Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
hello hello everyone and welcome back to saved not soft season four episode one we back we back everybody what is going on welcome back rise and shine rise and grind you guys we're back to save not soft yeah it's been eight months I'm married. My hair is brown. I stopped doing my eyebrows. I've matured. I'm a little more girlier. We're in a new place, new scenery, new last name.
Like, what are we talking about, you guys? Like, we are back. Save Not Soft is back. It's better than ever. And you may be looking at the screen and you're like, who is this nutjob I'm watching right now and why is she so freaking hyped? My name is Emmy Moore Brookins. Clock, the last name. Brookins because I'm married and I wasn't married and now I am. So crazy how stuff be changing.
Emmy Moore Brookins and the Save Not Soft. What is Save Not Soft? All jokes aside, we rushing into it. I'm so sorry, but I gotta tell you in case you never watched. Safe, Not Soft is a Christian podcast to let you know that you are loved, seen, and heard by Jesus Christ. And this walk is not easy. It is hard. It is not for the swift. It is for those who are intentional.
And this podcast is never intended or curated for you to replace your walk with Jesus. This podcast is created as a tool for a girly pop like me to teach you the word of God and for us to walk through it together to let you know that you're not alone. And we're going through this together, you guys. Strong and proud, very strong and proud. It's a little hard, I'm not gonna lie.
I had a moment this morning, I was like, dang God, I go through so much. But you know what? If it's for Jesus, we're gonna do it, amen. Oh my gosh, I've missed you guys so much. Eight months, so crazy. For those who don't know,
I got married on July 15, 2025, and I'd announced on season three, the last episode, right before I had to walk down the aisle, that I was taking a complete sabbatical off of the podcast because the Lord had shown me that my new ministry and my first priority of ministry was no longer Save Not Soft. It was my marriage. And so the past eight months, Malik and I have been building a home.
We got a dog. Her name's Harper. She's like mad cute. She poo poo and pee pee everywhere. But, you know, we're living life and we got an apartment. We've made it so cozy here. And Malik and I have really cultivated our marriage to be such a safe place for one another and for other people. And I am so blessed that I took that time to transition because moving from all the way
California to Florida has been one of the most challenging things of my entire life. And so I needed that space to just lean into this transition that God was placing into my life. So thank you guys for the grace you have given me. I've heard you guys, I've heard you guys were watching season one over again, because it's been, it's been hard. Big sis is back.
And I feel like I got way much more wisdom. Like I've been through the trenches and I have received so much kindness in the teachings of Jesus and him showing up in ways that I never thought he would show up. Even marriage just being a testament within itself of how to lay a life down for another person and how this is not. perfect in the sense of it's not clean. It's messy.
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Chapter 2: Why is the blood of Jesus central to the Christian faith?
But many have tasted the limitations of their own freedom because of a lax revelation in Christ crucified. And I think there's so many people in the body of Christ and a lot of sheep who are like, I love Jesus, but why am I not free?
I would like to prompt a question is, you love Jesus, you know who he is, and I would ask you that in the places where you lack most freedom, has Jesus filled that space?
truly and has the revelation of christ and him crucified filled the space where you are lacking filled the space where you are crying filled the space where you feel depleted and left behind has he filled that space and if it's yes to all then you might actually be a perfect christian and you know what good for you because this morning malik will tell malik you're married to me we sleep in the same bed together so sweet permanent sleepover
But I was down bad. I was down bad. I be down bad sometimes. And you want to know what gets me out every single time? What is it, babe? Christ and Christ crucified. Not, I mean, you're such a good Christian because you lead all these people. That's not why I'm a good Christian. Like I love what I do. And that's not what keeps me moving. What keeps me moving is Hebrews 12.
I keep my eyes on one prize and that's Jesus. And if a platform comes along the way, if a speaking engagement comes along the way, if new knowledge comes along the way, if new friendships and relationships come along the way, amazing, great. I love that. And that's not the force to my endurance. The force to my endurance is the blood of Jesus. And the moment I forget that, Nothing makes sense.
And so I want to encourage the believer that we need to be fueled by a fresh revelation of Jesus. And if you think you have enough, I promise you probably don't. Promise you probably don't. I feel like when we talk about Christ and Christ crucified, there have been only like certain environments where Christ and Christ crucified is explained.
And I don't have I think there could be a hindrance in sometimes the way we talk about Christ and Christ crucified. Because in the ways I've personally seen it, and I can be biased, I can acknowledge that, is mostly in evangelical spaces that are highly charismatic and fueled with emotionalism. And I'm not against charismatic and evangelical spaces. Malik and I love them. We go to gatherings.
We hang out. We were even charismatic and evangelical in a lot of spaces, but I think sometimes where the lines could get a little blurry is if we speak about Christ crucified from a place that is purely emotional and not relational without all the sappy tears and backed up in theology.
and a fresh revelation of like oh like this is hitting my heart not just so like tears can come out of my eyes but so like it leaves an imprint so no matter what trial or circumstance I go through I'm not going to be waved or moved and I think there needs to be a sit down honest conversation of what does the blood of Christ mean for us and there is an authority to the blood of Jesus the blood still works
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Chapter 3: How does the blood of Jesus provide forgiveness and redemption?
So receiving the gift comes from a place of knowing that God loves us. We all sin. Sin leads to death. Jesus paid the price. And receiving the gift is just receiving salvation. So that was just kind of like what is the gospel in a nutshell is that. I kind of got a little side checked, but I think that was helpful. I think that was good. I love Romans 5.8. It's like super fundamental verse.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This is a verse that we hear so much throughout church. And we're like, yeah, that's a great verse. Christ died for us. No, but God demonstrates his own love. Like Jesus is the love note of God's heart.
While we were still sinners, while we still openly disrespected God, while we were still confused and incarcerated by fear and enchained and whatever it may be, just in sin, while we were still sinners, whatever your worst thing is, keep in mind, in the middle of that, Think about the worst thing you did right now. In the middle of that, God still demonstrates his love. Through who?
Through Jesus Christ. It's up to us to just receive the gift. It's up to us to receive the gift. I want to tackle this topic of crucifying the idea of a better gospel today. Let me tell you this, like the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ is the best that it gets. We got to not get to a point where we're so burdened by life to where it's like, man, I need more of Jesus's blood.
Like I just need more than that. There is no other best thing. Like Jesus and Christ crucified is the best thing. There's no greater story. There's no greater savior. There's no greater Lord there. There's no greater savior. Like Jesus is Jesus. It's Christ and him crucified. Your prayers do not outperform Jesus. Sometimes we'll rely on our prayer life to outperform what Jesus did on that cross.
Our church attendance does not outperform Jesus. Christian influencers and podcasts don't replace the story of Jesus. Like the gospel does not get better than this. Like we can't reach and try to grasp for a better gospel. Like this is the best thing. It is the best thing. It's the best thing. I can't argue more with that. It's the best thing.
How much you serve does not outperform how great he is. That's it. Jesus is Lord and he's the Lord. Whether if you like it or not. I don't care if you know Jesus, if you love him, if you don't love him, if you're constantly or in the process of deconstructing. If you're deconstructing right now and you're like, man, I just don't believe in him. You will. One day. Every knee shall bow.
Every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. Okay, you guys, don't get it twisted. And my question is, it's rhetorical. Of course it's rhetorical. I can't hear you guys. Is the gospel enough for you? Is it enough? I think it could be a simple question, but it's needed because sometimes it feels like it's not. Like, I actually really want to acknowledge that.
There are some things that we go through in the human life that feel so dang unbearable. Jesus. I think those are actually the times where I find myself resting in the neediness of Christ is when I'm like, oh man, this junk sucks. And like, I actually don't know how to do this on my own. And this feels really scary and crazy. And you know, this isn't easy. And
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Chapter 4: What does it mean to have confidence in spiritual authority?
This was a tragedy. This was a tragedy. And if you We read the gospel so entitled. We read it so entitled because we know the ending. We know what happens. Like Jesus gets on the cross. He dies. But like we know he's going to rise and like it's going to be great. And my sins are atone for. And like that's so amazing.
And it's like during that time, those people didn't know he's going to come back or not. Why do you think Peter denied him three times? Why do you think Thomas doubted when Jesus came? He was like, here's my hands. Like, they did not know. This wasn't just an event. This was history, miraculous history, may I add. So is the gospel enough for you?
And the dangers of untrue gospel, which what is an untrue gospel? Let me just tell you real straight. The untrue gospel is very popular right now. It's everything that... Doesn't talk about Jesus, but they swear Jesus is in it. We see this at a lot of different churches, congregations, and even people on social media.
You'll say a lot of things that sound like Jesus, but when I actually first John for you and I test everything by scripture, It's not filled with the spirit. It's filled with entitlement. It's filled with judgment. It's filled with human made wisdom. It's not filled with the scriptures. It's not filled with the presence of God and untrue gospels.
Anything that's preached outside of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This looks like preaching apart from Jesus, which is what we see all the time. This looks like churches who abuse God's grace and stay incarcerated by their own lukewarmness. This looks like churches who weaponize the pulpit. This looks like churches and people who preach from a place of emotionalism.
This looks like churches who focus solely on demonology and generational curses, but never talk about Jesus. That's untrue gospel. Anything that lacks the revelation of Christ and him crucified, the death, the burial, and the resurrection, if you miss those things, you're cooked. You're cooked, bucko. You're not on a true gospel. It's untrue gospel that's missing the entirety of its source.
It's the blood of the lamb. It's the blood of the lamb. Who is Jesus? Jesus died for me and my sins. If you were to ask anybody, who is Jesus? What does he mean to you? Well, Jesus is my Lord. He's my savior. He died for my sins. Yes. Jesus is Lord. Jesus is man. He's fully God, fully man. Jesus is the son of God. Jesus is the gate, the very essence of the father. We talked about this.
Jesus is the offer and the offering. Let me drink my water because I'm about to get high. Jesus is the offer and the offering. Malik and I have been reading the Bible front to back. And I love the Old Testament. I'm actually a huge Old Testament junkie. I love it. I love it so much. It's so good. What I love most about the Old Testament is how much it mirrors the image of Jesus.
And one of the first things I noticed this time around when we read, reread the Bible for its entirety again, was about the high priest and Jesus being the offer and the offering. And the only other time we see that is Matisldek. And he was the only prophet and priest, meaning that he communicated God's word and he simultaneously was offering sacrifices and, um, et cetera.
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Chapter 5: How can we understand the significance of the cross today?
How much more would the blood of Jesus, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without a blemish to God as unblemished lamb, to what? To purify our conscience from dead works. Hebrews 9 is saying right here that that intercession that Jesus made on the behalf of us cleansed our conscience from what? Dead works? To serve the living God? Jesus is the offerer and the offering.
That is so crazy. It's so crazy. In the Old Testament, high priests wear this thing called an ephod. And what an ephod is, is it's basically a vest that have 12... I almost said crystals. That's nuts. But it's like... Kind of. They're like, why can't I think of it? Not rocks. What is that? Emblems. There's a better word for it. Stones. Stones. It's stones.
I was like, not crystals, not rocks, stones. That sounds respectable. Um, but basically high priest or this garment called the ephod, which is a vest where there were 12 stones across the high priest chest and each stone represented a tribe of Judah or not a tribe of Judah, uh, a tribe of Israel.
So you have the, you have the Benjamites, you have the people of Judah, you have the Levites, you have so many, all 12. I'm not going to name all 12. I almost did. And then I was like, why would I do that? It's like really crazy. I do know all of them. Oh, now I have to do it. No, no, I don't, no, no, no, no, no, I don't. Okay, I don't have to prove anything to anyone.
I like immediately went into competition mode for some reason, like Bible trivia. Anyways, the high priest would carry the intercession on the inside of the Holy of Holies on the behalf of the people. So knowing that when it says that Jesus is the ultimate high priest, it says that he carried the intercession on
of us onto the throne of glory knowing that Jesus had us in mind the entirety while he was up on that cross and as the ultimate high priest when he approached the throne of glory we could come to him in confidence knowing that our sin has been paid for by the bloodied and crucified lamb which is Jesus Christ right The blood cleanses our consciousness from acts that lead to death.
That is nuts to think about. Hebrews 10 19 says, Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus. I think the revelation of the blood of Jesus, I think, oh, that's so good. That's actually so good. That's so good. So I'd even say it. I just feel it downloading in my brain right now. That's so good to think about that.
There was a confidence that we had to approach God's glory and grace when we fully take in the blood of Jesus Christ. When I have a full worldview and perspective of Christ, him crucified in the blood of Jesus, that fuels me to approach the throne of God's grace confident. That's huge. That's huge. Why is that huge? A lot of us get scared asking God for things.
A lot of us will hide apart from him, will not go up to him or ask him or take comfort in him. But the blood of Jesus prompts us a confidence to pursue him, to enter the throne room.
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Chapter 6: What is the importance of repentance in the Christian walk?
Like pause the video right now if you have to. Repent, repent, repent. What it is is I'm turning away from the world. I'm saying sorry for all the things I've done, Lord, to disrespect you. And it's keeping your eyes on him and leaving everything else behind. Repent for your unforgiveness. Repent for bitterness. I don't know if it's smoking, drinking, cursing, how bad of a friend you are.
All of us need to repent each and every single day. Take a moment to repent. And my three applications for y'all as we go is number one, the Holy Spirit is the greatest teacher about Jesus. When you read the scriptures, ask the Holy Spirit to help you. That's my challenge I'm leaving with you guys here today.
When you're reading the scriptures about Jesus and anything throughout the entirety of your Bible, ask the Holy Spirit to hover that scripture around and for him to reveal Jesus to you. The Holy Spirit is obsessed with revealing Jesus. Number two, as you read, look for Jesus in every scripture, old and new. Old and new.
You look out through the entirety of the old passages in the Old Testament, it all testifies about Jesus. Look for him, look for him, look for him. Three, come to me. Make it your mission to return to him every day. Jesus has come to me and all those who come to me, I will give them rest. Come to him each and every single day. It's a return. It's a return. It's a life filled with repentance.
And you guys, I'm so excited that you guys tuned in to the first episode of season four of Save Not Soft. It has been such a crazy ride. I thank God that all of you guys have been here. I thank God that he is faithful. I know this was probably a really long first episode, but I think it was incredibly needed. And I just love you guys so much. And I praise God. Read your Bible for yourself.
Know that this isn't a one-time thing that you just read your Bible when you tune into this podcast. Read the Bible on your own. Get plugged into community. Fellowship with people who are like-minded. And love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind. You guys are so loved. I love you guys so much. Everything you need to know regarding... I don't know if the Patreon will be out by now.
If you want to join the Patreon, which is where episodes will be released very early, you could go find that in the description of this video. If you're looking to tithe or donate towards this ministry, merchandise, you name it, all resources are going to be below this page screening in the description. down below to the Patreon, which is Safe Society. So excited.
I actually haven't filmed any of the promo of it right now. So I'm like, I have to think futuristically what that's going to be. But Safe Society is basically online discipleship. So if you're looking to be discipled specifically by me and have a community of like-minded girls all over the world, and you need an online community, our Patreon is catered specifically for that.
You get early access to the
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