Words of Jesus Podcast - Speak With The Unction Of God

Starting point is 00:00:00 Think Red Ink Ministries presents the Words of Jesus series with Don C. Harris. Hello my friend, you're watching the Words of Jesus series again. I want you to know I appreciate it. Last time we were talking about divorce. Very difficult subject. And if you missed it, and it is an interest of yours, I would encourage you to find that show and watch it again. Because there's a lot of misconceptions about divorce.

Starting point is 00:00:46 You know, in considering it after the show, I thought so many people get divorces and I mean, a lot of people get divorces and there is a misunderstanding in the church that really needs to be dealt with. Again, it has to do with definitions. Amazing, huh? And one of those is that, you know, you hear two women talking. And one of them will say, you know, well, you know, I had to divorce Bob. Oh, really? I hate to hear that.

Starting point is 00:01:24 What happened? Well, you? I hate to hear that. What happened? Well, you know, he committed adultery. And the other one breathed a little sigh of relief like, oh, at least you didn't get divorced for a frivolous reason. You got divorced for a scriptural reason. So it's okay. You've heard this. You know this this people talk about it all the time so-and-so got a divorce the other day oh that's terrible well it was for adultery

Starting point is 00:01:52 oh well they don't say it but they're saying that's okay and all this is based on Jesus saying that, you know, a man divorces his wife except it be for fornication. Right? And he puts that little parenthetical addition into that sentence. And so people naturally think that, well, if your husband commits adultery, then it's okay. If your wife commits adultery, then it's okay. Do you know that's not so? That's not true at all.

Starting point is 00:02:29 Your wife commits adultery, you're supposed to forgive her. Your husband commits adultery, you're supposed to forgive him. You remember forgiveness. It was in all the papers. This is what God does for us. And we're supposed to forgive one another for this kind of thing. Well, that's not what Jesus said. No, that's not what Jesus said. Jesus said, except it be for fornication. And the problem is, is that we don't know what fornication means.

Starting point is 00:02:58 We can't differentiate that from adultery. Now, you know, adultery is this, you know, it's illegitimate sex, and it's illegitimate because it's outside of marriage. But that's not what fornication is. Fornication is, well, you know, how can I say this? It's kind of the sport that people are involved in today. There's no marriage vows being broken. They're just committing fornication. You know, you take two people and you throw them in a room and they commit fornication. You couldn't walk up on a room that's been closed for three days

Starting point is 00:03:43 and a man and a woman in there and not think that everybody thinks that because well who can avoid that i mean we have some pretty weird ideas when it comes to sexual things but we ought not um you ought you ought to be able to be locked up in a room with a gentleman for three months and it not be a problem. But unfortunately, gentlemen are in short supply, and women with scruples are in short supply. So we have this problem. Fornication is sex outside of marriage.

Starting point is 00:04:20 And I mean outside of it, not the breaking a marriage vow there's there's a huge difference here um you know there are cultures not our culture you know we kind of sprang from the pilgrim and the puritan kind of a thing where you know there's you know there's certain things that are just inexcusable. And, you know, it's a real problem. There are some cultures that don't think anything of that. So what was Jesus saying when he said that? Well, he was simply reiterating the law from the Old Testament that if a woman purports herself to be virginal when a man marries her, he has a right, he has, he has in, in many cases, even a duty to, if he should find that that is not the case,

Starting point is 00:05:19 that he has the duty. And, and I think, I think it was duty because it was very important to the Lord that things be on a very pure level when it comes to our marriage relationships. If a woman purported herself to be a maid or a virginal when he married her, should he find out that that's not the case? He has the right to annul that marriage. That's all Jesus was talking about. He wasn't saying if you commit adultery you've got a right to get a divorce. He doesn't say that at all.

Starting point is 00:05:56 You know, there are, I've counseled with a lot of people and I'm amazed at some of the things they say. You know, I've been struggling with my marriage for 15 years, and finally, you know, he's committed adultery, so now I can divorce him. I'm thinking, what? You're happy because he's committed adultery?

Starting point is 00:06:21 Because now you're off the hook? This is really, really bad thinking. And it's bad theology. And, you know, it just, here we are again. The hardness of our hearts. It just keeps showing up over and over again. I didn't mean to get on the subject again. We have belabored it. But divorce is a real problem in our society. And we probably need to just solidify

Starting point is 00:06:47 this in our thinking as to how things are. You know, the way I look at divorce, it's like an amputation. You know, anybody that's happy about their divorce, I don't know. First of all, I don't know if they were ever really married because, you married because you can be married to the worst shrew that ever lived and when the divorce takes place, it feels like something's been removed from you. It hurts. It's not a pleasant thing. And if we look at divorce as anything other than an amputation of a limb, I don't think you're seeing it like it should be. And I certainly don't think that you saw your marriage like it ought to be.

Starting point is 00:07:28 It's a horrible and a painful thing that needs to be avoided at any cost. However, we do know that if you have a gangrenous limb, and it will eventually poison that whole body and destroy that body, then amputation is necessary. You're not going to get me to tell you when it's necessary, but you'll know. And it'll be a sad day in your life. I don't care how gangrenous your limbs are, you're going to miss your limb when it's gone. So have we talked about this enough let's talk about jesus and little children shall we uh chapter 83 in our book uh some small children and infants were brought to jesus and he was and he was asked to bless them his disciples rebuked those who

Starting point is 00:08:22 had brought them this dis displeased Jesus greatly. He said to his disciples, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. For of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein and jesus took them up in his arms and put his hands upon them and blessed them um you know i really don't understand

Starting point is 00:08:54 the blessing thing i really don't understand it um i'm wondering you know i know you sneeze in the grocery store and 16 people say, God bless you. And if somebody's close enough to me, I usually ask, are you a priest? Can you do that, really? And I mean, I do it in a comical kind of a way. It's a nice way of opening up a conversation on spiritual things. But I don't know that we understand that a blessing from God

Starting point is 00:09:33 actually does come through a priesthood. And that I don't know that you understand that, you know, if you wish somebody well, then wish them well. But, you know, God bless you. I would that God bless you. I've told people, you know, I would that God would, you know, bless whatever endeavors that you're involved in or whatever else you're doing. And, you know, I would that, you know, God would bless you in your, in your, in whatever endeavor it is. But, you know, the, the, the, the trite and thoughtless kind of God bless you thing.

Starting point is 00:10:14 You know, I just don't think we take these kind of things as seriously as we ought to. So I wonder, really, without the unction of the Holy Spirit, do we really have the right privilege or even duty to arbitrarily bless somebody? Just bless them. I don't know. I really don't know. A lot of times it's used to establish hierarchy. Did you know that? You can be standing in the foyer of the church and

Starting point is 00:10:50 someone will bless somebody else. You know, the preacher will say, God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, as they're leaving. You should have blessed the whole congregation when you were standing up there. Why are you doing it now? A lot of times, it's just something to say and uh boy we don't need to be guilty of that we need to mean what we say and say what we mean to whom we mean to say it uh just you know become a stickler about this kind of thing people say they want to bless the meal are we going to bless the meal i doubt it is there any priest at the table i guess we can thank god they call that turning grace or turning thanks or there's a lot of things we call that and i'm really wondering these things

Starting point is 00:11:40 done without the unction of the holy spirit i just don't know how beneficial it is but you know many times we don't care about whether or not it's beneficial we just want to relieve ourselves like uh like we have gas or something like i have to say this i have to bless you if i bless you you, I'm off the hook. You know, I blessed you. You know, I just don't know what people are thinking. Very, very seldom has anybody ever said, God bless you to me.

Starting point is 00:12:19 And me felt like that they actually meant what they said. I'm sorry if you were one who's done that. I'm sorry to say that especially here in public but uh i very seldom have i felt like it was it was honest you know how what would make this really honest and what would make it significant like saying i love you every you can't hang up the phone unless you say i love you you can't do it you just can't I you just can't hang up without saying I love you do you know what really makes that really mean something I guess my mother taught me this when I was very very young you know don't do that don't do that I thank god that she did that to me because i don't do that and she doesn't do

Starting point is 00:13:09 that and now even my mother way up in her 80s you know when we hang up we say bye see you later catch you again or whatever else and hang up but every once in a while, she or me, she or I, may end that conversation with, Mom, I love you, or she tells me that she loves me. I think that perhaps if you really want to add credence and power to God bless you or I love you, we just ought not say it so much until it's become such a, it's just a, it's just gab. It doesn't mean anything.

Starting point is 00:13:57 It's like in the name of Jesus we pray amen. That's what it's like. It's like amen. People say amen all the time. Do you know what that means many people don't they just say it and many people do a lot of saying that they just don't mean so when it comes to blessing i'm intrigued by that it's you know uh what was it uh jacob and esau received the blessing of their father and so you know jacob tricked esau and and uh he got the blessing esau came to him he said bless me father also i can see him grabbing his hand and putting it on his head and saying bless me father too and he says gant sorry i've already blessed your brother i'm thinking wow did you only have one really oh what am i gonna do

Starting point is 00:14:55 and his father's attitude was i blessed him what am i i can't take that back i can't just give you the same blessing. There's a lot about this I don't think we understand. And so when I hear that Jesus wanted to bless these children, I can't help but believe he did so under the unction of the Holy Spirit. He put his hands on them and he blessed them. Wouldn't you love to have heard what he said i would i would love to

Starting point is 00:15:29 have heard what he said i guarantee you he did not go down through that prayer line saying god bless you god bless you god bless you god bless you god bless you god i guarantee you he didn't do that. I think what he said was, by the unction of the Holy Spirit. I think what he did was, he really blessed them. I don't know that we know what this is. I know that I don't. When I decided in my own life

Starting point is 00:16:03 and inside my own will and character i decided i'm not saying anything unless i mean what i say i'm going to be careful about what i say what the definitions of the words i use except uh perhaps uh garen flipping tea probably, probably that's not on the list. But I decided that I want to say what I mean. I want to mean what I say, and I don't want to say it unless it's under the unction of the Holy Spirit of God. This almost eliminated my prayer life i don't feel like i can just open my mouth anytime i want and god hear everything i say i don't feel that way i understand the

Starting point is 00:16:55 difference between go boldly to the throne of grace and come boldly i know the difference i just said that and you know some of you are thinking oh my goodness i never thought of that good for you good for you to come boldly to the throne of grace means you're answering someone who is bidding you to that throne of grace you've been invited that door's been opened you're operating under an unction a moving of the holy spirit of god you're answering a call to come to the throne of grace but we don't come we go and we knock on the door and we ask and we ask and we ask and we seek and we seek and we seek and we knock and we ask and we seek and we seek and we seek and we knock and we knock and we knock until we aggravate somebody into listening to us i wonder who's listening to

Starting point is 00:17:51 you because if we just come boldly we're coming when he says so boy you decide to do this and you're going to find out 60 to 70 percent of your prayers just disappear you know what you'll find you'll find yourself sitting before the lord waiting for him what a what a beautiful way to live waiting for him to bid you waiting for him to say now what's on your mind it's a beautiful thing you can't have that no more than you can have no more than you can experience true blessings from god by saying god bless you and hanging up the phone or god bless you god bless you god bless you god bless you or saying it every time somebody sneezes or you know just using these things arbitrarily just saying things and not meaning it listen when it comes when you pray every day and you pray because

Starting point is 00:18:54 it's time to pray and you pray whether or not you're moved by the holy spirit to do so man you're never going to understand what i'm talking about how would you like to live in such a way that when you pray you know god heard you the bible says that if we pray according to his will his will what does that mean he wants you to pray pray according to his will he wants to hear what you have to say he wants to know what you know let's talk about this situation how how is it that i can help to have that kind of a of a relationship with god the bible says when you pray according to his will we know he hears us what is that just what did that just tell you you have sense enough to to look at that and understand that the reciprocal of that is that you can pray and him not hear you absolutely

Starting point is 00:19:54 if we pray according to his will we know he hears us if we pray and not according to his will we don't have any idea whether he hears us or not i I know you think you do. You've been told that you do. You've been told that every time you pray he hears you. But there's no reason to believe that. David used to cry out, oh God, hear me. Jehoshaphat laid on his face before God and said, oh God, hear us. I mean, these men of God that would make us look pitiful, like pitiful drug addict gutter snipes,

Starting point is 00:20:33 the most holy of us would be in shame of these men. They sought the Lord. And yet, well, we got a pass? We got a hotline? You know, we know his URL address address what in the world are we thinking certainly not worshiping a sovereign god but if we understand his sovereignty and our our prayers are because we're bidden to the throne. Our blessings are because by unction of the Holy Spirit. If what we say, we actually mean what we say. We know the definitions.

Starting point is 00:21:11 This is amazing. We could actually know the definitions of the words we use. You know, I'm always amazed at Christians raised in Sunday school, raised in the church. They don't know the difference between salvation sanctification uh regeneration uh resurrection uh anything that ends in shun they throw into the same bucket and they think that that's salvation well your justification is not your salvation atonement's not salvation forgiveness isn't atonement grace isn't forgiveness

Starting point is 00:21:47 you can't just throw all these things into a bucket and say well he knows what i mean um yeah but do you know what you mean that's the question and i just think that these things ought to be done intelligently, and they can be. You want to talk to me, you know, like you're some silly teenager, you know, like, like, you know, and end every question with a, every sentence with a question mark? End every sentence with a question mark? And you want to talk to me like that? Friend, I can hardly hear what you're saying because you don't know what you're saying you got no vocabulary you can't

Starting point is 00:22:32 put a sentence together and so i said i'm saying huh what what are you saying well it's like you know no i don't know please talk to me in a way that i understand and and you know what they'll say same thing they say to god same thing that they that they say to me when i'm trying to tell them you know we need to pray intelligently bless intelligently speak intelligently what's wrong with that well you know what i mean i don't know that i do more so i don't know that you do so when it comes when it comes time for blessings and prayers and things in our life and and i am so envious you know why is he blessing children and not adults right here i don't know uh well he does he does say so perhaps we should look at that as we continue but you can do this stuff intelligently you don't have to just be a parrot that just says

Starting point is 00:23:33 everything that the preacher says says everything your church says uh you know that that kind of life it's got to go there's no time for that anymore. You know, your denomination's been around for 100 years. What do you have to show for it? Those of you that you may belong to a denomination that's been around for 1,500 years. What do you have to show for it? It's time to do something else. Well, what I found was Christianity can make good, solid, logical sense.

Starting point is 00:24:03 And we need to pursue that all right so jesus says um verily i say unto you whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of god as a little child he shall not enter therein i think a lot of times this is kind of pushed to its nth degree that we need to be more like a child and unfortunately that definition is kind of up for grabs for whoever happens to be saying it some people feel like to be more like a child is to be less concerned with the more important things of of life there's an element of truth in that some people feel feel like that to be a little child is to be innocent there's truth in that some people think to be a little child means to be

Starting point is 00:25:01 more honest in what you have to say. There's a little truth in that. Jesus is saying, except you become as a little child, you're not going to enter the kingdom of heaven. So why is it that we are constantly trying to get rid of our innocence? Why is it we're constantly trying to add intelligence to ourselves? Why are we constantly concerned with current events and know what's going on in the world and to be sophisticated, to be on top of things

Starting point is 00:25:33 and be the smartest guy at the water cooler? Why are we doing that? If you look at old movies like I do, I enjoy older movies. If it's in color, I'm hardly interested. But if you look at old movies, like I do, I enjoy older movies. If it's in color, I'm hardly interested. But if you look at older movies that kind of depict the way America was so many years ago, one thing that stands out is that there are adults that are extremely innocent. And I would say that if they were in our culture we

Starting point is 00:26:07 would consider that they feel captive that they you know you need to loosen up you need to you know let go and you need to not you not be so uptight um that kind of thing where in in reality these people are just innocent you know how you're going to keep them down on the farm i mean the old song says you know when they find out you know what's going on in the city they're going to want to come on in well that's probably true but it's going to cost them it's going to cost them their innocence and uh you know the big the big difference was is that we used to be more rural we used to be more family-oriented There used to be things in our life that that are long since gone now

Starting point is 00:26:53 We have you know children that are dealing with drugs Why are you why are your kids dealing with drugs probably because you're sitting in the public school? But why are they dealing with sexual identifications? We have six-year-olds, 12-year-olds that are wondering whether or not they should have been a male or a female. What is going on there? Innocence is gone. Friend, there's only one way to get your innocence back.

Starting point is 00:27:24 Only one way. And that is through the leadership of the Holy Spirit of God who can cleanse you and change you and regenerate you from the inside. It is the innocence that gives us access to the kingdom of God. Friend, that's where the answer lies. You spend your whole life trying to get rid of your innocence

Starting point is 00:27:47 and the rest of your life trying to get it back. Okay, it's time for us to go. Love to hear from you. Don at ThinkRedInc.com. Write to me. Till then, Think Red Inc., my friend. You've been listening to Don C. Harris of Think Red Inc. Ministries. Email don at thinkredinc.com. That's thinkredink.com.

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Words of Jesus Podcast - Speak With The Unction Of God

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