Would It Have Been Fun to Be Jesus?
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Jesus could heal people, walk on water, control the weather, multiply food, make wine, walk through walls, and wake the dead. Having such incredible abilities sounds amazing, but would it have been fun to be Jesus?
Though there were moments of happiness and fun, the purpose of Jesus’ ministry was to tell people to repent and return to the Father, and many, including his own disciples, rejected and denied him. He knew that this would happen, but did not use his power to stop it.
The things most worth pursuing in life (marriage, raising kids, having a deep spiritual life, etc.) are never going to be fun all the time, because love isn’t just fun and warm fuzzy feelings.
The goal of life isn’t to have as much fun as possible before we die, it’s to live a life like Jesus, one that is centered on the love of God.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 154. Would it have been fun to be Jesus? |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:16.0 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. |
| 0:22.0 | It's the Jeff Kaven Show. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the show, my friend. |
| 0:29.0 | Again, we get a chance to come together to talk about things related to our relationship with the |
| 0:34.8 | Lord and specifically I'm very interested in Bible study, very interested in discipleship and |
| 0:41.6 | taking the faith and putting it into practice in everyday life. |
| 0:48.0 | And isn't that to struggle at times, huh? |
| 0:50.0 | If you're married, if you have children, grandchildren, you have a job, you have friends, you have bills, |
| 0:56.8 | you've got a lot to work with in life to make things happen and to be successful in the kingdom of God. |
| 1:03.2 | But it takes some knowledge, it takes some rolling up |
| 1:06.1 | of the sleeves, and it takes some hard work. |
| 1:08.8 | And that's what we're prepared to talk about every single week. Coming to you deep, deep in the woods of Minnesota, it is so |
| 1:16.4 | white out right now, fresh coating of snow, wind blowing the snow across the surface. |
| 1:21.5 | I love it. A lot of people say I want to get away in the winter, but I don't know, there's something about the quiet of winter and the, it's like a rest and then spring will come, summer will be busy, fall will fall will be a preparation will be back here again |
| 1:35.2 | but I enjoy the four seasons of Minnesota especially in the woods and the beautiful lakes |
| 1:41.2 | and it's just a joy to to sit here looking out and to talk to you at the same time. |
| 1:46.7 | Got a great topic this week, a topic that I've been thinking about you know I got back from the Holy Land a couple weeks ago, |
| 1:54.0 | was there all January, and when you're there you're really confronted with the life of Christ. |
| 2:01.0 | You're walking the Via Dolorosa, you know, the stations of the |
| 2:04.6 | cross, you're at the Holy Sepulchre, you're on the Mount of Olives where Jesus wept over Jerusalem |
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