Keith Simon
speaker
1,960 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard yesterday
Keith Simon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.
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But of course, there's nuance here because this doesn't give us permission to be jerks and then claim we're being persecuted by the world.
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And yet, even if you were able to do everything just right, like imagine that you always said the right thing at the right time and the right tone, well, the world, the culture, it's still not going to like it.
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So you think about Jesus.
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Jesus was sinless.
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I mean, he did everything perfectly, and yet he was crucified.
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So you might do everything the right way and still get punished for it.
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Third, you can't escape the world.
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Jesus prayed, My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but you protect them from the evil one.
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Jesus doesn't say get them out of here.
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He prays guard them while they're here.
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See, God's plan for you is not to escape.
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God's plan for you is to be present.
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But with his protection.
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You're not evacuated from the world.
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No, you're deployed into it, sent into it, but you're kept safe by him while you're on his assignment.
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So stop waiting to be rescued out of the hard place.
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The difficult workplace, the strained family, the neighborhood, the school, whatever it is that you're in that you hope God will rescue you from, it's probably not going to happen because the place you're in isn't an accident.
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It's not a delay in your spiritual life.
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It's right where you've been sent.
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The prayer isn't God get me out.
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