 Good evening everyone good afternoon. Good morning dependent point where you're all hope you all are doing well I hope you all are enjoying your day depending upon where you are in the country You might be getting a little bit of weather. I know in this part of the country we are and so Anyway, it's warm inside this house So I want to go ahead and jump to it one of the things that people do something that people often say and is usually in response to a Disagreement the way they counter or come back after a disagreement Oftentimes is by questioning or impugning the use of Hebrew or Greek now. Let's just be clear Most people who have an issue if not all who have an issue with Hebrew or Greek Only have an issue with using Hebrew or Greek if it doesn't suit them Because they may go to the Strong's concord they might look up a word they might go online and look up a word That's no problem. That's no problem at all But it is a problem when you don't like it because it doesn't work for you But you only like it when it does work for you now I want to cover some passages obviously and so I Want to start off and some of you are like this I'll start off reading the passage a couple passages that kind of just Gives us direction when it comes to reading the scriptures and we will start off in Proverbs 4-7 and of course we'll go ahead just for the sake of some We'll read out of the King James version actually like this this passage this translation wisdom first seven Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy giddy get Understanding and so whenever we read the Bible, whatever we do As it pertains to this we should try to get understanding If you don't understand what it is you're reading what it is you're talking about well then You know, I mean I won't give you the name of what you are But it's just not wise right We're all so told According to the Bible and we'll just go back to the passage, but this is in 2nd Timothy 215 you all have seen this Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a worker who has no need to be ashamed Rightly handling the word of truth And so now in the in the King James or new King James, it'll say rightly dividing We want to when we read the Bible we want to be able to handle the scriptures We want to be able to buy we want to know what it's saying why it's saying what it's saying and Let's just be clear because I don't think everyone has gotten this It doesn't matter what you think about the scriptures or what you think they say it matters what it actually says Sometimes it was hard to kind of get to that right sometimes it's hard to to get to the matter to get to the meat because Obviously how I think what I think the way I feel that's obviously the correct way But then the next person gonna say the same thing well no no no what I feel what I think my understanding is the correct way So here's the question What happens when two people and let's just say they both love the Lord they are both believers They both have the Holy Spirit Differ on a passage now there are Christians in this chat and their Christians are gonna watch they're gonna be Christians in the comment section Who differ who disagree? There's a lot of topics that we can cover either topical or just going over a particular passage or a book and we'll disagree So what do we do when we disagree and we're disagreeing over what because we're here in America and Obviously because we're in America Then America is superior and English is superior, right? We think that This is how we do sometimes we think that because of where we are where we're from that it must be the best way to do it And so what happens when you come to a passage that two people who are reading let's say an English text Can't understand it or can't come to an agreement If only there was some way to figure this out if only there was some way to get to the heart of the matter well What does the Bible say? About the scriptures it says that all Scripture is What God breathe and So if it's God breathe and obviously we know it What is proper for teaching for correcting for instruction so that we will all be complete lacking nothing so What If it's inspired if it's God breathe the question is this Who inspired it and what was inspired because if I asked you your Bible and Even in even in looking at Some of the chats before I put the the message in and I don't know why you guys do this I'm getting on I'm getting on you guys in the chats you guys Instinctively some of you guys went to King James version in any in ASB or ESV and IV well, that's not the discussion is it? Because we we get Sometimes we get a little defensive protective about a particular book about a particular translation So let me ask you guys this question If the scriptures all the scriptures were God inspired Who inspired them who inspired them what the Holy Spirit now because the question is going to be is And I've been I've been accused of this and so I want to pull this out I've been accused of using too much of the Greek or Hebrew Instead of the Holy Spirit that you don't you don't let the spirit move You don't you don't you lean more on the the the scriptures But not the scriptures, but you leave more on the Greek or these these tools than you do the Holy Spirit Now I'm gonna flesh that out a little bit and just kind of cover that But I want to start off by saying if I lean on the Greek of the Hebrew and you Mr. Person or ma'am say that you you lean on the on the Holy Spirit What did the Holy Spirit? Didn't wasn't the Holy Spirit the one who gave us the text? What was inspired guys? Was what language I should say were the scriptures sovereignly inspired? What were they inspired in English I know somebody's gonna say well wait a second I speak English. God gave me my Bible in English. Okay. Is that true? Did God give you your Bible in English? No, he didn't he did not now Did he did he make way for you to have an English translation? Sure just like there's a way for us to have a Spanish translation a Mandarin translation there are French Translations there are German translations as well. They're Arabic Aramaic translations now They all if we line them up won't say everything exactly the same way Because if you ask a translator and there are people today There are many people on this planet who are part of different translation committees and not one not even not even the original translators whether it's Erasmus whether it is How to say Justin whether it's Jerome whether it's Tyndale whether it's your translation committee for even the King James Version Not one will you find say that they did a perfect work and that it requires? constant translation Okay, because there's just no way that you can take a word in any language and put it in English And so what we do sometimes now and let's just be out. I'm gonna be I'm beyond this guys We get a bit tribal when we start thinking that this particular translation is the superior one We talk about wait a second these words are missing out of this book This word is missing out of that book that book is not the inspired word what was not Inspired by God what was not God-breathed guys was the ESV that was not God-breathed the NASB that was not God-breathed Oh, I'm bowling down some alleys the King James nor the new King James Version were God-inspired nor were that was the NIV Okay, and any other translation none of those translations were God-inspired What was God-inspired was what the people actually wrote their writing of the message and their writing is Their writing is in the language that they speak And so no So yeah, Doug. No, I'm not saying God is incompetent. I'm saying humans are that's what I'm saying And I'm saying when God inspired let's say Paul to write or when Peter under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote or when James wrote or when Moses wrote that was under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit But you know what they didn't think of they didn't think of what's up How can I put this in a way to where these people who speak English are going to get it? No, they just gave it and now obviously God knew that they were going to be English speaking people He knew that he knew they're gonna be people that spoke Spanish. He knew they're gonna be people spoke all these different languages And so he also sovereignly caused it to where people would translate the issue is going to be though Is the translation perfect? Well, no and it had to be because when they translate and I'm kind I'm almost even getting off of the intended But when they translate it the scriptures They're not trying to translate it verbatim. They can't it's it is impossible guys Impossible to translate the Greek and Hebrew verbatim into English Doesn't happen. It can't happen. Okay. Now you find somebody on the find I'll tell you what find somebody on the translation committee that would disagree Find one and you won't and What's happened is because we've held on to a particular book so long that we've venerated the book We we we get on Catholics for venerating Mary. Well, we've done the same thing to our Bible and That's not the case. Why? Why do you all think that God did not preserve the original manuscripts? Why do you think we don't have the original handwritings of John or the original handwritings of of Peter or Paul the original handwritings of Matthew the original handwritings of Jonah why well because he's not after even the verbatim He's after the message. How do I know? When we when we read or hear what Jesus is quoting when Jesus quotes the Old Testament Matter of fact most people in the New Testament when they quote the Old Testament about 80% of what they quote is not out of the Hebrew manuscripts. No, it is out of the Greek Septuagint. Now, do we rely on the Greek Septuagint? No, we don't but for whatever reason they did they they quote it out of this Why is that? Well, because it's the message not necessarily the word I use as example all the time It is 511 here my time, but if someone were to say it's 11 after 5 Said the same thing two different ways both are fine. The message is what's important, right? Not exactly how I said it. Okay, or if someone were to use military time. It is 1711 same thing so We get caught up on the small things and we can never get to the big things now This is in no way to denigrate to to demonize any particular translation because that's not what we're talking about We're not talking about translations now I'm gonna do a couple of exercise and go over some passages and We can look at it in the Hebrew. I mean Hebrew. We can look at it in the ESV We can look at it in the King James version new King James We can look at it in ESB doesn't matter. We're gonna actually look at the the actual text and then we're going to see Some things that we ought to kind of kind of glean from it So now my point though when someone comes back and says hey you rely too much on the Hebrew and Greek Well Do you know what takes precedent even over the King James version? Do you know what takes precedence over the NIV? Do you know what takes precedence over the ESV the NASB the Greek and Hebrew? Why because that's the closest that we have to the originals more because you all do realize that whatever English version you have is a Commentary on that particular language So when you read the English King James new King James and ESB any of those it is a commentary on the original language It's it's them saying what they think this passage actually says Okay, now I'm gonna talk a little bit about how we can How we can kind of get to The meat of the heart of it and even if a person doesn't know Hebrew or Greek How do we get to it? But then I've got to come back to the original question One and I put I didn't even check and see what the result of the of the pole is I do want to see that but Is is there a chance that that I could possibly be using the Greek too much or the or the Hebrew too much? well, I Say no by the way by the way If you if you just went through if anyone were to do so and and I've instructed a person who made this claim I'll tell you what go back and just look at the videos on the channel You know the most the majority of the videos on the channel. We don't even talk about Hebrew Greek And so when we're talking about doctrine though, we're going over certain teachings then I will Cover a Greek or the Hebrew if it brings out something in the scriptures if it illuminates a little bit more Okay, now I've said this I don't think that everyone needs to learn Hebrew or Greek to understand the Bible I don't think that at all. I do think two people who ought to who ought to learn Hebrew and Greek two people If you're a pastor, I think all pastors should have some sort of familiarization with Hebrew or Greek They don't have to be proficient have to be scholars or anything But just just a working understanding of it I think that people anyone that wants to gain a deeper knowledge of the scriptures should learn Hebrew or Greek or at least some aspect of it now Since the scriptures were inspired since sovereignly and you all have to take this up with God God determined that the Old Testament will be written primarily in Hebrew God determined that primarily the New Testament will be written in Greek and that there's also going to be some Aramaic in there So if he determined that long before you or I came along, you know, I don't have to do I don't have to have this have that battle with anyone about how much Hebrew Greek someone ought to use Because the very same scriptures that I'm talking about was given by who the Holy Spirit So you can't come back and say that a person uses too much Hebrew too much Greek and not enough Holy Spirit, no I am in Holy Spirit country when I'm trying to get to the heart of the matter Am I a hundred percent successful in using Hebrew Greek? Nope. Nope. Nope Couldn't say that. There's there's no one who is a hundred percent perfect even in their translation None and so it's just a tool to kind of help get us closer now the English is fine the English is fine and so if a person wants to grow under the just English Without question, you can without question. You can get you you could understand every doctrine forwards and backwards if you've never heard or even studied or learn Hebrew Greek You just can and and out of the major Translations that either being out of the King James version new King James ESB and ESB any of that stuff, okay? and so So I want to be clear that I'm not saying that that you have to learn Hebrew Greek to get closer If you feel like you have to learn Hebrew and Greek to get closer to God that you're not getting closer to God That's not as you get closer to God but it is just I Heard a story put this way When it came to trying to encourage people to learn the languages about a man who married a woman from a different country she understood him enough, but she still primarily spoke in her native tongue and She would do different things to try to get to know her and to try to you know You know deep in their relationship in her understanding and to show how much she loved her And so what he did was he decided to learn her language because that way there would be no barrier between them Communicating and so he did well It's kind of the same thing that we do when we try to learn Hebrew Greek Okay, now what if though because I don't have the time to learn Hebrew Greek It does take some time right it takes some study. You don't just pick it up and a lot of the rules in Hebrew and Greek There's some that are familiar to English. There's some that are not and so what I want to do guys is I want to kind of go over some things now I've noticed something though about the people who have told me that You lean on the on the language is too much that you lean on the Hebrew and Greek too much again I don't think there's a such thing as leaning on the Hebrew and Greek too much because The very Bible that you read somebody leaned on the Hebrew and Greek an awful lot to bring it to you Okay, and to me it has been often times someone who has been How do I put them they've been in the category of a Pentecostal or charismatic cult or kids? Pentecostal charismatic because they would rather have a move of the spirit without understanding what the move of the spirit is in the Word and so they would rather lean on their experience Then they would The Bible there is this movement guys in our country this anti intellectualism where we don't think that Understanding something in our head is important that we ought to feel it and People who feel it we find them doing these strange things. We find these these cults. We find these folks Casting sleep demons out of people we we find these people with these who don't understand That our head has to be connected with our heart. We find them Casting snakes out of people right we find them making people spit up demons. We find them having kids Proposy lay hands that's that's what this anti intellectualism that we have in this country has coming And it and it's happening for some reason for the most part primarily in the church community Where we don't think that understanding is Important and that Deeping and delving into the scriptures is important. It is it is and so if I want to divide a passage I want to get to the heart of it. How do I do so? How do I do so and it's not to tell someone who doesn't know my language first learn English and then you'll you'll get this Okay, no It is and whatever language you are Parts this thing go into it and if you can also get an understanding in Hebrew and Greek then fine But what if you never learned Hebrew and Greek, but you could I don't know figure out how to use some of the tools And we'll kind of use just a little bit of the tool and so you can kind of see what I'm what I'm talking about Okay, but then you also have the cults the cults don't like CULTS the cults do not like Hebrew and Greek not for themselves the Joe the Jehovah's Witnesses of the world They don't like it because it exposes Their heresy and then those the kids those who are immature People who are immature think that their way is the only way And we've got a lot of that we've got a lot of that on all different sides Okay, and so it's this lack of desiring this lack of understanding this lack of wanting to be Wrong I get no one wants to be wrong, but some people are just unwilling to even have Just a hint of being incorrect You better be able to say that I might be incorrect about something that way because you prevent yourself from learning so anyway That being said I Want to go over some passages and I want to show you some things That might cause or might help us to just learn a little bit more about the scriptures I want to cover a passage that you all you all probably have never even thought about that These are passages where the languages might help a little bit. Okay, so some of this some of you guys may have heard me cover This passage before Proverbs 226 Now I've got this up in oh this is still in the King James version. Okay, it says train up a child in The way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it now Let me come back to the screen because I want to ask you guys a question Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart Some of you heard me talk about this passage before some of you have not and so those of you have not or really anyone tell me What does this passage mean? I'll put it back on the screen. You guys tell me what this passage means Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart So guys in the chats. I'm looking for you to tell me. What do you think this passage in Proverbs 226 means? Again, I'm picking out passages that Are illuminated a little bit more in the in the languages And so I just want to kind of see what what some of you guys are seeing them I'm going to show you How we can find out what it means, okay? It says direct the child Alberto says direct the child, okay We ought to direct the child in the way that he should go Let's see. He will not depart from the training as a child. Okay anyone else. So let's see it means Teach your child and he will go back to Christ Teach the child by example now. Here's the here's the problem With this passage the way it's written. Let me go back to it again Here's the problem with this passage the way it's written Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart the problem with this passage is It presents a conundrum and that is well, wait a second. I know I've trained my child as best a person could Show them all the things they're supposed to do and you know what? This child has departed from this teaching This child is not acting the way they're supposed to act Now somebody come back and say well, maybe you didn't train them in the way that they should go Maybe it's maybe it wasn't a child. Maybe it was your training that did it Okay, fine. Well, what about God? Is there a better father than him? God has children think about the children of Israel he trained them taught them led them But let's let's apply God's training to even us and the children of Israel And when he is old he will not depart from it Are there people in Israel who? Departed from their training Sure, there were people who in Israel depart from their training So what gives God that that because what you say should be a hundred percent true in this case It's it is an absolutely not a hundred percent true that if we train a child up That he is always going to go in the way that he's been trained and he'll never depart it So something's wrong either something wrong with your word As I read it or there's something wrong with How it's written There's the key. So let's go back to the passage. I'm going to show you that the way it's written Could probably be written better. Let me show you what I mean The very first word there it is the same word it is It's a train up Okay, now what it is is the question is is this a command? Or guys, is it a warning now? I'm up before I get to that though. I want to show you something Where it says train up a child in the way that he should go What it says here is al paní der go Al Right here. Look at the bottom. It says upon P al P the mouth upon the mouth Der go upon the mouth of his way So train up a child upon the mouth of his way Have any of you ever heard that passage have any of you ever heard it put that way train up a child upon the mouth of his way Um, I doubt that most people have heard that passage or have heard it heard it put that way Train up a child upon the mouth of his way al P. Der go but guys again That is how it's literally written in the Hebrew Okay, al P. Der go So what does that mean then Corey if if One, what does it mean in two? Why does it say that? Why is it translated this way in the english? I'll cover both ways I'll cover it both ways When it comes to why is it in the english this way? Well It made sense the way it was written when it was written sometimes a passage It gains a certain favor and tradition Or preference keeps certain words out or keeps certain words and let me give you an example When tindale translated the new testament into greek when he was doing this translation He didn't use the word Church he used the word gathering. Okay. He used a different word However, later The translations went with church Okay The reason why tindale wanted to go with with with his word was because he felt that it it gave a better understanding of what The church or the gathering or the assembly is that's why so sometimes you're going to have a passage that just Follows tradition sometimes the passage like we just like it that way and even when it was written It was understood to mean what the text was saying, but here's a problem with english And it's problem the problem that's I imagine the same with every other language But definitely with english definitely with greek definitely with hebrew the problem is this Words change over time Okay, meaning of words the meaning of words change And sometimes we've got a word one word that can mean four or five different meanings We're present where it initially only had one meaning or we can have four or five words that mean This one thing. Okay. I use the example of bank What is the word bank mean? Different meanings, right? What does the word find mean different meanings for fi and e Even even a word that shouldn't even be that difficult. What does the word? Bad mean What does the word cool mean? so We've got new words brought in we've got words that aren't words that become words We've got words that are words that they change their many words more over time And so therein lies a problem with with even the translators, right? So That being said, that's why it says train up a child because that's kind of that's how it was written initially okay, now What does it actually say out? Alpe d'erco and what does that mean? Alpe d'erco means according to his been upon the mouth of his way Is an idiom every language has him an idiom is Kind of a way that we say certain things so upon the mouth of his way means according or the way that he should go meaning It's written this way because this is the way that he wants to go So Train up a child in the way that he wants to go or according to mouth of his way According to the mouth of his way means his bit how he is In other words, if your child if this child is an angry child this child has fits arranges Uh, if you train him up that way if you train up your child according to his natural bent when he's old He will be that way if your child is lazy That's his natural bit. That's the mouth of his way according in the way that he should go He is lazy If you train that lazy child up to be lazy to stay lazy when he's old Guess what he will continue to be lazy and when he's old he will not depart it Are you see what i'm saying? So now oh that makes sense Uh, the old saying you can't teach an old dog new trick. Well, this guy who is let's say he's lazy at 70 Well, he's been lazy. He didn't he didn't get to 70 and become lazy He was lazy at 60. He was lazy at 50. This guy with his anger problem same thing This guy who's messy this woman's met same thing If you train them according to their natural and and guess what we all have a natural sin bent And so the writer is saying if you train him according to that way It's not saying train. So what it is it's not a A command it's a warning if you train according to his his bent He'll be that way now if his bent is a good bend if if if the mouth of his way or The way that he should go it's good And he is a polite person and when he's old he'll be polite That's how that works. Okay. Now. I want to throw a pass in here that never gets we don't really notice it often We don't see that it there. It's probably a mistake In the way that it's written. Let me show it to you And it's and by the way guys this is in every translation An aim is 612 it says Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood now what this pastor is talking about Is is using supposed to be using two examples of doing The wrong thing the wrong way or doing something the wrong way like for example do horses run on rocks? Well, no horses. Let me put it back on the screen Horses do not run on rocks Okay, now here's but the problem is right here On the second part Does one plow there with oxen? well Yeah, you do plow an oxen but this is supposed to be two Goofy things to incorrect things to prove a point for the second part, but you have turned justice into poison Well, here's a problem. Let me go back to the passage in hebrew Uh, this word here with oxen is this word right here Is this word right here? uh bickering Or is it bicker? And then the word is supposed to be separated Okay, now the reason why i'm asking and this is why we believe that this is probably is probably um An error because in hebrew Guys in hebrew as hard as that is to read in hebrew there one There's no vow markings in hebrew originally and then all the words all the letters aren't really run together So there is no space between one word and the next word. So either this is uh bicker yam Which means do oxen's plow on the sea? or Do i mean, uh, do you plow the sea with an ox or is it do you plow with oxen? So is it plural oxen? Where the yad mean comes in making it plural or is it the yam, which means the sea? Which one is it? Well, it's probably not what we have here. It's probably a separation between these two words right here. Okay It's probably that these two words right here need to be separated Okay, the yad mean and then that would form uh the sea so And then it would make sense because yeah horses don't horses don't run on rocks because if they run on rocks they would break their heel and um Well, you don't plow the sea with an ox But we left it there Why well you'd have to ask the translations committee It could it could could be because they felt like it should be oxen Or it could be just out of tradition now the other way the one that i'm saying with the two words Separate it it makes the passage make a little bit more sense because we're talking about something that doesn't make sense To prove the point right so now We don't talk about that often But it's just one of those things that come up when you you know When you start doing a little bit of a hebrew study so Let me give you some passages in the english That are kind of More illuminated by the greek as a matter of fact, let me put it on screen I'll show it in the english you all you all know this passage There's some debate about this passage and let's see if we can get to the heart of the matter just by using the greek This spirit influence inspired passage Ephesians 2 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith And this is not of your own doing. It is a gift of god. So the question is going to be The question is going to be well, what is a gift of god? Is it the faith um, that you've been saved Or is it that you've been saved Are we trying to say that our faith is what is what the is what the gift of god is or the salvation from god Is that the gift now? You all have heard me talk about a man by the name of william mounts before He's got a do I have this book out? I got it somewhere back there. I'll pull it out a little bit But he's got a book I love the book. It's called Basics of biblical greek. I've got the old version, but the basics of biblical greek And he covers he teaches how to you know for first year students how to learn greek And he's got some other little tools as well And so before I get to I want to pull this back up on the screen. This is the pastor We're looking at and so the question is is there is there a way that we can know for sure What is a gift now before I go there guys, let me ask you a question What do you think Is the gift when he says is this the second half this letter half that says it is it is the gift of god What is the gift is it salvation or is it faith? Which do you think you think it's salvation? That's the gift of god or do you think faith is the gift of god? Give me in your in the chats. I'd like to know I like to see where you guys are thinking that I want to pull up mounts and let you hear what he's saying Okay, no name Just because he says it is salvation Mr. K says both Patrick says both Monkey move says both anola says salvation Meek spirit says salvation steve says salvation david says salvation Well question it what about the faith is is faith How do we know it's talking about both? Is there a way now? You know what without any any further do let me go ahead and play this clip for mount And I'll stop it because I'm gonna have to explain something in the middle of it So let me just go ahead and play this So paul writes for By grace instrumental dative You are saved Paraphrastic perfect Through faith Semicolon and this not of yourselves Of god the gift not out of works In order that no one Can boast Just a quick grammatical note on this paraphrastic You have the present of a me and a perfect participle that makes you to paraphrastic perfect Originally paraphrastics were created to emphasize the ongoing aspect of something But that's been basically lost by the time of the koine So this is translated as a simple perfect. You have been saved Now what he's talking about is he says well you have been saved. He's he's bringing up the perfect He's talking about how it was or should be or could have been a paraphrastic phrase a perfect And he basically says Almost don't even worry about the fact that it's paraphrastic just just is perfect Which is why he says you have been been saved Which by the way the greek tells us since it says you have been saved and it's a perfect That means that our salvation came back Way back when how back how far back when don't know now, of course, we're in Ephesians And so he already he's already told us in Ephesians one that our salvation came back from the beginning of The earth the foundation of the earth and so that's why the perfect tense is there So let's go ahead and continue. What do you say your interest the thing about the greek is the tutta Which is neuter And there's no neuter for it to go back to now In greek There's no we don't worry about word order in greek. Okay, and i'm going to show you that in just a little bit In english we'll have john through bob the ball So we'll have john he is a noun, but he is a subject he threw the verb the ball So to john i mean to bops we've got the direct object and the indirect object Well In greek you might have had that in that order. Okay word order doesn't matter And so it might be everything might be flip. Well, how do we know what's the direct object? How do we know what's the indirect object? How do we know what's the and there might be a couple of nouns in there In this case, uh, bob through the ball or john through the ball We've got john bob and ball all of those are nouns. Which one is the subject? Okay, we obviously can figure out which one is the verb so um, but what happens is the Words have to agree in what's called case and so if He's talking about it being in the neuter. Well, there's nothing else In this passage that's in the neuter that he's referring to so how do we know what he's talking about? He's going to explain You might think that this not of yourselves would refer to being saved Or god's expression of grace, which is feminine. This is masculine faith is feminine So why a neuter tutta well the basic rule in greek is that when you want to refer back Not to a specific word, but to a more general concept you put the pronoun in the neuter And so this means that tutta refers to this entire process of gracious salvation by faith That whole thing Is not of us We don't do that It's god's gift so Seeing the greek tells us Rather than finding out which one is and some of you all said both And someone will say no, it's not both is salvation. No, it's not salvation. No, it's it's just faith Or it's the faith that we get salvation Well, um because the neuter because it's a particular rule and I won't go into the rule But that whole thing is brought under because he used the neuter to say all of that he is from god the the salvation and the faith so There's an example of how Just knowing the greek can illuminate it But now let's say if you don't know the rule But you just know so just some basic parts of greek So when they explain when someone like a bill mounds or wildless or whoever whoever else will give an explanation You can at least run with it, right? So Uh, someone asked am I getting your emails? I may or may not be I've got 300 emails and guys I can promise you this Uh, I might and I may or may not get all those emails or get to them. That's just so many By the way guys, let me just say this Quick word, um I'm sending messages. There's like 30 messages on message. I haven't got y'all I may or may not get to them. Okay, so I'm doing my best here Anyway, now I want to do a couple other passages because You have heard me talk about Matter of fact before I go, let me let me throw another pass on the screen. I want to give another another one This was kind of cool Uh in luke 2242 This is where jesus is in the garden and he's praying He says saying father if you are willing Remove this cup from me. Nevertheless not my will but yours be done well Do y'all think that because it seems like it do you think that jesus was praying to the father to get a different way Another way out. I don't oh man. I don't This crucifixion lord father god It's gonna hurt and I don't want to get crucified. I don't want to get beaten and I don't want to get crucified Can you help? Can you help a son out? Can you help a brother out? I don't want to get crucified Is that what jesus was praying? Was jesus asking To remove this cup I want y'all think about that for a second. Was jesus asking god The father to remove this cup was he saying Can we figure out something different than me being crucified? Think about that Was jesus asking for there to be some other way All right, so now put your put your answer out there. Anna says nope pastor gary says nope It's okay. So fine. You all are saying jesus wasn't asking that sylvia says no jesus wasn't asking that now if we say If we say that uh jesus is not asking For that for the cup to be taken away. Let's go back to the passage If jesus is not asking for this cup to be taken away. Why is he saying father if you are willing remove this cup? Why is that? Hmm? Everyone else is saying no now you have All these people saying no No doubt though you guys have heard people say You've heard i've heard preachers say this i've heard people on youtube say that uh, here's somebody with uh, with an awesome And I do mean awesome name Says no. Hey, kory No, jesus was not asking that. Okay kevin says. Yes. He was praying that some people say Yes, some people say no, and I've heard a lot of preachers preach this That he's asking for this cup to be removed. Well He's not asking for this cup to be removed. Remember who he is. Remember we say jesus is god Remember what jesus said he says that no one takes my life I come to lay it down if I lay it down. I pick it back up He's always talked about what he's come to do He's talked about what the father sent him to do and what he's desired to do We know that from attorney pass He has had this in mind. We know that from the old testament Talks about him coming to do that him in the old testament saying he's going to do that So he's already stated why he's coming. So why would he make this statement out to be? Well, why would it seem to us as though father if you are willing remove this cup from me? Well a couple things first of all, there's no one there to hear him praying this right? The other the other three. What are they doing while he's praying this? They're knocked out. They're sleeping Right now there's some anguish there and I won't get into the whole anguish the reason why there's this anguish there between what he's doing but You can make a statement You can say something and phrase it in the form of a question But I want to point something out in the greek In the greek There's this word here if you are willing Okay, if you go over to the right here, this word bulay Bulay now it can be excuse me You can say it means to will or or to want but it's not like the desire That will this is kind of a planning kind of a an ordination Have you planned for me if father if you are planning this then remove this cup But he's not planning this and that's his point is he does the exact same thing. He's the exact same grammatical Thing that he does here. He does the exact same thing when he's on the cross when he says L. O. L. I must have bought me my god my god. Why have you forsaken me? um And so when he does that he's not asking Why why am I being crucified? And he's not asking obviously knows why He's doing it to make a point now the point may not be obvious to us, but it should be Why is this cup coming because somebody? somebody Needs to have this wrath poured out on them Somebody needs to take this And this is why and there won't be anyone else that's going to come and take this wrath. There won't be My god my god. Why are you forsaking me? You can't because you can't be forsaken It wouldn't matter. You couldn't be saved But he can take all of that and then us be saved. That's his point. He's asked the question And him asking question is the answer. Are you with me? So anyway, now I want to do something. It's kind of I think will help because someone's going to say well Okay, Cory all that's nice nice and neat But uh, I don't know greek So what can I do in the meantime? Well? I've stated before that you guys can get a an inner linear now It depends on what type of inner linear now as luck would have it for me The inner linear that i'm using or that I have on here Is not the inner linear that I would recommend you guys to get If you all want to just get a a decent understanding without having to learn greek You can get an inner linear with with a transliteration. Okay Let me just show you what a transliteration does not look like since I don't have one um Here I've got over here the english And matter of fact Yeah, I've got the english and I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll do you guys one favor I'll put it in the king james version. How about that bam? I'll get rid of this ESV Because it doesn't really it doesn't really matter. Can I move this over? Yeah, I can all right Uh, let me put this over here. Nope All right, so now I've got the king james version over here the of of john 1 6 I've got the greek over here, and I've got what's called the in linear Now as we read this Here is what the transliter well the transliteration would be i'm going to give you the transliteration I'll say it even though I don't have it here as you read it For verse 6 says there was a man sent from god whose name was john now here. It is in the greek. It says uh, agneta amphipas and it and it became or came a man Apostolaminus apostolaminus which is uh being sent Now this is in the uh the participle So he is being sent part of feu which is from god and it says here onoma out to iones Which is named to him john which is kind of now if I were to give the transliteration of this it would say this Came a man being sent from god name to him john And so if you had if you had an inner linear You would have that underneath the The regular greek and under or to the side of the english translation So what we would do is we would take that rough transliteration And then we would give it the nice smooth english way of saying it Okay, and so sometimes like I'll give you I'll give you a famous example where we take the transliteration You don't see it, but we turn around and change it into the english so that it can make sense to us Remember I said in in greek word order doesn't matter Okay, now sometimes we change word order to give an emphasis same thing with hebrew What's the famous passage out of out of uh, john one? Well, you guys know it john one one So let's go to john one one and put that back on the screen And so it says in the beginning was the word and the word was with god Well, that's actually pretty pretty close to how it says in greek And rk in beginning was the word And the word And the word was God now the transliteration will say in the word was the god Okay, and so just if I were to give it just just just natural just rough rendering and the word was the god Right now you don't say the god In english we would take off the the but it's there to get to let us know who we're speaking of, okay? The first time that God shows up, Theos shows up, it shows up as God. By the way, let me make a point cause someone's gonna see this and butcher this. Go back to this passage where it says here, Theos is from the word from the nominative Theos but it is a Theon. Well, there's a reason for that, okay? Don't get too caught up in the fact that the ending is a new rather than a Sigma. Don't get caught up into that, okay? Because depending upon if a word is in the nominative, if it's in the dative, the genitive, the accusative, if it's in the plural, depending upon what declension it's in, if it's in the first, second, or third declension, if it's plural, the ending will change but it will still have the same meaning, right? So don't get caught up into that at all, okay? So, let me go back to it. Now, here's where the word order changes in the Greek and we have to flip, we have to change it in the English. Cai Theos and still the same Theon. Cai Theos, Ayn Halagos. Well, let me give you guys a transliteration of this, okay? Matter of fact, it says, and God was the word. That's how it's written in the Greek. Cai Ayn Theos, God, Ayn was Halagos, the word. However, it doesn't say, and God was the word in English. It says, and the word was God, okay? But wait a second, why is that flipped? Because again, in Greek, word order doesn't matter. Now, sometimes a word might be moved to give emphasis and so in this case, we see that and so the emphasis on this passage is, and God, and it didn't have to be, we know it's definite because we've already been told it's definite because the Theon Theon and Greek tells us we don't have to put the definite article in front of the Theos. But anyway, but it says, and God was the word. Well, why does your Greek say, and the word was God? Because we know that the word, Halagos is what's called the, it's the subject. And Theos is the predicate nominative and so to give emphasis of what the Theos, I mean of what the Lagos is, Theos is what it is, which is God, is put to the front of that, okay? So, that's the reason for that. Now, the whole point of that, you're right, let me put it back up here. Not lost in translation yet, the emphasis is on God. Now, if I just know some Greek, then I can kind of figure that out. But even if I don't, even if I don't know or understand Greek, but I've got a decent little understanding of it, just all right. Then I could probably listen to someone explain it and it kind of makes sense. Kind of like how we did back in English in high school or junior high and the teacher was telling us something and we wasn't following. But because we had an idea of what English was, we speak it, it sort of made some sense. But then, you know what it did, it went in one ear and out the other. But when we're looking at the passage and we wanna delve into it further, like, you know what, okay, I see that. Now, this is one of those passages where anyone who doesn't believe that Jesus God cannot deal with John 1.1 because, because it's the predicate nominative, Theos is the predicate nominative and not the subject, it identifies what the subject halagos is. That is, the halagos is, halagos is God. So, but that's what Greek does. It helps us settle misunderstandings. It's not necessarily there to settle debate or argument, but it can, it should. Somebody's gonna say that someone's gonna say, well, that person, all he does is rely on Hebrew and Greek. Well, what do you rely on? It's certainly in the English, what do you rely on? Not you guys, but you all know recently I've had some folks who had some differences with me and okay, fine, you had your differences and I'm going to the scripture and I'm going not just into the scripture that was translated, I'm going to how it was in the beginning and I'm trying to see what does it say and in the Greek, I'll go with that. I'll go with that. And so, if it's telling me one thing, then that's what it is. And so, anyway, okay, you're trying to come up with it, you're trying to afford a particular doctrine. I get it, I get it, you don't like the, anyway, yeah. This is a court as Bible software, guys. I need to get, they ought to give me some sort of, they ought to give me something for this, huh? They should be, they should, I should have got some sort of marketing agreement with them, huh? Anyway, all right, guys. So the point is this, there's no such thing, no such thing. Matter of fact, let me go to this thing. Let me click on here. I want to see what this poll was. All right, the poll had 75% that I use the Greek when needed, 12% says too much, 13% said not enough. 12% of you people are in sin. No, I'm kidding. Listen, guys, I don't think that there's a such thing as using it too much unless you're using it to beat down somebody, okay? And I would hope that I never do, and maybe I have, I can't say that I haven't, but if I ever speak over someone's head and not willing to go back and try to explain what it was that I said, then shame on me. If I do it unintentionally, well, then it was unintentional. But if I do it to kind of put somebody down who's trying to learn, then that's wrong, okay? And I don't want to do that. I don't want to do it with the Greek or the Hebrew. And guess what, guys? There are people that I listen to just like, wow, okay. All right, can you do me a favor? Can you spell that again? Can you go slower with that? Because I'm having problems understanding how you took that with that Greek or I took that with the Hebrew, okay? I'm a little bit better with Greek than I am with Hebrew, which is funny, because I started off with Hebrew. But the reason why I wanted to learn Greek or Hebrew, the only reason why is because I wanted, through the spirit, I want to get closer to God. Now, y'all know my story. I had time, and so I took advantage of that time to, and here's what's funny though. This is exactly how God works. This is, it's amazing. There was an actual scholar, a Greek scholar, that came to the prison that I was at. This is a scholar who actually co-authored a book with the scholar, scholar, Daniel Wallace. He has a book called Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament. Here's how he ended up, how he found his way at the prison that I was at. He was a chaplain, and he wanted to go into the ministry. He wanted to go, he wanted to plant a church at some point in time, but he decided the best way to understand ministry was to go and minister to prisoners, to inmates. And so me seeing him, and he's knowing that I'm learning Hebrew, he says, well, you can also learn Greek at the same time. And so I've got him there. I was a sponge, I was soaking it up. Tell me this, tell me that he gave me the first day, he gave me this trick to understand Greek even better. Even he told me first, I got my first to identify all the definite articles, and so I'm looking for ha-tu-to-tan, all the rest of the ate-te-te-stain. These are the Greek words for the learned, learned all the nominative, the singular, the plural, the, not nominative, but all the masculine, singular and plural, all of the feminine, singular and plural, all of the neuter, singular and plural, and it helped. I would go in and I would circle that stuff, I would identify it, and then it helped me to understand, to understand who's been talked to. Because if this word is in the nominative, then the word that we're trying to figure out, what's modifying it, if it's also in the nominative, it's gonna be in the same case ending as the word that it's modifying. Adjectives are gonna be written the same way as the word that it's modifying, same with the ad version, so forth. And so that was prepositions as well. I'm not prepositions, pronouns as well. And so that was helpful, very helpful. So God, because I'm trying to get close to him, I'm trying to learn more of him using the power of the spirit, some kind of way that worked out that here he is with me, right? So when someone says that a person needs to rely more on the spirit and not the Greek of the Hebrew, what you're really saying, what you're really saying is that a person needs to rely more on the spirit than the word that the spirit gave, which is kind of blasphemous, right? So anyway, that being said, guys, go ahead and if you all have, I got a little bit of time, if you wanna ask some questions, if you wanna cover some stuff, go ahead and send your questions in, let me fix something real quick, because I just might do something. Go ahead and, okay, hold on. I'm sorry, I'm gonna move this over here. All right, now let me go back to my regular screen. All right, so, let me make sure I didn't pass any questions. I gotta move this thing down and get to the questions. How would you preach the gospel to non-believers? I guess that's what you're asking. There is no right or wrong way. I've got something that keeps getting in my eye. I don't know what's going on here, but how would you preach the gospel to non-believers? How is it preached to you? Because at one point in time, you're a non-believer. There is no right or wrong way. The hard and attitude could be the wrong way, but even in that, Paul said, when people do it the wrong way, nevertheless, at least Christ be preached. And so, there's something powerful in the preaching. Oh, by the way, another Greek example, in Romans 10, 17 says that faith comes by hearing and hearing. Well, it's not the verb hearing, it's the noun hearing, the noun hearing. So faith comes by the report of the gospel. Just the report of the gospel causes salvation. That's awesome when you're just thinking about that. But anyway, somebody will say, because let's say this church does this and it doesn't work out well that we shouldn't do this. We shouldn't have, we shouldn't do altercalls. Or we shouldn't do the little prayer of faith when someone, hey, pray this prayer, right? Well, we know that neither of those things actually causes salvation. There's a reason why people do that. And I'm not opposed to anyone. And if anyone, I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's MacArthur, if it's law, I don't care who it is that says you shouldn't do that, that that's wrong. I'm gonna ask them to book chapter and verse. And I'm gonna show them, I'm gonna put my numbers of all the folks that I know have come to Christ through these altercalls, through these prayers. Here's why, because when a person gives, when a person, let's say they come down for an altercall and they acknowledge that they have placed faith in Christ, what happens? Well, we know that now, because what you cannot have happened, when I started the outreach ministry, what I was doing was people were coming to Christ, they were placing faith in Christ and they were being sent out, hey, all right, good luck. Well, that's not good either. You don't send babies out into the world. Well, if they come for an altercall, they make this public profession of faith and people know about it, now what can you do? Now there can be somebody to go alongside that person and to work with that person and to help cultivate them, right? That there'd be someone that they're not out there by themselves. So that's the reason why, now you explain to them that just because you said the words, that meaning thing, if you repeat what I said, that meaning thing, but if you believe what you said, and truth be told, before you say it, you were saved. The faith, the trust was already there. Now you're just kind of publicly making that statement, right, and so that's why, okay? I says churches don't have altars. They don't have to have altars. The point is when they come to, y'all know what I mean when they come down before we call it an altercall, but when they come down to the front and they say, hey guys, this or that, whatever, there's nothing, first of all, there's nothing wrong with it, okay? So now if it's not the church's preference, hey man, I don't have a problem with the church not doing it, nor do I have a problem with the church doing it, okay? So as a matter of fact, if we were to do a survey in the chats of all you people who call yourselves Christians, how many of you all did it that way? It's gonna be a whole lot of I did it, I did it, I did it. Now are you not saved because you did it that way? No, so anyways, he says, why did you give Chris a silo, a pass? Chris is a false teacher and his, here's why. Let me just tell you guys this, when he first responded, and of course, there's not gonna be a lot of folks in his group that's gonna respond, but when he responded, I was so, hey, you know what, are you sure about this guy? This guy is combative, this guy's, and of course, even when he left here, he went on talking all kind of trash, but that's fine, hey, that's fine, told me that I didn't know that Lydia, I said that Lydia was a girl and not a city, and I'm like, wait a second, Lydia is a girl, not a city, but he's telling people on his other channel, I'm dumb, I said some stupid stuff, I didn't even know that Lydia was a city and not a girl, I had to confuse me, and he kept saying it, I go, okay, well fine. And so I went back and looked, well, sure enough, buddy, Lydia is a girl, and he missed my whole point. The point was not to be as cutting as possible, although I wanted to, but his character, his style, his combativeness, and he's, Chris LaSalle is a person that I don't think anyone should listen to, you just should not. He's an angry person, he's a belittling person, and when I say I heard, I literally heard the recording, the audio recordings of him and his wife getting into it and what she said happened, yeah, for that reason alone, but then also his doctrine. But did I wanna have this little storm on the channel just to know I wanted to cover the doctrine, what they believe. Now, there's a lot of other things that he didn't say that he believed that we didn't get into, but I just wanted to go over that. And that's the reason why I didn't go there, because I didn't want it to be that kind of party, you know, so, anyway. I think there's a time where you should be combative, I think there's also a time where you ought to have some wisdom and I'm trying to get old in a wise fashion, not in a hurry, so anyway. Okay, at least I have dry eyes. You know what it might be? It might be dry eyes, it may very well be. Was I self-taught in some cases, but no, God has blessed me with some people that were, when I tell you what, you all name some people that you think are giants or well-respected when it comes to understanding the scriptures. I don't care who you read it off. Some guys like, and again, let me say this, I'm not account for this, okay? But a lot of folks, the flavor of YouTube, the people that people turn to are the more reform teachers, the John McCarthy's of the world, the Vodibachos, the Lawson's and so forth. Well, most of these guys that you pick out, even those who are not reformed, let me say this, I know some guys that will just walk them down. I mean, they are, one guy, he literally reads, his Bible is the Hebrew and Greek Bible. And so when he's reading it, you're thinking he's reading it in the English, but he's not. He's reading it in the Greek or in the Hebrew and he's saying out of his mouth in English. Like, okay, hey, what kind of Bible you got? Your Bible is small and thick. What is that? Oh, it's just, what? Did you just read that thing in Hebrew and told us, and understands how this stuff is laid out and he is gonna make you earn your, earn whatever it is you say. Now, when I came up underneath him, I'd already been up on another man, Dr. Bolden, who was already that way as well, who could just cut and cut and cut the Bible just like wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Now, before him, the man that taught me some things in terms of leadership was named by the name of Bishop Watson, who this was in Church of God and Christ, Pentecostal Church. Now, the doctrine, you know, I reject that now, but his leadership, the kind of man that he was, his love for his people, I learned that most under him. Okay, and so I've been fortunate to be around some people who have taught me who I can learn from and grow from. I've always had some older man who would pour into me or who was at least available for me to go and grab some stuff out of. And so, and then obviously, you gotta spend time in it yourself. So, yeah, let's see. Okay, hold on, what do you, help me understand life law, what do you mean, Calvinistic reading of Greek or are you referring to somebody else? I'm not sure, but anyway. Do I believe in the Sola Scriptura? Do I believe in scriptures alone? I do. Now, do I believe that, I part from when people say that the only way that God speaks is through his scriptures. That would make me wonder, well, what are we praying for? Why do I pray? Now, do I believe that God is speaking to people like he likes some of these guys, wake up every day, I gotta work with him a little bit. The Lord told me this in the dream. No, but do I think that God still speaks to us? Sure, sure. He's always spoken to us. And so there's nothing in the Bible that says that he doesn't. And when they go, when people go to Hebrews one, that's not talking about him speaking to us. That is not what that pastor says. And I will tell, I'll ask anyone, make that and make sense to me, to Hebrews one. If any of you all in the chat, believe so, Mass, you make that, make Hebrews one, make sense to me. Now, whatever he says, however you felt like the Lord is leading you, and I believe he leads us, that's his speaking. Obviously he's not speaking, you know, hey Corey, you ought to this or that. Now, do I think that if God is, and here's where it doesn't make sense. If God is sovereign, and if God is ordaining some things, do I think he's ordaining everything that he ordained me to get this microphone or to get this color shirt? No, I don't think that. Now, did he ordain me to get this color? Obviously he ordained me to get this. That makes sense, right? Did he ordain me to not be a Cowboy's fans? Clearly, clearly, God is looking after my man, right? So anyway, but can I say that if God is sovereign, can I say that God has purpose, he's got a specific plan for me and that I need to go to work at this particular job and that's gonna fulfill a particular purpose or a plan that he has? Well, sure, God still works, he still works. If the devil is busy, then so too is God. And so will that necessarily mean that some kind of way that he moves or ordains and worked in people's lives? Yeah, you cannot believe in the sovereignty of God and believe that God didn't speak to you. You cannot, it doesn't mean, because if he's ordaining things that happen, how does he cause it to happen if he's not leading you? Now, do I believe he's speaking? Hey, Bob, I want you to turn the light off. Hey, Bob, I want you to turn the channel 15. I say turn the channel 15 like we got regular TV. But y'all get my point. So anyway, so I believe in scriptures and so if you feel like the Lord is leading you in a particular way, the first thing you do is lean on the scripture, make sure that however you feel like the Lord is leading you, that it lines up with scripture. That's why, again, I'm not somebody who's for promoting all the spiritual gifts and so forth, but if someone says no, the spiritual gifts are still there, okay, well fine, fine, fine. I'm gonna lean on scriptures. So if I see you so-called speaking in tongues and it doesn't line up with the scriptures, you outta here. If I see you, you say you healing people and it doesn't line up with scriptures, you outta here. Don't tell me you got this gift and you're not doing it and I don't see the Lord being magnified. Oh, you outta here. The Bible gives us a clear guideline, a clear blueprint on how things ought to be done. Even when someone says the Lord said, okay, fine, let's see if what he says lined up with what we know he said in the scripture. And so that's kinda how I do that anyway. This guy said football season's over. Let's see. Oh, wait a second. Hey, brother, listen. It's an awesome colts cup. Why is this bigger on some people? Okay, I know why yours is larger than the average person because you're a colts fan. That's why you're, let me fix this though. Some of these are all right because whatever reason this thing is larger on my screen anyway, there it is. That's an awesome colts cup. As a Muslim, I'm considering Christianity before I do. How do I know what's the correct doctrine of God bless and go colts? First of all, what a great way to start off a conversation and then end it. But in all seriousness, I believe this. And I've seen, I know, I know of some Muslim brothers who have come to Christ. I believe this, that God has always wanted to have a relationship with His creation. That's us. And I don't think that God waited some thousand years to send Muhammad. I think that what the scriptures say are true. I think it's the only book with predicted prophecy that has come true. And so just the evidence alone, just the evidence alone leads me. So this is what I'll say to you. This is what was said to me. And I believe it to be true. That if you just, in a sincere fashion, Lord, I don't know, there's something tugging me. There's something I'm feeling. So Lord, I'm not sure if you're there. Cause that's how I did it. I don't know if you're real, but if you are, I believe you'll make yourself evident to me. And so Father, I want God, I want to know. Should I place my faith and trust in what you did on the cross? Because you already know, brother, you already know that you can't do the right thing. You keep messing up. You keep sinning. You keep falling. You already know that. That's evident. We all have that problem. Not just you, I do believers and non-believers alike. We all have that same problem. The difference is though, if you fail in your sin and you have not trusted what Christ has done on the cross, that Christ paid the debt that we owe because God doesn't like when we mess up. And if the debt that needs to be paid is paid by him and you trust that it is, if he's your Lord, if Christ is, if you have the Son, the Bible tells us that you, my friend, are set free. You are free and then your reward will be heaven. That mean that you're not gonna mess up again cause you will. You'll mess up less and less, but you'll still mess up. You'll still sin, but you'll sin less and less and less. Okay? But the good news is now you belong to a household. You belong to a family who is bound by blood to take care of you, to look out after you, to pray for you, to be there for you. Of course, now the flip side, you're also bound by blood to do the same thing, but you're part of the family. And who's at the head of the dinner table? God the Father's there. Okay, and so if you would, brother, give me, send me an email. We can talk, smart christen channel at Gmail and we can talk more. I'd love to have this conversation with you, but this is more serious than anything that we can talk about about any doctoral issues because it doesn't matter if a person believes in one, say, but always say it if it's not safe. Doesn't matter if a person believes in the gifts of tongue, whether they've ceased or not, if they don't know Christ. And so I think that's the most important thing. Even if you become a believer and don't believe all things I believe, that's perfectly fine. But I want you to become a brother in the Lord. Amen. Besides, besides, you're too smart not to be a Christian. You are too smart not to be a Christian. Anyway, but yeah, but if you can send me an email so we can talk. All right, we got a few more minutes. Ivan Skoll says, Matthew 18, 21 through 35. You would give me 14 verses to read, huh, Ivan? Let's go there though. You said Matthew 18. Oh, wrong one. Let me take that off here, 18. Oh, put the 21 in. Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times, Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times. Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his son. And so he said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times. With his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talent. And the second, I'm sorry. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold with his wife and children and all that he had and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him have patience with me and I will pay you everything. And out of the pity of him, the master of the servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when the same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 denari. And seizing him, he began to choke him saying, pay what you owe. So his fellow servants fell down and pleaded with him, have patience with me and I will pay you. He refused and went to put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you that debt because you pleaded with me and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant as I've had mercy on you. And in anger, his master delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his debts. Also, I mean, so also my heavenly father will do to every one of you if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. So you're asking how does that jive with, you said with one saved always say, well, we see the person's heart, right? This person is not forgiving. Well, if a person is in Christ, if a person's believer, well then what happens to his heart? Guys, I think we sometimes we miss, I don't know saying you, but here's what we miss sometimes about being a Christian. Being a Christian means when you have a repentant heart. Your whole disposition has changed. And so what's gonna change? You're also gonna have a forgiving nature. Now, are you gonna be forgiving on everything initially to the same degree that everyone else is? Well, probably not. This is gonna, I mean, are you gonna be perfect in all the things that you're supposed to be as far as a believer? No, but if a person holds grudges and considering what was just done, because this is pretty vivid, this is pretty vivid. Here's a guy who owes a ton of money and had it forgiven. And here's a guy who owes a little bit of money and you're gonna do this to him? Well, that clearly demonstrates how wicked how your heart has not been changed. And so if you can't have because the same way that you'll judge, that's the same way that you'll be judged with God. Because what happens is you place priority in your well-being and who you are. You're egotistical, you're arrogant, you've got pride because it's all about you, like it is with this person here. And that person is not a believer. I don't care what anyone says. So that kind of person, we see those people all the time. If you don't have a repentant heart, to be a believer, all these things have taken place. You have a repentant heart, you have a brand new heart, a new disposition. You have been baptized into the Holy Spirit. Okay? So these are things that happen. You are also a disciple. You begin following Christ. Now, you don't follow Christ in a straight line. We just don't. We follow him like this, right? And so every now and then something gotta kind of push us back and move us over. So that's kind of how we follow Christ. Now, hopefully it's kind of more like this. We're following Christ in the beginning, but as we go, it gets more like this and more, you know, and then eventually our following will be straight. So we are to be also immediate disciples as well. Okay? So anyway, I hope that helps. Oh, I got a couple more minutes. Okay, here's a good question. Hi, I want to start sharing Christian content starting with my own, with my story of salvation. How would you recommend I start? I would recommend you start as soon as possible. I didn't remember. I don't know anything about technology. I really don't. I struggle with some of this stuff and I'm learning as I go, but I just, my kids said, hey, you know, you're trying to, the teaching ministry, just put it on YouTube. How does that work? And then trying to remember guys, remember, I'm not making this up. I'm not exaggerating. I just learned, I don't know, matter of weeks ago, what a meme is. Now you all know that stuff because you've been, I'm not familiar, I wasn't familiar with that stuff. And so my point is technology is foreign to me. And I started it, just get you a camera or get your phone, get you a mic. You do want to have a mic. You don't want to just talk into your camera phone and they're cheap. You can get a lapel mic that's $20. And I don't, you don't have to get the most expensive because they're all going to break. I don't, the most expensive lapel mic is going to break. So get you a cheap, a decent $20, $30 lapel mic and start recording. If you don't have good lighting, wait till the sun comes up and do it that way. We're going to buy you $40, $50 light, but if you've got something that you feel like and benefit someone else, then go ahead and start. Everyone is not going to be successful on YouTube. I don't care if every Christian is not, okay? But start anyway, who knows? Start and let's see where God takes you. And there might be someone who get blessed by what you said, who can relate to what you're saying, like, man, this person just thoroughly blessed me. So start by just starting, that's what you do, okay? And there's more than enough room here on YouTube for people who love the Lord to show the gospel. There is. All right, let me slide to the bottom. Oh, hold on, hold on, okay. These smartphones were not out and we got locked up. Well, yeah, Gina, listen, where we were, when I got there, there was a lock on smartphones, but the spot that I was at before that, they did have the smartphones, I didn't have them. And so I know guys were using it and you'd see guys up late at night on their cell phones looking out for the guards and so forth. But anyway, yeah, the spot that we went to, they had the phones unlocked so you couldn't really get to them. Hold on, hold on, I'm coming back to your question just a second, okay, okay. Tell you what, I can't do it, Mr. Cat, I can't do it right now. I'm sorry I didn't see it, I'm sorry. I will get, I will, send me an email. Cody, we'll talk about having you, we'll bring you on, we'll talk about this whole issue of Revelation 22, so I can straighten you out. I'm kidding. But send me an email so we can cover that. Let me go to this question. Can you review Acts 16, 17? I heard the girl with the spirit of divination was actually saying away and not the way. Please check your Greek, okay, I've got it. Okay, yeah. What's funny is I got a message from my stash that says Mr. K wants to come on. So Mr. K, send me an email, we'll set it. If I don't, I can promise you, it definitely won't be the day because I'm getting ready to get off in just a second here. And it won't be tomorrow and it won't be Friday and it definitely won't be Saturday guys. We will have the class on Saturday. With all the bad weather here, the roofers are not coming so we'll have a Saturday. So either we'll, I'll bring you on either Monday or Wednesday. The roofers are gonna be here too, so it'll be Monday or Wednesday, okay? So send me an email, we'll figure this out. But anyway, let's get back to your question. Go to Acts 16, 17 and let's look at what the lady said. Acts 16, 17. She followed Paul and us crying out, these men are servants of the most high, who proclaim to you the way of salvation, okay? And so you're asking the question is, is she saying the way or a way? Well, let's go over here to the right side and let's look at the Greek. It says whom, I'm sorry, Hoytinez, which is who, this person who is this girl, referring to her, she is Katanga Angalusen, she is proclaiming, she's preaching, she's crying out, she's announcing to you, they are, I'm sorry, they are announcing to you. And here it is, the word way, hadan, hadan satirias. Now, is it the way or a way? It just says a way that it's not definite because there's no definite article that this is anarthorus. And so in this case, it is a way, but is it referring to a particular way? Is she referring to salvation that she's speaking of? I don't know, it's hard to say. And so if your Bible's translated that she says, let's see, how does this translate over here? This over here says the way, I would have to kinda look up some more to see, matter of fact, let's do this. Let's pull over, will this help? Where's it at? Oh, where's it at? It's in here somewhere. I'm looking for my, oh, show in a linear. Let's pull it back up and let's see if my little in a linear helps query out. And it doesn't. It doesn't. Yeah. It's not saying if this is, now here's the other thing though, just because a word is missing a definite article, doesn't mean that it's not definite. There are certain things that will have to happen. And I'm not sure if they're there or not, but just in the word the is not there. But the ESV has the word the there. Why? Why do the translators think that that should be there? Let's look at another translation and see, did I even put that on the screen? I'm sorry, I went and did all that. I'm not sure if I even put that on the screen. Let's go to the King James Version and see if it also translates the same way. The King James Version, yeah, they're just saying showed us the way. Now, so it has a definite article in the English. One of two things, either it should have the definite article, it should have the the there or it shouldn't, but you can imply that it's definite. I don't know now. There are a lot of times where we do imply that something belongs there and it's just out of our own doctrinal issues that we do so and it shouldn't be. So, or just to kind of clarify because we might know. Now, based on just looking at it, can I tell that, see as we were going to the place, let's read it again. Make sure I'm not missing anything. As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, these men are servants of the most high who proclaim to you the way. And she kept doing for many days, Paul having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ come out of her. Now, here's what it could be though. Again, there's no way really to know, but here's what it could be. She could be, and I think that's probably what it was, obviously she's mocking them. And so she says, hey guys, they found the way to heaven. That might be what she's saying, not that she was actually, she clearly wasn't saved. She clearly was not a preacher of the gospel. But she's saying that these people are preaching the way to salvation, kind of in a way to make fun. Hey y'all, get your tickets to go to heaven, y'all. They've got this thing down, right? They figured out a way. So she's mocking and maybe that's why they put the the in there because she's referring to what they're talking about, but she clearly wasn't a believer herself. So round the server, thank you. So you said Proverbs 18, 21. Let's go to Proverbs 18, 21. Proverbs 18, 21. All right. Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Okay, it doesn't mean that your tongue can cause something to live or to die. The point is that there is movement that's caused by the tongue. As James says that the little tongue can set a whole, can set a force of blaze. It can do so much damage that mouth. Of course nowadays it's not the mouth that's just the typing, but the same principle, okay? And it's not to be taken as that I can speak somebody to die or speak somebody to live or I can always speak life or death into a situation. Now, you can make a situation more alive. You can pull water on a fire with your mouth. You can, if you want to do something with your life or there's something that you wanna do, you can make it harder, talk it down. I'm not gonna be able, you can be like Eeyore on when the poo is not gonna work. It's just, I don't know why I'm even here. Why even bother it? Well, in that fashion, yeah, you're speaking death to it but are you really killing it? Not in the literal sense, okay? And so this is more figurative. This is more anthropomorphic because this is kind of how we can understand it, right? And we talk the same way too. We use figurative language often when we're talking and so you're killing me, man, you're killing me, right? I don't mean that you're literally killing me, but man, come on, will you stop? So that's kind of the same way that that is. All right, I got a couple, actually passed my time but I got a couple more minutes. Let's go ahead, let me do one or two more. When is the rapture video? That's why I'm not, that's why Mr. K can't come on because it's either going to be. Let me tell you two videos for this week, guys. Wait a second. I'm sorry, there's three videos left and between tomorrow, Friday and Monday. The three videos, I'm not sure which you're gonna show in. One is going to be on, eschatology on the tribulation and so forth. There's one, I'm not gonna tell you what this other one's gonna be, and the other one is going to be about Calvinists and Calvinism, okay? I'm gonna make it clear, guys, I'm not a Calvinist, I'm not against Calvinism. There's a lot of things we have in common. So we're gonna talk about that, all right? How did you learn to pronounce the Greek words? By the book, it tells you, by the way, you know what's funny. When we say like the word for pi, not pi that you eat but the in math or in the Greek letter pi, it's not actually pi, it's actually p. We say psi, phi, no, it's c, it's phi, it's key, it's phi, it's key, it's p, it's not the i sound, it's the e sound. So you would think that in college, with these Greeks, they would know that, but that's literally how those are pronounced. And so the textbooks will show you, it'll tell you, okay, this is pronounced with this, with this spelling, and they'll give you an example of a word that's spelled the same way. So when I tell you guys that learning Greek in Hebrew, it's time consuming, but it's not hard. Let me put it that way. It's time consuming, but it's not hard. And there are different things that you can do, different lessons that you can find to help you go faster with it, okay? So anyway, okay, King Raj, what'd you say? What is, what are my thoughts on Matthew 1119? The same as stated in Luke 7.5. So let's go to Matthew 11. I thank you that it's not a long one that you didn't give me 30 passages like Ivan did. He said, Matthew, all right, let's see. Matthew 1119, the son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, look at him, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds. So your question is what? I'm trying to help me out with what exactly is the question, are you talking about what they said about him being a glutton and a drunkard? All they were doing was just looking at anything they can do to kind of impugn him and his credibility, because guess what he was drinking? He was drinking wine, but he wasn't drunk, obviously. Him eating, well, these Pharisees, these Jews, these people who were concerned about their appearance, they didn't eat in front of people. They didn't do these certain things in front of people. Now, obviously they did things and they did a lot of sin. And so they wanted to impugn Jesus in any way, shape, form, or fashion that they could. Hey, he's hanging with the tax collectors. Well, you guys are friends of the tax collectors. You're just friends with them behind the scenes. So, right, let me, oh, okay, you're talking about wisdom. Okay, why did he refer to wisdom as her deeds? Is that wisdom, is that a spirit wisdom? What? Okay, let me see if I'm right. Why did he refer to wisdom, why he referred to wisdom as her and is that a spirit? Oh, I was just saying. Her, don't read into the her part. It's just, how do I put this? We use the term her. Oftentimes we give a gender to something. I don't wanna say a gender. But we give it, makes up in feminine or not like, hey, I'm driving my car and it's a girl's name to me and the car is actually an actual lady. And so I wouldn't read into that. And he's just saying, first of all, you guys are idiots. That's not you, it's kind of my way of Jesus saying, you guys are idiots. Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds. He's trying to teach them, they're not listening. But don't read into the her. That doesn't mean anything. It's, and of course now the word that's used here is the feminine of her, our taste, but it's not meant to convey anything having to do with anything deep. It really isn't, it's just really more a figure of speech. So anyway, all right, so a couple of things. On the handout, you'd like to do a teaching, I can do a teaching on the growing pro-gay theology. Yeah, I actually am. I'm trying to put together something that is kind of more than just me. So I've got to go through different resources and grab some here, someone here, what this person is saying, what this person is saying, what's happening over here. And I don't want to do it just from the standpoint of here in America, I want to also bring in what's happening in Canada with their new bill and what it actually means because it's whole gay pro, gay pro, I guess it is a profession now, but this whole pro-gay movement is more than just homosexuality. There's a reason for it and it comes across more than just homosexuality, but if that wasn't bad enough, so I want to cover it from a lot of different areas and so it's a couple of weeks away, I can tell you that, but it is coming, it is coming. Now as far as the handout, the handout guys, I put the handout together and the problem is the handout as I'm looking on the screen is not the same size that you guys would get it and so I got to fix that. So I've got to go through each one and actually have all the stuff changed. That was going to be on yesterday and I'm looking at today like, no, no. And then I even printed out one just to make sure and again, me and technology, but I'll get it straight though, I'll get it straight and I could have had someone to type it up for me, but anyway. So guys, this has been wonderful. I shall see you all tomorrow. What is that? I shall see you all tomorrow. Stay blessed, stay warm, stay safe. Amen.