Jonathan Pokluda
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178 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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You're so attractive. I can't stop thinking about you. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. and it's all of that, and you just give your heart away, and then you break up, and then you're, like the average breakup is like going through divorce today.
It's like the way that we date, we're like so emotionally invested, and then we have to undo that and rip a heart away from them, you know, and it's like our hearts weren't made for that, man. Like no wonder anxiety's so high, no wonder depression's so high. Our hearts weren't made to, like our hearts were really made to be given away once, right?
And then and then and then maybe we experience grief through death and then maybe remarriage. But our hearts were not made to be given away over and over and over again. So we have to consider our biological makeup, like how God, the creator of the heavens, the earth designed us and literally like how he made us. And so that's why I'm just not a big fan of dating like you're married.
I'm a fan of dating to get married quickly and efficiently and effectively as possible.
Yeah, I was raised Catholic. I didn't go to church in college. And I would say I became a Christian 22 years ago when I was at a club and someone invited me to church and I went hungover and smelled like smoke from the night before and surrendered my life to Jesus. That's the short version. But I began to explore world religions.
I looked at the Hindu faith, the Buddhist faith, the Jewish faith, the Islamic faith. Mormons, Jehovah's Witness, Church of Christian Science, Scientology, and I kept tripping over Jesus. And when I realized that the Christian narrative was true, that Jesus died for my sins, and God raised him from the dead, and I placed my faith in that, I didn't give enough thought to this idea of the enemy.
And it's like when I was in L.A. not long ago, there were these fires, you know, the L.A. fires. It was so weird to me that there were these firemen like giving their lives to fight these fires and trying to like save people and houses and animals and all the things.
meanwhile like so much of LA was just going on like normal like I mean they were like I saw a dude on Venice Beach getting a massage you know other people were skateboarding I'm like dude there's a fire right there and I think we think about spiritual warfare like that like oh yeah there's angels and demons fighting all around us but until it impacts me until it impacts my house I'm not even concerned about it until I have to step into the war but the reality is you're in the war right now whether you realize it or not
The enemy is fighting you. You have demons around you. Like one third of the angelic realm fell with Satan. And those fallen angels, they're trying to keep you out of right relationship with God. This is why your quiet time is hard. This is why the Bible doesn't make sense when you read it. This is why when you pray, you feel like you're just talking to the air and that God feels far.
it's all a part of the spiritual war. This is why you're so tempted in dating to go farther than you should. It's like dating without the intentions of marriage, are like shopping without money. You either take something that doesn't belong to you or you leave frustrated. You either leave frustrated or you take something that doesn't belong to you.
And that's why I'm like, that's where the enemy works. And so Your Story Has a Villain is just really about that, your story, your narrative here on earth. You have an enemy. He hates you, and he's not afraid of you. But he's terrified of Jesus. So you want to be close to Jesus. Psalm 23, you know, the Lord is my shepherd. The pronouns change in that psalm.
I don't know if you've ever noticed that. But he says, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in great pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. For his name's sake. For even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear for you.
are with me your rod and your staff they come for me in the valley of the shadow of death the sheep draw near to the shepherd because the shepherd is their protection and so that's the solution satan's not afraid of you satan's never been anywhere near you by the way he's not omnipresent he can only be in one place at one time demons have been around you but satan doesn't even know who who we are you know he's he's in somewhere with kings and rulers and
genocide and wars and whatnot. But so if I'm being attacked spiritually, I need to move close to Jesus because they're terrified of Jesus.
Everywhere books are sold, man. Amazon. Yeah. Amazon, all the things, Barnes and Nobles. You can go to jonathapacluta.com, which is obnoxious, but just a something that the, you know, publisher wants you to do when you write a book. And so all this, it's all there.
Thanks for giving me that waffle shirt and a double XL.
Come on.
Yeah, love you guys.
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