Ep. 290: Why Would Anyone Follow Jesus?

*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

Daniel Markin:

Hey, welcome to indoubt. This is Daniel Markin and on today’s program I have the pleasure of chatting with Ray Comfort. He’s with a ministry called Living Waters. Gifted evangelists, but more than that, he has a real heart for God and a real heart to see people come to faith in Jesus, trusting faith. So we have a good discussion about that and including his upcoming book. So I hope you find it helpful.

Daniel Markin:

Hey, welcome to in doubt, my name’s Daniel Markin, and today I’m joined by a very special guest, Ray Comfort. You might know that name, but I’ll let him introduce himself. Ray, how are you doing today?

Ray Comfort:

I’m doing really good. Thanks Daniel.

Daniel Markin:

Now, a lot of people will recognize your voice, whether they’ve seen it through YouTube or they’ve seen it, maybe like heard one of your radio programs, but not a lot of people might even really know what you do. And so I want to know if you’d let our audience know a little bit about who you are. Tell us about your life, personal life, and then even your ministry life as well.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, I’m originally from New Zealand. That’s what the accent is. I was born there twice. Came to the US about 33 years ago, specifically to bring a teaching to the church of America. It was called Hell’s Best Kept Secret. Things were very quiet for about three years, and then I began receiving calls from church leaders. And I began to expand when a well known Christian minister screened the video of me teaching to 30,000 pastors and that sure opened doors. And then some years later, Kirk Cameron, the actor, heard the teaching and wanted a combined ministry. So we combined ministry. Started a television program, which is now in it’s eighth season. It goes to 190 countries. Sorry. We’ve got a YouTube channel with 195 million views. I write books and that’s about it.

Daniel Markin:

So you got a lot that’s keeping you busy.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, kind of.

Daniel Markin:

A lot of speaking, lot of writing and stuff like that. One of the things I always like to ask writers is what’s your writing process? Because you’ve written a lot of books. I know some people, for example, I’ve interviewed Darrell Bock. He’s a theologian at Dallas Seminary and he literally just writes a page a day. He just says, “I sit down, write a page, and then I walk away.”

Daniel Markin:

And it’s just that’s how his mind operates. I also know people who go away to the cabin for a bunch of months and then they’ll write and write and write. And then they’ll come back after like a retreat. They’re like, “I got it. I got the book.”

Daniel Markin:

What’s your process?

Ray Comfort:

Yeah. I just get a passion for something, and then I begin writing it. And I’ve got a very understanding wife. If I write in the night. I really despise sleep. I think sleep is part of the curse. By that I mean, when I go to sleep, I go into a dreamland where I receive full color movies that I didn’t order. Some are horrors, some are sexually explicit, some are real boring, but I don’t program my dreams. And it really annoys me. It’s the land of insanity. We go in for about eight hours each night. Often you wake up feeling worse than you went to sleep.

Ray Comfort:

So I get as little as sleep as I can. And I wake up in the night and I write. It’s very quiet and clear. I got an iPad. Just write in my bed and that’s normally the process. And then I write maybe a chapter or a whole thought, a few pages. And I read it in the morning. Thinking at night, it’s wonderful. In the morning I think, “This is terrible.”

Ray Comfort:

So I refine it and refine it and refine it, until I’ve got what I want, and that seems to work.

Daniel Markin:

I like that. And the hardest part of any writing is that refining piece, because it becomes this little child, this little baby that you’ve nurtured and it reflects you. And then all of a sudden, someone tells you, “Oh, you need to edit that down or you need to get rid of that.”

Daniel Markin:

And it’s like, it could be deeply personal.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah. Just want to chop… Just chop the arm off? Is that what you’re saying? Chop the arm off my baby?

Daniel Markin:

Yeah.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, sure.

Daniel Markin:

Yeah. So you’ve got a new book here and you’re basically asking the question, which is a question that I think a lot of people ask today, which is why would anyone follow Jesus? Let’s just chat about that a little bit, because I think we could talk the book specifically, but then even more broadly, begin to talk about that question. Why would anyone follow Jesus? We’re living in a very secular time, very secular world. You live in Southern California where that’s very secular. I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is one of the most secular. I mean anything on the west coast. The idea of giving your life to a god, any other god than yourself, is an idea pretty foreign to a lot of people. And so love to begin to talk to you about this. Why would anyone follow Jesus?

Ray Comfort:

Well, he’s the only one that can grant everlasting life. And we’ve got something wonderful that’s happened in the last two years. There’s been a plague upon the earth but it’s prepared a lot of people’s hearts for the gospel. In the sense that human beings are not beasts. Evolutions is a farce. We’re not primates. We’re not like dogs, cats, cows, kittens, horses, whatever. We’re human beings made in the image of God. So God has placed eternity upon our heart. So I know every person I speak to, whether they’re atheist, whether they’re secular, agnostic, whatever, no desire for God, I know I’ve got something that’s on my side. And that is God has placed eternity upon his or her heart.

Ray Comfort:

Something in that person says, “Oh, I don’t want to die.”

Ray Comfort:

And this last two years has shown people they’re going to die. Death is all around us. We walk through the valley of the shadow of death. That’s what this life is. And so that’s a very, very powerful tool to tap into.

Ray Comfort:

You think of how a waitress approaches men at a table. She looks up. There’s three men in three piece suits, important looking cases. They’re wheeling and dealing millions of dollars. Is she intimidated? No. She walks right up and says, “Can I take your order?” Boldly.

Ray Comfort:

Why does she say that? It’s because she knows she has something they want. They’re there to eat, and so they don’t mind her interrupting and she doesn’t mind interrupting. That’s why she’s bold.

Ray Comfort:

And you and I, as Christians, have something this word or wants more than anything else. They want to live. No one would sell an eye for a million dollars or sell both for 10 million. How much more is your life worth? And so that’s what we got to tap into. So when I interview people, like yesterday, I had a wonderful time at a local college. I just went up and I start off by saying, “Are you afraid of death?”

Ray Comfort:

That’s how the interview begins. And the person, I know what’s going on in their mind, they’re thinking, “How does he know? I haven’t told mom, dad, my brother, my sister, my friends, but I am terrified by death.”

Ray Comfort:

And I know he is because of the fact Hebrews 2:14-15 says “Every human being on the face of the earth is haunted by the fear of death all their lifetime.”

Ray Comfort:

That’s the wording scripture uses. So I tap into that. I say, “Are you afraid of dying?”

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And they say, “Yeah, somewhat.”

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I say, “Somewhat?”

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They say, “Yeah, I am. I think about it all the time.”

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I said, “I’s like an appointment you’ve got to keep. It gets closer and closer and closer. Do you know why the Bible says you’re going to die?”

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And they say, “No, never read it.”

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“It says that death is wages. God is paying you in death for your sins. Like a judge looks at a heinous criminal that’s murdered three girls after he raped them. The judge says, ‘You’re earned the death sentence. This is your payment. This is what we’re going to give you. This is what’s due to you. This is what you earned.’ And sin is so serious to a holy God. He’s given us the sentence.”

Ray Comfort:

And then I say something like this, and this gets eyes opened. I say, “Do you know what a synopsis of the Bible is? Old Testament, God promised to destroy death. And the New Testament tells us how he did it.”

Ray Comfort:

That gets people saying, “Wow. I’m interested now.”

Ray Comfort:

It stirs curiosity because you’ve appealed to their love of life and curiosity, which is very powerful. And then I share the gospel with them and it’s very, very effective. You can see it on a YouTube channel. So I said, just past 195 million views. You see atheist back slide. People who have no interest in God suddenly have an interest because of this inner light that God has given to every man, this inner eternity placed upon their heart.

Ray Comfort:

And so when I mention what Jesus did on the cross, that he destroyed death and brought life and immortality light through the gospel, they’re going to listen up if they know what’s good for them.

Daniel Markin:

Mm-hmm (affirmative) I wanted to talk a little bit about just even what you’re discussing there with evangelism, because it’s one of the things that many people know your ministry best for. And I think you are incredibly gifted at it. I mean, the Lord is clearly using you. He’s clearly used, he has used, he is using, he will use you to continue to do that. And you have an ethos and a pathos about you where even like as you’re describing that conversation to me, I feel like if I went up to someone and said, “Are you afraid of death,” it just wouldn’t have the same impact. And you know, just to affirm you, brother-

Ray Comfort:

Change your accent.

Daniel Markin:

Yeah, exactly. I just need to move different country maybe. Right? But in evangelism, there’s an art to it and there’s a heart to it. And I think that you do both very, very well. And I think that a lot of people, if they want to evangelize, need to make sure they have both because so often I see people who will try and enter in and begin to ask… They feel a heart for evangelism or even maybe intellectually, they’re like, “Yeah, I need to do of this.”

Daniel Markin:

So they go and they try and do it, but the way they go about it just comes across as domineering, it comes across as arrogant, and it comes across as transactional. And so I just want to know, how do you balance or train people even as you’re talking about evangelism to have that heart, like that caring are all heart? Because I think it’s missing so often. I’d love to hear your thoughts on that.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah. Tone is very important and tone should be dictated by your own heart, your love for the person and genuine concern and love for the person you’re speaking to see. I can say good morning to someone like this. I can say, “Good morning,” as they walk past me. Or I can say, “Good morning.”

Ray Comfort:

One is like, yeah, good morning. And the other is, boy, I hope you’re well. Just the tone is very, very important. The other thing you said I was gifted. Let me just see if I can qualify that and it’s good news if I can. If you saw a marathon runner win a marathon, he just hits the tape. And you go up to him and say, “Oh, you are so gifted.”

Ray Comfort:

He’s going to turn to you and say, “What are you talking about? Gifted? I’ve trained for this. Every week I run 30 miles. I haven’t eaten chocolate cake. I haven’t eaten milkshakes or any of these things for months or even years because I’m denying myself to get this physique. This is what I do. I’ve trained myself. Look at my legs. This is muscle. This is come by hard work.”

Ray Comfort:

And so you look at me break the tape and say, “Wow, he’s really gifted.”

Ray Comfort:

But really it’s come from hard work. I put my foot in my mouth so many times and I’ve practiced what I preach. You know I witness to people when I’m in the shower. I go over it in my head when I’m shaving or whatever I’m doing. I’m thinking about these things so it comes more naturally, but I’ve really had train hard for it. Now that’s good news to know that anyone can do it. If you just watch your tone and then practice what you preach.

Ray Comfort:

What would you say to an atheist? Just say, man, how would I talk to an atheist? Well, I can tell you what to say to an atheist that’ll make him backslide. It’ll give you confidence. If you ever meet an atheist, don’t say to yourself, “Oh, this is an atheist. He’s intelligent.”

Ray Comfort:

The Bible says the exact opposite. We’re not intelligent if we think an atheist is intelligent. The Bible says an atheist is a fool. It even says, “He’s a fool who says that he’s wise,” in the book of Romans.

Ray Comfort:

And so if you’ve got someone who’s an atheist, just ask this one question. This works again and again. Just say, “So you’re an atheist?”

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They say, “Yeah.”

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“So you really believe the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything?”

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Which is what an atheist defaults to. He believes nothing created everything. And you’ll see, most of them they’ll go like their mouth will go like a little road tunnel.

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They’ll go, “Oh. So I don’t believe nothing created everything. There was something in the beginning. It just wasn’t God.”

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I say, “Well, let’s see if we can figure out why you don’t want it to be God.”

Ray Comfort:

And you find that he’s living with his gorgeous girlfriend, having sex with her and looking at pornography, feasting on it. And it’s not an intellectual issue. It’s a moral issue. It’s been so well said that someone can’t find God, an atheist can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman. He doesn’t want to. And so it’s so true that men love darkness rather than light because they’re deeds evil. So it’s very important if you want to witness to anyone that you imitate what Jesus did.

Ray Comfort:

Let me also qualify and pardon if I’m going on too much. But let me just share something is very important. This whole issue about me being gifted. I’m actually just simply using a principle that is so put forth in scripture. And this is that principle. Parable of the sower, there are four different hearers: the wayside hearer, the thorny ground hearer, the stony ground hearer, and the good soil hearer. Now I’ve heard modern preachers who preach an erroneous gospel that Jesus will solve your problems. They never open up the commandments. Say something like this. Look, if you are only getting one in four that make commitments to Christ stick, that’s okay because the parable of the sower, there was only one in four that worked. Only a 25% success rate.

Ray Comfort:

But I don’t think the parable of the sower was given by Jesus as a consolation for disappointing evangelistic results. I think there are keys. So you look at the genuine convert, the good soil hearer who receives the word and understands it. And he brings forth fruit a hundred fold. So he has the virtue of understanding. Oh. So there are people out in the world who will naturally understand what we’re saying. We just have to find who they are.

Ray Comfort:

No, that’s not biblical. Roman’s chapter 3 says that there is none who understand. Nobody understands. So that understanding that’s necessary for someone to come to Christ doesn’t come from the human heart. It comes from without. So what is it that produces understanding? Galatians 3:24 tells us. “The law is a school master to bring us to Christ.”

Ray Comfort:

A school master teaches. A school master brings about understanding. And so if you look at what Jesus did with the rich young ruler, he said, “Why do you call me good?”

Ray Comfort:

Because he asked how he could get everlasting life.

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He says, “Why do you call me good? There’s none good but God.”

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And then he gave him 5 of the 10 commandments. Why did you do that? To bring an understanding of what good means in God’s eyes.

Ray Comfort:

And so when I meet a sinner, I say, “Do you think you’re a good person?”

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They say, “Yeah, I am.”

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I say, “Well, let’s see if you’ve kept the 10 commandments. Let’s see if you’re as good as you think you are in God’s book.”

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And he finds out he’s lied, he’s stolen, he’s blasphemed God’s name. And Jesus said, “If you look with lust, you commit adultery in the heart.”

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And that produces an understanding to a point where he wants to know how he can be saved from the damnation of hell. And that’s where the cross comes in. So it’s not just me being gifted, it’s me using something God has given us that you can also use with a little bit of skill.

Daniel Markin:

Absolutely. I wanted to ask you this then. Maybe you’ll meet with an atheist or you meet with that guy in particular and he says… You bring up the 10 commandments. Well let’s say he says, “Well, why would I believe the 10 commandments? Those are archaic old laws.”

Daniel Markin:

What would you say to that guy?

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, if you took a sword, a very sharp sword, a two edged sword and put it by my throat. You just touched my throat from the distance with that sword. It was so sharp that it caused blood to bubble from my skin. That sharp. And you said, “I am going to cut into you with a sword.”

Ray Comfort:

And I says, “Ha ha. I don’t believe in swords.”

Ray Comfort:

It’s not going to change reality. It’s going to do it’s cutting. Whether I believe or not, whether it’s an old sword or a new sword, it’s going to do its work. And the Bible says, “The word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two edged sword.”

Ray Comfort:

So just because someone doesn’t believe what the Bible says, doesn’t take away from its power. It’s still a weapon that God has given us that’s mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

Ray Comfort:

You know, Charles Spurgeon once said something like this. He said, “You don’t have to defend the Bible. That’s like walking in front of a lion with a sword. It doesn’t need defending.”

Ray Comfort:

And it’s powerful. So powerful. It goes right into the marrow of the bones. So I wouldn’t worry when someone says, “I don’t believe the Bible. I don’t believe in the 10 commandments,”

Ray Comfort:

Besides there’s a saying that most people know. And that’s this, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Have you ever heard that, Daniel?

Daniel Markin:

Yeah. Well, that’s something that if I’m ignorant to the law, I can still end up in jail. Right? For committing a crime.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, that’s that. You can drive through town at 80 miles an hour and say, “Judge, I don’t know it was 30 miles an hour.”

Ray Comfort:

He’ll say, “You’re going to jail.”

Ray Comfort:

Because he knows that you know what you did was wrong. You just don’t know the extent. And so ignorance of God’s law is no excuse. You’re still bound by it. Conscience still accuses. And that’s the other confidence I have. One, you’ve got the confidence this person has eternity on his heart. He wants to live. And the other confidence is that God has given him a conscience. The work of the law written upon their heart.

Ray Comfort:

The conscience is like an impartial judge on the courtroom of the mind so that when a guy fornicates, looks at pornography, blasphemes, lies, or steals, even runs in rebellion into God, he intuitively knows what he’s doing is morally wrong because of the light of conscience. And that’s what will condemn him on judgment day. He’s without excuse because God wrote his law upon his heart.

Ray Comfort:

So when you go through the commandments as Jesus did and say “You know it’s wrong to lie? Don’t you,” his conscience affirms the truth of the commandment and says, “Yeah, that’s right. It’s wrong to lie. It’s wrong to steal. Wrong to commit adultery.”

Ray Comfort:

And so you can tap into that ally that’s right in heart of the enemy. That ally of conscience will side with you when you go through those commandments and show what sin is.

Daniel Markin:

Let me ask you this. As you think about the common person today, I mean you’re meeting people all over the place. What’s the most common reason that they don’t believe in Jesus? Because in North America, it’s a good chance you’ve somewhat heard of him. You’ve probably heard him mentioned on like the Simpsons, right? Like Jesus is somewhat in the cultural fabric. People might not have a Christian memory where like their grandparents went to church, their parents went to church so they know the stories. But they still know, more or less, that there’s Jesus. They’ll see statues maybe on the front of a church or something like that. Why do you think the top reason people question? What is that top reason that you’re finding today why they do not believe or are just questioning him?

Ray Comfort:

Because he’s totally irrelevant to them. He’s an historical figure. Someone says, “I don’t believe there’s any evidence Jesus existed.”

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I just ask, “What year is it?”

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The say, “Oh, 2022.”

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I say, “Since who?”

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“Since Christ.”

Ray Comfort:

So there’s more evidence that Jesus existed historically than any other thing. But the thing is, if you’re on a plane and you are enjoying the flight, watching the movie, eating good food, you’re not going to be interested in a parachute. What do you want to parachute for? Get that parachute out my face. But if the plane’s going down, it’s going to crash and you have to jump 10,000 feet and I offer you a parachute, you’re going to say, “Give me that parachute, forget the movie, forget the food.”

Ray Comfort:

That parachute becomes primary in your desire. You want that parachute more than anything else because your life depends on it. So what we have to do is show people that God has given a parachute to save us from death, and there’s no other name under heaven given among men why we must be saved. You know it’s been said you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. That’s not true. You can salt his oats. All you do is put salt in the oats and then the horse will be saying, “Give me a drink of water.”

Ray Comfort:

And the Bible says, “No one seeks after God.” Romans chapter 3. None seek after God. But you can cause him to seek after God by salting his oats.

Ray Comfort:

Just ask a question of any secular person. “Why is it there are billions of people seeking after God? Why do you think?”

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They say, “I don’t know. I hadn’t really thought about it.”

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“Well it’s because they know that God is eternal and we are not. He is the source of life and we are in death. We’re finite. We’re going to die. Death is coming for us. It’s like an 18 wheeler and we are stuck on a freeway and it’s heading for us. And the only way human beings are going to be free from the power of death and the grave is to somehow find God. And we’re separated from God by our sin. So let me show you how you can find God, because God made a way for you to have everlasting life.”

Ray Comfort:

And so the main reason, as I said, people don’t seek after Jesus is he’s irrelevant, just like a parachute’s irrelevant when you’re enjoying the flight. You’ve got to bring the issues to them and show them that death is coming and he’s their only hope. Jesus Christ has abolished death and brought life and immortality light through the gospel.

Ray Comfort:

Now I’ve got one hesitation on sharing all these truths, Daniel, and I’ll try and explain it. Years ago. Well, there was a time when teaching someone to drive was an absolute pain. It’s the stick shift. Do you know what a stick shift is?

Daniel Markin:

I know what a stick shift is.

Ray Comfort:

Yeah, it was a nightmare teaching someone to drive because you had to-

Daniel Markin:

Yeah. Yeah.

Ray Comfort:

Push the clutch in and then release it and push down the accelerator. If you didn’t get that timing right, you’d get what we call kangaroo gas. The car would bounce and it was embarrassing. And it was making a groan. The gears would make a terrible noise. Now it’s a breeze to drive a car. In fact, an eight year old drove a car to McDonald’s recently somewhere in the States. He got hungry and he took his sister while his parents were asleep. Got money out of his piggy bank and drove a mile to McDonald’s and he made no mistakes. Witnesses couldn’t believe it was an eight year old driving because it’s such a breeze to drive a car.

Ray Comfort:

And so my concern is that if I say to someone, “Hey, driving’s a breeze, but I want tell you a few things you’ve got to be careful of. Number one, don’t text and drive. Number two, just don’t drink and drive. Be careful you don’t travel too close to cars in front of you because if they stop, you’re going to bang into them, hurt their neck, and you’ve got a lawsuit. Could lose your own home. You could kill someone with your car. It’s a vehicle that’s dangerous. You could run over a cyclist. People could step out. You could run over cats and dogs.”

Ray Comfort:

And by telling you all these things, you say, “Man, I’m never going to drive a car. It’s so scary.”

Ray Comfort:

But we know from experience, you can enjoy driving. The convenience of driving and all these things come naturally, intuitively if you just apply yourself to it. And it’s exactly the same with evangelism. What I’m saying sounds complex, address the conscience, do this, do that. But if you begin to apply your heart to evangelism, these things will come naturally. They’ll come automatically like an automatic car. You’ll learn to address the conscience. You’ll learn to say what to an atheist and it’ll take you over the place without any deep concerns. So don’t be put off by what sounds complicated when it comes to evangelism. It’s real simple if you just apply your heart to it and have a love for the lost.

Daniel Markin:

Yeah. Let me ask you this one. We’re living in really difficult days. I mean everyone. Like we’ve got COVID, we have the world unrest, right? It’s a hard time. Everyone has different things going on. Why should we trust in Jesus? How can we trust in Jesus even when it’s hard?

Ray Comfort:

Well, that’s a really good question. I think a lot of people get mixed up between belief and faith. They intellectually can believe in God’s existence and it’s easy to. I mean, everything made had a maker. Every painting had a painter. The painting is evidence of the painter. The building is evidence of the builder. And creation is evidence of the Creator. So we all know because of creation that God exists. Design is the pallbearer of atheism. It lowers it into the grave. You see design through the atom, right to the universe. Everything has incredible design and order to it. So we intuitively, intellectually know God exists. The heavens declare his glory. It’s his painting. Every time you see a sunrise or a sunset, you know God exists.

Ray Comfort:

But when we talk about faith in God, we’re not talking about an intellectual belief in his existence. We’re talking about a trust in his promises. And there’s a huge difference. Now we trust, where as opposed to intellectually believing, we trust in taxi drivers to drive us. We trust in doctors. They give us pills and we say, “Doc, we take these two pills? Okay.”

Ray Comfort:

We trust our lives to doctors. We trust surgeons. We trust elevators. Some even trust politicians. We trust man everywhere. But the Bible says the way to please God is to trust him. And if there’s one way you won’t please God, it is not to exercise that implicit trust in his promises.

Ray Comfort:

Just yesterday a young lady says she had trouble in believing God’s promises. She says faith was difficult for her.

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I says, “Where do you live?”

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She told me.

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And then I says, “What are you doing for a job?”

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And she told me. And I said, “I don’t believe that.”

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You should have seen her eyes fluttered. And I says, “That’s an insult to you. Isn’t it? If I don’t believe what you’ve told me, it means I think you’re a liar, your devious and not what with trusting.” And I said, “If you, a mere person, are insulted by my lack of faith in your word, how much more do you insult a holy God, by having a lack of faith in his word?”

Ray Comfort:

The Bible says, “He that believes not God has made him a liar. Let none of you depart from a living God through an evil heart of unbelief.”

Ray Comfort:

You can’t have any human relationship without faith. Say to your girlfriend, “Don’t trust you, honey.” It’s all over. Say to your wife, “Don’t trust you, sweetheart.” You’re sleeping on the couch. Say that to your boss. You’re going to be without a job soon. Trust holds everything together. So we must, as Christians, make sure we trust the promises of God.

Ray Comfort:

When we’re a lion’s den, we don’t shake our fist at God. We bow the knee. When we’re at the Red Sea and there’s nowhere to go, we trust in God’s promises because he’s given us that safety net scripture. “All things work together for good to those that love God and according to his purposes.”

Ray Comfort:

So when things go wrong, we don’t get angry. We trust the Lord. We keep our peace and joy because we know he is faithful. And so there is that difference between an intellectual belief in God and trusting in his promises. And the Bible says, “He that comes to God, must first believe that he exists.” That’s the intellectual belief. “And that he’s the rewarder of those who diligently seek him.” That is believing that he keeps this word and it’s important to see that difference.

Daniel Markin:

Amen. Hey, for your upcoming book or even some of your past books, where can our audience find them?

Ray Comfort:

Yeah. Livingwaters.com is were you can see what we’ve got. We’ve got an evidence Bible, lots of different books and a lot of free stuff. And there’s the YouTube channel. Just either Living Waters YouTube or Ray Comfort YouTube and that’s all free.

Daniel Markin:

Amazing. Well, bless you, brother. Thank you for your time. And we look forward to our paths crossing again.

Ray Comfort:

Okay. If you’re ever in southern California come and visit.

Daniel Markin:

I will.

Ray Comfort:

Okay.