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- 3 days ago7 min
Praise, Discern, Fight — In That Order | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 380
In the wilderness, God gave Israel a precise order for breaking camp and moving: Judah first, then Issachar, then Zebulun. Praise, then discernment, then warfare. There are protocols and precedents in the Old Testament that find their ultimate fulfillment in Christ. It's a kingdom sequence for how we move in faith today in Christ. Skip a step, and something breaks down. Get the order right, and you take ground.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Praise, Discern, Fight — In That OrderWelcome back. Quick heads up before we dive in: this one's shorter than usual, not a Jesus Smart 180, just a tighter full-length episode.Today we're looking at a sequence buried in the wilderness camp of Israel. The Old Testament is full of precedents and protocols that find their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ and the New Covenant, meaning in our lives on this side of the cross, the resurrection, and the ascension.One of those protocols is a kingdom dynamic we could call praise, then discernment, then warfare, in that order. It's a pattern that shows up again and again in Scripture, and it's just as available to us now, in a heightened sense, through Christ and the New Covenant, as it was to the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.This content comes straight from my Smart Edit newsletter. If you want these kinds of insights landing in your inbox before they ever hit the podcast, sign up free at jesussmart.com/smartedit. It's free, and I think you'll like it. Stick around to the end, I'll close us out with a quick prayer.A Kingdom Protocol for Good SuccessGod prescribed, in detail, how the nation of Israel was to encamp around the tabernacle in the wilderness, and in what order the tribes were to journey whenever they broke camp.Three tribes camped north, three east, three south, three west. The three camped to the east were Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, and whenever the camp moved, whether journeying or heading into battle, Judah went first, then Issachar, then Zebulun.Judah was uniquely anointed for worship. The name itself means praise, and Judah was marked as the tribe through which kingship and worship would flow. Jesus was from the tribe of Judah.Issachar excelled in prophetic discernment; 1 Chronicles 12 says they had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.Zebulun excelled in battle: skilled, disciplined, primed for war, expert with every weapon, stouthearted men who could keep ranks.Praise first. Discernment second. Warfare third.Reordering Your Next MoveThat's not just a wilderness protocol. It's a kingdom sequence for how we initiate and move in faith today. Always lead with praise, always lead with focus on King Jesus and seeking his kingdom first. Then follow with prophetic discernment, call it God-tel or intel, the sons of Issachar understanding the times and what you ought to do. Only then are you ready for Zebulun: warfare, practical action, moving out.A good question to ask: what's on the other side of this order for you? What needs resetting right now?Maybe it's a new season from God you desperately need, or showing forth his excellencies in one of three domains: work and finance, relational life, or wellness. What's pending from heaven's point of view for you?You can read more on this at jesussmart.com/380, including some additional thoughts I didn't get to here.Let's pray together for a moment. Father, we thank you for this kingdom protocol, and for the Old Testament precedents that find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ and the New Covenant, this side of the ascension. Whatever horizons we're looking at, whatever opportunities are before us, whatever challenges we're facing, inspire us to lead with worship and focus on King Jesus and his royal authority. Help us, like the sons of Issachar, to carry prophetic discernment, God-tel from your points of view rising within us. And then, under a spirit of might, help us do warfare and move out in applied, faith-filled action. I pray this over my brothers and sisters in Christ, and over my own life. We want to show up in full-spectrum faith and full agency in your kingdom. We thank you for it, Lord. In your name, a
- 1 weeks ago42 min
Required Listening: Talk Like the Most Effective Communicator Who Ever Lived with Charles Stone | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 379
Jesus was the most effective communicator who ever lived. Dr. Charles Stone, a pastor with a background in the neuroscience of leadership, breaks down the brain science behind how he taught, connected, and moved people to change. Connection. Emotion. Memory. Action. This conversation will change how you talk to everyone in your life.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Enhanced show notes: JesusSmart.com/379👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Talk Like the Most Effective Communicator Who Ever LivedBrian Del Turco: Hey there, friend. Welcome to the podcast. This is Brian Del Turco, and this is Jesus Smart X. I'm glad you're here.This is episode 379, and you can find the show notes for this episode at jesussmart.com/379. This is a special required-listening episode: a recording from the past that we're surfacing again, because it's about communication, and communication makes everything work. Jesus was a master communicator, and we have a lot to learn from him. Here's Dr. Charles Stone, an expert on neuroscience and communication.Dr. Charles Stone helps us explore what it might look like if Jesus gave a TED Talk: eight neuroscience principles the master teacher used to persuade, whether in one-on-one conversation, small clusters, or massive crowds. We'll survey all eight briefly, then dig into a few in more depth, including creating affinity, leveraging emotion, and stimulating real life application. Dr. Stone is a pastor in Canada with an executive master's in the neuroscience of leadership, and he's currently working on his PhD. Here's my conversation with Dr. Charles Stone.Meet Dr. Charles StoneBrian Del Turco: I'm really excited about our guest today. He's an expert on neuroscience and leadership as it relates specifically to ministry, though I think there's application here across every life domain. Scripture tells us to love God with all our mind, to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Is it too much to say that the mind of Christ in us involves a kind of neuroplasticity, that we can actually grow in the mind of Christ?Dr. Charles Stone: Not at all. The way God designed us to learn is through actual changes in our brain, and those changes reflect our values, our beliefs, and our convictions.Brian Del Turco: Communication makes the world go round. Does this apply beyond the pulpit, to relational communication in family life, friendships, teaching?Dr. Charles Stone: Absolutely. God wired us to communicate in a way that isn't just for someone standing up front on Sunday morning. Our brains are wired to pay attention, to respond, to feel safe or unsafe around others, regardless of the setting. Biblical communication principles apply across the board.Dr. Stone holds degrees from Georgia Tech, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical, plus an executive master's in the Neuroscience of Leadership. He's the author of *If Jesus Gave a TED Talk*, a title he borrows not because Jesus gave neat eighteen-minute talks, but because he masterfully lived out the best ways to communicate and make truth stick. He was God, so we don't have what he has, but we can still learn from how he taught.The Forgetting Curve That Sparked a BookBrian Del Turco: What prompted you to write this book?Dr. Charles Stone: As a pastor spending fifteen to twenty hours a week preparing a message, I had this nagging feeling: what difference is this actually making? None of my seminary professors ever taught the theory behind what makes a message stick. Then I came across research from a German psychologist, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who invented nonsense words, memorized them, and measured how quickly he forgot them. That gave us the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, and it's since been repeatedly confirmed: people forget more than 95 percent of what they hear in a teaching session within a week's time. That was a wake-up call. Are there tools, principles, that communicators can apply to increase retention? Absolutely. That's why I wrote the book, and why others are studying the neuroscience of learning and communication.Eight Qu
- 2 weeks ago3 min
Spirit-Filled Execution: Aligning Action with Christ's Energy | Jesus Smart 180, Ep. 378
Whatever's in front of you right now — a new venture, a difficult conversation, a career decision, a family challenge — lay this Kingdom template over it. It starts with creative prayer: partnering with Christ's creative intent. It moves to diligent planning: honoring what is revealed by stewarding it with intentionality. And it executes in the energy of the Holy Spirit, not your own strength or willpower. When you follow this pattern, you tap into something far greater than your own effort.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Spirit-Filled Execution: Aligning Action with Christ's EnergyHey, welcome back. I'm Brian Del Turco. This is Jesus Smart 180, our short-form version of the Jesus Smart X podcast.There's a way that things work in any kingdom — and this is supremely true in the Kingdom of God. Today I have a three-part template you can lay over anything and everything to meet any challenge or exploit any opportunity.Creative prayer. Strategic planning. Spirit-filled execution.Start Here: Creative PrayerIt starts here. Always.Prayer isn't just asking God for things. It's partnering with the Father's creative intent for your life. When you pray creatively, you're tuning into what God is already doing — listening for his thoughts, his designs, his dreams for you, and how it all fits into his larger story.James 1:17 says every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights. Creative prayer positions you to receive what's already flowing from his heart. It's not about convincing God of your agenda. It's about discerning his.Move to Strategic PlanningOnce you've prayed and received direction, get intentional. Map it out. What are the steps he's leading you to take? What resources do you need? What's the timeline?Solomon said it plainly: "The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage." (Proverbs 21:5, NASB)This isn't about trusting your planning more than God. It's about honoring what he's entrusted to you. Psalm 127 reminds us that unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. But notice. The builders are still working. They're just making sure the Lord is the architect.Planning sanctified by prayer becomes a form of worship.Execute in the Spirit's PowerNow comes the doing. And here's where most of us stumble ... we try to execute in our own strength what God initiated by his Spirit.Paul's question in Galatians 3:3 cuts right to it. "Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?"The same Spirit who gave you the vision wants to fuel the execution. Stay connected. Pray through each phase. Depend on the Spirit's energy, not just your human willpower.Spirit-filled execution isn't frantic or anxious. There's a grace to it. Yes, you're working hard. But you're resting in the reality that God is working with you and through you.The Zeal of the LordWhen you follow this pattern — creative prayer, strategic planning, Spirit-filled execution — you tap into something far greater than your own effort. Isaiah calls it the zeal of the Lord. His fierce, burning commitment to see good accomplished on the earth, flowing through your yielded life.Lay this template over anything. A new venture. A difficult conversation. Your career. Your family. Become skilled in it.Show notes for this episode are at JesusSmart.com/378. If this sharpened something in you — pass it on.I'm Brian Del Turco. Pray creatively. Plan strategically. Execute in the Spirit.
- Jul 2, 202631 min
Learning to Love America the Beautiful | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 377
The most important rights you have do not come from a government — it came from your Creator. As America marks 250 years, this episode asks what it means to love your country through a Kingdom lens. Revisiting a conversation on faith and the ideals that built a nation, we explore why your new nature in Christ is big enough to hold both a Kingdom-first faith and a real love for the nation He's placed you in.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Learning to Love America the BeautifulRights That Come From Somewhere HigherEvery right you have didn't come from a government. It came from your Creator. That's the founding idea behind America, and it's the lens we're using today as the nation marks 250 years of independence.This isn't just about celebrating a date on the calendar. It's about asking a deeper question: what does it look like to love your country through a Kingdom lens?This year, July 4th carries extra weight. Two hundred fifty years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, a document signed by over fifty men who paid real prices for putting their names on it. That document sparked a war. It also sparked something else: a nation built not on ethnicity or monarchy, but on ideals.A Nation Built on IdeasAmerica is unique in world history because it isn't founded on the legacy of a bloodline or a crown. It's founded on ideas, chief among them, ordered liberty.Katharine Lee Bates captured that idea in her hymn "America the Beautiful" when she wrote "confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law." Liberty and self-control, held together. That's ordered liberty. It's not an accident that a poet writing from the top of Pikes Peak in 1893 landed on the same idea the founders had built into the Constitution over a century earlier.The framers drew from the best of the Greco-Roman world, the Enlightenment, and a strong dose of Judeo-Christian conviction. That blend mattered. Thomas Jefferson believed the French Revolution was simply an extension of the American one. John Adams disagreed, and Adams was right.The French Revolution had liberty, fraternity, and equality as its slogan, but it lacked the spiritual roots the American Revolution had. It descended into tyranny under Napoleon. America's revolution, by contrast, was preceded by the First Great Awakening, a wave of Christian revival up and down the Eastern seaboard in the 1730s and 1740s that shaped the spiritual and moral imagination of the generation that would go on to found a nation.Rights From the Creator, Not the StateThe Declaration of Independence makes a claim that's easy to read past: these rights are endowed by the Creator, not granted by government. That distinction matters enormously. If government grants rights, government can revoke them. But if rights come from God, no human institution has the authority to take them away.That's why the founders built a government of enumerated, limited powers. Three branches. Checks and balances. A Constitution crafted with the understanding that power corrupts, and that men need moral chains on their own appetites, in the words of Irish statesman Edmund Burke.This is also why the Declaration ends the way it does, appealing to "the Supreme Judge of the world" and pledging "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor." These weren't hollow words. Many signers lost property, homes, and safety for putting their names on that document.Freedom, once secured, has rarely been won back once lost. That's exactly why every generation has to understand its cost.Two Loves, Not OneHere's the tension many Christians feel and rarely resolve: how do you hold a Kingdom-first faith and still love your country? The answer isn't to choose one.Your spirit, your new nature in Christ, is big enough to hold both: the priority of God's Kingdom first, and a real, God-given love to steward and preserve the nation He's placed you in. That's not compromise. That's stewardship.America's story includes real failures: slavery, Jim Crow, the long road to full civil rights and voting rights for women. The nation has moved, imperfectly but really, toward its own stated ideals. That's part
- Jun 25, 202620 min
The Eden Lie: Progressivism as Demonic Counterfeit | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 376
Brian traces progressivism from its Enlightenment roots to its expression in modern politics and the church, exposes it as a demonic counterfeit to the Kingdom of God, and points to the real future — the City of God coming to earth and the New Heavens and New Earth.Real freedom is downstream from truth. The kingdom is here. And the real Eden is not the one progressivism is building.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: The Eden Lie: Progressivism as Demonic CounterfeitReal Freedom Is Downstream from TruthTruth is upstream from freedom. Freedom is a wonderful value — one we all want. The human being is created to be free. Here's what Jesus said in John 8. He said to the people who believed in him: "You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." The Amplified has it as continually obeying his teachings and living in accordance with them. Then in verse 36, Jesus says, "So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free." And in John 14:6: "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." According to the Jesus worldview, the Christian worldview, truth is ultimately a person.So if you can go upstream and say there is no ultimate truth — if you can say there are many truths — then downstream from that you can affect human freedom. This is a core question. When Jesus stood before Pilate at his trial, just overnight before his crucifixion, at that critical moment when the Son of God was being offered as a sacrifice, Pilate asked: "What is truth?" That question echoes throughout human history.A Quote That Rocked MeI was sitting on the couch recently doing old school newspaper reading — the kind that makes your fingers gray from the ink. I've been reading the Epoch Times. All I needed was a pipe, a fireplace, and a dog sleeping nearby. I'm reading this article, "Looking Through an Adversary's Eyes: A KGB Agent's Prophecy," and I come across a quote that stopped me cold.It's from a French liberal politician and journalist who lived from 1830 to 1888 — very influential, very progressive. The article used his quote to illustrate what they called the arrogance of intellectuals taken in by radical ideologies. Here it is: "Beside the divine garden from which I have been expelled, I will erect a new Eden. At its entrance, I will set up Progress, the personification of progress, and I will give a flaming sword into his hand and he will say to God, thou shalt not enter here."Can you imagine that? The human quest has set up a counterfeit Eden. Instead of being removed from God's Eden because we were grasping at what is right and wrong, God is now removed from our Eden. And the guardian is not an angel of God. It's the personification of Progress — that is progressivism.What Progressivism Actually IsThis is a primer, and I want to be clear — I'm on a continuum of learning here. Progressivism is rooted in the European Enlightenment. In America, it has been at least a 100-year struggle between progressivism and traditionalism. It began as an intellectual rebellion against the founding political philosophy of America — constitutionalism — rooted in the thought of John Locke and the founders of the republic.The founders saw the authority of government depending on observed limitations on its powers. Progressivism rejects that. Its vision is a linear path in history toward absolute equality, a utopia. Social justice as equality of outcomes — in everything. And progressives want to liberate individuals from history. They want to release them from religion. They want to redefine gender and marriage. They want to dismantle the family. Progressivism believes that social conditions can change human nature.If there is anything in you of the Christian worldview, that will run against the grain. You understand that human nature cannot be changed by social conditions alone. It requires spiritual regeneration and development as a Christ follower. And what begins as soft totalitarianism will eventually evolve into total totalitarianism — a form of government that asserts total control over the lives of its citizens through coercion, suppr
- Jun 18, 202610 min
Rich in All the Wrong Ways | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 375
Some are rich — just in all the wrong ways. Jesus had something different in mind.Let's unpack what it means to step off the expressway of self and into the off-road adventure of Kingdom generosity. From investing in relationships to leveraging resource for others, living rich toward God is not just a posture. It's a path toward the greatest treasures on earth and beyond and in the New Heavens and New Earth on the horizon.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Rich in All the Wrong Ways. Are You Rich Toward God?Friend, welcome to Jesus Smart X. I'm Brian Del Turco, your host.What does it mean to be rich toward God? Jesus coined that phrase. We're going to touch on it today in this short episode. Being rich toward God points to a lifestyle that yields the highest harvest, both now and forever.This episode is based on a guest post by Matt Peterson, a pastor in North Carolina, published on JesusSmart.com. It might just change how you invest your days and weeks.A quick encouragement: check out the last episode, Willing and Obedient: The Blessing Is in Motion, a Jesus Smart 180. We looked at obedience as the on-ramp to God's blessing. Today we're staying in that neighborhood, unpacking what it means to live rich toward God.The question on the table: are you rich toward God? Am I? What does it mean?Before we get into it, subscribe to the Smart Edit newsletter for weekly Kingdom insight at jesussmart.com/smartedit.The Parable of the Rich FoolJesus was teaching in Luke 12 when someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or arbiter over you?" And then he said to them, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed, for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions."He told them a parable. The land of a certain rich man was very productive, and he began reasoning to himself. Notice what he said to himself. He never once thought, I have a superabundance. Maybe I should give some of it away and help the poor.Instead he said, "This is what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul: you have many goods laid up for many years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry."But God said to him, "You fool. This very night your soul is required of you. And now who will own what you have prepared?"Then Jesus concludes: "So is the man who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."There's the phrase.The Expressway of MeJesus knows that a lifestyle of generosity and sowing reaps the highest harvest, in this life and in the age to come. The question worth sitting with: will our future self thank our current self for how we lived?Jesus is not saying don't prepare for the future. He's not saying never spend anything on yourself or enjoy life. Paul told Timothy that it is God who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.What Jesus is sharing is a secret more important than self-preservation or self-increase. It's the secret of stepping off the wide expressway everyone's racing on. Call it the expressway of me. Onto an off-road adventure of living as a giver of riches.What does it mean to live rich toward God? It means living on a path where you discover the greatest treasures on earth. And what are the greatest treasures on earth? People. Jesus came and gave it all for people.It's a journey with constant opportunity: encourage the wilted, give water to the thirsty, celebrate the successes of others, ask how you can add value, multiply value, enhance someone's progress. Weep with the suffering and find ways to free the oppressed.You can find the full show notes for this episode at jesussmart.com/375.Serving the KingWhat we're really doing when we live this way is serving the Kingdom of Heaven. In effect, we are serving the King himself.Being rich toward God means joyfully volunteering in the mission of serving the purposes of the Kingdom, and that is fundamentally an investment in people. When I invest in rela
- Jun 4, 20262 min
Willing and Obedient The Blessing Is in Motion | Jesus Smart 180, Ep. 374
Obedience to the Lord releases a blessing — but the timing and shape of it will likely surprise you. The most significant acts of obedience are often the ones nobody sees: the resolute yes in a quiet moment, the faithfulness in a small thing, the integrity in an unseen situation. God catalogs every one. Isaiah 1:19 makes the promise plain... willing and obedient hearts eat the good of the land. The blessing comes later than you think, looks different than you think, and lands better than you think. In this Jesus Smart 180, Brian Del Turco unpacks the Kingdom posture of willing obedience and why the blessing is already in motion for those who stay based.See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: The Blessing Is in MotionJesus Smart 180. Three minutes. One turnaround.Hey, welcome back. I'm Brian Del Turco. This is Jesus Smart 180.One word today. And that word is obedience. And a blessing that many times we don't wait long enough to receive.Obedience to the Lord releases a blessing. But the timing and the shape of that blessing may likely surprise you.Most of us think of obedience as a transaction. Do the right thing, get the result, fairly quickly, in a form we recognize. But many times that's not how it works.Often the most significant acts of obedience are the ones nobody sees. It's that resolute yes we give to the Lord in a quiet moment. That faithfulness in a small thing. That act of integrity in an unseen situation.No audience. Just you and God, and a choice you make. And then the Holy Spirit meets you to empower you to obey.Here's what's worth knowing. God catalogs every one of those moments. Even when we don't see an immediate reward or blessing for the obedience.Isaiah 1:19 puts it plainly... "If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land." (NKJV)Two words deserve attention in that verse. Willing and obedient. Not just obedient — but the posture of our heart. Are we willing? God isn't looking for grudging compliance.He's looking for a heart that says yes, a heart aligned with him. A heart that wants to obey without even much thought given to the blessing. That just comes as a byproduct.The promise is substantial. The good of the land. Not consolation prizes.Now here's the part that requires faith. The blessing often comes later than you think. And it likely looks different than you think. It doesn't always arrive on our timeline or in the form we anticipated. But when it lands — and it does land — it's better than we think.James 1:25 — "He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." (NKJV)Stay based. Keep saying yes. The blessing is in motion for you.Show notes for this episode are at JesusSmart.com/374. If this landed for you, pass it on.I'm Brian Del Turco. There's a way that things work in the Kingdom. Stay willing. Stay obedient.Thanks for listening to Jesus Smart 180. Your move. Visit JesusSmart.com for show notes and more.
- May 21, 20261h 14m
Psalm 110: Christ Is Already Reigning — Are You Living Like It? with Paul Hubbard | Jesus Smart X, Ep. 373
Most believers have barely scratched the surface of the powerful revelation in Psalm 110. In this conversation with Paul Hubbard, Brian Del Turco unpacks why Christ is reigning right now, not waiting. From the Melchizedek priesthood to the stunning story of Abigail and Nabal, this episode is a full-spectrum call to maturity — to become the kings and priests that Psalm 110 and Revelation 1:6 describe. If you've been waiting for Jesus to act, this episode will reframe everything. It's your move.----------See the full episode transcript below.👉 Explore more episodes: JesusSmart.com/podcastIf this episode gave you a fresh perspective on Kingdom Living, share it with someone who needs encouragement.Be sure to follow the podcast. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly and pursue the kind of life only Jesus makes possible.Stay current via The Smart Edit newsletter—Elevate your faith. Live smart. Make an impact. Free. Weekly. 5 minutes to grow. Sign up at JesusSmart.com/smartedit.----------EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Psalm 110: Christ Is Already Reigning — Are You Living Like It?A New Heart: Paul's Encounter with JesusBrian: Welcome to Jesus Smart X. I'm Brian Del Turco, and today I have a remarkable guest — Paul Hubbard, joining us from England. Paul has walked with Jesus for over 44 years, ministering apostolically and prophetically across the UK, Europe, Africa, and beyond. Paul, how did you first encounter Jesus?Paul: I encountered him after a very difficult operation in which I actually died on the operating table. Seven days after being released from hospital, Jesus came to meet me in my bedroom. I experienced having been given a totally new heart — not physical, but real. In the morning I was completely changed. I looked out the door, I looked at the trees and went, the trees are green, the sky's blue. It was that radical. I went around telling everybody I loved them, that God loved them. I was a new creation immediately.Brian: Born again. Radically regenerated. Paul has since served globally — UK, Norway, Italy, Kenya, Nepal, Paraguay, the USA, Canada — and is presently, along with his wife Corinne, seeking to see the true ecclesia emerge. He describes ministering amongst the dying embers of the church at large, believing we have entered a new era since 2020 — one that looks dark and dangerous on one side, but on the other, the glory of God is arising within his people. A company of burning hearts is being prepared for this moment. You can find Paul on Rumble — search Get a Life! — and check the show notes at jesussmart.com/374 for links as more of his resources come online.Psalm 110 — The King Is on the Throne NowBrian: Psalm 110 is the most quoted psalm in the entire New Testament. The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. This is not a seeker-sensitive psalm. It is potent, urgent, and demands a response. Paul, what is your assessment?Paul: Jesus has finished and accomplished everything the Father wanted him to do. It's all wrapped up, everything is done, everything's finished, and it's all under his feet. He's the King — not just in heaven, but over the whole cosmos. Everyone's waiting for Jesus to do something more, whilst Jesus is waiting for us to administer his kingdom on the earth.Brian: Jesus raises Psalm 110 in Matthew 22, just before his crucifixion. Peter quotes it in Acts 2 immediately after the Holy Spirit is poured out. This psalm is not relegated to the future. It is already in play. Christ is reigning now — and we are his body, his hands, his feet, his beating heart. We are the ones called to carry the kingdom of God into the earth.Paul: We're not doing it the way people think he ought to. He's already here. He's just waiting for us to administer what he's already done.Brian: This is the weight of Psalm 110 pressing down on you and me right now. Not someday. Now.Hebrews 6 and the Cornelius PeopleBrian: If Christ is already reigning and waiting for us to administer his kingdom, the uncomfortable question becomes: are we actually equipped for that? Hebrews 6 is direct — though you should be teachers, you need someone to teach you again. You need milk, not solid food. You are underdeveloped, arrested in your walk with God.Paul: If the elementary principles of Christ — the living letters of Jesus himself — are not alive on the inside of us, then we're not carryi
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