Words of Jesus Podcast - Transition of Authority to the Son of Man

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

Believe what you want (i.e. trinity, going to heaven when you die), but don't say it's in the Bible. It isn't. Have you read the Scriptures? Ever? Lately? Many things modern Christians believe are based on tradition or songs. Look it up. Our God, Jesus, says it is our job to follow Him. This path is narrow and unpopular - it leads to personal persecution. And, perhaps sometimes it leads to to the reconciliation of our fellow-man to God. We are to distribute the salt we have been given. Use it up! Suffer-wrongfully for the Kingdom of God. ***Chapter 19: The Sermon on the Mount. . . Salt is good. You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost his savor, with what will it be salted? It is hereafter good for nothing, It is neither fit for the land nor yet for the dunghill, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men. Have salt in yourselves and have peace with one another. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Men do not light a candle, and put it under a basket, or under a bed, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle will in no wise pass from the law, till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore will break one of these least commandments, and will teach men so, he will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever will do and teach them, the same will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, Except your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old time, You will not kill; and whoever will kill will be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment: whoever will say to his brother, Raca, will be in danger of the council: but whoever will say, You fool, will be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. Verily I say unto you, You will by no means come out of there, till you have paid the last penny. You have heard that it was said to them of old time, You will not commit adultery: But I say unto you, that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. And if your right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. It has been said, Whoever will put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce: But I say unto you that whoever will put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever will marry her that is divorced commits adultery. Again, you have heard that it was said to them of old time, You will not perjure yourself, but will perform unto the Lord your oaths: But I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it...

Think Red Ink Ministries presents The Words of Jesus series with Don C. Harris Hello friends and welcome once again to the words of Jesus. I'm Don Harris, your host. And we've enjoyed, as we continue through the red ink in the scriptures, reading what Jesus had to say. And the Sermon on the Mount has been no disappointment whatsoever. There's a lot of stuff in there. And so, you know, you got to have to resist the temptation to try to push through it

just because it's a lot of work and enjoy every word of it. That's what I intend on doing anyway. We were talking about how the the idea of the the Jews receiving their instruction from the law and from the prophets was to was to no longer be that Jesus Christ was going to be the one who taught us from now on. And this was very difficult for them to believe. It was difficult for Paul. It was difficult for many reasons for Paul because he understood that there was one God

and that's all there was or ever could be. The idea that there be a son of God was just anathema to the Jews. They just, they could not swallow that. As a matter of fact, when Jesus said he was the son of God, they accused him of trying to power grab. They were accusing him of trying to set himself up as a God. And why is that? Because they were saying, by saying that you are the Son of God,

you're making yourself equal with God. Well, that's not necessarily true. Jesus would consider it the blasphemy of all blasphemy to say that he was equal to his father. I don't think any son who respects his father would say that in any case or any situation. No matter how much authority and power the father gave the son, the father is always the father. And so these were things for Paul

to consider, things for Paul to consider things for us to consider and we briefly talked about the fact that the Godhead that we find in the scriptures is not necessarily a Godhead of three but a Godhead of two which is the Father and the Son you think well what about the Spirit? Well most of the time when they talk about the Spirit being part of the Godhead outside of the

manufacturing of a trinity by St. Patrick I believe there's really no reason to believe that there are that God is a spirit, that Jesus Christ has a spirit, and that we're given a spirit, and all these spirits are different. The 17th chapter of John, I think, would explain to you exactly what Jesus' goal was to take us into the family of God,

we would all fall under and be a part of that Spirit of God, which is the same, which is God Himself. That Spirit was in Christ, and hopefully it's in you as well. It's in the world to different degrees and different ways, but the Spirit of God is not an entity of God, but it is indeed God Himself. And as He infuses Himself into our life, into His Son's life, and into, as I say, different places

and particular characteristics of nature that we can understand that the Spirit of God is a very, very real thing. It's just there's no reason to believe that it is a part of, an inseparable part of a trinity. And so, as I say, I'm not beating anybody up over this.

You want to believe in a trinity, you can do that. I don't care. I mean, it's not like I've got some ax to grind. I don't. If you're believing in a trinity and you don't believe it and you don't understand it and you don't believe it and you don't understand it and you don't really care for it and you couldn't explain it if you had to, but you say you believe it in order

to belong to your church, well now you're talking about hypocrisy. That's a different subject altogether, but don't catch yourself doing that. If you believe in a trinity then believe in it. I mean just believe in it. Don't try to tell me about a chicken and an egg or a shell and a yolk and a white and all the rest of the stuff. You know that they were all three at the baptism and they were at the transfiguration and all this. Okay.

Nice anecdotal stories, but that's not what's, you know, where's the demand to believe this? I mean, there's people that have already switched the show off at this point because of what I just said. There are people that don't want anything to do with me because of what I just said. And I just, I don't know what they base that on. I really, really don't. The Bible says that on. I really, really don't.

The Bible says he that denies the Father and the Son is Antichrist. Wouldn't that have been a nice place to put Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? But they didn't. He that denies the Father and the Son. There's your Godhead. He that denies the Father and the Son.

He's Antichrist. Jesus says, if you know me you'll know the father you know the father you would have known me now i and my father are one i mean over and over again we hear i and my father we are the father and the son over and over again i don't want to talk about it so much because you know i don't know how much attention it actually deserves it doesn't matter you can believe anything you want. There's people that believe they're going to heaven when they die. You know, what am I going to do about that?

I can't do anything about that. You can believe you're going to Saturn when you die, if that's what you want to believe. But so where do you and I come to fisticuffs when you say this book says it? That's when you and I are going to argue about it. But until then, you can believe anything you want. Now, the reason that we talked about all those things is because I wanted you to understand the authority and the sovereignty, if you will. Jesus has a certain sovereignty, but it is under his father's leadership. The kingship of Jesus Christ

as the king of this universe that we live in. He was the creator of all things. He's the one who created us. He's the one that gave the law at Mount Sinai. He's the one that visited with Abraham. He's the one. He's the one. He's the one. He just keeps showing up. And when he gets here, you might have thought that was the father that appeared to Abraham. You might have thought it was the father that spoke to Noah. You might have thought it was the father. But Jesus, he's standing here in century one saying no man has seen the father at any time

or heard his voice. So he's just saying you folks have got some doctrinal some theological problems that need to be worked out i'll help you with them if you'd like ah no thank you i think we're just going to kill you and go and start a college all right uh so i guess i what i want you to know is is the that we hear, they're not the words of a prophet. They're not the words of a really great guy in a white robe, a little sheep-toting Jesus, a really nice man who appeared 2,000 years ago. These are the words of our God.

You understand that? Jesus is our God. Well, he is. And so when he speaks, we should listen to what he says. I know that sounds elementary and almost condescending, but it's amazing how many people don't do what he says to do. All right, so our God has this to say to us let's continue with the sermon on the mount ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt hath lost its

savor wherewith shall it be salted it's since forth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men um there's a i I don't know recently, I don't know if it was there a book that came out. I don't know. Everybody got excited about salt and light, right? Have you heard this? And every preacher was preaching. They all drink at the same bar so they exchange notes and they all preach what each other preaches. And so this salt and light thing came out, how we're supposed to be came out how we're supposed to be the salt we're supposed to be the light and salt means this and light means that and look at this and look at that

and it's all this stuff is interesting and everything but how does that keep me from beating my wife how does that keep me from uh from uh arguing with my neighbor or cheating him or stealing from him or or stealing his wife how does how does this out of these little things about being salt and light and all these cute little stories how do they make any difference in my life because that's what i'm after i want to please god and just because jesus says you are the salt of the earth, does not necessarily mean that you are. Now, I mean, if you can't hear in this that you're supposed to be, I don't think you're reading this correctly.

You're the salt of the earth? Well, you say, well, he doesn't say that. How can you say that? Because he says if the salt is lost its savor, how are you going to make it salty again? Wait a minute. Losing its savor? What in the world could that mean? Listen, you might be the salt of the earth but pretty much you taste like sand.

You know, that's not salt. I know it's white. I know it's in a shaker. I know it's in a shaker i know it's in a little round box with a girl with an umbrella over her over her shoulder but that doesn't make it salt it's just labeled salt it used to be salt i don't know if it's happened to you but uh it it does happen that you know a salt shaker sits on a table and if you know my my salt it doesn't it doesn't go bad i don't understand this like some people do but some people don't eat it they don't want anything to do with it um i want it on everything and um so i don't necessarily have problem with salt losing its savor but if salt does sit around for a long time, that's exactly what happens to it.

All of a sudden, it's just not salty. It's not salty like it should be. And so what happens is that the salt shaker that's on your table, and you use it, and you use it, and you find you need more and more of it, and you find yourself just doing this to your food because there's just no salt there. It just, I don't know, it just doesn't have any savor. And then you think, oh, it's empty.

Wonder how that happened. And you go to the cupboard and you go get yourself the little girl with the umbrella. And you're pouring it full there and you get the little. And then you put it on your food and now you're in the habit of using way too much and then you're going to find out what that salt had lost its savor but this new salt that you just poured in there it's plenty salty enough and it doesn't take much at all. So what happened? Salt just lost its savor. That's all. You know what did it? Age and exposure to this world. Friend,

just because Jesus says you're the salt of the earth does not mean that you are. Well, I mean, it doesn't mean you're effective. It doesn't mean that, okay, you're the salt of the earth. Oh, God's called me to preach. No, I'll tell you what, why don't you stay home? We got enough goofy preachers out here. There's enough people out here lying to people. We don't need any more. Not yet. We'll call you, okay? And I say we because I'm one of them. I just thank God I jumped out of that stuff before it killed me. I mean, I jumped straight into the scriptures and decided that if the scriptures didn't teach it, I wasn't going to. I'm just not going to teach it.

If the scriptures don't teach it, I'm not going to teach it. If the scriptures teach against it, I'm going to teach against it. And all of a sudden I found out that all my little sugar stick sermons, I got a book full, man, of sermons that they're worthless now. Absolutely worthless. Because they're just based on the words of the other people. Well, what in the world happened? There was a time when I was the salt of the earth. What happened? Age, exposure to the world. That's all.

That's all. You know, Jesus talked about washing one another's feet. Remember this? And Peter says, no, no, no, you're not going to wash my feet. And he says, now, Pete, if I don't wash your feet, then you don't have any part with me. And Peter broke down and said, oh, well, in that case, not only my feet,

but also my hands and my head. Remember that? Because he wanted that relationship. Jesus said, no, Pete, it's okay. I know you're bathed properly, but you see, your feet get dirty from walking through the world. And you know, that's what happens to us.

And you know, yeah, you were the light of the world. And you know, that's what happens to us. And you know, yeah, you were the light of the world. You were the salt of the earth. But something has happened. Listen, if you don't keep this salt fresh, how do you keep it fresh? I'll tell you in a minute. If you don't keep this salt fresh, if you're not salt with savor, do you know what

you're good for? Nothing. How would you like to be described by the Bible as good for nothing? Because that's the only place I know of that it appears. Right there. Good for nothing. This salt is good for nothing. He says, he says this, this salt, when it loses its savor, it's neither, it's, it's not fit for man. It's not even fit for the dunghill. You know, the salt was a purification of, you know, where fecal matter and such had ground just nearly unusable as farmland.

It could be purified over time with the sun and salt. And by the way, which is the light of the world, is it not? So you got light and salt that purifies this ground that's full of fecal matter. And this was a practice, and this is what they understood, how these kind of things happen to keep these. You know, too much salt goes in the soil, it won't even grow anything, not for many, many years.

But I'm saying that the salt in its in one of its uh uses usages in in our society in in the entire world not just our society is that it was a purifying thing um it purified wounds it cleansed things it cleaned It cleaned things. It was a form of payment to a Roman soldier. You ever heard of somebody not being worth their salt? Even our word salary comes from the word salt. So this value, so that the world may have value, God's people need to interact with it. But as you interact with it,

your salt starts to lose its savor. Jesus asked the question. He says, if salt loses its savor, wherewith, in the King James, wherewith shall it be salted? Now, is that confusing to you? He's saying that if salt loses its savor, how are you going to make that salt salty again? You see, you can't. You have to mine new salt. You have to go get some new salt. I understand that they would take sheets of linen and run water through them and dry it out

and shake these sheets and the salt would come off of them. They had ways of making salt without having to mine it. But nevertheless, it took new salt to fix this problem. But if salt has lost its savor, it is thenceforth, thenceforth, from this moment on, thenceforth good for nothing. But to be cast out and trodden under the foot of God?

Is God going to punish you because you don't have enough salt in yourself? Remember Jesus said, have salt in yourself. Is God going to punish you? That you'd be cast out and trodden under the foot of Jesus? Trodden under the foot of the church? Trodden under the foot of your family? It says trodden under the foot of man, doesn't it? It says that you're going to be so worthless that people are going to walk over you, they're not even going to know it. Cast out and trodden under the foot of man.

What does that mean? Thrown in the street. It doesn't have any value in the house. Throw it in the street. People walk right over it and never know it. Have salt in yourself. Now, if time, and I say age, probably not a good choice of words because as you get older, you get kind of touchy about the word age. But time and exposure to the world, and I mean the atmosphere. You know, I was raised in Florida, and you didn't have a salt shaker on the table

unless it had rice or something in there to absorb the moisture because the thing would just get wet because it attracted moisture. And down there, you know, where they have 118% humidity, it was a problem. But the attraction of moisture and the evaporation and the exposure to the air and these kind of things over a period of time, the salt just loses its savor. Now, I'm telling you that it is,

you say, well, I thought we were supposed to be a part of the world. Yes, you are. As a matter of fact, it's all part of our Christian experience, is it not? To be to the world what they need a man of God or woman of God to be. But it's not necessarily, I mean, yes, the exposure does make that salt less salty. But how do you fix this? How do you have salt in yourself?

Well, if you've got a salt shaker and you say, you need to have some salt in that shaker, what are you going to do? Well, you're going to fill it again, aren't you? You're not going to fix what's in there. You're going to fill it again. And so if you've got a full shaker of salt, are you getting lost in these metaphors? I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this other than this.

If you've got a full shaker of salt that has no savor, now you've got a problem. Because there's no room in the shaker to put new salt. So what do you got to do? Well, it stands forth good for nothing but to be cast out, trodden under the foot of men. You throw the salt out, you refill it. Have salt in yourself. Well, you realize that should we be sharing that spice of life, which is, you know, the salt that gives flavor and savor to everything about life. And whose responsibility is that? It's ours.

Whose ability is that? It's ours. You're the salt of the earth. You're the only thing that makes this horrible mud ball worth living on. Is the Christians? You don't think so? Well, wait till they're taken out of the way. Wait till they're out of the way. Watch what happens. You know, once the Lord sets us aside in that tribulation period and things get let loose, it's going to be bad. You're going to see what it's going to be like. Well, it is the salt of the Christian in the world that makes it worth living. It's your comment to the girl that's considering abortion. It's your comment to the girl that's considering abortion. It's your

comment to the guy that's thinking about killing himself. It's your comment to the couple that's thinking about divorcing. It's your comment. It's your voice. It's your example. This is all salt. And you want to keep that to yourself? You want to sit there in your living room and just watch tv you want to sit there at your house and you know dink around with your little flowers or or whatever it is whatever your little hobbies are whatever they are you don't want to get involved you don't want to spread this salt you don't want to use this salt to make your life and people around your lives better. You're never going to use up what's in the shaker. And you know what you're going to find is,

one day all of it's going to be worthless. It's going to be worthless. You never replaced it. There was no need to replace it because you never gave a bit of it away. Not a bit of it. You're the salt of the earth. You need to be careful, though.

Just because you're called the salt of the earth does not mean that the salt within you has flavor. It doesn't mean that the salt within you has any power, any flavor. You can't use it as a preservative. You can't use it as a disinfectant. You can't use it in a preservative you can't use it as a as a disinfectant you can't use it in any way it's worthless it's absolutely worthless so what are you going to do look my advice to you is use it use it up seek god for more have salt in yourselves and i think that if we do this this this the scripture this warning this is never going to be a problem for us you can tell when you're you can tell when your savers

getting low can't you sure you can uh we have a responsibility in this world we have a responsibility in this life we need to be to the world what jesus christ would be to the world if he were here pretty simple isn't it well i can't work miracles who's talking about miracles i can't heal the sick well who's talking about this who's talking about raising the dead who's talking about floating through the air walking on water not me you know what the the bible says that that jesus went through life and things were presented to him he was accused of being a heretic he was accused of being a bastard he was accused of being the i hate this term but um they called him beelzebub the lord of the flies you know what that means

it means he was the sewage god he was the dung god that's what they called him and he suffered all these things unnecessarily and most importantly undeserving of any of it. He didn't deserve to be talked about this way. He didn't deserve these names given to him. The Bible says that he suffered wrongfully. And when you suffer wrongfully, you go through life, you don't deserve to be treated badly, but you might be. It'll happen. It could happen. And if it does, suffer it. Why? Because the Bible says that Jesus did what he did, lived the way he lived to be our example, that we might follow in his steps. That's where the title of that book came from, from the scriptures that teach us, this is the way I want you to live.

I want you to follow in his steps. Jesus was constantly shaking salt on everything that he got in the air. And this is exactly what we need to do. You know, the Bible says, and in the Old Testament, it says that no, no sacrifice is to be given without salt. Salt is a part of the sacrifice. It's a part of life, and you are the supplier. You're the

purveyor of it. People outside of Christ, they have no salt within themselves. The only way they can make life better for somebody is to hand them a book. Hand them a dollar. Give them a hand up on a job or whatever else they do. You know, they're do-good platforms and projects and things like that. But salt? No. You see, when you start doing this, all of a sudden somebody's going to notice that you're different.

They're going to notice that you have hope. Now you find yourself in that position that you've probably never been in before in your life. What is that? A position of witness to give an answer for the hope that lies within you. That's all for this time. You want to write to the post office box? It's 718 Pytown, New Mexico 87827 alright till next time

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