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Ok so instantly this message became a lesson on our belief foundation. The academic world as well as the bible would call this Theology and/or doctrine. And but what distinguishes Christianity from the other religions that might also use these terms is the untainted, unpolluted, never-changing, always relevant, sin-breaking, life-saving, character-changing Gospel. So, let’s define these foundational elements so that the rest of the message makes sense:

Google AI states of Theology:

Theology is the systematic study of the divine, religious beliefs, and practices, exploring questions about God, humanity's relationship with the sacred, ethics, and the meaning of life from a religious or spiritual perspective. Its core concepts involve understanding divinity, interpreting sacred texts, and analyzing faith's impact on worldview, often through branches like Systematic Theology (organizing doctrines) or Moral Theology (ethics). The purpose of theology is to deepen understanding of faith, shape life, and provide frameworks for belief and action, whether within Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or other traditions.

Core Beliefs & Concepts

Nature of the Divine:

Investigating the existence, attributes, and character of God or gods.

• Revelation:

Studying how the divine reveals itself to humanity through scripture, tradition, or experience.

• Humanity & Creation:

Exploring human nature, purpose, sin, suffering, and the relationship between humans and the divine.

• Ethics & Morality:

Examining moral principles derived from religious beliefs and their application to life.

• Salvation & Afterlife:

Contemplating concepts of redemption, eternal life, and eschatology (end times).

Major Branches & Types

• Systematic Theology:

Formulates an orderly, comprehensive account of religious doctrines, often integrating scripture, philosophy, and tradition.

• Biblical Theology:

Focuses on interpreting and understanding biblical texts and their overarching themes.

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Ok so no its not about sex or anything like that, although I will be doing one in the future about the abuses in that arena sometime this year. Nope, this is about our relationship with God insofar as if we do really love Him or are just playing with Him.

I think this idea came in part from a church service we were having this last Sunday at Arise Paradise here in California, and maybe even more so because I have been reading about the Jesus Movement, watching movies about the Jesus Movement, and about the worship band named Love Song.

Now this is a high level description of this move of the Holy Spirit, and it was due to the move of the Holy Spirit that this earth-shattering Jesus move happened.

Google AI states of this move:

The Jesus Movement was a countercultural Christian revival, primarily in the U.S. during the late 1960s and early 1970s, where young hippies and "flower children" converted to a conservative, evangelical Christianity, adopting Christian themes into their lifestyle (long hair, music, casual dress) while emphasizing the simple gospel, communal living, and passionate worship, significantly influencing modern worship music, evangelism, and denominations like Calvary Chapel.

Awesome, beautiful, and way short of the significance of what-all that the Holy Spirit did in this time on earth. You know as we should always inquire if the bride is making herself ready or if the girlfriend on the side is attempting to keep her presence a secret (Rev 19:7). Now but to be clearer, and this may very well be the yearer that I try and be clearer, but then if one is in this to learn and burn with the presence of God then He will provide the understanding necessary for you to get it, and spread it. If you are the girlfriend on the side then you will do what she has always done which is to either stop the move of the Holy Spirit, or strike up controversies about those being used to grow and to help the bride come to a place of perfection and spotlessness:

Eph 5:26-27 - 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

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All of the data that I am using is coming from Buzzsprout as this is the main platform and I believe it collects some of the other platforms data in its own data. If I use other data from the other platform I will indicate what platform it is from. No this isn’t going to be some long statistical wavey road, but I do want you to know the impact you are having on your distribution of the messages that you listen to. I am not a bugaboo and know that some people who get these sent directly to them all listen to the messages. The reasons are varied and not my business. I just provide opportunities for people to share in and partake of the gift God has placed on my life. Are Christians gifted and called to be in ministry? Yes, so I am just but one of those.

When it comes to numbers and stats I am aware of how short they can come up in telling the whole story. For example is it important that we are heard on all of the continents on the planet? Yes, but only if people listen to the teaching, are changed by it, and do what the bible states for them to do.

I get that we are in a state of spiritual warfare that most Christians are not aware of, but and I say this nicely, it is not my job to convince anyone why they should pursue an intimate relationship with God. This should be a given if you have been authentically born again. My job, and it is no job at all, is to provide a way that you can possibly grow into greater appetites for the things of God. I judge no one as I myself am in need of Gods daily grace and mercy. But you can believe me that I will do all that I can to minimize the loss of Christians being raptured and having to go through the tribulation, that is the wrath of God against all ungodliness. There are 7 raptures so don’t hang up now. And well yes why not just list them here so that you can look them up in the bible and see for yourself.

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Ok so why not end 2025 on a message about the only aspect of God obtainable on earth. Nope, yup, Jesus is not obtainable without the Holt Spirit as He only does what Jesus and the Father are telling Him to tell you to do. And so but in that case where you have allowed Him to occupy your will, emotions, and spirit and heart, then you have access to the commands of Jesus and the Father. And so that being said, the Father is also not accessible without a true non-blasphemous connection to His own Holy Spirit.

Wow Podcast Preacher when you say it like this it sounds like we go nowhere as Christians without the Holy Spirit. Well, hum let’s try something. Lets, as always would be my recommendation, see what the bible has to say about it. And I know let’s look at the disadvantage you have if you are set against it:

2 Tim 3:16-17 - 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

So yes, we are going to tap into the voice of God to prove you need the Spirit of God to get’r done. Look again before we really bullywink this message in:

Gen 1:3 - 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

So we see that He was like the muscle of God if you want to get a little gangster about it. Oh, but if you are a gangster and think I am off, lets see you create Light in a world that is all but nearly swallowed up by the power of darkness. Go ahead we’ll wait. Nope, ain’t got time, this year is almost over and we have got to get this out, so nuff bout gangster jokes and all – its time to get it.

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Ok so no Milk carton images went out. No amber alert sent. They just turned around in and amongst all that was distracting them along the journey and noticed that they had lost Jesus.

No but and so think about this in todays terms. Imagine for a minute you lost your 12-year old boy. Ha, and I am not picking on you, but no doubt panic would be in a panic. Our kids today are in no shape to be lost and somehow all of a sudden to become self sufficient. Nope, in fact if cell-phones, laptops, and computers were to shut down for a week, well you know when Jesus stated that he would have to intervene least we lose all of humanity, He may very well have been talking about the day when all electronics stop working. Ha, and we thought it might be a nuclear war or something. Nope, probably just a manifestation of humanity not having electronics to tell them how to eat or stuff.:

Matt 24:22 - 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

Ok so all kidding aside, you might well imagine the implications of losing your kid in today’s world. Now but, not that it wasn’t traumatic in those days, apparently one or two days without your kid was not such a big deal. Ok so we get on with a great message, and I know this because I already wrote it and so I know the end from the beginning and this is a great message.

And but so this message isn’t about “them” losing God. We know that after He was found she was a bit embarrassed, so much so that she forgot who He was. Ha, no but look at verse 48, “48 So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.”

If Mary was correct God was also looking for Jesus as He somehow would have had to have gotten away from Him as well. But we know that Mary was incorrect when she said your father and I have been looking. Joseph wasn’t the father of Jesus, so she must have been like the lady in the following short story momentarily.

Now if you have ever lost one of your kids, when you discovered them back of the store eating candy that they had borrowed, no doubt you did not forget who they were. Oh you may have shouted out the Lords name in vain, which may have sounded like, “oh Jesus Christ we have been looking for you all over the place.” But this does not mean that you forgot, nor does it mean you were actually looking for Jesus; and so but also inadvertently you also lied, because it wasn’t Him you were looking for with that attitude. Ha, so but this message is going to be about how it is that “you” may have lost Jesus, but not as a young man, but after you became born-again. Let’s lay it down first before we get into it:

Luke 2:43-48 - 43 When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know it; 44 but supposing Him to have been in the company, they went a day’s journey, and sought Him among their relatives and acquaintances. 45 So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him. 46 Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. 48 So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.”

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Contradiction is defined as:

1. the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
2. assertion of the contrary or opposite; denial.
3. a statement or proposition that contradicts or denies another or itself and is logically incongruous.
4. direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency.
5. a contradictory act, fact, etc.

So many ignorant peeps believe the bible is full of contradictions, even though it states that those in whom it has been given to understand will indeed understand but to those outside, yes if you are a non-believer, fake-believer, make-believer, or stuck in the valley of indecision, this scripture is talking about you. The God detached individual cannot understand His language, no more than if you were non-communicative towards your neighbor could you then say that you could understand them.

Matt 13:11 - 11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Ok so also note the order of the conversation that this message will take insofar as the book of Mathew. First Jesus addressed the question, can you teach us how to pray. Then He told them what appears to many even in the house of a God a contradiction which is related to food, and more specifically to bread.

My proposal will be to untie the theological knot and to suggest what I believe is a more accurate way to go about praying for your daily bread. I did include the whole prayer instruction but did so because I wanted to. Ha, here we go:

Matt 6:9-13 - 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

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Ok so let’s address the pending accusational response to this message from those who depend on the pharmaceutical drug dealer to keep them leashed to toxins.

Oh that start is sure to invoke a response that might could resurrect the cancel culture. Am I against Doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, and such? No, by God we need them, but for who are they for if you are a reader, seer, and a doer of the word of God. Just who is this industry for? Is God behind the partially corrupt industry? Ah, but facts be that as they are 5.5 trillion dollars went to feed the pharmaceutical industry during COVID, so if you wonder as I do, what that money could have been used for had it been slated to solve actual problems instead of creating them, we can see that using the words “partially corrupt” is a kind and a deflated definition for an industry that counts on fear, manipulation, and unbelieving and doubting Christians and regular non-believing people to exist.

Oh, that’s a lot of hubbub to kick off a sort of controversial topic such as the pharmacy toxin dispensing industry such as the one we have in America. But I have support and reason for my one-sided position of which you should hang around, and if afterwards you have heard the whole message, you can then determine if you want to change your insurance carrier from Blue Cross to the Cross or not.

Boop, yup, here we go. So, Pharmacy is also termed Pharmakeia or Sorcery. Sorcery is used in the bible only six times; twice in the Old Testament and 4-times in the New Testament. And but most would associate it with witchcraft thinking that they are one and the same thing. But wait let’s look:

Numbers 23:23 - “For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob And of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’

2 Chronicles 33:6 - Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

Rev 18:23 - The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

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Do you have an excuse prepared in advance regarding the prayers you are currently praying, before you receive a response? I say that you will know by what you do next after you hear that God is going to grant you your request. Now let's see if we have an example of this in the Bible. We will see what Luke and James have to say about this way of thinking:

We will start with some background scripture so as to avoid the, ”What is Podcast Preacher talk ‘in bout now”, comment:

Luke 1:5-6 - 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Luke 1:7 – 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.

Luke 1:13-14 – 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Luke 1:18 - 18 And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

So now let’s breakdown this story about Zacharias and Elizabeth and see how it pertains to the thought that it is possible to work up and even rehearse unbelief, even but especially before we actually pray. And but if we do, do this then the question remains, why pray at all if we expect a no-show and a no-speaky from God.

And but also since this is a shorty-message I just want to be sure that this message gets on your radar as something we can do even in what we think is our own special clowd of faith. Keep in mind the scripture defines this couple as, “righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.” Ha, if anyone would have expected God to respond it should have been Zacharias who had the correct heavenly pedigree. I say this because 2026 is coming around and it is time for you to pray as if you actually expected God to respond. Lay down your expectations for how He will respond only be open to Him and to His response in and through His methods.

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