 of late, a fair amount of content that you see on YouTube that has been discussing one of my favorite topics, honestly, and that is this issue of salvation. Can you lose your salvation, so forth? Again, I think it makes a huge difference and it shows up when you see people who would explain their positions, it makes a difference if that person actually understands salvation, why we have salvation. One, what would cause a person to go to hell? There is a nice, cute saying, we say it sometimes, I've said it sometimes, that goes like this. God doesn't send anybody to hell, we send ourselves to hell. But the truth of the matter is no, God sends us. We don't have a roadmap, we wouldn't know how to go to hell if we wanted to. It is God who upon our death, if a person is not in right standing with him, it is God who will escort you there. That's just the fact, no one goes to hell willingly, no one wants to go to hell. But I understand the point though, the point is that because of what we've done, earned ourselves a chance to go to hell. But is that correct? Is it correct because of what we've done on this earth that has earned us a ticket to hell? Well, the truth is, the truth is not really. Not really. It's not that what we've done on earth that has earned ourselves a ticket to hell, no. It's just the natural state of things that we are born on our way to hell. We are born headed that way. What got, the reason why we go to hell? And I would ask anyone this question, especially if you disagree, if you believe you can lose your salvation. And this is even for folks who believe that you cannot lose your salvation. I believe it's clear. I believe grammatically, syntactically, it is clear that a person cannot be a Christian today, a natural Christian, and then lose their salvation later. But the question I would ask for anyone is why do people go to hell? What is it that God has against a person that causes them to go to hell? And then what is it on the flip side that causes a person an opportunity to go to heaven? What's the reason? How does, what is it from God's viewpoint? What is it from God's viewpoint? Well, here it is. From God's viewpoint, God, for the person who is on their way to hell, there's a debt. That's it. There's a debt. There's an unpaid debt. There's a balance owed. The person has to go to hell because of the debt not being paid. The person goes to heaven because the debt is paid. And therefore, the person is in right standing. Now, we'll talk about how you get to that particular issue. We'll talk about how you, how you get to the debt being paid or how it is that the debt is unpaid. We'll come to that. But I want to cover something. And I think it's, you all have seen lately over the last, I don't know what week, not weeks, a couple of weeks, maybe a month or so. Not exactly sure how long days kind of merged together nowadays. Today seems an awful lot like Monday to me. Seems an awful lot like Saturday and so, but he has changed. And I mean changed quickly and rapidly. He has changed his views at a tempo, at a speed that I don't think anyone has ever seen. It's not necessarily a bad thing to go from the wrong way to the right way can be a good thing, but to go from the right way to the wrong way can be a bad thing. No matter how fast or how slow you go. Young Don has this belief now, he was free grace. He was really at, I would even say probably a hyper free grace. He is now firmly in the camps. It seems like as a works based salvation kind of a person. Meaning he is following tenants of the law. He is advocating that, that's how we get say, that's how we stay say we have to keep the law. We have to keep the commandments. Keeping the matter of fact, he may be actually keeping the Sabbath or getting close to keeping the Sabbath right now. But I hope, and I know at some point in time he's going to see this. So I want to point this out to him because the issue is that just because, and I've said this before, this is not for him. This is for a lot of people. Just because we can spell, just because we know what the word means and we can see how the sentences put together does not mean that we all know how to read. And what I mean by that, it's not a put down, but what it means is that we see some words as, ah, that's what that means. And oftentimes, a lot of times we make these words that go together. We make them out to mean what we want them to mean. That is what's called Isogene. Reading something into the text and where that comes from is from our own, our own thoughts. I want to cover some things. And he, obviously there's no way I'm going to cover all the times or the passages that he's brought up, but I want to bring up some of the ones he's brought up, but I also want to take this opportunity to bring up some of the ones that maybe others, maybe you who disagree or you who agree, but have had others bring up passages that would say, hmm, let me think about that passage. This is a tough one. Let me think about that passage. Now, as you all know, some of you have been with us for a while. Some of you have maybe just now started watching the channel. Every last one of these passages, and I do mean every last one we've covered. Every last one we've covered, we've talked about, we've put them in the proper context. I wish those that disagree would take the other side. And they would take the ones that we bring up. We're going to bring them up anyway. And so maybe young Don or anyone else would want to bring these up. Now, when I say, and I'm not trying to be mean as a put down that people just don't know how to read or practice reading. Maybe if we learn to read consistently, the way we would read a menu, the way we would read a set of instructions, a manual, the same way for the Bible. There are still rules to the words, whether it be Hebrew, Greek, or English, there are still rules. Now, I want to cover this particular video, portion of this video, and listen to him say, he's going to talk about one passage. And I want to show you how, without question, this is clear, Isogene, meaning reading, we're going to see his explanation and we're going to see, is that really what it says? Is that clearly what it says? Thank you, Brianne Jackson. I appreciate that. God bless you, sir. But here it is. Here is young Don. Let me click on it over here. Revelation 3.5, he that overcomeeth, the same shall be clothed in white rainments. And I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. Now, we have covered this passage ad nauseam. This passage, the way he takes it, is bothersome. It's troublesome. By the way, guys, let me say this. Let me say this, guys. Two things. Two things. One, that one beat you already had to me. You're already had to me. Yeah, we are going to the Greek. But even before we go to the Greek, because I say guys, people get upset with me when we go to the Greek. Not just me, but others go to the Greek. They get upset. Why do you need the Greek? Well, listen, you don't need the Greek. The English is perfectly fine. We're going to see what this passage says and what it doesn't say. We'll see what it says and what it doesn't say. I've told you guys before that my daughter, she's now my second, well, she was, I said she's now my second oldest. She's always been my second oldest. But when she was younger, she would come to me or to her mother. Daddy, now, I know she came to her mother because she would say the same thing. Daddy, what time are we going to eat? Are we going to eat? When are we going to eat? And she's talking about lunch. I mean, dinner. It's one o'clock in the afternoon. Sweetheart, it's just, you just had lunch. I know, but where are we going to eat for dinner? Honey, I'm going to feed you. I know, but daddy, we haven't eaten yet. Okay, so I said I'm going to feed you. How was it that I said I'm going to feed you at dinner time? How was it that you take that to mean that I'm not going to feed you? That's what literally happens as he explains this in this particular text. And I've got to remember to push play because no one has had the video queued up, but this time I just have it, the actual, his channel up. And so let's play this portion. He said, now he's covering Revelation 3.5. He's going to read it. I'm going to read it again. And then let's, let's, but pay attention to how the thing was read and pay attention to what he says it says. Well, I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Here we see that it is possible to have your name blotted out of the book of life. How? How do you see, or you say here we see it is possible to have your name blotted out of the book of life? What it, he that overcome with, now I know where he gets us from. And I'm going to debunk another issue that he has as well. He that overcome with the same shall be clothed in white raiment. And I will not blot his name out of the book of life. He takes that, that here we see that it's possible to have, where do we see that? Well, what he's going to do, he's going to infer something from the first three words, but the first three words aren't what it actually says. But let's, let's let him continue. This alone proves you can lose your salvation. Some might say, maybe everyone starts with their name in the book of life. However, we can see that there are those who never had their names written in the book of life to begin with. Revelation 17, eight, the beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is. Now, before it goes into it, you all have heard and I will cover 17 eight as well, but now he's going to get into when names were written in the book of life. He is going to make an assumption that's nowhere, nowhere found in 17 verse eight. He's going to make an assumption and the only way that he makes the assumption not from the text, not even misreading portions of the text, but because he thinks of something already and this must have to, this has to include, this is classic ISGV. This has to be what this text mean. So let's listen to what he says. How he, how he comes to the conclusion that names in the book of life were written as we go or they were never written before the foundation of the world when it clearly says these names whose names were written before the foundation of the world. That's what he says. They mistakenly take this as a proof verse for fatalistic predestination, which I believe is an error and a topic for another day. But what we can see unquestionably is that everyone does not start off with their name in the book of life. Now he says everyone, what does he say? Unquestionably does not start off with their name in the book of life. Where in this passage do you, now he might be right, but where do you see that? It says, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. So it tells us the names that were written in when they were written in. How do you come from that to say that it is unquestionable that everyone's, everyone does not start out with their names in the book of life? Where do you get that from? I don't know where he gets that from but it's not from that particular text. Therefore, if you don't start with your name in the book of life at some point it must be written in the book which presumably is the moment you put your faith in him. And we know, and now we know, those who fail to overcome will have their names blotted out. Again, he that overcomeeth the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out his name of the book of life. So as we can see that one, you do not start off with your name in the book of life. Again, where do we see that at? This is one question I've always asked people who speak about this. Where does the Bible ever speak about God writing or going to write someone's name? When does it, where, what passage it says that God is going to write our names? Every time we see of someone's name in the book of life they have already been written. And then 17.8 gives us further clarification says that their names were written from the foundation of the earth, before the earth was, before the foundation of the earth was. That's literally what that says in the Greek. We'll come to it in just a second but he makes the first statement, well, that's incorrect. We don't see that names were written later. And your name can be blotted out of the book of life. When do we see that a person's name can be blotted out? Now, by the way, this is one of my favorite passages to go and dispel because it's one of the first passages people bring up. They look at this passage. This is why we say that unfortunately we tend not to do a good job of reading really in America period. Whether it be students in high school, junior high elementary, or whether it be with the Bible. Yeah, yeah, man, we see who's in the chat. We see who's in the chat. So anyway, I think I'm almost through with this part of him. So what gets your name in the book of life? It is obvious, faith in Christ because it is upon believing in Christ that you do what? Pass from death into life. Now, what gets your name written in the book of life? He says obvious faith or believing. Do we have a passage that says if you believe God will write your name, and it had the verbatim, I get that. But is there a passage that tells us the way we get our name written in the book of life is by believing? Is there one such passage? Now, he also referenced the first part of 3.5 where it says he did overcoming. So what I want to do now is I want to actually go to the text. I'm through with this, so I can go ahead and close that out. But so what I wanna do now is I wanna actually go to the text. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm looking at something else. Let's go to Revelation 3.5. Now, he likes the King James Version. We're not getting ready to read the King James Version, but what I am gonna do is I'm going to pull up the Greek whereby the King James Version was translated from because I want him to see that point. I want him to see that issue. So let's go to Revelation 3.5. And it says, he who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments. And I will not erase his name from the book of life and I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Now, the issue is people read this as it, take the he who overcomes as stating that you must overcome first, then you'll be guaranteed. Or if you overcome, then your name will not be blotted out. Couple things. If you can see behind me, I still do have my books. I still do have my books and I still love my books. Some of my books have been with me for a while. Some of my books have been with me. Matter of fact, I take it back. All of these books, they just have, not all of my books that I have, but all of these books that I have have been with me since prison. I've got this particular book, we're not gonna actually go through it, but this is young Don or anyone else. If you're going to be, and it's a great to be dogmatic about a particular passage or about a stance, a doctor. But when we read, and sometimes the issue is gonna be the English. Guys, let me just say it again. Sometimes the English is not the best friend for us as we're trying to study. Again, I believe the Bible in English is perfectly acceptable as long as we keep things in context. The problem with us as human beings is sometimes we do not keep things in context. Michael Cross, stop getting ahead of me. But you're right though. But sometimes we don't keep things in context. Sometimes we do not. And so because of that, if there's a challenge as to what these words mean, then guess what we might need? We might need the Greek. Now, this is my Greek and Hebrew Bible. It's got my Hebrew right here. I don't know if you guys can see this. It's kind of the light in that grate. And then we go to, since the Hebrew is the first, it's in this part portion of the Bible. It's the back part. And then we turn this way and then we get to the Greek. And then at the bottom of this we have, it's not really a critical apparatus. This actually has some of the more difficult words or translations of these words. I think this is pretty helpful. This is actually a reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible. I tend to read, if I'm gonna pick up a physical Bible to read, Greek Bible, I will go with the Biblia Hebraica student, student Gartencia, which is the Hebrew Bible, or the NA 28, which is the Greek. Or I'll actually just pull out my phone and look it on the phone. What he may want to do is learn some Greek. Now this is the old version, still good. The basics of Greek grammar. The basics of biblical Greek, I'm sorry, by William Mouse, excellent study book. It gets you on the right track. But now, even if you never study Greek, one of the things that you can look at, some keys. This book, and we're gonna look at something in this book. This is one of the foremost authorities on Greek that we have around. I think he is a national or global treasure, Daniel Wallace. But this Greek grammar beyond the basics, it delves into all of the different, I shouldn't say all of them, but pretty much all of the different nuances that we find in Greek. Wonderful study. And the thing about it is, you've got other Greek scholars. And when I say other, I mean other top of the line Greek scholars that refer back to this. This is how well this is put together. Now, you're gonna want your lexicons. Oh, I'm sorry, before I get to that. But notice this is Greek grammar. Do you know what we have to do when we read something, guys, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls? What we have to do when we read, we don't just take into account the words and how they're spelled and so forth. We take into account grammar, such as this, but we also have to take into account syntax. You know what syntax is? Syntax is the order that words are written. So Daniel Wallace has this, the basics of New Testament syntax, which is important because the way that the words are put in order matters also. In Greek, just like Hebrew, word order is not as important until it is important until you're trying to make an emphasis. Now, where I'm getting to are these two books right here, a good lexicon. I love this one because it's easy and simple to read. This is the analytical lexicon to the Greek New Testament. This is by William Mounts. I have another lexicon by House Robinson, wonderful. And then this is like this big boy. This is kind of the standard Greek lexicon. This is what we call the B-Dag. Why is it called that? It's called the B-Dag because of the people's names on here. Bauer, Danker, what are the other names? I don't know, anyway, the point is, if you're going to make a definitive position, be definitive in your study. Here's why I say that. Let's go back to the text, guys. There's gonna be some nerd stuff in here today, guys, but this is gonna be beneficial. This is gonna help you guys in your walk. This is gonna help, it's like this. Let's say you know that there's air in your tires. And you know that, and you know that if there's a hole in the tire, the air is gonna come out. And then what do you have to do? Take the spare tire, either it's a donut or an actual spare tire, and put it on. But what if I don't know how the tire gets on there? Well, it helps to know. Just knowing that gives me a little bit of confidence in as I'm driving down the road, if I were to get a flat, now if I got two flats, I'm in trouble, cause I only got one spare. But if I get one flat, I'm good. Are you with me? There are some things that we can take with us to help us to have some confidence. Knowing that we'll never lose our salvation is one of those things. So let's go back to the passage and let's look at this passage and then we'll start jumping on some of the other passages. By the way, thank you, Dinah. Starting tomorrow, guys, we start, we start back up our Smart Christians Bible Study. Guys, I cannot express to you how important I think this would be for a lot of people. We are going to help people who are on this side and we are going to help people who are on the Isle and this side as far as part as we can be come together and cause us to start thinking about and looking at the Bible and reading it in the exact same way. How can that be? Because we're all going to have our own preconceived notions that we read into the Bible. How can that be? Well, I'm going to show you that how we're going to divorce ourselves from any preconceived notions, what we've been taught, what we've read before. There's a way to do so and we're going to do it tomorrow. So that being cool, that being cool. By the way, thank you, Jeremy Collins. I just discovered your channel. So y'all make sure y'all go check out Jeremy's channel by the same name as well. So let's continue. And Jade Hope, thank you for the super chats. We do appreciate that. So now let's go back to remember young Don likes, he likes, what did I just say? He likes, the Facebook name is Smart Christian also. If you want to go check it out on Facebook, it'll be on there as well, under Smart Christians with an S. Remember, young Don likes the King James version. I'm not reading the King James version. Sorry, Chess Champ, but I will read the Greek where we got that King James version from. This portion right here, he who overcomes. This is where the English might fail us. Why? Because over here it says, Haudenosaun. The Haudenosaun is, this word here is for you English majors or you folks that speak English. Nikon is a present active participle, meaning this is what we're doing. It's not, think about it in English as the I am. She said, West, why not? Think about the ING, run versus running. I am running. Well, in this case, this is saying, the overcoming ones, the overcoming ones. So it's not saying if you overcome, it's saying that you who are the overcoming ones, are you with me? It's a big difference. How do we know it's not saying if? Well, because in Greek, there are words that we can go to that can tell us if the statement is conditional. We have in Greek was called henna and in the clause, which will make it a henna clause because of this reason, the Greek word hati because others, other words that we can use to see that if this statement is dependent on something else, we'll know, but that's not the case here. We don't have that here. Hanikon hutas, which is, will thus the overcoming ones thus will be closed. Are you with me? Now avoid, try to avoid the tendency to disagree because you cannot find a reason to disagree. Ultimately, some folks end up disagreeing because I don't like the conclusion you're coming to. Two things, one, tough. There's nothing we can do about that because you don't like the conclusion. I'm sorry, I don't like the conclusion that America's coming to. Oh, well, I don't like the fact that Satan is evil. Okay, tough, but it's the truth. It's a fact, not my truth, not her truth, not their truth, but the truth. Are you with me? So, so far what I'm saying, if you disagree, find a way to overcome what I'm saying. This is, he is saying, Hanikon hutas, which is the ones that are overcoming thus, and then we have will be closed. This person will be closed in white and white garments. Now look what he says, in Greek, there is what we call an emphatic negation, how you can take a word and you can eliminate the possibility of it happening now and in the future. So when you use what's called an emphatic negation in Greek, it eliminates the possibility of it happening now or in the future. Now, someone will say, well, no, it doesn't. And I'll say, yes, it does. You can't find a Greek scholar, you can't find a Greek textbook that will not tell you anything different. There is a way to say this, just like in English, I can say it's impossible for it to happen now or in the future. In Greek, you just don't have to use as many words. It is impossible for this to happen both now or in the future, based no matter what anything happens, no matter what happens. We have such a case here. And oh, by the way, the text that I'm using is, I'm using the Texas receptice, the Greek Texas receptice. And so you can't come back and say, well, which Greek are you using? I'm using the Greek that the King James version is based off of. And we see this, ooh, may, exalipso. Exalipso is the future active indicative, which means nothing in the future or in the future, you will be blotted out, but then if you put a ooh, may, it is a double negation. The double negation, the ooh, which is me, no, not, never. May, same thing, you put those together. It eliminates the possibility of this happening in the future, right with me. And so what does Jesus say? He says, ooh, may, exalipso, which is, and will never, ever, ever be blotted out. The person's name, ta'alumau, two, ex-te, be-blue, which is out of the book, taste, zoe, the book of life. So that person's name will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be blotted out of the book of life. Now I wanna put the passage that he went to. 178, to try to say that in this passage, it demonstrates that a person, I don't know how he gets this, obviously he reads into it. But he used this passage to state that a person's name has to be written in at some point in time, but that's not what it says. He says, verse eight, the beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. So all the demon slayer guys, this is when the demons do, or at least this great demon goes to the abyss. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast. Now the issue is, it says whose names has not been written. Now a couple of things. We have whom or own or whom, whose, which is a Greek word for home. So whose name, so whose, then we have this word, ooh, gegrapti. More Greek guys, more Greek. Gegrapti, grapti is, or graphi is, what we mean by write or letters or scriptures. We have a reduplication, which means we have the ga in front of the grapti, which means it is the perfect tense. Because it's the perfect tense, by the way, it's the middle voice of the perfect tense. So what happens to us, we didn't do the writing, God did, and when did he do it? He did it way back when, it's the perfect tense. Now, we know he did it way back when because it's the perfect tense. It's a completed action from the past. He tells us when he did so. Apakatabales, which is to be taken as from, not since the foundation of the world, not ever since the world was God started writing. No, from before, apa, from the foundation of the world. Why do we say from? That's exactly how every Greek scholar, every Greek translation that we see. And so, when were the names written before the world, before the foundation of the world? So if your name is in the book, when was it written before the foundation? I don't know where you get, or anyone else would get that names were written after. Now, if there's a text that we can turn to that will show us that names have been written after the foundation of the world, or because someone believed, if there are texts that we can turn to that will show us that, I would love to see it. But there are no such texts. We don't have a such text that tells us that if you believe, then he will turn around and write your name in the book of life. Are you with me? Would you say, Martin? Young Don was decent, but now, yeah, now he's all about works. He's talking about growing beers and not wearing, yep, not wearing polyester. And it's, I really wish he would, he would just sit and learn. I really do, because he's doing a bit, his audience is more young than anything else. And they eat up, they eat up anything. They ate it up when he was saying, when he was hypergraced. Now they're eating up when he's ultra works. And so it's, and I feel bad for him now. If we were to come back and find out that Young Don is not a Christian, one, it'd be heartbreaking, but two, it would not be a surprise because there are a lot of folks that look this way, act this way, think this way, and they are not. And thank you, Jeremy, for the super chat. I appreciate that, brother. I appreciate that a lot. Thank you. I hope he is. No, I don't have a reason right now to say that he is or he is not. I don't know. I don't know. I do have a basis for saying that he is not qualified, nor is he good at breaking down the scriptures. He is just not. I'm sorry, young brother, just not. Because you're making some basic mistakes. You're saying because you made an inference that names were written because someone believed, give me the passage. You don't do so in your video, so you need to give us the passage for saying so. Going back to three, five real briefly, and then we'll move on because I want to go to what my brother headed me off of the passport, but he was actually absolutely correct. But before I do so, I want to go back to this passage. He says, so that he who overcomes or Hanikon, the overcoming ones, Hanikon. So who are the overcoming ones? Good question. I am glad you asked. In first John one, in first John five, whoever believes. Now, again, we're reading from the Hebrew, I mean from the English, but let's also bring in the Greek. The word for whoever is posth, that's all or every or each. So all the ones that are the hapistouan, the believing ones. So remember guys, the Bible knows of no person in the Bible is stated of anyone who is a Christian, who is a follower. It knows of no one who is not in a continual state of believing, believing the present active participle, which is why we see the hapistouan. If you look at the bottom left-hand corner, you'll see it says present active masculine, I'm sorry, present active participle, okay? This is the person that's believing. That's what a participle is. So the believing ones, all the ones that believe that Jesus is the Christ of God. Now, whoever it is who's believing, the ones that are believing that Jesus is Christ, that person is born of God. And the tense for the word born is giganeitai. Giganeitai is perfect tense. Down at the bottom left-hand corner guys, it's a singular perfect tense, middle voice, meaning it was done to us by God on his behalf. Are you with me? Now, okay, let me answer this. He says, what happened to being like a little child, being able to understand salvation? Well, oftentimes kids can understand it, but they get older, they get to thinking about it. He says be like, Paul says be like child, but not in your understanding. And your understanding be like adults, be mature. And so we be like children in our faith. We trust that Jesus did this, but be mature in our understanding. Are you with me? And so we're always told and commanded and admonished to grow in our understanding. That's what we're supposed to do. And sometimes because people make it to say something that it's not or make it more difficult, we've got to go back and go to the actual root of it. In this case, we're looking at the Greek and also the context. Now, look what he says, the one that believes whoever it is that's believing that Jesus is Christ, that person is what? Born of God. Are you with me? Hey, man Jeremy, childlike, not childish. Born of God. So if you believe, do me a favor guys. Just let's be YouTube-ish. Give me a one in the chats or give me a hand up or what have you. Or yes, are you a believer? I wanna know if you guys are a believer. Let me, are you a believer? Because I'm going somewhere with this. If you are a believer, this is referring to you. Now, here's the issue though. Is there any way for us to know that everyone who has a one or yes or a show enough or your dog gonna write, I'm a believer, is there any way for us to know that you are a believer? No, we don't know for. Now, I'm gonna use Tyra, I think Tyra or ensue chapel. I think Tyra ensue both believers as far as I can tell. Far as I can tell. Anola, I think you are a believer. I think you seem like a believer. Dinah, listen, Dinah might have the sweetest spirit on YouTube, it just jumps off the page. I think she's a believer. But what if she's not? What if, again, I use this example before and I saw a picture of her husband and her son, but what if that's an old picture? What if that's an old picture and what Dinah really does, she's got her husband and son tied up in the basement? She's like the lady on misery. What if that's Dinah? What if Dinah, she's just, oh, she's something else at home. But when she comes on YouTube, hey, everybody, how are you? Well, she said, I'm not that nice. We don't know. So who is he referring to in first John five? Whoever the one that actually is believing, not whoever says they are, not whoever says they are, but the one who actually, now I don't know for a fact that you are or not. I have to take you to where I can judge by your fruit and so forth, I can do that. But ultimately, that's still not the be all the end all because you can fake it. But if that's you and only you and God know ultimately if you are a believing one, you are one of the believers, the believing ones. What does he say? Let's just guys, let's just read. Let's use real life English. Let's supply whatever whoever your teacher was in high school, Miss Beetle, Miss Crabtree, whatever your teacher was, your English teacher, let's use, let's apply what we said. I'm never gonna apply this stuff. Why are we learning this stuff, Miss Crabtree? We don't need to, I didn't have a teacher, Miss Crabtree. I'm just throwing out there. Miss Crabtree, Miss Crabtree, why are we learning this stuff? We are already speaking because we don't never need this. Well, we do need it now. Those who are believing, what did he say about those who are believing? Let's put it back on the screen. Those who are believing, what does he say? That person is born of God. And he didn't say is born. He actually says has been born because it's the perfect tense has been born. And the reason why we say of God because it is the middle voice, meaning God was the one that made you born. Are you with me? You need to follow me, guys. Young Don, when you actually listen to this, follow this. You were born of God, not because of you. And this is why God doesn't have to wait on you to believe in order to write your name. When were you born of God? Let's go back to, let's move this revelation past this for a second. Let's go back to this. Let's type in first Peter three. Is it three, three? I'm sorry, first Peter three. Where'd by it? Oh, I'm sorry. First Peter one, three. Duh. First Peter one, three. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his great mercy. Look what he says has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the rest. So now, if you're born of God, born of the spirit, born again, born of water and spirit, who did that? According to this passage, God did. Who has, or Jesus did, same thing, same one. Who has caused us, who has caused us to be born? Who has caused us to be born again? Who has caused us to be born from above? This word that's used here is anna ganasas, which is being born and anna above. So it's God the Lord who causes us to be born from above. Now, all of us who are born from above, what did he say? Because we're born from above, what do we believe? Those who believe, we've been born from above. We've been born of God. Born of God, born from above are those people who are believing the true believers. Are you with me? Those true believers who are born from above, born of God, look what he goes on to say. The person that's born from above, there's a word again that Greek word, pan, all eat your every, all the ones that is born of God, what does he do? He overcomes. Why am I bringing that back up? Because if you believe, you believe because you were born of God. You were born of God because you were caused to be born of God. And if that's the case, this passage says that you overcome the world. And how does it overcome? And how do we know so because of our faith? Hey, peace test. So if we take what John said, who by the way wrote first John and wrote Genesis, I mean, Revelation, going back to what he read and spoke of in Revelation 3.5, it's not that if you overcome, he's saying those that are overcoming. Who are the ones that are overcoming, the ones that are believing? Are you believing right now? Then fine, that's you. If you are an actual authentic believer right now, then that's you. If you're an actual authentic believing one right now, then you will overcome. You'll be one of the overcomers. And he will not. And his promise is that you will never, ever, ever have your name blotted out. So now that's just dealing with the one passage of his that he has put up. Where is mine? Okay. Now I want to cover a couple of the passages that he's brought up. Where is this passage? I should have put it on. I thought I had it on here. Let's go to first John. I'm the first John. First, okay, let's just copy and paste it. First Corinthians 15. First Corinthians 15 one. He's brought this passage up as well as others have brought this passage up. Let's go to it. Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preach to you, which also you received in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, the gospel by which also you are saved if you hold fast. If you hold fast, okay, cool. And the word if is there, A, which is the Greek word for if, if you hold fast, the word which I preach to you unless you believed in vain. And so people say, well, that query right there, that passage right there seems to indicate that one. That passage seems to indicate if you don't hold on, you can lose it. By which you are saved if you hold fast. Or what if you don't hold fast? What if, guys, can I ask you guys a question? Let me ask you guys in the chat a question. What happens if you don't hold fast? Now, again, we can read something even if we're on the right side of a belief or the wrong side. I wanna see where you guys are as well because this is not just about young Don or anyone else. But what happens if you don't hold fast? What happens if you stop believing? What happens if you believe the day and then stop believing tomorrow? What happens if you hold, are you holding fast today and then next year you're not holding fast? What happens? I wanna know from you, from you solid citizens of the smart Christian family. I would like to know what you guys think if you don't hold on, if you stop believing what happens. And if you don't know, then you don't know. Honorary student says you fall from grace. CG says not a believer to begin with. Okay, wait a second. Okay, okay. Your faith was never true to begin with. You never truly, but what if, okay. Still saved, okay. You were never part of us, okay. Not sure. All right guys, all right guys, all right guys. Let me go ahead and talk to my family for a second. The question I asked ladies and gentlemen was if you believe the day and then you stop believing, what happens to you? You guys put more into it. I say what if you believe today and then you stop believing? Thank you, Jay. Matter of fact, Jay Word 02, 08. Thank you for the kind words as well as the Super Chat. I appreciate that. Now, this is where Dr. Bolton, my former teacher, he would ask me questions and I would think I know the answer too. And I'm like, huh. But I think I know the right conclusion to get to. And so what I would do was give him the conclusion rather than the answer. My question was, what if you believe today and then you stop believing? And I asked a question the right way because I think some of you guys are presupposing that you can't believe the day and then stop believing. Okay, fine, fine, fine. Let's ask this question. Is it possible to believe today and then tomorrow or next week or next year, stop believing? Is that possible? Because maybe we need to kind of get together on some things. Is it possible to believe today and then next week, next month, next year, stop believing, not believe? Is that possible? I see some no's. I see some, all right. Nicholas says no. Willie says it's possible. Saturn says no. Anola says no. Jeremy, my main man says even demons believe. Manuel says no. Susie Q, nothing happens. Is it just Anna says no? Guys, all right. Let's go to the scriptures. What were we at? Okay. Let's go to the scriptures. Let's go to Luke eight. There's a reason why we started at 30 minutes early, by the way. Okay. Let's put this on the screen. I think we just covered this a few days ago. Moderates tell me, didn't we just cover this a few days ago, this particular passage? Luke eight. This is Jesus saying, Jesus is saying this, guys. Not me, not me. Listen, I would love to take credit for something. I wish I could take credit for the writing of the Bible. Do you know how wonderful that was? How awesome I would have to be to be able to have written the Bible. I wish my pride would love to be able to say, yeah, I wrote that, but I didn't. The greatest author ever, a true and living God, wrote this by way of his Holy spirit. Look what, but now by the way, this is not what's written. This is what Jesus actually said. Jesus is giving the parable. Look what Jesus says. He's giving the parable of the sower and the seeds and look what he says. He says, now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God, obviously, but those beside the road who are those who have heard the word, then look what happens. The devil comes and takes away the word from their heart. So you mean the word actually made it to their heart but the devil comes and takes it away so that they will not believe. This word believe is the present active part of simple so that they will not be a believing one. Not that they didn't believe they just, so they wouldn't become one of the believing ones. Then look what he says. How do we know that a person can believe today and not believe? And I'll show you the difference between that belief and our belief in a second. Those on the Rocky soil, verse 13, are those who when they hear the word, when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no firm root. Look what he says. They believe for a while. Hoypros Chiron, so for a while, they believe. Is it possible to believe today and then next week, next month, next year? Not believe, it absolutely is. However, those aren't the believing ones. Those aren't the ones that have entered a state of continual believing. These are the ones that have this generic kind of a mental instinct to believe. Yeah, there are people out there, you all know some who believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross. There are some who believe that not only he died on the cross, but he did it because I owed a debt. They believe that. Maybe they show up in church every now and then. They'll be there Easter. It'd be a whole lot of folks that's Easter there. I love the Lord. He heard my cry. And then next Sunday, Jesus who? They'll be there for Mother's Day. They'll be there for no, how come no one goes to church on Father's Day? What's going on? We got to fix that. I just, I'm on my rant for a second. We got, that's the problem with America. We're not going to church on Father. We go on Mother's Day, but we're not, well, because that ain't around. Well, so what? Go on proxy of Daddy. Go on his behalf. Well, we go to church on Easter, Mother's Day. If there's a Christmas service, nah, ain't nobody going on Christmas Day. We got presses to open up, right? But point is, point is, you'll see a lot of those folks who believe kind of in a head sense, but it's not here. It didn't take root according to what Jesus says. And so he's differentiated with those folks between, oh yeah, yeah, someone is ass. So we just, yeah, did we find the cat? This dog on cat, which is kind of funny for me, this dog on cat, he was gone all day, all day long. My daughter was, she was heartbroken. She was trying to be tough, but she was hurting. And we've got the little camera outside. So my wife is outside and she says, Mama, what's that behind you? Nothing, I don't know what it was. But then I go outside and get my life and I go over to the shed. I went to the shed earlier and I see these two eyeballs looking dead at me. It's the cat, I don't know what he, I get apparently when they went to sleep or something, but yeah, we found him. Now he's back to being his horrible self. He's locked up now, so he wouldn't come meowing. But anyway, so back to this. So Jesus explained to him, the people who, the different types of folks who heard the word, received it with joy and belief. We don't have to take anyone else's word for it, but Jesus, he's the one that says so. So these folks believed for the moment. Jesus says temporarily, they had, there was no root. And then any and everything happens and then we find out who their true colors are. Yes, some of you guys were right when you say that they were never amongst us. They walked with us, but they were never really of us. That's for now, and you're correct, but you're giving me a conclusion because I want you to be able to deal with the people who ask these questions, who are not gonna listen to your conclusion. They're gonna need you to walk them through. Remember when the deal comes on, the smart Christian theme music, what have you? It's not really my theme music. I took it, but it is now. It says, love it, learn it, live it. Well, the live it part, the learn it part, we learn it so we can live it so we can give it out so we can convey it to others for our own comfort, but also for others. Are you with me? And so we need to be able to explain them. Yeah, there are people who say they believe and actually believe and then stop believing. Those are never believers. Those are never Christians. Cause as Jeremy says, even demons believe. So having this mental understanding or acknowledging what he did, that's the kind of belief. We're talking about a continual, again, present active participle. The devil comes to still let from their heart so they would not be one of those continual believing ones. Are you with me? So what is possible then? Let's go back to first, where's it at? First, I gotta find where I had that passage at. First Corinthians 15. So back to first Corinthians 15. If a person were to hold fast. So my question that I asked you guys was, what happens if a Christian, I use air quotes, Christian, if a person believes today or holds fast today, but doesn't hold fast next week? What happens? Well, that person goes to hell. But the truth is the person who had belief today and doesn't have belief tomorrow who held fast a day. So it's not a wrong, the right word, but basically, but didn't hold fast. That person was never on their way to heaven to begin with. Are you with me? That person was never on their way to heaven to begin with. When he writes your name down into the Lamb Book of Life, what's going to happen is he is going to cause your heart to be changed. That's why it says cause you to be born again. And where do we see this causing to be born again from when Jesus brings up in John chapter three. And he says that those folks that are being born again, which is the only way that you can see the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, the only way that can happen is by the spirit, born of the spirit. And just like the wind goes where it wants to, we don't know where it's coming from nor where it goes. So it is of everyone who's born of the spirit. Are you with me? So how do we deal with this text then? First Corinthians 15-1. He says, about which you also are saved, you are saved if you hold fast the word which I appreciate you. You know, we can say, amen. If you hold fast, you'll be saved. If you don't hold fast, you won't be saved. What will Christians do? Christians will hold fast. Christians will not stop believing. Christians will, sometimes we think that we're giving up ground when we admit that if a person stops believing, he's going to hell. If a person stops believing, like Jesus said, they're going to hell. The truth of the matter is a person, a Christian will not stop believing. Are you with me? A person who believes today and then stops believing will not enter into eternity. That's true, but a Christian is not that kind of a person. We tend to go to John 15. Would you say it sounds what? No, it's not conditional. It's not conditional. Or I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. If it seems conditional, fine, we'll go with that. Condition upon you believing. Your salvation is conditioned upon you believing. The question is, are you going to believe? Are you going to believe? Matter of fact, do me a favor, moderators. Let me, let me, let me type this over here. I wanna, I wanna come back to that issue. Are you going to believe? Are you going to believe? That's the question. We'll come back to that question. So yeah, it's conditioned. It's conditioned upon you believing. It's conditioned upon you hearing. It's conditioned upon you following. It's conditioned upon you bearing fruit. Haven't we covered this? What does John 10 say? You will follow. You will hear, you will follow. You will, and matter of fact, he used the future tense. We'll go to John 10 just a little bit. John 15, if you don't bide in me and bear fruit, then you'll be, you're right. If you don't abide in him, if you don't bear fruit, you'll be cut off, but will you? Jesus, at the end of, in the middle of John 15, he says that, but I have appointed you. I have, at Fekai, I have placed you and how this word is taken according to this book, the understanding of that word is he has put you in a place to do so, ordained you to do so. So you are going to bear fruit. Now, whether he's talking about all Christians in general or just the disciples, the point taken from there is that they will, they will bear fruit. So now that's the truth. So how do we handle this text again? First, 1st Corinthians 15, if you hold fast the word which I preach to you unless you believe in vain, yeah. So how do you believe in vain? Just like what we see in Luke chapter eight, that person believed in vain. They believed for a hot second. Well, that was a vain belief, nothing concrete or internal happened. That was in vain. Just like you opened your mouth and said some words that you did in vain. That's all. So if you don't hold fast and all you did was believe in vain, all this passage is doing is actually reiterating or actually correctly is iterating what we've said. If you just give lip service and believe the momentary belief, not the true salvific belief then all you did was believe in vain. Are you with me? Yeah, vertical view and the guy was on here and I'm gonna, I wish I would have thought to play that verse, that issue that we brought up. I'm gonna cover in the Greek and I was actually embarrassed for him. Another passage that's brought up. Another passage that's, where is it? Oh, here's one, Hebrews 312. This is one that people like to go to that says, ha, ha, I've got you. I've got you one saved, always saved folks, Hebrews 312. On the screen it says, take care, brother, that there not be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. So he's telling them, seems like, hey, make sure you guys don't fall away. Make sure you don't have an evil, unbelieving heart. Going back over here, make sure that any of you, tine humane, humon, any of you, any of you, cardia pernaia, pernaia, I'm sorry, an evil heart, a heart that's evil that doesn't believe. By the way, this apistias or unbelieving, never means that you did believe and then stop believing. Now we'll come to this issue of falling away in Galatians 5-4 that people bring up often. We'll come to this issue and see what he actually means. David's short, dawg going at my friend, I can't believe that you're here. Listen, I can't believe that you made it here for the live. Glad to see you, my friend. How are you doing? How's the family? Everything's okay? Amen. Glad to see you, bro, I'm just messing with you though. So anyway, we're gonna deal with this issue of believers, so-called believers, possibly falling away. But this doesn't mean anything either. Again, we're going to see that there are warning passes. What, young Don, or anyone else? Let me ask you guys a question. When you go to church, are you around a bunch of people who say they are Christians, who are believers? When you are around them, do you believe that 100% of the crowd are actual authentic Christian? Do you believe so? No, you don't believe so. No, you don't believe so. So what do you do? I'm gonna honor all, I'm gonna answer that in just a second. That'll be the next question that I come to. That'll be the next one I come to. What did you say at, well, what are you pointing to? Hold on, hold on, man, chest chant with something. Salvation is not till the end. Hey, radar apologetics and chest chant, remind me to cover that question in just a second. We'll deal with that too. When you say that salvation is not till the end. What if, here's my question before I answer that before I get to it. What if we actually had a passage that said the opposite of that? Would you believe that? If so, then now we're cooking, okay? But my question is this. If you come around people who say they're saved and you may have some reason to believe that they're not saved. If you have a reason to believe that maybe this guy who's saying he's saved really isn't saved. You know, young Don, like your buddy, Gideon, who is just as vulgar as they come. Someone asked me, in a little video that Gary A2A put out, I think it was you, Don, I did happen. I didn't end up seeing more of it. Yeah, that's, yeah, you might want to tell him. So what if that guy is not really saved? You have some sort of indication because your eyes see what he's doing and you're what he's saying. You believe that he's not saved. You're concerned, you're worried. What if you have a genuine concern for your brethren or your potential or your alleged brethren that they're not saved? What would you do? Let me just ask you guys in a chat because I just want to know, what would you do? If you had the thought that there was a possibility that some of the people that said they're saved, what would you do to them? What would you say? Would you say anything to those people if maybe this guy really hadn't saved? Maybe she really hadn't saved? Hmm, I'm wondering. What would you do to that person? I'm saved, but doing everything else. What would you say? I think this is what you would do. I think you, I think that's what you would do. I think this is what you would do. I think you would share, I think you would warn them. Now, I know you go talk to them, amen. Now, what's happened though? We don't, I don't want to get involved. I don't want them to think bad of me. I don't want to offend them. Well, is that Paul? No, you warned them. So guess what Paul does? He warns people. He says, make sure, make sure. You know the gospel, you know the word, you've heard it. Now make sure. So what does Paul do? Not Paul, the writer of Hebrews three, who's speaking to these Jews? Who he knows, obviously every last one of these Jews that he's writing to are not. Let's guess what guys, when we see the, stop thinking by the way, when you see, when it says brethren, that the book was given to everybody. Do you think everybody actually got a chance to have a letter written to them individually? No, so he's writing to them at large, written large. And this is the word that's going out. And here's the warning. The warning is take care brother, that there not be in any of you a heart that doesn't believe. Make sure there's not a heart that doesn't believe. That there be an evil, unbelieving heart. And look what it says. Now I want, here's some Greek guys, here's some Greek. And to apostani, which is that leads to falling away. What does that mean, Mr. Corey? A young lady at the bank. That's how you know you're getting old. It's how you know you're getting old. When people in their 30s call you Mr. Corey. Not normally, you know, in the business, Mr. Miner, Mrs. Miner, you know, Matt, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Jones, but Mr. Corey, that's what you call an old person. She called me Mr. Corey. But anyway, what do you mean, Mr. Corey? This evil, unbelieving heart that leads to a falling away. You know the truth, but you've never actually been a believing person. And so it causes you to move away from what you know is true, from the truth, which we're going to find out in the passage. We're going to see that they're not, we never see anyone fall away from believing. Now think about that for a second, guys. What passage do we see anyone falling away from believing? Which passage do we find anyone in the Bible falling away from believing? Jay, thank you so much, sweetheart. I like that. Kind words, kind words. I really do appreciate that. But where's the passage that says a person has fallen where it can fall away or did fall away from believing? Matter of fact, these are, it can't be this one, could it? It can't be this one because these are unbelieving people that led them away. These are unbelieving people, okay? So we don't have that. Now let's go to Galatians 5. And Galatians 5 says, you have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the law. You have fallen from grace. See, you can fall from grace. You can fall from grace, you can leave the Lord. But now, what's happening here? These are people who are trying to be saved by keeping, remember the Judaizers come and they're trying to get these people to adhere to the law. And thereby, being said, matter of fact, they were telling people, these Gentile believers that you must first convert to Judaism, get circumcised and so forth, then accept Jesus as Messiah. And so are you being saved by the works of the flesh or by the spirit? Paul says, verse two, I, Paul say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Keeping the laws, the works, the tenets of the law, he's no benefit to you. And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to do what? Keep all of the law. You, look what he says, you have been severed from Christ. Can't forget this day, from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified, you have fallen from grace. You have fallen away. This is directional, you've gone away from it. Why have you fallen? He says, you who are seeking to be justified by the law, whoever you are, that's what this passage is about, whoever you are that are seeking to be justified or saved by works, you're cut off. There's no salvation for you. You have taken a dip. There's two roles. You took the role that gets you to heaven by works. So you're already cut off. You're already cut off. Cowboys, five rings were yet. I'm gonna think of you every time I get to this passage. I'm gonna think of you every time I get to this passage because you know how it is with your Cowboys fans every year. Typically, not every year, but typically. This year was different. Next year, you guys will return to form. About the second, third, maybe fourth week of the season, the Cowboys will have fallen from the playoffs. They'll be cut off. With 13 games left, the Cowboys are out of the playoff hunt. They've fallen, they've fallen from, not from grace, but from the playoffs. Have the playoffs even started? No. Now, this year, my coach, we fell early. And at first game, when we tied with Houston, oh, we fell from grace. We fell from the playoffs early. It happens, right? Unfortunately for you Cowboys fans, it happens a lot. A lot. What's going on down here in Dallas? Brings me joy though, I will say that though. Anyway, that being the case. So he says, who has fallen from grace? So there's a question, guys. Anyone young down, anyone else who brings up Galatians 5-4, who has fallen from grace? Who's fallen from grace? You who seek to be justified by keeping the law. That's the one that's fallen from grace. It's not that difficult. Now, I said before that Paul would warn you if he has the feeling that maybe some of you guys are not saved. Well, he's not the only one. Because here's another passage that people bring up that state that see this proves that you can fall away, that you can lose your salvation. In James 5-19, one that's brought up. My brethren. Well, it says my brethren. So that means every one of these speaking to are Christians. When James writes, does he think that is he writing an individual letter to each person? No. So he's calling them brethren, guys. It's kind of in a generic sense because he's writing to the church. He's writing to the brethren. But even here though, he's literally speaking to the same people, which is not a problem. We don't have to do cartwheels or anything to get passes. Look what he says. Because by the way, this is one of the passages that just had me hung up. I used to believe that you certainly could. You certainly could. You certainly could be saved and then lose it. Someone says, King Saul was saved and fallen. Why would you say that King Saul was saved? See, this, okay. All right, no, go on it. No, let me fix this. Uh-oh, I did something. What I did, I'm pushing buttons. Let me drink my drink a little bit because Mansour Queely, you and I have to talk. You and I need to talk. Wow, hold on. Let me make sure that my cowboy friends can see my mug, can see what I'm drinking from. We have to talk, Mansour. Why would you say that King Saul was saved? What saves? Okay, fine. We're talking about a different dispensation before the cross. What saved before the cross? Before the cross, what saved a person? Well, what justified a person, put you in the right standing was the atonement. In the atonement, you can be atoned for this day, this year, and the following year, because this is a yearly practice, cannot be atoned for. Do you think that Mansour Queely, that when King Saul died that he was atoned for, did you see how he was? I don't think so. I don't think so. No, no, as Hendricks, no. Are you saying, thank you for the super chat, by the way, are you saying one saved, always saving, you can live any lifestyle into the kingdom? Absolutely not. Again, guys, again, the point of the warning passages are to warn you. That's why Paul says, let every man examine himself. Make sure, check and see. Some of you guys are saying you're Christian and you're not. You're just taking the label. You are alleged Christians. I don't know why I've done more air quotes a day that I've ever done in my life, but you are alleged Christians without doing that. And then I've been my head down like, why do I do that? Why can't I just do that? But you are alleged Christians. You are allegedly Christians. I'm not sure. So Paul says, examine yourself. Make sure that you are, because he tells us what a Christian is and what a Christian is not. He tells us what Christians do and what non-Christians do. So he literally, he takes the time to, isn't that crazy? The Lord literally takes the time to describe what a Christian does, his behavior, and then takes the time to write on paper what a non-Christian is and how he behaves. So stop taking the word of somebody who is living a lifestyle of sin. Christians do not live a lifestyle of sin. Will we sin? Sure. A lifestyle of it? No. Those of us who are practicing sin, you cannot be a Christian. You claim to be a LGBTQ and a Christian. Now you can't be. Could you struggle with some things? Sure you could. But you can't be claiming, hey, I'm a struggling LGBTQ person who loves a little, no, because what are you claiming? And so we don't practice sin. Now, if you do sin, there's an advocate, but for those of you who are practicing it, living in it, this is who I am, is what I do. When I was little, I was a bedwetter. Yes, yes, Lord, I was a bedwetter. It wasn't a bed that I saw, I didn't wanna wet up. I'm kidding, but that's my mother thought. My mother always thought, Corey, why are you always, why do you wet the bed? Why are you peeing the bed? I said, mama, that's what I do. I pee in the bed. I wet the bed, mama, that's what I do, is who I am. So as a sinner, that's who I am, that's what I do. The Bible didn't call us sinners. The Bible calls us something else. Like 2 Peter 2, he didn't call us dogs, but these people are dogs. Like the proverb is true, a dog returns back to, to show that who the dog actually is. 2 Peter 2, 20, it's not proven that you can lose your salvation. Speaking of these false prophets, even for a word, if it was speaking of the actual converts, who say they are, he calls them dogs. He calls them dogs, not believers. He never calls believers dogs or with me. So therefore, I was a, this is what I do, mama. I wet the bed, sinner, this is what I do. I sin. Well, if that's what you practice doing, well then guess what you're not. You're not a Christian. You just simply are not. And so no, believing this doesn't give you a license to practice how you want to. Okay? Now, but notice what he says, brother, let's go back to it, brother, if any among you stray from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the air of his ways saves his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sin. Now, I used to think that this passage, because again, I was a person that believed that this is teaching you to use your salvation. See, he's clearly talking to brethren, to Christians. And then one person said, well, well, but wait a second though. He says that who turns him back, let him know that he turns a sinner from the air of his ways and saves his soul from death. That's not talking about spiritual death. I said, no, he says it's saving his soul from death. This is clearly spiritual death. Well, again, notice what it says. He didn't say if any of you strays from the truth, strays from the truth. If any of you, no, he said, is any among you. There's a reason for the among. There's a reason for the and, and Hamun, any among you. There's anyone among you, among who? Who's the who that he's asking, are there any among? Any among the Christians, any among the brethren? If there's anyone among you all, then make sure you go back to that person, go and try to turn this person back. Know that whoever turns the sinner, not the brethren, but the sinner who's amongst the brethren, if you turn him back from the air of his ways, you will save his soul from death. That's all. It didn't say that the brethren turned away or left, it said the ones that are amongst them, the non-believers, the sinners, the sinners that are among the brethren. Now, I wanna cover a couple passages. Raul asks a great question, says, uh-oh, push the wrong button. He says, where did you learn Greek from? I learned it in the best place possible. I learned it in the federal Bureau of Prisons. Matter of fact, which one of these books is that? Actually, when I started learning, I didn't have any of these books. I actually went and got those books later. What happened was I actually had an Hebrew, an old Hebrew book that was in the prison library and I started reading it. And then there was a brother who's gonna be on here soon. I just got an email from him, who's an actual real life, honest of goodness scholar, who came there and another guy in prison was learning Greek. And I would grab some of his flashcards and I would just practice with him. And I had this difficult Greek book and he said, what you wanna do is do this. He gave me a tip on how to study and learn Greek quick. And so, because I had time, because God put me in a place to where it's just you and me. Just you and me. And so that's how it happened. But you can also study it while you're out here. I would go and get one of the easiest books to go with is Basics of Biblical Greek by Bill Mouse. And then there are different Greek grammars that you can go to afterwards. And then there's also a corresponding workbook that goes with as well. You wanna have the workbook because you wanna put in the time practicing the Greek. And then make sure you get a Greek Bible so that you can see, you can go to those chapters and read them yourself as well. So anyway, that being the case, I wanna go over a couple of things. It is clear, guys, by the words that Jesus gives us. Here's one that I think we don't pay to do in John five. He says, truly, truly. Amen, amen. When you hear amen, amen. I mean, it's true. It's definite. It is a fact. I say to you that he who hears my word. I call, by the way, are the ones that are hearing. Can I ask you guys a question? Who's hearing? Who are the ones that are hearing? Us? A sheep. A sheep are the one that's hearing it. And believes. Uh-oh. And believing, Kai, Pistuom, the believing ones. And believing, who sent me. So whoever it is that's hearing, I mean, that believes and is hearing, believes him. I'm sorry, let me back up. I'm getting myself. Truly, truly, I say to you that he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, what does he say he has eternal life? Who was the person that said that eternal life or salvation is, did I say that the right way? We get that in the future. We get eternal life later. We get saved later. Salvation's in the future. Well, this begs to differ. The word that's used here, if you guys look on the right side, the highlighted word is, oh, radar, I apologize, that's who said it, okay. Ecke, ecke is the Greek word to have. It is, in this case, present active. You don't believe me, look at the bottom left-hand corner right below my pretty picture, my adorable little picture. It has the word, ecke. It's a verb, present active, singular. I mean, negative, to have, right now. So the person that believes, the person's here, so radar, if that's you, do you believe God? Do you believe? Well, then if you really do, if you truly do according to Jesus, he says you have life into eternity. You have it right now. John 647 says the one that's believing has life. Now, I want to cover something. I want to cover something that is very important. I see you, Seals of Secure. This is very important. Look at this part right here. And does the person, he has eternal life. And look what he says, and does not come into judgment. Does not come into judgment. Now, we don't know if this is coming into, but does not come. It's just Erika Thai. But what it does say after that, but Allah is but, metababacon has passed from death into life. Remember what we said, the perfect tense. The perfect tense is a completed action from the past. So if you believe today, in the past you've passed from death. Because you've passed from death, it's past tense. You've passed it. You're not, it won't happen again. Hi, Afi, how are you? You've passed from death. If you've passed from it perfect tense, you're not gonna see it again. You've passed from death. You have avoided death. Why? Because you currently have, you currently have, you currently have, what did you say? You currently have eternal life. What did Radar say? He says, like I said, BDAC entry on Soteria. What do you mean? I didn't see what you said before. So tell me what you're getting at with Soteria. Tell me what you, as a matter of fact, let me go look at your entry. Okay, so salvation, Soteria means deliverance, perseverance, BDAC. Okay, but help me out. What is your, what is, I'm not understanding the point that you're making though. What did you mean? And I agree, that's what it means, what is the point that you're making from that? And by the way guys, do this, read the entry in BDAC, Greek lexicon, next to you, look up Soteria. Okay, I'll tell you what I'll do. Let's look it up. Yeah, I'll look at it. I don't wanna, I could just type it in there. I got to actually look this thing up because he wants me to look it up. Don't worry, it's my channel. It's not your channel. You're gonna tell me to look it up. I'm gonna look it up though. I'm kidding. I don't have a problem with looking up. So, Soteria, I'm in the sigmas. How am I not seeing it here? It's literally after this word, this letter. Tell you what I'm gonna do. Let me just type it in. That will make it. That will be, oh, I know why. Idiot, you, I'm sorry. There are two words where we derive our O sound from. I'm just in the wrong one. You want me to read what it says in the, and what specifically am I looking for? One who rescues saviors, deliverance, preserver as a title of definities. This was the epithet of Ecclesias, of the gods of healing. Let's see what else. You're gonna have to tell me what I'm looking for. You're gonna have to tell me what I'm looking for because, by the way, in general, the generic term for Soteria, it can be saved or rescued from anything. But tell me exactly what I'm looking for. Tell me specifically what is it that you found in the B-DAG? And I just did. I just looked up Soteria. So what is it? What is it that's in them? Because I've covered this before, but I just want to know what exactly is that you think that I should find? Okay, I'll come back to you. But, yeah, it is, it is. The B-DAG, the one thing about the B-DAG, it is exhaustive. It's gonna give you, because some of the words, you might have a Greek word that's only one time found in the Greek New Testament, or twice, or the word where the tense is not there. You said it is deliverance. Okay, you're saying something, but you're not making your point. So, but anyway, what it does is, not only does it look at the Greek New Testament, it looks at other writings of antiquities that are written in the Greek to see what that particular word might mean, which is why it is the best. It is, it really is the best. The reason why, virtually every scholar, every grammarian, every person who's reading Greek is gonna have one of these if you're not, you should get one. Anyway, but notice what he says, that we have passed from death into life. That literally means something. Words means, which is why we look at the grammar, which is why we look at the context, I mean, the syntax. Now, I want to read something, and it's gonna bother you guys who disagree. And radar, I don't know if you, radar, by the way, do you agree with the assessment that I'm making or not? I'm not sure if you agree with it or not. Now this is for radar and for young Don and whomever else. I wanna point something out to you guys. I gotta point something out to you. First of all, no, that's not what the B-DAG says, that it does not require perseverance. But let's just say, because again, the generic term for a person can be saved from a fire. A person, the word soteria is also used, not of salvation, but it's used of other things, other than salvation. And does it mean that the person, when they're saved from something, are they persevering from it? No, it's a generic term that it's also, we use it when it comes to salvation, you're right. But even if you're right, even if you're saying in regards to salvation, it requires persevering, all you did was just say what we've been saying, because true salvation means you are going to be persevering, you are going to be believing. Now, couple of things before I go to my main point. I wanna go to, let's go to the Old Testament for a second, and I wanna read just a couple of passages that people, they've always failed to address these things. So what I wanna do is I wanna give you three of my passages. I wanna give you guys three of the passages that never seem to get answered. Now, you might not be able to answer it now, so what I want you to do is take some time, hit me back later, tell me if you can get past this, you're not gonna be able to by the way, you're just not going to be able to. I don't say this arrogantly, I say this because I fought with this because I used to be on your side thinking that you could lose your salvation. I mean, I fought, fought, fought, fought, fought, tooth and nail. Okay, hold on, let's say, look what he says. Going into the New Testament without understanding salvation from the Hebrew Bible perspective is reading the end of the book without beginning. I am down to a respect to discuss this. That's fine, I am too. Now let me ask you guys a question, you all have been who've been watching me for longest. Do I ever cover the Old Testament? Do I deal with the Hebrew? Do I deal with the Old Testament version of, or the Old Testament way of atonement? As a matter of fact, I build off what we're talking about in the new off of the old. Are you all with me? I think I can say that comfortably, even people who disagree with me will say, yeah, he does, he does. Because you'll know that this issue that we're dealing with, as a matter of fact, what Jesus is speaking up with Nicodemus, he's piggybacking off of the old covenant, the law and atonement, salvation. What he says is in John 3.16, he says, we say, we read it, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes. But no, he says that what I was written is, the High Pistuan, the believing ones shall never perish. Well, what believing ones? Well, people have been believing for a while. Atonement is brought about, whether it be the old or the new, based on you being reconciled. The three elements that are in play in the atonement, tell me if you agree or not, is the covering, canceling that brings about a reconciliation, covering of the sin, cancellation of the debt that brings about reconciliation. And so the scapegoat has the sins, cast upon other people on the head of the scapegoat, sent out to the wilderness, away from the people. The canceling of the debt is where the depreciation made by the shedding of the blood. And then that sacrifice is accepted by God to make atonement for their souls on behalf of their sins. It's administered by a priest. Jesus is going to play all three parts of the atonement. The high priest, the scapegoat, the land who takes away the sins of the world, and then the sacrificial offering, the depreciation, his blood. His blood makes depreciation. And so because of that, if a person believes if they have afflicted their souls or had their time of mourning and so forth, they have fasted and they come and they believe what God has done, God accepted sacrifice, they are atoned for one year. And they also have those times where they can also have sacrifices in the meantime. You know what, I stole his horse, I gave it back. I put a crook in the horse's back and I apologized and it's all going on. I need to make atonement. So I've got even the provision to make atonement throughout the year. If I want to, if I sin against the Lord or my brother, I can even make an offering. Just thank you Lord for what you, I've got that as well, but I can stand in justified standing before the Lord because my sins have been atoned for. That wasn't taken away. He just brought about better elements. But the one thing that the Old Testament or the Old Covenant would not do, what the Old Covenant would not do, two things that did not deal with, one, the heart issue, that's number one, and then two, an actual true reconciliation in order to be in the presence of the Lord. That did not happen. As Jesus says, no man has ascended to the Father except me, not he not, not he need Elijah. They were taken into heaven, into the heavens, into the skies, but they didn't go to where, they did not go to where the Father sits. Now, after Jesus' death, burial and resurrection, and then in subsequent ascension, then he did lead, as we say, captivity on high with him. But in the meantime, the main thing, or one of the main things it also didn't do was, it did not deal with sin. It did not deal with their heart issue. And so what does God say he's going to do? It's a prophecy. As a matter of fact, what he said was these, God brings up a problem with mankind, particularly the Jews, even before they make it into the Promised Land. And Deuteronomy says, he tells him, hey, why don't you circumcise your heart? But they won't. So what does he say? He says, I will circumcise your heart. When he says, after he brings them back into the land, he's going to circumcise their heart. What does that really mean? What we find out what it means is him putting his spirit into their heart. And where do we see that? Well, a couple of places we see that, one in Jeremiah 32, 39, and let's look at the result of him circumcising or putting his spirit in our heart. He says, and I will give them one heart in one way that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will, here it is, I will not turn away from them to do good. And also he says, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts. Why? So that they will not turn away from me. So one, it says that God will not turn away from them. Now we can say it's just Israel, but we're going to find out that it's not just Israel because Joseb makes the same statement about calling the people who are not his people to be his people. And so he's going to put, he's going to do the exact same thing with us. And so God says he won't turn away from us, nor after putting his spirit in us, we won't turn away from him. Then as we also go ahead and read, we can read in two places as a matter of fact, let's go to Ezekiel 11. Did I spell this right? I did not spell it right. Ezekiel 11. Let's go to verse, I think it's nine is 11, nine. No, 19, I'm sorry. Bad Cory. He says, and I will give them one heart. I'm sorry, I thought it was on the screen. I will give them one heart and I will put a spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. Why? That they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances to do them. Then they will be my people and I shall be their gods. Are you with me? So what is he gonna do? He's gonna give them as well as us we're gonna find out from Jesus' word that it's also gonna give us a new heart to follow after him. And then what does this passage say in 25 of chapter 36? He says, then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all of your filthiness and from all of your idols. So he's gonna deal with sin finally, not just tell them to obey because they won't. We are all like sheep, wayward, go our own little ways, do what we wanna do. But he says, moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit. Notice who is doing it. Notice who's the passive party and who's active. I, I, I, I, I, I will, I will, God will, not you will, but I will. I will, look he says verse back 25, I will. I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And by the way, if you look at the, put a new spirit, that's also I will as well. And I will, I will, God will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. What he says, I will put my spirit within you and cause, here it is. I will put my spirits within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. Now, what's going to happen? What did God say he's going to do? Put his spirit in these men's heart and then what will they do? They will walk in, they will not depart from it. They won't depart, neither will he depart. If he says what he's going to do and then says what the result of what he's going to do is going to happen, we can book it. We can take that to the bank. It is true. And so then when, when, when do we see Jesus speaking about this? Well, in John three, he says that a person must be born in order to see this, you must be born again. Going back to John three, John three, Ezekiel 36 because he used the same two elements, water and spirit is what we call ephexagetically in the Greek as well as in the English, using two or more words to say, to signify one thing, born of water and spirit. Notice he uses in John three, let me just put, matter of fact, let me put it on the screen, then do any good, sit and talk about it. Let's go ahead and put it on the screen first, Corey. John three, John three, in order for a person to see heaven, Jesus says, he must be born again. Verse three, truly, truly I say to you that unless one so chronologically born again and the word is gonna have been a nothing born again, he could, if that didn't happen, now this is a condition, the condition is you must be born again, gonna have been nothing. There's two ways that you can take, gonna have been nothing is either born again a second time, another time, or born from above. Well, what did, what did Nicodemus think? Nicodemus thought he meant a second time, but he was confused, Jesus straightened him out. So if it's not born a second time, it's born from above. All right, now, and by the way guys, I don't know, I saw a radar say something, I'm not sure what he's referring to, but guys, y'all don't, don't, don't, we're all guests here, but y'all let's be, let's be, let's be loving to the people who we disagree with, be it radar or anyone else, let's be, let's be loving, he's still, he's still our brother, he says that he loves the Lord, I believe him, and so then, then that means he's our brother, let's not fight our brothers, or sisters, amen, amen. Now he says, unless it happens, you can't see the kingdom of God. Look what he says, how can this be? Again, Nicodemus is confused, Jesus straightens him out. He says, truly, truly I say to you unless one is born of water and spirit. Uh-oh, he went from being born again to being born of water and spirit, because it's the same thing. So you'll see three ways of saying it, born of again, born of water and spirit, and then also born of the spirit. Look what he says, truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and spirit, the same two elements that we see in Ezekiel 36, that person cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said that you must be born again. When blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So is everyone that is born of the spirit. I will, I will, I will, that's what God says in Ezekiel, I will do this. So these are the things that are gonna happen. Now Nicodemus is confused, that understand this, he says, you, wait a second Nicodemus, you, verse 10, are a teacher of Israel, and you don't understand this, because as you said properly, Radar, a healthy understanding of what's happening in the New Testament requires a healthy understanding of what's happening in the Old Testament. Are you with me? So if we're gonna read, if we're gonna watch a movie, we wanna watch the movie from the beginning. I think it's good that we read the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, or read Acts and Romans and so forth, whatever. But if you wanna get that, which is why we're starting off tomorrow, we're starting off in the beginning, in Genesis, and working our way through. And what we do is the way we can kind of get rid of any preconceived notions, any biases, any teachings that we may have, to divorce ourselves. When we're reading Genesis one, you can't go to Genesis two, or Malachi, or John, or Revelation, or any other passage to answer a question that we're dealing with in Genesis one. Keeps us all together, all focused, and we begin, okay, I think I'm sending it now, because I think that's the way, God is not interested in what we think, or how smart we think we are. Matter of fact, God knows for a fact we're not that smart, and so he gives it to us pretty simply. He really does. Now, he says, you're a teacher of Israel, you don't understand these things, how could that be? How could that be? Now, notice what he says, but as he makes his statement, he says, if I told you, or you're talking about something that's okay, if I told you earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe, how will you believe heavenly things? No one, look what he says, no one has ascended except, except he or but he who has descendant, that is who, the Son of Man, that's Jesus. No one's gone in heaven. As Moses was lifted up in the serpent, up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be lifted up. What happened in the wilderness? These people who grumbled and complained against Moses, God caused them to be bit by these serpents and many of them died, and Moses has to fashion this serpent, put it up, and if you looked and believed, you will be healed. Same thing here. Thank you Titus Isaiah, I appreciate that, that's a good name though, Titus Isaiah. Sounds like it's a fighting name. Thank you for the super chat, I appreciate that. But now notice what he says, and why are you saying these things? Jesus? Well, it might be confusing to us, because again, maybe us, here we are 2,000 years later in a Western society, looking back on this, and we've got our own preconceived notions we're reading into this, but he says, the same way is how you guys are gonna be saved. So that whoever, and I want you to notice what he says, so that whoever believes will, whoever, so that whoever believes in him will have eternal life or everlasting life, and notice the phrasing, he says, hen apas apistuan, in order that all the believing ones, well, we're gonna see that phrase repeated again right here. This is how God loved us, this not saying that God loved the world, no, that's not what he's saying. He said, this is the way, so in the same way, Huto's garso, in this way, this is the same way that God shows his love for the world, that he gave, hosted that he gave his only son, his only begotten son, that, and look what he says, hen apas apistuan, in order that all the believing ones, in order that all the ones that are believing in him may appalachai, which is they may never perish. Why is that the case? Because it again, under the old covenant, a person could believe this year, be in right standing, have their sins atoned for the next year, not the next year, not. That's why he makes a statement in Ezekiel, if a righteous man does something unrighteous, well, what happens? Well, he's gonna be regarded as unrighteous because of his words, I mean, because of his deeds. So what is God gonna do? He's gonna fix that. So that's what he's speaking of here in John 3.16. But now I wanna go to the passage and we're gonna close just a little bit. But John 10, God literally tells us, Jesus literally tells us what a sheep is, a Christian is. He says in verse three, to him the door opens and the sheep here, the sheep are hearing, aiko e, which is they are, it is, uh-oh, it is present active indicative. So it could be taken as they are hearing his voice. And he calls his own sheep, his itia, ta itia probata, which is his own sheep, his very own, he calls them his own sheep by name and he leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, his own, the same word there is itia, he goes ahead of them and what happens, the sheep follow. Akalu fe, which is they are following, they follow him, why do they follow? Here's this conditional, hati, they follow because they know, they know his voice. So why do we follow him? If we're Christians, because we know his voice, we're going to follow him. Are you with me? He goes ahead of us and we follow him because we know his voice. That was what it says though, when the devil, when the Jehovah's Witnesses, when the Mormons, when atheists, whoever, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, when they come, when a stranger comes, they simply will not follow. This is Jesus saying, they simply will not, it's like Jesus saying, guys, Christians simply will not follow after a lie. Christians simply will not follow after whatever the devil has in store. Just simply will not follow. So if you see someone following after those things and what happens, what can we say? That person simply was not a sheep. Are you with me? A stranger they simply will not follow but will flee from him because why they do not know the voice of the stranger? This is a figure of speech, Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were, which he had been saying to them. Why aren't they here? Because they're not his. They don't get it. They're just dense, just dense. They're like us. They're like us. So Jesus said to them again, truly truly I said to you that I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear. The actual sheep did not hear. He says, I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved and we'll go in and out and find pasture. Now drop down. Let's go to verse 16 because he makes the same so we can know that it's not just Jews. It's also Gentiles. He says in verse 16, he says, I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them all. So that's us Gentiles. And they what wheel here? Akususen, which is the future tense of this. If you look down right below my picture, it will tell you that it is the plural future active indicative. So it's going to happen. Jesus says this is going to happen. These sheep, us Gentiles, we will hear his voice and we will become one flock. Well, that's what Hosea said. I will take the people that are not my people and make them my people. And we see it all throughout the Old Testament scriptures whether he's going to take out of two, make one. And then Paul raised this as well. So now what do we know about sheep? Here they follow. We'll not hear or listen to a stranger. As a matter of fact, we'll flee and run away from the stranger. So then we get down to verse 27. He says, my sheep, my sheep, we just told us what sheep do. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Again, he's iterating what he just said and they follow me. Now, Radar, you seem like a pretty intelligent person. I want this for you specifically, as well as the young dons of the world or anyone else who has a keen interest in understanding this. Would you all agree? Would you all agree? And I think, I heard a scholar put it this way. He might be right. He might be right. He says that at the right time, Jesus came. Is that because, uh-oh, is that because Annette Young, thank you for the super chat. I appreciate the super chat as well as the kind words. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Also, James, thank you as well. Thank you for the super chat. He said that maybe that the reason why Jesus came at that time one, it was the one time where a large enough portion of people were speaking the same language. Remember the lingua franca of the day, of that day was Greek. It was not Hebrew, it was not Aramaic. The Jews at that time, first it's Palestine, they were not by and large Jewish speaking people, nor were they Aramaic speaking. How do we know a couple? Well, first of all, we don't find any artifacts, enough artifacts or manuscripts. Those that believe that they were speaking Aramaic. Well, Peshata comes a lot later, a few centuries later, I think the fourth century, that's when we see the Peshatas. And so we know for a fact that they didn't, they didn't speak it in Hebrew or Aramaic. And then, now that doesn't mean that no one spoke a Hebrew Aramaic. There were some that did speak Hebrew and Aramaic. But the lingua franca, because of Rome's conquering and kept Greek, because of Greece's conquering, the majority of that, of their enclave, their possessions spoke Greek. So now, no, I didn't say they didn't use Hebrew or Aramaic. I didn't, it's not what I said. I didn't say, I need you guys to listen. I didn't say they don't, they didn't speak. I just said they, I did not say they don't, they did not speak Hebrew or Aramaic. I said the lingua franca was English. I mean, was Greek. Just like the lingua franca today is English. That doesn't mean that other folks don't speak other languages. We got folks that speak Spanish. We got folks that speak German. We got folks that speak Canadian. This whole another language. But English is the lingua franca. Just like there, when they, when they, above his head, they put Jesus, king of the Jews, they put in what? Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew to Vex, the Pharisees. Greek, because that's what everyone else spoke. And then Latin, because that was the nation that actually crucified them. That was their language. And there were those who spoke Aramaicas, we see times in the passages where they actually would speak. And the thing is, they'll tell us that they're speaking Hebrew or something else. Anyway, thank you again, Titus. I appreciate that again. I really, I really thank you. So now, I want, now the reason why I'm bringing that up is Pastor D, thank you so much as well. Thank you for the super sticker. The reason why I bring that up and see if you follow me, Radar, now this is me, me, you speaking. But see if you follow me. I think you would at least agree though that the scripts were given to us in Greek. I think you, and so, I wanna go to this passage. You all know where I'm going. This is the passage I still say is the undefeated text. And then we're gonna also turn to the scholars on this one. In verse 28, he says, I give them eternal life to them, to who? Who is he giving eternal life to? The sheep. What do the sheep do? They keep hearing, they keep following. He says, and they will never perish. And no one will snatch them out of my hand. Now we do not see a contradiction here because if they can walk away because someone says, yeah, no one can snatch you out of his hand, but you can walk away. Well, two things. One, if they walked away, well then Jesus doesn't know what the heck he's talking about because he just told us for the last 27 verses that sheep or trying to explain this that sheep don't walk away. His sheep follow him, not follow after anything else. After anything else means that they heard a stranger's voice and did not flee. Jesus says if they hear something different, a stranger's voice, they will not follow, but they will turn and flee. He says, Jesus says the sheep will follow. So who will he give eternal life to? And who will never perish? The sheep. Secondly, if we were to say that the sheep could turn around and walk away, it also would violate, it would contradict verse 28 in two ways. One, I give them eternal life. Well, you can't give them eternal life if they walk away. And then clause B, and they shall never perish. Well, if they walk away, they will perish. You said, and you're using a future, they will never perish. Now, here's what you need to understand. This is why I'm bringing up the Greek. In the Greek, I said before guys, there are two ways, two ways to get an emphatic negation. A double negation in front of a future active indicative, which is what we see in Revelation 35, which we said at the top of the show. And then a double negation of a subjunctive. A subjunctive is a word that conveys possibility, potentiality, meaning that you may, it's possible. So when you have a double negation, you are, and this is probably even more emphatic than the future, because it does both. It negates the possibility of this happening even in case of any future acts, meaning any possible future acts that could happen, won't happen. So the possibility of someone walking away is negated for anything happening in the future, meaning they will never walk away in the future. Now, to get a good understanding, I want to put this up on the screen. Uh-oh. This is from this book. This book. This is from a Greek grammar beyond the basics. I'll pull over this way so you guys can see. This is from Wallace's book. Now, I would go ahead and pull up, and I've done it before, other scholars, but they all refer to this. I've yet to find one that would disagree with me. And I want to, thank you Clarice for the super stick. I want to read this to you. I want you guys to understand this. Even if you can't explain it, I want you to understand it. We're talking about the emphatic negation of a subjunctive, which is, by the way, let's go back to it over here. The subjunctive here we have, in verse 28, we have, ooh, may, that's the double negation, the emphatic negation, and then apollonti or apollonti, if you want to say it, that's the subjunctive, may perish. So now we want to talk about the emphatic negation of a subjunctive, which is this. Emphatic negation is indicated by ooh, may plus the error subjunctive, or less frequently ooh, may plus the future indicative, like we saw in Revelation 3.5. And so ooh, may plus the error subjunctive. This is the strongest way to negate something in Greek. You all see that. The strongest way to negate something in Greek. He says, one might think the negative with a subjunctive could not be, the way he says, could not be as strong as a negative with the indicative. However, while ooh plus the indicative denies certainty, because I've heard someone say, well, all you need to do is just have the negation. You don't have to have a double negation. That's just poor understanding of Greek. If you just have a simple negation of a subjunctive, that means may not. Well, that opens the door for the possibility of possibly. So the negative is weaker. Let me say that, however, while ooh plus the indicative denies a certainty, ooh may, the Greek says, ooh may plus the subjunctive denies the potentiality. There's no potential for whatever's being negatized. It's not just salvation, although that's what we're talking about right now. It's other things. We'll look at that in a second. The negative is not weaker, rather the affirmation that is being negatized is less firm with the subjunctive. Look what it says. Look what it says. Ooh may rules out even the idea as being a possibility. Ooh may is the most decisive way of negativing something. Look what it says in the future. Rules out the possibility. So if someone says, you can lose your salvation, well, this passage here in John 10, 28, rules out even the possibility. Let's go back to it. He says the emphatic negation is found primarily in the reported sayings of Jesus, both in the gospels and the apocalypse, secondarily in quotation from the LXX, from the Septuagint, outside of these two sources it occurs only rarely. So it's primarily in the New Testament spoken of in soteriological senses, internal salvation, as well as a soteriological theme is frequently found in such statements, especially in John, look what he says. What is negatized is the possibility of the loss of salvation. Now, you don't have to agree with me. Cory, you're not as smart as this guy, but this guy is one of the tops. And you're just not finding very many, if any, that disagree. Is there somebody that disagrees, it might be. I don't know, I haven't seen one yet. But he's saying what's being negatized is the possibility of the loss of salvation. By the way, let me ask you guys a question, especially for you guys who would disagree. Just Anna, thank you so much for a super secret, I appreciate that, but especially for you guys that would disagree. I've got a question. What if what I just said is true? Now, you disagree, so you might not think it's true, but what if what I said is true? Radar, I'm addressing you specifically, Radar, as well as other folks. If what I said is true, if what I said is true, is there anything wrong with that? If what I said is true, yeah, C-Rocks move disagree, but C-Rocks move came to spell his name. So that guy is racist, loud, and just there's some folks stay over there, call me names, oh, he's gone, okay. But to anyone else, if this is true, what's the problem? This is the part that I think is baffling. There are so many people that don't want salvation to be secure. I want insurance to make sure that nothing happens to my house, my car, my kids, my money, but not my salvation. I don't value that as much. I want the possibility of losing my salvation, really, really, really cold. I want the possibility of you losing your salvation because I don't think you're as safe as I am. That's really what it is. Lost of salvation is not a possibility, guys. Again, let's go back to it. I wanna finish reading this. Now, he gives some illustrations. Matthew 2435. This is an example of a double-legation. My words will not at all pass away. Does anyone believe that Jesus's words will ever pass away? Well, it's negative. The possibility of His words passing away are negative. And then look what we have beneath it. John 1028. I give eternal life, and they will not at all perish. What's negative is the possibility of perishing. Same thing in John 1126. Romans 4-8, Hebrews 13-5. I will not at all fail. You know why every, I will never leave. You know what I'm saying. So He does it twice. It's like a double protection. And then we've got some other examples where it speaks of this as well. So the point is this, though, guys. You cannot even get past this in grammatically speaking. In John 1028, the possibility of you losing your salvation, even negative of the possibility of it in the future is also foreclosed. So young Don, or anyone else, I would like to see you handle these three passages. Explain Jeremiah 32, 39 and 40. Explain Ezekiel 36, 25 through 27. And then what I just explained, John 10 all the way through 28, specifically verse 28. The Greek understanding. You have time. You're smart enough. You can figure this out. You can go in and read the scholars and see what they say. Not gonna find anyone that's gonna negative it. What will happen is they will ignore it. They will say, well, yeah, what you said is true, but it didn't apply. All right, because if you're gonna say what we just read, it didn't apply to verse 20. It didn't apply to everything else that he just spoke of in John 10. There's no, you not even need to even talk. If you're gonna, so it applies to it. I've had a couple of people say that it didn't apply. That verse didn't apply to that text. That verse doesn't apply to that text. That makes no sense. But all the scholars say it do. Daughter of Zion, thank you so much. That text doesn't apply to that text. That verse, what does it apply to? Let's go back to it. Let's put it back on the screen. He said that I give them eternal life and they will never perish. Will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, yeah. That's why I just said, will never, ever, ever, ever perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand. Now, I wish Radar was still here. I would ask him the historical implications of the next passage where it says verse 29 and then we'll go ahead and leave you guys. He says, my father who has given them to, I'm sorry, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. The theological or the historical implications of the Old Testament from, will never snatch them out of my hand. He says, my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand. I and the father taking out of the father's hand the God's mighty hand that is awesome in the mind of a Jew, who Jesus is speaking to right here that means something that his mighty hand will not fail because how does he deliver whatever he decided to do with Egypt when his mighty hand is in vote was complete and thorough no losses there. And so we see the same thing here. So I would say this to anyone who would disagree. I mean, keep sending your passages that you say that that rebuts this. Every last passage you say is a warning passes again. You warn people. This was funny. The people that believe that you can lose your salvation you warn people. You believe that people can lose their salvation so they, so you warn people. I believe people can't and I warned them. What's wrong with warning people? You believe that people should be warned. That's what Paul does. But you say that because he warned someone that means that that person had their salvation and lost it again. We can't find one passage. Not one passage where a person had and lost it. Madison says, could you explain what Revelation 2219 mean with the tree of life? Yes, I sure can. Sure, matter of fact. But you know what's funny about this? It helps also bring up another issue. Revelation 2219. Some versions would say, some version might say, especially the King James version would say if anyone takes away from the words of this book, of this prophecy, God will take away his part from and then King James version will say from the book of life. See, somebody can fall out from, can have their name taken out of the book of life but it's not, it's not. It is actually the tree of life. I'll go into the story later of how I've covered before the scribes didn't have the actual, the last portion of Revelation. And so what likely was was that you take the Latin word for book and the Latin word for tree, they're very similar. That's probably what happened. And it's put it together. This is what it came with, with the book of life but it's actually the tree of life. All the manuscripts verify that. So it's the tree of life. What does that mean? This is, which are written in this book. Now, the question is, are we speaking of the entirety of all the books of the Bible or just this letter to Revelation? I don't know, but I would just for safety's sake apply it to the entirety of the book. And what he's saying is not if you take away this word or add that word, take away this letter, add that letter, no, because every single transcript or translation we have does that. Not his point. As a matter of fact, they even quote books, New Testament characters such as Jesus and Paul and so forth, they'll quote the Old Testament from the Septuagint, which the words are certainly different in the Greek than the Hebrew. Specifically, if you look at Hebrews 10, five, we'll go look at the Hebrew in Psalm 40 and six in the Hebrew and then look at the Septuagint in Psalm 46. And by the way, they're quoting the Septuagint there. It's vastly different than the Hebrew. It means the same thing as the idiom but that being stated. So if you are adding a meaning or taking away a meaning, then that person will lose his part in the tree of life, which is basically salvation because the tree of life is what's gonna sustain us throughout eternity. So your part in it is gone, which is no salvation. That does that mean that a person is going to be safe and not say, no, because a person who's saved won't do that. That's all. Now, I think in this portion, he's speaking specifically of, he's speaking specifically of the book of Revelation, but I also think that in a healthy sense, practically it also would apply to, this is other parts of the Bible that kinda let's us know that you shouldn't do that anywhere, not just in Revelation but other places. So do I think that keeping the Sabbath is a sin? No, it's not a sin unless you're doing it with the intent of following the law. The reason why I keep the Sabbath is because the law requires it. Well, then now you've messed up. Now you are Galatians 3, 5, 4. Now you are Galatians 5, 4. You're trying to keep the law. Now, if you're doing it, you know, I love the Lord. I'm just gonna take some time. This is gonna be my day where I wanna honor you, Lord. Fine, fine. The issue with the Sabbath is it was given for us to have this fellowship, this enjoyment of the Lord of what he's done. But as he says, in two places, in the Old Testament, you have to file and defame my Sabbath and then God says I'm no longer in it, which makes sense. You all are scattered anyway. I'm not having what you're having. Do what you wanna do. Have another feast, have 30 feasts if you want to. I'm not in them. And you see that on Israel. But he has remembered his promises because he says, not because you guys, you jokers, no, no, no, but because of the promise that I made with your father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that I will remember my promise. Now, but he does promise to give us an internal Sabbath and then never do we see him or anyone commanding the Gentiles to observe and to keep it. Now, if you want to, let's just, just out of honor and adoration, I don't have a problem with that at all. I don't have a problem. Now, if you have the Holy Spirit in you, which day is greater than the other day, which is why he says don't let anyone look down on you or try to convict you or make you feel bad because of Sabbaths and festivals and so forth of what you eat, no. So if you don't keep the Sabbath, you're fine. You're fine. Why is your Saturday different than your Sunday? Why is your Sunday different than your Tuesday? Your Tuesday different than your Thursday? Some of you all need to need to act like the Sabbath is every day. How about that the way some of us act? Let's do that. It is, it's already here, Hyundai. It's already here. Every, all of our long lost cousins and folks we ain't never seen. They gonna show up in church. Amen. Let's make sure, let's do this. Let's make this an evangelistic effort when folks show up, show them love, treat them like they've been there all the time, but make sure they see what Christ is ought to be and make sure they see a loving Christian. Make sure they hear the gospel, not the Joel Osteen gospel. Just want you to have your best life ever. God loves you by golly. He does, but he'll also hurt you if you, so let's find opportunities to give people the gospel. I'm gonna have to go into one of my favorite verses. One of my favorite verses in Luke, you all know this passage in Luke. You should know this passage in Luke. Let me see if I can get my cup showing. Let me see if I can, y'all can see my cup. Y'all wanna hear something that might be blasphemous? I'll tell it to you anyway. Where the Lord said, go into the next town and you will see a cult that has never been ridden. Untie that cult, bring it to me. When you bring that cult, the owner is gonna ask you, where are you taking that cult? Tell him the Lord needs the cult. I shout my mama, ha-ba-ba-ba. I'm sorry, I could not resist, could not resist. I told that's where I was preaching one, matter of fact, the Sunday before Easter one time. And they just looked at me like I had lost my mind. I said, it's in the book. Anyway, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But it's one of my more favorite times. This is one of the times that you can catch me crying. This is one time that you really can catch me crying. I just thought of what he did for me. So anyway, guys, if you have any questions or where I thoroughly disagree with you, I thoroughly disagree with you. Send a, put it in the comments, send an email and no, I don't cry when the cults lose. Not a lot, not a lot. If we lose early, I'm good. That means we can try to vie for a good, good traffic. So stop hating on me, chess champ. We all didn't have cheaters and deflated balls like y'all did in New England. So anyway, but anyway, if you have any questions, you disagree, put a comment in or send me an email. I tend to look at the comments that are disagreeing and then depending upon what you're asking, I'll try to respond, I'll do my very best. But guys, remember, I will see you all, hopefully see you all tomorrow for the Bible study. I look forward to seeing you guys. In the meantime, guys, be blessed. I love you all.