Be a Doormat: Your Enemy Is Your Brother | Church 12/28/25

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Be a doormat. Best year ever! Purpose of war? Enemies within. What does it take to be born again / saved? Obey: Love. BQ: Judas?

Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, December 28, 2025

REMINDER 🚫 NO Men’s Forum in January 2026. We’re closed weekdays until we return Mon 1/5/26.

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TIMESTAMPS

(0:00:00) – 00 – Welcome
(0:02:05) – 01 – Can you love but not like? Crying at Jesus movie?
(0:13:45) – 02 – Mimi: Letting go. Relationship with son.
(0:17:25) – 3A – I told him he’s annoying me.
(0:19:45) – 3B – Story: Thrill from telling people son died…
(0:25:10) – 3C – Become a doormat, to be free.
(0:29:10) – 3D – Be a doormat for a whole year. Mimi…
(0:31:45) – 04 – Best year ever. Men, be a doormat. Look like a beta.
(0:47:45) – 05 – Purpose of war? Expert doormats…
(0:54:55) – 06 – Negative connotation? Doesn’t sound like a good thing…
(0:57:54) – 07 – Are you a king? Why cater to your wife?
(1:00:41) – 08 – War? Our enemies are within!
(1:03:41) – 9A – What does it take to be born again/saved? What’s the Bible say?
(1:08:39) – 9B – “Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart…” Why didn’t y’all say that?
(1:16:46) – 9C – Y’all should read the Bible sometimes! Saved vs born again?
(1:24:58) – 10A – What churches teach doesn’t work.
(1:28:23) – 10B – Bible verses: Luke 18: 18, Mark 10: 17, Matt 19: 16, John 12: 24-25. Cry.
(1:32:14) – 10C – JLP: Keep his commandments: Love.
(1:37:11) – 10D – If you loved your wife… Take no thought: Devil will answer your prayer.
(1:41:04) – 11 – I became a Bible thumper: Knowing the Bible doesn’t change the heart.
(1:46:01) – 12A – JLP: Even your enemy is your brother or sister. We’re all one.
(1:50:51) – 12B – Want for nothing. Be with the truth at all times. Love your enemy.
(1:53:20) – 13A – BQ: What happened to Judas Iscariot?
(1:58:52) – 13B – JLP on BQ: A Judas person is looked at as one of the worst
(2:00:04) – 14 – Do you love God and neighbor? A Jewish Christian… Judas question
(2:01:34) – 15 – Closing: What Jesus said vs what people said

CLIPS

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CHURCH NOTES 12/28/25

REMINDER 🚫 NO Men’s Forum in January 2026. (Normally the first Thursday of the month, but since it falls on New Year’s Day, and we’re closed Christmas Eve through New Year’s week, we’re not having it.) We return to regular office hours and radio show schedule Mon 1-5-26.

📖 Biblical Question: Where did Judas Iscariot go when he died?

00 – Welcome

(0:00:00) – Start (0:01:26) Intro

01 – Can you love but not like? Crying at Jesus movie?

(0:02:06) – How would you rate your year?

(0:02:56) She had a life

(0:03:47) No such thing as Like.

(0:09:06) She’s been talking about crying and noticing Jews or lack there of in movie credits in a Jesus movie.

(0:10:59) OK now? Question?

(0:12:45) If crying comes, let it happen naturally. I cried at a Christian movie.

02 – Mimi: Letting go. Relationship with son.

(0:13:43) – People let go in different ways. (0:15:40) JLP: Not really letting go…

(0:15:53) Son’s b-day. Silent Prayer. (0:16:38) JLP: When parents change, adult children see it.

How was your year? On a scale of 1-10…

3A – I told him he’s annoying me.

(0:17:24) – Dolores: Liking people… I’m supposed to love them… I said, that was really annoying to me.

3B – Story: Thrill from telling people son died…

(0:19:43) – JLP: If you truly love them, no opinion of their actions. Story… Why you look so sad? I lost so many people this year. Oldest son was killed. Oh, you couldn’t find them? You lookin’ crazy cuz somebody else died? They started cracking up! Getting a thrill telling everybody about it. All about a thrill. He laughed, seeing it was silly. All an act! Egos are about thrills.

(0:22:20) My year an 8, says Dolores. Exhausted… (0:23:10) Etch-a-sketch? Idk what that is! No, I didn’t have that in Alabama! (funny)

(0:24:16) My guilt, I loved my guilt. JLP: People love their guilt. Oh, Lord! … backfiring on me. (0:24:50) Still writing another book? Slowly but surely. May take another hundred years.

3C – Become a doormat, to be free.

(0:25:08) – JLP: Become a doormat. Never be free until you completely become a doormat. … Let people be rude and nasty, and don’t respond.

(0:28:55) Pick up your cross, and go all the way to Calvary

3D – Be a doormat for a whole year. Mimi…

(0:29:09) – Are you willing to be a doormat starting now till the end of next year. Assignment for a year…. Mimi: Same as laying your weapons down, in a different version.

(0:30:52) For a whole year now. Why you say it like that? At Church, at work…

04 – Best year ever. Men, be a doormat. Look like a beta.

(0:31:45) – JLP: This year been the best year for me since being on the planet. (0:32:12) I was at Epstein’s party, and I wanted to go to Diddy’s party. … Why? Because it has! How? Amazin’ly

(0:32:55) Doug, willing to be a doormat… Hard for me, they think that’s beta! You gonna look like a beta.

(0:34:54) Franky … (0:35:40) Doormat means you’ll look like a beta… Another man, it’s not gonna kill me.

(0:36:14) Best Christmas? No, the best YEAR. The whole year was perfect.

(0:37:15) Alissa (sp) Marissa’s sister, I would just cry… I’ve come a long way. JLP: Stay with it. Any Q?

(0:38:00) A man Alex(?) asks about being a doormat, people attacking you, being a doormat “within.” Satan will attack you in your mind. (0:39:35) Not arguing with children’s mother or anything! Not work on it. Do it!

(0:39:59) The gal who’s Ugandan (whom James previously mistook as Nigerian… clarified Tue 11-4-25 around 2: 34: 30 – A Stranger in Your House! | JLP Tue 11-4-25)…

(0:41:53) – Perfect year? Mimi… Dolores mentioned trying to make things perfect. (0:43:01) OMGoodness, I apologize. Anybody have a joint? There’s an evil spirit and a good one. (0:43:34) You ARE perfect. It doesn’t seem like it! … (0:44:42) You shouldn’t want for anything. … Key lime pie my fave. That’s that green pie?

(0:45:14) I have been a doormat for many years. I stopped and they got upset and judging. This doormat means you’ll let them act however they want. (0:45:47) Jesus? Si! Want some rice and beans? Oooh!

(0:46:11) Dolores… (0:46:29) JLP: When Christ said, Be perfect… You already are. … Be a doormat and find out.

(0:47:10) Man answers: Are you willing to be a doormat? Yes. Fear of coming on-stage?

05 – Purpose of war? Expert doormats?

(0:47:43) – Purpose of war? (0:49:01) Mostly for money and power… JLP: I thought it was to fight communism? To protect our freedom?

(0:50:34) Hake on war. (0:51:27) Hake, be a doormat? People talk Hake’s ear off.

(0:53:05) Anchor Baby: On camera in 4K.

(0:53:53) Kurt: I love being a doormat? You cry about it. Ever seen Kurt cry? Oh, Lord. (0:54:26) JLP: This doormat is allowing it to happen.

06 – Negative connotation? Doesn’t sound like a good thing…

(0:54:55) – Marissa: Usually a negative connotation? “I can’t see you being a doormat…” Doesn’t sound like a good thing.

07 – Are you a king? Why cater to your wife?

(0:57:54) – Man says “Mackavelli” (sp) says if you defend yourself, you lose… My wife treats me like … Be a doormat to your wife? To everyone.

(0:59:09) Are you a king? If you’re a king, how is it she’s getting to you? “I think the queen always tries… I was catering to her needs.” How can a king cater to anyone? Cater to your serfs, dukes. Why cater to your wife period? “… I put myself back in hell…” Be a doormat, and don’t try to show her anything. Leave her in her misery.

08 – War? Our enemies are within!

(1:00:41) – We’re supposed to be free in America. But we don’t have it. “I fought for your freedom. Looks like it was a waste of time. We’re more enslaved now in 1A and 2A… The enemies are within.

(1:01:46) Mimi: I don’t think it was always that way.

9A – What does it take to be born again? What’s the Bible say?

(1:03:41) – My second question: What does it take to be born again? To enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Man answers… (1:04:34) Second man answers… (1:04:57) What does the Bible say about being born again? Idk… Relax, it’s Christmas! Next Sunday’s when I pounce on you! (1:05:26) Rochelle: You have to die. Let the ego die. Bible? Idk.

(1:06:02) Hake? (1:07:44) Dolores or someone…

9B – “Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart…” Why didn’t y’all say that?

(1:08:39) – Anita the Ugandan gal… Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart… (1:09:11) Mimi: Every church says: Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart… (1:10:19) Where you been? Wow.

(1:10:50) Doug, it’s in the Bible! … Nick…

(1:11:48) The Latino guy? The upon experience or something…

(1:13:14) Romans 10: 9, says Anita… Saved, born again (John 3) (1:14:08) What…

(1:15:26) Rochelle… This is my home church… We don’t read the Bible much except Christmas time. I have Bibles, and they dusty.

9C – Y’all should read the Bible sometimes! Saved vs born again?

(1:16:46) – The Armenian guy… Dying, Denying yourself… (1:17:29) I read the Bible a lot! Good for you, man!

(1:18:23) Rochelle …

(1:19:04) Another young man been reading the Bible: Receive the Spirit from above. When Jesus was baptized… (1:20:35) Saved? (1:21:10) Doormat? “I already been doing that.”

(1:22:29) Franky, what does it take to be saved? Because of time… The Bible

9D – Pull up Luke 18: 18, Mark 10: 17, Matthew 19: 16

(1:23:29) Kurt, others … Luke 18: 18, Mark 10: 17, and Matthew 19: 16 ….

10A – What churches teach doesn’t work.

(1:24:58) – JLP: I didn’t know this until recently… From John and Paul… In order to be born again, you must believe Jesus died for your sins, and rose again. Uh-huh! Churches teach that. I’ve noticed THAT DOESN’T WORK. Why didn’t that work? Everyone who’s done it, it’s built their egos. They try to force themselves to believe what they’ve heard. Go out and preach. Vicious, evil, nasty people. What JESUS said, as opposed to what the disciples said.

10B – Bible verses: Luke 18: 18-30, Mark 10: 17, Matt 19: 16, John 12: 24-25. Cry.

(1:28:23) – Luke 18: 18,

(1:29:45) – Mark 10: 17

(1:30:34) – Matthew 19: 16

(1:31:08) Kurt… John 12: 24-25 – 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. … Why you crying? (1:31:51) Idk…

10C – Keep his commandments: Love.

(1:32:14) – JLP: Jesus never said any of that. In order to have eternal life, you must keep his commandments. Love him first, and one another. … (1:34:14) Be a doormat. And die. If you don’t have love, you have nothing.

10D – If you loved your wife… Take no thought. Devil will answer your prayer.

(1:37:11) – JLP: Even with your wife, if she’d been given you by God… (1:37:29) Man: I let my ego get in the way. JLP: If you love her, she can’t touch you. Make you mad. She could be nutty as a fruitcake, but it wouldn’t bother you. If you loved her.

(1:38:31) Guys, you can’t even think of a woman. Devil will always give you his daughter. Same with the ladies! Devil will give you a husband! You’ll put that first in your life. Commandment. Not allowed to think of if you’ll have children or anything! Devil will answer that prayer!

11 – I became a Bible thumper: Intellect vs Truth of the heart

(1:41:04) – Anita grew up in the church… Did what was instructed… Didn’t think anything missing till last church I attended: The fivefold ministry: Apostle, teacher… Bible studies… I became a Bible thumper… I noticed there was more fighting than at quieter churches! Intellect vs.. Truth of the heart. (1:43:10) Knowing the Bible doesn’t change the heart.

(1:43:40) Man gives his year an 8.5… Doormat…

12A – Even your enemy is your brother or sister … Koran…

(1:46:01) – Jesus never said what the church taught us about being saved, born again… in rewriting the Bible, the Christians are saying that. … You’ve got to love your enemy. Something else is controlling your brother or sister. Christ never judged. He knew every human being was his brother or sister.

(1:48:23) They told it anyway even though he said not to! He didn’t want people worshiping him! Turning him into a false god. They called him King. But that’s not how he saw himself.

(1:49:19) In the Koran… Christ one of the most quoted prophets. Muhammad is their prophet. Two branches: Sunni and Shiite. Muhammad’s descendents, or another wise man like Muhammad. They learn about Judaism and Christianity… JLP: No wonder they’re so messed up! What a mess! … Man: You don’t understand! … JLP: It’s not even important! He even said worship me in Spirit and in Truth.

12B – Want for nothing. Be with the truth at all times. Love your enemy.

(1:50:51) – You’ve got to love. You can’t want for anything! Be with the truth at all times. You get married, you get miserable! Not one happy person on earth who’s married! Unless they’re working on themselves overcoming. I promise: You can love your enemy!

(1:52:22) Last word, Doug! JLP interrupts: Christ never said, confess me with your mouth! I had a neighbor I used to hate! (1:53:06) Doug looking forward to becoming a doormat.

13A – BQ: What happened to Judas Iscariot when he died?

(1:53:20) – Oh yeah, the Biblical Question! (1:55:18) He partied so much … (1:56:10) Mimi… (1:56:47) Hake… (1:57:44) Rochelle, turn on the mic! (1:58:01) I love this fellowship — 10+ year…

13B – JLP on BQ: A Judas person is looked at as one of the worst

(1:58:52) – JLP: A preacher’d studied Judas… He didn’t believe Judas went to hell. Judas was sorry and “repented.” A Judas person is looked at as one of the worst. They’re done with you. A bad identity.

14 – Do you love God and neighbor? A Jewish Christian… Judas

(2:00:04) – Do you love God and your neighbor and your enemy? You’re Jewish right? “I never told you that! My grandfather was!

(2:01:12) The man says: It would be better for him not to be born.

15 – Closing: What Jesus said vs what people said

(2:01:34) – From this point forward, die. Follow Christ. Don’t make trouble, but whatever happens that shock pain, horrible thoughts, let that happen and do nothing about it. Stay present. Follow Christ. You’ll be fine. Theme next Sunday… Stay with it. Jesus said different from what the people said: It’s clearer. … Closing announcements

REMINDERS / Assignments…

2025 theme/assignment: Practice being present.
Be a doormat. (Church 11/28/25)
Catch the first thought. (Church 11/14/25)
Give up. (Church 11/9/25, after stream)
Take the pain. Stop fighting darkness. Go through the war. (Church 11/2/25 “This week…”)
Let it pass through you, whatever you feel and think. (Church 10/19/25)
Slow down. Feel the pain, and ask: Is it necessary? (Women’s Forum Oct 16, 2025)
Never think about yourself again. (for 1 wk/mo, BQ/Women’s Forum Sep 18-21, 2025)
Don’t overreact to your anger this weekend (JLP show Fri 8/29/25)
Be nothing for three days. And on the third day, see if you rise. (Fri, July 25, 2025)
Communicate with few words. (June 29, 2025, didn’t mention)
Don’t agree or disagree with anyone. And see what happens. (June 2025)
Quietly live with the hell in you (May/June 2025)
Write down all the stabs you get (May 11-18, 2025)
Be a single-minded person, not a double-minded person. (BQ/Women’s Forum Apr 13-27, 2025)
Don’t judge with words, looks/eyes, gestures, emotions, or thoughts. (Oct 2024)

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