Bryce Carver
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357 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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We can look at things, intricacy, order, detail, the fact that flowers have photosynthesis and that the universe just doesn't, the only thing that comes from nothing is nothing. Like something has to come from something. And so like all these things we can look in that. The suffering of the world, Breaks my heart. I don't understand all of it.
But when I look at suffering, I go, what can I compare the suffering to that's going to make me love God even more? Well, the fact that God loved us enough to suffer with us because we look at Christ, who claimed to be God, who said, I'm not just going to be a guy that tells everyone how to live it and expect them to do it. But he comes. Jesus himself said, I didn't come to be served, but to serve.
I came to show you how to do it. He serves and then he suffers, too. And so what we have to understand is it oftentimes, like, I bet you felt this way before. I'm going through things right now that no one understands what I'm going through. Like to whatever degree, aside from the shootings, aside from everything, like I'm going through something that no one else understands.
I felt that way before about some things. Well, Jesus would say, I understand how you feel because as God, I took all suffering to the cross, all physical suffering, all mental suffering, all sin struggles, all everything. So if anyone's going to understand how Adam feels and how Bryce feels, it's me, Jesus Christ.
Because there's this moment in the Garden of Gethsemane where it says that Jesus Christ himself was sweating drops of blood. And I believe that that is a literal representation of Jesus was feeling in his fleshly body the weight of all suffering past, present, and future that he's about to take to the cross. And I think it's just such a powerful thing to understand.
You know, it's like, well, you know, if God is good, he would have intervened. Well, we live in a world of free will where those guys that did the shootings, you know, well, if they read the Bible, they probably wouldn't do it, but they had the choice to make the decisions.
And so like we live in this suffering, wicked world and these people can make free decisions, but God provides the antidote in Christ. And so, yes, essentially, like if that person who committed this mass shooting, they're in jail. And for some reason, one day they wake up and they go, dang, I wish I didn't do that. And that was awful. And wait, those were human beings.
Well, in his eyes, that guy in that moment when he was shooting, he probably didn't think human beings were valuable. So he's like, I'm just going to go do this erroneous act because they're not valuable. And I think I'm more valuable than them. So I'm just going to go take that, you know, whatever his motive may be. But there has to be a part of him that didn't think that they were valuable.
Well, what makes me and you valuable? That's what, how does God think that Adam and Bryce are valuable? And I use the example, my pastor's told me this one time. If you go to TJ Maxx, I don't know if your wife shops at TJ Maxx. My mom shops at TJ Maxx.
Okay. I could respect that. Well, my mom shops at TJ Maxx. And if you go to Macy's, there'd be a fur coat for $100 at Macy's that ended up in TJ Maxx. It's $19.99 at TJ Maxx. And the reason it got downgraded was because people didn't think it was valuable enough to pay $100 for at Macy's. So it got to the retail store for $19.99. And so my thing is, what is the price tag that God puts on my life?
his own life. God thought that I was valuable enough to humble himself and put his life on the line for me. And that's the price tag he puts on everyone.
Yeah. Well, I think like if we ask God to help us, he will, but there's also action steps on our part to take. Like, I can't just be like, like, I can't tell my teacher, help me with my project. And then my teacher do the whole project for me. I'm not, I'm not going to learn what I'm supposed to learn. Like there's some action steps for me to do.
And so like, like with the people that are living a bad life, but they, you know, they got the money, they got the house or living an outwardly good life. I don't think God is just blessing them for living a bad life. I don't think that's the case at all.
The Bible says that we're saved by faith, trusting that what Jesus did on the cross was enough for us to be united with him in heaven, have friendship with God. But then there's this verse that says, faith without works is dead. That does not mean that we have to work our way to get God to love us. But it's like, I don't do things because I have to for God. I do things because I want to.
Same way I listen to my dad. I listen to my dad because I love him, not because I have to. And so what he's saying is like, this is why I tell people, you can tell someone really believes in Jesus Christ.
If they're like, if their life looks different before they claim to have followed Christ to after they have claimed to follow Christ, because Christ makes a very clear distinction of lifestyle and things like that. And so like, I'm not going to say someone is or isn't a Christian, but the Bible says, look at their fruit. Look at the fruit that they're bearing on their tree.
Do they love their neighbors? Do they love their enemies? Are they slow to anger, quick to speak? Do they have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness? Now, I'm a human. I don't always have that 24-7. But if you look from a zoomed-out perspective, what's the fruit on their tree? And so, like, I think that is, like, what...
The fruit on someone's tree is what determines the genuity of their faith and following Christ and things like that. Because like what I was saying, like if you really do follow Christ, you're going to start listening to what he says. If you really believe Jesus is God, then you're going to say, whoa, hold on a second. I don't care what Bryce thinks. That's what discipline is.
Like stopping what Bryce wants to do now for what I really want to do in the future, who I really want to be in the future. I'm going to stop what I'm doing now and go, what does Jesus Christ think about what I'm doing right now? And that's why I I used to struggle with my temper a lot. And I realized, like, if I got mad, Adam's not making me lose my temper.
I'm giving you the power to make me lose my temper. So I actually don't have to lose my temper. Same thing last night. If someone packs me at the three-point line, I don't have to get heated about it. I'm not going to give that thing the power to make me lose my temper. So I'm going to have joy and peace and patience and think. Take patience. Slow down for a second and chill out.
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