GETTING CLEANED UP FOR HEAVEN? WHY WE DON’T NEED IMPROVEMENT – WE NEED TRANSFORMATION

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Witness Wednesday!

Todd Friel is back on campus to engage students in conversations about life’s purpose, evolution versus creation, and the central message of Christianity.

Segment 1:

• Luke was raised Christian, but unsure if he’s good enough to go to heaven.

• Believes Jesus died for his sins, but thinks he still has to “clean up” to be accepted.

• Todd walks Luke through the Law and Gospel to clarify salvation is about forgiveness, not performance.

Segment 2:

• A mechanical engineering student is approached by Todd to discuss ultimate questions.

• Rejects rigid religious structures, unsure whether Jesus is God or just a great prophet.

• Believes morality is relative, but admits he’d be guilty before God on Judgment Day.

Segment 3:

• Our mechanical engineering student continues his conversation with Todd.

• Realizes salvation isn’t about being “pretty good”—it's about repentance and trusting Christ fully.

• Todd encourages him to flee to Christ to escape the coming judgment.

Segment 4:

• Todd’s final interaction of the day is with a young lady who grew up with a casual connection to Christianity and the church.

• She has some Bible knowledge and answers Todd’s questions about being a good person very honestly.

• She is challenged to examine if she truly know Christ as Todd explains the future judgment that awaits.

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0:00.0	Richard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.8	Seriously, if you want to relieve stress, go to the word of God.
0:11.5	Oh my goodness.
0:12.7	It's just so weird, isn't it?
0:13.9	Would these people say stuff like that?
0:15.4	I apologize for them.
0:16.4	Are you kidding me?
0:17.4	Let's all do baptism, and I have a a little pool here and we'll all feel nice and
0:21.6	relax that's baptism no baptism is a sacred christian rites all the various yoghs are sacred
0:28.1	hindr right wake up america it's time for wretched radio with taunt frio we're going to the university
0:35.3	again today for witness wednesday we're just going to go talk to folks to see if they will have chats on the radio, and we will ponder the big philosophical questions. Let's see what sort of thinkers we have here. For instance, there's a guy laying on his back who is reading a book, so you want to be a rock and roll star. Hey dude, could I talk to you on the radio? That'd be all right? So you want to be a rock and roll star hey dude could i talk to you on
0:55.1	the radio that'd be all right so you want to be a rock and roll star do you well not particularly
1:00.1	but the author of the book is one of my uh the members of my favorite band so which band is that
1:05.2	semi-sonic and so you're interested so you're reading the book all right today we're out on the
1:09.5	campus and we're going to ask the big philosophical questions of life you're young you're interested, so you're reading the book. All right. Today we're out on the campus, and we're going to ask the big philosophical questions of life. You're young, you're thinking about where you're going in life, what life has in store for you. Here's our, you know, the big question that all the philosophers ask are questions like, where did I come from, what am I doing here, where am I going? You want to grab one of those and tell me what your thoughts are?
1:27.6	Where'd you come from?
1:28.3	What are you doing here and where are you going?
1:31.2	By the way, how old are you? I am 20 years old. All right, 20 years old. So you've had some of these thoughts run through your brain, right? Absolutely. All right. So where'd you come from? What are you doing here and where are you going? I don't know.
1:43.3	Don't know.
1:44.0	Or you haven't thought about it.
1:44.9	Where do you think it came from?
1:46.4	Well, my theory on that is... I don't know. Don't know. You haven't thought about it.
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