The main focus of this podcast episode is the hope of eternal life promised by God, who cannot lie. Dr. David Spoon delves into the profound implications of this promise, emphasizing that it was made before time began, highlighting the eternal nature of God's commitments. He discusses the importance of prayer and the role of the audience as prayer warriors, encouraging listeners to share their needs and engage in spiritual fellowship. Throughout the episode, Dr. Spoon blends humor and personal anecdotes to make complex theological concepts accessible, reminding us that despite life's challenges, our faith in God's promises provides us with strength and purpose. The episode serves as a powerful reminder to look forward to the eternal joy awaiting us, as well as the necessity of living out our faith actively in the present.

Dr. David Spoon's podcast unfolds an insightful journey into the heart of faith, community, and the transformative power of prayer. From the beginning, he encourages listeners to share their prayer requests, underscoring the role that collective support plays in the Christian experience. By positioning the audience as active participants in the prayer process, Spoon fosters a sense of unity and belonging, vital for spiritual growth. He highlights that prayer is not just a personal endeavor but a communal act that brings heaven's authority into earthly circumstances, emphasizing the importance of intercession and shared faith among believers.

As the discussion progresses, Spoon delves into the profound concept of eternal life, emphasizing that God's promises are immutable and eternal. Drawing from biblical texts, he reinforces the idea that these commitments were made before the foundation of the world, showcasing God's timeless nature. This reassurance serves as a bedrock for believers, offering hope and encouragement to persevere through life's challenges. Spoon's engaging narrative style, coupled with his humorous observations, keeps the conversation lively while tackling significant theological themes, making the content accessible to a wide audience.

Spoon also addresses the complexities of human dissatisfaction when faced with divine truths, illustrating how worldly perspectives often clash with spiritual realities. By contrasting the fleeting nature of earthly concerns with the lasting promise of eternal joy, he challenges listeners to realign their priorities and focus on the greater hope found in Christ. The podcast serves not only as a source of encouragement but as a powerful reminder of the active nature of faith, inviting listeners to participate fully in their spiritual journeys and to be vessels of God's promises in a world that desperately needs hope.

Takeaways:

• The promise of eternal life is a gift from God, who cannot lie.
• Our Christian journey involves prayer, reflection, and connecting with our faith community.
• Understanding God's timing is crucial; His plans unfold in His perfect timing.
• Eternity is not a mundane existence; it is a vibrant, fulfilling life with God.
• We are encouraged to actively engage in our faith and share our prayer requests.
• In a world of dissatisfaction, true satisfaction can only be found in Christ.

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Dave.

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Most of us hope before tomorrow.

Hello.

Life lessons for our faith that we could actually use.

Probably won't if we sit on our blessed assurance.

Humor that will force you to think, why does this guy have a radio show?

Cause I broke the Internet here at the station, that's why.

Also Bible trivia for fake and yet somehow real cool prizes, your phone calls and more.

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Welcome to the David Spoon Experience.

Local, national and heavenly talk.

My name is Dr.

David Spoon and I'll be your host for the next 5,400,000 milliseconds.

Get ready for one of the more bizarre experiences on live radio.

Here is the key to the show.

We don't know what we're doing.

We have no idea what's gonna happen and we don't care.

But for the next few minutes, I wanna talk faith with you.

So here we go.

So we're asking questions and before we tell you what that question is, we want people to know we are aware that the Internet is not working through the station at this particular time.

So if you're listening, it's probably in your car or on a good old fashioned AM radio.

That's why we gotta support AM radio.

Bottom line, people who have the apps, doesn't matter which our apps or the apps for the station maybe not getting quite the same noise.

Their noise is like this.

Yeah, that's all they're hearing.

So bottom line is simply this.

We're understanding, we're aware.

For those that are wanting to let us know, we know, just in case you're wondering.

But we do want you to be aware of this.

We're going to ask you a question still, and it's still pertinent for you today.

And even more so because you are the ones hearing it, here's the question we're going to ask you.

Kind of the question that makes us think about our Christian walk.

What can our prayer warriors pray for you about?

Now, every time I bring that up, I think people think we have a crew of hundreds of people who are just sitting there with their hands on their phone ready to pray for one another.

That is not the case.

Our prayer warriors are our audience.

And if you've got something that's going on and you need heaven to break into earth in order for that circumstance to change, well, by golly, that's good news.

Because God's kingdom comes and his will is done right here on earth like it is in heaven.

You know who said that?

Jesus.

You know when he said that, talking about prayer, he mentions prayer and teaches them about praying in Matthew chapter six and tells everybody in this prayer process, praying, thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.

That's why we pray, because the Lord wants us to and because bringing into heaven, bringing heaven's authority and power into earth in our circumstance is just wise.

That's why.

So you might be thinking, yeah, I do have something I want to pray about.

Maybe you've got an opinion, a comment, a thought or a question.

We don't want it to die of loneliness.

We recognize some people are gonna be a little more afraid.

It's okay.

We're just gonna encourage you.

Anyway, you can use the telephone.

What?

The telephone?

Yeah.

No more Rice Crispy.

We ran out of Rice Krispies.

My tears wear.

This is brilliant.

That's all I'm gonna say to you.

Absolutely brilliant.

I just wanna say, talking to Jem and Jacob, that's like heading into the week with great faith and expectation.

Don't you sit there and face today and tomorrow with fear.

That is not okay.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.

Now, we might question the sound mind thing thinking about that.

We just played the.

No more Rice Krispies.

But excellent, excellent job, Jam and Jacob.

Thank you, David, and Happy Monday.

And yes, just decided to play that as a little joke there since.

Because the Internet, I haven't been able to put in a new intro.

So David was like, play the Rice Krispies.

I said, okay, I'll do it.

It's amazing.

Hey, you know what?

Things don't go perfect.

You want to know what?

That's really kind of connected to your life.

Have you ever noticed that everything is not perfect Every single time.

I always, I'm amazed at people who always go, that's perfect.

Everything's perfect.

Everything's perfect.

It's like what?

Hey, we have situations, they go up and down.

But you know what?

We look to the Lord.

Our help comes from the Lord.

And so we encourage you if you've got prayer requests, if you got something going on, you need prayer, hey, great opportunity.

We will pray for you.

Why?

Because the Lord loves to be pursued and faith pleases him.

So that's what we put together.

So we'll keep it super easy.

If you want to reach out to us by telephone, you can do that now because my system is on a separate wifi.

Can I say that?

Separate WI fi.

You can still text.

You can text me.

I can get a text.

A little slower for those who kind of need it that way.

Why?

Because it's still on my wifi and I can still get email.

David must increase.org David D A V I D.

That's what they named me at birth.

I wasn't there but it is on that goofy little piece of paper.

David at a with a circle.

He must increase from John 3:30 he must increase.

I must decrease.

Because we're a nonprofit corporation.

That's why.

It just proves we don't make any money.

So some good news we do have still.

We still have Internet problems here at the station but I did check and we are playing through the KAM website and through he must increase.org.

so wow, we are back on the air as far as the website.

Wow.

Okay people, that's always good news.

So now you really have no excuse.

Right?

You know it's true.

God has done so many awesome things for you.

Not only that, but you can also call Up.

If you've got a praise report, maybe you've said, you know what, Dave?

I've gone through this entire political system and the whole thing, and you know what I'm just thankful for?

What's that, brother?

What's that, sister?

It's almost over.

Maybe that's your praise report.

Maybe you got a scripture.

Maybe you got something you want to share.

We get it.

We're there.

Here's how we keep it simple.

Our bent, our slant is to encourage one another as we see the day of Jesus Christ getting closer and closer and closer and closer and closer and closer.

And it's a lot closer today than it was yesterday.

Huh?

You know that's true.

And so we're encouraging you.

We're just putting it all before you.

If you've got something you want to share, share it.

If you've got something that you got a scripture on your heart and mind, share it.

If you've got a prayer request, share it.

Let's do it together the way that God intended.

The greatest sense of unity in the entire Christian church is through the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Same dad, blood relatives, drinking of one spirit.

That is how you do it.

And by the way, the scripture says, keep the unity, not find it, keep it.

It's there.

Okay?

So we said all that to let you know those things.

We will be doing Jake's take in the second 60 minutes.

We are experiencing some interesting levels of spiritual warfare.

It looks like somebody, not me nor my son, took down two videos we had about voting on our website.

One can only surmise where that came from.

We'll just leave that there.

Here's the bottom line.

Tomorrow a lot of people will go out and vote.

And we have told you time and time again, we will not tell you who to vote for, but we will tell you who to vote with.

And that is with the Lord.

And you make those decisions in your engagement with the Lord.

You do it.

You know, he wrote a book.

He created the universe.

The dude can write a book.

Okay, we'll leave that one right there.

Got that.

Created the universe, can write a book.

Makes sense, right?

Universe, book.

Got it.

Additionally, you want to be led by the Holy Spirit.

As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans 8:14.

I will not tell you who to vote for.

I will tell you who to vote with with the Lord.

And if you have an actual breach of conscience where you can't vote, that's separate.

Romans 14 gives you that place.

But if you're just lazy.

That's lazy.

And that's not exactly high quality Christianity.

Okay, so none of that.

If it's genuinely offensive for you and you can't do it before the Lord, that's separate.

If you're just lazy or you just don't want to get into the long line or whatever, that's just not an excuse.

The Lord's given us an opportunity to use our freedom.

Let's use it wisely.

Just remember, if the godly people don't vote, the godless people will rule.

That's just true.

Can't get away from that.

All right, so we did all that, said all that, got that, all that going.

We'll do our best, by the way, to keep everybody posted.

The Friday shows are not up.

They'll be up later on this evening.

This evening.

They'll be up later on and we'll be working our way towards that.

Don't forget to keep my wife in prayer.

She is doing better, but needs a little bit of extra.

Right, that's important.

All right, in the meantime, we're going into the Word of God.

Why?

Because we love the Word of God.

Faith comes by hearing.

Hearing by the word of God.

And man, have we got some good stuff today.

Oh, boy.

And don't forget, when we get to Jake's take, we'll be talking about all the takes, but we'll get there.

Not yet.

Here we go.

Titus.

As you know, we started in Titus, Titus the young protege.

One of the three pastoral epistles.

It's First Timothy, second Timothy and Titus.

Those are known as the Pastoral epistles because they're very pastoral like.

That's why this book most likely written about 63 AD.

We're not sure just before or just after the prison.

Probably just after the prison time, but about 30 years after Paul got converted.

And so Paul's writing this to Titus.

We already open it up that he identified himself as a servant and as an apostle, which is really important.

But he didn't just say, I'm an apostle because I'm super cool.

And I like titles, man.

That's how people are in politics, in Hollywood, in the media, in academia.

People love titles.

They do.

I mean, what Paul says is, look, here's my title.

I'm a servant first.

A servant of God first.

That's the highest title any one of us could have to be a servant of the most High God.

And then he says, for the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth.

And we talked about that being epicinosa, that contact Knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness.

We're picking it up in verse two.

It says this.

Oh, my.

Here we go.

In the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

What?

Listen to what is being said.

Please, brothers and sisters, put everything else to the side.

Nothing is more important than God's prevailing truth that lasts forever.

Elections don't last forever.

Truth does.

And Paul writes under the verbal plenary process of the Holy Spirit.

That means the Holy Spirit's directing him what to say without him losing his personality.

He says, in the hope of eternal life.

Let's get something straight, drop it on the table and not be liars about it.

We're not doing this so that we can have 80, 90 years.

I'm not doing this for 80, 90 years.

80, 90 years, and then, no, no, I'm doing this forever and forever and forever.

What I need to know in my heart and mind is what is coming is so phenomenal that I can put up with anything, because for the joy that is set before me, I can keep pushing forward.

And you might be thinking, man, Dave, sometimes it gets really hard to get out of bed.

Sometimes it gets really hard just to do it again another day.

Sometimes just to get in the car and to drive to work.

It's hard just to hear what I gotta hear, put up with what I gotta put up with.

Let me explain something to you.

Jesus gave the example in Hebrews, chapter 12, 1, 2 and 3.

And the scripture is lights out, clear.

For the joy that was set before him.

He endured the cross, despising the shame.

In other words, the joy that was set before him gave him the ability to go, here we go.

Even the devil tried to give Jesus a shortcut.

You know, if you bow down and worship me, we'll just have everybody worship you.

Now, you don't have to go through that whole crucifixion thing.

Nope.

For the joy that was set before him.

And we need to remember something.

We have a hope of eternal life, and we're not talking about eternal life.

And I'm just going to make sure I say this correctly.

This is not to offend anybody who goes to doctors or dentists, but this is not about reading their magazine, sitting on a cloud, playing a harp, and then going, toodle, toodle, toodle, toodle, toodle, toodle.

That is not what eternity is going to be.

Eternity is so phenomenal, you can't even imagine.

In fact, when you read Revelation, people read it and they're like, you know, well, it says this and it says this.

Yes, but much of it is past your overall comprehension in the sense of what it all actually means or what it actually realizes when you're participating in it.

It's kind of like a football game.

And don't get mad at me for saying this illustration, but it's a good one.

If you watch football on tv, it can be a lot of fun.

If you're at the game, it's a whole nother atmosphere.

That's one of the things that I love about hockey.

You're thinking hockey, hunting, sports into this.

When you go to a hockey game, you know what you find out?

You find out that there's a coolness from the ice that comes up and hits you in the face.

And you're like, oh, I'm into this.

Well, when we get to heaven, it's going to be ho, ho, ho.

You get a little bit of a visual when you're looking at revelation.

When we get there, it's going to be like, wow.

Eye has not seen, neither has ear heard.

Neither has entered into the hearts of men the things which God has prepared for them.

God's got something cooking.

Hey, seven days.

He got the world done.

2,000 years to get heaven done.

Yeah.

For our new heavens and new Earth.

All right.

It's going to be awesome.

And you should be excited about it.

In fact, you should be looking forward to it.

In fact, that should be a part of your everyday existence.

The last portion of scripture in Revelation 22 is, Come, Lord Jesus, let's go.

Let's get this thing rolling.

Let's do it.

And in hope of eternal life, that's what we're doing this for.

And Paul also said, if we only have our faith in this life, we are of all men most miserable.

You're thinking, why is that?

It's still a good life?

Because the devil keeps getting to beat you up sometimes, and it's not cool.

But when we're there, it's like, ha, ha, ha.

That's what we put up with for all of this.

Glory, hallelujah, and we're gonna share in that glory.

And like I said last week, which I think is phenomenal, I think people are thinking, you know, we're gonna get up there, we're gonna do this with this.

I think one of the big things that's gonna happen is it is gonna be a.

And I don't know how it's structured.

Nobody does.

But a phenomenal reunion with those that have gone before us.

And you say, well, how do you say that?

Because when Moses and Elijah were on the mount of Transfiguration.

What did Peter, James and John say?

Specifically Peter.

Hey, there's Moses.

Hey, there's Elijah.

Hey, how did they know?

They didn't have any pictures.

Oh, how did they know in that atmosphere?

We know one another.

Wha.

You mean I'm going to talk to Noah, then you're going to say, dude, a lot of drinking on that one page right there.

Dude.

I mean, come on, you know, it's going to be so awesome.

We're going to spend time, we're going to hear tales from the things that have taken place.

It's going to be great.

It's the hope of eternal life that God.

Oh, by the way, who cannot lie.

What?

Who?

God who cannot lie.

Now this is going to really bother some people.

Some people are very overly legalistic in some of this.

So I'll just be careful in how I say it.

Look, the word of God is the plumb line, period.

You will never see, hear or do anything in the kingdom of God that is contrary to the word of God as it has been manifested to man.

That's the reality check.

God created the universe, the dude can write a book.

But there are people who have received promises from God and if they are genuinely from God, there is no way it doesn't get fulfilled because God does not lie.

Here's part of the big issue here, okay?

This is a crucial aspect of his character that he cannot lie.

It's critical to understand that because it means that every word that he's put in his word is true.

And Romans 3:4 underscores the truth of this by stating every man is a liar.

You even lie to yourself.

Who are you kidding?

But God is always true, forever true, consistently true.

And what we find out is in God's faithfulness, in his goodness, in his declaration, he made this promise to you and I about eternal life.

And it is never gonna change.

And it's not gonna change.

And they can load up and destroy every Christian on the planet whatever they want.

It's never going to change.

Not changing doesn't matter.

We're going to spend eternity with God and hot dog is going to be awesome.

And God who's made promises to you, will never fail.

And listen to what the scripture says.

In hope of eternal life, that God who cannot lie.

Wait, wait, wait.

Promised before time began.

What?

Where are my sci fi people?

Promised before time began.

What are you talking about?

Time was granted on our behalf.

Have you read Genesis 1 so that we can mark times and seasons, Time in and of itself was given to mankind as a gift to help us.

God don't need it.

God does not need.

He's an interlinear being.

And so listen to what he says.

God who cannot lie, promised promise you in hope of eternal life.

God who cannot lie, promised before time began.

This promise comes before time even started.

God gives you something else.

Hey, I got something before you even understood, before you glean in your parents eyes.

I got a promise for you that will pass all the knowledge of a finite person.

And here it is.

What is it?

Time does not constrain or restrict God.

And so he has told us, he has made a promise for us to have eternal life before way before there was a planet, way before there was a planet.

People go, well not really way before, Dave, because it could be day one, day do day two, day three.

A day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

There you go.

So the most fascinating part of this in verse two is he's promised eternal life.

He can't lie.

That promise was made before time began.

It's very challenging for finite beings to comprehend that.

Let's be honest.

But time was created for the benefit of man before time existed.

God always was, always is and always will be and is the same today and then.

And we'll close with this because this is too outrageous.

Verse three, in his own time.

What do you mean his own time?

You mean God has a separate timeline?

You bet.

In his own time, he has revealed his word in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

This drives us right into God's timing.

Still talking about timing.

But it's God's timing, not our timing.

Why we're lucky if the watch is right.

We think we know so much, we understand carbon dating.

But don't let there be any earthquake because it ruins it.

Here's the bottom line.

The bottom line is we ain't that smart.

But in God's perfect timing, in his own time, he revealed through preaching that which Paul said was entrusted to him by God our Savior, Jesus Christ.

And it's a significant statement because Paul knows as he's writing this, he's writing holy scripture.

He knows he's writing.

He says, listen.

He said in his own time, he's revealed his word in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

Paul is writing the commands of God.

He knows it.

But the thing you and I need to pick up on in this 1, 2, 3 verse, which is just super, super, super fascinating is that God has made a promise for you.

It is an immovable promise.

It will not change.

It is more sure than the foundation of the earth, since the earth will pass away.

But God's promises are yes and amen and have never failed once.

And the big promise that Paul is opening up with Timothy is we're going to live forever.

You see, inside man is this desire to live forever, but this inability to seize how, because we can't figure out how to do it in and of ourselves, by ourselves.

Yet with Jesus, immortality, the Bible says, came to light.

In other words, ding, somebody turned on a light bulb and now we get immortality.

It's not just a fantasy.

It's not a book.

It's an opportunity and a promise from the most high God.

Want to jump on board?

That's the invitation.

God, who cannot lie, promised before time began and in his own time he's revealed.

This is the other part about it that I don't want to admit to, but it's true.

God's watch is different than mine.

Did you ever notice?

He said, the Lord, now is a good time.

Now is a good time.

Now is a good time.

And the Lord doesn't respond to that very often.

Why?

Because his watch is better than your watch.

And what you think is a good time, or what David Spoon thinks is a good time, or what any minister thinks is a good time is cute, but not relevant.

God's timing is perfect both now and always.

He has never been late.

He has never missed.

We might sit there and think, yes, but I wish he would do this, that whatever, you know, what we say, well, when you become God, you tell him, until then, be quiet and do what he says.

That's how Paul opens this.

Just this little thing and you know, the fieriness that's there in hope of eternal life that God who cannot lie, promised before time began.

And in his own time he's revealed his word in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God, our Savior, to Titus, my son in the faith.

Woo, doggy.

We'll get to that.

But in the meantime, we're gonna break.

Take a deep breath.

You're listening to the David Spoon experience right here on KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

Short break, we'll be back.

Don't go anywhere.

What the whole teaching has to do with is the dissatisfaction that people have who are worldly when the divine is involved.

I want you to hear that line.

That's the big line.

That's the big Connector between all of this.

The worldly are never satisfied if divinity is involved.

So the example Jesus says is, you know, we played the flute for you, right?

And the flute, you know, woo the flute.

Yay.

Happy sounds, right?

And the people are like, no.

And it's like, okay, well, we sang a dirge for you, right?

What you sing at a funeral, right?

And the people were like, no.

And then John the Baptist, he says, comes, and John the Baptist is as straight as you can get.

We would call him, you know, a massive teetotaler, might be fair enough to say.

And he says, he's not eating bread.

He's not drinking any wine.

And you people, the way you respond, you go, hey, he's got a demon.

And then Jesus, he says, I come, Son of man comes.

I'm eating and drinking.

And then what do the people do?

They extreme it out.

And they say, he's a glutton because he's eating, not eating more than he should.

He's just eating, and he's a drunkard because he had wine.

You see, this is the thing.

The thing is that the world and the worldly are never satisfied.

That's why I said that connection to the song.

And don't get mad at me that I used a Rolling Stone song.

It's not my fault.

They wrote a song called I Can't get no Satisfaction.

This is the Lord trying to reach people at different levels, and people keep going, no, no, no, no.

And it's nonstop, and there's just no satisfying them.

And even the one thing that I would say, and I've said this before in the beginning of this broadcast, and I don't really care about your political affiliations, but when people get going in a certain direction, you can't move them one way or another.

And when the media was all over Donald Trump, it's fair to say that had he helped cure cancer with research, they would have accused Donald Trump of putting people out of business who were in the cancer business.

It's just like that's exactly what they would have done.

Everybody knows that.

And it's because that's how the mentality is.

If somebody comes along and does something that's good and it's not appreciative to the world, or they don't like it, they will rip it to shreds.

You can't play the flute.

You can't sing a dirge.

You can't be Johnny the Baptist, and you can't be Jesus Christ, because none of those things satisfy.

We want exactly what we want.

Which, by the way, they don't even know what they want.

That's the irony.

It's God that's giving the opportunity for people to get the answers.

And people are so inwardly confused because of Satan, they wouldn't know a good thing if it split them in the eyeballs.

That's the problem.

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