A message of encouragement

A message of encouragement | HOTM Shawn the Baptist

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I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Yeah. Live from Salt and Zip Kidding. Hey, everybody. We are doing something brand new forevermore, we hope. We're done with Heart of the Matter where we're going after everybody.

We're talking about the Mormons. We're talking about this and that. We've done it 20 years of it. And tonight we are introducing you to what is going to be our active arm of this ministry and that we're calling it Heart of the Matter with Sean the Baptist. I am calling myself Sean the Baptist, but we are a team. We are a family. We are going out now.

This is the going out. And what's our sole purpose of all of Sean the Baptist to create? Unity. Unity. Unity. Unity through mercy. Yes. And we can explain what that means. But part of the matter, this is the eighth and final series in perpetuity. Sean the Baptist is who you are. Is it our eighth? I believe so. Wow. I love that.

That's a full circle yeah yeah yeah it's really great um you can look at heart of the matters archive on our youtube on our app which is called yeshuans all of this is linked in the description but um yeah we're here to uh have a really short introductory show. Just welcome you, and we're going to give you a little message of hope.

But unity through mercy, what is that? Here's the thing. I'm Sean the Baptist, right? Oh, yeah, whatever. But you know who came up with the really honing in on mercy? Was this one right here. She showed me how I'm preaching faith and love, faith and love, faith and love. And it's so important. But that love is founded in mercy.

Yeah, everyone, you know, faith and love are every time we talk about those words that we're asked, what does that mean? What does faith mean to you? What does love mean to you? People need to know the specifics. So mercy really gives the humility and mercy are the sort of precursor conditions of what we mean by faith and love.

Love happens when you have mercy on someone in your heart and you can then love them when he is with us it begins with mercy and faith begins with humility for us be very hard to have mercy on somebody if you have a merciless heart toward them yeah be very hard to love them if you have a merciless heart toward them yeah and as an example like there are many people who are talking about love being a uh enacted through justice or through control like those are loving things to some people so we're we're distinguishing ourselves from um that rhetoric, that rhetoric. Yeah. And so to give you an example, the mercy looks like this.

Delaney's a Muslim and I'm a Christian or whatever. And we meet and she says, I believe in Allah. I believe in the Quran. And I think that that is the way to God. And I, as a Christian can say, you're wrong. You're bad. You're going to hell, you've been deluded, Satan's got control of you. Or I say in my heart, Christ has had the victory.

This is what we teach. And therefore, God has allowed you to get to this point. Praise Allah, praise God, praise Christ in this person for wanting to seek God and following the traditions of their family and have mercy on the fact that they've been trained to see and hear and think this way by others. And they're no different than a Mormon or a Catholic or a Baptist or anybody else.

That merciful heart toward why they believe what they believe should lead the way in relationships. Right. So we have our reasons for mercy that are very theologically justified. And we can talk about that, and we do talk about that in a different setting in Yeshuans. But, Sean the Baptist comes out to invite people to a united front.

so that we find those people that are of the same spirit yeah and then we can get into the weeds of like why they believe that and and it just gets it starts us off on the right foot yeah and we learn about them and then we grow too they might share something about their faith that maybe we lack in terms of being uh so-called christians or whatever you know i know i say christians or whatever because i really don't want anything to do with modern day christianity i just just i personally i just find it uh pretty much uh an affront to what is true yeah yeah so um if you

don't know sean the baptist is a persona but we're doing some events this fall. If you live in Utah, we're scouring the state to find people who want to hear this message. And we're going to be visiting the main towns and going out to the desert and inviting specifically students to come out and meet us there.

And we can have a discussion out in a desolate area yeah um that's coming so go to meet seanthebaptist.com to get the information on those events yeah um and speaking of events and i don't we don't have to segue but we had one last night yeah yeah it was a maybe a second expression of Sean the Baptist and we had, uh, four speakers and, um, you know, tell us about where that's going to be and how they access it.

Yes. So if we're, you're watching from the heart of the matter channel right now, but look up in the link in the description, we'll have a video linked that we just uploaded of the event. You have had a couple of these now, and we encourage you to follow the Meet Sean the Baptist YouTube channel or social channel, whatever you're looking at right now, and there will be information about what you're doing out in the world on that channel.

Yeah, great. Last night was interesting because um we can see it evolving in a better way and my bombastic argumentative way it was there a little bit and we were just talking about that just to give you some backstory what i'm doing with these kids is you'll find when you watch this and Delaney gives a presentation and so did Todd and so did Danny that's how we're trying to open it up to show it's not just the lunatic it's a lot of people but when a student is humble and kind you can read it on their face when they're seeking they

want to know they and you can see it and so I personally respond to them with grace and encouragement and patience. But when another one has an arrogance about them, I want to confront them. And that's just part of the shtick. Because afterward, you'll see in this video that I had some real strong back and forth with one of them.

There's always almost one who's always leading the back in arrogance. And I come back at him with arrogance and really it's showing arrogance gets you nowhere. It's gonna be the love and the mercy. Afterward, I hugged him and we talked and it's all good. But just to let you know what's going on, people watch that and they say, what a jerk that guy is.

Yeah. people watch that and they say, what a jerk that guy is. Yeah, it is directly at their attitude. And they really get frustrated because you're coming at them with a lot of confidence and saying you can't have confidence, kind of. Like you're not saying that, but that's how they hear it. But yeah, just to clarify, these are college, some high school students that travel around with a group called Ratio Christi.

And they, their whole MO is to ask questions, to evangelize through asking questions, which I have my own thoughts about. But they are traveling. They travel here to Utah to talk to the Mormons. So they start and they come and talk to you and you confront them a little bit. So that's the video that you'll watch.

And that what Delaney's talking about is admittedly an old school, masculine way of dealing with people. And it goes on in very masculine places for instance if you go into the mma if there is a master mma fighter and there's an arrogant guy the master will use their dominance to show them you do not know what you think you know and it's to humble them yes to show them you have room to grow, not for the master to show his stuff.

It's to teach. It's like in Braveheart when Mel Gibson as a kid, his dad was murdered. His uncle shows up and he's this, wild bearded guy and he takes him and he teaches him how to be a man he comes back you know later that's what we're trying to do that's what i'm trying to do with people is to not let them think that they and the reason is is because i have earned my chops yes and i'm not gonna let them think that they can just sit there from an opinion so and it's a form of love to me oh yeah and it

that came through and the thing that was great is that you balance it like that's not the entirety of who you are and even if it was that would be fine it would have its place it's really needed though someone needs to step up and be able to break down the to break down the insanity of doctrinal certainty.

And most of the time, those guys aren't gonna listen to women. They're not gonna listen to an effeminate man. Like they're gonna listen to someone that knows what they're doing and can like deconstruct what they're like. So there is a place for it. And the question is always like like how can you do that if you're like trying to teach that we shouldn't have any opinions at all and obviously you're not teaching that but that's the impression and and the point that you're trying to make is the context like this is a christian that is dividing with other people over that Christianity.

And so we're going to call out people that are using incorrect information to divide and cause hate in the world. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. It's good. You should check it out. Yep. So link in the description. Anything to say? I think we wanted to just give a message of encouragement in this short show because the world is pretty dark right now. Yeah.

And that, that said, you know, we really have a heart to help educate, to help improve the world and in the name of God. And that means through God's means of doing things, not our own. And so we wanna encourage you to stay the course. We know life is tough. We know everything is expensive. We know the world's in uproar. Technology is invading us.

We are just hit on every side. And we just wanna encourage you that there is life in following truth and light. There is solid ground that you can stand on. We want to encourage you to, I encourage you to check out our different stuff, our teachings to supplement your learning. Go to your church if you have a church and whatever that is.

But, you know, supplement your learning through the stuff we're offering and through everything delaney has developed that search engine use it to we know people who do this and you don't ever hear from them but we know they're doing that to sharpen their skills you should do the same we just want to encourage you yeah um that search engine is at our website yeshuans.

faith i'll put the link in the bio again or in the description and yeah i think um yeah i agree with everything that you said maybe one thing to finish on it's going to be difficult for us to preach unity to preach unity when we know there are things about institutions that are so wrong. And this is, again, everything with us is like a contradiction.

I think it clears it up that we are preaching unity. So we identify where people are creating division. Okay. You know? Yeah. we identify where people are creating division. Okay. You know, like it's not, we have, and I think it is important that we keep our heart for mercy for those people. It's like, you have this really wrong.

And that's your heart with Sean the Baptist to come to the students is you've been lied to and the people perpetuating the most horrific stuff right now have probably also been lied to exactly so yeah like and they have made the decision to perpetuate the lie which is worth calling out yeah um but we will always extend the offer to have a discussion with them or we're you know we're not going to condemn them to hell and remove them from our presence and that's the difference yeah and you make me think like you know literal

living example if i saw a man with a syringe full of heroin and he was going to inject it yes i would say to him you're not being smart here this is not a good decision i would not do that i think it's foolish however i would love them if they did it and i would help them in any way we could that's kind of the ethic we're trying to say we love the ones who are off.

I have to be reminded of that by Delaney that, you know, these people who are doing terrible things in the name of God, they have a reason. They have a reason to not be merciful. I know it feels inexcusable, but it's just our way of... It's the way to do what Christ did in my estimation in yours too. Yeah.

And that's where, like like we're still working on what what the tactic is of communication because to some degree you know we do make the argument that you don't say something yeah you you know that a christian would say someone practicing uh islam is has a needle in their arm right that's how they see it. So you've got to say something to them.

And so really the point of Sean the Baptist is that, in my opinion, is that we're on the same page as these Christians and they do a horrible job of getting their point across. That's a really good observation. And so people don't mix it up. We are not preaching all roads lead to God, ecumenism, being this and that are fine with God.

He doesn't care. I can sound like that a lot, but bottom line, he cares about the heart of the individual involved. And we want to stress that. and the the a person can get to that god through uh means that we don't realize right and that these things are possible with the god that embody was embodied in christ that we believe in right and that you know like at the core of true faith in christ is the choice to believe in him not the coercion to believe in him so we start with choice and giving information and then allowing God allows

like we're trying to embody these other things that people really uh condemn right now as evil because you're not standing up for truth right and we do stand up for truth and the truth is god wants people to choose yeah and choose him through faith and so that's a lot you know yeah that is the truth that we're standing on so good summary this this girl is just like sorry i'm no i no i i love to hear other people through their mouth it's funny i wonder if god was that way when he gave the scripture he said peter i want you to explain

this i wonder if god enjoyed peter's way of doing it versus paul peter was very very kind of like uneducated bad greek paul was exceptional in that, but he used both. And I love that. Yeah. Well, on the note of your encouragement for hope, just to end it, I agree. And people, people ask all the time why we do this because they cannot comprehend, you know, not going into the typical routes of Christianity, some sort of like higher education or being a pastor or having a church or evangelize, whatever it is.

The corporate, yes, like they don't understand it. And when we say we really care about God, it throws them. And when we say we really care about God, it throws them. And so that's the encouragement is that the struggle of this work that we believe is at the core of what being a Christian is, is worth it.

And that's our encouragement is like to keep pursuing God because it's very different than what people have made it out to be and there's freedom in it and it can be enlightening and I've watched that through your life and I'm able to start to tap into it now. I've watched it through yours.

Well, thank you all. Watch the video in the link below and yeshuans.fa faith yeah she wouldn't stop faith and meet sean meet sean the baptist those are the three things thanks you guys see you next week We will prepare your way before you The voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare the way of the Lord Make His paths straight Take his best dress you