HeyJaredBy What Authority
By What Authority is a Scripture-rooted, spoken-word podcast by Raymond Ybarra for believers who refuse imitation faith or denominational confusion.
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Hunger Is Not the New Birth- When Hunger, Thirst, and Conviction Are Mistaken for Regeneration (opens the original)
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Many believers mistake spiritual hunger for spiritual life. They feel conviction, longing, thirst, or a pull toward God and assume those experiences mean they’ve already been born again. But Scripture draws a clear line between awakening and regeneration, between being drawn to Christ and being made new in Christ. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra explores that distinction with biblical clarity and personal honesty. Through passages like John 6:44, John 3:3, Romans 7–8, and John 7:37, we see how G
ALMOST INSIDE - The Most Dangerous Place to Stand (opens the original)
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Many people imagine the danger of judgment belongs only to those who openly reject God — the atheists, the mockers, the rebels. But Jesus gives a far more unsettling warning: that some who stand outside the kingdom were once almost inside. Close enough to hear the truth. Close enough to recognize the voice. Close enough to believe they were safe… yet never truly His. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra walks through the Parable of the Sower — the parable Jesus said unlocks all the others — and expos
THE FEAR OF KNOWING GOD: When False Humility Rejects Spiritual Growth (opens the original)
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Many believers fear growing in understanding because they fear the accountability that comes with revelation. But that fear—when disguised as humility—becomes a quiet resistance to the very truth through which Christ teaches, sanctifies, strengthens, and transforms His people. In this episode, Raymond confronts the deception of false humility, exposes the danger of willful stagnation, and calls listeners to embrace the kind of growth that honors Christ. Drawing from Scripture, Raymond shows how
DIVIDED HEARTS CANNOT FOLLOW (opens the original)
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This episode confronts the danger of divided loyalty through three biblical warnings—Lot’s wife, the plow, and Ananias and Sapphira—and presses the listener to examine what still competes for their obedience to Christ. It is a call to die with Christ, walk in the Spirit, and follow the Shepherd without looking back. Through Scripture, truth, and lived testimony, the message exposes the old affections, hidden deceptions, and backward glances that keep disciples from the forward call of the King.
OIL- The Life That Flows Through the Branch (opens the original)
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In this episode, Raymond confronts one of the most overlooked truths of discipleship: oil is not the life — Christ is. Through a powerful moment with his son and a Spirit‑pressed question in the night, he explores the hidden life behind the fruit, the thinning of oil, the danger of performance, and the call to abide in Christ as the true Vine. This message moves beyond maintaining spiritual oil and into the heart of biblical formation: Christ as the Source, Christ as the Life, and Christ as the
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