The David Spoon Experience 7-19-24 part 2

1) Once again, we enter unknown territory on The David Spoon Experience. First up, our awesome brother, Sergio, calls in to ask a question about how to handle people who come against us from our past. These people often bring a skepticism that we will ever be any different or change in any way. So, Sergio wants to know, how do we deal with people from our BC days (before Christ).
2) Dave replies with a two-fold approach. The first is to understand that these people who try to say that there's never any change in us simply want to stand by that position because they're afraid that they have to deal with the reality that Jesus Christ has made a difference in our lives. What they try to do is pick people apart in the smallest elements. But the truth of the matter is as we grow in Christ, we become closer to the position that God declared and we reflect Jesus more and more, and the people don't like it. They are the people that don't want to have to deal with it.
3) The second part of the equation comes down to the simplicity that we don't need to remove these people from our lives unless it's absolutely necessary. But we also do not have to allow these people to have influence on us. They have no heaven to put us in, and they have no promise they can give us. They simply mock us because we've made our changes in the Lord. After all, we are born again. So we are certainly different. They just don't like it because it confronts their own failures.
4) In closing, the last discussion point, titled "From the Brink," is inspired by a movie concept about returning from the furthest edge of possibility. We find this in Lamentations, Chapter 3, Verses 16 through 22. Typically, when we discuss this scripture, we focus on the positive aspects. However, I want to concentrate on what brings us to the point where we need the positive. So, we will examine what the brink looks like. And why and how we can pull back. You must hear this!!!