Ep. 368 - How to Weep and Rejoice With Others

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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True Christian love is seen when believers step into the lives of others with willingness and humility. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar reflect on Paul’s call to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, explaining that this invitation requires believers to engage rather than sit on the sidelines. Oscar notes that Christian unity is central to the verse's context and that rejoicing with others can be harder than sharing in sorrow, especially when personal struggles make joy feel...

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0:00.0	Every struggle, every failure, every triumph is an opportunity for communion with the Lord.
0:06.3	That's good.
0:07.1	Like, this is giving me an opportunity right now to do something when you think about it,
0:12.2	when you boil it down, that is miraculous.
0:15.0	I am communing with the God whose enemy I was, who owed me nothing but wrath and judgment. So it's like that in and of itself should give us delight. Like, okay, I've sin now. I'm struggling. I'm battling. But I get to talk to God. And then you connect that with all the realities of the gospel. That means the veil of the temple has been written too. That means I have access. That means I can enter him boldly through his blood.
0:39.3	That means I'm no longer alienated from God, you know?
0:42.8	Again, I've talked about it before,
0:44.1	but I want to connect with the realities of our faith at every turn
0:47.6	because that breathes life.
0:49.2	Mm-hmm. That's That's
0:56.0	Jet lag
1:00.0	That's terrible
1:04.0	Yeah, it was
1:05.0	Oh, Tony, how dare you do that to us
1:07.0	There's no such thing as jet lag
1:09.0	It's all.
1:10.0	It's psychosomatic It started. What? Ray Comfort? Yeah, you guys just... Look at the guy who doesn't travel anymore. Men up. Come on. Get it together. Man. 16. 17? One of those days. With Mark and Oscar. You're welcome. In Turkey, Greece, and Italy. You got an idea. I'm so glad you're back. I really am. I love you guys and I got sick of being woken up. The only thing is Mark... Woken up with early morning interviews. Oh, yeah. 30 in the morning. With your cut off slaves and your messy hair. I was awake, but it's still, man, seriously, I check my programming. There's nothing in my brain at that time of the morning. That was fun though, Ray. Yeah, well, so you guys. You guys still waking up at 2.30, 3 o'clock in the morning up for the day? Yeah, well, and then they changed the time on us on top of that.
2:01.2	That was a win for me, actually. Yeah, no, it's been nice getting up early, but I've been crashing like at 7. But should we say precisely what you guys have been doing? Oh, yeah. I just said we're turkey, grease, and Rome. Yeah, but tell me, it sounds like eating greasy turkey. You went to Turkey and Greece and Rome.
2:18.8	We did.
2:19.5	Yeah.
2:19.8	The food was amazing.
2:20.8	Yeah, Mark misses it. Tell me, it sounds like eating greasy turkey. You went to Turkey and Greece and Rome.
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