 being here, listening to the extra long introduction music. Let's go ahead and wait a second, wait a second. I didn't even pull the earlier questions up. There we go. There they are. There they are. Try to select some of the questions that are submitted previous to us coming on because if I try to get them when we come on, they don't show up. I don't know why that happens with YouTube but you may submit a question on the live stream chat before it happens and they drop off. I don't know why they do so. I have no idea why they do so. They just do. So it's not me not seeing them or me getting rid of those. It's just that's how it is. So anyway, let's go ahead and jump into them. I have one tooth. I've got as normal five questions that I'll take from the live stream chat previously and then I'll get to your questions. So I was my recommendation if you could, don't ask any more questions until I get to this last question. The last question comes from Sheila Mahon. So it'll be, is it KS and then Clarice and then Chadwick Grant and then SpiderMonkey and then Sheila Mahon. Then I can start noticing some of you all's questions. So let's go ahead and ask these questions first. First KS says, I hope I'm saying it the right way. Will you please explain Ecclesiastes, not one, nine. Nothing new under the sun. So let's go there. Where is this passage at? Ecclesiastes one, nine. Matter of fact, before we go to verse nine, let's start in verse eight. All things are weary, some man is not able to tell it but I is not satisfied with sleeping nor is the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is that which will be and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, see this, it is new, already it has existed for ages which were before us. So in other words, it's almost like there's these cycles. You all've kind of noticed that there's nothing new that's happening. Kids don't do anything new. Kids don't do anything different than kids haven't done in the past now. They might have a little more freedom nowadays and they certainly have more devices. You might see people exploring different areas where we're always exploring, we're always finding so-called new things and new things that we find might be a different type of new but it's really a same old wash, rinse, repeat. That's kind of the same thing that we have happening. So that's all it is to say that there's just nothing new. So when someone says, hey, we've got a new, it used to happening all the time even when it comes to the word of God. People are always wanting to discover something new wanting to be the innovators but the truth we told none of us are. Even with our clothes, don't we wear what others wear and don't we kind of retread what's been worn and even the songs that we sing aren't they some version of another song that was sung in the past? Even the food we eat. Matter of fact, they got brand new breeds of dogs. All they are just mixed breeding different dogs and so forth. So there's nothing new that we're gonna see. All that we have is all that we will ever have and all that we will ever see. Amen. So that being done, let's go to the next one. I hope that answers the question. Clarice says, here's a good question. Did God create sin? If so, why? Well, let me read a passage as a matter of fact. Let's go to, yeah, there it is, yeah. Isaiah 45, seven, interesting question that's brought, it also happens and it is brought up a few other places. The one that's being got forming light and creating darkness causing well-being and creating calamity. I, the Lord, who does all things. In other words, recognize that it's me who is doing these things. As a matter of fact, I wanna say it's, is it Amos? Amos, five months, I can't remember the passage. Amos four, maybe five, I think. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, I can't remember the passage. Maybe three, eight. Let's look at three. I can't remember exactly where it is. There's another passage in Amos. No, there's another passage in Amos as well. But anyway, it seems to indicate that the Lord is the one because some verses might say evil or bad or calamity. I, the Lord did this, know that, know that it's me who did so. Well, well, that's not quite the case. Matter of fact, hey, there's my friend from high school. Are you doing Levi? But, and his point is taken because sin, no, God doesn't create sin. Remember what sin is? Sin is simply missing what God's commands are, his mark, disobeying him, not doing what is known to do and told to do and understood by God. Sin is both a verb and a noun. It becomes a noun after the verb has been in action. In other words, I did this. What did I do? What I did, the verb that I was doing, that I did it now, that's sin. So what I do and what I'm doing, it can be a verb and a noun. What God has done, he has not created sin, but he has allowed in us the ability to commit sin. Now, the question could be asked another question, which by the way, you asked this question, you didn't ask this question, but if someone were to ask this question, there's no answer for this question. There'd be no answer to this question, which would be, why does God even allow for the possibility of us sinning? So that's a question that we just can't answer. Theophilus says, was it dispensationalism something new? No, it was not. It was, it was not. Now, I happen to see that towards the end when I was clicking off to go to these questions, but no, it's not. People will keep bringing this up. Dispensationalism is something that's new. No, it's not. It's not. Think about this for a second. You all think that all the difference of systems that we have in terms of doctrine and theology that they just started, there are people who thought of these things but maybe they didn't frame it a certain way. They didn't give it the title, the name and so forth. And then we've got to go through almost 2000, well, not 2000, but well over a thousand years, the majority of church history was dominated and the church thought for the most part was dominated by the Catholic church. And so these thoughts of whether it deals with certain aspects of Calvinism, whether it deals with certain aspects of dispensationalism, these things were there prior. So no, they're not new and we can go and find writings previously that will show that people have these different dispensational thoughts, Calvinistic thoughts and so forth, all right? So I just want to address that. Chadwick Grant, question. What was Jesus talking about in Matthew 9, 16 and 17? I'm sorry, I should have finished that. Matthew 9, 16 and 17. Alrighty, okay. Matter of fact, let's back up. Let's go to verse, this is them coming and asking Jesus, why don't your disciples fast? That's the question. And so Jesus tells them, well, they'll fast once I leave. Once the bridegroom is here, when the bridegroom is gone, I'm sorry, well, yeah, once the bridegroom is gone, the attendance of the bridegroom, they cannot mourn as long as he's here, but when he's gone, well, then they will mourn and they'll fast for. In other words, you fast for this point of fasting, guys. Fasting is for closeness. It's not to get stuff, it's for closeness. So then he goes on to say in verse 16, but no one puts on, so this is a continuum of thought. So in what he's speaking of, but no one puts a patch on, I mean, a passive unshrunk cloth on an old garment for the patch will pull away the garment and a worse tear results. In other words, so you've got this old garment where it's torn around the tear. What do you have around the tear? The fabric is looser. It's more worn because that's where the tear is. You put this stronger fabric on and it's on the looser fabric. Well, it's strong. The older fabric is looser, not as in a good condition and it pulls, that's the point. If you don't know anything about clothing. So for I don't either, however, growing up, any of you guys grew up in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I don't think they really had it that much in the 80s. I don't think so. I don't recall it in the 80s, but we used to have patches. Anybody had patches? And we had even neat patches where they had designs on the patches. And so the patch need, if you put the patch on your pants, typically that's where we put it. You might have some on the shirt, but typically if you put the patch on, the patch needed to be big enough to cover not just where the hole is, but even bigger or that hole would get bigger. Well, in this case though, the patch on this old cloth is going to eventually, and even with our clothes, it's going to eventually tear. And you're going to have tearing around the patch or under the patch or outside of the patch later on. And so that's his point. He says, nor do people put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine skins will burst and the wine pours out and the wine skins are ruined, but they put new wine into fresh wine skin and both are preserved. Why is he bringing this up? Well, he's bringing this up because he just talked about the bridegroom leaving. Why aren't you fasting for closeness? Again, Jesus is leaving. What's going to happen? He's not going to recycle and to try to make new or better what these Jews were used to under the old covenant. No, in other words, you're not going to keep doing the same sacrifices in the day of atonement, but in this case, I'll die and give you the Holy Spirit so that you can keep doing. In other words, what will not happen is you will not recycle this lifestyle of works for your redemption. You are no longer going to be justified because you adhere to the law as well as doing it faithfully. No, the Holy Spirit is going to come and make you by your profession of faith and you receive the Holy Spirit. You will now be brand new. And so this new thing that he is going to do is not going to make the old thing better, but to do away with the new. That's the point of this passage here. Amen. Spider monkey asks a good question. Spider monkey asks a difficult question. Spider monkey asks, why does the Bible include Selah in the Masoretic text and pause in the Septuagint while reading Psalms? This word, Selah, it's 74 times, 71 times in Psalms and three times, I believe in the book of Habakkuk. And I said Habakkuk because that's how you pronounce it in Hebrew. But we're not totally sure what the word is. No, and you can ask some of the best scholars you're going to have differing opinions. It seems to be associated with music, maybe not though, but there seems or it may indicate pause and praise. There's a word, a Hebrew word. I'm going to have a video out on next week about Selah, where there's a word called Salah that brings this up. We don't really know. And so, but because it's in the Bible, we need to try to find out or at least do our best to observe it. So all we can do is see how it at least is being used. And so it seems to be used as a point to kind of pause, take a break, which is why you said Septuagint is called a pause. And so then praise what's happening. Is that the origination of the word? We don't know. However, the word that we don't have to use the original word to understand the current meaning. We do that a lot now, even because it's morphology, even English isn't the only language that morphs. Other languages do as well. And so to this Greek, remember, Greek you might find is there's a Koine Greek, but then we've got different other dialects of Greek. We've also got modern Greek. Same thing with Hebrew. And so for example, cool doesn't mean what it used to mean or actually it couldn't mean that the temperature is cool or most likely typically we use the word cool, but hey, that's cool. Are you with me? And so the original intent, the original meaning is no longer how we use it now. Are you with me? So that's the best explanation I could give right now. I'll give a little bit more in the video, but ultimately we're not totally sure but how we use it seems to be for a pause and then just to praise God. Amen. Sheila asked a question. Corey, I'm still, this is a difficult question. Sheila asked a difficult question. She says, I'm still trying to figure out what my calling to ministry is. What should I look for? I know I should be doing a lot more. I'm just having a hard time figuring out. Here's my first thing I would say. Just do, just do. That's all, just do. Now what it is you should be doing, don't know. So all you can do as a believer, this is for anyone, all you can do as a believer as you're trying to figure out where God wants you, where he wants to use you. Well, the first step to figuring out, figuring that out is to know what he wants you to do, which is what all the should be doing, which is to be reading, which is to be praying, which is to be fellowshiping. And so if you do those things, things that are required of all believers, then the Lord has a way of moving you towards that. I would not try to fit it in where you think it ought to be. What you think you ought to be doing, oftentimes you'll find someone doing something because they, yeah, that's what I like to do. Or because I do this sort of as a profession. Let me give you an example. Some of the worst youth leaders happen to be teaching. Now there's some good youth leaders who are also teachers, but some of the worst youth leaders are teachers. Because you work with children all the time, you think, well, hey, I love the Lord and there's children here at this church. So let me just go over and do that. Well, no, first of all, it didn't work the same way. Kids do not want to go to school all day, have to be taught a lesson, sit here, do that, be quiet, shut up, no chewing gum and then come to church. Sit here, do that, shut up, no chewing gum. That didn't work. And guess what you're gonna have? A bunch of kids would do that when they come to church. Oftentimes, not all the time, but oftentimes teachers don't because, but hey, that's what I do. And so maybe it's where the Lord is using me. No, not necessarily. Maybe you ought to be doing something different. Maybe you ought to be over here. This is what I do as a profession, but I do this. Are you with me? So all you can do, and there is no magic peel to figure this out. There is no test. They used to have these tests, which don't take these tests. Do not, even if you take them, even if you feel like they were accurate, don't take those, what is my spiritual gift test? Don't take those, those are not accurate. God didn't say, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll gift you in this area after you take this test. No, no, so this is gonna be God's leading, God's moving. And so the best way to figure out how and where God is leading and moving is to get closer to God. That's how, amen. Alrighty, now I know I'm going to miss some questions because you guys didn't do what I said. I said, wait until I finish that last question and then I'll take some questions. Nathan says, what is the best Holy Bible version to read? Unfortunately for my friend, Chest chap, he says not KJV. Chest knows what I'm talking about. But, and KJV is a good Bible version. So too is the NESB, the ESV, guess what? The NIV is good. They do different things. Now I would avoid like the plague, the Passion Bible, Passion translation, avoid like the plague. New KJV version. You've got thought for thought and then you've got word for word. Neither are completely, are complete in what they're trying to get across. Someone says the LSB. I haven't really read it yet. LSB, what are some other ones? I can't think off top of my head. Even though I've got a bunch of them on here, I don't use all of them. And true, NLT. What's funny is no matter which version I use, someone's going to complain about it. If I use KJV, hey, why are you using KJV? I better not use New King James version because then everybody's going to come after me. Why are you using that cheap knockoff? Why are you using ESV? That's for Calvinists. Why are you using ESV? Well, so the problem is you can't get conveyed in all of the scriptures. CSB is fine also. You can't get conveyed in any translations, the thought and the words. You just can't, there's just no way to do so. So sometimes it's good to have a word for word along with a thought for thought so you can kind of see what's happening. But then even still, I would just use, if you're, depending on what you're trying to do, if you're trying to study, then what you want to have is you want to have different. Matter of fact, you might want to get you a parallel translation, which is going to have maybe King James version. May have the NASB, may have the ESV, may have the NIV. So that way you can see how different people render it. So, oh, okay, I can see this better. Matter of fact, you might like the King James version, but this translation makes more sense to you. They both sound the same thing, but the way they put it here, I can resonate with that. Are you with me? So, okay. All right, next one, wait a second, what did I do? Okay. Are all sheep to become shepherds, huh? Are all, no, no, no, no. The overwhelming majority of sheep will stay sheep. Now, all shepherds are sheep, but all sheep aren't shepherds, nor should all sheep, nor could all sheep become shepherds. That wouldn't indicate that women should become shepherds. That would indicate that men who are not qualified should become shepherds. No, so there's a clear delineation between who the shepherd is and who the sheep are. There's the shepherd, there are requirements, and there are greater burdens upon the shepherd than you'll see on the sheep. His job is to literally stick his neck out and basically have his neck on the line, his life on the line for the benefit, for the growth of the sheep. So, is it normal for churches today to stop offering communion? The church I attend doesn't, you mean they don't offer communion or they stop offering? When it comes to communion, there is no set guidelines as to how often you ought to do it other than when you do it, do it in remembrance of him. And those that are doing it, if you do so and you know full well what's happening, what it's about, then the Bible says that you are bringing damnation upon yourself because you know literally what this is about, but you have not taken the blood, you've not taken the body. But in terms of how often we ought to do it, it doesn't say. Our church, the church I attend, we do it every week. Previous churches, we would do it once a month, sometimes twice. Sometimes it would just, it'd be random. For example, I don't know how it's still done at Oakley Bible Fellowship, that's Tony Evans' church, but it was kind of odd. Sometimes this group was taken because the church was just so large. It's just weird. And none of the ways that people do it, as long as they're doing it, violate the scriptures, just as long as you do it, do it in remembrance of him, that's the whole point. But churches should be in the habit of doing it. It should be, I would say at the very least, do it at least once a month. Now, I'm saying that that's just my opinion, that's just my preference, but I could never say, I could never say how often you ought to do it. And I couldn't find a scripture that says that, hey, if you only do it once a quarter, then you're in sin, I couldn't say that. But I would just say, try to do it as regularly as you can. And so now, me personally, I'm not fond of everyone taking the actual bread and dipping it into the cup. I've done that before. It's just something about, and I'm not even a big germs person, I really am. I'm really not. I'm just not one of those people that just, I don't like that. I'm fond of the, the one that sealed where you gotta pull the emblem. And but then you know how it is, you go to take your communion, and while they're telling you to take the bread out, you can't even get the dog on thing. He's like, don't go, I need some fingernails. And you sit there biting a thing and the next thing you need is to spill the juice on you. Communion can be rough sometimes. If you are spilling your communion juice on you during communion, you ain't saved. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Okay, let me start asking some more of these questions. Shining Reverses, how do I get those around me to get more adamant about serving and living for Christ? So, so many people older than me, but for less mature and it's this far more less, less mature, okay. No, it didn't sound arrogant, because if you're a Christian, if you're a true Christian, that's gonna be true no matter where you are, whether they be young or old. If you are, if you are really loving the Lord and serving the Lord, you're gonna notice that most people aren't. Well, what was Jesus' response to do so? He says, let your light so shine that men may glorify God. See your good works, then glorify God. Now, two things. I'm not saying this for you, but this is for everybody. If people are around you that they are not being stirred up, it could be on them and it also could be on you. Maybe your light doesn't shine as bright as you think it shines. Maybe it is, it might just be the people. Now you're not responsible ultimately for what they do or what they don't do, but you are responsible for what they see in you. Sometimes they see the good, sometimes they see the bad. But especially if they see the bad in you, the mess ups, the mistakes, whatever you own, and they see your contrite heart, that goes a long way too. But if they see you, you are working and so forth, that you just love the Lord. Listen, emotions are infectious, they are contagious. If a person is angry and bitter, someone's bitter, I mean, miserable, someone's always complaining. You'll find just, if you hang around with that person, you'll find yourself complaining all the time too. If that person's miserable, if you're around that person enough, you'll be miserable. But if that person's always smiling and happy, that smile just becomes infectious and you smile. Person walks in the room, they're laughing. What do you do? You laugh too. Because we are sheep, we do follow it. So be the best example that you can possibly be because again, all you can do, Shining Rivers, is all you can do. Church, all you can do is literally all you can do. That's it. But do you to the best that you can do. Amen. I'm laughing at somebody's comment. I'll never forget though, you guys are talking about me. I'll never forget though, there was a youth group who, they took, it was a big discussion. We didn't do it, but it was a big discussion. Big discussion. Because the youth group, they went from crackers and juice to Doritos and juice. I was like, okay, wait a second. Okay, you might be messing it up. Well, we don't actually use bread like they use either. And then the juice that we're not giving wine, so what's the deal? Okay, fine. So you don't want to make it an affront to somebody. You don't want anyone because you're doing this to also be a reason for somebody to be offended. So sometimes you just gotta use a little bit of wisdom. So what made Simon the sorcerer believe his neighbors had received the Holy Spirit? That is a good question. Let's go to Acts, Acts 8. Acts 8, I think, I want to say 16. All right, for he, that is the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon them. They had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they began laying their hands on them and they were receiving the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of hands, the apostles hands, he offered them money. So the question is, how do we know what makes us believe or what was it that he saw? We don't know exactly what he saw. The only thing that we could probably conclude because we see it happening in Acts 10 and we see it happens in Acts 19, as well as Acts two, remember Jesus tells them that they will be his witnesses, specifically the apostles in Jerusalem. Judea, Samaria and to the rest of the world. Jerusalem, who is laying hands on people and how do people know what's happening? That the Spirit is moving these tongues that they hear and see, okay? What's the next part they have to go to that Jesus says, Samaria? Well, in Acts eight, Philip is down number. Philip is not one of the apostles. He is what we call a Hellenistic Jew. And so Philip goes down there and so Jesus says the apostles will be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Jerusalem, Judea. They've taken care of that, then Samaria. Now they go to Samaria and so then they lay hands on them and then they doesn't say something happens but then when they go to the Gentiles to the rest of the world, what happens? They speak in these languages. So I think it'd be a safe bet to think that that's what he saw. I think it also, just as much as a safe bet to know that he didn't hear them babbling. He didn't hear them using tongues the way we do because that would not impress Simon. I'm not offering to pay for that. So he must have, he saw something. Well, what's the something that he would have seen? You know, the only thing that could have been was that because again, that was kind of keeping in what else was happening. So that's what I believe was actually happening that he saw the gift of tongues being poured out on the Samaritans, which guess what? They are the half cousins of the Jews themselves. Why do people use tongues? Oh, okay. That's all they know to do. That's all they know to do. Watch the video this evening. You'll see that as well. I didn't tell you about the video this evening but watch this evening. Uh-oh, I pushed the wrong button. What am I, what am I doing? Okay, I'm clicking buttons. Uncontrolled, but I'm sorry. Do I think that in some cases people can have legions of demons in them? Um, I don't know. I don't know. Do I think a person is so messed up that they've got a couple of demons hanging out with them? I don't see why not. If a person, if, now it has to be an unbeliever. But if an unbeliever has some sort of demonic influence, do I think, is there a rule that it has to stop at one demon causing this demonic influence? No, no. There's some folks out there that are so bad, makes you think, yeah, this person's got a whole bunch of stuff going on. This guy's got some issues. And so, yeah, I think that's possible. I mean, because we see it happening before. Okay, let's see. This question right here. Diana says, please explain, please answer mine. X is 2410. Let's put X is 2410. I do believe I know what you're talking about. I think, as a matter of fact, we covered this in the Bible study. Cheap plug for the Bible study, which is tomorrow, guys. So X is 2410. Let's start in verse nine. Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel. That's where she gets to 74. And they saw the God of Israel. By the way, it was more than 74 because there's someone else that's there that we don't really think about. Josh was also there with him, but anyway. So Moses plus these three, that's four plus the 70, that's 74 plus Josh would be 75 at least. And they saw the God of Israel under his feet. There appeared to be pavement of sapphire as clear as the sky itself. Yet he did not stretch out his hand. Now it says, and they saw God and they ate and they drank. Did they see God's face? They did not see God's face. Remember, even at this point in time, Moses hadn't seen God in that regard. Matter of fact, what they saw was they saw the cloud and they would see it'd be like this fire on this mountain. And so what they're seeing is that they didn't, no one has actually seen God. Matter of fact, not even Moses. Moses had seen at least the hind parts or as my buddy would say, the exhaust fumes of God's glory. He's from Arkansas. He's from the southern. But that's what they saw. They never actually saw, especially them. Moses got the closest and then obviously Jesus. So, but that's it. They didn't really actually see his face, but they would see just like when the cloud and the fire would leave them out of Egypt when they saw that they're literally seeing God, but it's not all of God that could be seen or they're not seeing the fullness of God because they couldn't. If they did, they would be torched. They would be consumed. Amen. By the way, chess champ, how am I doing? Am I making good on time? Am I moving quickly? He doesn't like me to spend too much time. Once we move to the next, move to the next, move to the next, move to the next. So I couldn't play chess with you, chess champ, because I'm gonna take my time. I know how the pieces move and I'm gonna sit and think. I've heard that God does not put more on you than you can bear. Is this biblical? Well, it depends on who the who is. Who's the who that we're talking about? Moses makes this complaint. He says, God, you give me too much that I can bear. Shut up, Moses. You'll take what I give you and like it. If it is a believer, we're told that there's nothing that has come before us that we can't handle in James, in regards to temptation, and even in that, whatever these trials are, and even in that, God has made a way out. But what if you're an unbeliever? Well, there's something that he'll put on you that you can't bear. So, and there's different things that if you wanna get colorful with, there's different ways you can look at it. I can't bear that like sin, but he didn't put that on you. But punishment, he can put a punishment on you that you really can't bear that will make you submit, but then you come back and say, well, wait a second. I'm bearing it. Uh-oh, Brandon, we got fighting words. Brandon just said, I don't, did y'all see this? Brandon is looking to get banned. I won't ban you. I won't ban you, but I think chess champ might wanna ban you. He said chess is boring. Can I tell you what's not boring? What chess is not? Prison chess. You wanna see the craziest chess on the planet. It's like, you wouldn't think it's contact sport, but in prison, prison chess is not boring. It's not the chess, it's the crazy, it's like, wow, they over there playing chess. I have no idea what they're doing, but man, they are talking crazy. They cuss each other out. It's like, wow, it's just weird. He said chess is boring. Now I play a mean connect four. I play, y'all, you heard my prison buddy come on, and we were talking about how we would play connect four, competitively in prison. So, yeah, is it bad or good that I feel like, Tina says that I'm not doing enough to make God proud of me, mainly instead of the Bible? I think it's a good thing that you feel like that you're not doing anything else. A bad thing if you know you're not doing anything. See the difference? If you're doing something and you feel like it's not enough, that should be with all of us. We should never feel like, yeah, Lord, I've done enough. I've given you all that you need. Matter of fact, God, this is all you're gonna get out of me today. We should never have that attitude, but we should feel like I could do more. I need to do more. I don't feel like I'm measuring up. That's just humility. Now, if you're not doing anything and you don't feel like you're doing enough, well then, yeah, that's bad now. That's bad because you're not doing anything. But I'm gonna take it as though that you are, I'm not reading enough. I feel like I don't read enough myself personally. I feel like I don't read enough. What do you mean, Corey? Because a dog on it, you read every day on this dog on screen, that's just it. The majority of my reading is in study, but some of the best reading that you could ever do is just reading for your enjoyment. And so there are times I have to remind myself, just read it, just be reading. There's nothing to get out of it. Just go and just read the dog on thing rather than just reading. Are you with me? That can happen too. Now, any of the reading is good, but sometimes I just write prayer. Am I, I should pray some more. I should pray some more. Matter of fact, what I've done is now I'll put in my little, what do you call it? My little reminders to pray. And I've prayed, but pray some more. Pray some more, you bum. I'm talking to myself. I call myself all kinds of names. I really don't. Yeah, I talk bad about myself and my wife gets on me. Corey, don't say that in front of the kids. They know I'm not an idiot. I hope they don't think I, but I call myself idiot. I call myself UW. I call myself all kinds of names, Tina. I'm just hard on myself. I don't mean that. I don't think that I'm, you know, those things. But I have to, I have to say, you know what, pray. Cause guess what? You can get busy at some point in time of the day and say, you know what, let me pray. Even if I just got through prayer, let me pray some more. Well, I was praying while I was in the car. Now let me just, when I get home, pull, pull over to the side and just every now and then let's just test my knees out. See if my knees deal work. So Marvin McGill asked an interesting question. Corey, what does it mean? But when the perfect comes in 1 Corinthians 13, that is a good question. I think, and let's go to it. I think that when the perfect comes is Jesus. First, Corinthians 13. Now there are some that believe that this is referring to the close of the canon. It doesn't even make sense in the, to me, to me. Now, my sensations friends will get mad at me, but I just got to go with the text, where it says that love never fails. But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but here it is. But when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. Well, what's the, what's the, but what is the perfect? Well, whatever the perfect is, we see what will be done away with completely when this comes. So what will go away? What will be gone when the perfect comes? Love will always be there, but prophecy won't be there. Tongues won't be there, nor will knowledge. So that could not be the canon because knowledge is still there. And these are all literally in the same sentence. So I think the only thing it could be is Jesus's return, us being with him. That's the only thing that I could see it be. Somebody might differ, but you got to make those other parts make sense. You got to make not just tongues being gone and prophecy being gone. By the way, if prophecy means to give a revelation, will we still do that? If tongues means languages, will we still do that? Now is it supernatural languages? Maybe not, I don't know, but it's got to be just languages. So therefore, and then also knowledge is there with it. So I would say that it would have to be, it would have to be when Christ returned. Keeping that in mind, Shireen says in Matthew 10, one through eight, dogman, I got to read eight verses. Was that command to be fulfilled while Jesus was with him? Or was it post resurrection? Also, because Judas was among them, or she says amongst them, who we know was some of this. So let's go to Matthew 10. All right, let's go. Jesus summoned his 12 disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal every, oh, that's what you're saying. So you're asking, was this fulfilled then? Or is this post resurrection? He says, now the names of the 12 apostles are, by the way, could you name the 12 apostles without looking at it? These 12, Jesus sent out and struck them, do not go in the way of the Gentiles and do not enter any city. Well, no, this was at that time. How do we know this at that time? Because he says, do not go in the way of the Gentiles. Well, they didn't. But after the resurrection, they did. So this had taken place prior to the resurrection. But the issue was, he gave them authority over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal every kind of disease. So does that mean that they all cast out demons? No, they had the authority too. They may not have had to. They may have just had a demonic influence there, but not in somebody. Are you with me? Or on somebody, how a person wants to take it? Dealing with demons, it's not, we have this thought that the only way that demons work is they must be in somebody. No, that's not no. Now, all angels fallen or otherwise are all ministering spirits. They all serve some, something or someone. Our angels service us. Well, they service God in serving us. These fallen angels, they serve, they service fallen people, but they serve their master and there's various ways they could do so. There are various ways they can do so and they don't always entail someone being possessed, oppressed, demonized, whatever the terminology that you wanna use. But he gave them authority over it. What does that authority mean? Does that, that might mean that the demons can't come around them. That might mean that when they walk in the room, demons got to hide and flee. That, that, it could have been that. And then, oh, by the way, if they happen to cast it, it's personally demon to cast that demon out, okay? That could be the case. And to heal every kind of disease. Now, we don't actually have an account of Judas doing so, but we'll assume that he did. But if Jesus gives somebody authority to do something, well, then fine, they can do so, even Judas. Because Matthew seven says that in that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name and we cast out demons in your name. And then what would Jesus say to me? And then, I never knew you. So it's possible to be an unbeliever. And then, according to the passage, if we take it literally to cast out demons while being an unbeliever. Now, Tony came back and spelled my name right. So, I'm gonna, Tony, I'm gonna assume you are a lady because I don't know many guys, Tony Teal and I. If you're a guy and your name is Tony like that, then, okay, sorry, my apologies. But I'm gonna assume you're a girl. I'm gonna assume you're a female. I'm gonna assume you have an XX makeup in your chromosome. Tony says, I was wondering how to find a ministry that teaches the word of God like you do in my city, a Rancho Cucamonga. I like that name though, Rancho Cucamonga, California. I used to be part of a erratic praise church and it wasn't for me. I don't know. I don't know what the church scene is in California. I would imagine, I've got, I just believe, I just believe that God has a place for his people everywhere. It just might not be a close place. It might be that there are some that are 20 minutes away, 30 minutes away, an hour away. And if it means I gotta drive an hour away to find a good church, at least for the time being, well then, then so be it. God is worth it. And so too is your walk in Christ. That's about the best I can say we're, you know, we'll have up and running. We had a couple of hiccups because it was supposed to be earlier this week, the website taking off. But in that we'll have a church search, church tracker, but even that's dependent on people adding different churches that they think of. And then we'll turn around and look at, by the way, by the way, if you have a church that you want to submit that you think is a good church, whether you go to it or not, or you know of someone else, then just send it to info at smartchristians.org. There's an S in smartchristians. So info at smartchristians.org. Amen. That will help others out as well. Mattian is in Pomona, California. Is that close to Rancho Cucamonga? Did I say it, Rancho Cucamonga? And then you have Rancho. Was it Rancho, Santa, Santa Margarita? No, Santa Rita, Santa Margarita, I don't know. You got some names out there in California. So, okay. Should a man want his... Oh, it's right there. Should a man want his wife to think highly of him? Biblically speaking? Yes, he should. If there's anybody that should think highly of the man, should be the wife. Now, if she's not, we need to ask, we need to figure out what's going on. Maybe it's her, maybe it's the man. Maybe it's both. Maybe wires are getting crossed, we're not saying things. Sometimes, oftentimes, she sees things and thinks a certain way and he thinks a certain way. He communicates and feels a certain way because his style's not her style. She might think, well, he didn't care. He's this, he's that, what and all. That's just kind of how he is. He values sticks. He values sticks, she values flowers. He thinks sticks are awesome. They're the greatest things ever. And so he brings her a bundle of sticks. Does that mean he thinks low of her because she doesn't like sticks? No, she needs to understand that this is how he thinks, this is how he is. Now, he's gonna, at some point in time, realize, hey, my baby doesn't like sticks. I like sticks, she likes flowers. Knucklehead, give her some flowers. So there's gonna be this meeting of the mind. There's gotta be this growing in both of them to where you realize this is what she likes. But then she's gotta learn that there's gotta be a little bit of grace in the meantime to understand that he's a caveman, so to speak. And so he doesn't, he's not as gentle in thinking in the same way that she does. So those are important, but yeah, as a husband you should strive to want your wife to look at you as like you're the best thing since sliced bread. Amen. Okay. Is it possible for a Christian to commit murder in defending the family? I was gonna say it's impossible, but no, it's not. Let's say you kill somebody. You kill somebody while defending your family. They, they, whatever, they throw a punch and you punch harder. They, they, they bring a knife and you pull out a gun. That's that. Now it becomes murder morally, as well as legally, that's the point of the place that you're in, is you've wounded the person. You've got them down and then you stand over and you just empty the gun into it. Well, yeah, now that's murder. That's murder and, but he shouldn't show up in my house. Yeah, I get that. I get that. You got him eight times and you want to finish him off one more time. That, that's where it becomes a problem. So yeah, but now if you defend yourself and hey, in the commission of you defending yourself or your family, you gotta go. You don't have to respond with the lightest amount of force you use force that you know will resolve this that will end the threat. And if that threat is a little much in the beginning, fine, fine, you could have took them, you could have took them out with three shots, but you chose five. Well, you wanted to make sure, but there was no intent in killing. Your intent was defending yourself and your family. By the way, I saw a little video where these girls were asked. Someone cut the video up and then I saw it where these little girls were asked if five guys broke in to your house, do you want your husband? That's it, Brian, about it being premeditated. But I actually didn't even have to be premeditated if it's just one of those deals where, shoot. After you got them down, didn't you? But anyway, but the girl said that I want my husband, if these guys break into the house and they, and we know that none of these five guys have a gun, do I want my husband to have a gun? She said, no, fight him with his hands. Like this girl is goofy. Now she was young, she was young, but no, no, he needs a gun. I wouldn't care if there was one guy without a gun, he came in with his bare hands. You want your husband to have a gun. There need to be an even fight in this case. No, you came in there. Are we asking the lion if we jump in the lion's den? Let's take his claws and his paws, his claws and his teeth away. No, you jumped into the lion's den. You get what you got coming. If you don't have a back, when you leave the lion's den, that's on you. Tony asked a question. This is a good question, Tony. Cory, how are you doing? I'm doing fine, Tony. I'm doing wonderful. Got a lot going on, but I'm doing fine. Thank you for asking. Why the rest of you guys didn't ask? No, I'm just kidding. I know a lot of these guys asked too, but I'm sorry. But thank you though, I'm doing well. 504Smile asks, the salvation from God is for the, does it give present, past and future? Does it forgive past, present and future sins? Yes, he does. All of them. We read in Hebrews the other day, he pays for all of our sins. And because there is no longer a remission required of those sins, past, present and future. Even just looking back in the old covenant, when their sins were toned for, what sins were toned for past, present and future up to that year? Because God knows that, hey, your sins are toned for on this day. And then here comes Monday. Well, here comes Sunday. Here comes Monday. Here comes Tuesday. You're gonna sin? And so it's not like as soon as you drive this car off a lot, you're no longer a toned for. So past, present and future. That is if indeed you have been forgiven, if indeed that you are saved. Interesting question. Let me see, I have no idea where this is gonna go, but I just, let me just go over this one. We often say, David asks or says, we often say that an answer to prayer is yes or no or not yet. Do we also deal with spiritual warfare as described in Daniel 10, 13? So let's go to Daniel 10, 13. I'm hesitant to go to Daniel every time just because it requires more just reading and giving an answer. Daniel 10, 13. Is it 10, 13? 10, 13. Oh, okay, okay, okay. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for 21 days. And behold, Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. I actually preached a sermon over this. And what I was preaching was about just simply praying, just keep praying. You have no idea what's happening. You have no idea what's going on. So therefore you have no reason to complain about, God, why are you taking so long? It's taken so long. This is so unbearable. I can't help it, Lord, you forgot about me. You don't love me, Lord. But if we go back and read, when was the answer to Daniel's prayer dispatched? The Bible tells us that the answer to the prayer was dispatched as soon as he prayed immediately. However, in this case, and we don't know what's happening in the heavenly realms, in the angelic realms, but then there's this prince of Persia. Are there demons, fallen angels that are over certain provinces? We don't know. We don't know. We don't know if this is idiomatically spoken. If there is a demon that's over this particular area, don't know if this is referring to a certain demon, a demon of certain rank. We don't know. We don't know. Often what we know about demons and angels and so forth, we make up. So a lot of what we talk about, we make it up because we don't know. There's not a lot that the Bible gives about them. However, the important point in this is that one, this is not even for us, we don't even worry about. When his prayer went up, an answer was dispatched. That's the more important part. An answer was dispatched. It just took 21 days. So guess what you keep doing? Keep praying. Keep praying. The rest is not up to you, it's up to God. So you do what you do, what you can do, and then let God, and in this case, the angels, do what they're gonna do. If God has dispatched an answer, then it's coming to you. Now, does that mean to take that? When the angel was dispatched, that if he didn't keep praying, that the answer wasn't gonna come? No, that didn't mean that at all. Matter of fact, the answer was gonna come because this is an important word that Daniel is going to get. This is regarding his people. This is in regards to the 70 weeks being prophesied. That's coming. That's, matter of fact, that's already in the works. But just, oh by the way, a little bit of extra detail. And so maybe Daniel was getting a little bit frantic and worrisome, don't know. But he gives him some of the detail. Or as, what's it got? Paul Harvey says, now we know the rest of the story. Good question here. Would the Holy Spirit ever allow a Christian to go so far into sin as to murder somebody out of hatred or commit rape? I want to hear what Corey has to say too. How much restraint does the Holy Spirit put on a person? Well, does the Holy Spirit, we don't know to what degree David had the Holy Spirit. Just, I don't think the Holy Spirit was in him, but maybe on him in some areas. But look what David did. David took Bathsheba, not his wife. Now did he force himself? I don't think so. Now did he smooth talker? Maybe, but then again, it's the King. It's the King, maybe she was Google-eyed or maybe she was like, it's the King I got you. I don't know. So I can't even presume to say what happened to that, but he did take this woman who's not his wife. Then he covered it up with murder. And what was his response? Don't take your spirit from me. So, how involved was the spirit with David at the time we don't fully know? But now let's relate it to us. Can, how much sin does a Christian or is a Christian going to commit? Well, it varies. There are some sins that a Christian will commit and you wanna, is that guy even gonna say, is he even saved? Is he a Christian? You don't act like a Christian. You're supposed to be a Christian and the Holy Spirit is supposed to be in you, but the way you're responding, the way you're acting does not look like a Christian. Well, excuse me, Mr. Ma'am, let me turn the mirror back on you because I can promise you the way you're acting at times doesn't always, like matter of fact, you have had moments of not looking like a Christian. We all do. You can have a good intention, sin, your intention is to fix it and you sin more in your desire to fix it. It just happens. You know why? Because we are a big, dumb, clumsy sheep. That's what we are. Big, dumb, clumsy sheep. Tell the truth, shame the devil. What we can do, I'm not saying you, Christian, I'm not saying you, but a lot of folks do this. How in the world does he do, huh, a Christian would not, a Christian, what? Be, yeah, yeah, a Christian would, yes. Yes, absolutely. Here we've got Peter literally walking with Jesus and Peter wants to cut folks' ears off. Yeah, it happens. It happens. Now, we can't compare ourselves to the apostles after they receive the Holy Spirit because they are at a different level at that moment. They've got a special anointing on them from Jesus himself. But do Christians act in accords because there becomes a thin line between doing something too much and actually becoming a lifestyle? How you know it's not a lifestyle, ultimately it's gonna be on you because sometimes the other person might look like that, but to you, you know there's a struggle going on. Now, if you're in sin and there's no struggle, you're just saying, hey, yeah, it's okay, no big deal. God knows my heart, no problem, I'm forgiven. That's different. Now you are treating grace like a cheap, as Paul says, shall we continue in sin just because grace is a bounty? No, it should bother you. If sin doesn't bother you, then we got a problem. Matter of fact, if sin doesn't bother you, it doesn't matter how many times you do a sin, whether you do a sin one time or you do it 20 times or 40 times, doesn't matter. If there is no, if you don't have a repentant heart and it doesn't bother you, well then now we got a problem. Now we got a problem and so, but could a Christian do something heinous and still be a Christian? Sure, because the question would then be, what's heinous? Oh, I know, your sin is heinous, mine is just a small sin, right? So what was that question? Uh-oh, come on, I don't know why this is doing that. Okay, what are my thoughts on black liberation theology? It's not liberation and it's not theology. That's my thought. It's not liberating and it's not theology. The only thing that saves the black man is the same thing that saves the white man or the same thing that saves the Hispanic or the Asian man. That's the only thing. Oh, I don't have it on a day. I don't have, you know what would have been perfect for me to answer that question? My shirt, red lives matter. The only thing that matters is a person whose life is covered in the blood. That's it, that's the only thing that matters. And so to preach liberation for black folks and typically it's not by means of the Bible, then it doesn't work. Jesus didn't teach it and so you shouldn't either. That's my take on it. It ends up becoming another gospel. Good question. With Lord supper, is it not proper to do this at home with your family? It's very well, it's proper. You don't have, there's no, there's no script that says it has to be done at the church with the organ, the piano, the guitar, the drums and the background and so forth and people know you can do it at home. Just as often as you do this, do it. So didn't he say where you do it? So yeah, you can do it at home. Matter of fact, we've done so before. We don't do it a lot, but here's a good question. Did Satan know Jesus was God? The answer is yes, resounding yes. He knows, Satan knows who created him. So remember all of the angels, all the angels and all the demons know exactly who he is. That's why when he walks in, when Jesus walks in the joint, everybody shuts up and says, hey, there's Jesus, y'all. I hope that's why when he came across the demons, wait a minute, is it our time yet? Is it now the time for you to torture us? They know what's up, so to speak. Yes, Satan knows who it is. So your question now then is, if so, why did he tempt him with the kingdom of earth if Jesus is the one who created it? It's like the dumbest thing, but think about it like this. How many of y'all have kids? How many of y'all have kids? And have your kids ever tried to bribe you with your own money? I'll give you $5 if you do this. I'll give you, I just, wait a second. I gave, I literally gave you that $5. Now you're gonna give it to me. I gave you the $10 back. I gave you the $10, now you wanna give it back to me. But don't we do that? It's kind of the same thing. But now, this was something that clearly had to have been orchestrated. Remember, just because he's the devil doesn't mean that he's not God's devil, meaning that God orders him. If God says, hey, you devil, go there. Guess what the devil's doing? Go in there. The devil, now, surely he knows what's happening. Now, I don't know in his mind did he think that, ah, he's in flesh form now, and he has emptied himself of something. He's in a veiled form now. Aha, maybe I got him. We don't know. It's possible. It's possible because again, what Satan is not is Satan is not omnipotent. He's not omniscient. He's not omnipresent, so he's not what God is. So he's not all powerful, he's not all present, and he is not all knowing. So is it possible? Is it possible that Satan thought that he could? It's possible. But he also was sent to tempt Jesus. Well, by who? Well, clearly by God. So do I know for a fact that Satan knew that him tempting God wouldn't work? We don't know. We don't know one way or the other. It's possible, but he had to do it anyway. Who's calling me a Calvinist? You're calling me Calvinist? All right. Cory doesn't want to be called a Calvinist, so that's okay. He doesn't really tell us a label that he wants to be called. And out of curiosity, also just to be clear, would you identify as a five point Calvinist or so have kind of an idea of where you're coming from? Do you line up with two lips of Calvinism? And if so, four or five? Inconsistent Calvinist, I would say, philosophically speaking. You know who I am? Whether or not Cory is willing to adopt the fact that he is a theistic determinist or not. I'm just saying, even if you don't want to call yourself a theistic determinist, for all practical purposes, I can't see logically how you can deny being a determinist if you hold to the five point tulip system. It's not really a nice word to call a person, is it? Yes, I hear a lot of Calvinistic interpretation. Yeah, because that could make someone very angry and maybe hurt their feelings. My brother Cory said that he's not a Calvinist, but my brother smells Calvinist-y. All right. Don't know anyone who identifies Calvinist. Why not just say you're a Calvinist? Well, I just want to ask you to lay off a little bit. That's Calvinism! Cory, that's Calvinism! I think man can choose, but he won't choose, therefore God chooses. That's literally reformed Calvinism. You're gonna stop calling me that. Every Calvinist I know- That's not my name. Find a mini Calvinist you- Call me one more time. Calvinist. I'm not a Calvinist. I'm not a Calvinist. I don't know why people want me to be a Calvinist, but it's okay. It's okay, I'm not a Calvinist. I'm not a Calvinist. Are there some things that I line up with Calvinists? Sure, do I believe in an election? Yes, I do. Does that make me a Calvinist? No, it does not. Calvinists aren't the only people that believe in an election. Sorry. But, for example, we've had a discussion before about limited atonement. I don't agree with that. I don't hold a limited atonement. I do not hold total depravity in the way Calvinists do. And then depending upon who you ask, there are some that might fudge the lines of maybe a different view on irredisposable grace. But I would probably be, if you called me a Calvinist, you'd call me a three point Calvinist, which is not a Calvinist. So anyway, that'd be in the case. Okay. Yeah, I made a movie out of it. Yep. I made a movie out of it. Everybody kept calling me a Calvinist. Like, I'm not a Calvinist. Tell me, I'm not a Calvinist, but if you were, I've been calling everything. So I thought, I'll break into this. Cory is not a Calvinist. But I do play one on TV. How about that? All right. Let's take a few more questions. Oh, okay. It's not a question statement. Okay. Thank you, Chia Young Cat. Do I believe that we are born with a sin nature? This is a question, Logan, where I don't even need the Bible. I don't even need the Bible answers question. You know what I know? I got some kids and I got four grandkids. I just look at them. They just do stuff. They do stuff and they weren't taught. Little kid, this is my favorite example. I use this all the time. You all have seen something like it. Tell the kid, the kid says, can I have some cookies? No, you can't have a cookie. You cannot have a cookie. You're going to eat. You can have one later. You understand? They say yes. They understand. Then you leave the room. You come back. Where are the cookies everywhere, including all over his face or her face? You look down at that little angel, little demon, ask them, did you eat the cookies? Everybody in the chat is either saying no or shaking their head because everyone knows. That's what the kid's going to say. The kid's going to lie. No, I didn't do it. Nope, not me. What happened to them? I don't know, but you were the only ones here. I don't know. What did the child learn? Did you teach them how to lie? Did you teach them to disobey? Did they go to school for that? No, it's just in them. We are, that's who we are. And the Bible tells us that that is our, that's our nature, that's how we were born. From the womb we go astray. Our hearts are wicked. Our hearts are wicked. I'm going to leave it alone right now, just, Jeff. Leave it alone for now. Amen, Mitch hadn't seen you in a while. Mitch, how you doing, buddy? Yeah, I am a coach here in Cowboy Country and I think that I'm starting to wear on in some of these Cowboy fans. I am, because after a while just giving them the truth, they start singing it. They start saying, yeah, you know, yeah, I'm a Cowboy fan, I can't help it. Because sometimes you just have to admit it, right? Acceptance, it's one of the, in these stages that we go through, it was the stages of grief, is that what it is? Acceptance, it isn't first. You got anger and denial, eventually you get acceptance and so yeah, Cowboy fans accept it. Your team is horrible. Your team has a curse. Your team has a generational curse. Your team has a demon. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. Now, I've got to work with Byron, he hadn't gotten it yet. He's still, listen, he's still holding out hope. He still thinks the Cowboys are about something, but Byron, how are you, by the way? I've got to ask and take a few more questions, but how are you Byron? I just, because I wonder, has Byron even seen a championship in the Cowboys? I bet you, I'm just wondering, Byron, have you even seen, I know you've heard, I know you've heard of the Cowboys winning a championship. I know you've heard of it. I mean, you just read the history books and just open the page. Look, they won one. It's acts 1110, 34. Okay, so you did, so Byron did catch one. He didn't remember, he was alive when it happened, but he didn't remember, okay, all right. I'm sorry, back to the main thing. Acts 1110, an example of a specific or certain type of repentance that believers have, right. Let's go to Acts 1110. This happened three times, and what happened three times? Oh, okay, okay, this is Peter and Peter's dream. He says, but a voice from heaven answered a second time, what God has cleansed no longer consider unholy. This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up to the sky. And behold, at that moment, three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having sent me from Caesarea. The spirit told me to go with him without misgivings. These six times, I mean, these six brethren also went with me, and I'm sorry, what was your question? I'm just reading, not realizing there's a question that needs to be asked, what was the question? Is that an example of a specific or certain type of repentance of a believer? 1110, this happened three times, and everything was drawn. I'm not sure of the question. I'm not sure what you're asking, CG. Ask that question again, CG, because I'm not following what you're saying, is that an example of a specific type of repentance? I don't think so, or maybe I'm just not understanding what you're saying. Yeah, Jonathan, I did see that they're coming to Texas, but they're not close to me. I think they're doing it on purpose too. I think when they come to Texas, they come five, you could be in Texas and be a good six, seven, eight hours away from somebody, two hours away, especially if you're in the panhandle going down to Houston or San Antonio. So yeah, there are, oh, okay, okay. There are, I'm sorry, there are a lot of places you can go in Texas, it takes you a long time to get to, and so where they're going, they're not close to me. Which by the way, I don't want them to think, I guess I kind of do want them to think that I am going to be waiting here with a baseball bat as soon as they get close to the DFW area. I'm not, I might be, but I don't think that. So I guess, I'm guessing Corey believes in unconditional election, but not limited, I do, yeah. I believe in unconditional election, but not limited to telling me. Yep, nor do I believe in total depravity in the sense that they believe it. So I do believe in that we are depraved, but to what extent? Yep, I told you guys, you can drive 12 hours one way in every Texas, when we drove from, we took a bunch of youth, this was, I forget how many years ago, this was, as a matter of fact, yeah, this was more than 20 years ago. Took a bunch of youth from here and we went to, going to LA, we drove from Dallas and went to El Paso. The trip, the road trip, traveling time was 24 hours. 12 was in Texas, coming from Oklahoma City, which isn't far from Dallas or from the Texas border. And then down to Beaumont, that was an 11 hour trip. Two-axis, it's about 10 hours, we did do some stopping, but if we would go further into Texas to the south, it would have been 12, 13, 14 hours. So yeah, Texas is a big place. It's different, the topography is different. From the Panhandle to all the way out in West Texas, out of the El Paso, West Texas area, to North Texas, this area, to the middle of Central Texas, down to the valley or to Houston, East Texas. You've got swamps, you've got deserts, you've got mountainous areas, you've got a hill, you've got flat plains, it's just all over. Texas is different. Cameron says, in Romans 828, the word for predestination in the Strong's definition, it says limit in advance. What does that mean? The limit in advance means it's just, you know what, and that's a weird way to put it. Pro-Resa, to limit in advance, it's the in advance part. Limit is determining what you're gonna do to kind of put a board around it in advance. So in advance, I'm saying this is what you're gonna be. So to determine or to destine in advance. So to predestine, I am destining prior to what? It necessarily means that I'm not doing it, that I'm doing it prior to you making the decision. It is absent your decision. And so that's the word that's just hard to get around. You have to kind of explain a lot of things to get away from what the word predestination means. It literally means the same thing in virtually every language. So if we have been predestined, that means we have been predestined before our thoughts even enter the fray. Am I close to Lancaster, Texas? I could pick up a rock and throw it to Lancaster. Now, I wouldn't make it. No way. I'm probably, if I get in the car right now and drove to Lancaster off 30, let's say if I wanna, you don't wanna talk about 35 and let's say Pleasant Run where DeSoto's on this side and Lancaster on that side, it would take me about 10 minutes, 10, 15 minutes to get there. Yeah, 10, 15 minutes to get there. So look at, look at Chow, you are show off. You are, you are such a smart show off. No kidding, but right. For Ariso, the predestined to decide beforehand and I always saw that the limit in advance. What, why would you put it that way? Cause no one in English speaks that way. So, no, it's not arbitrary. No, election is not arbitrary. Sometimes we think that because we don't know, we think that it's arbitrary cause he didn't tell us, I mean, it's arbitrary. Randy, all I saw in your comment was go colts. That's all I saw. Should I read, even read the rest of it? How does scripture explain the different labels or denominations and the impact of being saved? It doesn't, it doesn't deal with the impact of being saved but after salvation, Paul literally brings this up in 1 Corinthians chapter one. As a matter of fact, the whole point, the whole point of 1 Corinthians is dealing with unity in the body. And so he says that I wish there'd be no divisions and he even brings up these labels. One says I'm of Apollos, or I'm of Cephas, I'm of Paul. Same thing, the same thing. And so because of that, we were told, we know that we should not adhere to those, meaning this. It's okay to be a Baptist, but it's not okay to be a Baptist. Do you know what I mean? No, I don't know. That's weird how you just said that, Corey. Yeah, it's okay to be a Baptist, but it's not okay to be a Baptist. It's okay to be Methodist, but it's not okay to be Methodist. It's okay to be Calvinist, but it's not okay to be Calvinist. In other words, when you say you're of this, you end up being beholden to it now. You adhere to this is what our Baptists believe, this is what Calvinists, okay, fine. But don't say that this is what I am, because now you become beholden to it. Now inside of Christianity, you have these different subsets, these different clicks. That's what it ends up becoming. It's us against them. We become tribal. We're this tribe of Christians. We're that tribe of Christians. Now we're fighting other Christians. And that can be a problem. That can be a problem. As a matter of fact, that's wrong. Paul says, in doing so, you behave like mere men. Devonte says. Cause Devonte just said, you skip mine, but it's cool. No, it's not cool. I got your question. How can I develop a strong prayer life, not just for myself, but for others as well? Here's how. It's real easy. Now it's easier said than done, but guess what guys, it actually is real easy. It's real easy. I'll tell you how to do it. You know how you develop a strong prayer life? Devonte and everyone else, how do you develop strong muscles by doing it? How you develop anything is by doing it. Even, notice this, even when you don't feel like it. So even if, I don't feel like praying, but I'm praying. I don't feel like reading, but I'm reading. What? Not that one. Well, Devonte said, no, not that one. But whatever I don't feel like doing, it doesn't matter. But just do it, just do it. There are benefits that will accrue to you if you do it even when you don't feel like it. You do it because you want to and you don't want to. That's what we have the statement that religion is bad. No, it's not. Where does the Bible say that? As a matter of fact, you ought to have a pure religion or good religion. So religion kicks in because I do this because I have to. This is what I do. And there are sometimes where you don't feel like it, but you do it anyway. There are sometimes, I don't feel like feeding these kids, but you do it anyway, right? You have to. So, all right, let me take one more question and then I've got to, there was one that I saw that I was gonna take after. Oh, this was it. This is a good question. Brittany Cohen Orange says, can a non-believer understand the word of God? Anybody could understand. It's gonna sound weird though, hear me out. Anybody can hear the word of God and understand it. If you mean understand that, I know, I can read it. It says this, I know that's what it means. Anybody can do that. Anybody. But in terms of knowing it, internalizing it, taking it, taking it in and believing, that's different. To have a more intimate knowledge of it is different than just knowing, I know what the word says, I know what the text says. Anybody, Bart Ehrman knows what the text of the scripture say. The Jews knew what the scripture said, but they didn't, but they have an ears didn't hear, have an eyes they didn't see. They didn't, there was a disconnect between here and here. A disconnect between here and here. I can see it, it makes sense, but I don't believe it. I don't trust it or I'm not ready for it. So remember, there's two types of beliefs and this needs to be understood guys. Yeah, Randy, Randy's saying it correct. Intellectual doesn't mean faith. Now, let me just use it. Matter of fact, let me use this word belief. You can believe something and not believe something. Meaning I believe what you just said is true, but I don't believe it in terms of living it that way. I use my example of this chair all the time. I think it's a good example, by the way. I believe this chair can hold me. I do, I bet you all believe the same thing too, but if I don't sit into it, if I don't sit it, sit down in it, if I don't race it, but I sit in it and I believe it can hold me, but I'm not sure. Let me just brace myself. Have any of you guys ever heard of the Flying Walendas? Thank you, Chow, you and Kat. Have any of you heard of the Flying Walendas? Family of trapeze artists, high-wire artists, world famous. Now, if you haven't died because they do some amazing things in some places that they probably should. They get on these high-wire acts and they're over these high buildings and the winds kick up and they gotta bounce themselves. And so one day, one of the Walendas was, they were taking people across Niagara Falls on a high wire. What they were doing was they had a wheelbarrow. That was a special made wheelbarrow, but they had a wheelbarrow and they were taking them across the Grand Canyon on the high wire. And just what they were doing was they would put stuff in it. They would even carry one of the family members, put one of them in the wheelbarrow and move them across. Walk them back and people would just cheer in, yay. And so the question was asked, do you believe that I can carry anyone back and forth on this high wire? Do you think, sure, we believe it. We've seen you do it. Do you believe I can put you in here and carry you across? Oh, wait, now you didn't went too far now. Nope, I believe you could, but you'll never get a chance to prove it. There's a difference. I believe you could, but I don't believe you can do it with me. It ain't gonna happen. And so you can read the scriptures and see what it says. You can see exactly what it says. I understand what's happening. Jesus died on the cross three days, one, two, three. Okay, I got that and rose up. I know what to rise and resurrect. I get that, but they don't know it. Are you with me? It's not been committed to their lifestyle in that kind of faith. So anyway, guys, I love you so much. I'm sorry, I was just looking at something else. I'm sorry. Anyway, love you so much, guys. I will see you have a flying Walendas. How I met them was they, they're actually a lot of them, I can't say all of them, but a lot of them are Christian. And so they had a prison ministry where they would come in. Oh, okay. CG said, okay, I have to answer this one because I did tell him to give me the right one. It was Acts 1118. Okay, he had 1110. So it was 1118. Okay. Where they would come in and wonderful timing at the prison on that day. And they were just talking about their testimonies and so forth. Anyway, let me do this last one for CG since I broached it, but it was a different passage. She says, so when they heard this, they were quieted down and glorified God saying, well then, God has granted the Gentiles also the repentance. Oh, and so your question was, let me make sure I look at how you asked your question. Wait a minute, what did I talk on it? I typed this in wrong. Okay. Oh, what's going on? Okay. Your question is, so is Acts 1118 an example of a specific or certain type of repentance that believers have? And so reading it again, when they heard this, they were quieted, they quieted down and glorified God saying, well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life. And so this is these Jews seeing them also receive the Holy Spirit. And they understand that this repentance of life that God has given, so this isn't one way, this is the way, this is what God is the one that ultimately grants repentance. And so in your heart, repentance is just an attitude that you have out of your heart that sin bothers you, who you are, how you are, that bothers them to you. That repented heart, that's there for every believer. There's no such, the Bible knows of no such Christian who is not repentant. The Bible knows of no such person who's repentant and not a Christian. And I mean this sort of repentance. This is the sort of repentance that God grants. How so? Because what he does with the heart, it's him who does so. It's him who regenerates the heart. It's him who causes to be born a new, born from above, born of the spirit. And so that is the pattern of every believer after the cross. That's what God is the one that's doing that. Amen. All right guys, thank you so much. And I will see you either this evening or I will see you tomorrow at the Bible study. God bless you.