Today’s episode emphasizes the critical distinction between being controlled by our sinful nature and living under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Dr. David Spoon explores Romans 8, highlighting how our sinful nature is inherently hostile to God and can never please Him. He encourages listeners to recognize that, as Christians, they are empowered by the Holy Spirit to overcome this old nature and live transformed lives. Through personal anecdotes and theological insights, Spoon illustrates the importance of drawing closer to God daily and being ready to serve. The episode also features engaging trivia and reflections on the significance of Thanksgiving, reminding us to express gratitude in our lives and communities.

Takeaways:

• Understanding that our sinful nature is inherently hostile towards God is crucial for spiritual growth.
• The Holy Spirit living within us empowers us to overcome our sinful nature and please God.
• David Spoon emphasizes that we must not allow our sinful nature to control our lives.
• It is vital to cultivate a relationship with God through daily prayer and scripture reading.
• The concept of being a Christian in name only highlights the importance of genuine faith.
• Jabez's prayer for blessing and protection shows the power of sincere requests to God.

The discussion pivots around the duality of human nature, exploring the struggle between the sinful nature and the spirit of God that resides within believers. David Spoon articulates how the sinful nature is always at odds with God, as expressed in Romans 8. He delves into the implications of allowing this nature to dictate one's life, noting that it can lead to a disconnect from God and a life unpleasing to Him. This struggle is contrasted with the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, which enables individuals to resist sin and live in accordance with God's will. Spoon’s personal anecdotes about wrestling with his own sinful tendencies serve to illustrate a relatable and authentic perspective on faith.

Furthermore, Spoon encourages listeners to actively engage in their spiritual growth by nurturing their relationship with God. He provides practical advice on how to cultivate this connection, emphasizing the necessity of prayer and reflection. The podcast includes moments of light-heartedness through humor and trivia, balancing serious theological discourse with accessibility. By inviting listeners to share their own stories and prayer requests, Spoon fosters a community of encouragement and support, emphasizing that spiritual growth is a shared journey. The episode concludes with a powerful reminder that through faith and reliance on the Holy Spirit, believers can live victoriously over their sinful natures and experience the fullness of life that God intends for them.

And now for something completely different.

Here's what's coming up this hour on Today's Experience.

It's totally terrific, totally transforming a and totally triumphant Tuesday as we find unity from the Father, through the Son and by the Holy Spirit, all for the glory of God Almighty.

First, we pick it back up in Romans 8, 7, where Paul makes it absolutely clear that our sinful nature is always hostile to God.

That's an important key for us to understand when we're feeling hostility towards the Lord because we don't like what we're seeing.

When that part of us gets fed up and kind of want to act like Job, demanding a confrontation with God because we don't like how he's doing his job, that indicates the sinful nature at work.

Wow.

Next on this show, we often talk about what pleases God, knowing that without faith, it's impossible to please him.

According to Hebrews 11:6, I even wrote a book based on pleasing the Lord called the Faith that Pleases God.

Yes, you should try that book.

It's worth it.

And if you can't pay for it, we'll buy it for you.

In the next verse we look at, we're going to find out there's something that never pleases God.

Well, what's that, Dave?

Allowing our sinful nature to take control.

Finally, there's a couple of important points to consider in this process, not the least of which is that we, uh.

Oh, we who?

You, who, me who?

We are the ones who allow our sinful nature to take control.

It has no actual authority in our lives.

It's like sin, a trespasser, but if we don't remove it, it builds a little house in our existence, squats in our lives and creates tons of problems.

So here's a brilliant idea.

Let's stop that.

David Spoon's life has been an experience.

While growing up in a Jewish family, he made a wrong turn towards drug abuse.

Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

The more he studied the gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

He joined Kam and this radio program began.

You're about to hear the David Spoon Experience.

Welcome to the David Spoon Experience.

Local, national and heavenly talk.

Here's what else we're looking at during the show.

Lessons for surviving, living and prevailing politics, entertainment and current events, personal revelations, spiritual observations, my life's insanities, and oy vey, so much more.

Now remember, it's not professional radio, okay?

We heard from The Inspector General yesterday.

You already know it's not professional radio.

You're lucky if it's a can with strings.

That's all I'm going to say.

But we are asking you, what do you think?

And when you call that number.

Nemer, you'll end up talking to J.

Talking to Jem and Jacob is like sharing a cheat meal on your diet with your favorite person.

Thank you, David.

Happy Tuesday.

Happy Tuesday to you, my friend.

You know what I realized?

I realized that tomorrow will be the last day that we're doing a show in November.

So you're gonna have to come up with new music.

Yes, I have an intro in mind and I'll get it ready for the Monday show.

I just started December.

I completely spaced that.

And then I just realized that listening to your music.

Very good.

Monday will be the second, right?

The second will be the right.

So when we come back, it'll be the 2nd of December.

That is correctamundo.

And then you get into the other holidays, and we're having the kids all over for the holidays, so I'm going to Aruba.

No, I'm kidding.

Anyway, it'll be like the home alone house, right?

Just kids running around everywhere.

I'm going to get lost on the airplane.

I don't know how I got here.

Anyhow, we'll see how that goes.

We'll do Jake's take tomorrow.

So we've already covered on that.

So people know what's going on.

I do want you to be aware, though, that there is a reason to contact us.

And I know some people get afraid.

It's not that bizarre.

I mean, it's understandable.

It's weird if you don't do it all the time.

That's the thing.

It's like, it takes a little bit.

Even Jacob, who's running the board in the beginning kind of was a little soft.

Now he's like, he can say anything he wants.

It's like it becomes different.

Well, we understand that, but we still want to hear from you.

That's why we give you different ways to communicate so you can email us during the show.

My email is up right in front of me right now.

I'm looking right at it.

And then I can hit the little refresh button.

Refresh.

And then it refreshes, see?

And then I'm looking right at it and I can see what's taking place.

If you email, great.

If you text, very same thing on the text.

I see them right away now.

All of them, instant.

It's great.

Fantastic.

The phone is the phone.

We think you understand that.

But why do it?

Because the Lord has blessed you.

You know what?

That's why.

In fact, that should just be good enough.

I shouldn't really have to say anything else because the Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so.

And he's put your feet on a rock and put a new song in your heart.

Share it.

That's why he did it.

He doesn't do things so you can keep them just to yourself.

It's for others.

David realized he became the king of Israel for the sake of Israel, not because he was so swell, but because God loved Israel.

That's how we got to think of things.

So if you got something you want to share, a praise report.

Awesome.

If you've got prayer requests, bring it.

Let's pray.

Because we believe prayer does change the universe.

And we believe that people that mock that will have to answer for that.

We're not happy about that.

But we're not going to stop doing what the Lord told us to do.

That ain't going to happen.

Maybe it's a scripture.

Maybe there's something that's on your heart and mind you just want to share.

Maybe something to do with Thanksgiving.

Something you just want to be thankful for.

Awesome.

Share.

It is great.

We love it.

We're not against politics.

We're just for everybody getting closer to the Lord.

Just understand that difference.

And we also do trivia like this one.

Acts chapter 5:1 11.

Everybody should get this.

Who lied to the Holy Spirit and an apostle and died with her husband.

So I'm looking for the wife who lied to the Holy Spirit and an apostle and died with her husband.

Not the exact same time, but died with her husband.

Acts 5:1 11.

Acts 5:1 11.

Who lied to the Holy Spirit and an apostle and died with her husband.

If you think you know the answer.

Acts 5:1 11 in the meantime, I'm going to offer up a prayer for the entire audience.

And guess what?

It's for Thanksgiving.

You're thinking why?

Because you would be amazed how many emails and texts I get at Thanksgiving for people that are having family meltdowns.

So we are going to pray that the Lord will help everybody in our audience this year.

Everybody being a little bit more on target or aware that the Lord is involved.

Okay, so let's do it.

Let's pray.

Father, we come before you right now and we thank you Lord.

Father, who art thou in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

We give thanks, we give praise, we give honor, we give glory to you.

And there is so much that we have to be thankful for.

We're going to talk about that tomorrow.

Lord, so powerful, so gracious you are to us.

But that's not what I'm praying about right now.

What we're praying about, Lord, is all of us having a self control button operating in a better capacity for Thanksgiving that we wouldn't be on the prowl against family.

We wouldn't be so needing to prove ourselves right as much as gracious in you.

We'll have some family members that don't like everything we stand for and don't like everything we believe in, but we're not going to change them.

But in this process of challenge, help us to be reflected collective of our Lord and Savior Jesus and help us to recognize spirit of peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they should be called the sons of God.

Give us that wisdom from on high.

And Lord, we are so thankful for you and thankful for everything you're doing in our lives.

We lift this up in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Amen and amen.

Okey dokey artichoke.

All right, you're.

I'm praying for you guys.

I'm going to be praying for you for the entire day too.

Who lied to the Holy Spirit and an apostle and died the same day her husband did.

Acts, chapter 5, verse 1 through 11.

Somebody is on the line to answer the trivia question.

Right?

Praise report.

Praise report.

Well, let's bring them on through.

Knock knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hey David.

Hi.

This is Eric.

Hey Eric, how are you brother?

How are you doing?

Bad spot here.

I.

Oh boy.

I think I'm.

Let me move over a little bit here.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you.

Okay.

All right.

The answer to the trivia.

Yeah, you're cutting out right there.

You're cutting out right there, brother.

He's somewhere there.

Wait, wait, Eric, now you're cutting out.

Now you're cutting out.

Okay, I'm messing up your ring.

Don't worry about it.

Do you know the answer to trivia?

Sure.

What is it?

Safaree.

That is correct.

All right.

And you got a praise report.

You want to try and squeeze it out?

You can do it.

Let me.

Let me try it.

And if it.

If it breaks up, then.

Then we'll go on from there.

Okay, the floor is yours.

Fire away.

Okay.

Yesterday when Fred called in to the radio show to answer the trivia, you were.

You're.

You're teaching on the old.

Eric, it's breaking up.

Do this for me, okay?

Okay.

Do this.

Either call back or text.

Okay.

All right, brother.

Love you.

Okay.

Don't you love technology?

I do.

I love technology.

You can't live with it and you can't live without it or something.

I don't know.

All right, folks, so Eric, he's got a testimony I'm looking forward to hearing from it.

We'll back from him.

We'll get to that.

All right, now, he did answer the trivia question correctly, so that's good, right?

Great job, Eric.

And don't worry about tech problems.

We have them here at the studio almost every week.

It's part of the fun.

In the meantime, we're going to do our DNA.

And so here's our DNA.

Ready?

D stands for Draw closer to the Lord daily.

Okay?

So if you do me a favor and do a deep dive into the origin of the word daily, you're going to find out it means every day.

And what's amazing about that is it applies.

And it's funny because Jesus, in his teaching us to pray, said when you were praying say, our Father, art thou in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Jesus made it very clear we should be praying daily.

No question.

So when you're spending time in prayer, don't do it as a chore, right?

Think of your prayer time as this incredible intimate connection from the depth of your heart to the depth of God's heart.

That's what's going on when you're praying.

And think of that when you read his word, just ask him, Lord, I don't want to read to read.

Just speak to me so that I can hear your voice.

Word of God, speak to me.

I mean that's really what you want.

And what you want to do is be able to hear the Lord and share with the Lord and strengthen your relationship with the Lord.

That by the way, is the key component.

When Jesus said depart from me, I never knew you.

He was talking about people that did things in his name, that never knew who he was.

Gotta hang out with the Lord.

That's just so important.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily.

N Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

Of course they're gonna try and make you ashamed.

They're non spirit filled people.

They don't like God unless God's in the image they've created.

Of course they're gonna try and shame so silly, silly people.

God created the universe.

The dude can write a book.

That's all you gotta remember.

That's the key.

So d Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A Always be ready to serve.

Ready to serve.

Okay, I'll just make it really quick.

Are you ready?

Is everybody listening?

Are you ready?

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm going to talk to Sharon later on today at about 3:30.

Are you ready?

That's what I'm saying.

Are you ready?

Be ready.

If somebody knocks on your door and it's an angel, you ready?

You see what I'm saying?

Wow.

Let's be ready.

Always be ready to serve the Lord to honor him.

Jesus didn't come to be served, but to serve.

All right.

Let's be like Jesus.

Let's live to serve.

Perfect.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A Always be ready to serve.

We'll take a short break and then come back.

You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.

Short break, we'll be back.

Don't go anywhere.

This is from our good friend Pastor Ray.

He wrote this wonderful devotional called When Grace is Tangible.

The word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.

That's John 1:14.

There is more to grace than I ever imagined.

Now I'm going to stop you right there.

So I was praying, this is in the last month and I even wrote it down in my little journal how I believe the Lord had communicated to me personally that I do not understand the depth of God's grace.

So Then this devotion comes.

I'm like, oh, I just know the Lord's trying to teach me more.

All right, let me back it up to what Ray says.

There is more to grace than I ever imagined.

We sing of amazing grace with the hope and longing that inspires people of all faiths and walks of life.

Theologically, grace is defined as unmerited favor, a good, sound concept.

But there is something more tangible about grace, something we can picture in our minds.

God once told Moses, I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Grace, as I discovered in the Hebrew language, is more than a favor granted in spite of our failings.

When God says he will be gracious to whomever he chooses, he uses the word chanaan, which adds a new layer of our understanding.

Because chanan means to show favor, mercy, to bend or to stoop in kindness, God is not only granting favor and mercy, but the word picture is of him bending down to us in kindness, like a father getting down on his knees to embrace his children.

There's even more to this picture.

The root of the word chanaan means to pitch a tent, to encamp, to abide, to dwell, to rest.

There is more than God granting favor.

He wants to dwell with us, to camp out with us.

The God who is so very beyond us, not of this world, desires for his glory, to abide with us and in us.

God will be gracious to whomever he chooses, and he will come and live with them and dwell with them and camp out with them, whomever he chooses.

And when it makes no sense to anybody else, it doesn't matter.

Even if it doesn't meet our standard of approval.

The Almighty Lord desires to dwell with us, not just rule over us, certainly not to start a religion, but to love us and live with us in a tangible, real way, to show us the way, the truth and the life.

The ultimate experience of God bending down.

Listen to this.

The ultimate experience of God bending down.

Stoop.

Stooping down to the ground to dwell amongst us is the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

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Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Do you like that crack in my voice?

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

That's Kamin 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

We do have another trivia question.

We got the teaching that we're going to do.

If Eric gets a chance to call in once he's out of breath, he texted me.

He goes, I'm in a better place now.

I'm out of breath.

We are so weird, aren't we?

Okay.

All right.

Let's see.

This is.

You guys should actually.

You should know this.

So I am saying this, but I am not trying to guilt you.

Okay.

All right.

I'm not trying to guilt you, but this is, you know, a little harder than the last two.

Who actually purchased Joseph from the Midianite traders?

The people that were trading and sold him.

Who did they?

Who was it that actually purchased him?

Now, if that is Eric, we will give him.

Normally, we don't let people do two calls, but in his case, he'll get a chance to do that.

I'm just saying.

Because we ran out of breath.

We're so strange.

Okay, so is that Eric?

I'm just checking with you.

No, it's not Eric.

So, Eric, you can call in right after this.

So the trivia question.

Who brought Joseph from the Midianite traders?

The people that sold him, who was it that actually made that purchase?

And so the reason I'm telling you that is because if you're looking it up, you have to speed it up because somebody is on the phone again.

Don't forget, we have a modified schedule.

But I promise you.

I promise you that the replays on Thursday and Friday are really good.

Not that you have to listen.

You're with family.

It's Thanksgiving.

I appreciate that.

I understand that.

And you never have to listen.

That's up to.

Between you and the Lord.

But we want to still make it so that it's a blessing or an opportunity for you.

Does that make sense?

Good.

I'm glad.

So, all right.

Who bought Joseph from the midianite traders?

Somebody's on the line.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hi, Dr.

Sponge.

This is Fred.

Hello, Fred.

How are you, brother?

I'm doing fine, sir.

Awesome.

Awesome, awesome.

All right, let me set it up for you.

Who actually purchased Joseph from the Midianites who were selling him?

The traders that were selling him, who actually did the purchase?

He had a terrible, terrible wife.

But I think he was a very good man.

That would be part of her.

That is correct, Emmanuel.

You are right.

And he did have a really, really.

A really bad wife.

I mean, that's just not cool.

And.

And so we don't know much about her.

But one thing we know is shame will be with her forever.

Forever and ever.

That's really well put, brother.

Really well put.

God bless you.

I'll hang up.

All right.

God bless, brother.

That's funny.

All right.

So, yeah, that was.

She was not good.

That's right.

All right, Eric, if you get a chance, you can call back in.

You can do that anytime.

In the meantime, I'm going to go forward because I want to get into this teaching.

I want you to catch on this.

This is pretty cool.

So in Romans, chapter eight, and we're looking at.

What am I looking at?

We're looking at verse seven, it says this so that you can understand that for the sinful nature is always hostile to God.

It never did obey God's laws and it never will.

That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

So I'm going to show you something.

So this is the new living translation.

I understand it's not probably my.

I really like the ESV.

It's kind of like my fave.

But other than that, I also like the Berean Standard Bible, which I think is also awesome.

But I love the phrasing in this because it's really important for you to catch this point.

And he makes the distinction in verse 7 and 8 as to who he's talking to.

He's actually.

Most people are like, well, he's talking to Christians.

Not really.

So let me get there.

Because in verse nine, he says, but.

Which means on the other hand.

But in verse seven, he says this.

The sinful nature.

We should not let the sinful nature.

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God.

You have to understand there's always a hostility between your sinful nature and God because it's the nature of rebellion.

It never did obey God's laws and it never will.

Okay, then this.

This is why those who are still under the control their sinful nature can never please God.

Well, what's he talking about there?

People that aren't saved are under the control of their sinful nature.

This is not saved people, because saved people have control.

But people that can't control who are under the control of their sinful nature will never please God.

These are the people that even make a profession of being Christian, but have not a clue that they have an old nature that is thwarting them.

And they will never please God because they're.

What do we call them?

Sinos.

That's right.

I call them Sinos.

You're thinking CNOs C I N o Christian in name only.

Nothing really connected to God.

That's a sino Christian and name only.

And so the old nature which you and I struggle with, right, we know we have the struggle.

We know the war is going on.

Those that are still under the control of their sinful nature are not Christians.

And they can never please God because that sinful nature that is in them drives their life.

And God is not pleased.

Do you get that?

So Paul's making this huge, I mean, just enormous distinction.

He's like, look, look, look.

The sinful nature's hostile to God.

It's the one that rebelled.

It never did obey God's laws.

It's never gonna.

That's why those who are still under its control of their sinful nature can never please God.

These are non believers who function in certain capacities and they think they're righteous because of things they say and act things that, like they do.

Like Judas who, oh, we should give this money to the poor.

But underneath he really just wanted to keep it for himself.

Sneaky little guy.

He was never in that right place.

And that's what he's.

That's what Paul's talking about.

But then in verse nine, he says, but you.

And I'm going to stop it right there on purpose.

But you.

Okay, so that's the non believers.

They're never going to please God.

They can't please God.

They're functioning by their sinful nature.

Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.

But you.

Yeah.

Now we're going to find out something completely different when we come back.

Huh?

Get that.

That's pretty cool.

All right, we'll take a short break and then come back.

You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KAM 770, the true station in Texas.

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Oh, welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

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All right, got another trivia question.

Got a lot of stuff to do and I got to have a joke in here somewhere.

And we got a little bit of history.

Really actually quite a fascinating piece of history that I do want to do.

In fact, you know what we'll do?

We haven't done this before.

I want to do history right now because I have this One piece.

That's really good.

So let's do this.

Let's go live.

Fake him past.

Let's go.

Let.

Fake him the past.

All right, so today is National Cake Day.

I'm sorry.

Yes, please.

All day long.

As much as I can consume, please.

Right.

I mean, how is that not phenomenal?

Every day is cake day, right?

Every day.

Right.

It's good grief day, which has to do with Charlie Brown.

Good grief, Charlie Brown.

That's pretty funny.

Cool.

This I thought was very cool.

That's cool.

All right.

This I think is a fascinating.

Now listen.

Doesn't matter what they tell you.

Doesn't matter what they say on television.

Listen to me.

Doesn't matter what the cable people say.

It doesn't matter what the academics say.

It doesn't matter what Hollywood says.

This is a fact and you can't change it.

First National Thanksgiving Day.

United States President George Washington declared today as a day of general thanksgiving for adoption of the Constitution.

Do you hear what I said?

And this was, by the way, the first actual national U.S.

holiday.

So for all those whiners that complain about Thanksgiving, go away.

Try reading a book.

It was the 26th, the actual first National Thanksgiving Day by George Washington declared a general Thanksgiving Day for the adaption of the Constitution.

That's what the original.

The original political position was.

It doesn't mean they weren't thankful to God.

Nobody's saying that they thanked God when they made the Constitution, but they're just simply saying, and it was the first national holiday.

Okay, I just want to make sure everybody got that.

And if you're not thankful to the Lord for this nation, you're not thinking very clearly.

Because the Bible says, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Consequently the other is true.

Blessed not is the nation whose not got the Lord as God is their Lord.

So just think of it in those terms.

Okay, now I did that.

All right, Just want to get that through.

Trivia question.

Who refused to appear before her husband, the king, at his request and command?

Who refused?

I refuse.

Your reference is actually Esther, chapter 1, verse 12.

Who refused to appear before her husband, the king, at his request and his command, she goes, nope, not doing it.

Okay, got that.

Okay, cool.

Just want to make sure you understand what the question is.

Okay.

Who refused to appear before her husband, the king, at his request and command?

Esther, chapter one verse 12.

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Cool Whip?

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You mean Cool Whip?

Yeah.

Cool Whip.

Cool Whip.

Cool Whip.

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You're saying it weird.

Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?

What are you talking about?

I'm just saying it.

Cool Whip.

And we already have our Cool Whip.

We already have ours.

I'm just telling you, we already got ours.

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I actually have that as one of my ringtone notification tones, too.

That's right, people.

You guys listen to the show.

I can't make this up.

You guys listen to the show.

I don't make.

Listen to it.

All right, here we go.

Our trivia question.

Do you have somebody ready for the trivia question?

Let's send them on through.

Knock knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hello, my name is Lavon.

What's your name?

Lavon.

Hi, Lavon.

Can you do me a favor and just turn your radio down a little?

It's got a little echo.

So if you got your radio on, just turn it down just a little bit.

It's off now.

Okay, perfect.

All right, let me set you up with a question, and then we'll go from there.

Here we go.

Who refused to appear before her husband the king, at his command and request.

Who was that?

According to Esther?

Chapter one, verse 12.

I have to.

I didn't look in the Bible, I didn't look it up, but I have to think that it's gotta be Esther herself.

Okay.

No.

Who was the queen before?

Before Esther.

Do you remember before Esther, there was a queen, and this is Esther actually took her place.

Remember?

So it starts with a V.

Hold on, I'll get you there.

Relax.

It starts with a V.

And this is a woman who refused to respond to the king.

And it sounds a lot like Bashti.

Don't know.

Okay.

Don't know.

That's okay.

That's totally all right.

Her name is Vashti.

It was Queen vashti in Esther 112.

And she was like, nope, I don't wanna go.

Nope, not gonna do it.

And then because of that, they were like, okay, we're gonna have to make a change here.

Cause she's making you look dumb.

And then that's gonna be bad.

And that's how Esther became the queen.

Because Vashti was kind of like a little arrogant on that.

So that's the answer to that.

But still, you're right there with us.

And by the way, I so appreciate you calling.

Is there anything we can pray for you about?

Well, just pray that our country gets back to where it was before.

I will.

Why don't you pray with me?

Stay on the phone with me and let me pray with us.

Okay.

Okay, let's do it.

Father, we come before you right now and we actually pray.

We plead with you to have mercy on our country and that you would empower the leaders to be influenced by your Holy Spirit.

And stop leading by the flesh.

Stop leading by the system of the world, and start leading under the influence that comes from heaven.

We need a break.

We need deliverance.

We need grace.

We need mercy.

Please, Lord, pour it upon us.

And let us find great seasons of refreshment and enjoyment.

Because you are granting us favor, as we know that's the only way it's going to happen.

So please grant us favor.

We pray in Jesus name, Amen and amen.

Amen.

And I might add to that.

Thank you for giving us a daily lesson.

I've been listening to you now for about three or four months, and I really have learned a lot of stuff that I didn't know I thought.

And more I listen to you, the more I appreciate what you're doing for us as a world and a country.

Well, that's very kind of you, and I appreciate that.

Very, very much.

Very, very kind.

Thank you.

Call back, too.

Don't hesitate.

But I've been right on some of the questions you've asked before.

Wait, me too.

Me too.

I've been wrong, too.

Happy.

Thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your listeners.

Yeah, well, that's a very, very sweet blessing and I appreciate you very much.

Thank you.

Bye bye.

All right.

God bless.

Bye bye.

All right, let's get into the next text part.

This is kind of fascinating.

And about 45 minutes, four or five minutes we're going to do this.

This is the next little section in Romans.

So Paul is.

You have to understand, if you kind of look at Romans, there's a couple ways to look at things.

You can look at the helicopter view, and that's kind of like that overall.

And you get to see the outlines and so on and so forth.

Then you dive down a little deeper and you get to more of the specifics.

And by the way, it's not one of those views is right or the other is right.

They're all right.

I mean, it's all correct.

There's times where you take back and look at it more in a broad stroke.

There's times where you examine it and look on it very specific.

So in this case, we're kind of diving into the depth of it.

And so we just found out from Paul in Romans 8, 7 and 8, he's like, look, those that are under the control of the sinful nature, they cannot please God.

So I want to say something about that, because I don't think we.

I want to say this carefully.

I don't think we intentionally start off this way, but there's times when the Lord doesn't do things that maybe we think he should.

And then we get that little thing in the back of our neck standing up, and we kind of feel like were a little bit like job going, hey, I want to talk to you about this, okay?

So I just want to make sure you understand when you do that to the Lord, that's your sinful nature, okay?

That's the old you.

That's the one you.

That you don't want to have this confrontation with God and have God show up in a whirlwind and go, where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

Which pretty much will solve the entire.

Any other thing you ever say the rest of your existence, right?

So we need to be aware of that.

That it's like when you get weary or if you get.

And I'm not saying that you should do it, but people do get weary and they get, you know, fed up and they like, they were like in this attitude with the Lord, it's like, that's dumb.

And it's dumb because that's your old nature, and that's not going to please God.

So these other people, though, they never please God because they are under the complete control of their sinful nature.

But look at verse 9, says in Romans 8.

But you are not controlled by your sinful nature.

You are controlled by the Spirit.

If you have the Spirit of God living in you, you know you have the spirit of God living in you.

If you surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, if you yielded, turned, surrendered, he is your Savior, and He is your Lord.

He saved you from sin, the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and eventually the presence of sin.

He is your Lord, he is your master.

When you said yes to Jesus and accepted him by faith that he might live inside of you, the Holy Spirit took up actual residency in you, which is why you are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

And because you have the Holy Spirit in you, there is not any point in your life that you must yield to your sinful nature.

Never.

Now do we do it from time to time.

Yes.

That's why Paul's saying, don't do it.

People are like, no, no, you never do that.

Yes, you do.

He's saying, don't do it.

That's what he's actually saying, don't do this.

Which means you can do it, which means we shouldn't do it because God doesn't want us to do it.

You know what I'm saying?

Don't do that.

Okay, Got it.

So he's saying, look, you're not controlled by your sinful nature.

You're controlled by the Spirit.

If you have the Spirit of God living in you.

And remember, listen to what it says, that those who do not have the spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.

Okay?

Do you get that?

See how cool that is?

You're a Christian, you name the name of Christ.

I know some teachers are like Christians when they ever say the name Christian.

In Antioch in Acts, it was negative.

Well, that's great.

Except 20 years later, when Peter wrote his Epistle, he said, you'll be lucky to be known by that name.

You're blessed to be known as a Christian.

So things change.

It's kind of like my way of saying that.

And so here it is in a nutshell.

I'm saying, in a nutshell, the Spirit of God lives in you.

You owe your sinful nature nothing.

But sometimes people visit the old neighborhood and stick around too long.

You don't have to.

You're not required to.

And when you do, it doesn't please God.

He's not happy with it.

But it doesn't own you.

God owns you.

Because he paid for you the blood of Jesus Christ.

That was the cost he paid.

What's fascinating, because he purchased you and you are his through the blood of Jesus.

And the Holy Spirit lives inside you.

And you owe your old self nada.

And I ain't talking about a light chicken gravy.

Nada.

Get it?

All right, take a short break, then come back.

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So what Jesus said, whoever is not against you is for you.

That's what he's talking about.

If they're a kingdom advancer, it's all good.

Now watch this.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure.

But when one stronger than he attacks and overpowers, he takes from him all his weapons, the armor and the weapons of the foot soldier that he trusted in, and he divides up his plunder.

Anyone who is not with me is against me.

And anyone does not gather with me scatters.

And you're thinking, but what about the others?

Watch.

Keeping it in context.

This person is not for the kingdom of God.

This person is neutral.

Not a kingdom advancer, not a person that is trying to advance the kingdom of God.

And when you are not a kingdom advancer, then you are supporting the other kingdoms.

You are either in for, with, through and by the kingdom of God or all the other kingdoms.

There is no neutral.

There is no, well, I'm going to sit this one out.

There is no sitting it out with God.

You're either helping advance his kingdom or helping another kingdom advance one of the two.

So the guy that was casting out evil spirits in the name of Jesus Christ, he's advancing the kingdom of God.

But the person who's not for Jesus is trying to be neutral and do nothing.

That person's not advancing the kingdom of God.

And that person who's not advancing the kingdom of God is therefore against the kingdom of God.

Because there is no neutral.

And you're thinking, well, no, no, there's gotta be a neutral.

Never heard the joke about the mug womp, huh?

Never heard about the soldier that, you know, Confederate soldier and then the Union soldier had gray on the top and dark blue on the bottom.

What'd they do, shoot at him from both sides?

That's what they did.

In other words, there is none of that.

That doesn't exist.

You're either with Jesus in the advancement of his kingdom or.

Or you're not.

And if you're not, then he considers that against.

And you think, well, whoa, that is just rude.

Tell it to Jesus.

Tell him he's rude.

Go ahead.

Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God, not hey, you know, in your life you got all these things going on, you got to take care of work, you got to do this, you got to this, you got to pay this bill and do this and raise your kids and somewhere in there, do me a favor and every once in a while kick it around and think about me and the kingdom.

And that doesn't exist.

That's not a reality check.

The reality check is that you are either for the kingdom of God or opposed to the kingdom of God.

And if you try to be neutral, you're opposed.

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Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

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Classic trivia question.

We're going to move right into it.

Who asked God?

Actually, I think of Cordelia because she's one of the people that answered this first when I asked it before.

Who asked God to bless him and enlarge his territory?

1st Chronicles 4:10.

Who asked God to bless him, Bless me and enlarge my territory, Be with me and keep me from pain.

Who asked that?

First Chronicles chapter 4, verse 10.

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Additionally, you can send an email David must increase.org okay, I got three quick jokes that we're going to do.

If you're going to call in, you got to call in soon.

These are funny jokes.

Do not get offended.

If you are easily offended, you're not reading First Corinthians 13, 4:7 which says love is not easily offended.

Boy, that really hurts the people in the woke realm, doesn't it?

All right, anyway, here we go.

This, I think, is rather funny, so just bear with me.

There are jokes about family and kids and babies and teenagers, okay?

That kind of stuff.

It's got the big realm.

Okay, here's the first one.

A father confronts his son in the backyard.

I heard you skipped school today and that you went to the beach with your friends.

That's a lie.

The boy shouts.

And I've got the movie stubs to prove it.

That's actually pretty funny.

Here's the next one.

A guy calls 911 in a panic.

My wife is having a baby.

Her contractions are only one minute apart.

Calm down.

The 911 operator said.

Is this her first child?

No, silly.

The guy shouts.

This is her husband.

See?

Because he called it.

Ok, all right.

I'm going to acknowledge right now, this is probably one of my favorites.

It's not the best spirited joke, but it is funny.

That's my way of saying, don't be offended, gentlemen talking to a friend.

I always carry a picture of my wife and kids in the wallet.

I do it to remind myself why there's no money in my wallet.

You serious, Clark?

Oh, that's just too funny.

I'm sorry.

I like that one.

All right, who asked God to bless him, enlarge his territory, be with him, and keep him from pain?

First Chronicles 4:10.

Because there are new people that listen to the show and they need to learn and get that chance too.

All right, back to the text.

If we don't hear from it, we'll close out and hopefully we won't get the pink ping pong ball headed in our direction.

So we just talked about this and I want to make sure you get this because this is like the critical point in Romans right here.

So he's just gone on and Paul's made it clear theologically, look, people that are under the control of their sinful nature, they can never please God.

Then he says, but you, you're not like that.

You're different.

You're completely different.

Since Christ lives in you, it's like, this is completely different.

You have the spirit of living God in you.

And remember that those who do not have the spirit of God living in them are not Christians at all.

Verse 10.

Since Christ lives within you.

Verse 10.

Since Christ lives within you.

Sorry, let's just say it again.

Since Christ lives within you, well, how does he live within us?

Since Christ lives within you.

Even though your body will die because of sin, your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God.

The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.

You have Jesus in your heart by faith, but the Holy Spirit actually lives in you.

So you need to understand that the Lord's making it clear we have the Spirit of God living in us and we can be controlled by the Spirit of God.

I understand that some churches start freaking out when you talk about the Holy Spirit.

Well, that's too bad.

That's all throughout the Bible.

The reality is, if we're children of God, we walk with the Holy Spirit.

In fact, it's Romans 8:14 that says, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

That's what it says.

You can't undo that.

So for people that feel weird about hearing the phrase Holy Spirit, get over it.

Okay, this is the part of the gospel.

The Holy Spirit is doing the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth while Jesus is at the right hand of the Father interceding for the saints.

That's what's going on right now.

Jesus ascended, then he'd go, yeah, time for a Bahamas vacation.

Jesus ascended and sat at the right hand of the Father.

He's interceding for the saints.

And the Holy Spirit is fulfilling the ministry that Jesus started on the earth.

That's why the scripture says that the Holy Spirit couldn't have been given until the ascension took place.

Now that the ascension took place, in Acts Chapter one, the Holy Spirit gets poured out in Acts chapter two, fulfilling the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth.

That's why this is important.

And so when we're walking, we need to walk under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

And you're sitting there thinking, well, how do you do that?

I could just tell you the simplest way in the whole universe.

Ready?

Ready.

Ready.

Spend time with God.

No, that is it.

That's what you gotta do.

You gotta draw Closer to James 4.

8.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.

Do it.

You don't think he left you down here for nothing, do you?

I got nothing to do.

I'll just keep them down there.

That way they'll be quiet for a while.

That's not how it works.

So the Holy Spirit's doing the ministry, too.

Jesus lives in your heart by faith.

Therefore, the Holy Spirit fulfilling and continuing the ministry of Jesus Christ operates in you right now, which is why you're the temple of the Holy Spirit.

And in lieu of that, this is all.

And see, what we try to do is I think people have kind of maybe misunderstood the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not separated in the capacity that they are, like, void of each other.

It's like, that's absurd.

You don't understand that at all.

Again, the only illustration I like.

Not that other illustrations aren't great, but the illustration I like.

See what I'm saying?

It's my preference.

I think of myself as David.

I have a brain, God the Father, I have a heart, God the Son, I have a body, God the Spirit.

But I am known as David.

Get that?

That's my favorite one, because it makes it simple for somebody like me.

So what I'm trying to communicate before we give you the answer to the trivia question is this is the whole premise of Paul's theological position.

In Romans 8.

You've been saved by Jesus Christ, and now you can walk in the freedom that he's promised you when you're walking in the Holy Spirit.

There you go.

And if you don't walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, you tend to visit the old neighborhood again.

All right, who asked God to bless him and enlarge his territory, be with him and keep him from pain, according to 1 Chronicles 4:10?

The answer is Jabez.

Jabez prayed that prayer.

And it's really funny, because after he prays that prayer, God said yes.

Those are my favorite answers.

Yes.

Oh, okay, cool.

All right, great.

All right, folks, you have been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KAM 770, the truth station here in Texas.

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