Ep. 298 - What Does It Mean to Be a Friend of Sinners?

The Living Waters Podcast

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar start this conversation by talking about Luke 7:34 and how it those mocking Jesus called Him a friend of sinners as an insult. Yet, as believers, we know this to be a blessing. Jesus being a friend of sinners is central to our hope—if He wasn’t, we would be doomed. There is a blindness in sin that leads people to view themselves through their own standard, not God’s. Some resist confessing their sin, but Jesus calls us to come as we are, not try to fix ourselves fir...

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0:00.0	Well, women weep as they do now, I will fight.
0:05.0	While little children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight.
0:08.0	Well men go to prison in and out, in and out, as they do now, I will fight.
0:12.0	And while there is a drunkard left while there is poor
0:14.8	lost girl upon the streets where there remains one dark soul without the light of
0:20.3	God I will fight and I will fight until the very end. So he has this compassion
0:26.6	upon the people without the compromise at the end. I'm going to give them the
0:31.6	gospel. And this is the right balance and this is the lack of
0:34.3	balance that we see today.
0:37.0	I had a rough night the other night, friends.
0:45.0	So what did I do? I did what any sensible man would do, of course.
0:50.0	I texted my three loving caring compassionate sympathetic
0:56.1	co-hosts and what was the response Ray Comfort yes with three exclamation marks.
1:04.5	Mark Spence, cool!
1:07.6	Oscar Navarro, Cricket, never responded.
1:11.8	What was it that you texted? I don't remember that I had a rough night. Yeah. Why I was saying yes cool. No, there was something else there that I said doesn't matter. Oh there you are truth the whole truth. Well, you caught your self-comfort and repented shortly thereafter.
1:26.0	Of course.
1:27.0	Yeah, and Oscar ignored me.
1:29.0	No, I don't think so.
1:30.0	Oh, you totally ignored me.
1:31.0	I'm looking back right now.
1:32.0	Oh, no. I'm used to it by now. What I'm not used to though is
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