Finding Our Way

From the transcript... Well, it's because we believe that we were far from love and that heaven had turned his face. We believe that sin had slammed the door on grace and left us feeling displaced. Yeah. But could a father, son, and spirit whose bond no dark can sever create us in communion's flame, then cast us off forever? In other words, is God out of this love relationship, face-to-face-to-fac...

From the transcript... Oh, we’re finding our way through this wild life. His love shines brighter than the brightest light. 2 Corinthians 3:18—so you’re being changed into the same image. As we behold Jesus, He transforms us into what He is. We begin to awaken to the reality that we are joined to Him, one with Him, complete in Him. We’re in union—a life-giving union. But we don’t really understand...

From the transcript... We ended up turning into a restaurant. Somebody else turned in, I turned in behind them, and then somebody was backing out in their parking spot. So it hung us out—I was sitting sideways in traffic. They stopped for me. Then I got to a four-way stop. The truck was straight across from me, but the intersection wasn’t a perfect square—it was kind of offset. The truck across fr...

From the transcript... But that doesn’t mean God’s not drawing and He’s not teaching. It’s, I don’t see it, I don’t perceive it, I’m not responding—I’m fighting against it, whether it’s consciously or subconsciously. And He’s just patient, waiting on us and working in us. Scripture says He tasted death for every man. Yeah. Okay, and He takes away the sins of the world. He’s the Savior of all men,...

From the transcript... We didn’t even finish chapter five. He talks about, “Do not think I will accuse you to the Father.” That’s a good one. We don’t have to—we’re looking at everyone. Oh well, verse 43 and 45: “I have come to represent my Father, yet you refuse to embrace me in faith. If someone comes in their own name and with their own agenda, you readily accept it. Of course, you’re unable to...

From the transcript... So you don't think when Jesus said have meat to eat you don't know if he found some musky dines on the side of the road like we just did. No, she was talking about the Father's will. It was the Father's will that I came down this road and ate those musky dimes on the side of the road, and they were good. This next passage—oh, what's your next one? Ought to be really good. Jo...

From the transcript... You were asking about John 3:34—the one whom God has sent to represent Him will speak the words of God, because God has poured out upon Him the fullness of the Holy Spirit without limitation. The Father loves His Son so much that He has given all things into His hands. Those who trust in the Son possess eternal life; those who don’t obey the Son will not see life—God’s anger...

From the transcript... Well, I’ve been reading the Gospel of John, looking for the times that Jesus spoke to or spoke of His Father—that’s a good one. And I’ve found in John chapter 8, there’s a lot of it; He talks a lot. It seems like when He talks about the Father, He talks about judgment. I don’t know if it’s as regular as I think it is, but I know it’s there in chapter 8, and I know it’s there...

From the transcript... But the first thing is, you’re talking about how He sees us in Christ. The reality is that we were created in Christ. That’s right—because in Him was life, and that life is the light of men. John’s right. So there was something created in Christ; there’s this creation—God creating something. It’s in Him and through Him and by Him that the Word created all that is. So that’s...

From the transcript... So we were looking at, or talking about, how we’re coming to see God differently. And in understanding who He is, we realize He sees us differently than what we thought. Yeah—how He sees us is different than I used to think how He saw us. Exactly. He hasn’t changed His mind; it’s our perspective that has changed. Because under that penal substitutionary thought process, the...

From the transcript... He’s just saying something about the love of God. No, but maybe we don’t want to look at that. That’s right—look, it’s something about holiness and justice, the wrath. Oh yeah, vengeance is mine, said the Lord. Let’s see here, Romans 1:1—what’s that say? I’m not sure, I thought you had a Bible. Passions, yes. Just verse one? Yeah, for right now, I might have to get to verse...

From the transcript... There’s no more. The in and out and us and them is gone. Yes. You know, you think about what you were talking about—being in Him and incarnation and all that. Listen to this verse. It says, Through His creative inspiration, this living expression made all things. For nothing has existence apart from Him. A fountain of life was in Him, for His life is light for all humanity....

From the transcript... in Christ as he died for us all, with us all, as us all. There was such an inescapable union when the Word became flesh. And we all died. And then when He got up out of the tomb, He put to death everything that wasn’t right. And He brought to life all that has eternally been true of us—that we were deceived and confused and blinded and doubtful of—so that now everything we a...

From the transcript... Nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status. They matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything. As He lives in every one of us. So what he’s saying is, it’s not these physical things that we look at out here—where you come from, what kind of money you’ve got, or anything. It’s the Christ that’s in you. Yeah. That’s everything. Well, I think in the outworking...

From the transcript... He was a judge, all this kind of stuff. And Jesus says, yeah. He said, you've heard that. That's conclusion of the Old Testament. Then he said, but I say to you. He establishes a new order. The king steps up and says, yeah, that's what you've heard. That's where you've been until now. But now I'm just going to tell you how it really is. Then he says, I say to you, love your...

From the transcript... Myself, in particular, I feel like my theology and beliefs—not just biblical, but beliefs in life in general—I’ve always been in a flux, you know, because I’m experiencing life and hopefully I’m learning better. Yeah, that’s… but that’s always been the way. I think sometimes we think when we’re children going to school and we’re learning, there’s an illusion that when I get...

From the transcript... See that vintage cap I got? That thing had to be made in the ’80s. Zach got two big old bags of caps that this guy from Cotton Valley had collected over the years. That was one of them. I don’t like the way this cap wears. Yeah? But that’s not the reason I’m wearing it. You’re just rubbing it in—2019 national champions. You’re just rubbing it in. It gets kind of flat on your...

From the transcript... Here’s your text with all timestamps and markers removed: Is the spiritual union another union? A union in addition to our carnal union with Christ? Or is it a sharing in the one and only union between God and man brought out in Jesus Christ? This is a very important question, for if the spiritual union is an additional union, then our salvation depends not only on the finis...

From the transcript... In Ephesians 1 and 7, since we're now joined to Christ, we've been given the treasures of redemption by His blood—the total cancellation of our sins—all because of the cascading riches of His grace. Okay, the total cancellation of sins. Sounds like John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” Well, you know John preached that, but do we re...

From the transcript... Yeah, I was taught that He chose those whom He foreknew. He knew who was going to believe—that was His foreknowledge. Therefore, He chose those. I’m just telling you what I was taught. I’ve heard that before. Yeah, that’s an Arminian view of it. Yeah, it was a twisted Arminian view. But that’s so skewed. Well, I’m just saying—the whole conversation was that it’s because of H...

From the transcript... It’s like—we read through all these translations. We started with the New King James, of course, and I was raised on the old King James. That language, and the discussions I heard about these verses, shaped a whole lot of my original belief system. But as time has gone on, and I’ve studied and followed the Lord, I began to change what I was originally taught or believed abou...

From the transcript... I got William Barclay. I like William Barclay. Barclay’s good. Barclay’s good. Let me read it. I wasn’t going to, but—well, no, no, no, I got it. There was a reason I brought it. You’ve got to hear what he says. Ephesians 1 (William Barclay Translation) This is a letter from Paul, who became an apostle of Jesus Christ because God willed it so. To God’s consecrated people in...

From the transcript... We got a beautiful day. It’s nice and shady right here. So I want to read it out of the New King James. Are you going to read more than one translation? Yeah. But you’re going to start with the New King James? Yeah. Okay. You want me to read one? Because that’s what everybody’s used to. Read them first 11 verses. In the New King James? That’s what that is. Oh, I thought you...

From the transcript... I can remember when I was eight years old. I can remember going back—I don’t know if you remember Whisperer Pines Church—go back behind the baptististry, behind the choir loft back there, Sunday school. Step in that little hallway, that first room to the right. Sitting in a chair there beside my mama, and Brother Leon was on his knees, squatting before me, talking to me abou...

In this episode Larry and James talk about the victory of Jesus in history. From the transcript... But the Lord orchestrated the events of getting this book to print. The title of it is Before Time, Our Origin in Christ. My good friend Andrew Maui helped me put this together and got me started down that road. And the Lord just, boom, put it out there. even try it wasn't even anything i was it was...