Russell Brand Calls Jesus "Our Lord and Saviour" - Christian Reacts 

Jesus is a friend to sinners

I was Bhuddist until In meditation I had a demon flash up and it was Jesus that flashed up and banished it! still in shock. currently being delivered of all the underlings!

Well He is on his journey. I think let be glad that Holy Spirit has got him beginning his journey to Truth. Right?

Wonderful. Really enjoyed that talk. Bravo, a Christian who speaks Christ's truth. Blessings, Barbara

4:21 “Good theology is good, and bad theology is worse than no theology.” So true.

Thank you Glenn! Great analysis, through the true lense of Jesus Christ. I pray Russell watches your video and reflects again.

If sin becomes the bar, we are all in deep trouble. Oh wait... we are.

Thank you Ben. The first time I saw a video mentioning that RB was a Christian, I was so hoping (and still hope) that he will sincerely be born again… but I am so thankful for these videos / clips you’ve shared where RB seem to use Christian language to explain this new phase he is living now. What a pity! May the Lord cause him to truly come to a knowledge of our Lord.

If RB hasn’t been in regular conversation with born-again believers and studying the Bible with them, I don’t fault him for interpreting “Father, forgive them …” with the lens of Eastern mysticism or some form of Buddhism. He seems to be open-minded and willing to learn because he’s inviting people to leave comments. My prayer is that during this time of personal crisis, RB can come to a true understanding of what it means to call Jesus Christ Lord and Savior. I also hope that RB and Spirit-filled Christians would cross paths. “…God our Savior…desires all people [including RB] to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,” 1 Timothy 2.3-4 (ESV).

I think we should pray for Russel Brand. He's made some stumbling steps away from his past (and that in my opinion why his former "friends" are now attacking him and trawling for accusations against him), but like us all, he has far to go.

Brilliant analysis. Romans ch 2, we are all under the wrath of God, only Christ is sufficient.

When he invokes Christ at the outset saying "they know not what they do" I understood that not to be in reference to his allegations so much as in reference to how media has become trapped in a pit of lies and how his attempts to shine a light on the truth has been met with such cynicism by the media but also by others. I think Glenn's attempt to detach the criminal and theological from the facts of what Russell has been doing on his podcast is not actually being very helpful.

Let’s pray for him to find Jesus!

Part of why we have statutes of limitations is BECAUSE of justice. Has someone changed, does the alleged victim remember correctly--these things matter. Our memories are not 100% and easily modified by suggestion. Tons of studies on memory and suggestion. I don't need to believe he was innocent or guilty because too much time has passed sadly. He says consensual, they say consensual but gross..this is only in the public because of politics. No one cares about the women. No one cares about reconciliation. People only care about nailing Brand since he was once one of them and is now bucking the system. If this was about women it would look very different.

Brand's identification of God-consciousness is a start and such an awareness can inform a Christian life. But you're right to identify Brand's ambiguous relationship with his past. We could say that our Indo-European religious past: the Vedic structure, the Marharbata, Homer's Iliad and even the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead were moral steps which accompanied mankind's development of consciousness: from living with the words of the tribe to the words of gods to discerning the demons among them from the word of Logos - a concept first enunciated by the Greek Heraclitus. Nothing wrong with knowing the steps of consciousness: attachment and detachment, stepping into a higher model of man, the judgement of works and so on. But in knowing these steps fully, a fully aware man has to make a choice of direction for his future. This isn't about playing with God-consciousness as if it's just a hill from which we get a better view. But it's about choosing one God, one Spirit and one direction leading into the unknown because it points to the best of the best: the transcendent realm of the Kingdom. It involves trials and sacrifice. It also involves rejecting those demons of the world and being guided by the "comforter", the one Logos according to the model of Christ called the Holy Spirit, towards salvation. There may have been a menu of gods in the past but not now. "I am the way, the truth, and the life" said Jesus, "no man cometh unto the Father, but by me".

Such a faithful and concise analysis of the situation Glen, bless you.

Really well put. Thanks Glen and any of the team.

As a fellow believer in Jesus. We can only hope for one another's salvation!!

When I was on my spiritual journey, gradually moving from being a secular atheist, to a buddhist, to being a Christian, and eventually a Catholic, I had to seek out authors who understood both eastern and western philosophy and also the current existential dilemma of the modern day atheist. This was particularly important when moving from Buddhism to Christianity. I found Bede Griffiths, Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton and Vladimir Lossky all provided a bridge from which to cross from eastern religion into Christianity. I’m sure these spiritual writings could help Russell Brand to cross this bridge to enter more deeply into true Christianity. I would highly suggest he avoids Fr. Richard Rohr who although deals with eastern and western religion, does the reverse, and helps existing Christian’s out of Christianity and eases them gradually into eastern religion.

Fascinating bit of commentary. Absolutely right on the matter of consent and the need for full repentance and the fact that we still have to fully face up to our past. Here's my angle (which differs marginally and is more favourable to Russell Brand). I am not asking, 'is Russell Brand a Christian?', but 'Is Russell Brand on the Way?'. There is a reason why the early believers called themselves 'the Way'. The answer to the first question is, probably not. The answer to the second is, maybe! Let me ask a few questions to illustrate my point. Was Reuben, who had gone into his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22) not still a hero when he saved Joseph from being killed (Gen 37)? Was Judah, who went into his own daughter in law, thinking she was a prostitute (Gen 38) not still a hero when he, in a Christlike way, volunteered to be imprisoned to set his younger brother free (Gen 44)? Did Rahab have all her theological ducks in a row when she, by faith, sheltered the Israelite spies (Hebrews 11:31)? Were the four lepers who saved Jerusalem from starvation faithful, worshipping Israelites (2Kings 7)? Had the Samaritan woman been through a process of deep repentance and restoration of trust with all the people she had sinned against before she began to tell all the people of her town about Jesus? (John 4)? How did the dirtbag Samson find his way into the list of heroes of the faith in Hebrews 11 (see verse 32)? And did Jesus check out the theological stance of the paralysed man (Luke 5:20) or the sinful woman (Luke 7:42) before he pronounced that their sins were forgiven? My point here is that all of these people were commended for their heroism, courage and faith when there were plenty of more respectable people and orthodox believers around them who were not. In Russell Brand I am seeing a level of courage in challenging some deep wickedness among those in power that I don't see among more conventional Christians, such as the MP Tim Farron, who are deafeningly silent.

Wonderful Glen excellent message that demonstrates real Christian salvation. I pray that you will get the opportunity to share with Russell.

I can tell you are a sincere Christian.thanks for this .

Anyone trying to judge Russel’s salvation needs to read again. There were two criminals on each side of Christ when he was crucified. In the last moments, one became saved. It didn’t take years of conversations with people who have absorbed dogma or studied on their own. It was a personal moment of honesty. God can use anyone to do good with. Throwing stones and accusations or judging him makes you as bad as Saul before Jesus had a talk with him. Get it?

Of course it matters if Russel Brand is a believer. May he be born again and know true peace, forgiveness and eternal Life.

Thank you for such refreshing moral clarity.

I know a woman like this i was never convinced she was saved .now she says she wants nothing to do with God .she said why would he allow the children to be killed etc.

I hope he will come to know our wonderful Lord Jesu Christ fully

He definitely is on the path to Christianity. It took me years from new age philosophy mixed with Christianity to get over the bridge and since attending church it has taken me 18 months to really begin to understand and know what being a Christian is and what Christianity is and what it means to the life I lead. I’m just overjoyed he is having an encounter with Jesus and he will get there! Also it’s amazing to have someone like him openly talking about Jesus! Even if he didn’t get the theology right. Bringing Jesus’s name into earshot of many of the people he speaks to is a great thing!

Absolutely spot on. No-one else is saying this and it's just what we need to hear.

I was raped at 10 years old and forgave the person because my jesus told me too.

Thank you!! 🙏 ✌️.

Jesus said, dont pull the wheat from the chaff. Pray that RB continually gets closer to the meat of the word. This takes Christian fellowship and good Bible teaching. It look like he is coming along. Let’s keep him in prayer, he obviously is getting attacked from both sides.

Great work, Glen

Thank you for being responsive to good faith commenters.

God loves me, he cares deeply for me, wants the very best for me and forgives me. This however not a get out clause because I have given my life over to him. I remain responsible for my actions and the consequences of those actions, both in the past and now. At the end of the day I must take responsibility.

The present you does not expunge what the past you may have done but the present you may not have done what you did in the past because you have learnt from your PAST mistakes.

Why are my comments being blocked I can't reply to my previous comment 😂😂 thats crazy, so anyway like i tried saying multiple times alot of churches do have gay preachers, twerk praise dancing, accepting same sex marriages, running the church like a business etc.etc. and habe no room to Judge Russell Brand, like i said it only matters what God think of us, and if you don't know most churches are doing this you must live under a rock!

Well said ❤

Well done again Russell ..

Wow!!! That was enlightening! 😊

Brilliant, as you always are -- thank you, Glen. I'd like to point up the justice facet -- or rather foundation -- of all this: the reason God takes our sin so seriously that it required a payment as serious as Christ's dying for it is that He is perfectly just. He doesn't turn a blind eye to wrongdoing, but makes it right.

If you want to follow Russel Brand be prepared to enter through the wide gate if you want to follow Jesus be prepared to enter through the narrow gate.

This is why Christianity is in crisis. No thought. No nuance. Just Judgemental Jesuitical Jujitsu. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

"Forgive them Father for they know not what they do". I'd like to see the whole context of this because if strictly self serving, then he's breaking the 11th commandment: Thou shalt not twist scripture. If it's indirectly self serving, and he instead is making a greater point, then it's legitimate to bring it up. In the end we're all guilty before a holy and perfecty God, but, that alone shouldn't either prevent us from condemning, or, prevent us from forgiving.

This is really good! You do a great job of getting below the surface of what Brand "seems" to be experiencing. He is using Buddhism as a kop out, as a means of not confronting what he was doing when when he was seducing and manipulating others. He is still extremely manipulative!

Ye must be born again🙌ALLELUIA🙌 A-men' 🌿

Yeah, what he said, sheepishly, still suspicious, unable to fully trust etc....

The 12 steps were put together by the Oxford group who wanted to draw closer to God. Alcoholics Anonymous adopted them.

One sentence: I have subscribed.

Whatever Brand's theology is now obviously does not exculpate. But his behavior, in particular the way he's receently "expressed" his theology, is perfectly consistent both with being falsely accused and with being properly accused. Great of you to clarify what's going on here.

God is not a higher power he is all powerful.

It doesn't matter what other christians think about Russell Brand, the only thing that matters is his relationship with God, most of these christians today are the not true christians Jesus says he is cleaning inside and outside of the church!

My other comment is that we see Christians de-constructing their faith and I have watched Brand slowly de-construct from secular humanism to new age and then towards Christianty (I hate to say this) because of Jordan Peterson. Who knows where he will end up?

Siddhartha Buddha never called himself “lord”. In fact, as it says the rocks shall cry out if these be silent, the rock carvings of Ajanta and Ellora in western India, the oldest of which were Buddhist, there is no depiction of Buddha in stone. There’s none. Only after the arrival of St Thomas on Indian shores with the Good News of Incarnation, that in the following decades and centuries this had inspired the indigenisation of the Christian ideas transforming and expressing it in Indian idiom. This was when Buddha was suddenly seen as some kind of divine figure and nee fables and adaptation of Christian teachings to Buddhism began to emerge. These stories have eventually become the basis of modern day Buddhism and marketed around the world and especially in the west. And with this familiar ring to it, people in the west easily fall for Buddhism. In fact, this sort of development has occurred in hinduism too.

Remember how even king Herod pretended to be interested in Jesus.dont be fooled folks

Brand got too big, and too truthful, and the wealthy are teaming up to stop him. It's not hard to understand.

I’m an Atheist, but what I have gathered from Russell Brand’s Religious Beliefs is, he believes in God. If God is God & if God is Good, wouldn’t God work through everyone and wouldn’t all enlightenment, even non-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. be expressions of God’s greatness, possibly interpreted differently by different cultures? ie. Can actual Divinity be limited to only one group’s beliefs, when the underlying base message is so similar. If you truly believe God works in mysterious ways, isn’t it possible, people are all worshiping the same transcendent figure in different ways and context? Jesus in the New Testament aligns more with Eastern philosophies than the Old Testament. If God is all, isn’t all God?

Do you believe all are salted with fire, the goodness of God leading to repentance, working that we believe, drawing all to Jesus, in whom all are reconciled, and who is savior of the world. Or, you don't believe, yet?

It is possible to believe in Jesus without all the dogma and moral superiority of becoming a Christian and following a religion.

Having listened to RB youtube for a while it must be noted that Russel has an affinity with Christ only in the sense he and christ is/were unjustly charged with the crimes that he is accused of. Note in tik tok he uses small letters for God ETC.he is calling as a pattern of his predicament the most well known sufferer of injustice Jesus Christ. To make his point.

8:40 Great example of how the Christian never goes beyond the point of corrupted sinner in want of salvation. i.e. Jesus death on the cross and the Holy Spirit effect no transformative change in the believer whatsoever. Pure unrealised eschatology.

Russell Brand is into transcendental meditation, yoga and all that mysticism stuff ...their definition of christ is not exactly the same as it is in the Bible.

The question when a non Christian invokes ‘Jesus’ is whether he is substituting his ‘Jesus’ for the one Christians recognize. To the best he is able to comprehend, whether he is a naive, newer Christian or not one at all, I don’t think that he is doing that. I think that he is showing respect for the Christian faith, not trying to subvert it. That’s all that matters.

I feel from listening to you speak that you haven't really listened to Russell Brand much and are just basing your points (some of which are generally accurate) on what you've quickly googled about him online.

Great critique without judging! God is on the move in some high profile social media personalities lives. Russel may still be displaying gnostic ideas but i believe he is searching and moving in Jesus direction..the thing that will get him on the right track the fastest is for mature Christians to pray for him not bash and trash his theology as though by now he ought to be mature. The measure used to judge another is the measure that will be used to judge us. You self righteous trashers and bashers commenting below make me sick. By your words and attitudes i can see you are far from Jesus. Beware, before long RB will be soaring high above you..already his sense of right and wrong are more keenly tuned then a vast number of Christians. RB is reading his bible and C.S.Lewis. he's wearing a cross not a buddah pendant. Social media is a cesspool of critics and know it alls. Christian warriors should be controlling the atmosphere and praying people into Gods kingdom. Be part of the solution. Pointing out the faults of others is going to get you into deep spiritual hot water. ~In His Grip

It's compromise, plain and simple. I'm not saying that Russell doesn't believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but he is compromising in that he also believes that we can be gods; any way you interpret it, that is false religion. I listen to Russel Brand for his political views and general worldview. He seems to be right on concerning these subjects. Unfortunately, these views will not save his soul. I agree with Glen."

Russel is more like Christ than anyone else I see in the media.

God let us take the responsibility of a one night stand. We take our feelings into account. I think jesus said that because he understand hell as much as the god or statin. The Jewish people saw him walk on water. Then we read jesus met the demon they said have you come to punishes us early. No other god other than me. He wrote it down through a man hand and mind in the bible. Lest we forget

You're allowed to have sex if you're not hurting anyone. It's beautiful..... But not in aa sex addiction way.

hmm ... tatts to cover all bases ... BUT Jn.14:6 - Jesus the ONLY way to the Father ... looks like God is going to have to prune the others off sometime ... well, maybe not West Ham ... he is still a work-in-progress, aren't we all? watch this space ...

Yes christ forgives us but we obey the law of the land if we break the law we pay he has to pick up his tourcher stake and follow me if we are law bidding christans we go to jail that is repentance and don't do it again

He is still doing tarrot cards .i am not at all convinced he is saved.there is no real gospel in what he says .like how he was a sinner then repented of his sins and trusted in Christ.that is the only way to get saved really.

Why don’t you find something else to talk about. I think it would be much more beneficial. If Russell Brand is sincerely, considering a change in his life and actually considering Christ as his savior, of course he will make mistakes as all new Christians do. It certainly is not helpful for you to produce a video critiquing every single word he says about this New path that he seems to be taking. Better to just back off and pray for him.

Dont follow that man he will shipwreck your faith

My god's better than your God 😝 basically is what I'm getting from the presenter.

I never liked brand somehow.i like jordan Peterson he is a sincere man brand is not but a foul mouth .hope Jordan gets saved.

It's a great shame to faithful catholics to hear a pope downplay the flesh sins in favour of accompaniment

Money, money, money must be funny in Russell’s world. He ain’t no Che Guevara.

Fair play to you for calling-out Russell Brand for trying to portray himself as a Christian all of a sudden. I do not trust anything the pathetic little fellow utters. Brand is a narcissist and has not a single religious bone in his body. Brand is playing to the crowd. He has promoted the worst kind of popular, unfounded conspiracy nonsense. Brand is trying to present himself as something he is not when he talks about Jesus. Our Heavenly Father can see right through Brand's tactics, no matter what we discuss here today.

Reincarnation of the repentent prostitute?

I think in the end it was more about complicity than blinkered tribalism. By the time Brand moved his operation online he was no longer accepted in the UK media tribe. Nobody would work with him because he was a known predator and a liability. I assume many just wanted him to go away, rather than reckoning with their history of enablement.

Thank you ,12steps dont believe in the God of the Bible ..Just a higher power its a bit cultish ,they have some bad practices,I heard of from someone in it .

Christ must indeed become All in All! Christ alone.

I think it’s really unfortunate and gross for Russel Brand to conveniently lean on Christianity even though he isn’t a practicing Christian nor does he observe our catechesis. I actually liked him before this and now I just find him incredibly unscrupulous and offensive.

How about a little grace to a man who is earnestly seeking truth? A man who had a life that MANY would kill for, yet he turned away, openly defying the "cabal" that gave him fame and fortune, suffering attacks that most of us could never endure, and now he is being scrutinized by the very people who should be joyful at his awakening. This reeks of Calvinist doctrine and their usual "fruit inspection". We ALL walk different paths for the Holy Spirit to do His work. Trust in Him. Right now, Brand needs grace and understanding from the Christian community. He's still drinking milk, but I believe our Lord will be feeding him meat in no time.