Welcome to the GTP show.
I'm your host Dylan with my cohost.
Hello, I'm Jason.
Okay Jason.
Well, I'm hosting this podcast thing today.
So this can start off, we are going to be finishing off season one of our podcasts.
Oh, insert applause here.
Thank you.
Anyways, good job Jason.
I'm so glad that we've somehow done this in over two years of getting one season done.
It's late.
It is.
It's fine.
So, we're going to finish off with kind of a fun, spicy topic.
We're talking about twisting of the word, kind of false teaching.
What do you want to call it?
I don't know.
What do you want to call it, Jason?
No, I think we're just going to call this one twisted scripture.
Twisted scripture.
Like twisted sister, but not as good.
Yeah, sure.
I like how you said, GTP show.
I haven't thought of that.
It's usually just like GTP podcasts, but GTP show sounds pretty good.
You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know,
I like this color.
It was, it was terrible.
Yeah.
So, do you have any?
I mean, any thoughts of this?
I was just thinking of, you know, this false teaching out there.
We've talked about a little bit in the deconstruction of the Bible and things like that, where people
are taking scripture and twisting it and lying.
And there's also other, you know, things that go along with that, like with false teaching
and false religions as well.
And yeah, this claim or this, yeah, that we're not trying to fit into anybody.
We are just simply talking about, you know, our views and, you know, we respect everybody.
Doesn't mean we, we agree with you though.
Bible does offend people.
That's just how it is.
I don't, I'm not trying to hurt people.
I I'm not going to attack.
I think that's the thing.
It's like, I'm not trying to be aggressive.
I'm being informative and same with Dylan's like information is being given whether that
makes it, it's not trying to be aggressive and demeaning or anything like that.
It's just, we're giving out information and sharing and studying and reading these things
so that we can share with you guys, the viewers and listeners, because there will be some
sort of video thing that I'll have on YouTube because I've been doing that.
I think, I think, I think I'll actually call this episode, uh, top context broken scriptures
or context broken.
No, you know what?
Twisted scriptures.
That's a lot smoother.
Also, a little parentheses of what this is.
These are finale, twisted scriptures instead of, you know, a whole paragraph for the intro
finale.
Yeah.
I know if we do season finale, twisted scripture that works.
I'll deal with that because that's going to be scramble with my grands.
Dang it.
Because I'm going to make, I'm going to make this into a blog as well.
Blog posts for us because it's season finale.
So it's gotta be important.
Is that going to be on the website?
Yeah.
Wow.
So that's going to be on the gospel truth project.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where you can find all our socials and our merge and all that stuff.
Everything is a plug, but it's not a plug.
It's a, it's a hard, it's, it's definitely a plug.
It's just, here's our plug.
I do, I do want to take over the podcast for like two minutes though, before we get into
your awesome topic.
Yeah, no problem.
Please go ahead.
Is this, cause this is the end of season one.
Season two is going to be absolutely insane.
Yeah.
It's going to be really, really cool.
It's going to be awesome.
It's going to be insane.
And the reason why is because with season two, we're updating our logo on everything
to the GTP logo.
If you haven't seen it yet, go to gospel truth project.com, go to our Twitter page.
It's already updated.
And for season two, we're actually going to start doing individual graphics for each,
yeah, each one that goes out.
We're going to start doing a little bit more customization more.
We started doing transcripts as well for people who can't hear, who are deaf.
There will actually be transcripts available on our RSS feed.
And I already started that.
Yeah.
And then we're working on becoming a Apple affiliates.
That just means that there's going to be subscription based stuff that's available on Apple.
It's the same concept.
75% goes towards charity.
And with the cool thing on the subscription side on Apple is going to have very exclusive
extended episodes.
So we might do an episode here and wherever you're listening, if it's not Apple and it's
like an hour long, one Apple will be an hour long.
And then there's going to be a bonus content episode, which is going to have another hour's
worth of content based on the same subject, but more in depth.
So you can enjoy us here.
Our deep dive more or less.
Yeah.
You know, a deep dive on more what we feel.
Right.
Just, you know, because it's hard to fit everything into an hour.
Well, as you guys can see, sometimes our episodes go over.
So this way just allows us to get more of our information out and allows you guys to
actually hear the full contents of what we're thinking and they get more discussion and
just to learn more.
That's the whole point of this is to talk it out and just to hear, you know, point of
view.
Right.
And I think the kind of give a sample of that two episodes ago, I was, I was given the context
for versus I still mention it.
Like I will still mention it.
Like for example, one of the verses we're talking about, Jeremiah, 29, 11, I'll give
context for that.
I'll say like, it's, oh, that's, that's verse this, but this is the context and this is
where it's talking about.
So in the extra bonus episodes will be going in depth to context to why the conclusion
was given to that point.
Instead of just sharing a verse and talking about the verse, we're going to give more
in depth to the context and really study into it.
And I think that's going to be very prosperous for everybody listening and everybody subscribed
because that encourages us to continue to really give every single reason biblically
why we believe what we believe.
And it's really important to understand that the Bible wasn't, wasn't written with chapters
and verses.
It was written as letters and sections and scrolls.
So we separated it by chapter book and verse to make it easier to read and easier to reference
and stuff like that.
But the Bible is written in its true form.
It's not split up by verse and chapter.
It's split up by a letter or split up by book or split up by like different ways like that.
So when, when we want to study it, we want to make sure that we're not just pulling a
verse out of context, coming back to topic and just read the one verse and say, that's
what it's talking about because context, context, context.
All right.
You can take it back.
Yeah.
No, I'll just piggyback a little bit.
What you said.
It's exactly like that.
I thought you brought up Jeremiah 29, 11.
That's good verse.
But yeah, it's like, you need to read that.
You said read the verses before and after, because that's, I think one of the biggest
ways that the word is twisted.
And you know, all of that is kind of, it's, it changes everything because you can, if
you just take, you know, like, I like, you know, I do not like cats and you take out
don't and it's like, oh, why not?
He likes cats or, you know, it's easy just to take out.
Whoa.
You got cut out there.
Yeah.
It's easy to take out verses out of context.
It's easy to remove them.
Just like, for example, John 11 35, if you take that out of context, you could say, oh
yeah, Jesus cried.
He cried a lot and you can kind of try to make the assumption that he cried all the
time and that's why did he cry?
It's really important to know.
So yeah, there you are.
We lost you for a minute there.
Did you really or are you, I know, I don't think this, I think what happens is that I
lost you.
It just cut out, so I started talking and then you just came back when I mentioned it.
But at the same time, I think Craig is recording both of us independently, so it's going to
make sure that there's no gap.
So I'll have some editing to do, but it's fine.
That's the fun part, isn't it?
Honestly, you heard what I said about Jesus wept.
Yeah.
Okay.
I didn't hear anything.
You were saying during that I was quiet the whole time and then I spoke up because I was
listening.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
So that's exactly what we're so yeah, your episode makes sense.
We're talking about scripture that twisted.
Yeah.
So you brought up Jeremiah 29, 11.
Yes.
Yeah.
That is, you know that one off of your head.
Yeah.
What is that?
That's the for the for I know the plans that I have for you declares the Lord plans to
prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope in the future.
And it's like one of the top five verse most common and most known verses out of the Bible.
Yeah.
Even like, yeah, I kind of recognize this one.
I think I know it.
So let's talk about that.
So how is this verse taken out of contents are twisted.
So okay.
So I know for listeners out there, we do have like we picked five verses that are we see
as taken out of context are very common that people quote a lot.
And sadly, both non Christian and Christian people quote it and use it out of context
to either make fun or to back up points that are not biblical.
Straight and simple.
For example, this one, Jeremiah, 29 and 11, as you heard, it sounds like trying to prosper
you not to harm you plans to give you hope in the future.
So what is this about?
So it's really important for context.
Like we said before, if you open up Jeremiah, 29, 11, you actually see it's a letter, right?
And this is really cool because it's not written to only one person at all.
The you in there is written to the people.
Jeremiah writes to, which are the exiled Jews in this instance.
It's a response to a false prophet named Hannah Naya.
And ironically, Hannah Naya had been like prophesying prosperity to them and it would
be fulfilled within two years.
That's not what was happening.
Right.
Not what was happening.
And this chapter 29.
Yeah, this is real quick.
Okay.
Yeah.
So people know about Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is the book written for Daniel.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, I'm right.
I don't know why I was thinking Joe for a second.
Jeremiah and he basically his job was the telepathy, the bad news.
Like you guys, we suck.
We need to be better.
Like, like if we don't do this, God is not going to like we're going to be captured.
You have to listen to me, please.
It's like, I don't want to have to be the bearer of bad news, but guys, and this poor
guy had never had a single convert or somebody follow him.
Well, no, I talk about a rough, a rough ministry.
I couldn't imagine you in youth group where nobody comes.
Nobody shows up.
Right.
You can sum up Jeremiah, the whole book of Jeremiah and two sentences, cause he basically
called men and women to turn away from all their fleshly desires, all their dependencies
and everything like idols got false gods, et cetera.
And all their stuff, they were practicing and said, they go back to Yoway, go back to
God.
And that's literally the whole book is that he was just like, you guys, this is wrong.
We're going to get in trouble or whatever.
He was like, this, this is walking away.
And so with this out of context, that, that is the kind of context going on.
And Jeremiah refutes Hannah and I, uh, and then says that false prophecy and says, it
won't be more than 70 years before it's just sees freedom again.
And they're like, we like Hannah and I is too.
Yeah.
We don't, you keep saying mean things.
We don't like you.
That's rough.
It's like, Hey, I'm just being honest.
You just Jeremiah is being straight up and this is Jeremiah in the Bible.
This is not Jeremiah who was bullfrog right now.
It's important that we know the difference because this has nothing to do with three
dogs.
So, all right.
It's we're off the band.
Yeah.
We're off the tempted to believe that this verse is about like our personal wellbeing,
but the big picture here is that it's not about us at all.
These plans that that's being referred to when God is saying this, there are actually
his plans for his people, like his as a whole, as a group, and they're going to ultimately
point to Jesus and the promise for the future and the hope that we long for within this
is fulfilled within Jesus death and resurrection.
So when we see this verse, it's really easy to be like, Hey, that's not about us.
This is about the promise that's coming to his people, which is the salvation through
Jesus Christ.
And we see that through his death and resurrection.
It's ultimately about the Savior.
So that's the that one out of context.
So that I hope I hope that brings a little bit more context.
I used to quote this verse thinking it's all going to be okay.
It's all going to get better.
But that that's that promise.
It's always pulled and it comes back to the prosperity gospel on that one.
But go listen to that episode.
We did a prosperity episode.
We did.
Look at us go.
All right.
Wow.
We're referencing back now.
Like crazy.
Love it.
So number two.
No, I would say Romans eight.
Twenty eight.
What's that?
That's and we know, oh, that God.
But the all good things.
Yeah.
Okay.
Go for it.
All things to work together or got good for good for those who love God to those who are
called the quarterly to his plan and purpose.
So I was saying good things.
There would you.
This is basically people.
Oh, you know, the typical if you I love Jesus, only good things should happen to me.
Good things.
You know, God also, you know, always come back to poor Stephen.
Oh, my God.
Stephen was, you know, he was he's like, I love Jesus.
I got the Holy Spirit in me.
You know, like killing him.
And they did like but he died like literally praising God.
It's like but you have to remember, like nobody's called because we live in a fallen world.
This is so taken out of context because, you know, it's like why do people get cancer?
If God, you know, this is God so good, you know, like all good things come from him.
So why is there bad things?
It's like because if you read Genesis through the beginning, we add and Eve, like humankind,
they chose, they chose.
We chose to have a sinful world to not listen and obey.
There's a reason there's turmoil like in the Middle East.
You know, you look at that, the whole reason for that is, you know, starts with Abraham,
Abraham, Abraham, you know, it's like go with your wife and have a son.
I'm too old.
That's crazy.
I'm going to go see with my maid.
So OK, well, now her that descendants are going to fight over that land and beat after your
people.
And then we get they finally get there.
And it's like, cool.
Well, go, go spend some spice to see if we take back our land.
OK.
It's Joshua, Caleb.
Yeah, we can do it.
Every else.
No, not even the desert.
And they go there.
OK, what about everybody?
Because we have to everybody make a new.
And he's like, oh, why these people, though?
OK, well, now they're going to be fighting for the land the whole time.
And you see, it's it's it's because of those decisions that were made prior.
That it's not easy peasy.
There's all these problems because other people have screwed up in the past, too.
We were given free will.
We've been given free will from day one.
And and that's the fault with this world.
And that's the whole point of coming to Jesus, because with him and the new world, there
will be no fault.
There'll be none of that.
And this will definitely mean that then.
Well, yeah, just to kind of jump in and add on.
Right.
To add on, you can see the very first section, it says for those who love God, that that
section right there translated from original like in this instance, Greek, you know, it's
talking about who love God confidently, who who strongly love God.
And when it says all things work together for good, it's it's not like a now good.
It's an eventual good.
So the word good doesn't necessarily mean happy or painless or financially successful,
because that's what we think of.
But God's ultimate good for us is to glorify us in eternity, which you can read in Revelations
21 verse one through four.
But beyond that, God works in and through us towards an ultimate good that serves his
purpose for the universe.
Right.
To the event to the eventual end.
So that's that's kind of the whole point is that we look at good and we compare it to
our culture, our wants, our desires.
When God looks at it and says this is the good for all mankind, so we will eventually
be fulfilled within God's plan and then also in eternity with him be taken care of.
I just wanted to add that part in there.
Yeah, no, that is.
Yeah, that's perfect.
And it's just like we're saying good, you know, not right now necessarily eventually
they will be good.
That will rain.
But as far as this world goes, there is illness, there is sickness because there is sin in
this world, which keeps us from God.
And I mean, if you're like, well, then why wouldn't God just make everything, you know,
no sickness, none of that?
Because taking away that, you know, where is your test of faith?
Well, also, we wouldn't need him.
There would be no purpose for God.
Yeah.
And the whole point is to rely on God, to, you know, be in this world to know his word.
So yeah.
We needed to have a whole episode talking about why is there evil and that I will gladly
host an episode talking about that.
Season two.
Okay.
I'll gladly talk.
I'll gladly host that episode because there's a lot to it.
And it's not just because God's like, you have to need me.
There's so much more to it and we're given choices and choices and people are allowed
to make choices and those lead to other choices and other situations.
There's always consequences to everything.
So we'll definitely talk about that on season two.
So expect that season two season two, which season two is going to start in August, the
first week of August.
So just be proud.
That's great timing right there.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
I'm going to be a little busy that first week of August, but I think we'll make it
work.
It'll work out because you know, you and me have record schedules up to then, so we'll
be fine.
That is true.
We do.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
We see.
I got thinking.
Cause I don't think the audience knows or anything.
No, not yet.
What?
No, but so August, August, the beginning of August, this is put it this way.
I will be no longer a bachelor.
I will be getting married.
So that is fun.
I'm excited.
So yeah.
So that's my, I'm like, oh, the first week that's that.
That's not that far away.
No, no, no, no.
It's two weeks.
Well, two and a half ish.
Okay.
Less than two.
Sure.
That is crazy, but that's awesome.
The job super excited.
Both me and my fiance, we're excited for it.
I hope so.
And that's why I'll be honest over this past year, the episodes have probably been a little
sporadic and all over the place because I have been busy doing that.
Did not really share much of that.
Jason knew that's why, you know, the season two now we've locked in a schedule now and
like, so we've got it down, down, no more.
Just kind of like before I was like, Hey, you want to report today?
Okay.
Yeah.
So now we are going to move forward and actually have it scheduled because life's getting busier
and things are happening.
So I'm excited.
Yep.
Seasons are going to be 12 episodes each season and last six months.
So six months, it swaps out to the next season, the next season, et cetera.
So Mr. Host, what's next?
Well, marriage.
Oh, I mean, no, where are the notes?
I just had up.
Oh, so we're talking about Romans.
Yeah, I did that one.
Okay.
And then you, what were you saying?
Romans and then we're going to talk about Philippians 413.
That's the next point right here.
And that is, you know, the very, like, this is my, my brother's verse on his letterman.
Like, you know, this is the one that I was on the promise ring for my fiance.
And I gave her that one because it's the, I can do all things worse and you go ahead
and read it because I know you're excited about this one.
Yes.
American standard version says I can do all things for him who strengthens me.
And this verse is a great verse, but always taken out of context.
The context here is actually verse 10 through 20, that whole section where you're telling
me if you will take things out of contents.
No way.
Yeah.
Sadly, this whole topic is about right.
And sadly, it's like even religious leaders, like people in teaching positions always take
stuff out of context too.
And this is one of those things out of context.
And the context is verse 10 to 20.
We can see that.
And like, I probably do now too, after hearing you say it so many times, I think I said it
all the time.
Like, Hey, come on.
I think you all think it's your first.
Yeah.
It's just, it's an easy thing to just say.
And people say all the time and they use it to defend their position or whatever they're
doing.
Um, but with, with this, however, Paul's comment is specifically referring to the ability of
a Christian to endure under hardship and persecution, despite well-meaning use of the words, this
text doesn't, it does not teach that Christian is empowered to accomplish any tasks simply
because they are saved.
The, this perspective can be found in the old Testament.
Actually, when it talks about, um, God will allow him to do anything, kind of like get
you through things.
Uh, it refers to Jeremiah 32 17, which notes that nothing is too hard for the Lord.
Job 42 to which declares God can do anything.
And then God's closest followers have long known that with God, nothing is impossible.
Whether Abraham's promise, son, Isaac, the people of Israel crossing the red sea or the
people entering the promised land under the leadership of Joshua, God provides on time
in his time.
Every time Paul's confidence can, you can see his confidence can be found throughout
his writings.
Second Corinthians three, second, seven, eight, chapter 10, chapter 11, Galatians five, Ephesians
three, Thessalonians three.
These are all good things that are showing the confidence there that no matter what you're
going through, you lean on God, rely on God and rely on the Holy spirit that's been gifted
to us as being saved by Christ and accepting Christ that it will, he will strengthen us
through anything that all these hardships and anything we have to deal with, he will
give me strength to see it through.
And that's something that, um, that is important to note.
And especially when it came down to Job story, you can see that was the same concept, but
it's important to note that that verse is not just saying you're, you're now gifted.
Go fly.
Yeah, no, that's, I think it's really good point though, is that it's, it's, you can
do all things through Christ is more in the sense of, like you said, it is through the
hardships of being a believer and the things that will come up with it.
Like this, you know, the persecution, the judgment, the, you know, just the, the, like
it says, it kind of goes along with the verse we were talking about, uh, you know, there's
hardships and following Christ.
And I think that's part of it is this taken out, like, yeah, this is a church, the hardships
of Christ, not just the hardships of your day, but it's the hardship of, of your walk
with Christ.
I feel, you know, there's times where, you know, Oh man, they're praying enough.
Even, you know, reading enough, these are all things that, you know, even as a pastor,
like, you do think you think, Oh man, like, I should be doing this more.
And that's, I think that's a verse definitely to keep in mind because you do want to, you
know, keeping God first and doing all things through him.
That's the key because he is, you know, he is our wrong.
He is our strength.
So we can do all things through Christ.
We're going through, you know, what's that one country song where you're going through
hell?
Keep on going.
I don't, I don't know country songs.
I know.
I know it's a song.
I don't know.
It's probably going through hell or something.
I don't know, but you know, you know what I mean?
You asked me something about the Bible, pull it up, but you asked me about country music
is just right over the head.
Oh, I know.
I know nothing.
I think he was at the fair one time.
That's why I know it.
Whoever does that song, he was live at the fair and I think we were all there.
Oh no.
That's right.
I feel very like Dr. Seuss is right now.
You know, it's true.
And I just think of that this versus Philippians now thinking about that, you know, you want
to see hard shirts and everything.
It just reminds me of my verse Romans 1 16 then of being unashamed and always being ashamed
of price or being on it.
No, but the first being on a true unachieved of when you fall short and relying on that
strength from God and you know, relying on that to be a rock.
So I think that's it.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I just let there in there because I haven't done in the past couple of podcasts.
So but you know, I think we move on to I think point four here would be Matthew seven seven.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, that's one.
That one's good.
I hear that one way too much and you can see that on coffee mugs, t-shirts, calendars.
It is ask and keep on asking.
It will be given to you.
See, you can keep on seeking and you will find knock and keep on knocking and the door
will be open to you.
Now the main issue is this.
Now, oh, my God.
You did not.
OK, anyways, you know, don't even use my phone.
I don't get to talk no more.
Anyways, this threw me off like crazy.
Oh, sorry.
So no, it's all good.
It's all good.
Keep it kosher.
One hundred, none less.
So the asking and asking and asking now.
If I were to ask something like, ask God, Lord, I want a brand new Ferrari.
I want a brand new Ferrari.
Now, look, it got to be like, OK, no.
I can give you a yes or no.
If I say, God, I want to grow another five inches.
You know, why would he?
He's not going to look at.
He's not some genie.
He's not a magical genie.
You can, you know, oh, God, if I pray this five times, I'll answer it even says it in
the Bible.
God says his word says, do not repeat prayers and things like, you know, like the Peckins
do.
Right.
No, yeah, you're talking about Matthew six, seven.
Yeah, that's the first of three for it, right?
It's right before the Lord's Prayer and says when you're praying, do not use meaningless
repetitions as the Gentiles do supposed to be.
They like to be heard with their many words.
So they're not be like them for your father knows who before you ask him.
Yeah.
And I think that's, you know, one thing that you have to look at this verse.
It's like, you know, ask, keep on asking.
It will be given to you.
So you will forget like it can't be like, you know, in the lottery, Lord, you know,
I prayed my whole life and everyone the lottery.
It's also it's what God's will is.
God has a plan and God knows your chart when you're praying for things.
That's my whole thing.
Like it upsets me because he's like, well, I'm trying continuously for like a says on
Matthew seven, seven.
It's like, OK, what was was your heart in the right place?
Sometimes God, I get answer with a yes or no or not yet.
And I think, you know, when he answers with a not yet, you know, he wants you to be steadfast
in your prayer.
Sometimes, you know, this thing's like, you know, I prayed for my wife.
For years.
You know it.
Like, I'm looking at that like I've been like 16, 15, and I was praying for.
Oh, yes, dear Lord, I'm praying for that wife of mine.
And you know, even being a men's group and, you know, and just, you know, in groups and
stuff and praying for that.
OK.
I thought when I was like, you know, 18, I'm like, OK, let's get this going, God.
I'm 18.
I'm an adult.
Get me married.
Yeah, no, it's it's it's true.
And you know, and now, you know, nearly 11 years, you know, you know, a decade later,
here I am.
And it's like, oh, OK.
See, because it would have been my time.
I never would have been in anywhere spiritually a leader equipped already.
And prep for that.
Right.
True.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, and some people are and it's like both of us to where we are.
And it just worked out perfectly in God's time that you really do see that, which is
the best thing.
So it's knowing that like knowing that it's God's timing.
God knows what's going on.
We have no clue.
So you can be praying.
It's also there's a yes and a no and I keep on praying.
Yeah, that's the biggest thing.
I'll add in for this first because this verse is damn.
This verse is a death smack in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount.
If you don't know, it's Matthew seven.
Read the whole thing.
The text for this verse though is actually seven through 14 because it describes God
as Januar as father, even eager to give good gifts to his praying children and kind of
what Jesus commands his followers to continually ask and seek.
No, I said he commands his followers to continually ask and seek with confidence that they'll receive
and find.
Now here's the interesting thing with this, which is whole thing is that it's not manipulating
God's prayer or trying to manipulate God like, Hey, give me a million dollars.
I'll give half of it to charity.
It's prayer is never presented in scripture as a means to merely get our way as if he
were merely a magic genie or system for success.
Instead the verses are an invitation to interact with a generous father who loves to hear the
prayers of his people.
And the cool thing was this is that you can read the verses before it and we can see that
the context actually tells us over and over that our goal is true righteousness, to follow
and walk like Jesus did to ignore the flesh and get rid of the flesh.
Right?
We're dead to ourselves.
We're reborn in Christ.
And from the heart we can see Matthew five, six, five, 10, five, 26, one and six, 33.
We ask God to become like Jesus, to look like him, to reflect him, to be more like him and
what he, what God wants us to walk like.
We asked to grow in the areas that he just addressed in the previous verses.
We are like, we're seeking what should we, where should we find it?
We ask him, we are seeking Jesus.
And that's what's cool is that his righteousness will be open to us.
And that this verse is taken out of context so much to be like, Oh yeah, you don't have,
you don't have a nice car or a nice house.
Well, you know, you just gotta keep on asking for it and you'll get one.
Like, yes, God cares about how we live.
God cares about our situation, but we got to realize that it's not about us and it's
not about a way to get our way.
But we pray that God's will be done, which is why the example prayer that we were just
talking about talks about your will be done Lord on it as on earth as it is in heaven,
because we're not praying our will.
We're praying for God's will.
So this is part of that.
We're always constantly asking with our, from our heart, truly asking him to change us,
to grow us and knowing him to adapt us to be more like what he wants us to be in our
walk with him in this world that doesn't like him.
So that was my two cents on this verse.
Yeah, no, I, I agree with that.
It's, you know, and there's times where God will answer your prayers and totally be like,
there it is.
And it's cool.
You know, some people, you know, I've seen it where they just, they ask for something
and God gives it to them.
And this is how it is with some people.
And it's like, well, that's cool.
I just, I think it's happened only a few times with me.
And I think of the time when I was praying for a TV, I was like, God, give me a TV.
And, and I just remember, you know, I think we were working together.
I'm like, I want a new TV.
I want to pray about it.
And then, you know, I found one, like, oh, I was like, oh, um, you know, then I found
it at Walmart and I was like, oh, cool.
The 55, I found like, you know, the 55 inch TV.
I like, cool, it's like, I need like this, it's money.
And then, you know, I go to the store and it was even cheaper.
And at the same time, it was like 65.
I was like, Jason, he provided a TV for me.
And then I realized I prayed for the TV, but did I pray for transportation?
Because Honda Accord don't fit a 65 inch TV.
And then that's when I really, you know, had to start digging and trusting that something
would happen because then you start calling all your buddies and they're all out of town.
No, I can't do this.
It's like, okay, God, just give me the person to call.
And then, you know, I see, I see one of our friends go drive by and they're trying to
take, what are you doing?
I'm like, I just want a TV.
He's like, dude, I can give you this from like, sweet.
So you know, things like that.
It's just like, you know, God knows has a plan for everything.
And sometimes it doesn't feel like, you know, you know, what's going on.
And when you are praying and listening, sometimes it's like, well, why God, why would you let
this happen right now?
But you just got to keep on going.
Yeah.
Because see, he will open the doors.
So like it says in Matthew seven, he will open the doors, but you know, whether we're
praying with the right content, you know, the right heart too.
What else was I thinking about?
Was it the last point we were talking about was Mark 10, 27.
So you want to know that real quick?
Yeah.
Mark 10, 27.
I know this one because I've referred this way too many times in all my forums.
Looking at them, Jesus said with people, it is impossible, but not with God for all things
are possible with God.
This thing is taken out of context more than Prius has taken off the highway.
It's like waking him with me said, Jesus said with people, it is impossible with God, all
things are possible with God.
So that's basically another thing about like enduring endurance and things with your faith.
If I jump off the side of a building and say, I'm going to fly cause all things are impossible
with God, God will look at me going like, you did guess.
Like no, you are not a bird.
You cannot fly.
Okay.
You know, ain't no average for the last Airbender.
You gonna die.
It's just one of those things that's like, dude, you know, it's like, it's things within
reason to God can heal and we can do all things like that, that are spiritual gifts that he
is, you know, ordained and given to us.
It's, but you can't expect, you know, you also have to be willing to help yourself and
do things, you know, and trusting God.
That's the biggest thing is that you're like, Oh, well I'm a Christian.
So anything I can do, you know, it's all possible.
I, those are the small things.
Yeah.
I have a, I have a cross.
I cross, um, idea for, for this verse and there's context.
So the context here is actually verse 17 to 31 in this context.
And we, we see that this is where, um, Jesus is actually talking to this wealthy young
man who asked Jesus about eternal life and gets an unexpected answer.
Yeah.
It's this one.
Yeah.
His response to Jesus shows his right.
His interest in God is limited to by only one thing, his money.
Um, so with this verse, you see it says with man, it is impossible not with, uh, but not
with God for all things are possible with God.
So what's one verse, just one verse before it, even just one verse of context before
it says they extremely astonished and said to him, then who can be saved?
Right.
Just the one verse before he's saying with man, it is impossible because we cannot, it's
the heart of the gospel here that we cannot do anything to be saved.
Not on our own merits, nothing that we do specifically.
We'll get a say, but, but for grace, you have been saved through faith and this is not your
own doing, but as a gift of God, not a result of work so that no man may boast, which is
Ephesians two, eight and nine.
Jesus is not introducing a new way of salvation here.
You can see in Hebrews 11, one to two, it says now faith is the assurance of things
hoped for the conviction of things not seen for by it, the people of old received their
commandment accommodations.
So the passage then gives a list of people from the old Testament who were saved by faith,
but the roster didn't begin with Moses or someone else who had received the law.
Rather, it started with Abel, which is interesting from the second generation of people on earth.
Someone who is, has been, or will be saved is saved by grace through faith, which is
crazy ideology when people don't really think of it that way, but that is for what the Bible
explains it as.
Why do you say that again?
That's crazy.
It in Hebrews 11, it goes on to say the people who've been saved by faith rather than works
and it goes all the way back to Abel, Lily's second generation of people.
You're saying it's by faith, not by our works that were saved.
Correct.
And in the old Testament, here's the crazy thing.
And this is what people need to understand is that all Testament, right.
People in the old Testament were saved by works.
Jesus created a new covenant that's outside of time because he's outside of time.
His covenant was far beyond everything that anybody ever saw coming.
And that's why it's like he died for all our sins and all in the term of all is Lily, all
past, present and future, which is even more insane when you start thinking about what
that context is.
And in Hebrews 11, all means all, and that's all it means.
Oh, right.
But people back then thought I had to do all these things to be saved.
But then you see the transition and then people were like, well, Jesus didn't die yet.
How were people saved by faith because he didn't die yet?
And it's like, because when he died, it covered all and it was by faith, people were saved
from, from the beginning of time to the end of time.
This is the standard and it's insane thing to see.
And that's why you see this in this where it's like for all things are possible with
God.
It's really easy to say that God is not limited by what our mentality and how we see things.
And this is just verifying that that God's not limited to by the things that we understand
no one see.
And as selfish as an arrogant that we are, humanity still struggles to accept this idea
because Jesus, even in this instance, Jesus says it's difficult for the rich to trust
God for salvation.
Um, conversely, there are like several cases in the Bible where despised criminals do have
faith like Levi, the tax collector.
He became a disciple, Zach, uh, the key is cheated those that he collected taxes from,
but happily pays them back after his conversion.
You see the thief who was crucified next to Jesus and knowledge and embraces, um, help
in his helpless state.
Paul who persecuted, uh, who persecuted church gave his life, spreading the gospel to the
Gentiles.
So the cool thing here, I'll wrap this up so you can kind of take over again.
Salvation is not restricted to those who grew up in the church, went to Sunday school and
try to be good.
It's easy and all too common to write certain people off as too far gone or beyond hope.
But God also offers grace to the vilest of people, the traffickers, the rapists, the
terrorists, the dictators, anybody that you can imagine that it's like that person's too
far gone.
When it comes to salvation, there's no difference between the good person and the criminal James
two 10.
I brought James in and who come to faith in Christ can be forgiven and saved.
Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but call the sinners.
Mark two 17.
That's good, man.
That's my pulpit.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, but no, uh, I think that's a good one.
I think that's very true.
I, you know, a question that was like, what do you think?
Hitlers in heaven.
I'm like, I don't know if he repented.
I don't know.
He, you can see by his life that he didn't have faith in Christ and he didn't trust God.
You can see that by how we live life and how that worked out.
It's not just saying I have faith in Christ, which is why it's important to know.
Like I'm just saying, just because you brought this up, it's important to understand.
And that is, it's a, I am surrendering my life to Christ as he is my savior.
And as my, like, as my father in heaven, I'm giving my life to him because I trust in him.
I have faith in him and believe that he was the son of God who was risen from the dead
and died for my sins.
And that conversion brings the Holy spirit.
It is not just a, I believe in Jesus Christ and then you're dead.
It's right before you die.
That's not how that works.
And cartoons make fun of it all the time, but it's, it's not just a verbal thing to
say anyways.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's something more, which goes to our salvation episode.
I can't hear you.
Now I can hear you.
It's connected to me.
It's cause it heard me say it heard me talking about somebody to like, no, cut them off.
Maybe I don't know.
No, what did you say?
I said, I said, go see our salvation episode to learn more.
Okay, cool.
Yeah.
Agreed.
I'm just saying nobody knows.
Like I said, nobody knows what anybody's going through in the last seconds of their life,
whether they accept, you know, leave or pass.
So yeah, I said, yep.
Um, yeah, man.
Oh man.
It's a, these verses now, these aren't, let's reiterate.
These aren't the only verses taken out of context, but these are definitely some of
the top verses taken out of context very easily.
Yeah.
And like Dylan mentioned, we, we, we can go on for a long time, which is why we only picked
five.
We picked the five top ones that we hear that, you know, like you mentioned, 20, no problem.
So
Oh, the whole Bible is taken out of context, but yeah, I think that's just the way that
we need to like, you know, it's good to talk about certain topics and things that, you
know, we find and see.
Um, but yeah, there's a lot more than that.
I feel like times.
So I think it just comes down to make sure that you are using the tools you have to verify
how you are reading and studying things.
And don't just take what someone says is face at face value.
Like dear Lord, please do not take what we say at face value and just be like, yep, they're
right.
I want you, we, we, we want you to read study.
We're giving you points to study on to read in and to grow in to help you guide, help
guide you to the right place to start studying by giving you context versus understanding.
Like when you see this, read the verse before, read the context, understand what the translations
are here.
Yeah.
Like you have to write that, you know, like I said before, Jason, like every time he brings
in a wire, we're trying to pull it up.
See if he's putting it right.
You're saying it right.
If there's anything, you know, always, always question everything and look like, look it
up, equip yourself with the word and know what the heck's going on.
Because if you don't know anything, you'll fall for everything.
You know what I mean?
If you don't know the word and let me hear something like they do with the deconstruction,
which is another episode to check out.
Like you could fall for it so easily.
It's like, well, that kind of makes sense.
No.
All the verses read the first couple before and the couple after know it, understand it,
look it up, study Bible, you know, like reference it.
Don't just believe it at face value.
Like you said, be like the Barons.
If you don't know who that is, act 17 Barons are literally the ancient people of from Barioa
Barrowia.
So I'm a bad Barrow Barrowia Barrowia Barians.
Anyways, they were right.
They were eager to read, study and scripture and grow.
And to the point where they they were preached at and they're like, actually what you're
preaching, you're missing something that's actually incorrect here.
Look, and it's like, great job.
Like thank you for correcting me.
Like I got corrected last week one time on one of the pod, one of the Facebook groups
I was in.
I was like, thank you for correcting me now.
I know.
And it's really easy to know.
I need to go look.
No, that was the whole topic.
Our last our last podcast topic that we did about like once they'd always say it, I always
believe that if you truly knew God, if you truly believed in him, there was no way for
you to want to walk away.
And I was quickly corrected because Bible says they true believers like Hebrew was talking
to Christians.
They can fall away and walk away because they fall to lies, deceit, or they just do not
want the truth because they like gratifying the flesh.
All these different things.
I was like, it just makes it more heartbreaking in the long run.
Sure.
But I was but I was corrected.
So that's what I was corrected on.
It's crazy.
Oh, yeah, man.
Well, what else is in talking right now?
Is this a re wrapping up season one or?
Yeah, this is the wrap up a season one.
Like I I'm so happy not to end something, but like I'm so happy to move on to season
two.
All these things are happening like Apple podcast stuff, subscriptions, the extra podcast
episodes, the all that stuff's going to be in season two, new graphics, new blog posts.
There's so much stuff coming and we're just really excited to share the word of God as
it as the word of God says it and really help people grow to understand Christ more.
Even people who don't are not Christians and don't understand God, they can ask us questions
and we're more than happy to talk about them.
So yeah, season one point in this.
Yeah, season one coming to an end.
Yeah, I'm really excited.
Season two is going to be so much fun.
Dude, it's going to be awesome.
Cut.
But you can't.
Oh, can't wait.
I think it's a cut.
Wait.
I was like, no, let's just say fun.
But no, it's God's got some awesome plans in the store.
We were just real quick to say everybody who listens and.
You know, wait for episodes or, you know, or just watch this here and there.
Like, just appreciate you guys and thank you guys for.
We're just taking the hour or so out of your day to listen to it or just the snippets that
you do.
Yeah, we just appreciate that.
And just ask that you continue to do so and just help us, you know, be able to reach people
and talk about the gospel.
Yep.
Yeah, this doesn't go anywhere unless we have you, the user involved.
And that's the second.
Yes.
If there's one person, I'm happy that that's all I care about is to say, like, someone
can listen to this and get something out of it.
And the cool thing is, is that I've been approached by, I don't know if you have yet, but definitely
been approached by people who are in my circle and like, dude, I love the episode you talked
about.
What does the church love the episode you talked about?
Yeah, I had one of my old coworkers.
I heard your podcast.
I was like, what?
What do you mean?
Right.
It's so cool.
It's like they had a friend of a friend who told them, like, you know, from a small circle,
you know, from one of our circles to, you know, their service, like, oh, yeah.
You say, yeah, it's pretty cool.
I'm like, guys, you do that.
I'm like, yeah, just, yeah.
We just always talk about God no matter what.
Anyways, we might as well talk about it and make a podcast so people can hear.
Yeah.
And yeah, it's just really cool to see the interactions, to see the growth.
I think season, season one has, it was close to like 8,000 people who listened to it.
And it's really cool to see the growth.
It's really cool to see just that kind of connection.
And we really are looking forward to growing the connection to making it just more enjoyable
over time.
And yeah, I'm just really excited to get this going.
It's, it's really honestly.
Yeah.
Well, let's let's pray it out.
Go for it.
Okay.
Dear heavenly father, I just thank you for the opportunity that Jason and I get to talk
about your word or the gospel Lord.
And just that you would equip us Lord with the words and the knowledge and what to say
and Lord that to anybody who's hearing this, listen to this, whether it be when it's released
or months, years, you know, from now that you would just bless them Lord and give them
the ears to hear the eyes to see that you, what you want them to do Lord, that you would
build a relationship Lord, that it would be a real relationship and that it would not
just be fluff Lord, it would be skin deep.
I think for all that you do and all that you provide for all of us and God bless the, the
GDP and in your name.
Amen.
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