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[email protected]. again, the Jonathan Project podcast, gmail.com. jason. Let's jump into it. I know there was a lot we, we kind of had a really, in my. Our minds, a timely topic talking about what is the truth, who is the truth, and how do we avoid those deceptions that Satan puts out there? And it's really some sobering kind of statistics and things that you found kind of preparing for the show.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: It is, it's, it's crazy. Oh, by the way, free devotionals out there for people.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: Right now versus the end. But free devotionals out there. It's on Obi's website and it's a link to it in the bottom.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: And so it is also, Tyson, please feel free to read it. All right. No, he's got us on. I was taking a look at the statistics, right?
62% of Christians don't believe in the Holy Spirit. That's amazing.
A lot of people profess to be Christians and they really, honestly have never, never turned their life over to Christ. They don't know what the Bible is. You know, when you look at the Bible says, you know, we're not. I'm not judged like I. But I absolutely can discern your fruit, right? And we talk about the fruit of the spirit. Love, peace, kindness, gentleness, forbearing, things like that.
Very interesting, Colby. We bought pear trees a couple of years ago. We've got some peach trees and we've got some pear trees. And I like pear. Yeah. Yeah. And they grew and they grew and they grew and they started to produce. And I walked out there and I'm like, that is the oddest shaped pear I've ever seen in my life.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: Why does that pear look different?
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Why does that pear look like an apple?
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Oh, buddy.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: So I got two apple trees. I had no pear trees.
We can discern that, right?
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: When you look at 6% of Christian Americans actually hold the biblical worldview.
6%. So worldview, candidly, worldview is constructed by, by reality. Right. Like it is. It's the frame of the window that I view the world. It's the lens. Right. And spend a lot of time in psychology defining worldview and so forth and so forth. But it's how you tell you reality because it's, it's how you perceive it because it's how you act.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: There's very few illogical actions. It's mostly illogical for such.
And if you view the world through. Excuse me, then you act, you act the way you are. It's 6%. 6% only have a biblical worldview. It explains why we act the way we do. Right. If you 62% of Christians don't believe in the Holy Spirit when the Bible plainly talks about it being Trinity, then 62% of all Christians aren't Christian. Right. Like, I, I don't know what else to say.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Yeah, that, that 62%, whoever it was, it's pretty crystal clear on where they stand as far as their eternal worldview. You know, you're absolutely right.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: So it gets down to it. What's even more scary. And of course, you know, I pulled it up on the magic little box. It's called the icon is American police. And they did it on five searchal entities. It sees, it says God, heaven, angels, hell and the devil. Okay. God still holds somewhere around 74%. It looks like people believe. 67% believe in heaven. By the way, that is a Christian construct every, every other religion.
So I don't know how anyone expects to get there except by following God's will. You know what I mean by through Jesus Christ, which he says, yeah, like saying I believe in, you know, the Yankee Stadium, but I'm going to pay my admission with Snicker marks.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Good luck with that.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Good luck. Good luck getting in the World Series by Snicker Bar. No, no, no haunt.
But then 69% of people say they believe in angels. Okay, so there's still people who believe in God, don't believe in angels, don't believe in heaven, and only 59% say they believe in hell. 58% believe in the devil. Okay. Yeah. And with like 13, 15% just basically, hey, I don't know.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Right, sure.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: Think about that for a minute. If I have a sly enemy, it's always accusing, it's always doing all this stuff. And I've got so many people convinced that I don't exist. Pretty good Because, I mean, it's a binary choice.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
And you're getting through is.
And what you would call it is a permissive environment to run his operations. And he's got a very permissive environment nowadays because there is not the buffer that is supposed to be. The embassies of heaven are failing, is what those statistics tell me, which is AKA the church, you know, and it really gets to what I would say for the. And I encourage you to go back and listen to the main episode. Everyone is anchoring our faith is what the leftover that I had for you here, you know, so where do you go? You know, you hear all these statistics. You hear, you can see, you can feel every day in all aspects of your life the dominating spirit that is not the Holy Spirit that is permeating everything. Right. And has been for quite some time. To just be quite honest, you know, you have to anchor yourself into Jesus. And what does that mean? Anchored? You know, Jesus in the Bible says it yet another way to abide, which means to go with, to go through, to look through. Jason was talking about that worldview. Everything should flow. When you want to define truth, when you want to be able to weed out deception, when you want to have discernment, when you want to employ these weapons that he's called like wisdom, you want to do that, you have to start by being anchored and abiding. Walking with the Lord, it's not in our bank accounts, it's not our abilities. It's not your network, because you hear this thing. Oh, my network is my net worth. No, knowing Jesus is everything. It's all your worth. You know, Psalms 1, 2 and 3. But in his delight is the law of the Lord. He is like a tree planted by streams of water. When your roots go deep in Christ, you can't be shaken by things that are happening because there's this promise. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. Jesus doesn't put us somewhere just to say, oh, you know what, you're on your own. That's what Satan does. That's what the hope of putting into other people. It inevitably fails and it leaves you worse off. You're like, man, like, how did we get here? Well, you put your hope into something that was never meant to be. Put hope in, you know, the word of God is a weapon. And I'll finish up here. Ephesians 6 and 7 says it calls it the sword of the Spirit. You can't recognize a lie if you don't know the truth. Let me say it again. You can't recognize a lie if you've never made a relationship with the truth. The truth is a person, Jesus. And Jesus is standing by, ready to help you understand things. But let me say it one more time. You can't recognize lies if you don't know the truth. And by these statistics and by what I see in the world, there's a lot of people need to reacquaint themselves with the truth.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: Jesus Christ, you know, I love that if you don't know what truth is, you can't recognize a lot, right? Think of it like this, okay? My. When, when my son was real young, he would, you know, there's. There's a point where he goes, I'm as. I'm as tall as you. And I'm like, okay, just stand here. Let's. Let's stand up and, and, you know, and you take your hand on top of his head and you go, oh, you're right here. You know, you got to know what truth is. Right? I got some. I got some pretty disturbing statistics here. And it was, it was actually done by a Arizona Christian university. Right. I'm just going to follow through here.
This is, this is the rough part. 37% of pastors hold a biblical worldview, with the majority of them 62% is what they had here being a hybrid mixture of disparate worldview elements blended into a customized philosophy of life.
Now, what that means is that widespread absence of biblical worldview is pastors are eroding beliefs in areas such as basic as salvation through Jesus Christ, the nature of God, the sin condition of human beings, and the existence of objective truth.
That's horrible because the person who's up there says, man, 37%, 37% of Christian pastors, you got a one in three that when you adulterate the truth as a pastor. Amen. That's. That's a rough one. But what does that say to men? What does that say to fathers? Dig in, dig in, double check them, right? Like, dig in, read the Bible. Read the Bible with your family. Read the Bible enough so that you can start going, yeah, this is, this is where I'm at. Don't trust it to Amazon prime or to, you know, Netflix or to whatever Russell Crowe's movie, the Noah or whatever's out there, right? I do like Charlton Heston, favorite movie all Time and Old Soul. But don't even, you know, read, read. Just. Just take it. Develop that relationship with Jesus Christ. We talk about anchoring. You're anchored in the truth. You put that Anchor in, dig it in, stick it in the ground. That's. If you don't, you're subject to all the. All the wind, all the things that Satan will throw at you. You know, when I was in Africa, they would anchor the tents down, like to include. There was a guy who said, hey, he slept with an anchor around his. Something like a, you know, the SpongeBob SquarePants anchor. I mean, he would, like tethered because the tent blew away with a guy in it. And you've got to have that truth that says, this is it.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: This is.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: This is as far as I can go.
I think his fathers, you know, things, if you're listening, you listen to those statistics, things will start to make a lot of sense as to why we're in, the shape we're in and where we're. Where we're going as a nation.
Truth is his dad, his husband, single, anybody, just good friends. Remember this phrase? And Billy Graham said it, the Bible says. And then dig into it. Right? So that was my leftover for today.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: All right. No, that's great. Like I said, folks, I hope that you gotten something out of this. Please go back and listen to the main episode, which came out yesterday. On Tuesday, you can find that episode and Jonathan's Leftovers on Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio. This will be out Wednesday morning, 6am when we have those, Jeff, Jonathan's leftovers. Also, to reiterate again, we do have a free devotional. It'll be in the links for all the episodes. Please go check that out. If you know someone is looking for a little guidance, little help, please pass that along to them. It's free. And then always, if you want prayer, you want us to come out and speak, you want us to be a part of something, please reach out to us at the Jonathan Project podcast gmail.com Again, the Jonathan Project podcast gmail.com. jason, thanks for your time and I'll talk to you again soon.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: All right, see you, brother.
