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A Different Perspective Official Podcast

A Different Perspective Official Podcast

De: Berni Dymet
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God has a habit of wanting to speak right into the circumstances that we're travelling through here and now; the very issues that we each face in our everyday lives. Everything from dealing with difficult people … to discovering how God speaks to us; from overcoming stress … to discovering your God-given gifts and walking in the calling that God has placed on your life And that's what these daily 10 minute A Different Perspective messages are all about.Christianityworks Cristianismo Espiritualidad Ministerio y Evangelismo
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  • Christ on the Inside // The Best of the Best, Part 6

    Christ on the Inside // The Best of the Best, Part 6
    Dec 8 2025
    Imagine having a job where you had to try to convince people of something you yourself didn't really believe. That'd be a tough gig, don't you think? And yet that's how many a Christian feels when it comes to telling others about Jesus. Because if they themselves haven't experienced the powerful difference that He can make in their lives – on the inside – how can they possibly tell others about Him? One of the things that we know is, that you and I we are what we eat. So if what we do is pig out on chocolates, man I love chocolate, but we know that too much is bad for us. And fatty foods and sweet and sugary drinks and lots of cakes and sweets, all that stuff, if we pig out on that stuff then who we are on the inside is going to change. We're going to put on weight. Our emotions will take a down swing, that's what too much sugar does. We become lethargic and tired and won't be able to cope. Our heart will have to work harder to get the blood around the larger body and our coronary arteries are going to get clogged up and the sugar will go up in our blood. On and on and on the list goes. The impact is that we have less of life to live now because we're always tired and not feeling well and our life expectancy is going to be reduced. On the other hand, if we get a great mix of healthy cereals and grains and brightly coloured vegetables and lean meat, all that stuff which actually tastes fantastic, the complete opposite is going to happen. What happens on the inside has a huge impact on what happens on the outside. Who we are on the inside, whether it's physically, emotionally or spiritually, has a huge impact on who we are on the outside. And the up shot of it all is we simply can't be one thing on the inside and try to be something else on the outside. You know what? It just doesn't work. This week and next week on the program we're having a bit of a chat about living our lives out here on earth as ambassadors of Christ. Because that's what anyone who believes in Jesus is called to be. We are citizens of heaven, not of this earth and as Paul the Apostle writes, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 20: We are ambassadors for Christ since God is making His appeal through us. But as I said, you can't be one thing on the inside and pretend to be another thing on the outside. You can't be Swedish on the inside and pretend to be the Indian ambassador on the outside. We can't be the devil on the inside and pretend to be an angel of light on the outside. Well maybe we can for a while but I suspect it's incredibly hard work carrying on that sort of a deception and it doesn't take long for who we really are to make it's way to the outside. As Jesus Himself said: It's out of the heart that evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness and slander actually come. (Matthew chapter 15, verse 19) So if we're going to be ambassadors of Christ then first we have to be citizens of heaven on the inside. Just as the Indian ambassador has to be Indian and not Swedish on the inside. Interesting how God talked about this through His Prophet Ezekiel to His people. He talked to them about what was going on in their hearts. Have a listen, Ezekiel chapter 18, verse 31: Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die O house of Israel? A new heart. I think we know what God means but that's not so much an expression that we use these days. The expression we might use is a change of heart. You and I know what that means. Unless something happens deep inside our hearts on the inside we can't change on the outside. But you know there have been issues, transgressions, sins in my life that try as I may I couldn't change my heart myself. I'm guessing you've had that experience too, we all have. And that's why God made this promise too to His people through Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 36, verse 26. He says: A new heart I will give you and a new spirit I will put within you and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. In fact, perhaps you want to be an ambassador of Christ but there's something, right now, going on in your heart. Something that you can't change for yourself that you need God to do for you. If you have that why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Our Father God This word of yours well you're putting your finger right on one of the deepest needs in my life. You and I both know what that is and you know how I've struggled to change my heart. I've tried my hardest but I can't and so I come to you in faith and I pray for your will as Ezekiel chapter 36, verse 26 for a new heart, a change of heart. Take out the heart of stone O God and replace it with a heart of flesh. Take out of me the spirit that is causing me to sin and fill me with your Holy Spirit. I come to you in faith; I believe that what I've asked you, you will give me because I'm asking you in the ...
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  • Real Life Blessings // The Best of the Best, Part 5

    Real Life Blessings // The Best of the Best, Part 5
    Dec 5 2025
    A while back, we received a prayer request from Peter, who's been struggling with his weight – it's affecting his health, his family. It's ruining his life. Is Jesus in that place with Peter – and if He is, can He make a difference? Good day! Great that we can get together again. Well, it's Friday, and on Friday we always do something different. We look at somebody's prayer request that we have received. This week we received a request from Peter. He said, "I've been overweight for a long time now and have trouble with eating too much. I'm pretty lazy; I don't have any motivation. I'm on anti-depressants which doesn't help either. Please pray that I will have the will to stop myself from overeating and get off my backside and go for a walk. I have a lot of health issues surrounding my weight problem, and I'm sick of it. I want to be a fit dad and a good husband, and to do God's work to extend His kingdom. Thanks for the very powerful prayer ministry that you have in Jesus' name." There's a fine line, isn't there, between bad habits and addictions? Let's have a look whether God is in the middle of this weight-loss problem of Peter's. I've got another confession to make today. I love food. I always have and I always will. I grew up in a European household, and my mother cooked all these beautiful goulash dishes with cream and butter. I can't help it. I love food, and I love cooking shows on television. I love to watch Kylie Quan and Jamie Oliver, and they cook up these beautiful meals. But what always strikes me about friend Jamie and Kylie and others like them is the amount of olive oil and butter and sugar and cream that they pour into their cooking. And I've said once before on radio, and I'll say it again, if I ate that much fattening, sweet stuff, I would be the size of a house. The underlying kind of ethos that is behind that is that you can have it all and there are no consequences. Now we'd like to believe that, but it ain't true. My father was a diabetic. He died of diabetic complications, and it was one of the most horrible and ugly deaths I have ever seen. So if I follow wrong behavior in the area of eating, as obviously Peter is, there are consequences for me. And I am very likely to get diabetes and follow my father's footsteps and die an ugly death. The same is true, not just with food, but when we do stupid things or when we do wrong things or when we're addicted to bad things, it can ruin our life. The same is true, for instance, of work. If we work too hard, we don't have any balance in our lives, we become exhausted; people burn out. If we don't work enough, we don't have enough money to live. If we don't sleep enough, we end up being really tired. If we're lazy, if we're unreliable - all of those things follow the same life principle, as unpopular as it is, bad behavior leads to bad consequences. Let me say that again, bad behavior leads to bad consequences. To Peter, the consequences are health issues; there are emotional issues. He is on anti-depressants. He is sick of himself. Doubtless, his self-esteem is really low, because people look at him when he goes out. It's an impact on his marriage, on his family, on his health, and on his ability to do God's work all because, put very plainly and simply, Peter is putting too much food into his mouth and not exercising enough. It sounds simple, but Peter is addicted to eating. I relate to that. I've always struggled with weight all my life and had to go through a process of losing over 20 kilos because I was eating too much. And even now, if I have a really heavy dinner, I feel lethargic at night. I end up not sleeping well at night. And if I keep doing it, I will probably end up with diabetes. What to do? Peter is a man, who by his own testimony there believes in Jesus Christ. So if he dies tomorrow he has eternal life. All of these problems will go away and for eternity he'll live with Jesus. The question is, "Does he want to live the way he's living now between now and when he goes to be with the Lord?" And the answer from his email is absolutely no, and yet he lacks motivation. There's an old Chinese proverb, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." And it's that first step that is mostly the hardest. How to get motivated? Well there are some extreme ways to get motivated. I gave up cigarette smoking 24 years ago now, because I was with someone when they died of cancer. And though I was smoking three packets a day, I threw the packet of cigarettes into the bin at the hospital. And since that day I have never had a single cigarette. I guess it's extreme because it takes you to the end of your life. And you look at the consequences of your behavior and you say, "Do I want to end up like that"? That's a powerful thing to do. Do I want to end up like that? But what about the spiritual dimension? The apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Philippian church in chapter 2, verse 13, "God is at work in us, enabling ...
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  • Living a Resurrected Life Today // The Best of the Best, Part 4

    Living a Resurrected Life Today // The Best of the Best, Part 4
    Dec 4 2025
    If Jesus really rose from the dead all that time ago, if it really, truly happened….well, what does it mean to us today? What's the relevance? What's the point? This week on the program we are taking a bit of a look at this whole "resurrection" thing, because on the one hand it's so central to everything that Jesus talked about, and everything that Christians believe. But on the other hand, well, it can be hard to relate to that. I mean, how does it fit into real life today? I'm not sure where you are in terms of believing in Jesus and in particular in His resurrection. But let's assume for a moment that He did rise again from the dead; that's certainly where I'm at, it's kind of at the centre of everything I believe. Well, if He did rise from the dead, what does that mean to you and me, here and now, what relevance is there in all of that? Can the resurrection of Jesus Christ have an impact on your life and my life, here, now, today? Good questions! I mean why have a resurrection at all? Why did God plan it that way and why did He make it central to believing in Jesus? Yesterday we saw how the Apostle Paul said it was absolutely essential. Without faith in that there's no point. In Romans chapter 10 verse 9, he says, "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you'll be saved." And in First Corinthians 15:17 he says, "If Christ hasn't been raised, then you faith is futile." OK, well, that's the theology, if you like, let's take that at face value. But why is it so important? Why does God put it right at the centre of believing in Jesus - eternal life! I'm a pesky bloke; I keep asking these questions because people never really explained this stuff to me, in terms that I could really understand and grasp. And that made a difference in my life. All these Christians were talking about this whole "resurrection" thing like it was really important and I thought, "that's great, but why?" Believing in Jesus for me is a process, it's a whole life long thing. At some point I took a step of faith to believe in Him. I didn't understand everything, but what I discovered was there were lots of different parts of my life that just didn't fit with Him - selfishness, anger, being judgmental, all stuff that actually stunted my life. It's crazy how we want to hold onto that rubbish for dear life. But you know we do and it turns out all along, it's robbing us of life. I used to spend most of my time being angry with people because they didn't measure up to my standards - I'm a perfectionist - and they didn't see the world my way, and so I'd be angry with them all the time. And you know it robbed me of life - instead of peace and joy I always had anger and resentment in my heart. It's not rocket science but so many people do this stuff. It's one thing to believe with our head or our hearts in Jesus but it's quite another to believe with our lives. And to do that requires change and that's were the resurrection comes in. The Apostle Paul writes this in Romans chapter 8, he says: If the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit that dwells in you. Let's unpack that for a minute. There was the death and the crucifixion of Jesus where He paid for our sins. He paid for the fact that we turned our back on God and we went our own way, and we missed the whole point of creation which was to have a relationship with God. And before you jump down my throat and say "sin" is an old fashioned word. That the Greek word that the Bible uses for sin, literally means 'to miss the point", and we looked at that last week. God is a loving God but He's a just God and we have all fallen short of His standard and His plan - we've all missed the point. And when we believe that Jesus died for us, the slate is wiped clean; we are forgiven completely by God, we're forgiven; we've a fresh start. And that's fantastic! But you and I know that getting rid of that rubbish that God calls 'sin' is a life long process. Come on, we are naturally selfish, we naturally hang on to the things - I wanted to be self-righteous - I still have someone pull in a car in front of me and I'll be angry with them and I want to blow my horn and I want to … you know, that's me. Someone does wrong and somehow we want anger and revenge and we want to pay them back, and Jesus said, "Well, you want to believe in me, believe in me with your life. Show me, go and love your enemy, in fact, go and pray for your enemy." I don't know about you but that way of living just didn't come naturally to me. It's a process of changing but changing those things is hard. It's very, very hard, and in fact, in some areas, it's downright impossible. We just want to hang on and hang on and hang on and let the poison get in our system and ruin our lives. Paul bemoans that very thing in Romans chapter 7, he says, "I can will to...
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