Episode 4: If This Hurt, Let’s Talk

A Pastoral Word to the Wounded, the Confused, and the Teachable

Series: You Cannot Love Jesus and Slander Catholics and Jews

If this series stung, it might not be because you were attacked. It might be because you were convicted. And conviction is not condemnation. Conviction is the King repairing what our words damaged.

In this Wednesday deep study, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks you through the Bible’s covenant repair pattern, confession, correction, restitution, and re formation. This is not a vague call to “be nicer.” This is Torah level justice applied to modern Christian speech. In the Bible’s Ancient Near Eastern world, false witness is not just bad manners. It is community level injustice. It harms reputation, breaks trust, and endangers the vulnerable.

You will learn a practical verification tool you can use immediately, the Gate Test:

Who said this?

What is the evidence?

What is the full context?

What is my motive for sharing it?

You will also see Zacchaeus as the New Covenant model of measurable repentance that restores what was stolen and rebuilds trust. Because a follower of the Way does not only say, “I’m sorry.” A follower of the Way says, “I’m going to make it right.”

Primary Bible texts, side by side in the Lexham English Bible (LEB) and the Complete Jewish Study Bible (CJSB):

Deuteronomy 19:15–21

Numbers 5:5–7

Leviticus 5:14–6:7

Zechariah 8:16–17

Luke 19:1–10

Acts 17:11

Proverbs 18:17

Matthew 11:28–30

James 3:7–10

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What is one act of repair you will do this week, and what is one verification standard you will adopt before you share anything again?

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Is This Compromise, or Obedience?

People will call it compromise when you stop slandering Catholics and Jews. The Bible calls it obedience. In Episode 3, Dr. Shawn M. Greener defines compromise versus obedience, anchors truth telling in Ephesians 4:25, exposes the sin of cursing image bearers from James 3:9–10, and warns against arrogance toward Jews from Romans 11:18–20. You will get five non negotiables for clean, courageous Christianity, plus short replies to hostile objections so you can stand firm without rage, sarcasm, or cowardice.

When you hear this series, what do you feel first: anger, relief, curiosity, or conviction?

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How Does Theology Turn Into Violence?
Mary, Jews, Catholics, and the Sin Underneath It

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Episode 2, New Series: You Cannot Love Jesus and Slander Catholics and Jews!
How does theology turn into violence, biblically? In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener, a Follower of the Way, shows how theology becomes dangerous when it disconnects from humility, truthful speech, and love of neighbor.

Anchored in the Bible’s covenant ethics, with Hebraic worldview and Ancient Near Eastern context, we examine slander, false witness, contempt, and careless speech, and why Scripture treats these as neighbor endangering sins.

Key texts include Leviticus 19:16–18, Exodus 20:16, Matthew 12:36–37, Ephesians 4:25, James 3:8–10, Luke 1:38, and Romans 11:17–22 (LEB and CJSB).

Have you ever assumed harm only counts if it was intentional?
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You Cannot Love Jesus and Slander Catholics and Jews.
This is not a debate about doctrine. This is a call to covenant loyalty in how we speak, share, accuse, and represent people made in God’s image.
You can disagree with Catholic doctrine.
You can disagree with Jewish theology.
But you cannot claim allegiance to King Jesus while spreading false witness, rumors, caricatures, and contempt.

In the Bible’s world, false testimony was not “online drama.” It was community destruction. And the New Covenant doesn’t lower that standard. It raises it. In this episode, we’ll lay the foundation:

1. Why this series must exist now.
2. How outrage culture has discipled modern Christianity.
3. Why “discernment” often gets used to excuse suspicion and cruelty.
4. What covenant faithfulness requires of our mouths, our thumbs, and our platforms.

Join me and I want to hear from you!

Where have you seen slander justified as “discernment” in Christian spaces, and what should repentance look like?

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Armor was never magic.

In this deep Wednesday teaching, Dr. Shawn M. Greener concludes the Spiritual Warfare series by dismantling ritualized armor theology and restoring the covenant meaning behind Paul’s words in Ephesians 6.

This episode explains why the armor of God is not a protection spell, why spiritual warfare is moral and relational, and how believers are formed through loyalty rather than language.

Rooted in the Hebraic worldview, Second Temple Jewish thought, and Ancient Near Eastern context, this teaching brings clarity, stability, and courage to followers of the Way navigating pressure, fear, and compromise.

This is not hype.
This is formation.

Stand firm.

Shalom b’Shem Yeshua
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“Armor Isn’t Magic: What Paul Really Taught.”

If you’ve been told to “put on the full armor of God” as a ritual prayer, but felt confused/unsteady, this one’s for you! Paul wasn’t teaching superstition. He was teaching covenant character & how to stand firm when pressure hits.

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Flaming arrows are not just a metaphor. They are the hot, urgent thoughts of accusation, FEAR, and resignation that try to set your inner life on fire so you drift from obedience.

In this deep study episode of The Armor They Never Told You About, Dr. Shawn M. Greener equips followers of the Way to extinguish those arrows with the shield of faith, covenant trust under King Yeshua, using Ephesians 6 with LEB and CJSB side by side.

Four step shield drill:

Identify the arrow.

Label it.

Test it with “Proof?”

Answer with one Bible sentence, then obey it with one concrete action.

When a thought hits you hard, what do you do first? Spiral, isolate, lash out, or shut down? Tell me in the comments below.

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What lies are you living by? The enemy does not always attack with spectacle. Often, he wins through quiet, believable stories that rename God, rename you, and rename suffering, until a lie feels normal and your life starts drifting one reasonable choice at a time.

In this episode, we expose the lies we live by and replace them with calm covenant truth under King Yeshua. We ground this teaching in John 8, where Yeshua ties freedom to remaining and obeying His teaching, and where He names the adversary as the father of lies. We return to Genesis 3 to watch the original pattern, “Did God really say?”, and we see how the enemy targets God’s character first. Then we apply Romans 12 and the call to resist this present age by renewing the mind, and we practice 2 Corinthians 10 by taking thoughts captive into obedience to Messiah.

Practical steps you can use today:

1. Write the sentence your mind repeats when you fail or hurt.
2. Ask one word: Proof?
3. Replace it with one Bible sentence.
4. Obey that sentence once this week.
5. Engagement question: What is one belief you carried for years about God or yourself that you later discovered was not biblical at all?
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Shalom b’Shem Yeshua

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