you take it literally, I don't have a problem with you. But what did God do the other 6 days? What did he do? And the answer is God made order. The left makes disorder. To understand the left you must understand it is a force for chaos. Because it's very hard to understand the left. If you say you were Christian I'm a Jew, so tell me, where do I go to know what you believe? I'd say, yeah, read the Bible. Very simple, okay? Why would you say, what would a left to say, The New York Times? Okay. By the way, that may well be an honest answer that is correct. But they don't know where to send. You because it's not written. It is, it's felt,
The Officer Tatum Show
Frank Sontag, Founder of Kingdom Me’s Gathering, Shares His Story
"Frank sontag, welcome to the officer Tatum show. Carl, that's great to see you again. Glad to be back on the program. Thank you. Absolutely. Absolutely. I love having you on. We've been trying to connect podcast wise, different time zones. So hopefully soon we'll make that happen, but I love having you here to talk about to talk about your men's ministry. First off, give us a little background, Frank about your own personal story, and then why you decided to found this kingdom man's gathering ministry. I was raised as a Catholic and walked away from the church in high school when I decided that I had enough of quote unquote religion. And went out in the world, bought a motorcycle in 1984 at a very serious crash, which caused me to reassess my life at the age of 28. I fell into the new age movement, which for the listeners and for the viewers that don't know what new wage is, it's loosely put truth in all religions, love is the answer, all pas lead to God, spiritual, but not religious. And that kind of appeal to me in the aftermath of a situation that I knew I shouldn't have survived. I was reared in on my motorcycle by someone doing a 110 miles an hour. Obviously here to talk about it. Yep. Life-changing moment for 25 years, I was a new age teacher in Southern California, seminars, workshops, speaking engagements, thousands of people. I actually thought I was doing good in the world, spiritually speaking, but when it came to God and the Bible, never really opened the Bible. We had catechism growing up. 25 years after this momentous day, I had another momentous day. December 17th of 2009, Carl, I met the risen savior. I had a moment where two brothers that loved me a great deal. Saw that I had achieved heights in the new age movement, the LA times did a front page article on me calling me a new age guru. I had long hair at the time. As hard as that may be to imagine. And they had had enough. My best friend gave his life to Christ three years previous. They did what I call a Christian intervention for two and a half hours. They hammered me one day. They got me to say that I had lied. I had cheated. I was a sinner, that three letter word SIN, a lot of people don't like to hear. And then they were kind of like well. And at the end of two and a half hours, Carl would came out of my mouth because human will is very strong. I said, look, if that works for you, fine. Not for me. I'm a spiritual teacher, and I started pleading my case. Very long story short, we made sure and put it in my book. I have a book called light the way home. Got spoke to me.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Bible Is Under Review for Removal in Davis School District
"I want to give you Utah as an example of why parents are concerned why Americans should be concerned. Did you hear what they were thinking about doing in Utah? A school district in Utah is very well going to ban the Bible. The holy Bible because one parent complained that it contained inappropriate and pornographic material. That led to a committee review, the David Utah school district received a petition from a parent to have the Bible removed from schools for being what the parent calls a sex ridden book now, according to the parents petition, this falls under the sensitive materials law in Utah. And as a result, the Bible might wind up getting banned from this school district.
Pray the Word with David Platt
Forthcoming Clarity
"John chapter 13 verse 7. Jesus answered him. What I am doing, you do not understand now. But afterward, you will understand this first has meant so much to me over recent years amidst challenges and trials of various kinds to use language from first Peter. And I just want to encourage you with it today, especially if you were walking through challenge trial in your life. In any way, this picture of Jesus washing his disciples feet and Simon Peter sang. You're in a wash my feet and he's resisting what Jesus is wanting to do in his life. And she just looks at him and says, what I am doing, you don't understand now, but afterward, you will understand. And there was a moment. I was a year plus ago, and I was walking through something in an older brother in Christ, I passed her for decades who I respect deeply. I was sharing with him some of the struggles that I was walking through and he looked at me and he just quoted this verse and he said, David, you don't understand now what God is doing. But afterward, one day, you will understand. I was talking to another pastor friend later that exact same day who said something very similar. He'd been studying heaven and he said David I just don't think based on what the Bible teaches about who God is, what heaven is like, that we're going to get there one day and God's going to say to us, you know that trial, that difficulty, that challenge you walk through. Yeah, I don't know what that was about. No. And one day, we're going to understand that God was working in ways we couldn't see and didn't understand. But all throughout that challenge and trial, he was faithful, and he was wise. He was loving toward you.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: We Should Have Prayer Rallies Rather Than Protests
"Is, to me, the brilliant strategy is Carrie leg strategy. She's having a prayer rally right now. And that's what we should do. We should pray rather than protest. Go to a church, say if they went into New York or D.C. and had prayer rallies at churches or cathedrals, how would they say the interaction? These are people praying I'd love to see the TV cameraman. Come in and there's a church people praying peaceful and the FBI or DJ DoJ try to stage some kind of phony insurrection. Well, I'll tell you when you recall that president Obama was the one criticizing people clinging to guns and bibles, it wouldn't surprise me. And again, these are the folks that during COVID wanted to arrest ministers for daring to lead worship, but that's an excellent idea, Pete. Thanks for calling in from central Iowa. Go ahead. Statement. Maybe president Trump should come to Iowa like Carrie likewise. And just stay here. Because it's New York, D.C., California, where all the trouble is. If he would come and die while Carrie would like dead a week ago, down to having part and Des Moines, he could stay, you know, go from the dakotas down through Texas. And he wouldn't have any trouble like he does with New York and D.C..
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Sharks, Males, And Females
"So do you understand what the morons at the San Jose sharks have tweeted? Who are we? Who will divide the world between male and female? Who are we in western civilization that does that? You don't realize that centuries for centuries. The zapotec culture in hakka. Had a respected third gender, the mukes gender. Then they give more examples. Are those who were born as men, but who identify as women and are attracted to men, the angui are those who were born as men and are attracted to other men. The San Jose sharks, okay, so this is, this is really important. I mean, this is, it doesn't get more important than this. As I've told you, the western civilization is rooted in the Bible. Even if you're an atheist, all you need to be is honest. You don't need to be a believer to state that. What I said is either true or not true, it has nothing to do with the state of your religiosity.
The Dan Bongino Show
Robert Sirico: Analyzing the Modern Socialist
"How do you address being a priest in a man of faith and understanding the words of the Bible How do you address the liberal criticism frequently of free market folks like myself and you when they say well listen Jesus was a socialist I kind of laugh when they say that but how do you address that Well you know you know who came back with the best quip On this the most succinct was Winston Churchill And this is in the early 1900s He said in his day of course He said the socialism of the ancient church the early Christians said all that is mine is yours But the modern socialists say all that is yours is mine That's great When these liberals accuse us of this they're looking at the communal nature the generous nature the philanthropical nature of the early Church of Jesus of how he went out of his way and gave himself for the people and they say well that's socialism Well the difference between that what Jesus did and what his early church did and what the church continues to do is that we're inspired to sacrifice ourselves By his message of love for the other person Socialism is the opposite of that It coerces you It doesn't inspire you to greatness to heroism to sanctity It forces you a person isn't made holier because their money is taken and given to somebody else Even if that money goes to something good you're not benefited spiritually by it And so that's the great flaw of socialism
The Dan Bongino Show
Robert Sirico: How a Rich Man Can Be Holy
"What do you say to guys like me who have assets and who are wealthy and talk about free markets When liberals say well you can do that You're rich or whatever You're going to go to hell anyway Read the Bible Well the first thing I do is I write a book like the parable the book on the parent so the economics because every one of those statements you said I cover in that book the rich man and the greed But what I would say to you personally what I said one very wealthy man Rather well-known but I won't mention his name here He said to me once you know I really want to grow in holiness and what do I do for the poor And I said well why don't you think of and I mentioned a soup kitchen I said why don't you just go work in a soup kitchen one afternoon the one night he said father he said if I did that do you know how much money I could make in that period of time by giving myself over to the and I said oh I'm sorry you thought I was talking about something for the benefit of the poor I was talking about something of benefit for your soul You know do that and do it anonymously I mean if you can I mean you're well known person but if you can do something anonymously for somebody that's going to put a whole perspective about how you handle your money and what your heart what God is calling you to And by the way the very fact that you're asking this question is such a sign of a moral tug on the part of God on your soul
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"The final thing I will add and it's a bit on a more optimistic note is I agree with what you said a few minutes ago that this was really brought out in me this curiosity about the world, as I said, I'm addicted to learning about the world and you said it's not always the case and others or maybe not to the same extent. I totally agree. But I really think and I know that you'll agree with me here too. That there is so much more that people could be learning about the world that would interest them than they are now. And it really does start young, you know, when people say that they're bad at school or they're not, I don't buy that. I don't think that they're certainly there are people who for whom learning comes easier than others, but there are so many lost souls out there who wander around and they have no idea what they're missing. If you just look up and pay attention, the world is so cool. I just did a 30 minutes on my show timeless about owls. Owls. They are the coolest animals. Oh my God. Aren't they amazing? And by the way, what I'm saying is, yes, maybe I'm a nerd and I read the book about Islam, but there are so many cool things, not just even, you know, I talk about classical art. I know. Birds. Insects. It's like candy stored life. It is, that's exactly what it is. And if you just look up and pay attention and really see the that's what I mean by jaded. Yeah. None of this owls, you tell that to an average high school kid. You're into owls? That's what I would have thought. That's exactly what I would have thought. Well, that's interesting. So there is hope. I mean, I think I'm being a little too hard on myself. I think there would have been a part of me that would have thought, okay, maybe I should explore this, but yeah, I think most of me would think, that's someone who's a little kooky. Anyway, you should all watch a show on owls. They are the cool, they are the coolest animals. And I think the most beautiful. Animals of all. A barn owl. By the way, here's this is gonna crack you up. Sue was crazy about owls. Really, I never knew this about her. Raise this with her. Oh my gosh. Shabbat dinner. That's what I'm doing. That's correct. Okay, Dennis, for the sake of prager memes, which is the meme account that someone has created. What is our Instagram handle? By the way, do you know what a meme is? I know what a meme is. Handled was a little trickier. But I have a handle on it. It is Dennis and Julie podcast. That is Julie podcast. Dennis and Julie need a cast on their arm. The Dennis and Julie cast this week's features. What did I miss? What is it? Dennis Julie pod. Oh, I got the cast in and out the pod. And what's my email? Julie and Julie Hartman dot com. That's amazing. Bam. Thank you. Wow, I am stunned. That well done. Just to repeat at Dennis Julie pad Julia Julie harbin dot com..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"That's what they do. And Sue your wife. So at last Shabbat dinner, Sue, who's the researcher extraordinaire. There's nothing that woman doesn't know. She had this video that she found on Twitter of these sick people. I mean, I don't know if it was at a bar or somewhere, but there were all these adults, and they had this little four year old girl in a chair in the center of the room. And this big thug drag queen was twerking and dancing around the four year old and Sue passed it around for all of us to watch. And she said, what do you see about this video? And the thing that was so clear in my heart aches as I say it, 'cause I can picture that girl's face. Everyone in the room, all of the adults in the room are laughing and smiling, they have this sicko evil face. And the girl, she looks uncomfortable, and she has this deep, and it's actually getting me a little emotional thinking about it because it's just evil. What they're doing. She is this look on her face if I know that this is bad. I know that there is something really sick about this. That's right. And again, she's all of maybe four or 5 years old, but she has that instinct. That it is wrong. If adults don't present. Admirable models, it's very bad for a child. Admirable models. It's a point, at least for me, I'll conclude on anything you want to add, obviously. I, this is new. This is a newer insight in my life. Relatively recent. I think it's more important, and I didn't used to think this. I think it's more important for a parent to be an admirable model than to be a particularly loving parent. I think children will do better with admirable parents who are not all that loving, I don't mean abusive, just not all that loving. They don't tell the kid all the time. They love them. They're not effusive. They don't have big huggers. And I am a big hugger. And I'm still saying this. Then that that's that is what a child needs the most is admirable parents and admirable other adults. If adults are twerking, their world collapses, though they don't know it. That girl's face seemed to say I know there's something wrong. Yes. But most kids either they'll have that face or nothing. But to have, you could say whatever you like, but a drag queen dancing in front of you is not an admirable model. Men wearing women's clothing and taking some of it off during the course of their dance or routine or read, this is not admirable. It is what it is, and if adults wish to enjoy it, look. I'm libertarian on sexual matters. I don't think strip joints should be closed, people want to go. They should go. But I don't want to take a 5 year old there. Keyword adults. Yes, the key word adults..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"So I have, I had a prager force young a girl on my radio show today. Because doing appeals for PragerU, by the way, PragerU pays good money to the radio stations to allow this. This is not, I don't use my radio to do this for free. Anyway, so I have this 17 year old girl on. I don't remember what state machine. I don't remember. Not nor is it important. She was in Texas, oh yeah, San Antonio. That's right. She was in San Antonio, Texas, correct. Within one minute, I said to her, I think it was my first question. Or after she started speaking so my second question said, I'm just curious, why are you so mature? And she didn't go oh, thank you all that's so sweet. She goes, because I was homeschooled. Oh yeah. By the way, and I knew it and I said, if I had to bet my house, I would have bet she was homeschooled from the moment she opened her mouth. I used to be so against that. Why? Oh, 'cause I thought it was ridiculous. I thought, oh, you're gonna take people kids away from school where they meet other kids, and then you're gonna confine them to the home where their parents teach. I just didn't understand it. I didn't get what it really was. And also, that was back during the time when schools were vaguely okay. Yes. Vaguely. Yeah, exactly. Now they're just hubs of leftist and they're left as indoctrination camps. And worse and somewhat sick. You'll decide if you're a boy or a girl. Well, that's what I mean. I mean, the leftist and doctor, I know you meant that, but I'm just saying. They're sick. It's not just political. It's every aspect of life. Right. This girl, oh, there's another thing, this girl radiated happiness, these kids, they're, I have a term for homeschooled kids. Nothing applies to everyone. I know that. There are non homeschool kids for whom this is true in their homeschool kids room. It's not true. But the generalization is what matters. They are not jaded. Most people your age and much younger already in high school are jaded. They're jaded because they make themselves jaded. They're jaded not because they actually were in life jaded. They contrived these narratives and myths that they have been oppressed and that they have a reason to be jaded. It's a personality trait for people at this point. A learned personality trait. And their innocence has been shattered, that also makes them jaded. Yes. That's true. Well, yeah, again, I was so lucky. I really had a very lovely and childhood. And I think a lot of people, my age, had pretty innocent childhoods, but I can not bear to think about what the four or 5, 6 year olds right now who are getting drag queen to workers in front of them. I can't bear to think what they're going to be like in 20 years. Talk about jaded. Talk about having their innocence robbed. I didn't have drag queens twerking in front of me. That's exactly my point. Is the term I should use now? No, no, because that's what often..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Robert Flores, doesn't he do videos for you? Yes. They do a book club, which is been so interesting. And I feel like part of being what you just said about how conservatism conserves the best, one of the things I love about conservatism and what it's done for my life is that the political part is actually such a small part of conservatism. And that's what people don't understand. It's a and that's not true of liberalism. Then that's not true of leftism. Liberalism and leftism, the political is the entirety of it. For conservatism, the political is a manifestation of the greater values and themes that we hold, respect for the past. For the left to go over things, that's what existed. A music conservatory was just there to teach you music. Right. Now it's there to teach you social justice. I feel like I am like my whole world has been opened up because of being conservative because I have an appreciation for it always in a great way. It's amazing. Look, again, I know this is odd, but you know, I have this book here that I stole from Dennis's library. I love going to your house and looking through your books. It's like an archeological dig. Going through all the different books and I steal some, but I always return them. This is Bernard Lewis's book on Islam. I don't know if the me 5 years ago would be reading a book on Islam. But I'm addicted. I know it sounds weird. I'm addicted to the world. I'm addicted to learning about everything. So I'll be personal. Look, I adore you. And. We're so we're so fundamentally similar, and. That's not the reason. But it is true. Your love of life, I mean, tell everybody how much time you spent when you last visited the house, looking at inks. Oh, so much fun. Yes, I pulled up a chair. Next to Dennis computers. He was looking at a fountain pen inks. And I have to say which sounds is boring as possible. I thought I was just, I just wanted to know what you were doing because you said that you were relaxing. And I'm like, I'm going to see how he relaxes. He was going through fountain pen ink and it was riveting. It was so much fun, the different and what's so cool about it is they have this one color purple, but then there are like ten different shades of this beautiful royal purple. Oh, it was so fun. So fun. So I talk about that even in my happiness book, not just on the radio. That the more that brings you delight, the more you're passionate about the happier you will be. But it is your response to that was really indicative of you love life. Now you love classical art, but let's admit how many people your age, gee, I really tell you reading this book on Islam and looking at Peter bruegel, the elder. And again, that wasn't me. I don't know if that really was my 5 years ago. But sadly, sadly, is the operative word here, unfortunately. It's all within you. It's been extracted. But I don't know that it's within everybody. I think everybody could love more about life than they do now. Yes. But so I don't know, but I'll tell you, though, what makes me think I may be wrong and if you do it early enough, you can cultivate love of life in almost any kid unless there are major psychopathological impediments..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"You need, again, going back to what I was saying earlier, you need other adults in your life to help sort of carry you morally and intellectually forward because your parents can only do so much and to your point what you just said, I'm not Dennis prager to my parents or to my children, excuse me. I'm their parent. Sometimes you need other adults to point things out to you that if your parents pointed out to you, it would just annoy you. Oh, exactly exactly. I mean, I'm just being honest. In parents who have said to me, that is still me a favor. And like you to introduce my son to this young woman. But if I introduce them, he'll never beat him. I'll never be here. Totally. But if you do, they'll take you seriously. As much as I have an incredible relationship with my parents and I adore them, there are some things that only tell me or you know. And that's what you wouldn't annoy me. Right. That's what Hillary Clinton wrote. Yes, I knew you were going to bring this up. It's so true. Go ahead. No, you please. I'm sorry. I interrupt. I interrupt because I know anyway. I love that. Anyway, she wrote the book, it takes a village right to raise your child. And when she published it, I said on the radio, I agree with her. I just don't like her village. Right. I prefer my village. But of course, it takes a village to raise a child. Yes. There's no such thing as only parents. It's not possible. You know, I was also thinking recently, I mean, again, not to beat a dead horse, but you know how often I think about how lucky I am that you're in my life and I have this incredible personal and professional situation. I mean, it's just my cup runneth over. But I think about, really, you don't see a lot of instances of mentors anymore. I mean, you really, I mean, again, it is such a credit to you that you took me under your wing. The way that you continue to do so and you really have taken it as a responsibility to mentor me and again, I just, I'm really overwhelmed. But you don't see that. Right. You know why? Because people want to stay children. You don't see adults doing that, you're saying that adults want to stay children. Yes. I can't think of anyone else in my life. And again, it makes me feel all the more lucky who has a similar situation where there's an adult in their life where they really feel his mentored them and help them. Like you have with me. Well, that's a very important point. I have gotten the line, remember I'm on radio now for 40 years. So I've gotten this line almost from the beginning and I was 34 when I began. 34? Yeah, no, no. You have 40 years, right. Yes. And the I would say starting at 40, guys would call up this because of the guy thing. Guys would call them. You know, Dennis, you're like a father figure to me. Can't be ten years younger than me. By the way, to this day I will get that from college ten years younger than me. It can't be a father attend to the best of my knowledge. And I remember thinking, I'm too young, I would think. Am I too young to be a father figure? And then why am I too young? That's absurd. And then I thought, you know what? That's great. And then I thought more. Every man should aspire to be a father figured out to young men. Younger men. Yes. But they don't. I remember, and it's just no knock against him at all. There was a very, very famous basketball player. He's still with us, I believe. Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics. He was a legend. And there was an article on him and he said, oh, you know, I'm getting older. And I got to say, when a kid comes over to me and goes, mister, what, you got the time? This was before kids walked around having the time on the I've never heard that sentence ordered. Yes, oh, it was very, very common, because the adult would have the watch and have a watch. You got the time. And something the effect, I'm not all that comfortable being called mister by a little kid. People, it's no knock on Larry Bird at all. He doesn't want to be called mister? Huh? He didn't want to be called mister. That's right. Yeah, because he was an adult. You don't call a 15 year old mister. I don't know. I view that as a little odd. I think it's nice and respectful for a kid to call you. But it meant that it was a certification he's an adult. He's not a kid. You don't call kids mister. Simple as that. But. You have to raise children to aspire to be adults. That's not done now. Any more than the piano and Bible combo. But isn't that wouldn't that be a great the word in my mind? Experiment. Crusade. Oh. But I'll use the word crusade, but probably a better word than crusade, because that sounds like you're almost at war. Wouldn't it be a great mission task job to start that every home should have a piano on a Bible. You see, if it just says Bible, they think you're just some religious advocate. But if you say piano, but you see, and by the way, it's symbolic in another way. I'm loving this. I'm thinking it through with you. Because they represent totally separate realms in a sense, the religious and the aesthetic. And the kids get neither today. There is no aesthetic beauty. It's true. Your generation has not experienced aesthetic beauty, not in art, not an architecture, not in music. I mean, it's unbelievable when I think about it. That, by the way, for the record is what conservatism is about. Conserving the most beautiful, the most profound, the most wise, what is wrong with that? And by the way, you know, earlier in this episode when I was saying that there are people around me who are liberal and I look at them and I go, no, you're not. I was thinking as I was saying it, this really goes beyond the political realm. When I look at people and I see that they have, what did I say fertile soil to allow certain ideas to grow? I don't just mean political ideas. I mean being opened up to the world in the way that we're talking about now. And again, I know I keep repeating myself, but that's something that I really found and discovered, you know, kind of coming into this world with people like Robert floor Zach, who's this great artist who opened my eyes to the beauty of classical art, and that you don't need to be an expert to appreciate a painting, you know? Even, I mean, PragerU does these videos..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"That's exactly how my parents feel with you. I hope that's true. People ask me, I think it's worth talking about here. People ask me, how do your parents feel about your relationship with Dennis? Because, you know, you're a very significant adult figure and mentor in my life. And I have to say, my parents love Dennis, they love my relationship with Dennis. They know that you and I, you're not a replacement of them in any way. There's no such thing. And they just, they say to me, 'cause I bring it up with them sometimes. I go, I want you so do you know how strongly I identify with what you're saying and I'm so happy, of course, that your parents to the credit feel that way. I very early on before I had kids. People would thank me or they would say, oh, well, my son, my daughter, had to Dennis prager in his or her life. Because I was teaching kids from a very young age. And I remember saying periodically, I helped my kids have a Dennis prager in their life. Really? I swear to God, before I ever had kids, I knew how important another adult is. Oh, again, it's what I was saying earlier. You have to, when you get to a certain age. I'm not Dennis prager in my kids lives. Yes, you're done. I want them to. Your dad. That's right. My parents say to me, we're thrilled that you have another. You have another adult in your life who loves you who cares about you who wants to help you succeed. Yes. I mean, they say, why would we, why would we be threatening? Well, some would, but they're not healthy. Okay, but exactly. But the more the merrier. Our listeners know that we represent two very different generations. One comes from a generation that embodied the American Dream. And the other comes from one who hardly believes it's possible anymore..
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"Well, you just said about how your circumstances form you that that is so that is really, really important because even the way that I phrase the question in the way a lot of people think about circumstances is that they work against you. But actually, they can, they can facilitate your reaching your fullest potential. I know the hardest parts of my life. I've thought about them is how is this an opportunity for me to transform myself? This was put into my life for a reason. I could view it as holding me back or I could view it as a way that's going to push me forward and teach me something or open me up to something that I wouldn't have been exposed to before. That's very, very important. That's right. Well, that's the our freedom is how we react to what happens. Right. Or you incorporate it in a positive way into your life. Yes. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I mean, look, easier said than done. You know, you keep mentioning because of course, as I, as I always do, the Torah in particular the Bible generally, the greatest sources of wisdom ever written. And that's why working so hard. Last night, I said then the 23rd chapter of the fourth book numbers. So on two thirds of the way through the fourth of the 5 books. It's amazing that you well, I can't believe it either don't start me on that. But I'm just saying it's so important for me to get I'll give you one example you will love. This is the first time I'm doing this sort of like a trailer. Nobody cares about the book of numbers. Nobody even knows it's one of the 5 books of Moses. It's the fourth book of the Bible. There's a phenomenal story about a pagan prophet, named balam. And he's riding his donkey and the donkey to do something negative. That a king who wanted to destroy Israel called him is his fascinating, it's an incredibly unique story in the Torah. Three chapters, and it's got a talking donkey in it. So the donkey sees sees an angel. With a sword, and stops walking. And balaam beats the donkey to move. Does it three times? Stops beat stop speed stop speeds. Finally, the donkey opens his mouth. And says. Haven't I been a good donkey for you all these years? Why did you hit me? And almost no commentator Jewish or Christian or just general biblical scholar. Notes what I believe is so huge in that lesson. If every animal could speak, what would it say to its owner? I have the chills as I relate that to you. I've never seen any other commentator on the Bible, make that point, which I'm making in the 22nd chapter of numbers. But isn't that powerful? The first thing it says is not hey, there's an angel standing there. That's why I stopped. The first thing the donkey says is I didn't deserve to be beaten. How many animals could have said that to owners? In the history of the world. The torus preoccupation with animals is one of the unsung glories of the Torah. I know, and the irony is that the vegans and yeah, right. People. It's like, where do you think we get our respect for animals from? As you observe at the beginning of the commentary, the Torah has more or at least maybe at least it's genesis. I don't know if you said it was the whole tour, just genesis, has more laws pertaining to the humane treatment of animals than it does about keeping the Sabbath. Yeah? That's right. Case in point. You know, I love that you know it. So listen to this, so good. I've been I've been patiently awaiting telling you a point I made on my show. I think you will love. Given. Love as I have of the wisdom of the Bible. So I noted in passing, I don't know what raised the issue. But if you read American history, you will note that virtually every American home. Unless truly, truly abjectly poor, you know what I'm going to say. Kind of Bible. Ah, no, but yes, they all had that. But there was a second thing they had. Guess what it was? A piano. Oh, wow. Really? Yes. It's very telling. So I said, if your house has a Bible and a piano, your kids are going to be richer and better and deeper and mature and finer than almost any other kid. I have to tell you, I have these dreams of raising my children in a technology free house. Like, I just want my house to be filled with books. I want it to have a piano. I want it to have filled with instruments, a trampoline. No TV, no computer, no phone. I think about having a house that would be indistinguishable from one in 1940. I mean, because I think that stuff is so rotten and you are so right that it leads to a richer life. If you have all of those boring things, yes, piano and Bible. Gosh, I have to tell you when you said it gave me a pang in my heart because I used to know how to play the piano and now I don't. I should take it up again. Yeah, but you know what? Look. I thought I didn't teach. I mean, I gave my son trumpet lessons. He wanted Trump. I didn't give a damn what he played. How did you know how to give Trump a lesson? I didn't know I had him with Trump. Oh, are you kidding? I don't have a clue what to do with the trumpet. I would use it as a baton. Hey, it's a credit to you. I thought you were the ones getting that is a true credibility. Because you learned so, you were like, oh, I learned Russian. Do you know his trumpet teacher? Showed up at a speech of mine about 5 years ago in South Carolina. Oh, really? I embraced that guy. He was about a Swedish human being. And by the way, that's a good example. A healthy parent so aches for their kid to have healthy adults in their lives other than themselves. My parents with you..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"There's no law against envy in the 613 laws of the Torah. So what is the difference? You've explained this to me before I can't remember. I envy my neighbor's house. Fine envy your neighbor's house. It's not healthy, but nobody's hurt. Coveting your neighbor's house means I want to take it away from my neighbor. By the way, all of leftism is built on comedy. We resent see if there are two ways to react to your neighbor's bigger house. One is, wow. That's a great house I would like one like that. That was the classic American way. I'm going to work so hard. I'm going to have a house like that. Or similar to it, or half as big or whatever. The evil way to react is to resent that your neighbor has a bigger house or a better house. That's all of leftism is based on that. By the way, all the gigantic hatreds, anti americanism, we resent that America has this wealth and this freedom and prosperity and anti semitism. We resent that the Jews live the quality of life. What is it in the Middle East? The Jews literally did make an incredible country out of a desert. It was nothing. Tel Aviv was a malaria swamp. It is today one of the biggest high-tech cities on earth. That's what they did with it. Their neighbors had the same land and did nothing with it. By the way, it's very similar to the United States. South America could be an incredibly prosperous and free place. But they didn't have the same values. So why do you say you say, wait, you know what? You obviously have a good value system, Americans, will adopt it, or screw you, we're going to destroy you. Right. We're going to bring you down. That's your, that's your essay in the first in chapter four, I think it is with Cain and Abel, do you seek to envy? That's right. Or emulate the people who do better than you. I don't know that you know my Bible commentary. Oh, I know it cold. Well, that's I mean, that's yeah, well, that was Keynes. Yeah? Knew that able brought a better sacrifice. This is what has really, I think, made me the person I am, is this Bible commentary and all that I've learned through you and pray for you. I mean, I just, again, I feel so lucky because I feel like I am such a happier, healthier person for having this wisdom in my life. Because when I catch myself going down a road, whether it's, you know, I talk to you a lot about that light near my heart or talking on the show a lot about the light near my house and the you have to wait a long time to turn left and sometimes there are no cars coming and you just want to go against the light and turn left. And I think back to things that I've learned through PragerU and through you about the slippery slope. If you behave poorly once, you're more likely to do it again and other people are more likely to see you. I think about that. When I start envying someone, I think of the canon Abel chapter, do you want to envy? I mean, I think about, I think about all of it. So much. And anyway, it's just to say, I feel really, really blessed. And I thank you. I am blessed that someone of your caliber has so taken in my ideas. Look, I say when you're not around, I see it was carrying on my mission. I didn't think I would meet somebody. So young and feel that way. It almost makes me tear up. Well, that's what I hope to do with my show. I just, again, I talk about those people who I look at and I go, you think you're this, but you haven't had the right exposure to the best ideas. And I so badly want to bring that to people because I got really lucky early on. But I want to go back I want to go back to this because I want to go back to that point that I said earlier about you have to sort of take the baton and find good influences, good adults that help shape you and bring you to fruition. But before we go back to that, I want to go back to the question that I asked you a few minutes ago about can a person be there full selves despite their circumstances. And you brought up that caller that you had. Okay, go on, go on. The caller, you meet me. Which caller? The caller who lost the two daughters. That was how you responded. By the way, so they're not separable because circumstances help form us. So. You get married and you're not the same as when you were single. You become a parent and you're not the same as when you didn't have children. So that's why my question isn't who I am. It's what do I want to be? I knew I wanted to be married. I knew I wanted to have children. It was inconceivable to me, I wouldn't marry. It is not inconceivable to most members of your generation. They maybe they will, maybe they won't. That is not fair. I don't know, I'm shaking my head because it's a sadly true. So that is a sea change. I know. It is. It's really sad. I would have sooner imagined myself an accountant than a bachelor. Am I the only reason I mentioned this? I know ability with numbers. But I could have made it. But it was inconceivable Dennis the bachelor..
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"A woman called my show, the hap and the happiness hour, the last happiness outright did. I don't remember calls. It's not possible. Thank God there were so many. So if I remember a call, really made an impact on me. This happened the last edition of the happiness hour, my Friday second hour. By subject was envy. And how it is such a powerful force in so many people's lives. I thank God, not in my own, but I know that it is very powerful in many, many most, in most people's lives. Then I want to give you a biblical thing because it gives you the genius of the Bible. But woman calls up and was the first call I took because. I knew it sort of challenged my thesis of not being envy. And I love challenges. The woman has lost both her daughters. They both died. One of suicide? And one literally overnight of a brain aneurysm, out of nowhere. That's how aneurysms. It's a frightening thing when you think about it. They just happen and you die. And she said, so Dennis, you understand, and she said this with no bitterness, not even any self pity. She says you'll understand why I envy parents who still have their children. Oh, of course. And she spoke about the, in the case of the woman with the aneurysm, she left two children Abe in ten. So I said, of course, I totally understand. I said, but I'd like you to answer this question. There are a lot of people who have children, who don't have children, the children don't, they don't have grandchildren, and you do. Are they right to envy you? This was your response to her. Yes. Oh, wow. And what did she say? Yes. She was honest. And I was honest. But I'm sure she never thought of it. She only thought that she envy people who had children. But what about the people who want grandchildren and VR? That's true, but I think losing two children. No, no, no. Leaves a gaping hole. Yeah, no, no, no. Well, but I take your point. Oh, but you're right, of course that's true. Death is death. You can't lament not having like you lament dying. I get it. However, I will tell you that it is an ongoing pain in many people's lives if their children don't have children. I mean big time. That's fair. That's not something I would know. You wouldn't. And I wouldn't know until I became a grandparent age. And people open up to me about it, and well, you know, Dennis, you got a good, you got two grandchildren. And I don't walk around thinking, I got a good I have two grandchildren. I love them, but I don't think how lucky I am to have grandchildren. Right. But they do. It's a good point. Any more than people walk around, I'm lucky. My kids didn't die. I mean, if you ask me, of course I know I'm lucky my kids didn't die, but I can't, it's not even healthy. You can't walk around every day. My kids didn't die today. It's a little sick. Right. So I was very, if I may say I was very proud of my response, that I came up with that immediately and made her realize she is the object of envy. The woman who lost her two daughters. Yes. It's a very important point that people who envy are also the objects of envy. And also when you said that you were talking about envy during your happiness hour, my first thing was the typical, I thought of the typical ways that we think about envy and be someone for being smarter for being richer for having a seemingly more glamorous or fulfilled life, but there is this other category of envy in the sad realm. In the realm of well, there's a great sorry. The realm of grief and loss. Envy goes into those realms of life, too. I think of envy is only existing in the sort of materialist are you referring to what I said to the woman? No, I'm just saying when you brought up that you were talking about envy on your happiness now. What was going through my mind is oh, you were talking to people, don't covet your neighbor's bigger house or more money, but this is very serious part of envy. Right. So this is the genius, again, of the ten commandments, which I've written so much about. As you know, I do. That the tenth commandment is do not covet your neighbor's house, your neighbor's spouse, your neighbor's animals. We would say instead of animals today, property, or whatever. Right. Covet is not envy. Covet comes from envy, but it is not the same as envy..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"I'll tell you this. I'll give you an answer on that. A tentative answer. Which is why drugs and alcohol are so terrible. The addict isn't who they are till they're sober. That's a killer. So I have another follow-up question. Do you think that people can be who they are if they are crippled by circumstance? You know, again, to make it personal, I think about my parents and what they've had to go through with my sister with autism and they have truly gone through hell with her and her care, just decades of hell. I'm sure in some ways she has I know in ways she's prevented them from doing things and has certainly been an impediment to their happiness and even prevented them from doing things like traveling because they have to stay in Los Angeles to be near her. But what I will say about my parents and is a huge credit to them is that they I don't think that they let that really. Really hold them back from living their lives to being the real people that they are. It never really diminished them in the way that some other people who have children with disabilities it lets them diminish them. And by the way, I say that with no judgment. It's remarkable the way my parents have tried to steer clear of letting it completely ruin their lives. As I said, there have been times where they have it's impeded their ability to be happy, but it's never fully diminished them. So in other words, I guess, again, the question is, can you be your full self despite certain curve balls and tragedies that you have? Well, that's Victor frankel's theory. The only freedom we have is how we react to what happens to us. And he said that having gone through a Nazi concentration camp. That had I read it in high school and that was a life-changing book. You mean man's search for meaning? Yeah. I've got to read it. Oh my God. Have I, you know, I sort of envy you. It's like the first time people go to Israel. Oh, my gosh. That is such an apt analogy. That is the best analogy. It's the one the first time people go to Israel. That is a life-changing experience. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to read it. I'm reading this Islam book right now. I don't know why it's on the table, and of course your rational Bible, but maybe I'll put his book before those..
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"It. Do you know my story about my high school basketball coach? Oh yes, yeah. It's in the 50 questions. It is. Yes, the scraping the bottom of the barrel to get you on the team. God, who's gonna pull up that guy's name? Right, so just I was, I was 16. When the guy insulted me in front of the entire basketball team of my high school, I always scraped the bottom. We're not going to do well this year. We scraped the bottom of barrel, prager made the team. And he was so here's the point. I remember my reaction. And that means I was already formed. My reaction was, this guy is an a hole, except I use the word. In my brain, but he's right. That I could say that and not mope at 16, being insulted like that in front of the whole team, that was a good sign. Definitely. Definitely. You know, what people don't realize is that you and I believe as recently as last time talked about how it's you choose whether or not to be offended. I've always viewed getting offended by things as just enslaving yourself. You're just harming yourself by doing that. When even when someone, it happened, unfortunately, to be true, what that guy said about you, you know, the basketball player. But that's the point though. I wasn't offended. No, I'm saying. I know you are. I'm backing you up. So in that case, it was true what the guy said to you, and you went, okay, it's true, I'm not going to get offended by it. But even when people say things to you that aren't true, of course, it's natural to get offended or upset. But whenever that happens to me, I just kind of look at the person and I'm like, that's your problem. And if I'm going to let this ruin my day, I'm enslaved. Myself. Right. I'm only harming myself or even when someone has done you wrong, and you hold a grudge and don't forget them, of course they're exceptions if someone has really done you wrong. You should hold a grudge and not forgive them. But I think, again, I'm just I'm making life harder for myself by caring this around. It's oddly a selfish thing to do to forgive the person or a selfish thing to do to not be offended. I don't want to walk around a bitter, angry, upset person. So just rid yourself of it. Don't enslave yourself. Anyway, but back to this point which I suppose has become the theme of our episode. When do you know if you are fully formed or when do you really become who you are? And of course, there are nuances we're talking about with that. It's more important to be comfortable. By the way, they're different. Not when do you know you're fully formed? We're never fully formed. The second way you put it in the right one. At what age are you, what you are now? So what's your theory? On what age? Yes. Different people is a very tough quest. That's why I opposed it. I said, I didn't have an answer. Look, the only okay, so I know my boys, and I know me. They're the only humans on earth I know, from early on to adulthood. Who else do I know? No, my wife, from her childhood. I knew me and my two children. I would say, now that I've never really thought of it, that's a good, it's a good test case. So it's clearer in my older son. He really, I think he was who he is at a very young age now, but I know, but I think of it. And the younger one, it's a very tough to know because he was into drugs and alcohol from a very early age. He was born through a meth addict and there were other issues involved. So it's hard to know, I think the real person..
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"bibles" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Right. But a lot of people have these seeds. It's so true. Again, I'm so glad we're talking about this because I see a lot of people, even I saw them in college who identify quote unquote as liberal. And I would look at them and I would go, you're not liberal. That's right. I know you. I know your nature. Frankly, I have friends like this. And I'm like, you are not liberal. You are liberal by default. That's what I called myself, you know, back in the day. I called myself liberal. I wasn't liberal. I just didn't know what I was. And so there are so many people with fertile ground to let this stuff grow and it really is a shame that not more is exposed to them. I also want to say, I mean, parenting is so important, but it's also only important to an extent. I credit even more than I do you in PragerU, I credit my parents for shaping me into who I am. And I have incredible parents that really created such a healthy foundation for me. But also, once you get to a certain point, it's not that you this is hard to talk about because a, I don't want it to come off as insulting to my parents or any parents, but it's just a truth of life. Once you hit a certain point, your parents work is done. And do you have to sort of take the baton and figure out who you are. It's like a relay race. Right, it does that. But it sort of is a relay race. And so I think when my parents not that they're ever done being my parents, but you know, when I reached 18, 1920, they had done their part extremely well. And I felt like I was 90% of who I am now. But that 10%, I think, really was finding PragerU finding you refining my values that help sort of kick that over the edge. And similarly, there are a lot of people who go to college and maybe their parents like mine have done the best job bringing them up to that point. And then you get to college and a lot of that is unraveled. And they sort of revert or they go down a dark path. So that's why it is so important. It doesn't negate the role of parents, but it is so important to find things outside of your parents, good influences, good adults, that can help shape you because that's, that is just as important as parents. Did I make any sense when I said that? I made a 100%. Okay. One of my ten favorite verses in the Bible that repository of genius. Therefore a man shall leave his mother and father and cling into his wife and they shall be as one flesh. You can't cling them to your wife. You can't grow up until you leave your mother and father. Right. That's the Bible speaking in genesis, the foundational book of everything. By the way, such a radical departure from the rest of the world where you were really your parents child and. The Torah, which is where all the laws are and so on. It wants you to grow up. And part of it is, and therefore you leave your father and mother. And I think it's easier for fathers. And I think it's easier for fathers and sons. I only have sons. Right. And that's exactly what I want them to do. I want them to grow up. I want them to live wonderful and fruitful and productive lives cling to their wives and make a family. It doesn't diminish my love in the least. It's just an I know that my role, look, I will always have a role and should as their father. That's a given. But I know what you said is true and I want to come back to it in a moment, but there is one thing I do believe I still owe to my children. And that is to leave a life of dignity. Do you know this is a really super serious subject? I have another one of my theories. As bad as it is to have a bad child and it is crushing, I mean bad, not successful with this or that. Bad. It is worse to have a bad father. And my proof is, parents of bad children do not kill themselves. Sons of bad fathers kill themselves. That's true. Like one of Bernie Madoff's. And who was the guy, the guy who sent the people to murder Sharon Tate and. Oh God, everybody listening is going to come yelling. Anyway, his son committed suicide. You're right. So Charlie Manson, thank you. Oh, of course. Charles Manson. So I do feel, and they probably don't think about it. But the sort of role that I now have is model, which a father and a mother, but especially a father always has, till he dies, is a model. That's a big, big, big deal. And my other lighter sounding, but not all that less significant, being no trouble in their kids lives. That's something I always thought growing up, always, I said, you know, mostly because of my sister with severe autism, I said, even in times, if I can't be a total joy to my parents, which was always my goal to be a joy and a distraction to them, I am never, ever going to cause them problems. At the very least, I'm just going to be neutral. That's interesting. Like literally from 6 years old just thinking neutral. That is atypical of a child to think that they're lucky that you thought that way. I always think of it in the other direction. Parents should be easy in the lives of their children, but you're entirely right. Look, easy, everybody should have the goal of being easy. You should be easy to work with. At your workplace. It nobody talks about it. What is important in life if you give me a hundred adjectives of what's important to be in life, I don't think almost anybody would write the word easy. But it's in the top 5. It's so true, actually. I didn't even think of that. Oh, yeah. I said to I now have two daughters in law. It literally as of one year ago. But I have another daughter a lot much longer than that. And I said to her on the phone once, Miriam, I just want you to know there is I have a real goal in life Vis-à-vis you want to be easy. Well, my dear, you are easy to everyone in your life. By the way. Okay, that's a conscious goal. Just for the record. Oh, I know it is. Oh, I know knowing you that it is. I know that I tell you, you are a remarkably healthy person in every way. And I know that that's been conscious and it has taken a lot of work. By the way, do you know thank you? It's all true. I have work. You don't have a temper, you're not jealous, you're not, you know, you don't have expectation. You know, there are a lot of ways that you. All I really worked on me. Even going back to what you said about that Buddhist, not having any desires or expectations. But I have desired. Of course, you're saying applies to the second. But that shows that you, it wasn't innate in you, that you learned it, and you refined yourself, and you became that healthy person that doesn't have access to.
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Imposter Syndrome Anyone?
"Had a little bit of impostor syndrome when I got to Harvard, which by the way, actually, during our convocation, which is the opening ceremony at Harvard, one of the deans got up and said, if there's one thing I've heard from freshman, it's that they have impostor syndrome. And I'm sure all of you are feeling it that you don't, you're looking. You said that? He said that. Yes, it was really nice. He said, you know, I'm sure all of you are looking around at each other and looking at yourselves and thinking, I don't belong. How did I get so lucky to be here? I don't belong here. And he said, let me tell all 1600 of you. You are meant to be here. We picked you to be here. We want you here. Anyway, he just, it was easily the biggest point he made in the speech was please do not be racked with impostor syndrome, almost every freshman has it. I did a bit because I'm self conscious because I feel like it sounds go ahead. I understand why you're so conscious. But look, going to Harvard is a big deal. Getting into Harvard is a big deal. And I recognize how lucky and fortunate I was. I also recognize how hard I worked to get there. But still, even though I know I worked so hard, just being there and seeing all the other very talented people you do sort of get a sense of how did I get picked or how did I end up here? So I have had that a little bit. But I can't say, it sounds like with this individual that you're talking about, he felt like his whole his whole existence with that. Thank God I've never felt that way. I've always felt very comfortable in myself.
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At What Age Do We Become Who We Are?
"Answering, I just said to you, I'm not who I was at 8, but my parents put me on a plane to Florida to visit my aunt chippy when I was 7, actually. I flew alone. In those days, nobody escorted you, you boarded the play just as if you were 57. I'm 7, I board the plane. I fly. My ad picks me up. Anyway, flying back after I don't know how many weeks I flew back, fittingly, and I don't see this at all at all negatively. My parents were king late. To pick up their 7 year old son. Look, I'm sorry. I know that you're not saying it negatively, and I'm certainly not trying to insult your parents. Really? Oh. I mean, I love it. Pretty bad. I don't think it's bad at all. I think it shows you seriously. It shows you the time in which I lived. There was not it never recurred to them I was in danger. And they were right. They were right. That's true. Point, this is not today.
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Knowing the Shepherd's Voice
"John chapter ten first, 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I love John ten. It is filled with such incredible imagery of Jesus as the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep and protects them, cares for them. Won't let anyone snatch them out of his hand and in verse 27, I love this picture of my sheep here, my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I think about a shepherd, I heard, share recently, his name is Daryl, and he was sharing about how he leads his sheep and they know his voice. He said, if anybody else were to come and call my sheep to do this or that, the sheep would not respond, but when he speaks they respond. This is what she do. They know the voice of the shepherd, and they follow him. Don't you want that to be true of your life today? Just think about today. We want this every day, but today that you would live, hearing his voice, him knowing you, and you following his voice. You know, it's interesting. I use the illustration sometimes of how obviously we don't know everything Jesus is leading us to do in a given day. Where to go eat if we're going out to eat or what to do in this or that moment. We don't have a word from God in the Bible about every detail of our day today, but that doesn't mean that his voice can't lead us, he's put his spirit inside of us in such a way that when we meditate on his word, that we do have, we study his word, we hide it in our heart. We're getting familiar with his voice so that as we make decisions during the day that we are familiar with the voice of Jesus, we're familiar with his spirit and how he leads us and so to live today, listening to his voice in his word and then following his voice as he leads us by his spirit according to his word.
The Bible Project
What's So Special About Oil?
"We're exploring a new theme on the podcast called the anointed. Anointing is taking oil and smearing it on someone. And it has a very specific purpose. Foil marks a person replaced that the bridge between heaven and earth. Cool. But why oil? Why not wine? What's going on? So what we're going to trace down in this conversation is there's a recipe for special anointing oil. You can find it in the Torah. The recipe for anointing oil is given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. And it's not just oil, it's oil and fused with pungent aromatic spices and it makes this incredible perfume. How creations packed with these plants that if you just ate the leaf, you would not enjoy it. But you crush it. Pulverize it, we're soak it, and then it can infuse this with a taste that just is like otherworldly. Well, I think the biblical authors want us to see in this anointing oil is the life of Eden condensed into a little dense liquid. The life of Eden begins with the water of life, filling the dry ground and forming the human, and then got spirits. Fills the human. Water and spirit. Marking humanity as a place where heaven and earth are one. And so to remember that place, or even to designate a place to be like that, we anoint it with oil. There's moments when through liquid and spirit, a person a place is marked as a special portal between heaven and earth to bring about that reunion of heaven and earth in some way. And I think that's where all of a sudden all these themes come crashing together. Of the liquid life and the spirit are joined images. And that's what anointing means in the Bible.
Made For This with Jennie Allen
Approaching God With All of Yourself With Kathryn Maack
"When it comes to God, he's given us different parts of ourself to come together and it's not supposed to be this or that. So talk about what we're missing when we jump into those sides of our faith. Yeah, well, I mean, I think, you know, I know that you're talking to so many people and I am too that just feel distant from God and they feel an apathy or a dryness and we assume that that's on God's end. Maybe he's backed away or he's turned a blind eye to us and the premise of the book is that sometimes God feels distant because actually on our end we're holding parts of ourselves back. And so it's very easy to do. We actually have four dichotomies in the book head and heart truth and spirit being in doing and center and saint. And so we break all those apart in the book, but for instance, head and heart. Yeah, it's very easy if you have a particular personality or group in a particular denomination to really love God well with your head to have an intellectual understanding of him, but to not be relating to him with your heart. That was a story of my husband. I mean, he knew all about the Bible. He studied at his whole life, and it wasn't until his growth in the last three years that he realized that God wants to hear his actual emotions. And so he read that somewhere like you should bring God your actual emotions and started praying with what they actually are, where his heart is. Like, God, I'm nervous. I'm afraid I'm whatever. And he would come out of his room with his Bible in tears. I'd never even seen him cry. And so I think just the opportunity to go, you know what? I probably have some gaps in some of these areas. I might be more of a head person and have some gaps in the way I relate to God with my heart or vice versa. And to be able to recognize that and go, you know what? When God says, I want you to love me with your heart and soul and mine is strength. Like all of me, I have that opportunity and that can reach the gap between me and God. Truth and spirit the same way, you know, if we grew up in a charismatic background, we might be really strong in the spirit. If we grew up in a Bible church, we might be really strong and truth, our personalities, lend to leanings. And so it's just good for us to go, wow, there's a whole, there's a whole vast way that we can relate to God, and also there's a lot of vastness of expression within the broader church where we can learn from people that have strengths where we have weaknesses and we can grow. And how we come to God with all of ourselves.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Michael Brown and Eric Discuss the Ultimate TRUTH
"Talk about faith like it's this subjective thing. Like I believe and you believe it and you think, well, on the one hand, there's truth to that, but ultimately we're talking about truth. It's either true or it's not. You know, gold is an element. One plus one equals two. Either what we're talking about is true, either Jesus rose bodily from the dead, either all these things are true or they're not. And it's fascinating how you were just talking about apologetics and now a lot of people, they don't have answers and they just kind of fold up. They never seem to have understood like, look, you might not have the answers to some of these questions, but this stuff is true. You can get the answers. It's important that people know, not everybody's going to be gifted in the way that you are or to a lesser extent that I am in talking about some of these details. But people need to impress the impressed with this idea that this is actually true. This is not just some religion, some philosophy. It's actually true. Yeah, and by the way, book has a really nice cover for everyone to see. It's hard to see them. Pull it back closer to your body there. There we go. Why so many Christians have left the faith by Michael L Brown, why so many Christians have left the faith. Yeah, so that's my thought is that some creatures leave the faith because they never really were convinced like, look, this is true. You may not know the details or you may not be able to argue with a skeptic, but you need to know this is true and there are people who can help you understand if you have a question. Exactly, as you know, I've been on the front lines of Jewish apologetics, defense of the faith, interacting with rabbis, Jewish scholars for decades. And I will regularly meet Jewish believers who will come up to me. I've got to thank you. I've got to say, I'm still in the face because of you. Now, obviously God keeps his people, right? But in other words, they got bombarded with objections. They got bombarded with questions about the Bible about how can you be a Jew in belief in Jesus. And it's through them.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Why So Many Christians Have Left the Faith' With Michael Brown
"Are ate more books. You know, people say that about me and it's like, no, no, no. That's not true of me. But you, there are certain people that I don't know how you do it. But this one, the title, it's very provocative title. And again, brand new book, why so many Christians have left the faith. So let's talk about it. I have my theories. What do you say? First, let's recognize there is a problem. You know, there's some say, well, if the true Christians, they won't leave either way, a lot of people are dropping out. Prominent leaders have dropped out fully apostasized, pastors, worship leaders, cemetery professors, don't believe the Bible anymore. We hear the stats about profession Christians dropping at a rapid rate in America, young people dropping out of church. So there are lots of different reasons. There are some who say, look, look, Eric, Jesus prophesied that there'd be an anti falling away. And this is just the expected falling away. Well, it's a falling away. There's no question that it's happening. But to just say, well, it's the final thing. There's something we can do about it. No, I don't believe that at all. And for sure, there are a number of different factors. And what I do in the book Eric is I try to break down all the different factors because everyone has their own story. Each person has their own story. And I try to shoot why this is happening and then how we can address it. So for example, one of the big issues, you've got a great book about atheism. One of the big issues is that the new atheists that really sprung up about 1516 years ago. Bestselling book, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dunn. What happened was the memes, the quotes, the ideas, the mindset of those books kind of trickled down to the general public. So that 12 year olds are talking about I'm not going to listen to a Bronze Age God and some antiquated book and everyone thinks the Bible is hateful and bigoted and so on. So the sentiments trickled out,
The Eric Metaxas Show
John and Eric Discuss the Concepts of Justice and Retribution
"Were just saying that the boys who climbed the cliffs, the boys who went into machine gun fire from the Nazis, that their goal was to kill German soldiers. Or at least wounded incapacitate and take them prisoner. Okay. The point is you stop them from committing violence. That's the point. Exactly, innocent. And if you and you're allowed to get angry, you're allowed to have a group, all the things that these simpering weakling Christians denounce, they want them. They want the cops to have camaraderie if they have to save their kids from kidnappers. They want the soldiers who landed at Normandy. They don't want them to be a bunch of Amish, who are going to waive bibles. They want people who are going to shoot guns at the Nazis. Okay, now, but let's be clear. And this is kind of the point. We talk about Lincoln, when Lincoln said, with malice toward none. He showed tremendous grace and magnanimity magnanimity toward his defeated enemies. Once they were defeated, once they were defeated, Lincoln did not say in 1860 and 61 and 62 and 63. He did not then say, let's not be so hard on these confederates who are trying to destroy the United States of America and who believe in chattel slavery. He recognized them as enemies. When Jesus said love your enemies, he didn't say they are not your enemies. He said they are your enemies. So first of all, it's like the man who tried to kill the Pope by John Paul the second. The Pope prayed with him after he'd been apprehended and put in prison. The Pope didn't say, let's be generous and let him out of prison. Why? Because then he will try to kill other people potentially. So the fact that people are so sloppy about this and that people don't understand when Donald Trump says, I want to bring justice. I want to bring whatever. He is not saying, okay? That he is going to bathe in the blood of his victims. But what he is saying is we need to bring about justice. We
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"bibles" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"We'll keep them coming your way. All right, good stuff. That's Mark meckler, everybody. Great American patriot. I'm curious though. I mean, are you surprised by the Democrat side of this? I am to an extent, but the reality is a lot of Democrats are people of color. And especially in the black and Hispanic communities, we're talking about very culturally conservative people. Yeah, they may vote Democrat, but we're talking about people who go to church. They have a value system that is locked into the early days of the world and they don't like stuff like this. They're not going to let stuff like this fly. By the way, I have noticed and that there has been a trend, and grace baker, I, you know, I love watching the docu series and stuff like that. And I was just watching on a Julia Child. I'm just fascinated by her story. But she was, she was a cultural conservative, but she was liberal in every other aspect of her life. Really? And she came under fire, she was accused of being anti gay. Oh. Years ago. But the reality is, I have no idea. And I'm not quite sure why that even mattered. When I first started watching that Fred chef show and, you know, all this other oh yeah. It never crossed my mind. Oh, I wonder if she's pro gay. That's not why you're watching her. No, I'm like, man, that's a great way to cook a roast beef. You know, wow. That never crossed my mind. But anyway, there's a new series on HBO. It's based on Julia's life, and they literally injected into this a lesbian subplot that somehow Julia Child had a lesbian romance when she was in college, which is not true. It never happened. They just made it up. It's got to be in every show right now. So now there is a brand new Disney movie coming out that's causing a lot of controversy and some of the Disney Disney+, which I cancel my subscription. Disney+ has a brand new movie that features a young child, a little boy, I don't, they don't say in the reporting, but probably 6 or 7th grade who wants to be a Broadway star and there is a very, very, very noticeable narrative that starts out in apparently according to the reporting I saw where the kid is asking for his lip gloss. Before he goes to school. In the morning. Oh, I know exactly what movie you're talking about. I can't remember the name of it. But to the point of the executives, the Disney executives they say they are very happy to announce that they are injecting queerness into everything they do at Disney now. Just a heads up for parents. It's better Nathan never. That's the movie. It's better, Nate than never. It's based off of a book I believe. It looks watching the trailer. It looked pretty innocent. I remember seeing the trailer, but just a heads up for parents. Yeah, heads up moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas because you never know. Which is sad. It is sad..
Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"bibles" Discussed on Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"And if you look at verse eight and nine of second creepiest. Chapter twelve lowest. Would've says three times. I pleaded with the lord that he take away. This thorn in the flesh that he take it away from me but he said to me. My grace is sufficient for you. My our is made perfect in weakness. We know that the apostle paul had this figurative or that was in his side. We don't know what it is many of your bible commentary People who write bible commentaries historians. They'll speculate as to what it may be. Maybe was poor eyesight. Maybe it was other things but we don't really fully know what it was but we do know that he prayed lord peter. We'll take this cup from me. He essentially said that prayer. He was praying for god to remove it but he says my grace scott says the sufficient for you and god says to the apostle paul he essentially said no matter where you go no matter what no matter. What shall be the outcome. My grace is sufficient for you never again after that after that passes scripture. Do we see the apostle. Paul petitioned the ward in order to take to have that thorne taken away from that time on the apostle paul said therefore i will boast all the more gladly and my weaknesses. So that christ's power of christ may rest on me because he'll give added grace. He'll give ed mercy brothers and sisters i would also i would rather have the thorn in my flesh. Plus the added grace of god that the have the thorn removed to have the burden removed. And then to also have the grace of god potentially removed and so we look at this. Brethren god will give increased grace to all those who deal with the burdens of life while remaining faithful unto the lord. You look at jesus and you look at all the many wonderful promises that the father of the son and the holy spirit have made and you can do a study on the promises of the lord and encouraging study and we know that jesus has plans for your life. We know that jesus had gone to prepare a place and we know that if we remain faithful that the grace of god will cover us of any iniquity and so brethren god always comes to sustain those who put their trust in him. And as i get ready to close this lesson down. I'm gonna give you a little story about a lady and this lady's name was anne johnson. Flint's her life on earth can never be described as easy. I mean that's that's a given quite the contrary from the childhood her body will endure the onslaught of rheumatoid arthritis until she can no longer even get out of bed in the morning over the years or affliction took a great toll leaving her with no choice but to sing comfort from sleeping by resting pillows her body developed serious bed stores bedsores and then her body was ravaged by cancer and yet her attitude during this entire time throughout all those struggles with pain and confinement and suffering and lola loneliness brethren. She was one of the great prolific writers of christian poems. And then we've taken her christian poems and we've turned it into a him it's called. He gives more grace. He gives us more grace and in her poem. She says he gives more grace grace and win. The burdens grow greater. He sends more strength when the lakers increase to added affliction. He adds his mercy to multiply trials. He multiplies piece. His love has no limit. His grace has no measure. His power has no boundary that is no one unto men for out of his infinite riches and jesus he giveth and give and give it again when we have exhausted our store of endurance. When our strength has failed air the day is over when we reached the end of our hoarded resources are fathers full giving his only begun his love has no limits. His grace has no measure. His power has no boundary knowing unto men for out of infinite rich riches and jesus he give and give and give again brothers and sisters. She wrote that poem while she was dealing with her body being ravaged by cancer her body being ravaged overtime rheumatoid arthritis bed sores all over her and discomforts while in confinements. You think she was probably dealing with loneliness and depression and yet she wrote that poem because she was like the apostle paul. She knew that she prayed yet. The thorn remained but she knew that. God's grace was sufficient for her life brothers and sisters as i close this lesson down. Whatever burdens of saying you have whatever burdens of sin of grief of disappointment remorse whatever burdens of sin fear of failure. I ask that you dare to cast your burdens upon the lord. You ask your brothers your brothers and sisters in christ for their assistance. We can't literally take the load away. We can't literally take the burden away but we can be there like sandwich for frodo to lift him up. Throw all over our shoulder and help get them to the finish line. Brethren we need to help our brothers and sisters get to the finish line of life by calling each other out in love with gentleness and compassion. We see glaring san in our lives of our brothers sisters in christ. We need help each other to lift each other up. It'd be careful that we don't allow ourselves to be tempted as galatian six in verse five or success but we do so with a spirit of humility not looking to cast stones now looking to disparage but to lift them up out of out of sin and out of the bondage that send creates and so that is what we're been called to do so brothers and sisters. I think about the scriptures here this morning for the grace of the lord is sufficient for us and our times of weakness. The grace of the lord is sufficient for us in our times of despair and we are to bear are loads because only we could call upon the name of christ only we can believe in christ repent of sin and live a godly life. In only we can then have our lives be judged by the good works the good fruit that we use as we try to bear each other's burdens and thus fulfill the christ. You're hearing this message this morning. Brethren and you're not a child of god. I pray that today is the day that you make. Jesus the lord of your life. What are you waiting for. You might not make it home this afternoon. I hope we all do but the fact remains is not going to watch the local news every single day. People are dying from all various types of accidents and crime and everything in between brothers sisters. You have an opportunity right now. Also confessed if you have said unchecked sending your life and you wanna confess publicly the you don't have to do it from your pews but if you want public accountability by the church you could come forward. It will pray for you and we won't judge you and we're not going to cast stones and will put a plan in place to help you to lift your bondage of sun but if you've been away from the church for a while and your You know that you're not living godly life whether you're listening to this at home or whether he here this morning and you want to be restored to the church you could do that to the shepherds will come forward. And all those who desire to be restored asked for prayer or give their lives to christ. I ask that you come forward now as we stand in sync song..
Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"bibles" Discussed on Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"Nobody on this planet could believe in. Christ jesus for you. There's a reason why so many of our children as they go off to college. Don't return to the church of their you because they never learned to have their own. They had their parents faith or maybe their grandparents faith but they need to learn how to have their faith. because they're gonna stand before god in judgment and so when we think about loads or or burdens in this life that only week at bear. Nobody can believe in christ for you. Nobody can repented the send your life for you. Nobody answer for you when you stand before god in judgment for each one must give an account of his life before a holy and righteous god and that means that nobody gets lost in the crowd that means that nobody gets to hide behind others then nobody gets to hide behind organizations because each one will stand or fall on his own merits. Each one will stand or fall based on the choices that they make in their life and choices could have either positive or negative consequences to them and so there is a man back in the colonial days who was a preacher. His name was john and he wrote in a diary in his diary. He said he said. I resolved that every man should do right. Whatever the cost his second resolve was whether it whether any other man does right or not. I will so help me get and i love that. Because that is the supreme being the supreme business of every christian and every man or woman child who follows god makes jesus the lord of their lives that everyone will bear his own load. Everyone should bear his own burden and so when he says whether any or other man does right or not by the will of god i will for god knows us as individuals. He judges us and he he he knows our thoughts. He knows our actions. There's nothing that's done in secret for. Knows all things and so whether anybody else does right or not. We as christians must be determined to do what is right whether anybody in the world is true or not. We must be determined as christians to be faithful and true as individuals begins first and foremost with us as individuals. So that's why when we read what it say in galatian chapter six in verse five. Each one was bear is owned load. Bears owned burden. That's what it's talking about. Because we know that because when you go back to verse four and if i go back if you slides and you were to look at this notice that verse four says that each one must examine his own work and then he will have reason for boasting but only regards to yourself not enjoyed another so you need to examine your life examined. The fruit of your life randy said this morning we can be fruit inspectors and we should examine the fruit either that we produce as righteous individuals. Do we produce good deeds or do we produce bad deeds. Do we produce bad works. Are we living in said. Are we the bad tree. Bears bad fruit. And so these are the things that we're looking to talk about here this morning because the highest contribution that we as individuals as we bear our own load can make any community. Whether it's lincoln park trenton. South grade allen park woodhaven no matter where you live each and every one of us the greatest Contribution that we can make to. Our communities is a life well lived a life. Well lift a life that is lived in righteousness with high integrity and high moral character. And we need to offer the world the right kind of life and the most beautiful portrait that we see in five words of jesus is said he went about doing good. He went about doing good and so should we. Someone once said that one example is worth thousand arguments. And i want you to think about that for a second. One example is worth a thousand arguments. Well let me give you an example. There's little story in the old testament is called sodom and gomorrah. Do you remember how many righteous individuals were needed in order to save an entire village of people telling people were needed so i asked the question. Would you been one of the ten because what they say is the greatest gift that we give to our individual communities to the world. A life. Well-lived are we the righteous tree or the battery are we producing righteous. Good works we're reducing bad food meaning son in our lives. It's you press forward. That story to the twenty first century over here in lincoln park michigan. And we all live in lincoln park and we need a ten righteous individuals to save the entire community of people. Could you be counted as one of those. Then you can answer that question. But don't forget. God knows all things he knows. If you're living faithful he knows if you're the good tree he knows if you're the battery. He knows the fruit. That's being produced from your life. And so the the most one of the most beautiful five word portrait of jesus is that he went about doing good. Another example would be jesus had twelve apostles. And then i know but when we think about the twelve men they went outside after jesus given a commission he goes back to have any gives them a commission the holy spirit comes in them and they turn the the world right side up living amongst a torturous regime like the roman empire in those twelve individuals. Along with all the disciples they went out into the world and made a world of difference. And so when you think about what i said a moment ago one example is worth a thousand eight thousand arguments how we live. Our lives matters. It's so it's very important that we understand these things the best contribution that we could ever offered this world is to is to set the right example and think about the second aspect of this and now we get to verse too because when you get a galatian and you get to chapter six and you you look at verse two. It tells us that we are to bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of christ right. Well what is he saying here well. Burdens oftentimes should be shared with others. And we'll talk about this here this morning. It is also important to check the context of this passage because it says in verse five. That only only you can bear your own. Load your own burden but yet verse two so that we could bear the burdens of others and that we should in so many of the problems that we have in religion in the church is because scriptures have been taken out of their proper context and so we go back and we look at galatian six one. In what did it say in the verse before verse two it says brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault it's talking about sin you who are spiritual meaning right just restore such a one in the spirit of gentleness considering yourself less you be tempted brother. That's what we're talking about a bible study this morning. That is brothers in christ as sisters in christ that we are to go to one another when we find sin in the church and when we find sin that is a glaring obvious. one another's lives. We are to go each other to each other individually and that they don't listen to you then you take two or three more so they can be witnesses. They don't listen to them. You take it to the church. They listen to the church. Then the you allow those christians those brothers and sisters who have gone apostate to be like tax tax collectors heathens and so what is the point here when we look at this passage of scripture. The apostle paul says that we are to bear one another's burdens dust fulfilling the.
Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"bibles" Discussed on Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"I thought this might need to be said this morning last week. During the announcements. I encouraged everyone to be attending bible class especially the adult clips and i made a comment. That david is teaching us things that i didn't know we're in a bible and as i thought about that. I thought maybe i needed to clarify that fair for it in david's blobel class he's teaching us and pointing out of nuances inscription. They give us a better. Understanding of god's will to help us live kind of life. The christ would have us live so that we may be worthy of the name christian so scored. I meant by that so if anybody was bothered bleier hopefully that takes care of that but i hope this congregation appreciates the sermons that david presents to us each week. We love david if we could duct tape them to this podium. David would that work. I don't think we want to bring some foods. We'll bring a little water and bread on occasion. We would do that if we could. Christi woodlock reshape. Yes probably we'd have duct tape here. I'm wasting my appreciate. Yeah we love david. We don't want them to go but we know that he has to do for the family. So we're very thankful for his lessons. They tug at our hearts. he's pointing out scripture. I hope everybody opens the bible's this morning. Because you don't have to watch the news you just have to walk up and down the street to see that the world that we live in each christ as much today as it did in the first century and the others are so very thankful. Thoughtful insightful and scriptural sermons. David brings geiger gatien. Said david thank you. God bless you all right. I two minutes of your time so you can preach two minutes. I know i'm looking at the clock radio. I'm like all right. Well thank you randy. Good morning everybody. Everybody having a good start to their week. I'm sorry for all those who are hurting. Obviously they as gloating. We're going to have to reach humility. I think you're soon rubbing in even between one of the songs. She told her parents actually looking know it was it was. It was a great game estrogen hard-fought and we ended up on the wrong side. Some of us ended up other oxide. But you know what it's okay. There's always next year telling myself that as lions strand for fifty years now always next year. But we're here talking about the scriptures so if you want open up your bibles here this morning to galatian chapter six. I want you to open up there. I'm going to have some slides on the screen behind me. But i want you to kind of follow along. I'm going to we're going to focus. I relation six one through probably five or six this morning. We're gonna tie in psalms fifty five and if you look on the screen behind me says life's burdens life's burdens and the bible's instructions. You know it's important that we look at life's burdens and we think about life's burdens and what the bible teaches because oftentimes when we're often times when we're thinking about life or thinking all the troubles that we have many times we're talking with friends and we're talking with family but those friends and family are always in the church and if they're not always in the church we'll type of advice do we usually get. We're all the advice. Because that's all they know to give and so we need to understand what the bible teaches in regard suburban bearing and in what there's three really aspects of it that we're going to focus on because as i said sooner or later every home every person every individuals are gonna have burdens in their lives at oftentimes seem too heavy to better and so today's lesson is going to focus iglesias. Chapter six is going to be the crux of the first half of the lesson. And then we'll get into some fifty five but glaciers chapter six notice what it says in your bibles and starting in verse one brethren even if anyone has any trespass you who are spiritual restore such as one in the spirit of gentleness and i mentioned gentle this this morning bible class we restore a brother. Who's insane with the spirit of gentleness love reverence and so restore the individual with the spirit of gentleness each one looking to yourself that you yourselves won't be tempted. Bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of christ for if anyone thinks he has something he is nothing if he deceit if he's deceiving himself but each one must examine his own work and then he will have reason in boasting in regards to himself alone and not in regard to another for each one will bear his own vote. Then you think about psalm fifty five. We'll read a real quick randy. Read it this morning. But it's all fifty five caster burden on the lord and he will soon he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. Those are the two passes scripturally. They're going to be the crux of today's lesson. The first half the lessons and a focus on glaciers chapter six. Because as i said a moment ago sooner or later every home every person find ourselves with burdens. Well seem too heavy to bear. Sometimes so the bible it really makes three important statements in psalm. Fifty five glaciers chapter six that. We're going to examine here this morning. The first one is found in galatian six and five so our to go back and you look at glaciers six and five or if you have your bibles open notice that says that each one should bear his own burden. Each wants to bear his own load. Well there's a problem with that because adverse two it says bear each other's burdens and in this way fulfill the law of christ well it sounds contradictory but then we saw fifty five twenty two says that we're to castro burdens on the lord. Well which one is it. Well i'm here to tell you it could be a combination of the three and we're gonna break does that. We're going to break those down here this morning. And we're going to look to see. What the apostle. Paul was key to the people of ship and chapter six. So let's get started with latian six five this morning. It tells us at each one should bear his own load. Each one should bear his own burden and in this life there are birds that we alone ourselves get only a bear. No one else can sometimes bear serving loads and certain burdens that are inner very lives but it makes me think of what peter said in first peter chapter four verse and it says each one has received the special gift i need you. He says. I need you to employ the serving of one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of god. So how do we. How do we reconcile these passages. That almost seem to be teaching something a little bit different. Well we have to keep them in context so as members of god's creation we have no excuse because according to peter we have all been given a special gift and we are to employ that gift into service of one another in the church in the world and so there is a life for you to love each and every one of us have our own separate lives and during During the time of our lives. Don't we all make choices. And don't we all produce either good or bad for a bad fruit through the good tree. Meaning were right just or the bad tree meaning sinful and evil and so we produce bad fruit if we're the badge but this life that we live is separate and distinct from each every other person on this planet..
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"bibles" Discussed on Coffee And A Book
"Was william hemsworth. It's great to be with you this week. Thank you for joining me on my guest at this time is author and speaker steve christie. He's the author of a interesting new book called y protestant bibles or smaller. A defense of the protestant old testament. Canon steve How how're you doing today doing. Well how are you william. How are things in arizona. Arizona is doing great. I know we been corresponding on email. I group in los angeles got stationed here in two thousand one. My wife and i love arizona. So how about you where you're at. I'm actually in toledo ohio. Which is in north west ohio. Were a couple of hours ahead of you. I believe so your time around one o'clock. I believe that's right. Yeah we're have we don't do daylight savings time so half the time. We're on mountain time. Half the time on pacific time so sometimes sometimes the throws off a little bit but regulations on the book. Thank you thank. You got a lot of a lot of reception Actually the funny. It's got a lot more reception than my first book. Which was more ecumenical. A more friendly listener that way and the reception has actually surprisingly been more in the category than a than a protestant audience. Oh that just kinda shows you that you know got got his timetable. Way of doing things right. I know you them. Some debates with gary mature with trent horn about why protestant bibles are smaller. Those debates are great. The way how you interact with each other it was very cordial So thumbs up on that. Now maybe you can tell her audience. Why what's the difference between protestant bibles and catholic. Bibles or i start off their sure. Well they agree on the same twenty seven books new testament and they actually agree on the same books That are known as the hebrew bible or the proto. Can there's thirty nine books in the protestant testaments. Catholics actually agree with but the difference is you know are the seven extra books that are in catholic testaments and the greek additions to esther in daniel that catholics referred to as doodle canon. Or second cam. Right in parliaments i would refer to it to as parker for for the audience who may have heard that term before now..