Truth & Knowledge: Episode 55 – “Love is Not Sex”

Truth & Knowledge: Episode 54 – “Love is Patient” In this episode, Trey Knowles reflects on God’s enduring patience and what it teaches us about how to treat one another. He shares that just as God shows patience, grace, and compassion toward us despite our mistakes, we too are called to be patient with others. God never gives up on us, and His patience is meant to draw us closer to repentance and transformation. Trey highlights two key scriptures: Romans 2:4 reminds us that God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience are meant to lead us to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 emphasizes that the Lord is patient, desiring that no one should perish but that everyone should come to repentance. Through this message, Trey encourages listeners to embrace patience as an expression of love, mirroring God’s own heart toward us.

Truth & Knowledge: Episode 53 – “Peace and Hope” In this episode, Trey Knowles reflects on the contrast between sin and grace, drawing from Romans 5:12–19. He explains that sin and death entered the world through one man, Adam, and as a result, all humanity shares in that sin and its consequences. Yet, through another man—Jesus Christ—life, peace, and hope have entered the world. Trey emphasizes that while Adam’s trespass brought condemnation and death, Christ’s obedience brings justification and life. The gift of God’s grace, given through Jesus, far surpasses the effects of sin. Through faith in Christ, believers are made righteous and can live in the peace and hope that come from God’s abundant grace.

Truth & Knowledge: Episode 52 – “America, You Arrogant One” In this episode, Trey Knowles delivers a solemn message to America, calling the nation to humility and repentance before God. He warns that true blessing comes only through walking in obedience to the Lord. Citing Scripture, Trey reminds listeners that if we continue to sin willfully after knowing the truth, only judgment remains. Just as those who rejected Moses’ law faced death without mercy, how much greater will the punishment be for those who reject Christ, dishonor His sacrifice, and insult the Spirit of grace.

Truth & Knowledge: Episode 51.4 – “I Am Not Ashamed”

In this episode, Trey Knowles boldly declares his unwavering confidence in the gospel. He speaks on the theme “I Am Not Ashamed,” affirming his faith in God’s truth and his commitment to proclaim it without fear or hesitation. Trey reminds listeners that there is no disgrace in standing firm for what God has revealed in His Word — the gospel remains the power of God for salvation and the foundation of truth.

Scripture Focus: God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
Romans 1:18–32

Paul writes that God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness—against those who suppress the truth through their unrighteousness. From the very beginning, God’s divine nature and eternal power have been made clear through creation, leaving humanity without excuse. Yet, though people knew God, they refused to honor or thank Him, turning instead to idolatry and self-deception.

As a result, God allowed them to follow their sinful desires, exchanging His truth for lies and worshiping creation rather than the Creator. Their rejection of God led to moral and spiritual corruption—hearts darkened, minds depraved, and lives consumed by greed, envy, violence, and pride. Despite knowing God’s righteous standards, they not only persisted in evil but approved of others who did the same.

Through this passage, Trey emphasizes both the seriousness of sin and the hope of redemption found only in the gospel—a truth believers can proclaim boldly and without shame.

What Faith Involves

Biblical faith involves three key features:

1. Knowledge

Faith is dependent upon what can be known about God. In fact, the New Testament says that faith involves us coming to know God Himself. In John 17:3, Jesus says, “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”

Note: John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

How can you know God? In the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ! Speaking of Jesus, John 1:18 says, “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.” That’s why it is so important to consider the claims that Jesus made: it is in knowing Him that we know God. And it is this knowledge of God that gives us the basis for our faith.

2. Assent - express approval or agreement, typically officially.

In biblical faith, our knowledge of God must then be followed by assent. Once we’ve recognized that certain things are true and are to be believed, we must actually believe them! Biblical faith is certainly more than giving assent—but it is never less.

As we read the Bible and consider the claims of Jesus Christ, we discover in Christ someone who compels people’s belief—sometimes even against their will. We might say to ourselves, “I don’t want to believe in Jesus. I don’t want my life taken over. I don’t want somebody in charge of me.” Yet when we lay our lives open before Christ, when we see Him on the cross, and when we understand that He bore all of our sin and rebellion, He compels our belief. When we see Christ in this way, knowledge will be followed by assent.

3. Trust

Lastly, genuine faith involves trust. Knowledge and assent alone do not make genuine faith. James 2:19 says that “even the demons believe.” Demons are not atheists. They even have an orthodox view of God. If faith, then, is simply about understanding God correctly, we must logically conclude that the demons have saving faith. Yet we know that this isn’t the case.

A simple awareness of facts is not faith. There must be a movement from knowledge to assent that then culminates in trust.

A summons to trust in Christ—actively, not passively—is included in all of His invitations. In Matthew 11, for example, He says, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (vv. 28–29). Notice the verbs: “come,” “take,” “learn,” “find rest.” These are all action words. They involve doing. You see, faith is not passive resignation. New Testament faith begins in knowledge, leads to assent, and ends in trust on the basis of the knowledge to which we have assented.

A Picture of Faith

A helpful illustration of biblical faith is marriage. Like faith, marriage involves multiple stages. First, you must get to know the individual: you go out for dinner, you walk in the park, you listen to them talk, and you observe them with their family and friends. As you gain knowledge, you begin to ask yourself, “Could I spend my life with this person? Am I willing to commit myself to them?” Then, once you have satisfactory answers to these questions, you begin to tell yourself, “On the basis of the knowledge that I’ve gained, I am prepared to make a commitment. I want to move beyond mere knowledge and assent to trust. I want to give myself to them. I want to know them at the deepest possible level.”

This is the experience of all who place their faith in Jesus. Is it your experience? Are you a person of faith?

 The Weak and the Strong

Romans 14. Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,

‘every knee will bow before me;

    every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]

12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.

19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. (edification is the building up of the body of Christ) 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.

22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith, and everything that does not come from faith is sin

Notes: Hebrews 11:1 (Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.)

Notes:  Substance Equals Jesus

Notes: All good things come from God above. Which we put our hope in.

Notes: If does not come from Jesus it is sin because it is impure.

Notes: And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6

When hypocrites judge you they will eat their judgment. The Target Audience of some will miss out on the full picture in this comedy special. The target audience cannot distinguish good from bad and bad from good. The emphasis on one word and the emphasis on what you put in your heart and mind is not the same.

What agreement is there between the Righteous and Idols of unrighteous behavior? This is a question and a comedy statement that Trey Knowles brings to his Target Audience. Trey Knowles confesses that he wants to stop feeding his mind and heart with unholy things. 

The reaction of some which is called Target Audience will be blessed and some will internally respond differently based on compromise. 

And too those who respond differently based on compromise Jesus declared, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24). God and the things of this world are of such opposite natures that it is impossible to love either one completely without hating the other. Those who try to love both will become unstable in all their ways.

This comedy special brings darts of change for those who watch the whole comedy special entirely. It is written in Ephesians 1:4. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.