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What if our understanding of love is fundamentally flawed? Today on the Jaime Luce Podcast, we challenge the cultural misconceptions of love by examining 1 Corinthians 13 through the lens of spiritual maturity and genuine relationships. Discover why this chapter, often associated with marriage, actually provides profound guidance on using spiritual gifts and fostering unity within the church. By confronting the false narrative of love prevalent in today’s society, we urge you to grow in your faith, understanding love as patient, kind, and truthful.

Is promoting gender transition for children truly compassionate? We delve into this controversial topic, discussing the redefinition of words and symbols, particularly focusing on the rainbow’s biblical symbolism and its contemporary appropriation. We argue that true compassion must align with scripture and emphasize the mental and emotional repercussions of encouraging such transitions. Explore how understanding one’s identity in relation to our Creator brings clarity amidst the confusion of modern societal shifts.

Are our worship services losing their reverence? The transformation of worship into entertainment spectacles is examined, highlighting the importance of returning to the Word of God and showing honor for sacred spaces. By addressing issues like abortion, assisted suicide, and the innocence of children’s imaginations, we advocate for maturity in faith and alignment with God’s teachings. Join us as we encourage you to stay faithful, remain in the Word, and support one another on our spiritual journeys towards abundant and fulfilled lives.

Where to dive in:

(0:00:00) – Time to Grow Up (16 Minutes)

This chapter encourages us to stay rooted in God’s word and faithful to His commands, highlighting the importance of living according to His design for an abundant life. We address a serious issue prevalent in today’s culture, particularly in the United States, and explore the stark differences between God’s definition of love and the culture’s false narrative of love. By referencing 1 Corinthians 13, we reflect on how this chapter, often misinterpreted as solely about marriage, provides guidance on using spiritual gifts and dealing with one another in the church. We emphasize the importance of maturing in faith and understanding love as patient, kind, and truthful, urging listeners to grow up spiritually and confront cultural misconceptions with biblical truths.

(0:15:55) – True Compassion and Identity Acceptance (11 Minutes)

This chapter addresses the complex and controversial topic of redefining words and symbols in contemporary society, particularly focusing on the use of the rainbow and the concept of compassion within the LGBTQ community. We explore how the biblical symbol of the rainbow has been appropriated to represent something contrary to its original meaning. Additionally, we discuss the use of terms like love, acceptance, and compassion, emphasizing that these should be defined according to scripture. I highlight the perceived cruelty in promoting gender transition, especially for children, arguing that it is neither compassionate nor truthful to suggest that one can change their fundamental biological makeup. We also touch on the mental and emotional repercussions of such transitions, advocating for a deeper understanding of one’s identity in relation to their creator.

(0:27:23) – Childlike Fantasies and Society’s Impact (17 Minutes)

This chapter examines the fluidity of children’s imagination and play, where they can embody various identities and roles without constraints or concerns about societal perceptions. We reflect on how children seamlessly switch from being a doctor to a truck driver to a superhero like Spider-Man, highlighting their innocence and freedom from adult responsibilities. Transitioning to contemporary issues, we discuss the controversial topic of children making irreversible decisions about their gender identity, raising concerns about the long-term consequences of medical interventions. We also explore how societal shifts in recent generations, particularly among millennials and Gen Z, have influenced perceptions of effort, achievement, and equality in professional environments, sometimes leading to impractical or unsafe outcomes.

(0:44:05) – Maturity and Truth in Love (12 Minutes)

This chapter addresses the importance of discerning truth and love according to God’s word rather than human rationale. We explore the significance of rejecting actions like abortion and assisted suicide, viewing them as contrary to true compassion. Emphasizing maturity in faith, we discuss how to live and reason as mature believers, aligning our habits and ideologies with God’s teachings. We also touch on the role of correction within the church, highlighting the necessity of growth and the danger of the seeker-sensitive movement. Real love, we argue, involves correction and self-sacrifice, prioritizing God’s purpose over personal preferences. Lastly, we emphasize the need for grace within the church and the importance of raising children in God’s truth amidst a deceptive society.

(0:55:59) – Spiritual Growth and Maturity Encouragement (3 Minutes)

This chapter addresses the modern transformation of worship services into entertainment spectacles and the lack of reverence for the house of God. We explore how this shift, marked by light shows, casual attitudes, and a preference for convenience over commitment, can undermine genuine relationships with Jesus Christ. I emphasize the importance of returning to the Word of God, showing honor and respect for sacred spaces, and moving from spiritual infancy to maturity. By abiding in God’s commands and seeking healing from past wounds, we can lead abundant and fulfilled lives. Encouragement is given to stay faithful, remain in the Word, and support one another in our spiritual journeys.

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0:00:00 – Jaime Luce
I just want to encourage you, folks stay in your word, stay faithful to God, stay faithful to His commands, abide in Him, remain in Him. Let’s do it the way he modeled for us. Let’s live according to His design and we will live an abundant life. Welcome to the Jamie Luce Podcast. It’s my pleasure to be with you today. I hope you’re having a great day so far. Whenever you are listening to this, whether that be morning, afternoon or evening, I pray that you feel the presence of the Lord. I am really stirred to be able to give this to you today and just kind of ooh, how do I want to say it? I want to be able to, without going on a complete rant, go on talk with you about a very serious issue that’s taking place in the world today very much so, if not the most, in the United States and talk about a couple things that might seem kind of controversial today. What I’m really calling today it’s time to grow up, time to grow up, and we’re going to be discussing things that have to do with what it looks like, what God’s love looks like versus the culture’s definition of love. So we’ll be discussing the differences there. We’ll be giving you I’ll give you the scripture first. After I give you the scripture, I want to kind of give you what a cultural false narrative is that’s coming at us, and it’s coming at us full force, with every bit of fervor and malice and venom and strength that can be put behind it. I know those are strong words, but they’re true, they’re accurate. Then we’re going to talk about how to address it, what we need to do as Christians, and then how that relates to the church as Christians, and then how that relates to the church. So, if you’ve got your Bibles, I would like you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians, chapter 13. This is the love chapter, but I’m going to show us some things in here that I think we don’t realize fit into the love chapter, that are in the love chapter. We tend to think of this chapter and I’ll read it in just a second we tend to think of it as kind of a marriage and relationship chapter, and yet that’s not what Paul was talking about at the time. This wasn’t in the midst of how to deal with marriage. So, surprisingly, that’s not where we find this, and Paul has just addressed the Corinthian church. He’s made some corrections, he’s giving them some instructions.

In chapter 12, the chapter just previous to this, he’s speaking about the spiritual gifts. It’s a beautiful chapter. I encourage you to read it. He talks about the varieties of gifts. The you to read it. He talks about the varieties of gifts, the varieties of service, the varieties of how they manifest. It’s really interesting. There’s all these different, not just the gifts themselves, but how God uses what I would say just as an easy term our personalities, the things that he equipped us with when he created us in our mother’s womb, that his thoughts for us included certain manifestations of the way that his glory would be seen in us. So it’s a beautiful chapter. But then it goes and flows right into in using all of these gifts and in using the way that God has created you, the way that you manifest who he is, the way that you deal with one another in the church as a body. This is more about the church and this is more about amongst one another in the body and the church.

So you’ll want to read that, but I’m not going to take the time to do that today and we’ll go to chapter 13. I’m encouraging you to take some notes. I know I say that all the time. But, like I said, there’s going to be some things that are so culturally relevant right now that you’re going to want to be able to have them, even if that’s just to jot down this reference and where this is found. Um, so, if you have that, if you’ve got get something I’ve got my uh iced tea here. You may want a cup of coffee or something that you can sip on while we do this, but, uh, I’m going to dive in and just start reading to you from chapter 13, verse 1, and it knowledge.

And if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing If I give away all I have and not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude, it does not insist in its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things and endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away, for we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child. Now. I really want you to listen to this. This is really the crux of the whole thing. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, but when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now, faith, hope and love, abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. Now, boy, I wanted to stop all the way through that and dial in on several things, but where I want us to start is I want to give you a picture of the current cultural narrative that we’re facing right now.

The current cultural narrative that we’re facing right now, in our culture, right now, we have this overriding, ever-present. It’s present in our television programs, it’s present in our news, it’s present in our social media, it’s present in our medical facilities, it’s present in our mental health facilities. It’s present, gosh, it’s present in all of our governmental systems and agencies. This is something that is really pervasive and the culture is trying to tell us that it is compassionate, compassionate and using. Now you have to understand that our culture is smart. In order to get what they want, they have to be able to convince those that they need to participate, that what they’re doing is good. Because if you look at the culture right now, we as Christians are fighting against there being any morality, and you can’t have. This is the live society. You cannot have morality outside of God. It was God who instituted what is moral. You can’t even there’s even a morality amongst everything that God has created. What is right.

We could look at how, if you’ve ever watched nature programs and how maybe a lion goes after a gazelle and you think, oh, it’s just so sad for the gazelle and that’s just so awful for the gazelle, and yet we’re putting humanity the gift of God. That is in us only as humans that God breathed the breath of life into us. We share in his likeness. Only us as humans do we have that. Animals do not have that. They were created beings for a purpose to serve, created man and to care and be a part of the earth. That blesses man. And this, the lion eating the gazelle, is in its own uh, in in nature and in its own habitat. It is not bad or evil for the lion to eat the gazelle. That’s how the circle of life continues on this earth.

Now, it was not so before the fall, um, or at least we don’t know that it was. I don’t know that there’s a scripture that we can point to, um other than we know that in heaven, the lion shall lay down by the lamb. That is complete, complete peace. Everything is at peace, but we can know that the design for how life takes care of itself and how it perpetuates, how there is life and then there is death, and then there is new life. We see that all throughout nature. So, even as a Christian, we understand that there was life. Jesus had life, but then he had to die so that we could have new life. That’s the way that this process works in nature on its own.

We tend to as a social culture that is godless, a culture that does not have God, an atheistic culture, a culture that stands contrary to God. It’s so funny to me, because I think that people who many times I have seen this over and over people who are atheists, are actually atheists because something about their belief in God. They got hurt along the way and now they’re angry at God and so they want to say there is no God. But the things that you have to believe. If you actually believe there is no God. Very few people, I think, are actually true atheists. But we live in an atheistic society. Whether you’re angry at God and you want him not to have any, you want no part of his life.

So you live in rebellion and you’re going to do everything you can angry at God and you can tell the difference in people who have this because they are so angry at Christians. I mean, they’re so angry at Christians. I mean they’re so angry at Christians Someone who is a true atheist, who just doesn’t believe in God. They’re not angry at Christians. They just think that you somehow think you need a crutch in life and they don’t need that. But they’re not angry at you. They actually think that you don’t know. They think they’re superior in their thinking and in their knowledge. So they just think that you’re inferior to them. But there’s not an anger at being a Christian. Those who are angry at Christianity want to stop you from being able to live the Christian life, want to remove all rights from you.

That whole idea, that whole heart behind that, that whole presence that’s with them is not atheistic, it’s rebellious. It says I hate God, I hate God, therefore I hate you. Jesus told us this would happen. He said they hated me, so they’re going to hate you. Don’t be surprised. And so that’s what we see. But you can’t. It’s God who created everything, so anything that is considered good, jesus said himself. Why do you call me good when only God is good? Only God can say what is moral and what is not.

So a culture that tries to tell us what’s moral I mentioned this in a previous broadcast that there’s a TV show and they do it a lot. I’ve seen it so many times on the show called the View, but so many other places and on news organizations I’ve seen newscasters do this where they try to, as non-Christians, as non-believers, as actually those who are rebellious against God and his ways always try to say to those who are Christians how a Christian should behave, which is hilarious to me, because that’s just. You have no idea what the Bible says and you don’t even try to know what it says. You don’t want to understand what it says, and yet you’re trying to interpret that for me and tell me how I’m supposed to live. It’s completely contrary to rational thinking, and so, as much as they want us to think rationally, that’s not rational to think like that.

And so we live in a culture that wants to tell us what is moral and what is not, tell us what is moral and what is not, and they use very specific words in order to further the agenda that they have, in order to stir or prick or manipulate a heart to agreement, to what they say is right and moral and good. One of those words right now that is highly used on every place you can see it, is the word compassion. They want to take a word. You know, we know that Jesus, all through the gospels it, always said that he was moved with compassion. Compassion is a wonderful thing. Compassion says I understand and have empathy for the plight that you’re in and I will do what I can and whatever is within my power to rectify that. But he did that by spiritual means. He was doing that by the power of God, and his desire was for them to then have relationship with God, to understand that the compassion that was shown them was the picture of God’s heart for them, in order to draw them into relationship with him themselves. So it was never just a let’s go out and take care of the community, having nothing to do with God and the work of God and the character of God. And what’s crazy is you can’t have true compassion without God, so it’s not even a real possibility.

It’s so ironic the way that they try to use something godly good and yet it’s not used for those purposes at all. It’s completely twisted and it’s meant. You know, we take words and we redefine them. For us as Christians, the rainbow, the word rainbow and the symbol of the rainbow is God’s promise and it’s literally been hijacked by society to mean something so contrary to God’s word. And then they throw out words like love and that we should accept and that we should be inclusive and that we need to be compassionate. Those are all right words and those are all right things and I say that with little quotation marks but they have to be defined the way scripture defines them and for the purpose that scripture defined them for. So this narrative of compassion I’m going to give you some examples here One of the major ways that they use the word compassion comes up in two different, very controversial things right now.

One of them is in the LGBTQ. I don’t even know all the alphabet soup of that. So it is to say that anyone who is a child I’m not even talking about an adult making a decision to be a transgender. We’re talking about the extreme of saying that I could actually become a completely different creature. I am born a human creature, a female. I’m born with the DNA and makeup, the chromosomes that make up the cells, the body parts that make up a female. And if you’re a male, same goes for you. So it doesn’t matter if I put on different clothes, grow my hair or cut my hair. Wear makeup, don’t wear makeup. Wear jewelry don’t wear jewelry. Um, wear prosthesis. Wear, um, anything that I could do. Hide certain things we have. We have clothing lines in our stores that say this is to help the girl who thinks she’s a boy, to press down and restrict her breasts. Then you have for boys who think they’re girls, who want to be female, to tuck their body parts and hide them so that they are not seen in the natural way that they would be seen on a body.

It is the most insane thing to think that that means you can actually change something. Now I’m going to read you a scripture again and I’m going to take you kind of a little bit deeper into this and show you biblically how crazy this is okay Because it’s not compassionate to tell someone you can become something you can never become. It is torture to the mind. That’s torture, it’s, it’s um, it is not true or compassionate to say that you were not, you were born in the wrong body, that you were not, you were born in the wrong body. To tell somebody that something is wrong with them on the deepest, most uncontrolled part of their life. You cannot control that. You were born a male or female. You cannot control that. Even the insane idea that people would have their eggs taken out of their body and sperm taken out of their body and then make these embryos in a petri dish, so to speak, and choose to impregnate yourself with only a boy or only a girl, even at that extreme, and that is not godly to do that. You don’t get to play God. But anyway, that’s not the topic at the moment. Even if you did that, that’s a parent choosing what the sex of the child that they’re going to deliver is. But once that child’s born, that child didn’t get to choose. That you are completely. You have no control. There is no way you can control that and your lack of control over that.

It is so cruel to tell somebody you were born in the wrong body and it’s, and you’re going to have to mutilate yourself to become something that you can never actually become, because you can’t go in and change their cells. You can’t go in and change their DNA. You’re simply chopping up, cutting up, sewing up, scarring up body parts that can never be undone. What you do can never be put back the way it was. It’s humpty, dumpty. You cannot put it back together again the way that it was. And on top of that you’re given hormones that are to trick your body. It’s not changing your body. It’s actually causing damage because it’s not meant to do what it’s being forced to do. Damage because it’s not meant to do what it’s being forced to do.

And now we have all of these people coming forward who are saying this was the worst possible decision I could have ever made. They are told it’s compassionate because they’re saying, if you don’t do this, this person’s going to commit suicide. So the compassionate thing to do is to let them do it to commit suicide. So the compassionate thing to do is to let them do it when the truth is, the risk of suicide is higher after they perform the surgeries because they realize nothing on the inside. Their soul has not changed. Their spirit, man has not changed. There is nothing different in their psyche. Nothing is different. They cannot change it. They do not realize there is a deeper issue, a deeper problem that needs addressing. First and foremost, it is the lack of knowledge and relationship of their creator to know that they were born with destiny and purpose and they have giftings that will help fulfill that and give them a happy and a satisfied life in God. Okay, let’s go back, because I can get off on a rabbit trail. There they use the word compassion. That is not compassionate, that is not love.

If I have children who want to just go play in the street, do things that are dangerous for them Right now, it’d be dangerous as many children that are abducted. It would be dangerous to allow my children to do the things I even did as a child. I would not allow my child to do the activities that I participated in when I was a child. I would not allow my child to do the activities that I participated in when I was a child. I would not let them ride a bicycle out of my vision, down streets away from me where I can’t see them. I would never allow that now. I wouldn’t even allow them to play in my front yard without me out there watching them by themselves, wouldn’t allow it. Wouldn’t allow them to be walking to school and back by themselves. Wouldn’t allow them to be walking to school and back by themselves. Wouldn’t allow them to go in the dark to go play at the park. I wouldn’t allow these things because it is no longer a safe place.

When you remove the boundaries that God has placed for our protection, that’s exactly what it does. It all protection and danger lurks in every corner when we do not keep ourselves where we need to be protected from. So we have got to be people who understand that this is not, um, this is not us saying that we’re just not willing to change with technology and grow with the times. We have allowed insanity. It’s insanity. Now. I spoke like a child. I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child. Now I want you to think about your own childhood. I was talking about this with my brother, who’s a pastor, and I was discussing what I was going to be doing this message on, and he’s like you’re so right when I gave him the examples and he had his own son to glean from in what he thought those examples were. So here we go.

When you see a child, see a child, that child. They have the best imaginations. They are free from anything, any weight of being a mature adult that is full of responsibility. They’re not responsible yet they’re being cared for in every way. It’s beautiful to see a child play and imagine and they can they place. It’s why it’s so dangerous to have a child playing with one of these, because it removes their imagination and they need to go out and experience the world. Play in the yards, climb the trees, spend time in the fresh air and the sunshine, play with sticks that they find as they’re running, you know, collect seashells on the beach. They need to imagine, know, collect seashells on the beach. They need to imagine.

My sister and I when we were little, my dad had this old barbecue out in the back and the way that it was designed. It had this lid that you could lift and it had a little bar on top that it was round and it had this little extra shelf on top and we’d go out there with our sand toys, you know, like those little sifting sand toys, and we would instead take dirt and make mud in there so it wouldn’t seep through, and we would call them because they were the shape of a pie, and we would call them making mud pies, and we’d go pretend and then we’d sit them on the shelf inside the little barbecue out there and close the lid and pretend that was our oven and we just made believe whatever we wanted to make believe and we would do all kinds of things like that. So you see a child and one minute that child wants to be a bear or a lion and they’re roaring and they want you to address them as a bear or a lion. They don’t want you to call them by their name. They’ll say, no, mommy, I’m a lion, and they’ll correct you and they want to be called by that. Or they get to an age where there’s a name they like or a friend or a person they like and they want their name and they’ll say call me. You know, instead of me being Jamie, I’ll say, okay, call me Kelly. You know I, you know, instead of me being Jamie, I’ll say, okay, call me Kelly. Uh, you know, I want to be called Kelly, call me Kelly, don’t call me Jamie, call me Kelly, and and we’ll change our name.

We may be going through a phase where we’re playing and and we’re cops and robbers and, as a girl, we take on the identity of a little boy while we’re playing, and I’m the bad guy and I’m the robber and I’m Joe. My sister and I would play these games, be whatever gender, be, whatever nationality, be whatever we were doing. You just would imagine and become those things you would dress up as those things your clothes would represent. You know, as little girls are famous for this, they have their favorite outfit.

I had a friend many years ago who she would say her daughter had this kind of outfit. It was her favorite outfit and there was not one thing about that outfit that matched Polka dot. You know, pants or leotard and striped shirts and bows in the hair with sparkles and and shoe. I mean, everything about it was different. The colors were different, the designs were different, nothing about it matched. And she would put that on every day. Love, that little outfit, that was. All of those things were her favorite things. It didn’t matter that it didn’t match, it didn’t matter. She’s a little girl playing and she’s. She’s. She’s free from responsibility and it doesn’t matter what people think about her. And she doesn’t have that image yet of worrying what people think and they just play and imagine. That’s the mind of a child.

My brother’s example for his son was he was Spider-Man. There was no way he was not Spider-Man. He wore the costume. He crawled around the house as if he was climbing up buildings. He would shoot with his fingers. He was doing the spider webs. He would ask my brother to hold him and help him climb up the walls. He was Spider-Man. You couldn’t call him Jacob. You didn’t call him by his name. He’d say, no, I’m Spider-Man, he was Spider-Man.

We understand that. That’s how children are. One day they’re one thing, one thing they’re the next. And the only way that they want to continue constantly being this one thing other than saying I’m a doctor today. I mean when you’re a kid, you play, you’re a doctor. One day you might be the dentist, you might be driving a truck and be a truck driver. You could be in the military and shooting guns and you’re a soldier. It changes every day.

It’s crazy to think that we are saying that our children, who think like children, who reason like children who speak like children would would say I want to be a boy. And then we take them to a doctor, put them on hormone blockers and mutilate their bodies, which we’re finding now that also, the minute you are messing with their hormones, especially before puberty or while they’re going through puberty, you are most likely causing that child to never, ever be able to have children later. That when they’re actually an adult and they realize what have I done? And now I would go back and I wish I could undo it. And now I want a family and I realize I’m not a boy or I’m not a girl and I wanted to do these things and now I can’t. I have made a lifelong, detrimental, horrible decision that can never be reversed.

You can see this we have raised as a society, an entire generation, an entire generation. It was two generations in the making. It went from the millennial and please don’t I’m not picking on you, because not everybody fits in this category. I’m just using this as a culture, okay. So please don’t take offense if you are a millennial and if you’re a Gen Z-er, please don’t take offense. I’m not singling anybody out. I am letting you know what the culture has done to the last two generations.

We took the millennial generation and we made them soft. We said you don’t have to do things that don’t feel good. We want you to not have to worry about that. That was the generation that we started saying everybody gets a trophy, you don’t have to work to be the best, you don’t have to work hard, you don’t have to worry about accomplishing Um, it’s you. You just need to enjoy and have fun with what you’re doing. Okay, well, that generation then evolved into a generation that says not only do I not need to be good at this, not only do I not need to train for this, work for this, get good at this, but simply because I’m this gender or this color, I should be put in a job and pay just as much as the person who’s gifted in this area, who has worked very hard and is actually really good at this.

We saw this play out in front of our eyes when former Donald President Donald Trump was the attempted assassination of him at his rally, and we saw the Secret Service come in and you saw three men, big men, tall men, who are tall enough to protect the president, who knew exactly what to do and quickly moved. And then we had three women who were smaller than the president, not even able to come up. I mean smaller, you can’t even cover his body. How are you going to protect him if you can’t even cover him? It’s just kind of it’s a requirement for the job. You got to be able to cover the man. They’re just in their body size alone. They’re smaller. That doesn’t make them bad, it doesn’t make them not dedicated. There was one woman, one of the smaller women. She’s very dedicated, putting her life on the line. That’s so commendable, very commendable. The problem is she’s not equipped for the job, even though she’s willing.

This is reasoning like a child. We are telling corporations and businesses to hire people for positions that are not even reasonably able to do the job. They’re not qualified for the job and we call those words having inclusion and having diversity and we want to be equal. Well, those all sound like great words, but when they are put into practice in ways that do not match what they mean, they are disastrous and dangerous. And we have done this to an entire generation, an entire generation folks.

There is no godly morality and we have raised people who are living in adult bodies, who think like children, who speak like children, who reason like children and you know a child based off of these three things their physical appearance, meaning like the clothing that I described that the little girl wore. Their mentality, meaning that they live in an imaginary world. It’s whatever. La la, la, la la. It’s little girls having tea parties with her stuffed animals and pretend tea, and she’s imagining. It’s not real, but she’s pretending. It’s all a pretense, it’s pretending. We have a generation who lives in pretense. They live in la la land, they live in a pretend world and they want to tell us that that pretend world is real and that we have not loved them, we have not shown them compassion. It’s a complete lie, folks. Complete, disastrous, dangerous lie. You see it in their mentality because they live in imagination, and you see it spiritually. And I’m going to show you even this is what Paul was dealing with, with grown people who aren’t even dealing with the same stuff we’re dealing with now.

Go to 1 Corinthians, go back a few chapters to chapter 3, and in verse 1 it says but I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh. So first he’s pointing out you’re not even acting like spiritual people, people who know God out. You’re not even acting like spiritual people, people who know God. You’re not. I can’t even address you as Christians. I’m having to address you as people of the flesh, carnal in nature, carnal in your desires, carnal in your wishes and your dreams. Carnal, he says uh, people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. Infants, an infant. I fed you with milk, not solid food. Why did he do that? For you were not ready for it and even now you are not ready, for you are still of the flesh, ready for you are still of the flesh. And he goes on. But this is the point I’m making. What do we see? And it’s laughable.

I have a friend. We went to church, our families all went to church together for many, many years. He’s been on many television programs, has his own podcast television programs, has his own podcast. He preaches and goes around the country doing all kinds of things. He emcees major events for raising funds for things. He announces the Titans football team in Tennessee at their home games.

His name is Matt Rogers and he is he’s hilarious to begin with just a funny guy, and he’ll post things. And recently, this past week, he posted a little story and he said I’m over here at Buc-ee’s the biggest Buc-ee’s in all of the United States. And there aren’t. You know, he said the joke is that there aren’t any outside of the United States, so it’s the biggest in the world. I’m at the biggest Buc-ee’s in the world. There aren’t any outside of the United States, so it’s the biggest in the world. I’m at the biggest Buc-ee’s in the world. And he said and with his camera, he says and what is my favorite outfit for today? And he’s picking out the things that people wear into public. And it was funny.

But the joke is, if people are going to the closest Walmart, you’re going to see an entire generation of people who show up in their pajamas. They wear their pajamas as if they’re at home, going to bed. I’m just going to tell you that’s a childish mindset. You can walk around in your PJs all day. We, as parents, make it easy. They’ve got their little onesie pajama on. You may or may not put clothes on them, unless you’re taking them out. The child doesn’t change their clothes. The parent changes their clothes to take them out. The child never makes that decision. The parent does. But a child will walk around in their pajamas and have no problem all day long. Their clothes won’t match their clothes, look clownish the way that they’re put together.

And we have a society of people who you can take one look at what they’re wearing, what they’re broadcasting on their clothing, their hair color and hairstyles. They are, from top to bottom, broadcasting that they are still a child. They still speak like a child. They throw tantrums still a child. They still speak like a child. They throw tantrums like a child. They dress like a child. They reason like a child. They think like a child. They’re still a child.

And these people are in their 30s now, teaching our children in public schools, telling our children that what they are doing is normal and good, teaching wrong definitions of very good words, telling people you can’t even use proper language that we have used forever, forever. Our language is built on the premise of these principles of knowing if I am a he or a she, and I don’t go around saying I’m a he or a she. I have a name. The pronoun thing is ridiculous. But that’s me imagining a whole different. It’s imaginary world. It’s insanity, folks. It’s insanity.

And Paul is calling this out in the Christians. Okay, so you’ve got the narrative. You can see what’s happening in our world. In fact, they use the word compassionate. In our world In fact they use the word compassionate and I believe I mentioned this in my last recording but the whole idea of compassionate death, assisted suicide they use the word compassionate and say you are having compassion on them because they don’t want to live anymore, that the means of taking their life, assisting them medically to commit suicide, is compassionate. But if you did your homework and you knew what drugs they were giving the people who are actually being assisted in this suicide, you would realize they’re torturing them. They are not having compassionate. It is not painless and easy for the person who has this happen.

The first drug that is administered is a drug that paralyzes their body. It paralyzes them so they look like they’re at peace. They can’t move. Their eyes can’t move, their hands can’t move. You can’t tell by their breathing what’s going on because they have been paralyzed. So it looks to you like that’s compassionate and how peaceful we’ve made them. That’s just the worst of the first part. Okay, the worst part comes even after this that now and it shows how cruel it is.

The second drug that’s administered has the same effect on the body. What it’s doing inside the body is causing the body to actually drown it literally, you drown internally and it feels like you’re drowning. Because you are drowning, you’re just not in a body of water doing it. It would be called dry drowning. You are literally drowning. It feels like you’re drowning. You’re suffocating on the inside and you can’t tell the person who’s sitting there thinking how peaceful and kind and compassionate this is, because you’re paralyzed. You can’t even help yourself to tell them. Please stop this. You’re torturing me and the process can take up to 24 hours to complete. The timings are all different, but it can take up to 24 hours to complete. The timings are all different, but it can take up to 24 hours. So you could literally be torturing the person you love so much. You are guilty of torturing them to death, and so is the doctor who’s helping you do it. It’s awful, folks. It’s awful. It is not compassionate, and I’m telling you the truth and I’m gonna read this scripture to you again, because you need to hear this. You need to.

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This is I’m going to start in verse 6. It says it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Rejoices with the truth, folks. I can’t rejoice at abortion just because someone thinks that that means that that person shouldn’t have to um deal with that because they weren’t ready for that, they didn’t want a child. This isn’t a good time for them, whatever the reason, and they’re happy to move on with their life without having a child. I don’t rejoice with that. I rejoice with truth. I don’t rejoice with assisted suicide, because I know that’s not compassionate. I don’t rejoice that they get to be free from whatever ailment they were feeling in their body, because the truth is I’m torturing them to death.

We have got to be those who discern by the word, not discern by our own rationale, because we have to be careful that, like Paul was saying to this Corinthian church, you have to make sure you’re not doing it from a fleshly standpoint, from a carnal mindset, that we have to be doing this as grown adults in God, mature in Jesus Christ and according to the word of God. We don’t choose. I’m not the one who says what we can and can’t do. I’m not the one who determines what love is and what a relationship is good before God. God decides that. God decides that. He’s the one that says you cannot have a man with a man and a woman with a woman. God said that, not Jamie God. I simply live according to what. God, the creator of all, who knows what’s good, who determines what’s actually good for me and my life, what’s not dangerous, what will keep me protected that’s love.

This love chapter says what love is, but it’s done in conjunction with what is true. I don’t get to say that love is all of these things and and remove God’s truth from the equation. It’s necessity. It’s the necessity of God’s truth that tells me what love actually is. Okay, so what do we do about it? How do we deal with this? Folks, you can only deal with you. We can stand up for what’s right, we can vote for what’s right, we can speak what’s right. So do the opposite of this. We speak like a grown person, a mature person, we think like a mature person and we reason like a mature person. Okay, we do that. Okay, but it says what do we need to do? We need to examine our habits, our habits, our behaviors, our beliefs, our ideologies, our patterns, our traditions and see where we have refused to grow up. It’s time for us to put away childish ways, mature and take responsibility.

If you’ve got young children, I encourage you with all of my strength. Grow them in the word of God, teach them according to the truth of God. Do not allow the world’s culture, its ways and its deceptive use of vocabulary to twist what is true. Do not allow your children to be wasted on a society who will not treat them well, who will hurt them, who will mutilate them, who will punish them for what’s right and encourage what is dangerous and hurtful and destructive for their life. We have got to examine in our lives are we living as children? How does this relate to the church? Okay, here’s an example.

The church at large went through its generations two generations worth of the seeker-sensitive movement of saying everything we do is about drawing in the people of the world to come in, and the heart behind it was we wanted to get people saved. That’s not a bad thing to want. However, if you bring people in, here’s the deception of that. If you bring people in because you’ve entertained them, because you fed them free food, because you never spoke a word of correction to them, according to the word, how do you even read the New Testament and not understand? Most of it is correction. Poor Paul is constantly having to bring correction. Even in the book of Revelation, john is having to say that God is bringing correction to these churches. If he loves you, he corrects you. That’s just love. Love corrects and folks, we have to be corrected our whole lives. It’s not like we ever arrive.

If you’re in a marriage you’re going to constantly come up against things where you have to correct one another and grow and mature with one another, and do it because you are actually really loving, truly loving according to God’s love, where you self-sacrifice. It’s not all about you, it is about God and it is about his purpose and it is about his church and our part that we play in his kingdom. That’s what it’s about. But it isn’t about my pleasure, it isn’t about my gain, it isn’t about my personal likes and dislikes. You’ll never find a perfect church because you will have your own set of everything you like and everything. There will be things you don’t like. There will be people you like who will be your friends, and there will be people who they don’t. You don’t click with them that they’re, they’re not your friends, cause you guys just don’t click. You don’t like the same things, you don’t care about the same things. You don’t have the same um philosophies, ideologies, whatever.

There’s reasons why we gravitate to people and reasons why we don’t gravitate to others. That’s just normal and we have to have grace for one another, especially in the church, in the things that we just don’t like. But the reason we don’t like things. The reason we argue and have dissensions, paul tells us, is because we’re acting like children. We’re acting like children and we feed them milk. We don’t actually feed them the meat of God, the correction of God, which is actually love. It’s actually love. Real love confronts. Real love makes adjustment and hard sacrifices. Real love makes us make changes in ourselves. And we are using the word love now in our society to say that they want everybody to change for the one person. All of society, all language, everything needs to change on the whim of each individual person. That’s crazy. A society cannot even you can’t even maintain for a day living that kind of way. It’s just crazy. And it’s time for us to mature, it’s time for us to grow up.

I’m imploring you by the word of God, I’m imploring you. He says when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. We have to do that if we want to be actively able to live the Christian life according to God’s ways, god’s standards. Live the Christian life according to God’s ways, god’s standards, god’s commands. And there is such a thing as love, but how you define it matters. There is such a thing as compassion, but it’s God who gets to determine what that is how that is how that manifests. I don’t get to say do whatever you want, doesn’t matter how much it hurts you, but I did that because I love you. No, if you love me, you tell me you’d tell me the truth. That’s in the love chapter. That’s the definition of love. It rejoices in truth.

So we have to self-examine. Our job is to self-examine and say do I resist truth because it makes me have to confront myself and change something? Am I not willing to accept the word of God truly as the word of God? Am I rebellious? Am I stubborn? Am I childish? Am I living in my own imaginary Christian world where I think this is Christianity? I’ve set up an idol of Jesus and he’s the Jesus I made him in my imagination. This is the way I imagined Jesus would be. He’s so loving and compassionate and he’s so inclusive and he lets everybody love anybody they want. Well, that’s not the love of the Bible. That’s not the love that God defined love. God instituted love. God gets to say what love is and what love isn’t. I don’t get to hijack those words and those meanings God does. Those are his.

Our job is to live according to those definitions. You are exactly who God created you to be. Your job is to then lay your life down to live it the way he wants you to live it, because that is where your good purpose is found, that’s where the abundant life is found, that is where the things that God has planned for you come about. That’s where the promises get fulfilled. It’s in living the life that God has intended you to live. We’ve got to grow up, folks. We’ve got to grow up. So that’s my encouragement to you today. I hope that didn’t come as a total rant, but it is the truth of God’s word, and I care and I want to tell the truth and I want to rejoice in truth. We stand up for what’s right. We stand up for what is right according to the word. We stand up for the body of Christ the way that God intended her to be.

Because, like I was saying, if we keep the model of do it the way the world does it and bring everybody into the church by all these means of entertainment and and, like you know, I better be careful what I say If you bring them in that way, that’s the only way you’re going to keep them coming, and the truth of the matter is. We have raised an entire generation who is bored within seconds. So the entertainment that you produced last week, you better up your game the next week. This is not sustainable, as much as it is not sustainable as a culture to live this way. It is not sustainable for the church to live this way.

So if the church is built on the entertainment of the way we’ve turned worship to God about a show a light show, a cloud show, smoke show, whatever and we’re feeding them, you know they get their favorite latte out in the parking lot and their favorite breakfast food and you can bring it in and show no reverence for the actual house of God. How you treat the house of God. Leave your trash wherever. You don’t ever care to bring a Bible, you’d rather just bring your phone and you don’t want to really thumb through the word and spend time in the word. Not that you can’t use your phone, it’s just if there’s no honor and respect for the house of God. If it wasn’t the word of God that convicted their heart and drew them, then it won’t ever be the word of God that keeps them, which means they don’t actually have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode. I encourage you to listen to that because that really does piggyback that statement completely. So if you want more on that, go back and listen to last week. So I just want to encourage you, folks stay in your word, stay faithful to God, stay faithful to his commands, abide in him, remain in him. Let’s do it the way he modeled for us. Let’s live according to his design and we will live an abundant life. We will live a fulfilled life. We will live a life where we can be healed from the wounds of our childhood. I fully understand that so many live as adults still wounded from the wounds of our childhood. I fully understand that so many live as adults still wounded from the wounds of a child and it manifests in their life by the decisions that they make. This happens to everybody the way we think, the way we process, because of things that happened as a child.

My encouragement to you is ask the Lord to help you go from milk to meat. My encouragement to you is ask the Lord to help you go from milk to meat. Let him take you through those processes, but let him heal those processes so you’re able to grow up and mature. We all need it. We all need this word. I’m no better, I’m no different. Every single one of us needs this word and we need each other. We need each other to be living this. That’s my encouragement to you today. I really do hope that this was something that resonated in your spirit.

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