Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project Podcast.
I'm your host, Jason Cooper, and I'm joined here with my co-host.
It's me, Dylan.
All right, sweet.
So how are you doing today, Dylan?
Doing good.
I'm doing as good as I can be, so good.
I'm very excited that your microphone quality is a lot better than it has been.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I figured maybe actually on the computer and do this instead of just, you
know, headphones on the phone.
Right.
Show the dedication I have to the podcast.
Right.
It's beautiful.
I kind of want to step into real quick, just for people who are just listening to our podcasts
or just starting off.
This podcast talks on all things in this world and how we view it with the Bible and through
the eyes of a loving God.
There will be very sensitive topics and viewpoints that not all people will agree with, and that's
okay because we want to discuss.
We hope you continue to listen and understand more on the authenticity of the lifestyle
of living like Christ.
I think I forgot to mention that in the very first episode of our podcast, which is like,
you know, this is technically third episode.
It is the third episode and we're just kind of going over that intro.
Yeah, I think we did not mention the first one.
No.
The second one we did.
Yeah, a little bit.
As Christians, we're called to be Christ like and to be loving.
It doesn't mean we can't have an opinion on things.
We're not here to start any fights or anything, but we just want to have an open dialogue
and discuss Jesus, the Bible and all that.
Yeah, I would say 2 Timothy 3.16 is kind of our standpoint.
If you don't know what that is, it's all about the Bible.
If you don't know what that is, it's all scriptures God breathed given by divine inspiration
and is profitable for instruction, for conviction of sin, for correction of error and restoration
to obedience, for training and righteousness, learning to live in conformity to God's will,
both publicly and privately, behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage.
And in my opinion, I think that verse kind of fits what we want to do is use it for growth.
I'm discussing.
Yeah, I'm discussing because that's really important.
It's like you're in a position where you probably get questions all the time about
biblical things.
Yeah, dealing with kids in ministry like that, that's always you some good questions.
The kids, you know, they don't hold anything back.
They're not afraid to ask the stupid questions.
I know people say there's no such thing as stupid questions, but there are.
I should know I ask a lot of them too.
Even in a pastor position, I'm like, yeah, I'm like, you know, you just say something
that sounds like, why did I say that?
I was kind of dumb, but it's like sometimes it puts a different light on it and it makes
more sense.
So I mean, you know, this is the kids, man, the way they ask those certain questions like,
well, Jesus was like, when you did this, like, what was that referring to?
Yeah, yeah, I think it's like, I can't think of any examples right now, but I want to say
there's one kid who was like, like, what do you, his name is Yeshua.
It's like, well, I thought his name is Jesus.
And it's like, we're just simply like, oh, no, see, he wasn't, you know, he was Jewish.
So his Hebrew name was this.
And it's just things like that.
You know, it's not everything's common knowledge, because like, especially if you've grown up
in the church, things are, there's a Christian needs that's spoken.
And I think that's another thing that people need to, you know, right, like, for new believers,
if there's anybody out there, like there's terms you'll hear that are like, ah, that
doesn't make sense.
Because I was like, I think I asked the kids to do I'm like, hey, I want you to try to
explain this.
But without using like, you know, I was losing the spirit.
Like, no, like, what does that mean?
Describe that.
No, I could I'm ranting now, but you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, I like that, that that thing where I I've gotten a couple of times where it's like,
well, isn't Jesus named Yeshua?
Like, why are we saying Jesus?
Well, it's the same.
It's the same thing was like, when you translate things from one language to another language.
For example, like if you go from someone in Mexico named Juan, and you come here in English,
their name is John.
That was dose.
The next number.
No.
So yeah, so it's just like John is there is the name if you translate it.
So it's the same kind of concept and with Jesus name mostly being mentioned in New Testament
under Greek, that name can be translated to Joshua or Jesus both actual equally.
One person was telling me that they felt like it was important to understand what his real
name is and call him only by his real name.
But nowhere in the Bible does it preach or teach that if you don't use the name in original
language that that's the no no, because the Bible transcends time and is there to help
you grow and learn and read and get to know him more.
Right.
And so if that's the case, then if it was that important, it would be mentioned, especially
since knowing that there's so many different languages after the Tower of Babel and that
whole story.
It's not like it was a new thing that there's different languages.
It was very well known and well played out.
Like you ever try to read Hebrew or even speak it?
There's no way I could do that.
You know, it's like Shabbat Shalom, Jehovah Nisi, Jehovah Jivah.
I'm like, those are the easy ones.
And there's like, you know, all the just spitting you're talking.
I can't really speak English.
So I mean, like, good.
Imagine trying to speak, you know, it's very strong consonants.
And it's yeah, it's just you read it from right to left.
It's a lot of different ways to do it.
Like, yeah, I agree.
It's a different language.
And yeah, I don't think any there will not even I don't think but it's like there's nowhere
in the Bible where it preaches.
You must know him by his original name and the original language.
And if you say it otherwise, then you're wrong.
Like that's not something.
But that was just a side topic.
We're going off track.
We'll get to that someday.
Yeah, we wanted to talk about last week, we mentioned we were going to talk about the
Americanized Gospel this week.
We changed that.
And the reason why we changed that is we started talking about what questions do we get on
an often daily, if not daily basis that we want to discuss because like I said at the
beginning of this podcast, we want to talk about these questions and and bring not only
light to them, but to explore them to discuss them because if we're discussing them, that
means that we can grow together like I might learn something or Dylan might learn something
or whoever's listening might learn something.
And that's kind of the point is that we want to discuss.
So this week instead of the Americanized Gospel, which we will get to that is one of our topics
for this podcast, we are going to talk about salvation.
Yeah, salvation.
That's yeah, I figured you want to jump in and say something about it.
For me, youth ministry, being in children's ministry, the youth, especially this generation
is just, I guess, I don't know if they're right below us or like two steps below us
or what it is now.
But just the questions.
I see a lot of a lot of young kids like they are wanting to know they're very curious about
about Christianity, about what does this mean?
I see a lot of them struggling to like, well, I mean, the tangibleness.
I like they're like, I know.
I would I went to Sunday school a few times.
It makes sense.
I understand that.
I want to believe it.
But like, I don't know how to.
I don't know.
It doesn't make any sense because I can't physically see Jesus.
I can't touch him.
And, you know, I don't know the whole I'm like, I brought up like, you know, when you're
little, you believe in Santa, right?
Right.
Yeah, couldn't see him.
No, leave him.
But the only difference is that, you know, one of them is actually really real.
Right.
Yeah, there's a there's actually a couple of questions that I'm sure you get to, like,
what is salvation?
How do I know I'm saved?
What do I do now?
Save now?
What you know, what do what what exactly does it mean?
Am I always saved?
What does that look like?
And there's a there's a lot of those questions that I'm sure you get a lot more than I do.
But it's still questions that we both get.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Especially, you know, like, well, like, what are those people that they know God, they
don't choose to listen and they accept them?
Do they still go to heaven?
Like, one is what is it?
Well, if Hitler knew God and he accepted Jesus, is he in heaven?
I'm like, that's between those two people.
I don't know.
We don't know everybody's relationship with Jesus.
I'm like, I pretend to know everybody's.
Right.
Yeah.
Right, and that's kind of what we're going to get into for this whole thing is is exactly
that.
Yeah.
So one thing right off the bat is I wanted to talk about and see if you wanted to talk
about what because like one of the verses I get asked about a lot is Matthew 721.
It says, Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven, which makes it sound like it's
something you have to do.
Right.
As a kid myself, I remember seeing that verse and talking about that verse and felt like
I had to earn my place in heaven, that I had to work towards it and that even though I
think I'm Christian, I might not be saved because it says people who say that they'll
they know him, when always know him.
And it scared me because I never understood what salvation was at that point.
And I think that starts us off with Ephesians 2, 8 through 9.
But first off, what do you what do you take as like what salvation is like?
Do you see that as a question sometimes?
Yeah.
I'm kind of like what you said, you know, I think people get caught up a lot in the
works.
I think it also goes along with Matthew 7, like 22, because as many will say on that
day, Lord, Lord, do not prophesy in your name.
Do we not drive out demons in your name, perform miracles and tell them plainly, I never knew
you.
You gone, evildoers?
Like I think people get caught up sometimes in the works like, oh, well, you know, I help
out with the coffee at church and the doughnuts.
And I do that out of my heart, the kindness is like, OK.
Like also, I look at it too, like when you're tithing.
It's not like, well, God said I was a good 10 percent, so I give.
It's a heart thing.
You're right.
Like me, you know, I donate my time, I give my time to the church.
But that's the way I can tithe besides this giving and it's all with the action of your
heart.
Like I do youth ministry because that's the way I love to serve the Lord and that's the
gift He's given me, so I'm going to use it.
You know, people get caught up and just like, oh, I'm doing this because that makes me a
good person and the good in the eyes of the Lord.
Like it says, I think it's 23.
I'll tell you plainly, I never knew you.
I remember being told that at a young age.
I want to say it was my mom who said that.
I could be wrong, but I remember being told that by either my mom or my grandma or something
like that.
And she had told me, yeah, it's like, you know, you have to really be intentional.
Because, you know, oh, because God likes us, so I'm going to do that, so I get to heaven.
Right.
I think it was 2 Corinthians 9.7 that says, each one must give as he has decided in his
heart, not reluctantly under any compulsion for God's love as a cheerful giver.
And I think the verse before that in 6 is that the point is this, whoever sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly and whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully.
And it's the ideas that you're giving not just money, but you're giving your time, your
effort.
And I think a lot of times nowadays, our excuses are, I don't have time.
And nowadays we take that as that's actually just you saying you don't want to because
everybody has time.
10 minutes before you sleep, read the Bible.
Like it's that easy.
Or if you're home late and you're like, oh, I'm tired.
You have time to sit there and read for 5, 10 minutes just to pray, get closer to God.
And you don't see that because people use that excuse, I don't have time to do that
stuff.
Well, then your time management is in the wrong place because you're making an excuse
to say, I don't want to without saying I don't want to.
100%. I keep saying that.
But I think I'm just in agreement with you all the time on those other things.
But go back to like you want to let's go back to the salvation part of it because I think
I think we kind of skipped over that really briefly.
Yeah, we did.
Yeah.
So if we go back to a good portion of this is in Ephesians 2, 8 through 9, it puts it
very straightforward.
For it is by grace, God's remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ that you have
been saved, actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life through faith.
And this salvation is not of yourselves, not through your own effort, but it is the undeserved
gracious gift of God, not as a result of your works, nor your attempts to keep the law so
that no one will be able to boast or take credit in any way for his own salvation.
I think that's perfect because that puts it really plainly that is by faith that we're
saved.
Right?
Yep.
So, ABCs man, ABCs.
ABCs like Acts, Acts 2, what is it?
I think it's 38.
Can you look that one up?
Acts 2, 38 or you're near near your Bible or not?
Yeah, I am.
Let me see.
Acts what?
238.
I think that's the verse.
238?
Yeah.
Let me ask you a question real quick.
Mm hmm.
Do you think it's when Peter replied and repented and be baptized every one of you?
Something like that.
In the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, may you receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit.
That's what I was looking for.
When you accept Jesus Christ, the gift of the Holy Spirit is given to you when you accept
Jesus and that's the difference.
A lot of, I would say a lot of people I've run into that say they're Christian are in
this place of complacency where they're okay with just going to church, doing the works.
They're just like, I go to church, I read my Bible, I talk to people about Bible, they
do the miracles, they pray for people, whatever.
And those are the people where it's talking about I knew them not is because when you
truly accept Jesus and that he is what's best and that he is your savior, right, and you
set aside your flesh, you turn away from your sinful ways, right?
And when you do this, you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is a sign that you
are saved.
So what comes down to is what is the Holy Spirit?
How do you know that you have the gift of the Holy Spirit?
It's one of my favorite stuff to talk about.
What about you?
Yeah, there's a lot there.
One thing I was thinking about, I just backtrack a little bit.
You're talking about, you know, lack of time, people say, oh, I don't have time.
It really comes down to like, what like you were saying, if you want it, you'll make it.
How often is, you know, is somebody on their phone on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube?
Like, you're on there for at least, you know, a good while, like, just even just to click
on like the daily verse of the day in the Bible app, you know, it's not as easy as
it is to read one verse, like it doesn't take more than, you know, a few minutes.
If you're a slow reader like I am, you know, then it's not, you know.
I think I was listening to this preacher and he was saying, it kind of like falling to
what you're talking about.
Because, you know, a lot of people say, and temps are coming, you know, get closer to
God and he was saying, live like, live like Christ isn't coming for hundreds of years
and prepare like he's coming today.
And that's good because that puts it plainly.
Like if God was coming today and you for sure knew he was, would you be skipping the Bible?
Would you be skipping your time with him?
Would you be pushing aside like, well, it's fine.
Or would you be like, I need to get into the Word today.
I need to read today.
I need to pray today.
I need to bless someone today.
I need to do something today to interact with God and like basically disarm the flesh and
what it wants, what it's striving to do.
But know that God can come at any time and we don't know the time or the hour.
But acting like it's today, but living like it's in a hundred years because you're not
trying to like, I'm going to buy up these million dollar homes because it doesn't matter
in the next couple of days.
Like you don't want to do that kind of stuff.
That's kind of the point of it, right?
I think with you saying that it's the, there's a time management thing, which is very true.
I think it's the Fusions 515, look carefully how then how you walk, not as unwise, but
as wise making the best use of the time given because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
And that's something important in that aspect is know that time is very important that you
understand what you can do with just a little bit of time in a day and make sure that God
is priority in your life.
No matter what you're doing.
True.
I'm like the days off are when you're not doing stuff is the easiest time probably to
spend time with the Lord.
And it's also the most difficult time because you're like, Oh wait, I don't have to do anything.
Like today is like my day off and I'm like, Oh yeah, I know we're going to record the
podcast.
I got, you know, youth group tonight and to start, you know, I'm going to, you know, get
something going, you know, and I get going a little bit and I'm like, Oh, well there's
this over here.
And then I'm like, Oh, I just spent an hour just like cleaning the house.
Because I just was like, Lord, so I did that.
I'm like, I mean, that should have been done, but you know, right.
Yeah.
It's like a Titus kind of, kind of get back on track because it's true.
Time management, he saves us because of righteous things we have done because of his mercy.
Yes.
Titus three five.
That's, that's the one I was going to mention.
Rebirth and renewed by the Holy Spirit.
So again, yeah, so again, the Bible again talks about that new birth, spiritual transformation,
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit by the Holy Spirit.
Right.
So we're by the Holy Spirit.
We know that that is what is showing you that you are saved or truly saved or not because
you're not just doing the works that you actually believe that Jesus is your savior and then
he gifts you the Holy Spirit.
And so with that, what does that look like?
And we're going to go to my favorite verses, right?
Galatians five.
Yeah, Galatians five.
Now if you ever read Galatians five and in 16 on it talks about keeping in step with
the spirit, right?
It even talks about it to a degree where in 16 it says walk by the spirit and you will
not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Right.
Because the desires of the flesh are against the spirit.
The desires of the spirit are against the flesh.
So they're opposing each other.
So you can't serve two masters basically.
You can't serve two different things.
And I think in 24 it mentions that saying that those who belong to Christ have crucified
the flesh with his passions and desires.
So what does that look like?
So the fruit of the spirit, when it talks about fruit, usually anytime the Bible says
fruits, it's talking about the actions or the things that come out of those actions
that you live by or your life, right?
Or not like watermelon and cherries, strawberries.
Right.
It's like actual things that come of your life, like things that you can see.
So if I'm always talking to Dylan and if he's having a bad day and I talk to him and he
starts having a better day, that shows good fruit in that sense.
If I leave more frustrated because I know I screwed up and I know I'm just joking.
Right.
So there's a place of good fruit and bad fruit in that sense.
And that's what fruit means in the Bible.
But in 22 it says the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
So all those things.
So if you're living life and you accepted Christ and you are showing love, joy, peace,
patience, and all those things to people around you and you live that life, that's showing
that the fruit of the spirit is in you and that the spirit of God has rested upon you
because it's been gifted to you as part of your salvation.
Right.
And I think that's really important because that's a really easy tell.
I call it the Christian test.
It's to see if they're actually Christian or not.
And you can see a lot of people, if they don't speak those things, then they're not of God.
They haven't experienced the true taste, I guess, of the Holy Spirit.
They haven't experienced who God is and who Christ is and the love that Christ brings.
If you truly experienced Him, that is how you live your life.
It's kind of like a Christian litmus test, you know what I mean?
Right.
Yeah.
So I think the next question we had was, what can I do?
Right.
Obviously, we talked about it.
Yeah, we talked about it already saying like you accept Him as Lord.
Right.
So how do you do that?
Have you ever gotten that question?
Like how do I accept Him?
Oh, I think it was, you know, your heart opening up your heart to receive.
So I know what I want to say, it's open up your heart to receive the Lord.
Kind of like, what is it, Romans 10, right?
Romans 10, nine, I think is what you're getting.
Yeah.
So, if you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God
raised from the dead, you will be saved.
Or is it with your heart that you believe and justified?
If it's your mouth, you profess your faith and are saved.
As scripture says, anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.
There's no difference between the Jew and the Gentile.
The same Lord is Lord of all and originally blesses all who come on Him.
All on Him.
Yep.
Yeah.
I think that's good to know because back in nine, when you first started where it says
confess, acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.
Jesus is Lord, if you look at what that is talking about in original, in this instance,
Greek, because Romans is written in Greek, it is defined as recognizing His power, authority
and majesty as God, right?
And a lot of people, and you can see it with a lot of cults too, where they don't believe
Jesus is God Himself, right?
Yeah, that point of that is that you're acknowledging and confessing that Jesus is Lord and recognizing
His power, authority and majesty as God, right?
I think that's really important distinguishment because we see that a lot with people coming
forward and saying, oh no, Jesus was a prophet.
Oh no, Jesus was a really good man.
He was the first man.
Yeah.
That right there is the other one.
It's like, okay, if He was just a man, then that's another episode.
Yeah, we can go into that too.
Maybe that's our continuation for next week.
So there was something, I think it's important to know that that doesn't mean that now that
we know that salvation isn't earned, that's not through works, that doesn't mean we don't
do works.
I think that's important.
What do you think?
Yeah, it's very important because it's a relationship.
I can't think of the words to put it right now.
James 2, 20 to 24 puts it pretty well.
It says, but are you willing to recognize you foolish spiritually shall of a person
that faith without good works is useless?
Was our father Abraham not shown to be justified by works of obedience, which expresses faith
when he offered Isaac his son on the altar as a sacrifice to God?
You see that his faith was working together with his works as a result of the works.
His faith was completed, reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience.
And the scripture was fulfilled, which says Abraham believed God and this faith was credited
to him by God and by righteousness and conformity to his will.
As he was called the friend of God, you see that a man, a believer, is justified by works,
not by faith alone.
This is an act of obedience as a born-again believer revealing his faith.
And what does that mean?
Well, if we go back to Galatians 5 and see the fruits of the Spirit, we can see it says
in verse 23, when it talks about the things that it talked about like love, joy, peace,
kindness, it says, against such things there are no law because the fruits of Spirit help
you do things, right?
I may have more compassion towards somebody that I didn't have to before.
I may be more forgiving.
I'll be more patient with people that I wasn't patient with before.
Yeah, that's, I mean, I feel like that's definitely a good, I have to shout out to
Jesus, the Holy Spirit, all in three in one.
But especially with children in youth ministry, patience is a big one.
Right.
Because if you don't have patience, man, there's times you're just like, I'm about to crack
some skulls right now.
You better look like Jesus is up in the temple real quick.
But I mean, I mean, that's definitely what I think I have it, but then there's also testing
of the patience.
When you get home, it's a different thing.
I think family is given to you on purpose to test your faith.
Yeah.
To test your, you know, you got your siblings, your parents, everybody knows how to push
buttons, and sometimes it's real easy to love them.
And other times it's, well, it's rough.
But yeah, I think, yeah, I think so.
I just read James to 20 to 24.
If you haven't read James, just read James.
But this is something interesting.
It is.
It is definitely my favorite book.
And before the first 20 and 14 on upward to 20, this is where a lot of people and a lot
of different sects of like, SEC, like, I guess, denominations of Christian, even you can see
some cults even preach this too, is that if you don't do works, then you're not truly
saved, right?
They pull James to they pull James to all the time and say, Look, James to says if your
face without works is dead, so you got to do it works too.
So you have to follow these rules, blah, blah, blah.
So what does it actually say?
Let's get into it.
Because in James to 14 says, What is the benefit my fellow believers as someone claims to have
faith but has no good works as evidence?
Can that kind of faith save him?
No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient.
Genuine faith produces good works.
If a brother or sister is without adequate clothing and lacks enough food for each day
and one of you says to him, go in peace, like pray for you, keep warm, feed yourselves,
and he does not give them necessities for the body.
What good does that do?
So to faith, if it does not have works to back it up, it by itself is dead and inoperative
and ineffective.
So this, this is, it's better to know that when it's talking this point, it's not saying
that if you have, like, you got to do works now, oh, you're saved, do the works.
No, it's saying that it will come right?
Genuine faith produces good works.
Because that's what the Holy Spirit's there, right?
You see stuff through the eyes of the Holy Spirit.
And by saying that, it means that, you know, if I'm at a gas station, there's a homeless
man, he comes up, say, hey, do you got change?
And if I look at him, most people like, I don't know if this is safe or not.
I'm getting the car run off.
And with the Holy Spirit, I may look at him and say, hey, brother, like, what do you need?
Do you need food?
Do you need water?
Like, can I get you food?
Can I get you snacks?
Can I, can I help you?
Because I have the means to help you.
What do you need?
And you help them.
That's the difference.
Because that right there is a good work.
But does that mean that I did it because I wanted to do good works?
I did it because I genuinely care for this other person that is a brother or sister in
Christ.
Because that's how the Holy Spirit has shown me what he does for me.
So I want to show that to others.
Not because it's the righteous thing to do.
Not because it's to boost my own ego or so I can boast later.
And so that I can do the right thing that Christ has called me to do because I genuinely
want to do it.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know that verse.
I probably do.
I just I was thinking of the verse that talks about, you know, if your cup is full, but
you deny your brother.
You know, cup is full.
I know like the food reference.
I know like the you talk about like the my my cup run it over kind of thing.
I can't be like your cup is full, but you offer your brother asked us asked for a glass
of water or some water or some food and you deny him and your cup is full.
Actually I don't know that that verse off the top my head.
I know that because I know that that's I know the Psalms 23 five says something about cup
overflow.
But I don't know if that is because I was like you prepared a table in the presence
of my enemies, you know, to my head with oil, my cup overflows kind of thing.
But but yeah, we're
I was listening to No Big Dill today.
Rapper, Christian Rapper.
And he's like, how are you going to deny your brother watering your cup is full.
I'm like, oh, that's a what verse is that?
I think they were just saying it because it could be only when I'm sitting there like,
I should have looked it up.
But because I know that it's referenced like you, you know, give your coat if you have
to kind of thing.
And like if you have food, give it if you take care of the person.
Right.
Because that's really important.
Yeah.
Right now.
So kind of get back on that track of faith and
works and stuff you got.
I don't know if have you read much of Hebrews?
Hebrews.
Yeah, I've read it.
Good coffee.
It's good stuff.
But no coffee shop.
Right.
It's not like I haven't seen many coffee shops called Hebrews.
You just got to go up to Redding.
They're everywhere.
So something interesting in there as well.
Hebrews 11 6, but without faith, it is impossible to walk with God and please him.
For whoever comes near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that he rewards
those who earnestly and diligently seek him.
And this refers a lot to spiritual rewards.
Especially when it's talking about God's rewards, it's spiritual and the Holy Spirit is that
gift.
Right.
That's the whole point of the gift and salvation is that it's a gift by his grace and mercy.
And that's kind of part of it because we feel those things from the Holy Spirit as well,
not just reflect those things through fruits, like doing things, but we feel love, joy,
peace, and patience.
We feel those things as a constant.
If I'm having a really bad day, I can just breathe and know that the Holy Spirit is there
to make my mood right and my feelings correct because my heart is not in the right place
because my flesh is not in the right place.
It's not.
That's what the Holy Spirit is for, not me.
And I think it comes back to last week's podcast where we were talking about prosperity.
It's like, well, if you're not feeling this, you're not doing good enough.
I do not mean to say that at all.
Point being is that it's that reliance and continuously going to God rather than saying,
I don't feel it today.
I'm going to go drink all the whiskey in my fridge or something, like finding alternatives
to take care of that.
Your fridge?
That's okay.
Freezer.
That's right.
Because you know, that's a big heavy drinker.
Right.
Clips instead of like, you know, contents and get me in trouble.
Right, right.
Get all of us in trouble is great.
You more so.
I just, side story now, because I just think of everyone has it.
I had my appendix removed years ago.
They're like, how often do you drink?
I'm like, once or twice.
They're like a day, a week.
Like what?
I'm like, oh, maybe a month.
Like, okay, does not drink.
And they go down a lot of smoking sex.
I'm like, well, the sex is like, nope.
And then, you know, yeah, well, one time, you know, like when one of us was like 18
or whatever, like, yeah, I had one like twice.
Like, okay, he doesn't do any of that stuff.
He's good.
He's clean.
Right.
So like, what's wrong with this guy?
Why doesn't he do anything?
I'm like, I'm built different.
Well, that's what Romans 8 26 talks about, right?
Once you're saved, you get to get the Holy Spirit.
And then when you have the Holy Spirit, verse, Romans 8 26 talks about it says, likewise,
the Spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know what to pray for as we ought,
that the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Right.
I know this is talking about prayer.
And like when you're dealing with stuff, but this is a good point to where if you're going
through something and like I was saying before, if you're having a bad day and you just can't
take it, you let the Spirit help you through your weakness, know what to pray.
And you know, that's exactly what it says there.
He'll intercede for you if it's too hard to explain or too hard to get into or deal with
in that point.
And He's there for help.
It's an assist like, hey, I'm here.
That's the gift of the Holy Spirit.
And if you go into like the Hebrew, no, and this one is still Greek.
So if you go into Greek words when it's talking about like, but the Spirit Himself intercedes,
the Spirit Himself, if you read the translations for it, it's the Spirit Himself knows our
need and at the right time intercedes on our behalf.
So it comes down to timing.
And it's His time, not ours, which we talked about last week in the Garden of Yosemite
where Jesus was like, I don't want to do this, but your will be done.
In that line.
We talked about that one.
It's crazy.
Like, yeah, it's like even Jesus Himself is like, hey, like, you know, He's like,
do I have to?
Like, can you help me out here?
Even Jesus was afraid and in the sense of like, He did not want to deal with what was
coming and He even went to God and was like, please don't let me do this.
It's going to be insane.
Tortured.
Right.
For that long and that brutal and knew that He was going to survive through it to be Him
on the cross.
It's just yeah, it's insane.
The fact that He, you know, I'd be trying to make a deal too.
Like, hey, hey, man, are you sure?
Yeah.
And the fact that, you know, even after being told no, you know, He could have easily just
ran away, you know, ran gone somewhere else, but He still went through all that pain and
suffering so that we may be saved, that we may have salvation and have eternal life with
God is crazy.
Right.
And one of these episodes we need to, we will need to talk about heaven in its sense because
so there's a lot of debate about what heaven is and what that looks like.
And the Bible's pretty, pretty visual.
And all I know is there's going to be that awesome feast and I'm totally down for that.
I'm always down for food.
And I mean, there's really the lost colors because we can only see certain colors.
I'm like, is that ultraviolet?
We've seen ultraviolet too.
Like I'm pumped for that's going to be so cool.
Yeah.
I mean, scientists are able to measure color spectrum and know that we, we do not see the
full color, like everything color.
So try and imagine kind of like get to like the weakness of human, human brains is try
to create a new color in your mind.
See how well that goes.
So many times it's physically impossible.
Right.
It's just like you, you think you do, but your brain can recollect just colors that
you've seen.
So like, no, that's lavender.
Dang it.
Right.
I was told that pews isn't pink once.
I'm just like naming the green, blue, pink, purple.
I'm good with that.
It's just another version of purple or another version of pink.
Yeah.
Is that what your wife said?
Yeah.
Because she'll, she'll go into like, no, that's this color or this color.
I'm like, pink.
I'm like, right.
At your wedding.
It was a pink time.
It's funny because years later, just like, yeah, it was pink.
I'm like, thank you for anybody not in on this inside joke are my wedding, the best
men and the groomsmen all had to wear pink tide.
And we were told that it was a pews.
Oh yes.
Yeah.
It was definitely not pink.
It is pews.
I'm like, for you weren't for a simple man mind.
It was pink.
You can look at a dog and tell me, oh, that's not a dog.
That's a, a very fine canine with his paperwork and all this and selected breeding of this.
I'm like, like it ended the day.
It's still a dog.
Yeah.
It's still a dog.
Yeah.
No, I got you.
I'm with you.
I, I, okay.
Right.
It was pink.
I just, we digress, but yeah.
Um, I, so kind of wrapping things up slowly.
Um, I definitely recommend like we already touched up on at the beginning.
I think we did.
Um, Bible's there for reproof and revision, like reading, right.
And for strengthening, we talked about that.
And I think that's important because that's, that's to get you closer to God.
And um, the only verse I wanted to share, um, I think it was one more.
Let me see.
I think it was two.
Two.
That, uh, second Timothy three 16 was one of them.
Um, all scriptures, God breathed given by divine inspiration and is profitable for instruction
for conviction of sin, which is this is versus the one I talked about earlier.
I thought so, um, for correction of error and restoration to obedience for training
and righteousness, learning to live in conformity to God's will, both publicly, privately behaving
honorably with personal integrity and moral courage.
Now that was one of the verses I wanted to touch up on.
And the other one I wanted to bring up real quick was this, because this, this could start
up our next episode potentially just in general.
Um, John one one off the top of your head.
Are you familiar with it?
No, not at all.
Isn't it?
Uh, okay.
In the beginning.
Yes.
So John one one in the beginning before all time was the word who was Christ and the word
was with God and the word was God himself.
He was continually existing in the beginning, co-eternally with God.
All things were made and came into existence through him without him.
Not even one thing was made that has come into being and in him was life and the power
to bestow life and the life was the light of men and the light shines on in the darkness
and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate or absorb it and
is unreceptive to it.
I think that's really important is because this is talking about the word, right?
The word was God was with God and through the word is what everything was created and
the word is also translated as Christ.
Jesus was there from the beginning of all eternity as, as the word and the word was
brought to life, right?
So in verse 10, it comes back to mention this and it says he Christ was in the world and
through the world was made through him.
The world did not recognize him.
Right?
And I think this is if you read this like I 100% recommend reading through because it
gets to like 14 it says the word Christ became flesh and lived among us and we actually saw
his glory and glory as belongs to the one and only begotten son of the father, the son
who is truly unique and the only one of his kind who is full of grace and truth and absolutely
free of deception.
Right?
And I think this is interesting because a lot of people are like, oh, the Bible is separate.
Well we know like I just read in and Timoth the, you know, I'm very tired, but it was
in the cross.
Come on, dude.
Right, right.
Second Timothy 316 took me a second there.
Second Timothy 316 where it said all scriptures breed out God breathed.
Right?
And when you get to the scripture and what we call the word, the word was God.
So and the word was made in the flesh, which was Jesus.
So when we read in the Bible, that's why we you hear this term that it's the living word.
It's living.
It's the living and breathing word.
And that's because Jesus, they get closer to him.
You're reading about him through him and experience him by reading and knowing and understanding
who he is.
And I recommend to anybody listening, don't just read at face value.
It's so easy to pick up the message, the message and just read the message or pick up an IV
and just read the NIV.
And you miss out on a lot of I would say meat of the context sometimes where it could be
more and more informative if you read into other stuff.
Like I like going between the message, ESV and amplified.
And then doing those three are what we are able to do to like for me, I read those three
because the message puts it in plain terms to for anybody to understand easy way for
me to discuss it with others.
And then you have the ESV, which is a little bit more meat to it where it's talking about
like what the Bible was actually saying and then amplified where it just takes it and
extends it as much as possible because Hebrew and Greek language, when you say one word,
it means a lot more than just that.
It means like it has a lot more context and amplified as like the fullness of the context.
But can't be more.
If you really want to just simplify even more, you just you read the Hawaiian, the Pidgin
English.
Right.
Or the.
Yeah, I mean, I was finding that, you know.
Yeah, I mean, just reading it in general.
Read it.
You didn't somehow.
I agree.
Just you actually look like question.
Have you heard about step step Bible app?
I have not heard of step Bible app.
Oh, OK.
So it's really cool.
You can actually click on it and it will give you you can click on the words.
It gives you the Greek and like the Hebrew backing behind the word to show to you sometime.
That's cool.
Yeah, that's that's really cool.
If you there's other apps like my sword, there's apps like strong concordance, which helps
you understand more of the words themselves and actually read the original translations
for the Greek and Hebrew words.
Very helpful if you really want to get into studying, recommend it, obviously.
The more you study, the less you can be deceived.
Straight and simple.
That's yeah, that's good.
I really said I was like, yeah, give me chills.
Yeah.
So if you want homework, recommend reading Galatians five, John one and Titus.
Just read all Titus.
Some people skip it because they don't like what Titus says.
And it's fantastic because you put the page.
But yeah, we'll make sure I think we'll Jason, you'll do I probably remember we can post
that on the discord.
That way you guys if you guys can do the homework, you guys can read it, leave comments there.
I will post it to the Twitter as well.
Twitter if you guys listening you want it as podcast, it's at podcast GTP.
And that's yeah, yeah, Twitter truth project or project podcast.
So go ahead and you guys can follow us there.
Give us a follow.
And we'll have that posted there.
So that way you can do the homework, leave comments of what you guys may would like to
hear any prayer requests as well.
It'd be awesome.
Yep, the biggest the biggest thing that you could do to help out this podcast is really
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wise and what they're challenging.
And we want to walk through it with you and be able to talk and discuss with you.
Yeah, you know, this whole thing since the conception of it all has been this to push
the gospel, the rich people.
And that's the goal is the rich people who maybe don't know, I have questions who want
to grow in their faith.
Just curious.
So yeah.
Yeah.
You want to finish it off with praying?
Yeah, I was going to ask if I could.
Go for it.
Well, first thing I want to do is anybody out there is listening, if you don't, if you
haven't accepted Christ into your heart, I just pray right now with you that if you decide
to make the decision that you would just ask God to come to your life, you would accept
him, that you would believe that he died for your sins and know that we have, all of us
have sinned, all fall short of the glory of God.
He's forgiven us for our trespasses.
I just pray that you just a blessing of everyone who's listening, Lord, those who want to support
Lord who would like this, who need who need the gospel Lord for everyone, Lord.
I thank you Lord for Jason Lord for I and that you just keep us motivated, Lord, and
keep us pursuing you so that we may be able to help other people pursue your word.
I thank you in your name.
Amen.
So we're going to end the podcast there.
Makes it pretty straightforward and simple.
We look forward to seeing you all next week.
And like we did this week, we'll see what the topic comes out to.
Right?
Yeah.
You never know.
Which apparently we like to go off the flow and sometimes the flow of the Holy Spirit
is different than what we want.
Sometimes God's got a different plan so you just got to go with the flow.
Yep.
Amen to that.
All right, everybody, we'll see you on the next episode of the podcast.
Peace out.