156 SNS: Deny Yourself, Pick Up Your Cross, &... Love?

Hello,

Welcome to the Simple Not Shallow Podcast.

Before we begin, I want to say thank you to AvengerClaps for suggesting our topic. And if you have a topic you’d like to chat about, let me know in the comments section. Your suggestion might be next. Thank you.

So, interesting topic: denying ourselves and picking up our cross. I must confess, at first, I found this to be a little overwhelming. This topic covers so much ground and yet is an important teaching from Jesus. But where to begin?

Chapters:

00:00 – 00:28 – intro

00:29 – 00:51– Thank you AvengerClaps

00:52 – 11:06 – Deny self, pick up cross, and love

11:07 – 11:37 – The subject for next video

11:38 – 12:50 – Please Comment and closing

Scriptures Referenced:

Matthew 16:21 – 27, Mark 8:34 – 37, and Luke 9:23 – 26 --- Deny ourselves and take up our cross.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ----- If Paul surrendered his body to be burned but had no love, it would be for nothing.

Romans 8:13 -- Tells us we need to put to death our misdeeds and evil desires.

Colossians 3:5 – 9 -- Here, he also says that we are to put to death whatever belongs to our earthly nature. And we are told what some of those are, both in actions and desires.

How to those things to death:

Romans 8:1 – 17 -- he says to live according to the Spirit and not according to the sinful nature.

Colossians 3 – Paul clarifies this by saying to clothe ourselves in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and bear with and forgive each other. And over all of these, put on love, which binds them together in unity.

Other interesting passage:

2 Peter 1: 5-8

Philippians 2:12,13 -- We are to work out our salvation as God is working in us.

Here are some links to:

My favorite YouTube apologist: Mike Winger

My favorite online church service: Alistair Begg

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155 SNS: Jesus Being the Way Is.... Loving?

Hello,

Welcome to the Simple Not Shallow Podcast. My name is Charles, and this is the Coffee Side Chat series.

Recently, I’ve heard questions like, “How is it loving when Jesus says that no one can come to the Father but by him? Isn’t that a bit exclusive? Shouldn’t love be more inclusive? If God is so loving, why limit how people can connect with him?

I have a question of my own in response to these types of questions. If Jesus is who he says he is, then how is loving if he doesn’t say this? No, seriously, how would that be loving?

That's what we are going to kick around in this episode.

Scripture Referenced:

John 10:30 - That he and the Father are one.

John 10:38, 14:11, 17:21-23 - He is in the Father and the Father is in him.

John 5:17-19, 12:49, 14:10, 24 - He only says and does what the Father gives him to say and do.

John 5:18 - He identifies himself as the Son of God, which the people of that day understood as his calling himself God.

John 5:26, 27 - That even as the Father has life in himself, he gave to Jesus, life in himself.

John 14:7 - if you know me, you know the Father. If you see me, you see the father.

Luke 10:16 - if you reject me, you have rejected the one who sent me.

John 10:10 - he says he came to give an abundance of life.

John 17:3 - He gives eternal life, which he says is to know the only true God and to know himself, the Christ who the Father sent.

Philippians 2:5-8 – He gave up his status, becoming nothing in the form of a human being to die on the cross.

John 14: 6,7 – Jesus is the way the truth the life, no one can come to the Father but through him.

John 10:9; Matthew 7:13,14 – Jesus comparing himself to being a gateway, a small gate.

Matthew 7:13,14 – The pathway of life, of relating to God, is the narrow way.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he sent.

John 1:18 – The one and only Son… has made him known.

Here are some links to:

My favorite YouTube apologist: Mike Winger

My favorite online church service: Alistair Begg

If you like what you have seen, and would like a memento... or at least a coffee mug. We have some wonderful drinkware at our store on Spring.com.

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154 SNS: Love is... What?

Welcome to the Simple Not Shallow Podcast. My name is Charles, and this is the Coffee Side Chat series.

Now, you and I do tend to think of love as an emotion; right? So, I guess the first thing to kick around is whether or not this is an accurate understanding. I mean, is it just an emotion, or is it something more?

As I began looking into this, the first thing that struck me was that it seems to be much more than mere emotion. Indeed, based on what I found, we cheapen love by limiting it to just being an emotion. No, no, no… hang with me here as I explain.

Scripture Referenced.

Luke 10:27ff, Mark 12:30, Matthew 22:37 ~ Greatest commandment: use to show love is not mere emotion.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ~ The Greatest Command found in the Old Testament.

Leviticus 19:18 ~ The second greatest command found in the Old Testament. Why love fulfills law:

Galatians 5:14 ~ love tied to serving.

Romans 13:9,10 ~ love fulfillment of law, because love does no harm to a neighbor.

1 Cor 13:4-8 ~ what love does and never fails.

1 Peter 4:8 ~ love forgives

1 John 3:16 ~ This is how we know what love is, Jesus laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:10 ~ This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.

Romans 5:8 ~ While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16 ~ For God so loved the world…

John 17:3 ~ This is eternal life….

1 John 5:3 ~ This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.

John 15: 9-12 ~ Jesus telling us how keeping Gods commands leads to our joy being complete.

2 John 1:6 ~ This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment: love one another.

1 Corinthians 13 ~ Love is the most excellent way. No matter what else we know and can do, it is worse than meaningless without love. Everything else will pass away, but love will never fail, it will always be here. So what remains is faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.

Other interesting passages:

1 John 2:5 ~ the one who keeps Gods word, his commands, in him the love of God is perfected.

1 John 5:2 ~ How we know we love the children of God when we love God and observe His commandments.

James 1:27 ~ the religion God accepts as pure and faultless.

Isaiah 55:9 ~ God’s ways are higher than our ways, his thoughts higher than ours.

Here are some links to:

My favorite YouTube apologist: Mike Winger

My favorite online church service: Alistair Begg

If you like what you have seen, and would like a memento... or at least a coffee mug. We have some wonderful drinkware at our store on Spring.com.

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153 SNS: The End of Times... What... Again?

Welcome to the Simple Not Shallow Podcast. My name is Charles, and this is the Coffee Side Chat series.

So, let me ask you a question. Have you recently been hearing all the talk about the End of Times being upon us? You know, Jesus’ second coming. I have. And I must admit that my first reaction to it all was to say, “Again?” I mean, if I had a dime for every time someone said, “The end is here; Jesus will return in two months,” or the like. I’d be a rich man.

But that got me thinking. I wondered if, before getting too wound up over any of this, there was a reason we are told about the second coming, one not so filled with hype? And is there any way to legitimately know when this will happen?

Scripture Referenced.

Matthew 24:42-51 and Luke 21:34-36 ~ Jesus talking about the destruction of the temple, the end times, and his second coming. Telling us why we need to know these things. To not be deceived or have this sprung like a trap.

2 Peter 3:1-14 ~ Be stirred up to a sincere mind. Knowing this, be the sort of people you ought to be. Be diligent to be found by Jesus in peace, spotless, and blameless.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-9 ~ Since you know the day of the Lord is coming…. Be awake and sober. Not like those who don’t believe, those who are asleep. Put on faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

2 Peter 3:3ff. ~ Do not allow yourself to be lulled asleep, thinking things don’t matter. That everything will always be as it always has been.

Revelation 3:11; 16:15 ~ Jesus is coming quickly so stay awake and hold on to what you know so as to keep your crown and not be shamefully exposed.

Revelation 22:12 ~ Jesus is coming soon and bringing a reward to each person based on what that person has done.

Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32; cross reverence Acts 1:7 ~ Only God the Father knows when any of this will happen.

2 Peter 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Revelation 3:3; 16:15 ~ Peter, Paul, and John telling us that the second coming will be at an unexpected time, like a thief unexpectedly showing up to rob a home. It will be when folks are saying, “There is peace, there is safety.”

2 Peter 3:10 ~ The second coming, though at an unexpected time, will be unmistakable. Kind of like an earthquake; you won’t overlook it.

Additional Scripture:

Matthew 24:45 – 25:30 ~ Jesus is kindly letting us know that this is no game. These tell us what happens to those who do not stay awake, alert, and live out what they know. A warning is given ahead of time so preparations on our part can be made.

Revelation 22:14 ~ This I see as an encouragement. He is saying, Hold on, I’m coming. And you will be blessed if you have lived from what you know of me. Or as it is phrased, “who wash their robes, they have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”

Here are some links to:

My favorite YouTube apologist: Mike Winger

My favorite online church service: Alistair Begg

If you like what you have seen, and would like a memento... or at least a coffee mug. We have some wonderful drinkware at our store on Spring.com.

If the comment box is missing below, click here to go to this episode’s home page, scroll to the bottom, and comment away!