Jonathan Pokluda
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178 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Dude, pumped to be here, man. Thanks for having me over.
Absolutely. Thanks for introducing me to Moses.
He likes licking your ears. Yeah, man. I just got attacked by a miniature golden doodle.
Maybe I have syrup in my ears or something. He was going to town.
Yeah.
yeah so second corinthians 6 14 is where that comes from says do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers and so sometimes people are like do we have to be the same level of spiritual maturity um do we have to both be calvinist or do we have to both be reformed or we have to both be arminian or do we have to both be baptist or methodist or catholic what what is that is that what that means and in the context of the scripture is really that a believer would um
marry a believer the context or even do business with the believer i can tell you uh one time pre-ministry i had went in uh into business with somebody who was not a christian they were a good person they were a moral person but they were not a christian and it was going well until it wasn't and all of a sudden he stopped answering my phone calls and ran off with a bunch of money and i never heard from him again and i i thought about that scripture and then bryce i would just say
Some of the most difficult situations I'm in pastorally, so I'm a pastor, so much of what I do is pastoral care, or you would say biblical counseling. And some of the most difficult situations I'm in are someone in a marriage
where they were a Christian, but they married someone who wasn't a Christian, and they either didn't see that as important or they hoped that they would change post-marriage. You do not want to marry potential, meaning you don't want to marry someone hoping that they become someone else. That's a recipe for disaster. You want to marry them understanding their flaws,
understanding their fallen nature, understanding their wiring and their personality, and say, hey, they would be a great match for me. We complement each other well, and we're gonna do ministry together for the rest of our life. We're going to have children and raise those children to know God. We're gonna disciple our community, disciple in our home. And so we would make great partners.
So really what a Christian marriage is, It's a strengthening of ministry. You're like looking for a ministry partner. And so if you marry a non-believer, so much of the ministry that you're doing is going to be to them. And it's a really hard life. And the scripture speaks specifically to this in 1 Peter 3.
It says, you know, if your husband is not a believer, to try to win him over with your good deeds in the way that you love him and care for him and serve him, that's a tough life, man. That's really challenging that they would see grace through your acts of service toward them. That's really challenging.
And so I would say that you should be someone who's radically pursuing Jesus and find someone who is radically pursuing Jesus. I did a podcast recently and they were like, yeah, but that doesn't give people who aren't radically pursuing Jesus a lot of hope. I'm like, Jesus is our hope. The good news is The difference of someone who's not radically pursuing Jesus and someone who is, is a decision.
It's like right now, you can be hearing this and saying, okay, you know what, I wanna turn my life around. I wanna start running hard after God. I believe there's a God. I believe 2,025 years ago, there was a carpenter born in Bethlehem, a town that you would have never heard of except he was born there. He lived in Nazareth, a city that you would have never known about except he lived there.
And every atheist, you know, acknowledges him by the date on their iPhones because this carpenter born in Bethlehem reset time. And you say, if that's true, if he died and he showed back up, then what else am I going to do with my life? But chase hard after him and know him and make him known.
Like ink blotches on your arms.
No, of course not. And so God... You know, God's a creative God. One of the first things that he does, or the first thing that he does is create. The first thing that we see in the scriptures. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So he's creative. He cares about aesthetics. We see that in nature.
If you put a leaf under a microscope, you see these bricks of cells stacked on top of each other. If you look into space, I mean, one of the most beautiful things that I've seen are just the creations of God. The ocean, a beautiful river, a stream, a grassy field, a starry night. I'm a big sunset guy. Like our most beautiful paintings are knockoffs of God's original. So he cares about aesthetics.
And he made us, he wired us in such a way that we would find different things attractive. We know that when Jacob saw Rachel, he's just like, whoa, there's something amazing about this woman. Now, here's what I want to say right here. That's descriptive, not prescriptive. So that's the Bible describing something that's happened, not prescribing it in that, hey, you must be attracted to. Because
Proverbs 31, 30 says, charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. And so you do not need to feel bad for being attractive, but you do need to understand two things. One, it's highly overrated because it's a depreciating asset. And like you said, gravity is going to take its toll.
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