Join David Spoon for a lively discussion centered on the importance of living a life characterized by faith, love, and endurance, especially during the holiday season. He emphasizes that older men in the faith should exemplify self-control, respect, and soundness in their beliefs, encouraging listeners to reflect on their own maturity and behavior. David invites the audience to engage in prayer requests and shares insights on how to navigate family gatherings with grace and understanding. With a blend of humor and sincerity, he reinforces the message that Jesus is present in every situation, urging listeners to walk by faith rather than sight. This episode also features a trivia question related to the divinity of Christ, providing an interactive element to the uplifting conversation.

Takeaways:

• The importance of connecting with and supporting each other through prayer requests is emphasized.
• Older men should be self-controlled and exhibit maturity, which is critical in leadership.
• Sound teaching based on scripture is fundamental for the Christian faith and community.
• Faith should be active and real, not just a crutch, during life's challenges.
• The podcast encourages listeners to maintain faith and love, especially during difficult times.
• Prayer is a powerful tool that can provide encouragement and strength to those in need.

David Spoon expertly balances humor with profound spiritual insights as he navigates the complexities of faith during the holiday season. The show opens with a jovial spirit, encouraging listeners to embrace joy and laughter, particularly in the context of family gatherings that can sometimes lead to tension. Spoon's invitation for prayer requests establishes an intimate connection with his audience, making it clear that he values their experiences and struggles. This theme of community is woven throughout the episode, reinforcing the notion that support and prayer can help ease burdens, especially during a time when many may feel isolated.

The conversation shifts to a deeper exploration of biblical principles, particularly from the book of Titus, where Spoon highlights the characteristics expected of older men in the faith community. He emphasizes virtues such as self-control, respect, and soundness in faith, love, and endurance. Spoon’s analysis is both challenging and uplifting, as he encourages listeners to reflect on their behaviors and attitudes. His reminder that faith should be an active part of life, guiding decisions and interactions, positions the audience to consider the practical implications of their beliefs. This segment effectively ties the importance of personal responsibility in faith to the broader theme of community support, creating a cohesive narrative that resonates with listeners.

The views expressed on the following program are designed to amplify those of the speaker and not necessarily those of kaam.

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When it's cold outside.

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Here's what's coming up on today's experience.

It's Dr.

Dave's devotional Diamonds of the Day, also known as DD DDDD's, where my daily devotions become some of our spiritual reflections.

Sound effects placed throughout the show which have nothing to do with life.

But the Bible teaches there's a time to laugh.

You got family coming in.

You got the holidays you could probably use a good laugh about right now.

The review of the goo which proves Jesus is coming back sooner than you think.

Yay.

Life lessons for our faith that we could actually use probably won't if we're sitting on our blessed assurance.

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

Because it proves that God does have a sense of humor.

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

Living this life, not always easy running in.

Welcome to the David Spoon Experience, local, national and heavenly talk.

My name is Dr.

David Spoon.

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 want to talk faith with you.

So here we go.

We're asking questions about living life as a Christian.

In the audience, you have people that have seen hundreds, if not thousands of prayers answered by the grace of God.

My question to you, brothers and sisters, what can our prayer warriors pray for you about?

What can we join you in?

What can we connect with you in?

How can we help you carry the burden?

How can we connect with you?

It's a pretty straightforward question.

Our people in the audience are ready to pray.

What can we do to be a blessing to you?

If you have an opinion, a comment, a thought or a question, please don't let it die of loneliness.

We consider that very sad.

Just reach out and give us a call.

Talking to Janet Jacob is like heading into the week with great faith and expectation.

Thank you, David.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday to you, my friend.

Of course we'll get to Jake's take in the other 60 minutes.

I do want to say that you now official, you and Jennifer as well as me, we have two days that there will not be any human entities in the studio.

Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct.

Tuesday or tomorrow and Wednesday, we will be off.

The station will be closed.

The station will be closed, but on the air there will still be radio as we will be airing two of our top ten shows of all time.

Wow, that's pretty exciting right there.

And no, we don't expect you to be.

We're not telling.

Oh, you gotta.

You gotta listen.

If you want to listen, you're welcome to it.

I will say answering the trivia questions probably won't get you very far.

Just a little thought there for you to be aware of.

But beware of the schedule.

The studio will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

And as it is in the last 30 minutes or so, some of my family has a rivid from Tennesseeth and they are in the houseth as far as I knoweth.

I'm pretty sure.

I'm confident of that.

So, yeah, gonna be an interesting couple of days at our house, and I hope it's gonna be an interesting couple days for everybody.

Never forget the most important thing about everything that we do, we're doing, we will do.

And that is Jesus.

He is the key to all of it.

Okay?

All right.

So like I said, we'll get to Jake's take.

We do want you to be aware we are gonna be praying, by the way, for to the churches as they do their best to minister to people over this week and then the weekend as well.

As we're gonna be praying for various families.

And we're gonna be special prayer out for those that are struggling a little bit more in the holidays because they're feeling a little lonely.

We'll get to that as well.

But I want you to be aware of reaching out to us, what that can accomplish for you.

First and foremost, we are telling you right now, if you've got a prayer request, just bring it and we will pray about it.

You can text.

Did you hear what I said?

That is the ministry line.

But during the show, it's only for text Additionally, you can send an email.

An email?

Yeah, an email.

Davidemustincrease.org that'll come right to my computer.

Davidemustincrease.org so it can be for a prayer request.

Let me say this.

It can be for a praise report or a testimony.

Has the Lord done something phenomenal?

Has the Lord done something that you know was the hand of God?

You're not even sure how you can explain it.

Just know it was the hand of God.

Call and share that, text that in, Send it in by email.

People love it because it just gives us an awareness that God is active all around us.

He didn't go to Pluto and he's not taking a nap.

He is active in your life.

He loves you and he cares about you.

You and how you are doing matters to the Lord.

Never forget that.

So it can be for a praise report, it can be for a prayer request.

It can be for any of those kind of things.

Maybe just a scripture.

You want to share something that's been happening, I just want to let you know.

Personally, I'm very, very thankful to the Lord that my family has arrived safely and we will be having time together.

I haven't had a chance to see my family in quite some time, so I'm looking forward to that.

I do wanna open up with prayer for the churches.

We'll get to the families and the people that are struggling a little bit later, but I wanna open up with prayer.

So I want you, if you're driving, don't close your eyes.

Hello?

But if you're listening, I want you to stretch your faith out with mine.

When two or more gathered together in my name, it doesn't say they have to be in the same house.

It says, when two or more gathered together in my name, we're gathered together in the name of the Lord.

Let's pray.

Let's petition the Lord and ask for help for the people of God who are serving other people of God and not yet believers.

Let's pray.

Father, we come before you right now and we just want to thank you and praise you for your graciousness that you've poured upon every one of us more than any of us could ever deserve.

We are not worthy of the gifts that you pour out upon us.

Your love, your kindness, your patience, your protection.

And Lord, we have your servants, the people of God, who are going to give of themselves to serve other people, people who aren't saved and people who are saved.

And we are simply asking that these churches, Lord, that are honoring your name and trying to serve others, that you would bless them with encouragement, with energy.

They would not get discouraged.

They would have plenty of strength to do the things that are set before them.

They would serve the people of God and the people who are on their way to becoming a part of your family.

We lift up the churches and everybody involved, the leadership, all the way at the top to all the way at the bottom to the person that does things that nobody knows.

And we ask that you would bless your servants and Lord, they would serve with joy and that you would pour your jo into them as a reward for being servants.

Bless the churches.

We're here in Texas, Lord.

Bless these churches in Texas that honor your name, that come before you, that seek to serve and to honor you and to glorify you.

And let people be touched and let hearts be stirred and let people who know you draw closer to you, people who know you and have gone away come back to you.

And people that have really never known you come to find a saving faith.

Lift up all of the churches, all of the servants, all of the people of God in all the ministries, not just church ministries, in all the ministries.

Bless your people.

Pour out your spirit, Jesus, be glorified.

We lift all this up, Father unto you.

And we pray all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Amen and amen.

Okey dokey.

That is how we start our Sunday show again.

Don't forget that Tuesday and Wednesday will be two of the top 10 shows of all time in replay.

In the meantime, we are in Titus and we are in chapter two, picking it up at verse one.

And last Monday we talked about this.

It's very important to understand that we are supposed to proclaim things that are consistent with sound teaching.

Sound teaching and correct teaching is found in the word of God.

It doesn't mean that it's okay to add your own stuff or my own stuff.

Our own little twists.

It's cool that people see things differently.

That's not the issue.

There's never been an issue with that.

What the Lord wants to make sure is that you and I are using sound teaching the gospel, true words of God in what we're communicating.

Love God.

That is the message of the Lord.

So now as Titus is learning and he's hearing from Paul, and remember, Titus is in Crete.

He's on an island.

It's a little bit more difficult than Timothy's situation, who had a much More of a metropolitan place to be at.

Titus is in a little bit tighter spot.

And we go through some of these elements and you find out that even the recommendations or the requirements, I should say, for being in leadership are a few less than Timothy because he's not in the same kind of place.

And thereby all the churches that try and use Titus and Timothy together are mixing two separate situations together.

Probably shouldn't do that.

But now Paul wants to talk to Titus because he knows this is a small group, it's an intimate group, and he wants to give them some social insight.

And the social insight is simply this.

He says you're to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching.

The first thing he mentions is older men are to be self controlled, worthy of respect, sensible and sound in faith, love and endurance.

The first thing that Paul brings up to Titus is, look, older men, they need to be self controlled.

So he's encouraging Titus on how to deal with older men.

Older, older men should be self controlled.

And what that means is older men should have enough of a sense of decency and know how to restrain themselves when restraint is called for.

When you watch television or look at something on the Internet and you listen to some of our current politicians and you listen and watch media from Hollywood or if you watch some of the news people, you know, some of these people are not doing a very good job of operating in self control.

They just blurt out whatever, and it's just like, wow, that is the height of immaturity.

You'll know if you're being immature, if you just can't control anything.

That is immaturity.

No, I just can't control it.

Yes, you can.

In fact, it talks about prophecy in First Corinthians 12, 13, 14, and it says that the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet, which means no prophet has to go bouncing up and down on a pogo stick in order to share their prophecy.

There is a control factor that any person prophetically has.

The same is true for people who are older.

There should be a sense of control.

It shouldn't be that you're so dignified that you're not willing to be undignified for the Lord.

What it means is you just can't go.

You're supposed to be a little mature.

And that's what Titus is being reminded of by the Apostle Paul.

He says, look, older men, they're supposed to be self controlled.

There's supposed to be a maturity there.

So for you guys who are running the breakdown, I always love giving this breakdown.

People get irritated by it.

But I think it's funny.

0 to 20 is a child.

20 to 40 is a young person.

40 to 60 is a person.

60 and older is an elder.

That's the breakdown in the custom in Jewish society.

He's like, look, these older people, man, they need to have some self control.

They need to exhibit it and they need to be there for it.

And the next thing he says is worthy of respect.

Now this is really funny and I'll tell you why it's funny.

Because older men are supposed to be worthy of respect and be sensible, right?

That seems like common traits that happen in people as they age.

But sometimes, let's be honest, sometimes the little kid in each one of us gets the best of us.

And so we need to be encouraged to live a life worthy of respect before the Lord.

Before you get all legalistic on me, I don't want you to do that.

Don't get legalistic on me.

I'm not saying you can't have fun.

That's all in the show.

Half the show is fun.

What I am saying is that we should live a life worthy of honor unto the Lord.

It has nothing to do with whether you're saved or not.

In the context of living that life, worthy does not save you.

The blood of Jesus Christ saves you.

But if you're saved, this is a good line.

I've heard this, a preacher, say it multiple times.

But if you're saved, it wouldn't kill you to act like it.

It's like, ooh, that's a good line.

Like, ooh, good point.

Right?

Because the Lord has impacted your life.

He loves you, he's with you, he's for you.

Okay, well, show a little respect and appreciation.

Okay, that seems absolutely the right thing.

I mean, it just seems like it's absolutely critical.

And so Paul's just saying, look, he said older men should be self controlled, worthy of respect, sensible.

There should be a sensibility about it.

And if you're younger and moving your way to becoming older, recognize that's going to be part of your future.

Because that's what the Lord wants.

But he says something else that's massively fascinating in the text.

He says that older men should be sound in the faith, sound in love and sound in endurance.

So after we do the trivia question, I want to talk about that sound of faith.

Because that is a challenge to every one of us to operate in faith.

When we're looking at things and they don't present themselves as favorable, how do we respond?

Are we Sound in faith.

Wow.

Okay, here comes your first trivia question.

Let's see if you guys can get this one.

It should not be difficult.

Jesus said this in Revelation 1:8.

I am the blank and the blank, the beginning and the end.

I am the blank and the blank, the beginning and the end.

What are those blank and blanks?

You can also text a Rooney.

Text Aruni.

Yeah, it's like texting, only it's Aruni.

Or you can send an email davidemustincrease.org from Revelation, chapter one, verse eight.

Jesus said I am the and the and then he says the beginning and the ending.

What are those blanks?

What is it that fills in there that we need to be aware of?

If you think, you know, reach out to us.

In the meantime, I am going to send you up to the website.

Today is the 23rd day of December.

Our radio rent is due December 27th and we are short of rent.

But we believe very strongly that by the grace of God, people will give and we will have that rent ready and ready to go.

And I look forward to the following Monday sharing that we paid it.

So I'm just reminding people, Radio Rent put it on your prayer list.

If you're going to do something, we could use that help.

Thank you very much.

In the meantime on the website, still lots of cool stuff.

And if you go across the website and find anything you want and you can't get it like a book or anything like that, tell us and we'll get it to you for free, no cost, no matter what.

Okay, here's your scripture for today.

2 Corinthians 9:6:7.

The point is this.

Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly.

Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

One must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly, not under compulsion.

For God loves a cheerful giver.

Make sure when you give, whether to us or anybody else, you got the right heart and the right spirit for it.

Otherwise, keep it.

And the reason I'm saying that is because you're not giving it in faith.

You probably should just hang on to it.

That would be my advice.

I am going to encourage you to check out the website and all that's on there.

Please check out hemustincrease.org prayer request.

Hemosincrease.org praise report.

Hemostincrease.org looking to give to this ministry.

He mustincrease.org confused by what's happening right now.

Hemustincrease.org hemustincrease.org what are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?

No, we're exterminators.

Somebody saw a cockroach up on 12.

That's gotta be some cockroach.

Bite your head off, man.

That'll bite your head off.

That is some cockroach.

We do have somebody ready to answer the trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Good afternoon, David.

This is jd.

Hello.

Hello, jd, My B.

How are you?

Brother in Christ?

How are ya?

I'm doing fantastic, thank you.

No problem with the allergies, but getting through that, not a problem.

All right.

Get through that.

That's something you gotta get through.

All right, my brother.

Let me set it up for you and you can take care of it.

Jesus said this in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 8.

He said, I am the blank and the blank, the beginning and the ending.

What is the blank and the blank?

The first letter of the Greek Alphabet and the last letter of the Greek Alphabet.

That is correct.

Which are alpha and omega.

He is the alpha and the Omega.

In our understanding, we would call him the A to the Z.

And some people are like, why does he say that?

Because Jesus is everything you need between A and Z, period.

Yes, he is that.

He is.

He is an awesome.

I love this saying.

He's a better savior than we are sinners.

So good.

Thank God.

Amen.

I mean, I am very thankful for that personally.

Awesome, brother.

Awesome.

Anything else we can do for you?

Merry, merry Christmas.

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas to you, my brother.

Thank you.

All right.

God bless you, bro.

Bye bye, bye bye.

All right.

And for those that don't know, and so I say this, so it's MERRY Christmas.

The 25th.

Right?

25th is Christmas.

Right.

And also though, the 25th is the first day of Hanukkah.

So instead of just saying happy Holidays, which means nothing to anybody, just say Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

And if you're lucky, Hanukkahi will visit you with pencils and socks.

Don't laugh.

I could use some pencils anyway.

All right, Great job by J.D.

he's our Bic.

Bic.

Brother in Christ.

There you go.

All right, let's get back to this text.

I Want to talk about this faith thing?

We don't have a lot of time and I want to get to it.

Here it is.

Here is what Titus hears from Paul.

He says, look, he said older people have got to be self controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, sound in faith, love and endurance.

Let me explain to you sound in faith.

I don't do it very well as often as I should and I'm in the elder stage.

Here's what it is.

We gotta have faith that's real.

We have to have faith that's active.

We have to have faith that we don't use as a crutch, but use as a way of life.

In fact, the scripture says, for we walk by faith, faith and not by sight.

What do you mean?

You don't walk by sight.

You don't walk your life by what you can see and by what you can assess.

Proverbs 3, 5, 6.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

You and I are leaning on our own understanding.

When we look at situation and evaluate it from us without faith.

And we're don't.

That's not being sound in faith.

Sound in faith is looking at your circumstance and seeing it, knowing that Jesus is in that picture.

Being sound in love is looking at that person, looking at that situation and loving them, knowing that Jesus is in that picture as you look at them, that you love them because Jesus loves you.

And the endurance part means that you don't quit on either faith or love or anything else.

People will do things that are wrong and they will hurt you and it will hurt.

Jesus didn't say if somebody offends you.

By the way, in the Greek, it's when somebody offends you.

So when you get offended, then you need to operate in this Christ like spirit, the Holy Spirit living inside you.

And what happens after you get hurt is you have to raise up from the ground if they hurt you and operate with them connected to Jesus, have mercy on them.

And if you want to, have the best reason why, because God has mercy on you.

And he even makes that clear in the Sermon on the Mount.

Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who have debts against us.

Right?

That's the situation.

God wants us to be.

Sound in faith, sound in love.

Enduring, putting up enduring and passing.

Getting through it all this holiday, you're gonna have family and maybe not every brilliant word is gonna be said.

Could happen.

You know what?

Be sound in faith and in love and endure.

Get it?

That's kind of a good advice for all the families getting together.

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

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My next guest has been on the show before with a prior book.

I'm very excited to talk to him about this book.

I've seen a couple of the interviews that he's done, and this book is a great apologetic book on Christology, and I'm hoping that people really enjoy this.

First and foremost, let's welcome back to our show David Lima.

David, how are you doing, sir?

Great.

How are you doing?

I'm doing fantastic.

Excellent book, by the way.

Big props for writing the True Jesus, Uncovering the divinity of Christ in the Gospels.

I know they give me a list, and I know you know, they give a list for us to ask questions.

But if you remember from the last time you ran the show, I rarely look at that list because I like to get from you as the author, kind of where it was going and what you were thinking.

So let's just talk about at the core level, for the purpose of writing this book, what was the big goal you were trying to accomplish in writing the true Jesus?

Well, I started out, I wanted to write a primer survey, an introduction to the New Testament.

And as I got into it, I realized that I could not cover it adequately with sufficient depth.

So I asked the publisher, Ragnar, if I could narrow the focus to just the Gospels, because the Gospels are where you see the living Son of God and you encounter him and you sit at his feet and hear his teachings, and you watch him and you observe his behavior and his authoritative teaching and his empathy for human beings.

And you see his declaration of divinity and why he led the Jewish authorities to want to crucify him, because he was, in fact, claiming to be God, because he is God.

And so I want his divinity and his full humanity to jump off the pages of my book.

The book is a.

Is a compendium of the four Gospels in a consolidated account, not attempting to be a harmony, which you can't totally do in a roughly chronological form.

The ultimate goal, and with a running commentary, the ultimate goal is I want people.

I want to inspire people to read the Gospel and the Bible for themselves.