 Good evening, good afternoon. Hope you all are doing at least right now. And we are on a little bit early. Why? Because today, if someone would like to come on, there are folks that are bothered by me or upset with me and want to maybe confront me about doctrinal issues, things that they think that I've gotten wrong or I might need to kind of fix a few things. And so here's the opportunity or if you just wanna have a basic question and you want to come on and ask your question or make your point, the link is in the description. Matter of fact, let me put it again and let me pin it. Let me do it over here. That way it can be pinned as well. The link to appeared. Oh, I spelled it right. And here we go. All right, so then let me go ahead and if I can get this in and move right, get out of the way, get out of the way. I'm trying to pin this thing, but I gotta wait for it to move a second. There we go. All right, pin it. There we go. So if anyone wants to come on board, there it is. Otherwise, we're gonna take just your basic questions. So I figured this might go a little bit longer. So therefore to account for that, we're gonna, we're on an hour earlier than normal. So therefore, in the meantime, do me a favor. Let me know where you guys are. I always like to know where you guys are. And you know what, something else I wanna do. There are times where you might see 300 or 400 or sometimes 500 or more people in the chats. And in that, what you might also not see are the people actually, the people actually giving a, putting comments in. So what I want you guys to do is to actually, if you are there and a lot of folks just watch and just sit back and enjoy. Because after all, this is the world's, I mean the world's greatest chat in the history of YouTube. There's never been a chat on YouTube history quite like this one. None better, right? With also the world's greatest moderators. If they're, listen, the only way you can have a close second in terms of moderators is if we took half of the moderators on this channel, cut them in half and then compared them with the other half. That's the only way. There's no close second. So the world's greatest moderators, the world's greatest audience. And so therefore I am humbled. So if you have a question, make sure you put a gigantic cue in front of your question. I'll try to get to as many as I can. I'll try to answer the questions from those that come on. In the meantime, I've got one in the guest room. Let me go ahead and also look at some of the folks that are chiming in from the woodlands. Now I went to the woodlands some time ago and I'm wondering, is the woodland still the same? You have to have a minimum income of $700,000 a year just to live in the woodlands. If I'm Virginia, is that correct? You have to have, I'm kidding, but the woodlands is nice. The woodlands is nice. New Bruns, Chris coming in from Canada. Joshua, New Bruns with Canada I should say. Joshua in South Carolina. Monkey Moves of course is in Houston, Texas. I don't know why you're in Houston. It would just make sense if you're gonna, listen, if you're gonna be in Houston, unless you're gonna be in the woodlands, then why are you not in Dallas? I don't get that. That's the one thing that's just confusing about you. Uniquely made is in Duval. Why can't you just say Jacksonville? Why can't, anyway, Duval's in the house. Virginia is from, Greg is from Virginia. Christopher is in New Orleans. Virginia said, no, that's not correct. You don't need $700,000 a year to live here in the woodlands. All you need is $500,000 a year. That's it. Oh, where else? We have Sheila in Atlanta. I don't know why I keep thinking you're in someplace. Oh, Sheila, I don't know why. Moe is in Buffalo, New York. What do you mean? Are you saying you're moving to, let me see if I get this correct. Are you moving to Buffalo? No, you're moving to Tampa, if I'm correct. Okay, amen, amen. I can understand, I can understand. Rick is from, is Lenore City. Lenore City, Tennessee. Steve is in North Carolina. Patrick is also, oh, Patrick's also starting as a long one in Canada. Nope, there's a lot of folks in Canada. Monica's in Mississippi. RJS in Dallas. Amen. Where is, where is Swagaria? We have to figure that out. Cause I imagine everybody in Swagaria has those awesome sideburns that go into beards. We need to figure out where Swagaria is. Laquice's in Jacksonville, Arkansas. How come in Arkansas, they always have cities named after bigger cities. Smaller cities named after big cities. They have a lot of that in Arkansas. I don't know what the deal is with that. Joanne is in the UK. Amen, amen. Ashburn, Virginia. That is in Ashburn, Virginia. Praise God. Chadwick, I see you saying, I see you saying, hey, but you didn't say where you're from. And we would like to know. Anyway, let's go ahead and, uh-oh. So while you guys are telling us and see L Boogie's in Canada, we've got a lot of folks in Canada. I don't know what, our Northern border is represented very well. So too is our Southern border, unfortunately. And when I say unfortunately, did you all see the video on yesterday? I think, I predict that that video that we saw what happened at the border yesterday, the Southern border, I think that is going to be in a lot of political videos. I think that's gonna be in a lot of political videos. That is going to hurt the income. Now, I'm not saying it's gonna cause them to lose, but that is going to hurt the incoming president. You just play that clip over and then you listen to him talking about what he's gonna do about the Southern border and then play that clip. It's not a good look. It's not gonna be a good look. So anyway, and I don't want to get too political, even though the political season is ramping up. Oh, by the way, I thought it was kind of interesting that what's her name? Candace Owens, leaves or gets fired or they parted mutually from the daily wire. I don't know why they didn't do that earlier. Don't know why they didn't do that earlier. So anyway, I don't know why I'm all in this political frame of mind. Would you say you are aware? Nah, I like it. Are you in OKC? Okay. OKC is, the rumor is they are getting ready to build the largest, the tallest building in America in Oklahoma City. They've received the funding and they are going to build the largest, which is gonna be kind of odd. It's gonna be kind of odd to see them with the largest building, but hey, they've got one really, really tall building and then another, I guess so anyway, hey, no problem. Maybe we're gonna start building a bunch more. Washington, New York, just legalized the illegals being able to vote. Yeah, and then who was it? Some judge in, a federal judge in Illinois. It's gonna be, it's gonna get struck down. Don't know how long it's gonna take, but decided that it's constitutional for illegals to carry weapons, to have the right to an armed, to armed, if I can speak, have the right to possess a gun. That's amazing. That is amazing. CG, just shot at you, Dutch. He said, can't trust folks from, from OKC. Anyway, let's go ahead and I wanna bring on my guests. Now, I haven't set up my little dish. Let me go ahead and bring on my guests and what I wanna do first is I wanna add him to the scene and how do I do this? Oh, wait a sec, there we go. There we go, okay there. Brother Chris, how are you doing, sir? I'm doing well, I'm doing so well. Firstly, I just wanna say thank you for the advice that you gave me. I emailed you regarding a, an issue that I have and you addressed it perfectly. It was some real good advice and I just wanna thank you for that. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. Again, I still think, thinking about the last time that we had actually talked, I still think that the Lord is going to use you in a wonderful way in ministry, whichever way that shakes forward. So who knows, maybe some, in some sort of leadership position, I could see that. And I know that in, I know that in the islands, there is a need for that. So we're counting on you. Definitely, definitely. Definitely. There is a question that I had that I, that I, there is this, this, all right. So I have a, I have a channel on TikTok and I posted a video regarding a question that somebody had about whether or not a person can actually transfer spiritual gifts to another person. I think the passage came from Paul who made the statement that he wishes that he would soon come to the, I think it was the Corinthians where he said that he wants to impart some spiritual gifts. So persons are now using that text to say that, okay, well, see, you can impart spiritual gifts to somebody else. So I was sort of on the other end saying, no, that that's not so because the spiritual gift don't belong to you, right? So you can give something that don't belong to you, right? It is a spirit who wills and decides who he's gonna give the gift to and for what purpose. So somebody brought the passage about Elijah and Elisha, right? And said that Elijah imparted his gifts to Elisha. And I was saying, no. So I was given an explanation about it to say that it wasn't necessarily that he was imparting the spiritual gifts because when Elisha asked him the question, if I can get a double portion of your gift, he's saying that he responded to Elisha saying what you ask is a hard thing. Right? So I just wanted to know that if, whether or not I am interpreting that passage correctly because I was of the opinion that no, it was God who determined whether or not Elisha, Elisha would have gotten that gift. So I just wanted to make sure that I'm correct. You are correct. As a matter of fact, you're gonna give me the opportunity to pull up my handy dandy logos. I don't, normally what I put on the screen is from accordance and we'll go to accordance in a second. But the reason why I have logos up, because one I answered someone's question regarding the thing that we talked about on, I think it was yesterday, about the pneumaticoam, the spiritual things. And the term pneumaticoam does not mean spiritual gifts, it just means the things of the spirit. And it can mean a variety of different things, obviously depending on topic or the context. And so sometimes it could mean spiritual gifts, but it's not always spiritual gifts. And so let me go to logos real quick. I don't know if y'all can see that. But the word that's used there, this word pneumaticos. And so what Chris is talking about is from Romans 111. And if you look to the right, it says, for I long to see you, so that I might impart some spiritual gift to you. Now the word that's used here, and this is the only time in the Bible, the only time in the Bible, and say that again guys, this is the only time in the Bible where you'll ever see the term in the Greek. It's kind of interesting. Every time you'll see in the Greek, spiritual gift. It's the only time, and I mean, where you have the word gift and the word spiritual beside each other. They're not next to beside each other, but notice how it's a render. He says now for us, it says some spiritual gift. In the Greek, it says can I tee matat, somebody's trying to, hold on, matato, which is where we get the word impart. And then here we have the word charisma, whoming numitikon. So what we have is in part to you, I'm sorry, in part a gift to you, spiritual, all the spiritual things. The reason why we have this up right here to the left is because of what this word means. There's different ways that this word numitikon is used. For example, if I click over here again, as I did earlier today, we see this word also, the very same word used in Ephesians one, three. And so he says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Well, in this case, the word for spiritual blessing is the same word numitikon, or in this case, numitikon. And so it's not spiritual gifts, it's spiritual blessings or spiritual things. And so that word is used to say, I want to impart to you something spiritual. However the Lord distributes it, because Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 12, that it's God who distributes the gifts as he will. And so you couldn't say that a person could in turn impart spiritual gifts if Paul says you, I'm sorry, Paul says that spiritual gifts are imparted by the Holy Spirit as he wills, not as we want to, either as we wish to have or as someone wants it. So I can't lay hands on you and cause you to receive the Holy Spirit. Now in Acts, obviously we see that happening because we see this kind of new era, a new dispensation, if you will, in the church, the church is being established. And what we don't want to have, what we've told about is that there will be this two flocks to be made one, Jews and Greeks. And so the Jews can see that obviously the Jews have the Holy Spirit at the laying on of hands. It's not necessarily in the physical laying on of hands, it's just kind of giving oversight and approval too. And then we also have the Samaritans receiving it. The Jews recognize, wait a minute, even the Samaritans get it. And then they marvel at the fact that the Gentiles receive it. So all of this happens at the hands of not just any Jews but at the hands of a prominent Jew, an apostle. And so they give oversight. And so the whole church understands that everybody who was a believer receives the Holy Spirit as it relates to Elijah and Elisha. Remember, Elijah, this is after Elijah said, hey, what was me? I'm the only one, there's just, there's no one left. And then God basically says, hey, be quiet, hush up. I've got, there's at least 7,000 that have not bowed their knees. And so he tells them later on to, you're gonna go and there's gonna be another one that's gonna take your place, Elisha. And so Elisha's receiving of the spirit or the spirit being upon him, because remember what Elijah and Elisha did not have was the spirit in them but upon them. And so the spirit moved from Elijah to Elisha, not because of Elijah, but because of Elisha being ordained by God. So that's always still God. There's never a person that can give you the Holy Spirit or in part the Holy Spirit to you, never. But we have people thinking that you can lay hands on someone and they can now receive the Holy Spirit. You can lay hands on someone and they can be slain in the spirit. We don't have an example of that. All we have is God determine who is going to receive the Holy Spirit and to what degree and how it's gonna show up. Cause again, if that's not the case, and Paul would be in error if he says that the Holy Spirit is the one who determines in 1 Corinthians 12, he is the one that determines what gifting or what pneumatico or how the spirit moves upon him. It does, or he's given as he wills, not as we will or we want to. So anyway, yeah, so in other words, you are absolutely correct. Right, because I see this is like a wave of doctrine that is being heralded all over right now. Like, persons keep having this belief as though, okay, the prophet is here, the prophet is gonna impart some gift. I think Lovie Elias, I think he released a video sometime ago of showing some example of him giving this gift of healing or giving this some kind of spiritual. And I'm like, nah, man, this can't be right. If it's the spiritual wills, if it's the spiritual wills, then how are you gonna say that you have the prerogative to decide whether or not you would impart some gift? Come on, come on. Anyone listening to Lovie Elias is someone that's not listening to the Bible. It's just crazy, it's just crazy. But it's like, it's a common thing, no. Especially here in Jamaica, it's a common thing where persons have this sort of belief system. And I think we need more people who can give, give us scriptural response to this. Because one thing is sure, you've always said it, one thing is sure, they will not give you a scripture. They will not give you a scripture for what you're doing. Right, or they might twist scripture. So they might twist one, so. Or in that case, they will twist the scripture, just like Elijah and Elisha. So it's just one of those things. But thank you, bro, thank you. You're doing a great work here. Thank you, bro, I appreciate it. You're doing an awesome job. You're doing an awesome job. All right, my friend, you take care of me. Go ahead and get to some more of these. We'll talk, you'll be blessed, brother. All right. Yeah, we'll talk. Now, everyone else, before you guys come on, let me just say anyone, if anyone wants to come on, and moderators keep making that announcement as we go, make sure that one, you have a good connection. Two, make sure your face, we can see your face. Amen. Let me also take care of this. Greg said, I had to settle with a cordon. There's a whole, should I go with a cordon? Or should I go with Lagos? Both of them are fine. But here's what I did, Greg. I made a mistake. I actually, nothing I have a problem with a cordon is because a cordon shows up better on the screen for what I'm trying to do when I'm doing live streams. Works better for me than does Lagos. Lagos does have more features, but don't let the cost be an issue because Lagos still has the same, listen, you can still pay for Lagos. You don't have to pay for it all upfront at once. You can pay for it over time. You can pick how long you want to pay for it. I think up to, depending on how much it is, I think up to two years or years like that, what have you. So they make it easy for you to get it. So anyone that's wanting to get either Lagos or a cordon, they do have it to where you don't have to pay for it all at once. I didn't, I thought that Lagos would be more expensive too. So I went and got a cordon at first, mainly because there was also some, those who were more Greek and Hebrew scholars that also use a cordon more. And so I said, you know what, let me go with them. But I do more, I do, I guess my research is half and half between the two. So it varies from the two. It varies from place to place, depending on what I'm doing. So I will say this though. You know, I shouldn't say that. I'm gonna say this easier using the cordons, but I can't say that either because I haven't learned how to use both of them fully. So anyway, that's just me. Let me go ahead and answer a couple of the questions on here before I go and deal with some of the guests as well. And remember, put a big, gigantic cue in front of your question so that I can see them. When am I gonna talk about the sin of pride? Tell you what, there it is. There it is. Did I do something right here? Let me go ahead and put that on. I can't write that on that. Well, I can't, I shouldn't, but I will. I shouldn't, but I will. Tell you what, sin of pride. Tell you what I'll do. Tell you what I'm gonna do. I will do my best to cover that in the next week, okay? Very important, matter of fact. I don't think there's a person on the planet that can say I haven't dealt with pride and hadn't gotten burned or stung by my own pride. I know I have. I was fortunate enough to see some things that I didn't wanna see, but I had to see because of my pride, so there you go. Will the unbelievers see the devil in hell, Corey? I imagine they're gonna see a lot of folks in hell. I imagine they're gonna, you know who I wouldn't wanna be? In prison, if you are a police officer, if you are involved in, let's say, maybe you are a federal agent, a former federal agent, or you are a snitch. You total on somebody in prison. You don't wanna be in prison because someone's gonna look at you as though you're the reason why I'm here. Could you imagine being the devil? People, hey, you're the reason why I'm here, right? Rightly or wrongly, fair or unfair, Satan, it will suck to be you in hell. Not gonna be a good look. People gonna, so I can't, I don't know, the Bible doesn't say to answer your question, Jesus is eternal. The Bible doesn't say if we're gonna see them, I can't imagine you won't be able to see them. I can't imagine, I don't know. Of course, I don't really imagine too much of what hell is gonna be like. So I don't give it a whole lot of thought, but I don't know, I would assume you would, but I don't have a scripture to back that up. So anyway, let me ask another question here before I go to one of the live guests as well. Can women teach corn bugs, how do I like that name? Can women teach to small children or teenagers in the church as to teach them up in guidance? Yes, they can, yes they can. You cannot teach or use serve authority over a man, but not as a child. And the scripture that's used there refers to what Paul says is referring to a man. And so I think that would exclude children. So there, I think it'd be okay. Amen. Alrighty, let's bring in, okay. Captain Youngblood, if you're there, I need you to unmute yourself and I will bring you on, make sure again that guys, uh-oh, if I can fix this, make sure that your video, your picture is shown and let's bring you on. There we go. Okay, can you lighten yourself up a little bit? I cannot see you. But how are you doing, my friend? You're there? There you are. Okay, I can't hear you. I can't hear you, you gotta speak a little bit. I can barely hear you. Okay, go ahead. All right, my friend, it's not working out. Let's go ahead and let me bring in Shining Rivers. Alrighty. Oh, Scott, you caught me in the, I was moving around, my bad. What's going on, my friend? You're okay, how you doing? Doing well, how about yourself? I'm wonderful, I'm wonderful. Nice. Yeah, I wasn't expecting to be this early in the queue. I thought there was gonna be somebody else in the queue prior to me. There was, and he dropped off. Yeah, I've been meaning to come on. The only thing is the situation, and well, not gonna say the situation, the scenario in which I wanted to speak to you wasn't South Biffy. Sorry, if you hear this music in the background, I got some company over, but apologies if you do hear it. But the thing about it was, I had a conversation with a pastor a couple months ago. I'm well connected with a couple of churches out here in the South Suburbs of Chicago. And the gentleman had informed me that he watched a video or there was some article, something he raised in the video article where the gentleman mentioned that here in America we're not as spiritual as we need to be. And you know how it is, you just had a couple videos about charismatic and cessationist, and there is either 100% in or 100% out, but we need to have some balance because as you know, as you just mentioned, Satan is gonna be hated in hell because a lot of people gonna be like, man, I'm here because of you. Now we, I don't think here in America, we are as aware of his schemes as the scripture says we are as we are supposed to be. So I say that because when I mentioned the gentleman, now in, what is it? What is it? Ecclesiastes, let's see. You can paraphrase it if you want to. Yeah, please say that again. Yeah, Ecclesiastes chapter 10 scripture. Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 20. So now we, as you know, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 20, the say, I'm gonna read ESV, even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice or some weaned creature tell the matter. This is referring to when Elisha told the king in Israel about, was it Cyrus or one of them kings back then? And second king six chapter 12. So it's like, you know, we exposed out here. Like we really exposed. If this king had a conversation in his room and his voice carried, it went to Elisha, who carried that? You know? Like we not as. Give me that passage. Which one? The one you just read. Yeah, give me the passage that you just read. And then ask your question. Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 20. Okay. And then my support was second king six verse 12. Okay, second king six verse 12. I mean, you can read up and be after of course, but you know, that's just of it. And so now your question was what? Ask it one more time. Like God wants us to be pure in thought and in our heart and in our, you know, in our inner being, but there are also beings, angels, demons that are able to influence what's inside of us because if in this scenario in second kings, someone was able to take what someone said in their private room and tell it to Elisha, that means that not only do we have exposure, not only are we, you know, exposed out here to, you know, those that are made a little bit higher than us, they able to, you know, hear our thoughts. They able to see our thoughts, not just God. Like, you know, look at, you know, what's his name? Ananias and Sephirah. Like Satan was able to put a thought in them. Look at David. He was able to be stirred up to do a census. Look at the Chaldeans. They were able to get stirred up by Satan to attack Job and his people. Like we exposed out here and we need to be tightened up. Our armor need to be tightened up because... Let me say this. By the way, by the way, this particular passage, please ask these one, I'm sorry, one, 10, 20, furthermore in your bed, in your bed, chamber, do not curse a king. And in your sleeping rooms, do not curse a rich man for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound. This is actually where we get to that whole term. You're not old enough to know this, but we should say a little bird told me, I've heard it before, a little bird told me, that's actually what it's called. I ain't that young, I ain't that young. How old are you? I'm 29. Yeah, I'm not that young. I'm not that young. Yeah, everybody in the chat older than that was like, yeah, I'd love to be 29 again. You're not that young. Yes, you are. It takes a young person to say, I'm not that young, but it's okay, listen, embrace it. I promise you brother, in a few years, you're gonna be like, yeah, I wish I was young again, and you refer back to 29. So anyway, in terms of what the devil can do and cannot do, first of all, the devil doesn't have or need a whole lot from us. We are wired just to mess up and do stuff. Again, take a little two-year-old or three-year-old, put them by themselves and watch them get into stuff. It's just, there's a natural proclivity with us with our place, that's why Paul makes a statement, there's nothing good that dwells in me and that is in my flesh. So what the devil can do is not that the devil is putting thoughts into us in there, he does have his ways of speaking to us, without question. We see that from the garden, we see that going further, like with Ananias, as well as, especially if the Lord gives him the opportunity to, the ability to, in so much he did with Judas, the Bible says that the devil entered his heart. Now, does it mean that he actually went into his heart? No, but he's speaking of his inward being. How's that work? We don't know. But whatever he can do, he's powerless one to us as believers. And so if you are a believer, he is, his powers are a lot limited versus those who are not believers. We have something in us that they don't have, that being the Holy Spirit. But what he can do, one, again, I said before he's got tape on us. He knows he can look at us. It's not hard to figure out what we are, what we do. I like doing this, this, this, this, and this. I like going to this side, going to that side. I like looking at this person, like going over there. And I was gonna say he's got eyes, but he's observant, just like a human being could just see what you're doing and then just throw that you're away. There are guys that I know that would go after certain people because they see how they move. And so the devil, he's older than us, obviously wiser than us, more powerful. And so we don't really have to worry about him doing anything. All we need to know is that he's got these schemes. Well, the schemes are the same. His schemes are always taking the word of God and asking us, he's got two things that he does. One, did God say that? Is that really what God said? And then two, it's not really what he meant. And he twisters though, he twisters. He twists those to kind of conform to our desires, like we eat. She saw the fruit. And it's not like he tried to entice her to do something else. He enticed her to do something that she already was looking at, okay? And just like James says that we are led away by an entice by the less of our own heart. So what's in our heart ultimately is going to be used by the devil. And especially those who might have an inkling of the word. Well, then yeah, that's not quite what is, which is why you see this big deception happening in the church and outside of the church of people who are taking the scriptures and moving them how they want to to get people to buy into their desires. So we don't have to worry about someone taking our thoughts and moving it away. First of all, if our thoughts are right, then we don't have to worry about that. Is there someone always listening? Yeah, God, could there be some enemy listening? Yeah, but in these passages, it's not necessarily talking about some demonic force that's taking these passages and whispering. Now, does that mean that it can happen? I don't see why it wouldn't. I don't see why some demonic force, some demonic presence is there. And then there's someone who also is in leads with someone who's not saved. And then the enemy tells them, whisper something to them, because he certainly has the ability to do things with those that are not saved versus those that are. Let me give you an example. You're saved and Bob is not. Something that's going on in your life, the enemy is speaking to Bob about your life. Because not because he has any insight that you haven't disclosed, but he just sees what you do. He's been around. And so he learns someone else. And now, do you or someone unexpected might say that, well, wait a second, this person has some power. Especially if they tell you about yourself, because notice when you see some of these guys on TV or YouTube or what have you and they're telling about someone, well, that's not difficult to do. They're not telling the future though. They're making up the future, but what they're telling you is something that's already happened. They've got video. It's like me seeing you do something on video. You didn't know I saw it and they meet telling you about it. You're like, wow, he knows all about me. No, I just saw something. And so that does happen. That can happen. We don't have to worry about that though. We don't have to worry about who is seeing what we're doing as long as what we're doing is godly. Amen. Now, what is done in the dark will come to light either by some sort of spiritual demonic force, by God, just by some guy hanging out. You know, you're leaving evidence around. When you do wrong, you'd be amazed at how much evidence of sin you leave out. And sometimes it's just apparent. No one saw it, but they can put two and two together. So I would not worry about what the enemy is doing in terms of spying on you and taking what you do back. Now, what I would worry about is what you're doing and then having the Lord see you and then him coming to you and dealing with you. Because I would much rather deal with someone in the world or the enemy about what I've done versus dealing with the Lord about what I've done. Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, I'm not worried about him per se. I was more or less saying that, you know, I'm not a cessationist. I'm not a continuationist. You know, if the Lord is using, you know, we got Duolingo, we got Google translate. There ain't really no need for tongues to be needed in most of today's society, unless you're in like some super remote place where he is like, all right, I need to get the gospel out here. Nobody speaks English. Nobody can translate or whatever. Like, all right, I got that. But in regards to, you know, us wrestling against the darkness in this heavenly realms, we seated with Christ in heavenly places right now if you are a believer. Now, if you are a believer and you're seated in heavenly places and we not wrestling against flesh and blood, that means men and women that may be getting on our nerves, we need to be mindful that there is a spirit behind that, that is the real problem, not the person himself. Yeah, I understand that Paul said that there's nothing good that dwells in him. But, you know, in Ecclesiastes 729, it says that God made man upright. God made man virtuous, NLT, but most of it says God made man upright. So it's like, you know, if God made us upright, then inherently we are, you know, what we are, our initial purpose is to be upright, virtuous, righteous people. Yeah, we went in search of many schemes which cause us all to fall. But, you know, in regards to us getting back to that, Christ gives us that, but there's also forces, like you said, you know, people, the other people, the enemy seen us do things and he has ways of stirring us up and moving us and stuff like that. That, you know, essentially, you know, gets embedded in us, which makes us live out that patterned lifestyle. Well, but now notice what the pastor says, that he made us upright, but then what happened? Yeah, we've gone in search of many schemes or we sought out other schemes. And so now we've got a new, we have a nature that is unlike what he made us. And so he says that the heart is desperately wicked or desperately sick, as a matter of fact, he says that we go astray from the womb. So how he made us and what we are are two different things now. Well, he said the wicked go astray from the womb. That's not all mankind, not everybody is like that. But the heart, if the heart is desperately wicked, that is inclusive of all of us. All of us, the heart is wicked. All of us seek, all of us, all of us seek after our own, again, even this, after our own devices, there's none that's righteous, nobody. So if there's nobody that is in the right standing, then that's all inclusive, right? Of course, but we have a new heart now. God removed that old heart. That is the believer, yes, the believer. Yeah, so we don't have to worry about searching out wicked schemes anymore. The only way that we fall now is our desires and the only way your desires will trip you up is if you haven't crucified your flesh, but that's milk stuff. We're talking about meat, you know? We're talking about stuff that. Wait a second, wait a second, hold on. Paul was certainly not a milk drinker, but a meat eater, right? You about to go to Romans. I'm going all over. Paul talks about his struggles in Romans and we even see that if we just watch his writings, he talks about his boastfulness, even this thorn in the flesh was given to him, why? So that he would not exalt to himself because that was an issue with Paul. Paul was a person who kind of had to deal with a little bit of pride issue and granted, I can understand why the things that were done in his life prior to meeting Christ and then the fact that he met Christ and then the powers that were displayed at his hands and then to get a glimpse of heaven. Yeah, you know what? It'd be kind of hard to keep me down too. And so you would need that. So Paul has a reason, as he says, I've got a reason to boast. I won't boast about those things, I'll boast about the infirmities and even boast about his infirmities. These are also victories that were accomplished because of his firmness, you know, to be shipwrecked or to be in the waters for a few nights and to be rescued and so forth. I can brag about, I would brag about that. You and I would also. And so in our flesh, I'm sorry. Like, yeah, man, I didn't got beat down. I got chased. I got stabbed off of the Lord, man. I'm still here. Y'all need to listen. Y'all need to tune in. The Lord is real. Like, yeah, I feel it. I understand why he'd be bragging too. Yeah, it's just natural to want to do, it's natural to want to sin or to take care of us, to take care of number one and to please number one. Because remember, in the most pristine conditions, and I have to let you go and bring someone else on, but in the most pristine condition, that is the garden. No sin. Adam hadn't sinned yet. Eve hadn't sinned yet. They got a chance to view God more and likely in his fullness because there was no sin. Their flesh was not corrupted. And what did they do? They failed. Man just will do that, including we even see even in a more pristine environment. Think about this. What environment is more pristine, more perfect than Eden? Well, how about heaven? And you've got beings that are far more powerful and superior above us, angels who also fail. And so if they could fall in the most ideal environment and then mankind can fall in the most ideal environment and we are certainly not in a better environment and we certainly got more issues than Adam and Eve had, even as believers, yeah, this is why we need to draw as close as we possibly can to him because sin is always gonna be ever present and before us seeking whatever it can help. As Paul says, we will not let sin have master, mastery or dominion over us. And so all we can do is do two things. One, resist the devil, and then two, draw close to him. The days that we don't resist and the days that we don't draw closer, those are the days that we'll look back. You know what? That's why I messed up. I see what I did that whole day, not praying, not praising and so forth, not reading. And all you have to do is just walk back the day that you messed up, go back and look what happened before that. And I can promise you, more than likely, you were not getting close to God on that day. So anyway, brother, I gotta go. I gotta get some of these other questions in. But listen, we'll do this probably again in a couple of weeks. And so if you wanna come back on then, feel free, all right? Sounds good, man. You have a blast one. You too. Thanks. People are saying, I didn't know, which is kind of cool. I didn't know that Shining Rivers was a male. That was kind of cool. Sometimes we try to figure out who's who, all we see is just a profile. And so now you guys know, Shining Rivers is a male. A young, and a young one too. What did he say? I'm not young. I'm not young. I'm 29. Okay. I thought that was pretty cool. Let me ask a few of these questions before I get to a couple of guests that I have in waiting. Let's see. Little light says, I'm looking for an email from this person, Ken Horst, a seven day Adventist. Okay, I'll look for the email. I have no problem talking to him. I'm actually gonna cover seven day Adventist probably sometime next week. And so maybe after that, we'll see if he wants to come in. So Little Light, you are a seven day Adventist, huh? Okay, a question. You ever heard Malachi 2, 16, 17, doesn't say God hates divorce, but he is the actual text. So let's go to Malachi 2, 16. And let's pull it up. For I the Lord, hate divorce. Says, for I hate divorce, I'm sorry, says the Lord, the God of Israel and him who covers his garment with wrong says the Lord of hosts. So take heed, I'm sorry, so take heed to your spirit that you do not deal treacherously. You have worried the Lord with your words, yet you say, how have we worried him? In that you say, everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he delights in them or where is the God of justice? And so now let's go back to your question. Let's put your question up again. He says, doesn't say God hates divorce, but he hates divorce. So let's put the past. So you say in the verse 16, for the Lord. Well, okay, for I hate divorce. Well, we've got a couple of words. We can go past the, but this word right here is sanay, which is hate. Well, first of all, it's he hates divorce. You're right. It does say he hates divorce, but if we just move a little further, we'll see who says he hates divorce. This is the first person plural. So the I hate is implied there in the he hates. I mean, in the hate, not he, but I. And then this word right here, amar. So says Jehovah, the Lord God. Jehovah Elohim. So in this case, we know where it says, God hates divorce. Yeah, it doesn't take, it doesn't reverberate him. God hates divorce as I hate divorce says the Lord. So who says he hates divorce? Well, the Lord. So it's still proper to say that it's God that hates it. It's not he as though it's some ambiguous he, amen. I got a bunch of emails, Christa, that after this evening going into the morning, I'll be going through a bunch of emails. And so I did see, I can't recall if I saw yours or not, but I got a ton of emails. And so this evening I'll be going through those. What does your, I'm going to, what does your seminary curriculum look like? I'm looking at seminaries and trying to find one. I like that includes Cornet, Greek, a couple of things. What are you trying to match this question? And it's already, you all can sit in on this because maybe you guys also are interested in seminary. So question, what are you looking for out of, or for us? I mean, what are you trying to go for? What degree are you trying to get? The reason why I asked that question is, the reason why I'm trying to ask that question is because that would determine which particular seminary you should go for and what degree. For example, at DTS, there are different degrees. There are different master level degrees and different electives. So you can choose a seminary that, maybe there's some electives that you want to take more Greek in, more Hebrew in. In this one, DTS is seminary, DTS. Their curriculum to get a master of theology, it's not like a normal, like many other seminaries where your master level courses are 90 credit hours. In this one, it's 120 credit hours and they do make you go through more Greek and Hebrew than the average seminaries. Matter of fact, most seminaries will have you go through one semester or two semesters of Greek and Hebrew. And then as I've looked at their Greek and Hebrew curriculum, it's pretty basic, it's pretty basic. And so, I would say this, I'll tell you this. If you're looking at a particular seminary, let me know, send it to me and I'll look over there, over their curriculum for you, Dutch. And I'll see what I think about their Greek or Hebrew curriculum. Again, I've seen some where it was just basic. Their first year or their first semester of Greek was basically learning the alphabet and a few words and figuring out what a noun was, pretty basic. Well, there should be a whole lot more than that. A whole lot more than that. Same thing with their Hebrew. So, you wanna make sure that the scholarship that you're going after is actually legitimate. You don't want to, and we're seeing that more and more. Matter of fact, we're gonna talk about this more and more. We're gonna talk about this later. That there are more and more people whose scholarship is just in question. A lot of people that you just, all right, I can see why their scholarship is in question. But a lot of people whose scholarship that you wouldn't think is in question, meaning that they got their degree from places that they, it's kinda in question or did they get their degree? There's a lot of folks that we call doctor and they're not doctors. And it's okay to have an honorary doctor or letters. That's okay, but to call yourself one knowing that you haven't earned it or if you get it from a place where it's not reputable and basically you just paid for it. Same thing with their master's level work. You should be doing work. You should be forced to read. You should be forced to write papers. You should be forced to research. You should be forced to earn your stripes. Kinda like what we do here. I want you to earn your stripes. And so we have a lot of that happening in a lot of these, a lot of seminaries aren't really seminaries. A lot of seminaries are just seminaries in name only. And it's just a good scam. It's a good way to get some money in. Amen. All right, let's go to a couple of these other places. Let's go to, and I'm sorry guys, I'm gonna rush you guys a little bit, but I wanna go pretty quickly. So I'm gonna go to Segun and then to Aaron. Next, so guys, make sure I can see your face. Matter of fact, let me do something. Let me fix how I have this set up. Yeah, let me fix how I have this set up. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Let me do it this way. Let me do it this way. What just happened? Okay. There we go. Segun, how you doing my friend? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, let me fix this and fix that. There we go. How you doing, brother? Good, how are you doing? Listen, I'm doing wonderful. I'm doing wonderful. How are you? I just got back from work and I'm glad I caught the life today. You just got back from work now? No, from work. Oh, from work? Okay. Okay. I do have a couple of questions. They're going to be very quick though. Okay, make it quick. So I'm Nigerian and they've been Nigerians like growing up, we believe in all most of these extra terrestrial things. And one day my mom kind of called me and said, hey, one prophetess told her to buy a drum, like a beating drum. And I had the same reaction too. And to give it to a particular church because the church needed it. And when they beat the drum, my life will be becoming better wherever they hear the sound. And I'm like, I don't know if that's true. My question would be how do I leave my family, my parents out of this life? Things that they believe in. How entrenched are they? How much do they buy into that kind of stuff? A lot? On a scale of 10, I would say eight. Okay, do this then. You pretty much know that it's a fraud, right? Yes. Okay, we'll do this. Give them the drum. Give them the drum. Give them the drum. And sometimes it's just good enough to show them. You can kind of like how Elijah was talking with the prophet of Baal. Here, here guys, do what you wanna do. Here, let's see. Let's see you in Baal at work. And then after a while, the proof's in the pudding. The problem is now, if you show them proof of what they're doing, what they're involved in is wrong and it's not working, then that should be good enough. Now, if a person is not, sometimes though, you can show someone proof and they still won't budge. Well, then there's nothing you can do about that. So I would say, since it's not, since you know it's fraudulent, then go ahead and get the person drum. Go ahead and do it so that you can show them nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Now, and don't let them come back and say, well, you've got 10 years to get that, well, my life is gonna get better in 10 years, Lord willing, no matter what, whether this person beats the drum or not. So I, me personally, here, here's the drum. Now let me show you something, right? But what I would focus on more than anything else is just give them the word and ask them, where do we see any of this stuff in scripture? Where do we have this, what they're talking about? Now they're probably gonna go to examples in the Bible where God had someone do something, an actual prophet to do something and say, we'll see the Lord might move in these mysterious ways. Okay, fine. If they're not going to be tied to the word, there's not a whole lot you can do. And so me personally, I might just be inclined to, here, here's the drum. Now, let's see what happens. Oh, nothing. So here, it's been a week later, nothing's happened. My income had increased, I feel for the same. So that's all, because there's really nothing else you can do other than give them the word. And if the word isn't gonna be enough and if there's an opportunity for them to be shown that, hey, for example, if a person gives a prophecy and it's clearly a false prophecy, what's the lady's name here in America? The, what's the lady who's prophesying about everybody? She says something about T.D. Jakes. I forgot the lady's name. Celeste, is it Celeste? The Celeste, whatever her name is. And so I did a little quick little video about her prophesying that the Lord told her on election night that Joe Biden, I'm the Kamala Harris is gonna be the vice, I mean, be the president. Well, that didn't work. So we should stop listening to her. She's clearly a false prophet. Well, you show them that and they come back and say, yeah, but who are you to doubt her? She gave a prophecy that didn't work. So I should keep giving her shots. So some people you can't show them anything. Now I pray that's not the case with your parents, but fine, give them the drum. It's not gonna hurt you. You already know that it's not biblical. Mom here, fine, here's the drum. You need to see that this is not godly. And then, oh, by the way, let's look at the scriptures. Does that make sense? Yes, sir. My second question, in my life, I do have some unrepentant saying, which bothers me because I know I'm not supposed to be doing this, but why do I still keep finding myself doing the same thing over and over and over again? And it's like, I asked myself, like, am I even safe? Like, you know, am I, is the conviction real? Because I know like as a Christian, I call myself a Christian. I read my Bible, my commentaries, everything, but I'm not seeing changes in this. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. What's that for a second? You said you have unrepentant sin, what do you mean you have unrepentant sin? It's more or less like, I keep tripping up, Lord forgive me, then two, three days later, oh man, I did this thing again, Lord forgive me. Okay, so you're not talking about unrepentant sin, you're just talking about repeated sin. Yes, sir. Okay, but inwardly it bothers you, right? Yes, sir, it does bother me. So let me ask you this question. Unrepentant sin is different than repeated sin, okay? Unrepentant sin is a sin or is a lifestyle where the sin doesn't bother you. Being a believer in order to be a believer, you naturally, you must be repentant of sin. Meaning, meaning, not that you stop doing the sin, you don't repent of sin, you repent about sin. In other words, your heart, your inward being is bothered by sin. You don't like any sin, your sins or anyone else's. That's a good thing, because if you can sin and it doesn't bother you, Houston, we got a problem. But we're talking about repeated sin. Well, the practicing of sin is distinguished in the Bible because all of us will engage in a particular sin. And we will engage in sins multiple, there's not a person in the chat that doesn't have multiple sins. There's not a person in the chat, so the washers later or anyone on the planet that does not engage in, even if it's just one sin, multiple times over and over. Now, it might be spread out, it might be this particular sin they might do every week, every other month, every two months, every quarter, once a year, it doesn't matter. You will have done this sin multiple times. Wouldn't that still be the same definition of repeated habitual sin? Sure, but what Paul distinguishes is your desire. Your desire is not to do those sins. And if your desire is not to do that sin, that indicates that you are repentant. I still succumb. So now how you fix that is the next step. I'm bothered by that, that is if indeed you are bothered. So how do you fix that sin that keeps bothering you? Well, then you do what James says to do. You just simply do your very best resist, but how can I keep resisting? I keep falling. Well, that is where you draw close to the God. How do you draw? Let me ask you this question. How do you draw close to the God? What do you think is the way that we can draw close to the God? I would say by spending more time with him and the only way I know how to do that is by studying his word and what he said. And what else? And praise and worship. Okay, and what else? I know speaking, just having conversations about him. Fellowship is one way, but there's another way. There's another way. Worship. You said worship, you said, and we said fellowship and we said reading. What's the big? Yes, sir. Studying, no, going back to him prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. If your prayer life is weak, then your spiritual life will be weak. Your walk will be weak. So that's a must. You're not having time where you are in communication with him. Well, then who are you in communication with? That's why it's a must. And all those go together. The reason why we go to church, that we can do those things by ourselves, we do those corporately. See, I can't make it on my own. I might feel like it, I'm smart enough, I'm tough enough, I've gone through something. I need somebody with me. I need somebody to hold me accountable. I need someone to pray. I need someone that's to remind me of how God has blessed them. I need someone to let their light so shine before me that I can also give God glory because of that. So we need that. I need you, you need me. We're all a part of God's family, anybody, I'm going through the song. But the point is, those are the things that are required. You must do those things and you'll be fine. It's not going to be easy from day one, but you'll be fine. Amen. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. All right, no problem, brother. Let me go ahead and move on. Ladies and gentlemen, let me go to, I'm going to Aaron in just a second as well. And where did, Alton, where'd you go? Alton jumped off. Anyway, let me go ahead and answer a couple of these questions before I go back to the live stream. Let's see. Do I think that it's the same crowd that welcomed Jesus as king that then demanded him to be crucified? Give me an opportunity to make this public service announcement about my team of cults because he came riding in on a cult and they booed him. They booed him. All those folks did not like Jesus or the cult. Yeah. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But yeah, that was the same group of people. He's in the same location. And so, yes, he's going there in this triumphant in their Hosanna just as Genesis 49 predicts is gonna happen and then the very same folks crucify him. That's kind of how people are, right? They can want something which tells us the need for the heart to be fixed. Our heart is just jacked up. And so there's a need for him to do a work in the heart. Amen. Next question. How come the apocryphal was removed from the Bible? I know some pastors will preach from the Bible and from, from, and the, okay. That is a fallacy how you phrase a question. The apocryphal was never added to the Bible. It was never, so it was never removed. As a matter of fact, how we have the apocryphal, I won't spend too much time on it, but how we have the apocryphal, remember Jerome writes these in the vulgate. Jerome's own note state that they're not part of the actual canon, but they're there for historical purposes. Later on, about a thousand years later, they get added to the canon, in the Catholic church. There are a lot of things that were written that aren't necessarily meant to be in the Bible. Matter of fact, most things that are written are not supposed to be in the Bible. The things that are supposed to be in the Bible are there. We have to trust that God has kept and preserved his word. Amen. By the way, when you go look at the apocryphal, you'll see that there's some wacky stuff in there. It's not, it's not consistent. It was never taken out of the Bible because it was never in the Bible. Let me go and add, do one more question here and then go to the, to the, to the, to my guess. Chat with Grant says in Acts 1326, the word among you is similar to James 5, 19. Let's go to Acts 1326, 1326. Brethren, sons of Abraham's family and those among you who fear God. Yes, this particular, it is similar. It actually is similar to James 519. Let's put James 519 on the screen as well. James 519, as a matter of fact, not just 519, but also 513. Brethren, if any among you and this word and, hey, mong. So, eon, tis, if a certain person and among, humen, you, and then going back to Acts 1326 and those among you, hoi, that's just those, and humen, among you. So any of those folks who are among you who fear God. So brethren, sons of Abraham's family and those among you, matter of fact, I almost wanna come and give you a hug. This makes my point. We talked about how in James 519, matter of fact, dog on it, let's just have some, have another opportunity to show this ridiculous argument that you can lose your salvation. James 519, people run to this passage says that, my brother, any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back. See, if it turns you back, that means you, how do you get turned back from someplace that you've never been a part of? Well, easily. I can be driving and turn away, I can be on my way to Houston. And someone says, you know what, no, go back. So I turn around and head back to Dallas. Haven't made to Houston yet. If someone in Houston comes and gets me and turns me back, that doesn't necessarily mean that I've been in Houston. We have a lot of situations like that, but notice what he's turning back from. He's turning back from the truth. Notice he's turned away from the truth, not from believing, but from the truth. Every time in scripture we see the, we see someone leaving salvation, looks like they're leaving salvation. They're not, they're not leaving from believing, they're leaving from the truth, the knowledge. Every time you see that, it's them moving away from what they know or they thought they knew. But we never see that from someone who is believing just from the belief. And they'll say, wait a second, why would you say among you? Well, how else would you say it? How else would you say someone who is around the believers who's not a believer? That's the question I asked of Michael Brown. That's the question I asked of other folks. If you're gonna use this phrase among you and you think that means among just the believers, well then how would I also say what about someone who's not a believer? How do I speak to someone who is close to the other believers who hears it but then departs? Are there passages for that? Well, this is it. Now, how would I know that he's speaking of if this were actual believers? He would use this word, ek, from, out of, but that's not used here. And so we go back to the other passage you brought up, Acts 1326. Notice what he says. Brethren, some of Abraham's family, those of Abraham's family, Ghanous of his family, Kai, Hoy, and Humin. Well, this right here, and those among you who fear God, that clearly distinguishes this and Humin clearly distinguishes those who are Jewish of Abraham's family and those who are not. So we've got this, those who are Jewish of Abraham's family and those among you, not Abraham's family, not the Jews, but are amongst them. That's what this passage is. And so that's an excellent example of showing how this, and, let me put it back on the screen so you all can see, that's a perfect example of how this phrase right here, and Humin is distinguishing from a group and a group of folks that are around the group, not actually the group. Amen. So very good, very good, Chadwick. I would give you, if I were around you, I'd give you a gift card. Matter of fact, what I'll do is I'll go ahead and renew your subscription to the Smart Christian channel for another year for free. Amen, amen. All right, let me go to answer some questions. I mean, to some of our guests. Erin, go ahead and make yourself visible so I can come to you. I'll come to you in just a second since you're not visible, but I'll go to Alton. And then after that, I'll go to Anno, you know, we'll go to Alton next, and then to, you know, Alton, my friend, how are you doing, sir? Grace of peace, sir. Grace of peace, how you doing? Peace and grace of you too, my friend. I'm doing wonderful. I'm doing wonderful. Great, great. I can tell by that smile on your face that you got, you look like you have something up your sleeve. Let me see. I mean, I got an Africa tattoo up above the machine. Oh, look at him. He look good for what days? To pro-black, he's got some black liberation theology coming our way. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking about going to Freddie Heine's church the last time I was in Dallas, but I just went to, you know, to... Well, listen, you with that, with that almost Hebrew-Israelite beard you got, you... Brother, I mean, it's time. It's time. I think you need to go ahead and just grow it out. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. I'll do, how about this, here's the deal. I'll grow out mine if you take off yours up top. I don't know. I don't know if the wife will permit that. She would love you for it. She would love you for it. She would love you for it. Anyway, I'm just... How you doing, brother? I'm good, I'm good. Actually, I was going to call you, but I saw that you was live. So I said, well, let me just go ahead and just hop on. But then I probably just ended up calling you later because I know that you're a pretty busy guy, so I try to bother you too much. Listen, call me if I don't answer, I'll call you back. All right, cool. I have a question because I know that just about everyone who's probably watching, if they haven't seen it, then they're probably gonna go and see it. The round table discussion, I was with Dr. Michael Brown and Justin Peters and all of that stuff. And I know that there's been, and I mean, you've done a great job of covering it. And I know that you had a stance about a biblical continuationist and a cessationist. Like, I kind of agree with you on the whole cessationist, continuationist. If, like, I don't believe that the miracles and all of that stuff is cease, but I do believe that a lot of the foolishness that we do see in in churches where people, you know, got their heads on the forehead and flipping up and down the aisles and all of that stuff, I do believe that that stuff is not a godness, not the spirit moving. But there are some people who still will consider a person who holds my position in yours as a continuationist. So how would you kind of explain that position to where we believe that God can still use people, but we're kind of skeptical of some of the stuff that we do see in churches? Or do you believe that a person can't? Well, I think you said it the other night, spoiler alert, but how would you explain that a person, you know, who does believe that a person can't speak in tongues and still miraculously heal a person, you know, by the workings of the Holy Spirit? I tell them, and I don't, if I'm talking to someone who doesn't know me, who's not familiar with me on the channel, or just in general, I just tell them, yeah, God can move. I agree with that. I absolutely believe that without even a but. And then I'll ask him, and don't you think that when he does move, everyone will know it, it'll be obvious. And they're gonna say, yes, what charismatic or what continuation is gonna say that when he moves, it's not obvious. And then we look at the Bible every time he moves. And I mean, every time he moves. God is not a secret agent of power. He doesn't just do stuff, let me just do this and no one knows. Now there's a lot of things that he does that no one knows about, or we don't pay attention, we take for granted, such as keeping this dog on globes spinning and keeping the sun hot and keeping gravitation right where it's supposed to be. He does those things that we take for granted, but there's other things that he does that we don't think about, that we don't even realize, like for example, I know for a fact, I'm not a prophet, but I know for a fact, God kept eating everybody that wanted to kill Alton at bay last night. How do I know? Cause exhibit A, you're right there. And so we don't think about that, that maybe someone had designs on us and the devil does. He desires to set all of us, he desires to destroy all of us. And so I would say, so let's just make sure we don't misrepresent God. Meaning if someone comes and pretends to be our father and they show him as a clown or as a buffoon, we're not gonna accept that. We're not going to accept someone misrepresenting our own family member, father or mother or us or our children and so forth. And so we're not gonna accept someone misrepresenting God as well. So Jesus is a playing saxophonist. That's what you're telling me. Jesus ain't playing saxophone. No, he's not. He ain't taking away your toes at the end of the bed. Yeah, he's not playing footsies with you. So when he shows up, we don't have to worry. And this is why I say the whole cessation is continuations argument is really not a, it's kind of a moot point because for those who are continuationists, you don't have to worry about cessation. It's not believing in the move of the spirit, if that's what you think, because they do though. But you don't have to worry about that because when he does move, everyone knows it. You don't have to worry about cessation is thinking that they can't speak in tongues or thinking about that there is no gift of healing. There's no prophet. You don't have to worry about that because every time it happened, it happened at the behest of the spirit, not the person. The person didn't conjure that up. The spirit moved upon them. The first folks speaking tongues in the Bible, they didn't know they were gonna speak it. Matter of fact, every time someone spoke in tongues in the Bible that we see an actual biblical account, they didn't know ahead of time. They didn't say, Lord, give us this ability to speak in these languages. That never, they just happened. That is as the spirit move when someone was healed. That is as the spirit move. They didn't decide, I wanna heal. If that were the case, then Paul would never say, tell someone, tell Timothy, take a little alcohol, get you a little wine for your stomach or trophomus is still sick. That wouldn't be the case because they know the move of the spirit is not on command. So we don't have to worry about, if you're a continuations, you don't have to worry about someone actually stopping the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit moves, he moves. Irrespective of what you want to do. So if tongues are legitimate, the tongues that we see, when the Lord moves on me, then I'll speak them. I will speak in tongues when the Lord moves. You will too, but if you wanna go do it in tongues, that is not biblical. There's nowhere in the Bible where someone speaks in tongues on command. Let's pray in the spirit. You're a liar and you're ignorant of the scriptures. Laying your hands on someone, that was never on command either. If the spirit moves, he moves irrespective of you. Do you think you and me have the ability to stop the spirit if he moves? If the Lord wants to use Alton's hands to bring someone back to life, and Alton's kinda, I don't know, but no, I guess what Alton's gonna do. If the spirit comes upon him, Alton's hands, bam, he's alive or he's healed. Whether I think it or not, whether I feel like it or not, that's not the case. And so, so the cessations don't have to worry about what continuations believe. Continuation, I'm sorry, continuations don't have to worry about cessations believe. Sessations don't have to worry about what continuations believe. Well, they do. Yes, we do. Yes, you do. The reason why you have to is because it ends up leaving people astray. So all you gotta do is just say what I just said. If the scripture is true and we wanna use that as a guide, every time the Bible worked, every time the spirit moved and someone everybody knew. There's not one time where the spirit of the Lord moved and no one knew about it. Everyone knew. Even, by the way, the doubters, because every time he did, it was a sign even to the people that doubted the Lord. So I would do it that way. I would say when the spirit of the Lord moves, we all will see it. We all will know it and let that be that. But if you're gonna teach that we all art again, I think this is this bogus argument to pursue spiritual gifts, any preacher that's telling you to pursue spiritual gifts needs to stop preaching, needs to stop teaching. Because it's not that difficult of a text. It literally says to pursue love and desire the spiritual things. And then however that happens, is how it happens. Like, for example, my wife, she's gonna kid me when I say this. She didn't, I don't know if she was desiring a husband, but she was pursuing me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm telling the secrets. She was pursuing me. Well, how do we say back in the day she was sweating me? No, no, no, this is with the hair. I'm lying. I went without the hair, brother. I'm lying, I went, I pursued her. She gonna get me. I'm sorry. Okay, now I just wanna say, was it with the hair or was it without the hair, brother? Without the hair, I was not at my best. Yeah, once I became a child, I put childish things and hair away. So yeah, yeah. Oh, brother, we're gonna have to get you right. We're gonna have to get you right. But I got one more question and I'm gonna go ahead and let you go ahead, brother. You know, finish up. And then I'm going for hair and necks. Yes, sir. Because now what do you think about, because I've heard this from quite a few people and it seemed like it's becoming more prevalent nowadays that people are touting this whole ideology that the charismatic movement is growing. So since the charismatic movement is growing, then that means that God is doing something. So therefore we shouldn't be questioning the move of the spirit and all of that stuff. So how do you address those claims that, well, this must be of God because it's moving and people are starting to accept Jesus now and it's only majority through the charismatic. It's literally the dumbest argument that you can make. Really? So because it's large and growing, that means that it must be the Lord. As though all of these warnings that we have about people, about false prophets and about people in mass being led astray, best known. So if this, because the charismatic movement is growing, well, tell me, apply what God is saying. Apply this passage. These passages speak about how people will not endure sound doctrine. Where does that come from? So touting numbers is a silly thing. Again, few are they that find these are Jesus' word. So if when Jesus says that there will be few irrespective of whether they're charismatic or not, continuations of cessationists or biblical continuations, it doesn't matter. There's only gonna be a few. So all of these folks, the majority of charismatic are going to hell. The majority of cessationists, and let me qualify that, the majority of cessationists are going to hell. The majority of folks that name the name of Christ verbally are going to hell. That's just a fact. Now, there are gonna be a lot of folks who name the name of Christ, who are cessationists, who are continuationists, who'll be in heaven. But the majority of people that wanna call themselves Christians are going to hell. And so the mere fact that you've got a large number and it's growing, well, think about this. If it was so much, but if charismatic, if the whole notion is this is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon people, the Lord is moving through His Spirit upon people on the earth, that's a lot of folks that are saved. And if that's the case, well, then, shouldn't the world be affected? Because even the detractors of Christianity early on said that these people, these apostles, these Christians, they are what? Turning the world upside down. That was then. There's more Christians now. And so if the Holy Spirit is even in greater usage and the power is greater now, or just like it was then, then shouldn't we see the world still turned upside down? But we don't see that. Now, I'm not blaming Charismatics on this. I want you all to hear me. I'm not blaming Charismatics on this. But I was using this to prove a point. If the Charismatic movement is so powerful, and even in America, or Africa, or Asia, or Europe, two things I want to ask them, why is the place that you see the least amount of Charismatics are the places where there's the most persecution? In other words, in Northern Nigeria, you don't have a whole lot of Charismatics in the Central and Southern part of Nigeria. You do. You don't see a whole lot of Charismatics in North Korea or in China. You know why? You don't have to have time for that. So if it's going to be true, it better be true. But more to the point, though, what we have seen in the world is an increase in lawlessness, like the Bible said. What we see is the love of many waxing coal. We see more crime, more debauchery. Wait a second. How is the presence of the Holy Spirit so great, so thick, so powerful, but it's not affecting society? We got a problem then. So my point is, stop lying on God. I'm not saying that the Spirit didn't move. He does move. But do you know how he wants to see, how we ought to see the Spirit moving people? By you going to your neighbor and helping him. By you going to someone and sharing the gospel with him. By you praying for someone. By you being a godly light. That's why he said, let your light so shine that men will see your good work and then glorify God. Not by you, hominah, hominah, hominah, and missing that and falling out. That is not how it's done. It's by your actions in your, through your heart, happening, people see your light shining by what you do. Hey, can you pray for me? No, I'll do you one better. I'll pray with you. By you showing love for them. The love of God compels us to do these things and also the terror and the fear of them. And so God has never been interested in seeing, God is not impressed by himself. I'm sorry, not by, God is not impressed by his own miracles. That's what it, that God's miracles, you know what that is for him, a regular day. So God is not looking for him to show us miracles. He's looking for us to show, show him and others his love, to show the power of him in us, how in spite of what we're going through, let me tell you what, what, let me tell you what the Holy Spirit, true power looks like. And some of y'all might wanna go ahead and take a pen and write this down. True power, the Holy Spirit really looking like something in someone's body, in someone's life, is when you're going through something and you still keep your peace. You're going through something and you still keep your joy. You're going through something and you're still talking about the goodness of the Lord. The power of Paul is not his power, not the Lord working through him, but the power of Paul is what he said while he's going through. Paul's writing these letters while he's going through something in prison. Paul's writing this stuff even while he's being persecuted. That's the power of the Holy Spirit. And if your Holy Spirit doesn't cause you to show joy, irrespective of your situation, I submit to you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. You might wanna lift the hood up, look in there and examine yourself to see if you actually have Christ, because your Christ seems to be dependent upon things, seem to be dependent upon signs like a wicked and adulteration looks for. That's what seems to be your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit doesn't keep you calm when your world is crashing, check your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit can't keep your mouth at bay when folks are talking and yammering at you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit doesn't hold your fist, your feet, your hands, and your mouth back when other things are coming at you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. I submit to you that you are either not a Christian with no Holy Spirit or a very weak one. And if that's the case, sit back, relax, and watch the others that are filled with the Spirit do the job of a true believer. That is to live out the gospel in word and deed. Amen. Y'all gonna feel good on that. Oh, shawndo almost caught the spirit on that, brother. I feel like, listen, I feel like passing plate to myself. I got a dollar around here. I mean, I'm gonna give myself, I'm gonna put a dollar in my own plate right there. There we go. Hey, time I yell about time. All right, brother. I caught that, I interpreted that, I interpreted that. So anyway, so now let's, before you go, you sure you wanna do that deal? I grow my beard like yours. You grow your hair like, or take your hair out. Your hair looks like mine, my beard looks like yours. You sure don't wanna do that? That's a good deal. I don't know, brother. I don't know, I don't know. He's scaring off. So you mean I gotta, you mean I gotta, you mean I gotta take these, these waves off, brother? Man, listen, I can, Alton, let it go, brother. Let it go, let it go, let it go. I promise you, once you get a bald head, your wife is gonna, your wife is gonna speak in tongues. Woo, shawla ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. Listen, ain't nothing like, I woke up like this. She gonna say, she gonna say, yeah, yeah, you go ahead and sleep upstairs until that hair grow back. I promise you, I promise you, she don't know what she's missing cause she's never seen it that way. But once you cut that, oh man. Once you cut that hair. Cephas, tell him. I don't know. Tell him, Cephas. What, what, what, what, what, what I get, when I get your age, you know, that baby, I might, I mean, I'm only a few years away. How are you? Somebody say, waves, I got waves, I gotta give you a side shot, you know, I gotta, I gotta give them a side shot. Listen, I'm telling you what my mom told me. She said, all that is, is nappy head laying down. That's all. That's just nappy head laying down. That's all my mom told me. That's all my mom told me to get off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, anybody can get some waves. Everybody can't wear a bald head. Any old, as my buddy told me before I got bald, he said, any old fool can wear some hair. Everybody can't wear a bald head. Come on, come on over. Come on over. Oh man, we gonna listen. We gonna have to pray, we gonna have to pray for Brother Corey, y'all. All right, what's your hairs on? Come on, come on. Stretch it out. I'm putting my bald head brothers on. I'm putting my bald head brothers on. Anyway. All right, brother, you take care of Aaron. All right, take care, brother, I'll see you later. All right. We are having fun. Let me go ahead and bring in Aaron and then let me go take a few other comments and I'll come back. I've got Eno waiting, I've got Arthur waiting, I've got Krista G waiting. So let me go to Aaron and then I'll take a few more, take a few more of you all's calls or conversations. Hey brother Aaron, how are you doing? Let me, I'm doing wonderful. I'm doing wonderful. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. It looks like, looks like Aaron is bald. It looks like Aaron is bald. Are you bald? Oh, for crowd. Look at that. Praise God. See that? Arthur, you see that? The oil just runs straight into my beard. Oh, look at that. That's what that scripture meant. Look at that. Look at man. What's going on, brother? First of all, let me say as everybody else has, let me join the choir and thank the Lord for your ministry, what you do and what you've done. Been watching for a while now and have been very appreciative of what you bring to the table. My question had a conversation with a cousin of mine. He's a minister, man of the word, loves God, but this is one of our crossroads. So we were just debating the other day and I just like your input on, I'm looking at it now. First Corinthians 419 and 20, he focused in on 20, but just to give a little context, 19 says, but I will come to you soon to the Lord wills and I will find out not to talk of these arrogant people, but their power for the kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power. And so we know that Paul is dealing with, bringing correction, but one of the idea that seems to be the right thing to do the idea that seems to permeate charismaticism is that every expression, whether it's preaching or has to be dominated or chased down by miracle signs and wonders and things of that nature. And so I just was curious as to what you thought or what your interpretation of the word is or our expectation as Christians in that matter. One of the things that I think people, this is where I think that every preacher, I think every person that's pastoring or leading a flock or teaching ought to get this a little basic Greek. Here's why. Sometimes we do too much with this word here, this word power, this word dunamin or dunamis. We give it more meaning than we should. Now that word can convey a lot of different things. It can stretch to something as the ability of just picking this up. I've got the ability, the power to pick that up. It's not a lot, that's anybody. Okay, that's power. It just means the ability to do something, okay? We make it out because there's an English word dynamite that is derived from this word that when we see this word, we think, oh, this explodes, this is a big move of God. No, matter of fact, in most cases, the word power in the Bible or dunamis is not even connected to the spirit of God. But in this case, power, we see power, we think that it automatically means it's got to be some sort of spiritual something happening. That's not necessarily the case. And so, yeah, the passage says, but I will come to you soon if the Lord wills and I shall find out not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power. Well, whose words, whose power? He's not talking about not believers, but the power of those that are arrogant. In other words, they don't have any. For the kingdom of God does not consist of consistent words, but in power. And so, his point is that you got these people that are claiming to have this power, well, let's see. Let's see it. The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, in ability, what do you desire? Shall I come to you with a ride or with love and a spirit of gentleness? Is that what you're looking for? And so, he goes into what he's always doing is he's getting on them. He's getting on them. And so, it's almost like this. And this is why I'm not too bothered by the charismatic movement. And I don't mean the charismatic like they're all bad. I mean the ones that are just way out just crazy. Okay, fine, prove it. Show it. You know, the old saying, smoke them if you got them. Well, fine, you have this power, let's see it. I don't wanna hear you talk about your power and what you've got in the confines of your church. You got all this Holy Ghost power in your church, but on the streets, where is it? Everybody around you in your neighborhood is on drugs or strung out on something or addicted to something or whatever. You got poverty and crime and so forth, just around your house. So here you are, this beacon of the Holy Spirit and even in your immediate vicinity, nothing's happening. But when you go to church, oh, the power of the Lord is, okay, okay. You can sell it to someone else. We have these folks that get up and come together and go to these big arenas and they have these different multi-level marketing groups that talk about, and they got folks that come up there and talk about how this works, this thing. I don't know, how old are you, Aaron? I'll be 53 in June. Okay, okay, so you remember this then? You remember that there was this little real estate thing by this guy named Carlton Sheets? I was on the ledge, man. I was on the ledge, he almost got me. Man, he got me, well, I take it back. He didn't get me, I got him. I was so broke. I was so broke that I ordered it making payments and I ain't finished paying it. So I owe those folks money because, yeah, listen, I bought into it, I'm gonna be rich using other people's money, no money down, all of that stuff, and I still owe them money. They killed my credit, but it's okay. I bought into it, but if it was real, then it would have happened. If what you're selling is real, it will happen, especially what you're selling or talking or touting is about the power of God, it'll happen. God doesn't need you to advertise his power. He wants you to advertise what he's done on the cross. But for some folks, that's not good enough, well, fine. So if you're gonna tell me how powerful he is, fine, show me. That's why I put out this deal with all the folks that are saying that they can cast out demons and so forth and that they're not afraid of these big bad demons or whatever, the demons are afraid of them. All right, well, listen, here in, I don't know where you're from or wherever you're from, there's a hood. I'm in Chicago, I can take them anywhere. Yeah. And they won't go, they won't go. Call up Marcus Ryder's Marcus. Marcus, let's go over this part of Chicago. We ain't gotta go but a few feet from downtown. I don't know if y'all have been to Chicago. You'll be surprised, you're in downtown, it's, wait a second, this ain't downtown. Well, it's downtown enough and you better leave that area or go to Memphis or go to Milwaukee. Yeah, and so, hey, come to Dallas. We got some areas and let's just see us. Let's see the power of you casting out these demons where it matters. If you're gonna talk about it, what we say, if you're gonna talk about it, be about it. But unfortunately, they're just not. But what actually does, think about it, you had back in the day, remember the nation of Islam was going in kind of cleaning up some of these bad neighbors? They were like, they didn't have a Holy Spirit. They were just bold and they stood on what they were gonna do with just a bunch of men being bold. That's what God asked for us. Be bold for the word of the Lord and then watch how things change. But we wanna see something fall out of the sky. We wanna see some magic. Okay, okay. Go lay hands on one of them gang bangers. Go lay hands on one of them drug dealers. See what happens? But I can go and talk to them. You can go and talk to them and say, listen, brother, let me just talk to you about the Lord. Even what he's done in my life, look at me. And they can get with that. They can, the youngsters, when a so-called old head or OG like me yourself, school come talk to them and say, listen. When you're genuine, when you come with this flim flam, all right. I know in prison, if you come to the flim flam, they'll do something to you. But if you're genuine, if you're genuine, they can rock with that. Well, I hope to only read about the prison part. Have you been there? Well, never. Okay, okay, okay. Well, don't go. I hope to only hope to read about it. One more quick question and how, with the room, you can answer it fine. But the other part of our conversation, there's a pretty, pretty broad conversation, just curious on your view of the doctrine of canosis or the canotic. But from Philippians two is where we usually get the most meat from that argument. Philippians two, six through nine, I believe it is. Well, four through six, something like that. Where it says that he made them, or serving, and I'm sorry I don't have it open before. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm gonna go ahead and let you go and answer it. Okay. But before I go, I gotta ask you a question. Are you a Chicago Bears fan? I haven't been a Bears fan since they destroyed the Super Bowl team in 86. What happened? Who's your team now? After they won the Super Bowl, which I'm not opposed to Fritz getting the touchdown, but that was Walter Payton's last Super Bowl. Should have been Walter Payton. So that started the down slide for me. But then on top of that, they let Wilbur Marshall leave and other, then Wilbur goes to Washington and gets two more rings. Chicago has a disease. Well, the only reason I wanna ask you that question was if you remember the last time you guys went to the Super Bowl. Was it 2004 maybe? I'll just see if you remember the last time and who they played. I think it was 2004, but even then. 2006, 2007. And who they played and who they lost to? We had Tommy Jones on the team and they let him get traded away. So I mean at this point, Aaron, you're missing a point. You're missing a point, Aaron. Who they played, you miss who they played though? No, I can't so little at that point. I don't remember. Oh, they put, oh. I'm just messing with you. I'm having fun. I only have one request. We have to start with this false advertising. That is the one thing that you have to do. No, I'm not saying this. You've provoked me to start looking at some sports cups. I will tell that truth. I've been inspired by your coach's cup. Amen, amen. Well, listen, I'm gonna go ahead and answer this question and I'll pick up some of the folks in just a second though. But to answer this question about this canosis, the word that he's speaking of guys in Ephesians is this Greek word, actually the word is echinocin, which is, it means to empty himself of. Of what and to what degree we're not told. It necessarily has to involve to some degree glory. How this works. We don't have the opportunity to lift up the hood and see exactly what's happening. We just know that he comes in a form lower than the angels and of what and to what degree we don't know. But again, it has to be to some degree of glory because he makes his prayer in John 17 to give me back the glory that I have with you in the beginning. We know that in his fullness, he can't, we can't be in his presence. He can be in ours, we can't be in his. Which is why I said the fullness of a Godhead now dwells in him. But then the fullness did not. Now, to what degree don't know. Now, does that mean that he stopped being God? No, he did not empty himself of his deity. He was always God, always has been, was at that time and always will be. But in a veiled form, yeah, to some degree, he has to be before us. He was always God. And so if someone, there are those that said that he emptied himself of his deity. No, he did not. He was God at that moment in time. Again, he took what God took, which was worship. He forgave sin, which God could do. He was called God. And so therefore he never denied that he was God. And so that's probably the extent that we can go with it. Trying to figure out to what degree you just can't because the Bible didn't give us enough. There's only a couple of passes that we can go to. So that's where I would take that. Before I go to my next group, folks, I've got, again, I've got Arthur, I've got Krista and I've got Pastor Trey. So let me answer a few more questions over here. We're gonna be here for a while, it looks like. By the way, cool casting. Thank you for the super chat as well. Also, only ice cry, only ice cry baby, I like that. Thank you so much for the super chat. I really appreciate that. Thank you for all you do. Thank you, brother, I really appreciate that. Let's see, let's ask a couple of these questions. If a person, Michelle says, if a person believes that Jesus was not resurrected, are they saved? No, no. As a matter of fact, let's put the passage. Hold on. Hold on one second, let me find the passage. First Corinthians 15 and 12, all ready. Now, if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain. Your faith also is in vain. If a person says they are a believer, but they don't believe that Jesus Christ was resurrected, they cannot be saved. That's part of it. That he died, he suffered, he paid the sin debt. He became the object of sin. He rose from the grave and then since ascended to the right hand of the Father. All of those things are important. Without his ascension, no one goes to be with the Father in heaven. Without his resurrection, then there is no proof of death and there is no conquering of death. And so we have no conquering. And as Paul says, there is no hope as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, he says we are to be pitted amongst more people, more than anybody else. So therefore a person has to believe. You have to believe that there has been a resurrection of Christ. Amen. Okay, a couple more questions. My full thoughts on full Preterus, I think to be a full Preterus, you have to miss a whole lot of scriptures. I could just leave it at that. You have to miss a whole lot of scriptures to believe that all of these prophecies were fulfilled in 70 AD. First of all, the problem that full Preterus or even partial will have to have is this issue of the 70 weeks. Well, even if they think that there hasn't been a breakage in the 77s and they went one after another. And so the 70th week proceeded the 69th week immediately. Well, then what happened? What happened in 40 AD? Nothing. What did happen? Did any of the things that were prophesied was gonna happen? None of those things happened. So, yeah, I think I'd be more inclined as to a partial Preterus. I would have full Preterus, but no. This channel is funny. This channel is funny. What do I think of Catherine Crick? I think Catherine Crick is a heretic, a rank heretic. I think she's as false. If Catherine Crick is not a false teacher, false prophet or heretic, then there's no such thing as a heretic, false prophet or false teacher. I need to answer this question really with the video, but under some extreme ignorance, could a woman pastor, a biblical, be viewed as a saint or a saint? Here it is. The Bible does not teach that a woman who is in ministry, even if she's usurping her authority, that she's unsafe. She's just ignorant and in violation. Is it possible that a woman can be a pastor and still be a Christian? Sure. Sure. It's possible. You can be saved and stupid. Treat that. You can be saved and stupid. I'm pretty sure someone's gonna ask for that because you can be saved. You can be saved and be stupid. You can do dumb things. So, a woman can be a pastor, violate that because she's just ignorant of those things. That can happen. Now, it does get to her heart and that's what we all have because if you're doing something and you know what's wrong, I don't care, I know what's wrong. I'm doing it within that. Now you gotta do what Paul says, examine yourself to make sure you have Christ. But is it possible that there are women out there that are preaching it and they really, truly believe they are doing the right thing? They've been sold a bill of goods. It's possible, very possible. So, even though it's wrong, that doesn't mean that they have lost their salvation. Amen? Some might be upset with that too, by the way. Somebody's gonna be upset with that. All right, Eno, let me go to Eno. Eno has been waiting patiently. Let me go to Eno. How are you doing, sister? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? I can hear you wonderfully. I can hear you. Okay. You can hear me? I can hear you. Oh, wonderful, wonderful. Okay, so my question is this. It has to do with miracles and the scripture in Luke 11, Luke 11, and I think it's Luke 9, 11 through 13. Luke 9. So my question, yeah, I think it's Luke 9. Let me check real quick. Okay, so, yeah, it's actually Luke 11, 11 through 13. Okay, Luke 11, okay. And then the second scripture I have, I'm gonna make this quick, because I know you're busy. It's Deuteronomy 29, 29, and this has to do with something kind of sad, death. That scripture, like if a kid asked his father, he wouldn't give him, I'm paraphrasing, like a bad gift or anything like that. He wouldn't give him a serpent if he asked for fish or something of that sort. So I guess my question is this. In 2020, I lost my kid, unfortunately, and my heart grieves a lot because I prayed for her and I prayed for her when she was born, and I just don't understand why I didn't get, and I know you can't answer this. I just don't understand. I'm a child of God, I believe, and I know you talk about tithes, I listen to you a lot, tithes and things like that. And I'm not good, and though there's no one that's good, but I guess I was just wondering, I don't understand why. Like I have my church praying, my mom praying, I prayed. So do I just rest under Deuteronomy 29, 29? The secret things belong to God because I just don't understand if I asked my father, which God is my Heavenly Father, to save my kid, and she was 30, I don't understand. That's my question. Well, let me say this. I remember having a conversation with a young man who had lost his child. Previously, thankfully, this is not you, but with him, he lost his child, and because he lost his child, he began to question God and said, I don't believe in God anymore. God is evil if there is a God and so forth. But I asked him, I said, prior to this though, you say you believed in God and you thought, you thought well of God, but you knew that other people have lost their children. You said, well, yeah, but them losing their children didn't affect your view on God, but you losing yours did. I said, that can't be, that can't be. Now, thankfully this is not you, but that's him, I said, God knows what he's doing, even if he had to share it with us. The child that is born, whether the person be a believer or a sinner, that human being belongs to God. God ultimately knows what he's doing, and this is where it gets tough. God, I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what you're doing, I don't know why you're doing, and oh, by the way, oh, by the way, God, I disagree with what you just did. I would not have done it that way. Why did you do it that way? Well, God knows, and the sad part is, it doesn't help us, it doesn't help with the grieving all the time to know that God is in control, and he took my child, but I want my child back. That doesn't help with the grieving. I believe, I know for a fact God is in control, and now we've lost a child before, but if one of these now, grandkids or children, that would hurt me, and I still know that God is in control. Part of being a believer is still knowing and still trusting in him even through the grief, even through those things, because all throughout the scriptures, people lose their children. Aaron loses his two sons, they came to God in an unworthy fashion. And so the words that, and think about it, the words that Moses gives Aaron, those aren't the most comforting words. He says, by those that approach me, I will be treated as holy. Aaron's like, okay, I get it, but those also aren't necessarily comforting words. The only solace that we can take is that God is in control. That's it. There are no words. And when I've talked to people who are trying to talk to folks who are dealing with grief, you don't have the words. God has not given us the ability to give you some words that's gonna make you feel at peace. There's no such thing. Other than just being there for somebody. You said you lost your child. How long ago in 2020, you said? It was 2020, June 18th, 2020. She had just turned 13 on June 8th, so she was 30 in 10 days. Thank God I got 30 years. I was a little upset that I didn't give more. And I'm 54. And she was my firstborn. So, you know, he gives me peace. I only get it from him. Because as you said, nothing anyone can say doesn't change to her, but I take one foot and put it in front of the other, you know, and I know it comes from him. But I just wondered, I just, and I know I don't think any man can actually answer that but God. And I guess he chooses not to, because I don't have that answer. But can I give you something to do? Yes. Rather than, and this is gonna sound odd, but hear me out. Rather than looking for comfort, I'm gonna ask you to do something. I'm gonna ask you to be the person to go comfort somebody else that has the same thing. I'm gonna ask you to be the strength for somebody else that needs it. Why? Because you are grieving and you can help somebody else. Because it might very well be that you be the reason why someone else gets a chance to see the Lord because you have shown what it's like to be a believer who's gone through something, trusting in the Lord and still wanting someone that's another goodness of the Lord. Because someone's going through something, some struggles, they can identify with someone else who's gone through it or is going through it. It's gonna always be difficult. I don't care who it is, it's gonna always be difficult for somebody to suffer a loss. But you can be the person that can help them. And so I don't know if your church has that, if there are some sort of outreach programs. I'm not sure what area you're in, but different group grief associations, different people, they have that. And so I would go online and look for groups that are dealing with grief and ask if you can go in, if nothing else, just to pray with people, just to, you don't have to, because there's nothing you can say. Yeah, when we lost hours, people would say, you know, just, they meant well, but they would just say some bad things. Well, the Lord will give you another one. Like I want, okay, I don't want to know that one. Right? Exactly. People say things. Those are my words. Yeah, they don't, they mean well, they just don't know well. And so sometimes if you can just be there with the person, right? And that person, God will use you to bring that person closer to God, to bring that person comfort. And then it's almost like passing it along. And so I would ask if you could do something like that for somebody, go help somebody out. And what ends up happening is it ends up being therapeutic for you. You end up getting blessed out of that. There's so many stories of people who have gone through something and it was hurtful for them. And then they went and shared that with someone else and it helped them to get past it and they helped someone else to get past it. So I would say if you could go and do that and watch how your heart just grows, watch how you get comfort, watch how much peace comes over you because now the Lord is using that very same grief that you went through, wanting to build you and build somebody else. I can do that. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for your videos. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you as well. Okay, let's see who do we have next? We have Arthur. Let's put Arthur on the resume. Okay, there he is. Matter of fact, let me do it differently. Let me do it differently. Let's do it like this. Okay. Now let me add Arthur. There we go. All right, brother. Let's put your volume on. How you doing, my friend? I'm good, sir. How are you? I'm wonderful. Let me fix something else over here. You guys can't see what I'm doing, but I've got to fix something. And this will be, where is it? Where is it coming from? There it is, right there. All right, cool. Uh-oh, wait a second. I just did something down. Hold on, hold on one second. I'm no problem. I'm gonna do something somewhere. Uh-oh. Wait a second. Uh-oh, hold on. Let me fix this. I'm trying to do it on the, there it is. There it is right there. Great. All right, cool. All right, I'm sorry. I got it now. I got it now. I'm sorry, I got it. It's all good. I just, I wanted to, you were talking earlier to Alton and you gave a really good, you mentioned being the light of the world and then you went off on a really nice about five minute tangent. Oh, you talking about shaving your hair? No, I knew that was gonna come up, but no, no, no. I'm not sharing the gospel, Robert. And I just wanna thank you for, first, thank you for what you do and... Thank you, I appreciate that. Your ministry and praying for the last individual, very emotional and praying for you. I didn't know you suffered that. So, in your family and your wife. But my question has to do with that line between, maybe it's not a line, between sharing your faith with unbelievers and not throwing pearls to pigs, if that makes sense. Uh-oh, wait a second. If there is a... Hold on, I just did, I did something. Oh, go on, hold on one second. I don't know what I just did. Don't go on it. Hold on, I'm sorry. I just, I clicked a button and messed up something. All right, let me fix this. I don't know what in the world. Uh-oh, wait a second. Oh, sorry. I keep messing up. Hold on. I'm putting other guests on the screen. Ah, let me delete these. Give me one second. No problem. I need someone to... Okay, click that. I see what I did wrong. There it is. Let me fix that. Okay, then let me do one last thing and this should fix it. Okay, okay, there we go. There we go. Now, what I'll do is click this, see if that works. Okay, there we go. All right, I'm sorry. Go ahead and ask your question. I'm sorry. So, yes, sir. I'll throw the scripture that I'm trying to find the line between evangelism and following this command from Christ and hoping you can explain a little bit what he exactly means to song in Matthew 7. Okay. Verse 6. Matthew 7, 6. Yes, sir. Okay, 7. Okay, 7. Okay. Do not give orders to dogs. Yes, sir, or toss your pearls before pigs. So, I'm trying to understand because I try to, I mean like we're commanded, I try to share a lot and very often with the same people, again and again, family, friends. And hearing this verse, but then feeling obliged to share. Is there a line? Is there a... Yeah, it is. It is. What would you say, sir? Okay, and with me, if I know for a fact that there is no interest in you hearing what I have to say that I'll make that determination. For example, if I'm talking what the Hebrew is like, and I'm using them as an example because that's the one group that you just didn't have the most resistance there. I don't care. They think that we are the dumbest, that we are deceived and so forth. And so if that person is not trying to hear, not trying to listen, well, then I'm through. There's nothing I can give to you. Now, if that person ever comes around, that's gonna be a worker of the Lord and somebody else. But there comes a point in time where you see you're not going anywhere, right? We see this happening with other people in the Bible where that person just decided, I'm not listening. I've got two ears, I mean, two fingers plugging their ears. And so you have to make the determination. For example, if you're having a conversation about sharing the gospel, and here it is 30 minutes later and you're not making any head room, it might be because that person's just bound and determined because what we have to realize, it's not up to me. It's not up to Corey. It's not up to Arthur to make that person come to Christ. All you can do is all you can do, which is give the word, some plant, some water. And sometimes you might be part of the watering and it might take several hundred people to come back in water. It's not up to you to soften that person's heart. That is a work of the Lord. And so, again, that's why I say all you can do is all. And I think, I try to live like that in just about everything. All you can do is all you can do. It's not up to you to pick up the whole world and carry it. It's not up to you to make everybody see what's right. The younger you are, the more you think you can fix the world. I think that I can, man, I'm gonna go into politics. I'm gonna become president. I'm gonna fix everything that's wrong. I'm gonna get rid of racism. I'm gonna get rid of poverty. All those things, yeah, okay. Same thing with the gospel. You think that you've got a good word and you can present it and make folks come to Christ. You don't have that ability. You don't have that ability at all. And so if you go out witnessing, depending on where you're gonna witness it, you might, if you'll witness 10 people and one person, two people come to Christ, amen, praise God, you've done well. If none come to Christ, amen, you've done your job. If eight come to Christ, you've done your job, but it's never you that makes them come. And so at some point in time, if you see it's not going anywhere and they're fighting you and pushing back, then all you can do is all you can do is go ahead and move to the next person. So there is no rule if this happens and that happens and that happens, then leave them. There's no such rule. So this is where your own wisdom, God has given you wisdom for it to kick in. So, okay, this didn't go anywhere. This didn't go anywhere. And this person, every time I raised this concern, this person's fighting me. Not thinking to ask questions because, okay, let me give you a little sales tactic. If a person is asking questions with the intent of getting the answers and they're asking questions on their own and the question that they're asking is in line with what you're saying. Those are called buying signs. That means they're interested. But if you're talking about Jesus and you're talking about this and they're asking questions about something totally unrelated, time to go. They're not interested. They've turned you off. They might be just used for the sport. You know what I mean? So if you're selling a car to someone and that person that you're selling the car to, they're asking questions about the car you're trying to sell that you keep engaging them. But if they start talking about something else, then you can't sell them that car. They're on something, are you with me? They've mentally disconnected. That's when you just, you know what? Now I'm throwing my good stuff, my pearls to the swine. Okay, it's now, okay. You just clicked it for me. Yes, sir. That's exactly right. Cause you know, they'll turn and they'll go, you'll be talking about Christ. And then, well in the Bible doesn't this say blah, blah, blah. It's like that. We weren't talking about that. Yeah. That's the person that's trying to move their point and they might be trying to get you away from what you believe. So I'll tell you what, you have a good day. I'm gonna go, you go watch the game. I'll go watch the game. I'll go do something. You go do something. You go that way, I'll go that way. Thank you, brother. I really appreciate the advice. Yeah, no problem. No problem. One last advice. I don't go on and cut it, brother. I don't go on and cut it. I mess with you. Where are you from, brother? Just south of Boston. Just south of Boston. Okay. Okay. You don't have a Boston accent. No, I grew up in the house with people from the West Coast. We big family in the same house. West Coast, down south, everyone in the same roof. So it didn't rub off. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Okay. All right. Well, brother, God bless you. I look forward to seeing you again. Let me go ahead and jump to some of these other people. All right, thank you. Okay. Now we are going to go to the one, the only, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we must bring on our own dear sister, Krista. Krista, how are you? Hey. Now, I can't tell you to cut your hair because you don't need to. No, I have to have on. No, how are we? Wait a second. Wait a second. Did I hear, I heard the comedian action. I'm not taking, I'm not taking the hat off either. Well, you don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. How are you, sister? I'm wonderful. Thank you. It's nice to, nice to be here. I can't be in the chat room and be here at the same time because there's a huge leg. Okay. There's no, there's no coffee in the green room either. I have to make my own. Well, that's what, listen, it's BYOC. Bring your own coffee. Bring your own coffee, no popcorn either. All right. I realized that there's some other folks probably waiting. So I jot it down a few questions and I can't multitask very well. So I can't look up the scripture. So if you want to do that. Okay. I'm just looking here. Jesus called Satan a liar from the beginning. Why does this mean, okay, hold on a minute. I can't even read my own writing here. Does that mean after the fall? Because he was also the bright morning star and above all the other angels. It can refer to both. It can refer to prior to the fall or the call or this tool in the fall or it can refer to before he was kicked out. Because it's not saying in what beginning. So the beginning of our time or the beginning of this angelic revolt. Well, he was a liar then. And he lied obviously to Eve and he lied in heaven. He lied and said, I will be like the most high and I will ascend, okay, fine. And Jesus says, and I saw Satan fall like lightning. And so that could be referring to this great lie that he was back and cocked in. So he's always been lies what he does. He's just, he's good at it. Yeah, yeah, as he ever. So a couple of days ago, I had a conversation with someone and they actually told me that he had fallen before Eden, before he, and I've never actually read that anywhere in the scripture. I always thought that he, like he fell right at point of Eden because then that's when he was kicked out. Otherwise, why would God even have him there? Well, one of the questions that we asked at the, I think it was a, matter of fact, if you go to the very, very, very first Bible study that we did, and I do this on every time we have, we used to do the Bible study is to ask a series of questions to kind of see what people are thinking about the scriptures and how they form like their answers. One of the questions that I asked was when did Satan fall? When was Satan kicked out of heaven? And there's a couple of answers, either before creation, after, during creation or after. The only, the only three options. Before creation, before there was, before man was created, before those six days, during those six days or after. Now, there is no right answer or wrong answer because we don't have enough information to go off of. We can talk about angels being created prior. And even then we don't know definitively if angels were, even though the Bible says that they shouted at the foundation of the earth, well, is it speaking that they were shouting as the earth was being created? Or because of it, either one suffice. So now I tend to, I would probably lean to the fact that angels were created before, but angels were our ministering spirits and they minister to us and we weren't there yet. So it could be, they were created, we were created, the Bible doesn't tell us. What happens in the life of an angel is not of material value to us. So as it relates to Satan, I tend to lean on, or I have a belief that Satan was kicked out after man was created. The reason why is because, except for day two, God looks on the earth at His creation and sees it all and says, what? It is good. Well, kind of hard for Him to overlook the greatest evil and still say, forget that big blotch. It's all good. So, but now, is it possible that He was kicked out and God is just looking specifically at creation and saying that it's good? It's possible. We just don't know. So no one can definitively say when He was kicked out. But I think what they were saying was that He was fallen. He had already fallen, like He already became, obviously if He was placed as the bright morning star, He was obviously a good angel at one point in time. And then He fell, right? And then there was the revolt. I mean, obviously God must have knew about that. God is all-knowing. So He must have knew that Satan was going to fall, right? So that's what the individual was saying that He had fallen before He tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. But I never seen that in the Bible. I don't recall reading that. So that's what He was saying. It's just that would just be speculation. We don't know. We cannot know. Anyway, I was talking with a theologian. So I felt a little bit, what's the word I'm looking for? I wasn't quite in my element, I guess. I thought maybe they knew more than me. So I just basically my response was, I've never read that before. That's all I said. Because sometimes when you're talking to people and they think they have so much more knowledge than you and they've studied theology and this and that and the other thing, call it pride, I suppose. That happens. If they're worth their salt, what they should do is when the question's asked or they bring it up, they're not trying to convince you they're trying to show you. Meaning, it's one thing for me to act arrogantly and speak as, oh, hey, I'm the authority and I'm telling you what it is, versus taking the time because the theologian should also be some sort of a teacher. Let me just show you the passage. Let me see if I can, because if he's worth his salt, if he's any sort of teacher or the theologian, he should be able to point out through scriptures and then also convey it to you. Now that doesn't mean he's gonna always be able to get you to believe what he says, but at least show you why he sees that, why they see it that way and at least show you, well, here's the scriptures and here's how we come to that. I don't want to say this is what I think and then that's what it is and go, in the Q and A's point is to go to the scriptures and look and see. And so if I make a statement, especially if I say definitively, I better have some scriptures to be definitive. You cannot be definitive about when Satan was cast out because you don't have enough scriptures to be definitive. You have enough scriptures to make a guess, but you ought to have some humility to say, it's just a guess. Yeah. Well, that wasn't the case. I mean, it was, this is my opinion and no scriptures were looked up and it did actually happen to be alive and they certainly would have had the opportunity to go look up at the proof to back up what they were saying, but it was more like, this is what I'm saying, this is what I believe, so therefore you should believe too. Oh, this is on YouTube? Yes, yeah. I'm kind of wondering who it was now. You don't have to tell me that. Yeah, well, maybe I'll send an email with the name because it's just somebody recently that I just started watching and actually there was another person that was on this live as well and it's something that really, that's my next question here on the list. Someone had said that God is neither masculine or female, like feminine. And so he has no sex, we can't put a sex on him. And I said, well, I don't know, I've always, I guess the Bible doesn't, it always calls him a he and when he came in the flesh, he came as a he and they said that I couldn't assume that because nowhere is it written and I should basically believe that he's neither masculine or feminine. So what is your take on that? God is not a man with XY chromosome, certainly not a woman with XX chromosome to make up. He's not. Right. Christ comes and he does have a chromosome to make up. His chromosome to make up is XY. He was a male, a male child who, and we know so because he was also circumcised as well. So he's a male. So now in terms of language, there are a lot of languages. There are a lot of words in our languages that are masculine and feminine. As it relates to God, the masculine uses of words are used to describe him. He's been described, the he is used. They could very easily use a she. They could very well easily use the neuter and it'd be the it. But we know he's not a it. So because of our language, remember we use what's called anthropomorphic language, which means he has to speak to us the way we can understand it. And so we have to describe something to him, some sort of he, she or it. We're not gonna call him a she. Well, I'm sorry, we're not gonna call him a it. So the only two things left is that to be a he or she. I don't think God was no way. Maybe he has. I don't know. He didn't tell me, he hadn't consulted me and I didn't ask him that he was all that concern with making sure that he uses the proper gender for the words that he gives us. But we have to refer to him some sort of way. But what he does call us is he tells us to look at him as father. He could have easily used the term mother. Interesting enough, by the way. By the way, in Hebrew the word, the word, I'm sorry, go ahead. That was what I was saying, like, you know, like, I mean, in scripture, it clearly states that he's a he and we do call him father. And I use the Lord's prayers as an example that Jesus, you know, told us to pray to our father. And obviously a father is masculine, he's male. Yeah, now, what's funny is the word Abba in Hebrew was actually a feminine word, but it didn't mean that the qualities or characteristics are feminine. But obviously the word father is how he tells us to refer to him as and he is the one that chose to give us these words in the masculine. He is the one that gave us the heat. Do we think that God is a male with a X, Y chromosome? No, we don't think that. But in terms of how we refer to him, we refer to him as he. We dare not refer to him as she, one, that's making him out to be something that he is not. But he, but now to show his love for us, he could have easily chose a mother, mother's love too. As a matter of fact, we might think of the love of a parent. We might a true love of, but we might want to relate true love to a mother. We all love our mommas, right? You know, mom, she just, she did the, and daddy was, but he's the one that gave us father. And so because of that, we will go, we'll go with what he told us to call him. We'll do that rather than a human being here second guessing. And so is he a man like, like me and, you know, like, well, a man, a man, human being, like you and I know, is he a man like me, a male like me? No, the Bible says he's not a man that he should lie. He's not saying that he lies like, he's not like a lying man. He's not a man period. Isaiah tells a flesh and blunt, flesh and bone I do not have. And so he's not like us, but still he's calling himself that. And so what are we to do? Call him what he calls himself. I'm not gonna call him something other than what he calls him. And so the person is almost like they're trying to become, there's a lot of gender neutral words that are creeping in to kind of give God, make him more feminine. He's not feminine in any way, shape, from a fashion. He presents himself. So after this, after this conversation, Corey, it got me to thinking because last year, my sister, she got saved when she was probably about 14 years old. And that was a lot of years ago. She walked down the aisle and she accepted Christ, but then she walked away from, you know, I guess organized religion. And then she came back last year. And, but she's more into stuff like, oh, what's it called? Modern, anyway, so she said to me, she said, well, how do you know God is, why do you say he's a he, maybe God's a she? And so I said to her, I said, well, no, he's not, according to the Bible, he's not a she. And, but then after this conversation, a couple of days ago, I thought, well, geez, maybe I gave her the wrong information, right? No, no. Anyway, I just thought that it was a good question, even though it's a bit silly of a question to ask you. It's not because it's more, we see this more and more. We see this happening more and more, but the central question is for everybody, whether it's this question or not, do the scriptures matter? And if the scriptures matter, then we'll let the scriptures guide us. If the scriptures use masculine words to describe him, then we'll do that. He is the one that, remember, God revealed himself to us. We didn't go looking for him. He revealed himself to us. And how did he do so? That's the way that we'll respond to him, the way that he revealed himself. Amen. Yeah, and the only reason that I said anything to her, it's new age, that's what she's into. So she's into a lot of new age stuff. Do I have time for one quick other question? It's gotta be quick, because I've got at least four more folks waiting for me. When it comes to physical healing, Corey, when you've prayed and you've asked for healing and you've even had people lay their hands on you, and I'm talking about myself, I was actually in a car accident in 2015, and I actually couldn't even walk for two full years. So I wasn't even able to walk until 2017. So I had a lot of injuries from that car accident. I've since healed a lot, and the Lord has actually taken away quite a bit of things that I did go through. Obviously I'm walking now, but there's a couple of things. I was told that by some people from church that at A, I didn't have enough faith, and doing a lot more research and in-depth, I guess studies about it on my own, I've come to realize that, and I just want your take on this, that not everybody's going to be healed from everything because maybe it's about me picking up my cross and following Jesus just the way I am. Mm-hmm. Well, I mean, so whatever injury I'm not healed from, then I'm to pick up my cross, follow Jesus, and bring him glory nonetheless so that other people can obviously witness that as well. Well, the Trump card for anyone saying that your faith is the reason why you're not healed, well then tell that to Paul. Tell that to Paul. Paul is the one, Paul's got more, Paul has more faith in his pinky than most of us. Paul, we would love to see charismatic or non-charismatic, we would all love to see what the power of God working at Paul in Paul, and Paul needed a healing of some sort. We don't know what it was, and what does God say, my grace is sufficient? Ask Timothy, Paul says, Timothy here, I don't know what to do here, take some wine. Truthfulness, he was sick. So God didn't heal everyone, and that's his prerogative. If he wants to, Jesus went through a crowd and did not, matter of fact, a lot of folks that he healed didn't have faith whatsoever. They didn't know that what Jesus was gonna do, he just started healing and they started bringing people to him. And so if that's the case, then tell that person alone you some faith. Like lay hands on, when I'm asleep one night, just come lay hands on me, I'm kidding. But pray a prayer over me while I'm asleep. That way your faith can take over. But it's a cop out because they're not as healthy as they want to be. So. Okay. I'll send you an email with that name of that group or whatever. And also I did send you a really big email this morning. So it's probably got 38 documents that I created based on a website that I found for some biblical, what's it called, info graphs. And it goes all the way back to biblical times and it's got the timeline of the Bible and when the English translation got changed and I just thought it would be really helpful for you because obviously you're a teacher of scripture and maybe some other folks could get some use out of it too. Okay, I'll take a look at it. See you later. All right, Kristen, bye-bye. Great, nice to talk to you. All right, now, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we have Pastor Chaplin, Pastor Chaplin, Pastor Chaplin or as his mama calls him, Trey, how you doing, brother? Let me, oh, I'm sorry, I'm doing wonderful. Over to your, well, the other direction. There we go. There we go, I'll get over so you can see some more. Okay, a little bit more, the other way. You move it. Hold on, there we go. Nope, the other way. I'll just flip it this way, yeah. That way I know where it's at. Okay. Is that better? Okay, how you doing, brother? I'm good, man, how you doing, man? I'm doing wonderful, I am doing, I'm on top of the world, I'm doing wonderful. How about you? I'm doing all right, man. Ain't too long to go get off work, but I ain't gonna take too much of your time. I know you're a very busy man. Like everybody else, I wanted to thank you first and foremost, I don't think you know how much you helped me get through my Master of Divinity program. Thank you, I appreciate that. So as you're going through school, I'm like, Corey, help me get through school. So I just wanted to say, you know, I thank you and appreciate you for that. But my question was, I know you was, of course you always, you know I'm a form. So I know you'll be going through, you have your hermeneutic and whatnot. I haven't really no issue with your hermeneutic, but my question for you is, was Jesus God the Son, God the Father the elect? I'm sorry, what'd you say? Was he what? Was Jesus God the Father? Was he the God the Father? Was he his elect? I guess it depends on how I can see a case for someone saying he was elect, he was chosen. But if you have, we have to also remember that, who chose him? I mean, he's God. We have this delineation of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit for our benefit. Otherwise, who's who, so to speak? Am I saying that Jesus is the Father? I'm not saying that he is fatherly to us, according to, according to, oh Lord, what's the passage? You unto us a child is born and son is given. Wonderful counselor, what? I said no, I don't, I'm okay. Let me drink some coffee. I'm slowing down a little bit. But was he, was he elect or chosen? Well, sure, and his ministry was chosen, but he chose himself, so to speak. I mean, it's not like he was not part of this divine counsel in choosing what's gonna happen. So when he's on the cross and he says, the Talasite is finished, what's finished? Well, what we determined to do. It was God who determined that God would take on flesh and vindicate or to save mankind. And so it was not like that he was, now we use the term that he was sent, but then the one who sent him, he also takes credit for being the Lord, who sent the Lord, so to speak. So I guess I wouldn't have a problem with someone saying he's chosen or he's not, depending upon how they explain it. So yeah. So I'm coming from Isaiah 42 verse one through four. Isaiah 42, let's go there. Isaiah. 42? Yes, sir. Okay, we've covered this passage before too. Behold my servant, you said one through four? Yes, sir. Okay, behold my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one, and by the way, it's the same word that is used for chosen Makar, my chosen one in whom my soul delights, I have put my spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations, he will not cry out or raise his voice or make his voice heard in the streets, a bruise reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not extinguish, he will faithfully bring forth justice, he will not be disheartened or crushed until he has established justice in the earth and the coastlands will wait expectantly for his law. Okay? Right, so right there you see, this is obviously in reference to Jesus, he's gone to let, now that word you would use, Bahar, nowhere in the Old Testament is it used for anybody else other than Jesus and Israel, that's it. Okay. So when we say that Jesus Christ is elect, well, he's God's elect of course, God the Father elect, that's what I mean by why I'm getting too much detail, he is the true Israel, and then we are elect in him, because you have the same scenario that goes on in Daniel chapter seven, in Daniel chapter seven, you have Daniel's dream, and then at the end of his dream, the interpretation in verses 15 through 28, I believe, you have talking about the ancient of days, and then you talk about the son of man, and then in the interpretation of that, in verse 15 through 28, he and the dream is interpreted, but the son of man or the ancient of days is not mentioned, only Israel is mentioned, and that's where you get the kind of like the doctrine of the one represents the many. So that's why we say that he is the true Israel, and yet Gentiles and Jews are elect in him. Okay. Does that make sense? No. No. Okay. Let's see, hold on one second. Give me a minute. Does that make sense or your dispensational views wanna make sense? No, I hear what you're saying. I'll just mess with you. No, I hear what you're saying. Let me pull up something real quick. Hold on one second. I'm trying to pull in one second. I'm pulling up something. Yeah, you good, you good. If I can, don't want it. I'm doing some research. If I can, can I? I can't pull it in, okay. Okay, hold on. I'm trying to pull up something. Give me a second. Let me type it in over here. All right. Let's go, you know, let me just, let me stop that. Let me stop that. It's gonna take me forever to do that. Okay. There are two people or two groups or two entities that this word for chosen is used up. Okay. Matter of fact, let's do this. Are you using the same Hebrew verb, Bahá? Are you still using the same word? Let's see. Matter of fact, I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what, let's do this. Let me, let me go over here to Lagos. How about that? Yeah, that's what I meant. Okay, let me move this over. I got it set up for something else and take my time. Dog on it, y'all. Blame him. Don't blame me. If we take too long, it's him. It's not me. Okay, let's see. Let me click this so that they'll follow each other. Let's, and let's type in. There it is. So did you do, I guess if you're in Lagos, did you do like a weird study piece for the Bahá? If I can get this thing to work right, come over here. Oh, it would help if I make this thing bigger. I can't see. This default is just too small for me to see. But here we go. Come on. Oh, it's our, it was already up. I just didn't have the screen move. Okay, so let's go to the car every time that it's used. Now let's have a minute for the Lord. Well, here's a passage where it's, where it's not referring to Israel or to Jesus in Psalm 106, 23. Let's put that on. But I may see the priority of your chosen ones that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation. I think so. Let me make sure, let me read it. That I may glory in with your inheritance. I would burst it 23. Yeah, here's one where the same word is used, but it's regarding Moses. Therefore he said that he would destroy them. Had not Moses, his chosen one stood in before the breeze. So Moses is the same word that's used of this word as well. Yeah, but Wednesday you said, you said speaking of Israel or of, so I mean obviously we're gonna see it used. I wouldn't say that the word chosen, first of all it just in Hebrew, the word chosen just that the words that are used just don't necessarily refer to something biblical. So the word chosen can be used for anybody, right? So in this case, I wouldn't say that because he called my chosen one and that Israel is also called his chosen that he must be referring to it. Cause if that's the case, then we could, we also say that he's referring to Moses. Well, I mean it'd be goofy to say so, but if I'm gonna say that if this word is applied to Jesus and it's also applied to Israel, well then if so fact though, then Jesus is the Israel. Well, no, cause we don't have a passage that says so. Well, so it's not that he's the true Israel, which means that just like he's the last Adam, he fulfilled all that Adam didn't fulfill. He fulfilled all that Adam didn't fulfill. Okay, the word mean Israel means the Lord who saves. Right? But that's not the only word that means that we can find the Lord who saves. Joshua means the same thing. And so I wouldn't extrapolate that to say that that Jesus is the Joshua, the Joshua is Jesus or vice versa. The words have meaning, but they also have application. And so to the point that I think you're making is that kind of when we're talking about Israel and that the church, is that where kind of where you're going about the church being Israel also or the new Israel? Well, well, I guess those who will be outside of the camp, they will say that we say that the church is Israel. We say that Christ is the true Israel and then Jew and Gentile are elected in Christ. That would be the better representation. Because like I said, with your hermeneutics, like even when I be jumping in the chats, I have no problem with your hermeneutics once or whatsoever. Obviously, that's, you know, you're in seminary, but well before you was in seminary, that's the way they would teach it. I would just say, so the way I would disagree is that's not where I would stop. It has to go through a theological reflection, which means it has to be sensitive to biblical theology and somewhat sensitive to systematic theology, although not so much, which means I don't lose track of the redemptive story, which is why we say we have a crystal-centric hermeneutic. That doesn't mean that we ignore what you say as far as your hermeneutics is concerned, but I don't lose scope of the whole story of God's redemptive plan, because if I just go for it from the little historical grammatical hermeneutic standpoint without the biblical theology of the redemptive plan being in mind, I would just end up with Israel as being the theme of Scripture and not Christ. I think this, and there's some guys that I'm gonna use their clips, I think when people, this is me, it seems like when someone says that having Jesus as the theme of the Bible and that those with dispensational hermeneutic don't have that, I think that's a misnomer. I think that they do, and there's a group, there's a, I think it's theocast, and they say some things like, what, huh, what? And so I'm gonna cover a lot of what they say, and a lot of what they say is just wrong. Well, let's, so let's look at it like this. Is there an actual nation of Israel? Yes, sir. Yeah. Now, is everyone in that actual nation going to be saved? Well, no, no one believes that. Are there some people in that actual nation that God has chosen who have not come to Christ just yet in the future? Well, sure. And are there times in the Bible where God makes a distinction between the church and the nation of Israel? Would you say yes? Oh, you're talking about like it's in Old Testament, of course, yes. Any point in time? Are there times where in the Bible that God makes a distinction between that nation of Israel and the true believers? I think that the biggest case would be Paul talking about his kindred and the flesh which is with something you go over a lot, yes. So he does make a distinction, right? At some point in time, whether it's a lot or just a few times, right? Correct, correct. Okay, so the question is, how then do we distinguish which Israel he's speaking of? And so when he's speaking of Israel, the only verse that someone I think could come back and say, well, he's speaking of the church and I don't, and I even disagree with that, is Galatians 6, the Israel of God. I think he's speaking of the nation. And I don't think that it's meant to be taken that people think that the Old Testament through a dispensational lens is focusing on Israel. First of all, you can't get around the fact that Israel is the feature. That's the featured group. Now no individual person is the feature, but someone of Israel is featured. Once we get into Jacob, all we see the main characters of the Bible from the middle of Genesis on to Malachi is a Jew or Jewish people, right? That mean that they are. Right, that's what we call like the redemptive story, the progressive revelation through scripture. That's his chosen people. He chose to work through to be a blessing to many. So of course that's the progressive, that's who he chose to progress his revelation through. So I have to do that. Exactly. And he made promises to them. And I think sometimes when we say that, well, what about us? Well, he made promises to us as well. Now, when he said to them and to us, he didn't say individually which them and which us. We now know today that one of the us is Trey and one of the us is Corey, right? But reading the scriptures, we don't know who individually these people that are going to be saved are going to be, but he's made promises. And he's made promises that those people that are going to be saved, that he's going to put his spirit in their heart, that they will never depart. He is going to cause that to work for them. And he's also made similar statements with Israel, not specifically individually which in Israel, but there will be some. And so all we're doing is showing that God's plan for Israel won't be thwarted just like his plan for us who are part of the church won't be thwarted. He's going to bring them to become part of the church. So would you say then, I guess your focus is on the remnant of Israel? Because we obviously know the Ezekiel 36 from that passage 22 to 28, that we reap of course the benefit of that Jeremiah 31 speaking of, of course, the new covenant. So I guess the focus is not on the nation, that's the sort of Israel, but the remnant from the dispensational standpoint. But my thing would be- No, no, no, no, the focus isn't even so much on the nation. The focus is not on the nation of Israel. Well, yeah, yeah. So I mean, I guess it's on the remnant of Israel. No, the focus isn't even on the remnant of Israel. The focus is on the promise of God. It just so happened that God has promised to save some Israelites and he's promised to save some Gentiles. And those promises, huh? So what's the difference? If it's all going to be regeneration with results in saving faith, what's the difference? Well, the difference is that God says something and that we can bank on the fact that whatever he says, it's going to happen to a T, precisely. So when he says what he's going to do with Israel, he means to do just that. Without us trying to fix it, this helps us to take comfort in even the promises for us. Because you can't say that the promises that he has for Israel, he's alter those, but then he won't alter the promises that he has for us. He is guaranteed to keep us just like he's guaranteed to keep some of Israel, not all of them, but he is going to remember his promise so that his name will be glorified amongst Israel and before everyone else. And that Israel will be a light to the nations as well, which we've seen. And then now those nations will turn around and then be used to bring Israel to him. And so he's using us, him using Trey to make a Jew jealous is part of his plan. Even though those were cut off so that Cory and Trey and others can be grafted in, not into Israel, because we're not grafted into Israel, we're grafted into the olive tree to the root, which also Jews will also be grafted. As a matter of fact, many will be grafted back in. Now, I don't know when, I don't know if those Jews are born yet. Obviously there's still some Jews that are still around that are placed in their faith in Christ but not to the tune that Gentiles are. So at some point, and we have to differentiate between this partial hardening of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. Well, if that's the case, if the fullness of the Gentiles are going to come in, that cannot mean, that has to necessarily mean that they are separate from Israel. So, because a partial hardening had happened to us, it's happened to them, until he's through with us, us Gentiles sheep. Okay. And like I said, I get what you're saying. And when you go through that, I really don't be having much disagreement. But I'll say this. This is what I want you to do. This is what I want you to do. This is what I want you to do. Send me, this will be gonna dog on it. I'm almost willing, I would almost rather get you to come over to this side even more than I would like for you to cut your hair off. I don't need, you know what? You can keep your hair. Come on. Come on. This is what I want you to do. Send me an email and I'm gonna send you my number so we can talk offline. I got you, brother. All right. I got you, brother. I know I'm, we're born to chat, so I'm gonna get out your way, brother. Okay. Let me go ahead and get these other people. I'll talk with you later, Trey. Yes, sir. All right. OG make fire. Don't y'all wanna know what OG make fire look like? You all have been wanting to know who is OG. We need to bring him on. So let's go ahead and bring our brother, OG. How you doing, brother? I'm doing good. How are you, Corey? I'm wonderful. I'm wonderful. Oh, bro. Got a lot of lag here. That's okay. That's okay. There is a little bit of lag. There is gonna be a little bit of lag. So. Oh, good. Well, hey, it's nice to actually get to talk to you. I'm gonna talk to you too. All right. Well, my first question is this, where can we buy one of them shirts you're wearing, man? I really like that shirt. You can go to smartchristians.org and order one from the shop. Nice little plug because all of that stuff, the proceeds from that goes, go to sending Bibles to prisoners as well as supporting Christian youth groups. So yeah, go to smartchristians.org. That's gonna be it. We're doing some work on that. So actually the people that we actually go through is gonna change, hopefully, hopefully in the next few days, the next week or so. So anyway, yeah. Thank you for the plug for that. Reminded me to say that. Very nice. Well, I just wanted to share something with you. Since we, I tell you what, when you talk about some of your past, man, I really, I feel a kindred spirit there. When I first started listening to your channel, well, I was listening like a hawk when you're talking about salvation and sovereign grace, you know? That was like my test for you. Like, man, if you don't get this right, I can't listen to this channel no more. So I was Catholic for 30 years of my life. I was raised Catholic, my entire family's Catholic. And about 10 years ago, I was sitting in County Jail. This is down in Florida. And I was playing out the open court. They got a point system there. Once you get so many points, it's a score sheet and whatever you score out to, that's the prison term you're getting, right? So when you play out the open court, the judge has the opportunity to give you a downward departure to where he can give you less time than what you actually score out to. And for that six months that I sat in County Jail, I was reading my Bible and praying every day, Lord, get me out of this, and I was bargaining with God. And that day I went to court. There was like 14 people in that holding cell. And since I was playing out the open court, I was one of the last guys. And so I sat in that holding cell, listening to all these guys and their stories and this and that. Uh-oh, hello. I did something wrong. Doug, go on it. Hold on, let me fix this right. Let me fix this right. So I'm listening. There we go. Wait, Doug, go on it. I don't know what I'm doing here. There we go. There we go. There we go. I'm sorry, Gloria. We'll come back. We'll come to you next, Gloria. I'm sorry. Go ahead, OG. Okay, so I'm listening to these guys. And anyway, that's how they go to court. And that judge, he listened to my story and why I was in all that trouble with my drug use and that kind of stuff. And he went ahead and gave me that 63 months. You know what I'm saying? And when I got back to that holding cell, everybody was gone. It was full when I went to court. When I came back out, they already sent everybody else back to the county jail. And I got down on my knees in that grubby old jail cell. And I thank God. I said, Lord, I don't know what you're doing in my life, but you know what? I trust you. And I thank you for this time. And so I went to prison and I ended up going into a faith-based dorm. And boy, I tried to defend the Catholic Church with everything I had, man. I love the Catholic Church. But God yanked me out of that system. And so I know my theology pretty well, right? So I'm reading all these books from my Catholic Answers and stuff like that, trying to answer these questions that I'm being challenged with. And it finally got to this place where I'm reading this book and instead of going to the scriptures, they kept going to this papal bull or this or that or these other writings. And I tell you what, man, the first verse I memorized was my she hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. And I knew it. I just knew it. That what God said, whatever God said, I was going to follow it. So I had to count the cost. I had to think about my family and what they were going to think if I left the church. It was a hard decision. I really had to count the cost. But I tell you what, I appreciate that you, you know what it is, is there's this, all these arguments going on in the Christian church, whether you're a Calvinist or Armenian or Provisionist or all these other things, right? And it really boils down to when you come out of a system like that, you try to find other people that believe what you believe. And since I didn't really have a category for all that stuff, you're going to be drawn to reform theology, right? But you really helped me just to kind of look at it like, you don't have to be that. You don't have to be a Calvinist. You don't have to be Provisionist. You have to honor the scriptures. And I just wanted to thank you for, I enjoyed this church family. I'm involved with the recovery ministry up here, the people that took me and when I got out of prison. So I deal with guys coming in out of the system. I still contact and talk with people that are still in prison. I appreciate that you do that as well. But I just wanted to come on and say hi to everybody. And I enjoyed the channel much. This is my second church family. Hey man, hey man, I appreciate you. Listen, I would like to spend some more time with you. I got to get one more person on. We may do this again on next week, depending on what schedule is looking like. But I'll try to, if not next week, we'll do it. We'll do it again, get some more folks on. But anyway, OG, thank you so much, bro. I appreciate you. All right, whatever God said. Thanks Corey, God bless. Amen, brother. Now, there are a couple of the folks that are waiting. Let me just say this. I can't bring you on. Gloria is going to be the last one because we're going into three hours now. And so this has got to be the last one so we can move on. But we'll try to do this again. So there's a couple of folks that are waiting. Come on, I can't bring you on because we'll be here longer and longer and longer. So anyway, and it's not, I don't want to talk to you. I'll talk to you. So maybe either this Friday, next Friday or the Friday after that we'll do it. And I'll make a note to make sure that when you come on, I'll bring you guys on. So anyway, let's go ahead and bring on Gloria who I kind of just shown you real briefly. Gloria, how you doing? You know, hey, brother Corey, hey everybody. This is so funny. This is the first time I talked to you a few months ago and I was the last one and I joined mistakenly. And I was like, every, I'm like, I didn't know I was right there being seen and then I heard you say my name. And then I heard you say my name this time. I said, oh no, this is not happening. This is not happening the second time. I'm just doing this and making sure I look okay. And I'm like, oh wow, okay. So okay, thank you for taking my call. By the way, so this is regarding what you have mentioned. This is a conversation from yesterday. It wasn't much of a conversation, but it was like you have mentioned it. And so I was actually the one writing in the comments asking the question over and over again because I was curious because I'm like, oh man, this is something that just, I don't know if it was God, but it came to me once you said the word and there was allegiance. And I said, oh man, is he avoiding asking, answering my question? I'm like, I don't know if he sees it, but I feel like he's not seen it. And- What was your question? Okay, it was about allegiance. So it was about, okay, so when you said that you only place allegiance to God, which I agree. You know, like God is the only one that, you know, like just, you know, the same should be with all of us, but it's just so in the world that we're living in, we have so many ways that we, you know, we're forced to place allegiance to something or someone, or I just say something because it's a lot of organizations. You get what I'm saying, a lot of organizations that we have, you know, that we go through and the best example that I can think of that I thought of yesterday is, you know, in the school system. And so I remember when I was younger, when I was growing up, you know, in school, we had like this routine. We had this, you know, thing that we did every day where we, you know, the flag and we pledge allegiance to the flag. And so it's just like now I'm 42 years old. So it's a lot of things that I've seen and a lot of things that I learned. And, you know, and I just think about all these things, like especially since I've, you know, been growing, you know, in my faith and understanding, you know, the word and having more close relationship with God. So this whole, you know, allegiance, like so there's been a lot of exposing in the, cause you mentioned this too about the sororities, you know, you mentioned about sororities and I've been hearing a lot about sororities, you know, things, people denouncing themselves. And that's a whole nother subject probably for people. Cause I don't want to go too deep and stuff like that. I go deep, so I'm not going to go too deep. I don't want to put you too much on the spot, but, you know, so growing up, you know, like basically we're indoctrinated, you know, to do certain things like we, like I said, we say our pledge of allegiance and everything to the flag, you know what I'm saying? And I'm like, okay, God, like what do you feel about this? Because, you know, allegiance, like the word, the key word, allegiance. So for me, it just goes deep. It goes like, there's a big old, as they say, rabbit hole of things that we have been like included in. You know, we have been like included and not even, you know, we've been included or we partook in, we, you know, partake in or partook, you know, in these things. And so now, like knowing the Bible, you know, like we have to, you know, decide of what we want to do. Like what stands do we want to take on certain things? What's important and what's not important? But regarding allegiance, what do you feel about, you know, allegiance as a whole? Like in the things that we, you know, we might do in the common, the common things that we might do like now that most people still, you know, most people might still do. Like what do you feel about that? You know, specifically about the flag and whatever else that, you know, that, you know. Okay, it's okay to have allegiance to things or people, but in comparison to God. So I have an allegiance to my wife over every other woman on the planet. Okay? I have an allegiance to my children, to my family over every other family on the planet. I have an allegiance to my country over every other country on the planet. But there's a hierarchy in how I have my allegiance. For example, what do I hope, do I have a greater allegiance to this country or to my family? What's my family? I'll move to China to protect my family. So my allegiance is not to the country or an allegiance to a particular political party or a city or a sports team or anything like that. Well, then in the end though, our allegiance ultimately is with God. That's why he says that you can't be his if you don't hate your mother, your father, and so forth. Well, it doesn't mean that you actually hate them, but in terms of who you have your preference, you reject them for the sake of Christ. And so it's okay to have an allegiance to the flag. And all the flag is, when we look at a flag, a flag represents two things. Now, for some reason it's taken on different meanings. And I think we kind of saw that with the whole kneeling of at the national happy of the flag. Well, that flag represents the United States flag represents two things, the people and the borders. So yeah, you don't just honor the people in the border. That's who we have. The all the square mileage or whatever of this country, that's our flag. All the people inside, that's our flag. Same thing with the flag of state flag of Texas or the state flag of New York or Illinois. That represents the people in it and the borders of a city, the people in it and the borders. I have an allegiance to, let's say right now in Dallas, or an allegiance to my home state, my home city of Indianapolis, but not of my country. I don't want Dallas to do well and the rest of the country do bad. I have a greater allegiance. I have a greater allegiance to my Lord. So it's okay to have allegiance. It's okay to be four or this is the team that we're on. I have a greater allegiance to the church than I do to non-Christians. But that doesn't mean that I don't have any kind of concern for the non-Christians. I want them to become part of the church. So it's okay to have an allegiance. It really is, but there is some stipulations. There's a limit and my allegiance to the country or even my family or even to myself can only go but so far. Amen. Do you feel like allegiance? Like, so do you feel like that can be also categorized under commitment? Like commitment, we committed to these people. We're committed to, you know, like do you feel like commitment and allegiance? And then what about oath? Like, do you feel like they kind of, you know, like that they have a connection? Like they come, you know, full circle or one. Do you feel like one overtakes the other, you know? Cause there's certain people that take an oath. I don't know if that's a form of allegiance. You give what I'm saying. Well, your oath is your word. Now God wants you to keep your word without question. But this word commitment, I always use that in place of love in the Bible. So when God, so love's word, he was committed, love one another, be committed to one another. So I use that word in that I use commit and various of it to refer to love. That's how I refer to love. That's how you know you love somebody. So love to me is commitment. And so now if you're gonna say commitment is allegiance well then to what extent? Because love commitment is all out. And so I wouldn't put commitment and love, I mean commitment and allegiance in the same category cause commitment means something. If I'm committed to something, I'm committed to seeing it through. I'm not committed to anything like I am my family and certainly not like I am committed with God. So I would not use those same two words interchangeably. But if a person does, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna make a video about it. I'm not gonna write a paper over it. So, but again, it's okay to be tied to something or someone to have allegiance or have love for someone or something. As long as you put those things in perspective with God, as long as there is an order to God first, then you're- Right, the hierarchy. Then your walk and then your family and so forth and then other people, your country and so forth. Okay, okay. All right then. It just caught my attention cause it's, I think if I'm not mistaken, I was like, I think you said my allegiance is to God or it's only to God. I was like, oh Lord. I was like, I don't know if you said only but that's why I think you had said so that's why- If I say it only, I misspoke. It's not only the God, but first and foremost, too. So my- Okay, okay. To my family and to my kids and my grandparents. Right. Okay, okay, that makes sense. Cory, one little thing and I don't know if you'd be reading the comments but they're so, the comments are something else. It did catch my eye because before you came to me, the last thing when the guy who was before me was on, I was reading, they were talking about the Bible and they were talking about Lilith. I'm like, oh Lord, I forgot about that. And so I don't know. Maybe you can do a discussion about that because they were referring- Yeah, they have made Lilith- Reference to Adam. There's no scripture that talks about a Lilith. There is a Lilith that refers to an owl in one page. That's what I said, a screeching owl, yeah. But they have made out to be something else and there was no Lilith in the beginning. You know what, I'll try to, if someone can make to me a comment or an email to cover that, I'll try to cover it because I think it needs to be covered, so. Anyway- I think I'm referring to the missing Bibles, the missing, as they said, the missing books from the Bible, something like that. So maybe you can talk about that. I don't know if you've talked about that before. That's something I have discussed before. So yeah, I don't want to hold you up. I'll try to remember to cover that, so. All right, sister. Okay. I've got to run. Thank you, brother Corey. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Uh-huh. Have a blessed night. You too, you too. All right, I know I've got a couple guys waiting, uh, Michael Ray Garvin and Prie. Listen, I'm not avoiding you, but I've got to, I've got to get on. And so we'll try to do this another time and bring you guys on. Uh, I have one more question that I have to ask, ask and answer. I believe I was asked to give 15 observations for Mark nine, about Mark nine one. But here's a better question. Someone asked me this question. I guess knowing that I've watched Game of Thrones, what were the bigger mistakes made at all in all the show? Then when Rob Stark had his final interaction with Richard Carstark? Yeah. I think Carstark, yeah. Yeah. Well, he shouldn't have married the lady. He shouldn't have married the lady. But I think he was, I think they were doomed anyway. I think the phrase we're going to betray him anyway. But no, the bigger, the bigger mistake, the bigger mistake was not just that, but him trusting Phaon and then trusting the, the Boltons. You should have known their history. By the way, apparently there's, there's some, there's some bad history with, with the Boltons. And so he should have known that. So he would be like, what is he talking about? What in the world is this guy talking about? I'm ashamed to say, I'm not ashamed to say it. No, I watched Game of Thrones, started watching in prison and it's just been my thing. It's just been my thing. So y'all forgive me. Anyway, guys, I love you all so much. But someone says, is this, is this the longest life? No, we had a, we've had a couple of live streams longer. I, I actually swore off doing live streams longer than two hours. Here this one is over three hours. We've had some a little bit longer and I am wore out. I am tired. I'm getting ready to go drink me a Red Bull. So I can, I've got a bunch of stuff to do for this evening and tomorrow. So ditching us to watch March Madness. I'm not ditching you guys to watch March Madness. Madness? No, as a matter of fact, March Madness is on right. What did I do? Hold on, hold on. What did I just do? Did I just delete this thing? Uh-oh, what did I do? There it is. Yeah, I'm watching. Look, it's on right here. March Madness is on right here. So no, I'm not ditching you guys to watch it. I'm multi-tasking. I'm watching it while I'm talking to you guys. I'm answering questions while I'm watching Purdue. Anyway, there's lots of going on. So I've got a video screen over here. I've got one here. I've got this stuff right here. So yeah, sorry guys. Anyway, love you all so much. Lord willing, we will see you all on tomorrow. In the meantime, God bless you.