Hardwired with Jeff Wickwire

Have you ever heard a preacher on the radio or on TV, telling you that if you have faith, you will be blessed with riches and shiny new toys? Well, Pastor Jeff is here to remind you today that those teachers are bending God’s Word to fit their own agendas! What the Bible actually promises is that if you have faith in God, you will be blessed by His Presence. The Word of God reminds you that material wealth can be a dangerous trap if you allow it to take priority over your loyalty to the Kingdom of God.

When you’re driving on the freeway, you can’t just exit the road whenever you want! More often than not, there are barriers and obstacles that stop you from driving off a highway back into regular traffic, so you are forced to take a designated off-ramp. Well, Pastor Jeff teaches you today that life is a journey with only two possible destinations, and you have to choose which one you will travel to. One of them leads to eternal destruction, and the other one leads to eternal life. There is no third option. 

It is perfectly normal for those of us who follow Jesus to wish that all people would be saved. After all, how could a loving God allow someone to go to hell, to spend eternity in torment? Well, Pastor Jeff reminds us today that we need to put away our feelings when it comes to God’s Word. We can’t twist the Word to fit our own desires; we must allow the Word to shape our minds and our hearts. The teachings of universalism come from a well-meaning heart, but they have no Scriptural foundation.

It’s important to be vigilant about the kind of people you allow into your life. What kind of fruit does their life produce? Are they really living for the Lord, or are they claiming to live for Him while doing the exact opposite? Pastor Jeff warns you today that one of the easiest ways to allow the enemy access to your life is to allow lukewarm Christians into your life. When you let your guard down, Satan gets the opportunity to work his way into your life and sow lies and false teachings in your heart.

If you ever feel useless, one of the best things you can do is recognize that God has placed you in your current situation for a reason. He doesn’t make mistakes, and His plans for your life are going to look a lot different than the plans you may have for yourself. Pastor Jeff teaches you today that the world will try to make you feel unimportant and insignificant. But if you quiet your mind and listen to the Holy Spirit’s voice, you will become aware of the peace you feel in the center of God’s will.

Sometimes it can feel good to turn your brain off. Just going through your everyday life can feel like drinking water from a firehose, as information sprays at you way faster than you can process it. But Pastor Jeff warns you that when it comes to spiritual experiences, you can never be too careful. There are false teachers out there who want you to believe that they have a special revelation from God, but if that revelation isn’t based in Scripture, then they are spreading a corrupt message!

You know, sometimes I take a slightly different route on my way home from work, just so I can see a part of the city I’m not used to. Sometimes, I switch up the seasonings in my favorite meal, or try a little bit more cream in my coffee. Variety and novelty can be a good thing! But in today’s message, Pastor Jeff reminds us that seeking new spiritual experiences can lead us down a dangerous road. The novelty of a mystical encounter with Jesus cannot take priority over the study of God’s Word!

As a follower of Jesus, you are uniquely equipped to preach His truth into the darkness of this world! In today’s message, Pastor Jeff teaches you that there are many teachings and ideologies in today’s culture that cause people to believe false things about themselves. They base their identities on something that isn’t true! But when you draw your identity from God’s Word and what Jesus says about you, it gives you the ability to be a light that brings hope to this world full of confusion and uncertainty!

These days, more people are concerned with the narrative of the oppressor and the oppressed than ever before. Everything that exists in this world has to fit into one of those two categories, and that can require a lot of ideological leaps and broad generalizations. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will warn you about the pitfalls of woke ideology and remind you that true justice can only come from the Lord. Do not let your concern for social justice overcome your hunger for the things of God.

If you’ve been listening to the past few messages from Pastor Jeff, you will remember that God has full and perfect knowledge of the future. Pastor Jeff teaches us today that this concept of foreknowledge actually fixes one of the main points of tension we can have with Calvinism. God predestines us to be saved, but that is only because He knows before we are even born that we will accept Jesus’ gift of salvation! That’s why predestination and free will don’t necessarily contradict each other.