 I don't know if I can say most people, but I think a large portion of Christians get salvation right. The main part, the main part of salvation is this, that you must place your faith in Christ because of what he did, why he did it. Most people know what he did and most have an understanding, a basic understanding of why he did it. That is that we couldn't do it ourselves. We needed someone to pay the debt for us and then because of that all we've got to do is trust in what he's done. By faith we're safe. But then you'll hear a statement about the blood and I really don't think that many people fully understand the blood, the point of the blood and really the result of the blood. And so for that reason I want to cover that. I want to deal with that because it is vitally important as believers to understand why it does no good. I mean, well I'll take it back. I was going to say it does no good to get the right answer, not knowing why you got the right answer. Nope, truth be told, even if you don't know why he did it, but that he did it, that's good too. That's required. I don't want to add an extra layer of salvation to all of this and muddy up the water. I don't want to do that. But I think it's important to know why the steps, what all took place, why these things took place, so that let's say you get in a discussion or you're trying to figure things out down the road and you're trying to build on top of what you know. But the foundation that you have is a little bit shaky. There are some errors in it. You got the right conclusion, but how you got there might be wrong. Matter of fact, I've seen, when I was teaching GED, pretty funny, by the way. It was pretty funny class. I had a bunch of 60-year-old, 50-60-year-olds who were in prison did not want to get their GED. They had to take their GED classes in order to get time off, in order to get their good time to account, to accrue to them. And we would have to act like we were going over some things. It was funny though. And we were going over some problems, just some basic math. And I'll never forget one guy, he got the right answers and there's no way in the world that anybody on the planet could have gone the exact same route he got that he went to and got the same answer. It was funny how he got the right answer. I had no choice but to mark it correct, but how he got there, wow. He had no clue. This was over fractions. It was fractions and what else was it? And decimals and so forth. Anyway, he got there by grace of God. We don't want that same thing happening to you when it comes to the Bible. So we want to know how we got there, why we got there, so that we can also direct others there. I want to take you to an important, important, important passage. This is in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22. Now, obviously this passage is written towards the Jews who have now placed their faith in Christ. They received Christ as the Messiah. They recognize the Jesus Messiah. They died for them, but he's making a point that also applies to us. He says there, he says, according to the law, one makes almost say all things are cleansed with blood. And here it is. Here's the important part. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. So the criteria or one of the key ingredients for forgiveness is the shedding of blood. Now, I'm going to say something that might sound controversial. As a matter of fact, I hope it sounds so controversial that it makes you just say, you know, wait a second, what did he just say? And then grant me the opportunity to prove this point. Now, I've said this before, but I want other folks to understand this as well. That is, we take it off, put it on the full screen for dramatic effect. You ready? You are not saved by the blood of Christ. I wish I had an effect that you are not saved by the blood of Christ. Does that sound blasphemous? It might sound blasphemous. It might matter of fact, it feels kind of odd sometimes saying it, but you are not saved by the blood of Christ. I see someone already says, yes, we are. I can prove it to you in a second. We are not saved. I see, uh-oh, we are not saved by the blood of Christ. As a matter of fact, to make it even better, we're not even saved by Christ dying on the cross. How in the world? I'm unsubscribing, I'm leaving, never coming back. Here's what I mean. Here's what I mean. Thank you, Tony. Thank you, Annette. You are saved by believing in Christ's death on the cross. You are saved by believing, by having faith in the blood. My moderator said, bye. I'm not minimizing the blood. The blood is vitally important, vitally important, but that didn't make you saved. He died on the cross. True. He shed his blood for you and I and everyone else. True, but it does absolutely nothing if you do not place your faith in that. I wouldn't care if, if, if he died 40 times, wouldn't do a thing for you if you did not place your faith in, you are not saved by the blood. You're saved by faith in the blood. Now, have I, have I talked some guys off the ledge? You all get that. It, think about it, the same blood that was shed, was shed, but did everybody believe in it? Now, we're going to go back and look at the process where this all comes about. Now, I just want to, so for you folks that were, Corey, you've lost your mind. You have, you have gone off the deep end. You are losing it. My friend, age is not agreeing with your mind. Now, maybe you all see what I'm saying and there is a reason I'm not just saying this stuff for just dramatic effect. I really am not. I'm saying this for another reason. And yeah, this, this does, this does deal with limited atonement, but that's not the reason why it's not the reason why, although it's very important to understand that you need to thank you, David. He said, I brought you back. Amen. Praise God. You've got to understand what he's doing and why he's doing it. Now, when you look at, remember our salvation, the atonement that we have for us is the same atonement that we had then just different elements. By the way, salvation, being in right standing, how we are saved, why we are saved. The only way to be saved is to be in right standing with God. That's the only way. Now, if there's a lot of, if there's four or five, 10 different ways to be in right standing with God, well, then amen. Now, there are not, obviously there are not 10 different ways to be in right standing with God. There are not five different ways to be in right standing. But if there were the name, but they're not, if there were three different ways to be in right standing with God, then amen. But for us, there's only one way to be in right standing with God. For Abraham, he had to trust God. For Abel, what did Abel have to do to be in right standing with God? Believe God. He had to trust. He had to have faith. We'll get to this in the, matter of fact, we'll get to this Saturday coming up with this, this upcoming Bible study. But we'll see how God has wanted to reconcile himself with mankind from the very beginning because we're going to see that. Wait a second. How is Abel, and we read about him in Hebrews, Abel is righteous. He's in right. And by the way, guys, when we say righteous, that just means a person, a person is in right standing. That's all. Well, how do you get in right standing? You're not righteous because there's something in of us. You know what? You're just so awesome. Look at your arms, look at your hands, look at your face, look at your clothes. No, that's not why you're righteous. You might think so, but that's not why you're righteous. You're not righteous in and of yourself because of anything that you've done. You are righteous because he has put you in right standing. There's a big difference because let's be honest, there are a lot of us, even us on this chat from time to time, we can get a little bit self-righteous. We can look at others and look down on them. I never understood when people say look down their nose at people. I never got that. I never fully understood that, but again, fine. Looking down your nose at people or looking, that's more like it. But anyway, we can act that way sometimes, but we're really not. We can act self-righteous, but we're not righteous because of ourselves. We are righteous because of someone else who puts us in right standing. Abraham was in right standing. Funny thing about Abraham being in right standing, there was no even old covenant atonement for him. Same thing with Abel. Same thing with Jonah. Same thing with Enoch. There was no old covenant atonement in that sense, but when we'll read about this, we'll cover this on Saturday in the Bible study, but we'll see how God has made a way for people to be in right standing all throughout history. And whatever he determines is going to satisfy him, because he's the one that's looking. Remember I said, everything depends on how he looks at us. Not how we look at him. It's not about us and how we see things. It's about him and how he sees us and everything else. How he sees us in compared with the rest of the world and how he accepts you. You must be in right standing with him. You are righteous or in right standing only if you are in right standing with him. How do you get in right standing with him? And while I keep doing this, I don't know, but in order to get in right standing with him, you must have your faith in him, whatever he's asked for, whatever it is. Sometimes you got to get on the road doing stuff and just it's like galloping down a hill and you can't stop. All you can do is pick up speed. But they have been given an awesome opportunity, the Children of Israel, an awesome opportunity to be reconciled with God. Remember when we said the atonement, let me answer this question, this is because this is pertinent as a matter of fact. Renardo, I'm sorry, says, did people in the old covenant go to heaven? They didn't go at that time. Remember Jesus states that no one has ascended, but he who has ascended that is the Son of God, the Son of Man. And so they did not go. We cover that when we go. There's a video that I did. I can't remember when it was. It couldn't be too long ago because it was about Easter, the resurrection, but where was Jesus for those three days? And so no, they didn't go to heaven at that moment, but they did eventually. But there was a way for them to be in right standing in the meantime. What got, matter of fact, perfect segue as a matter of fact, what God is trying to do is to reconcile us. And so when we talk about this atonement, and I've said before guys, you should say it enough to where you remember. This is not debated really between many people. This is something that even Jews agree with, even if they don't believe in Christ. But there are three elements to the atonement, the Hebrew word Kavar. And when you and when you look at the word and just go back and just kind of do research on the word, how it came to be and so forth, there's always different theories and so forth. But it entails a covering so that the sin is not seen. It entails a canceling of the debt that's owed. The canceling of the debt, the debt that's owed. What's the debt? Well, your sin. What's the payment for it? The canceling debt, whatever God prescribes. In this case, under the old covenant, it's blood. And then what does it do? The third element of it, it brings about reconciliation. There is no atonement. I mean, without reconciliation, we don't have atonement. And atoning for our sins brings about this reconciliation. He wants this closest. And so we're going to see that when we get, when we go back to Genesis as well. But here we're talking about the day of atonement. I'm not going to go yet. I knew it was going to come up. I knew it was going to come up, but it's fine. I brought it up. So I need to answer that question. Buster says, what about Enoch and Elijah? The Bible says that for each one of them, they were, for example, Elijah was taken up into the heavens, but he didn't go into the heaven. He didn't go to where the Father was with Enoch. He says that he walked with God and he was no more. They were just taken from the land of the living. They didn't see a physical death like we did. No heart attack, stroke or what have you. Did he get hit by a wild chariot or a coconut didn't fall ahead? None of that's up. Jesus makes a statement that none of them have, no one has ascended, including them, which is interesting that even Elijah, Moses, you don't see any of those people from the Old Testament being brought back up to life in the New Testament any more after Jesus's ascension. Because at that point in time, he takes them all with him. So that being stated. So now, when we look at the atonement, the day of atonement, I won't cover all of this. What we have, a couple of things happening. One, we've got a high priest. Let me just run through this real briefly. We've got a high priest who he has to atone for himself. He's got to make atone for himself. Why? Because as the priest, the priest has to be a mediator between man and God. So he has to atone for himself because he can't go before the presence of God. He's not in right standing either. So we've got the high priest. After he has atone for himself, then he's got to make atonement for the people. What do we see? Now we see the scapegoat and we see the sacrificial offering. The sacrificial offering is the one that's going shed his blood on the altar, spread on the altar, and God is going to accept it. But then also we've got the scapegoat who all the sins of the people are confessed on the head of the scapegoat. And then the scapegoat is gone off to, gone off to somewhere in the wilderness. Have no idea what happens to the scapegoat. I wouldn't want to be him though. I'll tell you that. And then God, after all this happened and the high priest makes atonement, God would accept it. He didn't have to. As long as everything is done right properly, he will accept it. So now how are they saved by that? Just because all those things happen, just because the high priest has been atoned for, he can go before everyone. Just because they're the scapegoat, all the sins of everybody has been confessed on the head of the scapegoat. And it's sent away just because there's been shed blood on the altar. Does that mean that all of Israel is saved now? Now I would like to know your answer. I was going to say, is it you guys? Your guys? I would like to know you all's answer. You know what? I'd like to know y'all's answer about that. Sometimes it's good to be in the South. I would like to know y'all's answer. What do you think? Do you think that just because all those things have taken place that all of Israel is now saved? The lowest perfect answer? Nope. Nope, nope, and nope, and more notes to come. Nope, nope, nope. Everybody's saying nope. Good. Good because you got, let's, that's the, there's a reason why you guys are here. There's a reason why you guys are here. And I know, I know other, other channels might, might want to say so, but they can't. They can't. They just can't. They can never, ever, ever, ever, and I mean ever claim that they have the best chat, nor can they ever claim they have the smartest chat. Nope, can't happen. Can never happen. So that being the case. So what do we say to all the other Christian channels? Nanny, nanny, nanny. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But our channel is the chats here are the best chats. Best chat. I don't get what anybody say. Take that to my grave. Sorry. Anyway, so no, wait a second, wait a second though. Okay, so now, now we're getting somewhere. Now we're getting somewhere CG because CG is going somewhere. CG said no, no, wait, wait a second. I gotta, I gotta fix something. I'm sorry. I don't even want to. I hate to do this. I'll come back to you a second CG. I gotta deal with somebody here though. I gotta deal with, matter of fact, it's a cowboy thing. Makes sense. I gotta deal with Detox. Detox said I'm hating on KDubb. No, it's not just KDubb. Even though KDubb did say something blasphemous and say that he has the best chat. He's hating on us. He and I get it. He envies you guys. Now some of you guys go over there. So it's kind of like you guys have helped helped him out a little bit, but no, no, but I'm kidding. But going back to CG, he says faith in the atonement, faith in the atonement. See, okay, we're going to have a fight. Hold on, CJ. I'm gonna come back to you again. I'm gonna come back to you again. See, because I don't like when Simone love you, but and listen, the bunker is fine. Sir Walter Jones, love him to death. If you have not subscribed, go over and check him out now. In order to watch Sir Walter Jones, you have to go to bed at two in the morning because I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Now, listen, if Walter Jones comes on at four or three or two, it's like, what, what's happened? So, no, I love, I love, I love Walter Jones. He, he's teaching over there. He's teaching over there, but CG made a statement and I'll stay here. He said faith in the atonement. What do we mean by faith in the atonement though? Let me ask you guys a question. Now we're getting somewhere. Now we are getting somewhere. I think we're getting somewhere, but, but, but CG, CG, this is where we might go off the rails just a tad. It was funny though, Duchess. Yeah, he got that late night vibe, but he's, he's, how old is Walter Jones? What? He's about 67 years old, eight, four years old. He's older than me and I can't listen. I can't hang that late. I just can't do it. If I happen to be up and I catch him, I'll say, I'll stick my head and say, hey, I'm on my way to bed and he's getting fired up. I don't know what, I don't know if he's got like some IV stuck in him with some red bull in it. I don't know, but he just, God bless him. God bless that brother. I can't do it. I can't do it, but this is where we, where we get ready to mess up though. Dinah's getting very snitch on me. This is where we might go off the rails though, CG. This is where it might, we might have an issue. What you said is true. What you said is true, but I gotta ask this question. What do you mean by what you said that I'm saying is true? That's the question. What do you, and what, and I'm pretty sure you all would say the same thing. You all agree that faith in the atonement at that time is what saves them? Thank you, Ethan. I appreciate that. Without question, yes, I believe that. I believe, okay, he's not 84. He's not quite, he's not quite 84. I apologize. Brother Walter Jones, I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. You are not 84. You can close to it though, but anyway. Anyway, but faith in it, what does that mean? Well, since what we have today is what we had then accept, accept better elements. We have the same thing that saves the day. It's just better elements, which means it only has to happen one time under the old covenant and the old testament. The day of atonement was you got a high priest. We have a high priest. That's Jesus. There was a scapegoat who took away the sins of the people. We've got Jesus when John said, look y'all, it's still in the South. Look y'all, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world. That's Jesus. Under the old, we have this sacrificial offering, this lamb. Under the new, under Christ, we've got a better sacrifice, better blood. And I want you all to think about what this blood is called. I want you all to think about what this blood is called. Okay, there's a term for this blood. It is, this blood is, is referred to as something. I'll get to that in a second. But before we get to that, before we get to that, there was something, and I've covered this a few times before, probably not as much as I ought to, and I'm going to do it now. There was something that the children of Israel also had to do. Because just simply showing up, okay, you showed up. Just simply showing up, okay, at least he's 55 years old. He's 55 years old. I love you, Walter. But just simply showing up on the day of atonement is not enough. You show up on the day of atonement and you're just looking around at whatever, whatever. When is this thing going to be over? Primetime. Oh, see, this is why I tell you. This is why I tell you. This is why I tell you. Smartest chat. The world's smartest YouTube chat. They had to afflict their souls. But what does that mean? What does, what does that mean? They had to afflict their souls. Well, let's go look at it. Let's go to Leviticus. Now we hear the day of atonement in chapter 16. Let's go towards the end and let's see what does that mean? What does that mean? In chapter 16, verse 29, he says, This shall be a permanent statute for you. In the seventh month on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, or some verse may say afflict. The wording here is a not. Now this case is tianu, which is Hebrew inflicts so, so much. It's for difference. The word goes from a not and then by the time you're finished, this is tianu, tianu, which is or I'm sorry, tianu. Like wait a second, what happened to a not? It inflicts so much because you have the pronomial suffix. You have the, you have the, oh Lord, the pronomial suffix and the prefix. So, but humble or afflict your souls. What does that mean? He says, You shall humble or afflict your souls and do not work or do, I'm sorry, not do any work, whether the native or the alien or or whoever sojourns among you. For it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you. Hmm. I want you to pay attention to how that was read and how well, how it was written. Atonement was made for you to cleanse you. You will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It is to be a Sabbath of soul of solemn rest for you that you may humble your souls. It is a permanent statute. So what does that mean? Now we see this pop up, this humble or afflict your souls in just a second. I sure will, Dinah. Y'all make sure that make sure before I leave, we cover that. We want to see what that means because this word or this phrase humble or to afflict your soul comes up. And then you also have it in the Tanakh and some of these other Jewish writings as well. I said the Tanakh is this, but other Jewish writings as well that speak about humbling or afflicting your souls. Now let's go to a passage that I've spoken of about fasting before when we find out what the purpose of fasting is because what it, what it, do y'all recall what we cover this? What fasting is for? What's the purpose of fasting? It's not to get something. I need my rent paid. I need a husband. I need a wife. I need some, some medical insurance. I need relief, whatever. And so I'm fast. No, there it is. There it is. The purpose of it is to draw close to God. Remember Jesus says they were asked him, why is it that John's disciples fast and the Pharisees, we all fast? Why is that your disciples don't fast? And he says, for what? I'm paraphrasing. For what? I'm here. He says, when I leave, they'll, they'll fast. And so that's it to, to be close to God. And if we read, uh, Isaiah 53, let's put it on screen. He says, why have we fasted and you do not see? We have humbled ourselves and you do not notice, but hold on the day that of your fast, you find your desire and drive hard all your workers. Behold your fat, you fast for contention and strike and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today or to make, or to make your voice heard on high. And he says, did I choose a fast like this? Is it a fast like this, which I chose a day for a man to humble himself? Uh, so you are to humble yourself and it's not just the going without the food part. It's not just the going without the food part because there's an attitude that comes with that, which is that there's not going to be any working. There's not going to be any eating. Uh, your focus is what? Him. Your focus is towards him. It is a Sabbath rest. It is a day of solemn rest focusing on him. That's a hope. That was a whole point of the Sabbath to begin with. Your focus is now on him. All these things that he's done, give him this moment that you focus on him, which is beneficial so that you don't depart from him, that you don't move away. Exactly right. It's a proximity. Proximity is the whole goal. The point of fasting is the whole goal. The point of having the Holy Spirit in us is proximity so that we would be close to him, which is why he says when we have an issue, draw near to him and then he'll draw near to you. Instead of being so close or in proximity to the devil, resist him and what will he do, he'll flee as you draw close to God. And so what he wants as you're afflicting your souls, yes, you're fasting and yes, you have faith in what he's doing. You believe it's happening and then also you're not working. So outwardly, ceremonially, you're doing all the things you're fulfilling all the dictates of this day of atonement. But the heart still matters. And that's the point of the day of atonement. Being there, fine. You're not working fine because if you did work on that day, everyone's going to see it. Now it's, you could get away with eating on that day and not everyone see it. You had, you had a Snickers in your hut, you know, cat or something like that, some Skittles back of the hut and you were eating them before you came out. You had a lamb sandwich before you came out and you wiped your mouth all the crumbs. No one saw that. Now, obviously God did. So you violate those things, but at the same time, you actually do believe, you actually do believe that God did accept the sacrifice. Matter of fact, you know, one, you know he accepted because the priest shows back up, he ain't dead. So you do know, you do believe, you do trust, you see God's working, but there's the part that comes with you. So all these things were done for your benefit, but it didn't benefit you because notice what he says. Let's go back to 1629. Notice how he wrote it. Right. As they say in the South, how you read it. This shall be a permanent statute for you in the seventh month on the 10th day of the month. You shall humble your souls and do not and not do any work with the native or the alien whosojourners. Here it is verse 34. It is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse. So atonement shall be made. So you don't understand what that means though. Atonement being made for you does not mean that it worked in your behalf. It's important. I don't care how much blood flowed on that day. Didn't matter. All of Israel's there. Doesn't matter. There's an attitude that you must have to have a flipping attitude. You can't just show up and you know, hey, matter of fact, I'm part of Israel. I'm good. No, not, not so good. Not so good. Now I want to look at this word before I look at this word, this, because I asked you guys a question. What does it mean? What do we, what do we call this blood? What, what did the blood do? There was something that the blood did. Before I get to that, let's go to Leviticus 1711. He says that for the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your soul. For it is by the blood, by reason, the life that makes atonement. It is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. So what does the blood do? I just, Cindy, Cindy, you're wonderful. It covers. But it also does something else though. What else does the blood do? What else does the blood do? It covers. I think I see where Jeff is going. I'm going to have to give Jeff credit for this. He says it pays for life. It pays. Now you guys are giving the answers. They're good answers, but there's something specific. There's something specific and we see it's, we see it said specifically in the New Testament, but it uses a word that we're not totally sure. Oh, go on it, CG. Love you, brother. You and Jeff, and the rest of you guys as well. Pays a debt. Oh, wait a second, wait a second. I see. I see. Redeem's cleanse, but it's that last word right there. You all see that last word? Do you all see that last word that he put up? Propitiation. Have you all heard this term before? Propitiation. Can you all let me know? Have you heard that word? Propitiation? You've heard that. Propitiate that word before, right? Now, hold on, Darrell. Hold on, Darrell. You said it justifies. Does the blood justify? No, the blood doesn't justify if without the faith. What is this? I don't know what's happened. Someone just popped up on my screen. My granddaughter's trying to call me. Okay. You're justified after because of it, but what does this word propitiation mean? Because sometimes I think we get, sometimes we take this word and make it mean more than what it means. Okay. So, I want to look at this word. One place where we can see this word is Romans 3.5. So, let us go to Romans 3.5. I'm sorry, 3.5, 3.25. Matter of fact, let's start, let's start a little earlier than 3.25. Let's start 21. But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested. Being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through, y'all see what I highlighted? Y'all see what I highlighted this word, faith, pisteos. I highlighted this word, faith, in Christ, through faith in Christ, in Jesus Christ, for all those who believe. Important distinction there, for all those who believe. Little was paid, but it results in righteousness through all those who believe. For there is no distinction for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Being justified as a gift by his grace through, here it is, the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in his blood. What's the next line? Through faith. So the redemption, you all know what redemption is, right? Redemption is you redeeming something, you paying for something. So this payment, us being paid for, which is in Christ, whom God displayed publicly as a, there's that word, propitiation. What does this word propitiation mean? Because it's the blood that's the propitiation. So we got to figure out what this word is. This comes from the Greek word, helosmos, or I want to put on the screen. I want to show you all what this is. This is what it is. It's a method of payment. It's a method of payment. So let me pull up the B-deck. Can you all see that the B-deck, the Greek word that's used here is the Greek word, helostarion, which is, come from helosmos, or you'll see variations of it, which is to pay. That which serves as an instrument for regaining the goodwill of a deity in this case, a means of propitiation or expiation, gift to procure. So it's the payment. It's another way of looking at the guys is this is the currency. The blood is the currency. So another good word, Katrina, appeasement. So the blood, so this blood is paid down here, here, paying this. I'm paying this out. I'm paying this out. Now what? Him paying that out. Jesus literally paying that out because that's what the Father required for us. Did it do anything for us by itself? Pay the debt. Did it do? No, it didn't. It did not. That blood payment doesn't do anything for us unless it's accompanied by the next portion. Let's go back to verse 25. Let's go back to 23, 24, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption, His payments process. So for what we're talking about, which is in Christ, whom God displayed publicly as a payment, appeasement, expiation, as currency in His blood, the next part is important through faith. So it is the faith in His blood that doesn't. It is the faith in what He did. And it's not just the generic faith that everybody can have this generic belief that, yeah, I know that Jesus died for me. I know Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells me so. Okay. So it's not that kind of basic generic faith. It is this like how they were on the day of atonement where they had to afflict their souls. Afflicting your souls is not you just showing up. Afflicting your souls is just not you just basic having a basic fast. That's not it or not working. No, it's more intensive. It's more focus. It has more to do with the heart. Are you with me? And so it needs to be understood in that regard. Are you all with me? That's what is now. I do want to go ahead and bring, I don't want to bring this up. Why do I have this up? Don't know why I have this up. I have no idea. I pull, I have a, I have a scripture up. I don't know why I have the scripture up. It's covering aspects of what I'm talking about, but I don't know why I brought this up. I don't know why I pulled it up. I've got a bunch of scriptures up. I don't know why. I don't know why, but let's go to this passage. As a matter of fact, have you all seen that shirt that I wear sometimes that says red lives matter? What you can't see is the scripture that's on the back of the shirt. Here's the scripture that's on the back of the shirt. Ephesians chapter one verse seven says in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our trespass according to the riches of his grace which he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight. Now we know what he's talking about because he's already spoken about our faith and goes on to speak more about his, our faith in what he has done. So when, when I say, when I put this on the screen and it looks weird or the thumbnail, it looks weird when it says that we are not saved by the blood. We're not saved by the blood. We're saved by our faith in the blood because that were the case. If that were the case we were saved by the blood, well then the blood would cover everybody. It doesn't cover everybody. It covers those who are believing. The believing ones have this faith in what he's done. Now, so like, like Monkey Moose says, we are with blood bought and the only way we're blood bought is we say, yep, I trust that that blood payment was enough and satisfied God. It expiated God's wrath. Big funny word because we don't use that word expiate. We don't use that word. We don't use the word propitiate. What we do is we look at what it means, why, why was given. It was necessary because again, God required, God demanded that there needed to be something to cover what his wrath demanded. His wrath demanded death. He said, the son said, okay, okay, I got your father. I got your father. Father, you required death. You just didn't, you didn't just say though it had to be them. So I'm going to take their place. I'm going to stand in place of them and pay the price that you require because if I don't do it, nobody else is going to be able to do it. Matter of fact, truth be told, Jesus could say if I don't do it, no one else going to even want to do it. You don't even want to pay for your own debt. You don't want, who in the chat wants to, if you could, let's say you could, would you want to pay for your own debt? I don't want to die. Dying just doesn't sound cool. Doesn't sound good, right? So no, he did what you could not do, but also did what you would not do. And if you could, if you could, it would be like giving 13 cents on your $500,000 mortgage. Listen, I'm a little short of this, of this mortgage that I got, but here's 13 cents. When you take that, you got a long way to go. Got a long way to go. Okay. I see someone says that I would. Okay. Well, over here on the true side of town, we know, but we know, we know. Yeah, he does. Carlton Pearson is, he looked like, he looked like at some point, like he really, truly bought into this. Like he really believed he looked like, but sometimes you just have to sit and watch a person. Oftentimes, many times, if you just stand back and watch somebody, they'll show you who they are. If you stand back and just look at people, they'll eventually show you exactly who they are. People do it at Washington. Yeah. Don't, Dutch, dying sounds so not living. Yeah. Especially if it's the fact that once you do it and you realize where you're going after you die, because you didn't have enough, you didn't have enough paper to pay. That's so true. That is so true. No one has hated sin enough to pay for it. No, say that again. Without question. Now, let me go to our songstress, Diana reviews. She asked a question. Could you discuss the consequences of grieving the Holy Spirit? Okay. Give me a second. Let me type this up. Uh-oh. What did I just do? What did I just do? Okay. That is going to be in Ephesians. Sometimes when I say what I just do, I kind of get a little overly dramatic, like I just destroyed something I really didn't. I just don't know what I just did. So nothing messed up. I just got my eyes on the right spot. So let's go to this passage. It is in Ephesians 4 30 where he says, Do not grieve the Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. What does that mean? Do not grieve. Well, let's look at what the word grieve means. Let's pull up so you guys can see it. Lupete, which means to grieve, to pain. It literally, what it really means, guys, is to suppress. If you are a Christian, here's one fact that's not, that's undeniable. That is, if you are a Christian, if you are Christian, the Holy Spirit is working in you to do, to move, to speak. Remember Jesus says that when the Spirit comes in you, then he is going to testify, not you, not even the Holy Spirit. He's going to testify, not even of a generic God. He's going to testify of Christ because that's where the rubber meets the road. You can be all about the Spirit because folks don't know what spirit you're talking about. You can be all about God because everybody's about God, a generic God. But Jesus, oh, those are fighting words nowadays. As a matter of fact, it used to be that it was safe to say Jesus here. Now, not so much, not so much because that is, remember, he says, bless those that say all these reviling things and so forth for my name's sake because of my name. Yeah, it's going to get rough out there bearing the name of Jesus. This isn't the 1940s anymore. This is the 1970s or 80s. It's getting rougher and rougher and rougher and it will look up and see that America ain't what it used to be. But then again, guess what? The world ain't what it used to be. But also guys, it's kind of getting back in many ways to the way it used to be for the early Christians and for those a few years after that. It's bad in Canada. I would say, listen, are you in Canada, Cindy? If you're in Canada, get your car, point it south. Now, don't come just immediately south. Yeah, you're not Minnesota, not Wisconsin, not New England. Just keep going down south. Now, if you hit Indiana, that's fine. Wonderful state. If you want to get even better, if you want to even get further south where it's a little warmer, you too, Catherine, come on in. Going down to Texas. Tennessee, I guess, is okay. I guess, I guess it's okay. You go to Florida. I think you, I think, you know what I like in the, I love Indiana, my home state, Texas, which is where I'm at, and Florida. So yeah, Tennessee's okay too. Tennessee's okay too. I'm just kidding. No, Ethan, get out of Michigan. Leave now. Leave. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No, I'm not. But I'm kidding though. Not really. Missouri has kind of changed a little bit though. Missouri, it looked like you all were going to the, you know, in the dumpsters for a little bit, but now you guys have made a nice little, it's looking like you guys are kind of, you know, Alabama's nice too. You're talking about New York, stand up. You better, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Love, New York. Rhode Island, help. Do people actually live in Rhode Island in Rhode Island? But now, so what does he mean by agree? Well, to suppress, to hold down, to hold back. But the Holy Spirit is trying to work in us and work in you. If things aren't happening in you, well, whose fault is it? It ain't the Holy Spirit. It's not the word. It's you. This is that, this, this, this problem that all believers have, Paul brings it out as well. We still got this flesh. And that's why you need a lot of things to kind of help you as you're going. Principally the word, prayer. And matter of fact, after you've read and prayed, go back and repeat it again. Worship throughout the day. Find your song, find, either it wants in your heart or wants on the radio, what have you. Fellowship, rinse and repeat. Those are the things. Make sure that you are filling yourself up. As Paul says, think on these things. Make sure that you're filling yourself up with godly information, godly things so that it just kind of sets and resonates in your heart and grows. And then keep reading some more and keep praying some more. Pray all day long. Don't stop. Because if not, I don't care what you say, this, this flesh sometimes seems like it's undefeated. Sometimes it seems like it's undefeated. Here I am. I'm sitting there and I don't know where that thought came from. That thought just popped up. That no, it didn't just pop up. Did just pop up. You've been feeding it. You've been feeding it and you didn't pay attention to the fact that you was feeding it. And you know the old saying, whichever dog you feed the most, we'll get the, I'm saying it right. We'll bark the loudest. I said, I butchered that whole thing, didn't I? I just butchered that whole thing, but y'all know what I'm talking about. How does it go? Whichever dog you feed them. I don't know how you say it. I don't know how you say it. The dog that, yeah, whatever. That's right. See the dog on it, flesh. I gotta figure, whichever dog you, somebody in the chat better help me out. I'm stuck on this. Whatever, the dog that whatever, maybe I have it wrong. Maybe it's not about a dog. Maybe it's something else. Anyway, what did you say? You said, is it also like legalization instead of Christ atonement that putting yourself in place of the spirit? I can, that yeah, yeah, I see. Yeah. Yes. That is clearly a Canadian statement that's gotta be. She said, starve the wolf. There you go. But I like that. I like that. Starve the wolf. Amen. Amen. Hey, we got, I just told me a Canadian term. I like that. Starve the wolf. What if the dog's out? Okay. Now the chest is just throwing out just random things now. That dog, okay. It just again, again, best chat, the best chat on YouTube. Because some of us have nothing to do with what I just said. But anyway, anyway, but guys, I want you all, I want us to have a good understanding because this is our salvation. This is what we, we're not saved by what we know. We are saved by who we know, but it's what we know about who we know that brings us closer to him. Amen. So guys, I thank you all. I've got to go take care of some business. But I look forward to talking to you all again. God bless you all and I will see you all on tomorrow. Be safe.