Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Wednesday. We have another big show today like we did last Wednesday. It is going to be jam packed of stuff with stuff that I hope will encourage you that I hope will challenge you. We are going to be talking about some of the forms of deceit that Christians are feeling.

We are facing right now in our cultural and political theological dialogue and what we can do practically as Christians to make sure that we are equipped and prepared. So I really hope that this is a helpful episode for you.

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Okay, as I said, today I am going to try to challenge you to shake your shoulders. Of course, metaphorically, a little bit and encourage you in the Lord. We are going to be talking about the pressing importance of wisdom in an age of what seems like absolute lunacy and generosity and why wisdom matters now more than ever.

I am feeling what I think a lot of you are feeling what I'm sensing a lot of you are feeling and I know a lot of you are feeling because I've talked to some of you. I'm feeling a sense of urgency.

I'm feeling a sense of urgency to learn to know to read to make sure that I really understand my Bible and urgency to pray and urgency to gain wisdom to share the gospel and urgency for obedience and urgency to be close to God to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit to spend my time wisely.

And I have heard this like I said from other Christians for some of from some of you guys from my friend from my husband. I've seen a kind of a shift in a lot of people who are saying, okay, you know, I kind of thought that just going to church and reading my Bible every now and then was fine. I thought maybe you know sending my kids to Christian preschool would be enough for their discipleship and I'm realizing that it's not enough and a lot of you feel like, okay, I'm tired of being complacent and being apathetic in my faith and allowing the

world to inform my theological views. I got to get busy knowing the wisdom of God and understanding the Bible and being obedient to him and telling other people the good news about Jesus Christ.

And I think that there is a shift going on in the American church because there's a shift going on in America. Christians feel like we are on high alert right now. There is a restlessness in a lot of us as we are looking around and we're realizing, oh, okay.

So we've been told for a long time that the darkness is imminent, that the darkness is coming. We are seeing it on the horizon and we're talking about what it's going to look like one day in this,

this hopefully avoidable dystopian future. And now we're looking around and we're seeing, oh, okay, it's not just on the horizon. It's here and it probably has been here for a lot longer than we realized.

A lot of you, I know you feel alone right now. You feel totally alone. You're looking at what your friends are sharing on social media. Your friends, you thought were theologically solid. You feel like have betrayed the theological views that you thought that you shared. Friends that you thought took the gospel and the Bible seriously.

You realized that they don't. You've been called names. You've been called a bigot for saying that the gospel is the answer that everyone needs the same gospel that everyone is dead in their Santa

part from Christ, that the only way to be reconciled to God is through Christ and that that is the ultimate answer for all the isms that the human heart holds.

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