Masterpiece in Progress: God's Perfect Timing for Your Life
The latest episode of The David Spoon Experience dives deep into the importance of patience on our spiritual journey. Dr. David Spoon emphasizes that impatience can lead to dissatisfaction and complaints against God, which can hinder our growth and understanding of His perfect timing. He draws parallels between the journey of the Israelites and our own lives, highlighting how God guides us even when we feel lost or frustrated. Through biblical references and personal insights, Dr. Spoon encourages listeners to embrace gratitude and trust in God's plan, reminding us that our experiences serve a greater purpose. Ultimately, the episode serves as a call to reflect on our attitudes towards life's challenges and to foster a more thankful heart in our relationship with God.
The episode unfolds with Dr. David Spoon setting the stage for a unique blend of spiritual reflection and humor, inviting listeners to consider the implications of impatience as illustrated in Numbers 21. Spoon draws parallels between the ancient Israelites’ journey and the modern believer's walk with God, emphasizing the need for surrender and trust in divine timing. He poses critical questions to the audience, such as what burdens they need to relinquish to God, creating an engaging dialogue that encourages self-examination. His analysis of the Israelites’ complaints against God not only reflects a historical account but also serves as a contemporary lesson on the dangers of discontentment and the importance of maintaining a grateful heart.
Throughout the discussion, Spoon masterfully weaves humor into serious topics, making profound theological concepts accessible to all. He shares personal anecdotes and invites listeners to contribute their stories and prayer requests, fostering a sense of belonging and shared faith. The episode culminates in Spoon's powerful reminder that God’s plans are always for good, and the journey, though fraught with challenges, is ultimately a testament to His grace. By focusing on the biblical narrative and connecting it with everyday life, the episode effectively encourages believers to embrace patience, share their testimonies, and rely on prayer as a means of strengthening their faith in God’s perfect plan.
Takeaways:
- Patience is crucial during our spiritual journey, as we must trust God's timing.
- Complaining about our circumstances can lead to negative consequences in our lives.
- We should always remember to express gratitude for God's guidance and blessings.
- Looking to Jesus for healing and salvation mirrors the Israelites' experience with the bronze serpent.
- Our journey of faith involves learning to let go of burdens and casting them to God.
- The importance of interceding for others and sharing praise reports strengthens our faith community.
Transcript
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Dr. David Spooner:That's a great thing we get to do, is share praise reports with one another.
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Dr. David Spooner:That's something that should be on everybody's heart and that people would be responding and responsive to God.
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Dr. David Spooner:For people to be responding to the Lord and responsive when the Lord directs them, that's also important.
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Dr. David Spooner:So just after going to Bear with me, we just finished up on three John.
Dr. David Spooner:Next week we're going to be starting second John.
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Dr. David Spooner:We're going to pick it up and follow me because we're not doing a book this week.
Dr. David Spooner:We'll start back on the books next week and we'll be picking it up in second John.
Dr. David Spooner:That's actually something I've never taught from before, so I'm excited to teach it.
Dr. David Spooner:But right now we're going to go into numbers 21, 4, 6 and get ready because this is, I mean, I'm reviewing this material going, uh oh, and not for you guys, for me.
Dr. David Spooner:I'm like, uh oh, that's what I'm thinking.
Dr. David Spooner:Here we go.
Dr. David Spooner:We're in Numbers, chapter 21, verses 4 through 6.
Dr. David Spooner:It says this.
Dr. David Spooner:Then they set out for Mount Hor, by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.
Dr. David Spooner:And the people became impatient because of the journey.
Dr. David Spooner:The people spoke against God and Moses.
Dr. David Spooner:Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this wilderness?
Dr. David Spooner:For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.
Dr. David Spooner:Verse 6.
Dr. David Spooner:The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died.
Dr. David Spooner:Ouch.
Dr. David Spooner:Numbers, chapter 21, verses 4 through 6, they set out from Mount Hor, by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.
Dr. David Spooner:Let's understand something specifically.
Dr. David Spooner:God had a direction for the people to go, and he wanted to take them in this direction.
Dr. David Spooner:He wanted to go in this direction.
Dr. David Spooner:And guess what he was not doing.
Dr. David Spooner:He was not asking permission.
Dr. David Spooner:And I do want you to understand that as we walk with the Lord, the idea that you control everything is cute.
Dr. David Spooner:Right up until God allows a piano to drop on your head.
Dr. David Spooner:Then all of a sudden, you're not so smart or not so in charge.
Dr. David Spooner:So they're going in a direction that the Lord wants them to go in.
Dr. David Spooner:He wants them to head in this direction that he's taking them.
Dr. David Spooner:And what I want you to really catch out of this is that we're on a journey, and the Lord has us going through that journey.
Dr. David Spooner:Now we will reduce the fallacy of that bumper sticker.
Dr. David Spooner:It's more about the journey than the destination.
Dr. David Spooner:That's super cute.
Dr. David Spooner:Unless you consider heaven and hell.
Dr. David Spooner:If hell is your destination, guess what?
Dr. David Spooner:It's not about the journey.
Dr. David Spooner:Hey, if heaven is your destination, hey, guess what?
Dr. David Spooner:It's not about your journey.
Dr. David Spooner:It's about the destination.
Dr. David Spooner:But we are still going through the process of a journey.
Dr. David Spooner:And here's what happens while the children of Israel are going through that process.
Dr. David Spooner:And I want you to relate this to yourself.
Dr. David Spooner:One of the things in my doctorate, it has to do with practical theology.
Dr. David Spooner:That means not new breaking ground.
Dr. David Spooner:It's applicable theology that people can use today.
Dr. David Spooner:Well, here's a great one we can use today.
Dr. David Spooner:They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.
Dr. David Spooner:And the people became impatient because of the journey right there.
Dr. David Spooner:I just want you to pick it up right there.
Dr. David Spooner:Listen.
Dr. David Spooner:The people became impatient because of the journey it's talking about.
Dr. David Spooner:They're going through this process.
Dr. David Spooner:This is a critical issue for you and I to understand.
Dr. David Spooner:We know we're on a journey, and the journey basically has to do between two points of growth, between point A and point B.
Dr. David Spooner:And for many of you, it's between point S and point T.
Dr. David Spooner:You've been going through much of this.
Dr. David Spooner:And then for some of us, it also has to do with the difference between our salvation and our entrance into eternal glory.
Dr. David Spooner:There is a journey that takes place from the entry point of into salvation to the entry point into eternal glory.
Dr. David Spooner:And there's time in between.
Dr. David Spooner:And that's the journey.
Dr. David Spooner:And we are called upon from God to exercise patience.
Dr. David Spooner:You might not be a doctor, but you are still required to have patience.
Dr. David Spooner:That's right.
Dr. David Spooner:It's a joke.
Dr. David Spooner:And here's what I'm trying to say to you, though.
Dr. David Spooner:You cannot tell God how the journey is supposed to go.
Dr. David Spooner:You're thinking, wait a minute.
Dr. David Spooner:No, wait a minute.
Dr. David Spooner:God has a purpose, has a plan, has a direction, and he's got something to go.
Dr. David Spooner:And it's like, yeah, but if the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:If the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:If the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:Would you stop with the ifs?
Dr. David Spooner:That sounds like the enemy going, if you're the son of God, knock that stuff off.
Dr. David Spooner:What we need to do is have this attitude that says, you know what?
Dr. David Spooner:Between point A and point B, I'm on this journey with the Lord, and I'm gonna be patient about it.
Dr. David Spooner:Because these people, they became impatient.
Dr. David Spooner:Hey, you know what?
Dr. David Spooner:God doesn't appreciate that.
Dr. David Spooner:And I'm gonna give you a statement on this, because this is kind of gonna blow your mind.
Dr. David Spooner:And I want you to think about this.
Dr. David Spooner:In Ephesians 2:10, it says, we are the masterpiece.
Dr. David Spooner:God is creating a masterpiece in us, and we need to understand that that's what's happening.
Dr. David Spooner:If we could actually seize upon this little picture that I'm going to try and create, this would really help you.
Dr. David Spooner:You are a masterpiece.
Dr. David Spooner:And I'm not sure if you know this or not, but masterpieces often take times.
Dr. David Spooner:We think God is doing it paint by number.
Dr. David Spooner:Paint by number.
Dr. David Spooner:Look, I made a flower.
Dr. David Spooner:Okay, that's awesome.
Dr. David Spooner:But that's not what the Lord's doing.
Dr. David Spooner:He's creating a masterpiece.
Dr. David Spooner:And it takes the exact amount of time required to accomplish it for perfection.
Dr. David Spooner:Whatever that time frame is, I think, can he speed it up?
Dr. David Spooner:No.
Dr. David Spooner:Some of you are going, can't he slow it down?
Dr. David Spooner:No.
Dr. David Spooner:God's timing is perfect.
Dr. David Spooner:It is us that have watches that fail.
Dr. David Spooner:Just think about how literally got out of Israel when he brought Israel out to the day that he told them 400 years prior, I am going to bring you out.
Dr. David Spooner:I am going to bring you out.
Dr. David Spooner:And to the day, 400 plus years later, he brought them out to the exact day 400 years apart.
Dr. David Spooner:You think his timing is not perfect?
Dr. David Spooner:How could you do that 400 years away and get to the exact day?
Dr. David Spooner:Because he's God.
Dr. David Spooner:He's an interlinear being.
Dr. David Spooner:He's not stuck in the same ways that we are stuck.
Dr. David Spooner:He operates in the past, present and future.
Dr. David Spooner:So the big problem here, and let's just be honest, is sometimes we may express some dissatisfaction along the journey, verse 5.
Dr. David Spooner:The people spoke against God and Moses, why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
Dr. David Spooner:For there's no food nor water, and we loathe this miserable food.
Dr. David Spooner:So God has them on a journey.
Dr. David Spooner:They're setting out from Mount Horeb by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.
Dr. David Spooner:The people become impatient because of the journey.
Dr. David Spooner:And then the people spoke against God and Moses.
Dr. David Spooner:And it's funny because it says they became impatient, which is important to understand because we try and we might even start off good, but we become that way because we're not resting in the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:And when it says spoke against the people, spoke against God and Moses, that has to do with being in opposition, speaking contrary, speaking adversely, speaking in a hostile manner, or speaking in resistance.
Dr. David Spooner:And when we operate and express our dissatisfaction with God's timing process, it turns into a complaint against the Lord and against those around us.
Dr. David Spooner:And when we do that, I'm just going to tell you what it is.
Dr. David Spooner:You can't get mad at me.
Dr. David Spooner:I didn't write this.
Dr. David Spooner:When we do that, we've committed a certain breach in the kingdom of God, essentially telling God he's not doing a good job in the building of the journey process.
Dr. David Spooner:Could you imagine standing before the Lord and saying, I don't think you're doing a very good job in this process.
Dr. David Spooner:You know, there was somebody that.
Dr. David Spooner:That happened to, and by the grace of God, God spoke to him out of a whirlwind and just asked him this question.
Dr. David Spooner:And it pretty much shut the whole conversation down.
Dr. David Spooner:And God asks the same question for you and I.
Dr. David Spooner:Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Dr. David Spooner:That pretty much shoots down the old conversation right there.
Dr. David Spooner:I think we're done.
Dr. David Spooner:Get it?
Dr. David Spooner:And so the Lord's like, hey, don't do that.
Dr. David Spooner:And what happened?
Dr. David Spooner:The people started complaining, and they're telling God he's not doing a good job.
Dr. David Spooner:You're not trying to irritate God, are you?
Dr. David Spooner:Because if he has to respond to the level of our dissatisfaction, it doesn't always go super smooth for us.
Dr. David Spooner:So what am I trying to say?
Dr. David Spooner:Well, this is what happened with the children of Israel.
Dr. David Spooner:They spoke against God, against the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:The people spoke against God.
Dr. David Spooner:And Moses, why have you brought us out to Egypt to die in the wilderness?
Dr. David Spooner:There's no food, no water.
Dr. David Spooner:We loathe this food here.
Dr. David Spooner:Now that we're getting.
Dr. David Spooner:And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and the serpents bit the people.
Dr. David Spooner:So that Many people of Israel died.
Dr. David Spooner:Here's God's response to his people, by the way, I'm trying to make sure you understand these are the chosen people of God.
Dr. David Spooner:Right?
Dr. David Spooner:Everybody got that right?
Dr. David Spooner:We got it.
Dr. David Spooner:Got it.
Dr. David Spooner:Here.
Dr. David Spooner:God says, really, I'm sending biting things in your direction, and then I'm going to help you remember whose program this is.
Dr. David Spooner:You see, it's not our program.
Dr. David Spooner:We're a part of it, but it's God's program and he's in charge of it.
Dr. David Spooner:And basically, what we're telling God is, well, we're in this play, but we think you're a lousy director and writer.
Dr. David Spooner:And God's response is, I'll send bitey things after you.
Dr. David Spooner:You think, oh, he would never do that.
Dr. David Spooner:Now, really, are you so sure about that?
Dr. David Spooner:Here's the thing.
Dr. David Spooner:Complaining to God only puts us in a position where he has to respond to our complaint.
Dr. David Spooner:Telling God he's doing a lousy job, you think he's going to do nothing.
Dr. David Spooner:We're not trying to irritate God, Right?
Dr. David Spooner:You're not trying to get him to respond to our level of dissatisfaction.
Dr. David Spooner:So maybe we should somewhat together as a family, as the people of God lose some of that sense of dissatisfaction.
Dr. David Spooner:You might go, yeah, but I don't like that.
Dr. David Spooner:Too bad.
Dr. David Spooner:Would you rather not be saved?
Dr. David Spooner:Okay.
Dr. David Spooner:And the reason I say it that way is because.
Dr. David Spooner:And I'm not telling this to you and preaching it to you.
Dr. David Spooner:I'm preaching this to me more than I'm preaching it to you more than I'm teaching it and sharing it with you.
Dr. David Spooner:I do this often.
Dr. David Spooner:I come before the Lord and go, what?
Dr. David Spooner:Why?
Dr. David Spooner:If?
Dr. David Spooner:And I know the Lord loves me so much because he doesn't turn me into a pile of ash when I do that.
Dr. David Spooner:He's much more kind and gracious and moves me along piece by piece, reminding me that 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that it's glory by glory that I reflect the image of Jesus Christ.
Dr. David Spooner:And sometimes, Dave Spoon, you need to sit down and be quiet and just follow the path.
Dr. David Spooner:Now, I'm sure I'm the only Christian in the United States who goes through this, but if you are like me at all, you can understand going, man, I got to double up on this.
Dr. David Spooner:I got to do better.
Dr. David Spooner:It's just something I got to do better on.
Dr. David Spooner:And I look at this and think, yeah, I get the conviction.
Dr. David Spooner:I have probably more conviction in my mind right now than maybe some of you do.
Dr. David Spooner:And listen, I'm not sitting there Going, oh, I'm just sitting there thinking, lord, help me to do a better job, because I love you, Lord, and I want to do it right, and I want to be right, and I want this to work right, and I want to honor your.
Dr. David Spooner:And the coolest thing about the Lord is His overall incredible mercy.
Dr. David Spooner:So here's the rest of the passage.
Dr. David Spooner:So the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned because we've spoken against the Lord and against you.
Dr. David Spooner:Intercede with the Lord that he may remove the serpents from us.
Dr. David Spooner:So Moses interceded for the people.
Dr. David Spooner:Then the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent, set it up on a standard, and it shall come about that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.
Dr. David Spooner:And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it up on the standard.
Dr. David Spooner:And it came about that if the serpent bit any man when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Dr. David Spooner:So let's just talk about this.
Dr. David Spooner:Ultimately, when we do dumb things things, God will still help us bring it around so that we can find life, because He's a God of life.
Dr. David Spooner:And while we don't deserve it to get that life, he grants it because of his graciousness and his kindness and his mercy.
Dr. David Spooner:So the lesson really comes back to this simple thing.
Dr. David Spooner:We really definitely, most positively, absolutely should learn to say thank you more than we say other things.
Dr. David Spooner:In Ephesians in 5:18, it talks about us being thankful.
Dr. David Spooner:Thankful to the Father for everything.
Dr. David Spooner:So here's the question.
Dr. David Spooner:Are we.
Dr. David Spooner:Or in 1st Thessalonians 5, 19, in everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Dr. David Spooner:Well, are we following the will of God?
Dr. David Spooner:And there's a really cool little thing here.
Dr. David Spooner:You should remember that in the Gospel of John, this is really interesting.
Dr. David Spooner:John said this, or Jesus said this in the Gospel of John, just before the born again section and just before.
Dr. David Spooner:For God so loved the world.
Dr. David Spooner:Well, I got that backwards.
Dr. David Spooner:He said this just before the God so loved the world passage.
Dr. David Spooner:He says this in John 3, 14, 15.
Dr. David Spooner:As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be lifted up so that whoever believes in him will have eternal life.
Dr. David Spooner:Jesus is that same image that Moses was put together for the people.
Dr. David Spooner:And if you look to Jesus, you get to live.
Dr. David Spooner:So it really goes from patience to a lack of patience, to pain, to believing and to seeing and to life.
Dr. David Spooner:And Jesus is a direct reflection of this exact story.
Dr. David Spooner:And I remember a preacher preaching this message saying, before there's John 3:16, there's John 3, 14, 15.
Dr. David Spooner:And the serpent had to be lifted up.
Dr. David Spooner:So the Son of Man must be lifted up.
Dr. David Spooner:And whoever believes in him will have eternal life.
Dr. David Spooner:And it's like, look, God is taking you through the perfect journey that he has mapped out.
Dr. David Spooner:We don't always do well, and we don't always respond well, but he's not sitting there going, oh, no, my plans aren't working.
Dr. David Spooner:Oh, my.
Dr. David Spooner:I mean, that's not what the Lord's doing.
Dr. David Spooner:And what we need to do.
Dr. David Spooner:Get this.
Dr. David Spooner:This is really cool way to say it, is get on God's page.
Dr. David Spooner:He's not going to get on our page.
Dr. David Spooner:We don't even have a page.
Dr. David Spooner:Right.
Dr. David Spooner:What's going to happen five minutes from now?
Dr. David Spooner:Oh, you don't know?
Dr. David Spooner:Oh, well, see, that's the great thing.
Dr. David Spooner:Five minutes ago, you're a genius.
Dr. David Spooner:Five minutes from now, we're idiots.
Dr. David Spooner:So let's get on his page because he's got it put together.
Dr. David Spooner:So the real key in this is what?
Dr. David Spooner:Well, we most definitely want to be a people who exercise patience on this journey, waiting with confidence and trust in the faithfulness of God.
Dr. David Spooner:I know everybody's like, great, you know what?
Dr. David Spooner:God doesn't care.
Dr. David Spooner:He's already told you what he wants to do, and he wants everybody to get on it.
Dr. David Spooner:And we need to.
Dr. David Spooner:And I for one know that the Lord probably allows a few bitey things come my direction because I often talk like I know everything.
Dr. David Spooner:It's so ridiculous, it's absurd and it's offensive to the Lord.
Dr. David Spooner:So I'm sorry for it.
Dr. David Spooner:And we should all be sorry for it.
Dr. David Spooner:And what we should be praying is, lord, give us a much more grateful heart because your journey that you've established for us is perfect because you are perfect in love, kindness, grace, and mercy.
Dr. David Spooner:We appreciate it.
Dr. David Spooner:Right?
Dr. David Spooner:Right.
Dr. David Spooner:All right, we'll take our break and then come back.
Dr. David Spooner:You're listening to the David Spoon Experience, right here on KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.
Dr. David Spooner:Short break, we'll be back.
Dr. David Spooner:Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker B:Do you love a good joke?
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Dr. David Spooner:What do you call an animal that doesn't practice what it preaches?
Dr. David Spooner:A hippocritopotamus.
Dr. David Spooner:Come on.
Speaker B:Do you love being able to ask questions, comments, or having someone to pray for you?
Dr. David Spooner:Do you have an opinion, a comment, a thought, or a question?
Dr. David Spooner:We don't want it to die of.
Dr. David Spooner:We want it to have a chance.
Speaker B:And Last but not least, do you love some trivia?
Dr. David Spooner:All right, we got our trivia question.
Dr. David Spooner:Who made clothes out of leaves that were sewed together?
Dr. David Spooner:Somebody want to answer the trivia question?
Dr. David Spooner:Okay, hold on, hold on.
Dr. David Spooner:Here you go.
Dr. David Spooner:This is David.
Dr. David Spooner:Who am I talking to?
Dr. David Spooner:We're talking to Mary.
Robert Jeffress:This is Al.
Robert Jeffress:This is Brother Ace.
Dr. David Spooner:This is Eric.
Dr. David Spooner:This is Deborah.
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Dr. David Spooner:That's me.
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Dr. David Spooner:Again, Dr.
Dr. David Spooner:Robert Jeffress.
Dr. David Spooner:Doctor, are you there with us?
Robert Jeffress:I'm here with you, David.
Dr. David Spooner:I'm so glad that you're here.
Dr. David Spooner:I gotta ask you this question.
Dr. David Spooner:You know, I get a little fiery, especially when Christians are being accused of things that are false.
Dr. David Spooner:And that happens all the time, especially in the media.
Dr. David Spooner:And I think if you remember our very first time we ever talked, I told you how impressed I was with you that you are able to keep your spirit steady.
Robert Jeffress:I appreciate that so much.
Robert Jeffress:You're a good friend.
Dr. David Spooner:I appreciate that.
Dr. David Spooner:Here's the thing that drives me absolutely batty, which is where I need your help.
Dr. David Spooner:Now, I understand this situation with Tim Tebow.
Dr. David Spooner:He was going to do a dedication for you.
Dr. David Spooner:He got a lot of pressure, apparently from the media.
Dr. David Spooner:The media accused you of being homophobic and antisemitic, which for me, I mean, it was.
Dr. David Spooner:I guess, when I first heard it, I was overwhelmed.
Dr. David Spooner:First of all, anti Semitic is a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile towards Jews.
Dr. David Spooner:You've been on my show now, this is three time, and I'm as Jewish as they come.
Robert Jeffress:Yeah, well, David, I mean, the charge of anti Semitic comes from saying that everyone, including Jews, must trust in Christ in order to go to heaven.
Robert Jeffress:That is hardly antisemitic.
Robert Jeffress:In fact, I have a Jewish friend in New York who called me this week.
Robert Jeffress:She's not a Christian, but she said, I don't understand all of this.
Robert Jeffress:Said, I don't believe in the New Testament, but you do.
Robert Jeffress:You're simply saying what the New Testament says.
Robert Jeffress:And you know, David, we've said before, you know, Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth and the life.
Robert Jeffress:No man comes to the Father but by me.
Robert Jeffress:And I remind people, Jesus was not a Southern Baptist evangelist.
Robert Jeffress:He was a Jewish rabbi.
Robert Jeffress:And yet you look at what he said, what the Apostle Paul said, the Apostle Peter here are the three most prominent men of the new testamen, every one of them a devout Jew.
Robert Jeffress:And yet they said there's one way to God, and that's through faith in Christ.
Robert Jeffress:That is not antisemitic.
