{"id":229634,"date":"2017-04-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=229634"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:29:24","slug":"my-brothers-new-book-the-true-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/14\/my-brothers-new-book-the-true-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother\u2019s New Book: The True Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s also Good Friday today. And this would be a great time for me to tell you about my brother David\u2019s new book. Now, I\u2019ve mentioned on previous occasions that my brother has become devotedly Christian and religious, and he\u2019s fascinated by it in the scholarship sense. He has, like my father, read the Bible numerous times and is constantly seeking to understand it so as to be able to explain it to others and to answer other people\u2019s questions. And he\u2019s desperately desirous that as many people as possible try to learn the story of Christ and the gospels, as would anybody be who is passionate about anything.<\/p>\n

So his books on the subject have been written in the fashion of creating interest rather than preaching answers. And his latest book just came out this week. It\u2019s called The True Jesus.<\/a> And he wrote the book because, among all these other things I said, he\u2019s discovered as he\u2019s talked to people about Christianity and Christ, that people are intimidated by the Bible, that Christians today, as you know, have become part of a minority something — not a minority, but Christians are an approved group that you can criticize.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can make jokes about them. You can laugh at them. You can impugn them all you want and they have no recourse. They have to take it. You can\u2019t make fun of any other religion. You can\u2019t make jokes about any other religion without there being a price to pay. But in pop culture, you can impugn, you can destroy, you can misrepresent Christians, you can make fun of Christians all you want and be praised and have a career made out of it. And to my brother, this is distressing. And he has sought ways to try to make it all less the intimidating. And that\u2019s what this book is.<\/p>\n

And the first thing about it is that he believes that the entire concept of Jesus is misunderstood by virtue of pop culture. Not just pop culture, but in some of the ways that Christianity itself uses to spread the Word. His research and his belief is that Jesus depicted by pop culture is milquetoast, nonjudgmental, uncontroversial. He lived a perfect life, therefore he never made anybody mad. He lived a perfect life, therefore he never did anything wrong, therefore he lived a perfect life, everybody loved him, lived a perfect life, never judged anybody.<\/p>\n

And now Jesus is used by any number of people to justify their own behavior. And he says this is not who Jesus is and it\u2019s not who Jesus was. I mean, there\u2019s even a group now saying, “I\u2019m perfect. God made me.” And nobody\u2019s perfect, which is the whole point. So he points out in the book that Jesus says in the Bible that he came to divide us, that he represents the truth, and he knows people are gonna reject the truth.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t promise that by following him you would get wealthy and prosperity or have an easy life. Quite the opposite. That if you attempt to live the life of Christ, you\u2019re gonna be hated, you\u2019re gonna be despised, you\u2019re gonna be reviled, you\u2019re gonna be laughed at and made fun of. That Jesus told us he would divide brother against brother and father against son, mother against daughter all on the basis of belief or not. And so the milquetoast version of Jesus all sweetness and light and nonjudgmentalism and everybody dazzled, obviously not the truth. And all of this can only be discovered by actually reading the gospels.<\/p>\n

So you might say, “Why doesn\u2019t your brother just, say, read the gospels instead of writing a book about it?” Because he\u2019s trying to be compelling. He\u2019s trying to entice people to get interested enough to actually read the gospels and learn what he has learned. I talk about this with David frequently because he\u2019s devout, and he thinks that if people read the Bible with an open mind and an open heart, that the truth of Jesus and of God will explode on the reader in a mind-blowing fashion.<\/p>\n

So the purpose of this book, The True Jesus, is to introduce people to the gospels, make them less intimidating — you know, it\u2019s written in such a way you can\u2019t even understand it. A lot of people don\u2019t understand the language itself, the prose, the way it\u2019s all put together, and so this book is to actually serve as an introduction. And most of all, to encourage people to read the Bible for themselves rather than relying on other people who have and their interpretation or getting some of it from pop culture or what have you.<\/p>\n

His book is in two main parts. Chapters 1 through 4 are an introduction to the gospels. And they start from about 400 BC to the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi, written about the time Jesus was born, so it\u2019s about 400 years here, and much happened during those years, a whole bunch of empires were created. The scene was set, in other words, for the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The second part of the book obviously examines the life of Jesus after birth. Chapters 5 through 12, second part, probably the main part of the book if you want to look at it that way combines all four gospels into a unified chronological account. In other words, changes the order and puts it chronologically as it happens so you don\u2019t have to go back and forth and remember where you were. And there\u2019s commentary in every section. The main goal with the book is to stimulate readers to read the gospels for themselves and to be less intimidated at the prospect of doing so. However, if you read this book, you\u2019re gonna get a head start on the gospels anyway. It\u2019s based on that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just a couple hundred pages trying to motivate you to open the Bible and read it. It\u2019s full of details from the Bible and enticements to go further. So I wanted to mention it today as a perfect day to mention it. It\u2019s Good Friday. And it\u2019s my brother\u2019s third or fourth book on the subject. And they just keep getting better.<\/p>\n

It was a massive undertaking. You would not believe, he hibernates and the sourcing that he uses to put this together, he doesn\u2019t just look at the Bible and then start writing down what he thinks of it. He researches what others have said about passage, chapter, verse. If he doesn\u2019t quite understand it, he goes to places that he thinks can help him understand it so that he can then phrase it in ways that other people — look, it\u2019s like anything in passion: You believe in it, you want to share it. And in this case, his passion for Christ and Christianity and eternal life is something that he just is deeply devoted to and wants to share it and spread it with as many people as he can.<\/p>\n

And so these books do that. And this latest one is out now. It\u2019s Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, anywhere. The True Jesus is the name. I have my copy because I\u2019m his brother, so I already have mine, but I bought it. I bought my e-copy from iBooks. (interruption) What do you mean, are there any pictures? (laughing)<\/p>\n

He just got back from Israel. He took the Israel trip that I took back in 1993. I only got five days. He was there for two weeks. I knew it was gonna have deep meaning for him after having written the book. I had to talk him into going because it\u2019s such a long trip and he has so many other responsibilities at home. But he\u2019s glad he did it. It\u2019s a once in a lifetime trip and he saw everything in Israel. Golan Heights, all the political, all the religious. And it\u2019s a worthwhile trip.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just wanted to spend some time on this since it\u2019s Good Friday and it\u2019s not in any way an interruption into what\u2019s normally happening out there. But look, seriously, if any of this has any interest to you, if you think of yourself as a devoted and devout Christian, I guarantee you that this book is gonna send you back to restudy, to reexamine, to relook, it\u2019s that interesting, it\u2019s that compelling. And it\u2019s written from a standpoint of deep understanding and knowledge of the gospel after a lifetime of study. So, if it\u2019s a subject that you think you want to look into, The True Jesus would be a superb beginning point for you, actually.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, let me clarify. I have a couple questions in the email. The book doesn\u2019t replace the Bible. The True Jesus doesn\u2019t replace the Bible. For those people too intimidated to even start the Bible because it\u2019s too big, you don\u2019t think you\u2019re gonna be able to understand it, you see the way it\u2019s written, no matter what version of it you get, and you never pick it up. You try to learn what\u2019s in it from other sources.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this book is precisely to take the intimidation factor of reading the Bible away from you by acquainting you with what\u2019s in it, equipping you for what you\u2019re going to find in chronological order. But really, folks, think of this. How many of you, when you think about Jesus, really think of somebody who\u2019s sin-free. Who was portrayed as noncontroversial. Who had the ultimate answer on everything and everybody agreed, well, you know, that not everybody agreed, but that, nevertheless, it was milquetoast and it was sweetness and light.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s not the way it was. Jesus was despised and hated, and he knew it was gonna happen. The country, the world, the area was divided precisely because of the challenges that he brought. He was a hugely controversial figure. He was not for everybody the long-awaited answer for the world\u2019s problems. So if you have an impression of Jesus as the ultimate answer, that, you know, what would Jesus say? That\u2019s become a popular saying, “If we only know what Jesus would say.” Well, half the people that would hear what Jesus would say would refuse to accept it, as they did then.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not a question of being overwhelmed; it\u2019s a question of choosing to believe based on what\u2019s inside you. Now, all this book is is a way of getting you to that degree of understanding and past all the fears or intimidation that people might have from reading the book because the Bible is so big, so complicated, jumps all over the place. The Old Testament\u2019s organized, New Testament\u2019s organized, but, believe me, this is a great assist in getting you ready. You\u2019ll open the Bible with a whole heck of a lot of understanding before you even read the first word, and that\u2019s what the purpose is. My brother, David Limbaugh. The True Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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