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The Living Waters Podcast

When the Fire of Faith Feels Like It’s Gone – Highlight Episode 383

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

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

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual apathy often develops quietly, gradually dulling conviction and weakening a believer’s witness. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar explore how comfort, distraction, and self-sufficiency can cause hearts to drift from zeal for God’s glory into lukewarm indifference. They clarify that apathy isn't always open rebellion but a slow forgetfulness of eternal realities, the urgency of the gospel, and the call to obedience. Using Scripture, they show how comfort can lead to spiritual numbness and e...

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0:00.0

My apathy is a camouflaged enemy, and we should shoot it down.

0:04.1

It'll kill us, and we've got to kill it before it kills us.

0:08.1

And one portion of scripture that thrills me like 10,000 other portions of scripture

0:12.4

is where Jesus cleared the temple.

0:14.4

The zeal of his house ate him up.

0:17.6

What does that mean?

0:19.1

It means that he was zealous to a point of violence in his

0:23.7

seeking for the father's glory. And if you can get that zeal, which is the opposite of apathy,

0:30.5

you'll do things that you wouldn't think possible in your life if you can get that zeal.

0:35.7

What criticism of me is I don't think of consequences,

0:38.7

but sometimes that's good when you're zealous for God. Jesus didn't think of, Jesus didn't think

0:45.0

for consequences. When he cleared the temple, he knew what the consequences would be. They wanted

0:49.0

his death. Straight after that, they said, they conspired to kill him, but he didn't care because the zeal of God's

0:55.0

house had eaten him out.

0:56.0

How do you define apathy?

0:58.0

Maybe it's a slow drift.

1:00.0

You know, we talk about slow drifting.

1:03.0

Nobody, somebody comes knocking on your door and it's a woman not fully clothing, you're not answering the door, right?

1:13.7

It doesn't start like that.

1:14.8

It doesn't work like that.

1:15.9

You know, if somebody offers you cocaine, you're never done drugs, you're never going to

1:18.4

take cocaine.

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