 Sorry about that. Hope y'all are doing well. Good evening. Good afternoon. None of this thing is on, so I don't even bother to check any more, but sorry about that. Well, let's go ahead and jump into it. I did not, just like I did them last time, I did not actually get the, or pull off any questions previously. So as always, make sure that you put a Q or question in front of your actual question. If I happen to miss your question and you say, Corey, would you, did you miss my question? Would you please read my question? Go ahead and put your question in that as well. That way I don't have to go back and look for it. So let me go ahead and start grabbing some of these questions right now. Let's see. Oh, and I'm sorry. Excuse me. And as always, I'm not going to be able to get to all the questions today. I won't be able to go through all of the questions I will not be able to make through. I'll try to get to as many as possible. I'll do my very best, but that's just kind of how it is that the time constraints and so forth. So I will not be able to, amen. Alrighty. So let's go ahead and okay, that's a good question. Excuse me. Alrighty. While while some questions are still coming in, Sarah asks, can membership be terminated? I recently saw a Facebook post, a post on Facebook that showed a letter from a pastor terminating a woman's membership because she wants to divorce her husband and ignored counsel. Well, it's a good question. The answer is yes. How do we know that where we see that now? We don't get all the reasons as to why, but in 1 Corinthians chapter five, we see of a man who is involved in something pretty egregious. He is sleeping with his father's wife. The church knows about it. And the church doesn't do anything about it. As a matter of fact, Paul says that you all are being arrogant. You guys are not doing anything about it. You think that you're doing okay. He says, put that person out so you can turn the person over and you should do so for on grounds of sin or I guess kind of keeping in line with that is serious doctrinal errors. But if a person has serious doctrinal errors, I don't know that you necessarily want to put the person out as much as you just want to just lay with the person. Sometimes, though, people want to put folks out because they're just difficult to deal with. That's not a reason if a person is just hardheaded. Well, that's all of us. But that being the case, if a person is in sin, you do and they are unrepentant, they are believers, then there is cause, there is a precedent in the Bible to say that you can put that person out. Again, for any old reason, no. Now, depending upon what you might want to classify, well, not even which one classifies sin, but which sin do you put people out for? If a person is angry all the time. They're not starting anything. They're not causing fights or anything, but they're just always just angry and they may struggle with it or they may not struggle with it. And then you decide, well, I want to put that person up because they don't want to get past that. So you got to be careful. The whole goal, though, as Paul is stating, that that person would come to Christ. Amen. Alrighty, let's go back to the questions. Hey, Cory, did you know that the verbs in Paul's struggle with sin are in the imperfect tense? Are you referring to Roman seven? I'm thinking that's probably what you're referring to Roman seven. So let's go to Roman seven. Okay, let's put on the screen. And let's go through the different verbs from what I am doing. Here's a verb. This one in the present middle indicative. So that one, if that's what you're talking about, I'm not sure if this is the verse you're talking about. But this is in the middle indicative. I'm not understanding what I'm practicing. This word proso, this is in the present active indicative. What I would like to do, I am doing this point. Oh, is in the present active indicative. So verse 18, for I know that nothing good was in me that is in my flesh for the willingness present for me. But the doing, this is kind of guesses tie, which is also in the, this is in the present middle infinitive. For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice proso. Again, this is also in the present active. And I'm not sure which, which verse are you speaking of, which, which passage are you referring to that's in the imperfect. And then within more than that, also, what is your, is there a actual point that you're getting that that you don't have a point, but excuse me. Excuse me. What would be the actual point? What passage? Excuse me, something's in my throat. What passage are you referring to? I'm assuming Roman seven, but then what, what is it that you're getting at with, with the Roman second, the Roman excuse me, the Roman seven passage as I mark some more questions as we go. Oh, the I do. Okay. Let's go to it for what I'm doing. But if I do, excuse me, again, present active indicative, I'm trying to, what, you're going to tell me which verse you have to, which, which verse, which part of that, that you're saying that Bible hub says is in the imperfect. Excuse me. Excuse me. Hey, look what we have here. Next week on Thursday, I think that's what we said Thursday. We're going to have our own little conference. You all have heard of the G three conference. And this is our brother, Virgil Walker. And so what I want to have rather than having the G three conference, two ballheaded black guys with, with glasses, rather than being the G three conference, we're going to have the OG conference. Yeah. Two old, two old goats on five. So anyway, that is going to be interesting. That's going to be fun. So make sure you guys are here on next week. So anyway, getting back to that. No, if we call it the ball conference, that would be the blessed conference. I don't want, I don't want you people with hair to be in this. So I don't want to go that far. All right, Brandon, SD 14 says, Psalm 145, nine says, God is merciful to all he made. Does he extend this to Satan? He was merciful, but Satan betrayed him. Satan left his domain. Now it don't take it that if there is punishment, and if it's a punishment that you don't like, if the consequences are severe, that that eliminates God being merciful. That means he's going to always show you mercy. So matter of fact, he extends mercy even to us. Now, in this case, he's referring to us as people. And so everything that he is that he's ever created, even inanimate objects won't won't see mercy. He's only speaking about us. But that only goes to a certain extent. It only goes to a certain extent, because at some point time, those who are not his, there will be no more mercy to be shown. Amen. Does God have a counsel in heaven such as the sons of God that are also deities? Is Genesis 126 alluding to this, or does it speak about Father, Son, Holy? It only speaks, Genesis 126 speaks about just God's triune counsel, just him, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. That's it. We're the only ones that are made in his images. We know that because we take that with other passages that are also referring to Jesus. John 1, as well as Colossians 1. So we know that what's spoken of in Genesis 1 is speaking of God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. But this heavenly counsel, this counsel in heaven, if you go to Job, then there are those that would believe that there's counsel, this heavenly counsel, and that that could even also include even Satan himself. Let's go back to it. Let's go to Job. And let's go to the particular passage where we at. Let's go to verse 6. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came. We see this also again in chapter 2. So the question is, who are the sons of God and are these some sort of special deities, some special counsel? Well, the problem is the Bible doesn't say that. And so to make that out to be something without it saying so, you could make it out to be something without it saying so and be correct, but there's a good chance, a large, a strong chance, a strong possibility that you are wrong. God doesn't tell us that. The Bible doesn't tell us that. And so to add or to add to the scripture to state that this is some sort of counsel of deities, no, the reason why you would come up with something like that is to make another belief of yours fit. Because the question is, wait a second, Satan has been kicked out of heaven. How then could he possibly be before the Lord when it says that there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves? Now, it could be one of two things. It could be, one, that he's speaking of men as they come before the Lord. Could be that. It could be angels as they come present themselves before the Lord, but they do so not in the heavenly heavens, in the, in his glorified presence, in the, in the holiest of holies. It could, maybe it's just that they present themselves before the Lord here on earth. We don't know where. It just says again, now the day was, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the exact location it didn't state it. So what does that mean? We don't know. We just don't know. And so this is one of those passages where all you can do is, you know, I'm not sure. And so what you don't want to do is build off of a, an obscure understanding of the scriptures, something that's not fully fleshed out even by the word itself. And so this council of deities, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I'm sorry, council in heaven, I would not go that far with that. I wouldn't make that case. There are some that do, but here's what happens. Sometimes, sometimes people spend time thinking. I'll never forget this, that, that my former mentor, Dr. Willie Bowden, made this statement. He said that a lot of times, a lot of the, a lot of the people that spend time that in these, in, in sometimes seminaries and think tanks and so forth, just kind of writing books and you want to think and think and think and think and think. And sometimes you overthink things. Sometimes you overthink things that you've already have been settled on. And you try to come up with a conclusion or an understanding to a problem that you're not meant to get a solution to. Well, many men can do that. This is why you'll see some men who, for whatever reason, they have been sound in their doctrine, sound in their understanding. And then as time goes on, as they get older, they depart a little bit from either orthodoxy or from orthopraxy, from sound doctrine. You kind of just think a little bit too much. Again, God is not interested in what you think he's interested in you understanding what his word and you don't have to, you don't have to have a new revelation or new understanding of old scripture. You don't have to just what it says is what it says. It's almost like we seek to date a lot of millennials, a lot of Gen Zers. There's a new way of doing things. And then what inevitably ends up happening is we end up coming right back to what the old truth is. And we've all done that as human beings as we were growing up, not listening to mom and daddy, not listening to grandma and grandpa. And then ultimately, we end up coming back to what the truth is, right? So I wouldn't want to come out and say that something says something that it doesn't just because it means or can show the mean something different. You say go to Isaiah 4310. Let's go to Isaiah 4310. Let's see if that adds something. 4310. You are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servants whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He before me there was no God formed and there will be none after me. I'm not understanding why what that passage refers to, but going back to the point, this Council of Heaven, I don't see that. Could be, but the scriptures aren't clear on that. Amen. If Adam and Eve never sinned, would we be here? Well, I mean, I imagine we'd be here in some capacity. Not sure how it would be, how things would exist. Don't know. Here's this. This gets into the mind of God, how God works, and that's where we start falling apart. This is where all bets off because we have no idea. We have no clue why the Bible tells us also that our days have been numbered, have been determined. He has numbered and prepared our beginning and our end. So he knows when we'll be born and so forth. He knows how many days he's given to us. Question. When did God know or determine how many days would be given to us? Did he do that after the fall? Did God determine what was going to happen or how many years or how many days I'm going to have? Or did God determine that even if I would exist after the fall, as though God didn't know what was going to happen before the fall, what were you doing, God, if you didn't know this ahead of time? So I think it's safe to assume that whatever God has determined, how far you think or however much you think God has determined anything, obviously he's determined some things. Some will think that he's determined more than he has something less. It doesn't matter, but whatever he has determined, when did God determine these things? And I think it's probably a safe bet to say that whatever God determined, he determined before there was us around, before there was an earth, before there was a fall. And so therefore, to even go back to your question, let me put it back up again, your question was if Adam and Eve never seen what would be here, if he determined that we would be here, one or two things. He determined we would be here irrespective of Adam and Eve's sin or knowing full well they were going to sin. So it's one of those questions that we just would not be able to completely ask and answer. So oops. Oh, Lord. Let me go back and fix that. Look, he said just actually deleted your question. Let me go back and find you. I hit the wrong button. There it is. All right. Sorry. Okay. If someone believes Jesus God but also believes he was created by God, the Father, are they still safe? That is a very good question. As a matter of fact, let me ask you guys this question, because what I'm going to do is a matter of fact, I'm going to be doing this even more and more and more. I'm going to ask you guys to jump in and to kind of take part in some schooling. Some of the assignments that I would have, I figured, you know what? Why not share some of those same assignments with you guys? It would be a good learning lesson that the seminary also puts out. I won't give you the exact homework. I won't do that. That would be dishonest. For example, there's one assignment. How many give 25 or 50 observations for one particular verse? Not interpret anything, but take a verse and give either 25 or 50 observations. Now, I'll do that for you guys a little later, but it would be dishonest if I came back and said, hey, the very same one that I have, the question I'm asking or being asked, here, I'll ask you that question. Well, that would be cheating. That would be dishonest. So I'm not going to do that. It'll be after that particular assignment is over. But this is one of those times where I want to ask you guys, I want to engage you. So if a person believes that Jesus is God, I want you guys to think about this for a second. As a matter of fact, let's put this back on the screen. Where is the question? I didn't say the question. I did not say the question. Don't want it, Corey. If a person believes that Jesus is God, but also believes he was created, I want you to think about this for a second. By God the Father, are they still saved? Tell me what you guys think. If a person believes that Jesus is God, but that's an odd question, not an odd question, but it'd be an odd way of thinking, but believes, I won't put you out. You always question on screen. As a matter of fact, let me go back to the keys. Let's go back there and do that. All right. So there's a question I want to see you all answer. Wayne says it can't be both. It doesn't really work out that way. But it does sound like, yeah, DK, that is, that is pretty close to Mormonism. Pretty close to Mormonism. What do you all think? I see a lot of no's. Nope. Here's a good answer. No ish. OG, he says no ish. No ish. Kind of no. Long answer, no. Devante, I'd say no. Okay. So let me ask this question a different way. Let me ask this question a different way. I believe Jesus is God. However, I'm eight years old. Think about this for a second. I'm eight years old. I believe Jesus is God, but I'm confused. Now that's a pretty good spin on it. But by the way, that's a practical spin. Why? Because everybody doesn't fully understand. So now we're talking about little kids. Now you mean to tell me that the little kids, the eight-year-old, can an eight-year-old be saved? Can an eight-year-old be a Christian? Yes, an eight-year-old can be a Christian, but what if the eight-year-old doesn't know, doesn't have sound doctrine? To what degree do we hold the eight-year-old and his lack of sound doctrine, his lack of understanding against him? Or more to the point, to what degree would God hold his lack of understanding against him? Now we're talking about someone who's just eight, nine years old, doesn't know anything, but they know that they need a savior. They get that. They know that they're bad, that they do bad things and have some thoughts they shouldn't. So what then? Well, the Bible says, as it relates to Jesus' identity, where it talks about how you have to believe that he is God unless otherwise you will die in your sins, he doesn't say, and this is the hard part, guys, he doesn't say that unless you believe that I'm God and you're not sure how that works, and maybe I'm God, but I was great. Again, it's a hard way to think about that, but let's just say there's someone out there who's just thoroughly confused, thoroughly confused. Do they believe in that Jesus is God, but not sure how he's God? Do they not make it in? They do make it in. This is why I said, guys, you have to be careful. There are some things we have to believe. Some things we have to believe. Some things we are allowed, we are permitted to grow into understanding. Some things we're just going to be wrong on and just don't know. Well, you know what? I used to think that now. All right. Okay. Okay, that makes sense. Remember, there were people, okay, think about it. When you first got saved, when you first got saved, how many heresies did you adopt? You probably didn't know it. You probably didn't know it. That's why I'm real careful when I say, yes, Jesus is not the father, but if a person believes he's the father, they can't quite figure it out. I'm torn up because I can't quite figure out if he's the father or not, because let's be honest, there are some passages that seem to say that he is not the father. And there's some like, wait a second, he seems like it seems to say that he is the father. Now I'm confused. So the question is, can a confused Christian be saved? Sure. Do you know any confused Christian ever got saved? Yes, you, me, all of us, we got to say we were confused. Now, if the person is actually genuinely saved, what's going to happen? They will spend, I believe, I believe as they grow close to the Lord, the Lord will make these things, He will sort these things out. So the prerequisite as far as Jesus being the Lord is that he is the Lord, that he is God. Now we go back and lift the hood and try to figure out how this stuff works. We tear the computer apart and try to figure out how it works. And then we've got all these wrong answers and right answers. So can a oneness be brothers? This is the part, guys, answering Devante's question. Can a oneness be brothers? I don't know. I don't know. Most oneness have no idea that they are oneness. Let me just say that now. Most oneness have no idea that they are oneness or what oneness is. They can't figure it out. So if you believe, and there might be 12 videos that come after me, that doesn't matter. If you believe, listen, what's required? Let's do this, Devante, everyone else. Let's do this. Person wants to be safe. She says explain. I'm going to explain. I'm going to explain. If you were to go to a person and a person says, what must I do to be saved? And you say, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And they say, wait a minute, what does that mean? What does that mean? Jesus' lover says no oneness motorists are not believers in Christ. Well, what if they don't know what oneness believes? What if they're just oneness in name only? What if they're not settled on it? This is what they're thinking. They're working this out in their head. Here's my question. I'm going to ask you guys this question and I want you all to give an answer. Don't give me your theological answer. I want you to give your bill of answer. If a person asks you, what must I do to be saved? And you say, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. What does that mean? And he says, what do you mean? What do you mean? Well, what I mean is you've got to believe this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. Oh, by the way, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. We don't do that, right? We don't do that. What is required? The person has to be repentant of the fact that they're a sinful person and recognize they need a savior, right? And that Jesus is a savior and that he is the Lord. Right? Is that, is that it? Now, when I say the Lord recognize that he is God, he is God in flesh, but therein lies the problem for some people. He's God in flesh. Like, wow, what does that mean though? He's God in flesh, but it, but does that mean that he's God in flesh and another moment he's, I saw it December. I saw it. That's a question, right? It's a good question. Is it possible? So, so, what do we say to the person who is just like you guys, you're not oneness, you're fully secure, but when you placed your faith in Christ, you were oneness-ish. What I'm not, and what I try not to do is I don't tell people that if they ascribe to this or that or what have you and they're not, they're not totally sure they're wrestling us out. What I will say is don't teach. What I will say is if you have a little oneness-ish in you and you're really not sure you're trying to, you're trying to figure this out, don't teach. Those that are teaching and leading ought to know they ought to be secure, right? But let's go back to the eight-year-old. He doesn't know. She doesn't know. The 15-year-old, the 20-year-old, don't know. I'm not, I'm not totally sure. The thief on the cross. Did the thief on the cross know he knew who Jesus was? Did he have any idea about modalism and so what? That hadn't even been, that wasn't even a word of thought. I think he knew that he was from God, of God. Are you with me? He knows that he's God. This is where I start slowing down. There's a part of me that wants to say that person's not saved. Now here's the oneness. Here is the modalist. This will help you out guys. Here is the oneness or the modalist that I say is not saved. Here is the oneness or the modalist who cannot be saved. If he is fully fleshed out, understands fully what this means and still rejects it, that person I don't think is saved. Are you with me? Tell me you're with me. If it's the person who asks, I kind of see it, I kind of understand it, I couldn't tell you. I can tell you that he has a bad understanding. He has a misunderstanding. Okay. That's why if I say what's required to be saved, have you all noticed that I do not say that you have to believe in the Trinity? I say you have to believe that Jesus is God. That's what I say. Now, wait a minute Corey, that's the Trinity. I know it is, but rather than being hung up on that because the word Trinity wasn't there when they were being saved initially, but Jesus being God, that was there. So you have to believe that Jesus is God. That part is John 8, 24. You must believe Jesus is God. Romans 10, you must believe Jesus is God, but he is the Lord without question. However, I'm not sure how that works. Wait a minute. Okay. I am allowed to grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord. I'm not saved because I'm grown. I'm mature in the knowledge of the Lord. No, I'm growing. Are you guys with me? And don't act like none of these passages that others bring up never gave you any trouble, never gave you any problem. Don't act like you were so secure from the time that you got saved that you understood it fully. So a person who is firmly committed, listen to what I'm saying, a person who is firmly committed in motorism, I don't believe he's saved. A person who is firmly committed in that Jesus is from God, but is not God. He's not saved. But the person who is, I believe Jesus is God, I'm just not sure how that works, but has true faith that person saved. Why? Because what do we always say? You can be saved and stupid. Treat that. You can be saved and stupid. So because you can be saved and stupid, well then let's be honest, I've been saved and stupid. So when you go to someone and you share the gospel with them, you're going to tell them about their fallen condition and the debt that's owed that they can't pay. And there is someone who did pay it. That is Jesus who is the Lord. Amen. So now I'm interested in what you all think about how I explain that I'm not, I'm not advocating motorism. And I'm not saying that motorist doctrine is sound. No, I'm not. But there is some people who just don't get it. Don't understand it and not get it. Get out. Get out until you fully get it. No, no, get out until you fully get it. Then we would all be out. That's the point. Again, you can be thoroughly put that on a shirt. You can be saved. I ought to do that shit. You know what? I'm going to talk to her this evening. Let's make that let's put that on a shirt. By the way, by the way guys, let me say this as well. We are changing some things. I don't like the way the store works. I don't like the store pricing. I should I should have known better. I don't like the store pricing. I don't like the I don't like the store. Look, if you notice, the store was was actually attached to the channel. The store is no longer attached. I mean, you can still go to the store. You can go to the website and go to the store. I just didn't like the way it looked and it would not allow us to highlight certain things. Right? You could you couldn't even see this shirt on the on the on the channel, the way YouTube and I did not like it. And so that's being fixed. By the way, go to the website, smartchristians.org and you can go to the store there. You could also do the church search. We're still adding churches. That's a that is a process. By the way, as we're adding churches, do you know how many churches in America are called grace? You can't go to a major city without finding a grace church. You can't or church that begins with first. So anyway, all right, more questions. Whoa. Okay. Okay. This is wow. All right. I have a friend who occasionally probably occasionally, not all the time every now and then he prostitutes himself to me and for money. He confesses Christ and in some areas shows fruit. But this is almost as close to a mortal sin as possible. No. Is he okay? It's not a mortal sin. The sin that he has that he has to deal with is the fact that he's not a believer because what you cannot be, you cannot be someone I'm going to intentionally practice sin. I'm going to intentionally be homosexual and still embrace Christ. What that is is somebody who understands he's wrong. But knowing you're wrong doesn't mean that you're right. Knowing that you're wrong didn't make it. No, that's a problem. And so this person is not safe. This person is not fallen. This person has not rejected the fact. Sin doesn't bother him. Now why he's doing so for money, for he likes it, whatever. Yeah, there's a lot of folks. Let's be honest also. A lot of folks like, well, is he prostituting himself with women? That would be better, huh? No, that wouldn't be better either. That wouldn't be better. Now, for a lot of men, if you're going to do it, do it that way. But no, don't do it at all. This person, I can't see this person being safe because he's embracing a couple of things over Christ. Amen. Was not expecting that question. Here's a good question. What are the indicators of someone with just mental and simple, post-truth faith? Is a desire to be a believer enough? Okay. To all my free graces in the house. To all my, matter of fact, I saw one. I saw layman's seminary. So let's see. I'd like to hear your response on this as well. And there are probably a few other free graces in the house. By the way, someone said that that lacyological seminary is a free grace seminary. No, it's not. This is what people ought to be quiet sometimes. It's not a free grace. Now, are there some of those there that might hold to it? Sure, but it's not. Anyway, is it more than lines of Lordship salvation? No, but mental ascent. This is where someone asks, how do you know I'm safe? How do I know? How can a person be sure or secure that he's safe? Is there a way to know just by saying, I placed my faith in Christ? How do I know? Did I really or did they really place their faith in Christ? Because there is this thing as such as mental ascent. They really believe that they thought it. You can, you can temporarily believe. We know that again, because Jesus said so. Jesus said you can temporarily believe. So what does that mean? You can temporarily believe. Now, he didn't call those folks who temporarily believed as true believers. He didn't associate them with actual believers. So there's, there's a distinction. These people who temporarily believe or have mental ascent, they thought and understood that's a good thing to do. What I am, I am, I know I'm bad. I know Jesus is safe. And so I believe he died on the cross. I believe it. I can write you, I can write you a 30 page paper, single space, type it and give it to you on that fact and still not be saved. Because what it actually is, and again, I know I use this example over and over again, but it's, it's this chair. It's my favorite analogy. This chair, I have faith in this chair so much. So I don't give it a second thought. And while I'm in this chair, I can just sit back, relax, just chill out in this chair. That's what I can do in this chair because I have faith in this chair. I can guess what I can do in this chair. Uh-oh. I almost, I almost got too relaxed. And yeah, I almost tore the whole thing down, but I can go to work in on this chair. I can go to typing over here. I can do stuff over here in this chair. I could turn around and spin around in this because I have faith in this chair. I don't hold onto the desk trying to help the chair out. I don't spread my legs to the wide base to help this chair out. No. Now I might think about getting another chair because I want a better chair, but I'm fully confident in this chair and I move according to that. And so in that way, if a person says they have faith in Christ, now this is me. Now this is where I think, this is where I think free grace just falls apart. Because if your, if your belief is that God did all those things, now let me go live how I want to live. No, because there is, there is something to the changing. You mean tell me that he says that he's changed you, but you're not changed. You're not changed those, those that are changed. I mean, those that are believers. He's changed. He's made a new creature, but you're not, there's something to that. Some, some goofball actually said that I, that I stated that you could profess to be Christ, renounce Christ, walk away and still be safe. No, you can't. You can become a Muslim and still be, no, you can't. I don't, I don't know. So there's a lot of people that will say what Jesus did and know it and believe and think it's true. But that and again, your mouth is, is your heart is far from your mouth says one thing, but internally you're just rotten. So yeah. Now what are the indicators to go back to your question? What are the indicators? The Bible tells there's a few, because Paul says, examine yourself. There's a few things, there's a few things that you have to understand about your salvation and what's, if you are saved, the identifying mark of a believer is what? The Holy Spirit. So if the Holy Spirit is in you, then there's going to be some things about the Holy Spirit. About the Holy Spirit is that if you simply place your faith in Christ and he's in you, what is he going to work? What is he going to want to do? Well, we're told that he's going to want to testify. Now, how often will you testify? I got you. I got you, BJ. How often will you testify? He doesn't say it, but you are going to give witness or testify of him. How often don't know to who don't know. If you are in him to sin bother you, sure sin is going to bother you without question. Do you love other people? Not that you want to buy them a gift for their birthday every time. No, that's not it, but you have love for them. What they go through and so forth, it grieves you. If you can, you would help them and you demonstrate that from time to time. So if you're not experiencing those things, if your heart is cold, unforgiving, unloving, not even thoughtful towards the Lord, it's a pretty good chance. Pretty good chance you're not safe. Now, there's only two people in the world that will know. Two, you and God. I have no idea if you are. I can look and think, hmm, yeah, you look safe. Yeah, that's the Holy Ghost. There's no way I can know, but only you and God, you know. I know some guys that look, that people say that that person ain't safe and say, yeah, yep, yep, that person is safe. That person, that person is safe. And so we find out, hey, now I know a person that is safe and behind the scenes you see in this person grow, or they seem to be, but you don't know where they've come from, how far they're going. Only you and God know. That's why Paul says, examine yourself. Paul didn't say examine everybody else. Amen. Okay, moving right along. Let me move, let me move faster. I'm going to move faster for you, chest champ. What's my take on E-Sword Bible? I've never actually used E-Sword Bible software. I have no idea. Any software that can give you the scriptures, plus if they give you some references and so forth, cross references, if there's the languages there also or help to understand what's being stated, I think that's good. I have no idea, no familiarity with E-Sword. So I really couldn't tell you. Really couldn't tell you. I've done this. What would you say to someone who made an unrealistic promise to God as a new believer? My sister did this when she first got saved. She can't keep the promises, but she didn't want to break them. Lord, I promise I'm going to do this, this, this, this, and this. Can I tell you guys a truth? This is a real good truth. God knows you're not that good. God knows you're stupid. God knows you make statements. You should God knows you're both. Well, God knows your heart. He knows. I know everything you said, everything you said. You didn't mean it. So the question is, does God hold that against you when you make these statements, these grandiose statements, these promises that you can't keep? Does he hold that now? It's better not to make a vow and then, I mean, to not make a vow and then to make a vow and break it. I don't care how great the vow was. Here is why God didn't hold against you. Can you think of someone that loved the Lord a lot and did not keep his word? Yeah, Peter. I don't care what these jokers right here do. Bartholomew, he ain't about that life. Andrew, Philip, James, my brothers, listen, none of them are what they say they are, Jesus. Thaddeus, I know about that. But me, I'm never gonna leave you. I'll die with you. Whatever, whatever, I will die for you. And Jesus says, okay, boy, I'm in my, in my, in my Southern Jesus voice. Boy, shut up, before the rooster crows. Three times you're gonna deny me. Did Jesus, did Jesus know what he was gonna, he said, he did. Matter of fact, Jesus goes one step further. He says, you'll deny me three times. And what is Jesus's next statement after that? But when you return, because he I've appointed you. So, so he understands the, the, the, the brashness, the bravado, he understands that. And thankfully, thankfully, he didn't hold your foolishness against you. That's where the growing part comes from. Man, I said, hold on, I'm not doing. Okay, let's, hold on. Let's, let's fix this. Let's fix this. This is funny. Why do you want me to send you the link? That was not my plan for today. But why do you want me to send you the link to do what? What, what, what exactly is it you want to, did you want me to talk about? You can't put it in the question. Phrase it this like Jeopardy. Put it in the form of a question. Put it in the form of a question. What on earth could you possibly want that I have to, you can't put it in the, in the questions. Put it in the questions. I'll, I'll answer your question. Amen. Amen. All right, let's continue. What are you speaking of about storing up treasure? Let's say if one fails to store treasures in heaven, apart, will they be poor in it? Well, no one's going to be poor in heaven. Apart from the basic comforts we receive as errors, will someone have the one thing we don't fully know? And we, I've done this before, but to look at what the rewards are in heaven, Paul makes a statement that finally there's later for me a crown of righteousness. There seems to be some rewards we don't know to the extent of, now someone's even stated that the rewards might just be during the millennium. Don't know, have no idea. So what the rewards are in heaven or how they, the extent of them, we really don't know what we do know though, that there are some degrees of hell. Jesus says they'll be worse for some than, than what will be for others. So we don't really know. So we don't really know. But as far as being poor, there won't be anyone that will have any, any need or lack in heaven. Amen. Acts 122, a requirement to be biblical apostle, also does it prove that they, there are no, yeah, it does. This is where they are talking about bringing someone on to be an apostle. And he says that that is a necessary word, the Greek word day, which is, it's necessary. This person must have witnessed or been with us at the beginning and have seen Christ after the resurrection. Now, there's a lot of folks that will qualify for that. It's not just the 12 or those that were apostles. They weren't the only ones that qualified as far as seen. But he says that will have accompanied us and have been chosen by Christ. Then comes Paul, who also who saw the, the resurrected Christ on his, on the road to Damascus and then is validated by the other. But yes, that is, that is, that's one of the pastors that I go to to say, yeah, unless you're one of those guys, you cannot be. Amen. Next question. Is it wrong to question God or well, if that, if that were the case, if it were wrong to question the Lord, then a lot of people in the Bible would, would be headed hell. There are, Job did it. Abraham did it. Moses did it. A lot of people have a question. Now they didn't impugn him with sin and injustice, but their question was, Lord, why me? Why, why are you treating this way? Why are you, why are you against people? What have I done? David was the same way. Lord, what have I, and so that's okay. That as a matter of fact, is actually to be expected for some people. You, you probably will. You're going to wonder, Lord, what is it? What, what's wrong with me? What, what have I done wrong? So no, it's not, it's not, it's not a sin. We know it's not a sin because the Bible didn't say so. So next question. Okay. It's a good question. Acts 14 one. It says, because they spoke so effectively that a number of them believe, does that, does this kind of look like we can play a part in believing? Let's go to Acts 14 one. In Iconium, they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed both of Jews and of Greeks, but the Jews who disbelieved or did not believe stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embedded them against the brethren. Yeah, I could see where, I could see where someone would come up with that, that if you speak in such a profound way, but that can't be the case, right? How we know that can't be the case is because there were times when Paul spoke in a profound way to a gripper and they didn't believe that heart being changed, being wrenched because of the words. It's not because of the word, but it just says that they spoke in such a manner. Matter of fact. Okay. And maybe a case could even be, I'm looking at this, maybe even a case could be made that those that spoke in such a manner that it's not because they spoke in a manner, but just just indicating that they spoke this way and that those folks believed, but not as a result of them speaking so eloquently. But no matter how eloquently you speak, because we've got a lot of eloquent preachers today. And a lot of folks aren't saved as a result. And then you got some folks who just hear just some, hey, here's a track, read that. And they just, it resonates with them. Well, that's an issue of the heart, which only he controls. Amen. Do you believe love of country is the same as love of the world? No, it's not. No. Now, the question is, is it okay to have love for your country? It is. It's like it's okay to have love for your world. Now, again, as long as your allegiance isn't divided between the country and God, because this world and this country, and I think I see where you're probably going that me loving America, and I love America, but not in the sense that I love the world and the things of the world, the things of this country and so forth. I love basketball. From Indiana, that's what we, if you don't love basketball in Indiana, you got to get out. I don't watch it nearly as much as I used to. The rules have changed. You can take 12 steps as a travel. It's not a travel. So I don't love it that much to where I want to keep watching. Same thing with America. I don't love it that much to where I'm for it. I'm for everything that we do. No, I'm not. As a matter of fact, I don't love it so much to think that it's my job to save this country. It's not my job to save this country. It's my job to save, help to save people who want to place their faith in Christ, to be a vessel. Now, I would love for this country to be prolonged as much as possible. I think it's the best country on the planet, but at the same time, now the good part about getting older is that when the world crumbles or America crumbles, you won't be around. You 20 year olds, you might have to witness it. But then again, but then again, then again, then again, I'm going to be around. I have prophesied to myself, I spoke this into existence, I'll be around till 128. So I might still say, I might, someone got mad at me for saying, I thought, you realize I'm just joking, right? You realize I'm just joking. I'm not saying that I'm going to be, you know, how should we understand the practical role of Priscilla played when considering her actions in Acts 18 25. Well, her actions is that, okay, let's go to Acts 18 20. Let's go at first. Oh, I'm sorry. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately. The thing is concerning Jesus being acquainted only with the baptism of John and he began speaking out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. And when he wanted to go across Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. And when he arrived, he greatly helped those who believe through grace. Now, a couple of things. Matter of fact, you can go back to the questions that we had earlier. Here's a person who seems love the Lord but didn't have full understanding. So what happens? Here comes this husband and wife team. And that's what it is. It's a husband and wife team because there are those that might want to point out the fact that that Priscilla is a woman. No problem with that. But she's not there by herself. She's there with her husband. And so in that regard, it doesn't override a woman having authority over a man because she's there with her husband. Now, we don't know who did most of talking. We don't even know if one did the talking, one did, you know, here you hold the Bible, I do the talking, but this is them together. So we don't, we don't, we can't even state who did what, who said what. He could, a Quillica, but it could have been the one doing most of the speaking and Priscilla could have been just, amen, amen. We simply don't know. So what we do know is that they were there together. Amen. Let's see this one. If you need to continue to believe, could you explain 2 Timothy 2.13? Okay, let's go there. Okay. If we are faithless, he remains faithful for he cannot deny himself. Let's go back a little, and I think I know where you're going with this. It is a trustworthy statement for if we died with him, you know, let's go a little further up. Remember Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, for which I suffered hardship, even to imprisonment as a criminal. But the Word of God is not imprisoned. For this reason, I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen. It's important for the sake of those who are chosen. And this is so that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. It is a trustworthy statement for if we, if we died with him, we will also live with him. If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. I think that, I don't think there's any, any ambiguity there. If we are faithless, he remains faithful for he cannot deny himself. How do we take that? What does that actually mean if we're faithless? Now, is he speaking of someone who is saved as faithless or someone who's not saved? It's kind of, I can see it being both ways. How I take this is if, if we are in him, if we are his child, if we are truly saved, a matter of fact, let me, let me, let me hold on. So there's one of the shoes here. This is the person that's not believing. So this would have to be, this would have to be the person who is an unbeliever. Even still the truth remains is that God himself is faithful regardless. So the person who's unbelieving has no bearing on the fact that God, if you're an unfaithful person that has any bearing on the fact that God has, matter of fact, that's kind of in keeping with it because if we endure, well, what, and I think people have, have not heard me correctly on this. When I say that a person has to endure, that you must abide, you must remain, you must keep following, you must keep believing. Or if someone else says that, I don't, I don't discount that at all. I think a person has to keep believing. I think a person has to keep following. I think a person has to remain. That being the case, the question is for a Christian, will you keep believing? Will you remain? Sure you will, according to the scriptures. Amen. Okay, this is funny. This is funny. Whenever I finally get to catch a live show, my friend calls and doesn't know when to hush. Is a, is a Christian like to not answer? It's not, I'm gotta, there, listen, somebody can call me and I'm married. I can, there are times where I see a phone call and I just can't answer. It's not unguided to not answer. Call me back later. I've given her the numbers of the times not to call. She talks all program long. Tell her, tell her to hit the, hit the, hit the play button. Come on, just watch it with us. But no, it's fine. It's fine. You tell her, listen, I'll call you back later. Or tell her, to her, however you'd like to tell her in your friend way. He's a girl. I'm talking right now. Shut up. However you want, however you want to do it, it's okay. It's not a sin to not do so. Matter of fact, matter of fact, as I think about this, huh? Yeah, I think it's a sin for you to answer the phone when, when, when we're on. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I am kidding. What's the difference between a calling and a career? Is it the same? I'm attending this year a seminary and debating between biblical studies versus pastoral leadership would like your take on it. Okay. We talked about this before. Let's say if it's about going into being a pastor and overseer, an elder or what have you. Well, it's a, the Bible says if you desire that. And so there is no scripture that says it's natural calling. But I do understand what people mean by saying it's a calling. The Lord has, has impresses on me. If the Lord has maybe giving me, giving a person some skills, some abilities that are useful for the ministry and you take that as a call. That's fine. That's, that's fine. Can a calling also be your career? Sure. As a matter of fact, if we're going to use that word calling, your calling or your desire can also be a career. Sure. A person, a person that wants to be a pastor or this in ministry and they want that to be their career for the rest of the month. That's admirable. Now, the Bible, we don't see Paul calling it his career, but that was his career. He had another job, but he wasn't, he wasn't doing that very much was same thing with Peter, them leaving fishing for the ministry. The ministry is their career. Now, if you treat it like a business where the bottom line is the most important thing, now we have a problem. If your goal is to, is numbers, how many people, how many, how many dollars and so forth, and you treat it that way, then it becomes a problem. Now, is it a problem to want to have numbers in terms of more people? Well, you want, you want the gospel and you're serving to reach more people, but that can't be the most important thing. That cannot be, I got to get more folks attending. The more folks in Sunday service, the more people at Sunday school, the more baptisms, because what we do sometimes is we say, well, we've got 35 baptisms. We don't care what their walk is like, what their life is like. They got, they went in the water and went down and came up. That's all that matters. That's a problem. That is, that's a problem. If that's what you're looking at, what you're looking for is not the numbers, what you're looking at is an actual change. And often, not often, every time you cannot measure that, that moment. It takes a while to know that John places faith in Christ. John got baptized. Five years later, John is still. We see that that was serious. So we don't want to treat it that much like a business. Amen. Jesus' response to Nathaniel is clear, a reference of Jacob's ladder in his dream. Why? Well, I brought it up before. I don't bring up a lot one because the reason why you don't bring it up, as he says, as a matter of fact, let's go to Genesis 28 because Jesus does bring this up. Genesis 28. Oops. Then Jacob departed from Bathsheba and went toward Heron and he came to a certain place. Let's drop down verse 12. He had a dream and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were descending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord, your God. I'm the God of your Father Abraham and the God of Isaac. Now let's go to, did you mention the passage? That passage as well. Let's start in 47. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and he said of him, behold, an Israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit. Nathaniel said to him, how do you know me? Jesus answered and said to him, before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you. Nathaniel answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the king of Israel now. How does he make that statement? Because again, they were told he was coming. Verse 50. Jesus answered and said to him, because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe you will see greater things in these? And he said to him, truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens open and the angels of God descending and descending on the Son of man. And this is a direct reference to Jacob. And who is, who is, who are the angels ascending and ascending upon the Lord God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac. So yeah, that is an excellent example. The reason why you might not see people use it as much, Jeff, is because you do it enough times, you're going to realize you want to go to the passages first where people have the least amount of wiggle room. And they'll say, well, no, that's different. That's different. Son of man, he's not saying no, he's not saying that he is the one. And so, but it does. But to your point, it does point to him being God. So that's cool. That's a good one. Should Christians distance themselves from their gay family members in fear of being seen as affirming? No. My sister and I are close. Thanks. No, no, we're not. I've got family members, close family members who are, and no, I do not. Now, they might want to distance themselves away from me because, you know, hanging with me come with something. It just comes with something. But I can show them that it's not the same as how I was to be going to a, let's say a gay wedding or a trans wedding and then because that's an actual ceremony. It's set up for that. Me with a gay cousin. Now, let's say if I've got a friend and they want to go out, or family member, and they want to go out someplace that's frequented by gays, no, not going to do that. Not going to do that. I'm not going to go to your places. No. Not going to do that. Now, if we, let's say you and I go, by the way, by the way, by the way, let's say we're going to the movies. Let's go to movies. Let's go out to eat. And you got your gay pride stuff on. Nope. Not going. Sorry. That ain't going to happen. That ain't going to happen. If you do that, I want to have my all gays go to hell flag on my shirt on. I'm a kid. I won't do that. But, but no, I won't put myself also in a position to where it comes across as though I that I am affirming I want the very appearance of what I'm doing to be godly. So if now that person can't respect that, whether that person didn't respect Christ, the one who you whom you serve. And so listen, we can be friends. We can be families with same time or whatever. I can show respect to you. You do the same for me. Now, we have our conversations and I'm going to live godly in front of the people, me living godly in front of the people. It's not me. I'm going to turn it down. When I'm around Jesus, when he went around the centers, he did not act as though he was one of them. He didn't affirm what he did do was he called them to repentance. He called them to change and that part was clear when the when the Pharisees would say, why are you around these these centers, but these centers are following him in their lives or at least outwardly looking like they're changing. So that was whole Jesus's point, calling them to repentance and a changed life. Amen. Jesus and this is John 3, truly, truly, or very truly. I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and spirit. Is this not a contradiction that belief is all that is necessary? No, it's not. As a matter of fact, this is speaking about belief. How do I know? Let's go to John 3 verse 3. Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God and we go drop down further to verse 5. Unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot infuse God. And then that which is born of flesh is fled, but that which is born of spirit to spirit. Marv, I thought I said that you must be born again. And then the last part of verse 8, verse 8, everyone who was born of the spirit. Notice how he says it three different ways, born of the spirit, born of water and spirit, and born again. Same thing. Well, this isn't an act of view. This is your heart being changed. Remember, we go to Luke 8, and I keep going over this passage. Luke 8 and something else. Well, it's not just in Luke 8 as well. But the parable of the seed and the soils, the good word that you hear has to be implanted on good soil. So when that person believes, they will keep believing, they will stay believing. The only way that you can stay believing, the only way that you cannot be a temporary believer, the only way that there is something in you that's going to cause you to stay believing and walk in him is your heart has been changed. And so this affects your belief. This is the only way that you can keep believing. The only way that you can have faith or be faithful, there's two things. There's only two ways that you can be faithful. Two ways and two ways only. There's only two ways that a person can behave. Two ways and two ways only. It has to come from something within or from something without. For example, if a person, let's use me, for example, a person decides that or person finds themselves in prison and they want to do, they want to do bad, but they're not. There are some guys in prison who have restrained themselves from not doing anything bad, not hurting anybody, not committing crimes, taking care of their business, keeping their, keeping their head down, keeping their nose clean, so to speak. But then when they get out of prison, what happened? A lot of them go right back to the crime. And then someone said, wait a second, I thought, I thought you changed. Well, the only reason why they were like they were, the only reason why they were on their best behavior is because something from without, something outside of them was controlling them. There were prison guards around, there were staff members, there were people with clubs and stuff like that. The threat, there was something to constrain you from the outside. That will do well for you. We see that in the Old Testament, something on the outside giving them motivation to do right. But what we have is something different now. We have something within, something on the inside that keeps us doing right. So if you've been changed on the inside, then that's going to actually show on the outside versus something having to move you from the outside. Are you with me? And so that's what someone's heart being changed actually does. Amen? Okay, more questions, more questions, more questions. Okay, wait a second. You said the I do and I find in Roman seven, but you didn't give me a verse. I wanted a verse. Let me go back and see if I can find it rather than me searching Roman seven, but you say you say so Paul's not talking about his struggle with sin as a Christian, but as a Pharisee. Well, first of all, let me just say this, that's not how the imperfect works. That's not, that's not how the imperfect works. And so I think sometimes we see a word that's in the imperfect and no, but let's, let's go to what Paul will say. Let's put it back on seven, verse seven, chapter seven. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. On the contrary, I would not have come to no sin through the law for I would not have known about coveting if the law had not sinned. You shall not covet, I'm sorry, said you should not covet, but sin taken opportunity through the through the commandment produced in me, coveting of every kind from apart from the law. I'm sorry from apart from the law sin is dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died. And this commandment, which was to result in life proved to result in death for me for sin taking the opportunity through the commandment deceived me and and through it killed me. So then the law is holy and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Therefore, therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me may it never be rather it was sin in order that it may produce or might be shown to the sin by affecting my death through that which is good so that through the commandment sin would become undeniable or here we go. I'm just reading all this. I want to make sure I cover whatever verse you're speaking of since you didn't give me the exact verse. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am I am a flesh sold into bondage to sin. What I am doing now this word right here. Can you all see the bottom of it? This is a present middle indicative. This is present. The sentence saying what he is doing. Okay. So this is not referring to when he was a Pharisee, but even now what I am doing, I do not understand for I am not practicing what I would like to do. Okay. Notice for I am not practicing prosso. This is present active indicative. Okay. What he's doing for what I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing this word point point. Oh, I'm sorry. It's a present active indicative. Also the very thing that I hate. Okay. But if I do boys again present active indicative, this is current not when he was a Pharisee, but if I do the very thing that I do not want to do. Okay. So still right now I agree with the law confessing the law is good. So now no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me for I know that nothing good dwells in me that is in my flesh for the willing is present in me. This willing they lane is present active infinitive. So this is him struggling with what he wheels and what he doesn't want to with what he wants to do or what he's doing and what he's presently willing is present in me, but the doing the doing this word kind of get this guy kind of got that these 12 silver Greek words. Anyway, this is also a present infinitive. We're talking about current. This is not Paul struggling with his past for the good that I want. I do, but I practice the very thing, the very evil. Now the word practice here prosso steel present active indicative. So this is stating what he is actually doing at this current time. Okay. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do and this word phalo is a present act again. This is what he's desiring. I is no longer I I'm sorry. I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. Now again, I would like for you to if you could I'm still asking give me the actual verse that you're speaking of, but Paul is speaking about what he's doing now. And by the way, either Paul is lying or he's telling the truth. Either Paul is exaggerating or he's telling the truth when he says that I am a chief center. The Lord tells him that when he says that my grace is efficient, he says that so that I won't become boastful. One of the issues that Paul has was his boastfulness. There'll be no need for that if Paul didn't have any issues with sin. Okay. So I would like to know if now if you disagree, fine, but tell me which passage you're speaking of. Tell me which passage you're speaking of. And then I can go and look at that the verb tense. Amen. Excuse me, man. All right. Do I think that Jesus would be I'm the present in heaven? That's a good question. No answer to that because I have no idea. We'll be there. How will he exist? There's just no way. There is just no way now. I can't see that he would I would imagine that he would be because he doesn't change. As he came here on earth, that was him voluntarily limiting himself. But again, he's God. So where was the spirit at that he did that he had no clue as what was happening? Remember, as we use the example of Nathaniel, I saw you. So I don't think Jesus will cease to be who he is, even an eternity. Amen. Do I hold the view that the flood was regional or global? I hold that it was global. The reason why hold is global. There's something in science. I'm not a scientist, but there's something in science that tells us that this is why carbon dating is so unreliable. The carbon in the atmosphere has changed. What would do that? Either nice age or a great flood of a whole lot of water, a whole lot of water. And so the carbon in the atmosphere is not just in one location. There are places where carbon in the atmosphere is just not the same in other places. Not as noticeable for us as it is for scientists or their machines to detect. But still, the point is this, something happened and something happened globally. And I think it was I think it was global. I think that what that he wiped out everything and everybody, that was globally. So that's why I believe that. That's a good question though. By the way, this guy, this time for souls guy, did he ever ask his question? Did he ever ask this question? I don't know if he did or did. Oh well. But he could, he could, he could ask it later. At some point in time, the link will be out and folks can come on. So thank you, Mike, for the super chat. I appreciate that. Can you specify more on sanctification via process in dealing with the flesh and an imitation of Christ? First Corinthians, so you want to go to first Corinthians 11, one through four. Let's go there. Be imitators of me just as I also am of Christ. Thanks. Now I praise you because you remember me and everything and hold firm to the traditions just as I deliver them to you. But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man and that the man is the head of a woman and God is the head of Christ. Every man who has something on his head while praying and prophesying is crazy. So your question, your question was, can you specify more on sanctification via the, I don't know what the via part is, but specify more of the sanctification process. Let me just say this is about sanctification. We see that there, the scriptures speak of us having been sanctified, being sanctified currently and will be sanctified future. And that's when you see this brought up in different ways, different discussions. Prior to us living, he set apart those of us whom he would regenerate their heart. He would give that something in dwelling, the working of the heart to give them something that when they believe, they will keep believing. But then also at some point in time in the future, don't know when, maybe sooner, rather than later, maybe later, rather than sooner, don't know, but there will come a point in time where we are totally sanctified, separated from the world, the sheep from the goat. But in this process, there's some things that are happening to us working on the inside. This sanctification process whereby there are things that are changing in us as he works in us. The more we draw closer to him, these things change in us and we become less and less like the world. And when I say to be sanctified, which is the same word for being holy, the same word, hi guys, this word, I like to just use this. It's not the real definition, but it is part of the definition. That is just to be different. We're not like them. And you see that in your walk and you're like, I'm not even like how I used to be. I'm different. And so that is what God is doing in us with us to us. And we'll keep doing so that we are no longer, we are no longer the way that we used to be. Okay. You said I didn't answer your question correctly or totally. Okay. Let me go back to John three. Let me explain what I'm saying. And you all have to forgive me because sometimes I take for granted that everyone probably hadn't heard me cover all of these things before. So let's go back to John three. What happens is we take some people take this passage in John three, five, and say that being born of water and spirit is a prerequisite for being saved, which is true, but they take this born of water and spirit to be that you have to be baptized in water. If that's what I'm understanding that that means that you all have to be baptized in order to be saved. He's not speaking about baptism. Baptism. Uh-oh. What's happening here? What in the world is going on right there? I don't know what's happening right. Okay. Hold on. Let me fix something. Give me one second and do that. Let's put it again. Okay. I must have hit something. Let me fix this on the floor. There we go. There we go. Okay. There we go. Sorry about that. So sometimes we take this passage here that being born of water and spirit as though this, this refers to being baptized, water baptized. The problem is being water baptized, baptism is not what's in play here. That's not what he's speaking of. He just says you must be born again. What does born again mean? Remember born again, born of water and spirit and born of the spirit. They're the same thing. And that they know that means be born from above. This process that has to happen first. What does the water and spirit mean? Does that necessarily mean that you have to be dipped in water first and does that contradict belief only? No, it's not because he's not talking about being baptized in water. He's talking about, he's referring back to let's go to it. Ezekiel, Ezekiel 36, 25. Then I will sprinkle notice the two elements that are used there. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. So what do we see there? The two elements are there also, water and spirit. And the water and spirit is Ezekiel. There's two ways of saying the same thing. Because if you go back to John 3, notice what he says in John 3 again. If you go back to it, why does this thing keep shifting? I don't get this. Am I, you know what I'll do? No, exactly what I'll do. I will walk that down. So notice what he's saying though. Let's go back to it. He says that which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said you must be born again. And notice what he says. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it's coming from or where it's going. So is everyone who is born of the spirit. So he's speaking to someone that's born of the spirit, born from above. The same word that we have, this regeneration that we see in Titus, the same words that's being used there, being born of something. Everyone who is of God, a child of God is born of the spirit. How do I know? Because we go to John one, put this on the screen as well. John one. Uh oh. Oh, God, let's go over here. My screen is all off. John one. Here we go. John one is going to verse 12. And he says, but as many as received him to him, he gave the right to be called. Then he gave the right to be called to God. Even to those who believe in his name is where they believe his word. I'm sorry, not believe, but born. We'll get the word for born, again, am I? And so those who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of God. Okay. So every all of us who are born again, we are born of God, born of the spirit. Where does that come from? Who does that? That's the spirit's work. Now notice what he says. And he's bothered with Nicodemus because Nicodemus is not getting this. Nicodemus said, how can these things be true? How can these things be? What is Jesus's response? Notice what he says. He says, are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things? So what has to happen first? By the way, he makes a statement because Nicodemus, you are a Jewish Pharisee. You have the Old Testament words. You don't know this. You are a teacher of Israel and you don't know this. The Lord has been telling them that this is going to happen, that they are going to have to be born. Their heart is going to have to be born again. Their heart is going to have to be changed. So now, unless this happens, you cannot, you can believe you won't keep believing, which means you can't get to the King of Heaven. You can't be a temporary believer. You have to be a continuing believer, which is how he describes us as Christians as believing. So now, in order to be believing, your heart has to be born from above. So no, that doesn't contradict belief only. This belief only is where it's solidified. You don't know whether you can only be believing and be believing as if you are born from above, born of the Spirit. Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'll take one more question because I've got to scoop Scudaddle. I'll take two. I think this is the next question. Did Jesus create his own birth vessel? Did he create? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. He created all things and all everybody was created. All of this, there's nothing that was created that he didn't create, including Mary. All right, so let's answer one more question and then we will leave. By the way, that's a good response, Jesus Lover. Whoever is, whoever the one that's believing, that's the one that's born of God. Okay, I'll let this be the last question. This is a good question. It'll take a few verses to go through it, but are you saying that at the moment we believe we receive the Spirit of God? What about Acts 8, 12 through 18 or Acts 19, 1 through 7? Already believers then got rebaptized in the Spirit. Can you address this? Yes, I can. What is happening in Acts is the Spirit is going to be given to the people. Now, think about this. The very first to believe were the disciples. They didn't receive the Holy Spirit until when? The day of Pentecost. Then we see the Jews received the Holy Spirit after they believed. Then we see the Samaritans. They believe like in Acts 8, but had not received the Holy Spirit, but they received the Holy Spirit at the hands of the apostles. They gave validity to the fact that not only did the Jews receive the Holy Spirit, but even these Samaritans who we hate, we don't like them. They don't like us. We don't like them. Then the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit. Oh, now the Jews are floored. You mean tell me even the Jews, the Jews have, not the Jews, but the Gentiles have even received the Holy Spirit? Wait a minute. The Bible says they marvel at that. Why is that happening? Because what the Lord is showing is why He said, you be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea, and it happens in just the same order that Jesus says, Jerusalem and Judea, then Samaria, and then to the rest of the world's meaning to the Gentiles. And we can see that everyone receives the Holy Spirit. Now, it's happening in this way so that the Jews could not claim that they are the only ones. That's why they're marveling. You mean tell me even they, because why would the Jews think that it was so special for the Gentiles to receive the Holy Spirit? They didn't think they would give it. Now, how we know that everyone who is saved gets the Holy Spirit is 1 Corinthians 12. For even as the body is one and yet has many members and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body so also in Christ. For by one spirit, we were all Pante's baptized into one body, whether Jew or Greek, whether slay or free, we were all made to drink of one spirit. So everyone who is a believer has the Holy Spirit. If you do not have the Spirit of God, you are not saved. In this initial outpouring, it was done in that way so that everyone would know that others not just the Jews, because could you imagine if the Apostles did not give any sort of validity oversight to those Samaritans and Gentiles receiving the Holy Spirit? What would the Jews do? They would do what Jews have done and what Samaritans have done and Gentiles have done. They kind of separated themselves and they probably would not believe that they received the Holy Spirit. That's why they marvel at it in Acts 19. Amen. I'm sorry, Acts 10. So anyway, guys, thank you so much. Someone asked a question. Would you ask have you considered debating James White on Calvinism? No, I don't think about who to debate. Wouldn't have a problem with it. The things that we would differ on would again be limited atonement and would be total depravity. I think what James White does, I think he's a very good teacher, very solid teacher and so forth, but I think what he does is he makes interpretations, theological interpretations on certain texts. In other words, to say that atonement was limited to just those who are saved. You find yourselves taking passages and making the passages say what you think they say. You could be right. But there's other passages say that are clear that, wait a second, it clearly says, and I think first John is clear on this. It's not just he didn't just die for you, but the whole world and it makes no biblical sense, no grammatical sense. Now, here's the question. Now, as a matter of fact, as it relates to probably grammar and Greek, oh, he could run circles around me, but then there are those that can run circles around him that would say, no, what you're saying is not correct. But just to plain reading of the text, it just seems clear. Now, I think that he does, I think he does a lot of, not a lot of, but there are times where he does not, he's not as Sola Scriptura as you would think. I think his eschatology tells us that he's not as Sola Scriptura as you would think, because again, and I think what happens sometimes is you end up, if you don't have a consistent hermeneutic, I think 99% in time or 98%, 95% in time, 85% in time, 80% in time, his hermeneutic is consistent. But where it's not consistent, the only reason why it's not is because not because the text takes them away from that, but because theology, doctrine, confessions taking away from that. How is the study going? The study is going, the part, the hard part is not the studying, the hard part for me is the technology. Someone asked a question, and this will be it. By the way, talk less, I'm gonna do a video over water baptism in the next couple of days. But someone asked a question about when a person gets out of prison, I think they were joking or maybe they might have been serious, but about being institutionalized or how are you adjusted. There are still things you have to adjust to even after these years. People are just so different, and it'll just never, I'll never cease to be amazed at how people are even over the last 13 years, 20 years, how different people are, how different people are. It's like, wow, you people are common sense as left folks. Well, because of that, seeing certain things, by the way, what you guys take for granted, me on some of the technological things, y'all, y'all remember, I just learned last year what a meme was. Like, what does this mean? Some of the things that people just do. I've never been on Discord. I've never, I think a few times I've been on a podcast. Why haven't you done a podcast yet? I'm not familiar with them. That's why. It takes a while to kind of catch up with some things, right? So I'll get there. I'll get there. I don't have a new puppy. No, I don't have a new puppy. I better not have a new puppy. You know something I don't know. But the hard part for me is a lot of the stuff that we have to do with the seminary online. I have to go there too, but also online stuff. It's like, ah, I hate that stuff. I'm used to when I went to college, think about it, 37 years ago, 37 years ago, 30 years ago, 33, wow, wow, wow, I feel old. Some of y'all can remember this. When I went to school, you had to go to register. You had to get these long lines to go register. You had to add drop. You had to get these long lines to add a class, drop a class, and so forth. I don't like this schedule. I want this on Tuesday. I want these on Wednesdays. My new one is right. And then the longest line ever was when either your scholarship or financial aid came in. Those were the longest lines ever. That's what I'm used to. Not, okay, my technology isn't lining up. And you got to, here's a QR code, do this. And like that, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to me. It's like, I, that part, I really can't stand. I would much rather have a person do, you know, I'm a little old fashioned, but I'll get there eventually. That's the only hard part. That's the only hard part. Now again, reminder, the Bible said it would be tomorrow at 11 AM. No, I'm sorry. I just thought, I just thought about something. We're going to have to have that Bible study on Monday. Here's why. I just thought about this. My daughter has a recital tomorrow. She plays a violin. I'm sorry. I just thought about that. Normally the Bible studies, unless family stuff happens, there are 11 on Saturday mornings, 11 AM central time, CST, but my daughter has a recital. So yeah, I'm sorry. I just thought about that. That just hit me. Answer your question, Wendy. What's your question? I missed your question. Okay, I'm sorry. Hold on. If I can type Wendy. Well, we're all going to Wendy. I'll tell you why I missed your question. I'll tell you why I missed your question. Guess what Wendy didn't do guys? Guess what Wendy didn't do. If this is the question, Wendy did not put a cue in front of it. Don't go to Wendy. She says, my family says Christians must keep the Old Testament days. I share Colossians 2, 16, 17, which is a good one in Romans 14, 5 to refute them, but how do I respond to their use of Exodus 12, 14 and Zachariah 14, 16? Well, here's a question or here's what I would ask them. Are you going to do everything that Israel is supposed to do? And are you going to suffer the same fate? Especially if you're going to quote Zachariah, you're going to have to go through what they're going to go through. Are you Israel? If you were first century Christian, if you were a Gentile in Philippi, if you were a Gentile in you're a Gentile in Corinth, would you have been told to keep the feasts? Now, if you were a Gentile in Galatia, someone would have came back and told you to do so. And then Paul would have said came back in Galatians. All of Galatians really is the whole point of it. He came back and said, are you trying to keep the law? Okay, well, fine, keep all of it. If you are trying to be saved by the keeping of the law, then you have already been cut off. And so that's where I would go. Galatians 5 is a good passage for them, a good set of passages for them. You who are trying to be saved by keeping the law, you have already been cut off. That should scare them. If you want to do that, keep it off. You are obligated to keep all of it. So that would be the text that I would go to. Amen. All right, y'all, that was definitely the last one. By the way, let me just say this also. Everyone that gave a Super Chat, thank you so much. Lenore, thank you so much for the Super Chat as well as Jesus' Lord. Jesus is Lord. Thank you for the Super Chat. John Ford, thank you so much as well, guys. I love you so much. And guess what I have to do? I've got some fixing up to do and I've got some homework to do. So I've got some reading. I've got a bunch of reading that I have to do. So anyway, I will make up, I'm not sure exactly what day will make this the Bible study up. Maybe we'll do it again on Monday. I'm not sure. But I'm sorry. I didn't think anything. It totally slipped my mind that her recital is going to conflict with Bible study. I'm sorry, guys, because I said I'm not going to miss any more. And so we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. But in the meantime, spiritually we are Jews, but no, we're not. A little light. If you can give me a passage that says we're spiritually Jews, you're not going to be able to. Anyway, in the meantime, guys, I love you so much. I will see you all on. Not sure, but I will see you later. God willing.